This is all going to be stream of consciousness of my take on each player. None of them are simple mafia-not mafia. Just my observations without letting myself do too much thinking. NOTE - The people I had the strongest feelings about (plus or minus) ended up at the top of this. This is stream of consciousness NOT a declaration of facts. This will help me more than anyone else going forward. As always, at least one of the remaining mafia will be playing it low and no-risk (assuming there are 3 which is NOT a guarantee in what Silver hinted would be a power-role crazy game).
D2DC
After a reread last night, I would have bet money that D2DC was mafia. He caved in to pressure from Drixx and Zemaj and was happy to place a vote for me even though he clearly understood the (are you mafia) question to be of no value regardless of how it is answered. I'm sorry, if you think you can pick a mafia with all the varied personality types in these games, especially those of us who forcibly change our approach randomly each game based off how someone answers "are you mafia?" you're kidding yourself***. Almost all of us vote emotionally based off of preference when conflict happens and its only interesting if you read into the results in that light. You see it time and time again. I don't know if any of you have reread the entire mafia backlog on this site for stuff like this, but I have. How people react to conflict is far more interesting than the conflict itself in almost all cases.
Yet, he was convinced without any serious pressure (deflecting - as if any of us would make that mistake) to place his vote on me and leave it there as long as they liked. Conciliatory behavior is always my number one tag for suspicion unless the player is predisposed for it.
In his favor - he did finger Prestiege in his suspected scum list. He put him first on his list, which tells me either he is mafia and smart, or he really is town and thought Prestiege was scum and just happens to be a conciliatory player (or he just was for that moment, etc..).
***I get angry in every game, so that part of me is always on regardless of how I'm sided. How people react to conflict is more interesting than the conflict most of the time.
Drixx
I found the question annoying, I found the pretense that anything could be gained by how an experienced player answered that question to be farcical, and the fact that others payed it lip service worrying. HOWEVER. A great deal of that was exacerbated by my general constant grumpiness and my hangriness after moving my daughter home. Lots of mafia players like to work with a certain flow and I can respect that. I'll probably always take the opportunity to make fun of those kinds of questions, BUT...
Maybe I'm biasing this on the way I play and my interpretation of what Drixx is like, but I am not nearly as suspicious of him as I am of others. His reciprocal irritation felt genuine and his capitulation on the pressure once I played nice seemed genuine. I could be totally wrong on this. But, gun-to-my-head he's not really on my radar.
Caluin Graye
Blandy Mc Blanderson - on my radar. He's been kind of ... there. I will be re-reading this and I expect - like always - to find that I'm wrong about this in part. CG isn't a flamethrower like some of us (thank God).
Zemaj
Really, really pressed the interference angle and got D2DC to buy in. I don't have anything else here. He posted some walls that I don't have time to go through at work. Threat level medium.
Kestegs
I didn't get an impression based on memory. I will do another post when I get home from work.
Leo
Nothing yet. She followed my irritable vote, which sometimes people do. Follow up after re-read. Leo's posting style can really work more than people think when she's a baddie, but I have nothing.
Thingyman
Hmmm... I want to be fair since he didn't get his notice and there's not much to work with yet. I think there's something about his name that tickles something in my head that makes me guess mafia on him instinctively which is stupid. No read.
Summary
It looks like I have both barrels gunning for D2DC. He is on the less than neutral side of the spectrum for me. But, this is just my memory dump. And as always, at least one more mafia will be found amongst the skaters.
Also, I've gotten some sleep so I'm ready to work on this.
