I'm going to try and do an impartial read through of Stu and Malus, but it's 5 AM and I'm not sure if I'm actually awake right now. We'll go through this by three standards: Vote records, interactions with scum and scum readings.
We'll start with Stu, formerly known as Coolest.
D1: Coolest votes Kopite and parks his vote there.
D2: Stu breaks into the game and takes the reins from Coolest. He puts down a vote for Oreo but eventually decides to vote for LP after Polter counter claims.
D3: Stu votes and then unvotes Polter, possibly scared of a SS. Does it after Geno and Kopite mention they're scared of the SS.
D4: Votes for Kopite instead of Stan because of scummy posts.
D5: Votes for Kopite again.
D6: Stu was on Malus for a bit but eventually switches to Oreo.
Analysis: Stu has never been on scum this game besides when he voted and unvoted Polter. I suppose you could say that scum Stu might have been more ready to bus Stan, and he should have, but that's stepping into WIFOM territory.
Let's start looking into Stu's interactions with scum.
Chugg had almost nothing to say about Coolest except to wait and see on him so we'll skip that one.
Polter seemed keen to continue that thread of Coolest being unpredictable, but also making sure we know that he knows the reasoning for scum reading Coolest is weak and could change.
My own P/I/K:
Protect: Fanto
Investigate: Muffin
Kill: Coolest...?
It's hard for me to get a good feel for scum on Day 1. I'm voting for him mostly because he's being difficult.
Is he the best choice for my vote? Eh... it's hard to say. At the very least I am not super comfortable with Muffin voting with me right now. To be honest, I really didn't expect people other than myself to vote for him.
It's busy work on his part. To what end is something I can't say.
Stan however, seemed pretty content with a Coolest lunch.
Yeah, nothing this phase has given me particularly strong scum vibes, and with no real change on any of the other front runners im cool with sticking to meatwad just to let things remain close, im hoping that the contention toward day end will provide some good shit to read into tommorrow.
Coolest looking to be joining the race only adds to that, and yeah im pretty cool with his lunch too.
Now i actually need to sleep, peace.
And then reverses course when Stu replaces Coolest. I don't know what to make of that.
well my votes already on LP if ya wanna join me,
i dont think id put much stock in voting Stu due to coolest, he was being pretty typical for him and id rather just see how Stu plays from here, since y'know, Stu actually tries at mafia.
Analysis: Stu and Coolest has had minimal interaction with the scum team, but he did seem to run interference for Stan for some reason yesterday.
This is Aeleus explaining that they get a bad feeling from Stan.
I'll try and explain my feelings on Kawl in a sec but is anyone else getting bad vibes from Stan, usually I'd begrudgingly add him to my town lean list but I really don't see that happening anytime soon.
Why are you getting bad vibes from Stan?
And I suppose what sticks out to me is the way the question for why is phrased, as if Stu thinks contrary.
Man it's quiet.
If we have nothing more to discuss, we should turbo polter.
ideally I'd like to see claims from the remaining folk though but I also want to find out if this game is secretly bastard or not lol.
Here Stu does show a penchant for turboing that makes his recent posts make sense.
I'm not scum. Not sure what I can say to defend myself but I'm not.
Malus I think could be scum even if he's a scum gossip.
Oreo, I don't think is scum with that power.
Stan is a prime scum candidate. Just based on POE.
Lovers I'm up in the air about.
Kopite & Aeleus are two I'm not sure on. I really am not. :/
Just based on POE, Stan is a prime lunch candidate. Hm, makes sense. Why vote off wagon to Kopite though, when you're almost sure that Malus and Stan are scum and generally unsure about Kopite? Isn't that strange?
So looking at Malus.
He has voted LP and then focused mostly on me. Seemed very reluctant to vote Stan as malus preferred to get me out. Innocent as it may seem, now we know Stan was scum. Also briefly voted for Kopite
I think Malus would be a good lunch today. Scum Gossip Malus.
I'm honestly not sure what to say about this before looking into Malus, because from where I am reading this can also apply to Stu's play. Now if they've had similar days then that's...wonderful.
The final point in the analysis is the day Geno was shot and killed in the streets.
We know Stu switched Muffin and Geno because of Muffin's results. Stu also opened with that information before Muffin revealed his tracking results, so I'm inclined to believe that's true. We're supposing that Geno directed Stu to switch him and Muffin, although that's hard to tell. The point is, what would be the benefits of a scum Stu to killing Geno and keeping Muffin alive?
Could it possibly be because scum thought Blarg would be a big contender next day (he was one short from biting majority's tail and Stan seemed to really want that lunch) and they wanted to get an uncertain element out of the way first (that could influence their night actions) and deal with Muffin later? But isn't that super risky? What would have happened if Muffin tracked scum to their NK? Was it worth it? There are too many what ifs involved in this line of thinking.
