I'm not even sure why Starver did it, to be quite honest... EP is in no way cleared just because they're "clearing" other players.
It was your choice of who to pass to, the first time, that led me that way.
i.e if it was already dangerous to tell EP these things (for you, and you seemed to guard your identity more closely than I think I have to guard mine), then we were probably already in trouble. So worth a gamble. And it seemed useful to compare and contrast results to remove one particupar element of doubt. If EP had thought I was now worth lynching, and it happened, my lynchflip would indicate
something wrong, that would have had to have been worked out by those that remain, but that didn't happen. Perhaps because it was all true, perhaps just with malicious expediency. The way it turned out, however,
you have the most valid 'free pass' hours, in my eyes. With reservations. And you either know more about this than you legitimately should or actually have a similar idea about me. Everyone else has to consider their own opinions, but based upon similar assumptions.
Alternative 'revealees' were you (if indeed confirmed as Ok by EP, the above doubts about veracity and honesty aside, you'd be a perfectly safe landing zone for my info and then the next to confirm could be told that I was the best person to tell) or Fallacy (assuming altruism in the role, rather than trap by the Big Bad). On balance, EP's claim, and the need to
check EP's claim seemed wisest to pursue. But just the once. Whoever gets next compelled (EP or Fish, necessarily; unless we want to repeat one of us two with, perhaps, the other of us as onward target... a possibly low danger neutral option, if it doesn't just delay Town to Scum's advantage) perhaps ought to choose between either of us as recipient as the most closely 'confirmed Town' that anybody can determine.
(What would
you have done, in my position? Probably telling original!you would have been high on your list, as it was on mine, but at the top?)
[Three ninja posts... Nothing that changes the above, though.]