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*gives Cairos a hug*

Gud's game is not so different in tone, but the first game she was very quiet and did not contribute very much in the early stages. She clearly stated that the game went against her personality (the lying and arguing and sniping at each other) and showed sympathy for the savaging I was getting in the thread. She was much more vocal toward the end game and according to Ithi had also worked out who the wolves were. This game is nothing like that, but I would say it a convincing continuation of where she was by the end. Others may disagree.

I would doubt very much that the vote will still be there by deadline, depending on what happens in the next 24 hours, of course. It is not like I have to worry about the hammer falling when I don't expect it. I'm just seeing a lot of humming and hahing about who people are going to vote for. I'd rather move my vote once things start moving in a direction. And I have given my thoughts on voting atp, though in my experience once the votes start being cast and everyone starts theorizing about why who is voting for who, my head will be turning every which way at all the pretty scantily clad theories. And of course I would be totally choked up if Zander was accidentally mislynched on D1. But given it is not a hammer game, my vote there at this point is not going to contribute to that.

At the moment, as much as it pains me to say, I'm not leaning Wolf on Zander. I'm not really sure why his tone is different - maybe because Lenlo is a real player that is pushing him and not a first time player like me. The franticness appears to have disappeared again. I voted early as I did not want there to be a threshold on me voting for the first time (changing a vote seems less of an effort), plus I thought it would be interesting to see how other players reacted to there being a "non-joke" vote on someone so early (I think that is how Lenlo put it). Like did Lenlo decide to get into the whole "it is not the joke it is your reaction to the criticism" argument because there was already the start of a train on Zander? All in all, no one has really tried to make any use of my vote sitting there, though that might be because it is Zander. Problem is Zander always looks wolfy to me, in my experience so far, so I'll probably have to rely on other people for reads on him atp.

Of course not, Hamilton is in the west of Scotland.

You are a little more energetic than I was expecting for some reason. Little difficult to read for me so far.

Gud is obviously lovely, but can anyone really differentiate between a new player coming into her own in confidence and imprinting her personality on the thread, and a new player being asked in wolf chat "so what were you like last game? Totally cute? Run with that, don't be too quiet". I think Gud's tone is fine, if maybe a little defensive. Leaning towards Town, but fairly null read for me. Everyone seems to be back tracking on their suspicions, making excuses for everyone, generally leaving me confused. Shad seems town, Turin seems more relaxed, so hopefully more accurate. Don't like RTE's posting and his interactions with Lenlo. Don't like Verbal's tone, or the way he was taking the "leader of the town" position by assigning lynch targets and PR targets, rather on the low key, totally sensible advice. Zander seems to have calmed down. Cass? I feel like someone is asking me to rate her artistic ability then showing me a video of her shoving crayons up her nose. I mean, sure why not? Definitely town or mafia. Probably. Cairos is a hard working nurse and probably has a cute uniform, null read, real life seems plausible, especially combined with the questions he has been asking. Dice appears as grumpy and taciturn as ever. Guess is town? Doesn't seem to have the "this person is mafia and I will die on this hill" that he did last game. Which could be down to better camouflaged wolves, I suppose. All my suspicions are weak sauce. Willing to lynch at this point, RTE, Verbal and Lenlo, roughly in that order of priority. I'm sure my opinions will wildly fluctuate over the next 24 hours if last game is anything to go by.

Blood

Fair

WOLF!

I don't know nuffink, guvnor. You're asking the wrong girl.

Yes.

Cruelty

I'm getting strong wolfy vibes off RTE and Verbal. Also the interactions between. RTE and Lenlo make me a bit suspicious. Are they trying to give town cred or something or is one laying a false trail so if they flip wolf the other is implicated? It feels somehow false. But getting to crunch time of voting when all this touchy feely business will come to an end. Take that as you will, wish I was clearer on how much the posters themselves are influencing me compared to other people's takes.

Monocle

That's odd. In my part of the interwebs, meta is how you play the game. In one game I played it became a hot topic as people tried to explain why the literal worst tank in the game had to be nerfed because of its effect on the meta. But I suppose you could define it your way and essentially use the word in the same way as presumably everyone is adjusting their play to be the most effective... In theory at least. Food for thought, but my apologies for the digression. I thought when Turin and Dice were rambling about meta it was about people played specifically as town or mafia rather than anything about effectiveness. Obviously need to be sharper around the jargon.

Trusting your gut compared to a "he said, she said" analytical approach, I would suggest.

Lol, I had just discovered that.

Dude, I have been a professional linguist and text definitely has tone. But even if that is the wrong term I don't see how it could be misinterpreted. This is why I'm getting frantic vibes off you, but I don't know what that means.

Sounds right for the vig, and the watcher cannot peek at people's alignment, but can keep an eye on someone and will see who kills them if they are. I guess that is where the vig comes in, thw watcher won't know if it is mafia or vigilante who did the killing, though they will see the flip I suppose.

Captain, the cuteness sensors are overloading! The ship cannot take it! Switch to emergency power, and redirect the lateral shields! We cannot let this sneaky wolf attack overwhelm us! She's gonnae blow, Cap'n! ABANDON SHIP! ABANDON SHIP!

A mama wolf is still wolf, Gud 😄

Cannot say I disagree with any of Turin's reasoning atp, except maybe Cairos. I don't think joke references this early are indicative of alignment. At least not red flags. Though definitely agree he is a player we need to hear more from.

But Z, none of that would entail that you need to have a 6 page rant about the post. By all means be suspicious of Lenlo, vote for him, remind people of his behaviour. But you don't need to keep going on about it. But anyway, I think I've said that enough as well. I get the feeling the wolves are being quiet. Odds are heavily in their favour D1 it seems to me as long as they do nothing ridiculously suspicious. But stuff will start to polarize at EoD, which is quite some time away.