The Syndicate

@Alison
@Enderwiggin
@Epignosis
@Esooa
@Falcon45ca
@Fingersplints
@Hollowkatt
@Kami
@Lime coke
@Notanaxehole
@Rondodimbuckle
@Seanzie
@Syn
@Transcend

@Alison
@Enderwiggin
@Epignosis
@Esooa
@Falcon45ca
@Fingersplints
@Hollowkatt
@Kami
@Notanaxehole
@Rondodimbuckle
@Seanzie
@Syn
@Transcend

Green = Town
Turquoise = Probably Town
Gold = Town Lean
Orange = Possibly Scum
Red = Scum

Alison
Initially, I thought Alison was powertown because her and I kept mindmelding about just about everything. Our initial townreads were on par with each other and we both had a pretty strong scumread on Made. Unfortunately, this read ended up being wrong. As the day went along, Alison wasn't scummy per se, but I'd be lying if I said she didn't fall off a bit. She did discredit me beginning to TR Made. Also, I never was really a fan of her attention on Kami. Despite the spot being a complete nuisance, her conviction seems kinda genuine. I also got an "eh" vibe about her transition on Rondo. Rescinding the TR was fine because at that point he was pretty much just null, but somehow that read quickly formed into a scumread as he's in the lower end of her POE by the end of day. However, I did like how in 1042 she pointed out the oddity in Rondo's cryptic list. It shows she's keenly observing this game, and I feel like mafia would just gloss over the list. Occam's Razor probably suggests she's town here. I'm just hoping if she's still alive that she has a better day.

EnderWiggin
EnderWiggin decides to submit his vote to Alison in the early stage of this game. I agree with those that said this was towny because if he's scum it doesn't give him much control of the narrative. I actually liked 158. I don't think it was a scummy attempt for Ender to pocket Lime. I really just think he acknowledged Lime's towniness. This was fairly universal for the thread even very early on, but the approach was still towny. He didn't really do much until Epi gives him some attention. A slight oddity I found was that in his OMGUS on Epi was that in his previous post he stated that he was unsure about Epi but then not long after he's apparently "obvious scum". The OMGUS itself was kinda towny because he voted on his own volition instead of just being an extra vote for Alison. I feel as though he came off towny in his exchange with Epi especially in 930. 974 was a bit hedgy for my tastes, but the bulk of his game has been fairly towny. Just hoping he can expand his reads a bit.

*Slightly off topic but I got so confused that your font was changing colors throughout the exchange with Epi but I'm guessing the green was to discuss off topic stuff lmfao.

Epignosis
I sorta ignored Epi's early game but I went back and read through it again and it's pretty terrible honestly. Some really bad posts in particular are 184, his vote on Sean kinda just feels off, 195, refusing to engage with Sean when he was being super charitable, and 205 just has ugly tone behind it. To contrast that, 202 was kinda towny though because he's inviting dialogue with Sean by asking for reads on someone else in return for his reads on someone. Anyways the next point I want to bring up is kinda interesting. Remember how he said Made was his 2nd SR but then voted Made when he was getting wagoned, seemingly out of nowhere? Well Made gave a pretty bad post right before he said that. 353 (Made) and 354 (Epi) happen within the same minute, and I'm wondering if there's a way to see what seconds someone posted at. If the seconds are close between those two posts, then I'm going to be pretty sus. If the seconds are spread out, then his take is pretty reasonable, cause that re-entry was wolfy af. Anyways 402 sucks and the fact that Made flipped green probably makes it even worse. 443 is trash and I'm going to hold it against them until they justify their reasons behind it. Anyways, 809 was a pretty good discovery, cause the post from Ender was misplaced with the rest of the thread. However I don't really want to buy into his read that much because I feel his observation probably didn't come in the best of faith cause 821 is loaded with reaches, especially the Lime Coke part. When it comes to quote pyramids, I'm almost always interacting with the most recent person to post within that pyramid which is exactly what Ender did. So this looks just like tossing shade. The Esooa sussing Sean vs. him sussing Sean comparison was also trash and the preflip stems from nowhere from what I see. Honestly (intentional) he reacted to me poorly when I poked fun at his adverb nonsense. I feel he definitely overreacted to a small poke. 925 was a decent reaction to being voted, but 1347 is pretty horrible. This dude has some rough interactions with people coupled with some pretty bad tone. I have no idea where his progression is stemming from and whatever progression he does make, it seems inorganic. Would kill.

