A Bridge Zhou Far - Three Stars Rising [Concluded]

HE'S ALIVE!

So... why are we mad at Pinman again? I was paying attention, I just don't know what Pinman PMing anyone has to do with anything.

Changes to write up for your convenience (in spoilers).

ATPG replaces someone (I believe?)

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Interrupting, ACIN and autolycus again called out from the edge of the camp "Chairman! Come quick! We've found someone else!"

GeneralHankerchief hurried over to see that the two Officers had found someone else, who looked dazed and confused.

"Another Japanese spy! Can we eat him?" cried one of the members of the crowd

"Silence, idiot!" yelled the Chairman "He clearly is a Chinese peasant, not a Japanese spy." Bending down to ask the terrified peasant he asked the peasant's name

"My name" said the peasant "is askthepizzaguy". I've been following you since Daozhen, as I wanted to join you travelling band, but I haven't been able to get close enough to ask you until now. Can I join PEXDET?"

The Chairman laughed and agreed, and he helped askthepizzaguy get up and introduced him to the other members of the Detachment.

JHT's story turns out to indeed be true, he was not lying, and he got killed for all his public attention.

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Johnhughthom was on edge. He had not slept for five nights in a row, and it was only by sheer force of will that he managed to remain awake. He had run out of baijiu last night and was down to his last remaining cigarettes. He hugged his rifle, and from his position at the very peak of the mountain, he could see almost everything that happened below, except if those activities were directly behind him.

A searing pain shot through the back of his left shoulder as a bullet smashed into his collar bone, obliterating it, and unseating him. Johnhughthom toppled forwards and hurtled off the peak. He hit the snowy slope with force and rolled down it for about a hundred meters, leaving a bloody trail in the snow down the hill. As the slope leveled out and he began to slow down, he jumped up onto his feet, giving the impression that it had only been a flesh wound, a mere graze. This was not the case. Although johnhughthom gave the impression of being sprightly and ready to face his attacker, the bullet had done severe damage to him. He had not only lost a lot of blood on his tumble down the hill, but his left arm had been permanently disabled, and unless he got medical attention extremely quickly, it was likely that he would bleed out.

Johnhughthom looked up back towards the peak to see a man in a long trench coat sliding skillfully down the hill with a revolver in hand. Johnhughthom looked for his rifle, but it had fallen out of sight, so he had to resort to his long knife to face his attacker.

The attacker came to a graceful stop and looked johnhughthom straight in the eyes. His eyes were filled with a manic glee that bordered on hunger, and when he noticed John's whiskery goatee and moustache, he mouth broke open to reveal a deranged smile. The attacker struggled to hold in his laughter before saying

"After three years of tracing, three years of hunting, three years of murder, I finally have you in my sights once more. Three long years..." The grin became wider and crazier with each word.

Johnhughthom said nothing, only breathing heavily to compensate for the blood running down his arm.

The attacker suddenly stopped smiling and his eyes narrowed "I haven't made a mistake then...Excellent!"

He then forwards across the slushy red snow, pulling a long straight sword out from a scabbard at his belt. He grasped it in both hands, and raised it to strike at johnhughthom's waist. John, bleary from the fall and exhaustion, raised his knife to deflect the obvious move, before being shocked as the psychopath deftly swung the blade to the side and knocked the feeble dagger out of john's hand, to finish with a kick the chest that knocked John onto the floor. John, completely defenseless, could only watch as the murderer stood over him and spat on his face.

"I am kind enough to finish you here and now" whispered the sword-weilding maniac "And grant you a mercy you refused my brother"

With this, john's eyes widened, and his mouth opened to say something in reply to this revelation, but he was too tired, and too close to death to say anything before the Secret Agent raised his long sword up, before bringing it down with a sickening crunch onto john's neck, severing his head from his body and spraying his blood all over his neatly groomed facial hair.

KMT Recruits:

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A Communist was busy cooking up some tasty noodles, when a Comrade came over to his tent and asked to enter to share the tasty meal. The Communist agreed and beckoned in the stranger, who sat down next to him. The stranger asked if he could have some of the Pak Choi which was behind the Communist, and he turned around to fetch some, only to turn around to find the Kuomintang Officer pointing a gun at his head.

"So, *****, would you have guessed?"

The Communist too stunned to reply, only gaped/

"I have a proposition for you, "loyal" Communist. I know that you're only a Communist because you were drafted in when they came through your village. I know you hold no true loyalty to that pathetic cause. So I'm offering you a chance at something different. Join us, the Kuomintang, and you shall achieve riches beyond your wildest dreams."

The Communist, only now understanding the graveness of the situation, cautiously nodded.

"Good, a consensus." said the KMT Officer, happily. "I like consensus."

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So... why are we mad at Pinman again? I was paying attention, I just don't know what Pinman PMing anyone has to do with anything.

