# Mafia - Game in progress \[Edited title\] **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [January 9, 2013, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-game-in-progress-edited-title/646635 "2013-01-09T16:03:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 33
**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:** [January 30, 2013, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-game-in-progress-edited-title/646635/641 "2013-01-30T18:53:54Z")
> [@Pleonast](#): > > No, **Chucara** did not explain why they’re voting for scum. In fact they said “I don’t think he is scum”. Townies do not vote for players they don’t think are scum. > > And voting to save oneself is not pro-town, unless one has a power role. Did I miss a claim? > > Note that if I wanted to save **pizza** from the lynch, I’d remove my vote from them. I was happy with a **pizza** (or **RyJae** ) lynch, and because of **Chucara** ’s admittedly anti-town vote, I’m happy to lynch them as well. Meeting #1 got out early, so I have a few minutes before meeting #2… **Chucara** did explain why he was voting for **Pizza**. You may not like his reason, but it is there. Whether self-preservation votes are good, bad, or indifferent is a topic for another time, but I can see where you stand, and your vote is consistent with tat.. In my haste earlier I didn’t notice your vote on Pizza; that does lessen my suspicion that you’re trying to save Pizza. On the other hand, it means you’re voting for both parties in what has become a two-horse race, which always bothers me; it suggests indifference concerning the lynch choice, which suggests Scumminess. However, it looks like there are 4 other people who are also voting both sides of the fence, and I doubt that all five of you are Scum, so **unvote Pleonast** ---
**Author:** ![storyteller0910](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@storyteller0910](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/storyteller0910)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-game-in-progress-edited-title/646635/642 "2013-01-30T18:58:20Z")
Two minutes. I’m here and ready to write the Dusk, so you shouldn’t have long to wait. ---
**Author:** ![USCDiver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uscdiver/32/354_2.png) [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-game-in-progress-edited-title/646635/643 "2013-01-30T19:03:50Z")
> [@Pleonast](#): > > Chucara – Lightfoot (300), Texcat (334), Mahaloth (337), Silver Jan (351), fubbleskag (361), orthohedron (434), wombat99 (612), RedSkeezix (619), Pleonast (625) > > Which of those votes has been unvoted? > > The only difference between **story** ’s and my vote counts is **Sub** ’s vote on **Pleo** in post 629. Yep you’re right again, I was scanning the thread for votes/unvotes and counted **Stanislaus** ’ unvote of **Cookies** by accident ---
**Author:** ![storyteller0910](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@storyteller0910](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/storyteller0910)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-game-in-progress-edited-title/646635/644 "2013-01-30T19:13:53Z")
Dusk, Day One _EXT – The Town Square. The camera pans slowly down from the orange setting sun to the face of Askthepizzaguy, who silently mounts the gallows. We hear shouts from the crowd around him._ A VOICE He tries to lead us by suggesting that we choose candidates and vote for them! ANOTHER VOICE It is a vile trickery! A THIRD VOICE We need no leader! A FOURTH VOICE Hang the wolf! _The chanting – “Kill the Wolf!” – begins, and soon reaches a fever pitch. Askthepizzaguy remains silent. The hangman slips the noose around his head, and places a meaty hand on the condemned man’s shoulder._ HANGMAN Hungry? Well… maybe you can ask the pizza guy… _in hell._ \*With a guffaw, he yanks a lever; Askthepizzaguy drops out of the frame. DISSOLVE to: The same, some hours later. The moon, bright and full, shines above. The rope still sways. Askthepizzaguy has not changed. PAN to: the same villagers, watching curiously.\* A VOICE He tried to lead us, by suggesting that we choose candidates and vote for them! ANOTHER VOICE I was behind him from the beginning. A THIRD VOICE We need no leader! _A long pause._ A FOURTH VOICE So what do we do now? * * * **Askthepizzaguy** , a Peasant Redshirt, is the first to fall. Night One begins here, and will end on Friday, February 1 at 2:00PM Eastern (Day 2 will last from then until Thursday the 7th, after which we will be on a standard Thursday-Saturday schedule for the rest of the game). Get those Night actions in! From here until Friday afternoon, fluff talk only. ---
