The Council of Villains- Summary Thread

[Chaotix]

Hey, everyone. Because the main thread now spans over 50 pages of posting, I've decided to create a new thread with all the write-ups in it for easy reference.

Please DON'T POST HERE. Save that for the game thread. This one's just for reference.

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The Council of Villains

It was a dark and stormy night; one of those rare occasions where, in every single location in the universe, it was dark and stormy. Clouds hung over the skies of Hyrule as Link, reincarnated to destroy evil yet again, marched on to the next dungeon. Rain caused Mario and his friends to slide all over the road as they raced by in karts, with absolutely no care for the Princess Peach’s safety. And in one corner of this dark and stormy universe, a great mind was working diligently and meticulously.

Deep in the depths of a gigantic laboratory, Dr. Eggman tinkered on what would soon be his greatest invention yet. Combining the powers of a fusion reactor, a time machine, an inter-dimensional portal, and a blender would be no easy task. Thunder boomed outside, as for many hours the doctor labored on this monstrosity of a machine. Finally, a voice escaped his throat:

“Finally… it is done.” The doctor breathed heavily. He was tired, but the same old maniacal excitement was bubbling up within him.

“At last! The Dimensional Scrambler is complete! Sonic will be destroyed, and my Eggman Empire is now a reality! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!”

Dr. Eggman paused to catch his breath after his outburst. “Now, then, let’s fire it up and see what it can do,” he muttered as he walked over to the control panel.

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I welcome you all to my newest mafia game, The Council of Villains. This game will have some definite similarities from my last (and first) game, The Lunar Whale. The biggest difference (aside from the game size, of course) will probably be in the style of the write-ups: the composition will remain mostly the same, but instead of the heavy, dark passages that were in the Lunar Whale, I have decided this game will have a much more humorous slant. The situation, even though we are dealing with villains here, would not do well for another serious setting.

I suppose I should tell you all a bit about the game, then. I've pretty much shamelessly ripped elements that I like from all of the mafia games that I've played in (), but the biggest similarities you'll find with this game are probably in ATPG's The Full Monty. There are a lot of similarities with that masterpiece of a game, notably:

-everyone gets a role, and many will have an ability of some sort.
-there will be multiple mafia, and perhaps a neutral role or two as well.

In the game, each player will be playing the role of a villain from a video game. I urge you all to role-play as your villain- some of them can be particularly hilarious and are practically required a roleplayer, as they will liven the game up considerably.

Here's the current list of villains. I would welcome any suggestions as well, it took me a while to find some more obscure ones. You'll notice there will be more than one villain from the more prominent series out there.

Roles:
Bowser
Wario
Count Bleck
Cackletta
Fawful
King Boo
Bowser Jr.
Dimentio
Dr. Eggman
Shadow the Hedgehog
Mephiles
Chaos
Ganondorf
Vaati
Zant
Sephiroth
Kefka
Golbez
Ridley
Dark Samus
Mewtwo
Albert Wesker
Lord Saddler
Dr. Wily (probable, suggestion by Super Market)
Sigma
Big Boss
Gray Fox
King Dedede
Meta-Knight
Andross
Wolf O' Donnell
High Prophet of Truth
The Arbiter
Ansem
Giygas
Porky
King K. Rool
Dracula (Castlevania)
Black Knight
Magus
Al-Mualim
Nightmare
Gruntilda
The Dark Prince
General Raam
Black Shadow
Alex
Orochi
Miles Edgeworth
Lu Bu (possible, suggestion by pevergreen)
The Joker (possible, suggestion by ATPG and others)
Darth Vader (possible, suggestion by navarro)

With this many characters, I'm looking for around 40 players. More character suggestions does mean I can add more players, if we get that high.

Sign-up List (37/40-50):
A Very Super Market
AntiWarManCake88
Askthepizzaguy
Psychonaut
Jolt
Beefy187
Glenn
Captain Blackadder
pevergreen
Yoyoma1910
white_eyes:D
boudica
Reenk Roink
Greyblades
Quintus.JC
777Ares777
shlin28
taka
Gobbledygook
Shinseikhaan
YLC
LittleGrizzly
Olavi
El Diablo
Khazaar
Diana Abnoba
Lord Winter
spL1tp3r50naL1ty
Sasaki Kojiro
navarro951
Ichigo
GeneralHankerchief
Sazon123
(requested but may be unable to sign in before the game starts)
Bl4ckReaper
TheMarioKarters
llf829
General Specific

The Rules: This only outlines rules that are customized for this game- I'm assuming you all know the standard mafia rules, or should otherwise check the stickied mafia FAQ.

