Capo di Tutti Capi III [Concluded]

[Splitpersonality]

A brilliant idea!

Maybe sometime in the future we can try a 3 or 4 way tie! Make that director work for his position!

[Seamus Fermanagh]

Voting Concluded. Write-up will follow as soon as I've totaled votes and what-not.

[Seamus Fermanagh]

I will sure survive the night
there was a sleep when I come alive
I'll make it run towards the city light
it always keeps me on the right side

When we come alive
We never stop we won't give in
When we come alive
We keep it up until we win

-- E-type "Eurofighter"


Evening Session, Day Four.

After what seemed to be an unusually long session, redness began to appear in the dimming sky and the committee was brought to attention by loud gavelling. Unlike yesterday's meeting, there wasn't a sense of a close race, discovery1 had been fingered by many and was a clear cut choice. He did not even take comfort in the late surge of votes on Andres. As usual, Reenk -- despite participating in the discussions throughtout the session, had slipped away half an hour before the final tallying.

The formality of the Director's men tallying up the vote only served to heighten discovery1's anxiety as his imagination ran wild concocting the terrifying ways in which he might meet his end at Club 30. When he was called to take the fateful business card, discovery1 was almost ready to soil himself.

All along the way to Club 30, discovery1 couldn't help but think about what would happen to him. Furtive glances over his shoulder confirmed that the Director's guards were shadowing him -- there would be no side-trips on the way to the club. When he finally reached the door, he noticed a new sign had been put up: 'In honor of pevergreen.' <> Hesitant to even touch the doorknob, he heard a calm voice called from inside.

"Do come in disco, no need to be nervous."

The voice belonged to a man dressed in a cream white suit, his face covered by his tipped top hat - the Director. After shaking discovery1's hand, the Director calmly led him into the club, walking through to the bathroom, reminiscing about times past, though discovery1 was in no mood for small talk.

Reaching the bathroom door, the Director abruptly stopped and turned to face disco. He reached into his breast pocket and drew out a polished black gun. Bracing himself for the shot, discovery1 instead found the gun placed in his hands.

"W-what is this?"

"You will be the master of your own fate disco. You will die a gentleman's death at your own hand..." the Director calmly replied.

"Why?"

The Director lifted up his hat and smirked, "Because I like you. Now please, go in the bathroom and..."

"NO!" discovery1 shouted as he aimed the gun point blank at the Director. "I'm tired of your games! You are going to let me out of here, or I'll blow your remarkably handsome face off your head!"

Though he was the one with the gun, it was discovery1 that was trembling violently and perspiring profusely, while the Director remained as calm as ever. As he reached into his breast pocket to pull out a cigarette, discovery1 pulled the trigger.

Waves of electricity coursed through his body making his earlier tremors seem like nothing to the convulsions he went through. After about twenty seconds, discovery1 dropped dead, smoke still emanating from his body.

The Director knelt over the body and covered the face with a silken handkerchief. He softly remarked, with an ever so slight hint of sadness in his voice, "disco, disco...I'm disappointed in you. How could you not know that a black gun simply doesn't match a white suit?"

Still 'tsking' over discovery1's faux pas, the Director stood up and proceeded to leave, but was stopped by a very pretty woman who pleaded he stay with her for a bit. He shook his head and said, "Miss, please stop by Commissioner Fermanagh's house tonight. He has been very busy lately, and I hate to see him put work before play."

Reenk paused as he walked from the club to head to dinner at Iron Felix's, noticing a chill in the air and the scent of sleet on the wind. <> Night had come to Fatlington again.


OOC

Night Four begins, please have night orders in by 1300 Eastern on Monday the 17th (1700 GMT).

Please marke all orders "n4 orders" for clarity.


