OK, so first of all, for this to make any sense I have to claim.
I am Juri Arisugawa, Town Slow Cop.Slow Cop basically means all my investigations take an extra day to arrive. In other words, an investigation I sent out Night 1 wouldn't actually get a result until Day 3. The only positive is that my results are guaranteed to be sane. (This is why I was so cautious about the announcer role - given how long my investigations take to return, someone else who can claim results and claim them
publically just seemed outright ridiculous.)
So why am I coming out with my claim? Well, I investigated bofh on Night 1 in the name of policy. He'd been lurking and the only wagon he supported was a townie wagon, so he seemed like a good choice.
My result came back this morning. It was
Not Guilty.I'm not going to pretend I'm happy about this. In fact, I'm so unhappy about this that I had to go prepare a little presentation of how unhappy I am about this.
Behold as the phenomenon comes full circle.Now! Onto actual decision making now that the obvious and scummy player is no longer an option.
##Vote: ActionDanNow that I can come into the open about my role and all, I can also explain exactly why I don't like Dan. As I mentioned before, given that the setup contains a cop who takes three phases just to get a result, the prospect of a public cop with one-phase results concerned me.
In addition there's Dan's complete lack of contribution in Day 2, only
flaring up when Polly roleclaims and says he's going to check for any sign of an announcer. The only reason for Dan to act so awkwardly in response to that claim is if he a) knows the role responsible for the announcement, and b) doesn't WANT people to know.
So my theory is this - Dan is the mafia-aligned announcer, and used his Night 1 action to make what looked like a public cop result. At this time he had no clue whether there was an actual cop in the setup, but even if there was it'd be 'my word against his'. Polly basically being a rolecop totally undermined that strategy and out of panic he chose not to use his power D2 in case Polly happened to be watching.
In short - Dan, are you the announcer? And if so why did you try to cover it up?
I will do a proper reread of the other main wagons tomorrow. It's 1am and I am still really fucking mad about that investigation result. :|