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I agree that it's likely more of an anomaly than a common occurrence, but it's something that's completely avoidable almost all of the time. Imo there's no excuse for a wolf to make it all the way to endgame and barely participating. It's especially frustrating in a game like this where 3 mislynches will likely be a loss. I also didn't like Cray's D1 silence because she was posting in other threads and not in this one. I'm concerned about her absence and her reasoning in the one actual post she made, but I also think she's an easy scapegoat and am concerned we're wasting a lynch as there's several other people that are concerning me.



Thank you for this, wanted to point that out so bad, but Kdubs has already threatened me in my role PM since I started posting certain memes in there and I'd like to minimize her wrath.


ETA: since there's been like 4 pages of actual game play I'm going to iso everyone tonight.
It's interesting because mafia universe actually bans people from using activity in other threads/games in discussing affiliation in a game.

You don't really know my SDN habits, and I don't feel like I need to explain them. I keep my online status and what I'm looking at on at all times. This is partly to be transparent for y'all, but also, I have an SDN life outside WW. Wolves that are trying to avoid WW thread as a strategy, can be a lot smarter than the logic people use in trying to use SDN activity to stalk them.

Typically everyday not long after I get up, I open my alerts, and each one I think is relevant to see I open in a new tab. This usually leads to like 30-40 tabs just when I get up. Then my goal is to close as many as I can as quick as I can. Sometimes I bog down as I write a novel in response to something, or I get caught up reading. I tend to leave WW last in this, so that I can try to shoot down other things on SDN, knowing that WW is a considerable time investment for me anytime I do step into the thread.

I'm not the first player to say, yeah, I popped on SDN, did xyz, and didn't touch the WW thread because I just wasn't in a place to do it.

Case in point, look at where I started posting on this thread today, and now what time it is and the word count....

I've seen people use their SDN stalking skills to try to catch wolves, and you know what, sometimes it works. That's confirmation bias, because it's actually not the best way to catch wolves, and then sadly people will keep going down that rabbit hole.

Also keep in mind for priorities on SDN, is that I not only have things I'm taking seriously in trying to help people, I also have people PM me in dire straits. As much as I prioritize WW, sometimes SI and such takes higher priority.
 
OK, yay, caught up.

So, I think there's a chance the wolves will take the chance in leaving me alive, to be mislynched tomorrow, and they will just kill someone else tonight. It's taking a risk that I can block them tonight, but possibly they feel comfortable with where my suspicions so far have been.

That said, I'm not going to put out a contingency vote. I've already given my thoughts in response to posts. I don't need the wolves to know exactly where my head is at for voting someone. Not to mention I sorta don't want to touch it until tomorrow if I live that long.
 
Stagg.... that one game where he wolfed, well, this feels very similar. He had a lot to say, it all sounded reasonable, he made an enemy out of me or others, backtracked on that.... in fact, I can only recall one game where he was such a "voice of the town" and he was wolf. Keep in mind while I rely heavily on meta, I often remember it wrong too. Think one time I mentally invented a wolf meta for someone who had never wolfed.

Let's think about that for a minute. I've played a total of 5 or 6 games. My most vocal village game was Colorado, which was my first time playing. Second game every was Smash, which was my second week of residency and an IM rotation, so I had almost no time to contribute and it was a 60+ page game. Next game I played was WWedding where I was lynched D1 for RNG voting. Next game was Lurking, aka my glorious return. The next game I played was Halloween, which I got NK'd N1. Which brings us to this game. So I've really only been active in my debut, my wolf game, and now. So what are you actually basing this statement off?

Also, this game has significantly fewer posts than most of the other games I was active in. Colorado ended up being over 40 pages and Smash was over 40 pages by the third day. So I think it seems like I'm more active because this game is so much less active than a lot of other recent games.

This makes no sense to me. For a wolf move it's just dandy. I don't know if AM would do that, my sense is that she's generally conservative as a wolf, just as she is as a villager.

This is something that had me thinking, WIFOM incoming on AM potentially being a wolf:

On the surface it's an okay move, because she could begin to shade Dandy then Dandy dies and it looks like someone is trying to frame her. More experienced players could easily see through that strategy though as it just draws unnecessary attention to her in the wrong way. As a wolf you want to draw some attention (usually), but it has to be the right kind. This would not typically be the right kind imo and could easily be called out as a dumb wolf move, to which she could say "yea it would, so it supports me being village". My question is would wolf AM do that? It's definitely a more high-risk type of move and Idk what AM's wolfing style is, but it seems like it would be pretty bold for her.

