I'm doing some heavy analysis/speculation right now, but something just occurred to me.
Unless we lynch the mafia with the protect before we lynch the one with the flamethrower, and manage to distribute it in time on a target that can block at least one NK, town automatically loses.
...lol.
Going by something Duck told me in my massive PM of questions early N0:
Luxaria wrote:24. For that matter, can you define the parameters of taking one player down with me if I die and have the flamethrower? Will that happen during a status report incineration vote? As in, if I am voted to be incinerated, do I just kill one player at random that voted on me? If I am infected and in a room with another player, and thus I get incinerated, do I take them down with me as well? If I am poisoned by someone due to the galley's ration poisoning role (is that instantaneous, by the way?), do I kill the person that poisoned me? Is there any situation in which I kill a random person? What if I am on EVA or locked in the brig and have the flamethrower? Do I still kill in retaliation?
Duck wrote:If you are voted to by Incinerated, you would kill a player of your choice before they took you down. If you die by any means, you chose who you kill. In the case of being a nk, or poisoned, you would not know who caused it, not would you need to be in the same room as your target. Presumably, you would run around the Station to find your target as soon as you feel yourself starting to die. Oh... Good point about the Brig and EVA. Technically you probably shoudn't, but for the sake of mechanical simplicity in this minigame, I would say you manage to get really creative with that flamethrower and pull off your kill. In a full game, you wouldn't.
And the one with the flamethrower might have the protect, too.
Edit: I guess technically if the one with the flamethrower is the last to get lynched... hm...
4-3
lynch mafia
4-2
NK
3-2
lynch mafia
3-1
NK
2-1
lynch mafia (flamethrower)
1-0
Okay, so either we get the protect and block one NK, or we lynch the one with the flamethrower last in a sequence of mafia lynches. Or both, I guess, but yeah.