Who? You directly implied that there are scum on your lynch. Who?

One, I'm not scum so there is no direct implication. Two, even IF I were scum, I wouldn't know who my other scumbuddies are anyway since I have yet to read the PM that would assumedly contain who my mates are. Three, I've already answered who I think the scum that have voted for me are. I want to relook at everyone, but I'm still catching up(Only took a look at this because I'm grabbing a link to a post and noticed the orange text) at this moment and won't have the time for that(relook) tonight either.

Hopefully ABC will finally say something on the matter, but usually a tree stump doesn't count as alive/in the player pool once claimed. The most recent votals would seem to indicate this as it says with 12 voters it takes 7 to lynch. So if there were Wonk, a vig, another townie, and 3 mafia(since 3rd party are scum too and could cross-vote with mafia) there should only be 5 voters and 3 to lynch. Thus mafia would win.

then how would that be better for scum if you were scum? Maybe I'm looking to deeply into it, but I just don't see how that follows.

As I said a few times, it's more fun for me personally. I already know that as scum I can blend quite well, to the point that claiming I scan guilty was the reason I didn't make end game if not win at all despite having one partner make themselves the scummiest looking player since radish and the other partner disappearing and being modkilled. I've also shown that I have no issues of displaying a connection with a scummate, evidenced by quoting hatmoza linking myself and Gnizmo.

Point is I don't need to do it as an aid if I get unlucky(because I prefer town roles) and land scum, but it doesn't hurt either. Just playing the odds, I'm more likely to role town, and for that I am trying to hide what type of role I have. You say it shouldn't matter because there aren't really tells or they can be hidden, but you(among others) also correctly had me pegged for a power role my second game when I thought I was playing the same.

The reason I was vocal about it is because I wanted scum to know that they cannot read me day one when I'm town. I said it again in thread because there are players this round that very likely wouldn't have read the quicktopic where I said it was my intention. That's also for any of them that could be scum, but also for anyone that is town so that if I'm still around in future days they would understand why there may be a shift in my behavior.

I'm town that's probably in too deep. The reactions are great to gauge people's alignments, but I think it will be up to the other townies to make sense out of it all.

That's explained in the bolded. It gives them some credibility for not wanting to avoid lynching a scummate. As for the distraction bit: mafia want to distract town away from lynching their mates if possible and love it when townies are doing the job for them. They would know that if I'm not lynched today then it would be because of a no lynch and I'd almost undoubtedly be a goner tomorrow, when I would by then have to know who they were and could hurt them with connections that don't(even coming from the mouth of scum) exist. They'd cut out a negative distraction so they could start focusing on setting up mislynches.

Linkz you going to adress things from vett and notstan?

I really see no reason for you to roleclaim, especially on day one.  I suspect that under the people who brought you to this point are scum members. I would just fit them perfectly if you roleclaim now, so I'm asking you not to do it.

As for prof and Stefl, I will be answering your question when I get back home, I need to go to work now.

I already said why I think ABC did what he did, but I have no way of knowing that since it's not my own action. Time stamps put the PM at right after I made the post saying I was willing to claim if people asked for it. He must have read that or he's only been following in spurts, but he also asked in the third PM if I actually read it so he could have thought I was lying or maybe checking it at that point. So I explained to him that he could check Sent messages and it would display the PM he sent me as new as long as it was unread, and I also asked if he wanted me to read it.

I never said the second PM gave information on my specific role. It told me whether or not I have an active ability and thus whether or not I would be penalized. There was another bit that let me know I was town, and there's just no way to paraphrase that without saying more than I'm willing to. I'm not reading my role PM because it wouldn't help me any further at this juncture.

I thought by quoting each of them that met the 'making a big deal out of it' part I was doing exactly that, well not the gambit but the claim. I left you out because you just seemed surprised at the role itself. TOS accepted it and Vette seemed reluctant at first but then spun it in a positive light. IIRC there were one or two more that said something about it, but Stefl and Heph were the only ones to make it look horrible and so the only ones I really bothered mentioning about it.

I don't disagree that there'd likely be a ton of information from my lynch, but I don't know how easy it's going to be to sort it out. I'm also certain it's a mislynch, so that's not something I would want to advocate town do. Even if I'm just going to be a question mark unless someone can clear me, I think my experience and possible power would be better put to use until(and if) my lynch can no longer be put off.