The Syndicate

I'm going to try to speed ISO people from the West and see but I still think we should vote within our own facilities at least for today.

Going to try to finish up what I did yesterday but I'm not in the mood to go in as much detail for the explanations.

Cape - Generally vibed with reads. Feels like they have been reading my posts. Similar to town Cape I've seen in the past.
Sabi - Never really vibed with Sabi's reads. Didn't pay much attention to them either. Skimmed through ISO and think they could be wolf. I did think their post about thread being boring and hoping someone will stir the pot was kind of towny but it's not something solid I can lean on.
Master Radishes - Hmmm Radishes is actually OK. Next.
DrWilgy - Wilgy's ISO is not as bad as I thought it would be TBH. The frog noises tickled me. This is more of a tone read though.
DarlingMonroe - Not a lot of reads. Not feeling the tone either. Could be wolf.

Would probably order like so:
Cape
Master Radishes
Sabi
DrWilgy
Darling Monroe

If I added everyone else:
Cape
Windward
nutella

Dyslexicon
Master Radishes
DrWilgy

Nanook
Sabi
Darling Monroe

IDK how I feel about this but it is what it is.

Long Con wrote: ↑Sun Feb 04, 2024 12:57 am

Lemonfairy wrote: ↑Sun Feb 04, 2024 12:57 am maybe off me today so I don't have to finish it

I haven't yet read it, but it looks impressive.

it's not
it's just a thoughtspew

but I will leave now

Long Con wrote: ↑Sun Feb 04, 2024 12:56 am

Lemonfairy wrote: ↑Sun Feb 04, 2024 12:55 am damn, I hate myself

MY condolences on the leaked draft.

no worries, it wasn't leaked
I posted it before I finished because I didn't want to keep writing

maybe off me today so I don't have to finish it

damn, I hate myself

As you all know, I am a lemon. However, many of you may not know that I was organically grown without synthetic fertilizers or pesticides.
Because of this, my lifespan is limited and I am prone to shriveling after Day 1 and growing moldy around Day 3/4.
To combat this phenomenon, I have decided to write a legacy/will both for entertainment and to leave a trace of myself in this cold, unfeeling world.

I will give general thoughts/impressions and an attempt at a read for my fellow colleagues of the East Facility. I will start with a (mostly) unordered list of people who are or were on my wagon and then move on to the remaining people who were in the East Facility. Then I shall attempt to do the same with people who hail from the West Facility, though I doubt this list will be as illuminating since I have not had as much contact with these people. Finally, I shall attempt to make 2 ordered lists of everyone (separated by Facility) for clarity.
People on Lemon's wagon
This feels like something I must talk about not only because they are or were voting me, but because FMPOV the wagon felt abrupt and unsubstantiated. Rather than there being a case against me, as I'd presume would be the case when a lot of people are convinced that a person is scum, I personally think the reasons provided here aren't all that solid. Additionally, rather than being for pressure or exploratory, the wagon has been rather stagnant and has only grown since my last appearance. Despite my sadness and surprise that so many of my East Facility comrades wish to kill me, I do think this wagon has been... illuminating.

The people who are on or were on my wagon are: Sloonei, nutella, WindwardAway, NANOOKTHEGREATANDFEARSOME, Dyslexicon, Davos.
Sloonei is from the West Facility so I will comment on them later.

WindwardAway - Windward would actually be the towniest out of everyone on Lemon's wagon. In my past read lists, I have consistently placed her in the lowest group of reads until I moved her up on Day 2. The initially reason was because she felt awkward and out of place in a thread where most people were vibing and having a good time but in hindsight, that could have been because she just wasn't in the mood. Later on, due to tensions in the thread in the East Facility between Windward/Alison/Sabi, I consciously or unconsciously refrained from progressing with my read on her (it's easy to misread people when they're riled up/emotional). I went back to ISO Windward at a later time and eventually moved her up to townleans.