Lynch Vote Tally

1st place:

discovery1: 17 (askthepizzaguy, Beefy187, Beskar, Caius, Diana Abnoba, Double A, Ironside, johnhughthom, Jolt, Joooray, Kommodus, LittleGrizzly, Sasaki Kojiro, slashandburn, spL1t', SSNEoperestroika, YLC)

2nd place:

Andres: 14 (Aggonyduck, Atheotes, Centurion1, discovery1, DisgruntledGoat, Joe Monks, Kagemusha, Kukrikhan, Leet Erickson, Psychonaut, shlin28, Skooma Addict, TinCow, XehhII)

3rd place:

askthepizzaguy: 4 (Chaotix, Crazed Rabbit, Rhyfelwyr, shinseikhaan)

4th & 5th place:

Beefy187: 2 (andres, woad&fangs)

Double A: 2 (gibsonsg91321, scottishranger)

Others

abstain: 3 (Proletariat, Tratorix, twilightblade)

[Kommodus]

hmm... i believe that if only 2 townies participate in a save effort and the target is attacked, that effort automatically fails. I am confused... but no one else seems to think it matters...so i will let it go for now.

The protection group did fail, as I said. That was made clear in the write-up. Double A survived in because of luck, not because of the protection group. Some players have this ability (at least I think they do since they did in the last Capo game).

[Pannonian]

A brilliant idea!

Maybe sometime in the future we can try a 3 or 4 way tie! Make that director work for his position!

Dutch Guy might be able to explain why that isn't a good idea. Or maybe it was a good idea, from his POV.

My blasted internet connection has been unreliable for a while now. Hopefully it can stay on long enough for this post to go through. Heck, it hasn't been on long enough to load the Misc index, which is one of the shorter pages. I hate my ADSL2+ "upgrade".

[Gaius Scribonius Curio]

Gah! Having just read 20 pages (home internet is fried so can only be active at uni atm), I've no idea what is going on...

What I've managed to pick up is:

-The attempt on my life was by one mafia family who failed due to their disorganisation which carried over to last night.
-Andres has accused either Beefy or Shlin based on the failure of the Pever protection. Theres some detail about Andres that I've forgotten...
-CA was part of some shadowy russian organisation involved in a stoush with the CIA. From what he said just before he was lynched they may well have the ability to recruit...
-Khaazar and AVSM are 'criminal'.

I'm assuming that I've missed heaps but that is what jumps out at me.

[Moros]

Where's my vote?

[a completely inoffensive name]

Where is my vote?

[Chaotix]

Where is my vote?

....oh, there it is. Found it.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

[Askthepizzaguy]

I have two people sitting around in an unfinished protection group. I still need one more recruit, fellows and girls. Please volunteer in private if you're not doing anything.

[a completely inoffensive name]

Who is being protected?

[Askthepizzaguy]

It would defeat the purpose of the pt group to say it publicly during the night phase. The group has already been filled.

[Sigurd]

-The attempt on my life was by one mafia family who failed due to their disorganisation which carried over to last night.

See, I have a slight beef with this assumption.
As far as I can remember, One Mafia- usually the Don PM Seamus with the target's name and which of his henchmen is doing the hit. Unless this has changed, there can't be a disorganisation in a mafia family. I might be terribly wrong - and mix other games into this, but other Dons from previous games might fill in here.

[Andres]

Can somebody please explain to me why exactly I received 14 votes in the previous round?

Because, I could be a townie who might have the ambition to become Capo de Tutti Capi? Is that the so called case against me? There are no better lynch candidates than that?

The results on AVSM and Khazaar were "criminal".

Since you all want me dead so bad, while all I've done so far is sharing my information and giving you potential scum, I'll throw this out before the 'we don't do vig kills, vig kills are bad" crowd will vig kill me, a freakin' townie:

I have been following that, but that was my point about the investigation.

ATPG claims to have had a special one-off kill. The write up certainly matches that but we all know that could be meaningless.

The key point is, he claims that because of this kill he will appear Criminal. However townies who have killed appear guilty and I'm assuming a special townie role would too. Mades only appear guilty on the night of a kill, otherwise they appear criminal.

If ATPG turns out criminal that would imply he is a made. If he turns out guilty I'd be inclined to believe he's a townie with a one off kill and a special objective which has something to do with killing Russians.

