The Red Phoenix [Concluded]

**Jolt** · 11-05-2009, 18:23

Alas! Lu Bu was dead by 209. We won't see him make an appearance in this game.. Who knows if this game is successful will I not create one with all great characters? Who knows if I'm already planning to create a large RTK game? :P

**Jolt** · 11-06-2009, 14:28

Night 1 is over. Write-up will come in a few hours as I got a train to catch for home in 2 hours. The train takes 3 hours to get to my city, thus expect the write-up around 8 PM or so.

**Subotan** · 11-06-2009, 15:08

OH OH OH OH WHY DIDN'T I REALISE THIS WAS ON
IN-IN-IN-IN-IN-IN-IN-IN-IN-IN-IN-IN-IN-IN-IN-IN

**Jolt** · 11-07-2009, 00:49

The Red Phoenix - Night 1

The night went for the most part quietly, as most of the army camped in the Northern shore of the Three Gorges slept soundly as well, except for the portions who were on duty at night, keeping a watchful eye on the river in case the navy of Wu decided to do a surprise raid on the army's positions. It wasn't very likely, but it was in accordance to the Art of War to prepare against the unexpected, and Cao Cao was known as a Master of warfare. However, on the second watch, one of the soldiers guarding the inner grounds where most of the close staff of Cao Cao was lodged spotted a strange figure roaming around in a suspicious manner. He gripped his spear, stepped up silently as close as he could to the figure, and when it appeared the figure noticed him and was beginning to make his escape, the soldier shouted "zhi!/Halt!" at the sound of this, the figure scattered, but the soldier began his persuit, and calling for his fellow colleagues to help him.
After only a few seconds, it appeared that the soldier would be able to detain the unknown figure but as he proceeded to grab the intruder, he tripped on a rock and banged his head on the ground, knocking him unconscious until other soldiers arrived to help him. But by then the intruder had already disapeared.

The incident was duly reported to Cao Cao, who then after deliberating for a some hours, summoned his close staff to the main tent at the fifth watch. Once all were present and sat according to rank and importance, Cao Cao began.

"As all of you are aware, there is some wicked person amongst our ranks who has put some callunious papers to spread across our camp, with the obvious intention of attempting to unsettle us and create a wedge between us all, wherefore we begin to suspect of each other's intentions, and destroys the elan and the edge of our entire army. Though I had dismissed such ideas as mere rumor and bad talk, it seems that we do have someone among us that is contrary to the command given to me by the Emperor to cleanse and pacify the land of rebels. Some amongst you prefer to side with brigands like Liu Bei and Sun Quan and wish to eliminate me. But do not forget that I have survived a myriad other assassination attempts, and it shall not be in a campaign that you shall assassinate me. I tell you this because someone was caught spying on a certain officer's tent by our men on watch at night. Unfortunately, the man wasn't caught and is now at large. Through the description the men have given me, it seems that those letters were indeed right and that one or several of you wish to have my head, though whoever that was, it did not attempt to kill anyone.
I have several suspects, and would gladly put them to death, but their skills and advice are greatly useful to our effort, and it would be a tremendous pity, as well as inauspicious to start killing my closest advisors on a mere suspicion. Therefore, and in the spirit of equity and fairness, I shall allow you all to present your arguments as to who is the real spy amongst us. Whoever is considered the main suspect by the council will be henceforth beheaded and his head exposed around the camp as a warning for all spies and deserters. You have until the sixth watch to deliberate and present your arguements."

Having finished saying his piece, Cao Cao motioned for the council to begin discussing the suspects. Beside him were scores of scribes ready to document the entire event and insert it into the annals of Han history as yet another conspiracy that Prime-Minister Cao Cao foils. Cao Cao called a servant to bring and present wine to everyone, as this would be a long debate, Cao Cao thought.

Day 1 votes are due in Mid-Night GMT / 7 PM EST, 8th of November.

**Askthepizzaguy** · 11-07-2009, 00:52

vote: Yaseikhaan

**Subotan** · 11-07-2009, 00:58

Am I in?

**Jolt** · 11-07-2009, 01:01

Originally Posted by Subotan

Am I in?

No, I have put you as a replacement player. The roles have already been given and orders for the first Night taken. The game is already underway. Sorry. :( If two people go inactive or decide to leave, you'll can take the second person's role.

**Subotan** · 11-07-2009, 01:33

Ok, I understand. I'll still read it regardless.

But I'll expect all of you to join my mafia set in the Chinese Civil War in the summer

**Subotan** · 11-07-2009, 01:36

Ugh, double post delete please.

