# Random Mafia **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [March 18, 2010, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-mafia/532942 "2010-03-18T21:47:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 79
**Author:** ![Red\_Skeezix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aca169/32.png) [@Red\_Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Skeezix)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-mafia/532942/1561 "2010-05-06T18:34:46Z")
Hey I was gonna do that 🙂 (Also, Zeriel was Town, Mhaye was scum). ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-mafia/532942/1562 "2010-05-06T18:35:39Z")
I have to say, Red and I settled on Cookies for the Night Kill, but I stepped in at the last minute and switched to Rysto. It really helped having a larger unconfirmed pool on the last Day. ---
**Author:** ![ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-mafia/532942/1563 "2010-05-06T18:35:58Z")
Thanks for letting us off the hook. Care to claim Zeriel or Mhaye so I can go back to sleep? ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Skeezix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aca169/32.png) [@Red\_Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Skeezix)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-mafia/532942/1564 "2010-05-06T18:38:00Z")
Yep, and I give you all the credit for that play Maha. And nominate you for the Scum MVP. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-mafia/532942/1565 "2010-05-06T18:38:23Z")
I think it would be great to dip into what we did that was actually scum motivated and what was not scum motivated. I think that still gets mixed up. I did have some legitimate cases against me based on strategy we developed at Night, but a lot was just weak cases where I would have taken the same action as Town. ---
**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:** [May 6, 2010, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-mafia/532942/1566 "2010-05-06T18:38:51Z")
And now that it’s over… …the reason why I would have voted for **Red** tomorrow instead of **ed** is because **Red** never went along with **Cookies**. I’d have expected any Town player to go along with her unless she was voting for him. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-mafia/532942/1567 "2010-05-06T18:39:30Z")
Thanks, Red. This was a pretty good game for me. I did a lot that went unnoticed(as is common as Scum). I’m surprised I survived, though. And yes, MHaye was scum and Zeriel was regular town. ---
**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:** [May 6, 2010, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-mafia/532942/1568 "2010-05-06T18:40:02Z")
Also, I’m also mildly pissed at **Rysto** for not self-protecting. It would have ended up with the same number of mislynches if he was wrong, but with a confirmed Town left if it went three-handed. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-mafia/532942/1569 "2010-05-06T18:40:30Z")
Oh, I was Josephine March. I think Red was John Wilkes Booth ---
**Author:** ![ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-mafia/532942/1570 "2010-05-06T18:40:43Z")
Ok mods, time for your time in the hot seat here with me. How in the heck was the handling of Zeriel and Mhaye not a kick in the crotch to Town? ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Skeezix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aca169/32.png) [@Red\_Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Skeezix)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-mafia/532942/1571 "2010-05-06T18:42:16Z")
> [@Drain\_Bead](#): > > And now that it’s over… > > …the reason why I would have voted for **Red** tomorrow instead of **ed** is because **Red** never went along with **Cookies**. I’d have expected any Town player to go along with her unless she was voting for him. That’s a bad reason and is easily hand waved away. IE Being confirmed town != Being right. It means your motivations are beyond question, but it doesn’t mean that your conclusions are. ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-mafia/532942/1572 "2010-05-06T18:43:04Z")
So much for the death post… Oh, well, I’m gonna do it anyway, you impatient people, you. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-mafia/532942/1573 "2010-05-06T18:43:26Z")
I was kind of counting on MHaye and Red finishing the game as the living representatives of the scum team, actually. I figured Maha and I weren’t going to make it all the way through. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-mafia/532942/1574 "2010-05-06T18:44:39Z")
Also, I took a couple deliberate swings at MHaye on Day 2 after I made that slip (which I still maintain isn’t a great scum-finding technique, even though the clock did happen to be right this time, just like it was 12 hours ago.) ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-mafia/532942/1575 "2010-05-06T18:45:36Z")
> [@special\_ed](#): > > I’m confused. I was summarizing everyone’s suspects. > > Which, if you are lynched and Cookies is NK’d would leave an interesting triangle of suspicion for toMorrow. (assuming we have 2 Scum left or 1 Scum who isn’t you) > [@Drain\_Bead](#): > > Also, I’m also mildly pissed at **Rysto** for not self-protecting. It would have ended up with the same number of mislynches if he was wrong, but with a confirmed Town left if it went three-handed. His non-self protecting was a last minute gamble I took last Night. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Skeezix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aca169/32.png) [@Red\_Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Skeezix)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-mafia/532942/1576 "2010-05-06T18:45:54Z")
> [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](#): > > Ok mods, time for your time in the hot seat here with me. How in the heck was the handling of Zeriel and Mhaye not a kick in the crotch to Town? Probably because it was equally a kick in the crotch to scum. A single vanilla scum is worth a lot more than a single vanilla town. ---
**Author:** ![ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-mafia/532942/1577 "2010-05-06T18:47:55Z")
Speaking only for myself, it was your pursuit of Texcat, not the night thread comment, that gave me my first and only two hand holds that I ever had in the game. The second being that Meeko would not pull a fake reaction to me like that. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-mafia/532942/1578 "2010-05-06T18:48:13Z")
Tom built his case for me after I voted for him on Day 2(I think). I actually quoted Tom for the case against him. ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-mafia/532942/1579 "2010-05-06T18:49:36Z")
The 5 remaining players decide on **Drain Bead** for the lynch. Rather than being scared of the noose, she seems a bit pissy and put out. Nevertheless, she dies just like all the previous ones… **Drain Bead (Spiritual Leader of the Nation of Argentina) is dead.** The 4 remaining players eye each other suspiciously. **Cookies** turns to ask **ed** , “Is that it? Are there one scum or two left?” The answer is provided by the knife that **Mahaloth** sticks into **Cookies’** back. As **Cookies** bleeds out on the floor, **Red Skeezix** pulls out another noose. **Mahaloth** and **Red** are easily able to overpower **ed** , who despite his name has no special powers. They lynch him last, and claim victory for the **Scum!** The end. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2010, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-mafia/532942/1580 "2010-05-06T18:50:20Z")
I thought you should have laid it on a bit thicker, actually, Maha. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-mafia/532942.md?page=78) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-mafia/532942.md?page=80)