# Mafia Watch-Along Thread - NO SPOILERS! \[FORBIDDEN TO LIVE PLAYERS\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [July 17, 2015, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-watch-along-thread-no-spoilers-forbidden-to-live-players/725379 "2015-07-17T01:15:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 162
**Author:** ![sachertorte](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sachertorte/32/3727_2.png) [@sachertorte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sachertorte)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2015, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-watch-along-thread-no-spoilers-forbidden-to-live-players/725379/162 "2015-08-21T16:05:39Z")
The change in demeanor from Prof. P is really bothering me. I just read this part of the game from Thing Fish: > [@MAFIA: The Game - Ideal for Beginners \[Game in Progress\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-the-game-ideal-for-beginners-game-in-progress/725099/1321): > > Hi all, about halfway through a reread and just had to quote this great piece of pro-town advice.😃 Hopefully will have something interesting to post by the end of the Day, right now I’m on my way to Wrigley Field. > > Also wanted to congratulate\*\* Prof P\*\* for his detailed post at the start of the Day. I don’t agree with his conclusion, but nobody can say that he isn’t making his own cases anymore. I have problems with this. Prof P changing behavior is not necessarily a good thing. It strikes me as scummy. Townies don’t ‘step up’ when wolves dies. Wolves do. Especially a wolf who is in position to ‘be almost certainly town.’ Anyway, it prompted me to look at Prof. P’s opening day post and I noticed this: Storyteller opens the Day with a post at 3:05PM that reveals TexCat is dead. Prof. P’s post states the following in the first few lines, posted at 3:13PM! > [@MAFIA: The Game - Ideal for Beginners \[Game in Progress\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-the-game-ideal-for-beginners-game-in-progress/725099/1283): > > Well, now, that makes a difference. We’ve steadily improved our voting with each round. From a Town Role to a Town to a Wolf to an Alpha Wolf. We’re on a roll here. > We have now 11 players left, 3 wolves and 8 town. > > Biotop, Cygnus and I voted for the Alpha Wolf. Ain’t no way we’re anything but Town in an election that close. TexCat was vindicated, and the Wolves couldn’t leave her here to fight them. That leaves 3 wolves and 5 town unaccounted for. It’s a LONG post. There is no way he designed that post in the time between storyteller’s Day Opening, which revealed TexCat as the night victim and posting it at 3:13PM… that’s eight minutes! A post that long would take me an hour easily to write up and think about. Now, he obviously wrote it during the NIGHT. The question is would a Townie do that or not? Personally, I’d wait until dawn, _because there’s always a chance I’d be dead before dawn_. Plus the dawn reveal would have relevant information. Also, Prof P’s post is completely aware that TexCat is dead. How would he know that? Prof P sees his opening. He voted for Sario first, putting what was supposed to be a meaningless off vote. But when it wound up setting up a tie, he couldn’t move it without looking super scummy. Also, he figured Sario would break the tie. When Sario dies, the wolves have much to discuss at night and acknowledge that Prof P is in a strong position to look townie due to his vote on Sario. I’m fairly certain that Prof P is a Wolf. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-watch-along-thread-no-spoilers-forbidden-to-live-players/725379)._