# Mafia: Evil Dead - DAY/NIGHT ONE **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [December 19, 2008, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-evil-dead-day-night-one/477854 "2008-12-19T03:11:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 102
**Author:** ![Total\_Lost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e56c9b/32.png) [@Total\_Lost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Total_Lost)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2008, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-evil-dead-day-night-one/477854/102 "2008-12-21T20:00:01Z")
I once received a role Pm just saying: “In my game you are vanilla town”. Comparede to that I went like this in the last game I played on this board: > [@Sdmb mafia](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-mafia/470198/119): > > PM received 🙂 > > This looks like fun! No one said anything. I so get the Pede-reaction. Story can write like (almost) no one else - this is “pretty interesting” > [@bufftabby](#): > > This sits wrong with me somehow. > > Thinking in terms of possible motivation: > > Vanilla Town: wants to hint at having a power role to avoid lynch without actually false claiming, or to draw scum to target vanilla instead of a PR. My estimated probability: maybe, but seems an awful self-sacrificial gambit for Day One. > > Town power role: wants to die?! My est probability: doubtful. I can’t see a pro-Town reason for a power role to continue to emphasize their slip. > > PFK/Scum: wants to softclaim to avoid lynch. Est prob: maybe. It might save a scum from having to hardclaim, desirable because of course a scum will have to falseclaim, which can be tricky for said scum. I can see a PFK not precisely having to falseclaim (SK says, “oh, I’m a vig” or somesuch), but the point on softclaiming to avoid complications from lying still stands. > I didn’t really think **pede** ’s initial slip told much, but his latest emphasis on it (as quoted above) really rubs me wrong. I’m seeing the scum/PFK explanations as the simplest and most sensical motivations for pushing the I’m-a-power-role button repeatedly. > > **vote pedescribe** I just have to say I disagree - I read the answer from **Pede** as a bit of a smart-ass asking someone to think things through before calling other scummy. I don’t think all the votes for **Pede** _at the moment_ is well thought through. We might risk a power role to claim, we might risk to lynch and vanilla town - yes maybe we found scum (but I really don’t see scum making that kind of slip, smart-ass remark and now baffled defence). > [@Thing\_Fish](#): > > Since we have a lot of new faces here, I’m wondering if we should all say how many games we have played in before; it seems that several people have already said this makes a difference in how they evaluate a possible slip or otherwise odd comment. This is my third game as a player (no wins yet) and I’ve lurked pretty intensively in a few others, all on this board. This is a good idea. I have played on Facebook and this is my 3. game on this board. > [@Thing\_Fish](#): > > And since it is getting to be high noon, I would like to set an example for 21 of you by posting something in blue…it’s easy and fun! Seems like we have two candidates so far. I agree that **Pedescribe** ’s behavior is odd, first claiming that his “slip” was merely a comment about the color and then backtracking to strongly imply that it was a power role slip. However, at this point I’m seeing\*\* Pleonast\*\* as slightly scummier, mainly because of his erratic behavior on Night Zero. This is by far the most scummy I have seen yet. “Seems like we have two candidates so far” really makes me think we got a scum-slip. I don’t like the way you seem to only think you will place your vote on someone already getting voted for. Far to often (I know) town also think this way and you have done nothing so far else to ping me. But this is so anti-town that I will (for now) place a vote on Thing Fish. **Vote Thing Fish** --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-evil-dead-day-night-one/477854)._