# Mafia Reunion - Day One **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [January 7, 2017, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-one/776577 "2017-01-07T22:01:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 16
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2017, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-one/776577/301 "2017-01-09T23:45:54Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Hi, Angel! Hope things are going better for you! > > Somewhere there is a 14-page list of the roles which I unfortunately didn’t link to, and can’t find. I printed 'em off though. > > A Patsy is a Miller with the difference being that you “if thou art killed by Night or by Day, thou mayest make one reciprocal kill at thine own discretion”. > > Or words to that effect. One being the number of the killing, and the killing of the number shall be one. Two is right out. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2017, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-one/776577/302 "2017-01-09T23:47:48Z")
> [@Thing\_Fish](#): > > **Drain Bead** , have you ever played with or read a game with **Meeko** before? Because if so, voting him for not making sense is pretty much the textbook example of an easy, lazy vote. **It’s almost like I outed myself as a Brony, with my new signature, just to cover this!** ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2017, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-one/776577/303 "2017-01-10T00:06:59Z")
> [@Drain\_Bead](#): > > I probably have. I’m not voting him for not making sense. I’m voting for him because he’ll make a perfectly salient point, then throw in some fluff, then say something that is almost diametrically opposed to the first salient point, but is itself also a salient point. I’m voting him for talking out of both sides of his mouth. > Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Fairly certain we have. You do like me, you really really do like me! **But seriously.** If I make two salient points, regardless of how they interact with each other, aren’t I playing the game twice as much? Nothing stops any other player from taking one, or the other point and … You know, working on it and respond to it. And on Day One, I think having any … Thought piece on the table is good. On the whole, even if I am speaking out of both sides [[I take your point, but I’m not sure I’d couch it with so strict a phrase]] as long as they are both salient, I don’t really see an issue. **Unless you want to make it one.** I can’t play this game all on my own. I don’t have my ideas in any semblance of organization. I don’t necessarily “play” the game when I’m in front of a screen. … **That is, I think about Mafia at other times, and (believe it or not) reason things in my head first. I do this for next to everything. All at once, all the time.** In the shower, at 3-4 am in the morning trying to sleep. - ## Also, I think it’s a bit of a double standard that players like me fall into. Respectfully, I’m sure you would (and probably have) made a similar comment on Peeker’s play. I mean, you can get Meeko from what, 8 or so years ago (My god.) or you can get me as I am now. … And I think everyone agrees I am doing better. ---
**Author:** ![LightFoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@LightFoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LightFoot)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2017, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-one/776577/304 "2017-01-10T00:10:52Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Hi, Angel! Hope things are going better for you! > > Somewhere there is a 14-page list of the roles which I unfortunately didn’t link to, and can’t find. I printed 'em off though. > > A Patsy is a Miller with the difference being that you “if thou art killed by Night or by Day, thou mayest make one reciprocal kill at thine own discretion”. > > Or words to that effect. aT the risk of looking helpful [roles](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XVWkU49fRxu3ukJ6EVZ8Q11VrC9JjW9LHnaIMlgi-zU/edit) ---
**Author:** ![LightFoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@LightFoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LightFoot)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2017, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-one/776577/305 "2017-01-10T00:17:39Z")
I see I was too late to help anyway- I was catching up-sorry about that chief. ---
**Author:** ![bufftabby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/77aa72/32.png) [@bufftabby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bufftabby)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2017, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-one/776577/306 "2017-01-10T00:20:46Z")
> [@Total\_Lost](#): > > Or a debate into a debacle? 😉 > > Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk [OOG] I swear, I would get twitchy every time I came across that word for like a year afterwards. Now, it just makes me think fondly of **Rugger**. [/OOG] ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2017, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-one/776577/307 "2017-01-10T00:33:04Z")