The other thing that made me raise an eyebrow there was Mel's response that it would be stupid wolf move. It could be, but played the right way it can be a strong move as well and the reasoning is pretty WIFOM. I feel like Mel gets plenty of tin-foil theories, but I feel like he tries to avoid wifom when possible and something about the wording and timing of that comment seemed off to me. I still need to go back and iso a bit, but I feel like this has been a bit of an odd/off game for me so far and I need to re-analyze things a bit.

seriously, you can't see why that would happen?

That seemed a bit off to me as well, as said above.

you should know how to do that, as you've done it to me before

Really? I had no idea I pocketed anyone other than BJ. Seriously though, my ego about that game is already big enough, I don't need more encouragement.

You don't really know my SDN habits, and I don't feel like I need to explain them. I keep my online status and what I'm looking at on at all times. This is partly to be transparent for y'all, but also, I have an SDN life outside WW. Wolves that are trying to avoid WW thread as a strategy, can be a lot smarter than the logic people use in trying to use SDN activity to stalk them.

My point wasn't just that I saw you were on. My point was that you were on, people here were asking you to check in, then when you did your initial response was not well thought-out and seemed retaliatory/overly defensive. It reminded me of Safari before you were confirmed as alpha. If this were a large game or you had a ton of posts to catch up on that would be one thing. But at that point we weren't even on page 5 yet, so I expected at least something other than you saying the two people who voted for you/tagged you to be suspicious. I also thought your initial post after you found out you were leading the lynch made me want to leave my vote on you. Because if you were a wolf, the blocker claim is a great way to try and gain some desperate village cred. If you're village, you potentially screwed village by revealing that without even trying other ways to defend yourself. It did not help village either way. Here's the response I initially wrote up to your post, but decided to wait to post because you decided to actually catch up and play:

"Okay, kind of pissed about this post. If you read the literally 3 pages of game play (that's nothing Cray, c'mon) you'd know the seer is already dead. Got NK'd last night.

Addressing post volume, it's a speed game and likely to last less than 4 days. If you're basically not here for 2 full days wtf are we supposed to do? Let you just skate? Because that's literally how wolves won last game. Everyone just ignored Allie because she wasn't around and she ended up being the wolf. If you're not going to play, then why shouldn't we vote for you?

I didn't WANT to vote for you because of inactivity. It was a pressure vote more than anything, which is why you've been tagged about 20 times. If you're literally going to contribute nothing though, I will vote for you. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. Especially when you were posting on other threads instead of catching up on literally 2 pages of game play which takes all of 10-15 minutes it's shady.

Also, if you're actually village and just role revealed a PR like that, then you just screwed the village. Seriously, this actually makes you seem more like a wolf to me grasping at straws to try and last 1 more day."

I get that irl stuff takes priority and that you may do other things on SDN as well, but you came on and made a post implying you had at least read some of it because you gave opinions on wolfiness. So you should have seen how little there was to catch up on but your reasoning was still retaliatory. People weren't tagging you simply due to inactivity, it was because we were literally 1 day off of Mylo and you had contributed almost nothing. How are we supposed to figure out where you stand? Flip a coin? So the pressure wasn't just for inactivity, it was due to inactivity at what is likely endgame.
 
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To truly understand our story, we must go back to yesterday. At the end of another long day, SAR was tired. Not from studying, but from going outside Christmas tree scouting in the bush and trying to fill her buck tag. While she did fill the buck tag (in 6 minutes, no less!), no luck was had in finding a good spot to later cut down a Christmas tree. All this to say, it was another relatively unproductive day. She came home to start studying, pulled out her path diseases textbook, and read one page before her best friend reminded her she had agreed to go to CE that night! With a sign, she packed up again and Pathologic Basis of disease was tucked under the bed with the others.

Discarded after D2 was mutts, Pathologic Basis of Disease and a vanillager.


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That brings us to last night, after SAR got home from the diabetes CE (which was cool, even though she wants to be a cow vet - do cows even get diabetes...?). Having gotten approximately 0 things done so far, she decided that again she needed to try to study that night instead of going to bed. After all, she had her very first live surgery next week and that was definitely scary! So she pulled out her small animal surgical textbook and got down to it. Unfortunately, SAR does not drink coffee and all the tea in all the world was not enough to keep her awake. Admitting defeat, she acknowledged that she could read the surgical text on Monday to prep for Wednesday, after the big midterm that she still hadn't started studying for. So Fossum's joined the pile under the bed with all the other discarded texts.

