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Thing is, even though I can see Scare making this dumb play as Town... he hasn't surrounded it with Townlike posts.

When I was writing up my "What Chris Would Say" post earlier, I remember one of his key lessons was "ask yourself - does it make any sense for Scum to do the thing?" Town players are weird, act weird, play weird, and are surrounded by weirdness. Scum are, by default, more calculated. Scum don't usually make big errors unless they're brainfarts or just new Scum.

So why does Scare do this as Scum, I have been asking myself?

It does make pretty much as little sense for him to do this as me making a Bodyguard claim that went nowhere if I was Scum. The only reason for him to push so hard is if he knows he's going down. So unless there is a SK who poisons and you find out you're poisoned the night it happens (or something equally creative and unlikely), I don't know why Scare would suicide into me. Unless he just wants to trade himself off (Scum bomb? That's a bastard role but idk)

So I've come around to some explanations for why Scare might do this as Town. I came up with some. Honestly, the "Scare is bluffing because he thinks he caught me as Scum, but hasn't realized his catch is a false positive" is attractive. It's really fucking shitty and is paramount to trolling, in my opinion, if he were to have done this in multiple games, but it's an explanation that makes sense.

But I can't get over how Scummy he's being. Scare is doing NOTHING. He hasn't tried all day. The only thing he did was go after Death then cower away as soon as Death said he had info. Then he plopped his fake scan on me and has just sat there, diddling himself while saying "no u".

The ONLY thing Scare has really responded to is when I said it makes sense for him to be suiciding to get out of the game early. I think he actually was insulted. Which means his motivation isn't to die... which means I think he's Scum, because this is a stupid needless risk to make as Town.

Anyway, I'm home, it's still light, I have tea - I'm going to go back and reread some of day 1, come up with my reads, compare them with the current game state, then go from there.

My biggest worry right now is I have too many question marks surrounding people who are siding with me, and that worries me that this is Town Town. But if enough people are in the middle/siding against me that I think are Scum, then I'll be pretty convinced Scare is Scum.
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