RangerCado seems to me to be lying about his role because if he were telling the truth he'd want to instantly reveal his room number, or else there would be literally no point in claiming.
One thing that debunks that case. You're believing his first statement: Ye Claim. Where I see it: you're believing his claim, and then attacking him for an error due to something related to the claim. Said error equals stalling in the form of suspicious actions due to knowledge along the lines of 'I must attain this objective by meeting [SPECIFIC_GENDER].'
His defense: '
Guaranteed kill'. When actually, it could be the
chance of them picking him (which I guess is part of your basis). From this statement, I could judge that he believes the mafiakill to be a
house visit-thing judging by his speculation on roleblocks/redirects:
here. At the first day, we had 16 people and 14 houses, there was bound to be places which had either extras, or homeless people at game start. One area got bully-evicted, the other got...quit-closed. Now? It would be 14 people, 12 houses. Which is what we've got now. We have the case of dual pairing here: me and Deathsword; whoever the other two in our houses are, either won't claim, or (as I think of it), are probably bullies or the original homeless players. (Though..beginning the game with a bully in the same house? Too much theoretical thinking at the moment.)
Anyway:
Panic..going back to the main point: he's thinking it's a sure kill on the mafia side. I'd agree with you on the lying about role thing, but I can't see in any other way on how that'd be formed as a lie (relying on gender..that's one thing to look out for. Lenglon mentioned some romance point in her PM, something which is also vaguely hinted in mine..somehow). Plus: it would be such a glaring act requiring the gall to claim such (and then flail afterwards) to still be scum after your own plan has been foiled..by yourself.
Which would, in its essence, be a totally horrid waste of time, equaling a very flail-y third-party. While I'm pretty annoyed at his antics, it doesn't match up when you mark him as a mafia member ('Hey guys let's do x and y and do z and a on Day 2 so...') because that would either mark him as a true actor, or someone who has messed up the communication lines.
In addition, his lack of credibility means the one potentially pro-town aspect of his claimed role (the pseudo-cop ability) is totally useless.
I say nay, my dear snail. His inspect marks a number. Whether house number or number of people in a house targeted (I blame grammar for
claim reasons, or my own comprehension is dipping low due to time of day here..), I leaned on the latter when I answered him back.
Because he tells the truth. I am in house 7 (in which my ability of today is useless to help with), and I've got some guy with me who stayed the night over, in a cordial peace. Or as far as I could tell anyway.
Finally, he definitely isn't town, so lynching him is lower risk than lynching anyone else.
Which would also equal to something that goes between threat, and neutral possibility. He's a third-party, and I've no qualms to disbelieve that (But if he IS mafia, then either his buddies got my location; that dude with me is one of his buddies..which really strikes me weird because of how the silhouette looks or something else, which doesn't really make much sense to me).
RangerCado seems to me to be lying about his role because if he were telling the truth he'd want to instantly reveal his room number, or else there would be literally no point in claiming. He didn't, and stalled, which strongly suggests to me that he was lying because his claim contradicts his actions. If he's lying that means his role is probably worse for town than advertized (up to and including "is actually a mafia member"), and therefore worth lynching. In addition, his lack of credibility means the one potentially pro-town aspect of his claimed role (the pseudo-cop ability) is totally useless.
Finally, he definitely isn't town, so lynching him is lower risk than lynching anyone else.
This...makes a lot of sense when you see it in a protective way, actually. I'm with this strategy.
HOWEVER
How does the bolded portion make sense?
I wrote a response to this earlier and then closed the window without posting it, sorry. Basically I mean that if the mafia is forced to go to specific houses they can't take other actions as they please - as you say it's basically a protective measure.
I'll quote Lenglon here to advance my point.
"My role would have changed each night, for the first four nights. Each night if I stayed home I would either have gotten no power, a house-destroying nightkill, with a 50% chance of killing everyone in the house, and guaranteed to destroy the house itself, which would force the house's owner away in any case, a beacon that would redirect 20% of all people to my house if they were going anywhere, or a defensive ability that would send back home anyone that tried to visit me, and leave them stunned for the next night as well. I could not save up these abilities to use together, but if I wanted to keep a power, I could visit someone else, without using it, and save it for later. In any case, I would become powerless after night 4."
If a player is in a house, that is only when an ability can work: Said abilities affect either the house, or the location, or people in transit. I've no ability at the moment which does any of the above but I'm really believing that abilities must act in such a manner:
> The ability user must be stable in a house and not in transit.
I'd like to ask you what you think about the mafia faction and their factional kill given that you've proposed a plan such as that. I'm guessing they've a factional kill--used by one of their members each night--and the others can roam around freely with their abilities and whatnot. They can appear harmless, but then they'd know which silhouettes belong to who and watch the thread for what subtle claims exist (as I'm pretty much singled out now, but in that way I'm backing up Ranger's claim).
PPE: PupNote ahead: This post has been a conglomeration of tired thoughts from the day..so I'm speaking my mind here.
PPE: ShiniDariush, or should I keep saying Daruish do to you screwing with my name? Anyway, the lower amount of content coming from me is because of school which will be finished this week (3 days to go!) But to appease the great Daruish gods I shall try to find some time today to make a nice beautiful long and strong (at least to my standards) case on you.... It shouldn't be that hard to be honest seeing as you know... you're bloody scum.
Too tired to check back. What's the difference of him, and the others voting for Ranger as I guess that was your case before? It has similarities to them.