First off, of course, is the White Flame lynch. Rereading it, two things become painfully obvious:

1) There was really almost no reason to lynch WF- we did it with the flimsiest of excuses.

2) The lynch happened because everyone just wanted to move the game along.

So... that doesn't help much.

Next, Praz and the copper mine. I actually went into this night thinking Praz was likely scum. If you look at the bidding, you'll notice that I put in a bid for the Copper Mine after Isaac has posted his suspicions about the bidders. I did this for two reasons- First, to deny a source of copper to the scum (and get some sweet sweet income!) and Second, to see who would want it enough to outbid me.

Annoyingly, the hammer dropped before I could outbid Praz once more.


I'm guessing Praz was attacked because of the copper mine- this was Night One, so the scum didn't know how things would work, and hoped that it would take Praz and his copper out of the game.

I know if I was scum, I'd think there was a good chance Praz was Mistborn (able to burn all metals)- a town-aligned copper burner doesn't have much utility (copper masks you and those around you from Seekers, people who burn bronze to sense Allomancy).

A Mistborn would be able to make good use of both the income and the copper.




I'm trying to look at the auctions for any patterns.

Slave: Praz, White Flame, Isaac

Farm: Hieshyn, Isaac, Amys, Fanatic-Templar

Copper Mine: Praz, Fanatic-Templar, Kronin,

Inquis: Kronin, Stephen, Fanatic-Templar


Those are the "major bidders" for each item. A few people have one bid in them (Stephen bid once for the mine, for example) but I didn't count them. (In the interests of full disclosure, I bid once for everything but the farm).

Now, it seems unlikely that one scum would work against another in an auction. For example, looking at the Farm auction, it seems very unlikely that both Amys and Isaac are both scum. Maybe one is, maybe none, but I seriously doubt both.


Pairs I saw (in which both parties directly competed in auctions):

Amys and Isaac (Farm auction)
Isaac and White Flame and Praziquantel(from the slave auction),
beetnemesis and Praziquantel (from Copper Mine),
Kronin and Stephen (Inquis)
beetnemesis and Fanatic-Templar (Inquis)
Isaac and Fanatic-Templar (Farm)
Stephen and ? (Inquis)

I tried to use only auctions where it was obvious there was some back and forth between the two candidates (3 in the case of Isaac, WF and Praz).

Now, this chart may be useless and it may be key. Where it will help, I think, is when we find out first scum. That is, if it turns out Stephen is scum, there's a good chance that Kronin is not.

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Man, I really want to play Mafia face-to-face. I feel like a forensic accountant.