ASB Mafia: Day 5

[Negrek]

Morning dawns again over the player's little beach encampment; by now, most of them are sleeping soundly through the night, sheer exhaustion outweighing terror and poor accommodations. It's no surprise to the trainers, who gather in their usual spot, that two amongst their number are missing. As usually, a gloomy search ensues, one that eventually turns up the mafia's most gruesome murder yet. The victim is unrecognizable, with all the appearances of having been the plaything and subsequent meal of some large and many-toothed creature. One arm is torn off entirely, the other shattered and lying at an odd angle in the sand. The face is lacerated beyond any hope of recognition, apparently more out of spite than anything else, but the rest of the body has been heartily gnawed; in some places, no more than a few scraps of flesh cling to exposed bone. It is only when one brave soul retrieves the corpse's trainer ID from its pocket that they can confirm the victim's identity--Involuntary Twitch.

A few trainers spread out in search of the second missing person. A shout goes up as one of the searchers spots a body crumpled on the sand, but as the rest of the group rushes up, further inspection reveals that the individual is only sleeping. At least it's not another death, but... really, Flora and Ashes? Sleeping again? A few of the other players have to shake their heads as they recognize her snoozing form. Something odd is definitely going on here--something besides their being trapped on a beach, surrounded by a ring of murderous pokémon and being picked off one by one for the mafia's sadistic amusement, that is.

Involuntary Twitch is dead. She was not mafia.

Forty-eight hours for discussion.

 

[Sylph]

Ok. Ew?

That was very...gut churning to say the least. Seems they're not too pleased with us at the moment. And the chain has been broken. Pattern broken now...

Then there is Flora and Ashes. She's asleep again...why would she be asleep again?

 

[OrngSumb]

I don't think I can eat lunch anymore. Thanks Negrek.

So Flora and Ashes(p) and Kratos(p) have been asleep twice (correct?).

Could this mean that they are Mafia and the Mafia is trying to make it look like they are toying with them so we keep them around or is the Mafia trying to make us do their dirty work?

 

[blazheirio889]

...I was just about to eat lunch as well :| There goes my appetite.

I'm pretty sure Kratos has only been sleeping once, though memory may have failed me. Uhh... Flora and Ashes getting put to sleep twice is a conundrum... If she is Mafia, then putting her to sleep twice is a bit much. And she didn't contribute much to discussion, either. I don't know where to go with this :|

 

[OrngSumb]

Alright Blazhy I just went back and you're right Kratos(p) was only asleep once but the not from yesterday I believe, the "Future victim to toy with: Kratos" suggests that they might put him to sleep yet again in my opinion

 

[Clover]

I dunno, I assumed they said that in response to his huge tirade... so putting him to sleep wouldn't be in their interest. That's why I thought yesterday that the Grasswhistler wasn't mafia.

Speaking of yesterday... that was really weird, don't you think? We still had an hour or two left to nominate. Not to mention I would think people like greategret and thor165 are pretty inactive too.

(And that description is nothing compared to mine imo, and hardly any of the players said anything about it :P)

 

[Phoenixsong]

Loco Mocho was the other person who was put to sleep, OrngSumb. And assuming that Loco Mocho wasn't rock-ground(r), that's another possible clue that the grasswhistler is innocent--if Mocho was any other Mafia member then a Mafia grasswhistler would've known who he was and therefore would've had no reason to target him. (The "throw us off the trail by silencing a mafioso" scenario FMC(p) suggested is a possibility, of course, though I still maintain that it isn't a very likely one. Possibly more likely now that she's brought it up and put the idea in their heads, but yeah.)

...actually, Blazhy, I'd consider putting Flora to sleep twice excessive whether she's mafia or not. She hasn't said much of anything on the days that she's been awake to do so. A Mafia grasswhistler (although I don't think that they are Mafia, as I said before) would logically try to silence innocents that could help sniff them out. Putting her to sleep twice makes more sense if the grasswhistler is innocent--if the grasswhistle action has to go through, an innocent grasswhistler would pick someone who wasn't contributing much so that the "helpful" players would still be around to discuss things. Loco Mocho never really contributed anything that could be seen as helpful either, don't forget. Doesn't explain why they went after me yesterday (damn you), but the other two make some sense, IMO. There are still plenty of other people they could've picked instead of hitting one person twice--all of the aforementioned inactive players, for example--but it's a plausible enough explanation.

