The Red Phoenix [Concluded]

The Red Phoenix

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Winter, 208 A.D.

[...]Jiang Gan had been tricked once by Zhou Yu, and that had ended in the death of his Master's top two naval commanders, Cai Mao and Zhang Yun. Upon returning for a second time, he had been sent to the wilderness until the remainder of the battle. But lo! His luck changed as he found none other than the famed Young Phoenix himself, studying near the hut to which he had been sent to by Zhou Yu! The conversation between both was as described:

Jiang Gan said, "How often have I heard you talked about! You are famous. But why are you hidden away in this spot?"

Pang Tong replied, "That fellow Zhou Yu is too conceited to allow that anyone else has any talent, and so I live here quietly. Were I to find a fitting Lord to serve, I would do my utmost to aid his cause."

Jiang Gan quickly interposed, "With your gifts, you would succeed anywhere! If you would enter Cao Cao's service, I would recommend you to him."

"I have long desired to get away from here." Young Phoenix responded "And if you, Sir, will present me, there is no time like the present. If Zhou Yu heard of my wish, he would kill me, I am sure."

Thus Jiang Gan fell for the trap and soon enough he had brought Pang Tong right to the middle of Cao Cao's gigantic camp. Originally, the plan devised by Zhou Yu consisted on advising Cao Cao to chain his navy together, so his army from the north of the Middle Kingdom would suffer less from navy related illnesses. Afterwards it would be a question of waiting for the wind to change and attack Cao Cao's navy with fire.

However, Pang Tong thought it was ridiculous and highly dangerous to commit the strategy of an entire kingdom on a leap of faith towards a manifestation of Heaven. Also there was a high probability that Cao Cao would survive such an attack and manage to retreat back to Xu Chang, remaining as the most powerful Chinese Warlord. As such, Young Phoenix thought it much wiser to infiltrate as Cao Cao's advisor and assassinate him during the night. Thus the morale of his armies would collapse at the news of his death and an immediate attack would follow in a great victory. Without Cao Cao's leadership, his domains would break apart, allowing for the establishment of Sun Quan and Liu Bei in Cao Cao's former lands.

When Cao Cao heard that the newcomer was Master Young Phoenix, Cao Cao went to meet him personally, made him very welcome, and soon they sat down to talk on friendly terms.

Cao Cao said, "And so Zhou Yu in his youth is conceited and annoys his officers and rejects all their advice: I know that. But your fame has been long known to me, and now that you have been gracious enough to turn my way, I pray you not to be thrifty of your advice."

Thus Cao Cao and Pang Tong went 'round the camp, and Young Phoenix praised him so greatly as they spoke of military matters that Cao Cao was content with his new adherent and his abilities and treated him with great honor.

Thus Cao Cao brought Pang Tong into his inner trusting staff, and was given lodging in the camp. Pang Tong went to his tent for the night quite satisfied with his plans being carried out accordingly. Over the next week, several written admoestrations and protests flew across Cao Cao's camp, all for the soldiers to read. They protested against Pang Tong, using claims of inaptitude, inexperience, lack of knowledge of the army's situation, and that the Prime Minister was losing confidence in his own staff.

The memos were written with very aggressive, borderline mutinous, and erudite language, which made it seem like it was written by one of the more intelligent men. This gave way to rumors as to who was writing the circulating papers. Of course, the soldierly, began pointing fingers at the original staff, that they were dissatisfied with the importance that the Prime-Minister was giving a newcomer, and that they were becoming mutinous.

Pang Tong and Cao Cao himself said to his staff that this was probably some kind of plot by Zhou Yu to sow dissention among Cao Cao's high ranks. As such, nothing was done against the advisors in the camp. The advisors themselves began to suspect of one another, lest they wished to overthrow Cao Cao and become the leaders themselves.

At dusk, during one of days where the rumors were at the peak, Young Phoenix was returning once again back to his tent after checking naval preparations for a sortee when he was intercepted by a man.

The man said, "You are very bold. Using a ruse by Zhou Yu to gain access and the trust of Cao Cao. And forging papers to cast doubts among Cao Cao and his staff of each other's intentions. You certainly intend to kill the Prime Minister. This sort of mischievous work may have been enough to deceive Cao Cao and the others, but I saw it all."

Pang Tong become helpless with fear---his viscera flown away, his spirit scattered.

