I disagree that Town has less overall information in this setup particularly, mostly because we're in a high-probability power madness right now. You're correct that Scum will have information regarding who is on their team, and by extension who isn't, but right now I think Town actually has an advantage in that Scum doesn't know what's even in the game for them to play around yet. They may get some context clues given their own power structure, but right now it's better that Town maintains infosec so Scum is as blind to Town structure as possible, for as long as possible.
Gun to head, who is Cult Leader?
Idk. Barely anyone has spoken.
Honestly, I'm not actually sure that this information would implicate a Cult proper, if only because this would be super watered-down as a 3P role, when I'm sure Cult Leaders in other games would have something more interesting going on than just recruitment and investigatory immunity. I don't doubt that there may be recruitment mechanics in this game given its nature, but I think the conclusion you came to with this info is probably not the world we're in.
With the size of the game, I would be surprised if some kind of recruitment mechanic doesn't exist, but I'd be hard-pressed to believe it would cause any factional change. Too much fuckery and swing potential for a game that is potentially already fucky on its foundations imo.
I don't care. Pick somebody
Uhhhhhh, you?
I didn't think about it this way. I don't entirely agree- I think that there are certain roles that would logically either assume the existence of others or for the sake of some sense of balance likely have some kind of counter or counterpart on another team, but I think that broadly speaking you're definitely correct that playing things close to the chest on this front is probably more profitable at the moment.
*Whistles innocently*
There's probably a different third party faction for each color in Third Party. That seems likely.
I don't think this would be the case, mainly because I don't believe all those colors have been used.
But have you considered tri-cult?
Agreed. This is a Hugh game and he's already done the surprise vanillas joke. I wouldn't be surprised if there weren't any Vanillas at all tbh.
Bet
Noted.
* frowns*
A cult is a faction that usually starts with one Leader and a couple (1-2 would be typical) members. They may have additional powers, but their primary ability is to "recruit" one player every night, who unless they are protected in some way becomes a cult member and their win condition is changed to the cult winning. The cult wins, similar to a mafia-like role, when they have a plurality or majority of the remaining players convreted.
I'm not sure how serious you're bieng given how people are talking up hugh games tbh, but it's definitely... possible. It'll probably be clearer in a couple days anyway, no point worrying about it right now.
In any other setup, I would agree with you fully, but I think it's just way too difficult for scum to try to predict possible powers, given a high volume of crazier-than-standard powers are a lot more feasible than they would be normally.
Regarding these two. I wasn't in the game my role came from, but I'm 100% sure from the description that it's missing some abilities, so 2 is confirmed.
please don't shoot me.
For future reference: That is just a really odd thing to put as a reason you know cult is in the game?
I'd place safe odds against that, because...
Me! I joined this game with a slight expectation of being able to have some fun in the evenings, or at the very least try to investigate this white void during the day, but my vanilla townie's character bio explicitly writes those options out for me
That was my elaboration though. We're Day 1 and Atoms is hard confirming the existence of a specific role, which they also are hard believing to be a cult. The only way they would know that it exists at this point is if they either have the role that they are claiming is a cult role, they are in communication with someone who has claimed the role and so are either a cultist or should know that it is most likely not a cult role in this game, or their role informs them as to the existence of the role which would be either an executioner style trying to get it killed or someone that just knows what all the roles in the game are which is unbelievable on the basis of "I don't recognize that role from past games" and "Hugh should really know better than to give the possibility for everyone to learn what all the roles are in this role madness game."
That matches my own thoughts on this. We've almost certainly got at least one neighborizer of some kind running around. But a cult feels unlikely at the present.