On another note maybe you could ask ATPG to share his pool of investigation results with us so that we don't waste investigations.

So you're in touch with another detective. I'd be happy to share investigation results if they are willing. I don't want to waste my investigations investigating someone who's already been investigated... Did that make sense?

Yeah, well, in fact it's ATPG who says he has investigation results. Don't know if he has a detective as contact, is one himself or is a Made gangster (can investigate to) or in contact with one

Don't know if you checked the thread already (it's huge ), but GH and ATPG killed with only the two of them; I'm as good as certain one of them is a Made gangster. If GH gets lynched, then I'd investigate ATPG and CA. If CA gets lynched, then GH and ATPG are good choices to investigate imo.

Bolded the most interesting info.

Has Myrddraal already popped up and called me a liar? Did he urge for my lynching? Nope and no. But still you all want me dead.

I started this game as a townie and I'm still a townie. This means my team is town. I always help my team.

AVSM and Khazaar: what did you do N1 and N2? Can someone check that. And could town be so kind to put 14 votes on them next round?

[TinCow]

I have gone through the thread and made an updated suspect list based on what is posted here. Only living people are noted on the list. I've added links where appropriate, but only to stuff since the last update, since I didn't go back over the posts before then. I have split out people with guilty/criminal detective results and those who have confirmed participation in a kill, as they probably warrant greater attention at this point than the rest. As with before, please add on further evidence (with links if possible) and names if I have missed anything. There are a lot of posts, and I skimmed to create this, so I am certain there is other important stuff that isn't on here.

Moros - ATPG claims investigation result showed him as criminal.
scottishranger - Attempted to form mafia family. CA claims he has a criminal investigation result.
AVSM - Myddraal claims investigation result on N1 showed him as criminal.
gibsonsg91921 - ATPG claims investigation result showed him as guilty. Admits involvement in vig kill that failed.
Khazaar - Found criminal on N2 investigation.
Beskar - Accused of joining an ATPG attempt to make a mafia family. Found criminal on investigation.

ATPG - Killed Yaropolk in 2 man hit on Night 2. Accused of forming own mafia group.
woad&fangs - Killed pevergreen on N2 with vig group.
Craterus - Killed pevergreen on N2 with vig group.
Ironside - Killed pevergreen on N2 with vig group.

Centurion1 - Possibly killed pevergreen on N2 with vig group.
DJGingivitis - Possibly killed pevergreen on N2 with vig group.
Sasaki - Attempted to form mafia family. Innocent on investigation.
Jolt - Involved in shenanigans regarding II/FH. Accused of attempting to join mafia.
Andres - Suspect in failed protection of pevergreen on Night 2. Found innocent on N2 investigation. Myrddraal killed immediately after he revealed to Andres. Very insistent on making vig kills.
Beefy187 - Suspect in failed protection of pevergreen on Night 2. Survived Night 1 attack.
shlin28 - Suspect in failed protection of pevergreen on Night 2. Found innocent on N1 investigation.
Kommodus - Suspect in failed protection of TS on Night 1.
Kagemusa - Suspect in failed protection of TS on Night 1.
Diana Abnoba - Accused of joining an ATPG attempt to make a mafia family.
Double A - Accused of joining an ATPG attempt to make a mafia family.
Skooma Addict - Accused of joining an ATPG attempt to make a mafia family.
Jolt - 'Questionable' result on communism investigation.
Ichigo - 'Questionable' result on communism investigation.
slashandburn - Claims pro-town role.

[KukriKhan]

Can somebody please explain to me why exactly I received 14 votes in the previous round?

I can only explain 1 of them; mine.

1) I was pressed for time (I thought), and if I was going to vote at all, I needed to do it quickly. So, honestly, it was a shot-in-the-dark, and I was pretty sure my vote would not actually kill you, but get you talking more, because:
2) a case against you was presented, albeit a weak one, based on some presumptions. I wanted to see your answer to that case (which you have now provided; thank you).
3) the thing that caught my personal attention was a sentence in one of your revealed PMs, to the effect: "Being a townie shouldn't be boring, so I look to be a vigilante..." or words similar. I took that as inconsistent with what I know of you: both your rl job and online hobby require you to read enormous amounts of text, written by other people - so I imagine your "boredom threshold" to be very high. So I thought you might be hiding something.

