He nodded. And though his scarf hid it, he gave Hazel a slight smile. "Something like that. More like..." He brought his hands up in front of him, twisting them back and forth, as if putting turning something in his hands. "More like the unexpected byproduct of one. I could try to explain it but... it probably be a long story." Although... maybe he could put some twists on it and make it sound cooler. "Lets just say my dad is like. A cartoonishly evil scientist that gets up to some weird experiments. But I'll never be like him."
Jean's eyes lit up. A dark, brooding antihero! (Was... was
that why his name was Anti?) Created by an
evil scientist! He was like her mirror image, the one on the bad guy team that she'd fight before he defected from his evil masters in his admiration for her!
...Was he a bad guy? No, no way. Or, like, maybe he sort of was, but in that exciting antihero way. Just like Wes!
"It's okay! You can be with us. We're all created by science! Join Team Experiments!"
[[Allllll right, I finally finished rereading and taking notes on day two. God damn.
On balance, not 100% sure about windskull. There
are some things that are kind of questionable about her: I thought her claim post was kind of weirdly elaborate and self-conscious, trying to preempt a lot of possible lines of questioning, for example, in a way that pinged me lightly as a thing you'd be more likely to do when you're fakeclaiming and nervous about it. She's also weirdly adamant that she couldn't possibly be a mafia rolecop trying to get cred for identifying the serial killer because the rolecop would see the serial killer as vanilla; like when Homestar did it, I don't at all agree that this is a given for how Namo'd GM it just because it says so on the wiki. (Accepting the presence of healer clash, he clearly
isn't following the wiki exactly!) So I don't buy that logic, and I kind of side-eye it being treated as definitive in someone's defense even after it was pointed out that this isn't necessarily the case. And of course, I had her in the vaaaaguely suspect category back on D1 for trying to keep suspicion on Homestar.
However, I think all this is pretty circumstantial, and I think on the whole windskull's explanations of her actions have made sense. Moreover, like Sinderella, she seemed confused about the presence of vanilla information early on, which had me pegging her early as a likely non-mafia power role; I still think this should give us pause. And, crucially,
if she's town she's cop, so no way should we kill her here unless we're
pretty sure. If we kill the cop, the mafia celebrate and just freely strongman one set of the lovers. The thoughts that came up previously regarding going for Fusion over windskull to verify them as a pair, given how much association there is, sounded pretty sensible; that's a far safer plan.
Either way, I think we should definitely go for
Altair today. As fun as it would be to cooperate with the serial killer for a night,
that plan relies on the idea that we trust Altair will actually go for one of our scumreads, and not just kill one of the lovers to go out with a bang. There is zero reason for us to trust this, and zero reason for Inkedust to actually cooperate, given she's losing the game either way. The risk of that proposal is unacceptable no matter how you slice it.
Regarding whether Inkedust might actually be mafia: it is true that she's kind of a weird mafia target, but I do want to point out that at least on TCoD, the mafia often go for nightkill targets that are unlikely to be targeted by doctors, rather than risk
zero kills? Either way, though, we want her gone regardless.]]