-Quoting of all pms is allowed, unless I say otherwise in a specific pm. It obviously may not be the best strategy, though...
-Vote:Abstain is allowed, although you may not Vote: No Lynch.
-The dead may post, but cannot quote or exchange pms, or reveal their roles.
-Obviously no screenshots or chatlogs... I don't think that's been allowed in any game I've played.
-Each phase lasts 24 hours, hopefully, starting with a day phase. If I am late I will add extensions, and if I find my homework () too time-consuming, I may have to make phases 48 hours.

Alright, then. Let sign-ups commence, this game will be okay to begin after either Inishmore or The Settlement ends, although I may take a few days longer for sign-ups, of course.

Additionally, which I forgot to mention before, there will probably be spoilers from the games these villains are in. Probably shouldn't be too big of a deal.

EDIT: Finally hit the 30-player benchmark. Hopefully I'll have about 5 additional friends of mine joining (splitpersonality is one), and some leftovers from the Settlement and Inishmore before the game starts on Thursday. I suppose the game can be deemed playable, now.

[Chaotix]

The Council of Villains

Arriving at the control panel, Dr. Eggman found the lever used to start the machine. Crossing his fingers for just a second before, he pulled the lever down with all of his might. He waited. A second passed, and then two. Soon enough, Eggman had counted a full minute, and still nothing happened. Finally, the doctor broke the silence, seething with rage.

“Damn it! Why doesn’t it work!? You useless piece of JUNK!”

With that last word, Dr. Eggman brought his fist down on the control panel, hard. Electricity crackled somewhere on the machine. Soon, the power lines lit up, and sparks began to light up the huge, circular arch that made up the Dimensional Scrambler’s receiver node. Eggman gasped.

“Wh-What the? It’s working now!”

Now the whole laboratory began to shake; the sheer amount of energy the machine was using caused the lights to dim and flicker several times. In the space in between the arch, a wave of colored light swirled and spiraled. The sparks were becoming larger and more numerous now. Soon, a light bulb shattered. Eggman braced himself as a powerful gale emerged from the portal that the receiver node had become. As the noise grew louder and louder, and the rumbling ever stronger, a bright white light shined, from the portal, growing so intense that for a split second nothing could be seen; and then, just as suddenly as it had started, it finished. The laboratory was much the same as before, save for a few overturned experiments and the presence of a few dozen figures in the center of the room, standing just outside the now inactive portal.

The creatures mulled about in utter confusion and chaos in the center of the room. They came in all shapes and sizes; some were humanoid, while others had a more interesting body structure. Regardless of their variance in nearly every aspect, however, was one constant trait: they all had a menacing aura about them. It was clear to Eggman: each one of these beings was a villain, one of his kind, someone who would sympathize with his situation- or kill him for bringing them into it. He would have to play his cards carefully in order to avoid being maimed as soon as he drew attention to his existence.

Fortunately, an opportunity quickly seized him the moment it appeared. Two beings, one on each side of the growing mosh pit in the center, each noticed Eggman at the same time. They rushed towards the control panel and leapt for Eggman, claws and hands outstretched. As he stepped out of the way, the two beings crashed into each other. Before they could maneuver to attack him, he placed an arm on each of their shoulders.

“Ah! Greetings, friends! I was just about to address this whole lot of dangerous figures here, but I’m having trouble getting their attention. You two look like powerful fellows. If you could just help me out with this little problem, I can enlighten all of us as to our… situation.”

The two figures looked at each other. The turtle-like being on the left, who was known as Bowser, let out a deafening roar. At the same time, the olive-skinned humanoid on the right, Ganondorf, punched the make-shift podium that was the control panel, denting it and setting off a few sparks. All the villains in the center stopped their madness and turned to look at the dented podium. Eggman began speaking.

“Hello, hello, and welcome to all of you, my friends. My name is Dr. Eggman, and I have brought you all here today for your help with something veeeery important! You see, I need all of your help in creating the greatest invention ever, the Super Vague Weapon of Ambiguously Decided Doom! It will allow me- and indeed, all of you as well, to defeat your arch-nemeses, and do whatever you wish with the dimension you hail from. I cannot do it by myself, and that is why I have brought all of your great minds and strong bodies to help me to build it. Once we have completed it, I will set it in motion, inexplicably destroy every person or thing you have ever wished to crush, and send you all back to where you came from. Sound like a fair deal?”