**atheotes** · 11-08-2009, 10:11

oops... i too assumed that you are giving more time because it is the weekend. generally activity levels seem to drop during weekends (i am also guilty of that) and i thought i had till sunday evening.

**FactionHeir** · 11-12-2009, 10:36

FoS: Sprig

Only post since joining the game and its "i agree + vote"

**Jolt** · 11-09-2009, 16:42

The Red Phoenix - Day 1

Final Tally:
Yaseikhaan (2) - ATPG, Diana Abnoba
Centurion1 (2) - DiY, AVSM
Death is Yonder (1) - Sprig
Sprig (1) - Paulus Tertius
Diana Abnoba (1) - Centurion1

Despite Cao Cao's demand that the situation be discussed, in good truth his staff knew little about the incident so far, and thus all men under the Prime Minister's command contented themselves with petty disputes and juvenile rivalry. Each presented arguments against the others based on inaction and unwillingness to speak, along with unfamiliarity with the recent history of the Middle Kingdom.

In the end and four hours passed and the fifth watch had come. Yaseikhaan and Centurion1 were brought forth as the most suspicious ones according to the council's arguments. Cao Cao looked over both and sighed. He dismissed Yaseikhaan's suspicions and quickly pointed to Mao Jie, raising himself from his chair. "It appears whoever leads our navy is cursed. You have certainly not learned from the mistakes of Cai Mao and Zhang Yun, and like them, you join up with Zhou Yu to bring about my downfall? Truly, our navy is poisoned with traitors. I always thought highly of you Mao Jie, but to think that you would oppose the will of the Emperor and would conspire to slay one of his most loyal and dutiful ministers? Had you succeeded, the people, simple and hard-working folks that they are, would eat you alive for your despicable crime."

Without further ado Cao Cao bluntly exclaims "I have made my decision. Guards! Behead this man and show his head around the camp as a warning for all conspirators!"

Centurion1 was thus ejected out of the main tent and once outside, was beheaded by the military lictors. The rest of staff was dismissed and ordered to take their duties. Cao Cao on the other hand began having many headaches. Not only did he think Mao Jie was indeed a loyal man, he was also one of the very few in his army who had some naval experience. The responsibility for training the naval forces now fell solely on General Yu Jin. The consequence of today's execution, thought Cao Cao, would lead solely to a slower training of his army in handling combat in the water. Overall it was a bad day for Cao Cao and his men.

With the day over, Cao Cao's staff retreated back to their tents and awaited another day of intense training, provided that Mao Jie was indeed the sole dissenter in Cao Cao's inner circles.

Mao Jie (Centurion1), Admiral of the Han Invasion fleet, has been executed

Alive (13):
Death is yonder
White_Eyes:D
A Very Super Market
Yaseikhaan
atheotes
Beskar
spL1tp3r50naL1ty
Diana Abnoba
Joooray
Sprig
AskthePizzaguy
FactionHeir
Paulus Tertius

Executed (1):
Centurion1 - Mao Jie

Assassinated (0):

Night 2 orders are due in 5 PM GMT / Mid-Day EST, 10th of November.

**Centurion1** · 11-09-2009, 17:25

i was a vanilla townie.....

**Subotan** · 11-09-2009, 18:29

Btw, Beskar has dropped out

**Jolt** · 11-12-2009, 18:51

The Red Phoenix - Day 2

Final Tally:
Yaseikhaan (3) - ATPG, Joooray, atheotes
Joooray (2) - FH, DiY
atheotes (2) - Beskar, Sprig
FactionHeir (1) - Yaseikhaan

This day had been significantly more active than the previous one, now as most advisors sprung from their seats making elaborate arguments accusing the others of being the ones behind the death of Xiahou Dun. Probably the fire started at night and the fact that someone had indeed been killed probably had made them all edgy and eager to find out who was behind the plot, rather than caring about a spy who wouldn't harm them directly, yet which could endanger them in battle.
Regardless, hours passed and the council had focussed on three members, until atheotes rose from his seat and acused his colleague. "It was Yaseikhaan! Remember that he previously served our enemy Liu Bei and his heart has never left that petty wandering bandit!" Other advisors who had also accused Yaseikhaan nodded and cried in choir "atheotes is right! It can only be Xu Shu!"
Therefore Xu Shu was seized by the guards, and Cao Cao called. "What they say is exactly what I think. You served Liu Bei and your plans killed many lives when you were under him. While you served me, you couldn't come up with any devious plans of your own, and now that I am before my moment of glory, you intend to alienate me from my trusted advisors and have murdered my cousin? I suppose the death of your mother was not reason enough to understand you should never deal with that coward Liu Bei?" Cao Cao's expression than changed, "And you would dare kill me???" Cried Cao Cao, visibly angry. He continued "Guards, take this dog away and behead him. Send a messenger with his head to Liu Bei and tell him if he doesn't surrender, that will be his fate in the coming battle. Xu Shu said very little throughout the entire speech until Cao Cao ordered his guards to kill him. Only then he began shouting a volley of abuse "You tyrant! Wicked and vile rebel! Corrupt and mean soul! Despicable rat! You will pay for your crimes against the Han and the people! You-" By then the guards had already carried him out of the tent. The advisors continued hearing various loud sounds until they heard a sword cut through flesh, and everyone knew Xu Shu was no more.

