Good game everyone! Except for the last Day or two when Town had given up trying to make sense of the confusion, it was an excellent performance all around!
I'm not sure I understand why people assume that hosts don't lie to the players. Hosts have to lie occasionally when the roles and actions force them to do so. A simple example: the Usurper role, a Scum who has to kill the Godfather in order to win. Can the host share the Usurper's Role PM and win conditions with the rest of the scum team? Of course not. Would the host have to come up with a fake Role PM, or insist that he can't give out that information, were the Scum players adamant that they needed that information? Yes, because otherwise the Usurper's role would be compromised. Except that in most games, the Scum role PMs aren't automatically shared among all Scum, or the Usurper's one would be doctored right from the start. Hosts lie to paranoid/insane/naive investigators, to Millers, to Lovers, to Bombs... all because it's part of the role.
In this game, Scum were mad at Hinckley for telling them after a successful conversion that Draggy was vanilla when they already knew he wasn't. Being so intent on blaming Hinck, they missed a clue as big as can be. WHY didn't Hinck decide to share Draggy's PM right away after the conversion, and why did he send them a fake Role PM when he was forced to do so? Why did Hinck tell Scum that it was Draggy's prerogative to share his role PM or not? That should have raised so many alarms that I was afraid Scum would never trust Draggy. But instead, they attacked the lie without really considering the reason behind it. Hinck was forced to lie in order to follow the mechanics set at the start of the game. Draggy could be converted and become part of the Scum team, but he kept his original action and special win condition. He could have killed without telling Scum, had he chosen to. His SK kill night results were always sent in his private Role PM thread, and not in the common scum PM thread. How is that not a clue to Scum that something wasn't quite right?