ASB Mafia: Day 6

[Negrek]

The night stretches on for what seems like weeks, but at last morning breaks again, and all those on the beach who still draw breath are grateful to find themselves still a member of that category as sunrise spreads out across the horizon.

Not everyone is fortunate enough to be joining the bleary trainers who gather near the remains of the fire, now a crumbling monument to a night of celebration that seems like it happened years ago. Today there are two people missing, and a quick roll call identifies them as moon-panther and Crazy Linoone.

The former is found to have missed the memo put out by the sun, still snoozing away on her own little patch of beach. The latter, though, is sleeping a bit more deeply. Though far less mutilated than some of the corpses discovered so far, it is nevertheless clear that her end was not a pleasant one; her face is contorted into a grimace of pain and her fingers clutch uselessly at the sand. The remains of vomit is splattered on the ground around her, and not far away lies a perfectly innocent-looking, half-eaten sandwich. Apparently that late-night snack wasn't such a good idea.

Crazy Linoone is dead. She was not mafia.

Forty-eight hours for discussion.

 

[Exdeath]

Well, this isn't good. Crazy Linoone isn't part of that pattern; likely because we pointed the pattern out -- a mistake, I think.

I'm not sure exactly why they put moon_panther to sleep; looking through the earlier threads, she hasn't exactly been very outspoken about things, but she hasn't been silent, either. I don't know what to make of this, really.

 

[Blaziking the God General]

Well, this sucks. Crazy Linoone was a pretty good contributor to discussions.

Just to start speculation - can anyone think of someone who Crazy Linoone accused that might have somewhat of a motive to kill her?

 

[Bluberry Bat]

Linoonie nooooooooooooooooiooooo ;~;
Well things are a tad off kilter now. And the sleep patterns are.. well, strange. Let's take a look over things, list time.



ROLES
Animorph
Chiropter
Kratos Aurion
rock-ground
Jack_the_PumpkinKing
Prettzel
L'il Dwagie
Full Metal Cookies
moon-panther
Kindling Queen
Grass King
Dragon
blazheirio889
MurrMurr
13 Normal Members

Deaths reported as Mafia: 1
Deaths reported as Not Mafia: 11

PLAYERS
Grass King
Full Metal Cookies
moon-panther (Sleep; 1)
Zora of Termina
Dragon
OrngSumb
MurrMurr
Prettzel
greategret
Twiggy for victory
Xaldin
Blaziking
Animorph
Blastoise
Crazy Linoone
thor165
Kratos Aurion (Sleep; 1)
L'il Dwagie
Chiropter
Jack_the_PumpkinKing
Flora and Ashes (Sleep; 2)
Kam
MidnightSaboteur
rock-ground
Involuntary Twitch
blazheirio889
Loco Mocho {M} (Sleep; 1)

To me, the sleep patterns here seem rather random. But Flora being targeted twice is the only significant pattern. Still, not sure what to think of this yet.

 

[OrngSumb]

Are they trying to make us kill of the sleepers? That might be reason to randomly sleep somebody but that's just stupid logic to think we would execute a person because they can't discuss. Or is this their little allusions as to who is Mafia?

 

[blazheirio889]

We still can't assume that the Grasswhistler is Mafia, though. I really don't know what to make of the pattern. They may as well be drawing names out of a hat. :|

Linoone does seem to have a thing for food though. *inspects her own sandwich carefully before eating it*

Oh yes, and can Negrek undelete that message I posted before? The forums blipped out on me when I tried to post, and so it didn't register completely, so I decided to delete that one and repost. Just remembered that I'm not allowed to delete messages until after I deleted it ._.

 

[Ven]

Well, this might not contribute to the discussion, but maybe the pattern is supposed to be random, to throw us of our game.

 

[Flora]

@ OrngSumb: Your sleepers=mafia logic makes me sad :(

Honestly, I have no clue as to why I got sleep-targeted twice. Grudge perhaps? *shrugs*

As to why Linooney was killed and Moony's asleep, I have no clue o.o

 

[Grass King]

@ OrngSumb: Your sleepers=mafia logic makes me sad :(

Honestly, I have no clue as to why I got sleep-targeted twice. Grudge perhaps? *shrugs*

As to why Linooney was killed and Moony's asleep, I have no clue o.o

Yeah, but who would have a grudge against you? A person you beat in a battle?

Personally, I agree with Xaldin. There seems to be no correlation between sleep victims. (Yeah statistics term!)

 

[Phoenixsong]

The thing is, trying to comment on potential Mafia patterns is silly in the end--it's not as strong a lead as you think, because the minute you let them know you're on to them they change things up on you. As I said before, they'd already done that when they killed Twitch. From this point on they're going to be entirely unpredictable, and trying to head them off will be fruitless. Especially if you keep tipping them off and practically telling them who you think might need healing or whatever. That hasn't happened yet "today", but really, please stop trying to make predictions because you're only making the doctor's jobs harder.

 

[OrngSumb]

Great today is the last day. I don't want to be the person that sends out the random nomination and I don't think we want the Gods to randomly choose. Who shall we send?

