you forgot the most important rule

- pants must be removed upon entering the gossip chat.

Wait, the hell is this?

Hello, helloooo, helloooooo, I'm the only on here? I'm scared.

We get to talk tonight. Originally, I had intended to feed this chat a few lies to protect myself if I made a bad pick day 1 but I'm skipping all that since you role claimed so quickly.

I'm the hanged man arcana, town, and I'm a modifed gossip role. Each day I can pick one player during the day who I want to talk to and I get you 1-on-1 in this chat room during the night. The logs are all saved so whoever I invite day 2 would be able to read night 1 and whoever I invite day 3 can read night 1 and 2, etc. You only hang out for a night while I am here permanently, I can re-invite people though but that's the only way they can stay here, otherwise you're kicked out at day start.

With that out of the way, I obviously invited you because of your role claim so here's your one opportunity to be honest with me, was that an attempt to save yourself or the truth?

Who am I kidding, there's no way to save face any more, I don't give a shit if a scum sees this, yes it's true.

Alright, so I'm asking for one thing only out of this chat, if we can share some reads and thoughts that's just bonus but we need to verify you without any doubt. When I said in thread that verifying you was easy, I was being honest but I couldn't really say how I wanted to verify you. We're on N1 and you're a killing role so that's town's accounted for. In a majority of games, there is also a neutral killer of some sort, usually labeled as a serial killer. I'm hoping for that at this point. The play here is for you to use that protection/revival power and we hope that two people are supposed to die tonight. When you get asked who you want to save, I just ask that you pass the two names onto me here. I'll give my input but the choice of who lives is all you, I probably won't care that much. The reason I want the two names is because it would at least prove that you "predicted" the night kill ahead of it actually being posted in thread which means one of two things. Either you are scum or you really do have the power you say you do. If you're scum, this does provide you a stay of execution for a day or two but if later night phases roll through and only one person is dying each night then obviously you were lying. Make sense?

Oh and last one, if I do die tonight somehow, please do pass my thoughts along to the main thread. Obviously, you can't copy and paste from here to there but I do intend to start putting together some thoughts since we did kill a shadow last night and this chat does provide me the unique opportunity of being able to leave a will.

Alright, but can let me be honest on another thing: I really, truly, am bad at reading. I'm an absolute moron and my reading comprehension is very low, I regret trying my hands at another WW game. Whenever I say in the thread that I suck at reading I really mean it. I'm not even talking about reading as in interpreting other players motives from their actions, I legitimately struggle to read the thread and make mental notes on people and connect the dots. The fact that I believed you were scum just proves this point.

We're in the game world right now so I have to look at that entire statement with slight skepticism only because emotional appeals to get on people's good side is definitely a valid tactic but if you're being all on the up and up then just know you haven't really played badly at all. You're new to this group which means you don't get to fall back on established relationships and interactions to help figure out which way is up. There's a lot of bluster, myself included, in the thread and some people who legitimately sound like they know what they are talking about but keep in mind, everyone on town side is stumbling through the dark, I can pretend I know where I'm going because I've done it so many times but each and every game is different and trends and probabilities just can't account for everything. If you want any criticism, I think the only two things you could have handled better were the role claim, I would have personally at least waited until this morning as I think people were going to cool off on you fairly soon and trusting me so easily at the start just on the basis of knowledgeable appeal, so I wouldn't say thinking I was scum was a bad thing in it's own right. You just swung from one extreme to the other. Keep trucking along, things make a lot more sense as the picture starts to get less cloudy, unless you get the benefit of being an investigator or getting direct results from an investigator, you have to trust and distrust and hold steady sometimes just so you have a stable base to work from. That's why I took a few people, Natiko and plop and kind of Ty4on, and just stopped thinking about them completely, it narrowed who I had to worry about down to 16 which makes it all easier. If the 3 of them are still hanging out in a couple days then I can add them back into my guesswork.

If you're scum and made me type all that for no reason then

Anyway, do feel free to post thoughts and new reads here. I think I'm going to be busy tonight but I do want to post out some thoughts just so I have them in writing, probably sometime tomorrow. For example, I notice that Exodus posted a reads list and in the section with my name, he slipped in that he would love if a cop checked me since I'm just always so hard to read. That's a common scum tactic if they have a framer on their team and it made me raise an eyebrow when I read it, surprised exodus was so brazen and I do wonder if they hope to get a cop to check me. I wouldn't be surprised if others on the scum team were pushing the narrative that I'm extremely hard to read to nudge a potential cop into checking me.

