Actually, my conclusion on the Comedian?s scum buddies was a bit more deep than one paragraph of WIFOM, and the reason I thought the search was worth pulling at all was because of the paragraph that followed.
Assuming a LyLo with Cage, CATS, Comedian, Crocker, Chitose, Monoe, and Protoman... That would mean that every single wagon so far has been Town/Town. Would be difficult to find scumtells based on scum interaction in such circumstances - they'd have no need to acknowledge each other much at all.
Primary clue to scum intent in that situation would be a lack of caring which wagon gets lynched. Not a very reliable scumtell, since it's quite possible for a townie to believe both wagons to be on scum, but since I haven't picked up any notable scumminess that stands on its own among any of these players, and there would be no scumflips to go on, it'd have to do.
I disagree with the Comedian on the second point; since it was scum that made it. The first paragraph by itself is pure WIFOM, but the fact that he tried to make us draw an unrelated conclusion from it was the reason I thought the search was worth pulling. He wanted us to look at players that don?t care which wagon gets lynched, and didn?t view scum interactions as a viable method of catching scum.
However, I did not view this evidence as good enough on its own. I found Crocker and Chitose scummy for a while now because of their day 1 and day 2 maneuvers that really powered along the Prinny lynch and got Gumshoe out of the game 24 hours earlier than he expected. Mind you, I found them individually scummy; Crocker for the quick lynch on Moon and helping start the Prinny wagon, and Chitose for placing the Prinny wagon in the lead and the Gumshoe death. As the days wore on and Light?s flip was revealed, a good deal of this evidence became just too old and not strong enough to apply anymore ? there were scummier targets.
And then a player I didn?t expect to flip scum at all flipped scum, and told us how we should look for scum in Lylo. I did my search because I was curious about who he didn?t interact with, since I figured he wouldn?t interact much with scum, and it renewed my old suspicions. I noticed he posted about Crocker and Chitose fairly equally. I had trouble finding patterns in Chitose?s posts, but I noticed Crocker has about as much to say about the Comedian and Chitose prior to day 4 as the Comedian had to say about the two. And even on day 4, Crocker treats the cases about equally.
However, on a second look the few times he does mention Chitose make Chitose the more likely scum buddy. I?m going to post all of the Comedian?s references to Chitose, except the one already above. (The last one is the only important one, but I included the other two for good measure).
Chitose: I asked for a justification from Kyon and not everyone else because while others' cases looked more town motivated, Kyon's was lazy, reactionary OMGUS. Pro-town thing to do would have been to move the vote off and find somewhere better to put it when Protoman answered his question.
This first one is fairly null to me, but there?s only four references, and they all deserve a mention.
As for the D1 wagon hop from Sailor Moon to Prinny, that's based on Monoe's wagon analysis, right? Which, for it to have been a scum strategy, relies on a Kyon scum flip, rather than your other picks of Anonymous and Chitose. Makes sense, and if you believe yourself to be in danger of NK tonight, it also makes sense to point it out and ask for others to acknowledge it so that the case can be carried after your death, but it makes a Kyon lynch a higher priority just to make sure the case is valid in the first place.
Comedian defends Chitose fairly well, but it?s hard to tell if it?s scum intent. Still, they do not interact much.
So, continuing the hypothetical, if we were to lynch Protoman in D5 LyLo and get a scumflip, I suppose the most obvious buddy would be Cage, as Protoman's dogged pursuit of him when there was really no hope of getting a lynch is basically a textbook example of how bussing is supposed to work. My pick for their buddy would in turn depend a whole lot on events during LyLo, but I suppose if I had to wager a guess right now I'd pick Chitose, mostly for the quickness with which Protoman dropped his case on her as quickly as he did his Anonymous case, and without even the flimsy reasoning of all his other scumpicks going for Anonymous.
Summarized, the Comedian says that if we had lynched town (Anonymous) yesterday, a Chitose scum buddy depends on a Protoman and Cage scum flip, in that order.
On Cats:
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Although CATS isn?t at the center of discussion, he has come up in passing a couple times as worth looking into. In the next few days, please don?t lynch CATS. Of all the times he could have claimed town cop, he picked the one day in the game in which it would immediately lead to a scum lynch; the alternative was an Anonymous lynch, which would have put us into Lylo with no flips. I do think he was roleblocked last night, because I see no scum intent in what he did yesterday now that we have the Comedian?s flip.
