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I decided to streamline my reads due to the deadline approaching. I started around post #7 and took Red Ryu’s notice that Teran and Auspher remained the only two players left to confirm at face value and looked into slots with the assumption that they were cognizant of their own role and alignment. I am working off the assumption that there are at least two scum that are cognizant of each other being in a relationship and have been designated as “mafia” for the purpose of this game. You will note that many of my reads this game will be relationship reads, since I am horrible bad at this game, but would still like to contribute my own two cents.
John2k4 reads off as being flirty in his #5 and #8. His syntax is particularly awkward in his eight post when he notes that Kantrip “must” be a “hiding scum.” However this pales in the awkward department when it comes to Vinyl.’s #11, in which he states that rPSI could be town in response to Gustave’s #10 in which he states, “rPSI will only troll.”
Gustave’s commentary though touched on a number of slots: T-Block, Gustave’s own slot, Red Ryu, John, and Joey for one are a list of other players who Gustave chooses to discuss. It remains a point of interest why Vinyl singled out rPSI in particular and also what his impression of “trolling” would entail… at the moment I’m led to the assumption that Vinyl thought that we would lynch rPSI for such behavior. If either rPSI or Vinyl flip scum, I would look into the other slot given such RVS behavior. Based on this interaction I do not believe that Gustave|Vinyl are a likely mafia team.
John2k4’s post in #13 is an imitation of Gustave’s #10. Imitation is the finest form of flattery. And there is little to no need for mafia partner to flatter one another. Therefore Gustave|John2k4 is not a likely mafia team. I would like to note at this point that I find Gustave’s #10, town-telling, mostly because his sense of sarcasm and criticizing other slots in #10 is something I find relatively unorthodox for scum to do relatively early in the game. I am a bit apprehensive about him mentioning his own death. On one hand, town would be aware of their own mortality. However on the other hand, it is highly possible that such a read was constructed with that intention in mind. Gustave’s future play will point towards which hand seems more believable.
Kantrip’s #15 and John2k4’s #16 are too transparent to take at face value. I’d say the interaction is ugly, but that really isn’t an alignment tell. Just my sense of personal aesthetic on what I like to look at in a relationship. But yeah, it’s pretty fugly.
T-Block starts a gambit in #21. VT claims is safe from a town perspective and pseudo-plausible from anyone new to mafia. Not sure if anyone would take the claim seriously from T-Block. If T-Block did seriously claim VT early into the game then it would constitute a town tell on the basis of commitment stupidity. This is based on the idea that mafia would want to remain flexible with regards to claims in the future in case they find themselves in a jam or want to progress their case further by claiming a role that would enable them to bus their own partner. My gut tells me that T-Block is not claiming VT at face-value though, so prior analysis is somewhat non-applicable.
T-Block’s #25 is awkward. The elipses are placed haphazardly as if T-Block intentionally wrote the post to maximize it’s scumminess, “Yeah it’s all good…” Seriously? Not sure if you were trying to give me the impression of you smoking a blunt, but you totally pulled it off. Frustrating post is frustrating.
Raziek’s #26, thank you.
T-Block’s #27, T-Block get out of here.
Raziek’s #30, I’m not sure why Raziek thinks that town is under obligation to lynch T-Block for simply existing. The only justification is that he himself finds #25 a major scum tell that pushes T-Block to the top of his scum list. I’m not sure what constitutes a T-Block lynch being a necessity either. The presumptions in the in this paragraph need more explanation. I can’t follow his thought process on what he has explained alone.
I also disagree with his analysis in the second paragraph. I find if pro-town if he did commit to a face value claim of being VT for reasons aforementioned. I believe that if T-block is a PR, then it his maneuver would be a liability as a protective might choose another slot for it’s night actions due to T-Block not receiving any mod-confirmed information. Raziek should have explained more on this, but this is more mechanics related speculation and not really of interest to me.
In the third paragraph I believe Raziek is assigning a read to his own post lol. I suppose this is a really minor town tell as I usually don’t see scum noting their own behavior as an alignment tell. It does remain questionable that Raziek settles on his irritation only being a null tell? Hmm, null tell? Really? Why not a town tell Raziek? If you were trying to preserve objectivity by assigning yourself a null tell, you already lost any sense of objective assessment by assigning YOURSELF a tell. I like the “big steaming dump of WIFOM” statement at the end. It leaves behind some sentiment that the exchange is sincere. Therefore Raziek|T-Block aren’t a likely mafia team.
Unlikely Mafia Teams (TvT or TvS i.e. either no mafia or one mafia in these pairings):
a. Gustave | John2k4
b. Gustave | Vinyl
c. T-Block | Raziek
John2k4’s #37: Pays attention to T-Block and his commentary but ignores Raziek. Really? More playful interaction, his ribbing at T-Block strikes me as being similar to how he treated Kantrip. Isn’t treating the interaction seriously. This is relevant at a later point. Also, no Gustave? Where is Gustave D:?
T-Block’s #38: T-Block basically addresses the gist of what I wanted to get at with regards to Raziek’s #30. “The rest of your questions are garbage. Tell me why.” Damn. There is a lot of end heat attached to the end of each post. It left me some doubt as to whether the similarity is coincidence or construct.
Raziek’s #39: “If you're VT, Scum can mislynch you later. Pro-Scum. If you're VT and they kill you, Town gains.”
> Completely ignoring T-Block’s contributions in terms of producing reads on other players.
“If you're a PR, you've likely drawn enough WIFOM for someone to kill you just to clear the air. Either your PR hides behind the curtain of WIFOM (pro-Town), or you die. (Pro-Scum)”
Yes. If T-Block is a PR and he dies, that would suck.
“The only way this benefits you is if you're scum, because now Town has to consider the above possibilities, because you've precluded any intent of your play by claiming VT.”
That’s reaching.
“If you think my questions are garbage, YOU are going to tell me why, or you're going to answer them.”
“T-Block, talk to me about the playerlist. Who have you played with before? Who is a threat? Who's an easy mislynch?”
I believe those are standard RVS questions. T-Block’s #21 indicates that he wants to move away from RVS by choosing to claim VT. Whether he is fake-claiming VT as scum or a PR or legitimately claiming VT as a VT, it is clear that he is not setting up an orthodox RVS that you were appealing to in your list of questions.
Auspher's #40: Very awkward. Not sure of what to make of this post at the moment.