Now with regard to my wagon, Windward is probably the only person, out of everyone on that wagon, who has actually tried to interact with me. She has quoted and pinged me more than once to ask about my reads. If I think about it, the only other people who have done this are Michelle and Creature, who have both flipped town. Other than these, there is Cape, who I think is one of the few people who actually reads my posts (more on this later). While I do accept that I have been relatively closed off in my own world, I also think it's really easy for scum (and also town) to push me without trying to understand where I'm coming from when I post my reads.

nutella - nutella, nutella, I'm waffling a bit on nutella. Initially, I vibe-read her as town from her relaxed demeanor in thread while dropping reads (I townread a bunch of people for similar reasons to this during Night 0). Later on, I thought her tinfoil of me and Cape being w/w was interesting as it was something no one else brought up before and seemingly came out of nowhere. Although I thought her reasons - that me and Cape vibed together and were mutually townreading each other - were a stretch, I liked that she was looking out for these kind of things. I didn't really re-eval nutella after this until Day 2.

In my latest list, I moved nutella to the very top with Creature and said I wouldn't really change my read there unless something drastic happens. This was because I saw a post from nutella scumreading Rondo (who flipped town) because one of Rondo's post said something along the lines of "no 0-poster has ever been encouraged to post after seeing a ping and vote on them in thread" about Lime Coke. nutella believed this could indicate that Rondo was scum because they had TMI that Lime Coke was town and did not have access to scumchat, where scumpartners could ping them about the vote. Lime Coke later flipped mafia, which showed nutella's lack of TMI, hence my shiny no-take-back TR on her. The only wrench in this that I hadn't considered was if this game is a multiball, which some people from the West Facility have suggested. In that case, nutella would only be unpartnered with Lime Coke, and could still be mafia or some other evil faction.

As I've mentioned before, nutella being on my wagon doesn't really surprise me. What does make me squint is that she initially paired me with Cape and admitted the scumread on me was weaker but now she doesn't scumread Cape but I've been dropped to the bottom. The reason for scumreading me is because I've been "blending in". Rather than blending in, I think it's more like because I have not been very active and not many people have engaged with the read lists I occasionally post, I have not been memorable.

Nanook - I initially vibe townread Nanook in the East Facility (I don't think I had a read on them N0) because he said something about leaving the thread to go play a game but still dropped some town reads. Following that, a few of the reads they called out as the thread progressed, aligned pretty well with what I was thinking while reading/backreading. Of particular note is the one calling Michelle lock town and un-pushable, which was also around where I solidified my TR on Michelle after coming around from a short-lived instinctive OMGUS. I didn't really actively re-eval Nanook after that. I know a few people were surprised that Nanook was so high up on my reads lists but I think I also unconsciously set a pretty low bar for Nanook because I saw him scum once in another game and I don't think he shared any reads the entire time and just muddled along until he got voted out.

Nanook's vote on me was... interesting. It's like he was talking with Dizzy and then their brain waves magically resonated together and they both voted for me. Just check Nanook's relatively short ISO in the East Facility and no mention of scumreading me. IDK, it's a mystery.

Dyslexicon - Dyslexicon was initially a vibe townread for me. Why? Uncaring attitude, alignment with reads, general vibes. I found Dyslexicon to be a level/neutral voice amid the initial tension-filled thread of the East Facility. I thought their posts helped or at least tried to help diffuse the conflict and I found that towny. Because as mafia, it would be too easy to just sit by the side and not intervene. In fact, it would be advantageous for scum to not intervene because a conflict-filled thread is not conducive to solving. Later on, they dropped a bit in activity and I also noticed their reads didn't change from what I remember their reads were when they first entered the thread (Porscha, Tony, and nutella are towny) so I dropped them in my reads. At this time, I had Alison, Dyslexicon, and DarlingMonroe in the lowest group on my list. Alison (who flipped town) already had 5 votes and between Dyslexicon and Monroe, Dyslexicon felt like the spicier vote so I did vote there Day 2 but no one else did so it didn't do anything and then I thought EOD was 24hrs later so I didn't end up moving either.

