Mafia VII: Shadows of the Mafia [Concluded]

[Sasaki Kojiro]

brave sir robin is def the way to go

[sapi]

btw

Is he drawing any votes?
Not really, no

So tell me, who is right? It's me isn't it

Your discussion has proved distraction enough

RK would, I feel, be the best target today; with BSR going down tomorrow if the game continues

RK has simply flip-flopped too much, and has offered votes with ridiculous reasoning behind them.

I don't want to believe that he's stupid, which leaves guilty as the only other choice

[GeneralHankerchief]

Voting will end at 15:00 GMT -5 today.

[shlin28]

Still sticking with my vote on Ichigo, although I do not get why Roadkill is gonna be lynched (only skimmed over the thread last night)

[Andres]

Still sticking with my vote on Ichigo, although I do not get why Roadkill is gonna be lynched (only skimmed over the thread last night)

Ichigo committed suicide. I don't understand why you people are still voting him. His statement was clear. This means that if Ichigo isn't the one with the most votes, he will be eliminated anyway.

So, you should better vote another player, which will result in the death of two suspects: Ichigo and player X.

[shlin28]

I thought suicide wasn't allowed?

[Kommodus]

Crap. My recent post already got bumped back a page. So I'm posting this here to make sure it doesn't get missed. If you haven't read it yet, please go back and consider it carefully.

C'mon people, how about some more votes for Brave_Sir_Robin? There's not very much time left.

Regarding Ichigo: he's said he quit. If this is real, and he is gone at the end of this round, fine. If not, he should be our next lynch target, if the game continues.

[Andres]

Regarding Ichigo: he's said he quit. If this is real, and he is gone at the end of this round, fine. If not, he should be our next lynch target, if the game continues.

He said he quit. He shouldn't survive this round. That would be cheating imo. And from what he told me in the chat, he really meant it. He suicided several pages ago. Hence why I don't understand people still voting for him.

But since some players still have doubts, I'd like GH to answer this question, just so that everybody can be 100 % sure:

@GH: can we consider Ichigo dead in this game?

[Kagemusha]

Lets start putting some real pressure on the main suspects of mine. Unvote Roadkill and Vote BSR

[Kommodus]

C'mon guys, one more vote for BSR to put the lynch noose around his neck. Right now the vote is tied 2-2-2 between him, Ichigo, and RoadKill. BSR was just online; he posted in CountArach's game, but not here. I wonder why not?

I think he's been playing a very good game as mafia, but his time is just about up.

[GeneralHankerchief]

Voting over.

Let me confirm the tally and I'll decide what to do.

[shlin28]

Er... OK

Unvote Ichigo, Vote BSR

Edit: NO!!!!!!!!!!!! VOTED TOO LATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[GeneralHankerchief]

I'll count your vote shlin since it was a three-way tie anyway and Ichigo will in fact die this round.

Stand by for the execution.

[Proletariat]

GH, are we gonna get any answer on the Ichigo suicide?

[Pannonian]

GH, are we gonna get any answer on the Ichigo suicide?

Before shlin's vote, the tally was a 3-way tie between Roadkill, BSR and Ichigo, all on 2 votes each. Shlin then unvoted Ichigo and voted BSR. GH accepted this, making it 3 votes to BSR and the lynch, as Ichigo will die this round anyway. This means Ichigo will indeed suicide this round.

[Proletariat]

If Ichigo is mafia, it's really cheap he was allowed to play around with the suicide tactic when Roadkill was admonished for it. Guess we'll see

[GeneralHankerchief]

The only reason RoadKill had for suiciding was that he seemed to be getting the most votes. Ichigo on the other hand was mad about how serious the game was being taken and how apparently there had been a comment levelled at him. This is why I accepted his suicide and denied RoadKill's.

[Husar]

If Ichigo is mafia, it's really cheap he was allowed to play around with the suicide tactic when Roadkill was admonished for it. Guess we'll see

Ichi wasn't playing around, his suicide counts, please read the thread as it has been said twice before your post!

[GeneralHankerchief]

Chief of Police Beirut stood on the execution platform, looking out over the small group of people (they could no longer be considered a crowd) but not really paying attention. Instead, his nose was in a book and he was thumbing through the pages, muttering to himself.

"No, this one's too normal... maybe we'll use that one later... ugh! That should do it!"

