But he wasn't dead scum. He had access to their PT, but he was in all other aspects third party. His wincon required all (but one, with said one being optional) scum to be dead. Thus, a weird SK/Usurper hybrid. Interactions-wise, yeah, his scumbuddies didn't know this, thus, treated him as if he were a really powerful member of the scumteam, but that information was NOT flipped with AP, thus, the only players who knew he was in the scum topic after he flipped were the scum themselves. Ergo, as town it was a perfectly reasonable and half-accurate assumption to say that AP was not scum. (Because by HIS PLAY he wasn't aiming for a scum win; he was aiming for a personal win. Thus, not personally scum.) I know what I'm saying is contrived and convoluted, but, well, so was the role.
tl;dr: His role wasn't scum. He didn't play it as scum. Scum thought he was scum...but after he flipped, town were not informed of this. Thus there was absolutely no way short of omnipotence to know scum thought he was scum.
In post 1938, Reasonably Rational wrote:I really don't understand why scum would even admit to the vanillazing power. That's my main issue with the thought that they're scum. Why the hell would they tell us that?
Playing devil's advocate here, for the sake of not being a hypocrite.
Scum can't really
not
say it, else they'll be easily identified. Think, scum enter. Scum leave. At the moment scum leave, powers lost. Town thought would be...yep, scum left = powers gone. Thus, scum entering have to say it, to not get auto-condemnation when they do it.
That being said, still townread the Bins slot anyway, soyeah.