[shlin28]

Can somebody please explain to me why exactly I received 14 votes in the previous round?

Because, I could be a townie who might have the ambition to become Capo de Tutti Capi? Is that the so called case against me? There are no better lynch candidates than that?

The results on AVSM and Khazaar were "criminal".

Since you all want me dead so bad, while all I've done so far is sharing my information and giving you potential scum, I'll throw this out before the 'we don't do vig kills, vig kills are bad" crowd will vig kill me, a freakin' townie:



Bolded the most interesting info.

Has Myrddraal already popped up and called me a liar? Did he urge for my lynching? Nope and no. But still you all want me dead.

I started this game as a townie and I'm still a townie. This means my team is town. I always help my team.

AVSM and Khazaar: what did you do N1 and N2? Can someone check that. And could town be so kind to put 14 votes on them next round?

I didn't vote you because you are a townie who could become a Don, but because you may not be a townie and may actually be a Don. Your innocent results means that you could either be a townie or a Don, just like me and potentially Beefy. (Incidentally, you accused both me and Beefy of being potential Dons, yet not once mentioning yourself) All three of us are equally likely to have destroyed the protection, yet 2 of us have "innocent" results from the same detective - so why do you only accuse me and Beefy?

You were also in favour of vigilantes and the detective who contacted you was offed the night after.

A weak case certainly, but not as weak as your post makes us thinks.

Also, just noticed this:

Well, unless Dons come up as 'townie' when investigated by a certain pro-town power role, option c) is rubbish.

Your paranoia and mistrust, both in public as in private, are misplaced.

You were investigated by Myrd, who can only discover whether you are innocent or not. Yet you say you were investigated by a player who showed that you are "townie"?

As I said before, quote or it didn't happen.

[Andres]

I didn't vote you because you are a townie who could become a Don, but because you may not be a townie and may actually be a Don. Your innocent results means that you could either be a townie or a Don, just like me and potentially Beefy. (Incidentally, you accused both me and Beefy of being potential Dons, yet not once mentioning yourself) All three of us are equally likely to have destroyed the protection, yet 2 of us have "innocent" results from the same detective - so why do you only accuse me and Beefy?

You were also in favour of vigilantes and the detective who contacted you was offed the night after.

A weak case certainly, but not as weak as your post makes us thinks.

Also, just noticed this:You were investigated by Myrd, who can only discover whether you are innocent or not. Yet you say you were investigated by a player who showed that you are "townie"?

As I said before, quote or it didn't happen.

Here:

Well, since you're apparently in contact with another detective, maybe it would be a good idea to share results and coordinate actions, as to avoid investigating the same persons tonight?

What say you?

A.

There's some trouble with that idea; leaking all the results has the unintended consequences of possibly helping the mafias locate wiseguys and assist them in recruiting people, and second, that would rely on both trusting the investigation results you give me and vice-versa. A tip here and there is nice, but if I gave out a block of already investigated people, they could become kill targets or recruit targets, and I could be manipulated into not investigating someone.

I have to catch up on the thread, I heard I was in some trouble, but... I would need some convincing to release all the detective results or to coordinate efforts like that. You came up basic townie but that doesn't mean you always will be or that the person you give the information to is trusted.

[Craterus]

Craterus - Killed pevergreen on N2 with vig group.

I'm being included in several people's 'suspect list' for this. Being part of a townie vig group doesn't make you mafia. Perhaps some of the people involved with pevergreen's death were mafia, but I think you're more likely to find these people amongst those that failed to protect him.

Nevertheless, impressive list. Well done.

[Andres]

Oh, and something else. There's more than enough evidence of me being on the towns' side and I've had about enough of people who have never given one single piece of a hint of evidence about their innocence ordering me what to do or not to do at night.

