The scum!Galz theory is clever and satisfying. Those kinds of theories are almost never true.
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**Scum!Galz is putting all his eggs in one basket, because if MiX gets lynched anyway, galz's fakeclaim is also revealed and they both go down. No way. I don't believe he would do that.
EFHW makes good points here. But I’m not convinced.
MiX promoting me would be weird, but not out of the question, especially given (A) the enormous amount of towncred he had at the end of D1 from his VT claim and (B) my D1 comment that I probably wouldn’t challenge MiX since I knew scum would expect me to and (C) MiX’s confidence that he could get out of it by buddying me (which he did, aggressively, at the start of D2).
As for Galzria’s claim timing, I think he does claim to get me away from MiX. Go back and reread. His claim is coupled with an extremely aggressive posture toward me. He and MiX are both throwing everything they’ve got at making me out to be scum. Yes, he was taking a risk, but I think they both thought they could easily get me to lose that fight. Then when that stopped working, what did Galz do? He switched to being friendly to me but still gently directing my lynch away from MiX by suggesting I need to choose independently and get less town input (at this point a lot of town had pledged to vote one way or another on me/MiX.
Finally, as off the wall as this narrative might be, there’s no compelling alternative narrative. So if I’m wrong about this, then scum have played a very tight game.
Finally, I think we’re devaluing the amount of info we have.
We have the opportunity to re-read the first two days knowing 6-7 town and one scum. Players of our caliber ought to be able to get something out of that. I think we need to turn our attention there. I would suggest especially looking at the DatSwan wagon.