Discarded is @Stagg737, Fossum's Small Animal Surgery and vanilla village

Waking up this morning, SAR had one very startling thought: If she didn't start studying effectively today she would, most assuredly, fail all of her tests in the week after reading week.

It is now D3. Lynch closes at 8pm, MST

Studying Hard?
1. @Animal Midwife
4. @Crayola227
6. @capri1722
7. @StayingPositive2017
9. @Lawper
10. @Melchizedek

In the Discard pile
sheltermed - Plumb's Veterinary Drug Handbook
Dandy - Blackwell's Five Minute Veterinary Consults
mutts - Pathologic Basis of Veterinary Disease
Stagg - Fossum's Small Animal Surgery
 
Day 1 Lynch Tally
Stagg (1) - Cray
Lawper () -
Capri (3) - Dandy, shelter, Paws
Cray (1) - Lawpy
shelter (4) - AM, mutt, Stagg, capri
AM (1) - Mel

10/10

Day 2 Lynch Tally
Mutts (4)
- Mel, Stagg, Lawper, Paws
Lawpy (3) - AM, Cray, Capri
Paws (1) - mutt

8/8
 
Ok, so just gonna lay it all out since its mylo.
Village Leans: AM, Mel, Cray these are based on things they've said and done
Neutral (so wolf?) leans: Capri and Lawper hasn't done anything to convince me otherwise, though Lawpy sounds a lot like he does in spec chat so conflicted there.

Convince me i'm wrong in either direction
 
Ok, so just gonna lay it all out since its mylo.
Village Leans: AM, Mel, Cray these are based on things they've said and done
Neutral (so wolf?) leans: Capri and Lawper hasn't done anything to convince me otherwise, though Lawpy sounds a lot like he does in spec chat so conflicted there.

Convince me i'm wrong in either direction

What made you decide to lean Mel village?
 
It's weak, but his walking me through you was typical him. He's probably my least village lean. He's been pretty off thread though which is concerning. Thoughts on him?

I'm confused as to where his reads are. Yesterday, he was suggesting mutts/Cray, but would like to know what he's thinking now especially regarding Lawpy. I really want to village read him, but feel uncomfortable for some reason.
 
I'm confused as to where his reads are. Yesterday, he was suggesting mutts/Cray, but would like to know what he's thinking now especially regarding Lawpy. I really want to village read him, but feel uncomfortable for some reason.
I just feel like wolfy Mel likes to play close to the sun vs laying low. I always say stupid things so he easily could have gotten me lynched yesterday if he was a wolf but didn't. So either hes trying something new/he's on major pain meds, or he's village
 
@Lawper What are you thinking now?

The wolves are likely up to date with the events and are planning out their kills accordingly. Capri is probably wolf due to her posting behavior and the fact that it makes somewhat sense with the nightkills seen. Dandy voted capri in D1 and Stagg questioned capri's last minute vote. Both died and capri's "reading slow" approach would fit when planning the kills. I also don't find any reason to believe she's village.

I'm very wary of Mel from his posts so far but Mel does this similarly as village in past games so I can't reliably read him either way. Would like to see more thoughts from him.

Pawsy is good as wolf. What are your thoughts on a possible Pawsy-capri W/W pair?

Cray's recent posts and rants fit similarly with her village play but I don't think her blocker claim clears her. Simply because blocker could also be a wolf role and she might be doing the blocking when her partner is doing the killing.

You look least wolfy among the players but you are also good as wolf. The deadly Pawsy-AM W/W powerwolfing pair is possible and gives me Afterparty nightmares.

If I were to vote now, it would likely be capri.
 
I just feel like wolfy Mel likes to play close to the sun vs laying low. I always say stupid things so he easily could have gotten me lynched yesterday if he was a wolf but didn't. So either hes trying something new/he's on major pain meds, or he's village

What? Were you ever in viable range for lynch?

The pain meds thing is probably at least true haha.
 
