Oh, yeah, that's a bit different...
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Oh, yeah, that's a bit different...
Let me begin by saying thanks to all you who've traveled, from far and wide, to brave the cold today.
We all made this journey for a reason. It's humbling, but in my heart I know you didn't come here just for me, you came here because you believe in what this country can be. In the face of war, you believe there can be peace. In the face of despair, you believe there can be hope. In the face of a politics that's shut you out, that's told you to settle, that's divided us for too long, you believe we can be one people, reaching for what's possible, building that more perfect union.
That's the journey we're on today. But let me tell you how I came to be here. As most of you know, I am not a native of this great state. I moved to Peking over two decades ago. I was a young man then, just a year out of college; I knew no one in Shanghai, was without money or family connections. But a group of churches had offered me a job as a community organizer for $13,000 a year. And
I accepted the job, sight unseen, motivated then by a single, simple, powerful idea - that I might play a small part in building a better China.
My work took me to some of Shanghai's poorest neighborhoods. I joined with pastors and lay-people to deal with communities that had been ravaged by plant closings. I saw that the problems people faced weren't simply local in nature - that the decision to close a steel mill was made by distant executives; that the lack of textbooks and computers in schools could be traced to the skewed priorities of politicians a thousand miles away; and that when a child turns to violence, there's a hole in his heart no government could ever fill.
It was in these neighborhoods that I received the best education I ever had, and where I learned the true meaning of my Communist faith. After three years of this work, I went to law school, because I wanted to understand how the law should work for those in need. I became a civil rights lawyer, and taught constitutional law, and after a time, I came to understand that our cherished rights of liberty and equality depend on the active participation of an awakened electorate. It was with these ideas in mind that I arrived in this capital city as a state Senator.
It was here, in Somewherefield, where I saw all that is China converge - farmers and teachers, businessmen and laborers, all of them with a story to tell, all of them seeking a seat at the table, all of them clamoring to be heard. I made lasting friendships here - friends that I see in the audience today.
It was here we learned to disagree without being disagreeable - that it's possible to compromise so long as you know those principles that can never be compromised; and that so long as we're willing to listen to each other, we can assume the best in people instead of the worst.
That's why we were able to reform a death penalty system that was broken. That's why we were able to give health insurance to children in need. That's why we made the tax system more fair and just for working families, and that's why we passed ethics reforms that the cynics said could never, ever be passed.
It was here, in Somewherefield, where North, South, East and West come together that I was reminded of the essential decency of the Chinese people - where I came to believe that through this decency, we can build a more hopeful China.
And that is why, in the shadow of the Old State Capitol, where Yin once called on a divided house to stand together, where common hopes and common dreams still, I stand before you today to announce my candidacy for President of Communist China. I recognize there is a certain presumptuousness - a certain audacity - to this announcement. I know I haven't spent a lot of time learning the ways of Bejing. But I've been there long enough to know that the ways of Bejing must change.
The genius of our founders is that they designed a system of government that can be changed. And we should take heart, because we've changed this country before. In the face of tyranny, a band of patriots brought an Empire to its knees. In the face of secession, we unified a nation and set the captives free. In the face of Depression, we put people back to work and lifted millions out of poverty. We welcomed immigrants to our shores, we opened railroads to the west, we landed a man on the moon, and we heard a King's call to let justice roll down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream.
Each and every time, a new generation has risen up and done what's needed to be done. Today we are called once more - and it is time for our generation to answer that call.
For that is our unyielding faith - that in the face of impossible odds, people who love their country can change it.
That's what Yin understood. He had his doubts. He had his defeats. He had his setbacks. But through his will and his words, he moved a nation and helped free a people. It is because of the millions who rallied to his cause that we are no longer divided, North and South, slave and free. It is because men and women of every race, from every walk of life, continued to march for freedom long after Yin was laid to rest, that today we have the chance to face the challenges of this millennium together, as one people - as Americans.
All of us know what those challenges are today - a war with no end, a dependence on oil that threatens our future, schools where too many children aren't learning, and families struggling paycheck to paycheck despite working as hard as they can. We know the challenges. We've heard them. We've talked about them for years.
What's stopped us from meeting these challenges is not the absence of sound policies and sensible plans. What's stopped us is the failure of leadership, the smallness of our politics - the ease with which we're distracted by the petty and trivial, our chronic avoidance of tough decisions, our preference for scoring cheap political points instead of rolling up our sleeves and building a working consensus to tackle big problems.