Upon turning to look at the man, Pang Tong saw it was Xu Shu, an old friend, and his heart revived.

Looking around and seeing no one near, Pang Tong said, "It would be a pity if you upset my plan. The fate of the people of all the eighty-one southern counties is in your hands."

Xu Shu smiled, saying, "And what of the fate of these eight hundred thirty thousand soldiers and horse of the north?"

"Do you intend to wreck my scheme, Xu Shu?"

"I have never forgotten the kindness of Uncle Liu Bei, nor my oath to avenge the death of my mother at Cao Cao's hands. I have said I would never think out a plan for him. So am I likely to wreck yours now, brother? I have been wanting to kill the tyrant ever since I left Lord Liu, but so far I had not had the chance to do it. Now the situation that you have created is most propituous, and together we can easily dispose of his close staff and murder him."

Pang Tong nodded, saying "It is necessary that we kill his entire close staff since otherwise if Cao Cao dies, they will be able to organize a careful and methodical retreat to attack at a later time, and one of them will take Cao Cao's place. Thus this opportunity will be forever lost. Otherwise, if there are only brute headed generals left, with little grasp of the Art of War, simple plots will break up their demoralized army and their fate will be sealed here in the South."

Xu Shu nodded. "Very well. Let's start tonight."

Pang Tong gave a nod as a sign of agreement and both went back to their tents until night arrived.

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Hello, and welcome to the "The Red Phoenix" RTK-based Small Mafia game. This game is a testing ground to see if the Mafia game has enough popularity here so I can go forward with my plans to make a large Mafia game based on RTK as well.

I. Basic Mafia Rules
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:

The Wei Officers are the townies in this game.

The townies are the innocent people and they have to lynch the mafiosi during the day. The mafiosi/Werewolves can 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 : XiahouMao

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

Unvote : XiahouMao ; Vote : Elysia

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.

I expect activity and discussion for this game. Mafia games only work when everyone is discussing to find out who is Mafia, and finding discrepancies and irregularities in the opinions of people throughout the game. If you fail to vote twice in a row without a reason, or are generally inactive, you will either be replaced (If there are replacement players) or you will suffer the Wrath of Zhang Jue, which means your character will die a horrible, horrible death.

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. Under any circumstance.
* 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.

- Two members of the Wu-Shu conspiracy: They infiltrated the Inner Circle of advisors of Cao Cao and will try to eliminate them! If they kill all of them, then Cao Cao will never be saved by Guan Yu, his empire will break apart and neither Liu Bei nor Sun Quan will get anything! Gongsun Yuan will descend at the speed of light with battle droids on Cao Cao's possessions and conquer the entire empire (Joked this way to make sure Wu-Shu fanbois don't purposedly try to ruin the game). They are the Mafiosi, they can kill at night and vote as a regular townie during the day.

- Cao Cao : He will be chosen at random (Like everyone else) and his identity will be revealed in public. He cannot be killed by the mafia until he's the last "townie" left. He cannot vote (For gameplay reasons) until there are only 6 people left but may chose the lynch method (Meaning he can either tell me how he wants to execute the most voted person, or he can give me an execution text, which I will edit according to game reasons and use it as the lynch for that day).

- One or more secret roles whose abilities are secret (Besides being able to vote during the day).

- Everyone else are standard townies!

Sign-ups (14/15)
Death is yonder
White_Eyes:D
A Very Super Market
Yaseikhaan
Centurion1
atheotes
Beskar
spL1tp3r50naL1ty
Beefy187
Diana Abnoba
Joooray
Sprig
AskthePizzaguy
FactionHeir
Paulus Tertius

Replacement:
Yaropolk - Entered the game
Subotan - Entered the game

If the sign ups are already full, you can sign up to be a replacement, in case someone goes inactive or has to step down.

In!

I've always found the three kingdoms period of Chinese history to be an interesting one for reading :bow:

"Romance of the Three Kingdoms" I just love it:beam:

IN:bow:

Edit:Best days I had on my PS2 were from the games....:2thumbsup:

In. My heritage calls me.

Even if I'm quarter-Manchu....

:charge:

in.

Bit busy at the moment with other games and so forth; put me down as a replacement.

in :bow:

In.

Innnnn :D

Half Chinese.... And a mafia player. I think I qualify.

