btw do we think scum would get a 'Persistent' role if town didnt have anything it could 'persist' through?
To be fair, this would be a way for scum to definitively shoot a player without watcher fear.
Scum bus driver busses Cop/primary and reasonably scummy looking player (or even a scummate), persistent Strongman shoots through and doesn't need to worry about watcher seeing him AND if he gets tracked he has a built in excuse if someone else targeted the Cop/primary.
This doesn't really hold up I don't think. They did have a full time ninja if they were that worried about being seen.
Sure, but Ninja doesn't bypass protection.
We know (or are at least fairly confident) that Chris shot Stan directly. His first post about the bus driver was less than one minute after day was posted, which means he only had 14 minutes to fully formulate a fake vig claim on Puns. Speculation, but what's he going to do if there wasn't a bus drive?
Furthermore, Stan was the OBVIOUS watcher target. Is Chris so bold to straight up shoot claimed cop with a potential watcher on town?
Scum should have had massive tracker/watcher fear going with ninja on their own team.