I will be V/LA for much of this weekend. (I should still be able to get a few posts in, but might be missing for much longer than normal.)
OK, here's my claim.
I am a Town Alien, without modifiers. (Wiki page, for players unfamiliar with the role:
Alien (role).) This is a combined Rolestopper and Roleblocker; it prevents any other actions affecting the target, but it also prevents the target using any actions.
On Night 1, I targeted Tayl0r Swift. With two scum still alive, and lots of townies around, it seemed unlikely that I would be able to stop a kill by blocking the player performing it. Additionally, players who look scummy often turn out to be power roles. So I decided to protect Tayl0r from the nightkill instead; I thought she would be the most likely choice of target (being very townish and somewhat active), and was also unlikely to be a power role. (Unfortunately, she did turn out to be a power role, and her night action was lost as a result.)
On Night 2, I targeted ItalianoVD, who was the only confirmed townie at that point; same reasoning, trying to stop the kill. (Because Tayl0r had claimed to be a power role at this point, I couldn't protect her because it would cause her action to fail again; I just had to hope that scum would go for ItalianoVD rather than her.) This is the reason I was so anxious on Day 2 to make sure that ItalianoVD was definitely confirmed town, without any potential for a missed action; I obviously wanted to protect the confirmed tonwie, but my role would prevent him confirming himself a second time, so it was important that the first protection went through. It also had the bonus of increasing the chance that scum shot Italiano, thus increasing the chance that I would stop the kill.
Also on Night 2, I was targeted by Walter with a Friendly Neighbour action, confirming him to me as town (this is a 100% modconfirmation with no way to fake it). I don't know his exact role for certain (e.g. for all I know he could be a JOAT with a Friendly Neighbour shot), although anything other than Town Friendly Neighbour Neighbour would be a surprise given the claims that have been made so far. I claimed this (in an intentionally misleadingly worded way, to avoid disclosing the existence of a second Friendly Neighbour to scum) in #
1570. Walter immediately posted #
1571, which I took to mean that he was letting me know that he had understood the real meaning behind my claim. I subsequently clarified in #[poat]1660[/post] that the Friendly Neighbour I was talking about in #1570 was not Italiano, but a second Friendly Neighbour.
On Night 3, there was only one scum left alive (assuming 10:3). My roleblock prevents, among other things, players killing. So assuming there's a death overnight (and there was), anyone I target with my ability can't possibly have performed the nightkill, and thus it must have been performed by someone else. I targeted Titus, so because the kill went through, it must have been performed by someone other than Titus, = Titus is not the last remaining scum. (I chose Titus because out of my PoE pool – Titus, Looker, Frogsterking – she was in the scummiest slot (thus a town confirmation would give the most information), and also she seemed like she'd be more valuable as a confirmed townie than Frogsterking or Looker would be.)
I should also talk somewhat about my strategy for the game. I've intentionally been playing to a different meta than my normal town or scum meta. The thing is that Alien is a very weak power role for town early on, but gets much more powerful when there's only 1 scum left. So, when I got the role, I had to contrive a way to outlive two scum without my role being discovered, without scum nightkilling me for other reasons, and without town eliminating me.
My solution to this issue was to play more honestly and openly than normal. That sounds like it should be a great thing as town, but there are lots of thoughts and ideas you have during a typical game that you can't really post (because they "look scummy", even though they aren't really). In a typical game, there are lots of things you think of, but then end up not posting, because you know you're going to get scumread for them. (To be clear, I normally won't post these regardless of whether I'm town or scum, although I'm much more likely to have these thoughts as town because I have less information then and thus am more likely to be off-the-mark.)
In this game, through day 1 and day 2, I adopted the strategy of simply posting these thoughts anyway, even if I couldn't see how it would help. The idea was that being open about my thoughts, even at the cost of looking scummy, would give people a logic-scum read on me but a gut-town read on me, meaning that small wagons on me would be frequently likely to form, but that they'd have trouble gathering momentum. That way, scum would assume that I would be a potential miselimination to bring into the late game, but town would never actually force me to a claim. It also had some advantage in reaction testing (in particular, I had a townread on Raya based on her actions towards me being almost identical to how I'd expect a townie to react, but I didn't think this read was strong enough to override the scumread on Raya from Nosferatu and Tayl0r who I had a stronger townread on; often my reads are bad, so I'm typically willing to sheep people who I townread and have strong reads of their own).