# Mafia Reunion - Day Three **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [January 24, 2017, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-three/778068 "2017-01-24T20:43:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 19
**Author:** ![LightFoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@LightFoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LightFoot)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2017, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-three/778068/361 "2017-01-26T19:27:51Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally Posted by LightFoot View Post > 1.OK what about the posts since then? from your suspects? > 2. If D1 posts could solve the game we wouldn’t have many > [@Pleonast](#): > > You’ll have to elaborate, because I’m not understanding you. 1. is pretty straight forward. I am guessing you understand that part 2. If D1 posts could solve the game we wouldn’t have many Days in the game Now it is Day 3 and you are still hanging on to Day one speculations -in some cases without (it appears) taking into account later posts. - I am referring to your additional list not the current counted vote \* ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2017, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-three/778068/362 "2017-01-26T19:37:31Z")
> [@LightFoot](#): > > leans are just that ( when Town) and there can be helpful information there for Town > You toss your coin I will toss mine > [@jsgoddess](#): > > I just can’t agree with this. No one should follow me off a cliff, and the mental errors in my posts speak for themselves, but I’ll share what I’m thinking (which is remarkably little about some players) in the hopes it benefits us. _shrug_ I’m mostly just surprised as townie trust lists were not popular when I was active and generally considered bad a priori. Ah well, gameplay evolves. ---
**Author:** ![Koldanar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@Koldanar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koldanar)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2017, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-three/778068/363 "2017-01-26T19:43:59Z")
Snipped… > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > **vote sachertorte** > Not because I think I’m wrong about Scum. It’s because sachertorte and Crys have claimed to be 3P, and harmless LUTHA’s. > > Archangel has said that 3P is always harmful to Town, and, having read through some 20+ games in the last year, I do believe she’s right. Crys offered herself up as a sacrificial proof, but she’s just the Second Deacon. sachertorte is the First. She’s protecting him. > > After we get rid of the 3P’s, then we can concentrate on Scum. And the other possibility is, the Deacons are lying, and are actually Scum hiding as harmless LUTHA’s. In which case, we win. What they are not is Town hiding as 3P’s. > **Plum** , I haven’t forgotten your request. I am now going back to my reading, and will have an answer for that either today or tomorrow, as time permits. Many others, and myself, keep stating that lynching a 3rd party is a mistake, here. See above - town wins for eliminating scum. We don’t know (and may never) what the LUTHAs can do absolutely, and to be honest, I don’t want to waste time worrying right now. You are also making a great assumption that the rank means something - we don’t know Sach’s power, as his claim didn’t include this. Who is to say there isn’t another rank? Bishop, pope, etc? Again, not worth worrying. Stop taking actions that will not benefit the town, here. ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2017, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-three/778068/364 "2017-01-26T19:55:31Z")
> [@Svejk\_1](#): > > Actually I never got my role PM and because I was also a little overwhelmed by the sheer amount of reading that awaited me, I wrote to **Mahaloth** that on second thought I was going to pass. So I never subbed in. I just I’d see if my absence was being noted since I never heard back from **Mahaloth** after I wrote to say I was chickening out. Wait, what? ---
**Author:** ![LightFoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@LightFoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LightFoot)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2017, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-three/778068/365 "2017-01-26T20:22:56Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > _shrug_ > > I’m mostly just surprised as townie trust lists were not popular when I was active and generally considered bad a priori. Ah well, gameplay evolves. they could be Scum trust lists, really just additional data either way I think ---
**Author:** ![LightFoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@LightFoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LightFoot)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2017, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-three/778068/366 "2017-01-26T20:24:16Z")
> [@Svejk\_1](#): > > Actually I never got my role PM and because I was also a little overwhelmed by the sheer amount of reading that awaited me, I wrote to **Mahaloth** that on second thought I was going to pass. So I never subbed in. I just I’d see if my absence was being noted since I never heard back from **Mahaloth** after I wrote to say I was chickening out. \*\* Is this a missed Mod Kill?\*\* ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2017, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-three/778068/367 "2017-01-26T20:43:59Z")
