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I'm just not conclusive on Mikal rn but I'm willing to consider him next DP. If Rex turns out to be guilty then his defense of Rex here will cast some serious doubt on him.

Magic's main arguments were presented in post #177 and you didn't really address them as far as I can see. You just doubled down on the already acknowledged strengths of your position. My main question is No. 2, why did you decide to hard claim off the bat instead of baiting the NK?

I was waffling on my vote because of Magic's arguments on Mikal, and I still might change it if he pops up and his counterarguments seem especially weak. But for now I'mma go with my original gut feeling.

VTL Rex

ok, so why 4 over the remaining numbers?

It's my body count.

Bruh

It's not that impressive, I used a sniper rifle

Magic's arguments are fair and I'd like some engagement from you plz

Still trolling the wiki to find a character whose gender could be "unknown" or "both." The "both" is what's throwing me. Starting to wonder if this was just a way to give a non-answer while sending someone on a wild goose chase.

So it's just SOP to vote based on almost nothing in DP1?

Doesn't seem to be implemented yet.

You hard scum read me too. You said you would elaborate today. I was waiting on said elaboration. Maybe Magic was as well. Until one has an argument to counter there didn't seem to be much point.

Need more soft claims. Perhaps we could say if our character is a protagonist or antagonist?

*Cobblenosskin

I guess my gender would be 'unknown' or 'both'?

Lol I have no clue. Cobbenosskin? The Kyofu? Damn.

With less than 24 hrs to go I still don't have a strong scum read on anybody to base a vote on. My gut feeling is Rex but it's just a gut feeling. Inconclusive on Mikal and RT. Mikal could have asked Pie if Evanlyn was in the game already, as Thoth pointed out. This I'm-too-busy-to-contribute-rn seems like an easy way to avoid giving anything away for the first DP.

Narrowed down Luna's claim to 3 characters at least. I don't see much in Samdash's wiki page to base a power on. That leaves Morgarath and Thorn Hammerhand.

Hydra is when two players share one character/role and communicate in PMs.

In reference to Luna's claim that he thought this was LOTR because of his character's name, did a dive into the wiki looking for names that sound Tolkienish, but not much pops out.

Morgarath sounds a bit like Morgoth, and Thorn Hammerhand is vaguely akin to Thorin Oakenshield (although that was the Hobbit). Samdash/Samwise maybe.

With only one game under my belt that Mikal mostly drove as hydra you're not gonna get a strategic treatise from me here.

And honestly the whole making-interpretive-leaps-based-on-nothingburgers-of-information aspect of this game is still not something that feels natural to me yet. It'll take time.

(Post #68) Eh. The likelihood he forgot he could make this play is high enough that I wouldn't scumread Mikal for it even if I discounted his incentive to SOP-claim because claiming Compulsive Hider later could look bad.

Just saying I'm not scumreading Mikal but I find it highly unlikely he forgot that he could make that play.

Also male. Depending on the ratio of male to female characters in this series, this might not tell us much.

Why hard claim early instead of trying to bait an NK?

I also lowkey think people were too quick to just not question Mikal’s claim at all

Character & role make sense and if it's a fake claim it's a bold one with a major character like that.

And this is what lack of attention to basic information in the DP is netting me. Thank you for pointing out the obvious, I feel kinda silly for asking.

Nah it was an easy miss imo.

Honestly shocked I did that. Maybe it was a subconscious choice, but I didn’t even look back at the list when I made it.

And it wasn't just you. Two others did the same. interesting

What could this possibly tell us though

With the exception of me and Casey, everyone picked their own number.

The numbers correspond to how Pie listed us in the OP.

Thanks for explaining.

Role interaction analysis is where my inexperience is going to kick me in the balls here.

Since we’re openly discussing the number thing, I have to ask: why is Casey the only one with a different name next to their number?

Am I a joke to you

Still don't get how Asceticiser and Compulsive Hider complement each other.

ok, so why 4 over the remaining numbers?

It's my body count.

It's how many Harry Potter books I liked.

It's how gay I thought you were on a scale of 1 to 10.

Lol idk dude I just picked a number based on those still available. Probably has more to do with a Fantastic Four ad I'd just seen on TikTok than anything. I had no idea what you were up to and still don't. Are you going to enlighten us here?

My go-to numbers were already taken.