[VFM] Elf Gold Rush - Game Over. Humans Win!

ok
i vaguely remember someone defending pigeon, though, who was it?

Correct me if Iā€™m wrong, but didnā€™t cloned scumread Marl & Vul at the same time at some point in D3?

he did
but he came in with a longass case on me and said iā€™m always scum and never town
then pushed Marl/Vul/City as the team
and when i asked why that was, he just said he was paranoid
then called me scum again

thats what i donā€™t get in his logic
i donā€™t think itā€™s weird for him to reevaluate but the thing is that he showed signs of not reevaluating
all he did was accuse four people of being scum and went with the one that had the most attention

iirc heā€™s also calling min scum now so honestly i canā€™t follow his thought process

i think min is straight PoE but also the least wolfy in the PoE because they havenā€™t done much, as opposed to doing objectively wolfy things

also why would min spend 4 days saying that cloned is scum when there were definitely easier slots to push that could have gained traction? I donā€™t think a wolf would try to bus their teammate for 4 days straight, theyā€™d probably push for a day or two and give up, then go back and claim credit if they flipped later on once there was actually interest in the push. I donā€™t know that a wolf would be stuck on the same villager for 4 days, either, because that doesnā€™t help the wolf team.

IIRC I unvoted cloned because I went to vote someone else, though I also wouldnā€™t want people to vote cloned because it was a time when the fight with Marl was going on.

What? Was there a game with mafia victory with w!Seth alive? Thatā€™s implausible.

ā€¦are you serious?

mafia won but seth died in the process

on the other hand, Umineko 2 lol
Appel accidentally bussed Gorta, so I bussed Appel, and then Seth got by with doing Seth things while I powerwolfed into the endgame and won

i am actually serious, someone did it, but i donā€™t remember who

tbh if i donā€™t remember who it was it was probably min

never mind, i canā€™t find anything in my notes about it so maybe not

Uhā€¦ @clonedcheese, can you get here and defend yourself, please?

NB: calling me scum to discredit my reasoning is not a defense

I would actually like to see cloned give a proper defense of himself

Ah, there we go. Now everything is balanced, as it should be.

wait, i want to go back and look for why nuclear thought cloned was off the table
i remember she said he was obvtown but i donā€™t remember her reasoning

Vote Count

Vote Target Voted By Votes
No-elimination clonedcheese, WindwardAway, Zone_Q11 3/5
Not Voting Vulgard, min, City, Squirrel2412, January 5

This is actually kind of a level 0 wolfy opening?

I remember him doing this kind of stuff in RWBY FM where he popped in every now and then to feel the threadflow and then leave again. Weā€™ll see if heā€™s doing it here.

Kinda villagery in a vacuum. The second part is the part Iā€™m townreading. Saying you wonā€™t read, but reading anyway is villagery inquisitiveness. A wolf could just follow up on what they said first and not read. Nobody would judge them for keeping promises.

I liked the contrarianism of this read before. Now I wonder if itā€™s genuine. I said this before, but heā€™d already played with town!Eli. This shouldnā€™t stand out to him as out of the ordinary for Eliā€™s towngame.

But it does. But it shouldnā€™t.

This also feels like he knows Eliā€™s a villager. Instead of pushing, heā€™s giving Eli something to engage with. Throwing him a bone of sorts.

I think this is a scumread? What was Leafia in 67?

This could fall under distancing or TMIng clonedā€™s PoE as bad. Considering the flips, the POE was either pure or almost pure. Him calling it bad right away is kinda iffy, itā€™s like he knows itā€™s bad. Heā€™s not calling the reasoning bad, which wouldā€™ve made more sense.

Continued shade on cloned. Iā€™m not sure if Atlas distances at all, actually. I donā€™t remember him doing it in RWBY.

This is the type of thing wolves direct toward the villagers they are pushing. Itā€™s encouraging them to engage with you and potentially push a different agenda if you have to pivot. I rarely see this come from villagers toward people they believe to be wolves, since itā€™s performative instead of productive.

This makes no sense to me, and not in a scummy way. Nor in a towny way. Iā€™m just confused. I donā€™t know what heā€™s doing.

What?

I donā€™t fully understand why he backed off Eli. Aelin supposedly convinced him, but I donā€™t know how.

Especially since he seems to scumread Aelin forā€¦ defending Eli. This makes no sense.

And here he disagrees with calling Eli town again.
What?

