# 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:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2086
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evil-dead-mafia-ii-teaser-and-sign-ups-game-on/555493/2086 "2010-10-22T14:58:04Z")
> [@Oy](#): > > If **Maha** got it from Evil Dead I, he did so early on (but not too early, because his post count when Maha copied his message was 2955, and it’s only 2957 now, with one post in this thread.) Because if I go to Evil Dead I now, I see storyteller as a Guest. On this board, member status and post count always contemporary, not contemporaneous with the original post. > > I can’t reproduce anything like **Maha** ’s PM post with my own PM. I can’t get a post count, and I can’t get it to say anything but Guest. I also can’t get it to show his location, although I think I would if **Story** were a Member. > > I get everything **Maha** ’s message had except whether or not the poster is online if I try to copy a PM from a true member. The online/offline bit may have to do with my browser; I use Opera, which is non-standard. > > Impossible though it sounds, I’ve got to wonder if **Story** ’s membership expired just after **Maha** made his post. Because for the life of me, I can’t imagine why **Maha** ’d bother putting that stuff in if he were making up a PM. > > I can’t see making a case against **Maha** based on this. It makes no sense for him to have made it up, and I can’t figure out any way he could have cut and pasted that info nefariously. Scum and Third party boards (if any) would not be on the SDMB; they’d probably be on BladeRunner or another board. In any case, I find it highly unlikely that **Story** ’s profile on that board would be so nearly identical to his profile here - same name, same location, so nearly identical a post count ( **storyteller** has made exactly two posts on the SDMB since **Maha** posted his purported PM, for a total of 2957, which is what he’s showing now.) > > However, I could easily see **Maha** ’s role being a Scum role slightly tweaked. There’s nothing inherently good in the text, and finding out how many Third Parties there are would be useful for Scum. What I can’t really reconcile is why he would then tell us, Town. > > So **Maha** is WIFOM. The Post Count that Maha gave us for storyteller still doesn’t add up. I just looked now (post count doesn’t show in the thread, but is listed under a user’s profile) and story’s post count is 2958. Maha’s PM shows story’s post count at 2955 back on October 4. He has most definitely made more than 3 posts since then (though it seems quite plausible that 2955 was story’s post count at the time Maha made his post). Even if the member/guest problem can be explained by assuming story’s membership lapsed within the last couple days, I see no way the post count in the PM can be genuine. There’s also the issue of the line in Maha’s PM: “Please see the rules for formal definitions of “Town,” “Scum,” and “Third-Party” in this context.” Guiri pointed out that he couldn’t find any “formal definitions” anywhere in the rules for this game. I don’t see anything either. As to the question of why Mahaloth would include the ‘header’ information in his post, when it’s really irrelevant to his case, I wondered about that as well. But when people are lying, they have a tendency to want to give out ‘extra information’, because they are aware of all the holes in their story and are already anticipating the questions they are going to get concerning them. The tendency is to try to answer those questions before they are asked. But since the answers have to be manufactured, the chances of providing information that is inconsistent with reality are greatly increased. I think that’s what happened here. Maha wanted to provide extra ‘proof’ that his PM was genuine. But in his effort to do so, he did just the opposite. It appears quite clear that Mahaloth’s PM was borrowed from some source outside this game and then modified. I can see no reason for Town to do that. Part of me says “wait until dawn to cast a vote”, to see if anything new is revealed that might change the situation. But the case here seems very clear cut, and I can always change my vote if new evidence ‘proves’ Mahaloth’s Townness. **vote Mahaloth** --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evil-dead-mafia-ii-teaser-and-sign-ups-game-on/555493)._