As most advisors went back to their daily duties, Cao Cao thought that the arguments had been quite convincing and that Xu Shu was indeed the conspirator behind the killing.

With the day over, Cao Cao's staff went to their tents and while most thought it over, a few were not so sure yet.

Xu Shu, Junior Advisor of the Han Army was executed.

Alive (11):
Death is yonder
Subotan
A Very Super Market
atheotes
Beskar
spL1tp3r50naL1ty
Joooray
Sprig
AskthePizzaguy
FactionHeir
Paulus Tertius

Executed (2):
Centurion1 - Mao Jie
Yaseikhaan - Xu Shu

Assassinated (1):
Diana Abnoba - Xiahou Dun

Night 3 orders are due in 8 PM GMT / 3 PM EST, 13th of November.

**Jolt** · 11-17-2009, 14:30

The Red Phoenix - Night 3

Apparently the death of a fellow officer the previous night had unsettled Cao Cao's advisors. As night engulfed the Heaven and each advisor retired to their tents, the patrols had doubled. But that did not thwart atheotes. He slipped out of his tent and went to investigate someone. He was caught mid-way by a patrol, but he quickly told the soldiers that he had been summoned by Cao Cao for a talk, thus he quickly disposed of the grunts. As he approached the tent of his target and began plotting on how to also remove the guards at the tent's doors, someone patted him on the back while he heard a dagger unsheathe. "Looking for someone..?" said the person. Turning to see who was with him, Jia Xu was extremely startled and taken aback for he had recognized who the person was. "You!?-" It was the last thing Jia Xu said, just before the man drove his dagger into Jia Xu's throat, and quickly vanished into the nearby tents.

Jia Xu, Palace Counsellor of Han has been assassinated.

Only one minute had elapsed before a patrol found the corpse and alerted the inner courtyards.
That assassination, almost foiled the plans of another person who, having misled some patrols which operated in the area he wanted to go to, was sighted by scores of soldiers from outside of the courtyard which had come with the alert of Jia Xu's death. As a consequence, the soldiers quickly concluded that the sighted man was Jia Xu's killer and soon enough, that group was thus alerting other guards to the man's presence. Fortunately for him, his quickly wit put him on flight, with only that score of soldiers after him. He entered into a tent where weapons were stored, grabbed a sword and made a big cut in the tent, allowing him to quickly escape through the gap. The other soldiers, weighed down by armor and weapons had significantly more difficulty passing through the gap. The man quickly slipped into another tent, and made a similar cut like the previous tent, only that he then hid behind some barrels, misleading the soldiers into believing the person had gone through the tent. Before long, the camp was swarming with soldiers for the second straight day and another advisor killed. Cao Cao was extremely bitterful and wailed again "Why Heaven do you take my arms thus!? Jia Xu had no equal to him!" Indeed Jia Xu was a man of gigantic intellect, and one of Cao Cao's greatest advisors. Cao Cao could not conform himself with losing such another valuable asset.
However, other advisors pointed out that contrary to Xiahou Dun, Jia Xu had not been murdered in his tent, but was up to no good himself, as he was close to other high officer's tents, where he was assassinated. Still Cao Cao payed no heed to that talk, as he knew Jia Xu was always loyal to his lords. Cao Cao then began thinking that Xu Shu's death had also been in vain as the killings also continued. "Phreaps most of the council had been infiltrated?" thought Cao Cao.
He sighed in regret and said to those around him. "Truly, the only one I trust in this world is none other than my Xu Chu."
After the body of Jia Xu properly put in a coffin and buried and the search for the killer ended in failure once again, Cao Cao retreated back to his tent in a sulky mood. The next day, Jia Xu would be sent to Xu Chang to be buried in a mausoleum. Cao Cao also memorialized the Imperial Throne to make him posthumous Marquis of Gozang, his birthplace, as recognition for his great ability and skill.

