Phone posting, so please excuse any typos or odd spacing.
Faust came back. He confirmed my thought for me. Datswan was also thinking along the same lines, it seems.
The Reporter needs to claim.
Funnily enough, gkrieg’s towel toss made even more sense than we thought. Reporter will lose this game unless Town purposely slows down and lynches the entire neighborhood before the remaining scum. Faust confirmed that if we win with neighbors alive, Reporter loses.
I propose that the Reporter claim, further narrowing the non-neighborhood scum POE to two. We can lynch there and hopefully take out the traitor. That forces the final scum to shoot in the neighborhood for a few reasons. If we missed they can’t shoot themselves, it also assures them there is no survivor to worry about.
The one hitch is if the reporter thinks scum will just shoot them out of spite. But that seems unlikely when scum can still use gkrieg’s plan once they have a name. It just doesn’t work so well when we have the POE so narrowed down and their numbers are reduced.
If the reporter doesn’t claim, we can just treat that player as scum — it is not a mislynch so no worries. As the reporter, that’s not a good thing, right?
So that’s my suggestion. It’s one of the three non-neighbors, so they can easily sort this.