Nobody Special wrote:
My point is, since everyone is saying how scummy Emp was, what would it matter if/what/whether he claimed?
I mean, yes, protocol is good and all that, but he was practically dripping scum.
Hoopla, dear, why are you stuck on this one point of protocol? Wishing and hoping your buddy could've been saved?
It's a perfectly valid protocol, because you can tell a lot from the way someone claims. Even if you deemed it unlikely Empking was a mason, you could still be wrong, and there could be ways to validate a claim (matching breadcrumbs with other masons for example).
I think you and ABR are being unnecessarily bullish, and as much as I hope I'm wrong about Empking being scum, I don't think I am, and I'm kind of annoyed that everyone on the Empking wagon is refusing to acknowledge it as a real possibility.