# Mafia Reunion Day 5 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [February 7, 2017, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-5/779271 "2017-02-07T20:22:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 406
**Author:** ![Zeriel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/58956e/32.png) [@Zeriel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeriel)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2017, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-5/779271/406 "2017-02-11T22:33:57Z")
> [@paulwhoisaghost](#): > > Questions for Zeriel: > > 1. Crys got your vote on D2. Was that strictly a policy move to attempt multilynch? Little bit of policy, little bit of not liking the claim. See below. > [@](#): > > 1. What points on the case against Prof P do you like, dislike, don’t understand? The votes on D3 that I saw for ProfP that I remember were largely for him being fluffy (and frankly, I don’t think being low-post-count or fluffy is super vote-able–it’s a null tell to me, as long as they vote). I also didn’t really agree with Pleo’s characterization of his “lynch the cult” plan as fully pro-scum. As for why I switched my position and voted for him–and for some reason I thought I posted about this but clearly I did not–once Pleo was revealed, following the person he abruptly locked on to and voted for repeatedly seemed like a good way to nail a scum. > [@](#): > > 1. How do you feel about the cultists? You didn’t buy Crys’s hinky story, but haven’t really commented on them since. How should we handle the situation? No confirmation, no data at all, risks even if they are mostly who they claim to be = slightly to somewhat negative feeling towards the cultists. Modified by the fact that sach is also pushing the truly pro-town strategy of “always utilize multi-lynch to the fullest at this stage of the game”. If one is killed and actually flips PFK/3rd/whatever, I’ll modify, but right now I don’t know if they actually have an exclusive win or if they have powers or if they are actually one of the scum teams playing a weirdo gambit or town playing a weirdo gambit. > [@](#): > > 1. You FOS’d CaptainKlutz on D3, but haven’t even mentioned him since… did you forget the whole thing like I did? Admittedly, yes. Also admittedly, it was a weak FOS in the first place–I didn’t (and still don’t understand) why he’d have revealed anything about the switch at all. Having said that, I also don’t care that he’s alive: killing a switchholder is not especially high-priority for the scum since all it does is change the WIFOM calculation for the other unknown switchholder. > [@](#): > > 1. Pretend for a second that you KNOW I am town, who should I be looking at? Who do you think I can trust? I’m not sure I trust anyone. To the extent we have revealed investigators or confirmable groups, we don’t! And rule #1 of Mafia to me is “anyone can be scum in the absence of hard data”. The double scum team thing has messed my radar up completely–As I said, I can’t find scum in the voting patterns except for people who do actions that could be savior actions–pile-ons and busses mean nothing when it could just as easily be a town or the other scum team too. I’m going to be perfectly honest–my work had a major reorg, and the hurricane of fallout dropped into my lap more than I expected it to in the last couple of weeks. I have five major (read as “more than 100 servers each”) hardware deployments in flight right now. That said, I’m trying to THINK about this, but I don’t have a lot of time to sit down and really think about what to SAY about it. Long memory me remembers the time I got speed-hammer-lynched (like, the time between “made a obviously silly mistake” and “voted so hard night fell early” was a few hours or so) for making a brainfart and voting for a claimed mason once, so I default to not saying much. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-5/779271)._