I figured the Mafia would probably break the pattern entirely after a while. I see no rhyme or reason behind selecting Twitch, and while she did participate and give a few opinions here and there it was never enough to mark her as exceptionally helpful, so that probably came completely out of the blue and just broke the pattern purely for the sake of breaking the pattern. Actually, you guys discussing healing Prettzel and the other people who might be next is probably what triggered it :/ If you tell them that you're considering focusing on someone, of course they're going to go after a player you'd never expect and virtually guarantee an unhindered kill. Next time, if you're a doctor (or someone who wants to help a doctor) and think you might know who the Mafia will target next, I'd suggest keeping your ideas to yourself.

At any rate, now that they've gone and thrown the "go down the list" method out the window I'm afraid there's no way to reliably predict who might be next. Now would be a great time for any living doctors to spontaneously develop ESP so they can save people.

If greategret and thor165 are that inactive then they're probably due for nerfing tonight, I'd imagine. But does anyone know whether or not they've bothered viewing the past few threads? It's possible that they simply aren't saying anything during the day but have been sending in night actions or otherwise communicating with Negrek, so she knows they're still around.

(Hey Midnight, bring back PW Mafia when you finish that one? :D I want more exploding lesbians!)

 

[Crazy Linoone]

More large toothed pokemon...

There's still the possibility that Involuntary Twitch was Grass King(r) and unluckily distracted the wrong person.

And Flora's sleep makes me think that the Dragon/Blazhy(r) with Grasswhistle is not on our side.

 

[Crazy Linoone]

Since we're not allowed to edit, just want to reply to Krato's rant which somehow ninja'd my post.

Kratos makes a good point here -- Flora hasn't really done much.

Pattern breaking may be the reason that Zora isn't dead as well: because she pointed out a Mafia member, the healers would, of course, try to heal her, which means that an attempt on killing her will probably fail.

So consider yourself lucky, Zora, since you probably won't die for a while.

Conclusion: whoever the Mafia is, they're smart enough to think this over.

 

[blazheirio889]

@Kratos: I'm pretty sure the Grasswhistle option doesn't have to go through every night - I mean during the first day, no-one was asleep. Just wanted to point that out. Evidence does suggest that the Grasswhistler is on our side.

And let's see... On Day 1, thor165 viewed the Mafia thread, though greategret didn't.
On Day 2, both of them viewed it.
On Day 3, greategret viewed the thread, but thor165 didn't.
And on Day 4, neither of them viewed it.

It's possible that they have a role, but from the number of times they've viewed the threads, I'd say that the chances are kind of reduced... Thing is, MurrMurr posted in the 1st day, while greategret and thor165 haven't posted at all, if memory doesn't fail me, and who got owned? Perhaps they are just PMing Negrek to tell her that they're still here.
And now this is a flimsy suspicion, but greategret and thor165 don't seem to have viewed Negrek's profile recently. Sure, you can send people a PM without viewing their profile, but some people tend to follow the link on the person's profile anyway. I dunno, that's what I do, at least. So I'm thinking that they're going to get nerfed very, very soon.

Okay that was pointless to speculate on but bahh :|

 

[Phoenixsong]

No one was asleep on the first night because the Dragon/Blazhy(r) roles use the first night to choose the action they want. That action cannot be used until the second night.

 

[blazheirio889]

Oh, right. I forgot about that. :I

 

[Coloursfall]

Erm. *waves* hi. I completely missed the last thread it seems but whatever, here now. Don't have much to say either, though. I'm a teeny bit suspicious of Flora, but a small hunch really isn't really much to go on. :\ Also I wanted to say sorry to Kratos about being all 'Arg kill him'... was a bit overexcited.