He did this for several minutes, which passed into hours. Beirut's comments were occasionally marked with groans, and gradually the attention of the townies waned from the voting process to their Chief of Police's mutterings, finally visibly losing all interest in voting. After a while of this noticeable lack of silence, Beirut paused and looked up.

"Oh," he said, surprised, "So you're all done then?" Without waiting for anyone to answer, he continued. "Good, then. I'll tally the votes." He placed the book down on a small wooden table on the platform. Also on the table was a simple handgun, a pistol designed primarily self-defense. Surely he wouldn't use it as a firing squad weapon? The town wondered.

"Gentlemen," he began, "You have hereby found Brave_Sir_Robin to be guilty of murder. BSR, have you anything to say before you are killed?"

BSR stepped up to the execution platform, still looking confused. Evidently the fact that he was going to die, now, hadn't set in yet. "Yeah," he said, "What's up with the book?"

"Oh," said Beirut, "It's going to be killing you.

"Let me explain," he continued as he saw the town react with puzzlement. This is no ordinary book. This is The Complete Collection of William Topaz McGonagall, widely considered to be the worst poet in the entire English language. I will be reading a selection from his book today, with headphones on of course. You, by the end of it, will be so disgusted and will want to make it stop that you will seize the gun on the table, point it at your head, and fire desperately, hoping to make it stop."

There was a shocked gasp that rippled through the townies. Hanging was okay, the electric chair fine, sharks with frickin' lazers not bad, even the antimatter chair was all right. But this... this was pure torture! BSR already began to shudder.

"Ahem." Everyone put their hands to their ears, but BSR's were tied down. He grimaced in anticipation.

"Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv'ry Tay!
Alas! I am very sorry to say
That ninety lives have been taken away
On the last Sabbath day of 1879,
Which will be remember'd for a very long time."

Everybody groaned. It was The Tay Bridge Disaster, possibly the worst one of the lot! BSR began shrieking and writhing, desperately trying to get free.

"'Twas about seven o'clock at night,
And the wind it blew with all its might,
And the rain came pouring down,
And the dark clouds seem'd to frown,
And the Demon of the air seem'd to say-
'I'll blow down the Bridge of Tay.'"

By the close of the second stanza, Beirut could barely be heard over Brave_Sir_Robin's screaming and pounding the floor. Nevertheless, he simply raised his voice and pressed on.

"When the train left Edinburgh
The passengers' hearts were light and felt no sorrow,
But Boreas blew a terrific gale,
Which made their hearts for to quail,
And many of the passengers with fear did say-
'I hope God will send us safe across the Bridge of Tay.'"

By now BSR was working furiously to undo his ropes. Several townies who had unconsciously let up pressed harder on their ears, their faces turning red from the effort.

"But when the train came near to Wormit Bay,
Boreas he did loud and angry bray,
And shook the central girders of the Bridge of Tay
On the last Sabbath day of 1879,
Which will be remember'd for a very long time."

Two things happened at the end of the fourth stanza. First of all, BSR succeeeded in undoing his bounds, groped furiously, madly, for the gun, and blasted himself in the head, falling to the floor with a facial expression of blessed relief.

Secondly, and even more gruesomely, Ichigo took his hands off his hears for a moment to scrach an itch on his neck, immediately grimacing at the horrid poetry being read aloud. It was a pesky itch, however, and his ears remained undefended for too long. At the end of the last word ("time") the terrible rhyme proved to be too much, and his entire body burst in flames, spontaneously combusting for all the Frontroom to see.

"Wow," said Beirut, impressed. "That was only about half the poem. Anyway, good night."

Voting tally for Round 9:

Brave_Sir_Robin: 3 (shlin28, Kommodus, Kagemusha)
RoadKill: 2 (Brave_Sir_Robin, Crazed Rabbit)
Kommodus: 1 (Stig)
Ichigo: 1 (RoadKill)

Didn't vote: 1 (Ichigo)

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Still alive: (6)
RoadKill
shlin28
Stig
Crazed Rabbit
Kommodus
Kagemusha

Suicide/Wrath of God:
Ignoramus
FesterShinetop
Fragony
Don Corleone
Pra Tha Funkee Homo Sapien
Ichigo

Killed:
pevergreen
Sigurd Fafnesbane
Caius Flaminius
Killfr3nzy
Sasaki Kojiro
Byzantine Mercenary
Warmaster Horus
Xdeathfire
Destroyer of Hope
Twilightblade
Dutch_guy
greaterkhaan
Tran
sapi
discovery1
CountArach
Proletariat
Tiberius of the Drake

Executed:
Sarathos
Husar
Beefy187
Andres
Lemur
Xiahou
woad&fangs
Pannonian
Brave_Sir_Robin

[Xiahou]

I guess no Vogon poetry was available?
Nice one, though.

