In case you don't want to dig through my response to Q, I think this is legitimately worth reading:
"Wait. You're a cop that specifically checks roles/powers. We specifically say that Rem is full of shit on his role, not just me but a couple other decently active users in non-terrible standing, and you don't check the person that, we were silently and unconsciously asking you to check? Or the other user at the end of the day we were collectively calling BS on? Sorry I gotta call BS on that."
... If that's the case it's such a bad joke.
Sorry everyone, nobody ever said I was good at jokes ^_^;
So onto Q
As far as I can tell, we don't have a normal cop. I was operating on the assumption that your role did something, particularly since it seemed IC for mario to distrust bowser. I also can't learn names, so I couldnt even confirm you as bowser.
Was referring to Cyri as our cop equivalent. And I mean I guess but if somebody is leading the town and they're a miller I feel like it's a risk I want to take? I mean if I'm scum I'm obviously not actually a scum miller, that'd be silly. xP And despite the fact that miller is a lynchable role nobody is really taking the prospect of lynching me particularly seriously. Nor should they, but I'm biased. Like especially when you know we already have a cop of sorts, alignment cop I guess, which is specifically useless against me. If there are two cops, are both really going to do literally nothing on a miller? When you bother to have two competely different ones that function totally differently? One isn't going to act as a check on the other in the interest of fairness? I admit it makes the debuff stronger, but not in a way that actively hurts the town's chances
that much and it also feels rather unlikely to me. Like I actually do get where you're coming from on the "Mario would have weird interactions with Bowser" angle, it's something I'd consider too, but given the context we got on Day 2 I'm unconvinced overall that you wouldn't see, looking at the overall gamestate, how the benefits wouldn't outweigh the risks. Arguably a super weird result could be confirmation in its own right when everything is taken into account?
Like, also another thing that makes it a little weird. Cyri seems to have a decent amount of trust in me and while he's not my slave, that does mean I think he's going to take my suggestions closer to heart than perhaps you would. So wasn't there a decent chance that instead of Ellf he'd hit joebob? At least there's a 1/4 chance I'd personally say. Like if you don't want to hit me there soooo many people to hit.
Wait. You're a cop that specifically checks roles/powers. We specifically say that Rem is full of shit on his role, not just me but a couple other decently active users in non-terrible standing, and you don't check the person that, we were silently and unconsciously asking you to check? Or the other user at the end of the day we were collectively calling BS on? Sorry I gotta call BS on that.
You were suspicious of them, but for me vs joe you gave it an essentialy guarenteed. For me, saying something like that indicates supreme confidence you are right, which in turn means it being wrong is a greater indicator, whether of how well your intuition of the game matches the game itself (confirmed later, admittedly), and as evidence for if you were actually town.
Why not let Cyri take care of it? This is something he could handle. Also why aren't we considering Nictis as part of this equation? He's always been a possibility too. I mean okay, I have a lot of confidence you're scum but even right now, when I can't see myself unvoting you today, I admit that I could in theory be wrong and joe/Nictis are scum. Or my entire read of this situation was borked because somehow all of us on the wagon were town/town adjacent. That would be super bizarre but like... it's possible? Like having this choice not only sink somebody's credibilty but determine alignment sounds silly; it isn't always silly, but I feel like it is in this context. Nictis was like RAWR RIKI and that is his main substantial contribution but I'm not suspicious of him being of Riki being town, I'm suspicious of him (Dependent upon check today) not really feeling like he's done much else of substance.
I don't know why you would want me to waste a rolecop investigation on a comfirmed town? What would vetting teo already vetted charachters accomplish vs scumhunting.
If you'll note, I confirmed it before them.
As Cyri noted, only if we believe you. Regardess your willingness to share the role when specifically pressed indicates to me that you do have access to rolecop information. So's all cool on that front.
I'm pretty sure that they weren't confirmed Town at the end of D1? Even if you think Notte-scum covering for Riki-scum would be really weird, I can totally buy that, Notte could be scum covering for Riki, Riki could be scum and Notte could be offbase- it was a "similar" role, after all, not the same. That probably would make a different in a lot of games. Like we didn't treat Riki like confirmed town at all, just that Notte made it much much more unlikely for them to be scum. So it might be worth checking.
After yesterday, I refuse to beleive that whoever is in control is anything other than scum or hostile NPC. I'm leaning hevaily towards scum, too, but ehoever it is obviously isnt a survivor, no matter what they claim.
Mario party is a 4 person game; the only exceptions are 7, which allowed a 4v4 game, and 10, which allowed 4 + A Bowser player. Either you're the 5th scum, or there is none, since we already have a second faction (and there's really no way to balance out 8 scum, especially with power roles).
Yesterday genuinely isn't great argument for scum, given the actual mechanic. If this was like I believe an actual gladiator battle and we had to lynch Terra or I, like I assumed, then it would have been a stellar one. But we could NL. This actively torpedoes the usefulness of the whole thing because now the main strength, doing exactly what they did in theory, is totally pointless because we have an opt-out clause. The choice could even be benign when you consider whatever that weird gift thing is supposed to mean or do. (For the record I genuinely have no idea, I've gotten no info on that.) And while some players like derp were pressured into a claim, Cheese, Rem, Lizard al claimed due to town error (imo at least)- the first two definitely their own, the third also arguably mine. Like I guess scum could rely on town playing erratically like that, but it's a bit of a gamble. What if we had just spent the days stocking up on scumhunting, solidifying reads, and getting things locked down? That'd have been catastrophic. But not as bad for a benign NPC. If it's Lakitu it even makes more sense for them to benign NPC than be scum.
It's worth noting that fidelity to this aspect is unnecessarily twisting your own arm balance-wise when you simply don't need to. If there are 5 scum, I don't think any of us will be super upset, after all. And you yourself point out a possible scenario that doesn't even necessarily mean I have to be scum. Yes they're a Bowser player, but I can think of plenty of people that could fit that role without me being them. And that's if you assume fidelity to the word in a game where Luigi was scum.