A chorus of cheers, roars, and creepy screeching noises filled the laboratory.

“Very well, then, I’ll have my robots show you all to your quarters, and we can discuss the matter further tomorrow; it is late, after all, although I’m sure many of you don’t sleep at night anyway! Ohohohohohoho!”

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When they all gathered in the laboratory the next morning, there was quite a stir. In a pool of blood, in the center of the room, lay the remains of a former super villain. Dr. Eggman’s gaze hardened at the sight. The machine could have malfunctioned and brought along some unwanted guests when he hit it last night. It was Ganondorf, now, who spoke, in his deep, threatening voice.

“It seems we may have some… unfriendly visitors with us here as well. No doubt they have disguised themselves as villains like us to fit in. It’s up to us to see through their disguises, they shouldn’t be too difficult to spot. Hopefully by the end of today we’ll have found the cowards, and then we can torture them to death for their deeds. I trust all of you like to torture, yes?”

And with that, the tale of the Council of Villains begins…

Begin Day One!

Alive: 38
A Very Super Market
AntiWarManCake88
Askthepizzaguy
Psychonaut
Jolt
Beefy187
Glenn
Captain Blackadder
pevergreen
Yoyoma1910
white_eyes:D
boudica
Reenk Roink
Greyblades
Quintus.JC
777Ares777
shlin28
taka
Gobbledygook
Shinseikhaan
YLC
LittleGrizzly
Olavi
El Diablo
Khazaar
Diana Abnoba
Lord Winter
spL1tp3r50naL1ty
Sasaki Kojiro
navarro951
Ichigo
GeneralHankerchief
Sazon123
Sernoserbo
Bl4ckReaper
TheMarioKarters
llf829
General Specific

Dead: 0

Night 2 begins approx. 8:00 tomorrow.

[Chaotix]

I'm assuming AVSM's tally to be correct, and added ATPG's self vote onto it. I would recheck myself, but I'm late as it is and want to get the night phase started. It's a tie anyway:

Sasaki- 6 (Shinseikhaan, Gobbledygook, YLC, Boudica, greyblades, AVSM)
ATPG- 6 (Captain Blackadder, Sasaki Kojiro, pevergreen, shlin28, Ichigo, ATPG)

Little grizzly - 3 (yoyoma1910, ATPG, Lord Winter)
AVSM- 2 (Ares, Glenn)
Splitpersonality - 1 (Taka)
Glenn - 1 (Beefy187)
Taka- 0 (Khazaar) [QJC - 1]

Abstain - 8 (Reenk, GH, White_Eyes:D, Split, little grizzly, Olavi, Jolt, Diana)

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Day 1

At the end of the first day, the Council of Villains had come up with two suspects to lynch, but couldn’t decide between them. Also notable was the fact that several villains didn’t vote, or even proclaim that they abstained from the vote. Dr. Eggman and Ganondorf themselves were curiously absent. This left Bowser to control the Council himself- and as he would have it- everyone would have to check in each day to vote or abstain. There would be no tolerance for lazy, pasta- eating slackers. Bowser had enough of those to deal with already.

But because he was being his normal tyrannical self, Bowser managed to make a great many enemies on the first day. He was one of the two top lynch candidates, even as he continued to spout insults to all of his peers. His chief accuser, General RAAM of the Locust, was the other. The screaming match between the two continued…

"Gwahahar! This is laughable! Do you really think I, the Koopa King, the baddest of all baddies, the most villainous of all villains, could possibly be a traitor to the Council? I’m one of the leaders of this Council! Don’t make me burn you to a crisp."

"MY ONLY LEADER IS THE LOCUST QUEEN," replied RAAM in his booming voice, which was quite possibly as booming and definitely more capitalized then the Koopa King’s himself. "YOU ARE TRYING TO USURP THIS COUNCIL. MY ORDERS ARE TO CRUSH ALL USURPERS. CRUSH! KILL! DESTROY!!"

"Bwahaha! You’re more of a drone then a Goomba! But I’ll play your game for the time being. Here’s the deal: let’s flip this Bowser coin I’ve got here.

