Oh man, 100 posts since day start. Why did I sign up for this?
Webadict:
Jim Groovester, are you gonna carry me to victory?
Toaster, same question as Jim's but also we vote the Masons.
I'm allergic to voting masons. If you're town, sure.
FallacyofUrist:
Toaster: When should a town aligned player attempt to deceive their fellow team members?
Hm. It's hard to think of a viable circumstance. There's cases for being vague in general but mostly aimed at confusing unknown scum, but intentionally misleading specifically town is an odd circumstance indeed. I can't think of any examples, but I won't say they don't exist.
Nirur:
Toaster: Who would you rather have on the scum team, Wuba or Vector?
I'd probably say Vector for uniqueness. I'm not sure I've been scum with Vector a full game. They're both good choices for a scumbuddy.
Vector:
Toaster? Toaster. What do you think of Toony's plan? And Webadict's casual RVS? Also, top 4 scumpicks right now?
I'll address The Plan below. Web's RVS is unusual, but I smell an attempt by him to see who's attention he grabbed. Four? Eeesh, it's barely out of RVS. I wouldn't put it past Toony to come up with a plan that he could abuse to mislead town, but I'd hardly call him a scumpick. Mmmmmm sorry, we've gotten wrapped up in mechanical discussion; no one is leaping out as scummy yet. You'll know when I see some, however.
The Plan:
Pros: Does tie people up for the night. It will be difficult for mafia to work any extra sneaky actions, including kills, into the cycle.
Cons: Two Mafia in a row frees someone up for shenanigans. Flaws can foul up attendance to the plan. We're assuming we can trust Toony for coming up with the order of this list; if he's scum he could 1) put the list in that order on purpose 2) knows some way to get around it via role info from his team. Several abilities can screw with it. People can lie and say they have a flaw that prevents them from participating.
Monk 2 (Delay)
Flowermaiden 5 (shield-bypassing kill)
Witch 4 (Curse of preventing new shields)
Assassin 1 (Frame seriously screws with Spotlight)
Doge 4 (Ban spotlight is a hard counter to this)
Hardcore: DO NOT CLAIM THIS IF YOU HAVE IT
Minimalist: See above
Hazy
Lender, maybe
Magnetic
Intermittent
Wasteful
Unreliable
Corrupt
Tricksome
That's... fully half the flaws that can interfere with the Plan. I will go ahead and say I have one on this list, but not one that will outright stop me from participating.
The biggest problem, in my view, is Ban. I don't see any way around Spotlight getting banned.
THAT ALL SAID I'm on board with doing this part of the plan, tonight. Why not hand shields to everyone? That'll create a provable action log that can be used to eliminate a lot of variance tonight.