Bendal Home, on 30 July 2014 - 01:45 AM, said:
FOR THE NEXT TWO HOURS, SKINTICK, YOU MUST SPEAK AS YOU WOULD TO LOVERS, AS IF YOU WISH TO MAKE SWEET LOVE TO ALL THE GREASED UP MANMEAT YOU TUSSLE WITH IN THE YARD.
I suppose we'll find out for certain if BH has a limited number of uses today - plainly this backfired on BH when Skintick left if it was his only use.
So Skinticks claim has come off and there was no fight. So could it be a scum ability?
What would it gain scum? BH chooses to pit both Guards into the fight. The ability auto-fires. This buys them a day with no fight, both live a day longer and we either lynch one of them (as we did) or leave them alone to fight again. Potentially it saves a guard for a night if they were under suspicion but I don't really see it as one of them will die. If BH puts only one Guard in it delays the fight for a Day with as we've seen minimal scum advantage beyond the lynch - we can then look at it and decide to lynch the possible guard instead or accept the story.
What would it gain town? BH puts one of our roled characters into fight, for scummy reasons of course. Unknown to him, the ability auto-fires delaying the inevtiable fight. We know those two will fight eventually, we can instead look at other alts and second-guess BH's motives since he clearly didn't expect to be delayed. We actually lynched the other fighter so we can be sure it wasn't a guard being set up to be PI'd by the fight and we can be sure Skintick isn't scum. We gain a PI/VPI. BH now needs to keep pitting people against Skintick in order to try and eliminate either our PI or have him take down other town.
So, I don't think Skintick is scum. I don't think Kesso is. Skintick is going to be used as bait to draw our our other roled town; Skinticks ability is as he says 1-shot therefore I think this is all he has, beyond that he's a standard fighter relying on luck/judgement to win against town. Anyone who beats him is either lucky or roled - roled town or roled scum (guard.)
Now, the fights are BH/scums way of narrowing down roled town most likely and the fight & lynch ours. They may start with an information advantage - if they know who they all are - but we're going to be getting more out of it in the long run.
I haven't done the sums and don't have time to now but did Skinticks ability delay D-Day? In which case most certainly VPI for him.