We believe Scumhunter's cop claim is a scum bus on MoI. Our reason being that there's no way Scumhunter is cop with guilty on MoI, it makes no sense whatsoever. He has said in
this post that there are far better lynches than MoI and that he won't be pushing an MoI lynch today (bottom paragraph I believe). Furthermore, he lists MoI as a neutral read
here when a cop with a guilty would most certainly list him as a scum read. Yes he has a meaningless spat with Moi over a few points, but in the end it looks like a poorly crafted scum bus made to give MoI town cred.
We believe that scumhunter and MoI had this planned from the start. Scumhunter would lay down hints that he wasn't copping MoI with a guilty (hence the contradictions) and then argue with MoI a bit (scumhunter as scum would have had to have SOME backing to his claim) to make it more believable. Then scumhunter claims guilty on MoI, and they form a grandstand where they each self vote and demand that we choose between them. It does not matter who gets the vote because they will shoot a random townie. Then at night we MIGHT get the night kill, in which case the winner of the vote would die. Now we have Scumhunter attempting to push the execution onto Quilford. Note that by doing this he is not going for the person who he thinks is scum, and in the event that we're right, would be getting away with his mafia partner. And now MoI is following his buddy by voting Zang and saying that Quilford should be executed. You know why he wants Quilford executed now and not Scumhunter? Because he wants that extra two scum votes for scum night executioner.
MoI scores major scumpoints as he backtracks and says "oh no, I didn't mean that only me and scumhunter can execute, I mean that only we can die today".
We believe the Zang counterclaim with a guilty on Quilford. Zang, unlike scumhunter, put Quilford down as most likely scum on his list of reads today. Quilford is on his own level of scumminess according to Zang which matches up with what we might expect from town cop. We are very skeptical of Quilford's miller claim. You claim miller RIGHT FROM THE START, not conveniently when a cop has a guilty result on you. The ruckus in the game linked to by Quilford was caused by the miller claiming last long after everybody else. On the other hand, our suspicions for Scumhunter/MoI are much stronger than for Quilford. We also do not rule out the possibility all three are scum but on different groups (or one of them is a traitor).
We will therefore NOT support MoI for executioner and will only support a Day Executioner vote for implosion. Implosion is to execute Scumhunter, the night executioner, night executee, target of any town protective roles and Zang's investigation will be determined as follows:
Scumhunter flips sane cop:
- Night executioner: implosion.
- Executee: MoI.
- Protects: implosion.
- Zang investigates a player of his choice.
If Scumhunter is actually a sane cop, Zang was likely fakeclaiming or a paranoid cop and his investigations are of no value. In this situation, we support our strongest town read to execute the confirmed scum.
Scumhunter flips insane cop:
- Night executioner: Zang.
- Executee: jason.
- Protects: Zang.
- Zang investigates a player of his choice.
If Scumhunter is an insane cop, his investigation cleared MoI, and Zang is likely a sane (town) cop. We support him killing our strongest scum read.
Scumhunter flips paranoid cop:
- Night executioner: Zang.
- Executee: jason.
- Protects: Zang.
- Zang investigates MoI.
If Scumhunter is an insane or paranoid cop, his investigation on MoI was in good faith but useless. Same as before for Zang and jason, only that we would like to see MoI investigated by a likely sane cop.
Scumhunter flips town, but not cop:
- Night executioner: Zang.
- Executee: jason.
- Protects: Zang.
- Zang investigates MoI.
If Scumhunter fakeclaimed as town, he is an idiot and deserves a place on everybody's blacklist. The arguments are as in the paranoid cop case.
Scumhunter flips scum:
- Night executioner: Zang.
- Executee: MoI.
- Protects: Zang.
- Zang investigates a player of his choice.
If Scumhunter fakeclaimed as scum, Zang is likely a sane (town) cop, and we support him in killing MoI as this would confirm our bussing theory.