Setael wrote:Wow. 3 cheers for activity. I believe cicero, since I don't think he'd make up something so complicated. Though I've never seen this in a game, it looks like basically a pro-town cult of masons; a group of masons that has potential to get bigger and bigger as long as the recruiter stays hidden. That being a possibility it's obviously not a good idea to push cicero's buddy/recruiter to claim nor should a cicero wagon be pushed. Those of you who don't believe him, figure out who you think his scum buddies are and vote them, because if cicero is telling the truth, it'll be very helpful to let the mason group get as big as possible.
Such a role makes no sense. This protown cult would be able to recruit anyone then? what about scum? what about power roles?
And the fact that not everyone in this cult is confirmed innocent. Hence even if it WAS true, the only confirmed innocent would be the cult recruiter, and as soon as a scumbag got recruited, the cult leader would be NKed, hence it actually becomes detrimental for the cult leader to recruit. lol
Setael wrote:
Now that I've thought that through, I realize that it's the only way a scum mason claim could work since in other cases he'd be expected to out his partner in order to confirm himself
You're starting to get a grip here. Please read this again and again, until it sinks in, and you realise that in fact, Cicero's claim fits perfectly into the mind of a scumbag.
Setael wrote:I don't think that's what's happening here though - I think cicero not even considering the mason recruiter thing is sincere so I'm not willing to wagon him and possibly out the recruiter.
ASSUMING Cicero's claim is genuine, why would we not want to lynch him? He doesnt have to out his alleged recruiter, and as he is not confirmed innocent anyway, we get a very valuable lynch on somebody who statistically has a far greater chance of being scum than any other player. Fyi, i think Cicero not considering the mason recruiter idea was probably due to him realising that no town in their right mind would buy such a claim which made no sense atall. And dont forget, by his own admission, he isnt very experience in scum gambits.
Setael wrote:
BM wrote:2. If he claims a buddy and they come up scum, he can say that they were unconfirmed.
The second point is the one i want to highlight, because what Cicero has failed to realise, is that when an anti-town mason dies, they come up as...
DUN DUN DUN...
...Anti-town mason!
Hence by getting a full claim out of both, we can 100% confirm that the mason claim at least is true, should one of them die. Equally, we can now force Cicero to out one of his buddies, meaning we get 2 birds with 1 stone later.
When you say anti-town mason, do you just mean scum who’s fake claiming mason? Or mafia who is also a mason and the other masons don't know it?
ive never seen it happen in a game of mine as far as i recall, but its been discussed several times in the past, that a mason could actually be anti-town. Whether that means they are mafia, SK, or Survivor, i dont know. But the fact would be that they dont win with the town, and need to lynched.
Setael wrote:
So I guess my conclusion is that cicero is not the wagon for today in case he's telling the truth, but if mafia can be recruited, the mason group is useless to us anyway.
actually, worse than useless. It becomes an unnecessary confusion, and we have way more WIFOM than we want during the day. Plus those who get recruited and have protown power roles, can be easily offed by the scum also in the group. We get a game inside a game, hence this proposed role
DOES NOT WORK
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BM