Dizzy's vote on me... please see the above commentary on Nanook's vote on me. However, unlike Nanook's vote, Dyslexicon actually talked about me and commented on me (although the comment was a bit waffly) before eventually voting me.

Davos - Is this a player? Isn't it a sock puppet? All it ever did in the East Facility was say "Arrrr". IDK why it's voting for me. High-key kinda sus.

I feel kind of burnt out. You can probably tell from my writing. I'd like to elaborate more on the rest but I don't think I can do it. I'm also coming down with a cold or flu or something so I might just not do the West Facility

Everyone else from East Facility
Actually, I might not do this one too/might do it later but here's roughly the order I'd put them in from towniest to scummiest.
Cape
Sabi
Master Radishes
DrWilgy
DarlingMonroe

side note, I also agree with whoever proposed we each vote for the scummiest within each facility to make w/w wagons
I think each side has better reads on their own facility than the other and even if we paraphrase, a lot of context can get lost

while we did have N0, it almost feels like I should start over with reads on the West
maybe have 2 separate reads list and then combine them together later

☆Princess Abigail☆ wrote: ↑Sat Feb 03, 2024 3:04 am

Lemonfairy wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2024 10:52 pm it's nice to have everyone in one thread again but at the same time, it feels so disorienting and I can't remember half of you

also

I also kind of hope it lasts a little longer
not sure if I'd be cool being designated yeet today though

WindwardAway wrote: ↑Sat Feb 03, 2024 11:54 am

Lemonfairy wrote: ↑Sat Feb 03, 2024 11:39 am

nutella wrote: ↑Sat Feb 03, 2024 12:08 am

Sloonei wrote: ↑Sat Feb 03, 2024 12:06 am [VOTE: lemonfairy] aubergine

In an atmosphere of groovy solving energy, these posts stick out:

Lemonfairy wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2024 10:50 pmfirst

Lemonfairy wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2024 10:51 pm actually, I'll come back tomorrow

Lemonfairy wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2024 10:52 pm it's nice to have everyone in one thread again but at the same time, it feels so disorienting and I can't remember half of you

I agree with this
I made an early hipster
light push on Lemon

She would fit as wolf
from her general vibe in thread
blending in just right

She was active ish
on day one posting readlists,
but almost too nice

WindwardAway wrote: ↑Sat Feb 03, 2024 12:12 am

nutella wrote: ↑Sat Feb 03, 2024 12:08 am

Sloonei wrote: ↑Sat Feb 03, 2024 12:06 am [VOTE: lemonfairy] aubergine

In an atmosphere of groovy solving energy, these posts stick out:

Lemonfairy wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2024 10:50 pmfirst

Lemonfairy wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2024 10:51 pm actually, I'll come back tomorrow

Lemonfairy wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2024 10:52 pm it's nice to have everyone in one thread again but at the same time, it feels so disorienting and I can't remember half of you

I agree with this
I made an early hipster
light push on Lemon

She would fit as wolf
from her general vibe in thread
blending in just right

She was active ish
on day one posting readlists,
but almost too nice

actually, yeah. she had a defense for her reads but wasn't trying too hard to push it as the correct worldview.
in my experience, she's more willing to engage as town, but i've been giving her the benefit of the doubt because i can sympathize with not having a lot of time for this game. but then again, over half of our thread was slanking yesterday and they can't all be scum.

nutella wrote: ↑Sat Feb 03, 2024 12:12 am I quite like that my
and Sloonei's vibe reads match up
so sure, [VOTE: lemon] aubergine

WindwardAway wrote: ↑Sat Feb 03, 2024 12:21 am [VOTE: Lemonfairy] aubergine

I'm fine with this wagon

and from being tired and too nice

kind of a weak case

All right, @Lemonfairy, if you think the cases against you are bad, do you think that any of us voting you are pushing you in bad faith?

