Mafia? Town wins!

[Phantasm]

After his brother’s death Obliquemente was made mayor pro-tem. Solemnly he looks out upon the gathered town before him. Despair is close to him as he fully counts the living. Seventeen including himself. Only seventeen souls left in a city of hundreds. Reluctantly he looks to the side towards one of the massive funeral pyres. He is wracked by convulsions he convinces himself are coughs and wipes tears from his eyes surely caused by the smoke of the pyres.

When a gas pocket exploads in the blaze it takes all his will to avoid turning into a jibbering fool. Fear hangs over him and those gathered. It grows as the fires do and as the light of the sun fades.

He looks at his trusted neighbors. He has known them all his life. And he would trust them with that life. But he knows one of them is a killer. One or more of them has been brutally butchering the town. His friends. His trusted friends.

A whistling sound rises from the nearest pyre as another gas pocket escapes from another corpse. Against his will he turns to look, feeling bile pushing the top of his throat. The fire settles at its ashen center and raises great plumes of sparks, mesmerizing Obliquemente in horror. The top most body, his brother the mayor, only slightly charred, rolls over. The fires push his arm over as if beckoning.

Shaking himself he turns back to his trusted neighbors with wild eyes. “Friends. And not friends. Hole yourselves up tonight. Don’t let anyone in. Don’t let them kill you! Tomorrow they’ll be frantic, dazed without having killed. They are after me. But they won’t get me and will be unprepared to take any of you. Gather with the dawn and vote. Vote for whom to lynch. Find the killers to save yourself.” He glances over his shoulder towards the towering pyre. It is bright but he can still see clearly within. “I love you all. Vote well tomorrow, I hope this serves you.”

At the last his voice is drowned out by the frenzied roar of the nearest pyre. Slowly Obliquemente’s gaze turns to once more reside upon the rising conflagration. With a start, his feet find motion. Motion in time with the waving hand he can still see clearly. Rising in rhythm. Faster and faster. Hotter and hotter. The light is bright, so bright and is nearly all he can see, except the beckoning hand of his burning brother. Everything fades. The fire, the pain, the fear. Everything execept the hand. In triumph he clasps it.

Find the killers.

Not dead yet
Quailman
jadesmar
Mackay

DEAD
Eagle - Nobody
Porro - Nobody
Demeech - Nobody
Quagmire - Knife wielder
PBug - Gun wielder
Taflinel - Knife wielder
Sweetwater - Card carrier
Gaspode Raist - Knife wielder
Wearbear - Gun wielder
Courk - Gun and dagger wielder
Ancalagon TANSTAAFL - Gun wielder
rebel lord - Knife wielder
MacadamiamaN - Card carrier
xer0x Sami - Gun wielder
jesternl - Gun and dagger wielder
Leonidas - card carrier
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Rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.



[This message has been edited by Samadhi (edited 01-07-2004 06:41 PM).]

[Phantasm]

Awaiting several choices.

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Rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.

[Phantasm]

Awaiting two choices. You have until 11:59PM GLT 10/29/2003 or your choice will be to do nothing.

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Rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.

[Phantasm]

You all rise with the light and head to the cental square. Well, almost all of you. Two of you are already there.

One body is easily recognizable. Quagmire lies sprawled on the ground with a single bullet hole in the head. He holds a small straight knife with a thin sharp blade in his hand.

Unfortunately, the other body is not recognizable. Its head is not attached to its body. Despite some rigorouos searching the head can not be found. But by process of elimination you determine that it is PBug. Some of the less squeemish among you search the body and find a gun.

There are now but 14 of you. Eight to lynch. Less if a deadline is put in place.

Please vote.

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Rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.

[Werebear]

Random Vote: Leonidas the only man who is cult/mafia/SK more than I am. ROFL. *hugs Leonidas*

[Taflinel]

Vote: Werebear for the first vote of the game... *hugs WB*
I bet you didn't expect that...

Ta ta

[Mackay]

Oh my. Random vote: Taflinel

*also hugs Leo, just because*

[Mackay]

Whoa, that wasn't there before. Now someone has to come vote for me, to carry on the chain.

[Quailman]

No. I dislike people voting for the first person to vote/post in a Mafia game.

vote: Taflinel

Adios.

[Werebear]

Taflinel... now there's a SCARLETT name if ever I heard one. ROFL.

