Nestor and Schutt describe the aim of qualitative research as a situational tool in their book, utilizing four out of the five questions commonly asked of one in an English essay to understand the context of a particular event or an action. They propose the utilization of naturalistic observation as a way to peel back the layers of a situation to determine the root cause1. Such observation is utilized as follows.
Wesley is quickly established as having poor confidence. He is seen stacking cards on top of each other to create a structure vaguely resembling a card tower, but abandons this effort quickly and retreats to another room. When questioned about why he had given up, he repeats that there was ultimately no point in completion of the tower and that it would fall eventually. His eyes dart around, not really seeing, not really looking at much of anything. Needless to say, his preoccupation with the card tower may well be written off by others as needless, but it is a fascinating insight. Perhaps this is a hint to his future behaviour.
The others are not as withdrawn as Wesley. Kayla enjoys using long words and difficult language, often propping up a copy of the dictionary for others to read. She recites, with absolute clarity, extensive passages from various books, though her confusion and her pronunciation indicate that perhaps this is just an act. In one scene, Kayla recites a passage from a novel, incorporating elements of the alphabet into her speech.
“A, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i…” Kayla chortles softly. She turns to look at the observer. “I is my favourite letter, because it is perfectly symmetrical and exact!” Her tongue trips over the word symmetrical, and the observer probes her as to whether or not she really knows the meaning of those words, or whether or not her random outburst even has any meaning. At that point in time, her face darkens like an impeding storm. She refuses to admit her failings, but why? Is she so cloyingly attached to a veneer of overconfidence that she values so much?
Taylor looks into the mirror, apparently enamoured by her own reflection. She combs her hair in a ritual manner, flicking her wrist up every so often and pulling her hair down to ensure all knots are gone. As she does so, she hums a song to herself about a lover, though the lover’s name changes with each successive verse. It is unclear whether or not she is consciously swapping out each name with a new one, or whether or not the lyrics of the song, as of yet not known, use different names for each verse. There appears to be hints that she is not entirely certain of what she is singing and hearing with her own ears; she gazes into the reflection of her mirror, a crease forming upon her forehead. It is as if she is implying that her own voice is contradictory and is unsure2.
At this point, a fourth figure enters the room. The two children turn to meet him, to which he exclaims: “Hey, don’t you want to see the stars tonight”3? No one responds, presumably because they’re not around to do so.
The establishment of a fourth sibling has never been verified objectively by an outside party.
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1 Paul G. Nestor & Russel K. Schutt. Research Methods in Psychology: Investigating Human Behaviour. (SAGE Publications, 2004) p.29.
2The really shitty thing about being able to come into a thread near the end of the phase is that everyone has said what you planned to say. Anyways.
I am willing to believe eleni is town, because the… vast majority of permutations on how she could be mafia are pretty unlikely. If she were mafia and knew that the NK was either redirected from its original target onto her or that the true NK was stunned/jailed out of existence and the kill last night was actually from a vig or mafia did the self-targeting thing or whatever, imo unless eleni and Tet are maf together it doesn’t really benefit her much at all to say that she wasn’t the target of the NK; if she were mafia and knew any of those cases were true, then I figure she’d either roll with it and play up the fact that she were the target instead of going "this dude is the target instead"
While I know lulu brings up the point of mafia self-targeting one of their own I’m… less inclined to think that mafia would self-target one of their own N0 and I think this is me just repeating the exact same reasoning I had in that game lol. I know this was explicitly done in Gakuen Mafia S1, but the crux of the matter is that Kiyoko was basically immune to all actions iirc, and therefore the mafia wasn’t really “wasting” a bulletproof because Kiyoko wasn’t even playing the game. Most variants of the bulletproof role are not excessively immortal in nature though, and I find it hard to believe that mafia would go through the motions of “clearing” a player through the NK since imo it’s better for mafia to maintain their bulletproof (if they hypothetically have one) in the case things go horribly awry (for example: detective investigates the NK target because why not, etc.,)
Re: lulu - Given that in S1 she did the same with Kiyoko before she got converted (though I agree that she did repeatedly tunnel Kiyoko in S2, presumably to damage her credibility + it happened to do enough that several people were unsure on Kiyoko’s information/reads for a while) I’m not sure what to take her vote on eleni as, honestly.
also i did ask meowhosr and apparently according to the meowhosr any passive abilities that activate will not show up in flavour text??? so there's that
re: gibberish - imo if the theory that it's an action that obscures things is true then i really doubt it'd be a town role because it significantly hampers information presented to the thread (like alca blocking out alignment flips in S2). lucas does bring up a good point though that if it does obscure xyz from rollover then whomever's action was obscured would know that it was obscured though (though i'm not sure (assuming this is the case and the gibberish does obscure roles), the person who was obscured would come forth if they have a power role that shows up in rollover that would be better to keep secret; mostly thinking about how hesitant i was to claim in S1 and then things happened and my role became auto-useless because everyone knew it showed in rollover and what it did).
On an unrelated note: Tet’s claimed story thing sounds like a neutral power tbh. It feels weird enough in its … the way it works to be neutral (but maybe that’s because the neutral in S2 was a buff-granting neutral and I’m just thinking of that).
3I actually don't know who to vote yet lmao; I do want an actual lynch to happen since imo we're in a pretty nice position with no NK N0 and I don't want to further split the votes but I literally have not eaten yet today lmao. Of the current candidates I guess I'd be willing to vote deo the most out of the sheer fact that he hasn't posted yet, but I also kind of feel awkward piling on ezz's probing vote (though I guess I am warming up to the idea of a HIGHLY EFFICIENT MAFIA LYNCHING MACHINETM v-very slowly + no lynch's lead makes this largely irrelevant), so I will first eat and then come back
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