So ISO of Barks looks good to me (just something about the way she’s going about things feels organic and genuine and there’s nothing that poos as wolfy), but on reading things in context I can kind of almost convince myself of alley/Barks pack…
but also not really because I’m also getting more and more tinges of “something’s not right, I feel like True or AM has to be wolfing because I’m village reading them but I can feel myself actively in the process of choking”
Anyways, back to the reread of Barks and vote progression around her vote:
First thing that came up about True since she salt-yeeted him. Looks like a natural progression of “oh yeah, True, he actually seems villagey, time to change to a real vote”, but obviously this isn’t something it’s hard to fake.
Just noting this was a reply to alley so I guess you could argue she chose to use her packmate’s reads rather than any other of the many places True was mentioned to be “reminded” of him playing and it being time to switch off him - easy way to get Nonsuspicious Thread Interactions. Some wolves are drawn to interacting more with packmates than they would if not packmates and some avoid them, not sure where Barks typically falls.
First vote for alley, placed by PSV
Barks vote for PSV was half a page after the first alley vote, but there were 2 other wagons with one vote as well, so IDK that she would be so threatened by it she would need to get on PSV. I don’t think True or I had expressed much suspicion of alley yet, and even when I did alley apparently thought that I was talking about being suspicious of PSV, not of her.
I also don’t know to what extent it would spook Barks to hop onto the same wagon as her packmate immediately after her packmate was voted - again, I don’t remember how powerwolfy Barks can be.
Obviously she could be telling the truth and didn’t know about the vote for alley. Honestly even if she’s a wolf with alley it might be more likely she just didn’t see it and had planned to get on PSV since that was pretty much the only person she’d established being significantly suspicious of earlier (or had seen it, would prefer to vote elsewhere to avoid looking like she was protecting a packmate, but felt like it would just be too suspicious to vote somewhere else when she hadn’t established any other wolf reads).
Barks obviously did, so I could see this as a way to distance without doing any permanent damage to Barks (since the sus could easily be dispelled by showing she did talk about her PSV concerns)
Next vote placed is Z voting Barks
And alley finds and brings up where Barks did already talk about PSV, helpfully brings it to everyone’s attention, and invites Barks to give more thoughts. Seems like a pretty classic way of getting packmate interactions to help each other prove villageyness without appearing to defend each other, however:
Barks wasn’t prepared to give more thoughts, which definitely doesn’t point to this being a planned interaction. Doesn’t rule it out as w/w since w/w interactions definitely aren’t always elegantly planned and alley and Barks might have just not been on the same page, but it’s not support for w/w.
Nest vote is True’s vote for alley
Could see this as some very mild/indirect inconspicuous defence of a packmate. I could also see it as AM defending a packmate in a much less mild way.
True, but one of those people was alley and the vote was right after the vote for alley. See a few posts above for my thoughts on this.
Last sentence in reply to alley’s “how was I putting words in shorty’s mouth”, again could be an inconspicuously mild/indirect way of defending alley
You think Alissa and I are packmates trying to decimate Truey together? That would be so extremely obvious it would be the worst wolf strategy ever.
