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@Rusty - I second ferret's comment, what claim was "false"

@WARORK93 - what is confusing you? (I'll go out on a limb and guess you thought you were getting into a RPG posting game?)

Thor665 wrote:@Rusty - I second ferret's comment, what claim was "false"

@WARORK93 - what is confusing you? (I'll go out on a limb and guess you thought you were getting into a RPG posting game?)

Well, no, I accepted the fact that it wasn't really an RPG type deal when it was said at the very beginning, but I just kind of feel out of place being among so many who have apparently already done all this before numerous times

Anyway, I figured there would be a lot less finger pointing but I guess its to be expected this early in the game.

I shall say this; With nothing productive to say, why bother speaking at all? I'm waiting for you lot to get it together so we can move on.

the_ferrett wrote:B) Until recently, no you haven't. Until..... oh 1/2 a page ago we were still all 'RVS'ing and cracking jokes. That's not serious in demeanor. And please try not to lie but saying otherwise.

The sixth post of page two is Thor's rebuttal to my initial salvo. Before that we have discussion of you (and whether to consider you suspicious). After that we get into the meat of Thor v Rust v BroSty, with us three posting a massive proportion of that days votes. I'd contend that the silliness of the RVS was curtailed towards the end of page one (with the events that lead to Thor and I posting several massive multi-quotes). Are there some jokes on page two? Yes, but the majority of the page isn't consumed with silliness. Furthermore, people stopped voting for silly things like names after page one.

I screwed up the quote in my last post. The bit of text between the_ferret's quote and the empty box is my own text from last page.

You're getting very pissy Rusty.

Current Voting Situation
0 - Fifty
1 - n0t_u (Drk_Oblitr8r)
0 - Drk_Oblitr8r
3 - BrotherStynier (Fifty, Thor665, n0t_u)
2 - RustyKnight (WARORK93, Lord-Loss)
1 - the_ferrett (RustyKnight)
2 - WARORK93 (Mordoskul, BrotherStynier)
0 - Mordoskul
0 - Lord-Loss
0 - Thor665

0 - No lynch

Not voting (the_ferrett)
Not posted during Day 1 (-)

If the day ended now, BrotherStynier would be lynched

Day 1 ends at MIDNIGHT GMT 18th March 2011 [0 Days 14 Hours 42 Minutes]

Lord-Loss votes Fifty
WARORK93 votes Lord-Loss
Thor665 votes Fifty
BrotherStynier votes Thor665
Fifty votes BrotherStynier
RustyKnight votes WARORK93
Mordoskul votes WARORK93
Lord-Loss unvotes Fifty
Lord-Loss votes RustyKnight
WARORK93 unvotes Lord-Loss
WARORK93 votes RustyKnight
Thor665 unvotes Fifty
Thor665 votes BrotherStynier
BrotherStynier unvotes Thor665
BrotherStynier votes the_ferrett
BrotherStynier unvotes the_ferrett
n0t_u votes BrotherStynier
BrotherStynier votes WARORK93
Drk_Oblitr8r votes Fifty
Drk_Oblitr8r unvotes Fifty
Drk_Oblitr8r votes n0t_u
Drk_Oblitr8r unvotes n0t_u
Drk_Oblitr8r votes Drk_Oblitr8r
Drk_Oblitr8r unvotes Drk_Oblitr8r
Drk_Oblitr8r votes BrotherStynier
Drk_Oblitr8r unvotes BrotherStynier
Drk_Oblitr8r votes RustyKnight
Drk_Oblitr8r unvotes RustyKnight
Drk_Oblitr8r votes the_ferrett
Drk_Oblitr8r unvotes the_ferrett
Drk_Oblitr8r votes WARORK93
Drk_Oblitr8r unvotes WARORK93
Drk_Oblitr8r votes Mordoskul
Drk_Oblitr8r unvotes Mordoskul
Drk_Oblitr8r votes Lord-Loss
Drk_Oblitr8r unvotes Lord-Loss
Drk_Oblitr8r votes Thor665
Drk_Oblitr8r unvotes Thor665
RustyKnight unvotes WARORK93
RustyKnight votes the_ferrett
Drk_Oblitr8r votes n0t_u

Alright we need to start getting way more serious now, less than 14 hours.