The next day the council of advisors reconvened once again, and Cao Cao did put it bluntly, "Our camp is filled with vile people and wicked men of little ability. Not only Cai Mao and Zhang Yun, Mao Jie and Xu Shu, but it appears someone else is still unsatisfied with my command. He is therefore a rebel to Imperial authority and must therefore be put to death. Last night as you all know, Jia Xu was murdered, and that means one of you is the culprit. Though difficult he may be to find and his arguments are surely disarming, do not forget that you are all the best minds of the age. You must find him. Now." Cao Cao was beginning to grow weary of saying this phrase "Present your arguments and let us find out who do you all think is the culprit behind Jia Xu's death."

The advisors began getting ready to exchange accusations once again, and phreaps find out who was the culprit of the murder.

Alive (10):
Death is yonder
Subotan
A Very Super Market
Beskar
Yaropolk
Joooray
Sprig
AskthePizzaguy
FactionHeir
Paulus Tertius

Executed (2):
Centurion1 - Mao Jie
Yaseikhaan - Xu Shu

Assassinated (2):
Diana Abnoba - Xiahou Dun
atheotes - Jia Xu

Day 3 votes are due in 8 PM GMT / 3 PM EST, 18th of November.

**Jolt** · 11-11-2009, 01:55

The Red Phoenix - Night 2

This night, the inner courtyards were much more busy than usual, cortesy of the recent incident last night. The patrols and soldiers posted to each tent had more than doubled. Soldiers were always coming and going and it appeared that at least this night would be a safe night. As a consequence, each member of Cao Cao's close staff, except for a few more warlike Generals, had difficulty sleeping.

A conspirator however, managed to successfully evade being spotted by the soldiers, being double-cautious especially after what happened to him on the previous day: Before going to his bed, he took a walk around the inner courtyards, studying the new patrol patterns that had been issued by Cao Cao exactly that day. As soon as he had figured out the necessary patterns, the advisor went back to his tent until the second watch. It was at that time, after analyzing for some minutes the patrols walking near his tent, that he ventured out and dodged Cao Cao's grunts and eventually made his way into the surroundings of Diana Abnoba's tent.

That tent was vigourously guarded, but the conspirator already knew that, and had taken the necessary precautions to overcome it and escape unscathed. As such, he had laden some grain carts which were next to Cao Cao's and his close staff's campaign cookers, with highly combustible objects, and since these were stored along with other wooden casing objects, carefully arranged by the conspirator himself, it would create an immediate ruckus as soon as the fires ignited. So, before coming to Diana's tent, the conspirator lit a fuse which led into one of the grain carts. Fortunately, that tent was very close to Diana's tent which would make the guards leave their posts guarding the tent and rush to try and douse the flames.

The conspirator laughed as the grain tent's light turned red and the guards left their posts to alert other people towards the arson. Quickly he entered into the General's tent, and found Xiahou Dun asleep, with his back turned towards the entrance. Chuckling in his mind, the conspirator unsheathed his dagger, and approached cautiously the General, which if awaken, would quickly dominate the assailant. As he stepped closer, Xiahou Dun abruptedly turned himself to the attacker, who froze for some seconds out of fear. Fortunately, Xiahou Dun continued fast asleep, and thus the conspirator got close to him and slashed his throat quickly. Xiahou Dun awoke quickly, and despite being unable to breathe, his expression turned quickly from a painful one to a fiery one, and in his last moments he tried to reach and grab his attacker. However, the attacker could gave another blow to his chest, and Xiahou Dun would not move again.

Xiahou Dun, General of Sharp Edge, has been assassinated.

As the conspirator cleaned his blade with a hankerchief inside Xiahou Dun's tent and sheathed back his dagger, placing it inside his robe, he came back to the murdered man's entrance and peeked outside. He couldn't help but smile for his plan was coming to fruitition. Obviously, in the beginning, the flames would not be great in size, and thus would not alert the whole camp, but only the surrounding areas, making the needed guards abandon their posts. Only when the flames grew, would the entire inner courtyards be roused and come out to see what the problem would be.

