Holy Crap! I’m actually posting on time… expect the Dawn post presently.
It was a moment of mild celebration for the town. Sure, they hadn’t caught a cultist, but at least they’d caught a Psychopath twisted on ending them, cultist and Nairuvian alike. While a few members remained at the bar with a few drinks, hopeful that it was a Day to finally begin to swing momentum their way, a few of the more quiet ones filtered out earlier. And it wasn’t long after that that the bar was empty.
And much like the previous Night, it was very quiet… no screams, no dancing zombies… barely even the whispering wind and the summertime crickets.
Then came the next morning, and as the villagers slowly trickled in, a headcount was done, and all but one seemed to be accounted for… after an endless, dreadful moment a voice spoke up, “Hey, where’s Fretful Porpentine?”
Quickly, the mob ran through the streets to her home. As they approached, they came upon a closed door. The crowd erupted in unheard whispers before one person stepped forward and knocked on the door… it creaked open. It was clear now the lock had been forcibly openned. And there she was, laying face down, surrounded by burned out candles and reagents. It seemed to have been a less violent death… at least until she was turned over.
Unlike the previous victims, all of whom had some form of ritual, this seemed less a sacrifice, and more a violent mutilation. Had they not known her identity previously, surely, not one among them could now recognize her face; the skin, and all sensory organs were gone, and in not the customary precision. Even less could be said of her body, which had been eviscerated. Parts of her entrails having remained upon the spot where she laid, in diced pieces, and others seemingly… gone.
Surely, the cultists were eager to see this one go, and it didn’t take long to figure out why… the candles, the reagents, and the robes she was wearing…
Fretful Porpentine, the Priest, has been slain.
The Day will end at 3:00 AM EDT on Thursday.
Alive
2 USCDiver
3 Idle Thoughts
5 Hockey Monkey
7 NAF1138
8 sachertorte
10 Malacandra
12 Kyrie Eleison
14 Pleonast
17 Pygmy Rugger
19 FlyingCowOfDoom
21 Queuing
22 Zeriel
23 zuma [Ver. 2]
24 ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies
25 DiggitCamara [Ver. 2]
27 MHaye
Dead
11 Mtgman - Non-Believer - Day One
4 zuma [Ver. 1] - Citizen - Night One
1 Kat - Cultist - Day Two
6 storyteller0910 - Monk - Night Two
15 DiggitCamara [Ver. 1] - Crusader - Night Two
20 Scuba_Ben - Citizen - Day Three
13 Hal Briston - Oracle - Night Three
29 MadTheSwine - Citizen - Day Four
9 SnakesCatLady - Citizen - Night Four
30 Captain Klutz - Non-Believer - Day Five
26 HazelNutCoffee - Citizen - Night Five
28 fluiddruid - Citizen - Day Six
18 amrussell - Psychopath - Day Seven
16 Fretful Porpentine - Priest - Night Seven
Substitutions
** Kyrie Eleison **(Repl. ** Clockwork Jackal **)
** Nava **(Repl. ** Captain Carrot **)
** Kat **(Repl. ** ArizonaTeach **)
** DiggitCamara [Ver. 2] **(Repl. ** Autolycus **)
** Zuma [Ver. 2] **(Repl. ** MonkeyMensch **)
** amrussell **(Repl. ** Pasta **)
** Pygmy Rugger **(Repl. ** Nava **)
Well this is certainly bad news for the town… but at least maybe we can get some useful data from some patterns that may be finally emerging from the static of 30 players posting for 2 months.
Firstly, we should revisit the no-kill night briefly now that we can strategize… obviously the ‘activate psychopath’ option can be removed from that list. That basically leaves:
1)Blocked/Protected kill
2)Blocked/Protected/Unconvertible conversion
3)Successful conversion
4)the ever popular Deliberate No-Kill
I think we can throw #4 out, it was hardly mentioned in the previous discussions anyway. As for the other three, I’m not going to devote much time to trying to guess which is the most likely.
I was, however, a little bit surprised to see Fretful Porpentine turn up in a power role, because she hadn’t really been on my radar much. As such, I revisited her posting over the last Day to see if she was on to something that may have raised the suspicious of the Cultist.
During a discussion of Pygmy Rugger’s string of posts which seemed to be steering the discussion toward the ‘Recruit’ possibility from the night before, in response to this post by MHaye:
Fretful posted the following
In addition Fretful’s final vote was for Pygmy Rugger making me all the more suspicious.
I’m going to go ahead and vote Pygmy Rugger.
Sheesh, the scum are just entirely too on top of shit this game. I’d feel better if we had killed at least one more of 'em.
As promised yesterDay, for tossing out entirely too many “Safe” votes and generally flying under the radar,
vote MHaye
I don’t like his pattern of always taking the safe vote–is he contrarian, is he avoiding getting his hands dirty?
As for the no-kill night, I’d say we should still leave all the possibilites open–after all, the scum are so far ahead they can AFFORD to fuck with us with a no-kill.
You say something like this every day, and frankly, I’m tired of your non-voting. It’s bad for the town to not vote. Even when you do vote, it doesn’t really count because you vote for people not likely to be lynched. By doing this, you’re preventing the town from analyzing your voting pattern. That’s scummy. I’m putting my suspicion of Pygmy Rugger on the side for now, and I’m going to vote MHaye.
