Ha, so did I. As a matter of fact I almost posted a passionate rant about it and then I saw Wyrm's reaction and I thought "Oh, this is probably satire and it went right over my head. I almost embarrassed myself storming in on my high horse".

I am underwhelmed.

If true, his alignment must be Town, since he deliberately hammered micro.

I don't know.
He's the only vote on Lift which I can see as scum.

I put some trust in the reasoning which led me to:
But I don't see scum!buck due to the vote on Lift, so that means that yes, catte must be town.
But I doubt about Joe again, so that means that the reasoning could be completely wrong after all.

@Gogtrial: but if Joe, Dess and Yogs are scum, ettac must be town

We got scum on D4. Scum did not manage to prevent this, despite them presumably winning the game if they had.
That means there was no viable wagon with a town player voting for another town player for scum to hop on en masse at D4 EoD.
Catte had two votes at D4 EoD: Dessimu and yogs.
That means that either catte is scum (in which case Joe's vote doesn't matter), or that catte is town, but that Dessimu and yogs are scum.
If catte is town, then Joe's vote on catte is too risky for town!Joe to make. Thus, Joe is scum, or Joe knows for very certain that catte is scum, which is unlikely for town to know.

I like this. A new perspective.

Why would multiple scum vote Lift, if they have a good chance of winning by not doing so?
From your perspective, do you really see multiple scum among me, catte, Book?

Oh wow, you do!
Really, you see scum!me reasoning all D4-long to arrive at scum!Lift as my primary target? While ignoring town!Book which also had enough stated support for a successful lunch? In the process making the argument that convinced you to join the Lift wagon, rather than following Lift's argument for town!Dessimu or town!Bookwyrm?

OK, it's ~10 hours left
https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/generic?iso=20220520T2000&p0=78&font=cursive

I might be off for several hours. Here is my assumption on Book's claim for now:

Book's claim about being Town!Stumper without naming his role and alignment (but hinting it) in his initial *claim* post #1845:
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Book repeats himself stating that he is the reason for the Stumpting but without naming his role yet again.
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Finally Book gives in and name his role:
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I have no idea what the Stumper is. Here is what I know:

Tree Stump (alias Stump):
https://wiki.mafiascum.net/index.php?title=Tree_Stump

Treeviver (no known alias):
https://wiki.mafiascum.net/index.php?title=Treeviver

A Treeviver is a player who can bring a dead player back into the game as a Tree Stump. Treestumps may post, but may not vote or act. Treestumps are still counted as dead for the purposes of votes.

So why Book is not a "Treeviver" (modified or not) but a "Stumper" since every other mentioned roles is in the Mafia wikia anyway?
ZFR was lazy enough to give Dedo a JOAT role with Tracker ability (+??? ability probably) without inventing a new name for that role.

Every NKed Town player was revived as Stump. Micro was hammered by Book (Catte's wagon was at L-2, hammer was not possible anyway), Lift was hammered by Book but his post was posted just a mere seconds after Catte's vote on Lift and Book post does not look like a hammer to me, more like it's either Lift or Dess are scum, or both even, in my opinion Book was not going to hammer Lift, it was an accident or it looked like an accident at least.

Book's role is SUPER important if true, why he declared it? To be NKed the very next Night???

Or maybe to blind Town of his claim?

Every player which was killed by Mafia returned as Stump.
Will you believe that it's Town doing?

Don't you think that every player which was killed by Mafia player (NK or hammer) is cursed to be resurrected as stump?[/i]
Because from my point of view it's exactly how it works.

I still think it's 3 Mafia players in total (not 4) and Book's post #1732 gives me the creeps:
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Bookwyrm627: Because if we assume 3 and screw up on the lynch, we get a pleasant surprise in the form of another chance. The opposite is not true.

I think Book's decision to out himself was anti-Town for Town and ballsy (in a good way) for Mafia.
It's your choice what to think of course. I'm glad I'm dead, and before that I was asking Book in my latest post in Twilight.

The things which stuck in mind:
D2: maxleod as NK analysis (#539)
D3: ruling out ZFR shenanigans with his dedo vote (#893/#895)
D3: his questioning of how yogsloth reads dedo (#917/#946/#1001)
D3: his questioning my initial micro gotcha (#1055) and then on D4 town-reading me for it (#1218)

FWIW, I didn't read him as such at all. Yes. Which is my main hypothesis from #1880. Simplest solution: all scum were off-wagon for Lift; they were hoping to run out the clock for the win, and taken by surprise by the switch catte+Book votes. I stated this explicitly:
Do I town-read catte by himself? no.
Does scum!catte make sense to me in relation to everything else? Not very, no.
But it remains a possibility.

@Gogtrial: so, now everyone can be scum, except Bookwyrm?

I'd explain the difference between giving up and sulking but etc. uselessness etc.

I already answered (#1884) that I'm town-reading Book for his claim, yes. If you have a point to make, please make it?

Could you apologize to Joe for this?

Please also don't leave it too late to share whatever you found?

Good find! A role yogsloth wasn't aware of?
The difference in name doesn't set off any warning bells to me, but this does:

No, I refuse. I stand by what I said. Musing over what a confirmed scum is saying and doing post-flip (most of which are obviously jokes) is useless and in no way helps solving the game for Town. I'll die on that hill. I have only pointed out this particular thing as being useless and Joe is being passive-aggressive about it in a very childish manner. I won't tolerate that.

I kind of want to see those claims first.

@Gogtrial: the point I am trying to make, is that you pushed a strong case for your "I figured out the scum team" and now it turned into "but everything is a possibility, so I don't know". If you had to vote right now, who would be your two targets? Not three, not one. Two. Who?

If right now is EoD, and I'm out of time to parse all the recent input, I'm still trusting the neat solution as the most sensible and likely one.
So, limiting myself to two: Yogs, for being not helpful and all the "oh, it's so simple, but if it isn't then I'll solve it tomorrow and handwave away today" posts. And Joe, for being part of either solution, plus the reckless catte vote.

I give that a 70% probability of being correct (yesterday morning when I woke up, it was like 99% - I'm willing to take note of the blinding brilliance of the solution not being all that convincing, though it's super disheartening).

The rest of toDay I'm pondering and poking the possibilities in the other 30%, and waiting to see what shakes out of that mass-claim, with particular interest in catte's explanation for not starting it yesterday.

Speaking of that I intentionally posted the claiming order when I did even though it was quite late in the evening for me as Catte was online and posting. As a matter of fact that was one of the reasons I had him first even though I considered other sequences as well.