@blueturtle: You seem quite sure that the only way Spin can back up his claim is with town-aligned doctor powers XOR by directing the mafiakill. Is there no other scenario where Spin has powers at least close enough to have a chance at simulating doctor? Mafia keeping hands-off wouldn't stop an SK, for instance.
Mafia... doctor? Hm, maybe. What would that change though? He'd be able to prove his case if a Vig shot Random, and the Mafia killed someone else somewhere else. Yeah, that would be the thing.
@IcyTea
And what makes you think I'm hiding something?
Mostly gut feeling, nothing truly substantial. You're reading as town, but there's something off, that I can't quite describe, in how you're making your case.
There's a certain degree of reductionism in blueturtle's case(s): either Max is authentic town doctor or he's lying with pants on fire. While I agree that it feels unlikely for a "mafia" result to occur on another type of scum, turtle isn't fully considering how third parties might intersect with the main protagonists' claims and burdens of proof (especially Max's). I'm a bit put off intellectually, although my own gut still thinks it might be a case of town not caring about affiliation distinctions among scum.
Remember, Random claims a result of "absolutely, definitely Scum, and not a third party like Cult, SK, or Mafia Ally". We know because third parties show up in flavor as "not fully aligned with the Dark Cosmos".
I feel like the case where Spin is a third party is identical to the case when Spin is Mafia, though. He can't claim what he is, so he fakeclaims... Can Cult have a doctor? I feel like no.
The only difference would be that if Spin is a 3rd party now he KNOWS that there's framing going on, or Random is lying. He also can't coordinate with Mafia. In that view the test he gave makes even less sense, because if he isn't a doctor he has no way to fake it. Then again, he has no way of knowing that the Mafia will even try to kill Random... though they might try to kill him... how does his actions make sense for a 3rd party?
Wait, what if
Random is a 3rd party then? I feel like that's the same as if he was scum...
Both are using emotional arguments a bit, it's hard to see which is more valid.