Quote Originally Posted by Csargo View Post
I don't get why the vig claim would have protected GH/Zack from death, so I don't really follow that.

I do think you're right though, because that paragraph was a huge leap of speculation based on absolutely nothing in the thread on Slaan's part, which just doesn't make sense at all unless you have information everyone else isn't privy too.
Here's the scenario I see.

D2, Logic just got hung and GH looks bad and Zack looks bad. He'd already laid the ground work on day one and all the way into day 2 about him possibly having a vig shot. He suggested that shot was on choxorn, who had voted logic and also had GH and Zack as scummy at various times.

At that point, choxorn becomes super valuable to mislynch, before Gh and Zack flip.

After they flip, he's much less gettable. So, they'd need to do this on day 2, or on day 3. It also becomes much less plausible after that, because if he claims to have shot choxorn and nothing happened, why'd he wait so long to say so?

So it basically only ever happens on day 2 or day 3.

Meanwhile, he says Zack is town but GH is not.

Then, he and zack and gh decide whether to pull the gambit or not. Thus the stalling most of the day.

They see the writing on the wall as the wagon gets bigger and everyone finds him scummy.

At that point, the danger is if Slaan pulls this claim out, it's gonna look like he's deliberately trying to save GH. The moment has passed.

He could try it again on Day 3, mayyyybe.

That night, Zack dies. It's too late. The plan cannot work now.

Strongman that flipped means we have a town doctor, and he can only speculate on a third kill in his crumb post, with 2 missing kills in a single night, if he knows there was a missing kill. He has to be a town vig or a scum vig.

We have to have a town doctor, otherwise the strongman makes absolutely no sense. It's going to be used against a gifted 1 shot doc, that's overkill. It makes the gift giver even weaker and it's already generally a weak role.

Its value is mostly in confirming itself as an existing role.