Tornado warning is over, but I am tired and wondering if I had a confirmation bias of my own about Earth
I’m guessing that the scum team thought Joebob was the doctor… but in which case, why not kill Earth?
Unless they bought Earth’s claim and decided they didn’t know if the doctor was going to protect Lunatic or Earth… doesn’t have to be a doctor that they were reading I suppose but that’s not super relevant
Of course of all of this goes out the window if Earth is scum and fake claiming strengthener
I can see both Casey including and leaving out a strengthener
I partially like the justification since Godot does test Phoenix Wright to see if he’s worthy, and battles him in court as a prosecutor to make him a better defense attorney. The coffee part is a little weird.
Earth’s behavior is off to me though. The parroting of Austin, the hanging back, the sudden and stubborn defense of Austin
And then there’s Whiteflame. I’m was liking him more but it’s not super clear.
Consider this: Joebob was also a great mislynch target for today given his hard push on Owen. If scum was willing to kill him, they may have been content to eliminate him from POE, and therefore the scum team is probably had at least one person who felt they’d be easily townread coming into this DP. Which means that redirecting Savants magistrate onto Whiteflame is a great way of ensuring both scum make it to DP3.
The people I can see being confident they’d be town read coming into today are Austin, Lunatic, and Wylted. Of those I town read Lunatic and Wylted. This road leads to Austin, but it implicates Whiteflame as the teammate.
Alternatively, the scum team could’ve asked for cop before the game started and been told it’s not here. At which point they’d be less scared of Lunatic. But why not fake claim cop in this case? It’s a decent claim given that no investigative role would cc DP1, but that doesn’t stop future CCs. Claiming a weaker investigative role would be an option for them if they knew cop wasn’t in the game but figured there’d still be some weaker investigative roles in game… this road also leads to Austin. It’s also not mutually exclusive to any path of logic that might be taken to conclude that Earth or WHiteflame is the teammate
I still think Austin is guaranteed scum. But the debate of the teammate still isn’t over.