(framer- can make it so that one person shows as the opposite result during a night phase so a town member would show as not town and neutrals and scum would show as town)

I wouldn't worry about the arcana wording at this point. If I had to guess, based on that shadow PM, EVERYONE is an arcana or reverse arcana and some just have no powers. Exodus was a goon which is the scum equivalent of a vanilla (no power) role. So anyone who used that word had no extra info.

That said, I'm not worried about Star in the least so far. She's been in this commnity for awhile too and I know exactly what you mean. I've seen her get lynched multiple times just because she forgot the game was going on or was reading but just never knew what to say so stayed silent, I've seen nothing damning so far.

The only thing Verelios did that bothered me was him and Flux hanging out off vote at the end there. That's was super weird and it makes me wonder if it's so easy that exodus, exmachina, flux, and verelios are just the whole team but that seems way too easy, regardless it tripped me because Verelios was a pretty solid town read for me up until that point.

So, here's exodu5's read list always take these with a grain of salt. Most scum know that they need to mix their teammates up amongst town reads and scum reads so that's nothing new. What we're looking for is where they deviated from the baseline reads everyone else was giving. Scum doesn't really need to go against the grain too much on reads unless it is suiting their purpose.

The first one I notice is 11037. He scum read him, as I think most people do, for very small things but then gave him a complete pardon for his reads list. So I went back to the reads list and it's hardly an amazing list. It would not have flipped my perspective if I was scum reading 11037.

Exmachina was his main push near day end. The important bit here is that exodus was a scum goon, no power role, meaning he was bottom of the food chain. He wouldn't be trying to get a scum buddy lynched over himself unless that scum buddy was also a useless goon. Possible but I don't think scum would want to set up scum v scum on the day 1 lynch and exodus was on exmachina pretty early. I think this clear exmachina a lot imo.

fran is likely town. Exodu5 could have easily town read him if he was a teammate since everyone else was but he decided to throw shade there instead and give him a null read. They were worried about him being an accepted town read among all because then they would be boxed into night killing him.

Exodu5 didn't say anything about PK and this is hardly a new read because PK's towniness is extremely obvious but he put a nail in Exodu5's coffin when he didn't need to. Assuming exmachina is town, PK must be as well because PK could have easily voted exmachina instead and flipped the entire day on it's head, PK was the deciding vote as far as momentum is concerned.

Huh, apparently I should have read his reads list fully to spot this gem, this is what I get for glossing over these until later: "Ty4on - I don't like looking too much into the meta, but I do think Rynam was a regular townie." Bullshit though since Exodu5 tried pushing Rynam quite early for meta. Interesting change of opinion suddenly. Rynam could have been more inactive than exodu5 would have liked so he tried early bussing him but then when the much more active Ty4on came into the role, he had to flip that opinion since a bus was no longer necessary. I could see Ty4on being a teammate for sure.

The rest of his reads list is all re-iterating word for word the exact opinions on other player's so there may or may not be scum in there, hard to really get anything from it. I do want to check one more thing while I have time this morning. brb

Oh and Exodu5's thoughts on Vanguard didn't exactly cool me on thinking van was scum. Flux and Exodus gave me a lot of pushback with voting vanguard "for RNG" which was never the case and I see it as an obvious ploy to undermine my opinion which worked for the most part. If Vanguard is scum, Flux is next, no questions. Still not sure what to make of both Flux and Verelios honestly trying to sit out that final vote. It borders on no real info since you could really swing it either way as far as alignment goes but when pushed they both went to go lynch the scum member with no PRs. I think to really get any info from that, I'd need to know what exmachina is because it's a very different world if he is town or a scum with a PR.

Also, feel free to post more, I do check in here fairly often though I do know it's the weekend so not expecting you full time or anything. Again, all I really want is for you to 100% give me an update when it's an hour before deadline how your PR turned out. Also, don't forget to actually submit the command, that's happened in a few games in the past and can be disheartening.

There's no world where you get lynched at this point so I wouldn't worry about that. You're lynch doesn't make sense for a day or two at least.