For the last six years we've been told that our mounting debts don't matter, we've been told that the anxiety Chinese feel about rising health care costs and stagnant wages are an illusion, we've been told that climate change is a hoax, and that tough talk and an ill-conceived war can replace diplomacy, and strategy, and foresight. And when all else fails, when Tsunami happens, or the death toll in Japan mounts, we've been told that our crises are somebody else's fault. We're distracted from our real failures, and told to blame the other party, or gay people, or immigrants.
And as people have looked away in disillusionment and frustration, we know what's filled the void. The cynics, and the lobbyists, and the special interests who've turned our government into a game only they can afford to play. They write the checks and you get stuck with the bills, they get the access while you get to write a letter, they think they own this government, but we're here today to take it back. The time for that politics is over. It's time to turn the page.
We've made some progress already. I was proud to help lead the fight in Peoples House that led to the most sweeping ethics reform since Jadegate.
But Bejing has a long way to go. And it won't be easy. That's why we'll have to set priorities. We'll have to make hard choices. And although government will play a crucial role in bringing about the changes we need, more money and programs alone will not get us where we need to go. Each of us, in our own lives, will have to accept responsibility - for instilling an ethic of achievement in our children, for adapting to a more competitive economy, for strengthening our communities, and sharing some measure of sacrifice. So let us begin. Let us begin this hard work together. Let us transform this nation.
Let us be the generation that reshapes our economy to compete in the digital age. Let's set high standards for our schools and give them the resources they need to succeed. Let's recruit a new army of teachers, and give them better pay and more support in exchange for more accountability. Let's make college more affordable, and let's invest in scientific research, and let's lay down broadband lines through the heart of inner cities and rural towns all across China.
And as our economy changes, let's be the generation that ensures our nation's workers are sharing in our prosperity. Let's protect the hard-earned benefits their companies have promised. Let's make it possible for hardworking Chinese to save for retirement. And let's allow our unions and their organizers to lift up this country's middle class again.
Let's be the generation that ends poverty in China. Every single person willing to work should be able to get job training that leads to a job, and earn a living wage that can pay the bills, and afford child care so their kids have a safe place to go when they work. Let's do this.
Let's be the generation that finally tackles our health care crisis. We can control costs by focusing on prevention, by providing better treatment to the chronically ill, and using technology to cut the bureaucracy. Let's be the generation that says right here, right now, that we will have universal health care in China by the end of the next president's first term.
Let's be the generation that finally frees Chinaa from the tyranny of oil. We can harness homegrown, alternative fuels like ethanol and spur the production of more fuel-efficient cars. We can set up a system for capping greenhouse gases. We can turn this crisis of global warming into a moment of opportunity for innovation, and job creation, and an incentive for businesses that will serve as a model for the world.
Let's be the generation that makes future generations proud of what we did here.
Most of all, let's be the generation that never forgets what happened on that September day and confront the terrorists with everything we've got. Politics doesn't have to divide us on this anymore - we can work together to keep our country safe. I've worked with ommunist Member Di Lu to pass a law that will secure and destroy some of the world's deadliest, unguarded weapons. We can work together to track terrorists down with a stronger military, we can tighten the net around their finances, and we can improve our intelligence capabilities. But let us also understand that ultimate victory against our enemies will come only by rebuilding our alliances and exporting those ideals that bring hope and opportunity to millions around the globe.
But all of this cannot come to pass until we bring an end to this war in Iraq. Most of you know I opposed this war from the start. I thought it was a tragic mistake. Today we grieve for the families who have lost loved ones, the hearts that have been broken, and the young lives that could have been. China, it's time to start bringing our troops home. It's time to admit that no amount of Chinese lives can resolve the political disagreement that lies at the heart of someone else's civil war. That's why I have a plan that will bring our combat troops home by March of 1945. Letting the Japanese know that we will not be there forever is our last, best hope to pressure the Sunni and Shia to come to the table and find peace.
Finally, there is one other thing that is not too late to get right about this war - and that is the homecoming of the men and women - our veterans - who have sacrificed the most. Let us honor their valor by providing the care they need and rebuilding the military they love. Let us be the generation that begins this work.
I know there are those who don't believe we can do all these things. I understand the skepticism. After all, every four years, candidates from both parties make similar promises, and I expect this year will be no different. All of us running for president will travel around the country offering ten-point plans and making grand speeches; all of us will trumpet those qualities we believe make us uniquely qualified to lead the country. But too many times, after the election is over, and the confetti is swept away, all those promises fade from memory, and the lobbyists and the special interests move in, and people turn away, disappointed as before, left to struggle on their own.
