For !!science!!!
Okay. Let's hunt NQT...
Mafia is like a crime scene, our job is to investigate clues and question suspects. Anyway, let's kick things off with some claims because I want this to be exciting for you guys.
CLAIM 1
I'm infectious. Targeting me at night will poison you and this has a chance of spreading. It has a small chance of killing the infected (other than myself) each night. I'm telling you this because I'm town and I don't want everyone to keel over and die by around D4.
CLAIM 2
I submitted an image of a jester because I wanted to be a jester just like in the last BYOR, but just like then I'm town with a jester-themed role.
CLAIM 3
I have a two-shot day kill but I can only use it on players that have already voted for me.
CLAIM 4
I have an auto ability that means my alignment won't flip upon death.
CLAIM 5
At least one of these claims is false.
It seems unlikely to me that NQT would lie about all 5 of these claims. Assuming at least one of them is true...
Let's go over the claims.
Claim one: If someone targets him at night, that someone gets poisoned. Poisoning can cause death. So what happens if someone inspects him? Infection. Kills him? Infection. Tracks him? Infection. Does something to him? Infection. If he's telling the truth about this one, it's a great defense-nobody wants to die as a result of their own action. If he's lying, perhaps he choose to say this as protection from inspections or kills during the night.
Regardless of whether he's telling the truth or lying about this one, it seems like a third-party tell. Not necessarily a hostile SK or doom speaker or something similar, but third-party nonetheless. As for the possibility of being scum... hm. He could be scum, but I don't think scum would want to cause that much attention to themselves. Then again, NQT could know that and use it accordingly... hm. Either way, it doesn't seem likely that he's town.
Claim two: Submitted jester, got town with jester-themed role. I think this claim is what claim five referred to, because the other 3 claims say "third party, possibly hostile" and this one is plain "I am town". I could be wrong, but this claim, overall, doesn't fit with the picture the others paint.
Claim three: A two-shot day-kill that can only be used on people who have voted for him. Again, a defensive(primarily) ability. Seems unlikely but possible to me. Why?
Two-shot day kill. The targeting restriction isn't much of a restraint. And I'm going to say it again:
a defensive ability. Claims 1, 3, and 4 are all claims, that if true, offer protection(in general. It's like saying: "don't target me with your vote, don't target me at night, and if I die you'll not know who I was".) Lo. Of course, he could be claiming these defenses because he wants to see who is bold enough to target him, thus being more likely town, but I don't think that's as likely.
Claim four: If he dies, the role flip will be messed with. We are going to be soooo confused if he was telling the truth about this one and he dies. Again, says "don't kill me or lynch me, it's not worth it". Now that this comes into play, it seem more likely to me that NQT is a lying survivor trying to protect himself best as possible rather than a villainous SK or scum or what have you.
Claim five: At least one of the other claims is false. As stated above, I believe this applies to at least claim two, but per the NQT survivor hypothesis, it may apply to most of the others. A poison defense for the night and a kill defense for the day, plus a role flip breaker... defenses.
Or NQT could be lying about everything in the claim.
This blasted WIFOM. Let's hope the night reveals NQT's true colors, but for now I'm going to keep my vote off him and seek out someone else to assault.
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I judge my list of claims to be a sufficient warning if a warning is necessary. I don't want to full claim because withholding information is a powerful advantage. Investigations aren't the only kind of night action, but given that the infection rate is low and only triggers on the following night this shouldn't be a sufficient dissuasion for a committed investigator if they truly suspected me.
We can assume that at least part of NQT's claim is a lie.
I really wish I had an inspection. That would make everything so much clearer for me after this night.
I would inspect NQT if I had an inspection, despite the "poison", which may or may not be a lie.
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Assuming NQT's semi-innocence, who else is there to target?
Let's throw out a reads list. Or what's close enough to one.
I'm going to note that brackets[], braces{}, and parenthesis() indicate an equal level of scumminess.
Least Scummy
FallacyofUrist(... do you expect me to say otherwise?)
[Tawarochir](hunts scum in a simplified, elegant manner. I see no flaw in him.)
[flabort](lo, hunts scum and doesn't seem evasive or whatnot.)
[Deus Asmoth](and same, though had a bit of a delay getting started.)
{Tiruin}(bubbly. A bit dancy, but overall town.)
{4maskwolf}(I could do with a bit more activity from you, slightly evasive in the past, but overall town.)
{Jack A T}(Overall town.)
(my reads would probably be somewhat more varied if there were a few days in the past for me to snipe at and notice inconsistencies.)
(Teneb)(doesn't post enough, voted me without a single reason(justified for now, RVS and all).)
(TheDarkStar)(how can I read someone who hasn't posted often?)
Notquitethere(and for obvious reasons, the most confusing of the batch. Seems surviviorish now. I've still got my eyes on you, though.)
-Lidku-... all things considered, I don't know a thing about him/her. Why? No posts for the game whatsoever. Hopefully a replacement gets here soon.
Most Scummy
Perhaps I'll take a gander at what little TheDarkStar has posted.
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... talk about what little. I count 3 posts from him. So much for any decent read.
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Who is the least suspected player in the game?(in your opinion.)Bah, I need more activity.
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