Right, so. Of all the things I was thinking might happen, a slowed death wasn't one of them. Seems like some pretty defective vests!
First off, I see no reason to doubt Skull Joke's claim. This is an extremely unusual claim to make and it would take some huge balls to make something like that up. And as a skeleton, we know he doesn't have any :ninja:. Furthermore, his slow death will be easily confirmed once he actually dies. It'd be pretty crazy for him to do something that would just get him killed tomorrow, with not even a finger point today. So yeah, believe bones.
Jabberwok (and only Jabberwok): What do you think on the existence of third parties in this setup
This is actually something I've been thinking about. A title like Fan the Hammer suggests that there's going to be a lot of shooting, which creates the possibility of multiple parties. However, Shuhan's introductory message seemed to imply to me that there was only one enemy group. Ots one reason I want to hear back from everyone else on whether they had any injuries or similar messages. I'm leaning towards no at this point but we'll probably have a better idea once we do a full check.
And, as a bit of metagaming, I believe it was Shuhan's last diabolical game that involved two rival mafia groups and a bunch of boobytrapped Townies. It'd feel odd to do something so similar again, especially since it doesn't seem like the Town has much defense against that. In terms of "Fanning the Hammer," I think it's probably more likely that the Town has a Vig or two to add some extra shots fired.