I’m going to start going through my towncore reasonings because i have nothing better to do and i wanna be productive. In the instance I die, these people should be trusted and listened to. Work with them, and don’t give in to paranoia unless the PoE proves to be green multiple times over.
My towncore:
Wind
Proph
Aelin
Lukundo
Wisdom
Merc
Aelin:
I’d like to begin this by stating the fact that I have been in a sync chat with Aelin for the past two phases (n3/d4 & n4/d5)
She has been incredibly villagery within said chat, and even though her activity has dropped recently, she was also villagery in the main thread as well during earlier days.
We began our sync chat by talking over her wallpost on me, and I responded to her response - she ended up trusting me a bit more and we started bouncing ideas and reads off of eachother.
She had a bit of suspicion on me as my treatment of Guillo’s claim vs Wisp’s claim was a little inconsistent - and this read as genuine from her.
If shes a wolf she’s been emotionally manipulating me for 6 irl days too, which I heavily heavily doubt.
She went through Wisp’s ISO for spew, while I caught up on the parts of the game I hadn’t read. We bounced ideas off of eachother and I never got any indication that she was trying to shut down any of my reads or cast unfair suspicion on people.
Her reaction to Wisp’s death was one of disappointment over the fact that she only caught him based off of mech (which I think is untrue), but it felt very pure, and it didnt feel like a WiM-drop because a buddy died.
Her read regarding Lukundo has had solid progression, and she thought there was something wonky regarding the Luk/Helz argument - that it could potentially be w/w (I disagree but shrug). I also expressed a tiny bit of doubt on my Helz push, but she told me to stay the course.
I know this entire paragraph can’t be fully trusted atm, but I’m writing all of these towncases in the chance I die tonight. If that happens, please put stock in this.
Moving on from the sync chat, I think Aelin’s interactions with Wisp aren’t partnered. Not only did she attempt to CFD to Wisp at EoD1, when wagons were v/v and wolves were content with the situation, but she also initiated a thunderdome with the guy - which wolves were (in hindsight) blatantly trying to avoid and let dissipate. If the two are w/w they can backtrack on their scumreads of eachother with little effort, rather than going full steam ahead and forcing the thread to eliminate between the two of them on d3. Wisp’s flip was the key we needed to begin to piece the game together. Wolves were a few steps ahead of us, and Aelin’s callout turned the game around.
Along with this, Aelin’s ISO-dive on me was very villagery. Rather than shading and discrediting me for doing an RT by overplaying my suspicion on her, she accepted it with a bit of skepticism. Her readthru of my ISO had all the nitpickiness I expect from her towngame, and her mindset remained consistent as she suspected me for not treated Wisp how I treated Guillo.
Her case on Wisp, as well as follow-thru, were also very townie.
Don’t let her inactivity or paranoia be a reason to pull her out of the towncore; wolves will use that if they need to.
Aelin is a villager
Q.E.D.
will get to the next one soon™