# Shakespeare Mafia -- Act II **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [July 19, 2025, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-mafia-act-ii/1021082 "2025-07-19T15:30:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2025, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-mafia-act-ii/1021082/1 "2025-07-19T15:30:35Z")
Exeunt all but Pardel-Lux PARDEL-LUX If we shadows have offended, Think but this and all is mended: That you have but slumbered here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a dream. Exit Pardel-Lux Pardel-Lux, who played the role of Robin Goodfellow, a major character, is dead. Enter MacDuff and Biotop BIOTOP Thou losest labor. As easy mayst thou the intrenchant air With thy keen sword impress as make me bleed. Let fall thy blade on vulnerable crests; I bear a charmèd life, which must not yield To one of woman born. MACDUFF Despair thy charm, And let the angel whom thou still hast served Tell thee Macduff was from a squid Untimely ripped. BIOTOP Lay on, Macduff, and damned be him that first cries “Hold! Enough!” Biotop is slain Biotop, who played the role of Macbeth, a villain, is dead Act II, scene 1: Athens, in the palace of the Duke, early morning ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2025, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-mafia-act-ii/1021082/2 "2025-07-19T15:32:39Z")
Boo! Hiss! ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2025, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-mafia-act-ii/1021082/3 "2025-07-19T15:32:46Z")
Pfui! Yay! Pfui! Sorry to see you go, guys. Biotop, you had me fooled completely. Again. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2025, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-mafia-act-ii/1021082/4 "2025-07-19T15:36:10Z")
Oh, and just to be clear, they’re both regular-dead. No ghosts. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2025, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-mafia-act-ii/1021082/5 "2025-07-19T16:12:27Z")
All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances… Have I got all this right? We have lost two Major Town characters 😬 … but one Villain has also expired. 😍 Presumably there is a Vigilante (how else was Biotop deaded\*?!) LH75 was Town with the power to speak from the grave. This is now the thread to post in. \*For elderly British chaps - a Goon Show reference. 🧐 ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2025, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-mafia-act-ii/1021082/6 "2025-07-19T16:17:01Z")
Ying tong iddle i po. Probably a vigilante. Possibly, Robin G. Had a power that blew up anybody who attacked him. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2025, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-mafia-act-ii/1021082/7 "2025-07-19T16:24:18Z")
NETA Needle nardle noo. ---
**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:** [July 19, 2025, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-mafia-act-ii/1021082/8 "2025-07-19T16:48:24Z")
So we don’t get to learn powers and full role reveals, etc.? Or am I missing something, like “XXX was a XXX, who could do XXXX each night.” ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2025, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-mafia-act-ii/1021082/9 "2025-07-19T16:52:59Z")
Vague vagaries of mafia. ---
**Author:** ![Dizzymrslizzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Dizzymrslizzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dizzymrslizzy)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2025, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-mafia-act-ii/1021082/10 "2025-07-19T16:56:25Z")
The wine is flowing freely In this game. Prof. I’m going to guess at this point that we have no clue what the major powers were Welcome to vague mafia when even when you act you have no clue what you or anyone else is doing. AotN. Any thoughts on your action last night you feel comfortable sharing? So many thoughts. So little information…. ---
**Author:** ![Dizzymrslizzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Dizzymrslizzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dizzymrslizzy)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2025, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-mafia-act-ii/1021082/11 "2025-07-19T17:05:37Z")
For The n00bs in the room. This game is very atypical. Usually we get more information upon the reveals. Once I get back to my computer I can compile what we know and don’t know at this point. It was pretty obvious Pardel is dead. Scum doesn’t like keeping power roles alive so They seek them out to kill them. Unfortunately Par claimed and a bunch of people Claimed minor, and then some claimed vanilla without even realizing it. So we have a pretty uphill battle at this point. Luckily the vig got a lucky shot or Pardel was a bomb, although we don’t normally see bomb roles here often. ---
**Author:** ![AngeloftheNorth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angelofthenorth/32/19559_2.png) [@AngeloftheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngeloftheNorth)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2025, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-mafia-act-ii/1021082/12 "2025-07-19T17:10:46Z")
Good work, vig, whoever you are. Pardel-Lux, I’m sorry to see you go. I know what my role is now, I think. And we also seem to have a redirector. (I am not the vig.) ---
**Author:** ![AngeloftheNorth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angelofthenorth/32/19559_2.png) [@AngeloftheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngeloftheNorth)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2025, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-mafia-act-ii/1021082/13 "2025-07-19T17:17:03Z")
Given Biotop’s flip I am no longer interested in executing his plan. 😂 Also I have information that will help Town, but I think it’s better to hold onto it for the time being and let people speak naturally without my information, apart from the redirection. I’m going to be quiet today because of this. ---
**Author:** ![AngeloftheNorth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angelofthenorth/32/19559_2.png) [@AngeloftheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngeloftheNorth)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2025, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-mafia-act-ii/1021082/14 "2025-07-19T17:18:00Z")
Oh, and in case that’s unclear, I’m not claiming redirector either. My action was redirected. ---
**Author:** ![AngeloftheNorth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angelofthenorth/32/19559_2.png) [@AngeloftheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngeloftheNorth)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2025, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-mafia-act-ii/1021082/15 "2025-07-19T17:36:29Z")
@Dizzymrslizzy the information I do have is valuable. ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2025, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-mafia-act-ii/1021082/16 "2025-07-19T17:47:15Z")
Reading the last posts from Act I, I really do not think that y’all should try to come up with a work around to allow me a vote. A ghost, I have no real right to the vote. ---
**Author:** ![AngeloftheNorth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angelofthenorth/32/19559_2.png) [@AngeloftheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngeloftheNorth)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2025, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-mafia-act-ii/1021082/17 "2025-07-19T17:58:18Z")
I actually think this may be more likely than a vig. Also, I’m not a doctor. I can claim my role, at least, because scum have figured it out unless there’s a town redirector who doesn’t trust me. I’m a character name cop. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2025, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-mafia-act-ii/1021082/18 "2025-07-19T18:01:27Z")
> [@LH75](#): > > Reading the last posts from Act I, I really do not think that y’all should try to come up with a work around to allow me a vote. How about you offer information (valuable because we know you’re Town) and suggest a vote? Then if a player is already voting for someone else, they can add your vote… ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2025, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-mafia-act-ii/1021082/19 "2025-07-19T18:03:05Z")
> [@AngeloftheNorth](#): > > I’m a character name cop. So you can investigate one player per day, correct? Stay healthy! ---
**Author:** ![DemonTree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demontree/32/8646_2.png) [@DemonTree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DemonTree)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2025, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-mafia-act-ii/1021082/20 "2025-07-19T18:13:52Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Biotop, who played the role of Macbeth, a villain, is dead Hooray. At least something good happened. > [@Dizzymrslizzy](#): > > Welcome to vague mafia when even when you act you have no clue what you or anyone else is doing. This is a very confusing game to be a new player in. I really want to know what’s going on, but I don’t want to help the villains. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shakespeare-mafia-act-ii/1021082.md?page=2)