# Mystery Mafia -- Game Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [August 17, 2011, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-mafia-game-thread/593025 "2011-08-17T14:03:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 31
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-mafia-game-thread/593025/602 "2011-08-18T18:21:11Z")
> [@MykBot](#): > > … targeting yourself last night was smart. …If you did NOT target yourself last night, that is still an option - it should reveal what your night action is in a lot of cases. Has this been explained? Why would self-targeting be more revealing than other-targeting? It doesn’t seem _very_ likely that MykBot is Scum trying to trick Town Vigs into killing themselves, but it’s likely enough for a Day vote. (I realize that MykBot later retracted this partially, but that just makes the original advice more suspicious.) **Vote: MykBot** > [@Dancecat](#): > > I’m used to higher volume games 😕 Seeing no “lol” or smiley-face here, I almost fear you might be serious. ---
**Author:** ![Dancecat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Dancecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dancecat)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-mafia-game-thread/593025/603 "2011-08-18T18:22:05Z")
I’m dead serious. This game is a snoozefest considering the number of players. ---
**Author:** ![Gadarene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Gadarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadarene)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-mafia-game-thread/593025/604 "2011-08-18T18:22:27Z")
**VOTE COUNT** Through post #601 Krayz (3): Drain Bead [489], Meeko [493], [del]Scuba\_Ben [498][/del], Mahaloth [540] peekercpa (3): Giraffe [301], [del]special ed [313][/del], NAF1138 [337], [del]Scuba\_Ben [379][/del], Silver Jan [484] TexCat (3): Inner Stickler [473], lilflower [494], MykBot [586] TimeLady (2): sachertorte [211], Suburban Plankton [352] Dancecat (2): Idle Thoughts [72], [del]Giraffe [250][/del], Normal Phase [497] Giraffe (2): [del]special ed [51][/del], peekercpa [286], Krayz [418] Silver Jan (2): special ed [487], DanceCat [513] Mahaloth (2): bufftabby [564], Krayz [597] MykBot (2): [del]Zeriel [21][/del], TimeLady [24], [del]TexCat [459][/del], septimus [601] Scathach (1): GuiriEnEspaña [359] LightFoot (1): Zeriel [375] septimus (1): Askthepizzaguy [477] lilflower (1): TexCat [521] special ed (1): SisterCoyote [562] Suburban Plankton (1): Scuba\_Ben [572] Idle Thoughts (0): [del]Krayz [86][/del] GuiriEnEspaña (0): [del]Drain Bead [386][/del] NAF1138 (0): [del]Dancecat [53][/del], [del]Blaster Master [520][/del] Please PM me with any corrections! Night in ~4.5 hours. ---
**Author:** ![Scathach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Scathach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scathach)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-mafia-game-thread/593025/605 "2011-08-18T18:22:40Z")
> [@Dancecat](#): > > Ok. I think that Krayz has been wolfy. However, the peek he left is one that I know for a fact is correct, since I know my own role. If he had left a peek/breadcrumb/whatever of _any other player_, my suspicions would remain largely unchecked since I couldn’t personally verify whether or not the peek was good. But I can, so it gives me pause. Of course, he could be scum and have perfect information about my affiliation, and he made that fakepeek/breadcrumb because he knew I would react like that and be less likely to vote him because of it, so it then becomes a bit of a levelling game. I think you guys call it WIFOM. And of course, if he is scum, players might be more likely to incorrectly think that we are teammates and he was defending me. Make sense? I hate this whole reasoning. First, you throw in the whole “of course, I know I’m a townie” - then you say that it’s making you think that Krayz might be the seer? Despite admittedly realising it’s more likely he’s just scum and has perfect information? Or that he’s just doing this whole “fakepeek” thing. It casts an awful lot of aspersions while appearing to defend him. \*\*Vote Dancecat \*\* > [@Scuba\_Ben](#): > > There’s a third possibility. **Krayz** and **Dancecat** might be masons that have to spot another mason to find out. In other words, a mason may need to target another mason to identify that player as a mason. > > **Dancecat** , I suggest you consider the usefulness of targeting Krayz Tonight or the next Night. If masonry exists in this game and works kinda like I’m guessing (and taking from a post a few pages back), it would be worth knowing at some point. Explain this to me again? Where is there anything to suggest that Dancecat and Krayz are masons? Seems like a massive assumption, but I might be missing something obvious here. ---
**Author:** ![Gadarene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Gadarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadarene)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-mafia-game-thread/593025/606 "2011-08-18T18:23:37Z")
> [@Dancecat](#): > > I’m dead serious. This game is a snoozefest considering the number of players. But an awesomely fun snoozefest, I’m sure. ---
**Author:** ![Dancecat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Dancecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dancecat)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-mafia-game-thread/593025/607 "2011-08-18T18:24:09Z")
> [@Scathach](#): > > I hate this whole reasoning. First, you throw in the whole “of course, I know I’m a townie” - then you say that it’s making you think that Krayz might be the seer? Despite admittedly realising it’s more likely he’s just scum and has perfect information? Or that he’s just doing this whole “fakepeek” thing. It casts an awful lot of aspersions while appearing to defend him. > > \*\*Vote Dancecat > \*\* > > Explain this to me again? Where is there anything to suggest that Dancecat and Krayz are masons? Seems like a massive assumption, but I might be missing something obvious here. I’m not defending Krayz and if you’re so sure he’s scum, why the hell are you voting me??? Please make less sense. Oh, wait… ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-mafia-game-thread/593025/608 "2011-08-18T18:24:39Z")
