Glorfindel wrote: ↑Wed Jan 24, 2018 6:48 pm
It frankly astounds me that anyone could read Lapluie’s ISO and deduce from that she is anywhere near Town.
I think Lapluie is an easy player to read as mafia given a certain mindset, and that mindset is one I tend to avoid. It is a mindset that focuses solely on wording and on the direction of suspicions, but it doesn't regard context or personality enough. Consider the two people who know lapluie best in this game: Sloonei and Quin. The former strongly read her as a civilian, having played with her considerably more than any other Syndicateers. The latter harbors some suspicion, but not with a tone of confidence or assurance. Quin can fathom a civilian in lapluie's shoes too.
There are a few factors which point me to a civilian read on lapluie:
1. Consider her behavior during the Day of Curses. In her first game on the site during the second day phase, as far as she could tell everyone lost their minds and stopped trying to make sense. She wanted to
leave the game because of that. I don't think that was fake. I think that's the look of a civilian in a challenging new environment with no idea how to proceed.
2. She was wrong about dunya, and applied that mistake as she proceeded into the next lynch. I believe she said that she didn't like it when people left legacy messages like "if you lynch me, lynch Player X next" or some such, because those kinds of posts made her feel less confident about her votes. That was a "thinking aloud" type comment which resonated with me and I thought looked authentic.
3. Despite being in this intimidating environment with a bunch of players who are not at all like what she's used to (as Sloonei/Quin have suggested), she has found the courage and the tenacity to amass around 200 posts. She is trying her best to be a productive part of this team, and I don't think that's nearly as easy to do if she draws a mafia role.
Glorfindel wrote: ↑Wed Jan 24, 2018 6:48 pmYou said this of Jack:
JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Wed Jan 24, 2018 1:09 pm
Jack is red because he continues to push dubious cases with a tone of exaggerated assertiveness while resisting other dubious cases with the same tone, and I question the legitimacy of any civilian mindset he has attempted to portray.
Precisely the same thing could be said of Lapluie (only I think it applies more so in her case).
I think Jack's content looks considerably less authentic at face value, and I see a lot more capacity for manipulation than I do with lapluie. She is shooting from the hip. He is coordinating and directing.
Riddle me this, Glorfindel: do you think you'd feel so strongly about her right now if her lynch target last phase had been someone other than Long Con?