# Evil Dead Mafia Forbidden Thread - The Cabin in the Woods

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**Created:** [December 18, 2008, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evil-dead-mafia-forbidden-thread-the-cabin-in-the-woods/477796 "2008-12-18T20:11:47Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 31, 2008, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evil-dead-mafia-forbidden-thread-the-cabin-in-the-woods/477796/35 "2008-12-31T17:37:33Z")

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Hi all. I’m not sure if you noticed, but I took a bit of a mafia holiday; but storyteller’s new game seems to be drawing me back.

In reviewing stuff, it seems that I was on the winning team for Terminator (Yay!). And to **NAF** , I totally had you pegged on Day One! Ha! 😃 And for actual reasons too.

I’m reading through Day One now and the brief exchange of “scum would never do that” was about to make my head explode until I read:

> [@Mafia: Evil Dead - DAY/NIGHT ONE](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-evil-dead-day-night-one/477854/31):
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> Here’s the thing. If you’re looking at two potential actions, where one has a clear townie motivation and one has a clear scum motivation, then it makes no sense to claim “well, he did the townie thing, and scum woud never do that.” Because, of course, doing the townie-er thing is reason enough. We’re in agreement up to here.
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> So where does it make sense to say “scum would never do that”? When the decision is between inaction, and taking an action that draws attention. If a suspect takes an action that doesn’t benefit scum, and had the option to simply doing nothing (and no one would be the wiser), then I tend to consider that a strong indicator of townieness.
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> Could scum manipulate that to try and clear themselves? Potentially, but it’s an incredibly risky play. Most people don’t view that the way I do, so it’s not going to clear them in very many eyes. It runs the very large risk of going the way my gambit in the last game did, and simply getting them lynched. IOW, such a play has medium reward, but very high risk. And, of course, even getting to that point requires perfect play. Any slip at all in the sequence of events, or tipping your hand that you wanted people to see the event, totally nullifies it. And given that you’d be under scrutiny, it’s tough to actually play that perfectly.

Praise the Lord! Hopefully **JSexton** will be able to explain what I’ve continued to fail to convey.

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