Newbie Student Mafia VII - Page 68

Hm... This seems weird to me, given how quickly Half the Sky turned on Onegu. Does she really think that her case on a player who she so emphatically said she couldn't read is strong enough to convince her to lynch me before getting a good chance to read me (who I presume she can read)? This seems a bit suspect to me.

However, Half the Sky's posts on page 33 seem a bit better. The normal way to read Half the Sky is to see if she's being interesting or not; interesting Half the Sky is town, while boring Half the Sky is scum. However, in a newbie game, it's much easier to be interesting (the thread moves more slowly, so you can easily beat people to reads and be more original). And while Half the Sky has been interesting at times, her play has felt boring at times as well. Reading this thread all at once, I think that time zones could play a big part in this, and it's possible that I'm just scumreading Half the Sky partially for not posting while she was asleep... I need to take a look at her filter once I catch up with the thread.
There is no scum motivation to do this either? At least, not moreso than "in case I drop off the face of the earth, I have a vote, so I'm not modkilled!" Which is (obviously) a pretty stupid reason.And Breshke mentions this right after. Even more town points to Breshke.
I see now why people are suspicious of prplhz. His filter is almost worth diving for this post alone. Hrmph. Down to a town lean for him, I guess.

Wow, that post from Tubesock about TheBloodyDwarf. I think it's a far, far simpler explanation to say that TheBloodyDwarf simply is new and doesn't know how to play mafia at TL yet. I think that's far too complex of a plan, and not worth taking risks like editing posts (which if this special godfather fake-claim vet plan is true, he would know not to edit posts). The godfather shouldn't play to get cop checked, that's just not a good play at all (especially seeing as only half of the setups have a cop). So I don't think this push really says anything about TheBloodyDwarf (though it does suggest that Tubesock is town). This simply isn't something that mafia would create and try to push.

But really, Soren333 believed this in entirety? That kind of blew my mind.

---

Despite the initial reason for voting for plotspot being sheeping rsoultin, prplhz takes responsibility for the lynch and pushes it on his own. So, I'm mostly willing to overlook his terrible vote (somewhat pending on how he explains his read on plotspot, though he doesn't really have to, it's obvious that plotspot's play isn't terribly towny).

---

Bourneq's transition to vote for plotspot seems strange on the surface. He's a late addition to the wagon. I don't know how his earlier stance on plotspot looked, and I'm not going to be seriously diving filters until I catch up with the entire thread, but this could be suspicious. For now, though, it's not that important.

I kind of like Bourneq's case on prplhz, though. I still think that prplhz is solid town, but Bourneq is providing some good analysis. He's missing a lot of good reasons to townread prplhz, so it's only a half story, but from a new player, he seems to be putting in effort. And again, I'm not convinced that prplhz is someone who mafia would want to jump on in this game, given his activity level.

This post seems suspicious to me (and no, not for being out until End of Day). It's not terribly relevant, though.

---

Wow, plotspot actually claimed scum? Ugh, what a horrid play. He wasn't at all dead.

I'm really surprised at prplhz suddenly deciding that he didn't want to lynch plotspot. That's really strange. And he seems adamant about not lynching plotspot, but isn't willing to lead the charge to someone else, he insists on following someone.I can see this coming from a town perspective, but it's really weird.

As far as end of day switches go, what the heck happened? This is very surprising to see.
Half the Sky suddenly seems willing to lynch Stutters695. Half the Sky seemed extremely laid back and settled with a plotspot lynch, and now suddenly, she is uneasy? This doesn't make much sense at all. She later clarifies this to be that she's definitely willing to lynch plotspot. So why this sudden reaction to reading Stutters695's filter? This feels out of place. I just don't know why Half the Sky waited until less than 30 minutes to End of Day to come up with this?

As a positive point for prplhz, upon seeing this, he immediately switched his vote. At least he's willing to back up his words with actions, when he sees a little support.

TheBloodyDwarf's vote looks really bad here. No explanation at all.
What? This makes no sense at all. Let's assume that scum would not bus here. You could be dealing with Stutters695 voting for plotspot, or Stutters695 voting for plotsplot. This is no reason whatsoever to change votes.

However, I don't think this makes Half the Sky scum. The mafia motivation, while there, isn't worth such an unexplained vote switch. And she moved her vote off of a town who claimed scum, who no one would have blamed her for mislynching.

---

Town
Breshke
jarjarbinks
Tubesock

Town Lean
rsoultin
prplhz

Null
Half the Sky
Bourneq

Scum Lean
Stutters695
TheBloodyDwarf

Only 22 pages to go. And then filter diving. I'm sorry, I'm sort of losing my focus, I've been playing mafia for most of the day, it's really hard for me to catch up. Hopefully tomorrow I will be able to finish reading the thread.