Chapter 2: Electric Boogalore
So both Miya and Iffrita have pretty much botched most of the day regardless of their alignments. Miya trying to promote herself with Just's flip is bad and scummy for reasons other people have already mentioned. Not opening her day with an Iffrita vote after spending a lot of Day 1 pursuing Iffrita is bizarre and her explanation for it is inadequate because there was no reason she couldn't just plant her vote on Iffrita at the beginning and then move it away if she heard something she found satisfactory. On the flip side, Iffrita conceding to the role claim request is very appease-y, even with the explanation she's provided for it, and she's been playing more defensively than Miya has been. For all that Miya's attacks have been questionable, at least she's being proactive where Iffrita has felt more reactive.
I think I will have to ##Vote: Empress Iffrita, because Miya's botches lean a little more toward being overzealous townie botches while Iffrita's play leans a little bit more toward cornered scum.
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On to other people.
Due to satisfactory content, I have no particular desire to pursue Book or Mikhail, though the latter is not at all due to his role (which is a null tell). (Shame on you all for going over 450 posts without one of you making the pun that they read Book as town, by the way.) I am also not interested in pursuing Moonin because I think the timing of his claim makes a lot more sense coming from town than from scum.
Xix I am not 100% sure on but I lean town. I think his Day 2 has been better than his Day 1 and I would not be surprised at all if this is because Day 2 did not start with a runaway train half-feuled by joke votes that brought him to L-1. Mikhail's comments about his #73 ring fairly true, but I think some of Xix's Day 1 behaviour, including that #73, could be chalked up to aggravation.
One I am willing to extend some leeway for being new because both he and Oldepore were making a bunch of newbie mistakes and I know Oldepore, at least, was making them as a townie.
Mala is unimpressive. I would have voted her over Just yesterday had I been in the game (for whatever that's worth) and I really do not like how she grilled Iffrita right after Iffrita's claim (which was actually good stuff), veered off and voted Moonin instead (which is made all the worse by her grilling being good), and has yet to comment since. Granted that last one could be chalked up to outside circumstances, but that doesn't make me like it any more.
Yuan...does anyone else get the feeling she's trying to be a game leader? Not necessarily someone that tries to drag town around by the nose toward all the wrong voting targets, but someone that tries to have more of a hand in the flow of the game than normal? I am naturally wary of these types, because it's a good position to take to avoid suspicion. If I'm the only one that sees this then I'll be glad to ignore it and move on, and as much as I don't get a striking town read from her I have to admit my read may be colored because I don't like her playstyle. Wouldn't put her below Mala, but still most likely wouldn't put her above One, and definitely wouldn't put her above Xix.
