Fight me in NOC, Rein. My first thoughts on Rein were that he was null-ok, but after a couple of times of contacting him and seeing him reply in a steady pace I began to grow suspicious. Granted, he’s been busy, but it seemed to me that he was coasting on that fact to avoid engaging in OC contact. And then the NL happened. Rein complained about it, and not without a reason. But his thoughts on the whole thing weren’t clear. So I went ahead and talked to him, and asked about his reads. He claimed to be scumreading Faerie Knight. This is part of our log: [spoiler=Not reading the terms of service implies agreeing with them][31/08/2015 19:52:16] Mitsuki: also, what exactly are you scumreading Faerie on? [31/08/2015 19:55:07] Reinfleche: his defense post [31/08/2015 19:55:32] Reinfleche: didn't even try and suggest an alternate lynch that'd be better [31/08/2015 19:57:04] Reinfleche: just lists a bunch of town reads and is like LAME [31/08/2015 19:57:13] Mitsuki: that was around 40 min before deadline [31/08/2015 19:57:35] Mitsuki: 40 min before deadline I wouldn't think my lynch would change [31/08/2015 19:58:21] Mitsuki: also I see how not suggesting another lynch would make sense if he actually has no scumreads, so that's a null point [31/08/2015 19:58:26] Mitsuki: well, that's how I see it [31/08/2015 19:58:29] Mitsuki: thoughts? [31/08/2015 19:58:59] Reinfleche: it came off as really halfassed to me [31/08/2015 19:59:13] Reinfleche: i don't get why we didn't lynch him [31/08/2015 19:59:47] Mitsuki: (me neither but now I wouldn't lynch him) [31/08/2015 19:59:52] Mitsuki: also in which sense? [31/08/2015 20:00:39] Reinfleche: what do you mean in which sense [31/08/2015 20:00:55] Reinfleche: also why not [31/08/2015 20:00:55] Mitsuki: halfassed in which sense? [31/08/2015 20:01:19] Mitsuki: because I read his defense post again [31/08/2015 20:01:31] Mitsuki: and the first bit seems more like town rage [31/08/2015 20:01:35] Mitsuki: by a fair margin [31/08/2015 20:01:41] Reinfleche: really? [31/08/2015 20:02:24] Mitsuki: yes [31/08/2015 20:02:28] Mitsuki: let me find it again [31/08/2015 20:02:35] Reinfleche: it didn't come off that way to me [31/08/2015 20:03:06] Mitsuki: "Also, ok, I'm cagey for not wanting to claim right away and asking you to prove what you could first. I'm sorry I don't trust people that easily in this game. It seems I'm alone in that, with how many of you are just following Refa's lead." specially this bit [31/08/2015 20:03:44] Reinfleche: that didn't look that townie to me [31/08/2015 20:03:58] Mitsuki: I can see how a townie with the mindest of "this people are dumb and lynching me for dumb reasons" could make that post [31/08/2015 20:04:14] Reinfleche: "god i'm scum for not claiming? fuckin sheeple" is how it looks on my end [31/08/2015 20:04:28] Mitsuki: and I don't think scum in the same situation would use the wording he's using [31/08/2015 20:05:01] Reinfleche: shrug
I don’t know what to make out of the contents of the scumread itself. The thing is, during the whole time I had to be pushing Rein so that he explained his logic better. To me it seemed like he wasn’t really putting an effort on getting me to understand his read, or on convincing me. Which I see as scummy, because town will want to argue their cases and convince others of them so that their actual scumreads are more likely to be lynched. I’m interpreting the lack of interest on that field as scum who don’t care about who’s lynched as long as it’s not them. Coincidentally, some time before I had asked Rein about what he would do if he had a scumread in OC to ask for advice, and he said that he’d try to talk about it with other people and see their thoughts. So I went ahead and did that, contacting the most trustworthy and townie person in this game. Someone who, incidentally, is now dead. [spoiler=Who could it be?][31/08/2015 20:17:18] Mitsuki: also that's not all, I'm scumreading Rein [31/08/2015 20:17:33] Mitsuki: [explaining] [31/08/2015 20:17:35] Tinker Blitz: I am too
