Okay let’s breath here for a second and logic this out.
Let’s go with y’all’s tinfoil. Bep, me, and Arete are scumteam.
And let’s pretend like we’re Arete last night, near the chopping block.
We have three options
1: Do nothing. Hope it doesn’t end on Arete.
From scum Arete, this makes a decent amount of sense. First, it’s entirely possible that they don’t have any PR’s, so claiming one wouldn’t work (at least, we’d have to expect a counterclaim). It was also a 33% chance it did land on him, and let’s be honest, it didn’t seem to me like that was the way it was going to go.
From town Arete, he had nearly no reason to hold this in. No reason to risk arguably the most powerful town slot. An opportunity to get out information about me and and the future nights of checking.
2: Claim role, one that Arete or another scum member actually has because we can’t risk claiming a role of a town. However, we claim another member of town so that if Arete dies, we bring a town down with them.
Scum Arete has insensitive if he thinks that the vote will go towards him. Bringing down a town would be neat, and decently likely if he did flip anyway.
3: Same as 2 but we claim a member of the scumteam is town to help protect them.
The hope here would be that you could hypothetically clear yourself while simultaneously clearing another scum team member. However if EITHER of you die in anyway, than both is screwed. High risk, high reward.
Which one is most likely?
Now let’s throw bep into the situation. What Ari and others are seriously claiming, is that Arete, a scum team member, claimed cop, told everyone that scum!me was town (this inexcusably locking us two together), and then, told everyone that bep was scum. In this story, every single scum team member has now been outed and is inexplicably screwed if either I or Arete flips.
Why would anyone ever take a risk like that. Arguably you could build more town cred by clearing another town member. Bep, nor I, were even close to being on the radar. Neither of us needed saving.