The Syndicate

1. Feels less secure about vote on Sorsha when Devin votes for her. ._. Okay, so, like, tinfoiling a little bit (and hoping I'm using that term correctly?), this 'feeling less secure' about his vote feels like it could be Chouscum subtly poising to backpedal from his vote as he sees the bandwagon forming on a townie. He winds up voting for Sorsha that day, so he doesn't completely back out. ★★½

2. 'I find Mac one of the towniest guys in the game. Having strong ties with seaside I'm a good judge of his and he looks incredibly townie to me.' Hey guys, would mind just clicking here for me? Thanks. Not only vouching hard for Mac, but vouching hard for Seaside. I mean oh my god and stuff. This is on top of the fact that he's a) 'second-guessing' a lynch of a townie, and b) throwing shade at somebody for voting for the same person he's voting for. ★★

3. Rainbow list with Mac at the very tippy top, and Black Rock and Floyd in (what I presume to be) neutral black. Wait, really? Floyd? Wasn't he once one of Choutas's scummiest reads? :o ★★½

4. Starts to lose faith in Mac. Some of it is on the heels of Matt's post, which could be seen as piggybacking, but he earlier starts to question what the [censored] Mac was on about. And again, when Mac hilariously tried to shame people for suspecting him, Choutas's response feels fairly genuine. Given that at this point Choutas has not really engaged with Mac very much except for brief commentary and theoretical questions, I'll give this one a slightly-above-average rating. ★★★

4½. lol

5. Is asked point-blank by Jay whether Devin is scum, says...well, nothing. He waffles harder than I did on my birthday four years ago, which you have no context for, but I ate a lot of waffles because I wanted a waffle birthday. So that's why I made the reference. He even says in-post that he had him pegged as scum two days in a row. Why waffle when Jay asks? ★★½

6. ._. At the risk of seeming very latently omgusy, why did I go from top-tier town read to 'scum of the earth' that the SK should kill? Oh, right; he's demented. ★★½

7. Prompted by Mac to case Epi, Choutas gives some non-reasons and a couple points of pure conjecture. Read: WIFOM. ★★½

8. Gets on Floyd for Floydwaffling. That's a term now. Floydwaffling. I don't know what it means, and neither should you. But anyway, this seems like Choutas genuinely suspecting Floyd and by association suspecting Mac. If Choutas is scum, this is either some very luckily circuitous bullshit, or needlessly elaborate. ★★★

9. Rainbow list with Mac in top-tier, and Black Rock and Floyd in almost-scum orange. His scum reads are sig and fingerllama. Interesting, but nothing much to gain here that hasn't been surmised in previous Brilliant Points. ★★½

10. Ein kleine omgus intermezzo. So JJJ thinks you're scum in a GTH read, which doesn't come with explanations and is a binary system, he's suddenly dropped from town to neutral? That's weird. ★★½

11. Despite his rainbow list in Brilliant Point #9, Choutas specifically names Wilgy and Diiny as people he'd be okay with lynching, and they're in his yellow category. He mentions these two above everyone in his red and orange categories. Wha? ★★½

12. Hashtags a rescue effort for Mac. As has been profusely noted, I was highly suspicious of everyone trying to save Mac's life—mainly Jay and mokiji aoroom. Choutas's reaction to the pressure on me was to just vote for whoever I decide and not to let others pressure me. He takes the backseat on the whole ordeal, while still advocating for #savemac. Tinfoiling a bit (seriously am I using that term correctly?), Choutas could very well have been a scumbuddy actively trying to save Mac while steering away from the insanely scummy activity of trying to force a townie onto a bad lynch. ★★½ bordering on ★★

13. Rainbow list with Black Rock in orange and Floyd, Choutas's vote that day, at the bottom of the red category. I feel like Black Rock has bounced up and down in Choutas's rainbow lists but Choutas hasn't said anything about them. ._. And by this point, as was pointed out by Diiny in current posts, even I burrowed out of my Metalmarsh tunnel to vote for Floyd. Floyd's scumminess was so dang evident that Choutas voting for him at this point means nothing vis-á-vis his alignment. My main point, though, is that if Choutas is scum, he has just watched his scumbuddy Mac get viciously lynched—and his first action the next day is to bus a scummate. If he's scum, he's trying to make himself look good as his team falls apart. Lynch Floyd, put Black Rock low in the list to set the stage for a further bus. ★★