In:2thumbsup:

I don't know much about this history, but this seems like it's a regular mafia game, so why not, I'll try it. I'm IN.

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Originally Posted by Diana Abnoba

I don't know much about this history, but this seems like it's a regular mafia game, so why not, I'll try it. I'm IN.

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It is a regular mafia. :)

Just 5 more players people! Try to invite people who you suspect want to play Mafia!

Alright, thanks for the invite. And in I am! :2thumbsup:

I invited my friend PaulusIII from Civilization Fanatics Center. If you can hold the game open for a couple more days he should be able to sign up.

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noooo, paulusss is due to play in my mafia game :(

I may be interested in playing however I am in two large mafia games and two small ones and prepareing to host one!

If you can't get signups, I'll join, but unless I get murdered a few times I won't be my normal active self.

I'll hold for 2 moar days then. The minimum needed would be 12, but it would be great if we could get 15.

:yes:

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Originally Posted by Sprig

noooo, paulusss is due to play in my mafia game :(

I may be interested in playing however I am in two large mafia games and two small ones and prepareing to host one!

If you can't get signups, I'll join, but unless I get murdered a few times I won't be my normal active self.

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I'll still be joining yours Sprig - don't worry. ;)

Also, this is a signup.

Awesome, welcome both Sprig and Paullus! I'll be handing out the Role PMs shortly! The Day 1 write-up will only come tomorrow.

Sorry I won't be able to participate after all.

I'll have to withdraw :shame:

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Originally Posted by Beefy187

Sorry I won't be able to participate after all.

I'll have to withdraw :shame:

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D'oh! :(

I made a few special edits to spice the game up. I shall cut off the role of Cao Cao. (I'll play Cao Cao myself) and we'll start the game nonetheless. Roles being sent out.

Role PMs sent, I decided to start this in Night 1 already, so anyone who wishes to submit an order do so. Since is the first turn, I'll give a 36 hour phase, which is also to avoid the turn ending at mid-night, my time.

I shall try to write a write-up of Day 1 tomorrow.

Good luck to all involved!

Orders for Night 1 are due until 6:30 AM GMT/1:30 AM EST, 6th November

I can take over Beefy's part if you like. Can I be Lu Bu? Stomp stomp stomp halberd swing!

Alas! Lu Bu was dead by 209. We won't see him make an appearance in this game.. Who knows if this game is successful will I not create one with all great characters? Who knows if I'm already planning to create a large RTK game? :P

Night 1 is over. Write-up will come in a few hours as I got a train to catch for home in 2 hours. The train takes 3 hours to get to my city, thus expect the write-up around 8 PM or so.

OH OH OH OH WHY DIDN'T I REALISE THIS WAS ON
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The Red Phoenix - Night 1

The night went for the most part quietly, as most of the army camped in the Northern shore of the Three Gorges slept soundly as well, except for the portions who were on duty at night, keeping a watchful eye on the river in case the navy of Wu decided to do a surprise raid on the army's positions. It wasn't very likely, but it was in accordance to the Art of War to prepare against the unexpected, and Cao Cao was known as a Master of warfare. However, on the second watch, one of the soldiers guarding the inner grounds where most of the close staff of Cao Cao was lodged spotted a strange figure roaming around in a suspicious manner. He gripped his spear, stepped up silently as close as he could to the figure, and when it appeared the figure noticed him and was beginning to make his escape, the soldier shouted "zhi!/Halt!" at the sound of this, the figure scattered, but the soldier began his persuit, and calling for his fellow colleagues to help him.
After only a few seconds, it appeared that the soldier would be able to detain the unknown figure but as he proceeded to grab the intruder, he tripped on a rock and banged his head on the ground, knocking him unconscious until other soldiers arrived to help him. But by then the intruder had already disapeared.

The incident was duly reported to Cao Cao, who then after deliberating for a some hours, summoned his close staff to the main tent at the fifth watch. Once all were present and sat according to rank and importance, Cao Cao began.

