The Scourge of Ephesus [Concluded]

Taormina - three years ago.

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Bernard saw the boat with Manfredo leaving the island. Ignoring the pain of a broken arm, leg and four ribs, he yelled at the ship:

"I will get you, Manfredo! I will find you and I will cut you in thousand little pieces! One day, Bernard will get his revenge!"

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The old City of Ephesus - Turkey - Present.

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5.00 pm - near the old Celsus Library


Several years had passed since the events in Taormina.

An old man was giving an explanation to the last group of tourists near the well preserved remnants of the ancient library of Celsus in Ephesus.

Manfredo, aged 60 now, was listening to the explanation of the old man and tried to imagine himself how this building once contained between 12.000 and 15.000 scrolls.

When the old man told about the secret and hidden corridor that once connected the library with a nearby brothel, as to allow the ancient scientists and philosophers to discretely discover some more earthly pleasures, the audience laughed.

At the same moment, Manfredo, warned by some sort of a sixth sense and incredible reflexes, qualities which saved his life more then once during his career as a hitman, could duck away just in time, avoiding the bullet.

The tourists and the guide yelled and panicked. They ran away, looking for cover.

***

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8.00 pm - In the ancient Odeion.
The tourists were gathered in the ancient Odeion.

For reasons beyond their comprehension, the local police didn't respond to phone calls, the taxis that are usually crawling around the site, were gone and no buses or local dolmushes were near the site.

One of the tourists, a tall man, stood up and started to talk:

"Well, it seems like nobody is going to help us in the near future. I suggest we try to get some sleep now and maybe tomorrow morning help will arive."

***

The awful scar on his face, made Bernard's grin look diabolic.

As always dressed in black, he looked around him.

Manfredo had to be there, among them. The cunning retired hitman probably disguised himself after Bernard's failed murder attempt.

Bernard grinned again. He knew what he had to do to make sure Manfredo would die: kill every single one of these people.

He knew he had all the time in the world. His niece and assistant, Isabelle, had taken care of everything. It would take more then two weeks before anybody would bother to take a look at Ephesus. Thanks to her skills, the whole world believed entrance of the site was strictly forbidden because of important scientific research.

He looked up and noticed his niece staring at him. She was dressed like a regular female tourist.

He grinned again.

***

Manfredo anxiously stared at his feet. He knew who was after him. His quickly assembled disguise was rubbish and he knew it, but it should be enough to fool others who glared at him from a distance.

He looked at the people around him and sighed.

***

Günner and Fehrad stared at each other.

They had to get the hidden package back to Antalya fast. These unexpected circumstances were very, very inconvenient...

***

It would be a bloody night...

Welcome to :

The Scourge of Ephesus

(The Revenge of Bernard)

Rules:

I. Basic mafia rules

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

There are several sides in this game, each with their own goal.

Basic mafia rules apply. For those new to mafia, I'll repeat them here, for your convenience:

Tourists are the townies in this game.

The townies are the innocent people and they have to lynch the mafiosi during the day. The mafiosi have to kill a set number of townies each night. When all mafiosi are lynched, the town wins. When all townies are dead, the mafia wins.

Each day or night phase will last 24 hours. This may be extended due to real life circumstances.

The townies have to decide during the day by voting who will get lynched. The person with the most votes, will be lynched.

Votes have to be made like this:

Vote : Andres

When you want to switch your vote, you have to do it like this:

Unvote : Andres ; Vote : TosaInu

Please remember to BOLD YOUR VOTES! UNBOLDED VOTES WILL NOT BE COUNTED! No exceptions will be made.

Note:

In this game, voting "No Lynch" will be counted as an abstain. When a tie is reached at the end of the day, the game host will randomly (as in "completely at random") lynch one of the players in the tie.

In short: there will always be a lynch at the end of the day phase. Yes, yours truly is very bloodthirsty :evil:

II. Specific rules

* Revealing your role "in private" (= outside of this thread) is not allowed.
* It's not allowed to quote role pm's or night actions results in private. Feel free to quote all other pm traffic, including mine (unless I explicity state in a particular pm that you are not allowed to quote it). You can quote/fabricate/forge anything you want in the public thread while being alive. Quoting chatlogs idem ditto.
* Do not post screenshots.
* The dead are allowed to talk in the thread, but cannot communicate about this game outside of the thread.
* No post mortem reveal of role/night actions. no post mortem quoting/copy-pasting of pm's, chatlogs or any other non public communication ("non public communication" as in "communication that occured outside of this thread) you had while still alive. Paraphrasing, alluding, fabricating, forging is allowed.

III. Roles.

Manfredo : a man surrounded by shadows; his abilities and allegiance are secret.
Bernard and Isabelle : Bernard is here for revenge. His psychopatic niece, who is secretly in love with her own uncle, will assist him.
Günner and Fehrad: their plans got interrupted by these events. They need to get something out of this place. At all costs...
Secret role(s): classified information.

Roles will be assigned using random org.

IV MOST IMPORTANT RULE :

HAVE FUN!

Game is now open for sign up! 30 players would be perfect, but the game can be played with 20 (absolute minimum) to 40 (absolute maximum) players.

Sign-ups so far (30) :
boudica
GeneralHankerchief
Jolt
seireikhaan
Rythmic
777Ares777
shlin28
Tiberius of the Drake
Reenk Roink
White_Eyes :D
Tevashzat
187Beefyz
Chaotix27
Askthepizzaguy
Quintus.JC
YLC
Sigurd
woad&fangs
Yoyoma1910
Ibn-Khaldun
Lord Winter
CountArach
TinCow
TheFlax
Caius
El Diablo
Glyphz
FactionHeir
Seamus Fermanagh
Ignoramus

I'd like to book a spot please. Sun cream and flip-flops packed in readiness and here's hoping the flight isn't cancelled.

Okay. :yes:

I is in.

:charge:

Sign me up. (I promise not to break the rules this time :embarassed:).

i'm up for some sight seeing :yes: but i lost my passport, i'll travel illegally, IN! :bow:

INNNNNNNN!

:ireland: innage

:bow:

In sounds like the first was good game through....sorry I missed it:shame:

in

3 chars

In:2thumbsup:

Sounds fun, and a good story too! In.

I'd like to book a reservation in this hotel of horrors...

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Askthepizzaguy

I'd like to book a reservation in this hotel of horrors...

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Isn't that a goosebumps title? :inquisitive:

Is it? I don't know. I don't read Goosebumps. I thought I was being poetic.

I am here.... IN.

:clown:

I missed the cookie party, but nonetheless I am in.

~:flirt:

:scorpio:

I'm here only because I was promised cookie! So, am I one of the first 15 people to join this?? :clown:

In.

:2thumbsup:

We reached the 20-player treshold. 30 would be better though. 40 would be perfect!

Feel free to spam the inboxes of non-Gameroom regulars who might be interested with invitations for this game.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Ibn-Khaldun

I'm here only because I was promised cookie! So, am I one of the first 15 people to join this?? :clown:

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We're out of speculoos, but we still have speculoos with chocolate:

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Quote:

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Originally Posted by Andres

We're out of speculoos, but we still have speculoos with chocolate:

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Now I'm definitely in!!! :smash::clown:

I'll read it later - in.

The last two games I signed up for died before even starting. Let's hope I'm not cursed.

In!

Good to have you back, TinCow. :bow:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Just hope the town doesn't get over-paranoid about your presence. :sweatdrop:

I'm in.

Thank you for the invite. :2thumbsup: