Spec chat can you please help me? I've lost the emotional distance to see things for what they are. Everyone gives reason to wonder and that makes it hard to decide where to focus. Let's try this as if I would be in spec chat? Alright, alright.
*comment about the absurd amount of claims
*town gonna town
*do they really believe this bullshit?
*why don't they see x doing y??
Monkey: opens the day and sets the tone with a red check that is not a red check. Super weird. But not at all a sustainable move as scum? Gambitting to get a lynch and surviving afterwards with all the caveats and that *ominous* I didn't reveal everything yet. Fishy, but for now I'd chalk it up to a weird role. Not the focus today.
Fantomas: is definitely having trouble with the transition between work and game here. Believes whatever monkey says, but that seems to be correct meta behaviour. Leaning town
kitsunelaine: claims out of nowhere, not seeing the utility for town here, but kits always does weird things, NAI. Claim could be cover up for being weird spooky thing herself, but the easier conclusion is that she is telling the truth? Still leaning town
Fat4All: Shows open distrust of the monkey claim. Has he commented on Mao? "I believe it" lol - that's all?
I think there is a weird dissonance in the thread - we have Fandorin, Mao, Fat going in the same direction and on the otherhand Fantomas, Monkey and a pint of Fran. Most prevalent with the reads on Fat4All. Something is in there, I have yet to figure out what.
Fandorin: Is active, but would probably my suspect if Mao flips scum. I do feel drawn more to his logic than elsewhere, but I know he's capable of faking it very good. Keeping him as null for now
Fran: EoD was sus, "all 3 of them are scum". Twice even. That felt like a knee jerk reaction and panic. Today he's sticking to the red check and his theory. But I do think it could come from a town point of view. Fuck, idk.
Malus: Is very concise, but also sharp. He puts his opinion out there and I tend to agree with his statements. Out of the low activity bunch, he's the one I'd townread. I could be fooled here, but he wouldn't be my priority right now.
Kalor: He's definitely different. He seems to avoid putting his opinion out. Anything that could connect him to anyone, he'll always preempt. Look at his posts, you can't get anything there. Defnitily someone I would push.
Meatwad: Came off as being inexperienced or afraid, but I've been burned by scum playing that card often. Tries to find his footing now, but there was one sentence that showed a level of self-awareness, that I wouldn't expect from town. You could add him to the above camp of Monkey and Fanto. Hmm.
Vincent Alexander: Rereading his D2. He's gone full circle, suspecting Fran and Mao, discussing it, rereading and ends up not finding them suspicious anymore. This doesn't feel faked to me as of now. Is it too much going with the flow? Some earlier posts felt like being active for the sake of it. Avoiding a thing or two. Null
Kopite: He might be the only one to question monkey's claim AND is suspicious of doggo. He stood firm to his opinion that Mao flips is the most useful. I was susprised because he actually put out decent contributions. I like his D2. He'd go into a similar category as Malus.
And lastly Mao:
While I liked EoD, he could've easily used me and turmoil. D2 was an uphill battle for him. In general I tend to follow his point of view. Fanto pointed out sth. strange in regards to me and I agree. A throwaway "I'm also paranoid about you" didn't feel that way at all.
The biggest problem is the retcon of his claim *after* significant doubts were voiced. If he truly misunderstood what happened to him, than that's a pity, but it does read like an out. I think malus put it best and brought forth the comparison to HvV2/meta.
The hard part is that everything sounds so believable.
But fellow spec members, town gonna town and let that fly, it's so absurd, right? Cabot would you lynch here? Fixing his claims is a red flag. But monkey's thing was also super weird and left everything open. Where to focus?