If you want to give me orders, you'd better tell me why exactly I should follow them and why I should believe you have the towns' interest in mind.

[TinCow]

The PM Andres posted is interesting. discovery1 just got lynched on the basis of a detective result that none of us ever saw that apparently IDed him as a Luca. Andres' PM looks real to me and it is consistent with the claim that there is a role out there that can get precise role information. I think Andres' claims should thus be given some credibility.

This also results in a significant FOS: shlin & Beefy. If Andres is just a townie, one of them is the likely culprit for that failure. shlin has the innocent result and Beefy has his odd survival on Night 1. I had previously thought Beefy had survived on Night 1 because of a special ability similar to the 'luck' ability in Capo 2. However, this does not appear to be the case. Can anyone shed more light on why Beefy survived, since it apparently is not related to red text?

Since everyone seem to be sending results to you, I'll send you mine as well.

Myrrdraal was innocent and protown.
I was struggling to choose whether to investigate Andres or Myrrdraal but I ended up chosing Myrrdraal.

You are a detective?

Nope. Something regarding my red text.

I'm just a townie

Interesting, I thought the red text explained why you survived the hit. If that wasn't the case, how did you survive?

I have no clue.

I haven't read all the write ups, but theory I got is that there's a secret role protecting one player each night from getting murder, as there is at least one saved every single night.

Or the attacker simply didn't have enough man.

Or that the host made a mistake about my red text.

[Seamus Fermanagh]

Night Four Concluded, no further orders please.

There will be a delay. My primary computer and all the data on the mastersheet were lost due to a "poison pill" effect left behind by the virus problems of earlier. I have reconstructed almost all of it from PM records at the .org, but I still have some to reformat.

Write-up will follow as soon as issues are resolved and I have time to write. Thanks.

[ULC]

The PM Andres posted is interesting. discovery1 just got lynched on the basis of a detective result that none of us ever saw that apparently IDed him as a Luca. Andres' PM looks real to me and it is consistent with the claim that there is a role out there that can get precise role information. I think Andres' claims should thus be given some credibility.

This also results in a significant FOS: shlin & Beefy. If Andres is just a townie, one of them is the likely culprit for that failure. shlin has the innocent result and Beefy has his odd survival on Night 1. I had previously thought Beefy had survived on Night 1 because of a special ability similar to the 'luck' ability in Capo 2. However, this does not appear to be the case. Can anyone shed more light on why Beefy survived, since it apparently is not related to red text?

TC, is it possible for a Don to end up with red text, for any ability other then lucky?

[TinCow]

TC, is it possible for a Don to end up with red text, for any ability other then lucky?

In Capo 2 the Dons had red text special abilities just like everyone else. Looking at Seamus' summary of Capo 2 roles, in that game 3 Dons had the "info" special ability and 2 had the "lucky" special ability. Both of those abilities were also given to townies, wiseguys, and pro-town roles, so I can't really draw any conclusions about role based purely on what special ability someone claims.

[ULC]

In Capo 2 the Dons had red text special abilities just like everyone else. Looking at Seamus' summary of Capo 2 roles, in that game 3 Dons had the "info" special ability and 2 had the "lucky" special ability. Both of those abilities were also given to townies, wiseguys, and pro-town roles, so I can't really draw any conclusions about role based purely on what special ability someone claims.

I was just checking - wasn't sure if it was only the lucky trait or not. Then yes, Beefy is rather suspicious, more so then shlin at this point.

[Seamus Fermanagh]

What do we need, what do we hunger for
Who holds the secrets, who will know
Temples of greed in ruins on the riverbed
Wastelands that lived before the snow

Time stands still as we race through the universe
On our way to the sun
As we arrive at the house of the water sign
We are living in strange times

Strange times, strange times

-- Lodge & Hayward (Moody Blues) "Strange Times"



Summary of Events, Night Four


After the long and contentious session culminating in discovery1's lynching, Andres was anything except calm, cool, and collected. Still seething at how close it had come to being himself who took a trip to Club 30, Andres went for a quick bite to eat and more than one stiff drink to calm his mood. From there, it would be a fairly quick drive home.

