# Evil Dead Mafia II - Teaser and Sign-Ups \[Game On!\] **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [September 29, 2010, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evil-dead-mafia-ii-teaser-and-sign-ups-game-on/555493 "2010-09-29T17:35:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 65
**Author:** ![Stanislaus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stanislaus/32/3391_2.png) [@Stanislaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stanislaus)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2010, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evil-dead-mafia-ii-teaser-and-sign-ups-game-on/555493/1281 "2010-10-12T11:51:43Z")
> [@Total\_Lost](#): > > > [@Stanislaus](#): > > > > Why would the second investigation be a waste, NAF? You don’t have the book anymore, right? > > I know. I can’t answer for NAF. But he already said it so many time I’m a bit surprised why you ask him. > NAF thinks it’s better to have a vig take a shot so we don’t waste the lynch and also so the investigator don’t use a Night to figure his alignment out. > You might dis-agree - but I find it strange that you could overlook it. > It’s in 2 or maybe even more of this posts. > > And I really think we should start talking about other things now! Why is it a waste for an investigator to figure out his alignment? That’s what investigators are for. Is it because he’ll die soon? 1) We could all die soon, so is it worth investigating any of us? 2) He doesn’t have the book anymore, so he’s not going to die soon. 3) There’s no clear definition of when “soon” is, in any case. NAF is the sole source of our info about the Book, and as such has had a pretty big influence on the game so far. It’s quite important that we find out whether we can trust his information, and his play. There are three ways to do this: 1. Lynch. Apparently this would be a waste although I don’t see how it would be more so than any other lynch, provided we’re voting on the basis of who we think is Scum. 2. A Vig could kill him. Assuming we have a Vig. Assuming NAF won’t be protected in some way. Assuming Scum don’t have a Watcher who could learn the identity of the Vig if they knew his target. 3. An investigator could investigate him. Assuming we have such an investigator. They could then announce, at a time chosen by them, what NAF’s alignment was. This has the added bonus that if he’s Town, we don’t waste a lynch or a Vig kill. And in fact, if he’s Scum, we wouldn’t be wasting a lynch either. So, again, why is it such a waste for NAF to be investigated? ---
**Author:** ![special\_ed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@special\_ed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/special_ed)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2010, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evil-dead-mafia-ii-teaser-and-sign-ups-game-on/555493/1282 "2010-10-12T11:53:35Z")
> [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](#): > > > [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](#): > > > > **vote Idle** > > > > You seem very sure that NAF does indeed not have the book anymore. Why such an acceptance of NAF’s claim? > > bolded above. You state as fact that NAF doesn’t have the book anymore. Hence my suspicion Wanderers comment stands. That original post really sounds like you knew he didn’t have the book. ---
**Author:** ![special\_ed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@special\_ed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/special_ed)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2010, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evil-dead-mafia-ii-teaser-and-sign-ups-game-on/555493/1283 "2010-10-12T11:58:05Z")
> [@Total\_Lost](#): > > > [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](#): > > > > **vote Idle** > > > > You seem very sure that NAF does indeed not have the book anymore. Why such an acceptance of NAF’s claim? > > And then yet another vote based on the book and NAF and Idle. > But this one seems so very off to me. > How can OAOW mis-read Idle’s post to this extent? > > The case is not only weak IMO - it’s untrue. I don’t happen to agree with it at all. And I don’t like lazy votes that are thrown around with little to non-reasons. > But when the reasons are completely untrue I get kind of certain that we either have a skimming townie or a scummy throw-it-in-the-pile vote. > > So until I hear from Omi, I’ll be very happy with a vote on \*\* OAOW\*\* Read post 1269 ---
**Author:** ![storyteller0910](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@storyteller0910](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/storyteller0910)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2010, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evil-dead-mafia-ii-teaser-and-sign-ups-game-on/555493/1284 "2010-10-12T12:11:39Z")
\*\*Dear Everyone, While the last 24 hours have certainly been entertaining for me, I think it’s time for a public announcement. To wit: There are no secret actions in this game. If at any given time during the game, it is possible to do a thing, you will know it. The Necronomicon is no longer on its public pedestal and therefore cannot be taken from its public pedestal. Its location and the means by which it may change location is known definitively to everyone who needs to know (which might be no one). \*\* ---
