# MAFIA: The Road to Canterbury - Game Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [June 21, 2012, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-the-road-to-canterbury-game-thread/625807 "2012-06-21T01:57:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 23
**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:** [July 5, 2012, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-the-road-to-canterbury-game-thread/625807/441 "2012-07-05T20:14:43Z")
> [@gnarlycharlie](#): > > who’s Josue? I’m betting that was a typo: Josue = Mosier. ---
**Author:** ![MHaye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@MHaye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MHaye)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2012, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-the-road-to-canterbury-game-thread/625807/442 "2012-07-05T20:16:36Z")
I reviewed my analysis of the votes on Snickers. It’s fine until I get into the part where I have to look at Snickers’ posts to see if the votes are valid. I got only part-way through that review, and my thoughts jump all over the place. I think it best if I start reviewing Snickers posting history again from scratch. It won’t get done in time for changing my vote Today though. I’m going to leave the vote where it is unless something really dramatic happens, such as a tied vote. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2012, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-the-road-to-canterbury-game-thread/625807/443 "2012-07-05T20:21:59Z")
> [@Suburban\_Plankton](#): > > I’m betting that was a typo: Josue = Mosier. This. Android autocorrect is better than iphone autocorrect but I use a 3rd party keyboard that includes languages unavailable on my android that has the worst autocorrect ever. ---
**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:** [July 5, 2012, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-the-road-to-canterbury-game-thread/625807/444 "2012-07-05T20:34:44Z")
I did make it back before EOD for whatever good it’s going to do. First, **unvote: Gnarlycharlie** Second, [QUOTE=storyteller0910] Welcome the game; you are The MillerYou are a tradesman, simple, straightforward, practical, and well-liked. You have a particular fondness for drink, and all that follows after, and this is your main strength and your main weakness. While you have no experience in combat, you are physically imposing and your personality is quite forceful; you are able to exert a considerable amount of influence on those around you, even those who would otherwise be your social superiors. _Once per game, you may choose one player as your target on a particular Night. During that Night, you will use your ability to entertain and amuse - not to mention your quietly hidden stores of wine and mead - to distract everyone in the game except for your chosen target, effectively role blocking every player in the game except for him or her. Unfortunately, such a wild party does not come without cost; once you choose to engage in debauchery of this kind, you will no longer be welcome on the pilgrimage to Canterbury and will have to turn back (in game terms, though not in color terms because where’s the fun in that, you will die)._ [/QUOTE] Claiming so that town will know that this role is no longer in play. ---
**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:** [July 5, 2012, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-the-road-to-canterbury-game-thread/625807/445 "2012-07-05T21:10:15Z")
I’ve changed my mind. \*\*vote: gnarlycharlie vote: alka seltzer vote: mhaye \*\* 4 votes for the 4 scum 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![fubbleskag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fubbleskag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fubbleskag)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2012, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-the-road-to-canterbury-game-thread/625807/446 "2012-07-05T21:26:57Z")
My role and investigation PMs for those interested; when I posted my result I was on my phone, so couldn’t copy/paste very well. “Rose” does appear in my investigation PM, but I’m more concerned by the many other differences between our PMs. [QUOTE=storyteller0910] Welcome to the game; you are The Man of LawYou are a righteous man and noble, a seeker of truth in word and deed, and a real hit at parties. You care nothing for the goal of this pilgrimage; the laws of man’s religions mean nothing to you. Your only real aim is to ensure that those who would circumvent the laws of _man_ are properly punished. _Once per game, you may target a player of your choice at Night and determine whether that player is part of the Brotherhood (ie, Scum). This ability can be blocked, but will produce false results only if your target is influenced by the Coat of Lies (see Scum Tools for details)._ [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=storyteller0910] [QUOTE=fubbleskag] I’d like to investigate **Stanislaus** please. [/QUOTE] **Stanislaus** is not a member of the Brotherhood of the Rose (unless the Cloak of Lies was used). [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![fubbleskag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fubbleskag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fubbleskag)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2012, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-the-road-to-canterbury-game-thread/625807/447 "2012-07-05T21:29:13Z")
**@Mosier** please be so kind as to post your role PM for us? thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2012, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-the-road-to-canterbury-game-thread/625807/448 "2012-07-05T21:38:26Z")
> [@Suburban\_Plankton](#): > > I hope you got a good night’s sleep. Any chance you have a vote forthcoming? Holy crap, _did_ I get a good night’s sleep…when I woke up, I was afraid I’d missed Nightfall. My vote’s weak, I have to admit, but since I do pretty thoroughly believe what I wrote in my last post regarding SP and Mosier, MHaye and Babale’s contrary arguments, as well as their statements that Town don’t have to worry about appearances (which is pretty patently false - we’re less likely to slip up and admit to something we shouldn’t, but, especially this early, ‘who looks bad’ is 90% of suspicion, and we lynched Visor based on it yesterDay) makes me suspicious of them. Since I don’t want to have two lynch votes out there (voting for no lynch and Visor yesterDay was a special case), I choose one of the two, mostly at random: vote: MHaye ---
