# 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:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5276
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2011, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-mafia-game-thread/593025/5276 "2011-09-13T03:29:45Z")
> [@Normal\_Phase](#): > > **vote: Episkey** > > About lilflower: presumably Episkey targeted one of Silver Jan/Septimus and Scuba Ben the other. If Septimus and Jan are both telling the truth about their respective PMs (and Episkey is scum), then the only conclusion is lilflower is town. > > Episkey sends out false scum message. > Ben sends out correct town message. > > Things only get interesting if one is lying. > > I’m exhausted right now, but I should be around tomorrow. What is bugging me is that as far as I know - both Scuba and Episky tell their target about the alignment (correctly or otherwise) of another random target. If there is some evidence that either player gets to chose who the target of the alignment reveal/lie is I may have missed it. If I am correct in the assumption that the peek is on a random target then I find the fact that Lilflower was the target of two random peeks to be horribly convenient. If it isn’t chance then either Septimus or Jan are lying about receiving a peek on Lilflower to cover for Episky. Obviously that would be the second person to reveal that they received a whisper/peek on Lilflower. I can;t search back but I think it was Septimus. Given we had a town follower and a scum follower, Septimus is very similar in role to peeker which doesn’t play well for Septimus based on some random theory about scum/town symmetry. Yes I am aware there has, as yet, not been a scum watcher found. Has SJ been semi cleared as town yet. The only reasons I can think that SJ is possibly town is that she was a target on N1 when both we and scum were not sure of our powers. So that gives SJ (in my view for what that is worth) a slight town lean as I think it less likely that scum would have targeted town N1. So obviosuly **vote episky** with a big 'ol stinky FOS at Septimus unless of course both whispers on lilflower were a massive coincidence --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mystery-mafia-game-thread/593025)._