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    Default Re: Mafia VIII: Return of the Recommencement of the Revenge of the Mafia

    Crap...

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    Default Re: Mafia VIII: Return of the Recommencement of the Revenge of the Mafia

    Day breaks in the Frontroom. All is quiet. A chill wind breezed its way through town, perhaps a sign of the times, or more likely, that writers can milk the "ominous weather" metaphor for all it's worth and then some. It was enough to keep most people indoors, as if they needed any more excuses to do so after all of the past attacks, but for some people, it didn't bother them at all.

    Rythmic used the ensuing terror to sneak out to Frontroom Hall, the stage where many famous musical acts had played over the years, and steal some of the most powerful equipment known to man. Giant subwoofers, smoke machines, amplifiers that went to 11... yes, Frontroom Hall had it all, and it was now all his.

    After taking some considerable time to set everything up, Rythmic took out his special, custom-made guitar, and began jamming like he never had before. Yes, he was doing so in his own bedroom, to an audience that didn't exist, in a town that had quite a few problems at the moment, but dangit, he was rocking out.

    He was playing a particular section of Floyd's "One Of These Days" when suddenly, all the windows in his room shattered. Apparently there was such a thing as too loud. Looking down to survey the damage, Rythmic noticed a surprising sight: Someone was down there, with a drum set, looking up and wondering why the rocking had stopped.

    Suddenly curious and forgeting about all of the windows, Rythmic picked up right where he left off, closely listening for the sound of drums. Yes, the person below was playing, and in time!

    After the song had finished, Rythmic ran outside to greet the man and ask if he was okay. He was in for another surprise on seeing him up close: The drummer was not dressed in the usual rock regalia of a T-shirt and jeans, rather, he was wearing a trenchcoat and fedora that perfectly matched the weather.

    "Hello," the drummer said, "Lovely day for rocking, isn't it?"

    "Well, the weather kind of sucks, but I guess any day is a good day to rock."

    There was a pause as the man nodded in agreement.

    "Say," Rythmic said, "I couldn't really hear you that well from inside... mind playing a bit of a solo for me? It's been a while since I've had accompaniment."

    "Sure thing," the man said, grinning almost a little too widely. He began into his routine, with Rythmic listening eagerly. Rolls, rim shots, symbol hits, perfect bass... this guy had it all. But sometime through, Rythmic noticed that the drummer had hit a particular head in a particular way, and a particular sound had come out of it.

    Unbeknownst to him, the drummer's hit had opened a secret compartment, sending a poison-tipped dart out, silently, at a good speed. A split second later it had connected with Rythmic's neck, and he fell down to the ground in an instant, already choking and spitting. It was over in less than a minute.

    "Ba-dum KISH!" the man played, and then walked away.

    Across town, Quintus.J.Cicero remained inside, wary that the two deaths from yesterday (not caused by TinCow's insanity on the execution platform, that is) had happened when the two victims had stepped outside for various reasons. While unaware that this was the precise way in which Rythmic had just passed, he knew that there was no way that anybody would get him out of his house, especially not in unseasonably cold weather.

    He stayed upstairs, in a room with a good view of his property, just in case a mafioso tried to smoke him out or something. Armed with both a high-powered rifle as well as a hose, Quintus believed that he was prepared for any potential attack.

    Then, a black Mercedes with what looked to be a shiny new windshield drove by, towing a large, driverless, moving van. It stopped at a position where the Mercedes was past his house and the back of the moving van was lined up with his front door. Squinting, Quintus could see that the moving company's logo had been crossed out. In its place were the shoddily-painted words "Red Imported Fire Ants".

    Quintus gulped. For whatever reason, he was envisioning terrble things. Would a high-powered hose be enough to keep fire ants away?

    The window of the Mercedes rolled down and the driver tossed out a projectile of some kind. It seemed to be giving off some sort of aroma, and (just Quintus's luck), it rolled right to the house's doorstep.

    The back of the moving van's doors flew open and out marched a seemingly endless column of red ants. They were headed directly for Quintus's house. Horrified, Quintus took his eyes off the windows and ran to a spot where he had a view of his foyer; of course, the RIFAs entered in force.

    Gripping the hose and muttering a silent prayer, Quintus began spraying water at his foyer, ruining a perfectly good floor and some furniture, in a desperate attempt to get rid of the ants. It was to no avail. Yes, the ants went flying, but they simply gripped the walls and ceiling and continued their march. Soon they had encompassed the entire foyer and were beginning to move upstairs.

    Quintus was almost out of options. The way he saw it, he could continue spraying and eventually be devoured by the RIFAs... or jump and end it now. He was about to choose the latter, when he spied a way out.

    "Power lines!" he muttered. "If I climb on these I can shimmy over to the next house and find a way out of here! Let's just see if they can support my weight... I think so, but barely... only one way to find out." And so he began his slow movement to the house across the street. Completely concentrating on putting one hand in front of the other, Quintus only noticed about halfway through that the mafioso was leaning on his Mercedes, watching him, and holding his shotgun.

    "Targed pragdice," the mafioso said, and fired.

    Quintus let go in pain, falling several feet in a heap. He thought that he would have died from the blast and the fall, but no - he was still alive, though barely, and fully aware, fully conscious...

