Well, I guess it's a good time for reads.

Overall I am very comfortable with greek and Lift, in that order. The order is likely unfairly skewed by familiarity and pro-noob bias. I know Lift could be Hitler faking it, I somewhat doubt greek of pulling that off.

Then comes scene where I am mixed. My gut smells something off, but his actions have been solid. It's tempting to just assume he is Hitler faking it and I'm seeing through it, but more likely he is just an eager towny which made a solid play it safe choice.

Then there's 3 playes in a mush. Which is problematic since if my other reads are right only 2 of them can be legit. These 3 are ZFR, dedo and RW.

Now, what really gets me at a logical level is that this puts kusu, cristi and blotunga in the scum bucket, and it just aligns too neatly with lurkiness. On one hand it can be that the seating order and a somewhat lucky rejection of president kusu screwed them and they're not motivated. But it's just too neat a package so I'm suspicious of that. But overall willing to ride it along until more evidence to the contrary.

So going back to ZFR, dedo and RW which happen to be the possible choices for president of the 4th government.

ZFR is a strong player, relatively inexperienced but strong. I can see him somewhat misreading the room when he voted no on himself as a LAMIST move and that backfiring. It would be the kind of difficult move I can see him trying, a sort of fake derp.
Overall I am not really sure he is scum here, as I can so easily put myself in his mindspace and see myself (and I knwo I'm town) making the same sort of mistakes and ending frustrated that I'm distrusted.
Ultimately my choice here ends up less being about ZFR and more because of the other two.

So dedo... he's my pick basically. I'll vote no to ZFR and vote Yes to dedo. Sure, I can see dedo pocketing me as fascist by pushing me when I was pushing others. I want to believe he did that from town place, but he is a real vet here, and I think he could pull that off as scum. I want to believe he did not manage to read me so well to know that was a way to engrace himself. I think I haven't played with dedo, so I don't really have an emotional read on him yet. And a small detail kind of pushes me to be a bit more confident on this, altjhough it's a pretty big rationalization - ZFR saying he'll vote yes to RW I see as a double bluff. He says he trusts RW in the hope that we distrusting him, will vote for RW his scum buddy instead of dedo the towny.

Finally RW. The problem with RW is that I can never read him well. I like his pushiness, although not when he is too abrasive (ironic as hell given how I push - but hej, being a hypocrite is what it is). All his nice friendly actions I know well enough can be an act. The well considered reads and thoughts, the helpful statistics. I've seen him do deep scum too often to give that any alignment credit. I don't think I am being unfair to him by trusting someone else more - it's more than as a null read I am fitting his alignment where it makes sense for the rest of the group as I see it now. And that can change as more actions come up.

So yeah... that's where I end up. I plan to vote No to ZFR presidency and Yes to dedo. Ofc dedo might choose some odd chancellor causing me to reconsider (scene is the logical pick for any of the 3 I think), and if it goes to RW as president I am quite undecided what to vote... but yeah...


I want to caveat that unlike the 100% honest approach to being town in resistance games I think bluffing, especially about the team formation votes can be very important to bait scum. Take that as you will.