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Townleans
Ness - Toads flipping blue has me all but certain that the interaction between them was town v. town. Despite AtEing he seems to have stopped and is actually trying to press people to produce content and answer questions.
Runeraider - I initially thought he was playing a lot differently from the last game, but tbh as time has progressed, it seems like it's been getting more similar to his prior town meta. That and his questioning of me made me feel that he was genuinely pursuing a lead he felt was scummy - I don't see scum!rune putting in that much effort to discredit me without himself potentially looking bad.
Jacob - someone felt confident enough to give him two votes, and his expressed interest in voting Tom fairly quickly gives me confidence he's town. I don't think he'd bus his teammate that early in d2.
PandaDarling - not really reminding me of her scum self, though I would appreciate more content
iLoveYou - since my initial townread, she's only done more to solidify my confidence in my initial read. I'd be hella impressed if she was scum, though Dolby's expressed similar things and I'm somewhat nervous Dolby/ILY could be a team. Crackpot theory ik and ILY hasn't done anything scummy to make me think she's scum, though Dolby is kind of a mixed bag for me still.
Punchy - has been playing very townlike but where has he gone? Slight move down my town totem pole since last reads but he's still town imo
Ghostkid - seems genuine noob town. Has been very set on Tom though all along, and idk if that's a town or scum sign...weak TL for now. (Hypocrisy? no not really because I actually gave the man a chance)
Kamm - remains one of my stronger townleans. Continues to be very forthright and pursuing questions/leads
FireNinja - has stepped up his content/questions somewhat, though he continues to pull out the "look at me, I'll be enigmatic for the sake of being enigmatic" card sometimes...but that also reminds me of his town play so yeah.
Null
Dolby - since my initial null read of him, I still feel like he's null, but starting to trend towards scumlean. Buddying with Trundle for seemingly little reason, plus the fact that two blues died, makes me think the bluesniper could be at it again...but on the other hand, I feel like a lot of his content has been fairly solid. He has generally avoided making a super concrete read on yours truly, however. The fact he keeps bringing up what scum me would or would not do, without really clarifying exactly where he thinks I'm on the alignment spectrum, is a bit fishy. I'm going to look into precisely where he started to SL glow later on after work - I think the timing there is critical
Heyden - need to go through his posts more specifically, got a SL from Antonio of all people for pretty shoddy reasons imo. His content hasn't exactly been anything to write home about. Null for now.
Ryumia - I reallllly wanted her dead last lynch but I'm having serious second thoughts about my initial scumlean. Not only because her TP slip probably isn't one after all, but because for someone who's been watching us play mafia for a while, I would hope by now she would learn how NOT to look scummy. Her indecisiveness and self-preserving secretive behavior seems like her one town game to me. I want her to actually give opinions on the player base and vote for someone soon - I get why she voted herself as a "placeholder" but as we've seen recently, self votes can definitely kill
glow - really torn on this one. On the one hand, she's been pretty tunnel vision on Dad again. On the other hand, I do kinda think ILY may be on to something when she mentioned that glow just doesn't seem to care what people think. This sort of aloofness is very characteristic of town glow imo - though I am then reminded of how invested she was in saving my scum ass in FNAF...she's definitely always a toughie to read and is another one I should probably probe deeper, but POST LINKS POST LINKS POST LINKS (did I say post links???)
Dad - the likelihood that their fight is town v town is growing in my mind tbh. Need to review Dad's posts in more detail but from what I rememeber, nothing really screamed town or scum to me. glow does have a decent point in that Dad and dolby have hardly interacted
Scumleans
Trundle - busy ik, and he's explained his buddying with Dolby, but idk something feels fishy about said buddying. Trundle/Dolby seem to trust each other with little to no reservation and I don't see what Trundle has done to earn Dolby's trust. This buddying and lack of memorable thoughts on key players (I think he said he wants to lynch Tom so idk, NEED POST LINKS PL0X) makes me scumlean him for the time being.
Mogyay - also busy, but she's really reminding me of the times she was scum and hostile TP. Not saying too much to avoid stirring up controversy - milktoast content. I could see her paired with one or more of the lurkers for sure, since she is lowkey one herself
Gigalabesh - WHERE. T. F. ARE. YOU. After Tom's (most likely) lynched today, I say this cheeky little mofo needs to be voted off. Absolutely no substantial thoughts on the game whatsoever, didn't vote despite him saying he'd vote Antonio, just all around ultra scummy. Idk how likely or viable a Giga/Antonio team is though...if you wanna live, though, I highly suggest actually giving a **** about this game.
Locket - this is admittedly my most bandwagony/piggybacking read, but I think her playstyle has been rather different from her town games (her only games so far).
Tom - no promised reads d2, this level of IDGAF about the game is unacceptable even for Tomian standards. Probably my d2 lynch candidate unless something huge arises.
Antonio - I've already skewered him on his shoddy reads on a grand total of three players, and he hasn't done anything since then to really instill confidence that he's not changed alignments since last game. My third strongest scumlean after Tom and Giga