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EDumey posted...

Upside is that if scum Peaf left to save someone, that feels pretty damning.
Then Peaf actually took the breakup, and went for Kirby, and had his "oh I forgot JC was trying to date Kirby too. Awk." moment. I don't know how much of that is true, and how much is an excuse. I THINK it makes the most sense that Kirby is town, Peaf thought it was an easy way to score some town cred for "saving" Kirby, and it just didn't go as he planned in his head. There is a far offshoot world where Kirby is scum, and refused Peaf's plan because it would look WAY too suspicious if he took the date while other people like JC had an open date invitation already. Add in the Lea offer and FD making himself available, and there was 0 chance that Kirby went for Peaf in that scenario, dooming him.

Right. If peaf's intention was to swoop in and save an ally the only option is Kirby because that's the only person he even TRIED to date after confirming his mutual breakup with Dumey.

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So the only possible results from his play are
-Save Scummate Kirby, both scum live!
-Save Town Kirby, gain town cred? (JC or Dumey probably dies instead since Lea would pair with one of them instead of Lopen who I made available)
-Die trying to save Scummate Kirby, but it's worth it because Kirby's role is better than his vanilla cop?

But yeah you basically described the internal process I had during my date with Kirby. The fact that Peaf did what he did had to mean something even if it doesn't look sensical in retrospect. Kirby was also pretty quick to say that he wondered if Peaf was "acting completely on his own without consulting his teammates" which is honestly something a scummate might say after watching their ally lemming themselves off a cliff without any heads up that it was coming.

But the fact that Kirby was in the process of drafting a vote to accept Lea (rather than Peaf) is the best thing I can say about him. But then THAT is what got me considering a Peaf + Kirby + Lea scum team. In that scenario Lea kicking off the breakup frenzy makes sense because people were coming around on Kirby after his vanilla claim and she was well positioned to prevent his death. So they are executing Kirby Rescue Plan A when all of the suddenly Peaf initiated his own Plan B thinking that HE could pair with Kirby and simultaneously shed the suspicion he was building for his "early pair status" and Lea would have ample opportunity to pair with someone else. But it was an unexpected and risky move so neither scummate was willing to pair with Peaf and Lea/Kirby couldn't even pair with each other after I took Kirby off the market.

it's the kind of tinfoil theory that should not be the basis of today's "lynch", but I'll have to consider if working through the more obvious POE doesn't yield any results.