Post slightly incomplete because I haven't reread in the last few days and can't do so right now. Mitsuki and I were pretty convinced that Hw was scum before the Hw/Shadoweh exchange and just wanted to see him getting shot so I haven't really focused on the other players. Mitsuki caught on specially early, at first my top scumreads were Hw and Dan (but not together because they kept jabbing at each other and drawing attention to each other). Mitsuki and I bet on the who the two scum were ED1 and I bet on Dan!scum because I saw no -gunhanding speculation- from him the way he did in the first iteration of this game type, but to be fair he did get a lot of people calling him scum for that post, and later this game Dan did this thing where he prioritized his reads over his image doing a suicidal post for scum (asking a single question after a long time without posting). Dan tends to be nervous as scum so I figured he'd try harder if he was being heavily suspected. There's also how Hw dug his grave in the Shadoweh exchange by going "OMGUS" on her with regular slapfight casing instead of thinking the logical "scum gambiting by asking for the gun or suicidal town trying to get his shot across", he was prioritizing survival over reads so yeah.
Anyway, now that Hw is flipped I don't really have much conviction when it comes to the other players. Some of my reads are up in the air depending on whom Hw shoots, and I can't reread right now because I have to read a large chapter of a book for my practicals and I'd rather have it done for tomorrow to avoid trouble. So for now all I can do is throw out a few ideas from thread memory.
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Zakeri: He was blatantly sheeping Hw with no reasoning added whatsoever. Well, he probably gave original reasoning for several stuffs and I totally forgot, but there's at least one post (#110) where he literally said "I think Hw is right about everything", and I don't think scum would sheep that blatantly. I think he's town, but I might choose him over other townreads as a shot because the only time I've ever read him playing before he was scum in a vanilla mafia where he steamrolled a bunch of new players, and I really have no idea how he plays. Can't -meta- horribly for once.
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CF7 was town regardless of Hw flip because his game so far looks nothing like his SK game and I don't know how you guys could throw his 1-game meta in without noting this. As scum he tried to make up cases with buzzwords to make it seem like he was doing genuine scumhunting even though the cases had little to no base in them. This time instead he went for 100% paranoia "I'm town and these two guys are ganging up on me so they must both be scum", town can be wrong too but the first town impulse to a case is to Call Bullshit which is essentially what he did here. Strongest of townreads atm.
Btw I didn't read a single word of the off-game commentary but if it's relevant for whatever reason do tell and I'll go back to it when I have the time.
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I thought Shadoweh was being town MVP for pushing the shot for Hw so strongly, I got the impression that she was going on gut and just couldn't put her case in words, and I could sympathize because I wrote a case on Hw while spectating and even though it was really obvious that he was scum in my head, it was hard to write it out in a convicing manner that didn't seem like random pokes. But idk, Dan might be right that the rage was odd. I still think she's town because Hw's reactions didn't look staged, and bussing in this setup gives town a free misvig (and is therefore a very bad idea), but I'll have to reread.
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NNR: I haven't found anything I find alignment indicative in his posts so far. I guess it's a thing that I'm not reading him town yet when he's generally very easy to read but maybe it's because he hasn't posted that much content or I don't remember it right now. Regardless, everybody else is townier in my head so if I had to shoot I'd probably shoot him out of PoE unless Zak/Shadoweh rereads turn up something.
And holy shit there's really no more players in this game but this took long to do. Priorities right now would be something like NNR > Zak > Shadoweh > CF7. I seriously need to get back to reading the chapter for practicals now because a future recommendation letter depends on this and I'm very stressed using my time for mafia when I should be getting that done ASAP. Rereads tomorrow.
