Question of the Day, right here. Understanding both light and dark helps us manifest our Aura, so analyzing both Night and Day actions helps us lynch scum. QED.I wonder if we have an SK or a Vigi.
Let's theorize on last Night:
The SK Theory:
Yeah, but who? Riyant's done an SK-that-hides-victim-roles thing* before, but RWBY doesn't exactly lend itself well to this possibility. Torchwick, for all his style, was clearly a subordinate of Cinder's, and the White Fang's her staunch ally at the least (and also not possessing any characters interesting enough to make the final cut of this game, with the number of available roles being as small as it is). Besides, whoever killed a Mafia member last night clearly didn't have any kind of role-hiding ability.
We can't rely on flavor a whole lot, if at all, but I'm down to generally assume that it has some merit. We know there's a Team RWBY, and although it's now impossible to sorta-confirm without lynching Dachande, it seems like we also started off with all four of JNPR. That leaves just three spots for non-Townies; as we can now be somewhat more confident that three of the Town were off-the-bat revealed to other Townies, and knowing that Town at least had a Cop role in addition to this, it'd seem really unfair to pit us against just two Mafia, give at least one of them a sorta weak power ability to work with, and make them deal with fighting us and battling an SK at the same time.
*Though whatever killed Anatron last night, of course, was clearly not an SK-that-hides-victim-roles. I'd say it's by far most likely that this is a Mafia trait; either on Cinder, who can right-up disintegrate people, or on Mercury, as would be implied by the "battered and bruised beyond recognition" line.
The Vig Theory:
Okay, so, there are a couple of good candidates for this position between RWBY and JNPR.
- Ruby's done the most independent villain-thwarting of them in the series so far, but lore-wise, that's kind of a weak possibility, because she's always getting wrecked by the non-mook villains in solo fights. She's got a lot of heart and a really inventive mind for battle strats; that's what makes her special.
- Yang, who's Team RWBY's strongest in 1v1, and can even take on top-tier legendary assassin slayer/top-tier legendary assassin Mercury, makes a lot more sense. She could be a Vig. Her semblance is what makes her special, though, and she's gotta take damage to activate it. She'd make a much better Bomb than Vig, imo, but that's admittedly kinda nit-picky. A Yang vig is totally within reason, as a possibility.
- Pyrrha, who can flawlessly 1v4 entire teams of other students, is at least as heroic as the others, and is the strongest of them by far. She's not nearly as quick to violence or as generally reckless as Yang, though, and so arguably also the less Vigilante-like personality of the two.
So at this point, you may be wondering: Why the heck did I just talk about RWBY characters in this section, instead of game mechanics and motives, when even I've already noted the highly questionable nature of its reliability and relevance? And the answer to that, basically, is Pyrrha. Danny's claim regarding Dachande made perfect sense for the Pyrrha role, but not a whole lot of sense for it being all of that role. That'd be weird. For a Mason pair to have no other abilities makes sense, because any other powers they can use become so much more powerful under their control, simply for the fact that they can coordinate their uses. (See: OPM Mafia, where the scum figured out that even one member's ability that did literally nothing but handicap the user could be wielded to their advantage.) For a one-sided reveal role to have no other value, in a theme game like this, is a lot less... expected.
Danny never claimed to have any additional abilities to his role; he threw out the knowing-Dachande's-alignment thing like it was no big deal, but remained conspicuously silent on whether there was more that he could do, even while under pressure and despite expecting a strong likelihood of his getting lynched or killed off. Maybe there just wasn't any more, and he also didn't notice the part where I'd brought it up. That's possible. Also possible: Danny was a slightly buffed-up Vig Pyrrha, figured that claiming the Dachande link early on would protect him from lynching (cause that'd help establish him with at least one of the Town), and from nightkilling (cause he wasn't expecting the role-hiding ability, and figured Mafia would avoid killing somebody that'd just end up confirming another Townie with the reveal). That he was clearly suspicious of Anatron at the end of Day 1 adds some credence to this possibility; that he also claimed to have suddenly realized, later on, that he'd screwed up big time, and was a terrible Townie, takes some credence away. But he also (effectively) claimed that, despite the lack of overall merit in the last time I did a spiel of flavor-based what-ifs like this, at least one of the shots at drawing character connections was spot-on in his case - meaning, his role must have included knowledge that he and Dachande made up one of the potential pairings I'd come up with, of which J/P is easily the best fit for his one-way thing.
Anyway, the point I'm making here is: There's a reasonably good chance that we had a Vig, but he's dead now. That's how it seems to me right now, anyway.
The CRAZY STUFF Theory of Night 1 Deaths:
Also, could be that Danny's role had a Doc ability, because shield and magnetism powers; if so, however I'd expect him to have used it on himself last night. Dude was pretty paranoid. It could also be that he was a Pyrrha with a Redirect ability, because magnetism powers; if so, it probably had no bearing on last night's death toll. He'd totally have been down to redirect Anatron's kill to himself, but a Vig who had a "bodies are beaten beyond recognition" kind of caveat, (and a Yang Vig would totally fit into that kind of role), wouldn't have gone for Danny, who would only made a somewhat decent Vig target for investigative purposes. Scum probably did that.
Also, it could be that Danny's role had a Bus Driver ability, and switched himself with Anatron last night. So then a Yang Vig targeted Anatron and killed Danny, while Anatron or his partners targeted Danny and killed Anatron.
Also, it could be that Yang is a Bomb, and Danny targeting her led to Danny getting brutally beaten to death, and then someone else screwed with Anatron.
There are honestly a lot of potential explanations that could remain valid, at least from where I'm sitting, without anyone else volunteering more info.
In a way, this is all really more of a call for contributions than it is a contribution itself. I have no relevant Night info to add, myself. Sure, it could be that I'm just fishing for roleclaims so I can pick out some solid nightkill targets, which is why I'm just sitting here speculating on game roles instead of calling out suspects, but... here's the thing:
Dunsparce? His Anatron-hunting was pretty legit. Could be just a scum-play, sure, but that's hardly ever not a realistic possibility. In this case, it'd also have been a well-executed one; he was neither particularly reluctant nor particularly eager to get onto the lynch. He was neither unusually confident nor unusually hesitant about arguing in favor of it. Neither my gut nor my logic have found anything particularly suspicious about his behavior. I do not at this time consider him to be one of the better candidates in our lynch pool.
Firedemon? Effectively a 'safe' random lynch. He claimed he was busy, and also acted like he was busy. This has been the sum of his distinction so far, as I read it. That, and a bit of nagging concern that he seems like he's not really trying to help, just trying to appear that he's trying to help.
13th? Also a random lynch, also a relatively 'safe' one given that he doesn't seem like he's likely to end up helping out much anyway. Which is fine, I guess - but with all that's happened, can we still not do any better than random guesses for the lynching?
Shizno?
Well... Shizno actually seems kinda suspicious to me. Can't exactly point to why, though. Kinda the same sort of of feeling as with Firedemon, but a lot more so.
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So...
Thoughts?