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Originally Posted by GeneralHankerchief

Okay, we have progress. I had an investigator follow Pinman last night, and explicitly told me that Pinman was visiting somebody else's tent when he had already CC'd me and everybody else in his protection group orders to protect CDF. Now, luckily, I had put four people on CDF since I saw the trend that he described above, but the question remains: What were you doing last night, Pinman? :inquisitive:

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Originally Posted by GeneralHankerchief

And you know what I don't like? Somebody explicitly CCing me orders saying they're going to do something, and then going off and doing something else.

-edit- Just because no other public mafia activity happened doesn't mean that no other activity happened. As I'm sure you're aware of, nobody is exactly sure what our mysterious KMT friends are up to.

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:yes:

Edit: The updated KMT recruitment also makes Pinman more suspect. What indeed were you doing going off to other people's tents at night Pinman?

Well allrighty, then.

unvote: ACIN

Who did you choose to investigate each night, Pinman, and why?

So the hairy man, the serial killer seeking revenge and JHT's opponent are all still out there, not to mention another good comrade was lured away by the KMT. The only windfall we've had is the heavy firepower.

"Fellow comrades, remove your hoods and hats. We are under the impression that a rather hairy traitor lies amongst us..."

We could easily find the hairy man, unless he quickly shaves of course...

someone who sneak into people's tent is suspicious.... vote: Pinman

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Originally Posted by Death is yonder

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ATPG replaces someone (I believe?)

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Correct, he replaces Thermal Mercury

vote Pinman

For the record, I think the ditching the protection group in order to (he says) investigate is the least suspicious thing about him. Any paranoid pro-town might risk that. But he should have given us more information by now with the pressure on him, and he hasn't. There's also his interaction with JHT: JHT claimed he had mis-represented their conversations, and with JHT now dead and seemingly more or less what he claimed to be, that carries more weight.

Pinman hasn't been very forthcoming, has he? I guess after what happened to johnhughtom it was to be expected, but still, it seems GH has to force every last little tidbit out of him. I'd think if he were pro-town, he'd at least be more open with so much pressure on him.

Vote: Pinman

Well, if he were an investigator, then it is possible that he has important information that the KMT or IJA shouldn't see.

I have sent ACIN a PM detailing everything I know. Even though I am going to die, it would be unwise of me to reveal most of what I know publically.

I suppose I could tell you what I've been investigating for, that can't do much harm.
The subject of my investigations is loyalty to a cause - ie: yes or no. Revealing further information than this would be foolish of me.

Didn't you notice JHT's whiskey gottee Renata? I was right - he was the hairy SK.

He was killed by Winston's killer - the avenger.

Soooo... What say you ACIN? Should we lynch Pinman or not?

Write-Up shall commence within one hour.

The Red Army Detachment had finally emerged from the icy mountains onto rolling hills. The stark pine forest had given way to a leafy blaze of red and orange trees, and the snow had receded to reveal crunchy leaves underfoot.

By the time the Revolutionaries had stopped to rest for the night, one candidate had unanimously been chosen for the lynch. Pinman had been exposed as lying, and whilst it was not a particularly bad lie, it was a lie nonetheless. Plus, it had been revealed that the otherwise runner-up for the day, johnhughthom, had been decapitated during the night, and no-one was volunteered to contest Pinman's lynch. GeneralHankerchief glowed with satisfaction at the situation:

"I like counting votes when we have a landslide. It's so much simpler, and thus easier to communicate to the peasantry."

Pinman was of course not at all pleased with the situation, and he attempted to put up a spirited defence in the name of his innocence. When it became clear that that wasn't working, he appealed the the Commissar for help

"Comrade ACIN, you know I'm innocent, don't you?" pleaded the helpless Pinman

ACIN was completely vacant, and did not appear to understand what was being said to him by anyone, much less reply. He was just muttering about some "Disneyland", wherever that was.

Pinman realised his position was helpless, and quivered as the Chairman brought forth the executioner to do the dirty deed. Pinman was executed and went without a sound.

GeneralHankerchief, who had become ever more stoic in the face of the daily murder, yawned and climbed onto a rock to begin another announcement

"Comrades, I would like to inform you all that we have decided to take ALL of the heavy weaponry. We are now packing heat, with heat being artillery shells and liquid fire.

Also, I have uncovered evidence about the status of some of our fallen comrades. taka was indeed a Secret Policeman, as he said he was, and his death is a great loss to our cause. Beskar was also town, well trained enough in combat that the first attempt made on his life would have been futile anyway, but susceptible to Nationalist influences. Chaotix is an interesting case though. It appears that if he ever was a Communist, then he wasn't a dedicated one. He was a Megalomaniac, driven more by a lust for power and control then for the pursuit of the Marxist Paradise. He had great faith in his own abilities and eventual ascension to the leadership of the People's Extraordinary Detachment. However, it is probably in our best interests that he is dead, as it appears that he could assassinate one of our Officers in order to create a power vacuum for himself, to step into. He also had the ability to sell us all out to the Imperialists, to save his own skin. With the aid of the Japanese, we dodged a bullet there, Comrades."