**Author:** ![storyteller0910](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@storyteller0910](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/storyteller0910)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2012, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-the-road-to-canterbury-game-thread/625807/449 "2012-07-05T21:54:10Z")
Um… does the board keep disappearing for everyone, or is it just me? ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2012, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-the-road-to-canterbury-game-thread/625807/450 "2012-07-05T21:58:07Z")
> [@storyteller0910](#): > > Um… does the board keep disappearing for everyone, or is it just me? Disappearing boards is definitely a scum tell! ---
**Author:** ![MHaye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@MHaye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MHaye)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2012, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-the-road-to-canterbury-game-thread/625807/451 "2012-07-05T22:00:08Z")
> [@storyteller0910](#): > > Um… does the board keep disappearing for everyone, or is it just me? There were some problems about an hour ago, apparently. I can’t say I noticed any though. ---
**Author:** ![Mosier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2012, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-the-road-to-canterbury-game-thread/625807/452 "2012-07-05T22:07:35Z")
> [@fubbleskag](#): > > **@Mosier** please be so kind as to post your role PM for us? thanks! > [@](#): > > Canterbury Role PM > Welcome the game; you are The Summoner > Your official job as part of the church is administrative - you call people to assist in service, and serve as a sort of usher. It’s a noble and valuable job, but there is nothing at all noble about you. You are a gossip, an eavesdropper, a skulker, and a petty thief. You also smell funny. > > Once per game, you may target a player of your choice at Night, and watch them. You will learn whether they go out at Night (ie, whether they perform an action), but NOT what action they perform. You will also see anyone who targets your target, AND learn what they do. I take that to mean that if I had watched someone who performed any Night action, I would have been informed that they did indeed perform an action, even if the action was on themselves (such as the carpenter setting a trap to protect himself, or a scum activating the cloak on himself). ---
**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2012, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-the-road-to-canterbury-game-thread/625807/453 "2012-07-05T22:08:44Z")
**@Mosier** - Can you post your night PM as well please? ---
**Author:** ![Mosier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2012, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-the-road-to-canterbury-game-thread/625807/454 "2012-07-05T22:09:07Z")
Also, the second paragraph in my role PM is italicized, but the copy/paste didn’t translate the italics. ---
**Author:** ![Mosier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2012, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-the-road-to-canterbury-game-thread/625807/455 "2012-07-05T22:17:27Z")
> [@Alka\_Seltzer](#): > > **@Mosier** - Can you post your night PM as well please? > [@](#): > > Re: The Summoner power Night 1 > Quote: > Originally Posted by Mosier > I will use my power as Summoner to watch Suburban Plankton for Night 1. > > Thanks for hosting the game! It’s going very well, especially when compared to pizza’s last game. > Suburban Plankton did not act on Night One. The parsing doesn’t translate well with copy/paste, but the first three sentences were from me (in a quote reply box), and the final sentence is storyteller’s response. He did not specifically state whether anyone visited SP, although my role PM says I would be notified if someone targeted my target as well as whether my target used an action. I take that to mean that nobody (other than me) targeted SP, and SP did not take any actions. ---
**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2012, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-the-road-to-canterbury-game-thread/625807/456 "2012-07-05T22:23:32Z")
> [@storyteller0910](#): > > Um… does the board keep disappearing for everyone, or is it just me? No problems here, and I’ve been on the board a lot today. ---
**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:** [July 5, 2012, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-the-road-to-canterbury-game-thread/625807/457 "2012-07-05T22:24:14Z")
> [@storyteller0910](#): > > Um… does the board keep disappearing for everyone, or is it just me? We’ve shifted IPs as a result of the recent sale of the straight dope to the Sun-Times. It appears that non-Chrome users have been experiencing intermittent access issues throughout the day as the change permeates through the various parts of the internet. ---
**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:** [July 5, 2012, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-the-road-to-canterbury-game-thread/625807/458 "2012-07-05T22:25:19Z")
[Thraed](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=15241790#post15241790) ---
**Author:** ![storyteller0910](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@storyteller0910](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/storyteller0910)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2012, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-the-road-to-canterbury-game-thread/625807/459 "2012-07-05T22:31:47Z")
**Dusk, Day Two** \*It was a stranger day than the last. The question remained an open one: did the Brotherhood of the Rose exist at all? Or were the signs and portents they had seen merely reflections of the sin and failings each held inside? Though bloodlust and fear consumed them all, thus far none had fallen. But on this second day, their aim was not errant… and while absolution might have come for their victim from above, this time it did not come from within their ranks. Unfortunately for all of them, the most egregious failing of which Texcat had been guilty was fondness for Ye Olde Lite Beer.\* **Texcat** , THE MILLER, who was Town and whose power was not used, has been lynched. * * * Night Two begins here and will end on Saturday, July 7 (my anniversary!) between 1:00 and 5:00PM Eastern. Enjoy! ---
**Author:** ![fubbleskag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fubbleskag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fubbleskag)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2012, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-the-road-to-canterbury-game-thread/625807/460 "2012-07-05T23:52:21Z")
> [@TexCat](#): > > Claiming so that town will know that this role is no longer in play. Can someone with more mafia-sense than myself explain what the upside is to the Miller role? I’m just not seeing it… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-the-road-to-canterbury-game-thread/625807.md?page=22) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-the-road-to-canterbury-game-thread/625807.md?page=24)