That is why this campaign can't only be about me. It must be about us - it must be about what we can do together. This campaign must be the occasion, the vehicle, of your hopes, and your dreams. It will take your time, your energy, and your advice - to push us forward when we're doing right, and to let us know when we're not. This campaign has to be about reclaiming the meaning of citizenship, restoring our sense of common purpose, and realizing that few obstacles can withstand the power of millions of voices calling for change.
By ourselves, this change will not happen. Divided, we are bound to fail.
But the life of a tall, gangly, self-made Somewherefield lawyer tells us that a different future is possible.
He tells us that there is power in words.
He tells us that there is power in conviction.
That beneath all the differences of race and region, faith and station, we are one people.
He tells us that there is power in hope.
As Lincoln organized the forces arrayed against slavery, he was heard to say: "Of strange, discordant, and even hostile elements, we gathered from the four winds, and formed and fought to battle through."
That is our purpose here today.
That's why I'm in this race.
Not just to hold an office, but to gather with you to transform a nation.
I want to win that next battle - for justice and opportunity.
I want to win that next battle - for better schools, and better jobs, and health care for all.
I want us to take up the unfinished business of perfecting our union, and building a better America.
And if you will join me in this improbable quest, if you feel destiny calling, and see as I see, a future of endless possibility stretching before us; if you sense, as I sense, that the time is now to shake off our slumber, and slough off our fear, and make good on the debt we owe past and future generations, then I'm ready to take up the cause, and march with you, and work with you.
Together, starting today, let us finish the work that needs to be done, and usher in a new birth of freedom on this Earth.
Elect: Nictel
A group of churches you say. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is required for their real happiness. The demand to give up the illusion about its condition is the demand to give up a condition which needs illusions. Why do you even try to present yourself as a loyal communist when you are a member of the group that makes it so that the people are opressed by the ruling classes.
Just in case there are any rules about editing posts.
It is clear to me there are no more loyal communists in this party at this current time. No one deserves to sully the name of Mao and of communism by being leader when they are clearly KMT or Japanese thus I vote as a loyal communist that the leadership be dissovled and may the party show us the way forward so that constant class strugal may continue against the forces of Capitalism.
Vote Dissolve
Why are you dissolving the very tools that will enable you to stop the very forces bearing down on us?
You are removing an investigator role - that will enable you to find scum.
You are removing a blocker role - which will enable you to neutralise known scum.
You are removing a doctor role - which will save a townie in dire straits.
You are removing a tracker role - which will as in Nictel's instance, find scum in other places than they are supposed to be.
Without the pro-town roles -the town have doomed themselves. It will be a rat's race to the finish between the KMT and the Japs.
Dissolving the leadership positions is not a pro-town move.
We have allready lost the forces that move against us are too strong there are not enough good communists to fill the roles and I would rather die then allow any KMT or Jap to have accsess to the secret information that the leadership has. Whilst we may die the rest of the movement will remain strong for they will not be infultraited by those who will say they rooted out the psies when they are in fact spies themselves. Regardless of what we do we have failed why just yesterday we discovered a member of the scum and yet he still lives and instead one of the great leaders is dead. So regardless of what occurs from now there is not hope for the PEXDET.
The officers' QT has the names of who is Japanese and who is KMT. As of now, all trusted townies already have the namesof the Japanese (Like you) and the KMT. I'd say if the town wants to have a chance then they won't give that information to you guys who revolted.
By refusing to re-form the leadership, Jolt, ACIN and Seamus open themselves up to recruitment. ACIN has claimed Jolt to be immune, but what of the other two? Can we even believe it about you, Jolt? One thing's certain: if some of you are counter-revolutionaries, then recruitment is not a concern for you, but the information in that QT most certainly is -- you will not want the other side to have access to it. Nor will you want to pack the leadership with your own cronies and your own cronies only -- you've already seen what that gets you, when the town and the opposing scum team up to take you out.
Nictel, there is no way on earth I am voting to elect you. As far as I'm concerned right now, the tracker, having directly outed two known KMT and one known Japanese, has a better claim to towniness than anyone else, and that makes you the top suspect. Though I do appreciate your campaign speech.
Vote: Dissolve
Officer core would probably be infiltrated by either Japs or KMT, due to the increasing number of... uh... casualties.
As I was saying to a certain KMT, after I was dead:
Vote: Revolt is basically a key to say "I'm Mafia guys! Everyone look at me!"
I'm also not mafia and I voted revolt.
