I thought the push on Gheb was really, really dumb, made no sense and had no textual evidence, I didn't feel their quotes back up their positions at all. I still don't feel there was ever any reason to lynch Gheb. There was basically two stages to it, Xivii's early push on Gheb that made me scum read Xivii, then the second push for the same reasons that got Gheb lynched. The fact that Xivii would push the same points again, and that it worked, blew my mind. I still don't understand it.
So I decided Xivii needed to die for that because it was gross as ****. Xivii coming in and fake-quoting mafia communications was also gross as ****, as was his blatant mason baiting, which even now I'm not sure wtf he was going for. It wasn't until Xivii died and flipped town that I realized I had been tunneling way too hard on the Gheb push. But my gut said there's no way town pulled off a terrible mislynch for no reason without mafia support.
Other person that kept catching my eye was Vult, who jumped back and forth constantly on everything in this game. Soup was the third, I avoided most of his posts but based on other people and what I re-read he's done nothing of value the entire game.
So coming into this, with Xivii dead and town, I assumed the scumteam was probably Vult/Soup. But then it turns out Vult was mason, which was very frustrating because it meant I've been wrong on almost everything except Gheb, which I couldn't do anything about. So I try to get Soup to post and he clearly doesn't care about the game anymore. I've played with Soup many times, he's acted very scummy as town, he's one of the only people who I never feel confident lynching no matter what he's done because 50% of the time he seems to be town anyways. Finding out that he blatantly doesn't care about the game is even more frustrating .
So right now I'm wanting to lynch Soup and deal with everything later. Last thing I want is to get very involved in the game based on Soup only to find out he's town and was just phoning it in, ending the game and leaving all my effort wasted.
If you want to know between you and Ryu? If I had to pick one right now it'd probably be Ryu, just off the fact that I find it unlikely you'd tunnel Ryker the entire game as scum, especially after no one else took it up. There's the small possibility you hammered yesterday to try and save the game from turning to Soup, but I'd have hammered Xivii in your place so I don't feel that's likely at all. Overall I feel you've come off honest, I also know you're a good mafia player so you could be faking all of this, but right now I don't see a strong reason to scum read you. I also remember you pushed against the Gheb lynch, which is a point in your favor.
I don't have a strong reason to scum read Ryu either, but I also can't think of any reason to town read him.
So that's basically where I'm at. I realize I've been focusing way too much on certain people to the extent of everyone else. If you guys need me to contribute more before we lynch Soup, I could re-read entirely off the idea Soup is scum to try and find a partner, but I'd really rather do that after Soup was lynched and we know if the game will continue so I won't feel dumb and wasted.