Here’s the thing about faust: scum or town, his PR reads are genuine. He genuinely spotted the masonry and he genuinely thought Swowl had crumbed cop. I’m willing to take that as a given just based on the genuineness of his interactions and posts around those topics.
scum!faust is way more likely to be looking for PR crumbs, so there’s that.
town!faust is more likely to share those reads with the class, especially if he thinks they solve the game, so there’s that.
Outing the masons, as many have said, seems NAI— once scum!faust knows they exist it doesn’t matter if he tells or not, they’re just ICs waiting to happen and telling it early gives some town cred (somehow, I know this seems like a contradiction with my saying it’s NAI, but I think at the time it did seem towny).
But I get stuck on the cop thing. The town narrative is straightforward: town!faust is skeptical of e’s cop claim because he thinks there’s another cop about to claim, and he’s said as much, which would make e’s claim a pre-emptive counterclaim, a perfectly cromulent scum move. And a cop and a 1-shot cop is at this point unlikely to impossible (I suck at understanding this set up so someone else can clarify which). So scum!faust rejects e’s cop claim out of the gate but then comes around on it when Swowl claims VT. faust genuinely claims to have no insight on whether e would choose to fake-investigate a partner or a towny, which is fair.
Ok, so that’s town!faust, it all seems to make sense. Here’s scum!faust and town!e:
Remember I said his reads are genuine, so he still thinks Swowl is going to claim cop. Suddenly, e claims cop. That’s not the cop claim he prepared for and he’s already committed to the Swowl cop read. E has just fingered his partner. Unexpected! Not good! Now he can go all in and bus, which is the go-to scum move here, but scum is playing a good game so far. They only need a couple more misexiles to win. And e’s claim was kind of a mess. So faust decides to see if he can’t push town to disbelieve the cop claim and exile e. Sure it only buys a day and then they’re still coming after iguana, but now the (possibly full and lying) cop is out of the way, town’s got two more scum to catch and few chances, and faust looks fine because the town narrative (above) checks out. He doesn’t know what Swowl’s going to claim at this point, but it behooves him to stick with the previously stated cop read because he knows, as town, that he would still be believing it even if, as scum, he now knows it’s unlikely to be right.
And just for fun, scum!faust and scum!e:
Faust tells his partners in the QT that he’s pretty sure Swowl is a cop and investigated EFHW. He may have investigated others as well, including possibly them. They know a mass claim is a strong possibility day 2. So they hatch a plan. Step 1, NK EFHw so Swowl’s results are less useful and seem more fake. Step 2, get in front of the cop claim with a pre-emptive counterclaim. Ok, says e, I’ll claim cop but what should I claim as my result? One of the dead townies or masons? No, they’ll see right through that. What about a guilty result on a townie? That just creates a 1v1 and the math is bad for us, especially if Swowl has a result on one of us. Clear a partner? No, super bad if Swowl investigated either of us. But incriminate a partner? It’s crazy, but crazy enough to work— unless Swowl investigated e you get an IC. But what if Swowl did investigate e, or there’s some other cop or inconsistency and it falls apart? Well, let’s pile crazy daring on crazy daring. Faust will tell town the whole plan and create so much WIFOM that they’ll be able to ride the confusion out to victory.
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