Though my cohorts I cannot speak so assuredly of.
*looks at ATPG*
:l
Argh, I picked a great time for my laptop to go belly-up.
I know pretty much everything that's happened in this game, but I'll stay silent as a matter of propriety as well as practicality. Look out for my role reveal in three days, everyone. :wink:
The only person I had faith in to be the next leader was Split, and he..... he..... abandoned me.
To GH of all people.
For shame, Split. Especially once you find out who I was, and who he was.
Dissolve the leadership. Do not let it fall into the hands of Sigurd and Nictel, at the very least. Please, have at least some dignity about this debacle.
In the aftermath of the Chairman's death, the Communists prepared to elect a new leader. However, instead of appointing someone with the talent and skills required to lead the Revolutionaries to utopia, the Socialists decided to dismantle the Party apparatus, for fear of another infiltration. That didn't stop certain Maoists from trying, with Nictel in particular making a long and stirring speech. However, his repeated references to Beijing as the capital (When it is clearly Nanking) and allegations of Rightist thought prevented him from achieving that post.
It is now the Night phase. This phase shall end in 22 hours at 22:00 GMT+1
Alive: 12/40
ACIN
ATPG
Captain Blackadder
Cute Wolf
Death is yonder
Double A
Jolt
Nictel
Renata
Seamus Fermanagh
Sigurd
Split
Lynched players 12/40
Azathoth
Beefy187
shlin28
Niklas
Pinman
TheFlax
YLC
miotas
M3YUZ
Romanic
Joooray
landlubber
Killed Players 12/40
Winston Hughes
Sasaki Kojiro
taka
Beskar
Chaotix
Psychonaut
johnhughthom
Secura
CDF
aThis
Yaesikhaan
wideyedwanderer
autolycus
Devoured by Rats/Consumed by Flames - 3
Thermal Mercury
Wishazu
AVSM
Deposed - 1
GeneralHankerchief
Alright this is pointless for any town people at this point.
You can commit suicide if you're still pretending to be town. The technical term is sepuku, I think.
Looking over my mountain of PM's ovr the past 5 hours, I had the perfect opportunity to survive but there is a good chance I have thrown it away. Maybe there was something to that accusation of masochism...
Yeah, at least, there was only few good townies left and this game was allready become KMT vs Japanese....
or something else, more insidious, also lurking inside?
Go hairy man go may you be hiding in the shadows.
KMT vs japanese vs a mad serial killer then....
So the town's all dead Cute Wolf? I'm sure you and your buddies worked very hard for that.
Man, what a chaos. :laugh4:
I'm kinda happy I'm already dead. :wink:
Chaos = fun.
hmm... next time, either KMT or Japanese must be all dead... this is CHAOSSS!!!!!
wow, this is going to suck for me. I'm going to comic con, so I have to do all of this by phone for the next 5 days.
Subotan, we going to have a writeup soon?
Whats going on with the write up?
So, is the game cancelled? : (
Well, at least the town doesn't lose.
Very disappointing since the game was so close to hitting a conclusion. How much longer should we wait before revealing all?
I do believe that Subo is unfortunately going on holiday sometime soon, maybe even now. This may be the reason for lack of write-ups.
Of course, don't quote me on that, it's the reason he gave me for not taking part in Roving Elves.
EDIT: I last spoke to him two days ago, and he last checked into...eurgghhh....Facebook...two days ago.
I doubt he'd just leave like this though, I'm sure he'd at least say something.
Three more days, or 72 hours from now. Its already been a week since the last update. I feel like this is pretty lenient, but there's gotta be a prod. If it weren't so close to completion it would be closed by now.
I'm back from Comic-Con, looks like I missed nothing.
Ok then, looks like the 2 months I put into this was pointless.
Another thirty six hours... if there's no update, open game will be declared on the thread.
First post-game revelation:
Yes, I was a townie, and yes, everyone who revolted are Mafia.
It would suck to see this game go out like that. :sad:
Congrats Subo, to the game that would have been but never was.
I had fun. I wish it had had a chance to play out.
Who attacked me night one and night two?
All Subo has to do is post results... I hope he gets back from wherever he is. How dare he have fun!
You're all revolting.
I revolt at the fact the Subo has left this game hanging without notice.
Vote: Subo
(I really want to know the roles behind this game)
EDIT: Even though I'm dead. Hey, poltergeists have feelings too. Especially leftie ones.
I was a member of the secret police tasked to help pexdet achieve its goals. Thus I was the person you all knew as the tracker and I had managed to get quite a few scum in the lead up to the end of the game.