[Leonidas]

* Even on the rare occasions when I'm innocent and leading the Town to glory, then... the cult comes knocking. Unbelievable. *

vote: xerOx

(Utterly random).

[rebel lord]

Vote: Taflinel
It's annoying to just kill off somebody who posts first. In my experience that person usually has a role and it's hardly ever mafia

[Leonidas]

Hmmm ?

[jesternl]

What do you think of the two that got killed? What are the chances of killing two bad guys on the first night? Not too high I think, which makes it somewhat likely that most/all characters will have an ability, either good or bad.
Neither of them had mafia in their descriptions.

[jadesmar]

vote: rebel lord

For being third on the bandwagon.

Experience tells me that this vote should make me very unpopular , but .. well.. I still have no better ideas.

[Courk]

Vote: xerox. Lucky #7.

[Quailman]

I thought that at first. It could be that they were both evil. OTOH, PBuG may have owned a gun because he was a cop, but no badge was found.

[Quailman]

That last post was referring to Jester's. ~must remember to scroll down~

[jesternl]

It might've been a cop, but wouldn't the description say something to that effect?
They could both be evil in which case we are an incredibly lucky town, or there are very, very many bad guys, in which case we're SOL...

[MacadamiamaN]

Vote: Taflinel

Someone said it already, but I have to confirm, it's annoying to vote for someone for voting/posting first.

[Phantasm]

Vote tally

Taflinel 4
xer0x 2
Leonidas 1
Rebel Lord 1
Werebear 1
Not Voted 5

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Rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.

[sweetwater]

Vote: Taflinel, if only to encourage him to talk.

I might change my mind later.

[Mackay]

Am I the only one who thinks it sounds like Quagmire was a doc?
This:

[Taflinel]

I didn't have the intention to vote for the first person to post. I'm too one of those people who are suspicious of anyone voting for the first to post/vote. I had the intention to vote for Werebear, just to taunt him for a bet he tried to win in Clue Mafia. It just happened that he posted first. You can see that the word "bet" is in italics. Anyway, I'm pro-town...

Ta ta

[MacadamiamaN]

Right, I believe you... All I did was look at what you said:

[Taflinel]

If you judge by the way and not by my intention, then you're probably right...

Ta ta

[Werebear]

Not Voted has a nice bandwagon of 5....

[xer0x]

So much for rules being the normal rules.

This will be an interesting game indeed.

Vote: jesternl

(Random pick. Not as if it'll carry to a bandwagon.)

[Ancalagon]

Vote: Gaspode

[Taflinel]

Ummm... you know something or you just like the way his name sounds?

Ta ta

[Mackay]

Originally posted by Taflinel:

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Anyway, I'm pro-town...

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Well, I'm convinced. Unvote: Taflinel.

(Okay, so I've just got nothing.)

[Courk]

I'm not convinced. That is rather suspicious of Taf. However, I don't have anything against him - plus, in clue mafia, he was a rather good player who wouldn't make a mistake like that...

Hmm...

IGMEOY: Taf

[jesternl]

First day voting is a bear...
Vote: Taflinel, for no other reason than to keep things going..
What will happen next? Taf will say he is either a townie and that's all he can say, or that he has a role. We will lay off the bandwagon, and go to the next person, at which point the scenario repeats. And you know what sucks, Taflinel is most likely not even lying , and we will have lynched an innocent one. Tough luck, this is mafia. there are more townies than baddies (or at least I really hope so), townies get lynched in our quest to rid us from the bad guys.
Sorry Taf..

[Phantasm]

Vote tally (first to 8 dies):
Taflinel 6
jesternl 1
xer0x 1
werebear 1
gaspode 1
rebel lord 1
Leonidas 1
Not voted 1 (gaspode)

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Rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.

[Ancalagon]

So. Where is Gaspode?

[Phantasm]

Fourty-eight hours until stage two voting begins.

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Rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.

[Taflinel]

[jadesmar]

What does this mean?
"So, before I get lynched, I'll give you the name of Mackay..."

[Werebear]

Very few situations is it better for a town to be lynched than reveal. Taflinel, you're right, the bandwagon against you is crap. But it's there, and merely saying "But I'm pro-town" and "It's better for the town to keep me alive, but go ahead and lynch me if you want" isn't really helping much.

[Mackay]

Taf, if you're implying that you have an investigative role and that I am guilty, I'm afraid that you are either insane or paranoid.