> [@Svejk\_1](#): > > Actually I never got my role PM and because I was also a little overwhelmed by the sheer amount of reading that awaited me, I wrote to **Mahaloth** that on second thought I was going to pass. So I never subbed in. I just I’d see if my absence was being noted since I never heard back from **Mahaloth** after I wrote to say I was chickening out. You don’t have a role PM? 1. AngeloftheNorth – leaning town 2. BillMc – leaning scum 3. Biotop - neutral 4. Boozahol Squid, P.I. - leaning far to scum 5. brewha – died D2 (1276) – vanilla Town 6. bufftabby – leaning town 7. Captain Klutz - neutral 8. Chronos – died D2 (1276) - Mason 9. Colby11 – died D2 (1) – vanilla Town 10. ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies – leaning town slightly off neutral 11. crys75 – Definitely believe the 3P claim, but wary of truthfulness of contents 12. Dante G – ModKilled D1 (1) –vanilla Town 13. DaphneBlack \> Lakai 2 - I have not noticed any of Lakai v2 posts 14. DiggitCamara – neutral to slightly scum 15. Drain Bead - Daykilled D2 - was magically delicious that made me laugh so I’m keeping it 16. EnderW24 – leaning scum 17. Guiri - leaning town 18. Hal Briston – have no information with which to form an opinion 19. hawkeyeop – leaning scum 20. Hockey Monkey - hey that’s me! 21. HookerChemical - neutral 22. Hoopy Frood – leaning scum 23. Idle Thoughts - Leaning HARD to scum. \* If he comes in to avoid modkill my vote will be immediately switched to him \* 24. Inner Stickler – leaning scum 25. Johnny Bravo – leaning scum 26. jsgoddess – leaning town 27. Khameleon – have not noticed his posts 28. Koldanar – slight scum lean 29. Lakai 1 – died D1 (1214) vanilla Town 30. LightFoot – slight town lean 31. Meeko – leaning cookie monster or something 32. MHaye – I haven’t really noticed his posts either 33. Nanook of the North Shore - neutral 34. Nesta – leaning scum 35. Normal Phase – died D1 (1214) Investigative Journalist 36. Pleonast – leaning scum 37. Plumpudding – leaning scum 38. Precambrian mollusk \> Cygnus 42 – don’t have enough info to form an opinion 39. Prof. Pepperwinkle – leaning far toward scum after post #339 voting for sach 40. Raventhief - neutral 41. Red Skeezix \> Svejk – have no idea what to think here if they don’t even have a role PM 42. Sachertorte – believe the 3P claim, but unsure of truthfulness of contents 43. Sario – died D3 Wizard 44. Scathach – leaning town 45. septimus – died D1 (1214) EMT 46. sinjin - neutral 47. snfaulkner – leaning just off neutral to scum 48. Suburban Plankton – died D2 (1) Homicide Detective 49. Sunny Daze – neutral, but for a noob she’s making insightful comments. 50. Texcat – leaning scum 51. Thing Fish – leaning town 52. Toejam – Claimed Doc Seward which I believe is true 53. Total Lost - neutral 54. Winston Smith \> Paulwhoisaghost – leaning slightly to scum 55. Zeriel – I haven’t noticed his posts enough to form an opinion I did find this exercise helpful because I can see who I either haven’t been paying attention to or is flying under the radar. Now I can read with more focus directed their way. So far I have 17 in the scum column, and after doing this I can see where my hardest ping is. **Vote Prof. Pepperwinkie** > [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > _shrug_ > > I’m mostly just surprised as townie trust lists were not popular when I was active and generally considered bad a priori. Ah well, gameplay evolves. Actually it seems to have come full circle. Reference M2, second game ever on the Dope here and my first. We did this, but not with the full player list. ---
**Author:** ![DiggitCamara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df788c/32.png) [@DiggitCamara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiggitCamara)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2017, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-three/778068/368 "2017-01-26T20:45:42Z")
> [@LightFoot](#): > > this makes sense- AUBatman is neutered at this time. ( if Scum hold the switch) odds are they do. > > If the switch is held by a Townie though… which one should claim? Seeing that Sario just blew up, couldn’t he be the one who prevented a Night Kill? Other than that, I am still re-reading the thread. One question, however: why does everyone assume that the cult has been “cleared” and is probably non-hostile? The thing is that makes me a bit nervous is: 1. We only know their role by their reported PM. 2. They hold at least a switch. I am assuming that switches are held by members of opposing factions (to maximize WIFOM). Wouldn’t a reveal of the switch help us see whether or not a living townsperson holds a similar switch? If that counterswitch were discovered, we would know for certain if the third party is hostile, wouldn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2017, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-three/778068/369 "2017-01-26T20:48:33Z")
