The Prometheus: Large Mafia Game [Concluded]

[Crazed Rabbit]

The time grew late on The Prometheus. The crew returned to their quarters. Some of them talked, others kept to themselves, contemplating what had happened.

One member of the crew realized he had forgotten his jacket in the meeting room and went back to fetch it. The lights were still undimmed this early at night.

He walked quickly back to the room, not especially wary. He did not hear or see the figure move behind him. After he had entered the room and put the jacket on, he was walking towards the exit when he heard a soft clank.

Yoyoma stopped and stared out the door. The sound reminded him of someone scraping his shoe against the wall. He didn’t move for a moment and heard nothing more. He moved towards the door.

As he stepped out, he heard a scuffle and a grunt from his right, and turned quickly to see a man bearing down on him, swinging a weapon. Yoyoma was not caught unaware, and dodged to his left. The man did not stop advancing and brought his weapon, which Yoyoma saw was a pipe, around for another swing. Having seen no other figures around him, Yoyoma seized the moment and rushed against his assailant, laying hands on him before he could bring his weapon around. He landed two swift blows at close range, but the attacked dropped his weapon and reached to grapple with Yoyoma. He had great strength, but Yoyoma was able to break off his grip and fling the advancing man to the side.

The attacker stumbled past before turning and grunting, but Yoyoma had already taken off running towards the barracks room. The attacker immediately pursued him.

Yoyoma did not notice that the lights had been dimmed, and run at full steam through the corridors of the ship, narrowly missing corners and structures. He was running as fast as he could, but still he heard the attacker behind him, not losing ground.

But he kept his pace up, knowing he was almost back, just a turn or two more and he would be safe. But in a blur he felt a huge pain in his stomach and was tumbling across the floor and into a wall, where he groaned in pain. Yoyoma had not seen the man emerge and swing his weapon directly into him a tiny fraction of a second before he passed the corner.

Yoyoma wheezed in pain and gripped his ribs, struggling to get to his feet. He could only manage to get up on his knees and balance against the wall, one hand grasping his side, the other supporting him. He struggled to breath; it was harder than anything he had ever done before.

He tried to yell but could not, and looked up to see figures approaching him. One went to retrieve a pipe where the impact with Yoyoma had ripped it from the attacker’s grasp.

“How fitting that your demise is due to this brutal technology of metal you employ. Perhaps now you will appreciate its evil before I cleanse this universe of another parasite,” said the man as he picked up the pipe and approached Yoyoma.

Yoyoma was violently grasping for breath against the wall and could not move out of the way. As the attacker approached, he held up an arm to block the blow. It did not help.

His body was not discovered for some time. In the morning, the mood was perhaps more somber than ever before.

The Captain paced tensely at the front of the meeting room, face rigid. Finally, he curtly addressed the crew, “I believe you need not be reminded of the importance of your task. Do not be distracted and find the killer.”

The Captain returned to pacing. The crew members looked among themselves.

Alive (10)

Ichigo
makaikhaan
YLC
Seamus
Reenk Roink
twilightblade
Peasant Phill
Mithrandir
White Eyes
Alexander The Pretty Good


Killed (5)
Lord Winter
Andres
shlin28
beefy187
Yoyoma

Thrown Out the Air-Lock (1)
KukriKhan

Imprisoned (7)

Rythmic
glyphz
Sigurd
Askthepizzaguy
Chaotix
Pevergreen
Aries777777

[Thermal]

i doubt YLC is mafia else he wouldn't bother arguing with the argumentative, he'd of avoided it in the first place, though what do the imprisoned know....

[Yoyoma1910]

Gradoux. Les carencros son bien zirables.




Oh well, I never did like the idea of having to live with a creepy cult wandering around all over the place. Good luck all.

[Reenk Roink]

Vote: seireikhaan

OK, town, listen to me very carefully. We must lynch seireikhaan this round he is the Original Agent.

I know this because I am The Deputy (Detective/Cop/Investigator role) and I investigated him last night.

Customary proof out of the way:

Original Role PM:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Greetings

You are the Deputy

You are James Sholken's most trusted adviser. You were sent with the Prometheus to ensure it's safe and productive efforts. Your intelligence and adaptability made you perfect for the job.

Before leaving, Sholken confided in you that an environmental agent may have been able to sneak aboard the Prometheus and attempt to sabotage its mission. If there is such a threat, it is your job to stamp it out.