I'm interested in seeing where Ferret's vote goes. As for me I'm going to think mine over and decide if I should move it to someone else or not.

With 14 hours left I cannot with clear concious screw with our chances and vote Rusty.
With my suspicions I cannot in clear concious vote steiner.

I will be asleep for 90% of the remaining time.

I doubt I'll change my vote. the_ferret has made false claims, attempted misdirection, and made strange excuses.

the_ferret wrote:With 14 hours left I cannot with clear concious screw with our chances and vote Rusty.

If you think I'm guilty, vote! As it stands now, Stynier is going to die. If you don't think he's guilty, do something about it. Vote for me, explain why I'm more guilty, argue against lynching Stynier. Don't just say,"I'm not voting" and go to sleep.
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n0t_u wrote:I'm interested in seeing where Ferret's vote goes. As for me I'm going to think mine over and decide if I should move it to someone else or not.

Why are you currently voting for Stynier?

I think they are voting for me cause I lost track of the days and voted to try and delay my demise.

It may be too late now but I thought it over a bit and the Ferret seems more deserving of the vote currently.

However it would lead into a 3 way tie...

unvote: Stynier

Vote: Ferret

Now to elaborate in a new post as time is short most likely.

Over the last few pages he has seemed a fair bit more defensive than I've usually seen from him in game. I'm not too sure why he didn't decide to vote either, seems akin to voting for no lynch without falling for the obvious trap of voting for no lynch.

I haven't played any of these for a while so I'm a fair bit rusty though.

Well then, I guess I'll be the tie breaker!

Unvote: RustyKnight

Vote: Ferret

Seeing as this hasn't closed and I'm now spontaniously up for elimination. (Guess I can't solely blame Thor anymore.) I'm going to say this plainly and simply.

Better an innocent dies than effort being wated on proving him guilty.

1. I am sorry about the day running over, I had OOC things that meant I fell asleep an hour before the deadline. A deadline is however a deadline and I feel it's very unfair on the_ferrett to suffer because I wasn't here to finish the game. Therefore the past time vote switching will be discounted. Apologies to BrotherStynier, if you've seen the previous votes and thought you'd just got out by the skin of your teeth, I am going to ignore them, because otherwise it sets a precedent that the game deadlines aren't fixed, and future votes will be muddied by me being a little late and potentially missing votes that are cast as I write my ending post.

2. At the last moment RiTides has stepped forward and offered himself as Lord-Loss' replacement. Since the game has barely begun I feel this won't overly inconvenience the group, I hope that he fits in well.

Current Voting Situation
0 - Fifty
1 - n0t_u (Drk_Oblitr8r)
0 - Drk_Oblitr8r
3 - BrotherStynier (Fifty, Thor665, n0t_u)
2 - RustyKnight (Lord-Loss, WARORK93)
1 - the_ferrett (RustyKnight)
2 - WARORK93 (Mordoskul, BrotherStynier)
0 - Mordoskul
0 - RiTides
0 - Thor665

0 - No lynch

Not voting (the_ferrett)
Not posted during Day 1 (-)

The day has now ended, BrotherStynier will be lynched

Lord-Loss votes Fifty
WARORK93 votes Lord-Loss
Thor665 votes Fifty
BrotherStynier votes Thor665
Fifty votes BrotherStynier
RustyKnight votes WARORK93
Mordoskul votes WARORK93
Lord-Loss unvotes Fifty
Lord-Loss votes RustyKnight
WARORK93 unvotes Lord-Loss
WARORK93 votes RustyKnight
Thor665 unvotes Fifty
Thor665 votes BrotherStynier
BrotherStynier unvotes Thor665
BrotherStynier votes the_ferrett
BrotherStynier unvotes the_ferrett
n0t_u votes BrotherStynier
BrotherStynier votes WARORK93
Drk_Oblitr8r votes Fifty
Drk_Oblitr8r unvotes Fifty
Drk_Oblitr8r votes n0t_u
Drk_Oblitr8r unvotes n0t_u
Drk_Oblitr8r votes Drk_Oblitr8r
Drk_Oblitr8r unvotes Drk_Oblitr8r
Drk_Oblitr8r votes BrotherStynier
Drk_Oblitr8r unvotes BrotherStynier
Drk_Oblitr8r votes RustyKnight
Drk_Oblitr8r unvotes RustyKnight
Drk_Oblitr8r votes the_ferrett
Drk_Oblitr8r unvotes the_ferrett
Drk_Oblitr8r votes WARORK93
Drk_Oblitr8r unvotes WARORK93
Drk_Oblitr8r votes Mordoskul
Drk_Oblitr8r unvotes Mordoskul
Drk_Oblitr8r votes Lord-Loss
Drk_Oblitr8r unvotes Lord-Loss
Drk_Oblitr8r votes Thor665
Drk_Oblitr8r unvotes Thor665
RustyKnight unvotes WARORK93
RustyKnight votes the_ferrett
Drk_Oblitr8r votes n0t_u

