-Yume could have been killed to break the communication chain between me and the rest of the town. While Yume no doubt bled valuable info to RR, the fact of the matter is, I've been locked out of the loop ever since Yume's death. This might not be a problem...if it weren't for how I am confirmed town, and in a position where I absolutely SHOULD be in communication with people.
-Klingoncelt was basically the only non Not-Chara nightkill we have absolute 100% confirmation of. Why would she be killed? Well a quick look at the second page of her iso shows that she would have considered the extra slot scum power to be a scumclaim and lynched it instantly, a possible motive. I suppose you can argue that one of her scumreads was right: it can't be Shiro or Titus so maybe you could argue she was killed for DGB/Almost50 fingering...
...Yet honestly. There's zero. Zilch. Nadda. Which makes her a compelling nightkill off of her play. She was widely scumread. Her reads were known to not be much of a threat. Her presence was largely negligible.
Yet she did die. And the most compelling reason for this? The most compelling reason for this is for the scumteam to kill someone off of the mechanics in play. Maybe they thought she had some super secret role which was even more powerful than mine. Maybe they knew she was a crystal gem and wanted the crystal gems flipped to confirm their presence in the game. Maybe they wanted to know the power of the crystal gems faction, to size it up by seeing the full flip and knowing what they were up against.
...The last one in particular comes to me as a rather strong possibility, borderline probability. Because that description fits a player nicely: Reasonably Rational was bitching and moaning about how Yume was REFUSING to release Klingoncelt. And when Klingoncelt eventually
No player in the game had more to gain by killing Klingoncelt than RR: weaken the strength of the gems, surefire successful kill, reveal the presence of the gems, and reveal the POWERS of the gems. RR was privy to some of this information, but not all of it. Just enough where RR would think to make the kill.
Nobody has given this kill much thought. But I really think it should.
Unless the last scum is Fuzzy, it's a safe bet the last scum living either was THE driving force behind scum kills, or at least a strong voice in their scum chat.
grapes is a strong player who would voice an opinion.
Almost50 is a fucking champion on his scumteams.
And RR is...well, RR. There's NOBODY in this game who RR would be subservient to on a scumteam. (Well, except maybe Titus? And even then, that's only a 50/50. Or maybe me. But that's more likely to be an equal partnership.) They would be the dominant. They would be the scum leader.
So unless the last scum is Fuzzy...then the last scum was the one who dictated their actions.
RR's actions have aligned perfectly with how the scum have been thinking the entire game. I can't point out all the myriad of examples, but it's in my mental archive of the game: every time the scum did something, RR was there, and perfectly able to explain exactly why the scum had done that something, in essence. They fit the narrative of the scum mastermind, the one we've missed the whole damn game.
We KNOW the scum had a mastermind.
Yet who?
Who?
Skybird? I doubt it. DGB? Lolno. TWIE? Not the leader type; he's a passive presence. Shadow_step? I really don't think he has it in him to be the leader, and he replaced a lurker slot that had given literally nothing so the scum's plans couldn't have been him.
Fuzzy for that matter doesn't fit the scum mastermind archetype either.
Grapes...could, I suppose, but it's unlikely.
That leaves you with a choice: Almost50 or Reasonably Rational.
And while I do think Almost50 is smart enough to be scum this game...
...The player who best fits as scum, with the combination of theoretical smarts compared to game smarts and also game "dumb" like demanding a farside vig, is Reasonably Rational.