**Author:** ![Astral\_Rejection](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/258eb7/32.png) [@Astral\_Rejection](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astral_Rejection)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-game-in-progress-edited-title/646635/645 "2013-01-30T19:16:31Z")
Aww, you didn’t single us out by name again. I like that. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![USCDiver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uscdiver/32/354_2.png) [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-game-in-progress-edited-title/646635/646 "2013-01-30T19:34:19Z")
:smack: So the Plan _was_ a good idea! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Astral\_Rejection](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/258eb7/32.png) [@Astral\_Rejection](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astral_Rejection)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-game-in-progress-edited-title/646635/647 "2013-01-30T19:37:07Z")
It was whether he was scum or not. We had a very productive Day 1. You know, apart from lynching town. 😃 ---
**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:** [January 30, 2013, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-game-in-progress-edited-title/646635/648 "2013-01-30T19:38:59Z")
> [@USCDiver](#): > > :smack: > > So the Plan _was_ a good idea! 😃 We can debate that…in the morning 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![storyteller0910](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@storyteller0910](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/storyteller0910)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-game-in-progress-edited-title/646635/649 "2013-01-30T19:43:17Z")
> [@Suburban\_Plankton](#): > > We can debate that…in the morning 🙂 Well… _some_ of you can. ---
**Author:** ![Chucara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Chucara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chucara)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-game-in-progress-edited-title/646635/650 "2013-01-30T19:45:50Z")
Sorry pizza. I really like your plan though. It will probably fall apart now though. Oh wait… Is this a no night strategy game? ---
**Author:** ![Astral\_Rejection](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/258eb7/32.png) [@Astral\_Rejection](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astral_Rejection)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-game-in-progress-edited-title/646635/651 "2013-01-30T19:48:05Z")
It is indeed! We’re lynchin’ it _old school._ ---
**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:** [January 30, 2013, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-game-in-progress-edited-title/646635/652 "2013-01-30T20:30:22Z")
The best laid plans of pizza guys quite often don’t work out as hoped, to quote my national poet. Bad luck, pizza. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-game-in-progress-edited-title/646635/653 "2013-01-30T21:18:34Z")
> [@storyteller0910](#): > > From here until Friday afternoon, fluff talk only. I thought this was a low budget flick. I didn’t think we could afford _those_. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-game-in-progress-edited-title/646635/654 "2013-01-30T21:27:01Z")
Plenty of great low-budget flicks have those. You’ve got to watch out for the teeth, though… ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-game-in-progress-edited-title/646635/655 "2013-01-30T21:38:49Z")
> [@Suburban\_Plankton](#): > > **unvote Pleonast** **story** paid you to do that, just so they wouldn’t have to post an updated vote count, right? ---
**Author:** ![ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-game-in-progress-edited-title/646635/656 "2013-01-30T21:48:22Z")
Vaya con dios, Pizza Pie Man ☹ ---
**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:** [January 30, 2013, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-game-in-progress-edited-title/646635/657 "2013-01-30T23:02:46Z")
> [@Pleonast](#): > > **story** paid you to do that, just so they wouldn’t have to post an updated vote count, right? Sorry, I’d love to comment on that, but I’m under a gag order… ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-game-in-progress-edited-title/646635/658 "2013-01-30T23:16:05Z")
You should learn to suppress your gag reflex, if you’re going to be a fluffer. ---
**Author:** ![RyJae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9d8465/32.png) [@RyJae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RyJae)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2013, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-game-in-progress-edited-title/646635/659 "2013-01-30T23:26:00Z")
Come on that set up and hit couldn’t have been easier if we were playing t-ball. I did laugh though. ---
**Author:** ![GuiriEnEspana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc79bd/32.png) [@GuiriEnEspana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuiriEnEspana)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2013, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-game-in-progress-edited-title/646635/660 "2013-01-31T06:38:51Z")
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