Even though I started out with a null/townish read on shraeye D1, everything he has done since has just further and further driven him into scum territory, with the big capper being this alleged "I didn't counterclaim the cop" nonsense. I am willing to bet the game on shraeye not playing that badly as town (also because I can combine it with a million other reasons too).
Why could this not be the correct play as town?
Why, as the cop, do you go after someone's partner? You would have to be 100% that you have caught the scum team (without an investigation, btw) due to a counter-claim.
shraeye claims that he thought ADK's partner would be uncatchable. No way town thinks that. Give us the chance, man! I have literally never heard a town player argue that having the first player flip scum
decreases the odds town wins.
If shraeye was the cop, he should have tried to get ADK lynched yesterday. I mean, he should have claimed. Then we lynch ADK (and by god, I would have made sure we lynched ADK)*, and we've caught scum and can read for interactions! That's best-case scenario! The cop catches scum! Why in the
world would you wait to counter? When you already know one of the scum? It's horrible play.
Shraeye's reasoning is entirely empty/horrible/nonsensical. See above.
*as far as being gone at deadline, I had a real-life positive emergency (I was offed $$$ in exchange for my time, some people call those things jobs) and was unexpectedly gone. I didn't even have time to post in advance in the V/LA thread, so I understand that by the rules and respect we have going in this community my disappearance is open to question under the idea I am scum lying about it. But I'm town who dropped the ball due to real life, and you deserve to know why.