If I were a serial killer in this game with the objective of killing LUTHA, I would not have targeted sach or Crys, especially in the Days immediately following the claim. They’ve been perpetual back burner lynch candidates. Their continued survival encourages other LUTHA claims. If they get offed over the course of the game, great. In the meantime, you’re hunting the depths for the other three targets. If you kill them, you know where the last targets are for your mission.
This makes some sense, but I feel like sachertorte lived waaaaay too long…maybe if Koldonar answers my question about if and when he flipped the switch, maybe that would explain why.
How’s this for a reduced risk SK lynch: only a few (3? is that enough for people to be comfortable?) people vote for her. There’s no threshold to secure the first lynch, so even a single voter (or two to prevent Cookies from creating a tie) could secure the lynch while putting few at risk at a retaliation kill.
And nobody else votes to reduce risk of scummy shenanigans.
There are up to 7 town that could claim power roles and 4 LUTHA from a pool of 17 town/LUTHA. That leaves a small pool of 6 vanilla townies for 7 scum to hide among. Fake power role claims make it a little more difficult to work out, but it still makes for very small pools for scum to hide.
The exact number is a matter of who wants to take the risk and we can figure out the right number after we agree that it’s conceptually solid (or isn’t).
What shenanigans do you fear? Any votes on anybody other than Cookies will be made publicly. If Cookies lives, we know where to turn after she slips the noose. And scum don’t have incentive to let a SK live any longer than town.
I fear the unknown shenanigans. And spiders. And unknown spider shenanigans (spidernagans? shenaniders?) are right out. You make good points, but I’m still uneasy.
It’s like in the movies where there is an unexploded bomb in the compound. We send two or three people in to diffuse the bomb while the rest of the people hide behind the barricade and watch. I wonder if we should cut the blue or the red wire?