EPTWell, if we were to assume that scum have a recruiter, then I think that VE being recruited into scum could work. It would make sense if scum tried to shoot him N1 as a town vet, he lived, claimed vet, and then scum recruited him. With how much VE kept bringing up the shot he was supposed to have taken, I could see this fitting in. That was one of the major things that VE kept using in his defense, that he took a shot. If it wasn't VE, I probably would have killed him for it, as pushing that you were supposed to have taken a shot that much would imply that there was something off about it. So, if I was the scum team, recruiting a player who survived a shot could make a lot of sense as they get a lot of free cred.
I don't think it had anything to do with BH though, unless it was a one time use, because GK flipped town. So in this scenario, VE would be a townie who took a shot, and then was recruited by scum. I'm not sure if that's what you were thinking or not. If you had something else in mind as far as conspiracy theories go, let me know, it's fun.
re: Glurio
Basically, reading Glurio, I got the impression that he was newer to the game. Looking at his history right now, that seems like a decently fair assessment. Now, when I read his posts, I don't see any hint of coaching or direction from other players. If he was scum, I would think he would be being directed by his scum team. For example, on the first day, he goes after Sandro after he made two posts. I don't think a scum team would let one of their members do something like that, because it's pretty scummy and draws a lot of attention to yourself, attacking a player with two posts, and one who is a high profile player. There's a whole lot of stuff like that in his filter, where he just sort of does whatever and acts however he feels like, that doesn't feel at all like he has a scum team behind him or someone telling him what to do.
Other than that, his train of thought is pretty apparent. He says who he thinks is scummy, and then later on, you'll see mention of the same person again with something like a vote. Also, he isn't careful about his reads. For example, he votes WoS and calls him out, WoS claims later, and this is the post he unvotes with:
On March 21 2013 05:47 glurio wrote:
Ok i believe WoS's claim and unvote him.
Ok i believe WoS's claim and unvote him.
There's absolutely zero covering or softening. I would expect a scum player would try to make the transition slower, and make some long winded post saying about how they just only believe WoS, or that they still have their eye on him, or something to imply that they're reluctant to unvote their scum read. Here, he just unvotes him, simple as that. His posting seems quite honest to me, there's no politicking behind it, or trying to make himself look good.
Same thing with his reads post today. He just blatantly says, "Here's two guys who flipped town and their scum reads, I'm going to look at these people. I agree with these ones, and not these ones". I think a scum player would be more careful to make his reads look original, or at least not like he was blatantly using dead town players as a starting point.
So, my read on Glurio comes mostly from the tone and style of his posts. It doesn't feel like he's being deceptive about what he's doing, and it doesn't feel like he has a scum team pulling his strings. He's not working towards some scum master goal, he's just sort of doing his own thing and posting stuff to explain where his head's at each day.
Does that make sense?
