Genestealer! Game 2 - Lost in Space [Game Over - Genestealers achieve victory]

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**Gornall**

I agree. Unless he is much more devious than we thought, he has satisfied me. However, if such an event should occur again, I will suspect it as a ploy to gain sympathy.

**Valhallan42nd**

So, were back at square one again?

**Orkeosaurus**

Hardly. We have reason to think one person's innocent. Thus, we've slightly increased our chances of lynching a Genestealer today.

**VictorVonTzeentch**

"Indeed Stubby indeed. I suppose for now Obliter8tor can be moved to a different list."

**Dark Lord Seanron**

[Confirmation] Subject: Gornall - the reasons I voted for Dark_Oblitr8r are as follows.

• Child-like dependence on others, an effort to try and enamour himself to individuals to secure his position seems suspicious.
• Others in the collective have plausible background information, which while not entirely proving themselves innocent, gives a thorough basis for further investigation.
• Whilst I concur that LoG has provided next to no information, his obvious baiting of the more religious amongst us (myself included) is too horribly obvious. Why risk discovery by implicating yourself. More investigation is required.
• DO has made no solid or thorough effort to defend himself – this raises my suspicions as we are all defensive in this situation.

[Conclusion] Subject: Dark_Oblitr8r has raised and maintained mu suspicions throughout. Through logical dictation, he is the most likely to be seditious.

[Further note] It is comparably easy to point the finger of mistrust at this who are different, Gornall. I have suffered ire because of the differences in my appearance, demeanour and speech from non-augmented for 72 standard Terran Cycles. It has been a common fate for those of the Red Cloth to become the targets of the suspicious, the paranoid and the superstitious. I view your suspicion and rash dislike of me as simply knee-jerk prejudice and racial intolerance. A less logical individual could see it as try to silence me out of your own self-interest; however I do not think this is the case.

Suffering is necessary for the development of the soul. I do not begrudge you your dislike of me based on our abundant differences. I would implore you however, to not let it cloud your judgement. It is one thing to be accused because of guild, and quite another to be accused because one is different.

**Drk_Oblitr8r**

Dark Lord Seanron wrote:[Confirmation] Subject: Gornall - the reasons I voted for Dark_Oblitr8r are as follows.

• Child-like dependence on others, an effort to try and enamour himself to individuals to secure his position seems suspicious.
• Others in the collective have plausible background information, which while not entirely proving themselves innocent, gives a thorough basis for further investigation.
• Whilst I concur that LoG has provided next to no information, his obvious baiting of the more religious amongst us (myself included) is too horribly obvious. Why risk discovery by implicating yourself. More investigation is required.
• DO has made no solid or thorough effort to defend himself – this raises my suspicions as we are all defensive in this situation.

[Conclusion] Subject: Dark_Oblitr8r has raised and maintained mu suspicions throughout. Through logical dictation, he is the most likely to be seditious.

It is comparably easy to point the finger of mistrust at this who are different, Dark Lord Seanron. I have suffered ire because of the differences in my appearance, demeanour and speech. It has been a common fate to become the targets of the suspicious, the paranoid and the superstitious. I view your suspicion and rash dislike of me as simply knee-jerk prejudice and racial intolerance. A less logical individual could see it as try to silence me out of your own self-interest; however I do not think this is the case.

Suffering is necessary for the development of the soul. I do not begrudge you your dislike of me based on our abundant differences. I would implore you however, to not let it cloud your judgement. It is one thing to be accused because of guild, and quite another to be accused because one is different.

I felt that repeating you would be an easier way to explain myself. I don't go into much detail about what I'm doing, because there is little detail to tell you. I must have boarded this ship by mistake as I was heading to Baal, not Terra, to see my terminally ill paraplegic mother, and look after her, spend time with her. But more importantly, to give her something to live for. My father disapeared before my mother knew she was carrying me, and I am an only child.

**Dark Lord Seanron**

[humour] how droll Oblitr8r.

