CHOOSE YOUR OWWN III - Game Thread

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Well first off, I was stumpified…. So for me things have changed lol.

Second, I think a lot can be gained from death reveals especially in this set up

Third, I really want to hear more on your thoughts on alley and vis specifically because they’ve posted a decent amount and you’re telling me they’re in the neutrals. Actually alley and vis didn’t have any explanations in the first read
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You're saying a lot can be gained from the deaths, but I don't know if the rest of us agree based on the discussion that Dubz, Zenge and I had this morning. Obviously we gained data, which has been discussed at length, but I don't know how that new data should change my reads list.
 
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I think I’m struggling to decide whether I think I was targeted by scum or village. I am honestly leaning towards scum over village. I don’t think I was far enough in people’s POEs to get targeted by village but idk. I guess I’m a little salty because I wasn’t even voted for at any point by anyone D1 despite being in several POEs
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If you look back, you were in at least 4 POEs (mine, shorty's, Zenge's, and Lawpy's). I would not be surprised at all if you were a village kill, and would be really confused if you were a scum target.
 
Day 2 Yeet Tally
genny (1) - dubz
Lumi (1) - True

2/11
yeet close in ~27.5 hours
 
Going to be honest, it kind of sounds like you were looking for a reason to feel bad about me. You're just kinda sheeping shorty, not sure why.

I haven't developed a stronger feeling on Alley since yesterday because I haven't seen enough from her to do so. That's why she's still in the middle.

I feel better about Vissy because her contributions to the thread have been helpful and generally in line with my own thinking. I would still like to hear more from her, but that's largely because I feel like she's being productive and pro-village and want more of it.
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Idk I trusted shorty yesterday and she was really feeling it so I’m trying to develop theories in my head. It’s nothing against you personally and I could be wrong…. But I couldn’t see what shorty was saying yesterday and am developing some tinfoils in my head that make me uneasy
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If you look back, you were in at least 4 POEs (mine, shorty's, Zenge's, and Lawpy's). I would not be surprised at all if you were a village kill, and would be really confused if you were a scum target.
Barring scum trying really hard to take out other scum and get on the blocc's good side I guess. That is possible.
 
If you look back, you were in at least 4 POEs (mine, shorty's, Zenge's, and Lawpy's). I would not be surprised at all if you were a village kill, and would be really confused if you were a scum target.
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I guess I can also see how if I’m neutral sketch either stumping/silencing as scum or confirming I’m village but not completely taking me out of the game would be most helpful from village perspective
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Barring scum trying really hard to take out other scum and get on the blocc's good side I guess. That is possible.
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This is what I was also contemplating
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I just looked at night results, and I’m really upset that we lost so many people in 1 night.
I need to go to bed, but this is where I'm sitting at right now:

Village leans:
Vis
Lawpy

PSV

Wonder

Neutrals:
Lumi
Zenge = [Dubz]
alley

WO2

POE:
True
genny
alissa
mkg

I have Dubz in brackets because I feel like she and I have been on the same wavelength a fair amount this game and that scares me, and I'm paranoid. I'm hoping the night cycle brings some clarity, but I might ISO her tomorrow morning before the cycle ends and see how I feel then.
I agree with a lot of shorty’s list, and I specifically want more pressure on genny, MKG, and True. Still concerned about Lumi and WO2, but less so. Dubz, Z, and Vis are all hanging out on the village side of neutral. I’m hoping Lumi comes back soon, along with hoping to hear more from Wonder and Staygo.

I do not have a frame of reference for scum!MKG other than the noob game, and I think I've very much inflated what I remember from that game because MKG was one of the cool people who'd been playing WW on this site already so I don't know if I'd recognize her as scum again if she beamed me up to her UFO.
Why am I the only one laugh reacting this?? I’m picturing PSV’s gay ghost being beamed up into a spaceship and cracking tf up.
Because even tonally, i’m not sure i understand the villageyness.

