In an ideal world, sure. There's also no reason why scum are more likely to go along with that plan than just not defend their team mate against a weak day 1 case, or indeed why a town player wouldn't point out that Spin is once against being D1 lynched on a weak behavioural case. Would that make them look scummy once Spin flips?
It comes down to daygame skill, I suppose. I'm relatively confident I could incite some buddying against a target that I knew to be scum, and if it failed, I'd be able to keep my head down since I didn't actually claim.
The problem is that you're assuming that the cop in question is able to build the case and get town on board without claiming
Again, daygame skill. In knowing that someone is guilty, you gain the confidence to actually go through with convincing the rest of the town to vote with you; with an uncertain case you'd be more careful about it. I'm sure that anything that would alert scum would also alert the protectives. If you're a protective, you should cophunt just as much as scum does.
and also without alerting the scumteam, which also runs the risk of not alerting town players with protection abilities.
Assuming the protectives are cophunting as they should, anything that alerts scum should also alert the protectives, as long as there are any. The problem with claiming is that it's
guaranteed to alert everyone, which raises the stakes of the gamble of whether or not there is a protective.
fuck should I know? TM is hard to read due to being batshit at all available times. I mean, I guess the sensible thing to guess is mafia or third-party, but I think it might just be town but crazy. I don't mean in the mechanical sense.
Maximum Spin. Looks like the pressure got to you again. Irritated flailing doesn't seem like town behaviour to me, especially when considering your past games as town and scum.
Someone who has looked at the generator: Can it make a power which has an effect like "redirect actions targeting your target to target yourself instead"? That's something I would do on someone who seemed likely to draw early inspects, which, empirically, I apparently am.
Yes, there is the Magnet role, though it's night only. But why would you do that? This would only confuse the cop unless you both claimed, and if you die before then, the cop has an "innocent" result on you that they think is on someone else, for possibly disastrous results.
The theory of Tric's ability being redirected seems very unlikely to me, considering how early in the day he claimed and the fact that there isn't a day-redirect that I can find on the list; it would require the use of a randomized ability. If it really happened that way, the only ones active besides him were me, Nirur and hector.
Superdorf: Slight town. Lacks confidence and is easy to lead around, but is trying to be active.
TricMagic: Town. D1 cop claim is insane, but it's Tric. I'm willing to see if this method has a madness.
Nirur Torir: Slight scum. Large posts have little actual content, small posts seem to follow along with the town consensus. Hates all the scum, they are bad and dumb.
Persus13: Null. A single post.
hector13: Slight scum. Gut read. Seems to be following the same lines of logic that I do, but something is off in the conclusions.
Maximum Spin: Scum. History repeats itself on reaction to a claimed guilty result.
KitRougard: Null. Still lurking.
kingawsume: Null. Still lurking.
randomgenericusername: Null. Still lurking.
Deus Asmoth: Slight town. Disagrees on cop claim theory, but seems to be playing for town.
notquitethere: Null. Not quite here, though with an alibi.
Impressions are likely to change once the lurkers post; they probably aren't all town but 3 scum is the expected standard for 12 players.
SuperDorf:Hmm. Somebody's lying. Gotta figger out who.
Who do you think is lying? Read people's arguments and consider why they made them, and not some other arguments. Ask more questions.
Persus13, KitRougard, kingawsume, randomgenericusername: Post, ya gits!
Notquitethere: Even if you can't pay this game full attention, could you give a quick explanation on your thoughts about a few people, such as the ones with non-null reads on my list? Doesn't need to be full reads, just something that I can analyze.
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