Book: What reaction do you suspect from the scum team after your claim?
None really, as the claim is to get a reaction from town (inspectors' target selection), not from scum. From the scum, at most a bit of anxiety over scumchat as inspections will have a slightly larger chance of hitting them.
On Millers: [...]
As tempting as it is, I don't think we should get into the abstract pros and cons of the thing too much, but briefly: my main objections to it as a staple, 100%-all-the-time thing are precisely that it can be used by the scum as well, and that people tend to blur the line between "null tell" and "town tell" too easily. While your "first post" thing has merit, it's trivial for the scum to discuss it over scum chat before their first on-thread post, and almost as trivial to make it in the second or third post with a convincing excuse.
I also think it should be perfectly kosher for a miller to never claim it if they don't feel like it; while they'll be at higher risk of getting lynched if inspected later on, that's the price of their choice not to claim it, and people shouldn't lynch a person
solely over an inspection result anyway in a BYOR unless they are also scummy, since there may be other factors at play (silent redirections, sanity issues, or other quasi-bastardry).
People should play with their brains and not follow "recipes" or "dogma" or "always do
X if
Y". In crime and politics the situation is always
fluid.
In any case, you've said your piece about it, and so have I, and I'm giving your thing a go, so yeah, let's not beat this one to death like we did in Paranormal18, yes?
I concur on the
Extension request.