Alright, I didn't really want to claim until I had some kind of result. I think it's still probably the best play for me to not claim yet, except I don't want another big argument, so I'm going to go ahead and claim everything.
I am a Partial Governor. Each night I select a player to become Half-Lynchproof for the rest of the game. This means that if they are lynched, then the lynch will fail if they are town*. If a lynch fails because of this, then all Half-Lynchproof statuses are removed. Essentially, this is a like a Cop that costs a lynch to verify.
My original idea was to target a person I found pretty scummy and push their lynch hard the next day.. If I'm correct, great, and if not then I can claim them an IC at some point. However, the massclaim kind of messed that up, and during Night 1 I wasn't sure if I would have to claim my target, and it wouldn't make a lot of sense for me to Govern a scum read.
During Night 1, I targetted Ashersky. This was pretty heavily breadcrumbed, and I'll pull up the posts later (Day 1: "Hey we can lynch my target to verify my role, that would be cool" Day 2: "Lynching Asherksy would be cool", and then I backed off Ash immediately when e claimed to have redirected to himself. The reason for targetting Ashersky was to select someone who still might get lynched (Ash was off-wagon and got a decent amount of heat Day 1) while still being difficult to read. I had a townish/null read on him, and he's naturally a player who I'd want to Cop. I had originally wanted to do ADK, but again it didn't make sense for me to Govern a high scum read. In retrospect, too bad there.
So as a result of Night 1, e is Half-Lynchproof. If we lynch him, we'll go into night without a lynch only if he's town. If he's scum, he'll be lynched like normal. I realize I could have pushed e's lynch yesterday, but at the time he claimed Ash as his target, he didn't seem like a viable lynch candidate to me, and I thought he was town. Maybe I still should have.. If he had ever gotten to L-1 I would have hammered and claimed the result today. (I was planning to claim today anyway after all the arguing yesterday.)
For Night 2, I was considering Ichi, because he has a pretty good chance of getting lynched and I'm less sure on him than before. However, that would give an Ichi vs. e dichotomy, and they both have pretty strong scum reads on each other, and Ichi also things I'm scum, and I was on Ichi yesterday, so people would probably question my intentions there. Instead I decided to go for someone fairly null that had some mixed reactions from others, so:
I targetted Silverspawn last night. Same deal. If he's lynched, it will fail if he's town and succeed if he's scum.
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*Note, my PM specifies that the lynch only fails if they are of my alignment. This is why I believed that the roles could be somewhat randomly assigned: my role PM is written agnostic of alignment.
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