So, I'm thinking, what if +!!scientist!!+
IS lying? Mostly spit-balling here, but there's something about it that just bugs me...
His claims to have blocked Tiruin N2 and ToonyMan N3 are essentially unverifiable. Both Tiruin and ToonyMan claim they got no alert that their actions were blocked. Tiruin wouldn't have if her chosen SK ability was Strongman/Ninja Kill, because her kill would've bypassed the Jailkeeper block.
ToonyMan, of course, claims he put in no action last night, and I believe him. Honestly, I believe his town cred is indisputable at this time. And if we accept that he's not lying on that, then it follows that the rest if his claims are true as well. Which brings me to this:
So either Scientist and I are both lying (which is impossible because I am telling the truth at the very least), or one of the players who claimed vanilla townie is town, but they're hiding their power, which is understandable but I don't believe it happened unless they want to step forward now.
If we assume ToonyMan is telling the truth on all of it, and +!!scientist!!+ is lying, then there has to be another town power role out there. We know that because of Tiruin's SK flip. I have my suspicions...
Putting that aside, I have a problem reconciling that there was no kill last night. That argues that ToonyMan was the mafia target. But why?
If +!!scientist!!+ really
is the Jailkeeper, why wouldn't he be the kill last night? He can't self-protect, and a guard role is very bad for a scum team. Doctors
always die the night they're revealed.
Always. Or often enough that it's effectively enough to be a truism.
Yet, he lived, and evidence points to his claimed target also being the mafia target? Why? Because he's a Vigilante? That would mean either that Elephant Parade is mafia and they wanted him alive for certain, based on ToonyMan's threat to kill him,
or that the mafia want us to think that.
There's a mafia JOAT. If they'd really wanted ToonyMan dead, why not simply Strongman kill him? If EP is mafia, and they took ToonyMan at his word on that threat, they'd have had to Role Block and kill him, which strikes me as oddly inefficient, and guaranteed to set EP up for serious suspicion today. I believe that was partly your plan, ToonyMan? To draw the mafia out defending EP?
But, again, +!!scientist!!+, the Jailkeeper, still lives, despite the problem his continued existence presents to the mafia. That makes no sense to me.
ToonyMan:
What's your stance on this, now?
I suspected you and Scientist at the start of today because you two were the only people who weren't voting DarkStar at Day 2 end. I am that simple-minded, but hey look I'm pretty sure one of you is scum now!
NativeForeigner:
Can you explain, please, in greater detail here your thought processes and reasoning?
NativeForeigner: You've been absent for a while. What are your reads? Do you think these claims are true?
I honestly don't think Tiruin is lying. I wish I had actual evidence to back this up, but I don't. Just my best idea reading through the mountains of text.
That leads me to believe that it's Toonyman who's lying about his roleclaim. But until Makeinu votes, I'm going to withhold my vote. I'm not going to risk tying up the vote. I'll be keeping an eye out for his vote before day end.
I'll buy not wanting to risk a vote tie. I'll buy the "if Tiruin is true, ToonyMan is false" logic. But what about Tiruin, especially in light of her SK flip, made you so sure that she wasn't lying?
I'd very much like to hear your reasoning, because I was pretty sure at some point in the day that was exactly the case myself.