"As all of you are aware, there is some wicked person amongst our ranks who has put some callunious papers to spread across our camp, with the obvious intention of attempting to unsettle us and create a wedge between us all, wherefore we begin to suspect of each other's intentions, and destroys the elan and the edge of our entire army. Though I had dismissed such ideas as mere rumor and bad talk, it seems that we do have someone among us that is contrary to the command given to me by the Emperor to cleanse and pacify the land of rebels. Some amongst you prefer to side with brigands like Liu Bei and Sun Quan and wish to eliminate me. But do not forget that I have survived a myriad other assassination attempts, and it shall not be in a campaign that you shall assassinate me. I tell you this because someone was caught spying on a certain officer's tent by our men on watch at night. Unfortunately, the man wasn't caught and is now at large. Through the description the men have given me, it seems that those letters were indeed right and that one or several of you wish to have my head, though whoever that was, it did not attempt to kill anyone.
I have several suspects, and would gladly put them to death, but their skills and advice are greatly useful to our effort, and it would be a tremendous pity, as well as inauspicious to start killing my closest advisors on a mere suspicion. Therefore, and in the spirit of equity and fairness, I shall allow you all to present your arguments as to who is the real spy amongst us. Whoever is considered the main suspect by the council will be henceforth beheaded and his head exposed around the camp as a warning for all spies and deserters. You have until the sixth watch to deliberate and present your arguements."

Having finished saying his piece, Cao Cao motioned for the council to begin discussing the suspects. Beside him were scores of scribes ready to document the entire event and insert it into the annals of Han history as yet another conspiracy that Prime-Minister Cao Cao foils. Cao Cao called a servant to bring and present wine to everyone, as this would be a long debate, Cao Cao thought.

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Day 1 votes are due in Mid-Night GMT / 7 PM EST, 8th of November.

vote: Yaseikhaan

Am I in?

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Originally Posted by Subotan

Am I in?

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No, I have put you as a replacement player. The roles have already been given and orders for the first Night taken. The game is already underway. Sorry. :( If two people go inactive or decide to leave, you'll can take the second person's role.

Ok, I understand. I'll still read it regardless.

But I'll expect all of you to join my mafia set in the Chinese Civil War in the summer :stare:

Ugh, double post delete please.

Vote: Centurion1

My thinking is that the mafia either couldn't kill N1 or forgot to send in orders N1. Alternatively they can investigate and that's why we saw a figure.

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I tell you this because someone was caught spying on a certain officer's tent by our men on watch at night. Unfortunately, the man wasn't caught and is now at large.

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Could be possible, alternatively, they can only kill on alternative nights, though only time and future phases will shed some light :yes:

Vote: DIY for being logical/

vote: Sprig for suggesting that logic is a bad thing.

Subotan can replace me, if he likes.

Day 1 is over. Write-up will come in a handful of hours. The voting is a four-way tie and Cao Cao will decide how many and who dies.

:inquisitive:

That is the most unusual voting round I've ever seen... no one voted to save themselves, and most of you didn't even vote.

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Originally Posted by Sprig

Vote: DIY for being logical/

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:laugh4::laugh4:

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Originally Posted by Askthepizzaguy

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That is the most unusual voting round I've ever seen... no one voted to save themselves, and most of you didn't even vote.

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Well, the only vote I saw before mine before I went off for the night was yours, nothing to poke at, nothing to consider.

That is because we thought the round didn't end until Sunday the 8th at 7pm EST as it said in the write up. I personally thought I had more time, on this round to vote, like almost 24 more hours.

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Originally Posted by Jolt

Day 1 is over. Write-up will come in a handful of hours. The voting is a four-way tie and Cao Cao will decide how many and who dies.

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It's a day early, you wrote it was the 8th, it is currently the 7th your time.

oops... i too assumed that you are giving more time because it is the weekend. generally activity levels seem to drop during weekends (i am also guilty of that) and i thought i had till sunday evening.

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Originally Posted by Beskar

It's a day early, you wrote it was the 8th, it is currently the 7th your time.

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Here its sunday, 8th of November. Though I can understand my mistake, I shoulda put the EST day on the 7th.

But by all means, if this signifies more votes, then I'll allow an extension of the day phase to mid-night GMT/7 PM EST of this day.

I had already a write-up prepared and all, but bleh.

Vote: Yaseikhaan haven't heard anything from you so far in this game. (haven't posted since the in post).

Vote: diana abnoba

no women officers in ancient china, i smell something suspicious.

Fool, this is the RotTK canon!

Vote: Centurion

Day 1 is now over. Write-up will come in a handful of hours. The voting is still a tie and Cao Cao will decide how many and who dies.

