The Scourge of Ephesus [Concluded]

[Askthepizzaguy]

Hmm. Not to be stubborn or anything, but people had basically agreed not to lynch you this round, merely question you. The reveal was entirely unnecessary.

It's also possible these are forgeries. It's not as though that's never happened before.

I never said I couldn't be wrong, but in my opinion, the questioning of your behavior was justified. And now this reveal puzzles me further.

However, your reveal can at least be corroborated by the parties you indicated. They can all say whether or not you blocked them, and in such a case, I would have nothing further to add in an accusation against you, and you'd have my apologies.

[TinCow]

People who should not be lynched at the moment:

GH - obvious
Rythmic - Hasn't been on the forums for days, and thus would be incapable of submitting night orders
Seamus - Blocked on a night with 3 killings
shlin - Blocked on a night with 3 killings.

I'm currently very happy with the deaths of both Tevash and RR. They were both blocked on a night when there were no killings. While the writeup does indicate some mafo-activity was going on that wasn't murder-related, GH almost certainly got one of them with his block. Good job on lynching Tevash, and don't feel regret over RR.

[GeneralHankerchief]

Hmm. Not to be stubborn or anything, but people had basically agreed not to lynch you this round, merely question you. The reveal was entirely unnecessary.

It's also possible these are forgeries. It's not as though that's never happened before.

I never said I couldn't be wrong, but in my opinion, the questioning of your behavior was justified. And now this reveal puzzles me further.

However, your reveal can at least be corroborated by the parties you indicated. They can all say whether or not you blocked them, and in such a case, I would have nothing further to add in an accusation against you, and you'd have my apologies.

Regardless of your intent, I was going down. Now people know what I was and maybe I might get another couple rounds of blocks in.

Either way, as soon as I die, people will stop getting PMs saying that an old man told them stories. Anyone who says otherwise, lynch them immediately. They are lying.

[Seamus Fermanagh]

I can confirm having received a Andres PM on the 3-kill night.

Andres indicated that I had been bored into a stupor while listening to stories. I was accompanied by one other person who was also put to sleep.

No indication was given as to the identity of the storyteller.



Curiously, on the night GH claims to have bored Tev' and Reenk, nobody perished.....

[TinCow]

FYI, it is actually pretty important that people shift their votes. GH is still leading in the lynch vote and there's only about 1 hour left until execution time. Anyone who is able to vote elsewhere should do so.

[Askthepizzaguy]

Okay, well so long as no one shows up and says you're lying, I will accept your explanation.

Unvote: GeneralHankerchief
Vote: 187Beefyz

I'm not a mafia either, I was just doing my job as a loyal townie looking for clues. It wasn't my intention to reveal a roleblocker.

Maybe I am no one's hero at the moment, but I must continue with the inquisition, so to speak. Regardless of my failed prediction here, voting for me twice is not a random vote. It does seem like he has it out for me, and I don't accept the "random" part of his explain. If you have something better on me, go for it.

Lord knows I've given you plenty to work with.


I would like to hear more from Jolt, as well.

[shlin28]

Er... Unvote: GH

Vote: FH

For stating the obvious.

[glyphz]

Tally:

FactionHeir: 2 - (boudica, shlin28)

GeneralHankerchief: 1 - (Sigurd)
seireikhaan: 1 - (Ibn-Khaldun)
Jolt: 1 - (Yoyoma1910)
YLC: 1 - (glyphz)
Askthepizzaguy: 1 - ('khaan)
187Beefyz: 1 (Atpg)

Abstain: 4 - (GH, CountArach, FH, Seamus Fermanagh)

double-checking...

[Reenk Roink]

I can confirm having received a Andres PM on the 3-kill night.

Andres indicated that I had been bored into a stupor while listening to stories. I was accompanied by one other person who was also put to sleep.

No indication was given as to the identity of the storyteller.

Curiously, on the night GH claims to have bored Tev' and Reenk, nobody perished.....

