I'm not understanding your meaning that if Squidy was scum then it would mean GC has a higher chance of being scum?? Why bus two of your own teammates? I can argue why Scum!GC would bus Royal because he didn't know Royal was Scum...but I can't see putting another Scum teammate under the bus, especially this late into the game.
Would like to hear your good reason for both GC and Terra please.
You're probably right. I think I got too caught up in what I thought might have been going on, because it really would be a very risky, very unlikely play. In the scenario I was considering, GC was a scum cop with the ability to try to find their hidden partner (Flush). Assuming there are no neutrals beyond Retro (Terra has claimed neutral now though), upon finding Flush's alignment GC would know the alignment of every player in the game, allowing him to give 100% accurate reads. Town has generally had some really good luck up until now, so busing two team mates would be a high risk, high reward strategy to gain essentially unmatched credibility. Squidy's flip sinks this theory though- not that GC can't be scum.
As for why I think he could be scum, there's a few reasons. First and foremost is that squidy flipped town- he's probably fine if there's a framer (and if I were a framer, I definitely would have assumed Terra would be his next target, explaining that scum result), but if there's not a framer than his actions are obviously suspicious. Him not revealing his squidy result immediately yesterday was attributed to wanting to make the game more fun for the rest of us, but it could have just as easily been stalling for time while thinking of who to point his finger at. He's generally kept a low profile (from my perspective at least) up until now, and he's no stranger to weird behavior (like his Ourobolus vote).
Terra has been suspicious to me for most of the game, but I let up on him because I legitimately believed that Flush and squidy were both scum. He's my top suspect now that they're out of the way. He's role claimed neutral now, but I don't entirely buy it. I can't apply too much value to this line of reasoning because it's pretty meta, but I still think it's unlikely that we've got another neutral- have there been other GAF games of this size with more than one neutral (I haven't payed much attention to every game so I'm not sure)? Retro's role PM labeled him as "the neutral", which also lowers the possibility for me (although perhaps in defense of Terra's claim,
he said not too place much stock into that when I last brought it up- perhaps an early sign that he
knew there was another neutral). I'd also like to call attention to one of his
read lists- outside of Flush, who scum likely did not know was on their side, every player on his scum list is now confirmed not-scum (admittedly, being wrong is kind of a part of mafia).
Terra, I'm curious to know if you knew Swamped was your target to protect from the beginning.