–FCOD
Here’s another quick check in. I’ll only be in Chicago for another full day (tomorrow) and then I’ll be back and posting as much as I always used to. So before this Day ends, actually. I just spent the last twenty minutes catching up and reading the last Day’s events and even right now I’m in a bit of a hurry as my fiancee and I are going out. But before I go, I will throw in another vote for DiggitCamara as RIGHT now, he’s the only one I feel safe for voting for (for one) and (for two) I don’t want to take/run the risk of missing out a chance to actually vote before this Day ends. I’m PRETTY SURE I’ll be back before it ends, but just in case, I, at least, want everyone to know where my suspicions lied. Although on my return, I will have time to read more fully in-depth and will possibly change it pending further reflection (and when I’m not so rushed and busy :p).
R.I.P Fretful though and amrussell. For the latter, however, only because he wasn’t activated yet…although at this point I think he’d have had a better chance at hitting scum anyway.
I’ll try to check in and post tomorrow one more time, or possibly twice…but Wednesday, though, I’ll, for sure, be back online my full time.
Only a couple of people chimed in with responses to my curiosity as to other players’ views on sachertorte. I guess that’s that.
Maybe it is too obvious of an approach, but I have this itch in the back of my mind about the folks who have been vocal in their suspicions of those of us who have voted for someone after that someone has role-claimed. I will dig up specifics later, as I don’t have much time to post right now. It seems like a solid wifom tactic though. Have one of the scum fake claim, and then sew a default level of suspicion around anyone who sometime after votes for cliamed players.
Since the only real information we seem to have is votes and the voting pattern, and mhaye has been very weak in both reasoning and timing of his votes (as I said near the end of the last Day) I am fully in favour of this:
dunk mhaye
Oh, fornicazione. In retrospect it looks as though Fretful’s commentary on my purported blocking history may have given the scum a clue both as to who she was and notification that she wouldn’t be self-protecting. 
I need to request a substitute - when we started in June I didn’t think we’d still be running in mid-August. Anyone want to take over? ::hands over chasuble with a stonking great target on the back::
Not…fucking…cool… :mad:
–FCOD
I’m so sorry. Shall I cancel the family holiday in France or arrange a satellite Internet link by the end of the week?
No, I’d prefer you not join games like that that frequently last months if you can’t finish them. Mafia II (54 days) and III (69 days) both lasted longer than this game (49 days, so far).
–FCOD
Duly noted.
$#!+ happens. I hope we can find a sub for you, Mal, though I’d be fine with a mod kill too. Have a good time in France.
Hmm, I think this game has taught me not to play one of these in the summer. This is really breaking the game. I too think it is (past) time for some modkills.
stands against adobe wall, scorns blindfold
Not looking good.
MHaye’s voting record does look very scummy. I’ll be happy to vote for him, but I want us to consider other possibilities.
Why did Malacandra not vote at all? If you’re really a Townie, we need your vote. To offset all the scums’ votes, you know. You had several days to pick someone. Running out of time just doesn’t cut it any more. The way you claimed (revealing info that’s best not told) and the lack of a vote makes me seriously doubt your claim. I won’t vote for you unless the real Disciple claims, but please be more helpful to the Town.
FlyingCowOfDoom’s voting record is not particularly helpful either, similar to MHaye’s. I still think he’s a likely scum.
Idle Thoughts is the scum hiding in the open. Mostly helpful, but plays selfishly at critical moments.
HockeyMonkey is looking to be a good candidate as well. I can’t see the scum choosing to not kill someone. That prolongs the game, and with the Apprentice still out there, it’s too risky for the scum not to kill someone who could be him. Recruitment is the only reasonable possibility. And Hockey is the most obvious candidate. Whether that means she is the recruitee, is a WIFOM problem.
My wild paranoia tells me Mal is the Prophet, Idle is Cult, and Hockey is the Recruit. MHaye and FlyingCow, I’m not as sure about, but they don’t seem Town to me. Who should I vote for? Not, Mal, because I’ll need to see a counter-claim first. It’s too much of a risk to dunk a claimed power role, no matter how scummy the claimer is. So, my vote falls to
Vote Idle Thoughts
As always, I’ll switch my vote to any on my suspect list, if my first choice is unpopular.
Out of game: I’ll be taking a two-week family vacation starting Aug 25. I’m not certain what my connectivity will be. I expect to be able to read and post occasionally, but maybe not.
The remaining players who have not role claimed:
Autolycus/DiggitCamara2
Captain Carrot/Nava/pygmy rugger
Clockwork Jackal/Kyrie Eleison
ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies
FlyingCowOfDoom
Idle Thoughts
Mhaye
MonkeyMensch/zuma2
NAF1138
Queuing
sachertorte
USCDiver
12 players left with a good chance that 1/3 of them are cult, including the Prophet. Would *now * be a good time for the Apprentice to come forward? He/She has *got * to have better information than the rest of us, and it seems the Cult is quite adept at keying in on power roles. Wouldn’t it be better for the town for him/her to come forward before they die and help us narrow the pool of potential drownee’s. If the Apprentice has found the Avatar, I will volunteer to be the only vote for him/her with the rest of the town abstaining. Or should the remaining Monks come forward and verify each other? Or both? I’m seriously at a loss here as to what to do. I just think that we are at a point where it would be beneficial for the town to have some verified people so we can have better odds of finding scum. And if we verify more people, the scum will have a harder time deciding who to kill. I’ll probably catch a lot of flak for this, but really, it’s time to discuss it.
What? How is my voting record similar to MHaye’s??
-FCOD