In his last response to me, chairs actually agreed with my outrageous suggestion!!
I mean, what, wait a minute, let me read that again:
So you're saying that Awaclus getting quick-hammered (within 36 hours of game start), and then flipping as town, would have been one of the nice outcomes that would have suited you quite well?
Yes - I don’t care for awaclus’s meta at all and a li feel like lynching him d1 is the best way to avoid the argument every day about whether we lynch him, which is what most games I’ve played with him end up doing. I also think it would have exposed a mafia member
So chairs is agreeing with my suggestion that he thinks town!Awaclus being mis-lynched early on day 1 would have been an outcome that suited him quite well. That is an outrageous suggestion he has just agreed to. I mean, surely you only
want to see a town member lynched if you actually think that player is detrimental and a liability to the town effort.
The reasons he gives are:
Town1. He wants to avoid having an argument every day about whether or not to lynch Awaclus.
Town2. He thinks if town!Awaclus had been hammered then the hammerer would probably have been scum.
Reason 2 here seems reasonable, and consistent with what chairs said a while back.
Reason 1 (the primary reason?) just seems really weak.
Now let's consider things from a scum!chairs perspective. The reasons are far stronger:
Scum1. Awaclus (and maybe DatSwan) are probably the biggest dangers to the scum team* (unless Awa/DS are scum themselves of course). So lynching Awaclus or DatSwan is a priority for scum!chairs. And veteran chairs knows that Awaclus' playstyle will likely make some of us newbies to want to vote for him.
Scum2. If town!Awaclus had been hammered, then the biggest suspicion would have fallen on the hammerer (at least, chairs has said that's what he thinks would happen). Scum!chairs knows of course that the hammerer would be town. Two town lynches, great.
Scum3. Scum!chairs knows that an early day 1 hammer means the doctors have very little material on which to base their reads. Doctors having good reads seems pretty important to town's effort in this set-up.
In conclusion:
chairs says that an early day 1 Awaclus mis-lynch would have been nice.
Town!chairs has some pretty weak reasons for wanting an early day 1 Awaclus mis-lynch.
Scum!chairs has some pretty powerful reasons for wanting an early day 1 Awaclus mis-lynch.
*Footnote:
If you don't agree that Awa/DS are probably the biggest threats to scum!chairs, consider how the other two veterans (LaLight and Hydrad) introduced themselves:
my reads are usually wrong
I'm not the strongest players so scum usually don't night kill me