Michelle actually town read you. After tmSoul's flip, I re-evaluated some reads, though also:
What you are missing here is that the Indie, whose identity I know, claimed to have hard mech info that you were town. Given that I knew them, I weighed up the likelihood of them lying about it, and figured it made little sense given the evidence to hand. With you then as very very likely town, it was time to build a town core with the indie as a proxy. It isn't really about you, the player. Anyone with your role would have been treated the same way. Your contention really lies in how I could have been sure the Indie wasn't lying to me, ti which I say, based off of the conversation I had with him and what I know of the player, I was confident that most of what was said was the truth.
What you are missing here is that the Indie, whose identity I know, claimed to have hard mech info that you were town. Given that I knew them, I weighed up the likelihood of them lying about it, and figured it made little sense given the evidence to hand. With you then as very very likely town, it was time to build a town core with the indie as a proxy. It isn't really about you, the player. Anyone with your role would have been treated the same way. Your contention really lies in how I could have been sure the Indie wasn't lying to me, ti which I say, based off of the conversation I had with him and what I know of the player, I was confident that most of what was said was the truth.