In post 1310, Drunken Pirates wrote:If RaL claims the names of the confirmed town in the thread, those possessing the names would be forced to claim, even if otherwise disadvantageous to do so. The reason being is that we have no way of knowing if scum have a janitor. If the slots didn't claim and scum shot and janitored those slots, the fake claim would allow them to coast to victory. We should not depend on getting lucky in scum shooting a mason lover and the other mason lover flipping like in Stevens Universe.
There seem to be three possibilities;
A. Nothing is revealed today. The risk: RL are killed/janitor'd tonight - we lose the information.
B. Flavor names are revealed, but the players don't claim until a day or two from now. The risk: confirmed townies are killed/janitor'd before claiming and scum decide to fake claim.
C. The 'confirmed townies' are revealed today. The risk: confirmed townies are made known to the scum, they could be killed.
I could be overlooking something, but option B seems best. Scum wouldn't know who the confirmed townies are but they do now know that RL has the information that confirms them (if RL's town), so the risk for B seems smaller than the risk for A (it's easier to kill a role that's publicly claimed than it is to kill two hidden roles). Also: the risk for B is only a problem if scum have a janitor ability that they use during one of the first few nights - and we will see/know if they use it - if they don't, then we can trust the people that claim in thread. For what it's worth, I think option A is worse than option C as well: I'd rather have two vulnerable confirmed townies than potentially lose the information that confirms them.
Thoughts?
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