The erratic D1 voting was interesting yesterday, but now that I know 3 out of the 4 trains that seemed to have a shot at happening that day ended up being townies, it's way more likely that scum simply did whatever with their votes at that stage.
Call it OMGUS or whatever, but this vote is one that sticks out to me with the above in mind. It didn't feel organic at the time, either, but I wasn't here at EoD to complain.
I agree with this only at the very day's end, as that's the only time it makes sense to not go after your number one scum read in order to make an actual meaningful vote.
Vote: Brazil
I'm unsure of if you didn't vote Nat because you thought it wouldn't gain traction, or if it was because you didn't believe in making the case. Now that there's two votes on him, how would you choose?
Vere editorialized
hard with the reasoning behind this vote, which, alright, but he just threw it out there alongside a weird question and left it there until the day ended.
Here's the editorializing (this post precedes the vote):
@Brazil you felt like Nat might be scum, and you seemed a tad more convinced than your Alex read. It's a bit weird that you didn't really return to that with a vote, no?
It feels like Vere intentionally created this "Isn't it weird that Brazil isn't voting for Natiko?" narrative out of a tale he himself spun ("You seemed more convinced about Natiko than Alexem"), and then used that to justify his vote.
To me this looks like scum looking for an easy vote to sit on top of, and not actual scumhunting, especially with how much pieces moved around near that EoD.
He just latched onto this throughout D1, and when the phase was over, he never brought it up again.