The flames grew as more soldiers arrived and the very tent caught fire. Soldiers and horsemen and archers from outside the camp came carrying many buckets water and these added to the confusion of the soldiers from inside the courtyard which came to the aid. Such fuss woke up all the advisors and Generals, who came out to see what had happened. Quickly enough, the conspirator took advantage of some soldiers who happened to be running very near the tent to, after they passed, quickly mingle himself with the other men. In due time, the flames were controlled and the advisors went back to their tents. Cao Cao, however stayed up for a little while and sent soldiers to see if every major officer was still alive. To his regret, soldiers did in fact come back to say that his trusted cousin had been murdered, at which time Cao Cao began weeping. Zhang He, which was dealing with the aftermath of the flames, came quickly to his Lord and asked "My lord, why are you weeping?"
Cao Cao replied, "Alas! My Xiahou Dun has been murdered! He was as my right arm in battle!" Other military officers counselled the Prime Minister to withdraw to his tent. However, these news travel fast and before dawn, the entire camp knew of the events of this night.

The next morning, Cao Cao issued orders so that no signs of mourning nor any public discussion of the events would take place, under the punishment of death. Cao Cao knew that since deaths had happened due to internal dissent, he did not only not wish for Wu to see signs of disturbance in the army, which might lead to an attack, but he also did not want to promote discussion of rebellion inside the army.
Soon enough, Xiahou Dun was buried in a temporary grave, in a coffin. At his burial, Cao Cao wept further, and vowed to bury Xiahou Dun in Wu, as a sign that he would overcome his enemies despite being smitten at his closest and most loyal followers.
After the burial, in the afternoon all Cao Cao's close officers were once again called to decide upon the fate of themselves. Cao Cao was dressed in white mourning attiral, and called to his advisor. "Xiahou Dun is dead. Assassinated by one of you. I know I will eventually kill you, and I shall lean upon all of you, great minds to find out who the culprit is, as I'm not in my right state of mind to do so. As such, present the arguments for who do you think is behind this wicked murder." The officers began quickly busying themselves to present forth accusations to one another.

Alive (12):
Death is yonder
White_Eyes:D
A Very Super Market
Yaseikhaan
atheotes
Beskar
spL1tp3r50naL1ty
Joooray
Sprig
AskthePizzaguy
FactionHeir
Paulus Tertius

Executed (1):
Centurion1 - Mao Jie

Assassinated (1):
Diana Abnoba - Xiahou Dun

Day 2 votes are due in 8 AM GMT / 3 AM EST, 12th of November.

**Askthepizzaguy** · 11-11-2009, 02:02

Vote: Yaseikhaan

**Askthepizzaguy** · 11-14-2009, 15:44

The previous round, with commentary and analysis.

Yes, you may safely skip reading the spoiler. That's showing my work.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

Originally Posted by Beskar

vote: atheotes

Obviously the traitor.

Perhaps the scummiest vote all round.

Khaan had two votes, and Beskar seems like he wants to get a bandwagon on atheotes, the guy who ends up capping a mafia. Not only seems like a nervous reaction, but the vote itself seems dead wrong to me. If atheotes is mafia he's driven a screwdriver into my brain.

My finger of suspicion lands squarely on Beskar, who I presently consider to be the most likely to be mafia given the previous round's activity.

After that, you might look to Subotan, who replaced White_Eyes and therefore I can't get a reading off of it. AVSM and Paulus both had the chance to spare Khaan and didn't, and Paulus voted for Beskar. Which was never recorded by the game host. Beskar is my top suspect at the moment, so I consider this a good vote. Personally, I'm not a fan of not voting. I'm so tempted to go with AVSM, but I think perhaps the reason Khaan got destroyed so soon was... maybe... White_Eyes not being there to spare him. If it isn't Beskar, it could be White_Eyes/Subotan.

Third place, I might pick AVSM for not voting, personal preference. However, that's almost a good thing considering he could have saved khaan. And I might be right regarding Beskar or Subotan. But maybe not AVSM.... I don't know. Yaseikhaan likes the tactic of voting his partner, he's done it quite a bit IIRC. I can't really pick my third suspect at this point, even though Death is yonder is driving me absolutely insane with his posts... they smell so bad but they don't mesh with his voting pattern. Stop being so scummy!

Sprig's vote on atheotes puts him in top contention, but he could have voted for joooray.

FOS:

1. Beskar
2. Subotan

**A Very Super Market** · 11-11-2009, 02:02

Uh oh. Xiahou Dun feels like a power role....

**Death is yonder** · 11-11-2009, 02:28

Cao Cao replied, "Alas! My Xiahou Dun has been murdered! He was as my right arm in battle!"

I think so too

Vote: Whiteeyes:D

Why so quiet?

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