"If it lands on my beautiful face, then YOU, RAAM, can be the one to take me down personally. Otherwise, it’s time for some crispy barbecued Locust! Gwahahahar! What do you say, friend?"

"THIS METHOD OF JUDGEMENT IS ACCEPTABLE."

And with that, Bowser flipped the coin, forgetting to realize that, in his own vanity, he had minted his face on both sides of the Koopa kurrency. The result was obvious.

Seeing the result, RAAM let out a booming laugh. He grasped the massive Troika minigun that had been slung over his back and began firing relentlessly at Bowser, who was less than ten yards away.

Bowser, as fast a turtle-like-creature possibly could, slid into his shell, and the steady stream of bullets merely bounced off of it. From inside the shell, Bowser’s taunts could still be heard through a muffled voice:

“Bwahaha! Is that the best you can do? Old Kammy Koopa hits harder than that. I’m practically invincible inside this shell. Nobody can harm me, not as long as I stay as awesome as I am now!”

And then, the giant, spiked shell began spinning, faster and faster. Suddenly, when all that could be seen was a green blur, the shell shot out towards the still frustratedly firing RAAM, striking him square in the chest. RAAM went flying towards the wall of the Council Chamber, striking it with a dull thud.

The villains all looked at RAAM, lying in a crumpled heap against the wall. Miraculously, he got up roaring and as powerful as ever, this time drawing a giant Boomshot, and firing its explosive ammunition straight at Bowser, still inside his shell.

This time, it was Bowser who went flying, bouncing off of the chamber walls at odd angles. The shell finally came to a rest at RAAM’s feet. Bowser slid out of it, apparently completely unharmed. Quick as a Yoshi, he shot out a claw and grasped RAAM by the neck, lifting him off of his feet. With his other claw, he crushed the Boomshot that RAAM was holding.

"RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWRRRRR!"

"Listen to me, you oversized gray turd. You can’t kill me. Got it? So stop trying already. I should crush your skull in my claws right now, but you’ve proved yourself to be a true villain in my book. I’ll let you live… for now."

With that, he hurled RAAM back into the wall, and stormed out of the Council Chamber.

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Alive: 38
A Very Super Market
AntiWarManCake88
Askthepizzaguy
Psychonaut
Jolt
Beefy187
Glenn
Captain Blackadder
pevergreen
Yoyoma1910
white_eyes:D
boudica
Reenk Roink
Greyblades
Quintus.JC
777Ares777
shlin28
taka
Gobbledygook
Shinseikhaan
YLC
LittleGrizzly
Olavi
El Diablo
Khazaar
Diana Abnoba
Lord Winter
spL1tp3r50naL1ty
Sasaki Kojiro
navarro951
Ichigo
GeneralHankerchief
Sazon123
Sernoserbo
Bl4ckReaper
TheMarioKarters
llf829
General Specific

Dead: 0



Day 1 has ended.
Night 1 now begins.

Please pm all night actions to me. Night 1 should be ending in around 20 hours from now, as I want to make up for time lost.

[Chaotix]

Night 1

Around midnight, a dark figure strode out of his room and began walking down the corridors of the newly-built residential quarter of Eggman’s massive laboratory. He stopped outside one of the larger rooms. There was, coming from inside, a snore so loud that it could be heard all down the hallway. The being raised his hand to the door… and it was blown off of its hinges by a powerful magical force.

The door struck Bowser square in the face as he lay on his back, sound asleep. With an angry growl, he leapt up and bathed the silhouetted figure in the doorway in flames, lighting up his face.

The fire failed to faze him, however, and he merely creased his mouth in a twisted smile. The warrior drew his ten foot long blade, and spoke.

“Hello, Bowser. I’ve come here to finish what that fool General RAAM started. Despite his pitiful weakness, he was right about you. There’s something wrong with the way you attempt to rule over all the villains… I’m going to end this “traitor” problem right here, along with your life!”

“Gwahahar! You woke me up in the middle of the night… for this? Maybe you didn’t realize that if I was the killer, I’d be out killing someone right now? Bring it on, pretty boy! I’ll tear your hair to shreds!”

The warrior raised his blade, and swiftly brought it down, but it was stopped halfway. Bowser held the sword between his hands, and the two were locked in a battle of pure strength, until a roar was heard from the other end of the hallway. A very familiar roar…

Bowser and his challenger ceased their fighting, and rushed over to the source of the noise. There, in the middle of the hallway, was General RAAM, cleaved in two, lying in a pool of his own blood.

