Will be gone again as soon as I finish up this post because I'm busy as hell until tomorrow afternoon. I can't really put any roleplay input anyway since I don't know the character and stuff.
Mkay, so let's begin:
I have no idea what the hell.
Not only was that 5 pages of walls in one 4 hour sitting, but I'm also not familiar at all with most of the characters, which made it even more difficult to follow, and as if that were not horrible enough, as a result of not knowing the characters, I was also very confused at some the roleplay that people have been putting in. So basically my brain exploded and I don't know if I'm going to be making any sense.
At this point I'd rather just go on with D2 and not post any opinions about D1 due to not making any sense of it etc, but I figure people will press me for reads sooner or later so I'll also add what I can regarding my first impressions, despite how horribly bad they may be considering the single, one sitting read-through that'll inevitably mean overlooking several points.
The only thing on Irene's D1 I figure I should clarify beforehand is that I have absolutely no idea what the previous player was thinking when doing that weird softclaim in ED1, and that I can't contact him to figure it out. Anything Irene did after that was just promising to get to reading through the text walls, so his play is an overall "??" to me. I'm also pretty confused about how or why anybody would give Irene a pass (Yuno's
#93) and she wasn't listed among some people's "lurkers who should die" list, which considering the absolute lack of content seems pretty off. Only seeing side mentions of her once Eclair gave up on trying to get the lynch going almost made me forget she existed this game (which I just noticed Kenshin mentioned in
#144)
Since I mentioned that, I guess my playerlist breakdown will start with
Kenshin:
She was particularly unmemorable, and any reads I have on her are kind of forced out of a re-read. The only thing that really caught my attention during the first readthrough was the beginning of her #73. Despite agreeing with the sissy-slapfight looking townie, I always find it odd and scummy when people post reminders that they're hunting scum, out of nowhere. Town is too busy doing the hunting to care to point out that they're doing it, so I always read this as scum going "hey people look at me! I'm scumhunting too!". I find that small things such as these tend to be pretty accurate, but this thing being mentioned under the pretense of roleplay makes my conviction on the read waver, everybody likes roleplaying and pushing this as the primary reason for a lynch would be awful. However, this small detail still makes me read her as scummier, so this is also a warning of confirmation bias in my reread.
So reread in, she's unmemorable, and she made sure to point this out in her #73. This is very odd to me, considering that her way of reacting to this is saying that she'll answer any questions people have of her instead of being more active in her scumhunting. It reads to me like she's analyzing the thread more than enough, but isn't posting all she could, both in amount of posts and in amount per post. She only posts once more clarifying her ED1 vote and then dissapears until the deadline, keeping her vote on Miki with absolutely no analysis on her recent posts at the time other than "dislike" and saying she'd also be fine with LAL, then dissapears again.
I'm aware of my bias and as such won't push this as horribly scummy yet, but I would appreciate it greatly if Kenshin were to be as transparent as humanly possible this D2 so I can make sure I'm not making a mistake here.
It's unfair that I reread her thoroughly and only her, but I'll be running out of time soon so I'm just posting first impressions from now on with the necessary cautions until I get back tomorrow and get some serious reading done.
Shana.
I once heard that NK analysis is something you do but don't talk about, so I guess I'll save my opinions on this unless somebody is terribly interested.
Farina.
I've been reading people cheering her on for good roleplaying, and not too long afterwards, good content. It may just be that lack of information on the character makes reading her difficult for me, or maybe I'm just not remembering all of her posts properly, but I dislike this. What I remember of her was her pushing certain conducts as scummy, I should probably look further into it since this was back when I still didn't have a good track of the characters and who was voting for whom, but it read to me as possibly twisting things too far to find scummy behaviour. It could also be trying hard, or just that I failed to interpret it correctly, probably the latter, since her comment on Sayaka's claim seemed like she wanted to stop a townie lynch even if it cost her to do a softclaim of sorts. I just disliked that a cheer for good roleplaying turns into a cheer for good play altogether, it reeks of bias and trying to make the player look better.
Tenshi.
Probably the towniest in my list so far. She put some good deal of effort into explaining her points despite the amount of times she was getting misread, and I'm happy with the big degree of transparency. Nevertheless, I don't like town reads at all. I know I'm particularly weak to walls of solid reasoning and that I always read certain players as town, so I will still pass a new judgement upon every new post.