> [@Johnny\_Bravo](#): > > I’m not buying the train on Colby. Even if he **was** scum, he’d be technically incorrect referring to the “other team” because he’d still be playing against two other groups. > > I don’t think he’s guilty of anything but bad wording. Yeah, well, from my viewpoint, you would make the hat trick here. … Oh wait. ---
**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 10, 2017, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-one/776577/308 "2017-01-10T00:41:57Z")
**Meeko** , you misunderstand me. I think that being confirmed Town has significant value, and in fact I said as much in reference to the Miller just now. The problem with trying to confirm oneself Town isn’t in that being confirmed Town isn’t worth anything. The problem is that it’s usually not possible. I mean, if it is possible to prove yourself, then do it (ideally in the mid to late game, if you can), but most of the time, it won’t be. When Town wins, it’s usually because two people who aren’t confirmed both manage to make the right choice between Town and Scum, without any concrete proof at all. ---
**Author:** ![Hawkeyeop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/958977/32.png) [@Hawkeyeop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hawkeyeop)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2017, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-one/776577/309 "2017-01-10T00:42:57Z")
Go away for the weekend at there are 307 posts?! Good, I was worried there would be a lot. Now to hunt for some scum. ---
**Author:** ![LightFoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@LightFoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LightFoot)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2017, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-one/776577/310 "2017-01-10T00:54:51Z")
I had a nice word doc I created throughout the work day that I emailed to myself- and the damn thing is not in my inbox! thoughts recreated Night 0- unless a player posted that they had their PM I will read their posts as being from a player that did not know their alignment. \* I got mine late so I wager others did too \* RE:\*\* Colby \*\* he, and others (including myself) are often misinterpreted for our phrasing. Or use of same. That seems in character no matter his alignment. What I find more troubling, is that he mused on the colour/roles when he admitted he had not read the roles doc . The number of votes sticking to him \*for that one post \* does give me pause. \*\* Colby \*\* needs to ‘chat us up’ a bit more to help his cause- if he has any interest in doing so. I have always avoided wagons that seem too easy- (some games I later find out it was a wagon on a Scum- but the wagon didn’t need my vote to run either way.) Votes that read" sounds good to me" and include a vote are suspect. I have a few players that have made a post or two that don’t read right to me. but many of those same players have posted something else that rang true conclusion: I have time and I am not casting a vote until I have supporting evidence ( as perceived by me) And I am paying attention. ---
**Author:** ![Lakai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lakai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lakai)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2017, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-one/776577/311 "2017-01-10T01:26:05Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > I keep coming back to this on toDay’s reread #4. First, and only post, see’s a wagon forming, vote’s, then disappears. Very very lazy. > > **Unvote Boozahol Squid, P. I.** > > **Vote Lakai** Or maybe just has a day job, sees evidence that convinces a number of other posters to vote for someone and then decides the evidence is sufficient enough to cast his own vote? I would ask everyone to consider what **DiggitCamara** wrote up thread, that a defense of player with very little evidence is more suspicious than a vote for a player with very little evidence. There is little evidence for any vote and everyone has to vote for someone, but not everyone has to defend someone. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2017, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-one/776577/312 "2017-01-10T01:41:54Z")
> [@Lakai](#): > > Or maybe just has a day job, sees evidence that convinces a number of other posters to vote for someone and then decides the evidence is sufficient enough to cast his own vote? It could be, yes. But that still doesn’t make you town. Scum will very often use real life as an excuse (true or not) to defend a lazy wagontrain “me too” vote without a hint of scum hunting. Combined with the fact that the above quote is only your 3 post of the entire game (one of those was the signup), it smells like lurker scum. Participate more when you can and make an effort to forward the town cause and I’ll reconsider my vote. But for now it stays. > [@](#): > > I would ask everyone to consider what **DiggitCamara** wrote up thread, that a defense of player with very little evidence is more suspicious than a vote for a player with very little evidence. There is little evidence for any vote and everyone has to vote for someone, but not everyone has to defend someone. I’m not sure how me being unconvinced that Colby’s “slip” is anything other than Colby being Colby means that I am somehow “defending” him. He very well might be scum, but The Slip, by itself is not something to convince me to vote for him. ---
