Earlier, I asked you all what you would have predicted scum for scum’s actions last night. My answer? I would have predicted scum waive the kill, and roleblock me.
The underlying assumption is Whiteflame-Lunatic-Barney. The idea is that because they are pinned in the PoE I listed from last DP (and that Pie and Austin agreed to, with Greyparrot willing to sheep Pie’s vote) they needed to do something drastic.
That is why my first of two targets was Lunatic.
Of course, the scum team would see this coming. Because I think Lunatic is our bioengineering, rolestealing crab god, I think the scum team has an incentive to roleblock me. Sure, it keep me suspicious of Lunatic, but it’s better to at least cast some doubt. As I said, I believe crab god randomly roleblocks a teammate.
Faced with the knowledge that I was going to be roleblocked, I was still fine with going for Lunatic, putting them in a situation where if they somehow didn’t roleblock me, they were punished for it.
For my other target, I selected Austin. Since I felt Whiteflame and Barney were heavily implicated, I wanted to cover for the outside chance Austin was scum. It was risky since I didn’t know what “legendary” did, but I figured since there was low odds of me getting the action off, I might as well play the odds.
So, imagine my shock when it got this in return:
“In the quiet of the night, no footsteps echoed, no shadows moved. A pair stood still, like statues, in a world that kept turning, untouched by the whispers of the world. Their hands stayed empty, their hearts still. No actions were taken, only silence shared between them.”
My first thought was that if they didn’t roleblock me, scum must’ve waived all night actions. It would still implicate Lunatic since I knew he’d claim to block the NK, but it wasn’t what I was expecting.
But then I saw the start of the DP and saw Joebob’s role. I asked Wylted what he meant by “control how someone’s actions are used” and I learned that Joebob’s role is a redirect.
Armed with this knowledge, I realized that I was almost correct about the roleblock- it’s a redirect instead. Lunatic is still in doubt, despite my results.
And who was I redirected to? Savant and Pie, since both were guaranteed not to have a night actions that night. I don’t think scum wanted to redirect me to anyone else but those two. Every other possible redirect in this game has a drawback. Hell, they could’ve redirected both my shots to Pie or Savant.
There’s no doubt in my mind they simply wasted my role last night. Btw, this is why I was playing hardball with Austin earlier. I knew I couldn’t trust my results.