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In post 2315, Lexa wrote:Gin do you mind relinking those mastina threads you did way early in the game, could use some reading material

In post 2317, PranaDevil wrote:Overall, besides half the town having bloody power roles

In post 2347, TheRealGin-N-Tonic wrote:Wait what piece?

In post 69, mastina wrote:So if the town mislynches Titus here, they'll have committed five of the deadly cardinal sins in a game. I'm listing them below:

Sin the first: Ignoring Lynch All Liars

. "But mastina!", the town desperately cries out. "Town lie, too!" Why yes! Yes they do! Which is why you have to actually fucking EVALUATE the lie, and you've thusfar been failing to do so. In this case, run Lexa's claim through the following three-strikes rule:

STRIKE ONE: How the lie was found.

Lexa told a lie with the intention of it sticking. It was only when TheRealGin-N-Tonic forcefully exposed her lie (she claimed VT, and Gin, with a Neapolitan, got a "Not a Vanilla Townie" result) that she was put in a position where she had no choice but to change her claim. Check.

STRIKE TWO: The circumstances behind the lie.

Lexa claimed her motive for lying, but did it actually make sense? Why, no. No, it didn't. You let her bullshit slide without giving a thought as to whether it made sense to do her actions as town, and didn't consider if maybe her actions made more sense as scum. (They did.)

STRIKE THREE: The convenience of the claim.

Lexa claimed to block known entities only. Garmr was a claimed VT. Pepchoninga was obviously flaked from the game. (More on that below.) All Alone was dead already, and unable to call her out on this (which he would have done!). There were questions as to why she didn't block other players--there weren't any in-depth inquiries as to why she DID block who she did, and while a player did bring up how "easy" the claim was...you failed to actually fucking USE that to lynch her.

Sin the second: failure to do basic setup spec.

Let's look at the roles we've had claimed, and flipped. We've got a JOAT who has a rolecop and a Vanilla Cop: these powers share an obvious theme. We've got a claimed JOAT who had a doctor, jailkeep, and bodyguard: these powers share the theme of protection. We've got a claimed JOAT who had a cop, gunsmith, and neapolitan: these powers share the theme of being hard investigatives. We've got a claimed JOAT who has a track, follow, and motion detector: these powers share the theme of being tracker-variant powers. We've got a claimed full-Roleblocker.
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...One of these things is not like the others. Lynch the odd woman out.

Sin the third: failure to do basic interactions

. Who could Titus actually be scum with? Realistically. Her reads are scattered all over the place, lacking strong cohesion. The little she's pushed suggests strongly she's not scum with PranaDevil. The fact that PranaDevil and shannon both heavily suspect her indicates she's less likely to be their scumbuddies, too. The only possibilities are TheRealGin-N-Tonic and Lexa, but more on the Lexa scenario below. She's a universal scumread. That means, every player--literally every player in the game--is calling her scum. Which means one of two things: either her scumbuddy is bussing her...or FAR more likely (and this is the reason a failure to do basic interactions is a cardinal sin!), she's the town mislynch in lylo: scum want her dead and so do town.

Sin the fourth: failure to consider the circumstances of the game in relationship to the slot

. Pepchoninga was in the process of siteflaking at the end of D1. D2 and D3 were quicklynches, so I was unable to replace the slot. It wasn't until I was presented with evidence of the siteflake that I could replace the slot on D4. This told the town that Pepchoninga was unable to do anything. In other words, Titus as town would have all of her powers, or be scum with a scumbuddy who was playing solo for two if not THREE of the game's nights--figure out who said scumbuddy would be before so much as considering a lynch on Titus, because Titus would not be the one driving the nightkills.

Sin the fifth: failure to apply occam's razor

. Which makes more sense? Titus claimed a role which perfectly fit into the game as scum, when she hadn't even read the game and was in a slot which hadn't played since D1...OR, that Titus had a role which was actually fucking in the game?
Furthermore, which of the below scenarios makes the most sense?
Titus is scum, and Lexa is also scum. Titus claims a result indicating she is blocked, and Lexa is a claimed roleblocker. They did this to establish distance. (If you somehow believe this, then the correct move is...fucking lynching Lexa.)
Titus is scum with shannon, Lexa is a town roleblocker. Titus, knowing Lexa is a roleblocker, claims a result indicating she is blocked, knowing Lexa is going to have a claim which contradicts her.
Titus is scum with someone else, Lexa is town. Titus, knowing Lexa is a roleblocker AND that shannon had a jailkeeper, claims a result indicating she is blocked, in spite of knowing Lexa is going to claim a result which will contradict her.
Titus is town, Lexa is a town roleblocker. Titus got blocked, yet Lexa truthfully blocked PranaDevil, meaning that Titus was blocked by either shannon or TheRealGin-N-Tonic.
OR.
How about, without speculating about any other things.
Titus is town. Lexa, the claimed roleblocker, roleblocked Titus, and lied about who she blocked.

That is the simplest scenario. No twists. No assumptions. No crazy wacky shenanigans. One simple theory, using known facts.

This is why the town should be lynching Lexa.
And this is why a failure to do so would be a perfect instance of why those fatal five flaws are cardinal sins of townplay.