    ...of the red imported fire ants now swarming over his body.

    The mafioso, satisfied, got back into his Mercedes and drove away.

    Later that day, Chief of Police Beirut gathered all the remaining villagers into the town square in order to make an announcement.

    "Gentlemen," he began, "the Frontroom is officially facing a crisis. Our numbers have halved, exactly, in a matter of days. I suggest that we all stop screwing around and truly get to work finding the mafia if you want this scourge to end. Get voting!"


    ~~~~~~~~~~~

    Still alive: (19)
    Ichigo
    RoadKill
    shlin28
    makaikhaan
    Sasaki Kojiro
    Sigurd Fafnesbane
    Caius
    Gaius Scribonius Curio
    Sarathos
    Beefy187
    Tiberius of the Drake
    KukriKhan
    CountArach
    Kommodus
    Seamus Fermanagh
    Kagemusha
    discovery1
    FactionHeir
    Joe Monks

    Suicide/Wrath of God:
    |Sith|R|AntiWarmanCake88
    Mithrandir
    Fenring
    Lord Winter
    georgeman51

    Killed:
    Tratorix
    Omanes Alexandrapolites
    Andres
    Craterus
    LittleGrizzly
    TevashSzat
    Crazed Rabbit
    woad&fangs
    Rythmic
    Quintus.J.Cicero

    Executed:
    Privateerkev
    Elite Ferret
    peverpink
    TinCow

    Voting will be extended this round until Monday afternoon, GMT-5, to properly synchronize with my sleep schedule.
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    Default Re: Mafia VIII: Return of the Recommencement of the Revenge of the Mafia

    Tincow is listed as both "still alive" and "executed".

    FoS: Zombie Tincow



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    Default Re: Mafia VIII: Return of the Recommencement of the Revenge of the Mafia

    Quote Originally Posted by GeneralHankerchief
    terrble
    Misssing an I.

    Quote Originally Posted by GeneralHankerchief
    "Targed pragdice," the mafioso said, and fired.
    Two mis-words, in each case a "t" was replaced. Also a "C".
    Last edited by seireikhaan; 06-15-2008 at 06:04.
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    Quote Originally Posted by makaikhaan View Post
    Two mis-words, in each case a "t" was replaced. Also a "C".
    In this case the misspelling is most probably to create an accent and hence I don't believe we should count it. Has anything else been counted as misspelt from this mafioso?
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    Default Re: Mafia VIII: Return of the Recommencement of the Revenge of the Mafia

    Vote: Sasaki

    There is little good reason for your decrease in posting. You're count is way down, and many of your votes have been unhelpful, often unhelpful with either little or no reasoning.

    Examples like this, this, this, this, this. Of note for this one is that he doesn't ever actually do as he said and clarify or discuss the vote or issues.
    Here, Sasaki repeats his FoS of TinCow, but again does not offer any reasoning or clarification for it.Here he once again does a FoS of TinCow but doesn't offer reasoning. Here he states he even can't recall any actual specific post that actually struck him as suspicious. Also this



    Non-contributory posts like this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this


    Serious posts:
    This, this, this, this, this, this, where he finally offers the faintest of a glimpse of his reasoning and his activity, but frankly, to me, this isn't all that acceptable. Hell, my state's flooded and I can find time to do this post.
    This, and this, where he only finally offers some kind of serious reason for all of his previous votes and "FoS'".Here he offers a further vote for TinCow for the tie.This and this regarding letters.



    Basically, Sasaki's been active enough to avoid major suspicion, but has most often been unhelpful in his votes and commentary. His activity isn't particularly explainable, and his behavior, for someone who is so experienced at mafia, is unacceptable, and has done almost no good for the town thus far; there were still two different killers for the night phase; the drummer and the man with the broken nose. This would rather indicate to me that TinCow was innocent. Sasaki's efforts to help the town have thus far been mostly subpar; I think its attributable to being guilty.
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    Default Re: Mafia VIII: Return of the Recommencement of the Revenge of the Mafia

    I agree that Sasaki is acting strange, but it just doesn't make sense. He's better than this. I guess lynch him for being strange but I just have a hard time believing that he would act so strange as mafia. When mafia, the guy is as cool as a cucumber.

    So, lynch Sasaki if you guys can't think of anyone better but don't take your eyes off of Khaan or FH.


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    Default Re: Mafia VIII: Return of the Recommencement of the Revenge of the Mafia

    There are far too many links in that post.

    Some games I lead the charge some I don't. Think I got lynched as a townie in mafia VI (?) for posting less. It happens.

    By the way makaikhaan, you should know that the "different killers" in the writeup doesn't indicate squat. Any one of the lynchees could have been mafia, the writeups wouldn't have been changed.

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    Default Re: Mafia VIII: Return of the Recommencement of the Revenge of the Mafia

    One more you missed khaan:

    "Suddenly curious and forgeting about all of the windows"
    Missing a T
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    So, still two Mafioso, and 17 Townies. Better get your lynches right this time.
    Last edited by naut; 06-15-2008 at 12:34.
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    Default Re: Mafia VIII: Return of the Recommencement of the Revenge of the Mafia

    Can someone please make a tally of all missing (not added or misplaced) letters we got so far and then another with the other categories included so we can toy with it?

    We should have a sentence by now I think.
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