bb2112 wrote:
What tips the scales for El G being evil is why didn't El G scan someone in the original party as Stess was practically begging? Best case scenario he would have scanned one good guy and then could have confirmed the other two bad. Worst case is he could have confirmed one of the two bad guys in the mix and then we could have had better discussions on pinpointing the other bad guy. By not picking one of the original party, he ensured the max confusion. Not usually what good guys try to do, and not usually what a good El Guapo would do.
I think I've explained this a couple times, but playing the odds I very likely scan an evildoer (probably Holman) if I scan within the Quest #2 party. I then know for certain that Holman is evil, which is good (although I already knew that was probably the case beforehand). I then also know that one of stessier and RMC is evil, so each one has a 50-50ish chance of being evil. I wouldn't want to include either on a quest anytime soon, I still don't know who to trust between them, and on top of that Team Evil now has the scan, presumably for the rest of the game (or, alternatively, it would be pretty easy for an evil Holman to sow confusion by scaning whichever of stessier / RMC is good and proclaim them evil).
Given all that it seemed more useful to get information on somebody that we knew nothing about and who could easily sneak onto a party if evil (but who would probably be good, so that we could safely include on parties and so that we could probably retain the scan).
Also it's not true to say that stessier was "practically begging" me to scan Holman. That was his position, but at the end of the discussion he agreed that Chaosraven was a reasonable alternative (which gave me some comfort that I wasn't screwing up).
Though I am now kind of regretting that I didn't scan Scoop, since we have almost zero direct info on him.
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