I had this post half drafted at work and I'm gonna post it anyway.
Mina – I’ve already said most of these things before, but my own thoughts are that I hope you’ll vote correctly for Mala as scum. I know that you’ve had some paranoia on us; but I know that our play has been from town and I trust that you will see that overall, and recognise that the things which may have pinged you also make sense coming from me/CES as town. I was surprised that you were bothered by any aspects of our claim, given that it has influenced my play so significantly throughout the game (Day 1 frustrations about us being scumread, conflicts with CES about how best use our role, my Day 2 opinions on claims, my Day 3 conviction on Medea upon Katsuki's flip and Toasty’s claim, my Day 3 conflict over whether to vote a player I think is town just because it gives more information about the player I think is scum). And given how much I would have had to invent (our thoughts and reasons for each protection, the stuff in the neighbourhood on N1), and given that I can't see why we as scum would claim at all to get our scumreads lynched, when it just puts us in a 1v1 position and more in line for lynch ourselves.
I think notsci is probably Mala’s partner, based on his play and the reasons CES has given, although I am a bit surprised at some of the interactions/choices they’ve made (I don’t know if I’ve ever seen scum defend each other so strongly, if it was me I think I’d feel uncomfortable doing that as scum and would prefer to have some distance), and Ghato has done some weird stuff during the game (their tunnelling case on Mina, which in my eyes amounted to ‘she
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And you know, I was semi-reluctant to post this anyway (before what Mina just said) because I feel like every time I post my thoughts I get called scummy for them and I feel like that is going to happen with this. But then, if I post nothing then you don't know what I'm thinking and then my reads and actions will make no sense. So what else am I meant to do?!
- Fenchurch