Mafia VIII: Return of the Recommencement of the Revenge of the Mafia [Concluded]

[Kralizec]

Crap...

[GeneralHankerchief]

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!"

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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.

[Privateerkev]

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

FoS: Zombie Tincow

[seireikhaan]

terrble

Misssing an I.

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

Two mis-words, in each case a "t" was replaced. Also a "C".

[CountArach]

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?

[seireikhaan]

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.

[Privateerkev]

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.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

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.

[Crazed Rabbit]

Let us turn the wrath of the town on Kommodus and FactionHeir.

Any one of the lynchees could have been mafia, the writeups wouldn't have been changed.

I believe you to be wrong. I think it was back in an earlier GH mafia when one mafia killer was pale-skinned, and after one mafia was lynched in the next kills it was written that both victims were killed by a pale skinned man.

I would have thought you'd know this...

Perhaps the town should turn its attention on Sasaki as well. He'd be just the type to try a new strategy when he's mafia.

The mispronounced words may be due to the earlier broken nose.

I should not need to note, of course, that people who bandwagon one candidate instead of spreading votes around evenly on several candidates are very likely to be mafia and should be hung themselves.

CR

[shlin28]

Vote: makaikhaan

I don't really care if makaikhaan or Sasaki gets lynched, either of them are good choices.

[FactionHeir]

One more you missed khaan:

"Suddenly curious and forgeting about all of the windows"
Missing a T

[naut]

So, still two Mafioso, and 17 Townies. Better get your lynches right this time.

[FactionHeir]

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.

[TinCow]

I agree with the focus on Sasaki. Early on, the lack of time excuse seemed plausible for his radical change in behavior. That doesn't seem to hold true anymore though. I could very easily see a mafioso Sasaki intentionally going for an overly suspicious posting style in the hopes of deterring votes with a WIFOM. Better the Sasaki you know than the Sasaki you don't. This Sasaki we don't know.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

What lack of time excuse?

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Let us turn the wrath of the town on Kommodus and FactionHeir.



I believe you to be wrong. I think it was back in an earlier GH mafia when one mafia killer was pale-skinned, and after one mafia was lynched in the next kills it was written that both victims were killed by a pale skinned man.

I would have thought you'd know this...

That choice is left up to the mafia. We've never known before if we've lynched a mafioso.

[Quintus.JC]

"I hate insects! Avenge my death!!!!!!"

[TinCow]

What lack of time excuse?

Good point; reviewing your posts, it was just a single-time excuse for being away for a single weekend. For some reason I erroneously thought it was a generalized thing, which it was not. This makes you even more suspect, as you've simply adopted a radically different style of play without any reason for it whatsoever.

[Privateerkev]

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.

I'll be busy today so someone else can do it. My post a few pages back has all the ones we found up to a certain point. I decided to take a break from it since, as you pointed out, I couldn't keep my I's and A's straight.

Good point; reviewing your posts, it was just a single-time excuse for being away for a single weekend. For some reason I erroneously thought it was a generalized thing, which it was not. This makes you even more suspect, as you've simply adopted a radically different style of play without any reason for it whatsoever.

His excuse was that it is hot in his room.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Good point; reviewing your posts, it was just a single-time excuse for being away for a single weekend. For some reason I erroneously thought it was a generalized thing, which it was not. This makes you even more suspect, as you've simply adopted a radically different style of play without any reason for it whatsoever.

That's simply not true, and even if it were true it wouldn't be any evidence of guilt. When people accuse someone of 'acting differently then in past games' the basis of the accusation is the assumption that the person can't play the same way as mafia that they can as town. That's clearly not the case with me. Ergo.

My reason, explained a couple times now, was that after being forced into low posting by high temps and a road trip, I decided to let things develop on their own for a while.

[Seamus Fermanagh]

Vote: Sasaki Kojiro

Lots of people left who play well and have a track record of success as mafiosi. Sasaki, Kukri, and Kommo stand out, for me, because we're seeing decidedly different volumes than norm from them. With respect, Sasaki, I think your style is too far off your base as well as your posting frrequency change. Your average is now coming up, of course, but....

If you were "laying back and letting things develop," we sure could use the benefits of your quiet insight now.


Kommodus and Kukri remain persons of concern for me.

[GeneralHankerchief]

Wow, not even one page has passed. It's your game, guys.

