Mafia: Evil Dead - DAY/NIGHT THREE

[MHaye]

@NAF1138

while I am thinking about it, the three people at the top of my suspicion list.

MHaye - because he really is rather smart and I find it hard to believe that he could leave out chucara willingly putting himself in a position where he will probably be killed in his anaylsis of chucara’s townie-ness. I was totally onboard the chucara train before he did that, so I get where that general suspicion is coming from, but I can’t see anything more anti-scum than willingly sacrificing yourself with not benefit to other team members.

If MHaye believed that I might be scum it would be different, but he believes that I am likely town so there is no gain from Chucara lying. That analysis was lazy and very unlike MHaye. I expect better from you MHaye, so sorry for the attack if you are town, but you really brought this on yourself by being so lucid most of the time.

What can I say? I was due out by about 35 minutes before that post was submitted. I missed stuff out.

I don’t think that Chucara’s expressed willingness to run a 50-50 risk of death for some benefits (I assume you meant “net benefit” rather than “not benefit?”) swayed me very much, primarily because of of post [post=10644957]D03.065[/post].

That post gave me the impression (at the time) that Chucara was out to confuse you. I thought I’d made that clear in my post here :

Chucara seems (from where I sit) to have done his best to obfuscate his alignment by providing so many statements that can be tested. His behaviour in (for example) claiming both Alpha Redshirt and Beta Redshirt is a prime example – if NAF picks (say) the latter statement and gets a “false,” then Chucara can simply claim to be the other, and discerning the truth of that will take another investigation, thus wasting time. This gives the appearance of wanting to appear helpful while actually trying to dodge a bullet.

(Emphasis added.)

I took the claim of being willing to sacrifice himself as flim-flammery, more than offset by the smokescreen he seemed to me to be throwing up. In retrospect I should certainly have discussed it, because it is a pointer that runs counter to my belief. However, I don’t believe (now) that it would have changed my mind at the time.

While on the subject of current versus contemporary knowledge, something occurred to me last night. Thing Fish could have investigated Bufftabby. She was still alive when his investigation was submitted, and was a scum. Whether Buff counted as someone TF interacted with is something I aim to look into this evening. Ah, the marvels of thread searching in this new vBulletin.

(Macey, otoh, was dead when TF submitted his investigation, so we can safely leave him off the lists.)

I don’t know what would happen if the investigated player wasn’t on one of the lists. It would actually make all the questions as written unanswerable, which means you’d waste a Night’s investigation. Of course, the fact that the questions didn’t get answered would be an answer (of a kind) in itself.