I do not base my suspisions on the fact you are a child, which would be a prejudice on my part of I did. Nor do I base it on any racial prejudice, we are both, after all hopefully human.

I base my suspicion on your eccentric and hysterical behaviour, plus your partially see-through story of boarding the wrong vessel (Baal & Terra are not even in the same segmentum)

You're mimicking of my own points to try and daemonise me is moot, as you clearly lack the understanding or strength of mind to make your own deductions.

[conclusion] my vote stands, you are now scrabbling to defend yourself now that several of the colective have become suspicious of you.

**Drk_Oblitr8r**

Dark Lord Seanron wrote: You're mimicking of my own points to try and daemonise me is moot, as you clearly lack the understanding or strength of mind to make your own deductions.

No, I felt that what you said was better than what I can think of, because I felt you'd understand it a bit better.

Dark Lord Seanron wrote:I base my suspicion on your eccentric and hysterical behaviour, plus your partially see-through story of boarding the wrong vessel (Baal & Terra are not even in the same segmentum)

I realise that you have good reasons to suspect me, but I assure you, you are mistaken. If you don't see the light, you WILL be helping those responsible.

I merely made a mistake, and it looks like its going to cost me my life...

(Edit, fixed first quote)

**Dark Lord Seanron**

[clarification] this is a harsh and sterile universe we reside in, mistakes are rarely tolerated...

my vote still stands

**Lord-Loss**

LOG is becoming increasing suspicous, the way he talks....planets destroyed by indiviuals, mutations, sacrificed to the Emperor.

He's a psykers!

Unvote: Drk_Oblitr8r
Vote: Lord of Ghosts

**Gornall**

Dark Lord Seanron wrote:[Conclusion] Subject: Dark_Oblitr8r has raised and maintained mu suspicions throughout. Through logical dictation, he is the most likely to be seditious.

DarkO practically committed suicide earlier, something I doubt the Xenos would do. Stynier and Stubby both agree that he is likely benign. Your insistence on his guilt, however, makes me more suspcious of you and LoG.

**Demogerg**

The Gheistos Cataclysm.... that name had rung a bell in my memory from what seems like ages ago....

then it hit me. about 20 years ago, I was one most fortunate to meet a member of the Great Adeptus Astartes. Clad in gigantic black armor, adorned with Purity Badges and symbols of the crusaders. He was a member of the Black Templar and he spoke of a great heresy that occured on Gheistos....

He did not say much, but from I gathered, a great evil had appeared and plagued the world with death and destruction, him and his brothers could not stop the evil presence and the world was destroyed.

someone asked me earlier what I knew about the appearance of Genestealers. I think it was Manchu, hes quite the logical one... anyways, there are 4 basic levels of Genestealers to worry about, the first level is the purestrain, the most hideous beast, pure destruction, I have seen them rip apart our Adeptus Astartes protectors like they were children, Thank the Emperor we are not dealing with one of these, otherwise we would all already by dead. The second and third levels are both disgusting Hybrids of humans and Genestealers, they commonly have 3 arms, hunched backs, claws for hands, oversized heads, and purple-tinted skin.
the fourth level looks identical to a normal human.... only they are a sympathizer to the Genestealers, they have been infected and are no longer actually human, if they are allowed to breed and create offspring they would be of the 3rd level.

A quick glance tells me that we are dealing with 2 of these "4th level" Xenos.

More important, we have one who has presented us with nothing but riddles, to occupy our minds and trick us, and he has made reference to a great evil, that even our great protecters will not speak about openly. I know how to fight Genestealers, I am not afraid of killing them or being killed by them, I just do not want to become one of them, because of this I must vote to destroy that which has a connection to evil.

vote:lord of the ghosts

Edited for spelling and grammer.

**Dark Lord Seanron**

[query] more suspicious? you have taken an instant dislike to myself since the beginning of this unfortunate affair, I doubt it even possible you could become any more supicious.