Every other night, you may investigate the cabin of one astronaut. The off nights, you are required to run maintainence and support for the Prometheus to ensure it runs at optimum efficiency.

Crazed Rabbit

Prior Investigations:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Investigation 1: (round 1)

You sneak into the cabin of Ichigo and find him sound asleep on his bunk. Working nimbly, you rummage through his belongings, take a look at what literature he reads, and examine his computer for files and communication logs, but are unable to find the slightest bit of evidence that he is involved in the sabotage of the ship or associated with the tyranny. In your expert conclusion, Ichigo is innocent.

Investigation 2: (round 3)

You sneak into the cabin of Seamus and find him sound asleep on his bunk. Working nimbly, you rummage through his belongings, take a look at what literature he reads, and examine his computer for files and communication logs, but are unable to find the slightest bit of evidence that he is involved in the sabotage of the ship or associated with the tyranny. In your expert conclusion, Seamus is innocent.

Investigation 3: (round 5)

You sneak into the cabin of pevergreen and find him sound asleep on his bunk. Working nimbly, you rummage through his belongings, take a look at what literature he reads, and examine his computer for files and communication logs, but are unable to find the slightest bit of evidence that he is involved in the sabotage of the ship or associated with the tyranny. In your expert conclusion, pevergreen is innocent.

Investigation this round (7):

You sneak into the cabin of makaikhaan but find his bed empty. There seems to be no sign of him in the room at all. Scanning the titles on his bookshelf, you find all sorts of books on mechanical engineering and aeronautics. Much more disturbing are the books that are placed behind these: manuals on hypnosis and copies of well known extremist literature such as The Omnivore's Dilemma, Manifestos on the Future of Food and Seed and The Ownerless Planet. Moving on to his computer you notice that most of the files have been encypted, but from what little information is available, you gleam that the agent makaikhaan came on board with a mission to brainwash the entire crew. When the necessary equipment malfunctioned, he moved with the two followers he had corrupted to murder the crew for his cause. Unfortunately, the aliases of his disciples were encoded and you were not able to determine their identities. With emotions of fear, anger, and hope, you leave makaikhaan's cabin...

The fact is, seireikhaan/makaikhaan/'khaan/khaan has been an extremely slippery Agent and obviously was always very worried about surviving in all those previous rounds. We can't put the rope around his neck only for him to get away again!

For the Prometheus!

P.S: Make sure he is actually lynched this round, it looks like several times before he escaped.

[Yoyoma1910]

You couldn't have figured that out a little bit earlier eh, Mr. Roink. I guess I know who my ghost is going to be haunting.

[Mithrandir]

I see little reason for RR to lie about this,so : Vote: seireikhaan. If he's innocent, RR must be killed.

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

Oh cool, evidence.

Vote: seireikhaan

[Seamus Fermanagh]

Folks, this is mafia, where paranoia is both a healthy survival tool AND the means of your own destruction.

If you endlessly chain out possibilities, then you must acknowledge that ANYTHING is POSSIBLE. That does not mean that you should steer your voting that way. After all, I coul be killed before finishing this post should an airliner plummet into my home -- but while POSSIBLE it's not the way I'm going to plan out my day. Use what evidence you have, make a reasonable assessment of the probabilities, and move forward. Endlessly spinning the possibilities leads to inaction and that will get the town dead.


If conversion does feature as a component of this game (reasonable though unconfirmed supposition), then it is possible (though unlikely) that the detective role would be open to conversion.

Reenk's info has borne out so far, including the write-up of the last lynch. It is possible that CR purposely wrote to confuse us, but his write-up indicates the lynch was of the primary eco-agent. This does not preclude the existence of other eco-agents, but does suggest, in combination with the lynch of Pizza, that we have accomplished much in removing the threat to Prometheus.

Reenk is NOT, therefore, a good vote at this juncture. Yes, its possible he's been converted, or that he always was mafia and has done this as a "Queen's Gambit" strategy to win. The writeups and his style thus far do not lead me to think this.


Phil: Why the overly "noble" crap about not voting vengeance-style? I clearly labeled my vote on you as a pressure tactic. It was the explanation I wanted. And to answer your question, if the chap in question is openly and generally acknowledged to be a semi-lurker then his reputation can make him a good mafioso choice.

Mith is my other consideration at this stage though. His role-playing indicates quite a bit of involvment in the game, but also sets up nicely as a tactic.

I'll leave the vote alone for now, but must ponder.