The Red Phoenix - Day 1

Final Tally:
Yaseikhaan (2) - ATPG, Diana Abnoba
Centurion1 (2) - DiY, AVSM
Death is Yonder (1) - Sprig
Sprig (1) - Paulus Tertius
Diana Abnoba (1) - Centurion1

Despite Cao Cao's demand that the situation be discussed, in good truth his staff knew little about the incident so far, and thus all men under the Prime Minister's command contented themselves with petty disputes and juvenile rivalry. Each presented arguments against the others based on inaction and unwillingness to speak, along with unfamiliarity with the recent history of the Middle Kingdom.

In the end and four hours passed and the fifth watch had come. Yaseikhaan and Centurion1 were brought forth as the most suspicious ones according to the council's arguments. Cao Cao looked over both and sighed. He dismissed Yaseikhaan's suspicions and quickly pointed to Mao Jie, raising himself from his chair. "It appears whoever leads our navy is cursed. You have certainly not learned from the mistakes of Cai Mao and Zhang Yun, and like them, you join up with Zhou Yu to bring about my downfall? Truly, our navy is poisoned with traitors. I always thought highly of you Mao Jie, but to think that you would oppose the will of the Emperor and would conspire to slay one of his most loyal and dutiful ministers? Had you succeeded, the people, simple and hard-working folks that they are, would eat you alive for your despicable crime."

Without further ado Cao Cao bluntly exclaims "I have made my decision. Guards! Behead this man and show his head around the camp as a warning for all conspirators!"

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Centurion1 was thus ejected out of the main tent and once outside, was beheaded by the military lictors. The rest of staff was dismissed and ordered to take their duties. Cao Cao on the other hand began having many headaches. Not only did he think Mao Jie was indeed a loyal man, he was also one of the very few in his army who had some naval experience. The responsibility for training the naval forces now fell solely on General Yu Jin. The consequence of today's execution, thought Cao Cao, would lead solely to a slower training of his army in handling combat in the water. Overall it was a bad day for Cao Cao and his men.

With the day over, Cao Cao's staff retreated back to their tents and awaited another day of intense training, provided that Mao Jie was indeed the sole dissenter in Cao Cao's inner circles.

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Mao Jie (Centurion1), Admiral of the Han Invasion fleet, has been executed

Alive (13):
Death is yonder
White_Eyes:D
A Very Super Market
Yaseikhaan
atheotes
Beskar
spL1tp3r50naL1ty
Diana Abnoba
Joooray
Sprig
AskthePizzaguy
FactionHeir
Paulus Tertius

Executed (1):
Centurion1 - Mao Jie

Assassinated (0):

Night 2 orders are due in 5 PM GMT / Mid-Day EST, 10th of November.

i was a vanilla townie.....

Btw, Beskar has dropped out

:embarassed: Why did he drop out?

I'll step in if you want to give me his info Jolt.

Umm, Beskar said he would give his role to me :sweatdrop:

Sorry Subotan, but Yaropolk is in the first place of the substitution queue, so the role of the first person who drops out goes to Yaropolk. If someone else drops out, then you can come in. Regardless, Beskar hasn't stated to me that he wishes to drop out. Until he does, he's still in the game.

@ Jolt

I believe Beskar and Beefy both put in thread that they needed to drop out, at least I know Beefy did, but you still have him on your 'players alive' list. You also have 14 names and it states 13 players still alive.

Also is the 5 GMT, 5pm or 5am time, in your write up, and are you planning for 24 hour rounds? Please clarify. Thanks so much.

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Originally Posted by Diana Abnoba

@ Jolt

I believe Beskar and Beefy both put in thread that they needed to drop out, at least I know Beefy did, but you still have him on your 'players alive' list. You also have 14 names and it states 13 players still alive.

Also is the 5 GMT, 5pm or 5am time, in your write up, and are you planning for 24 hour rounds? Please clarify. Thanks so much.

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Yeah, its PM. GMT has always five hours more than EST.

I would like to drop out, I am sorry but I can't realy get into this game.

I surrender my role unto Subotan :bow:

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Originally Posted by spL1tp3r50naL1ty

I would like to drop out, I am sorry but I can't realy get into this game.

