we're in a p good position rn for the solve bc we know with 100% certainty that both of the remaining scum are either buddies with BGB or pulsar. Solving should probably be done through this lens from this point forward, though I'm sure pulsar gave us more content to work with than BGB did in this regard.
- a fairy
- Celever
- ImaginaryNeon
- imperfectluck
- JALMONT Village Innocent Twin / Mason -> Innocent Child. Revealed end of N1
- Psypsypsypsypsythe
- realiti
a fairy
We all know she has good buddy potential with gummy, since they consensused a lot (and my instinct wrt this if they are buddies is BGB is coming back from a hiatus and clung to his buddy's reads a bit, fairy didn't even notice it was happening). Gummy also scumread more people than he townread, and fairy was one of his townreads IIRC.
pulsar x fairy would be a strange team. They've teamed before as a duo and their relationship this game was very different to the last time, but it was also pulsar's first game and this game she played so much better (great to see in hindsight, the only way she loses is by getting shot I think which is very impressive but also ty scum lmao). pulsar gunned for fairy pretty hard, though never ended a day voting her. The chance of this team isn't 0, but it's low.
Neon
has the villager spew and nothing to feasibly read into besides this. I guess the one takeaway is that neither BGB nor pulsar would come up with the fake villager claim play, so it probably just gives Neon even further towncred.
IPL
I, again, could see IPL probably being with either one of them, but I suppose it's likelier that he'd be with BGB than pulsar. It would be a wild play for both pulsar and IPL to claim investigative while being on the same team, and if IPL is scum then probably the setup has an investigative on both scum factions and on neither town ones. At the same time, I don't actually think IPL is a tracker, and I don't recall playing with him a long time ago (though I think I actually did, at some point) to know how gambity he is. It would be a legitimately viable strategy to double claim investigative and have the other person gain huge towncred once one of them dies to ride out to a win. It's just a high risk strategy, too, and if this is the strategy they executed it probably came from IPL instead of pulsar.
A super level 1 read that I have to say anyway is that the most active IPL has ever been is right after pulsar died. If he's rusty, there's a chance he had poor contribution juggling between scumchat and thread, and that got exposed once the scumchat became useless to him.
I'm not sure there's anything linking BGB and IPL together at all, otherwise, they would just kinda be two scum chilling together. BGB doesn't have links to many players, especially living ones, except hard scumreading me and realiti I think.
Psy
A pretty viable candidate to be with either of them, probably. I'd need to go over and check this, but my instinct is that he didn't actually townread pulsar, which I think is higher buddy equity than townreading / towncoring her in most timelines because I think pulsar was just, a town player for all intents and purposes and it's not like he cased her behaviour in-thread to arrive at reasonably not towncoring her. If they are buddies then the resistance to hard tring her is probably TMI. I think this might also apply to fairy but would need to check that too, but what doesn't also apply to fairy is I don't remember pulsar ever giving thoughts on Psy herself, one way or the other. Again, I'd argue that in most universes this probably increases the likelihood of a Psy x pulsar scumteam, since pulsar read quite widely and had a mobile vote otherwise. OTOH I think pulsar did express fewer townreads than scumreads in the game in general, so it could just amount to not wanting to bus him.
Psy and BGB I'm p sure have no link, I'm not even sure they interacted once, which could be noteworthy in its own right because on D1 Psy was trying to interact with as many people as he could
besides Neon. Another one who I could see going either way.
All in all, I don't think BGB and pulsar being the two potential scumbuds looks good for Psy.
realiti
realiti is a very simple slot wrt this. He was scumread by BGB but townread BGB in return (I think). OTOH he was scumread by pulsar to the point of her claiming failed investigate on him D2 but towncored pulsar in return.
Yeah, it's plausible he's with either of them. I townread realiti still, though, and these positions are more of us just mindmelding since I also townread both players by the time they died (whoops). I don't think there's much to discriminate between which one he's likelier to be a buddy with if he is scum, except for pulsar claiming the failed investigate on him D2 is a somewhat risky strategy in case town locks her in to trying to check realiti again, at which point if they are buddies pulsar would either need to fake clear (meaning she gets completely found if realiti gets shot which is a likely outcome) or bus her buddy completely for the towncred (increasing the chance of her getting shot herself). Do either pulsar or realiti think that deeply about this move though? Ehhhhh probably not lol, but even still I'd say the move is risky enough that I'd put scum!realiti as a BGB buddy before a pulsar one.
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tl;dr
Neon probably gains even more townpoints. Great.
fairy is probably likelier with gummy than pulsar, would be surprised if they tried the bus strat all game.
IPL made an interesting gambit if he's scum with pulsar, but overall is probably likelier to be with BGB in the likely event he is scum, and AG really just gave town 0 info roles and put the info roles on each scum faction (which is LMAO, btw).
I need to factcheck my Psy stuff but he's probably got the most pulsar scumbud equity in the game. He also has some with BGB, but p much everyone has some with BGB, while pulsar did a better job of either distancing or bussing her buddy to the point it's hard to draw conclusions. Psy is the main exception to this.
realiti had the same game relationship with both dead scum, but more intensely with pulsar than BGB. pulsar claiming she tried to check realiti D2 but failed is kind of a risk-free play but also kind of a risky one, and might tilt realiti more to the "BGB buddy" side of things, but there's not much else to parse than that.