Also, people not looking at the thread isn't really much help; some people browse Invisible (like me) and that makes them not show up on the list.

 

[Phoenixsong]

As do I, but most people don't and clearly those two don't, either. Not that it means all that much, as the game seems to be progressing just fine without them and it's not like anyone suspects them of anything at this time.

 

[Clover]

(Hey Midnight, bring back PW Mafia when you finish that one? :D I want more exploding lesbians!)

There can technically be exploding lesbians with any Mafia game with a lover and a terrorist :o Part of what made that awesome was it was /Butterfree/! and /Dannichu/! butterfree/dannichu otp [shot]

But soytanlee! Ace Attorney has a much bigger fandom here too, so there could be more willing participants... Have you played the demo for the Edgeworth Gumshoe game yet? :D :D

gumshoooooe~~~ :DDD

... er. Back on topic yes. You and Linoone make great points... Blazhy, I always go through Private Messages to send messages to someone, so I wouldn't say that... yeah, flimsy suspicion. So what if... hm. The mafia are difficult to puzzle out, like Linoone said. The one we've discovered so far wasn't even speaking at the time.

... Zora, if you could go crazy at the eleventh hour and strangle someone else, that would be great |D

(PS Kratos, what's your thoughts on being called out in the note? :o)

 

[Zora of Termina]

So consider yourself lucky, Zora, since you probably won't die for a while.

I dp :3

... Zora, if you could go crazy at the eleventh hour and strangle someone else, that would be great |D

We'll see about that! ;D

Of course, the question still remains about why Flora would be asleep two days in a row.
Unless... she knows something?
It's unlikely that the Mafia would put to sleep one of their own when they need lynching votes, so...

 

[Phoenixsong]

(But but but also it was because a small child with huegboobs caused them to blow up and one of them was April May and and D:

And no, I have not played the demo. I should do that.

Just make sure you tell me when you do start it, because I have Forum Games hidden and won't see the thread unless I specifically go look for it.)

Uh. The note? Other than wishful thinking that it might mean they want to keep me around until near the end, I honestly don't see much to read into it. They found the rant amusing, they commented on it. I don't know that it had any more substance than the rest of the note one way or the other.

 

[Crazy Linoone]

Zora has good points. Why would anyone put Flora to sleep twice in a row? I mean, yes, she didn't contribute that much, but neither did a few others, so why put Flora to sleep again even though the first time she fell asleep, people still died? The only explanation I can find is that either the Grasswhistler knows something and believes Flora to be Mafia or evil or something. However, during the first time Flora was asleep, the Mafia still killed an innocent, so Flora probably isn't the highest Mafia rank if she is Mafia. However, Flora sleeping again is kinda suspicious, because it means either the Grasswhistler (if he/she/it is on our side) has good evidence to suspect Flora, or the Grasswhistler (if he/she/it is Mafia) just wants to put a random innocent to sleep for no reason whatsoever. That is, as Kratos has previously pointed out, unlikely, so yeah.

Unless, of course, Flora is Grass King(r) and attracted the Grasswhistle away from its original target, which is always possible.

Dammit, Grass King(r)! Always making things so complicated.

(PW Mafia? YEAH)

 

[Phoenixsong]

Grasswhistle prevents discussion, not night actions. The grasswhistler could hit the head mafioso and the kill could still go through. Though it's possible that the grasswhistler misunderstands that and might still be trying to stop the mafia from acting even though they really can't.

Anyway, stopping night actions is the thunder waver's job. Hey, thunder wave guy, get your act together and hit a mafioso for once, please.

 

[Clover]

But but but also it was because a small child with huegboobs caused them to blow up and one of them was April May and and D:

You have a better memory than me :o I'd forgotten that it was Scizor playing Pearl channeling Wellington who captured Dannichu (who if she had a role I forgot), then Butterfree-April May threw herself on their ashes at the top of the steps to the town hall and downed a glass heart-shaped bottle's worth of poison.

At least until you said that. Damn, that was an awesome game.

Also, Flora wasn't put to sleep twice 'in a row'! Have we already forgotten Kratos?

She did the list thing... hm.