I'm not caught up with the thread at all, but I'm jumping in for the few minutes I have to relay the thoughts on D1 Monkey I'd promised before, since I already saw people tagging me for them.
Early on, Fantomas was quick to jump in against Monkey with what was one of the first "real" votes in the game.
In response, Monkey strangely doubled down on what I, at the time, believed was no more than a joke vote against B-Dubs/Sorian:
She wants B-Dubs to "demonstrate why" we shouldn't get rid of them, which was a really weird proposition to make when the game had literally just started.
It's right around this time that Stuart becomes tilted, as Fanto puts their boat in the lead. Town!Kits also goes back to her vote against them, leaving them with 4.
When confronted by Kits about how they're (Monkey/Stu) not putting in the work, Monkey says the following:
Which is interesting in contrast to her initial vote against B-Dubs - she pushed him against the wall and asked him to be productive, but her excuse for not being productive is the fact that she'd been pushed against the wall.
Around this point in the game, Monkey/Stu are still in the lead with 4 votes against Coolest/Beat and Kits/Kalor with 3 votes each.
Monkey then drops some weak reads and flimsy prodding questions. The one aimed at my partner caught my attention because it was so tangential it was never going to lead anywhere interesting.
The next one is key, so please read it in its entirety:
Monkey comes back to the thread after a break only to find more heat coming their way.
In my chat with Flux, I compared this directly to Monkey's post about how we couldn't possibly find anything by looking through Faddy's posts in MafiEra. It's right at the bottom at the uncanny valley in terms of how blatant it is, to the point where I'd probably handwave this away (like I eventually did in MafiEra) as something scum would never do,
if I hadn't already experienced the aforementioned MafiEra post.
To sum it up, paragraph by paragraph:
"Do you really think
Stu and I would be caught so easily as scum?"
"Sorian's reason for scumreading me isn't real. Do better."
"Fanto's reason for scumreading me is lazy. Do better."
"Take your votes off of us and move them elsewhere, and then maybe come back to us if you
really need to. Also, you'll regret losing us."
She'd later repeat the same
"Scum wouldn't do this" argument, as would Stu - multiple times.
Monkey then
started agreeing with Stu's woe-is-me defeatist posts, like the "If I change, then you'll lynch me for having changed" one. (In this same post, she does what I felt was a light attempt at pocketing Flux after he mentioned not liking the train against herself/Stu.)
The
"Look elsewhere" spiel would also be repeated. (In the same post, she tried to dismiss her Sorian/B-Dubs vote, even though she argued for it beyond when the vote expired.)
This post is another doozy, full of
very bad lines.
- She tries to paint all the votes against them as "arbitrary".
- Spells out why she and Stu would be that frustrated if they were scum in the "We are not a D1 lynch" line.
- Calls Geno out, but refuses to outright call him scum.
- Claims that people who were voting for them "haven't done shit since early in the phase" (not really a fair criticism when considering what she and Stu did that phase.)
- And finally ends with some "Don't forget this when I'm dead" faux-drama.
This far into the phase, she
doubles down on the "What makes Sorian/B-Dubs town?" argument.
Then it's back to "When I'm dead" drama.
And back once again back to Sorian as well, which is something she, as pointed above, claimed was a vote that had "only lasted 4 minutes", when in truth is the extent of her work during that phase. She stuck with that throughout the entire day, while chastising others for not putting in the work where she wanted them to.
But then... their train deflated.
Suddenly
"There wasn't actually momentum" behind the train against them.
I was diplomatic over the misuse of the "momentum" word when going back and forth with her over this at the time, but when reading through back through her posts overnight, this part really didn't make much sense.
She was trying to downplay how nervous they were over the heat they were getting.
No matter how you look at it, there
was momentum behind their train - Monkey's and Stu's own demeanor and posts are proof of that. One moment, both were being dramatic about what we should do after they were lynched, and about how the people voting for them were being "lazy" or that they "hadn't done shit". The next, when they were not in immediate danger anymore, she tried to play it cool.
Overall, her entire phase doesn't sit right with me. Basically all of her effort throughout the phase was invested in trying to make people look the other way from her boat, and the closest thing she had to show in terms of scumhunting was "What makes B-Dubs/Sorian town?", which was born out of a meme vote but somehow lingered in her discourse over the entire phase.
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Once again - not caught up, and won't be until tonight. I'd be more confident in a vote here if I didn't have my doubts regarding Sorian as well, and I would be surprised if they all turned out to be scummates. So I really wanna figure this one out.
Also, I didn't revise this post, so fingers crossed it won't completely break down in a mess of Terraforce'd tags (<3).