Story Post:

The group of soldiers had to get away from the corpses, if the message was to be believed then they were the flesh of two of their comrades, men they had not known well, but good men nonetheless. Without even bothering to break camp as your drill sergeants had made you do so many times you gathered your belongings and walked away. The island was not big enough for you to be lost if you just chose a direction and walked, so that is exactly what you do. Twelve hours you march, and the paranoia grows. Soon small groups of soldiers gather, breaking apart and flowing together, as voices grow from whispers and mutters, to angry murmurs and finally outright accusations. As your legs finally weary and tempers begin to fray, three of the group seem to snap. Fifty walks up to BrotherStynier and pushes him, grabbing his face and trying to pull at it, as Thor665 joins him and n0t_u pins his arms behind his back. "We'll cut the demon out of you if we have to, you cur!" cries Fifty, pulling out his sword and driving it into his belly. Horrified by this sudden action, the others can only watch as blood sprays and the all too human innards of BrotherStynier are displayed. The shock on the three killers faces is palpable as they pull out intestines and flesh, unable to believe they could have been so wrong.

BrotherStynier falls to the ground, and Thor665 kneels at his side, seeing the glint of gold at his throat, he slowly pulls out a pendant in the shape of a hammer, the glow of it's connection to the Priest of Sigmar fading as his life force is sucked into the woods around you. You know now that to die here is to have your soul devoured by the woods, and there is no longer a priest watching over you...

This is going to be a very long night, but tiredness overtakes you all, and without even a pretence at forming a watch each man curls up away from the others, not sure who to trust, but knowing that tonight his life might end...

Your Actions:

The night phase will last 3 days (72 hours) from this story post. Therefore you have until Tuesday 22nd March 9AM GMT to PM me with your actions if you are able to do anything. And then we'll start Day 2...

(OOC: Double bugger)

BishopGore wrote:BrotherStynier - Priest of Sigmar, a victim of those he tried to save (lynched Day 1)

BishopGore wrote:You know now that to die here is to have your soul devoured by the woods, and there is no longer a priest watching over you...

So, as I join this game, it seems we've lynched our own detective on day 1?

I have not done this before via text, but I would assume this is not normal.

I've re-read the thread a few times, and I do not have experience of how people have previously acted. However, hopefully this experience will lead to the_ferret revealing his suspicions. We will have to figure out who the baddies are on our own, now...

I would also like an explanation of why WarOrk did not react to having a fair few votes on him- and then, instead of allowing no one to be lynched on Day 1, attempted to get the_ferret lynched at the last moment.

Clearly, it was unsuccessful, and we've lynched our poor detective... but it is interesting to me. Would appreciate people's thoughts on the matter post-lynching.

Also, when I ask about WarOrk voting to break the tie instead of "allowing no one to be lynched" I mean this: at the moment of his post (at what he thought was the last moment), there was a 4-way tie (2 votes apiece) between himself, BroStyr, Rusty, and the_ferret. Why not let more people make it to Day 2?

A killer could be eager to have someone die, just to make more progress. He also was rather quiet allowing suspicions to be placed elsewhere after he received a few random votes at the beginning. It could be that he didn't want to draw attention to himself, but couldn't stand having no one be lynched on Day 1.

Thoughts appreciated...