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2017, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-one/776577/313 "2017-01-10T01:50:18Z")
DAY ONE VOTE COUNT For your consideration, your evening vote count. As a quick reminder - there are no powers, hidden or open, that can affect the vote count. If you see an apparent discrepancy, it’s the result of moderator error. colby11 (7 votes) - Texcat (91), Guiri (101), Meeko (130), ToeJam (132), Hockey Monkey (152), Lakai (154), Suburban Plankton (162) ToeJam (5 votes) - Captain Klutz (57), Sunny Daze (113), Normal Phase (147), Hooker Chemical (184), sinjin (200) Normal Phase (2 votes) - Johnny Bravo (36), Pleonast (241) Lakai (2 votes) - Inner Stickler (257), snfaulkner (295), ## PLAYERS WITH 1 VOTE: Meeko (Drain Bead - 94), Drain Bead (Angel - 97), jsgoddess (Chronos - 183), hawkeyeop (Boozahol Squid PI - 188), Captain Klutz (Hoopy Frood - 195), septimus (Enderw24 - 243), Johnny Bravo (bufftabby 259), snfaulkner (diggitcamera 264), septimus (total lost 273) Day 1 will end at 3:00PM EST on Sunday, January 15, or in approximately six real-life days. As the rules were not entirely clear on this point, please note that all Day actions for Day One must be submitted to the moderators at or before this deadline. ---
**Author:** ![Normal\_Phase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Normal\_Phase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Normal_Phase)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2017, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-one/776577/314 "2017-01-10T01:56:50Z")
> [@Drain\_Bead](#): > > I’d look at the two non-voters who sort of FOSed the situation early. In a game with two Scum teams, I wouldn’t be shocked if those two were made up of one of each. Stoking the fire while trying not to get themselves burned. > Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk For the absent minded and the just plain absent among us, it would be helpful if you named names. ---
**Author:** ![TexCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/texcat/32/9041_2.png) [@TexCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TexCat)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2017, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-one/776577/315 "2017-01-10T02:21:13Z")
> [@Total\_Lost](#): > > I missed that in my reading. But I do agree - strange way to phrase it indeed. > [@BillMC](#): > > yes that stood out to me as well “the other team” is a very strange turn of phrase to use here. > > we’re on the 3rd page of day 1 and Idle hasn’t claimed yet? most suspicious! > [@brewha](#): > > Seems early to being casting votes already on Day one. We’ve got players that haven’t posted at all in the game. I’m not a big fan of lynching the loud. We have to get discussion going and if we start voting players just because they post, the scum will have the advantage. > > I do find Colby’s wording suspicious as well. And I thing the Durpclears are a bit to obvious. > > But, I want to wait for more discussion before casting a vote. > [@Zeriel](#): > > I don’t know if I think it’s enough to vote for this early on Day One, but that’s a heck of a good catch there. > [@ToeJam](#): > > **Now, On to the Rest** : > > re: \*\* Colby\*\* > -The “Slip up” does seem like that- a slip up. There are a minimum of 3-4 teams at play here. Even if you just go “Scum, 3rd Party, Town”, I tend myself to say Town vs. “Not Town”, but I will clarify the groups out for clarity’s sake. While the slip up is suspicious, I don think he’ll have a lot to say to defend himself other than the “Town vs. Not-Town” Defense. So the idea of this lynch is fair. I agree it’s better than a Policy Lynch, or a Lynch the Lurker vote currently. But I think there’s plenty more day to go. > [@Plumpudding](#): > > On **Colby** : At first I found his slip suspect, but then I remembered it’s **Colby** … > > I’ve seen this post before, well, a variant of it. And every time I’ve seen it he’s been town. These are the ones I found. Not sure which 2 Drain was referring to. These plus Septimus’s unvote. Is Colby trying to lurk this away? ---
