This game has had one of the slowest D1's I've seen for some time, but I'll try to gather up my thoughts on most of the players so far regardless. Usually I'm against thorough reads lists on D1, but honestly this game is going so slowly, that I have to organize my thoughts somehow to get some sort of reads of everyone.
Stuart444 – Like Nicole mentioned, Stuart is seemingly going after "lower activity posters" while being a low activity poster so far himself. All of his posts prior to that one were nothing but discussing mechanics. His response to Nicole felt bit of an aggressive OMGUS reaction. Those are all generally scum-tells to me, but I'm not sure what to think of Stuart just yet – it's his first game, so all this might just be new player being still unsure of themselves and what to post. It's not exactly uncommon for new players to act this way, honestly. Still, that's not enough for me to town read them, so I'd say they are slightly scummy at this point of time.
KetKat – Like Stuart, a new player. However, I do feel lot better about KetKat right now that what I feel about Stuart. She hasn't had that many posts, but what are there have been in my eyes all about trying to solve the game, and her posts feel genuine to me. It's very early game, but for now I town read her, and wouldn't want to lynch her.
SexyFish – There's honestly nothing here. All of note he has done is a OMGUS vote on Brazil. I could see SexyFish being a scum trying to lay low and just hope for others to ignore him during D1. But he could also be a bored town, I would expect scum to be at least a little bit more active.
Sophia – I have had my poke vote on Sophia for a good while now. I didn't remove my vote when she did appear, because at first her posts felt very feeble and weak, felt like scum trying to just go with the flow on D1. Luckily her quality of posts have gone bit up since then, and they feel more like town Sophia now. But I do agree with Fandorin that her reads were pretty non-committal ones. Is it due to her being scum? Or due to D1 just being really slow as it is?
Fandorin – Most of the first IRL day all of Fandorin's posts were mechanics discussion, and a pretty feeble call out of inactive players. On the last two pages or so he has been more actively scumhunting, and I appreciate him pointing out Sophia's weak reads, since I might have missed that otherwise. But I do have to wonder – he only stopped the constant mechanics talk when multiple people started to call out that scum would most likely want to waste D1 on that. Having said that, his posts do feel genuinely town – it feels like Fandorin wants to solve the game. This leaves me frustrated. The logical part of me says his posting pattern has been scummy, but the tone and feel of his post makes me town read him. That leaves me at the midpoint – a neutral read.
Xbro – He has only had one post with content on it, post 214 with his initial reads. The reads themselves are pretty weak – his reads on Fandorin and Kyan are mostly just stating the obvious, and his read on Nicole is really weak, calling out her first post without really explaining what was wrong with it (I don't see said post as aggressive at all). His wording seems more confident than in the last game he was scum, but he does fit the mold of scum mostly staying in the background on D1, and letting town fight town.
Apollo – Where is he? His only contribution to the game thus far was his vote for Zipped, but that vote was based on basically nothing. He took out his vote once Zipped gave a simple comment about it, and then vanished again. That whole vote – it honestly just looks like scum trying to look helpful and contributing to the game without actually doing anything of note. I know Apollo has been quiet and inactive in the past games too, but this interaction feels more scummy than simple inactiveness. Scum reading him.
SweetNicole – Like with Sophia, I was worried about her feebleness and quietness at the start of the day phase, especially since she is usually much more aggressive and assertive player. Granted, last time she was that, she was also a neutral serial killer, but this quietness was weird. Like Sophia though, she has stepped up her game in the backend of this day phase lot more, which makes me feel lot better about her. Even more so that Sophia, her posts feel like town, especially noticing Stuart's actions. I have a Town read on Nicole at this point of time.
empressdonna – One of the inactive players at this point of time. Her posts haven't had much substance to them. I almost get the feeling that she is scared to post, one of the key scum-tells. She is pretty reactionary so far, and also fits the mold of a scum just trying to go with the flow. Somewhat scummy, although I don't know how much of that is tied to her still being quite a new player.
Royal_Flush – All he has done is one complaint post about Faddy not answering his questions, and a post where he is surprised nobody jumped on SexyFish's OMGUS vote. I find the SexyFish post more interesting. with it, he is able to frame anyone who would jump on SexyFish about that in the future as someone jumping on easy target. If Royal and Sexy were scumbuddies, this would be a very efficient tactic to get all of the town to ignore his scumbuddy's questionable behaviour. Other than those two posts, there isn't anything. However, unlike with lot other inactive players on this list, I'm not able to scum-read Royal at this juncture. I honestly have no other explanation about that than gut feeling. That doesn't mean I'm town reading him though, it just lands him on the neutral spot.
Brazil – He feels like he is actively trying to solve the game, asking questions and trying to steer town away from mechanic discussion, and towards actual scumhunting. This behaviour might be bit NAI, since he is generally helpful as scum as well, but I'm definitely more leaning on town read for him at the moment. His interaction with giving DCPat easy town points is notable, though.
DCPat – The first noticeable posts from DCPat is him not understanding why knowing who has what card is beneficial for scum. Brazil says that this level of fail is bit more of a town read, but I don't know… last game Pat was scum, he staged one of the most obvious examples of scum trying to save their partner from lynch, and he got rightfully lynched for it the very next day. So it's not like Pat is above making major mistakes as scum. Other than that interaction though, pat has been posting short comments here and there. They are at least comments trying to solve the game, but they haven't been very original in my eyes, mostly just parroting what others have said in the game so far. His activity does raise him above "scum trying to just blend in and watch from the sidelines", but it's definitely not enough for me to town read him.
nin – I mostly like nin so far. He has been pretty coherent, and trying to scumhunt in his posts, which at this early point of game is always a town read for me. The only thing that makes me pause is how actively he went to defend Geno after I called him out of his possible role fishing attempt. I'm not a fan when others try to answer questions they weren't asked. Not sure if this came from the sense of camraderie nin has seemingly had with Geno, or from scum trying to defend a buddy. I'd lean on the former for now though, so I'm town reading nin.
Kyanrute – He definitely started the game with multiple possible scumtells. He definitely was trying to fish for information at the start, and his writing prose feels more like an attempt to obfuscate information rather than anything else. There's even been multiple players asking him explicitly to start write normally. But at the same time, he has consistently continued his posting style the same, and he hasn't backed down from his viewpoints even though he had lot of oppoturnities to do so. This in some weird way makes me actually town read him – scum Kyan would have easily changed his posting style in an effort to try to win town points for himself. So not backing down at all – that actually makes me town read him, in weird fashion. I wouldn't want to lynch him today.
zippedpinhead – I like zipped so far. He did discuss mechanics quite a lot early, but he also defended his posture of discussing them, which is a town sign for me. He is one of the few players who mostly discussed mechanics, yet I still town read them.
Kalor – Kalor is at a weird spot for me. He has posted quite a lot compared to some, but like with Pat, those posts are mostly short 1-2 sentence posts that either don't say that much, or parrot others. He is posting, but not contributing much to the game so far. But with the game at such an early stage, is it really a scum tell yet? I don't get the feeling of Kalor trying to blend to the crowd, at least.
Geno – Geno is an interesting case. The last game I played with him (Buck Bumble), he got very aggressive when he was called out or criticised. He was town that time. In this game, he feels lot more subdued. Not as aggressive, but he also feels less involved in the game as a result. Only interesting thing to note so far about him was his reaction to my note about him possibly role fishing. It wasn't aggressive reaction, but gave me slight OMGUS vibes. His post still might be slightly role-fishing. So is this change of behaviour born from wanting to evade the same situation as in Buck Bumble (where his aggresive behaviour more or less lead to his lynch on D1), or is it his scum buddies advising him to take a more relaxed approach? It's hard to say this early to the game, but I'm leaning on the former for now. I'm leaning neutral on him for now.
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So, to get a TL;DR on my reads at the moment:
Scum lean:
Apollo
Slight scum lean:
Sexy Fish
Xbro
Stuart444
empressdonna
Neutral lean:
Sophia
Royal_Flush
Geno
Kalor
Fandorin
DCPat
Slight town lean:
zippedpinhead
Kyanrute
nin
Town Lean:
SweetNicole
KetKat
Brazil
So, having said all that:
VOTE: Apollo
His weak vote on zipped, then retracting it, and then just fading into obscurity feels like a very solid case of a scum trying to seem helpful, yet not actually contributing to the game at all, and blending in with inactivity after.