His last words, as they drew closer, were:

“Be… behind you, Ground-walkers… at the other end… there are… more…”

As the life faded from his eyes, the two villains turned the other way to see bluish lights at the corner turning in to the next corridor.

The two villains hurried back, and saw another, clad in a yellow cap and purple overalls, running as fast as his stubby legs would carry him.

But again they were too late. Before they could reach Wario, he was struck by a massive jolt of lightning, presumably by an unseen assailant around the corner. By the time they reached Wario, he had been thoroughly electrocuted, and the assassin was nowhere to be found.

It appears that the Council of Villains will have more to worry about than a single traitor…

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Alive: 36
A Very Super Market
AntiWarManCake88
Askthepizzaguy
Psychonaut
Beefy187
Glenn
Captain Blackadder
pevergreen
Yoyoma1910
white_eyes:D
boudica
Reenk Roink
Greyblades
Quintus.JC
777Ares777
shlin28
taka
Gobbledygook
Shinseikhaan
YLC
LittleGrizzly
Olavi
El Diablo
Khazaar
Diana Abnoba
Lord Winter
spL1tp3r50naL1ty
navarro951
Ichigo
GeneralHankerchief
Sazon123
Sernoserbo
Bl4ckReaper
TheMarioKarters
llf829
General Specific

Dead: 2
Sasaki Kojiro
Jolt

Day 2 Begins.

It will end approximately 24 hours from now, but I may be a little late- I am going to be gone most of tomorrow.

[Chaotix]

Day 2

As the Council of Villains struggled to find the traitors, a term which had been recently pluralized, new developments were made on the second day. For one thing, Ganondorf had returned from his mysterious absence, and added his… influence to the voting. Eggman had also returned. Many of the Villains still thought Bowser suspicious due to his dominating presence, but adding Ganondorf and Eggman to the fray had lowered the tension as the power in the room was balanced. By the end of the day, the Villains had decided on who they thought was one of the traitors: Orochi.

Orochi, the eight-headed dragon who had terrorized the nation of Nippon, was accused of creating not only the bloody, undistinguishable mess that was the first dead Villain, but also of killing either Wario or RAAM the previous night. The eight-headed dragon’s reply was this:

"But… we do not have a blade to slice someone in half with..."
"Neither could we have electrified anyone to death."
"Well, I’m not sure about-"
"Silence! Why would we choose to use your head to electrify someone when we have seven other elements to choose from?"

-snapped the Dark Dragon as he cut off the Lightning Dragon.

The villains pondered this, but it still wasn’t helping their case.

"Listen. We are as evil as can be."
"We plunged Nippon into a cursed darkness of an existence."
"Twice!"
"Besides, we were sleeping that night."
"Well, most of us, anyway."
"Shut UP."
"Yes, why don’t you just be quiet, please."
"Hey! I have just as much right to speak as- mmph!"

At this point, the Earth Dragon had clamped his jaws shut over those of the Lightning Dragon’s, silencing him. The Water Dragon continued.

"Anyway, we have proof that we were sleeping, or at least stationary in our quarters that night."
"Yes. I noticed a ghostly fellow spying on us that night, who thought he was quite invisible, although he let his guard down for a split second."
"And there he is now!"

The Fire Dragon pointed, but the ghost was too fast, and had already covered his face and disappeared by the time anyone looked.

“Gwahahar! What’s wrong, you eight-headed freak? Afraid of a few ghosts?” jeered Bowser.

“As I see this beast’s proof has either fled or was an imagined farce, we should slay him before he causes any more damage and confusion,” added the Black Knight.

The witch Gruntilda added:

“Take out all eight heads at once we should,
Else grow back two in one’s place they could.”

“There might be a problem there, as none of you can keep up with me.”

Magus then rushed Orochi, scythe drawn and with a grin on his purple face, and lunged straight at the Lightning Dragon head, easily removing it from the body. “That one was the most annoying.”

The other heads all began a frenzied attack on the Villains, pained and much dismayed by the loss of their brother. Seven more villains went on the attack and battled the other heads separately. Bowser managed to out-burn the Fire head. Gruntilda flew around on her broomstick and fired spells and terrible rhymes at the Dark Dragon until he died of her unbearable voice. With the two lead Dragons killed, all order was lost and the fight became chaos.