Arriving home without any difficulties, Andres had quietly mounted the 3 steps up to his townhome, opened the door, and then stepped back one step to give things a quick 'once-over.' As he paused, the kunai whipped over his shoulder out of the darkness behind him and through his doorway.

The silver flash of the blade going by was terrifying, but Andres had little time to be frightened. The kunai severed a single thin rope, which in turn allowed a long thing shelf to drop away, which in its turn allowed a dozen vials of golden powder to dump their contents into the convenient sluices set up in front of the vials. In the time it took the vials to pour their contents through the channels and onto the puddled water left on the floors of Andre's townhome, Andres managed to turn and catch a glimpse of the knife thrower.

A tall figure, hat low over his eyes and the collar of his gleaming black leather trench coat pulled all the way up, stood in the street only 20 feet away. Andres goggled as the stranger actually waved.

"This has been my most expensive show thus far..."

As the powder ignited the entire first floor of Andres' home more or less simultaneously, the blast from the sudden flash of ignition dropped him to the pavement at the foot of the steps, stunned.

"....I hope you appreciate it."

The leather-clad stranger walked off into the night, whistling "Runyonland" from Guys and Dolls. Andres rolled over and watched his home burn.


Diana Abnoba had just stepped out of the Hotel Abbatoir when they came at her. A pair of shooters, each bringing up a double-barreled 12-gauge into firing position, were only 20 feet away. She froze.

In the split second before the shooters opened up on Diana, two surprising things happened. The first was a fully masked man in a vey heavy coat jumping between her and the shooters and pushing her back through the door she'd just left. The second surprise was the lobby candy cart man -- also masked? -- who rolled his cart between Diana and the doors and kept it there while chivvying her toward the rear exit.

Diana quickly exited the hotel...only to be confronted with a second pair of masked shotgunners. Again she froze, silhouetted against the metal fire-door she'd just jogged through. Both shooters had twin-barreled shotguns and both cut loose with both barrels.

Nobody would ever quite explain it -- a freak swirl of Winter wind? poorly loaded shells? -- but all 4 spread patterns missed her at a range of 15 feet, slamming into the wall and doors with deadly force. Both she and her would-be killers were stunned that all the shooting had accomplished exactly nothing -- but Diana was a split second faster to recover and much faster on foot.

Neither the candy-cart man nor the fellow whose thick coat had apparently carried enough armor for a light tank stayed long enough to answer questions. Having missed their opportunity, none of the shooters hung around for long either. Diana was in her apartment in near Olympic time -- but it would be a long time before her adrenalin slowed enough for her to sleep.


Jolt sat at his table, waiting for coffee and dessert after what had been a simply wonderful repast. Rabbit wasn't a common menu item in a New Jersey restaraunt, but Jolt had always enjoyed the tasty lean meat and had taken advantage of this evening's special. Only the rabbit's having been served to him 20 minutes late had marred the otherwise impeccable meal.

The team of waiters arrived with his dessert -- a red tart -- and coffee. Jolt quickly sipped the steaming beverage, grimaced....and then spat it on the table. He jumped up.

"TEA! I didn't order tea! What is the meaning of this?"

The wait staff suddenly became a restraint team as the two underwaiters grabbed Jolt by the arms and roughly shoved him back into his chair. The waiter himself grabbed Jolt in a half Nelson, shoving a napkin into his mouth as he began to shout, and then turned it into a full Nelson, immobilizing Jolt entirely.

"Curioser and curioser..." said the 4th man as he stepped into the alcove where Jolt had been dining.
This 4th man produced a large purple tophat -- a caricature of a real opera hat -- and jammed it down over Jolt's head, covering his eyes. He then produced a long steel hat needle, carefully placed it at the back of the too-low hat, and forcefully punched the sharp needle forward. The needle secured the hat to Jolt's head and punctured his medula in one motion. Jolt died like a pithed frog, quivering and jerking as the waitstaff held him still.

