I am inclined to believe e.
I’m not quite sure why others don’t. I need to reread to suss that out but I have to work and stuff first.
It’s the timing.
Which is more likely— town jumped the claim order because they didn’t want any more claims to happen than necessary or scum jumped the claim order to avoid being backed into a corner and to give their cop claim more cred?
But if there are town who make his role unlikely/impossible, they’d say something, right?
I believe we can look at this in a little more detail now that claims are through.
EFHW was 1-shot doctor, which has to be "E".
Assuming e! is telling the truth and is 1-shot cop, this can be either a second "E" or "C" (doesn't really matter which... I'll just say "C").
Masons likely means "M".
So as long as claims are all true town, and that scum all claimed VT, this should mean we're at ECMTTT, which gives a 1-shot strongman and a roleblocker.
If e is lying scum, then that's only EMTTTT, which is still 1-shot strongman and a roleblocker. But with those roles, e wouldn't know if there were 2 town roles (as per current claim/assumption in this case) or 3 town roles (which give the same scum roles). By him claiming cop, he either pushes town up to a claimed 3 roles (no change to assumed scum powers), or up to a claimed 4 roles... which would push his theoretical scum team up to a full strongman instead of 1-shot.
Would scum (team, or e alone if he's acting independent of team plans) risk us believing they have a full strongman, over a 1-shot? Does it make much difference in how we react to them? I think the only difference would be the one comment after LL died N1:
The other thing is the LaLight kill N1. It has "trying to avoid the Doctor target" written all over it. However... that would only be a concern if scum doesn't have a full Strongman. That means that there are at most three non-T letters in the setup. And we already have
E - EFHW
M - MiX/Didds
E/C - Swowl
There isn't room for another Cop.
We now know Swowl isn't E/C... he's VT. I think this was another exercise in futility. But I've typed it out, so I'm posting it. Maybe someone else will see some of this differently. But I don't think it gives us any more info. I think in any of these cases, e could still pull this move as scum. I don't think it puts him in any more danger of getting caught.