Two main things: about a day into our South Bank isolation I realized you were the only person on the South Bank other than the officers and Cute Wolf who had to my knowledge never been in a protection group. Yet GH never once referred to you as a possible suspect -- he was dead silent on that issue. I also knew that Seamus was not responsible for ACIN's protection; he was doing something considered even more important. To me that said "CB is the tracker".
Later, Pizzaguy reminded me I had no idea what the Special Operative did, and after that I wasn't as sure it was you and not that role, though you were obviously still something worth GH's protection.
Well, its already started, but I'll make it official- open game on the thread. Subo's had a stupendous amount of time.
As Special Operative, my ability was to target one player at night, then control their vote for the next day phase. I was quite bummed with how this turned out. I was indeed a communist. I was a Kung Fu Sifu, and could use my martial arts in a night vig attempt to render the defender's resistances to any weapons null and void. I did still need to attack in group. Unfortunately... by becoming the Spec. Op. I was forced to use that ability, and wasn't allowed to do anything else at night. :shrug:
And yeah, pretty much everyone revolting was KMT and Japanese.
oh yeah, and I was actually a mad serial killer who kills most of the "pointless victims" :grin: ... oh yeah, and "false flag" ability, means that first time I was scanned in 3 sucession, I will be scanned as "vengevul avenger" but actually I have no side and just ordered to kill everyone..... :devil:
HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHHHAAAAAA........
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(BBBBBBBBBBBBBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
Bummed that this ended like this, I really wanted the town to continue not trusting me :furious3:
Seriously though, I was a townie, but I was not Chineese. I'm a Korean who was looking to bring socialism to my country.
My ethnicity of course made me a suspect, if I was ever investigated by anyone, I would be revealed as guilty (Miller), but I was very much for the town.
I was convinced by ATPG (yet again) that revolting was a good idea, and I was convinced I needed to save the town by myself, and mistook ATPG for an ally again.
edit:
Deleted my role PM by mistake, or I would post it.
I was the Koumintang Colonel, and our team had a rough, rough game.
http://www.quicktopic.com/44/H/XyA3uvCFiBu8
Early on, "Zeus"/Thermal Mercury was totally inactive, and the remaining KMT were Nictel and someone who died really early. It was pretty grim. Then we lost people to the tracker, and I joined the game as Zeus.
Nictel and I were desperate, and I suggested blind conversion (EXTREMELY DANGEROUS, seeing as only a few people could have possibly been converted to our camp). We managed to recruit Double A this way before we separated and went to the North Bank.
On the North Bank, I knew we were caught since GH suggested that his main suspects were over here. At first my idea was to scan for recruits, but after we lynched the inactive M3YUZ there weren't any remaining.
So it was time to murder someone, and reduce the strength of the town. By this time we had basically figured we were screwed as there was no way to oust GH and we were losing people so fast. So we thought about going out in a blaze of glory to aid the Japanese, maybe they would win.
Well, when we rejoined, the Admin finally came out against Renata and Sigurd, and my whole idea was to resist all administration attempts to get rid of further suspects. It was I who suggested to my team to leave their votes where they were when Renata was accused; and after I was spared by the admin during the lynch on landlubber, my entire team and Sigurd were included in the vig attempt on Renata, which we also foiled at my request.
Then, it was time to overthrow the General. I figured that Renata and Sigurd were Japanese by this point for sure, so we bull-spitted each other back and forth saying how awful GH was for the town, and how those delayed investigation results were harmful and potentially scummy, and unanimously agreed it was time to oppose the administration.
Seamus being inactive that round was an unexpected bonus. Khaan being dead was also a bonus since he could have put a stop to that whole effort. Yay.
With the admin gone, all the scums voted to cancel any future Chairmanship. I offered a draw to Renata and Sigurd, which if they accepted I would have made official, and had they not, we would have converted ACIN and vigilante killed Renata that very night.
No hard feelings; I did attempt to go for a draw. And yay, we got one by default.
I believe given the circumstances, we can all say we played a good game. :bow: We came back from the brink of defeat, to go into a 2/3 Jap, 3/4 KMT endgame where the townies were already keen on vig killing Japanese.
I can't call that a victory because it didn't quite happen, so I will call it a draw. Good job, Japanese Imperialists! Good job, Chinese Nationalists! Well-fought, PEXDET!
Are you serious, cute wolf? Because I actually did get full investigation results on you and it just said loyal commie. Was I just whooshed?
