well I feel like I squandered my time now, but my pre-hammer-reread here has left me suspicious of almost everybody. Fun.
However, I failed to trust myself last time I was in this situation and ended up being throwing the game because of it, so I'm going to try to trust myself now.
NJW: here's why:
FallacyofUrist - inspected as town + attempting setup to fully confirm as non-godfather + town behavior -> town for today, but of note last time I was in this situation there was a super-towny player that manipulated my choice and was actually scum, and I feel like FoU has attempted to manipulate me today... but he even owned up to it so I really don't know. Lucky for me, this one should be mechanically cleared soon.
Knightwing64 - kingmaker, and everyone else seems to have a town read of them. I don't like how shakey this one feels to me personally and I feel like I'm overlooking something big here, but I'm trusting everyone else's read of Knightwing over my own because I just don't have a good read myself and everyone else's seems to have a consensus.
Lidku - My #1 pick for scum, and who I think performed the mafiakill, but they are needed in order to confirm FoU.
Maximum Spin - Set aside as FoU's problem to determine alignment, and I think they were the target of the mafiakill, and that their ability only notified them of the FIRST mafiakill used on them.
NJW2000 - My #2 pick for scum, and who I'm voting here.
Shakerag - I... wish I had better reasons to think he's town. He feels like Town!Shake to me, and I know that's just not good reasoning, but it's what I've got.
TricMagic - Unreadable in general, but the re-read and investment in looking for scum seems legitimate. But their posts are so difficult to understand that I just can't get a good feel for the thoughts behind them.
I know a reads list isn't a real reason though, so I'll try to do better here:
1) There is no mechanical confirmation of NJW's anything really. mechaically I've come to the conclusion that he does NOT have an action-inspect, he has "create a 1-shot copy of the ability used by the target". If he's town, he used it on FoU to try to alignment-check despite the miller claim. If he's scum, he used it on FoU because millers in general get stronger abilities to compensate for being millers.
2) NJW's scumhunting interactions have felt to me like they didn't have much basis or motivation behind them, and there doesn't seem to be a huge amount of investment in them either. His defense and rebuttal has been quite good, But I still have lingering dissatisfaction with the way our interaction on Day 1 ended. I just don't see there being proper suspicion spread evenly, if that makes sense. What I see instead is hyper-focused suspicion in short spurts. It feels like the way scum artificially force themselves to hunt. The biggest problem to me is still that his Day 1 accusations just were not thought fully through, and he stuck to his guns all the way until the beginning of today. I'm very aware that this is a very emotional and unreliable reason for a hammer, but again, it's what I've got.
I really hate that my reasons look even to myself like really shitty ones, but I'm going to go with what I've got here, and hope that I'm right to have my current suspicions.
PPE: and NJW posted and confirmed that yeah, it was a copy. though it was a far fancier one than I thought it was.
my headspace still says that it's Lidku + (someone that used a very strong abiilty) because it just makes sense to make the weaker ability holder perform the kill, and NJW just listed off their ability as a very strong one. but.... ugh.
gotta commit. going with my first instinct. voting NJW.