I get that you’re frustrated with him refusing to claim, though he made clear that he wasn’t going to do that under pressure. He’s hardly the first and won’t be the last. If that was part of a pattern of behavior he was trying to blend in or at least not stand out from past play, I would probably have voted him already, but I’d have to believe that he drew attention to himself as scum by changing up his style substantially, then essentially dared us to lynch him. I just don’t buy that view. It’s possible, but not the most likely explanation.
I take him stalling as him needing time to fake. Therefore no matter what he claims now I stick to it.
So he’s scum, he’s had almost 24 hours to come up with a fake claim, but hasn’t quite managed it yet and is daring us to lynch him just to gather some more time to… decide to claim all of a sudden? If he does suddenly relent, he still has to somehow avoid getting CC’d, which isn’t going to get any easier without more claims ahead of him. It would also come off as pretty scummy after being this intransigent.
If savant is refusing to fake claim, its not for lack of "being able to find a fake claim" imo, it's just that its clearly working for him. Threatens town with a d1ck comparing contest and towns too nervous to mislynch to take the contest. Okay but that breeds a lot more of that behavior in the future, it's something we've seen time and time again with people (even myself).
Personally if I am getting pushed to claim early and I do not agree with the reasons, I'd just lie as town about my role (if I am a power role, otherwise just be truthful). Refusing to claim outright is almost always scummy, or seen as scummy, if we don't lynch him now he's gonna be on the back of half the playerlists minds the whole game. I think there needs to be a clear line with this drawn. If savant had a very good reason drawn out for why he shouldn't claim that is different, but if he is playing drastically different that needs to be addressed. And I take that even acknowledging the comments he made dp1 about no doing his list thingy. Savant has historically stuck to his guns more often like this in defending himself as scum than town, so no matter what its a tough pill to swallow.