Count Bleck and Mewtwo, using their confusing powers in tandem, managed to down the Earth and Water heads. Chaos latched onto the Wind Dragon, silently drowning it. Eggman pulled out an old weapon, the Wrecking Egg, and smashed the Poison Dragon’s head in. Finally, King K. Rool wrestled around with the Ice Head for around ten minutes until the Black Knight finally decided to step up and sever it.

The deed was done. The Villains hoped that they had caught one of the traitors. In the meantime, it was now the traitors’ turn to strike back.

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Alive: 35
A Very Super Market
AntiWarManCake88
Askthepizzaguy
Psychonaut
Beefy187
Captain Blackadder
pevergreen
Yoyoma1910
white_eyes:D
boudica
Reenk Roink
Greyblades
Quintus.JC
777Ares777
shlin28
taka
Gobbledygook
Shinseikhaan
YLC
LittleGrizzly
Olavi
El Diablo
Khazaar
Diana Abnoba
Lord Winter
spL1tp3r50naL1ty
navarro951
Ichigo
GeneralHankerchief
Sazon123
Sernoserbo
Bl4ckReaper
TheMarioKarters
llf829
General Specific

Dead: 3
Sasaki Kojiro
Jolt
Glenn


Night 2 Begins

It will end around 22 hours from now. Please send me night actions, or pms if you have night actions but aren't using them.

[Chaotix]

Oh yes. This write-up is quite huge. Two and a half hours.

Night 2

Shadow the Hedgehog walked alone down the hallway, towards the Council Chamber, a blank look on his face. Or at least, he believed he was alone, and paid little attention to his surroundings. In reality, someone lurked in the shadows behind him, all but undetectable to most eyes.

When he reached the chamber, he continued walking up to the podium at the center of the room. He mindlessly stepped over the many times decapitated body of Orochi, which the Egg-Bots seemed to be having trouble in cleaning up. The figure in the shadows moved towards the fringe of the room, and, finding a cardboard box, quickly hid himself under it. There was something about Shadow that he had noticed earlier; something wasn’t right with his behavior. Or perhaps there were a few things peculiar about his behavior…

“GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!”

Suddenly, Shadow’s blank face turned into one of pure rage. He continued screaming, sometimes unintelligibly, and the man under the cardboard box could only make out a few words:

“Grrr…… YOU! I’ll… argh... OUT of my head!”

The spy peeked out from the cardboard box. Shadow seemed to be battling with an unseen force, and was clutching his head in pain. Halfway through a cry of rage, however, his mouth stopped moving, and the same blank stare returned to his eyes. Then, he snapped his finger, and in a flash, he disappeared…

…reappearing right next to the cardboard box. He uttered a short, evil laugh, and kicked the cardboard box over, revealing a startled Big Boss. Big Boss drew his gun, only to have his wrist snapped by Shadow, who caught the gun in mid-air with his other hand as it was dropped.

Shadow lifted the gun… Big Boss sprang away, but he paid no attention to him. Instead, Shadow raised the gun to his own head.

“AAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH! NO! I won’t let YOU… you FREAK!”

Shadow continued screaming and firing the gun in random directions, but just before the sixth shot was fired, his face cleared and he was as calm as before. He once again raised the gun to his the side of his head… and pulled the trigger.

Big Boss was left pondering the insanity which he had just witnessed. Shadow lay on the floor, dead, with a spatter of blood on the wall next to him. Big Boss quickly returned to the shadows and began to make his way out of the room.

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Meanwhile… Bowser and his son, the aptly named Bowser Jr., were in a deep slumber in their quarters, to which the door had just been refitted that morning. They were, as usual, snoring so loudly that nobody else in that row could possibly sleep soundly.

This was all disrupted, however, when a Boomshot blast blew the door to smithereens. A second exploded in Bowser’s face, sending him into a dizzy stupor.
Bowser Jr. woke up with a start, startled to see what looked like a familiar face.

“Come on, ya big meanie, you can’t beat me! I’m the son of Bowser, the toughest kid around! Rawrrrrrrrr!”

Bowser Jr. zipped around the room, dodging bullets as the hulking figure switched to the Troika Minigun. Bowser, now fully awake and angered at his beauty sleep being interrupted twice so far, let out a roar. His adversary, shaken by the devastating sound, lowered his guard for a second. During this time Bowser charged straight at him, shattering him to pieces.