**Author:** ![Normal\_Phase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Normal\_Phase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Normal_Phase)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2017, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-one/776577/316 "2017-01-10T02:31:39Z")
@Pleonast – you keep talking about how we she discuss the scum roles instead of the town ones, but I haven’t seen you set a model for doing this yet. How would you envision this to take place? I mean, I read your last post and it looks perfectly reasonable right up until the point where I try to think how I would go about doing this, and I just draw a blank. I have every interest in helping townies to play the game in the way I think would be most beneficial to us to win. I don’t have the slightest interest in helping wolves to do the same, nor would any other townie, obviously. So given it’s not a matter of discussing how best to use the scum roles, what is left? Warnings? Like if scum had a watcher or a redirector then certain night actions or certain claims might be problematic, but they don’t have roles like that. And even if they did, we’d still be saying what we want town roles to do. I’m drawing a complete blank. What exactly did you have in mind, such that I can believe that all your seemingly well-intentioned words on this topic aren’t just hot air? ---
**Author:** ![Hawkeyeop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/958977/32.png) [@Hawkeyeop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hawkeyeop)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2017, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-one/776577/317 "2017-01-10T02:36:43Z")
> [@sachertorte](#): > > Also, I expect many more players to drop out and no-show. It happens all the time and with 55, now 54, roles, I expect a lot of missing players. The mods were smart to build in a waitlist rather than expand the game during signups, but still underestimated the rapid attrition of waning interest. Yeah, but then they let everyone from the wait list into the game, leaving us without subs. This is definitely a concern, but not one we can do much about. > [@NAF1138](#): > > Different person. > > Also on a side note some of you may know ToeJam better as Roosh. Really? That explains soooo much. Yay Roosh. > [@Colby11](#): > > But it means that there is going to be a lot of carnage in this game. I think the fire is probably from the other team, or an arsonist. We do have 2 sets of scum in this game, so it’s safe to assume that each get a kill. This struck me more as nonsensical then scummy. > [@Hockey\_Monkey](#): > > “I think the fire is probably from the other team, or an arsonist.” > > The \*\*other \*\*team? So which are you, Mafia or Wolf? Of the Colby votes, this struck me as the most suspicious. It was bandwagony without any acknowledgement of such. > [@Colby11](#): > > Really? Couldn’t you have come up with anything better? Maybe like I killed Dante or some other BS. It is the cover-up and the crime. This read to me as scum annoyed they got voted for a stupid reason. > [@Thing\_Fish](#): > > Obligatory disclaimer that all Town power roles should play their roles as they see fit, BUT… since Town has both Day and Night docs, seems like it would be wisest for the 7-shot protector Wizard to hold off until one of the other docs die, so that the Wizard can cover the phase that the late Doc worked in. I think this like a football survivor pool. Don’t save too long because odds are you are going to die before long. Of course, got to find people worth using powers on. ---
**Author:** ![Normal\_Phase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Normal\_Phase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Normal_Phase)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2017, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-one/776577/318 "2017-01-10T02:41:50Z")
I gotta say I like the rest of Pleonast’s post, the misinterpretation of my motives notwithstanding. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Skeezix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aca169/32.png) [@Red\_Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Skeezix)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2017, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-one/776577/319 "2017-01-10T02:42:13Z")
1. I need to read this on a real screen. Tapatalk is annoying. 2. The case on Colby is weak for such an early bandwagon . 3. Captain klutz’s “I’ve seen scum do this before so that means your scum” vote rankles me. Way too confident a tone for a day one vote. 4. Lakai looks like they were trying to sneak in early on a potential bandwagon. [bold] vote lakai[/bold] Sent from my Pixel using Tapatalk ---
**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 10, 2017, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-one/776577/320 "2017-01-10T02:42:45Z")
> [@NAF1138](#): > > DAY ONE VOTE COUNT You have \*\*septimus \*\*listed with one vote, twice…instead of two votes, once. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-one/776577.md?page=15) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-one/776577.md?page=17)