Esooa
I don't really have much to say about Esooa. She's been a solid townread of mine that I'm not willing to tinfoil. But regardless, her 11-4 comment was pretty towny. I liked how she engaged with Sean early game when he had his gut read. Her catch up in the late 400s was really towny and she offers her own unique insight on the situation at hand instead of just parroting other individuals' thoughts. Her mediation through the Ender/Epi spat was extremely towny as well. I'm unsure about Falcon right now but 994 is some pretty solid reasoning that I'm willing to sheep.

falcon45ca
Falcon, I initally had a pretty strong townread on. I still think he's town but I gotta bring a few scummy things to light. I think he reacted pretty terribly to most of the RVS stuff happening in page 1. However, when Lime puts his case on him his reaction was pretty towny, but he didn't seem interested in engaging that much. I think his energy about discussing flavor was kinda towny. I probably should just dismiss it as NAI but I just get townvibes from it. 128 is a pretty bad reaction to being voted in my opinion but eh. 432 is possibly TMI on Epi because in my opinion Epi has been null or scummy for the most part to this part. 472 is also a discredit towards my correct read, but there was some thought behind it. His vote on Rondo in 736 appears slightly opportunistic, however 1229 and 1230 are decent and towny observatoins IMO. Gun to my head this dude is probably just town that tends to get his hands unnecessarily dirty at times. His presence in the thread feels really comfortable and his reads don't feel static.

fingersplints
I'm still slightly concerned about her, though her town equity has increased slightly. She's towntold a bit. 502 is still pretty bad with quite a bit of hedgy stances and not much conviction towards them. 563 is a better explanation of her V/V take on Sean/Epi. She also had a pretty decent response to my case despite not entirely giving me what I wanted. However, 1098 is pretty scummy when she says that her posts read scummy due to "not being in the crowd" which is definitely not the case. Her remarks about NAA were pretty towny IMO. I've not been completely impressed with her, but she did better enough in that EOD to move from my top scumread to a lower POE read so I'm happy to let her breathe for a little bit unless she starts being really scummy again.

hollowkatt
I feel her entrance into the game was extremely awkward and she had a hard time blending in with the rest of the game. I stand by the fact that her vote on Kami was really bad. She was sheeping Alison but initially she thought Alison was still voting Made, so she voted Made as well. Hollow is then corrected and switches to Kami and gave a post about Kami/Made possibly being wolf/wolf which was really bad in that she acts like she owns the read, when she's just doublevoting for Alison. The flip sorta makes things worse in this situation because I think Kami is also town. Her pop in on 664 was not very long after being voted by Syn and I. Despite me being in agreeance with the context of the post, the timing of that can't be ignored. 669 is a very bad post because it gives the hint of TMI that Kami is just bad town. 672 is also bad because she explains that Kami is playing to her town meta and explains that she was initially just sheeping Alison but keeps her vote due to Kami being "butthurt". This makes the conviction in 697 seem pretty fake because her vote was fueled initially by sheeping Alison into Kami being "butthurt" which seems oddly confident to justify a scumread. I don't need to go into detail why 761 is terrible. 1156 feels like TMI. The "boda fide" scum to town to scum again progression feels extremely rocky. 1175 feels like self pres. I really wish I was there for EOD because I totally would have made sure this got smacked lol. In her VERY NEXT POST she makes a reads list with 5 people in a "would chop" category, and one person, the person she was competing with at EOD, after thinking he might possibly be town into the "wolf" category. And 1197 is a really opportunistic vote IMO. So to sum it all up, hollowkatt is extremely scummy. Justifying reads with alarmingly high amounts of conviction when her reasons behind them are fairly weak, and disgusting voting patterns. Therefore this is what I'm going to vote today unless she (or someone else lol) can convince me otherwise.

Kami
I don't really have much to say about her. Despite the static reads she has, her stubbornness is villagery. I think she's just a confbiased villager. I didn't really assess her posts too much as most of them make me cringe, but I'm still pretty sure she's town. She's definitely quite aware that she's a villager as seen in interactions with hollowkatt and Alison. I also thought Alison's list left much to be desired so her attacking it was +town. I'm not realy taking anything she says seriously but I think she's just town. She probably endgames in zero worlds so even if she is a wolf she'll be done away with at some point I feel.