The team of killers closed the curtain on the alcove and quietly left the restaraunt.

It had been a late night, and the dark figure had started to grow cold from sitting and watching the Commissioners house. The front door opened at last, spilling light out into the darkness, and warmly illuminating Commissioner Fermanagh and Director Reenk Roink in contrast to the chilly gloom of the evening.

Letting a puff of breath escape into the night, the figure waited as Seamus and Reenk talked and exchanged good-byes, the Director tipping his hat sauvely as he left and Fermanagh closed the door. Reenk waived forward the woman he'd re-directed at Club 30 hours ago.

"Give it 10 minutes or so, then knock."

The redhead nodded, a look of quiet adoration on her face. Roink waited as his men brought his car around, and bodyguards sitting to either side of him in the back seat of the big touring Packard. The car backed out of Fermanagh's drive and turned onto the Boulevard. The dark figure watched, caressed the gun at it's side, and without a further moment's hesitation, started the Indian and followed the Director's car into the night.

Pulling up alongside the vehicle, the stranger pulled out an M12, and before the driver could react, blew out both the side window and his brains, splattering the director and those in the vehicle with him. The armored car nearly flipped into the nearby ditch, but was saved but the timely reflexes of the forward passenger who righted the vehicle. The motorcyclist took aim again, but the new driver pulled a hard left and nearly slammed into the stranger, who had throttled the engine and let it fall back.

Pushing the dead driver out of the vehicle, the guard riding shotgun took the drivers seat while the four bodyguards in the rear with Director Reenk pushed him to the floor and got their Tommy guns out and levled through the windows on each side, prepared to fire at their attacker. As soon as the rear-most right side bodyguard's head stuck out, a trench knife seated itself into the man's eye socket, causing the second right side guard to flinch back. Quickly grabbing the coat of the dead policeman, the dark stranger opened up the throttle and used the added momentum to pull the dead guard from the car to land tumbling on the road.

Seizing the opportunity, the driver swerved at the assailant, sending the motorcycle into a spin, but not before the stranger leapt onto the car and held fast. The motorcycle, riderless, fell underneath the vehicle and tore the right rear wheel to shreds, sending the car into a fish-tailing spin that soon ended with the vehicle bouncing off a wide oak tree at the side of the road. The Packard rebounded off the tree, catching the left wheels on their edge, and gently rolled onto it's left side.

As Director Renk crawled from the wreck, one of the bodyguards who had been in the back with him lifted him up and carried him to safety as the car began to burn. Neither the driver nor the front left guard cleared the vehicle before the bursting fuel tank doused them with burning gasoline. Their sudden screams also drowned out the blast of the shotgun that crippled the guard who'd carried Reenk. The guard fell, one knee shot through, scrambling to get his revolver out as he rose painfully to one knee.

Before he could even fire it, the dark stranger, who's masked silhouette now seemed distinctly female, raven hair having slipped from under her hat and grey eyes peering over the facemask below, knocked it out of his hand and kicked him to the side like so much trash. She leveled her pistol at the stunned Director, cold barrel pressing against his forehead just between the eyes.

"Tol'ko bog banka konsyervov byt' nevinnyy."

The last remaining guard, staggering toward the burning car from where he'd been thrown during the wreck, fired his revolver at Roink's would-be executrix as rapidly as he could pull the trigger. He didn't hit her at all, despite being only fifteen feet away...but in emptying his gun in her general direction he did manage to hit her pistol, denting the action as his .38 slug ricocheted off into the sky.

The assassin pulled the trigger on the now-useless pistol, then shouted "neha" in frustration and whipped the pistol across Reenk's head, knocking him unconscious. She turned to the guard, still fumbling to load a fresh cylinder into his revovler, and began to draw her shotgun from it's over-the-shoulder holster. She had almost cleared the weapon when she saw the lights and heard the many sirens of the approaching police. She stepped forward quickly, kicking the still-unloaded gun from the hands of the last guard and following it with a roundhouse kick that knocked him against the still-burning Packard. With one last shout of frustration, she disappeared into the shadows.


