Sheesh. If king killed Persus through igniting, he would have died too. That's clear in the post you just quoted.
If there were two mafia, as is apparently so certain, then lynching Sil would have done
nothing because Persus would just kill me. He was primed, he knew King was primed, so he could just cause everyone's deaths, so SK win. Granted, he might have chosen to let town win, but 1) mafia don't do that and 2) who cares about winning that way. I understood that killing Sil would give SK victory, and I didn't want to do that.
The only way we could win was if no non-town elements had a kill. (Well, possibly there was a way involving me targeting someone and using the scum's redirect, but I haven't puzzled that out yet.)
There was at least one mafia left. Possibly two (in which case just a lynch would be insufficient), possibly one and an SK with no kill. Given Persus' falseclaim, we knew he was non-town. Thus, given that it was at least possible for their to be one mafia, we needed to kill Persus, as he was most likely to be scum. In the event, we were boned, as there were two scum.
If Persus uses the brainwash power on NJW and NJW uses the inform power on Silthuri, and King activates the ignite, then Silthuri will be brainwash-killed, Kinga and Persus will be ignite-killed, and town will win if scum targeted the kill at Kinga, otherwise if they target NJW then everyone will die and both serial killers will win.
Or if we lynched Sil, and Persus targeted King, and King ignited, we would have won. Problem:
Persus isn't that thick/generous: he'd have NK'd me, SK win. Well, given the falseclaim, maybe I shouldn't have assumed such close analysis on the part of the mafia, but anyway...
Thing is, once scum knew King was primed, they were going to target me. I toyed with ways of getting them to target King while he ignited them (I think I mentioned this) but couldn't think of a reliable way to do it, given that mafia had all information I gave King, and he would probably keep his word if I made him promise irrationally not to kill anyone at night. If King had said something like, "I would never kill myself by igniting me and Persus while town was alive", Persus might have been persuaded to kill him rather than me to remove the ignite-threat, and if King had then ignited him, town would have won. Wasn't going to happen though.