> [@peekercpa](#): > > and he just did it again. Yeah. Which essentially negates his unvote, as there’s still a chance **Krayz** could die in a tie, but he can point to his unvote and attempt to absolve himself of liability if **Krayz** dies in the tiebreaker and turns up Town. If **Krayz** is Scum, though, I’m actually going to lean Town on **Ben**. His initial vote which caused the first tie would have been way too dangerous at that point. That vote could have caused a major wagon to pick up steam. It’s possible it was a bus–hell, I’ve done a hardcore Day One bus of a teammate as Scum before–but with nobody really getting too much traction in terms of voting wagons, it seems like a dangerous and unnecessary gambit to bus someone right now. ---
**Author:** ![Dancecat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Dancecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dancecat)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-mafia-game-thread/593025/609 "2011-08-18T18:25:13Z")
> [@Scathach](#): > > I hate this whole reasoning. First, you throw in the whole “of course, I know I’m a townie” - then you say that it’s making you think that Krayz might be the seer? Despite admittedly realising it’s more likely he’s just scum and has perfect information? Or that he’s just doing this whole “fakepeek” thing. It casts an awful lot of aspersions while appearing to defend him. > > \*\*Vote Dancecat > \*\* > > Explain this to me again? Where is there anything to suggest that Dancecat and Krayz are masons? Seems like a massive assumption, but I might be missing something obvious here. You understand that lynching a seer is a catastrophic error, right? ---
**Author:** ![Episkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Episkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Episkey)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-mafia-game-thread/593025/610 "2011-08-18T18:26:37Z")
> [@Silver\_Jan](#): > > Wow, this game is going really fast, it’s taken me a few hours to read. > > **Peeker** does seem to have changed his game-play since he was called out on it In fact so much so that I could imagine him jumping up and down and saying “NO, no, don’t vote for me yet” > > **Vote Peekercpa** > > My vote could change but he does look like the most likely candidate at the moment. Didn’t peeker explain that he was acting differently - by that I mean non-confrontational - mainly because he didn’t want to offend any of the new people the first day? It’s a similar reasoning to dancecat’s “not wanting to ruffle feathers thing”. That’s a pretty solid reason imo. I’m curious why you didn’t mention this when discussing the posting style change? ---
**Author:** ![Dancecat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Dancecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dancecat)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-mafia-game-thread/593025/611 "2011-08-18T18:27:57Z")
Now someone is going to say “welp, if you need the seer to win, you’re playing badly, so lynching the seer isn’t so bad.” News flash: villages who lynch seers don’t win. I’m trying to be nice but I feel my patience diminishing. ---
**Author:** ![Episkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Episkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Episkey)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-mafia-game-thread/593025/612 "2011-08-18T18:28:52Z")
> [@Drain\_Bead](#): > > **unvote Guiri** > > I’m okay with his explanation, especially combined with **Scathach** ’s statement that he meant in this game as well. I don’t necessarily think **peeker** is capable of changing his playstyle in any real way, mind you…he is perfectly well aware of what gets him lynched. > > 1. Not acting like **peeker** > 2. Acting like **peeker** > > Seriously, he has been a Day One lynch in almost every game I’ve been in with him. At this point, a Day One **peeker** lynch is a big blaring null-tell because he’s an easy target. Not sure what to think of given that a good portion of the players in this game aren’t used to him. This is in no way a defense of him–I think the initial case against him isn’t the greatest, and I hate metagaming **peeker** because he’s the proverbial loose cannon, but his defense is raising my hackles. I need to do a reread of prior games he’s been lynched in before–I seem to recall this behavior happening before, but I don’t know if he was Town or Scum. My guess is that I’m going to find examples of both. Can someone confirm the orange is true? ---
**Author:** ![Dancecat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Dancecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dancecat)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-mafia-game-thread/593025/613 "2011-08-18T18:29:13Z")
I can’t even fathom anybody thinking that way who has even the slightest understanding of how vital seers are. This is ridiculous. ---