And here he just calls Eli ā€œsuspiciousā€ instead of scum.
His treatment of Eli is actually all over the place.

Heā€™s voting a villager for defending a villager.
Thatā€™s what happened with my push on Marl, when you remove the nuance. I donā€™t scumread this. I feel like he thought Eli might be more likely V for the way Aelin defended him?

Weird perception of his slot.

ā€¦Towny?

This is extremely random and Iā€™m not sure where itā€™s even coming from.

Why he believes heā€™s going over at this juncture, I do not know. But in this post, he seems annoyed that a villagerā€™s being trusted over him and causing him to get pushed, and thatā€™s wolfy. The fact his thought process led him to ā€œwhy are they being trusted and Iā€™m not?ā€ is the wolfy part. Getting annoyed over being pushed is not alignment indicative, but getting annoyed over not being trusted over a villager is wolfy.

I feel like Iā€™ve just said the same thing in three different ways, but I really want this to be understood.

Megahedgy copout on reading cloned. Eh.

Heā€™s not making anything happen himself, and thatā€™s what he did as a wolf.

Okay, his read on cloned is actually developing. Thatā€™s a good look.

This is actually an okay push but itā€™s for really bad reasons. At least thereā€™s some progression on his read there?

This entire interaction with cloned doesnā€™t look W/W because itā€™s really petty on Januaryā€™s end. Heā€™s arguing such silly, irrelevant points and yet shows attachment to them in a way I donā€™t think he would if he were interacting with a partner here. I donā€™t think itā€™s 100% clearing, since it still falls within the realm of theater, but I do think itā€™s somewhat unaligning.

This is another unaligning response. He talks with huge condescension toward cloned here and I think he believes it regardless of his alignment. Heā€™s trying to sway clonedā€™s opinion away from clonedā€™s initial POE, and heā€™s doing it while talking down to him. This is also villagery for meta reasons, I donā€™t recall Atlas being very condescending in RWBY, if at all. I think he was more agreeable there?

Now he hedges on Clonedā€™s alignment again, but I actually itā€™s a good look. It points toward the idea Januaryā€™s genuinely trying to figure out Clonedā€™s alignment.

Okay. This would be straight up openwolfing if W/W, and I donā€™t see a wolf asking a villager to argue with him tomorrow, unless it were a weird pocket. This isnā€™t phrased like a pocket, and as such, is V indicative.

The length of Januaryā€™s interaction with cloned also unaligns them. Wolf theater usually doesnā€™t last this long. This is the third thing I notice that unaligns cloned and January. At this point Iā€™m comfortable saying they are not W/W, but can be V/W.

This constant condescension toward cloned while not actually pushing on him is wolfy. I donā€™t see January actually advocating for cloned to get pushed, and Iā€™m 255 posts in. If anything, this looks like Januaryā€™s just bashing a villager for being wrong in an effort to look like heā€™s solving that villager.

This post doesnā€™t contain a ā€œcloned is mafiaā€ or anything of the sort. I think thatā€™s wolfy! Heā€™s been arguing with cloned for like 150 posts and still wonā€™t call him mafia despite disliking everything heā€™s doing? Sure, he can dislike everything clonedā€™s doing and call him town, but this post shades him and clearly isnā€™t a townread, either. Therefore, what gives?

Despite all this aggression and condescension toward Cloned, January always entertains the possibility of cloned flipping V, whenever he mentions pushing him. This looks like TMI on clonedā€™s flip.

At this point Iā€™m throwing the idea of January and Cloned being W/W out the window, this is way too much. Going by Januaryā€™s posts alone, this looks like Januaryā€™s pushing for a misyeet. Itā€™s possible heā€™s right and cloned is a wolf, but the way Januaryā€™s treating this push is nothing short of unfair. This read totally hasnā€™t burned me before in this game.

Iā€™m going to ISO cloned next.

This is Januaryā€™s first townread and it still has a ā€œcould be mafiaā€ caveat. This is really bad.

This is a really weird reason to townread City. All City did was call me and Leafia mafia. How is that so villagery that January, who didnā€™t even have any townreads without doubt before, now thinks City is town? Feels like a quick jump to conclusion from someone whoā€™s been pushing and scumreading players left and right.

This is starting to look really opportunistic. At this rate, heā€™s scumread every single flipped villager. Every single one.

This is a really weird flip on cloned, Iā€™m not sure what to think about it.

