I gave it repeatedly lol. I've said I'm not locking them in, just felt a goosebump and some inherent trepidation with their interactions. If I had to give a rough percentage or number of what I would consider the two based off the first two pages it would be like 50/50 faithful vs traitor. And the main reason I said that was cause it felt 'performative' the way they were bouncing off each other, like it would draw away any attention they could be traitors.
Now you said you want a firm handling on why I've said this about Poyser and Ekko?
Here we go with Ekko:
a) based off MANY past games I've played with Ekko; be it him turning out as town, scum, or indie, he's hyperactive and usually the most visible player activity wise in any game so its always NAI from that
b) he does as town generally try to solve players, open up discussions, and talk angles of potential scum tactics time and time again, even the Fallout Game you hosted where he was still suspicious of Grammaton because of involving or leading a couple of notable mislynches that cost town despite being mod/host cleared as Innocent Child which had people getting mad but he based it around behavior
So with Ekko going over his interactions later with Magic, you, and other players, I feel more comfortable as starting to trust him as a Faithful/Townie
Now with Poyser:
Give me more time to readdress what he's said and posted, same with Hime, Magic, and others like Natalija
I came away with the same impression, so no objection there.
My only problem with this post is that you took quite a while to arrive at this point. It required several iterations of asking you what your reads were on these players and finally you give a prolonged justification which I think is possibly fakeable, and then you still only offered the cake on Ekko.