Morning Meeting, opening of Day Five

"...so anyway, Director Reenk will be here in time for the afternoon session to administer the Lynch vote and to oversee the next Director's selection. I'm not sure if he plans to continue after last night..."

Fermanagh looked haggard, and his briefing had even less energy than usual. He continued.

"Well, here are the results of the post-mortem investigations on Death, pever, FactionHeir, and Yaro.

Death is Yonder and pevergreen both appeared to be wiseguys. Sources haven't suggested anything about either of them being unusual and we have nothing to indicate that either of them was trying to work with the mafia against us. It's hard to say if the town is better off or not....we just don't know.

FactionHeir, however, was a real success. Some of our snitches have confirmed, now that he's dead and can't take vengeance, that he was a Made gangster in one of the families. Apparently he only came to town very recently, so we don't know which family he was working with, but his death is proof that Tosa's lynch system can save us, no matter how harsh it may seem.

Finally, I have to acknowledge that we lost out as well. Yaropolk was an innocent townie, and we have no indications that he was turning toward crime or represented any sort of threat to the town.

All-in-all, I think we might be winning, however harsh the cost."

Fermanagh grimaced. Clearly he felt that the cost had been high.

"Commissioner," asked one of the committee, "why are you dragging so badly today?"

Fermanagh scowled.

"Some redhead was banging on me door at midnight last night and when I open it to see what her problem is, she waltzes in and starts pulling off her dress. While I'm standing there wandering what in Mary's sweet name is goin' on, Mildred walks downstairs to see who was calling so late. Mildred starts screamin' and Red starts saying she'll take care of us both and I start shoutin' that I've no goddamn idea what's going on and...."

Fermanagh paused from re-living the exasperation of the preceding evening.

"Anyway, suffice to say Mildred had me doon to the parish rectory and I spent all evening telling Father Lonigan why I really didn't do ANYTHING and don't need to be heading off to Lourdes and...I didn't get much sleep.

Despite the tense nature of these morning sessions, more than a few chuckles were aimed at the Commissioner. Sheepishly, Fermanagh finished up.

"Well, I've assigned a new squad of guards to the director. With 4 killed an 2 hospitalized I had trouble with volunteers, so I ordered a few of our tougher lads to take over, like it or not. Hopefully, they'll quell anything else before it gets that bad again."

The committee reviewed the rules and procedures, then filed out to their work before returning that afternoon to vote and to select.



OOC

Voting will conclude at 1600 Eastern Tuesday (2000 GMT).

Investigation results will be late as I am still reconstructing that part of the database. I'll try to have them out by midnight tonight.

Vote for lynchee and Select director for days 6 & 7.



The Cost of Life in Fatlington:

Attacked: Beefy187 (n1), DJGingivtis (n2), GSC (n2), Beskar (n3), Double A (n3), Lord Winter (n3), Andres (n4), Diana Abnoba (n4), Reenk Roink (n4)

Killed: Quintus.JC (n1), The Stranger (n1), Death is Yonder (n2), pevergreen (n2), Yaropolk (n2), Myrddraal (n3), Jolt (n4),

Lynched: Factionheir (d2), CountArach (d3), GeneralHankerchief (d3), discovery1 (d4),

Wogged: None so far, first woggings will be soon I fear.

[Moros]

The director got killed? How is that possible?

[Beskar]

He got attacked, he is alive and well. They seem to forget he is night immune.

Seamus, when is the next director election?

[seireikhaan]

The director got killed? How is that possible?

Not killed. He was attacked, but survived, of course. Very curious, that the director would be attacked. Perhaps there's a "random" killer, or a trigger which Reenk somehow set off. Seems hard to believe that anyone would willfully attack a person that everyone knows is invulnerable at night.

I think I will Vote: Sigurd. You've talked some in this game, but a spotlight has always avoided your presence. What have you been up to, dear dragon slayer?

[gibsonsg91921]

Select: Reenk Roink

Stay the course, for now.