Soā€¦ that was a reaction test? The whole push on cloned?
ā€¦Villagery? This is kind of insane, but a wolf ?probably? doesnā€™t do this.

I think he scumread Leafia before?

Again, a post that looks like TMI on Leafia being town. I said the same thing about Januaryā€™s comment toward Eli. Itā€™s really performative.

(Leafia claims VT)

Whatā€¦

ā€¦Villagery condescension? This sounds sure of himself in a cocky way that I associate with villagers and not wolves.

ā€œIfā€?
I know, I know. But this still stands out to me.

Villagery indignation and cockiness, I think.

Yikes.

Telling his scumread, Leafia, that another player is suspicious.

He made this comment earlier.

So he didnā€™t think Leafia should be considering Marl a good vote target when she was scumreading him. But then, he encourages Leafia to suspect Marl.

Iā€™m not sure what heā€™s doing here.

Eh.

I actually kinda understand this take and push, but Iā€™m biased because I was pushing him myself that day.

Player salad.
Also, heā€™s listing four villagers here.
Yikes.

January thinks Leafiaā€™s mafia.
January thinks Eli voting Leafia is questionable.
Huh?

Holy hell is this a yikes sequence of posts. January supports Windwardā€™s push, while commenting on it in a way that strongly indicates TMI. Heā€™s preemptively blaming Windward for a V flip, while excusing himself from blame by outright stating heā€™s trusting Windward.

This is also the fifth flipped villager heā€™s pushed. He only pushed villagers. All the time. Unless cloned is a wolf, but I donā€™t think they are aligned.

This is terrible.

The villageriest thing about this ISO so far is that he acts entitled throughout, something I associate with villagers much more than wolves. He also had some semblances of genuinely evaluating slots. Other than that, though, itā€™s been a hot mess.

This is about Windwardā€™s push on Silviu, the bolded comment is about Windward.
How did I miss this before? This is really, really bad. Heā€™s already preparing to misyeet Windward before Silviu even flips. This isnā€™t villagery by any stretch of the imagination. Heā€™s not even considering that Windward is town and wrong, or that Silviu is mafia.
Why did I call this an obvious villager again?

Oh, now he pretends he doesnā€™t know Silviuā€™s alignment, but still preemptively whiteknights him.

More shade.

Heā€™s contributing to the problem and blaming the village for it.
This is usually villagery.
I hate that, but itā€™s true.

He does not care despite not having a personal wolfread on Silviu. Heā€™s just riding Windwardā€™s push on him. There were even indicators of January questioning the idea of Silviu being mafia before.

Here they are.
But close to EOD, heā€™s entertaining Windwardā€™s push and preemptively blaming her for the impending flip.
This progression switch is wolfy as hell. As soon as he notices that Silviu is a viable push, January canā€™t resist depriving himself of that option and supports the push with his vote.

Potential TMI on both wagons being V.

Ugh.

This whole sequence feels very performative, considering the wagons were V/V. He doesnā€™t seem to care which player gets voted, not at all. They are all villagers, why would he care?

Day 2

Shade on a villagerā€¦

And immediately moving on to push another.

Noting that January didnā€™t mention Zone even once throughout day 1. Another player he barely mentioned is min. He hasnā€™t interacted with me much, either, but that doesnā€™t really matter from my POV.

He called City town for a weak reason and never returned to the slot during the later stages of day 1.

He treated WWA in an absolutely awful way that reeked of TMI, and pushed like 5 villagers while excusing himself from blame.

The only player heā€™s unaligned with based on day 1 is cloned, because he wrote like 300 condescending posts toward the guy (I am not exaggerating, read it yourselves). I also think heā€™s hard unaligned with Windward, based on him blaming her for Silviuā€™s flip before the flip even happens. That isnā€™t really too important, though, since I think Windwardā€™s obvious town regardless.

His complete lack of Zone mentions is W/W indicative. Itā€™s like the Zone slot doesnā€™t even exist from his POV. Him mostly neglecting to mention min, outside of a brief interaction that could be distancing, is also W/W indicative. With WWA and cloned unaligned with him, January fits on teams with Zone/min/City.

Bookmarking post 612 as where I finished.

TL;DR Januaryā€™s day 1 ISO is actually abhorrent and super wolfy in multiple spots, Iā€™m completely rescinding my townread on the slot.

The post above is what happens when you ISO someone whose posts are 20% of the thread.

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