Medicated Lain wrote:
Lying about being a cop can be a great motive to get the game moving in a new direction. It has happened in many games that I have been in, and generally been at the very least a great assistance in getting a topic to happen. When I had read up to the page where SH had claimed MOI was scum, SK was already tossing around the idea of MOI for executioner for a second night, and from what I had read of MOI, I didn't think he was even close to town, much less confirmed... see my ISO #26 for reasoning. Yet meanwhile, the feel of the game up to that point, was that MOI was confirmed town... something had to be done to get a view on MOI... and if he were scum, and SH simply had made a post saying "I think MOI is scummy," then not only would he be risking getting killed if MOI had been elected a second night, but I don't think anyone in this town would have listened at all. That's why the cop claim seemed like a really good idea to me, personally.
And honestly, if he were scum, why would he have backed down from the cop claim? Staying with that claim would bring in a question of sanity, and he would have stood a chance, albeit small, of having Zang questioned as executioner, and in judgement. He backed down, simply to explain why he pushed on MOI at all, which seems so town driven I just can't imagine what the people who are actually town involved in this are really thinking. Give SH one more ISO, and tell me this doesn't make sense folk!
In the end, it certainly isn't worth an investigation on a townie to clear SH, I don't believe that's the answer. But rather, looking at the situation logically, and at least first testing data that involves a guilty cop result, we can better deduce if we are killing a townie or scum. Because if quil is indeed scum, do you really see him pushing SH's death this hard?
This dude knew what he was talking about ^^