Lime Coke
I'm usually pretty good at reading Brad but he is capable of pulling a fast one on me. But I don't think he is this time. For starters he does a good job at getting the game out of its RVS phase by throwing suspicion towards falcon and even accompanying it with a case. 210 and 226 are extremely towny assessments of what Made said. Even if it ended up being for nil, it was still an independent thought that didn't seem driven by an agenda. In 268 he gives falcon a fair shake and consults his townreads about falcon to figure out if he's going on a right track or not. When said townreads say that he likely isn't, he suspends the push and pursues other options. 847 is a pretty good read on Esooa. It doesn't defy thread consensus, but it's worded in a way that shows me that he's genuinely sorting the game. His defense on Ender was really good especially since he's a LHF which are pretty easy for scum to take advantage of. His defense on him was filled with genuine insight and not from a place of TMI IMO. Lastly, towards the EOD phase, he gave Made a fair shake by saying that he likely wasn't in anti-spew mode which others were fairly receptive of. I feel like Scum!Brad would just take his free mislynch and call it good. So yeah, Scum!Brad usually has forced or parroted reads but I definitely don't get that sense at all here so he's town.

Notanaxehole
Don't have much to say other than they 0 posted but voted on the poll. It's annoying and I'll probably just advocate for the slot to die if activity doesn't improve.

RondoDimBuckle
This has been an interesting spot for sure. I did catch him silent voting several times before actually making his debut, but I don't really make anything of this because his votes didn't really affect the outcome of any vote during that time. The gimmick is difficult to read, but I still stand by the fact that his analysis posts trend towards >rand!v. 1025 is actually a pretty good post if I'm reading everything correctly. These are some pretty good bullet points for consideration some of which I didn't notice myself. The question is what kind of narrative that this drives the game in. His concerns about Esooa voting Kami also look genuine. I think this dude is likely just town at this point. There was a reason to his madness. Anyways, responding to his concern about me including myself in lists, it's normal for me to do that as well as many others.

Seanzie
The way he announced his gut read on Esooa was strange, but his conviction behind it felt sincere and engaged with her in a proper manner instead of just using his "gut" to justify a read. His interactions at the start of day are extremely towny, especially his exchange with Epi. 237 is a common red flag, but the rest of his posts are really towny, so I'm going to ignore it. He votes Made after a long absence and dips for the rest of the day. I felt it was uncharacteristic for him to absent for the rest of the day, but he had a really good day start, so I'm happy to just call him town.

Syn
Truth be told, I kinda got townvibes from him trying to speed up the day, despite it not being the best course of action. He didn't really contribute much to the first part of the day, but I don't really see that as a red flag, cause all that means is that he's not controlling the narrative that much, and at this point, he was mostly townread by the thread so Wolf!Syn would have an easy time controlling the narrative if he wanted to I feel. Later, he plants a vote on hollowkatt, and I think that lit a fire under her ass, which is a very good look for Syn if hollow is red, which I'm nearly certain she is. I don't think his vote was fueled by agenda honestly. His thoughts behind the hollow vote were unique. He does engage his scumread hollow about Epi, who appears to be his other scumread, who after reading the thread again looks really bad right now. 1030 is town gold lmao. That reaction was super towny. I agree with him that hollow was likely in anti-spew mode yesterday. Syn is playing like an archetype villager, and I have zero concerns with him right now. Plus he's really funny and being funny is a good way to get towread by me.

SOME TAKES!!!!!!!!

I'mma gloat but I'm probably threadspewed at this point given how many lists i've topped

I don't rely on spew too much because it's pretty easy to manipulate but here's my thoughts regardless:

Alison!red probably spews Ender green
Ender!red probably spews Alison green, possibly Epi as well
Epi!red probably spews Sean green, possibly Ender and finger as well
Esooa!red probably doesn't spew anyone but dear God please don't let this be a reality
falcon!red doesn't spew anyone that I can think off the top of my head
finger!red possibly spews Epi green
hollow!red possibly spews Kami green
Kami!red possibly spews hollow green
Lime!red spews no one and if this is the case we're already cooked.
NAA!red spews no one. I'm not gonna read into silent voting at all and you shouldn't either.
Rondo!red spews no one imo.
Sean!red probably spews Epi green.
Syn!red doesn't spew anyone and if he's scum he'll be one tough egg to crack.
Trans!red spews the entire thread green

Alison and hollowkatt have mirrored reads throughout pretty much the whole game. It would be difficult for me to see both of them on the same scum team as a result of this.

NAA/Rondo not paired because I doubt two scum are going to employ the "do nothing and silent vote on the poll" strategy.