I would only add this: I think we should also add the case that if november comes up Wolf, but has a different result, we should still consider a lynch. In that case, we don’t have enough information to call the person confirmed town, and we have no idea if all wolves test the same. While I would say it is likely to hit a townie rather than a wolf, a similar result (one color matching, one not) could certainly help us narrow down the Testerizer code in record time, and it’s not enough to confirm someone as known and trusted townie.
In other words, unless someone can be positively confirmed as town - e.g. by november being determined to be town, and getting an identical test result - we should proceed with syncing the lynch as planned.
To add to the above, I have a few thoughts on likely configurations for the Testerizer.
One slot (probably the first) indicates Farmer, Rancher, or Wolf.
The other slot indicates Power Role (any role with special powers), yes or no, or Power Role, various colors indicating each role.
A less likely possibility would be that the first slot indicates Town or Scum, and the second one indicates yes or no to special powers. I think this is unlikely, given the fact that there would then be no way to determine town faction, and that’s a pretty big deal given the win conditions.
The other likely possibility in my mind is that the first indicator is Town or Scum, and the second indicator is Rancher or Farmer (or Wolf?). Not sure how that would work for wolves (two of the same color, perhaps?) though if we get any test results that report only one color indicator, I’d start to bet on this option. The only thing that makes me think this could be a possibility is that pedescribe has repeatedly minimized the powers present in the game. If powers are undetectable by the Testerizer, this would be one way to counterbalance the (presumable) lack of powerful characters like the Detective, Masons, etc. After all, we’re overwhelmingly likely to lynch a detected wolf, power or no power; a townie with a detected power may have no real defense (e.g. no Doctor) against a night kill.
It seems pretty early to be talking about what the test results could mean. I’d have to guess that there can’t be any result where one color will give town/scum status. That would be too easy to figure out. It could be, if the two color are the same: town, if the two colors are different: wolf. Or something else. We don’t know the testerizer works as a function where the same input will produce the same output. But yeah, if the next testee gets the same output as november that’s a pretty good bet that they have the same role as november. But different output doesn’t mean a different role.
So I went back and read through the instructions, and while it was never stated that wolves could be ranchers/farmers, it wasn’t stated that they couldn’t be ranchers/farmers. It may be the case that
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[li]none of them read as R/F or it could be [/li][li]the Testerizer erroneously reads them as R/F (although that doesn’t seem logical or likely to me), or it could be [/li][li]that only one of the wolves (an alpha wolf? an omega wolf?) presents as R/F. [/li][/ul]
Basically, I think it’s premature to eliminate the possibility. It may not be likely that wolves are R/F, but I’d rather err on the said of collecting too much information than too little, at least early in the game. The utility of R/F is mainly going to be as a means of differentially diagnosing lycanthropic status.
What? After a hard day in the fields, I take evening classes at the community college.
Have you ever tried a top shelf long island? It is the best mixed drink ever. After about 4, I’m so messed up I can barely talk and I’m 6’6" and 380lbs. The best part is that they take the alcohol taste completely out of the drink so the first one tastes like coke and the second one tastes like nothing.
I’m switching from the Jack and Coke over to top shelf long islands, especially since I don’t have to pay.