pls see the post right above yours

short answer is, I think it will take more time to see how far my wagon goes
for example, if it dies off shortly after or gains more traction

I'm looking for certain kinds of behavior
not going to say what they are for now

I think if you can just repeat these things over a few times and get some more people on me, I could be a good shrugyeet candidate

I'm not sure if I can get much from the people voting me
idk about Sloonei but nutella has brought up her theory that I was w/w with Cape so I'm not that surprised
main reason iirc was because we were vibing together and I was "blendy"
it's bit weird that nutella has shifted a bit on Cape but not on me but I also think she hasn't really looked at me very closely

onto Windward, she has been pinging me about my reads so I'm not that surprised either
though I don't think she has given a definite read on me prior to this (if she did, I missed it)
Windward feels like she doesn't as actively scumread me as nutella

tbh I don't really like either but I also don't want to be affected by OMGUS so I think I'll just sit on it for a bit

nutella wrote: ↑Sat Feb 03, 2024 12:08 am

Sloonei wrote: ↑Sat Feb 03, 2024 12:06 am [VOTE: lemonfairy] aubergine

In an atmosphere of groovy solving energy, these posts stick out:

Lemonfairy wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2024 10:50 pmfirst

Lemonfairy wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2024 10:51 pm actually, I'll come back tomorrow

Lemonfairy wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2024 10:52 pm it's nice to have everyone in one thread again but at the same time, it feels so disorienting and I can't remember half of you

I agree with this
I made an early hipster
light push on Lemon

She would fit as wolf
from her general vibe in thread
blending in just right

She was active ish
on day one posting readlists,
but almost too nice

WindwardAway wrote: ↑Sat Feb 03, 2024 12:12 am

nutella wrote: ↑Sat Feb 03, 2024 12:08 am

Sloonei wrote: ↑Sat Feb 03, 2024 12:06 am [VOTE: lemonfairy] aubergine

In an atmosphere of groovy solving energy, these posts stick out:

Lemonfairy wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2024 10:50 pmfirst

Lemonfairy wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2024 10:51 pm actually, I'll come back tomorrow

Lemonfairy wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2024 10:52 pm it's nice to have everyone in one thread again but at the same time, it feels so disorienting and I can't remember half of you

I agree with this
I made an early hipster
light push on Lemon

She would fit as wolf
from her general vibe in thread
blending in just right

She was active ish
on day one posting readlists,
but almost too nice

actually, yeah. she had a defense for her reads but wasn't trying too hard to push it as the correct worldview.
in my experience, she's more willing to engage as town, but i've been giving her the benefit of the doubt because i can sympathize with not having a lot of time for this game. but then again, over half of our thread was slanking yesterday and they can't all be scum.

nutella wrote: ↑Sat Feb 03, 2024 12:12 am I quite like that my
and Sloonei's vibe reads match up
so sure, [VOTE: lemon] aubergine

WindwardAway wrote: ↑Sat Feb 03, 2024 12:21 am [VOTE: Lemonfairy] aubergine

I'm fine with this wagon

and from being tired and too nice

kind of a weak case

Sloonei wrote: ↑Sat Feb 03, 2024 12:06 am [VOTE: lemonfairy] aubergine

In an atmosphere of groovy solving energy, these posts stick out:

Lemonfairy wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2024 10:50 pmfirst

Lemonfairy wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2024 10:51 pm actually, I'll come back tomorrow

Lemonfairy wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2024 10:52 pm it's nice to have everyone in one thread again but at the same time, it feels so disorienting and I can't remember half of you

*squint*

ig I failed a vibe check

what did lemon do to deserve 3 votes? *cri*

it's nice to have everyone in one thread again but at the same time, it feels so disorienting and I can't remember half of you

actually, I'll come back tomorrow

first