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I understand the whole random theory, and the mafia not knowing whom the DR might protect. I just don’t think its a chance worth taking. The Beat Cops are our best weapons right now. You? Well you have to kill, so while its nice that we get to influence a night kill as well you could just keep killing townies. Your role does not come close to the importance of the Cops right now.
Plus I agree with the above. They might want you alive. They don’t want the Cop alive at all.
Sorry, but if our cop dies tonight it is a poor play by the doctor, regardless of how well s/he has been playing before. I don’t this is playing into the Mobs hand. There is no doubt in my mind that the beat cop is loads more important then anybody else currently.
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I don’t disagree with anything you’ve said. However, the whole point of the random theory isn’t that the doctor has to necessarily follow it, simply that we WANT the mafia to be unsure IF we’re following that or not, and make them think twice about who they target. This presents two possibly beneficial outcomes: 1) We manage to bluff the mafia, and they target the person the doctor is protecting meaning their kill is moot (much like I imagine it was last night) or 2) They’re so unsure that they don’t even bother to target either of us, and we lose a vanilla townie instead of mostly confirmed power roles. Considering that most of the town still thinks my “power” is useful at this juncture, combined with my “almost confirmed” status, that is still probably advantageous. Of course, then the possibility exists that the doctor might not protect the more valuable role and the mafia might then target him. However, with the distinct possibility that the mafia would probably waste their hit again if they target either of us, I think they would be foolish to target either of us when the most important role (the doctor) is still out there, undetermined among the unconfirmed townies, and likely unprotected. Obviously, if they can get the doctor, they can then start picking off the rest of us who’ve claimed, one at a time.
Further, to play more on the random theory, the doctor can choose to weight the randomness; that is, if he thinks the beat cop is worth twice as much as me, he can pull a random number between 1-0, and say anything .333 or less, protect me, and anything greater protect pimaspinner.
Even after all that, I’m willing to make a gambit that I probably don’t need protection, and here’s my reasoning why. Let’s assume** FCOD** is the miller, and the mafia doesn’t targe me. It will still leave a doubt as to whether either of us is mafia or not. Hence, by targetting me, they 100% confirm both **pimaspinner ** and FCOD (because my kill still goes through, even if I die tonight), whereas if they target FCOD, they only confirm pimaspinner, leaving me still somewhat in question. If they target pimaspinner, they confirm both me and FCOD. Further, as I’ve made clear, if tonight goes even a bit in our favor, I think it’s time to start going after the SK, at which point, I’m somewhat advantageous to them because they can try to guide the VIG vote counts toward townies and/or the SK. Also, if they can kill target the SK, my power goes away as well. Thus, I think if we’ve FOSed any potential SKs that are not mafia, the mafia would be foolish to target one of the three of us (resulting in two confirmed townies if successful, and no kill if not… sort of lose/lose for them). Thus, I’d be surprised if the mafia don’t target one of the potential SKs (hocow, Autolycus, or the other named that I can’t recall at this moment), assuming they’re not actually mafia. However, leaving the possibility that either I or pimaspinner is probably protected makes the proposition of targetting either of us worth even less to the mafia.
As far as the SK, he would also be silly to target me, especially if he’s not one of my suspects. It’s already been made abundantly clear that the only chance he has of winning is helping the town, because the mafia can just keep pushing off victory until either the town or the mafia kills him. The town cannot do that, because we have no idea how many mafia are left, and have a much harder time targetting them.
Of course, this brain dump may be completely moot, because JSexton is also probably my second candidate for SK, so it’s entirely possible I won’t get to kill tonight at all.