[Sarathos]

Vote: Sasaki Kojiro

I think you mean Vote:Sasaki (not my vote).

But I disagree with you Seamus, just because some people are better at being mafia then afters doesn't necessarily make them mafia all the time. Sure Sasaki And Kommodus are outstanding players when mafia, but I am pretty sure we have all been mafia at least once (even me) so although being a good mafia player helps, you you really need to do is win. Makaikhaan for one I know to be a excellent mafia but very few times has he been caught. But even I have managed to get awat with a mafia victory (shocking I know) which furthers supports the fact that althought going for the veteran mafia players is a rather sound plan, the less noticed ones are equally as likely and shouldn't be disregarded.

While on those lines, Vote:FactionHeir . You are more than active in Andres mafia, where are you in this game?

[Beefy187]

There is couple players that im not really sure about because I don't remember playing with them.

Couple players that I find suspicious.

Kommodus is being very quiet. I suggest lynching him in next few turns as he can work either dead or alive.

Joe Monks did couple of "I am not mafia trick" and I am still deciding whether I should trust him or not.

Assuming that detective is still alive, I don't think either Ichigo or Sasaki is guilty because they seem to be popular investigation choices in the earlier round.

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

Those three player in red seems to be a good choice for me. However this is only from judging the past two rounds so I dont know how other player acted suspiciously.

I will

Vote: Roadkill

He is not acting strange but he is normally a silent killer when he is mafia. As I don't have solid reason I will change the vote if I see a better option

Also I have a plane to catch tomorrow so I don't think I will be active later tonight and tomorrow.

When I get to my country, I will try read through what others said especially makaikhaans post about Sasaki.

[Gaius Scribonius Curio]

I'm going to Vote: Kommodus for now.

A few people have mentioned that he needs to be watched. I for one have no real ideas at the minute, aside from a lingering suspicion of FactionHeir. Also as people have mentioned prior to this, Kommodus' tool can be utilised whether he is alive or not, and if h is truly with the town I'm sure he will.

Will try to keep an eye on the thread and keep up to date, but I've just started my exam week, so my activity might drop off a little bit.

[Crazed Rabbit]

That's simply not true, and even if it were true it wouldn't be any evidence of guilt. When people accuse someone of 'acting differently then in past games' the basis of the accusation is the assumption that the person can't play the same way as mafia that they can as town. That's clearly not the case with me. Ergo.

My reason, explained a couple times now, was that after being forced into low posting by high temps and a road trip, I decided to let things develop on their own for a while.

That's a flimsy excuse, and I expect you know it. In one of the biggest games you suddenly go all quiet on us, and so far have managed to slip under the radar.

I don't buy your 'let things develop' explanation. You gathered less suspicion and as a mafia, that's goal number one, isn't it?

CR

[CountArach]

I think you mean Vote:Sasaki (not my vote).

But I disagree with you Seamus, just because some people are better at being mafia then afters doesn't necessarily make them mafia all the time. Sure Sasaki And Kommodus are outstanding players when mafia, but I am pretty sure we have all been mafia at least once (even me) so although being a good mafia player helps, you you really need to do is win. Makaikhaan for one I know to be a excellent mafia but very few times has he been caught. But even I have managed to get awat with a mafia victory (shocking I know) which furthers supports the fact that althought going for the veteran mafia players is a rather sound plan, the less noticed ones are equally as likely and shouldn't be disregarded.

Kommodus admits to being a poor mafia . I personally do not believe he is mafia because when he is mafia he posts up some results from Holmes and, while he does keep his activity fairly low, he never goes absolutely silent.

Anyway, I've received a PM asking why I am not active, and I will explain it with arguing with Americans in the Backroom (Always a waste of time ) and being in the middle of University exams.

[Andres]

Why are you guys not lynching Kukrikhan?

[Sigurd]

Kommodus admits to being a poor mafia . I personally do not believe he is mafia because when he is mafia he posts up some results from Holmes and, while he does keep his activity fairly low, he never goes absolutely silent.

That might be true in the past. If Kommodus yet again got the role of Mafioso, I would believe he would try to change his tactic. We all know Kommodus has a busy job and it would not sound strange to us if he told us he had no time playing. Playing the lurker Mafioso is a well proved tactic.
Do we have games where Kommodus is townie and is inactive like this?

Vote: Kommodus
Fos: CountArach

[GeneralHankerchief]

Voting over.

Stand by for the execution.