[clarification] voting for oneself could simply be Oblitr8r trying to throw us off the scent, so to speak. I have remained stoic in my vote as he has held my suspicions, unlike several others who appear to be scatterbrainedly changing votes here & there in order to placate the logic of others.

[conclusion] my vote remains. You and I will never see eye to eye Gornall, so I see no point in trying to win you over. As for LoG, I do concur his behaviour is most peculiar, but I deduce him far too obvious to be the true culprit, at least at this moment of time.

[secondary point] Subject Gornall - if I was the enemy, surely it would benefit me most to vote for my obvious enemy, which is yourself. Not being the enemy, and in fact being your ally, I would not vote or rouse suspicion toward you.

**Gornall**

*Looks sternly at Dark Lord Seanron*

We shall see. The earlier events of DarkO's brush with death lead me to believe he is not the true threat. As Stumpy iterated, it would have taken a truly devious (and daring) individual to have correctly deduced the number of people willing to vote for him and willingly place himself on the chopping block for as long as he did. While this alone does not prove his innocence, it does move him farther down towards the bottom of my list of suspects. I think there are more worrisome individuals to deal with first. LoG is one such individual and until a more likely culprit emerges, there is where my vote shall stand.

As for not voting for me, it neither proves guilt or innocence. You could be devious enough to realize that implicating me would only seek to bring attention upon yourself. On the other hand, you could implicate me and say "This would be too obvious if I was really a heretic".

Yes I dislike you, but my vote is based on your desire to protect LoG, not on your annoying, rusted existence. Personal conflict would only allow the Xenos to sow discontent and discord among us, making it harder to root them out. Because of our outspoken feud, I already fear for my safety tonight, as the genestealers could kill me to throw doubt on you, or leave me be to "exonerate" you and make me seem suspicious. This is a tangled mess of a web and we must be careful to observe every strand or risk becoming tangled up in it beyond all recovery.

**Dark Lord Seanron**

[conclusion] you're candor is refreshing to say the least Gornall.

very well, a machine is only the sum of its parts.

UNVOTE - Dark_Oblitr8r

VOTE: Lord of Ghosts

In order for our mechanism to function with utmost precision and efficiency, then the cogs and parts must not grate upon each other. We shall see were this leads, with the outcome hopefully benefitting the whole.

**Valhallan42nd**

Night is swiftly approaching. We must take action now.

I still suspect Drk_Obliter8r, despite his "altruistic move", but if we as a group are making a sea change towards the man who equated the Emperor with the Hive Fleets, I am fairly comfortable with the group's decision.

Unvote Drk_Obliter8r

Vote Lord of Ghosts

**Valhallan42nd**

Orkeosaurus wrote:I'm inclined to say DrkO is the least likely candidate for being the Genestealer, at this point, because him being the Genestealer would involve jumping through a lot of hoops.

::EDIT:: Spelling and grammar.

I'd say the least likely person to be a murderous genestealer would be you, as it's awfully difficult to murder someone when one has no limbs.

**Gornall**

*Thinking back over LoG's comments*

lord of the ghosts wrote:my I suvive past day 2 I belive in the emperor/hive fleet
I cannot say whom I am, but I will say I'm awesome

What does everyone think of this heresy? LoG, how do you explain it? The tide is turning against you it seems. Now is your chance to either clear your name by explaining yourself or clear your conscience before facing judgement.

**Gornall**

Valhallan42nd wrote:
Orkeosaurus wrote:I'm inclined to say DrkO is the least likely candidate for being the Genestealer, at this point, because him being the Genestealer would involve jumping through a lot of hoops.

::EDIT:: Spelling and grammar.

I'd say the least likely person to be a murderous genestealer would be you, as it's awfully difficult to murder someone when one has no limbs.

However, I would not put it past a Xenos to eat his own limbs in lean times (and to gain sympathy), only to use his heretical, alien biology to sprout new ones when the time is appropriate.

