Yuma, putting me L-1 achieves what exactly? Forcing me to claim? It won't be too exciting. Lynching me? One more mislynch. And with there possibly edirector of some sort, you can't even shoot safely to increase variance. Nothing good would be done
So this was the post where egorK softclaims VT. I thought it had occurred earlier, as this post was the post prior to EgorK's claim post. Maybe there is an additional post? I'll go check. Well there isn't one.
Anyways... I noticed this when he first said it and didn't bring it up on the longshot that perhaps he was scum and would change his mind when it came time to claim and would be caught out. Unlikely but worth a chance.... but that didn't happen.
Now comes the question that I kinda tried to ask before. Does mafia fake claim here? And the more I think about it the more I think that answer is yes. There are no reasons, but let's go through the yes first.
1. A fake claim generally means people will at the very least back off your lynch. I have been talking about here about giving WW and faust's roles more time to do their thing. Same thing would apply to a role that was claimed here by EgorK.
2. A fake claim has the chance to out a real PR, so even if the claimer goes down today it might take a PR with him. This is lessened by this being a closed, invented setup.
3. Another fake claim could turn the tide into a mislynch of a town!faust or a town!WW. Get enough people believing the fake claim and people could then decide to go back to the faust/WW wagons.
4. claiming VT, VTs are often seen as an "acceptable" mislynch even if you are town, so claiming VT as mafia could be seen as bad here.
5. There appear to be PR viewing roles in this game
So reasons to not claim:
1. risky of being caught. But when at L-1 you don't have much to lose.
2. there are already 4 claimed PRs. Another PR claim might not be believed.
3. EgorK is a goon and there are additional wagons/pressure on other partners that have roles that he fears if the wagon on him dissipates it will reflex onto them. Better for him to go down than lose a PR partner.
4. There appears to be PR viewing roles in this game
The 5 for claiming and 4 for not claiming kinda indicate to me that if EgorK is mafia I think he is likely a goon. Because if he doesn't have a PR that could be observed by another PR and vice versa. So I don't think he is lying about whether or not he has a PR, regardless of alignment. Not that this tells us where to lynch though....
Right now I could still lynch him, but I am kinda leaning toward not. I don't know. This feels like me talking myself out of a perfectly acceptable lynch whereas on the other hand I am talking myself into it as I don't want to go back into the quagmire of trying to build up another wagon on someone.