Ok. Well my plan was subverted by a very weird setup. Here is my thought process:
Upon seeing my almost useless role, I figured it would be best to massclaim. My role is designed to die, so I did not really care if I died earlier than I "should" given my ability. If I draw the nightkill either by protecting someone or simply drawing attention away from a player with a better grasp of the game I think I have accomplished my job.
Additionally, a mass claim creates two groups Power Roles and Vanilla Townies that make sorting by process of elimination much easier. I believe that most mini/micro normal games can have a fairly significant EV shift in town's favor through early mass claim. At the very least you are forcing scum to commit to a lie. They will either have to lie about their role, or about their targets. In some cases, they will lie about both. A mass claim can almost immediately catch a scum that chooses to lie about both. By forcing a scum to commit to one group, you can essentially guarantee that scum will be grouped in two ways:
Group 1
{PR pool, 1 scum}
{Vanilla pool, x scum}
or
Group 2
{PR pool, no scum}
{Vanilla pool, 1 scum + x scum}
If two scum decide to claim PR, it creates a massive setup balance that draws a lot of scrutiny. Most scum will not do this. It is possible, but almost certainly leads to a scum lynch on the day of mass claim. In my experience, most scum will claim according to Group 1. Normally, games will have 2-4 power roles. Typically, they have 3. Micro games I believe typically have 3 roles. That seems like a high concentration given the amount of players in the game, but scum in Micro games only need 3 mislynches which is really not that hard to achieve. In my earlier post requesting a massclaim, I hypothesized that there were 2 more town power roles other than myself. I denoted this in a crumb by deliberately misspelling 2 words. It IS possible that another town PR has not claimed and is just lying low. I give you until the end of day to claim if that is the case. Otherwise, all other claims will be treated as immediate scum claims.
Applying my theory to this game, it appears we are dealing with Group 2. I know I am town and my role would be worthless if it did not have at least another town PR to protect. From that, I can deduce that Iconeum is town. I have no idea why my predecessor apparently lied about the role. I expect it is because he wanted to put it to use in the future rather than revealing it to the scum, but I cannot be sure. I currently see no benefit in doing that, and well, the I can't put the cat in the bag now. This leaves me with the following pools based on game mechanics
alone
.
Town pool {Iconeum, gobbledygook}
Scum pool {Datisi, Klick, Lil Uzi Vert, Luca Blight, Tchill13}
This means that there are 2 scum in 5 players. I will be solely focusing my efforts on examining the players in the scum pool. If Iconeum is scum, he can have the win. This game would be stupid as essentially a 2/7 mountainous, which I believe is scumsided.
I will not really have enough time to do my normal schtick until the weekend, but these are my thoughts currently. I still have not read a single page of this game other than a few specific posts directed at me.
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