We know Nich's alignment coincides with Zen's. They are not necessarily opposites or synonymous with one another, but Nich's alignment is telling of Zen's.
We know that Zen's ability, at least in part, is as it was described.
There are alternatives to that truth; I am aware of this. But the idea that there is a voteblocker of some sort that refused to use his ability until after his scummate Zen was dead only to use it on Nicholas to verify Zen's fake claim? That's too far fetched for me to believe with the information we currently have. It is far from the optimal play with such abilities, and as such I am discounting that.
This leads to the question of what alignment Nich is. If Zen was telling the truth about his ability, which I have presumed and explained above, Nich must have targetted him after Zen was dead. While it is possible Nich has a Day action, that Day action wouldn't affect him toDay unless Zen's ability was different than claimed or the aforementioned vote blocker exists. I deny the existence of either of those possibilities, and thus presume Nich's ability is as explained. As such, one can assume that Nich is town.
There are alternatives to that truth; I am aware of this as well. It is easily possible that Nich fake claimed his other ability and his coroner ability was actual. Given the amount of ??? flips this game has currently shown, it is not out of the realm of possibility that the mafia faction has been given some sort of ability that allows them to see the results of ??? flips. This is especially true given the existence of an abductor. This is also possible given multiple mafia factions, but we have no evidence of that as of yet.
Given the above information, I am inclined to stick with my original belief that Nich is town. I called his play as a town power role early on and this has resulted in confirmation over the course of the game.
The rest of this post assumes this information to be accurate and is important when viewing Ranmaru's post.
I forgot about Luxor, actually. I was thinking of posting a scumpick list that was bigger, but not better. Will do so anyways.
Luxor flipped ???. I'm not sure what Ran is referencing here. Ignored for now, even though it is confusing to see "I forgot about Luxor, actually" in response to.... no one.
More important for now is "I was thinking of posting a scumpick list that was bigger, but not better". I am under the assumption Ran is posting a full read on anything he has any feelings about.
X1: Was butthurt that Zen was being lynched. Why was he so dissapointed? I didn't know he would miss him so much.
X1 and Zen have been linked from the beginning in an odd pairing. I am aware that X1 is town; as such, this stands out to me.
What is Ran leading here? He is planting a seed, but Zen's alignment is hidden.
Beatstick: I haven't seen him post much only to see him responding to my questions. I thought he would have had a connection with Luxor, but now Luxor is gone.
Why a connection with Luxor? This is not explained in the slightest. He makes a blanket statement about Beatstick and connects him with Luxor, who was not in a favorable light prior to his death. This is despite Beatstick's argument against X1 being a sizeable amount of FF's post which is pretty evident that Beatstick isn't just answering Ranmaru's questions.
FF - What do you guys think of FF? I think he is being anti-town in that he is very inactive. I just have a hard time getting back into the game since it's so large. That is all.
FF is pretty inactive, this is true. I am not a stranger to FF's play and am aware that inactivity on his part is not something to be looked too deeply into. It's possible Ranmaru is not aware, but I doubt it. We've talked of FF's inactivity being common in this very game already.
I had nabe on there too, but he is also gone. (He wagoned the whole game, yet tunneled on Zen without voting him)
Again, insinuating that Zen is of anti-town alignment.
So from this post we can see:
Luxor scum
Beatstick scum
Nabe scum
Zen scum
X1 - Zen link
FF scum seed planted
FF's scum seed planted with generic statements. Luxor and Nabe both mentioned offhand, not directly. Zen declared scum directly. X1 and Beatstick scum by association with Zen / Luxor respectively.
In short, Ran's post is full of leading statements and assumes Nich and Zen are scum while simultaneously leading thoughts towards four to five people being thought of as scummy with two people of that group merely by association with players
who are already dead and alignment is unknown.
Why would a town member consider Zen and Luxor's ??? flips to be of anti-town alignment?
Why would a town member whose entire posts revolves around Zen's alignment being anti-town (and because of that, Nich's) fan out in this manner?
This is topped by the fact that Nich and X1 are both town.
CDubs is also noticeably absent from that post, and CDubs is scum.
Ran said:
Zen said that we should lynch OS toDAY, but I'm wary of what alignment he may be.
Dun dun dunnnnn....
Why?
For example, since Luxor and Nabe were taken away, that must mean they are town. So, luckily Mafia can't know what roles were cut off.
Oh wait, what? Har har har.
Obviously the abductor is part of the mafia right? It's totally fair to give mafia a ton of janitorial roles and let them abduct and night kill at the same time!
tl;dr
conflicts with earlier statements in the same post about Nabe
assumes abductor is mafia
Laughably transparent.
I was also thinking ??? could be power roles, but yet Vult Reviver seems like a powerrole. Hmmmm.
Don't be so naive.
Even so, it makes it hard for us to garner info. I still don't really know what Zen's alignment could have been, yet I want to see OS post his thoughts on this.
Here they ****ing are.
Ran is of anti-town alignment.
Ran wagon get.
