# Mafia Watch-Along Thread - NO SPOILERS! \[FORBIDDEN TO LIVE PLAYERS\]

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-watch-along-thread-no-spoilers-forbidden-to-live-players/725379>\
**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:** 61

<div class="post-metadata">

**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:** [July 27, 2015, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-watch-along-thread-no-spoilers-forbidden-to-live-players/725379/61 "2015-07-27T17:30:30Z")

</div>

I want Prof. Periwinkle dead:

> [@MAFIA: The Game - Ideal for Beginners \[Game in Progress\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-the-game-ideal-for-beginners-game-in-progress/725099/512):
>
> I note you attack the phrasing, but not the logic.  
> Nonetheless, there are others more suspicious at the moment, so:
> 
> unvote JSexton.

So Wishy-washy and vague. Scum like vague. Good scum have to fight the urge to be vague.

> [@MAFIA: The Game - Ideal for Beginners \[Game in Progress\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-the-game-ideal-for-beginners-game-in-progress/725099/552):
>
> Vote Texcat.
> 
> Having gone back and re-read large portions, and realizing that I’m screwing up my first game of Mafia, I’m guessing Biotop and septimus are Town. Since I am Town, voting for TexCat, who is suspected by more experienced players than I, seems appropriate at least.

> [@MAFIA: The Game - Ideal for Beginners \[Game in Progress\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-the-game-ideal-for-beginners-game-in-progress/725099/642):
>
> Unvote TexCat  
> vote septimus
> 
> I may be wrong, but it looks to me like someone or someones is trying to engineer a tie.

This is just terrible play for a Townie. It simply doesn’t make sense from a Townie point of view. He states outright that he thinks that septimus is Town, yet a tie is such an abomination to him that he is willing to lose the chance of killing TexCat for the certainty of killing someone he thinks is Town?! I’m baffled as to how a Townie could possibly think this is a good idea. As unspoiled I was reading the thread _dreading_ that septimus would get lynched and hoping for votes for TexCat to save him. I can’t imagine ever switching vote like that as a Townie with a Town read on septimus.

---

_[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-watch-along-thread-no-spoilers-forbidden-to-live-players/725379)._