Who are your wolf reads?
I agree with this post from Lawpy, I don’t see how MKG is village based on tone at all
 
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Idk I trusted shorty yesterday and she was really feeling it so I’m trying to develop theories in my head. It’s nothing against you personally and I could be wrong…. But I couldn’t see what shorty was saying yesterday and am developing some tinfoils in my head that make me uneasy
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Would you be willing to share or elaborate on those tinfoils?
 
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I am thinking that whoever is the bloodsucker is not aligned with an alien faction. I mean I would be shocked because then the alien faction, if out there, couldn’t perform a night kill. And idk if I were alien scum I’d rather reduce town numbers as much as possible through death than through stumping
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I just looked at night results, and I’m really upset that we lost so many people in 1 night.

I agree with a lot of shorty’s list, and I specifically want more pressure on genny, MKG, and True. Still concerned about Lumi and WO2, but less so. Dubz, Z, and Vis are all hanging out on the village side of neutral. I’m hoping Lumi comes back soon, along with hoping to hear more from Wonder and Staygo.


Why am I the only one laugh reacting this?? I’m picturing PSV’s gay ghost being beamed up into a spaceship and cracking tf up.

I agree with this post from Lawpy, I don’t see how MKG is village based on tone at all
Why are you less concerned about Lumi?
 
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I don't want to get too deep into NK analysis, but given that there are four kills, I'm currently operating under the assumption that we have at least one Wolf and one Mafia Goon, plus either a two Vigilantes (of either village or scum alignment) or one Vig and an Alien who decided to use their single factional kill last night.

But I guess with so many powers in play, it could have been a lot of things. Might need to go clicking through the list today.
First, I moved Zenge up significantly. It's just hard to tell because a bunch of people who were previously in my village reads died. Not going to apologize for having done a good job figuring out who's village.

And, you're saying so much has changed; I disagree. I don't think very much has changed at all. What do you think has changed?
I guess my tinfoil and uneasiness first is because shorty, who is strong village, is dead, and was very much pushing for you. I have not played much with you other than anniversary and we stumped but that’s hard for me to gauge because we were on the same team. The other thing that the tinfoil is based upon is that lying is easier when shrouded in truth. You have said repeatedly that your 3 rands were Town Lover, Town Lover, and a scum role you used for ability. You have reiterated this more than any other player has. It’s throwing me off and wondering if the lover you used for aff was town after all. You also have said that you’re 100% not a wolf. And that pinged me because this is multi ball and wolf isn’t the only faction. The top post in my quote also pinged me because it read very assured when I am very unsure what factions are out there. So my little tinfoil is that you could be Mafia Bloodsucker. Your rands were Town Lover, Mafia Lover, and Alien bloodsucker. Discarded town lover, used mafia lover for aff, and alien bloodsucker for ability. It is very tinfoil-y I know. I could be wrong about your aff. But I’m leaning towards you to be the bloodsucker… definitely somewhat stretchy I know… somewhat gut feels and tunneling
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Like, in my mind Wonder’s only real contribution was giving village a good alternative to Chaos, at a time when the Judas claim would have made village willing to look for somewhere else to vote.

W/W.

Potentially a outright lie or more likely used for ability. I would expect Wonder to know outright that Lumi was lying about about the goo.

And maybe Chaos felt safe picking it for the fake claim, knowing his packmate had it in their roles.
I just don’t get why chaos would lie about it in the first place if a packmate doesn’t have the card. Like when I scummed in CYO last year, I’m pretty sure I just claimed vanilla townie for my aff instead of hardcore risking it with a role that definitely could’ve been claimed by someone else. Chaos is in general probably a riskier player than me, but I still don’t get it at all.
Here is my 1am summary/paraphrase

genny: fluff post fluff post fluff post, one content post that is just an offhand disagreement with someone about one of alley's posts. No follow up.

Dubz: hmm. *Vote genny*

genny: lots of very funny posts. Makes Dubz laugh. Content still minimal. When chaos is already leading (I think?), says some prophetic stuff about how he could have a great one shot scum role or something. Joins as #6 on the vote, I think.