 

[blazheirio889]

Well then, I nominate greategret. At least we won't lose an active participant :|

 

[Exdeath]

This isn't the time to be nominating people just because 'they haven't been active'; that is not evidence of anything, one way or the other. This aimless nomination will get us nowhere. Just how many completely inactive people have turned out to be Mafia, really? In fact, personally I think you're vastly more suspicious. I'm probably going to regret this, but...

I nominate blazheirio889.

 

[Phoenixsong]

Under normal circumstances I would agree, but no one seems to have any concrete suspicions--none that they're feeling brave enough to act on. And if someone isn't nominated, Negrek will modkill a random player. It's either get rid of someone who doesn't seem to care about the game anymore, or risk getting rid of someone who does and who may or may not be mafia anyway.

 

[Bluberry Bat]

Not being active =/= not being mafia - although vanilla townies are more likely to not participate. Then again, we had Loco Mocho who gave himself away with inactivity for the most part. But without a nomination we end up with a random lynch, which very much has the chance of being an active member as opposed to an inactive one.
The thing is we called Loco due him to generally -only- posting for votes, and we haven't had an actual vote the past few days. But on my own, for the same general set of reasons I've my own nomination -
I nominate Xaldin

 

[Phoenixsong]

Also, Prettzel, really. Don't edit your posts. Lucky for you I didn't see anything that looked incriminating in the original version so I know you weren't doing it to hide anything, but it's against the rules so just double-post next time.

Ahem. I don't think blazheirio889(p) is mafia--at any rate, I can guarantee that she isn't a mafioso with the ability to kill. I've targeted her for redirection multiple times and clearly I'm not dead--the mafia hasn't targeted me once the whole game. (That statement is going to get me killed tonight, but whatever.)

Granted, I don't think you're mafia, either--there's no way a mafioso would be in favor of modkill, because they run the risk of losing one of their own. That, I assume, is your reasoning for nominating Blazhy(p). This sucks, really... I'm confident that Blazhy isn't mafia, I believe that you aren't mafia, and honestly I highly doubt that greategret is mafia... but if it's going to come to the point where an innocent has to die, get rid of one who doesn't seem care about the game.

Xaldin I don't know about, so eh. I'd almost say vote for him and see if greategret doesn't get modkilled for inactivity on her own, but really... I don't like this. I don't like this at all. :/

 

[blazheirio889]

Pretzzel, I'd really appreciate it if you actually gave reasons why you think I'm suspicious, so I can at least attempt to defend myself. Actually, I'm more or less doing the same thing as Zora did, right? Nominating someone when the deadline draws near? And I don't see you suspecting her. Granted, she did get Loco, but that was mainly because of his suspicious post. I just want to make sure we don't lose anyone useful.

 

[Zora of Termina]

Well yeah, but does that make you a bad person? No.
I found Loco suspicious after seeing his deleted post, and when I posted just happened to be right before the deadline. People seemed to want me to try again the next day, but I didn't have the chance and did the day after that. That only got an innocent killed, so I'm not doing that anymore.

That said, I don't really think there's anyone who's even acting suspicious. 'Sides the random nominators, but isn't everyone always suspicious of them?

 

[Negrek]

Poll's up; twenty-four hours to vote, as usual.

For those who can't see--Prettzel's original post was the same as the one he has now, except without the nomination of blazheirio889. To reiterate, do not edit your posts, and if people keep doing it, I'm going to start blasting them.

Finally, if you're still in the game, please PM me your role. This will serve as an activity check.

 

[Negrek]

The players are growing agitated; it's been far too long since their last successful mafia unmasking, and they seem to have no real leads. At the same time, they don't really want to leave today's death up to the fickle RNG gods--what if someone useful got taken out?

What ensues is a bit of hasty finger-pointing; suspicion abounds as the players glare at one another. Who knows what their magical costumes might conceal? At least some are mafia, and there might be still others, allies, lurking in their midst. Still, they haven't got much choice. Their only option is to take a vote and hope the will of the masses is wise.

A fairly close vote leaves Xaldin holding the short end of the straw. He stays oddly silent as those around him debate his fate--they just don't see any way they can end this prettily. One suggestion is to throw him to the pokémon still lurking around the perimeter of the beach, but there are none who can really defend this option as humane. In the end, rather sickened by the use of the mafia's own implements of murder, a couple of members restrain Xaldin while a third forces Crazy Linoone's poisoned sandwich down his throat. More than a few of the remaining players are forced to turn away as the poison takes its toll, eyes squeezed shut and doing all within their power to keep their own food down. Worse yet, as Xaldin finally expires, it becomes immediately obvious that he was no mafia operative.

Even as the players are starting to mourn the death of another innocent, however much a dead weight, a thunderbolt roars down out of the clear sky and incinerates another weirdly silent member of the company. Dragon is the second casualty of the day, done in as much as Xaldin by her strangely vacant behavior.

Xaldin is dead. He was not mafia. Dragon is dead. She was also not mafia.

Forty-eight hours for night actions. Also, some of you need to get me that PM with your role before you get bzzzzapped.