because mikey and assassin's claims only confirms that both are MASON, because if they just went and claimed that they know eachother on town side, i.e mason, and no other mason counter claimed for an EASY lynch (for example the REAL PGO claims that he's a MASOn, without saying he's the pgo, to protect himself at night).
Now here's the thing pass, EVEN IF mikey just claimed "suppose i'm erghh the pgo" ... we really have no way of telling if mikey is ACTUALLY the pgo while assassin is the vig.
For all we know, mikey is RoleSwapping with Assassin so that the werewolves try to recruit the vig, and then get fucked over when it's actually the PGO roleswapped.
Now this is wifom: did mikey RS pgo with with assassin to protect the vig from conversion? did he know that someone would see his pgo claim as "too much information for scum" like you are now and actually claimed his own role? or did he know that we'd think about that possibility and actualyl RS ...etc...
it's wifom man. His claim of pgo, even if it sounds dumb, is actually STILL protected.
Because unless the WW head or vamps go for one of them, they still have no way of telling who is what. and that would still be a 50% chance to get fucked over early in game and losing their a big chunk of their faction with a pgo coutner attack...
i'll believe mikey and assassin are town... for now. and if they are smart, they would know that if they tried to commuinicate with eachtoher at night and the other is dodging the communications, then that means that the latter was converted, and they should IMMEDIATELY let the rest of the town know...