Ok, it's POE time:
Off the table:
joth: cannot challenge himself
Glooble: I am town, and joth doesn't want to lynch me anyway
Galzria: the only way he makes sense as scum is if MiX is also scum and he's taking a huge gambit that I don't think Galz would take. Much better to let MiX get lynched.
MiX: if Galz is town he's town
faust: claimed tracker, no counterclaim
That leaves:
ADK
Space
gKrieg
chairs
ari
DatSwan
EFHW
I'm inclined to believe this claim. But what was so horrible about the Joseph wagon?
I believe the part where he's promoter. But maybe not the part where he's town...
Why on earth would scum promoter claim right now?
Why wouldn't they?
1) If mix is town there's no motivation for them to claim and stop you from picking him 2) If mix is scum this irrevocably ties galz and mix together, and if one of them is caught the other one does. It's a huge risk just to stop you from picking mix, when it's pretty clear that if you did pick mix, you would be the one lynched anyway.
This post makes me want to take ADK off the table. I don't think scum!adk points this out. It's way two tempting to just let them duke it out and hope joth challenges Galz or MiX.
ari is an interesting question. I was scumreading him day one, as was joth, but mcmcsalot thought he was just newb town, and I'm inclined to trust mcmcs reads. Nothing jumps out for me either way on a reread. He spent a lot of the end of day two half-heartedly voting for inactive or less active players (chairs, EFHW) which feels scummy to me but could just be flailing town. ari is still a viable challenge from where I'm standing, I guess.
Space: mcmc thought they were scummy based on reply #355- reading it over, I really disagree, it's verbose, but Space just tends to be verbose for the sake of precision, mcmc made it seem like it was trying to obscure or manipulate and I really don't see that. The ensuing discussion from that accusation is a big chunk of the overall Space content. This post is a little defensive for my taste, especially given there wasn't even a wagon on them:
Note that my post that mcmc thinks is so scummy did another useful pro-town thing: it boosted the signal on faust's comment about the possibility of a quick-lynch before the Gladiator deadline kicks in, and obtained clear mod confirmation that it's a viable plan, which avoids uncertainty during the critical window at the start of D2.
I did also say that I don't think we should do any pre-planning around that till D2, but the idea itself was already accessible to scum, so it's not like I hurt our chances there. Furthermore, if it's being discussed at this level, a scum Gladiator has less excuse to say "oops, it didn't occur to me that we should hold out till deadline" if they come into the thread naming a second player. Same goes for avoiding a derp!town move.
Basically, I think it's pro-town to point out to whomever the gladiator is that it's a good idea to hold off and let town have some rapid start-of-D2 discussion before naming anyone else to the 1-v-1.
Defending MiX end of day two feels a little towny, if we assume MiX is town. Though its by no means exonerating.
I'm going to post this now I think then do the last four in another post because this is getting long.