Alright, so at this point, I think it's worth spelling out the series of events that lead me to townread Barney, since the explanation is kind of scattered at this point and I want to see some direct responses.
At the beginning of the DP, I stated that I had received a "chess engine" and had used it to find that Earth was innocent.
Shortly thereafter, I was informed by Austin that the role I was given had some extra elements to how it works. I provided some of those elements: that it doesn't count as an "active action," and that the role wouldn't be affected by RBs or redirects. I specifically excluded an important element: that Motion Detector and similar roles would not work, either, which suggested that I my use of the "chess engine" would not result in my movement to my target.
Later in the DP, Barney claims a role that somehow monitored my movement and, if I had moved, would have allowed him to use a paired RB. It doesn't matter if the role is the Motion Detector, it matters that it functions in a similar manner: by informing the user that I had (or in this case, hadn't) moved. He stated that I had not moved.
That seems pretty straightforward to me. I'm not assuming any bastard modding, I'm not assuming the use of a given role based on what was sent to me by Austin, I'm only stating what happened and what was claimed. It seems pretty straightforward if Barney's town.
Now, let's assume Barney's scum. That would mean that he saw my claim at the beginning of the DP and made the decision to select a role that would tell him if I had moved. Based on the information I had provided up to that point, that would have been a supremely ballsy move. He knew I had used a role like Cop on Earth. He knew that that would likely result in movement on my part. He nonetheless chose to claim a role that would monitor movement and a target for that role that had actively claimed they had targeted another player successfully. He would have to somehow know in advance that my using the "chess engine" would not act as a movement. Can anyone explain to me how he would have intuited that from any of the posts I made before he clarified his role? Because I can't. Maybe this is just the craziest scum tactic I've ever seen and Barney just targeted me with something else during the NP, failed, and just went for it for unknown reasons. If so, more power to him, that's quite the gambit.
I'm being genuine here, guys: can someone explain how it is more (or even equally) likely that a scum Barney would choose to claim this role (the weak information role that tracked my movement), this use of his role (targeting me, the player who had already claimed to get results from Earth), and this result (no movement) with the amount of information I had given him? Because, sincerely, I don't see it.