**Author:** ![Episkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Episkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Episkey)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-mafia-game-thread/593025/614 "2011-08-18T18:31:36Z")
> [@Drain\_Bead](#): > > Before I look more in-depth at **peeker** , I wanted to make a vote that I might end up moving later, just to get my suspicions on record. > > **vote Krayz** > > Mainly for his series of posts between 426-439 (I hope I’m getting those numbers right). Noises up the thread, doesn’t provide any reasoning or analysis for any of his multiple smudges (or soft exoneration of **peeker** and **giraffe** ), and generally giving us nothing to go on other than “lolwolf.” Krayz is acting differently than I’m used to seeing him, but I don’t believe it’s more scummy than town. Krayz’ scum games that I’ve been a part of had him go into heavy narration mode, and that’s not whats happening here. He’s making reads - however thin. I’m a little concerned about one thing about him, but I’ll see if he knows what that is. ---
**Author:** ![Dancecat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Dancecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dancecat)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-mafia-game-thread/593025/615 "2011-08-18T18:32:43Z")
> [@Episkey](#): > > Krayz is acting differently than I’m used to seeing him, but I don’t believe it’s more scummy than town. > > Krayz’ scum games that I’ve been a part of had him go into heavy narration mode, and that’s not whats happening here. He’s making reads - however thin. > > I’m a little concerned about one thing about him, but I’ll see if he knows what that is. It’s a null tell at worst and a scum tell at best, no? I’ve never seen him do this before, but we’ll see if he can actually link any games where he has. ---
**Author:** ![lilflower](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecccb3/32.png) [@lilflower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lilflower)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-mafia-game-thread/593025/616 "2011-08-18T18:33:06Z")
We now have a four-way tie. I really hope we don’t end up with a lynch being left up to a random choice. I’m also thinking someone in that bunch must be scum and his/her scumbuddies are trying to save him/her. Right? Isn’t that the common theory on bandwagons? If we have one that was a total runaway, it’s likely a townie getting lynched. But all this close voting makes me think the scum are trying to get a competing bandwagon going. If I’m wrong, I’d appreciate someone enlightening me (I’m trying to remember a recent conversation on bandwagons in another game). ---
**Author:** ![MykBot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@MykBot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MykBot)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-mafia-game-thread/593025/617 "2011-08-18T18:33:58Z")
Septimus, many night actions return results either to the person who did it, or the person on the receiving end. If you target yourself, you can’t hurt anyone else in the village and you might learn what your night action is. That’s why you do it on night 0. Honestly this is the result of having already played this setup once, it’s just the best way to uncover your ability. Take it or leave it I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Episkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Episkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Episkey)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-mafia-game-thread/593025/618 "2011-08-18T18:34:04Z")
> [@special\_ed](#): > > It’s not to Bully that’s for sure > > That said, I had been toying with voting for Krayonz myself > > Since I was actually on the peeker bandwagon (maybe even started it, can’t remember if Giraffe was first) It’s not that. > > My initial vote on Peeker was to gauge his reaction. He hasn’t really given me a solid Scum feel in his reaction, but, I’m stil suspicious. > > Silver Jan, however, has come in, and basically said: > > 1. Oh my, there’s so much > 2. Commented only on peeker > 3. Cast an easy me too vote pushing him farther into the lead. > > So, it just seems like a lazy and easy thing to do. Something a Scum might do. > > oops, got to go make a presentation. be back later This is along the lines of my thought as well. The fact Jan ignored Peeker’s stated reasons for posting differently and then votes him isn’t good. Vote Silver Jan ---
**Author:** ![Dancecat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Dancecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dancecat)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-mafia-game-thread/593025/619 "2011-08-18T18:35:08Z")
Yeah, our wagons are terrible right now. I’m going to throw this out there: Krayz would be an excellent vig target. ---
**Author:** ![Scathach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Scathach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scathach)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2011, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-mafia-game-thread/593025/620 "2011-08-18T18:35:10Z")
> [@Dancecat](#): > > I’m not defending Krayz and if you’re so sure he’s scum, why the hell are you voting me??? Please make less sense. Oh, wait… No, I’m not sure he’s scum - I’m saying that by implying he must be either scum or the seer to know that you are oh-so-definitely a townie you’re making implications without anything to back them up. > [@Dancecat](#): > > You understand that lynching a seer is a catastrophic error, right? Wait, did you claim seer somewhere and I missed it? ---
**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:** [August 18, 2011, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-mafia-game-thread/593025/621 "2011-08-18T18:35:38Z")
> [@Krayz](#): > > liessssssssss Yeah, but he was saying you’re a villager. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-mafia-game-thread/593025.md?page=30) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-mafia-game-thread/593025.md?page=32)