**Author:** ![storyteller0910](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@storyteller0910](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/storyteller0910)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2010, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evil-dead-mafia-ii-teaser-and-sign-ups-game-on/555493/1285 "2010-10-12T12:43:42Z")
**NAF1138** - 4 votes - Oy! (758), Texcat (1192), brewha (1201), Drain Bead (1228) **Telcontar** - 3 votes - Normal Phase (1010), Mahaloth (1018), Stanislaus (1048) **peekercpa** - 2 votes - NAF1138 (1036), Mrs McGinty (1042) **Mrs. McGinty** - 1 vote - peekercpa (755) **Omi No Kami** – 1 vote – Astral Rejection (1217) **GuiriEnEspana** – 1 vote – Idle Thoughts (1224) **Idle Thoughts** – 1 vote – One and Only Wanderers (1262) **Suburban Plankton** – 1 vote – Natlaw (1276) **One and Only Wanderers** – 1 vote – Total Lost (1279) ---
**Author:** ![Normal\_Phase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Normal\_Phase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Normal_Phase)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2010, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evil-dead-mafia-ii-teaser-and-sign-ups-game-on/555493/1286 "2010-10-12T12:54:01Z")
While all this conversation is no doubt illuminating to those who have the time to actually read it, I have something additional to add: Having asked for and gotten clarification from Storyteller, I can say definitively that **Chipacabra died last night protecting me**. Make of that what you will. At this point I have no intentions of revealing anything more about my role. However, it does provide additional lines of inquiry for the day: namely, the question of why I was attacked. I had voted for OneandonlyWanderers and Drain Bead in addition to my day-ending vote on Telcontar. I had also expressed suspicion of Mrs McGinty. (And I had somewhat defended NAF and Oy.) While it’s always possible I was attacked for some other reasons, the question of who stands to benefit does interest me, and I think it should count as a small mark against each of those four. My vote on Telcontar has carried over, and for now it will remain there. (As mentioned, though, I have no remotely caught up.) ---
**Author:** ![Normal\_Phase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Normal\_Phase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Normal_Phase)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2010, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evil-dead-mafia-ii-teaser-and-sign-ups-game-on/555493/1287 "2010-10-12T12:55:29Z")
(I had also had votes on Romanic and Oredigger – goodness I was a busy bee, wasn’t I?) ---
**Author:** ![Oy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bc8723/32.png) [@Oy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oy)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2010, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evil-dead-mafia-ii-teaser-and-sign-ups-game-on/555493/1288 "2010-10-12T12:56:31Z")
> [@special\_ed](#): > > I’m catching up, but I’d like an answer to this question as well. > > In fact, I asked it immediately following peeker’s comment, but got no answer then. > > > [@Mrs\_McGinty](#): > > > > I’m not fully caught up with events thus far, and I have to head out to work shortly, but I do have a couple of things to say… > > > > Firstly, I don’t have the book. > > > > Secondly, since he’s so keen on PIS-based accusations, I wonder if peeker can explain how he apparently knew that Naf was going to lose the book before it happened: > > > > Did you read something on the scumboard, perhaps? Yes. In post #1114, **Peeker** said: > [@peekercpa](#): > > > [@TexCat](#): > > > > I presume this means that NAF still has it. And perhaps he should use it once and then give it up. I can’t make heads or tails of all those curses on the various pages, but I’d go for an investigative type one if I could make one out. > > > > Not sure if it would be better for NAF to give it to a specific person or just put it back on the pedastal and let us have a free for all. If NAF is scum, he could just pass it on to another scum buddy. On the other hand, in a free for all, scum would have an equal chance of getting it, and it does seem like we might be able to direct it towards a townie if we can direct who NAF gives it to. > > uh, did i just like totally hallucinate **naf** saying he doesn’t have it anymore. **NAF** didn’t state that he’d lost the Book until Post #1177, which was just under twenty-four hours later. The thing of it is, I didn’t think **NAF** knew until he told us. So how would **peeker** know twenty-four hours earlier, and think that info came from **NAF**. So either both **NAF** and **peeker** are Scum, or **peeker** was truly hallucinating. Which is not beyond the realm of possibility; I would find his posting style far more understandable if it were coming from someone under the influence. 🙂 [QUOTE=Normal Phase] Having asked for and gotten clarification from Storyteller, I can say definitively that Chipacabra died last night protecting me. [/QUOTE] **Normal Phase** , how did you know to ask **storyteller** this? Did you get some indication that you were attacked? ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2010, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evil-dead-mafia-ii-teaser-and-sign-ups-game-on/555493/1289 "2010-10-12T12:57:37Z")
