I reread the game but not super critically and only really focused on Maximum Spin, hector13, and Knightwing64. For the most part nothing I came across points to any of these players being teamed with each other. hector13 complaining to Maximum Spin about super secret unclaimed abilities on Day 2 comes the closest to being an unnatural team interaction, but I could just as easily see it as being genuine as well so it's a wash either way. Knightwing64 has interactions with Maximum Spin and hector13 but for the most part Knightwing64 just acts confused most of the time and there isn't really anything to read into there.
I don't have any objections to hector13's play on reread. Maximum Spin's justifications for his votes on FoU and NJW2000 feels a bit artificial and a little disingenuous given what we know now on Day 3 although a lot of this suspicion is motivated by being forced to suspect him due to the game not being over yet. Knightwing64 feels weakest of the three. I think Knightwing64 voting me is the first time Knightwing64 has actually voted during this game. Although this is marginally higher effort Knightwing64 than self-destructing Knightwing64 the actions he's taken so far feel more like checking off boxes than genuine. There's also just something about Knightwing64's reasoning for selecting his befriend targets that's been rubbing me the wrong way. Does it make sense for Knightwing64 to pick TricMagic and ToonyMan? ToonyMan on N2 makes sense at least. Knightwing64's town self-destructions are powered by a powerful need to be read as town but an inability for people to read him that way. Does he select TricMagic on N1 instead of somebody who could even more powerfully advocate for him, like a ToonyMan or a Maximum Spin? Is TricMagic really who he picks on N1?
After my reread of the game, I feel like the likely teams I'm facing are:
Knightwing64
Maximum Spin/hector13 but only because if it's not Knightwing64 then it's probably Maximum Spin but he'd have to have a partner and I don't think he teams up well with Knightwing64
And then after that all the remaining combinations are less and less probable.
In terms of testing the remaining possibilities, I think it starts with Knightwing64.
After that, if it's solo scum hector13, then he has to deal with Maximum Spin's revive and the revive Maximum Spin gave me so he's not in a great spot to win in the event of a Knightwing64 mislynch. If it's duo scum hector13/Maximum Spin then I lose the game and everybody wishes ToonyMan were here instead of me since he probably would've clutched it out. If it's somehow solo scum Maximum Spin then he kills hector13 in the night and then it's mostly down to a game of chance favoring Maximum Spin with coinflip lynches and whether Maximum Spin's ability gives me more revives or not.
Oh shit, I got so distracted by Jim's post that I forgot to say this important thing, though.
I believe I was the mafiakill target, not ToonyMan. My "middle" ability that I hadn't claimed makes me twins with ToonyMan. You can see this entry under "passive evasion" in the generator.
I didn't receive one of my own gifts so I have to assume there's another one floating around. I quested last night; I didn't receive a new power (there's only a 1-in-3 chance) but I would have been untargetable.
This also implies that, if Knightwing really did befriend ToonyMan, it should have hit me and he should have been told his action failed. Knightwing, were you?
I received an ability in the night about being a twin with Toony soooo… unless Jim was lying about what he received D2, Max’s claim is certainly possible.
Unless hector13 and Maximum Spin are on the same team and the twins thing is a lie Maximum Spin could not have performed the kill here. So I think I scratch off Maximum Spin as a potential target to vote today. Also he has revives so eliminating Maximum Spin will be difficult.
So yeah. Max can’t be solo scum since the OP says if an action requires a target it can’t be self-targeting, unless specified otherwise.
I think I only choose between Jim and KW today?
How many scum do you think there are left in the game? Is it a duo or solo scum?
On the other hand, If I did have a kill action, why would I claim to have visited them when they turn up dead?
Because if you claimed to target a living player then they should have gotten your alignment whispered into their ear and you'd have to explain why that didn't happen since you were busy nightkilling someone else.
Well, I already suspected Jim, so that doesn’t do much for me. I’m pretty sure Nim claimed to have a befriend ability, anybody confirmed to have gotten a message?
TricMagic is the only person who could have received my message but he died on the night he would have received it.