**Could the entirety of the scum team be lurking?** ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2017, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-three/778068/370 "2017-01-26T20:49:52Z")
> [@DiggitCamara](#): > > Other than that, I am still re-reading the thread. One question, however: why does everyone assume that the cult has been “cleared” and is probably non-hostile? I don’t consider the cult cleared, but since town’s wincon says fuck-all about third parties, I’m trying to direct my attention and my vote towards eliminating players who I think are wolves or mafia. Once we get a few scum kills on the board, I may be more amenable to cutting sach up and seeing if he’s filled with almonds or lies. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2017, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-three/778068/371 "2017-01-26T20:58:03Z")
> [@Meeko](#): > > **Could the entirety of the scum team be lurking?** Yep. ---
**Author:** ![AngeloftheNorth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angelofthenorth/32/19559_2.png) [@AngeloftheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngeloftheNorth)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2017, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-three/778068/372 "2017-01-26T21:03:20Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Yep. You’re not seriously advocating this, are you? While I agree with you that the low posters are likely to hide scum, I have never once seen a game where the entire scum team hid, and here we have two of them. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2017, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-three/778068/373 "2017-01-26T21:06:04Z")
I would wager good money that more than 7 of the low post count posters that PP indicated are Town-aligned. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2017, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-three/778068/374 "2017-01-26T21:08:52Z")
> [@AngeloftheNorth](#): > > You’re not seriously advocating this, are you? While I agree with you that the low posters are likely to hide scum, I have never once seen a game where the entire scum team hid, and here we have two of them. > Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro No, I actually think that, since 1/3rd of the people now playing are Mafia or Wolf, that over 5 (approx. 1/3 x 44 players) will be found to be Scum. It’s possible they all are, but I’m guessing 7 or 8. ---
**Author:** ![paulwhoisaghost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e5b9ba/32.png) [@paulwhoisaghost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paulwhoisaghost)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2017, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-three/778068/375 "2017-01-26T21:18:39Z")
> [@Biotop](#): > > The problem with a \*\*ToeJam \*\*false claim is that it is accompanied by detailed long texts that explain his play. I parse this as he can’t be scum because if he is, his false claim is too good and he put a lot of effort into. Is that correct? Sent from my SM-G930T using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![paulwhoisaghost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e5b9ba/32.png) [@paulwhoisaghost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paulwhoisaghost)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2017, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-three/778068/376 "2017-01-26T21:20:27Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > Town wins when we eliminate the 14 scum players, period. Unless you 100% believe Sach and Crys are scum masquerading as third party, advocating for their lynch is anti-town and pro-scum. This… Thank you for stating in so succintly… I seem to be incapable of doing so. Sent from my SM-G930T using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![GuiriEnEspana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc79bd/32.png) [@GuiriEnEspana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuiriEnEspana)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2017, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-three/778068/377 "2017-01-26T21:22:47Z")
