The only thing about this is that I think he could be Doc and thus had a different perspective on Motivator claiming since he knew he could protect him without being role blocked. This also why he asked me about the tracker claim because then the strongman also wouldn't be able to go through his protection. However, I also think this plan could come from Redirector!Up so I'm not willing to town read it. It's such a suspicious thing to do even as Doc, especially telling the Motivator to crumb their role. Also the fact that UP is being so open about it makes me think that he is more likely to be the Redirector than Doc because he's not concerned mafia will kill him.
You basically hit the nail on the head for the first bit which is why I'm pretty impressed. I also needed to make sure that if there was a Motivator, that they wouldn't run off supporting the mafia faction without knowing exactly who they would target before they did. I really didn't think that the Motivator would end up being NK worthy, due to the fact that the Motivator can just as much help scum as it does help town. With that being said, I didn't think anybody would associate me being the Doc at all on D1, but I knew that I was town so I was comfortable with saying something that could be perceived as that controversial. I don't think I've EVER openly made mechanics suggestions up until now, so I was pretty convinced with my position that they would work. However, basically everybody else in the town agreed that it would not, so I understand that it's alright for the plan to not come to fruition; it was just the plan that benefited me the most. As for your last point, I think I solved it pretty well. If I never claimed but ended up barely surviving the day, do you really think that with such an easy mislynch target as myself still alive, I would've been killed? That's why I even admitted that I was open to not being super townie, as I knew that I would be regarded as suspicious, but hopefully not enough to be lynched. That's why I didn't want to post too much townie content, and was content with relying on Xivii to solve the game for me. I made sure that I wouldn't be able to post townie content by making sure that none of my points were ever more than one line long (on my browser, each one of my "paragraphs" were never longer than one line, but my screen is zoomed out to 90%, so what looks like one line to me may be 2 lines to someone else, or 3 to someone on mobile). I do admit that I tended to rely too much on mechanics talk, which really wasn't my intention at all, but all discussion surrounding me ended up coming back to the same point. I regarded it as suspicious at first that the whole case on me revolved around this one point, but in hindsight I suppose it's because I didn't really do much else today. Regardless, I hoped that more people would get the hint by my personal pleas over anything game related. I only do that when I have a really important TPR. I had a similar strategy in Fire and Lightening Mafia 3, and I did it here, albeit under a more "simplified" posting scheme in this game. All in all, I REALLY do think that ExLight is The Move™ but if Xivii has another suggestion I'd be glad to here it. I never really made any of those top tier reads this game, and if Xivii is scum then they have outplayed me on a fundamental, spiritual level. However, I do not believe this to be the current case (or maybe I won't let myself believe it). Besides their vote on me which stemmed from the fact that they believed me to be the Redirector, I feel like they have been pretty spot on with their judgement for the most part. Townies make more mistakes than scum, so I won't put it past there. Well hopefully a long post like this can be interpreted as helpful to some of you, but it's been a ride. I won't be surviving past N1 anyhow. Sadly, I cannot let people know who I plan on saving, as that would defeat the purpose.