I surrender my role unto Subotan :bow:

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Since you're the first player to drop out, your role will go to Yaropolk. If Beskar or anyone else also drops out, then Subotan will have their role.

Nice role....do you want me send in explicit orders post things like "Butt Stomp"?

Sorry for not voting the first day phase. I'll try to not let it happen again.

Night 2 is over. Stand-by for Write-up.

The Red Phoenix - Night 2

This night, the inner courtyards were much more busy than usual, cortesy of the recent incident last night. The patrols and soldiers posted to each tent had more than doubled. Soldiers were always coming and going and it appeared that at least this night would be a safe night. As a consequence, each member of Cao Cao's close staff, except for a few more warlike Generals, had difficulty sleeping.

A conspirator however, managed to successfully evade being spotted by the soldiers, being double-cautious especially after what happened to him on the previous day: Before going to his bed, he took a walk around the inner courtyards, studying the new patrol patterns that had been issued by Cao Cao exactly that day. As soon as he had figured out the necessary patterns, the advisor went back to his tent until the second watch. It was at that time, after analyzing for some minutes the patrols walking near his tent, that he ventured out and dodged Cao Cao's grunts and eventually made his way into the surroundings of Diana Abnoba's tent.

That tent was vigourously guarded, but the conspirator already knew that, and had taken the necessary precautions to overcome it and escape unscathed. As such, he had laden some grain carts which were next to Cao Cao's and his close staff's campaign cookers, with highly combustible objects, and since these were stored along with other wooden casing objects, carefully arranged by the conspirator himself, it would create an immediate ruckus as soon as the fires ignited. So, before coming to Diana's tent, the conspirator lit a fuse which led into one of the grain carts. Fortunately, that tent was very close to Diana's tent which would make the guards leave their posts guarding the tent and rush to try and douse the flames.

The conspirator laughed as the grain tent's light turned red and the guards left their posts to alert other people towards the arson. Quickly he entered into the General's tent, and found Xiahou Dun asleep, with his back turned towards the entrance. Chuckling in his mind, the conspirator unsheathed his dagger, and approached cautiously the General, which if awaken, would quickly dominate the assailant. As he stepped closer, Xiahou Dun abruptedly turned himself to the attacker, who froze for some seconds out of fear. Fortunately, Xiahou Dun continued fast asleep, and thus the conspirator got close to him and slashed his throat quickly. Xiahou Dun awoke quickly, and despite being unable to breathe, his expression turned quickly from a painful one to a fiery one, and in his last moments he tried to reach and grab his attacker. However, the attacker could gave another blow to his chest, and Xiahou Dun would not move again.

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Xiahou Dun, General of Sharp Edge, has been assassinated.

As the conspirator cleaned his blade with a hankerchief inside Xiahou Dun's tent and sheathed back his dagger, placing it inside his robe, he came back to the murdered man's entrance and peeked outside. He couldn't help but smile for his plan was coming to fruitition. Obviously, in the beginning, the flames would not be great in size, and thus would not alert the whole camp, but only the surrounding areas, making the needed guards abandon their posts. Only when the flames grew, would the entire inner courtyards be roused and come out to see what the problem would be.

The flames grew as more soldiers arrived and the very tent caught fire. Soldiers and horsemen and archers from outside the camp came carrying many buckets water and these added to the confusion of the soldiers from inside the courtyard which came to the aid. Such fuss woke up all the advisors and Generals, who came out to see what had happened. Quickly enough, the conspirator took advantage of some soldiers who happened to be running very near the tent to, after they passed, quickly mingle himself with the other men. In due time, the flames were controlled and the advisors went back to their tents. Cao Cao, however stayed up for a little while and sent soldiers to see if every major officer was still alive. To his regret, soldiers did in fact come back to say that his trusted cousin had been murdered, at which time Cao Cao began weeping. Zhang He, which was dealing with the aftermath of the flames, came quickly to his Lord and asked "My lord, why are you weeping?"
Cao Cao replied, "Alas! My Xiahou Dun has been murdered! He was as my right arm in battle!" Other military officers counselled the Prime Minister to withdraw to his tent. However, these news travel fast and before dawn, the entire camp knew of the events of this night.

