In post 3496, Tywin Lannister wrote:Almost: why do you keep saying 'scum Redirector' as if you already know the role and alignment? Why does it need to be scum that redirected town onto town? That makes literally no sense. In my view, it's probably a town Busdriver. Why they picked you or Fitz I have no idea, but scum directing a town cop onto another town makes no sense at all. Care to explain why you're so sure it's a scum Redirector and can't be a town Busdriver or something?
First let's not confuse the redirector with the Bus Driver.
Bus Driver switches two slots for each other. They target A & B causing all action on B to actually target A and vise versa.
Redirector though makes the action of A resolve on B.
A Town redirector thus gad no reason to redirect A (Comm in this case) anywhere, unless they thought he was Scum and ALSO scum read (or suspected) fitz. That way the TOWN mindset would be "if Comm is shooting someone he might as well shoot his own buddy".
Also, if it was a Town redirector and Comm came back with Vig as his result, the redirector should have claimed to prevent the Vig from claiming themselves.
Now a Scum redirector would KNOW Comm is telling the truth and IS a Town Role Cop. Gow best to utilize that info than to redirect his action (investigation) to a less active slot (thus Scum are suspicious of but won't waste a shot on) to try and figure out what Role they had, AS WELL AS make sure no matter who Comm targets isn't one of them.
So, they know Comm will investigate precisely the slot they redirected his action to = they're safe from his investigation, AND if he was to claim his result (which he did) they'd also know what role the inactive slot had.
Or scum might have suspected Comm for the SK or Vig himself, and they wanted him to shoot a Townie by redirecting his shot to said Town slot.
So, while a Scum BUS DRIVER doesn't make sense to Switch 2 Town slots for each other, a Scum REDIRECTOR does because they actually only redirect the action of a known slot to one they have no idea what it does.
