Ok, seems like I missed an interesting end to the day.

Unfortunately, due to WoGs, suicides and lynches, we won't know how many killers there are left until the beginning of the next day phase.

I don't know what role Sigurd may or may not have had. It doesn't make sense that it was that of Taketski though. There was the killing of Husar, who (in case noone else noticed, I didn't see it in the thread), seems to have been the prostitute. (Evidence for this, the fact that Rythmic, our best candidate for the detective role, tried valiantly to protect Husar, both in thread and via PM. The Carabineri knew the identity of the prostitute remember).

Looking over thread for more clues. We have at most four killers left by my reckoning, the SK (most likely the MiB), Taketski (or as impossible as it sounds a copycat killer, I'd discount this), and either two Carellis or one Carelli and Manfredo. This is assuming that the 'new' nervous killer was one of the above. With the evidence to hand, I'd hazard a guess that he was, but perhaps hadn't killed before. The fact that before firing he tells the victim (I haven't bothered going back for details): 'I'm an evil Mafioso' (or something along those lines), indicates inexperiance and precludes the appearance of a pro-town killer. I believe that this means that he is one of the Carellis, Gianluca, who seems from the original storyline to be unhappy at killing everyone. Manfredo and Taketski are both hardened professionals, so it is neither of them. I don't believe that another 'Mafioso' would appear at such a late stage in the game, a secret role maybe, but not a 'Mafioso'.

The SK (or MiB), will not stop until all those who 'insulted' his precious sister are dead. However, his lynching should not be our first priority. When his objective is acheived, it seems likely that he will stop killing and revert to a normal 'townie' state, losing his killing abilities but with the same objective of saving the town (please feel free to disagree, I don't know whether this would ordinarily be the case).

Taketski and any Carellis must be what we as a town investigate and try to dig up clues on. Their collective objectives, while distinct from each other culminate in wiping out the townies. There are at most three of these left although my personal opinion is that Oojebus was one of these. I do not believe Sigurd was Taketski (as stated above). Thus we have Taketski and Gianluca to find.

From this evidence I'd suggest, although this contradicts my suggestion from yesterday that Manferdo is still alive and would repeat Tincow's plea from a few days ago.

Your primary objective is to stay alive. To do so, you must evade death at the hands of the Mafia, who must kill you for their victory, as such, your victory conditions and the towns' coincide. Join the town, it makes sense.

Unfortunately, Manfredo has no way of communicating with the town without betraying his identity. More importantly, even if he wants to help the town, there is no way for him to know who is innocent or guilty, other than the same tools available to the town. Observation and analysis. This is another flaw, as even if he (or she) is truly on the towns side, the hitman is still fallible, and can make mistakes. Which we can ill afford at this stage... I'm assume this would come under the banner of a WIFOM, I could argue this round in circles for days, but, I'd advise Manfredo to at least try and help the town.

We know that Oojebus was guilty, which means that thus far we have removed one threat. At the cost of nearly 3/4 of the town! In other words unless we drastically improve our hit ratio, we haven't got a prayer. Sad and defeatist maybe but true.

I trust that anyone with the towns interests at heart will read this, even if it tells us pretty much nothing, and continues to make suggestions and create discussion which could lead us to discover this darkness in our midst.

We stand at the gates of hell ladies and gentlemen. Let us at least go down fighting!




(, pretentious I know, but meh!)