I confirm my good man's story. I also had this happen to me and another man was there.

I will just say, while I did my mission and fulfilled my first and second objectives, that roleblocker prevented me from killing and investigating.

I was going to kill Jolt. Dunno if he's Mafia or not, but I had a bone to pick with him for voting for me.

Also, TinCow, you may advise the town to feel no regret over my death, it is your call. I feel my death was much more damaging to the towns cause than yours, just as my life was much more beneficial to the cause.

I would like to remind the town that I gave them TevashSzat straight up. Without me, which of you were suspicious of him? I would like to remind them that I could have given them more...

Where was the doctor!?

[TinCow]

I've re-read the intro story a bit. With the added knowledge we now have from the write-ups, I've got a theory:

1) Manfredo is the guy leading the lynchings. He is very athletic, which fits the descriptions. In addition, we've already got 2 pairs of badguys: Bernard and Isabelle and Günner and Fehrad. Putting in a 5th mafioso would be unbalanced. It would also be inconsistent with Manfredo leading the lynch vote. The intro story also specifically states that Manfredo is "retired" which is more proof that he is no longer mafioso. My bet is that Manfredo is the Ephesus equivalent of the detective.

2) Isabelle is specifically described as crazy. This would fit with RR's style of play and also fits with the bizarre person running around like a maniac. As I noted previously, if we do not see this kind of activity continuing in the nightly write-ups, I would mark RR down as a deceased Isabelle.

[Askthepizzaguy]

Alive (24)

boudica
GeneralHankerchief
Jolt
seireikhaan
Rythmic
shlin28
Tiberius of the Drake
187Beefyz
Chaotix27
Askthepizzaguy
Quintus.JC
YLC
Sigurd
woad&fangs
Yoyoma1910
Ibn-Khaldun
Lord Winter
CountArach
Caius
El Diablo
Glyphz
FactionHeir
Seamus Fermanagh
Ignoramus


Killed (4) :

777Ares777
TheFlax
White_Eyes :D
Reenk Roink

Lynched (2) :

TinCow
Tevashzat

WoG/Suicide (0):

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GH vote abstain Post 325
CA vote abstain post 336
FH vote abstain post 339
Ibn-khaldun votes Seirekhaan post 341
ATPG votes Rythmic post 342 Unvotes, Votes GH post 347, Unvotes, Votes Beefy post 396
Boudica votes FactionHeir post 343
Yoyoma votes Jolt post 354
Sigurd votes GH post 355
Shlin votes GH post 358, unvotes, votes FactionHeir post 397
Glyphz votes YLC post 362
Sk votes ATPG post 384
Seamus votes Abstain post 390

Abstain: 4 votes
-
FactionHeir: 2 votes
Seireikhaan: 1 votes
Beefy: 1 votes
Jolt: 1 votes
GeneralHankerchief: 1 votes
YLC: 1 votes
ATPG: 1 votes

[TevashSzat]

Meh, I can confirm GH's thing too, I got bored too. So I guess the doctors should be covering him now that the mafia will be gunning for him.

Again guys, I am just a townie. Don't be fooled into thinking Reenk was a good role or that I was a mafia b/c am, again am still a townie.

[Reenk Roink]

Reenk's behavior was actively detrimental to the town.

I respectfully disagree. The reasons for why can be found in my sent down tablet. I don't really want to flat out explain my behavior while the Mafia are still working.

To the town, the Isabelle theory that TinCow is now giving is absolutely off base. I actually advise people to stop thinking about me at this stage, I don't know why anyone would still be bringing me up except to confound the town...

Also, keep YLC in your sights...

[Askthepizzaguy]

With the worst timing in the universe, I must get going. GeneralHankerchief is no longer in the lead, and I refuse to bandwagon FactionHeir without a good cause. I leave it up to you abstaining votes to decide this one.

I believe I have a good reason to vote Beefy, and it's more than an OMGUS vote. It's the claim that it's random and his consistent efforts that don't sit well.

