In post 32, catboi wrote:favorite moment in a mafia game? (it's okay if nothing comes to mind! but I figure most people have a story they like sharing)
That's a pretty easy one. It's the time I sorta made MeMe cry. For the newer users, MeMe was an early presence on the site, and in fact the first List Mod. She and her family hosted a few meetups over the years.
This was at one of the meetups, back in the days of "lol Jester is a funny role". The setup had a Jester, some number of Mafia, and... maybe not much else, I don't remember and it isn't relevant. Not sure who was modding, either.
Day 1, and Atticus (MeMe's younger son) was acting incredibly suspicious. There was a lot of talk about him possibly being the Jester, but also we figured he could be Mafia trying to make us think he was the Jester so we wouldn't vote for him. So we were discussing "forcing" the Mafia to sort it out for us: either they kill Atticus for us at night, or we assume he's Mafia and vote him out the next day. Foolproof, right?
Being a bit cheeky, at the conclusion of this discussion I said loudly something along the lines of "Mafia, you understand the plan, right?", to which MeMe immediately responded "Yes". Boom, got'em.
It soon became clear that MeMe was not actually Mafia falling for the dumbest trick ever; at some point during our interrogation she became visibly upset by the whole thing, so either she was innocent, or the Jester pulling some next level mind games, or Mafia immediately winning a Scummy for crying on cue after making a slip. So I started to ease the pressure off, having convinced myself she was likely innocent.
Our attention turned to Dirge (MeMe's husband), who IIRC wasn't letting go of the "MeMe gave herself away" thing (it may have been something else that was suspect). With Day 1 having lasted ages at this point, he was quickly voted up... and revealed to be the Jester. (Atticus was, in fact, Mafia.)