The next morning, Cao Cao issued orders so that no signs of mourning nor any public discussion of the events would take place, under the punishment of death. Cao Cao knew that since deaths had happened due to internal dissent, he did not only not wish for Wu to see signs of disturbance in the army, which might lead to an attack, but he also did not want to promote discussion of rebellion inside the army.
Soon enough, Xiahou Dun was buried in a temporary grave, in a coffin. At his burial, Cao Cao wept further, and vowed to bury Xiahou Dun in Wu, as a sign that he would overcome his enemies despite being smitten at his closest and most loyal followers.
After the burial, in the afternoon all Cao Cao's close officers were once again called to decide upon the fate of themselves. Cao Cao was dressed in white mourning attiral, and called to his advisor. "Xiahou Dun is dead. Assassinated by one of you. I know I will eventually kill you, and I shall lean upon all of you, great minds to find out who the culprit is, as I'm not in my right state of mind to do so. As such, present the arguments for who do you think is behind this wicked murder." The officers began quickly busying themselves to present forth accusations to one another.

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Alive (12):
Death is yonder
White_Eyes:D
A Very Super Market
Yaseikhaan
atheotes
Beskar
spL1tp3r50naL1ty
Joooray
Sprig
AskthePizzaguy
FactionHeir
Paulus Tertius

Executed (1):
Centurion1 - Mao Jie

Assassinated (1):
Diana Abnoba - Xiahou Dun

Day 2 votes are due in 8 AM GMT / 3 AM EST, 12th of November.

Vote: Yaseikhaan

Uh oh. Xiahou Dun feels like a power role....

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Cao Cao replied, "Alas! My Xiahou Dun has been murdered! He was as my right arm in battle!"

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I think so too :sweatdrop:

Vote: Whiteeyes:D

Why so quiet? :inquisitive:

By the way, I should probably make it aware, that should the people that failed to vote last day also fail to vote this day, they will suffer the Wrath of Zhang Jue, which means White_Eyes:D, Yaseikhaan, Joooray, atheotes, Beskar and Faction Heir will be replaced or die.

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Originally Posted by Beskar

Subotan can replace me, if he likes.

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I think Beskar is not playing this game...

I forgot to check back if the phase had been extended and missed the voting on Day1 :sad:

Vote: White_eyes for now... white_eyes has been active in the gameroom... i will change my vote him if he shows up or if we get any useful leads

:daisy: mafia! I finally get a pro-town role and die right away, not fair :bigcry:. Good luck town!

I shall vote:Jooray then to elicit a response.

Vote: FactionHeir to elicit a response.

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Originally Posted by atheotes

I think Beskar is not playing this game...

I forgot to check back if the phase had been extended and missed the voting on Day1 :sad:

Vote: White_eyes for now... white_eyes has been active in the gameroom... i will change my vote him if he shows up or if we get any useful leads

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I thought WE was active because he did some night actions in "the mansion" game. the host posted there saying he has not submitted orders in quite some time. So in my mind he is a townie.

unvote, vote:abstain

Khaan you are such a copycat, unlike your normal game :no:
You are supposed to lurk!

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Originally Posted by atheotes

I thought WE was active because he did some night actions in "the mansion" game. the host posted there saying he has not submitted orders in quite some time. So in my mind he is a townie.

unvote, vote:abstain

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Yeah, just noticed that Zain posted it too.

Unvote; Whiteeyes
Vote: Joooray

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Originally Posted by FactionHeir

I shall vote:Jooray then to elicit a response.

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As I said before, I'm sorry I was inactive the last day phase, real life got a hold on me. Promise to be better from this point on. :sweatdrop:

I don't think white_eyes is such a good choice, I send him a pm in another mafia game quite some time ago and he has yet to read it, so I suspect he's going to be WoZJed this night anyway.

Anyway, Vote: khaan. Come on, Atpg pressures you with one vote and all you do is a pressure vote yourself. You can do better than that! :idea2:

*Cao Cao applauds and makes it known to all his satisfaction to see most of his closest advisors and Generals mudslinging each other in an upsurge of activity*

EDIT: Here's a brief video briefly explaining the events that happened before the battle (Cao Cao's attack on Jing and his victory over Liu Bei and Liu Biao, which led to the pre-battle situation you all are on, between Cao Cao and Wu/Sun Quan)

vote: atheotes

Obviously the traitor.

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Originally Posted by Beskar

vote: atheotes

Obviously the traitor.

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Really?