BLAH, everything from here on got deleted due to backspace. Time to start again and write down everything again in more confusing ways. IN A WORD DOCUMENT.
Eclair.
See Tenshi, only pushing harder to get her lynches, I don?t really know what she thinks of anybody who isn?t Miya or Yuno though, and would like to know. Also, although it could be argued that it?s WIFOM, I like the blatant alliance with Tenshi, scum wouldn?t have the guts to do that after calling lynch attention like she did earlier in the day.
Yuno.
I?ve never played a game where millers are told outright that they?re millers, but then again, Miki somehow knew she was a paranoid doctor, so her claim is a lot more believable after her flip. The only issue I have is how she gave Irene and Meiya a D1 pass just ?cause. It kind of makes sense that she?d let Irene get a pass for role-related reasons after her ?anti-town? claim if she?s a miller and has this anti-town name she claims to have,
if this is who I think it is playing Yuno.
Well, that would be the case if her
#172 didn?t completely contradict this by condemning Miki after claiming Paranoid Cop. I mean sure, the cop claim gambit was horrible and I don?t understand why Miki did that, but when did Paranoid Cop seem like a good scum fakeclaim? Farina acurrately described how the cop gambit could be interpreted as 100% scum, but Yuno didn't do anything at all other than demand a hammer. I would like Yuno to answer why she believed that Irene should get a pass and not Miki.
But this is sort of based on meta, in an anonymafia. So yeah. I don?t really want to lynch Yuno right now, unless her answers make me want to use her own ?persuasion tools? against her.Scratch this. A recent event has lead me to accidentally find out who was playing this account before, and therefore my read on Yuno's player has been proved wrong. I won't be voting Yuno just yet, but hell do I want to hear an answer from her about this.
Kaori and
Blackrose.
I don?t like LAL, having people like PX around who lurk regardless of alignment means the probability of lynching town is not low. I?d rather have you two getting a move on and posting content. Lots of it. I?d want myself and everyone else to be able to have a decent read before LAL is pushed to the edge and I?m forced to choose between you two.
People I desperately need to re-read in order to develop some sort of opinion on them:
Maka. Turned unmemorable after the ED1 prod for activity. I thought she hadn?t posted much after that and was going to scold her for it, but a quick glance tells me she actually has been rather active. I dislike her condemning of parroting and her asking Seiya if her bulletproof also governed her own lynches, which would obviously be really ridiculous. She also refused to change her stance on Sayaka after her full claim for some reason when all she needed to do was unvote along with her frustration venting post, but I get how the pressure to get a lynch in 1 hour would make you prefer to risk a mislynch to get a flip than end up with a no lynch so whatever.
Meiya. Needs better post organization, seriously. I feel she might be scummy but don?t have any reasons to back it up, I probably just think so because I liked Tenshi and ?clair?s stuff the most. I have nothing on her myself.
Esuna. I dislike her pushing a Kanzaki lynch over a Blackrose/Irene/Shana lynch, when they were all nonexistent enough to have everybody lack a decent read on them. And? wait what?
#130 -> ?Meiya is town. Why is there a wagon on her??
#174 -> ?Meiya?s claim does look pretty town?
I was wrong, I do have a read on her. I just remembered those two posts randomly while doing something else, and unless my mafia play is horrible beyond belief, I believe forgetting your own town reads is not something town tends to do and is scummy as hell.
So TL;DR version for whoever is as tired of walls as I am:
As of now I want to lynch Esuna, but will be placing my vote on one of the lurkers instead to get the wagons going so they stop lurking once and for all. It's pretty ridiculous to assume that things will remain like this by the end of the day, but just to be clear as to where I'm standing, if things do remain like this at the end of the day I'd be willing to lynch Yuno, Kenshin or either of the Blackrose/Kaori pair, given they continue their game like this.
Lastly, reminder that this is originally post #182. I'm posting this with some lag and won't be updating it with the content beyond (except a bit I just did regarding Yuno because it pretty much changed the whole read) because of busy at the time of posting + the stuff coming up tomorrow and the activity I expect to have to catch up to. If something comes up in the meanwhile such as lurker content then all the better!