First off, I apologize. I read pretty much everything from Dusk to Dawn in one fell swoop on my phone and got the timing of **NAF’s** claim confused–I thought he claimed the book info just after Dawn rather than just after Dusk. So it’s doubtful that an investigator targeted him last Night…which means my suggestion of investigating him if he’s not lynched isn’t tying a Cop up at all! I obviously think he should be lynched (and if he is Scum, it’s likely **peeker** is too, based on him knowing that **NAF** no longer had the book before it was mentioned in the game thread), but if not I prefer an investigation to a vigging, for multiple reasons. 1. We might not have a Vig. 2. NAF may be a Scum Strongman, or the Scum may have a doctor. 3. Go Buckeyes. ---
**Author:** ![One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/838e76/32.png) [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/One_And_Only_Wanderers)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2010, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evil-dead-mafia-ii-teaser-and-sign-ups-game-on/555493/1290 "2010-10-12T12:59:27Z")
I have misread nothing. Yesterday Idle didn’t trust NAF based on his wanting to keep the book and his plans to use it. None of this has changed. I have seen nothing to suggest that NAF has changed his position. Yet at his CLAIM to have lost the book, which in the post I quoted Idle seemed to be taking at face value, this suddenly makes him trustworthy. If I bought a gun and announed I was going to go on a killing spree, do I become suddenly acceptable if I say I don’t have the gun anymore and I am not sure what happened to it? Idle’s about face here concerns me. There is not sufficient reason, imo, for his about face, and sudden changes of direction with no discernible reason worries me. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2010, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evil-dead-mafia-ii-teaser-and-sign-ups-game-on/555493/1291 "2010-10-12T13:03:49Z")
If **Normal Phase** is telling the truth (and I have no reason to believe that she’s _not_ at this point), this may be the first successful blind protection I’ve ever seen in Mafia. Hell, I’ve rarely seen a successful protection that wasn’t predictable (meaning, someone was protecting an outed power role that the Scum went after). So if this really happened, that’s some damn fine work, **Chip**. I wonder if something cool happens because he was successful, like the old under-development role suggested? ---
**Author:** ![Oy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bc8723/32.png) [@Oy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oy)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2010, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evil-dead-mafia-ii-teaser-and-sign-ups-game-on/555493/1292 "2010-10-12T13:03:53Z")
> [@special\_ed](#): > > I’m catching up, but I’d like an answer to this question as well. > > In fact, I asked it immediately following peeker’s comment, but got no answer then. > > > [@Mrs\_McGinty](#): > > > > I’m not fully caught up with events thus far, and I have to head out to work shortly, but I do have a couple of things to say… > > > > Firstly, I don’t have the book. > > > > Secondly, since he’s so keen on PIS-based accusations, I wonder if peeker can explain how he apparently knew that Naf was going to lose the book before it happened: > > > > Did you read something on the scumboard, perhaps? Yes. In post #1114, **Peeker** said: > [@peekercpa](#): > > > [@TexCat](#): > > > > I presume this means that NAF still has it. And perhaps he should use it once and then give it up. I can’t make heads or tails of all those curses on the various pages, but I’d go for an investigative type one if I could make one out. > > > > Not sure if it would be better for NAF to give it to a specific person or just put it back on the pedastal and let us have a free for all. If NAF is scum, he could just pass it on to another scum buddy. On the other hand, in a free for all, scum would have an equal chance of getting it, and it does seem like we might be able to direct it towards a townie if we can direct who NAF gives it to. > > uh, did i just like totally hallucinate **naf** saying he doesn’t have it anymore. **NAF** didn’t state that he’d lost the Book until Post #1177, which was just under twenty-four hours later. The thing of it is, I didn’t think **NAF** knew until he told us. So how would **peeker** know twenty-four hours earlier, and think that info came from **NAF**? So either both **NAF** and **peeker** are Scum, or **peeker** was truly hallucinating. Which is not beyond the realm of possibility; I would find his posting style far more understandable if it were coming from someone under the influence. 🙂 [QUOTE=Normal Phase] Having asked for and gotten clarification from Storyteller, I can say definitively that Chipacabra died last night protecting me. [/QUOTE] **Normal Phase** , how did you know to ask **storyteller** this? Did you get some indication that you were attacked? ---
**Author:** ![Oy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bc8723/32.png) [@Oy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oy)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2010, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evil-dead-mafia-ii-teaser-and-sign-ups-game-on/555493/1293 "2010-10-12T13:04:53Z")
Sorry. I thought that didn’t post. Stupid computer. (stupid me) ---
