To paraphrase our PT, on July 9th at a little after 3 pm, Deimos went, "yoyo what up gang".
On Friday July 10th at a little after 8 pm, I went, "So is this a masonry?
I'm gonna treat it as a masonry.
On that note I'm a worthless role since I'm Loved whose Loved is disabled when I am at two or fewer votes from a lynch (so when at L-2 or L-1 I don't have the Loved ability, making my ability literally worthless)." (It should be noted that,
at the time
, I had completely missed the section about the auction power due to it being below the roles section so I didn't even realize I
had
an auction power until Deimos specifically asked me about it and I rechecked my role PM to notice it, as noted below.)
On Saturday shortly after 1:30 am, Deimos asked me why I am treating it like a masonry, wanting to know what I was basing that assumption off of, asking me why I wasn't worried that it could be just a 'hood and me giving my role to scum.
Deimos then quoted my post in the masonry, then went, ">Questions if this is a masonry
>Assumes it is a masonry
>Reveals role while complaining about its worthlessness
You must know how unnatural and LAMIST this progression appears".
He then went, "if that's your role I assume there is some other role in the game that interacts with it, but I don't know what it would be".
And then he went, "Pls confirm in your next post if you do consider your role mostly useless or if there is an element to it that you consider significant and have conveniently omitted."
And shortly thereafter (by this time being around 2:30 am having spent an hour typing the series of posts above), he posted, in the PT, the Captain Hook capturing Tinkerbell image, the exact same one he would open the game with. Except instead of just the image, he had above it text: "Call me Captain Hook because I am about to catch this title fairy".
Saturday, some time after 3:30 pm, I answered his "why treat this as a masonry" question with, "Well, I'm town, my role is absolutely worthless outside of having access to this topic, so I assume my real power role is access to this topic." In that same post, responding to the same post's question of worrying if I was claiming to scum, I went, "Well, are you scum? I do not think you are, and because I'm town, that'd make this a masonry.
"
I then quoted his 'please confirm' post and responded, "My role is literally, 'You are Loved. Your role does not work when you are two votes or fewer away from being lynched.' Loved is a role where you require one more vote to be lynched than the default, so because my Loved status is disabled when I am at L-2, L-1, or L-0, it means my role is a glorified VT, outside of having access to this PT.
Thus, my assumption that this PT is my real power."
That same Saturday, after 4:30 pm, Deimos posted, "the reason I asked you the follow-up question is 'cause I thought the only world where town opens with such willing ignorance of this being a neighborhood--which it is--and roleclaims, is if they're fakeclaiming/making an incomplete claim and are reaction testing to see if I play along. I even added a negative connotation to the option of admitting a fakeclaim by including the word 'conveniently', to try and sway scum to run with this full claim nonsense. So now I think you're even scummier."
Deimos then quoted my 'well are you scum?' post and went, "This is such a terrible answer. You had no reason to think I am town at the time you roleclaimed. And this is a neighborhood, not a masonry. The difference is in whether the mod has confirmed our alignments to each other."
He then summarized that one of my powers was the PT, the other was useless, asking me why not claim the audition power while I was at it.
Sunday, almost exactly a day later (at near 4:30 pm, but slightly before), I quoted Deimos's post explaining his follow-through question, responding, "Well, you are not EXACTLY wrong on that: I basically pioneered The Mason Gambit, claiming masons as neighbors, and I have good reasons to run it.
When I claim mason as a neighbor, I usually don't expect the mason claim to hold indefinitely. But I claim it for a combination of reasons.
1: If my assumption of this being a masonry is correct, that it contains no scum, it can bait the scum into wasting their nightkills on a slot they would normally never waste a nightkill on.
2: If my assumption of this being a masonry is wrong, that it contains scum, I can bait the scum into revealing themselves. If I continue to live days after claiming mason, and/or my masonbuddy just goes along with the claim blindly, it's usually a sign that they're scum who let me claim mason with them as a matter of convenience because if anyone would take the fall from it, it'd be me, not them. A win-win scenario for scum.
3: If the above doesn't happen, then the odds are fairly good that the masonbuddy is actually town.
4: I am known for being somewhat audacious as town, Refuging In Audacity, and claiming masons inthread allows me to reaction-test the rest of the town.
So you're not exactly wrong. Treating this masonry as a masonry IS a reaction test. It's just also something that I happen to believe to be true: I DO think this topic is a masonry, for multiple reasons. As I said, my role is literally worthless outside of the neighborhood, so it makes sense if the neighborhood is the true power of my role. Thus, a masonry.
And beyond that, you DIDN'T react as scum would. I've never seen scum, in reaction to me treating a neighborhood as a masonry, become suspicious, become paranoid, be confused, be startled, have no clue what's going on in my head...but that reaction is something that is perfectly natural for a town player to have."
I then quoted Deimos asking about my audition bonus, and explained, "I completely missed that part of my PM.
I did not see there WAS an audition bonus. I was going to check my role PM, 'cause I was sure there was not any and was going to say, '...I do not have any?', but as it turns out, I am a moron and missed it before; it IS there, it is just that it is after the two profile parts.
My audition bonus is to keep my role enabled when at L-2, L-1, or L-0. Meaning I need to have that audition bonus to have my role actually be a role, it's otherwise completely worthless outside of this topic."
On Monday, around 9 am, Deimos bluntly told me that even if I townread him he had no townread on me and thus wouldn't go along with the mason claim.
Near 4 pm, he asked me if I have ever been a neighbor as scum.
He then quoted me saying my role was literally worthless, and went into detail about, as far as he could tell, "this is the extent of the reasoning you had for outright claiming to me, which I continue to think very weak.
But I am fairly surprised you did not notice your audition bonus, and suspect that to be a slight towntell. And this meta of never having fakeclaimed mason as scum is pretty compelling."
Then on Tuesday, at close to 10:30 am, Deimos, now with his role result, posted in the PT "Well, I guess you're town then", owing to having the result telling him as much.
He then made a followthrough post where he said as much, that his audition power may not be particularly impressive compared to some, but
did
give him an investigation of my slot.
I could continue to paraphrase the content past this point if you insist, but this is the timeline of the relevant sections, which show his behind-the-scenes progression along with where he got the result and when.