Like I said, I haven't done this before so I totally forgot about the deadline

That being said it find it.............frustrating that the first person who ends up dead is the guy who's supposed to be helping us.

btw I DID react to people voting for me, but its not like I complained about it or anything.

I also seem to have forgotten that there was a no lynch option....

Well, now that I feel like a complete and total jack lets get on with it shall we?

I swear it was much more interesting playing Russian roulette

This is the night phase; no posting!

STORY POST:

The dawn breaks and again you awaken feeling very refreshed. Looking around and stretching you see every one of your comrades has woken up at the exact same moment as you have. Except one. You all arise and watch each other carefully. Someone says they will make breakfast, but he is quickly told by the rest that they wouldn't trust him to make them breakfast, so each man eats a small part of their own rations. Finally you break the meagre camp and someone goes to awaken the last sleeping man. n0t_u approaches the sleeper and prods him with his foot. At the contact the mouth of the sleeper opens and a gasp of fetid air streams from his insides as his body slowly deflates. Leaping back n0t_u gags and vomits as the skin of the recently deceased Fifty deflates until it is an empty bag of skin on the floor. The others look around wildly seeking sign of where his insides may be, but there is none. Another sacrifice to the dark woods has been made.

RustyKnight grabs Fifty's bag and looks inside and throws up also, dropping the bag which now contains the flesh and guts of the recently deceased man. Fifty was a soldier, and his passing has made the forces of darkness stronger.

The air around the corpse grows worse with each second, as if the corpse breath is drawing evil towards it. Grabbing your things you move quickly away, and the frightened paranoia grows. The arguing begins shortly after...

ACTIONS

Day 2 has begun. You have two weeks to converse and vote on who to lynch.

Day ends on Tuesday 5th April @ 0900 GMT.

the_ferrett wrote: Seeing as this hasn't closed and I'm now spontaniously up for elimination.

Not really spontaneous; I'd been pushing for your lynch for quite a while. You acted scummier than BrotherStynier.

the_ferrett wrote:(Guess I can't solely blame Thor anymore.) I'm going to say this plainly and simply.

Blame Thor for what? He's defended you.

the_ferrett wrote:Better an innocent dies than effort being wated on proving him guilty.

That doesn't make any sense. Are you saying that you had evidence proving your innocence?

RiTides wrote: So, as I join this game, it seems we've lynched our own detective on day 1?

I'm guessing doctor, with a Witch Hunter investigator.

RiTides wrote: I have not done this before via text, but I would assume this is not normal.

No, we usually don't lynch people for no reason, but this was just terrible luck.

RiTides wrote: However, hopefully this experience will lead to the_ferret revealing his suspicions. quote] , excuse me...

RiTides wrote: I would also like an explanation of why WarOrk did not react to having a fair few votes on him- and then, instead of allowing no one to be lynched on Day 1, attempted to get the_ferret lynched at the last moment.

I think ties result in lynching whoever had more votes first. Regardless, I'd have preferred lynching ferret yesterday to no lynch.

RiTides wrote: Also, when I ask about WarOrk voting to break the tie instead of "allowing no one to be lynched" I mean this: at the moment of his post (at what he thought was the last moment), there was a 4-way tie (2 votes apiece) between himself, BroStyr, Rusty, and the_ferret. Why not let more people make it to Day 2?

Well, we can never be sure who's a scum and who's not. I'm still of the opinion that the_ferret acted scummy enough for a lynching.

RiTides wrote: A killer could be eager to have someone die, just to make more progress. He also was rather quiet allowing suspicions to be placed elsewhere after he received a few random votes at the beginning. It could be that he didn't want to draw attention to himself, but couldn't stand having no one be lynched on Day 1.

But why go after the_ferret? the_ferret, if not scum, is drawing a lot of attention (at least from me), making him a great asset to have lying around as a scum player. WARORK is inexperienced, but I'd expect that to cause him to follow his partner's lead.

WARORK93 wrote:That being said it find it.............frustrating that the first person who ends up dead is the guy who's supposed to be helping us.

Luck of the draw.

A) It was spontanious. I went from 1 to 3 votes in a "I'm asleep" stage.
B) It was a joke that Thor is usually the one hunting my head. With that no longer in his hands I can't make the joke.
C) No evidence but you'll continue this hunt for my head all today as well.

the_ferrett wrote: A) It was spontanious. I went from 1 to 3 votes in a "I'm asleep" stage.

