Posted 06 December 2008 - 01:20 PM
Well, I finished reading up since I became drunk thursday night. For me, it's currently a 30/70 split between following up on Ruse and following Rashan's case, although when I follow Rashan, I'd vote for Gamelon first then, not for Mockra.
1) With the case Ruse made, I have one problem. It's not so much with the case itself (which is a good one), it's with the behaviour. Why would anyone (scum or not) be so desperate to be on a train that he/she would change stories at the drop of a hat? It does paint a big questionmark over your head, and Ruse was good enough to find it and comment on it. As an Inno, I'd avoid that as it makes you seem scummy, as scum you know it makes you scummy so why not stick to your previous target? Weird, weird move, especially since there's always the escape of 'I want a lynch, we need the info, the train I'll jump on is the only one that's going to get us a lynch, so here I am!'
He didn't use that either.
2) Rashan has a good point, in that the Mockra reveal, ambiguous as it was, is basically a 'plead inno for Gamelon'.
What if he had guarded Game, changed the content of his role PM/mechanic (legal), became scum and used it to PI Gamelon?
Situational sketch:
2 Ghostbusters down, scum on a 100% score, and Mockra has enough of a chance to be in the winning team with an evil alignment.
Tactics:
As long as he doesn't block anyone else, (which is exactly what he promised us) he'll maintain his current alignment.
Since scum has +1 person through him, victory is also reached that much faster: a full day. Lynch Gamelon, he cried, so that I am certain of my alignment. Such a selfish desire would never be followed up, but it did make sure that he would be seen to not care one wit about Gamelon... handy as distancing and not appearing sympish after PI'ing Game.
'Proof':
If we asked him to block person X, he'd agree, then just not block or block Gamelon again (if he's a killer and there's more than 1 killer, it wouldn't matter anyway).
Counterproof:
The only way to prove him wrong is for the person who wasn't blocked by Mockra to have an ability that goes through with a certifyable result: vig or finder, I'd say. Guard usually isn't told, same for healer, it's basically a lucky guess there. So, what then, hmm? Reveal to expose Mockra?
That's beneficial for the killers, another roled inno out in the open. We'd lynch Mockra, he'd come up as slimer, and according to the role PM he gave us, that would CI Gamelon (since hey, Mockra was scum, so Game was inno, and of course Game trusted him, since Mockra got his alignment right!)
The alternative, lynching Mockra:
Equally beneficial for team evil, if we lynch Mockra now, what do we get? A result confirming he is Slimer, showing us he didn't lie about that. It would then be up to us to go into WIFOM territory: did he lie about his role, or didn't he? And what does that make Gamelon? Dead or not, Mockra would keep the scum tag in spoiler heaven and win when team evil wins.
Protective measures are being taken:
Lastly, Game is making a really big deal publicly out of being a small fry that he didn't even know was in the movie. Well, that tactic has been used before. Role + actor are easy to find (wiki is your friend), and if the role is small enough, it 'means' it's only applicable to a Roleless Inno, right? Right. It also means it is unlikely to get a counter reveal which would be a righteous fuck up and will get both scum + inno lynched to see who's right and who is wrong. I think this has been tried in the Aliens game, too, it was then with the prison warden I think... who was in Alien 3 and not in Aliens.
So,
vote Gamelon it is.
Of course, my follow up on Rashan's posts is purely seen from an 'if, then' scenario, with no textual proof. But, if the two of them play a good game, that slip will never come, or not now.
Whatever the reveal was, the results are undeniable: Game comes up as PI, Mockra as a role with an edge who's unsure what to do with it, and how to utilize it. Appear harmless, it's a good tactic. Also, as D'riss said, the slimer role is awesome, so why blow it up right now, day 2, by revealing?
You do that if you (or your team) stand to gain by it, and I think it is because Mockra has achieved what he wants to achieve: evil status. After all, the way he stated his role and his current situation (unaligned), no-one stood to gain by it: not team inno, not team scum, and least of all, Mockra himself.