Taking a look at each night's respective deaths:
Mastin/AP N1
Jal N2
PV/Fitz/bork/PC N3
Bacde N4
No-one N5
<presumably 1 scum team left at this point>
DGB N6
Viomi N7
- A missing kill N2. As far as possible reasons that kills were stopped at this point in the game, we have Mara's 1-shot BP, an Orange RB and an Orange doc/commuter (potentially).
- A missing kill N4. We know Rubi didn't protect or commute here, so the 1-shot BP (potentially) and the RB.
- Two missing kills N5. The 1-shot BP (again, potentially) and Rubi's commute.
I think The Goat is essentially confirmed at this point. I refuse to believe that I'd still be alive otherwise, and unless you think I'm an unkillable red-mafia watcher then you probably should too.
Guille is obviously an arsonist/bomber/whatever thing, too, given that there's no other explanation for his kills at all and he correctly nailed Rubicon's ability to prevent NKs on himself. I don't know if he's more likely to be town aligned or third party (balance-wise, 'cause I'm terrible at that). If he is a third party then he poses a pretty significant threat at this point; in this scenario he likely wouldn't only be a 3-shot and would have had the last few nights to prime people and he could potentially blow everyone to hell tonight and win, but that might just be paranoia cropping given that the game seems pretty close in hand now *. Very safe to assume he isn't the last red, in any case.
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I'm not feeling overtly preferential between Mac and Nero as the red. I guess I'm leaning Nero right now. I know I've been calling for Mac's head pretty loudly for a lot of this game, but it's starting to feel like he's.. I don't know, actually trying to help I guess? I feel like I felt a strong genuineness from him when he was appealing to me the other day, and that has made me question my scum-read ever since too.
* Scum's only choice has been to kill off players other than myself and Goat (he could
potentially
kill Goat tonight going into LyLo if we mislynch today, though he'd be revealing himself to me if he did and lose any chance of turning me against the other party), and try to pull off something where he turns one of the two players in 3-way LyLo with him against the other. Overthinking and choking in LyLo is far from unheard of, but I think we can pull this off pretty easily, assuming I'm right about Goat/Guille and bar the last scum having a powerrole that turns the game on its head somehow (both of which are insignificantly likely as far as I can tell).
Also,
Mac
, can you share some of Nero's red connections you found that made you decide he's the lynch for today?
It's times like this..