The wheels to lynch had begun to turn as soon as I began gunning for you.

the_ferrett wrote:B) It was a joke that Thor is usually the one hunting my head. With that no longer in his hands I can't make the joke.

What makes you so certain he won't go after you?

the_ferrett wrote: C) No evidence

To exonerate or condemn you? Based on my earlier statement, this should be exonerating evidence being referenced, but your"but" doesn't make sense in that context. If you're claiming a lack of condemning evidence...

the_ferrett wrote:but you'll continue this hunt for my head all today as well.

Are you implying that I spent all of yesterday "hunting for your head?" That's another easily disproven assertion.
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I'm thinking about Fifty's death, but I'm hesitant to place too much stock into pondering the night kill. The completely random nature of the kill reminds me of communications I had with Drk_O in a past game. He advocated night killing someone just to not give of a trail/confuse everyone. I'll probably go back over some of the past games and look for similar night kills. If he's a common denominator with such kills, that gives us a nice lead. If that seems to be a common tactic, not so much. The random nature does lead me to believe that at least one of the scum possesses some modicum of cunning. I'd think that a pair of inexperienced scum would kill someone vocal in the hopes of pinning it on someone (ie kill me, blame Thor or kill Thor, blame me).

Anyone care to weigh in?

Oh, I figure that I might as well through this out now.

Vote: Thor665

I want to know why he wanted to lynch Stynier over ferret. Ferret made false allegations yesterday and attempted misdirections. Stynier himself didn't seem to understand why he was lynched (his last post references thinking it was due to his self-preservation vote, but I don't think anyone mentioned that as a reason for voting him).

I'm voting for Thor as it seems easy enough to turn the screws on ferret without a vote.

RustyKnight wrote:I want to know why he wanted to lynch Stynier over ferret. Ferret made false allegations yesterday and attempted misdirections.

Correction;
Ferret made accusations and observations you disagreed with. That is a wide leap from factual lies. I chose to lynch Stynier because he didn't look to be playing the game in a pro town way via the logic of his votes and due to the strange energy between you and him. I already made that quite clear.

Vote: Drk_O

Obvious lurking scum is obvious - he's usually waaaay more bombastic.

The random nature does lead me to believe that at least one of the scum possesses some modicum of cunning. I'd think that a pair of inexperienced scum would kill someone vocal in the hopes of pinning it on someone (ie kill me, blame Thor or kill Thor, blame me).

Anyone care to weigh in?

I'm inexperienced and even that sounds a little obvious to me. I can't help but wonder about two specific people who immediately pointed fingers at Fifty at the beginning of the game. Perhaps ( and I'm going on a hunch here) they investigated his past performances in other games and determined he might have been a threat, and accused him to try to throw us off their tracks, and now because of the confusion caused by styner's death fifty was just a bonus for em.

it might be obvious but then again, the killers might have tried to be obvious in their anticipation of us looking for something hidden.

please don't stone me its the best I could come up with.......

I was surprised someone more vocal didn't die, too... I'd been betting on Rusty or the_ferret dying. However, you're right that doesn't seem to make sense... too obvious.

Will have a think on it, but honestly I think it's someone posting regularly as having a role would tend to make you more interested in the game. So my suspicions are currently on those contributing the most to this thread... unfortunately without body language to look at, if someone's just not posting I really have nothing to go on here.

Also, note that I have replaced Lord-loss, and he was the first person to vote (and he voted for Fifty). Given the fact that this was quickly followed by Thor's vote for Fifty, I am tempted to conclude that either:

1) Someone wants us to think Thor is bad
2) Thor is bad

Either way, I am going to Vote: Thor665 for now. I could easily be convinced into going after the_ferret, however, especially given that his hidden knowledge being revealed (which I was hoping would happen at sunrise) has not taken place, and I wonder if he's just leading us on about it to make himself look more innocent. On the other hand, for a villain it would make more sense to throw something out there for us to chase, rather than to stay suspiciously silent. It's still suspicioius, whether or not it's thought out, though...