**Thor665**

Because there's been a fair bit of action already this morning (and because I want to put a few pages between me and my late night errors of yesterday) I present another vote count, please let me know if anything is off.

Ye Fifth Vote Accounting
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0 - Vote BrotherStynier
0 - Vote Frenzied Potato
0 - Vote Mekboy
0 - Vote Manchu
0 - Vote Orkeosaurus
0 - Vote Valhallan42nd
7 - Vote lord of the ghosts (Orkeosaurus, Gornall, Drk_Oblitr8r, Lord-Loss,Demogerg, Dark Lord Seanron, Valhallan42nd)
3 - Vote Drk_Oblitr8r (Mekboy, Gwar!, lord of ghosts)
0 - Vote Dark Lord Seanron
0 - Vote Gwar!
0 - Vote Demogerg
0 - Vote Lord-Loss
0 - Vote Gornall
0 - Vote airman
0 - Vote Ultrafool

0 - Vote No Lynch

5 - Not Voting (BrotherStynier, Frenzied Potato, Manchu, airman, Ultrafool )

With 15 alive it requires 8 to Lynch
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**Mekboy**

My the Emperor guide me.

Vote: Lord of Ghosts

**Gornall**

May He have mercy on us if we're wrong.

**Valhallan42nd**

Ave, brother, ave.

Somnus puteus. Nos tribuo vos Imperator pacis.

**Dark Lord Seanron**

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**Gornall**

Dark Lord Seanron wrote:01100010 01101100 01100101 01110011 01110011 01100101 01100100 00100000 01100010 01100101 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01101111 01101101 01101110 01101001 01110011 01110011 01101001 01100001 01101000

OOC: I see what you did there...

**Lord-Loss**

Valhallan42nd wrote:Somnus puteus. Nos tribuo vos Imperator pacis.

Indeed.

**Manchu**

I am not convinced. No, I am not convinced, as the rest of you seem to be, by this dubious self-sacrifice. If anything, it reminds me of the smarter, sicker scummers who'd play mind games with us Arbitors, wheedling at us for pity when Emperor knows they deserve none at all. No, I think you all should trust your instincts about this one. I know I will.

Vote: Drk_Oblitr8r

Lord of the Ghosts may very well be insane and even a heretic for all I know. His ravings are certainly damning enough, as you all clearly recognize. But I would remind you that none of us--and I realize this means even me--can be above suspicion in each other's eyes.

The fact that so many of you seem eager to absolve Drk_O of guilt in this matter astounds me and I refuse to let him off that easily. Whether it makes me unpopular with his sympathizers is immaterial to me, for I'll have done my duty to Him as I always have and always will.

Let me pose these questions: How many of us have sacrificed everything to be on this ship bound for Holy Terra? For how many of us is this the summation of all our lives' goals? And this one claims he got on by mistake? I must say again, I am not convinced.

**Thor665**

It does appear to be 8 votes now to lynch lord of ghosts - I'm about to head out to the glories that are on-site filming so there'll be a few hours for anyone who thinks to question the numbers to double check them.

Orkeosaurus, Gornall, Drk_Oblitr8r, Lord-Loss,Demogerg, Dark Lord Seanron, Valhallan42nd, and Mekboy have all voted for lord of ghosts.

Story post shall come when I get back as shall movement to Night Phase.

**Mekboy**

Wait.. I've just realised. He's a psyker, right? And there's only one role that can be a psyker? Therefore:

Unvote: Lord of Ghosts
Vote: Drk_Oblitr8r

**Dark Lord Seanron**

[agreement] indeed Subject Manchu, I do concur with your thinking. Simply because my vot has changed, does not mean that Oblitr8r is now innocent in my sight.

Sometimes lessons must be learned and sacrifices must be made before genuine guilt or innocence is identified.

[conclusion] our voting of LoG shall prove either to be beneficial, or lead us to the correct target, Omnissiah allowing.