Dubz: hmmm. *Says a lot of things that end up being wrong BUT THE LOGIC WAS SOUND* and then mentions scum might like voting for chaos

genny: "If they vote for chaos that would be bussing"

Dubz: what, game is multiball, unless you're in a big pack

genny: I want to vote you now

Dubz: Why

genny: *exits*
Yeah I get this 100%, and it outlines (in a funny way) why I’m not feeling the best about genny rn either
That "Well, frick" was such a pure reaction :laugh:
I agree
I’ve thought about that. It’s not a deal breaker. I mean Chaos can’t exactly say “you’re lying, my packmate is the goo!” And with Wonder having not posted yet, the best choice would be to pivot to the Judas claim and fill Wolf Chat with alarm bells for Wonder about how to handle it, which is what Wonder’s first post was.

Eh. That’s pretty speculative about what a player would choose to do in the moment, with hindsight being 20/20. If the tin foil is true, it’s hard to know what exactly went through his head. Maybe he thought he got Wonder’s choice wrong for the fake claim or something? Maybe just knowing he was lying and being called out on it made him post an initial gut reaction instead of thinking it through? Who knows.

It’s definitely a point worth considering against the theory for sure. It’s not an air tight tin foil. But I think there’s possible explanations.
I like your thought process but I just really cannot see why this would’ve been chaos’ play in the first place
I mean, look at alley and some of the others, who are pretty much refusing to even consider the (IMO more likely) possibility of a town 5D chess move there. alley doesn’t even want to entertain the notion of it, she just wants to bury them because “lying bad.” Without thinking about that if Lumi’s claims are true, it’s a move that makes sense for a decent town PR to make to buy themselves more time to use it.
Yes, this is true. If they are town I just don’t understand why they needed to start their thread entrance off with a complete lie. It’s unnecessary and all it did was catch them suspicion, when instead they could’ve stayed under the radar and not risked their blood hood ability right off the bat. Plus the fact that I think it’s highly suspicious that Lumi is even still around right now and wasn’t one of the 37346 people that died overnight.
I’m still perplexed by this response to my asking alissa for clarification.
Same, I’m hoping this has been clarified by Alissa
The thing is, if Lumi is telling the truth about not knowing that some of the cards were only present in the game once, they wouldn't have known they were counterclaiming chaos.

Plus they also said they hadn't read anything when they claimed the goo. So double wouldn't have known they were counterclaiming.
I had another response to this but I don’t remember it now 😔

Something that PSV brought up earlier definitely seemed to allude to the fact that Lumi was quite aware that there wouldn’t be duplicates of roles that only had one card, so I’m also not sure I’m buying that explanation.
 
Same, I’m hoping this has been clarified by Alissa
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Idk I don’t remember lol. I strong read Dubz village on her discard claims alone and that was naive. I don’t remember what else shorty needed clarification. Prior to yeet results and death reveals today. I was on #TeamBeliever. As in I believed Chaos’ Judas claim (and was wrong) and Wonder’s claim. And then zenge’s long wonder post made me spooked so wonder is in my POE now
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Yes, this is true. If they are town I just don’t understand why they needed to start their thread entrance off with a complete lie. It’s unnecessary and all it did was catch them suspicion, when instead they could’ve stayed under the radar and not risked their blood hood ability right off the bat. Plus the fact that I think it’s highly suspicious that Lumi is even still around right now and wasn’t one of the 37346 people that died overnight.
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I am not eeking about Lumi’s lack of death nearly as much. Too many roles and abilities that could’ve blocked this should Lumi have been targeted. Example: say I am scum Jailer. I am unsure if I buy that Lumi is village or could be different scum faction. Perhaps I jail Lumi so that they can’t use their claimed bloodhound ability but then it also prevents them from dying if targeted so then it looks a little sus that a possibly outed PR is still alive and maybe village will save me the trouble and misyeet. Considering Lumi’s fancy play, as scum I would be hesitant to target Lumi. How do I know I won’t die if I try to kill them a la PGO? I am still not 100% sure if lumi is telling the truth about bloodhound. They play 5D WW it seems and I can’t keep up
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I just don’t get why chaos would lie about it in the first place if a packmate doesn’t have the card. Like when I scummed in CYO last year, I’m pretty sure I just claimed vanilla townie for my aff instead of hardcore risking it with a role that definitely could’ve been claimed by someone else. Chaos is in general probably a riskier player than me, but I still don’t get it at all.