I am not a fan of FactionHeir's efforts so far, but I don't have enough criticism of him to justify going after him yet.

Consider my tally above to be part of my apology to town.

[Andres]

Voting concluded.

Stand by for execution.

[Andres]

The Scourge of Ephesus - Day 3 - Conclusion



The Temple of Hadrianus - 9.00 pm.

All tourists had a grim expression on their faces. They stared at each other in silence.

One of them stood up and started to point his finger at a random tourist.

"It's him!"

"Who? Me? Why is that?"

"No," another one said, "it's him!"

The athletic man intervened. "Come on now, this won't get us nowhere..."

"Shut up! You annoy me!" a tourist yelled. "Just because you have muscles doesn't mean you're allowed to bossing us around!"

The athletic man stared at the tourist, an ice cold look in his eyes.

"Well, ok, eh, nevermind. But that senile has to shut up, he annoys me as well! With his hysterical screaming and yelling!"

Ice cold eyes made the tourist silent again.

Another tourist started to talk. It was a long, long, long, very long monologue.

Fingers were being pointed at each other and all of the sudden, GeneralHankerchief found himself surrounded by angry faces and shaking fists.

"It's you! You! You!"

The athletic man already picked up the sword and the gun and slowly walked towards the agitated crowd when all of the sudden, some of them slowly walked back.

"No, it's not him! It's him!"

FactionHeir looked up and sneezed. He took his twentieth handkerchief of the day. "Oh, I feel terrible. What a nasty cold I have."

"Yeah, it's got to be him, catching a cold while it's 30 °C at night. If that's not scummy behaviour... I know scummy behaviour when I see it" one of the tourists said, trying to look like an experienced detective of some sort.

"But..." (sneezes again) "I have done nothing! Come on, you've seen me the last days. I've been sick as hell, I can barely walk two metres without sneezing, how could I have possibly killed somebody?"

"Hear, that sneezing sound, it sounds exactly like that hysterical laughter!"

"Yeah! It's definitely him!"

The athletic man slowly walked towards FactionHeir.

"Stand up boy! It seems like it ends here for you. The gun or the blade?"

Pale as a wedding dress, FactionHeir stared at the man. Can't I have a handkerchief instead?

The man pointed the gun at FactionHeir and shot him between the eyes. He threw a clean handkerchief at the body.

"Sorry boy..."

The crowd looked at the late FactionHeir. None of them really looked very confident about their actions of the day.

One of the tourists slowly got up.

"Let us all get to sleep. We can all use a good nights' rest."

The tourists left the scene, looking for a good spot to sleep.

Several wondered when this nightmare would finally end...

***

Tally:


FactionHeir : 2 (boudica, shlin28)

GeneralHankerchief : 1 (Sigurd)
Jolt : 1 (Yoyoma1910)
'khaan : 1 (Ibn-Khaldun)
187Beefyz: 1 (Askthepizzaguy)
Askthepizzaguy : 1 ('khaan)
YLC: 1 (glyphz)
Abstain : 4 (GH, CountArach, FactionHeir, Seamus Fermanagh)

Not voted : 12 (Jolt, Rythmic, Tiberius, Beefy, Chaotix, Quintus.JC, YLC, w&f, Lord Winter, Caius, El Diablo, Ignoramus)

Alive (23)

boudica
GeneralHankerchief
Jolt
seireikhaan
Rythmic
shlin28
Tiberius of the Drake
187Beefyz
Chaotix27
Askthepizzaguy
Quintus.JC
YLC
Sigurd
woad&fangs
Yoyoma1910
Ibn-Khaldun
Lord Winter
CountArach
Caius
El Diablo
Glyphz
Seamus Fermanagh
Ignoramus


Killed (4) :

777Ares777
TheFlax
White_Eyes :D
Reenk Roink

Lynched (3) :

TinCow
Tevashzat
FactionHeir

WoG/Suicide (0):


It's now night. PM's please.

