Do we have any idea what mergle has been up to?
vote: mergle
The activity levels today are diabolical, and I regret to say I'm not going to be able to do much to help that - I've managed to briefly get the computer off my partner while they take a break from their assignment, but I'm not sure whether I'm going to be able to get back on.
However, I've put too much effort into this game to put up with being accidentally lynched as the town fumbles the end-game due to low activity levels. I'm not sure how many cultists there are, but I'm worried they may jump on the chance to lynch me, so I'm going to make sure that inattentive townies don't do so by accident. This will also give me the opportunity to explain why I'm just about certain Zack is town, in case I end up dead and unable to do so (because it involves night actions)
As is known by several people now, I am the scanner Zack has been referring to. My scanning ability gives me a random piece of information about the person I scan - this has included victory conditions on more than one occasion. One of my first scans was Zack, and he came up town, hence we've been working together for most of the game, building a town network.
We caught BSmith together, with the help of others, and then we caught mechaerik. I'm going to explain how we caught mechaerik, because it shows how neither of us are cult. I was suspicious of mechaerik after southernking flipped mafia (mech didn't vote, which suggested he didn't want to ensure southernking's death, but nor did he want to be seen as swinging a close vote against it - as an aside, you will note both myself and I voting for southernking). So I suggested to a fellow network member with a tracking ability, in a PM I copied to Zack, that they track mechaerik. Meanwhile, Zack was protected by another member. Mechaerik was tracked acting on Zack. We deduced a cult recruitment attempt from the fact it didn't appear in the writeup (whereas attacks had) and Zack sent the peace moon kill order to dispose of mechaerik. He survived, of course, but I think his identity as cult leader is now conclusively proven. So I know Zack wasn't cult before - or mechaerik wouldn't have acted on him. And since then, mechaerik was consistently roleblocked until he died. After that, we've seen the cult apparently going round killing (stormtroopers = empire to me!). So Zack hasn't been converted and was town originally - so he's town.
Subsequently, I scanned Xenoneb, got a "mafia" result, told Zack, and it proved correct.
I've laid low in the thread to try to avoid drawing unwanted attention, but it seems to me to be the lesser of two evils to reveal now.
In terms of the immediate situation, Ravus Sol has posted a good analysis, and I agree with
vote: Mat93