Yeah I get this 100%, and it outlines (in a funny way) why I’m not feeling the best about genny rn either

I agree

I like your thought process but I just really cannot see why this would’ve been chaos’ play in the first place

Yes, this is true. If they are town I just don’t understand why they needed to start their thread entrance off with a complete lie. It’s unnecessary and all it did was catch them suspicion, when instead they could’ve stayed under the radar and not risked their blood hood ability right off the bat. Plus the fact that I think it’s highly suspicious that Lumi is even still around right now and wasn’t one of the 37346 people that died overnight.

Same, I’m hoping this has been clarified by Alissa

I had another response to this but I don’t remember it now 😔

Something that PSV brought up earlier definitely seemed to allude to the fact that Lumi was quite aware that there wouldn’t be duplicates of roles that only had one card, so I’m also not sure I’m buying that explanation.
Combining some of these things together to think through things again...

We know two people lied about the black goo. So any statements of "Well why would they choose this for the lie instead of just picking something with duplicates" fall apart, because two people did. We can't say that chaos lying about it requires him being w/w with wonder unless we're also saying Lumi lying about it requires being w/w with Wonder, if you don't believe that Lumi is telling the truth about not realizing some roles wouldn't have duplicates/not reading the rest of the tread. If you do believe that Lumi is telling the truth about the latter, then it actually makes them look a bit worse, because it erases the incentive for scum not to tell that lie.
 
I feel mostly okay about Alley but her attitude about yeeting Lumi for the fancy play just because it was a “Lie” tickles me. Something’s weird about that. Like imagine if I’d been yeeted in LaWWpy just because I “lied” to Dina about being a Lost wolf? It feels like an easy way to just “stick to your guns” and cause a village misyeet which I don’t like. Particularly one with a powerful PR (I believe the bloodhound claim). But like I said, I mostly feel good about Alley, it’s just that one little thing that tickles me.
Agreed
 
Can I get your more detailed thoughts on True? I feel like you, Lawpy, shorty, PSV are all seeing something I’m missing.
A lot of tonal things that didn’t sit right, he kept changing his story on reasoning, and people who’ve played wolf true provided quotes from wolf games that sounded in line with his play here
 
Currently thinking Truey, alissa, MKG
Lawpy’s last POE

I forced you into participating in LaWWpy by offering tots real money to yeet you from tot chat so I could put you in the game, but I think Madagascar is the only one you actually signed up for 🤔
The coffee I spent that $5 on was the best coffee I’ve ever had 😂
True, are you scumming?
Is true someone who would want to eliminate as many of the people raising suspicions of him as possible?
I know shorty's was alissa, genny, mkg, True.
Lawpy's was alissa, mkg, True

I'll have to go digging through PSV's posts to see if I can figure hers out.
I’m sensing a theme that all of them were interested in a True vote. That seems really obvious though, and whatever scum team True is on couldn’t have eliminated all of them, right? That’d be ridiculous
Alissa and Lawpy both feel like weird NK choices for scum, since they had a moderate amount of suss on them. They may have been vigilante targets?
Lawpy was in several people’s village blocs, so he makes sense as a scum NK target imo
Yes PSV was still concerned about True at EOD
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That said, I think chaos would have had a very different reaction to Lumi’s cc if he knew it were false, so I don’t buy this theory
Vis, what does cc mean? And why does everyone know what it means except for me?
I feel mostly okay about Alley but her attitude about yeeting Lumi for the fancy play just because it was a “Lie” tickles me. Something’s weird about that. Like imagine if I’d been yeeted in LaWWpy just because I “lied” to Dina about being a Lost wolf? It feels like an easy way to just “stick to your guns” and cause a village misyeet which I don’t like. Particularly one with a powerful PR (I believe the bloodhound claim). But like I said, I mostly feel good about Alley, it’s just that one little thing that tickles me.
That’s a totally valid position to have, but I’ve already said that I think Lumi’s decision to lie right off the bat is anti-village play. Also, your fake claim in that game reslly only has a benefit from a village perspective. Lumi’s play could easily be from a scum perspective or a village perspective
 
Oho. Well. Then. Unless I’m missing something we have an alien faction that can kill and did not do so last night, opting to tree-stump instead
Do you have night info or something? I don’t get how you can know this
 
Do you have night info or something? I don’t get how you can know this
So I was mistakenly looking at the role and affiliation as a unit, once again, forgetting that role and affiliation are split.

