Lol is ALWAYS town here. I’m willing to stake the game and my life on it 100 out of 100 rands
There is no logical wolfy motivation to claim. Town Lol is either
Fake claiming to provide cover and eat a Night Kill which is towny since any PR worth a shit knows not to CC here.
Or telling the truth which is most likely. This means Lol knows the mafia suspected him of being a PR. He knows the game is Mountainous and more importantly he knows that by claiming not only is he an IC that should never be reasonably pushed but a few things happen.
Town gains more info. Whereas the reasons to kill Caitlin could include PR hunting by outing here towns collective pool of wolfs decreases by 1 and now also every night kill going forwards is always readable in the purest mafia sense.
Wolf Lol is not being pushed the necessity to trade 1 for 1 in this position to kill a town PR in this set up is miniscule. Lol is a damn fine wolf who trusts his play. There’s zero reason you make this play.
I’m putting words in Lols mouth maybe I shouldn’t do that. I’m basing this off my rationale for turning champs quals 1 into mountainous by outing my PR d2. It was highly effective.
Either way if you try to justify the play from a town or wolf perspective you should realize that this is only a town play. Always.