Bowser, looking confused, stood for a minute, pondering the situation. He then turned around, shrugging his massive shoulders. As he returned to his slumber, he muttered, “I could’ve sworn that loser was dead already…”

He didn’t notice the being that slipped away in the shadows afterwards.

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Big Boss was still crawling back to his quarters under the cardboard box. All of a sudden, he heard maniacal laughter, and the sounds of a scuffle taking place in the hall. He cursed under his breath.

Outside the box, Big Boss heard the unmistakable sound of Meta-Knight’s voice, which was much too deep, it seemed, for his short stature. The other voice he could not place, but it kept repeating the words “BURN!” and “DIE!”

Eventually, the sounds of the fighting stopped. With a last cackle of laughter, Big Boss heard the other fighter walking away.

He lifted his box to see the charred remains of Meta-Knight, with a knife stuck in his mask, between his eyes. The grizzled spy decided against taking a peek as to what was really under that mask, and kept moving, covered by the box.

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Magus and Sephiroth met on the roof of the laboratory. The two white-haired warriors apparently each had a bone to pick with each other, and it was Sephiroth who demanded the duel.

The night was dark and stormy once again, and their faces could only be seen during a flash of lightning. Both were cold, hard, and resolved, although Sephiroth’s had a tinge of amusement in it. The two villains exchanged words before they began the battle:

“Hmm. This place will be your grave, fool. Are you sure you want rather die in a flowery garden? It would be more in your element.”

“Silence your tongue, idiot. That’s what’s sealed your doom in the first place.”

“Ha! So you really believe you can defeat me, then? Magus, the Fiend King?”

“Prepare for your death. This will take but a minute.”

Sephiroth lunged, raising his blade, the Masamune, high over his head. With it, he outranged Magus’ scythe easily. Magus, however, would make up for this shortcoming with his superior magical strength.

He fired blasts of dark energy at Sephiroth, who dodged them easily, retaliating with his own fireballs and ice shards. Magus deflected these with his bare hands. But Sephiroth had continued moving closer to Magus, and struck with the tip of his blade. Magus barely deflected it with the blade of his scythe, which the Masamune scored a small notch in.

Magus now teleported back to where Sephiroth had been standing.

“Hmph. No more fooling around. I’ll finish this!”

He raised his hands, concentrating until they began to shake. Sephiroth stopped and watched, amused. A dark void appeared in between Magus and Sephiroth, and threatened to suck Sephiroth in with a tearing gust. Sephiroth smiled, barely encumbered by the void’s pull, and jumped.

He landed behind Magus, who instinctively turned, raising his scythe in defense. Sephiroth swung his blade, smashing the scythe into bits. He then proceeded to skewer Magus with it. Withdrawing the blade and lifting Magus with his free hand, he uttered a last remark.

“A minute and one second. Ah well, I suppose I was a little slow today.”

With the light quickly leaving Magus’ eyes, he flung the arch mage off the side of the building. He landed with a thud and a sickening crack.

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Finally, it appeared that Big Boss had made it back to his quarters safely. He could now tell the other villains all about what he had discovered this night. Soon, the traitors, for it seemed there were now a great many of them, would be captured.

He threw off the cardboard box and attempted to open his door. He found it unlocked, although he was sure he locked it before he left…

Upon opening the door, he heard a voice from the darkness within:

“Well, look who it is… the Snake decided to return from his hunt. But it appears you haven’t caught much, have you, now? Heh heh hee…”

Blasts of ice froze his legs to the floor. With one broken wrist, he didn’t stand a chance. His mutilated corpse was found in his room the next morning…

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Alive: 31
A Very Super Market
AntiWarManCake88
Askthepizzaguy
Psychonaut
Beefy187
Captain Blackadder
pevergreen
Yoyoma1910
boudica
Reenk Roink
Quintus.JC
777Ares777
shlin28
taka
Gobbledygook
Shinseikhaan
YLC
LittleGrizzly
Olavi
El Diablo
Khazaar
Diana Abnoba
Lord Winter
navarro951
Ichigo
Sazon123
Sernoserbo
Bl4ckReaper
TheMarioKarters
llf829
General Specific

Dead: 7
Sasaki Kojiro
Jolt
Glenn
White_Eyes
GeneralHankerchief
Greyblades
Splitpersonality

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Day 3 Begins

It will end 24 hours from now.