Swords in the Moon [Concluded]

[Haudegen]

Hmm, looks like i´m dead. I guess i have to live with that

A shame that we lost Husar. If YLC was a swordsmaster too, we have only one left. It doesn´t look too good for the town.

One thing i noticed in the write-up:

The winner of this day´s duel (GH) did not bow respectfully to Lord Takeda after the fight. That´s clearly different from all the other duel descriptions we´ve had so far.

Might be a hidden clue. Who knows ... ?

[Beskar]

"Omura stared at his victim, rage and hatred for this man clearly visible on his face. He waited until Iino started to moan, thus losing honor and shaming himself, before he beheaded him."

Along with your statement, that could be the case, Haudegen.

FOS: GeneralHankerchief

[TinCow]

I am shamed; I am not even worthy of a kill drop to frame.

I agree, GH's actions in the duel do not look right.

[Husar]

I absolutely think you guys should lynch GH now, he didn't seem to have any problems killing beefy and I found it a bit weird that he waited for his victim to lose his honour, only a cruel sadistic person would do that, someone like Sigurd* or a traitor/ninja/serialkiller.





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[Beefy187]

Long live Shingen

[Beskar]

Vote: GeneralHankerchief

His Duel result says it all.

[Yaropolk]

First of all lets stop posting guards outside the camp by themselves in the dark in the middle of the mountain!

I will still have to vote: Rhyhelwyr. CA put him on the short list of people 2 rounds ago that didn't submit their score. Rhy claimed he did in fact submit his score, but CA never confirmed that. Suspicion doesn't get wiped off just because you survived a round.

Strong FOS GeneralHandkerchief right behind him though for the duel results.

[KukriKhan]

For the record: on Night 2, Glenn also did not bow to the Master after the duel Post 481, n2 writeup.

Fujimoto (Glenn) picked up his katana and quickly decapacitated his opponent.

The duel was over.

Shingen nodded respectfully to Fujimoto.

"Now that this has been settled, we'll go through the proceedings again."

All the other duel write-ups have the victor bowing to Shingen.

[KukriKhan]

Hmm, looks like i´m dead. I guess i have to live with that

A shame that we lost Husar. If YLC was a swordsmaster too, we have only one left. It doesn´t look too good for the town.

One thing i noticed in the write-up:

The winner of this day´s duel (GH) did not bow respectfully to Lord Takeda after the fight. That´s clearly different from all the other duel descriptions we´ve had so far.

Might be a hidden clue. Who knows ... ?

Good observation, Haudegen. That DOES smell of "traitor".

FOS: General Hankerchief.

Sixteen hours ago, he (GH) "explained" thus:

A thousand pardons, RL and other .Org duties are taking up most of my time at the moment.

I wonder who else he killed overnight?

[AggonyDuck]

What I find very strange is that, if we have some sort of guardian among us, who stopped the attack against Sasaki, why did he not protect Husar after it became apparent that he was a known swordmaster. So either we have an incompetent guardian or Sasaki's protection is a bit different than what we assumed.

[TinCow]

What I find very strange is that, if we have some sort of guardian among us, who stopped the attack against Sasaki, why did he not protect Husar after it became apparent that he was a known swordmaster. So either we have an incompetent guardian or Sasaki's protection is a bit different than what we assumed.

It would be explained if Husar was the person who protected Sasaki.

[AggonyDuck]

Well can swordmasters protect someone other than Shingen?

[FactionHeir]

Interesting observations.

I think part of the reason the protector did not protect might have been that Husar seemed to have a survival chance and mafia normally don't attack the same target twice in a row.... They could have gone for Sasaki again afterall.

Re GH, I hadn't noticed that and it certainly seems incriminating with his general lack of posting. Though it could be related to the "hatred" mentioned in the writeup, he seems a good a lynch as any other (like Tristan or Rhyfelwyr) at the moment.

[Husar]

The way I see it someone attacked me and the next night the ninjas decided to finish me off just for the sake of finishing me off.

Or maybe they just hate me or thought I could still be useful for whoever despite the fact that my injury would have lasted for the rest of the game anyway.

[LittleGrizzly]

Im guessing with husar they saw he was weakened and figured they best finish him off incase he can recover, that combined with the fact he seemed to have a somewhat important role probably is the reason they chose him...

That is intresting that neither Glenn nor GH bowed, surely a traitor or ninja would be doubly sure to show respect... or perhaps a slight clue... something to keep in mind...

[Sasaki Kojiro]

It seems to obvious a clue for andres to give away.

[Quintus.JC]

By the way CA, why wasn't Husar protected last night? It was obvious that he was going to be a target, so why did our protector waste an opportunity to deny a kill for the ninjas?

