one way I can think of RE why UNU would have triggered my intuition of having too much hope is if he truly thought being called sheriff would be convincing enough for people to think he was town
something that could explain why he was so hopeful about that is that i know UNU puts a lot of stock in like, what roles have been there in the past, to inform what roles are gonna be here now, like he seems t othink of mafia roles as though theyve all already been created and hosts pick from a pool of pre-existing roles and maybe only tweak things slightly if at all (ive noticed this in quite a lot of games), so maybe he thought that claiming a sheriff name would be enough to save him
that isnt something i considered before since to me the argument of 'im sheriff so im town' is easily argued back with 'sheriff doesnt mean you have to be town' so i didnt think that argument could be where unu's hope came from, but i guess thats a flaw in my reasoning since unu wouldnt necessarily share that same opinion of how convincing that argument would be
then that begs the question why claim cop, which brings back to my theory of maf got told 'there isn't a regular cop this game', hence he felt safe to claim it
which begs the question, why didnt he just stick to his claim, bearing in mind its proveable and its, according to him, townie sounding, instead of claiming cop?
i guess answers could be:
- he was planning on using his sheriff role for one of his buddies to be able to claim instead? so one maf claims cop, the other hides behind the sheriff role.
- hes not the sheriff, his buddy is, and they agreed to role switch to try to save them both, and he had hope that town wouldnt think of a roleswap play?
so like... now that ive realized this, i can see unu as being scum much more viable, since it gives an explanation as to why he has so much hope, which was the main reason i was townreading him
theres still a couple of other things i mentioned which make me still wanna townread him, but this has made me much less against lynching him at least
why dont you say who you’d vote for?
i already did
why are you so against the idea of doing it?