**Author:** ![Normal\_Phase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Normal\_Phase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Normal_Phase)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2010, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evil-dead-mafia-ii-teaser-and-sign-ups-game-on/555493/1294 "2010-10-12T13:11:17Z")
> [@Oy](#): > > [QUOTE=Normal Phase] > Having asked for and gotten clarification from Storyteller, I can say definitively that Chipacabra died last night protecting me. **Normal Phase** , how did you know to ask **storyteller** this? Did you get some indication that you were attacked? [/QUOTE] In a sense. I’d rather not elaborate before I have more than a few free minutes to think about the implications. I do believe that I’m not telling the scum anything important by speaking up, or I would not have. ---
**Author:** ![Normal\_Phase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Normal\_Phase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Normal_Phase)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2010, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evil-dead-mafia-ii-teaser-and-sign-ups-game-on/555493/1295 "2010-10-12T13:12:20Z")
> [@Oy](#): > > [QUOTE=Normal Phase] > Having asked for and gotten clarification from Storyteller, I can say definitively that Chipacabra died last night protecting me. **Normal Phase** , how did you know to ask **storyteller** this? Did you get some indication that you were attacked? [/QUOTE] In a sense. I’d rather not elaborate before I have more than a few free minutes to think about the implications. I do believe that I’m not telling the scum anything important by speaking up, or I would not have. Gotta run again now, back to answer questions whenever. ---
**Author:** ![Normal\_Phase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Normal\_Phase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Normal_Phase)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2010, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evil-dead-mafia-ii-teaser-and-sign-ups-game-on/555493/1296 "2010-10-12T13:13:20Z")
(Hah. Not just your computer, Oy.) ---
**Author:** ![brewha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@brewha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brewha)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2010, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evil-dead-mafia-ii-teaser-and-sign-ups-game-on/555493/1297 "2010-10-12T13:18:09Z")
Wow, alot to digest here. First, Thank you Normal Phase for coming forward with that. I thought it might be plausible that NAF was targetted for a night kill by scum and Chip protected him. In E.D. 1 the book was given to the killer of the previous owner. If the previous owner was protected by the Martyr, I would assume that the book wouldn’t change hands, but I could see how that would be a plausible explanation. Course, I didn’t want to offer this up as free out for NAF. I really need a re-read to see why Normal was targetted. Of course, I gotta put in the disclaimer that Normal could be lying, but I don’t see the motivation at this point. Idle, the more you explain yourself, the more suspicious you are becoming. Two other people have already said my thoughts exactly. You were suspicious of NAF when you knew he had and wanted to keep the book. But, now that he claims (a claim that you admit is unverifiable) to no longer have it, you are no longer suspicious. I know you think you’re are being perfectly clear on your reasoning, but, it’s just not doing it for me. ---
**Author:** ![peekercpa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8baadc/32.png) [@peekercpa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peekercpa)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2010, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evil-dead-mafia-ii-teaser-and-sign-ups-game-on/555493/1298 "2010-10-12T14:08:44Z")
hey, look i read 1095 as **naf** saying he was putting the book back on the pedestal. shoot. ---
**Author:** ![Stanislaus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stanislaus/32/3391_2.png) [@Stanislaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stanislaus)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2010, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evil-dead-mafia-ii-teaser-and-sign-ups-game-on/555493/1299 "2010-10-12T14:10:00Z")
OK. There were two deaths last night, so we don’t know who was trying to kill Normal Phase. Be it Scum or PFK (or Vig?) they were no doubt surprised to learn that Chip had died. But they might have guessed the Martyr role had something to do with it. Here are all the comments on the Martyr, or Chip, made up to the point where Normal revealed why she was still alive (edited for relevance): > [@Mahaloth](#): > > What was the Martyr role? > > NAF, did you use the book? What happened? > [@Suburban\_Plankton](#): > > I assume the Martyr can sacrifice himself to save another person from being lynched? > [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](#): > > Two deaths. Blah. Nice knowing you, Chipa and Mhaye. > > Upon some googling, a Martyr is a redirector who takes a target’s powers onto him/herself, maybe? > [@Natlaw](#): > > Martyr sounds like a [bodyguard](http://mafiawiki.four-horsemen.com/index.php/Bodyguard). > [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](#): > > I