# The Engine Room: FORBIDDEN thread for Mafia SS Insipid **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [August 4, 2009, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-engine-room-forbidden-thread-for-mafia-ss-insipid/505327 "2009-08-04T20:02:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 28
**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:** [August 13, 2009, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-engine-room-forbidden-thread-for-mafia-ss-insipid/505327/28 "2009-08-13T13:57:51Z")
> [@Mafia: Mutiny on the SS Insipid \[Game Over\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mafia-mutiny-on-the-ss-insipid-game-over/504896/218): > > A few questions: > > Why did they kill someone of such a low rank? Does that mean that scum is either **Hal** , \*\*Darth \*\*or **Scuba**? > > Or did they kill him because they knew he had a secret role? I doubt they knew he had a secret role - there was no such evidence in the thread, and a night-spy power that returned before the murder decision had to be made seems pretty overpowered. That said, this seems like a classic WIFOM - either they killed a low rank to promote one of their own, in which case there’s a one-in-two chance of lynching scum on the first day and a dead-cinch lynch on the second (if you accept scuba and chronos’s claim), or they killed a low rank to cast suspicion on the three lower-ranking players so as to arrange a series of mislynches, in which case there is a 0% chance of lynching scum, and if you follow up and lynch the other one tomorrow you maybe end up handing the game to the scum. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-engine-room-forbidden-thread-for-mafia-ss-insipid/505327)._