Capo di Tutti Capi II - Story thread

[Andres]

(Game Thread Post 729)

"Where is that Yankee ingenuity
Somebody told me how the motion picture would end
I turned and glared at them
And then I read the way the world was going to end
With a whimpering sound, not a banging away
I'm sorry I gave it away

I want a big surprise tonite
A really big surprise tonite"

-- Sparks



Sunset, Day Two

Kommodus gaveled the committee to silence. The voting session had been long and contentious, with claims and arguments bouncing around the room for more than an hour before the ballots were called for.

“I have counted the votes and that vote has been witnessed by three of the officers detailed to us by Chief Fermanagh. Having received,...”

Glenn, who’d been standing alone in the lavatory for 20 minutes stepped out into the room, his face pale and drawn, but quietly defiant. Kommodus paused and surveyed the now silent assembly.

“…Having received more votes than any other, it is the sentence of the Committee of Vigilance for Fatlington that pevergreen is to be executed.”

Glenn had just inhaled in preparation for one last defiant statement. He paused, visibly stunned at the change of events.

So was pevergreen. “That’s ludicrous!…”

Other voices broke in “It was a tie…he switched his vote late…wanted them both...what do you mean you abstained?!…”

“Count those slips again,” shouted pevergreen, “this is impossible.”

Somewhat stunned himself by the turn of events, Kommodus agreed to a re-count. This one was conducted with both Glenn and pevergreen physically restrained by Fermanagh’s muscle.

By one vote it would be Pevergreen who would die.

Kommodus led him to the table he’d prepared – or so he’d thought –- for Glenn. A sumptuous meal of fine steak, succulent lobster, exquisitely sauced summer vegetables and a perfectly sweetened cobbler of Jersey peaches for dessert. The wines accompanying each dish were of good quality – one of the finest restaurants in town had provided them – and much better than pevergreen had ever drunk.

To his credit, pevergreen worked at enjoying every morsel – offering a bite to any who wanted to enjoy the rich flavors. No one did. He commented on the flavor, and managed to down each bottle provided with its respective course.

Each course was laced with a progressively higher dose of strychnine. Fortunately for pevergreen, the wine had dulled the onset of the poisoning symptoms. The pain produced by each progressively harsher seizure was also lessened, so his groans were minimal. He had lost consciousness entirely before the grand mal seizure that killed him struck.

Somberly, the Committee adjourned, each member leaving the chamber to seek their own dinner. They stepped out into a steamy, moonless night, the air strangely still but charged with the energy of an impending storm. Nobody expected a restful night.



OOC

Wild one. nn's vote was technically late, but not decisive. Charge corrected me in post #615 as to his vote and Moros' abstention (which I read when I returned from work). I think the "tie" efforts were off after this.

Night PMs need to be in to me no later than 2330 EST 8 Feb 8.

I’ll wrap up the night summary as quickly as my weekend schedule allows. I’m projecting Day three to run from then until about 1400 EST on 10 Feb 8. We’ll try to keep to 24 hour sessions from there.


Final Vote Tally for Day Two session:

Glenn = 20 (Beefy187, Big King Sanctaphrax, Brave Sir Robin, Crazed Rabbit, Elite Ferret, Glenn, Hannibalbarc, Husar, Ichigo, Joe Monks, Kagemusha, Kamikhaan, Kukrikhan, norwegian nerd*, pevergreen, Rythmic, Sigurd Fafnesbane, Tiberius of the Drake, Xehh II, & Xiahou)

Abstain = 11 (Alexander the Pretty Good, Chimpyang, Cowhead418, FactionHeir, Haudegan, Ironside, johnhughthom, Moros, Northnovas, Twilightblade, Xdeathfire)

Pevergreen = 21 (ajaxfetish, Charge, CountArach, Craterus, GeneralHankerchief, JimBob, LittleGrizzly, Louis VI the Fat, Lt. Pinard, Makayane, Myrddraal, Pannonian, Proletariat, Sasaki Kojiro, Sarathos, scottishranger, The Stranger, TinCow, TruePraetorian, woad&fangs, Zorg)

Singles = 4 [Beefy187 (Shlin28), GeneralHankerchief (Omanes Alexandrapolites), molonthegreat (Tran), Sigurd Fafnesbane (Andres)].

Not Voting = 22 (Caeser the III, Caius, Draco Leman, Dutch_guy, Evil_Maniac from Mars, Fahad I, gibsonsg91921, Hiji, Jubal_Barca, Killfr3nzy, Kommodus {not allowed}, Leet Erikson, Lord Winter, molonthegreat, Motep, Roadkill, Rob_the_Celt, sapi, taka, Warluster, Warmaster Horus, x-dANGEr)

Dead = 1 (Drisos)