[GeneralHankerchief]

I guess no Vogon poetry was available?
Nice one, though.

Vogon Poetry is so Mafia V. (and Cosa Nuova I)

[shlin28]

6 people left... does that mean after this night phase, it will be the last day phase? Since if we got it wrong, the mafia would win

[Kagemusha]

Thats why i was trying to create that 3 way tie.

[shlin28]

What would that achieve?

[woad&fangs]

What would that achieve?

discussion

[Kommodus]

Well, with any luck the game is over. Although the timing of shlin's vote was a little fishy - awfully close to the precise deadline set by GH, I'd say...

If it's somehow not over, I'll have to go back to the drawing board, since I'm out of strong suspects. If there's still a mafioso out there... let's just say they've done an excellent job and have got me completely baffled.

[Pannonian]

A quiz question I posted in the RTR forums.

Now for a complete change in direction, nothing to do with military history.

I am an artist forever associated with a river and a bridge, whose poetic genius earned me the nickname "The Great". In addition to being perhaps the second most famous poet among my people, and whose works have a devoted following even today, I took part in a celebrated performance of "Macbeth", playing the title role. It is fair to say that that performance will never die.

Who am I?

Another clue: bios of him usually state that he is without peer as a poet in his language.

The answer was, of course, the Great McGonagall.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

William Topaz McGonagall, aka "The Great McGonagall"

William Topaz McGonagall (1825–September 29, 1902) was a Scottish weaver, actor, and poet. He is renowned as one of the worst poets in the English language.

McGonagall has been widely acclaimed as the worst poet in British history. The chief criticisms of his poetry are that he is deaf to poetic metaphor and unable to scan correctly. Of the 200 or so poems that he wrote, the most famous is probably The Tay Bridge Disaster, which recounts the events of the evening of December 28, 1879, when, during a severe gale, the Tay Rail Bridge near Dundee collapsed as a train was passing over it.

Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv'ry Tay!
Alas! I am very sorry to say
That ninety lives have been taken away
On the last Sabbath day of 1879,
Which will be remember'd for a very long time.

(Modern sources give the death toll as 75.) One commentator remarked that "a lesser poet would have thought it was a good idea to write a poem about the Tay Bridge disaster. A lesser poet would have thought of conveying the shock of the people of Dundee. But only the true master could come up with a couplet like:

And the cry rang out all round the town,
Good heavens! The Tay Bridge has blown down."

McGonagall also considered himself an actor, although the theatre where he performed, Mr Giles' Theatre, would only let him perform the title role in Macbeth if he paid for the privilege in advance. Their caution proved ill-founded, as the theatre was filled with friends and fellow workers, anxious to see what they correctly predicted to be an amusing disaster. Although the play ended with Macbeth's death at the hands of Macduff, McGonagall believed that the actor playing Macduff was trying to upstage him, and so refused to die.

I must now conclude my lay
By telling the world fearlessly without least dismay,
That your central girders would not have given way,
At least many sensible men do say,
Had they been supported on each side with buttresses,
At least many sensible men confesses,
For the stronger we our houses do build,
The less chance we have of being killed.

[shlin28]

Well, with any luck the game is over. Although the timing of shlin's vote was a little fishy - awfully close to the precise deadline set by GH, I'd say...

If it's somehow not over, I'll have to go back to the drawing board, since I'm out of strong suspects. If there's still a mafioso out there... let's just say they've done an excellent job and have got me completely baffled.

There was a deadline??? I just came and voted for whoever

[RoadKill]

Once again, I will assult Kommodus and CR. By this time I think the mafia would ahve gotten rid of Kommodus for now, since his Holmes powers are sooo powerful, and trustworthy. I'm telling you guys, hes using his Holmes powers to hide from the fact that he is the mafia.

[Kommodus]

Once again, I will assult Kommodus and CR. By this time I think the mafia would ahve gotten rid of Kommodus for now, since his Holmes powers are sooo powerful, and trustworthy. I'm telling you guys, hes using his Holmes powers to hide from the fact that he is the mafia.

Er... why do you say you will assault me and CR? Why are you so sure the game isn't over? Are you, perhaps, in a better position to know this than the rest of us?

At this point only the mafia know whether or not the game is finished.