# 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:** 1\ **Showing post:** 467
**Author:** ![GuiriEnEspana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc79bd/32.png) [@GuiriEnEspana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuiriEnEspana)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2010, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-mafia/532942/467 "2010-03-24T11:35:24Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I’m not **special ed** , but the way I see it is something like this: > > Scum **peeker** really did get the role Wicked Witch of the West, fictional > Having not talked with any other Scum yet, he doesn’t know if all of the Scum are evil characters, or possibly if they’re all fictional. So he doesn’t want to claim Wicked Witch. > But he also doesn’t want to make a false role claim, if he can avoid it. For all he knows, there’s a power role out there who can determine what someone’s character name is, or something. > And he also wants to try to get credibility from claiming early. > > So, he digs up that YouTube video, and posts it. After other folks have claimed someone “evil” (Benedict Arnold) and someone fictional (Patrocles et al), he decides it’s safe to finally claim, and points to that video as evidence. If things had fallen out differently, he would have instead just took the risk and made up a name, and ignored the video post. /snipped @ **Chronos** , this makes sense and is actually quite plausible. The alternative could be that he attempted to subtlely breadcrumb his character in #153, got no response, and so in #174 clarified that he had claimed earlier. This is the reading I got when I first read through the events of the day and it wouldn’t be the first time **Peeker** tried to communicate through youtube (he used a Spongebob video in Screamers to infer that he’d been blocked). I didn’t see this action as particularly anti-town or pro-scum based on my interpretation of the events but I can see your interpretation too. As an aside, while looking for the Spongebob video reference in Screamers though, I came across another video directed at me: > [@Screamers Mafia](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screamers-mafia/510938/1601): > > for our spanish friend. > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0-um0pHTAg](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0-um0pHTAg) (Another video from the Wizard of Oz). Now this makes me wonder if his post #153 really just was a response to **Zeriel** and has nothing to do with his character in this game. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-mafia/532942)._