Night will last for +/- 24 hours

[White_eyes:D]

OK......why did you guys kill FH?......shlin and bodica are up to something....

[ULC]

This where things are going to get funny - my luck, GH is dead tomorrow, by a blade no less. I'd have preferred that ATPG had died instead, but alas...

[Reenk Roink]

This where things are going to get funny - my luck, GH is dead tomorrow, by a blade no less. I'd have preferred that ATPG had died instead, but alas...

Why are you pretending to be a killer?

[ULC]

Why are you pretending to be a killer?

I've never once pretended to be a killer RR, where do you get that? I sent a PM to you with an idle threat that I could only follow up with by trying to force a confrontation between me and you during the night phase so I could severely discredit it you. However, you were killed that night, and thus by sheer coincidence, I was implicated in it. My post following never once indicated that I killed you, only that you got what you deserved in my eyes.

[Thermal]

BAH! your all evil! all lynches from now on should be a simple process of tieing up and killing the horde of tourists! This is how terrorism happens! Last time i go abroad if theres something like a 4/28 chance i'll be killed every night

[Beefy187]

Sorry for missing the voting.

I will post my defense next day

[Chaotix]

Well, dammit. I must apologize for missing not one, but two day phases and lynchings. I've been really busy with school lately, and just keeping up with the insane amount of posts when possible has left me with no time to formulate a theory and vote afterwards...

I will strive to be more active from now on. Right now, ATPG actually seems kind of scummy to me, although he's supposedly confirmed his own innocence by his inactivity. I dunno, something about his argument with GH made him seem noticeably different from his other games- perhaps his lack of truly solid points?

[Beefy187]

Well, dammit. I must apologize for missing not one, but two day phases and lynchings. I've been really busy with school lately, and just keeping up with the insane amount of posts when possible has left me with no time to vote afterwards...

I will strive to be more active from now on. Right now, ATPG actually seems kind of scummy to me, although he's supposedly confirmed his own innocence by his inactivity. I dunno, something about his argument with GH made him seem noticeably different from his other games- perhaps his lack of truly solid points?

Right now, theres hardly any solid points. Only solid thing which could lead us to the guilty is probably the possibility of hints in the write ups (the statues) and posting style which should start getting more obvious in later rounds.

[ULC]

I myself am starting to find ATPG extremely suspicious...and I am not sure why...something in his posts...

[Yoyoma1910]

Right now, theres hardly any solid points. Only solid thing which could lead us to the guilty is probably the possibility of hints in the write ups (the statues) and posting style which should start getting more obvious in later rounds.

So, what do y'all want to know about the statues?

[Chaotix]

Well, whaddaya know about the statues, huh?

[Beefy187]

So, what do y'all want to know about the statues?

Anything. If its even worth investigating into the statues. If you can find a possible link to the murders, that will be great

[Yoyoma1910]

The image is of a Statue known as the "Beautiful Artemis," as opposed to the "Great Artemis," both of which would be found at the museum. There were many copies of this statue found.

The original version would have been Ionian, from around 550 BCE (before common era), but was destroyed, later reproduced, and destroyed again.

This particular one would have been a later production, as you can tell by the more refined styling. Likely 1st century CE (common era).


"The Great Artemis" has a larger head dress, and is from about a century later.


The "Temple of Artemis" was considered to be one of the Ancient Wonders of the world, and is one of the main reasons people flock to Ephesus, as a tourist destination.


The two creatures at her side are felines, similar to imagery of Cybele.

The many ball shaped object are thought to be: breasts, bull testicles, or possibly eggs. This design element can be traced back to the Geometric period (approx. 900-700 BCE).

[Lord Winter]

Okay I'm caught up. Just for clarification, I asked to be taken out but Andres PM'd me giving me a WOG free week I'll be active from now on.

Pizza is diffidently drawing my suspicions. He started out with a fairly apathetic stance daring the mafia to kill him. Day III though he turns around and blindly drives at GH, only yielding when it appears he's safe. Merits closer attention.