I don't know what this whole confusion about the weak modifier is about. Cult is non-town (there, fixed that for you, jaereed). If I target cult, I will die. In plain words, if I target anyone whose name is not green when they flip, I die.
The main thing that's making me suspicious is that Gio's posts seem to show a low level of investment in who gets lynched. In general, this has been a game where tensions have run high and players have been furious with each other for not lynching a player who's "obvious scum". Meanwhile, Gio's been a voice calling for calm but not really doing anything with it. The best way to solve a "lynch X or lynch Y" argument is "but shouldn't we be looking at Z, at least to help solve the situation?". It isn't really "you're arguing too much, but meh". (Incidentally, having Maxous as a strong townread is not suspicious, as he had an unclaimed Ascetic at the time.) Gio seems to have had very few reads of his own; he's mostly just been happy to help wagons along. (Actually, many of his strongest reads have been on himself, using things like self-meta arguments.) Gio seems to have been softly pushing days to end without caring much about the outcome (which is likely to lead to compromise lynches, which tend tob e on town), and to have been defending himself, and not much else. That seems like behaviour that's most likely to come from scum, to me.
I'll admit that the fact that I don't have had many reads of my own is true. As I have said, I couldn't get a grip of the game back then. But "happy to help wagons along" is a factual stretch, especially taking into account the posts you quoted:
I actually explained why I preferred to lynch McMenno over Narna some posts later. I had just replaced in that day and there was the whole "N-clan" issue and whether they switched to MoI in order to save their "scumbuddy" McMenno. Narna was, at least, making an attempt to defend himself, so I went with McMenno who did absolutely nothing.
I wasn't part of the Leonshade wagon that got him lynched in the end. I retracted my vote some time after the post you quoted, but before the new wagon started emerging iirc. It would be very easy to revote Leonshade, given the fact that I seemed to initially believe the whole scum governor theory, yet I didn't.
I was scumreading Shiro, so I don't know why you quoted that part, even before Narna presented the infamous "kill-positive". I had said that if McMenno flips town then I would look for scum in the tail of the MoI wagon, on the basis that it would be more likely for scum, under the pretense of the time limit, to hop on the MoI wagon as late as possible. Shiro was the one who hammered MoI and his behaviour afterwards was anything but that of a townie.
The final post of your quote is early Day 5. If I was happy to help wagons along, I would have voted Narna, the
de facto
lynch that day. I would get rid of a quite powerful role, gotten away with it pretty smoothly and have an ample pool of potential mislynches in the pool of people that pushed for his lynch for five days, not go through all that Narna-clearing-then-vote nonsense.
The fact that my playstyle is calm doesn't mean I am focused. I like going analytical (see my other games here) but if I fail to do so, I am lost. I didn't offer an alternative to McMenno because I thought he was the best lynch, both from an informational and scumhunting perspective. I didn't offer an alternative to Leonshade and Narna because I had no clue what was going on and I was one of the few to admit it. There was nothing to townread about Shiro and I was certain he would flip scum.
(The thing that prompted me to check through Gio, though, was the claim, which seems like an unreasonable amount of town power. Obviously, it's possible that it's someone else who overclaimed, or that the roles are less useful than they seem, but Gio's role is one of the least confirmed and also one of the most specific, which means that there are nightplay reasons to think Gio is scum too.)
The role is nerfed by the fact that if it targets someone without an active night action, then there is no way to tell if my action went through and my target is clear, or something happened and my action failed. My pool of potential clears is shrinked this way and on top of that is even-night only. Narna's role seems as powerful as mine but suffers from the same problem; It could clear someone each night but the results were shaky.
