I don't see focus on preventing votes on web, can you help me see it as you do?
I mean, here is what just happened.
web: "please lynch me so you guys can lynch Tric next".
Tric: "look at Fallacy [quotes Fallacy wanting to lynch web], Fallacy must be scum!"
web: "we're not lynching Fallacy"
web: "I'm voting myself so we can lynch you, Tric"
Also Tric: "hey web if we don't lynch Fallacy who else could we possibly lynch??"
All this before Tric tries to find out anything about anyone.
Now, I see two logical reasons for why web would act this way.
Explanation 1: web is a jester.
Explanation 2: web is town and we need to lynch him and lynch Tricmagic next
There are multiple reasons why I think Explanation 2 is far more likely.
Number 1, jester is a stupid role and I don't believe it is Spin's flavor of madness.
Number 2, Tricmagic seems scummy as hell to me this game, concerned about self-preservation and not so much about digging up the truth.
Number 3, it would make total sense for a scum player to be protected from town lynching them. Especially if that protection requires town to lynch one of their own to break it.
In fact, I am voting
webadict now to set an example. We shouldn't hammer, but I do believe we should take webadict at face value here.
Now about converting.
Note 1: I never said "cult", it could be mafia recruiter or whatever.
Note 2: at this point it is only a hypothesis and I don't want a long discussion about it to distract from the above.
This is something I think might be the case, since Spin was saying on Discord that Fallacy "was promised to start out as town, but could possibly convert to scum later".
In addition, it would explain to me why a scum player would get such a massive spotlight aimed at them as Tric did here. It gives them 1 guaranteed night action, but a normal mafiakill doesn't really compensate for being the obvious target. However, if that is 1 guaranteed player conversion, it would also create an interesting game balance. If we're forced to lynch 1 town, we would at best be left with 6 Town and 2 scum tomorrow.
So yes, I obviously think it matters who we lynch today.