In post 943, RH9 wrote: In post 936, Prism wrote:You also put a lot of stock in the reports on myself in Cheeky. This is a correct logical process that leads to the right conclusion, but I don't want to make sure you don't miss another way to realize Margot was scum that last day: JK and cop simply can't coexist in this open setup, therefore she was scum by default in two different ways with the knowledge you had.
To be fair, I kind of noticed but I thought that she could argue back that I was Mafia because Cop is way easier to fake than Jailkeeper. I was actually surprised when she claimed Jailkeeper instead of Doctor, which would make sense as she could say that she saved CheekyTeeky. I thought that if she claimed Doctor, she could go on about finally protecting somebody. To be fair, I feel like she did a good job claiming a role which would not coexist with Cop. I feel like that if I was Mafia, I would have definitely claimed a easily fakeclaimable role like Doctor which can be easily justified and produce fake information for. Also, I did find it a good effort on her part in claiming that I was roleblocked when she could easily have said that she protected CheekyTeeky. And really, 'protecting' would imply that she is either Doctor or Jailkeeper. I feel like she did such a good job that I only realised the truth in Day 4, through PoE. And really is Jailkeeper basically Combined Doctor Roleblocker?
I claimed Jailkeeper not just because I knew we were in a column three setup, and would have to come up with a story as to why noone had claimed another Town power role.
More importantly, in my mind, I did it because it made the stakes very high. One thing I didn't like about where I had found myself was that the play had felt very automatic. That's why d3 had finished so quickly.
I needed to be able to come in immediately on d4 with something big that not only suggested I was innocent, but made players question their entire approach to the game up until that point. I kind of approached it as "I am not just accusing RH9 of being scum, I'm trying to accuse everyone of almost throwing the game". And I felt like the second half of that was actually a much easier case to make, because I genuinely think that d3 especially was bad, and I think the Connor elimination was a stroke of good luck. If I managed to successfully make that case, without being clear that was the case I was trying to make, I've just convinced Town of something that is genuinely true, and therefore seem much more trustworthy with respect to everything else I'm trying to say
I think my job was made much harder by the fact that the two people I was convincing were both SEs. I think too it makes sense that Prism got the closest to falling for it, given that they seemed pretty annoyed with themself for the d3 play. Cheeky had played quite well all game, and making them feel responsible for a confused d4 was very unlikely to work.
