Lopen posted...
masterplum posted...
Theres no universe where I ever fake claim doc as vanilla. Ever. Zero. I am not some mafia god.
Chris is the only one who maybe I wouldnt be adamantly against doing that, and even then I would be annoyed
Claiming doctor as vanilla is not about saving your hide because you're just that valuable. That's not what Corrik was doing.
It's about buying yourself one day and hoping scum wastes their shot on you so you don't waste a lynch day. It requires a small amount of faith in your real doctor to not counterclaim but there are situations where you'd want to do it. You also want to be damn sure the lynch that is in your place is scum otherwise you're not helping anything because a mislynch is a mislynch-- which, we had a really good lynch lined up that day in red.
The problem is Corrik was a bit too buried and had already burnt up his credibility with a different fakeclaim, so it didn't have any chance of serving the intended purpose and was mostly just risky over everything else. I think in a different situation, with different timing, and with a different approach, it could have been a strong move though. I think he really needed to aim for a lower hanging fruit in red instead of trying to build a case from scratch. Play the "listen, we all thought Red was scum yesterday, let's just give Lea one more day" approach rather than FIREBOLT IS SCUM LOOK AT THESE 9000 POSTS I'M GOING TO QUOTE approach. Firebolt being the real doctor really drives home the "only do it if you're damn sure the lynch is in your place is scum" point.
I was initially hoping I could just allude to a claim and Lea would back off and go to red. When it was clear she wouldn't I slowly got pushed into claiming doctor outright to try and draw a shot and scum off of the doctor and town off of me.
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