[X] Lynch Oshha
I'm not certain I'll be around near EoD, so I want to drop my vote now.
Oshha was already one of my top two contenders for scum- D2 behaviour looks like a mislynch, though it could easily be plain bad reads. (In case I misused the term: Deliberately leading town to lynch town.)
This was a weak read.
Then we have stuff surrounding mass claims. I think these are the most relevant quotes.
In response to my initial push for a mass claim
Despite my earlier suggestion, I don't think a mass claim is necessary nor a good idea. I fail to see how Town would benefit from doing it in terms of catching scum whilst I can see how scum would benefit from knowing any remaining town power roles (if there are any at all).
After a while we get this:
[X] Lynch QTesseract
Either QT or Nictis are scum in my books and while Nictis is Nictis, I've got more of a town read on them.
I kind of want to do a mass reveal just to get more information into the game, but I want second opinions before we do anything of the sort.
Wherein Oshha proposes a mass claim.
I ask what made him start supporting a mass claim. We get this:
I don't really support it, I just want to make the thread less quiet and get more information to refine my reads. I lean towards thinking that town benefits more from a mass claim than scum does hence asking for second opinions, but I am starting to think that we might need the extra information from mass claims to get things moving again if only to shake up the board or something along those lines.
And when pressed by 1K, this.
I haven't changed my mind. I am just considering that shaking things up with more information might weigh things towards making a mass claim more beneficial to town.
Oshha is not being consistent here. It is clear from the first of these quotes that, at the time, they felt massclaims were unwise. They then proposed a massclaim. They either went from thinking a massclaim is a bad idea to thinking (at a minimum) that it was a decent idea, or they proposed a massclaim while believing it was a bad idea.
If it's the first, then we read "I am starting to think that we might need the extra information from mass claims to get things moving again if only to shake up the board or something along those lines." and "I haven't changed my mind. I am just considering that shaking things up with more information might weigh things towards making a mass claim more beneficial to town." as explanation behind this shift in perspective.
The latter of these is essentially "I haven't changed my mind, I just went from thinking it was a bad idea to thinking it might be a good idea." (Which generally is referred to as changing your mind). That'd be an inconsequential inconsistency, except they made a big deal of not having changed their mind when 1K pressed.
If it's the second, then we read the statements "I am starting to think that we might need the extra information from mass claims to get things moving again if only to shake up the board or something along those lines." and "I haven't changed my mind. I am just considering that shaking things up with more information might weigh things towards making a mass claim more beneficial to town." as extremely waffly statements which fail to espouse genuine belief- essentially "I'm not thinking this but I'm thinking about thinking this". This doesn't seem entirely plausible to me, but we'll run with it for a moment. In this read, Oshha does not, in fact, change their mind. They just propose a massclaim while still actively thinking it's a bad idea. They then present arguments for it, without committing to the arguments.
This is... such an incredibly bad look that I have to assume that this is not what Oshha is trying to argue happened.
I can see a few townish resolutions to these inconsistencies, but it's enough that I'm fairly happy with my vote.