Now, I did not mention Charlie in my reads list because I thought he deserved his own post, because I believe there is something incredibly damning that I came across looking back at his post.
Near the end of the Day Phase, Charlie basically throws a life-raft out to Polar Bear.
He has a very mysterious ability where he can save somebody from a lynch, but it only works if that lynch happens to be a specific innocent member of town and he can not confirm the role, if that lynch is stopped then it is proof that they are innocent.
He then begins hard angling for Polar to claim his character, saying that if he's his target then he can both save him and clear him for town.
@Polar Bear claim your flavour pls
Trying to determine whether there's a chance you're person my role could be refering to.
i believe it's one of 4 people
i mean maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaybe 5, but 5th is a stretch and a half
idk if it would work for duel too, but it's neither jon nor loras for sure
i'm not asking people to claim flavour for no reason because there can be indie who hunts for specific people but in this case polar will most likely get lynched anyway and if he claims one of 4, i'll use it and if i'm successful, he won't be lynched (this won't be confused with lynch stop or redirection either)
so basically, in rare case this scenario does occur, i can basically give town innocent child out of person who was voted up for lynch previouly
does it make sense? i can barely speak english, had a tough day
i mean, it's saving ??? from lynch but in character it makes sense for only 4 flavours
imagine these characters would be daenerys, grey worm, missandei and sir barristan (they're not)
basically if someone who will be lynched says "i'm grey worm" i can try to use it, hoping that ??? in my role is grey worm and not missandei for example and if it stands for grey worm, that person won't be lynched and y'all will see it's because of my action and not some lynch stop or sth, so basically it would confirm he's really grey worm
but ofc daenerys can be a fake claim, or sir barristan for example
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basically if polar is one of 4 characters i'm thinkinng of, i can use it and if ??? stands for what he claimed, he will live
it's less complicated than i'm making it sound i feel like
it doesn't say the name of character i can save, just ??? but in character, for person from my flavour it would only make sense for 4 characters feel like
like, if i was jorah for example, saving daenerys makes sense while saving loras - nah
Jan makes a post calling the role suspicious as it can easily be used as a lifeline for two scum to save each other. After which Polar and Charlie instantly dissolve this angle and back off of it.
not in this case, you will know for sure it's town ability if that happens
oh nvm
Then the phase ends and the lynch is canceled.
The Lynch has been canceled
Night 2 begins
You have 20 hours to submit your actions
Members of the small council
@Tayenne,
@Flower ,
@Jan and
@Worst may discuss for the next 20 hours. They have access to a night lynch.
Now imagine this as a version of events.
-Charlie is mafia and has an ability that can end a day phase without a lynch, naturally he wants to use this in case one of his scum-mates is in trouble, but he needs the convincing cover story that will make them both look good.
-Charlie sees Polar Bear is the near certain lynch and sends in his ability to have Fujishiro activate.
-Charlie begins working the angle in the thread where he can position it as Polar Bear is the town child he saved
-Jan notices and casts a ton of suspicion on the claimed ability, making him realize he will only make both of them look scummy, so he backs off the case.
-His activated lynch cancel still goes through and we are left without a lynch taking place
Then coincidentally the next phase after the cancelled lynch, Charlie is here to inform us that he is now a vanilla because his target died, so we don't have to worry about his role again, it's not a problem anymore.
Xdxd, so maybe I'll just claim because i'm as good as vanilla now
My guess was that i can save a Stark child from lynch
Robb, Bran and Arya are dead
Unless we're lynching Sansa, i'm vanilla xd
Everything about this looks horrific.
1. It requires Fuji to have added a high-risk move like a lynch cancel into the game, but then eliminates the entire risk factor involved in the role as it can only be used on a town player and then exonerates them. The entire balance towards giving a role like this to town is that they might accidentally use it to save a scum, but that's not even an option here. Making such a role hyper-specific to only one other individual player doesn't line up with any hosting practice I've witnessed before either.
2. It means that there are two lynch cancels in the game which would be an insanely bold move of Fuji when it's a very controversial role to even include one of them, and that Charlie then just happened to revert back to vanilla immediately after the scum lynch cancel used their ability.
I still don't like Orca, but I'm not of the mind that Charlie is probably almost certainly a scum here with the story he's strung and that he's the safest option to lynch.