Having put all of three seconds thought into this, I don’t think you should tell us who you investigate(d) and what their results are. Firstly, it can’t distinguish wolf from town. Secondly, you might be lying :D. Thirdly, I think that later, LATER, this could come in handy during a mass claim, ie…
Person A: Oh yeah, I’m a farmer. All the way.
Zeriel: I investigated you on Night 2. You came up rancher.
No wait, it just occured to me that the wolf would know it’s own R/F alignment, and would have no need to lie about it. Oh well, I need sleep. But please, discuss.
It makes sense that wolves would be divided along farmer rancher lines, so I’m willing to take Z’s power at face value but not necessarily as a claim against lycanthropism. It would be a useful power for each group to have, the wolves could target to keep the number or ranchers and farmers the same, and then obviously the townie sides could just take each other out.
In fact I’d be willing to bet there is at least one more person with this power if Z is town and two is Z isn’t. Anyone want to claim?
I was also thinking along those lines. That is, if we have wolf and town ranchers and farmers then maybe Z is a power role, but a wolf power role.
If we have wolf ranchers/farmers, I’m assuming none of the wolves know who the other is. I wonder, would all the wolves win if one faction wins, or is it the same as town? I’d assume that it’s the same as town if it’s the same type of split.
Then again, if Z is a wolf rancher/wolf farmer, would he want us, the town, to know for sure how the wolves are split? Anyway, if he’s telling the truth, he’s very valuable to us.
It strikes me that it would not be possible to have such a role on just one townie side or the other, so it would really require for there to be two people with this power. If there isn’t another person, I would strongly question your claim.
I don’t want the other person to come forward yet without everyone discussing, but, that would seem to be one way of verifying your status; after all, there’s no saying there’s no wolf with such a power even if you can prove your accuracy.
Thinking about it as well, I kind of hate to get into the Farmer/Rancher divide so early at all; I can definitely see people saying “well, I think person A or person B could be scum, but person A claimed rancher and I’m a farmer, so that’ll be a tie-breaker”. As I said earlier in the game, I’d rather go with a 50% win than a 100% loss. Hopefully FS will show wolf and we can confirm that we’re in a strong position to do serious wolf hunting tomorrow.
I specifically didn’t reveal my own alignment because I don’t want to get into the rancher vs. farmer thing this early.
I’m going to be investigating in the hopes of trapping people in lies, if nothing else.
I’m not expecting my counterpart to come forward, but I expect that my counterpart on the opposite side of the divide DOES exist–and I invite him to get a little more information in support of my cause by investigating me and verifying that i’m oppositely aligned on the F/R axis.
I can’t find wolves with this power except by catching them in lies, so it’s a toss up as to whether the wolves leave me alive to sow dissension. As such, I volunteer for the testerizer tomorrow to see how town power roles show up–and if tested, I will reveal my F/R status.
We better hope that’s what happens.
I’m concerned about Zeriel’s claim not because I suspect that he’s lying, or that he has a strong wolf motivation to do so, but because I think there’s danger in loosing the sort of latent intratown competition. It gives me a headache, frankly, trying to figure out whether what Zeriel says from now on is going to have an additional layer of metameaning, and whether we’re going to end up benefiting from that or not.
All of which is not to say that the role claim itself was a bad idea, or will hurt the town, but that the existence of the role itself has now complicated the thinking. Maybe it’s just what I said, and what I see now fluiddruid mentioned, that it’s a reminder that wolf/town is not the only dichotomy to be concerned with. I’m not altogether sure that I want us to concern ourselves with anything else yet.
Ah, I see Zeriel got in there before I posted; I hadn’t seen that.
Zeriel, you see, of course, that there’s a serious danger with trusting your claim, subjecting you to the test, and automatically assigning those test results to the “Town Power role” category, correct? And by automatically I mean without lynching you?
Jimmy grabbed his gun full of silver bullets (standard issue), took aim, and…fired. No-one was surprised, as the date of execution had been set for days now.
Freudian Slit, an Ordinary Rancher is dead.
Night. No Strategy.
The Night would end Noon EST on Sunday, but I have a flight then, and will not be able to post it until later. Not sure how much later. Sorry about the delay.