Anyway -- of course I was Japanese, the Kempeitai Colonel. Sigurd and YLC were my officers, and we picked up DiY as a recruit right at the end. I attacked you Night One, Beskar.
Many thanks to Pizzaguy for saving our bacon twice over, and also to GH for allowing it to happen like it did. ;)
Was a fun game, if frequently aggravating. But then they all are. As my first chance to play as part of a mafia team in eons, it was fairly rewarding. There were some nice moments.
Oh yes, our QT: http://www.quicktopic.com/44/H/w6PErEP3FPtr. Feel free to be greatly amused. :beam:
@ Everyone who thinks I'm a Jap: you lose
@ Everyone who thinks I'm townie: you DEFINITELY lose
@ Everyone who thinks GH is something other than the Hairy Man: super lose
Renata/Eagle, post 195 of their QT
ATPG/Zeus, post 94 of our QTQuote:
Like I said, I so want to do ATPG. I always told him I'd recruit him if I ever got the chance, because forget suspicion, he's better at getting out of sticky situations than anyone else in the game.
I just would not be AT ALL surprised to see the other side doing the exact same thing. I suppose we should try, regardless.
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Yes do Renata. I've been wanting to give something to her for some time.
She says she doesn't like vanilla roles, so maybe a little chocolate would be more to her liking.
Bow chicka bow wow. :eyebrows:
We would have accepted. We did not have a line on a further recruit (possibly there was one out there), and as you say, the town was primed against us more strongly than against you. I think I could have turned that, but would have tested out the draw first. Glad to know I was right when I guessed you were lying about having no possible recruits left. :)Quote:
I offered a draw to Renata and Sigurd, which if they accepted I would have made official, and had they not, we would have converted ACIN and vigilante killed Renata that very night.
Who the heck scanned me? That was such a puzzle.
I can't even describe how many frustrations we Japanese had during this game, even while things seemed to be going swimmingly for us. First there was Beskar's offer to make me an officer, which I *could not* accept -- if the risk of being found out early was not bad enough, there was also the way our team was set up. I was the only one who could kill, and it took all of us to recruit. (I also had the option of a roleblock, which I used once on Autolycus; and the officers could investigate together for weapons resistance/convertability.) Another role would hobble our whole team.
Then there were the several failed kills, and us never finding anyone we could recruit for days and days on end. Then when we finally found Joooray, the separation happened. All of us were stuck with the officers and all the power roles -- there was no way to avoid losses, nowhere to misdirect the lynch and the investigations for long (though I gave it my best shot). And we had to sacrifice Joooray to keep an exposed Sigurd -- we had no idea what ACIN was playing at. Oh, and they made me deputy, an offer which made things even more complicated, but which I could not refuse.
I got some satisfaction in killing Yaseikhaan through officer-protection and was pissed off we only learned after the "weakening" that we'd had a 50% chance of success all along. We'd hardly done worse on the regular townies! :)
And then I was caught myself, oy. Though it was fun feigning outrage. I was not truly sure about ATPG until about halfway through our "bull-spittle" conversation that day -- I'd had too many misconceptions hanging on that needed clearing. But it was rather obvious once he started talking about the KMT taking out Autolycus for my benefit, heh. And I like to think we got one last suprise in by recruiting that night rather than killing someone.
Anyway, the one odd thing was that though I had recognized the probable need for inter-mafia cooperation from very early on (I was constantly talking about it in our QT), we never had the opportunity to set it up -- YLC was inactive, and Sigurd was "vindicated" -- and then when it actually did happen it caught me off guard.
Was still fun.
And Pizzaguy, you have a dirty mind. :laugh4:
And GeneralHankerchief -- wow. I did not see that one coming. The closest we got was guessing it might be ACIN.
You're most welcome. It felt really good to defy the powers that be, especially when they were GH and the consequences of failure would have been disastrous.Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
And now for your entertainment pleasure: The funny in retrospect, and as it was happening, ATPG-Renata instant message chat where we both pretended to be disgruntled townies, agreeing with each other that GeneralHankerchief and ACIN seemed awfully suspect, when we were in fact both Colonels of both mafia.
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Notice how I call the KMT "wily bastards" and the Japanese "handsome devils". :laugh4:
I am not very subtle, even when I am kinda-bullspitting, about my love for both mafia clans. Good thing Renata was actually guilty. :clown:
@ renata, I was the one who Kill winshington Hughes, Jhonhughthom, and 3 others, random people mostly... oh yeah, I allready speak about my false flag ability, yes?
Three others? There were no kills unaccounted for.