Happy day 3! Finished first skim quickly! Wow, I’m surprised at how ToeJam’s claim has been received. It sets off all sorts of alarms for me, I don’t think I’m that biased - First, I think it’s bs that scum look for breadcrumbs, on N0? A player leaves breadcrumbs to be able to point back at, not for others to stumble across. Also, I don’t see any of those posts as breadcrumbs - what am I missing? Scum look for extra info, extra attention, changes in playstyle, tells - not crumbs. - Arguably a doc is just as important as a cop, why risk drawing attention to yourself at all? Especially with hitman and outrider roles - N1 he self-protected? So he had time to submit an order but not read the thread? Or he read the thread, noticed that he was still alive, and submitted the order, but then all that bs on D2 about being shocked and surprised? - he says he only came back D2 because of the facebook post, but he was in contact with the mods on N1 - he PM’d them his order? - he says scum would bus him, bus not vote or pile on? - his concern about not having time to defend himself on D2 - how long does it take to say stop, I’m the doc! - I don’t think I’ve ever seen a player do a self-wow, ever. Feels like more bs to me, smoke and mirrors, if he spent 1/4 of the time hunting scum I’d be happy - He continues to misrepresent the case against him, his absence was a compounding factor, not the primary reason - I love how he’s basking in self-glory, he’s just so amazingly great at breadcrumbing and fooling scum, he can barely believe it himself, wha? His plan was to get himself lynched or NK’d? - His whole “townies without power should target themselves”, he claimed to be doing just that in #1221 - His “that’s what I’d do if I was scum- start bread crumbing a fake cult” comment, so you fake breadcrumb when you’re scum? - more self-obsession “I also know that yeah, there’s NO reason for scum to target me as I’m a free lynch” becomes “I think I’m still dying today, but probably Day killed rather than Lynched.” I suspect it’s an ploy to get the real doc Seward to claim, or a gambit to attract a cop, to be watched? Yet I’m torn because it’s a doc claim, and Sario poofed, and Septimus is dead. If it’s a real claim, he sure is likely to be targeted by scum, if it’s fake, the other scum team may still think it could be real, and take a shot anyway. Bleuggh, yuck, eww. ---
**Author:** ![paulwhoisaghost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e5b9ba/32.png) [@paulwhoisaghost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paulwhoisaghost)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2017, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-three/778068/378 "2017-01-26T21:24:14Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > I don’t like the lists of leans at all. If I were scum, I’d start looking for a player who lists as much of my team as possible as leaning town and then off that person. If the person flips town, most of my team has just become slightly harder to lynch because town will have to vote against the opinion of a dead Townie and that can be hard for players to do. But we know that townies are ignorant… assessing their suspicions is good, because we know their honest… assessing their town leans is flawed because while honest they could very easily be mislead. Their suspicions could be wrong too, but scum is trying to mislead town, so IMO the thread townies suspicions should be given more weight than their town leans. Sent from my SM-G930T using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2017, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-three/778068/379 "2017-01-26T21:25:27Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > No, I actually think that, since 1/3rd of the people now playing are Mafia or Wolf, that over 5 (approx. 1/3 x 44 players) will be found to be Scum. It’s possible they all are, but I’m guessing 7 or 8. That should have been “(approx. 1/3 x 14 players)”. ---
**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 26, 2017, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-three/778068/380 "2017-01-26T21:25:47Z")
> [@DiggitCamara](#): > > Seeing that Sario just blew up, couldn’t he be the one who prevented a Night Kill? > > Other than that, I am still re-reading the thread. One question, however: why does everyone assume that the cult has been “cleared” and is probably non-hostile? > > The thing is that makes me a bit nervous is: > > 1. We only know their role by their reported PM. > > 2. They hold at least a switch. I am assuming that switches are held by members of opposing factions (to maximize WIFOM). Wouldn’t a reveal of the switch help us see whether or not a living townsperson holds a similar switch? If that counterswitch were discovered, we would know for certain if the third party is hostile, wouldn’t it? I voted for Crys yesterDay and I still think something is wrong with their story. It just doesn’t make sense to me, but I am willing to let the scum and/or the vig take one of them out. This is the advantage of the alleged 3 other members of the cult not claiming. They could be hit by scum looking for our remaining power roles. Or the could be hit by the vig looking for scum. And another reason that something is fishy with the whole cult thing. If they were innocent survivors, why wouldn’t they claim now? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-three/778068.md?page=18) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-reunion-day-three/778068.md?page=20)