So because the description says “you can’t do the factional kill if you use the tree stump making ability” I thought that meant there was an alien faction that held their factional kill to make Alissa a stump.

But as True and Dubz and Alissa pointed out the role, can be any affiliation, so the “you can’t use your factional kill” part is irrelevant if they’re wolf or mafia. Hence my :eggface: later
 
I am willing to reconsider genny, it's not like I'm 100% certain, but shorty is pretty good at reading her iirc so it does make me feel better that she also had her in her POE.

I should not be trusted to read True. I won't stand in people's way if they want to vote him. I don't think I'm seeing enough to do it myself.

I see what you mean about alley's stance on Lumi but it felt very in character for her.
I also see your fake claim to Dina as entirely different from Lumi's play here. Neither were necessary imo, both had some benefit for a villager, but there is also actually some decent scum advantage to doing what they did here, whereas there really wasn't for what you did in LaWWpy.

Agree on needing more from mayo and Woxy. I don't know what to do about mk.
Yep, mindmelding with Dubz again. She’s right, Lumi would benefit from that play as scum as well. Your fake claim was benefit as a villager only.
Interesting. May have been a villager with this ability using it as sort of a budget Vig kill?
Or it could have been scum trying to get closer to parity. I feel like there were people deeper in the POE that would’ve been stump-vigged before Alissa.
I bet being scum in a CYO game is fun
Being scum in CYO II was one of my most fun wolfing games.
I could have gone with scum mason :thinking: or just nilla scum
I didn’t even have a real scum option. The one shot townie was technically 3P I guess, but a survivor wincon is barely scum imo
How did all those people die, and not one of them was our outed bloodhound?
Exactly. It seems pretty odd to me, even if there are some protection mechanisms in this game
The only thing that gives me pause is that Lumi is still circling the yeet drain, and scum might have figured it was worth waiting a night and getting rid of some strong village voices instead and then letting us take care of Lumi during the day.

But it is interesting that they weren't targeted at all. If there are multiple factions, which there seem to be based on the number of kills, it's wild to me that all decided not to target them.
I really don’t think Lumi has enough traction rn for scum to completely hold off on trying to NK them. There were only 3 of us voting for them last night.
The majority of people always being so afraid to give me any kind of village read (or...a read at all...) no matter how much effort I'm putting into a game just wears on me. It's fine. I try to take it as a compliment.
It’s because you’re a terrifying wolf Dubz
Thats assuming their actually a bloodhound, couldn’t it be that their scum and the other scum don’t feel the need to target them?
Exactly! Lumi could very easily be a scum bloodhound too
 
The only thing that gives me pause is that Lumi is still circling the yeet drain, and scum might have figured it was worth waiting a night and getting rid of some strong village voices instead and then letting us take care of Lumi during the day.

But it is interesting that they weren't targeted at all. If there are multiple factions, which there seem to be based on the number of kills, it's wild to me that all decided not to target them.
This is how I feel. Even if they’re scum, n-1 factions still decided not to target them, so I don’t see it as a crazy stretch that they’re not and n factions all decided not to target them
 
This is how I feel. Even if they’re scum, n-1 factions still decided not to target them, so I don’t see it as a crazy stretch that they’re not and n factions all decided not to target them
I'm so glad you understood what I was saying because I felt like I was just rambling nonsense lol
 
I guess I need to more seriously consider True, because as alley pointed out, the dead blocc had him in their POE, he's in Vissy's too and I think she's village. It's not to say they couldn't all be wrong, but if I really think about it, usually if my village reads are all reading someone one way and I'm not, I'm the one who is wrong...
 
Actually, how would scum from a different faction even know they're scum?

