I don't have any new information to share today but I didn't get a chance to respond to the information that kyeugh shared about me supposedly healing with nanobots, so thoughts on that incoming
So I find this very intriguing... I only have the ability to heal with magic, so I've been wondering why kyeugh would get that information, if she's telling the truth.
Really, the only two options I see are: 1. kyeugh is mafia and is lying about it, or 2. someone anti-town messed with her results to spread misinformation.
Whether it was kyeugh or someone else causing it, I guess their goal would be to make me look less trustworthy to the town, and it's a clever bit of misinformation because it plays off of the possibility that I
could have inherited JackPK's role and (if my own words are to be believed) am mafia-aligned. But that doesn't really make sense, because if I hypothetically inherited Deadly Doctor and it was a mafia role and I was lying about it due to a change in alignment, that would contradict what I said at the beginning of the game when I was town-aligned (about inheriting the role of the first non-mafia player to die), and I would have no reason to lie about it then.
So maybe... the goal was to make me look third-party? I guess... that would somewhat help the mafia in just causing general chaos, but I don't really fully understand the thought process behind it. I'm struggling to think of what kind of win condition a third-party doctor would even have. I suppose Deadly Doctor sounds kinda serial killer-y, but it should be pretty clear that's not my role, given if I was, a lot more people would be dead, and kyeugh especially. It's possible that maybe whoever messed with the results didn't actually have complete control over how they were affected? It seems unlikely that Mawile was telling the truth with that last-minute claim but maybe there is some truth in it, and he told us just for the enjoyment of seeing it confuse us. If it was Mawile, maybe he just picks a target (kyeugh) and all of their results become unreliable for that night? I really don't know the mechanism behind which that information was altered, but with the number of town power roles (and especially inforoles) that have been claimed so far, I would assume the mafia have some way of distorting information to balance that out.
On the subject of Mawile, I have been thinking about something. It seems Mawile was most likely not part of the mafia in-group, and was working alone (being paired with Herbe was coincidental, and not part of Mawile's role). From what I remember of past games, these lost mafia roles would typically be told the name of one person in the mafia in-group, but not be able to communicate with them. I don't exactly know how Butterfree handles it (could someone find an example in one of the game's she's hosted?), but if that's the case, if Mawile was playing smart he'd probably want to subtly let that contact know he was on their side, to avoid getting killed by the mafia. I think we should look for any behavior that seems... odd... or anything that could be a mafia dog whistle. Maybe Mawile said something that would seem unimportant to us but would turn heads in the mafia chat. I'm not sure what kind of information Mawile would have had that could achieve such a thing, but maybe we could find something by looking at his interactions with other players? It's possible he might even have just liked/reacted to a bunch of his contact's posts in an unusual way to get their attention and hope that the other person caught on. It might not yield us any kind of useful information but it's at least something to look for
anyway that's my braindump for now
