You know, there isn't anything too scummy about what I did. In the game I linked, I was a town doctor, and I claimed Vanilla townie. Using that method, I survived the whole game.
Think about it: If I claimed Doctor at the time and place in that game, i'd have been roleblocked AND nightkilled, preventing me from healing myself, and i'd die.
Either way, I know people probably still aren't going to understand what I was trying to aim for by fake claiming as townie. Heres the math:
1. If I claim townie, mafia might believe me (since i'm always floppish as both a PR and VT.)
2. I can survive the whole game this way while still using my powers, and mafia thinks i'm VT.
3. Probably dead sometime later.
Yet by me claiming a PR, i'm probably going to die later tonight or tomorrow night if i'm not lynched today. So yeah, I know I look scummy.