I've been following this game from the start (although not as avidly as I would be if I were actively playing), because I felt it might have trouble getting replacements late and decided I was willing to be a late replacement. It's going to take me a while to catch up, because I obviously didn't have access to the neighbourhood while I wasn't playing. Here are some thoughts I've had while reading the thread (there are plenty of people not mentioned, as I obviously don't have a perfect recollection of everything that happened):
@
Mathblade
: Can you claim your victory condition? Normally making this sort of request is pointless because everyone normally just claims town, but I think it'd be beneficial for later if you're locked into a claim of either town or town-compatible third party, rather than being able to pull an "I'm a survivor" or the like on us later. (This request is based on dayplay, and isn't based on any information that isn't public.)
With respect to
Nahdia
and
BigYoshiFan
, I got the strong impression recently that they're scum together or not at all. I can no longer remember the exact reasoning, but it was partly based on them being in a good position to cover for each other in terms of claims (as both have claimed to be capable of stopping kills), and partly based on the way they interacted in thread. Note that if they
are
scum, something weird is going on with respect to kills, but that isn't a huge surprise given what happened in the rest of the game.
I get the strong feeling that someone has overclaimed this game (i.e. claimed a stronger role than they actually have); such a player is highly likely to be scum. I've been scum who's been forced to overclaim before now, and it's a really uncomfortable situation to be in. Gio strikes me as the most likely player to be scum for this reason, both in terms of behaviour, and in terms of the claim. Overclaims tend to have a pile of modifiers on, and tend to leave a lot of evidence that there's a roleblocker/redirector around, and tend to cause an excessive amount of players cleared as Town but by dubious means; this fits this game perfectly, and Gio in particular pretty well.
Update after reading the neighbourhood thread: With respect to
Narna
, something that I'm not sure was publicly claimed yet is that Shiro (flipped town) claimed in the neighbourhood to have rolecopped Narna as a Psychologist. This doesn't 100% confirm Narna as town, but it does make it very likely (and it's also worth noting that if scum
were
given a Psychologist, that strongly implies that third parties are expected to be highly relevant this game, as what other use would the role have for them?). That said, an idea I had to explain the game while I was just reading along is that maybe there's a groupscum team, but without a kill (and the nightkills we've seen were coming from a third party). A town Psychologist would make a lot of sense in
that
sort of setup, and it explains why there seem to be so many townies here. (It'd also explain the implausible deadline change we had earlier; that's likely to come from an anti-town role without a kill, as it would give them a relatively harmless way to influence the game.)
