Don't Call It a Comeback! Mafia '26 (Game Thread)

[Brett]

My only light Scum read right now is Booty. Not because he has targeted me, but because he gave pretty strong logic as to how he would play the game if he was scum and is executing it. Feels like that could be a bit of projection from him, but I really do not want to sling shit this early because half of the fellas ain't even in here discussing just yet.

 

[O-Blaze]

I can suspect both of you but not together

Fair. But also I feel is a bit of a reach to call it fishy. I wouldn't be the type to be able to pull off putting out a strat I'm using front and center and blame it on someone else.

 

[Professor Booty]

My only light Scum read right now is Booty. Not because he has targeted me, but because he gave pretty strong logic as to how he would play the game if he was scum and is executing it. Feels like that could be a bit of projection from him, but I really do not want to sling shit this early because half of the fellas ain't even in here discussing just yet.

I said how I’d play scum?

 

[Professor Booty]

Fair. But also I feel is a bit of a reach to call it fishy. I wouldn't be the type to be able to pull off putting out a strat I'm using front and center and blame it on someone else.

Keep talking about how you can’t pull things off man

 

[O-Blaze]

Yeah but who so far of anyone? Or if none then does that make you less sketchy on Brett due to possibly no coaching? Just trying to get your full picture around Brett rn

Well I will say, the person who was helping me in the scum game i was in, was you. So I know from experience, that you have done it. With how quick Brett was to read you as town with not much to go off of, its quite possible an alliance could be there with you both.

 

[O-Blaze]

Keep talking about how you can’t pull things off man

You never played with me before so I'll excuse you for thinking this is anything.

 

[Professor Booty]

Well I will say, the person who was helping me in the scum game i was in, was you. So I know from experience, that you have done it. With how quick Brett was to read you as town with not much to go off of, it’s quite possible an alliance could be there with you both.

With how fed up with Bret’s questions have seemed you might be onto something. Or deflecting cuz you a scummer

 

[Chris]

Fair. But also I feel is a bit of a reach to call it fishy. I wouldn't be the type to be able to pull off putting out a strat I'm using front and center and blame it on someone else.

I don't think he's saying the coaching strategy would be happening if you're scum since he doesn't think you're scum with Brett. That would just mean you're targeting Brett by accusing him of being coached bc you've seen scum do it in the past

 

[Chris]

Well I will say, the person who was helping me in the scum game i was in, was you. So I know from experience, that you have done it. With how quick Brett was to read you as town with not much to go off of, its quite possible an alliance could be there with you both.

I also questioned that town read pretty hard myself and asked why he didn't have a similar one on Jean...but you agreed with him on me I thought so if he read me town too quick then you did as well lol

Also fwiw I did think Brett's responses made sense even if I didn't quite agree with the logic so I didn't see the need to press anymore after

 

[O-Blaze]

I don't think he's saying the coaching strategy would be happening if you're scum since he doesn't think you're scum with Brett. That would just mean you're targeting Brett by accusing him of being coached bc you've seen scum do it in the past

That's not what I'm saying either now that I've seen he wasn't meaning we were together. I was saying I wouldn't call attention to something like that, especially this early into the game.

 

[Brett]

My one suspicion through this coaching thing is that Blaze may have slipped up and leaked the amount of scum? To harken back to Grim's original point, we really don't know how many there are out there. Blaze being kind of definitive with assuming there's two or more is a tad bit smelly.

 

[Chris]

Pretty good point. Could also see it being something for him to easily call back to later to protect himself. Like "why would I point out what their strategy should be, and what to look for if I'm them." type of energy. I mainly agree with you on it, because it would be a ballsy play, but I could see Chris being just ballsy enough to pull it off.

Nvm blaze didn't agree with the town read, he just said it was a good point and offered and alternative scum reasoning for it which I thought wasn't a bad post at the time other than agreeing with Brett's initial point that I said was weak

So scratch that last post

 

[O-Blaze]

I also questioned that town read pretty hard myself and asked why he didn't have a similar one on Jean...but you agreed with him on me I thought so if he read me town too quick then you did as well lol

Also fwiw I did think Brett's responses made sense even if I didn't quite agree with the logic so I didn't see the need to press anymore after

I didn't really lean one way or another at that time, remember you called it fence sitting. Like I understood where he was coming from but I didn't exactly think it was strong enough to hold up.

 

[Chris]

That's not what I'm saying either now that I've seen he wasn't meaning we were together. I was saying I wouldn't call attention to something like that, especially this early into the game.

Why wouldn't you? It's a pretty innocent thing to do and you can fall back on your few prior experiences to give your opinion credibility

 

[O-Blaze]

My one suspicion through this coaching thing is that Blaze may have slipped up and leaked the amount of scum? To harken back to Grim's original point, we really don't know how many there are out there. Blaze being kind of definitive with assuming there's two or more is a tad bit smelly.

I wasn't the first or even second to say it was two. I agreed with Grim and Chris it was either 1 or 2...