Gorf, I'm just telling you to consider your mentality, because the goggles are on. Don't say I didn't have a point with what I quoted, man. That is so clearly influencing your thoughts right now.
So here's what I think:
I think Sokr really IS a ninja. Independent Ninja maybe? **** if I know. I'm not going to tell you that i can explain away the miller aspect, because I can't. There are possibilities, but that's all baseless speculation.
But think, instead, about the point of a ninja. It's to make an action and not be held accountable. This in turn creates false accountability for others. I've never played with a Ninja before, but I have always understood the check they represent for watchers and trackers, which can at times be OP without said checks.
If we saw John and ??? visit Auspher, the gain is diminished. In fact, John would basically be autocleared because the ??? would so very obviously be the kill.
Instead, Sokr the Ninja kills Auspher on a night that John investigates him. Because another person has targeted Auspher, that person is the only one seen. Thus, you have false accountability. The kind that has to be puzzled through with scumhunting.
Which we were trying to do, but John was a little busy being as scummy as humanly ****ing possible, in spite of our both our attempts to give him a chance to show town colors.
With no one left to be seen visiting you last night, however, we see ??? instead of no one. Why ??? instead of "no visits"? Because if you were anything but a BP, you'd be dead. Seeing a "???" visit someone that is visited by no one else makes the Ninja an actual viable role for the game, because this can result in town finding out that there IS a Ninja. This is how you design roles like this to be viable worries, instead of crazy conspiracy theory bogeymen.
Sokr is a Ninja, and he's a bad guy.
I don't know why he's a miller. Obviously he knew he'd investigate as a bad guy. It could really be as simple as his being a mafia ninja and ALSO a traitor, which suddenly makes the gameshow cop make a whoooole lot more sense. That is the best I've got for you there.
He targeted and killed Auspher on the same night John investigated him. It's not hard to see. Sokr is intelligent enough, and what did John do last time someone claimed a role that in no way whatsoever justified an investigation (Sokr himself, miller)? He investigated it. So he goes two in a row from flailing, clueless John, killing Auspher. And he's right. And it paid off in spades.
Sokr keeps his hands off of John the moment kuz and I claim and lets town sort out how they want to play John. This keeps his hands the cleanest, even though John is by far the most likely lynch. Then he tries to kill Gorf to seal the deal, I guess banking on massive WIFOM if something goes wrong, or hell, maybe he didn't even think he could be seen by a watcher at all. Either way everything lines up quite nicely for him to cruise through 3man lylo even in the worst case scenario, which is 3man lylo happening at all.
Remember when I was holding back from John? Trying to read John? Wanting to talk to Kuzi about concerns? Those concerns were Sokr. Sokr was iffy. But John just got worse, and worse, and worse. To borderline trollscum territory. Reread that ****ing day and tell me I had any other plays to make, man.