That's my point. No matter what aff Lumi is, if there are multiple scum factions I'm surprised they're not dead. That's why I said the bloodhound claim should be self-resolving yesterday and wasn't interested in voting there.
That’s a really good point, but I’m thinking that scum just chose to ignore Lumi and assume they’re lying. Or maybe scum did attempt something (terrifying thought) and Lumi was protected. I really need them to come back to the thread though so I can get a better grasp on what they’re doing
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I’m more spooked that nobody alive (other than me) is talking about night actions. In a role madness game, you’re saying nobody had anything weird happen to them that they wanna talk about?
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I didn’t have anything happen to me
First, I moved Zenge up significantly. It's just hard to tell because a bunch of people who were previously in my village reads died. Not going to apologize for having done a good job figuring out who's village.

And, you're saying so much has changed; I disagree. I don't think very much has changed at all. What do you think has changed?
This post is extremely wolfy to me, especially the bolded part. At the very least, from a scum perspective you know everyone that’s not your affiliation, so I could see scum!True putting several strong villagers in the village bloc exactly for this reason. Like this: “see I was right about my villagers, but I haven’t caught scum yet. Darn!!!l
Why are you less concerned about Lumi?
Because they’re not here to defend themselves, I think they’re going to be self-resolving (scum takes them out hopefully), or they come on here and name their night target. Also kind of worried that several people I’m scum-reading are also intent on yeeting Lumi.
Everyone is sus in multiball.
That’s it? That’s all you have? Can we please have a POE or something?
From the mod side of things I will say I have seen both scum and village lie in situations where they absolutely did not have to and where it was very risky to do so, so I am not really surprised by anything lol
And yet I’m shocked every time because I really just don’t understand why someone risks lying when they really, really don’t need to lie at all.
I haven't even won since Shots!
I’ve never won a wolf game and the closest I got was actually CYO II. And I haven’t wolfed since then.
 
I guess I need to more seriously consider True, because as alley pointed out, the dead blocc had him in their POE, he's in Vissy's too and I think she's village. It's not to say they couldn't all be wrong, but if I really think about it, usually if my village reads are all reading someone one way and I'm not, I'm the one who is wrong...
This post is extremely wolfy to me, especially the bolded part. At the very least, from a scum perspective you know everyone that’s not your affiliation, so I could see scum!True putting several strong villagers in the village bloc exactly for this reason. Like this: “see I was right about my villagers, but I haven’t caught scum yet. Darn!!!l
Agree. I think Vis is village too, so that’s a lot of people who are all agreeing True is scum. I’ve never actually played with scum True so I wouldn’t know what he looks like scumming.

I’m willing to try here. They are just too many strong villager who are/were all in agreement about this to ignore.

Yeet True
 
Who is most sus?
Apparently, True.
I’m sensing a theme that all of them were interested in a True vote. That seems really obvious though, and whatever scum team True is on couldn’t have eliminated all of them, right? That’d be ridiculous
All scum factions chose to frame True last night, rather than go for Lumi.
That’s it? That’s all you have? Can we please have a POE or something?
I'll think about it. I should have dinner first or something.
 
Agree. I think Vis is village too, so that’s a lot of people who are all agreeing True is scum. I’ve never actually played with scum True so I wouldn’t know what he looks like scumming.

I’m willing to try here. They are just too many strong villager who are/were all in agreement about this to ignore.

Yeet True
You played Globe with scum!True, though I guess since you died n1 it wouldn't be the best data point lol
 
Agree. I think Vis is village too, so that’s a lot of people who are all agreeing True is scum. I’ve never actually played with scum True so I wouldn’t know what he looks like scumming.

I’m willing to try here. They are just too many strong villager who are/were all in agreement about this to ignore.

Yeet True
You're not pursuing your Wonder theory?
 
I'll say this now because majority is in effect (and therefore I can't predict when the flip will happen): when I flip village, make sure you go back and take a close look at when people jumped on the wagon and how solid their justification was.

Lots of folks who haven't even given us clear reads lists tossing out lazy "well the dead villagers were feeling iffy" justifications.
 
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