The reason why I asked that question is I don’t trust your claim. Not yet.
So I decided to ask the question to probe for what I’m thinking may be a fake claim for quick town cred. The idea being, if there’s no benefit to town other than confirming yourself, it may not mean much-as much as you say your role is explicitly townie, I’m not ready to buy it just yet.
From a game design standpoint, a role that requires one to get a few votes on themselves sounds like a role that gives the player an incentive to act a little suspicious, but not enough to get lynched. I feel like this type of role is a bit scummy; a type of role that encourages mafia to take some risk to gain a power. I get the sense there was an oversight on Wylted’s part- I don’t think he thought of how the player could just ask people to vote for him.
Of course, there’s a risk-reward in all of this. If I am completely wrong and push too hard on you for this, I run the risk of mafia gaining some information, which is why I decided the question I was asking was a bad idea.
Thankfully, I dont just have to think about your role. I am VERY suspicious of people who bought your claim so quickly (same applies for Greyparrot’s). I mentioned this earlier, but I’ve been thinking about if scum is going to be quick to buy town’s claims this game… or if they are going to immediately throw shade. I’ve decided they would be quick to buy the first few claims, thinking “ah, I don’t want to look scummy pushing for something that town might take at face value.” Of course this means that some people who are too quick to believe a claim are town, but it also means scum is blending in among them.
Of course, because we dealing with so many claims, I get the sense that scum would have to twist themselves in a pretzel to throw shade on a claim at some point, and I believe we saw this with Banana’s claim. I was a little skeptical at first too, but I felt it was far less suspicious compared to your claim, Greyparrot’s claim, and Pie’s claim. And yet, her claim of having a long PM where she didn’t read all of it (probably because she didn’t need to read the entire thing to understand her role and justification) is the claim that garnered the most suspicion from others. I dont see how someone can be suspicious about Banana, but have absolutely nothing to say about anything else. I have an FoS on Lunatic and Pie for it. Pie I’m willing to give a (temporary) pass for it, but I’m starting to scumread Lunatic for it. Whether or not your claim is fake and you’re his teammate, or he’s buddying you, can be figured out later. I’m leaning toward you being his teammate tbh- but I suppose that, to lesser degree, I might let you cook. For now.
I would not be surprised if you and Pie are both bullshitting town, less for you than for Pie. Regardless, Lunatic is my top scumread right now.
