As much as I hate discriminating against serial killers, there is absolutely no reason to keep him alive. He's not neutral, he's anti-town. Remember the win condition? There's nothing stopping him from messing with us (and that's probably what I would do in his place, not much he can do with the role other than have fun, if he is telling the truth about his role that is).
I'm sure that even RW knows that he has to go, but I applaud the effort in trying to strike a deal.
Doing a post-mortem analysis of his posts now, I totally knew he wasn't town all along (LOL). Hindsight is a wonderful thing.
I do hate people dropping by to cast a vote on the self-proclaimed serial killer though. What's the hurry to get on that bandwagon, mewonders? We have a week and an anti-town lynch that's pretty much a sure thing. We need to hear from everyone.

We have a confirmed anti-town role, anyone else we lynch will be a question mark. Why take the chance of lynching a townie? This is nothing against RWarehall, but he is anti-town. Unless someone can with 100% accuracy say who else is anti-town there should really be no one else that gets lynched today.

Does anyone have a valid reason not to lynch an anti-town role? I don't

What reason would he have to lie about his role? He would know it would get this reaction, so why would he lie about it?

Well the first thing that comes to mind is that he is actually scum and wants to survive for another night (possibly to use his prize, or just another night action)

As far as I understand what yogs said, he's not confirmed neutral or scum, just 'anti town' so he could easily be lying.

Admittedly there are better lies that he could use if that were the case, but I'm sure there could be something he is hiding that is detrimental to town. (incidentally I do believe him, but I don't think it's worth the risk in case I'm wrong)

To try and create some plausible reason why he shouldn't be lynched, and see who he can sucker into it.

That's your job if you're scum (or anti-town, as it may be) and the noose is tied around your neck.

He can't very well say he's a mafia strongman, for example, can he? He knows that when it's between him and a claimed cop it's him that will get lynched. A one-man faction that offers to help the town isn't a bad claim.

It does seem strange (to me at least) that he would just come out and say he was a serial killer. Surly he knew it would get him lynched. Even if we did not do it on day 1 (which I think we should, given the lack of info to go on about anyone else), he knows he could never win, as either Town or Scum would surly kill him before the end.

He had already been pointed to as some form of non town so he has/had to claim something. Whether he is being truthful or not he will not know until he is lynched. This is why I feel there maybe more to his role that he is not telling us.

He could very well be a Serial Killer, but do you 100% believe him that he does not get to kill anyone until day 3? If he does get to kill night 1 he could kill anyone. Why take the chance.

I point you to my claim of Paranoid Gun Owner last game... sometimes the crazy claim is the one to go for because if it's just crazy enough people might believe you.

The only hole I see is that clearly he is going to get lynched at some point as a Serial Killer, so unless he can cause havoc or fulfil his win condition in one Night it's not the kind of claim that would keep him alive.

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I meant to say do you 100% believe him that he does not get to kill anyone until night 3

I guess I was just thinking about the Jester role. I have been reading the Wiki and the roles, and it says the Jester wins if he is lynched. But I'm willing to go along with the rest of you and rely on your experiences with serial killers and role claiming.

Who said anything about "opposite team member"? Given that normally you don't know who is what, you strip anyone of the ability.

I believe a serial killer on a leash is a dangerous if not outright stupid thing to have. RWarehall says that we could decide who he targets at night, which basically gives us two lynches, or one lynch and one SK target. That does mean that we'll need to have a consensus on who to lynch/SK, with more opportunities for scum to influence us.
So, while we may get two wagons to analyse per day, we only get one round of night actions to assist us, so we are cutting our advantages in half.

Additional reason to lynch RWarehall now instead of later. There are currently two claimed people that can cause trouble to scum. A Serial Killer and a Cop. If there are two of them, protectors, watchers etc will have to gamble on who to protect, and scum can work with more impunity. Assuming only one of them is available, scum will have to either go for the known target that will be protected, or a random one and hope to get a power role.


Not quite sure what can be gained from discussions though, especially if scum are aware of the scrutiny such discussions will be under now. Or I may be scum trying to force a lynch. Either way, Vote RWarehall.

Who cares? Kill all anti-town.