Mafia

Good evening Doctor, you may now select someone to protect for this night round.

Well on the EXTREME off chance that things on this ship get out of hand, I'll choose to selfishly save myself tonight.

Saving a more senior player is tempting for the first round, because a renowned player would certainly be an attractive target for an early mafia kill...

I would like to protect myself again pretty please. I considered saying hez but I think they may be after me tonight...

You may now target someone to protect.

I hope I don't end up dead because of this, but I'll choose to protect hezekiah.

I'm hoping the mafia picked up on my hint that he could be doctor, plus it makes sense for the mafia to go after him anyway because he is the one player in which the town almost unanimously has trust. On top of that, I know for a fact he is innocent since he wore a bulletproof vest, so he's the one person I can protect without fear of interrupting a vig kill on a mafia. CMON MAFIA PICK HEZ NOW

I'm protecting Count Dooku. It's looking like a good chance I'll be killed off, but it's more important that Dooku stays alive at this point. The only info I have to impart to the town besides my innocence is that hezekiah and white lancer are town-sided, which most people already pretty much know.

To be honest most of the common scenarios I foresee for this round depend on the vigilante more than on me.

If vig gets a mafia and I save an innocent, it's game on.
If vig gets a mafia and I fail to save an innocent, it's game on.

If vig fails to get a mafia and I save an innocent, it's game over.
If vig fails to get a mafia and I fail to save an innocent, it's game over.

The above circumstances assume that the vig targets one of the remaining suspected mafia members, but what with he or she going after hezekiah last round, who knows...

Now for the matter of whom to protect...

I think the mafia may be expecting me to try and correctly guess the vigilante, but that's too big a risk to take for me, as a save for an unknown player could block the vig kill on a mafioso. They may also be expecting me to save myself. Successfully protecting white lancer would be pretty cute because he's one of the last confirmed innocents you'd expect to be targeted... But the mafia also may not foresee me protecting the same person twice in a row, so...

I'm protecting Count Dooku tonight.