First off, your roleclaim. You roleclaimed bulletproof with some exceptions. That's just disappointingly suspicious, really. "Bulletproof" is a favourite roleclaim for scum because it doesn't require to do anything on behalf of the town, and it can be used to excuse the fact that the claimant somehow never gets night killed. The "with exceptions" is also part of a scum favourite - because claiming an exact role leaves you open to counterclaim. This is not helping your situation at all.

Second, you've got some evidence pointing to you being the Thing and part of a Fantastic Four mason group. I don't doubt either of those, but they're both irrelevant given the realities of infiltrated mason groups and shapeshifters.

Third, and finally getting into the interesting part, there's your justification for your scummy actions that brought this about in the first place. I admit I'm impressed, I didn't think you could come up with something believable, but your explanation is actually a possibility. I don't believe it of course, I knew from the moment I promised you some time to prepare that you were going to try to find some explanation of this kind, and possible though it may be, there's no evidence for it. There is no sign that this was your plan before your actions, you only posted them after you were called out on your mafia dodging lynch votes. Obviously, that's the way it usually is, players rarely give out their plans beforehand. But then, if we operate on the basis that you are mafia, what are you expected to do? Just confess to your blatant scummy behaviour, or make up some story explaining it away? So really, I'm impressed by the explanation you've thought up, but it changes nothing. There's no way to know if it is true, and we can be sure you would have done the same thing as mafia.

Fourth and finally, there's the numbers. Very interesting, aren't they?

There are of course four possibilities for your mason group:
1- You are actually all innocent townies.
2- You are mafia and your masonic allies are innocent.
3- You are innocent but one of your allies is mafia.
4- You are all mafia, attempting some bold feint based on our acceptance of the assumption that you are an actual mason group.

I'm going to dismiss #4 due to yesterday's claimlist, either the lot of you were exceedingly lucky or exceedingly clever, but most probably you actually are a mason group.

I'm also going to not bother with #3 for now, because you're the likeliest suspect in the group for now. I won't really consider the others unless one of them does something even more dramatically scummy than you, or you get lynched and actually turn out innocent.

The interesting part about this is that if you are a mafia, as it seems you are, then this does indeed clear Fox and Ravens and Hobo - barring the unlikely #4 possibility above - because mods simply don't go for redundant mason infiltrations. One of them should eventually, just to mess with us, but until then I am comfortable with the assumption that there is 1 or 0 mafia in your group.

So if you die and are demonstrated as mafia, we can list those two as nearly certain townies.

That leaves us with Yunalesca and Darth_Katie. As I've indicated earlier, I have an inkling that Darth_Katie is innocent. I think I know her character and her role, though I can't be certain. If I survive the Night, I'll probably ask her about those tomorrow, I don't think it is especially relevant today. So in the meantime, again barring the unlikely "full mafia mason group feint" I outlined above, that means that if I am correct, one of your mafia allies assuredly bussed you. Going up the list, that would likely be Amys, then ?, ranagrande, Kronin, Bergioyn and myself.

Certainly, if you are mafia, we've got enough info there that we can almost assuredly win the game near instantly. When I get you lynched - and I do intend to get you lynched today - supposing you are as I suspect mafia, I would suggest everybody to hypocop Yunalesca. From there I'll ask the cop to reveal himself so we can get the true result, and assuming he isn't dead or roleblocked that'll give us an almost definite reading on most everybody.

If Yunalesca ends up being mafia, then your last ally (or allies, I suspect 3, especially without a Serial Killer, but could be wrong) will likely be in the tail end of that vote list, or Darth_Katie supposing I'm actually wrong about my expectations regarding her.

If Yunalesca and Darth_Katie both turn out innocent, then I'd reconsider the "full mafia mason group feint".

Your death and revelation as mafia could win us the game right here.

And with you scummy behaviour, I'm very confident that you are mafia. You claim it is unlikely the entire town (or the entire town -1) would vote for you, but it shouldn't be that unlikely. Barring players who have suicided or admitted to lying, your behaviour this game is probably the scummiest that I've seen. You're the scummiest player to deny your scumminess. And you are excepting your mason allies, when instead you should be glad that they're following that strange "masonic blind loyalty" thing I mentioned earlier. Really, they should be voting for you too.

But anyway, if I'm somehow wrong, if all your scummy antics were actually honest mistakes or unfortunately unfulfilled plans or innocent misunderstandings, all we lose is one townie. A good player, certainly, but still just one townie.

As players we must accept the risk of mislynch. It's happened before, it will happen again. To sit on our hands and do nothing is to give the mafia victory. You are by far the scummiest player alive right now, you are by far our best target for a lynch, and your death, if we are right could give us the game.

It would be foolish for the town not to lynch you.