im trying to think of the point of hip's role
if msger is town then hip being able to intercept and broadcast would: (blue = mostly townie, red = mostly scummy, orange = could be both)
be able to prove the messager's msg went through as they said and therefore confirm them as not lying about that
be able to see what info other players might be working with in secret from the rest of the thread (e.g. msger and other person share night chat, claim to each other, talk during day about it/tell another player the other persons claim), to have one more townie with this info
if msger is scum then hip being able to:
see scum messages (which are likely sent to teammates for comminication during day) and suss out several mafia (OP)
see scummate messages sent to other scummates (if scum msger can only send 1 msg per day to 1 person then hip would be able to act as a 2nd scumbuddy to see that msg if it gets sent to hip through the rng)
so my conclusions are
if msger is town, hip could be any alignment, but lean town since being able to broadcast is mostly a townie thing (exception being it helps him look town but idk if ltin would include a scum ability just for that purpose or not?)
if msger is scum, hip should be town (to prevent being OP)
if theres multiple msger, both town and scum, hip should be town (to prevent being OP)
so hips probably town i guess??