Oh. Let’s see the rest of the log: [spoiler=Disregard most of what I say, I changed my opinion on most of this][31/08/2015 20:17:42] Mitsuki: oh [31/08/2015 20:17:43] Mitsuki: YAY [31/08/2015 20:17:51] Tinker Blitz: I think he is scum based on the post in thread [31/08/2015 20:18:00] Tinker Blitz: he is complaining about the NL [31/08/2015 20:18:06] Mitsuki: also his instance on Faerie seems sort of unreasonable (on Skype) [31/08/2015 20:18:11] Tinker Blitz: when he knows NL is a good option in OC [31/08/2015 20:18:18] Tinker Blitz: I have no idea on that [31/08/2015 20:18:23] Tinker Blitz: can you share logs? [31/08/2015 20:18:49] Mitsuki: [log I pasted at the beginning of the post] [31/08/2015 20:19:46] Mitsuki: doesn't seem like he cares about my thoughts on his scumread as well, I expect town would be more eager to prove it right AND to convince people [31/08/2015 20:20:50] Tinker Blitz: umm, I actually agree with Rein's thoughts on Faerie [31/08/2015 20:20:56] Tinker Blitz: his post indeed was half baked [31/08/2015 20:21:16] Tinker Blitz: I mean, I didn't think he dropped anything that cannot easily be faked [31/08/2015 20:21:26] Tinker Blitz: and he is still kind of a scumread for me [31/08/2015 20:21:50] Mitsuki: I don't think that part was unreasonable [31/08/2015 20:22:30] Mitsuki: but how he "argues" for his case seems unreasonable to me [31/08/2015 20:22:57] Tinker Blitz: let me reread [31/08/2015 20:23:38] Mitsuki: he doesn't really try to explain, just justify holding the suspicion [31/08/2015 20:24:52] Tinker Blitz: oh, well, umm, if you ask me, I would say Faerie was using AtE at that point [31/08/2015 20:25:05] Tinker Blitz: which he used to get away from getting lynched [31/08/2015 20:25:20] Tinker Blitz: if I were in Refa's shoes, I would have gone for the lynch [31/08/2015 20:25:37] Mitsuki: same (at that moment) [31/08/2015 20:25:49] Mitsuki: anyways I'll just disregard that point [31/08/2015 20:25:53] Tinker Blitz: I would agree to lynch him D2 as well [31/08/2015 20:26:02] Mitsuki: what do you think of the rest? [31/08/2015 20:26:18] Tinker Blitz: I think Rein's talk is basically scum trying to look townie [31/08/2015 20:26:26] Tinker Blitz: by bussing his buddy [31/08/2015 20:26:33] Tinker Blitz: after all is said and done [31/08/2015 20:26:47] Tinker Blitz: so, he essentially bussed his buddy [31/08/2015 20:26:53] Tinker Blitz: one the buddy cannot be lynched [31/08/2015 20:27:35] Tinker Blitz: I still find him to be scummy for this post [31/08/2015 20:27:37] Tinker Blitz: http://serenesforest.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=57106&page=7#entry3987460 [31/08/2015 20:27:57] Tinker Blitz: see, he says we should have lynched the ITP, but, in OC, that is not a must [31/08/2015 20:28:05] Tinker Blitz: the lynch I mean and he should have known that [31/08/2015 20:28:13] Tinker Blitz: yet he is arguing that NL was really bad
Tl;dr Blitz was scumreading Rein on how he complained about the NL (since he argues that Rein should know that letting the ITP live is a reasonable thing to do in OC) and he also thought Rein was scum bussing Faerie Knight to gain towncred when the D1 deadline had already passed. These aren’t my thoughts, but I felt like I had to at least share them. A day later deadline happened, and my waifu died. But ~1 hour before deadline I asked to some people who they thought would die. I’m leaving all of those here for reference, but you only need to read Rein’s one (no day timestamps because I copypasted all of those into my Thoughts QT the same day).
General opinion: Everybody said that Refa could die, and almost everyone said that he'd die if scum had a strongman. Some others said that maybe I’d die, and others that Blitz may die. Rein’s opinion is quite different from the general opinion in 2 points:
Not citing that there could be a strongman. Which is weird because it’s Rein and I expect Rein to have that kind of stuff into account, when a lot of other players who have the same or less experience than him have taken it into account. But I wouldn’t see it as that telling if it weren’t for:
Citing the doctor. It’s not an unreasonable assumption to think there’s a doctor, but I find scummy that the focus of attention is put in the roles that town could have instead of the roles that scum could have.
Rein was indeed assuming that scum wouldn’t have a strongman kill and that doc would be a problem for scum. And then Blitz died, probably indicating that scum have no strongman kill after all. I think that Rein is scum who didn’t think of the strongman kill in the first place because he knew that he didn’t have one. ##FoS: Rein because that's the next best thing you can do when you can't vote Overall I think this is way too much evidence for him not to be scum. But hey, any thoughts, whether in the thread or on Skype are appreciated. We need to get to discussing scumreads already.