I talked with Sammy and said mostly real strategy things, except for the most important things (e.g. stalkers being the real provably innocent role which mafia can't fake for any cost and which can be protected with a single jailor).
I think we should use the following strategy: vluo and lukesci publicly claim gay knights and try to be the game dictators beanboy claims visitor (only if prompted). He uses the visit ability, his roleblock, and the mafia kill each day, minimizing the chance that he gets stalked as visiting the killed person. He is hopefully less likely to get roleblocked as a new player, which is good for having our kills go through. I pretend to be a town jailor/roleblocker pretending to be a mafia pretending to be an arsonist. Claiming arsonist signals to the real arsonist that I'm faking and thus probably mafia. The arsonist would love to have a way to claim arsonist to mafia without claiming to town, so hopefully they contact me. However if they decide to beef me for some reason, I will have the cover that I will have claimed to some townies that I would be fake claiming arsonist. I'm typically a top kill target for mafia so non-mafia me would want to claim day 1 in order to avoid being killed; similarly making this fake claim will help me avoid suspicion for not being killed early.
If we do manage a successful alliance with the arsonist, we massively increase our killing power, so I think that such a scheme is worth trying. Notably the arsonist is similarly very dangerous to us if they aren't aligned with us; even them just acting randomly effectively causes a bunch of random lynches to happen, which is bad for us. An arsonist acting fully independently is probably better for town than a town vigilante, in fact.
If we fail to get mafia installed as the gay knight dictators, I am going to claim jailor to the real dictators (a claim that justifies the arsonist fake claim, since jailor is a powerful role). This will hopefully cause me to get assigned to one of the gay knights to protect; I can then simply kill them instead, and infer that I must have been roleblocked (mafia love roleblocking me when I'm town). Then hopefully the next dictators will be mafia.
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