There were a couple of minor things, but the main reason was because of why T3 did what he did.
I think we can all safely agree that T3's claiming of a PR was intended to force a CC and give his scum buddy a target for the NK. I think Mason was a bit of an odd choice, given that we know that there can be no other PRs in game if someone is claiming mason. If there is one mason, then the town PRs are exactly a pair of masons.
Now, nobody did directly CC, but some people removed themselves from the pool by acting as if they had the slightest reason to believe T3s claim - if they were a PR, any PR at all, they would have known instantly that T3 was lying. 4 people removed themselves from the pool thusly - Roden had already done so prior to T3s claim with his earlier speculation, and confirmed it with
359; the other 3 were Meg with
352; GeneralWu with the 3rd line of
362 and yourself, catboi, with
351.
Out of those 3, the first, and the most surprising, was you. Why do I say surprising? Because a few hours prior, you had this to say:
In post 330, catboi wrote:you should avoid openly speculating on who is/is not a power role in-thread. Doing so, in and of itself, is giving information away to the mafia, because you have effectively just outed yourself as vanilla town.
In other words, you know that outting yourself as VT was bad for town, and yet that's exactly what you did:
In post 351, catboi wrote:UNVOTE:
If that is actually true I am rather annoyed at him bluffing a scumread on you but it means things make a lot more sense to me and I have an opportunity to fully reset my reads.
Not only that, but you were the first to do so clearly do so (with the arguable exception of Wus "is this for real" comment) and I think it was your example that to at least one other, Meg, doing so as well - given Meg had previously said "I agree with Val that shwinn should weigh in next" and came in with their VT-soft, if you want to call it that, straight after your own.
Now, it's possible you are a VT, and you did just slip up in the shock of T3s selection of the Mason as the PR to fake claim, which honestly was unexpected; but of all the slots in the game, you were the last I expected to give T3 what he obviously wanted, and it seems to me it was your influence that led to the smaller PoE we have now -if there was any scum co-ordination behind that play by T3, it was either with shwinn, in that he was told to stay out the thread a little while to give the chance for the CCs to come in before the "hold up, I'm no mason" reveal; or with you - dropping that little nugget and getting the ball rolling with that little mass VT claim until I popped back in to shut it down with
363.
To your credit, however, I have seen play since that makes it less likley you are T3s partner - the insistence that myself and in particular shwinn can't be T3s partner is going to restrict your options tomorrow; and I think scum!you just hammers T3 before now.
In my mind, the likely pool of T3 scum partners are Shwinn, StD and you, in that order.