It is now the night phase. This phase shall end in about 23 hours, at 20:00 GMT+1

Pinman - NINE - Romanic, Blackadder, CDF, Yaseikhaan, DiY, ATPG, Cute Wolf, Renata, TheFlax

Not Voting - TWENTY - ACIN, ArpeggiateTHIS, autolycus, AVSM, Double A, Jolt, Joooray, landlubber, M3YUZ, miotas, Nictel, Niklas, Pinman, Seamus Fermanagh, Secura, Sigurd,spL1tp3r50naL1ty, wideyedwanderer, YLC

Alive players: 27/40

ACIN
ArpeggiateTHIS
askthepizzaguy
autolycus
AVSM
Captain Blackadder
Cultured Drizzt fan
Cute Wolf
Death is yonder
Double A
GeneralHankerchief
Jolt
Joooray
landlubber
M3YUZ
miotas
Nictel
Renata
Romanic
Seamus Fermanagh
Secura
Sigurd
spL1tp3r50naL1ty
TheFlax
wideyedwanderer
Yaseikhaan
YLC

Lynched players 5/40

Azathoth
Beefy187
shlin28
Niklas
Pinman

Killed Players 6/40

Winston Hughes
Sasaki Kojiro
taka
Beskar
Chaotix
Psychonaut
johnhughthom

Devoured by Rats - 2

Thermal Mercury
Wishazu

I need at least two, preferably more volunteers for tonight. This is in addition to the people I usually contact with work.

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Originally Posted by GeneralHankerchief

I need at least two, preferably more volunteers for tonight. This is in addition to the people I usually contact with work.

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I'm up for it.

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Originally Posted by GeneralHankerchief

I need at least two, preferably more volunteers for tonight. This is in addition to the people I usually contact with work.

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I assume you're classing me as a regular now? If not, class me as a regular.

Oh :daisy:. I'm sorry guys, I told Subotan I was going to be gone for a full day since I was at Disneyland with friends. Pinman was clean. Twenty people did not vote, which I don't like. I personally think we should redo that round, but whatever.

EDIT: I thought somewhere along the line when everyone was telling me to do stuff, Subo would inform people I was gone for a day or so.

There was no other way anyways. I wasn't going to publically reveal the information, and GH wasn't going to give out the name of another trusted person.

We move on.

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Originally Posted by Pinman

Didn't you notice JHT's whiskey gottee Renata? I was right - he was the hairy SK.

He was killed by Winston's killer - the avenger.

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I thought the "avenger" WAS the serial killer. Can someone point me to where it says otherwise before I lose my mind?

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Oh :daisy:. I'm sorry guys, I told Subotan I was going to be gone for a full day since I was at Disneyland with friends. Pinman was clean. Twenty people did not vote, which I don't like. I personally think we should redo that round, but whatever.

EDIT: I thought somewhere along the line when everyone was telling me to do stuff, Subo would inform people I was gone for a day or so.

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Oh for God's sake.

If you look at Winston's death - youll see his killer was pursuing a man with facial hair <-- Avenger SK
When taka was killed, it was by a man with facial hair <-- Hairy SK

JHT was killed, and was identified by the avenger as having facial hair <--- JHT = taka's killer, hairy SK. Was killed by "Avenger".

Two SKs competing against each other.

I was not a serial killer, I didn't kill anybody the entire game.

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Originally Posted by Renata

Oh for God's sake.

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I'm sorry, take comfort that this was a case of Hanlon's Razor.

Sorry for not voting! I saw the write up yesterday and figured I'd wait until I have a better idea who to vote for before I voted...but I never got a chance. Sorry!

General Handkerchif, I would like to volunteer to help, because so far in this game I haven't done much. -_-

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Originally Posted by Pinman

If you look at Winston's death - youll see his killer was pursuing a man with facial hair <-- Avenger SK
When taka was killed, it was by a man with facial hair <-- Hairy SK

JHT was killed, and was identified by the avenger as having facial hair <--- JHT = taka's killer, hairy SK. Was killed by "Avenger".

Two SKs competing against each other.

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Both JHT and hs killer thought they knew each other, but when the killer mentioned something about his brother, JHT was surprised. So out there we still have the Hairy Man, the man tring to kill the Hairy Man, and whomever JHT thought was trying to kill him. Three potential SK's, unless one has recently been killed or lynched.

JHT wasn't pursuing anybody - he was lying. And his eye widened out of understanding, not surprise.

Only just got ISP problems sorted out, been offline all day... I'd hoped Beskar might say something after I called him hours ago, clearly not.

Apologies, Subo. :bow: