Alright, faust, if you don’t believe me then we lose. So, can we figure out how to get on the same page.
Here is something to think about. This is Jimmmm’s set of conclusions on the morning of the deadline. It is fully noncommittal.
Alright. I've spent enough time today moving names and roles around my spreadsheet. I think Swowl is probably Town, and I think EFHW is more likely to be Town than faust. That leaves me with three scum in faust, scola, Didds and Cuzz.
I think scola is probably scum due to his claim and how it came out.
I think Didds is probably scum due to her narrative around Robz and Awaclus not adding up. I think it was convenient to despair about her reads as a way to emphasise her Diddsiness and try to put herself in a Towncore, and I just don't buy the reasons for the despair.
But I'm not sure in this case that "both probably" equates to "probably both". I think the question is, when scola raised the contradiction, could it have been guaranteed that Didds wouldn't also be contradicted? Maybe they were okay with both contradicting me, but that seems super risky if it doesn't come off. I think it works if they have a Rolecop, but not if they don't. And given that I'd have faust as the third here, how powerful can scum be when Town only has a Watcher, a Doctor and a Bomb?
I still think if scola is scum then faust is probably scum with him. faust was there for him when no one else was, and he knew he had the pull for it. At this point faust is probably scum even if scola is Town.
Then there's Cuzz, who has lurked most of the game and seemed more interesting in obscuring my question about his Awaclus read than answering it.
I think faust is the way to go here. I think if scola and Didds are both scum then the third is faust, and if not then it's both faust and Cuzz.
Then he says that he’ll be there for deadline and there are a few more messages of back and forth with you and I about how scum would know what everyone’s role was that ended with out any real reasons for that claim. If you compare this with my consistent advocacy for Cuzz, there is a distinct difference.
Further, by not committing himself to anyone before he signed off for his night, he effectively hamstrung town IF he was town because it would have been impossible to get an exile without him assuming the scum had lined up together (which didn’t happened, someone is bussing). So, not town helpful. If he’s scum, it gives him maximum flexibility. He’s not caught out voting for town. I find the fact that he says he will be around for the deadline disingenuous because it has been well established that the deadline is in the middle of the night for you, so the deadline is functionally irrelevant. Your vote, and what would follow from it, was always going to happen earlier than that. If you had voted for town, only one person would have to be wrong for Cuzz and buddy to end it, or they could have sat there with your vote plus two scum (maybe what was happening with the EFHW vote and the Cuzz follow) until Jimmm woke up. He gets that flexibility with no exposure and can link back to this post to justify any vote except for EFHW to say “see, I was thinking that” without having ever actually having to defend it.