guess the Martyr is not as potentially straight forward as I thought. I got my idea from [Common Mafia Roles - Smogon University](http://www.smogon.com/smog/issue5/mafia_roles), and the Evil Dead 1 role seems to be a variation on that (redirecting the target of powers vs redirecting the thrower of powers), and then there is another usage on Wikipedia indicating that it can be a sort of Re-animator role. > > It would be nice to know if Chip’s power had a hand in his own demise, but I don’t know how wise it is to be too curious about that. > [@Suburban\_Plankton](#): > > From the Dawn Post > > > [@](#): > > > > As quickly as it came, his attacker retreats into the darkness, even as the third occupant of the kitchen flees in the opposite direction. > > Should this be taken literally? Does this indicate that perhaps there was a watcher investigating either Chip or his killer? If so, why would Story let us know? Perhaps someone has used a power that makes them visible to all? What might that be? > > Sorry, I’ve got no answers to any of these questions as of yet…unless someone wants to volunteer that they were watching Chip (or someone else) last night? But I’m not sure if that would be a wise thing to do at this point. > [@Suburban\_Plankton](#): > > OK, I had got it into my head (for no apparent reason) that Chip’s power would be a Day action. Upon rereading the Dawn Post, it does look like he might have ‘protected’ someone last Night, and that someone might have been the ‘third person’. > Or not. > [@lilflower](#): > > > [@Suburban\_Plankton](#): > > > > [The above quote] > > The third person could be the person \*\*Chip \*\*was protecting. > [@Drain\_Bead](#): > > Sorry I’m a little behind–fall weekends are generally pretty bad for me, and this was a three-day one. > > I’m going to assume that **Chipacabra** died in one of the following two ways: > > 1. Protecting someone else, possibly **Oy!** , or > 2. Vigging Now, let’s start with the proviso that curiosity about a role revealed in the Dawn post is only natural. And I’ll further stipulate that trying to answer a question that’s already been asked is also perfectly normal behaviour. That said, there are two people who stand out for me here. Cookies has obviously been doing a fair bit of research, as she posts twice with the result of Google searches. And Suburban Plankton seems very interested in the subject, speculating not just about what the Martyr can do, but about the relationship between Chip and mysterious third person, whether there might have been a Watcher at the kill, and whether Chip was protecting someone. Then there’s this: > [@Suburban\_Plankton](#): > > It seems like there are still quite a few people we haven’t heard much from Today, and one or more of them might have some information to contribute. I’d like to hear at least something from the half the Town that hasn’t posted yet Today. which isn’t fishing so much as a blatant appeal for someone to come forward with some useful info. I think that Scum (or even PFK) who’d seen a) their kill go astray and b) an obscure role die would be naturally curious about what had happened, and want to explore it. **unvote Telcontar** **vote Suburban Plankton** ---
**Author:** ![Oy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bc8723/32.png) [@Oy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oy)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2010, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evil-dead-mafia-ii-teaser-and-sign-ups-game-on/555493/1300 "2010-10-12T14:28:53Z")
> [@peekercpa](#): > > hey, look i read 1095 as **naf** saying he was putting the book back on the pedestal. > > shoot. Here is NAF’s post #1095: [QUOTE=NAF1138 in post #1095] If everyone wants I am happy to put the book back on the pedestal toNight. [/QUOTE] I find it mildly plausible that you took that to mean **NAF** actually no longer had the book. I find it far more plausible that you took that as **NAF** ’s _announcement_ that he no longer had the book, which **NAF** didn’t actually announce until post #1177. **NAF** keeps saying that he understands perfectly why people want to lynch him and that he’s willing to be lynched, or, better, vigged. But any time someone actually tries to make a case against him, he scornfully dismisses it as ridiculous. Until now, I mostly believed him. Now I don’t. I think scummy **NAF** has been playing an extremely clever, inventive game. I think scummy **Peeker** has also been playing a good game. He’s been riding a case on **Mrs McGinty** from before **Romanic** claimed. It’s been an effective distraction. Now he seems to have been in on the idea that **NAF** would no longer have the Necronomicon about 24 hours before **NAF** announced that it was taken from him. Scummy **Peeker**. **Suburban Plankton** and **Total Lost** have also been trying to distract attention from the book and its importance, so they’re looking suspicious to me right now. I’m saying this because I may die, and if I do, you all should take a good look at these people. For now, I’m leaving my vote where it’s been, on **NAF**. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evil-dead-mafia-ii-teaser-and-sign-ups-game-on/555493.md?page=64) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evil-dead-mafia-ii-teaser-and-sign-ups-game-on/555493.md?page=66)