Not going to jump to the same conclusions I did last game about such a mission... but very interesting.
I don't remember what conclusions you jumped to last game. Could you elaborate?
I saw someone propose a very similar mission to this. I was immediately very skeptical, thinking it was a bad play. But then the person proposing the mission voted it down and I figured it was a trap of sorts, to see if anyone off mission would vote yes.
Here's the issue:
Suppose one is a rebel off mission in a proposal like this. Then look at the following scenarios:
- Jim is a spy and the mission contains a spy. In this scenario you should obviously vote no. It's the simplest one. You don't know you're in it of course, but that's not the point.
- Jim is a rebel and the mission contains a spy. Still simple. You should vote no. The only real reason to vote yes is if you think there are at least two spies on mission, who might goof up and both fail, but that's kind of a risk. You should probably vote no though, usually.
- Jim is a rebel and the mission is clean. This is first interesting case. This is what you're probably thinking if you vote yes. But look carefully. Jim is a rebel, so that's one rebel. The mission is clean so that's three more rebles. And of course you're an off mission rebel, so you're clean. That's five rebels accounted for. Out of four. Er... As you can see, this scenario can't happen.
- Jim is a spy and the mission is clean. This is the other interesting case. Here, you should actually vote yes, but the scenario is really weird. It's not impossible, but it's a very WIFOM spy play.
So if you are an off mission rebel, it's generally a really bad idea to vote yes - either it was proposed by a spy, or there's a spy on it, or both, and you know that for certain. Even if you're on mission, voting yes is a little weird - you need to trust an extra person more than you should otherwise need to, or believe he's a bluffing spy.
This thus makes me very suspicious of Walrus. One of the people involved in that mission is a spy, but you voted it up. Why?