Actually, I'm in agreement with mscriv on this interpretation, and thus, with chris's take on this. Once a special is recruited by the WWs, his or her skills and talents are at the disposal of the WW team; hence, for a WW team to be able to use the advantage an infected Seer gives them, it makes sense for them to be able to use the information gleaned from a scan.
It is not as though the information is announced to the rest of the MRville world, (until the following day, if ever), rather, it is simply shared with one's own 'team', whether DA or WW. Indeed, given time differences - and the occasional time delays in posting narratives, it can take a very long time to be able to act upon information which one has learned.
we all agree on the fact that an infected special can share the info with the wolves, nobody is questioning that.
the question was rather 'when', and in fact is not even precisely that (it's kind of impossible to ignore informations once you have them) the main question here is:
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When should be specials informed of the result of their scans?
there are multiple ways to deal with it as a GG:
- at the discretion of the GG
- in the order the PM are sent
- following the turn order
- at morning
i would argue the simplest and fairest way is to have all of them in the morning.
the PMs are sent in various order during the 'night' depending on when the people are on line, where they live, what happened in the thread and so on.
but for the purpose of the game, the order the PMs are sent in at night doesn't count. it is like they come in all at the same time at the last second of the night. The turn order is then used to sort them out.
when all the PM are in, and the order of event is sorted, the GG posts the morning narration and at the same times informs each special, including the wolves, of the results of their night activities.
this way there is no discrepancy in treatment, no double-standards, no ambiguity in the rules, and no risk of someone to talk about things they are not supposed to be talking about. It is also potentially faster, because there are no delays in the wolves for example waiting on the result of the scan of who they infected to then discuss and decide who to target.
Finally, it is simpler for the GG and it minimizes their influencing the game.
I don't like the fact that results are given out at night before the morning deadline, because it can put whoever received the info in an awkward position as it is unclear how they have to deal with the acquired info. Anything they post is in some way affected by the newly acquired info, so the 'right' move would be not post at all, but that also is not fair.
In my opinion,
if the special who is infected can share the info with the other wolves, than all specials should be able to use the information they have as they see fit.
Only when the narration comes out that they have been killed, they are in fact dead. Basically it is the same standard we use for the lynching: you can say whatever you want until you are dead. If you have a non-lock majority, you can still post until the deadline, even if you are basically a dead-man walking. and it's fair because there could be last minute changes. Similarly, the wolves could change their mind at the last minute
Thematically, it just means that the actual killing occurs at the deadline, so there are in fact no contradictions of sorts.
i understand the parallel with the board game, but I don't think they apply, as the mechanics are quite different. there they are constrained by the players being physically around one table where they could see each other, here we aren't. there there is no speaking in the night phase (sleeping), here we allow posting during the night, so the players are in fact awake.
It is also not true that the difference is the possibility of being killed, firestar could have been killed by melrose at night, but if he already had shared the info with the wolves than the situation would be identical than a good special telling everyone the result the night they are being killed.
the solution seems simple to me: give the results out in the morning, when the narration is posted.