The wolves are likely up to date with the events and are planning out their kills accordingly. Capri is probably wolf due to her posting behavior and the fact that it makes somewhat sense with the nightkills seen. Dandy voted capri in D1 and Stagg questioned capri's last minute vote. Both died and capri's "reading slow" approach would fit when planning the kills. I also don't find any reason to believe she's village.

I'm very wary of Mel from his posts so far but Mel does this similarly as village in past games so I can't reliably read him either way. Would like to see more thoughts from him.

Pawsy is good as wolf. What are your thoughts on a possible Pawsy-capri W/W pair?

Cray's recent posts and rants fit similarly with her village play but I don't think her blocker claim clears her. Simply because blocker could also be a wolf role and she might be doing the blocking when her partner is doing the killing.

You look least wolfy among the players but you are also good as wolf. The deadly Pawsy-AM W/W powerwolfing pair is possible and gives me Afterparty nightmares.

If I were to vote now, it would likely be capri.

Don't think Paws and capri are w/w. Paws has been pushing for her most of the game. Can't say I've ever seen her bus unless the wolf was an extremely lost cause.
 
no I only had one vote (mutts) i just feel like it's pretty easy to get me lynched if you try and wolves only keep me around because of my terrible end game

I think your endgames have been pretty strong. I don't remember you ever mislynching.
 
Don't think Paws and capri are w/w. Paws has been pushing for her most of the game. Can't say I've ever seen her bus unless the wolf was an extremely lost cause.

Well in that case, I think Pawsy is among least wolfy as well unless we're talking a Pawsy-AM W/W powerwolfing pair.

A capri-Mel W/W pair is possible. Maybe capri-Cray W/W as well. I'm just having a really hard time seeing how capri could be village.
 
I'm really struggling with my wolf pair because that's means there's double bussing going on.
 
I guess aside from the lawper-capri pair I haven't imagined other pairs. AFter class ends I will see if I think other pairs are more or less likely.

If Mel is a wolf he absolutely would run a bussing scheme
 
Well in that case, I think Pawsy is among least wolfy as well unless we're talking a Pawsy-AM W/W powerwolfing pair.

A capri-Mel W/W pair is possible. Maybe capri-Cray W/W as well. I'm just having a really hard time seeing how capri could be village.

Can you explain how Mel and capri or Cray and capri would be w/w?
 
What's the difference between mylo and lylo? Lynching a villager either way means wolves would win.

Mislynch and Lose versus Lynch and Lose. The former gives the village an additional cycle to evaluate by No Lynching. No Lynch doesn't exist on SDN. :lame: So the only way to tell the difference is blocking/protecting/redirecting/having a wolf and villager die in a tie together/wolves not submitting a kill/killing a wolf at night/etc... will lead into a true lylo.

With lylo, the game just instantly ends after a mislynch.
 
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Also go village! I'm flattered that I've been NK'd early in all of the recent games, but I still think wolves are bas**rds.
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I don't understand this. Who is bussing whom, do you think?

I'm looking at you and Lawpy.

So wait before I vote to lynch or not, what is even the benefit of a no-lynch?

It buys us an extra day to figure out who the wolves are. Think of it like a night cancel, but during the day.
 
Hmmm no lynching. Interesting. In some games you can't vote "no lynch" and/or even if you did, or everyone just held their vote, a wolf could bote someone last min, and ANY vote at that point would count and lynch someone.

I can't follow the maths people do when they are trying to figure out # of wolves and mylo.

I'll sheep you guys and

###no lynch###

Hoping this isn't an AM plot.
 
Hmmm no lynching. Interesting. In some games you can't vote "no lynch" and/or even if you did, or everyone just held their vote, a wolf could bote someone last min, and ANY vote at that point would count and lynch someone.

I can't follow the maths people do when they are trying to figure out # of wolves and mylo.

I'll sheep you guys and

###no lynch###

Hoping this isn't an AM plot.

No lynch works like every other vote. For it to not go through, both wolves and a villager would have to choose not to no lynch for that to happen.
 
Again I have an appt at 4:30 pm PST to go get ready for. Likely after that won't have much time for active playing.

Clearly I suspected Mel, but I'm hoping the fact I blocked him but someone died, clears him as wolf, and it wasn't just him having his wolf buddy do the kill.

Maybe he was a bad choice for block, but I did express suspicion of others, and I hoped I was so all over Stagg the wolves would think I blocked him while I really meant for Mel.

I wish there was PM'ing in this game, that's usually how I get help in picking ability targets.
 
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