14. Diiny asks him why he waffled on Mac and Choutas's response is to be all, 'What are you talking about?' ._. ★★½

15. ??? I completely missed this. Probably while wallowing somewhere out here in the cold real world. Uh, what? What? Also, if I got in trouble for semi-infodumping and Choutas didn't, ooohhhhhhhh boiiiiiii. Anyway, infodumping aside, this very well could've been genuine, but could also have been a scum professing that someone is town because he's scum and he knows Seaside is town. (Granted someone could make the same claim about me and my brush with infodumping, but still. Just bringing it up.) But I must be blind because I don't see an investigative role in the role post. Help me if I've missed it. ★★

16. Uh... ... You... I— ...Wait. Hold o— These posts are the worst. The worst, Choutas! They just feel like an overconfident scum. I don't like it one bit. ★½

17. This is a really excellent vintage of WIFOM, with scummy notes. It has really reached a terrific age and—yeah I know jack shit about wine. Anyway, commenting on one's meta and saying, 'This is something I'd never do. I mean, yeah, I could change my M.O., but I wouldn't.' He does it again here, and it makes me like it even less. ಠ_ಠ ★½

Dusk
Votes Matt F and Seaside for CEO.
Is voted for by Seaside and Long Con.

Day 1
Votes DrWigly.
Is voted for by rundontwalk

Day 2
Votes Long Con (12).
Is voted for by no one.

Day 3
Votes Sorsha (13).
Is voted for by no one.

Day 4
Votes Sorsha (16).
Is voted for by no one.

Day 5
Votes Devin the Omniscient (15).
Is voted for by no one.

Day 6
Votes Diiny (27).
Is voted for by no one.

Day...Christ, 7? Jesus, what a long game. Sorry, anyway, Day 7. Ugh, sorry. Sorry.
Votes TheFloyd73 (7).
Is voted for by no one.

Day 8
Votes TheFloyd73 (10).
Is not on the poll.

Day 9. My god. 9. 9. You realize how long that is in real people days?
Votes sig.
Is voted for by no one.

The most we can see from that is that Choutas has helped to lynch two scum, winds up being a neutralish read. He's the first to vote for LC, and he keeps his vote there. And he's early too in voting for Floyd. Granted, this could be planned bussing. The only thing that doesn't look good is that LC voted for Choutas for CEO. I give the whole thing a ★★★.

1. Responds kinda noncommittal to JJJ asking if anyone's suspicious. Small ping here. Jay asks Choutas, [paraphrased], 'Hey, you've come to people's defense; do you find anyone suspicious yet?' And Choutas is like, [paraphrased] 'Not really. These guys over here look like they could be suspicious.' [says nothing else, until prompted otherwise] ★★★

2. Challenges HamburgerBoy's suspicion of Seaside. Looks good if it's true that The Burgz was scum, but otherwise, neutral. Again here.★★★

3. Defends himself against ScumDougall. ★★★½

3½. Oh my god, you were Momokuro too? I feel lied to and betrayed. ½

4. Discusses and later votes for DrWigly. Based on 'fluff' posts. Challenges Wigly again here. He seems to be genuinely prodding Wilgy for information. ★★★½

5. Gets on FZ. for 'complimenting the dead as mafia'. Neutral good, seems like scumprodding, could be fluff. ★★★

6. Says SK theories are scummy. Well, okay. So, here are my thoughts on that. I tend to agree that focusing hard on SK-hunting so early in the game like Mac did, lol is on the scummy side. But Choutas says here that scum theories are a scummy thing to do. The sirengif I'm throwing up is due to the possibility that SK-Choutas was trying to dissuade people from even thinking about the SK. Stretchy, as far as theories go, but ★★ nonetheless.

7. Rainbow list with MacDougall in green, Black Rock in Yellow, and Floyd in orange. Thinking about Choutas as scum, this is a pretty good scattering of scummates in his spectrum. By this point Mac was playing strong as a town masquerader, Black Rock was sticking to the background, and Floyd already had one foot in his own mouth and was working to get the other one in there. Choutown, though, would also probably make these assessments. So it's pretty null. ★★½

8. Camera 1. Camera 2. lol