Perhaps we need to contemplate the fact that we might not have any protectors left, both the Geishas were killed off early on, so that would explain why nobody protected Husar. However this could contradict how Sasaki was protected, maybe the protector was killed between when Sasaki was attacked and when Husar was badly injured? Right now we only have CA's words that Sasaki was defended by a protown power, and I sure hope he's got this one right.

CA, is the protector still alive at this point?

As regarding to GH, I think the clue left by Andres would be too obvious for town to find, maybe GH is just a naturally angry samurai. Andres inprovised when the Pevers were killed, and he might of done this one because GH and Beefy had been challenging each other for days with this fight when they were finally met - "They looked at each other and the attentive observant would see that these two men held no love for each other. Indeed, they had been at each other’s throats for days now, throwing challenge after challenge at each other and everybody knew Lord Takeda had made a wise decision by letting them battling it out." As I think there's no way that a ninja would do this to lose his identity, so GH is either a traitor who does not acknowledge Shingen as his lord, or just a rather grumpy samurai, and I think its the latter.

[Prince Cobra]

To BESKARRRR

I offered you a compromise, an honourable death for both of us. You declined shamefully claiming that death is not the purpose of the samurai even when he has to serve the master. So be it. Die then.

Challenge: Beskar

[atheotes]

To BESKARRRR

I offered you a compromise, an honourable death for both of us. You declined shamefully claiming that death is not the purpose of the samurai even when he has to serve the master. So be it. Die then.

Challenge: Beskar

whats up with you two... now i am suspicious that it is all a game to distract people...
FOS: Stephen Asen and Beskar

[White_eyes:D]

Vote:GH....needs a little more pressure
Challenge:AggonyDuck

"I want my duel sometime..."

[Beskar]

whats up with you two... now i am suspicious that it is all a game to distract people...
FOS: Stephen Asen and Beskar

He private messaged me saying he will leave me alone if I suicide, I obviously said no.

[Yaropolk]

Finally something concrete, sayanora sucker!

unvote
Vote: quintus

[Chimpyang]

hello everyone,
due to an unfortunate series of events, I will no longer be able to participate further in this game :(, getting the vomiting and diarrhea bug at the same time as flu AND as well as having my laptop motherboard die on me has meant that I'm only going to be infrequently able to check the forums.

Andres - if someone wishes to take over my spot - since I am "still alive" by mean please reallocate!

Anyhow, I had fun in the bit I managed to get involved in and look forward to reading the rest when the game is concluded

[KukriKhan]

Alive (30):

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Quintus.JC
GeneralHankerchief
FactionHeir
Caius
Ichigo
Wishazu
White_Eyes:D
Sasaki Kojiro
Stephen Assen
Peasant Phill
Kukrikhan
Gobbledygook
Psychonaut
taka
Rhyfelwyr
AggonyDuck
Beskar
atheotes
Kagemusha
CountArach
Tristan de Castelreng
Chimpyang
Yoyoma1910
Seamus Fermanagh
Banquo's Ghost
woad&fangs
ajaxfetish
glyphz
Dutch_guy
Yaropolk

5 (max, so far) bad-guy kills per night,
Plus 1 duel kill
Plus 1 Lynch

= 7 dead townies per day/night cycle, if mafia is 100% successful and town is 0% successful - not an unlikely possibility. So it looks like 3 more cycles before we lose to the bad guys. Just saying: "plan for the worst, hope for the best".

With town at half the strength it started out with, and this being statistically the end of the mid-game/beginning of the endGame, we town can no longer afford "ride-alongs", that is: players who contribute the minimum, or less than the minimum (lurkers) to avoid suspicion.

I'm OK with GH's no-defense defense, for now. The explanation is plausible, and I agree that Andres made an unintended clue, probably.

I'll be voting lurkers for the next 2 nights, to clear out the deadwood, or kill lurking scum, whichever comes first.

I recommend you think about doing the same.

vote: Banquo's Ghost.

[Beefy187]

GH maybe a scum due to write up.
However maybe it wasn't a clue at all.

Thats 50 percent chance of GH being a scum right there, where as other players are getting voted for their behaviors and posts they made.

If your going to let GH go with "I have no defence" defence, then please do lynch him in the near future just to make sure he was indeed innocent.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

GH maybe a scum due to write up.
However maybe it wasn't a clue at all.

Thats 50 percent chance of GH being a scum right there, where as other players are getting voted for their behaviors and posts they made.

If your going to let GH go with "I have no defence" defence, then please do lynch him in the near future just to make sure he was indeed innocent.

This post you just made may be proof that you are mafia.
However maybe it isn't proof.

So there is a 50 percent chance of you being mafia...

[seireikhaan]

Holy moses, 1500 posts... ya, I'm pretty much lost.

[Beefy187]

This post you just made may be proof that you are mafia.
However maybe it isn't proof.

So there is a 50 percent chance of you being mafia...

But me doing WIFOMs are nothing new. Besides what kind of weak mafia loses a duel?