[Council of Villains Series] The Koopa Troop [Concluded]

[Chaotix]

Night 2 has ended; I'll have the write-up posted as soon as I can. I'm still finishing up the last parts of it.

[pevergreen]

I like these writeups.

Entertaining, unlike mine...

[Chaotix]

Night 2

“Hello again! Thanks for joining the Lakitu Bros. again for some exciting coverage of Bowser’s Castle. This time, we’ll be looking for scottishranger!”

The camera lurched forward shakily on the end of the Lakitu’s fishing pole as he floated down the hallway on his cloud. When the Lakitu got to a small door, the camera stopped moving and became centered on it. The door was in sharp contrast to the Koopa Bros.’- it was only small and wooden.

“Let’s see if anybody’s home, shall we?”

The door opened, but beyond there was only an empty closet-sized space, with an even smaller bed.

“Hrmm… guess he’s not here. I think I might know where to find him, though. Let’s go!”

The Lakitu headed down a floor into the dungeons of Bowser’s Castle. By a distant cell down the hall, four distinct figures could be seen. The Lakitu and the camera moved closer- now all could be seen clearly. Two Koopatrols were standing outside of a cell, with what seemed to be Princess Peach inside.

“Well, there’s the Princess and her guards, but in the shadows… there! There’s scottishranger, also known as Kamek, hiding in the shadows. But what’s he doing? Could he be… spying on the Princess? What a naughty old Magikoopa!”

Suddenly, the Princess gasped. She was staring at something unseen by the scope of the camera.

“Heh heh heh heh!”

The Koopatrols looked at each other nervously.

“Wh-who’s there?”

“I’m a ghost, you idiots! Now run away! BOO!”

The two guards took a look at each other, then turned and ran in the opposite direction down the hallway. Meanwhile, Kamek, had stepped out of the shadows and pointed his wand at the unseen intruder.

“You’re no ghost! I see exactly who you are. Lord Bowser will be hearing about this, you-”

“Shut up! You won’t be telling anyone about what you saw… not unless you can climb your way out of this, anyway! Heh heh!”

There was the sound of a lever being pulled, and all of a sudden a few tons of Pidgit droppings fell through a trapdoor in the ceiling, burying Kamek. His muffled screams could be heard as the acidic properties of said droppings started burning through his scales. Then the pile solidified, effectively creating a smelly wall separating the dungeons in two.

“Sorry about the smell, Peach.”

The unseen figure in the shadows was heard running back the way he came.

“Well, that was quite intriguing! I wonder who that was… too bad I didn’t get a clear view of him with this camera. And I think that brings our coverage to an end, then. It’s way too stinky in here to stay any longer! Lakitu Bros. out!”

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Yoshi and his companion were once again roaming the halls of the castle during the night. Or perhaps they weren’t just roaming… they were moving with a sense of purpose. This time, the corridor they were traversing ended in a large, circular hanging platform, suspended by chains over a pool of magma. The path forked beyond this platform.

They leaped onto the platform carefully, one at a time, Yoshi utilizing his Flutter Jump while the other intruder performed an impressive acrobatic somersault. The two looked carefully for any other signs of danger, and then decided to proceed to the right. This time, the shadowy figure took the jump first.

As soon as Yoshi’s mysterious friend landed on the other side, however, a loud crash came from the suspended platform, causing it to shake and rock. There, standing opposite Yoshi on the rickety platform, was Donkey Kong, his face lit up by the glowing lava below. The monkey had a menacing grin on his furry face.

Yoshi shouted at his companion, seemingly signaling to continue on with the mission. The intruder did so, leaving Yoshi alone to contend with DK. The ape chuckled, and then began his assault.

Donkey Kong smashed the platform with his powerful hands, causing it to shake again and throwing Yoshi off-balance. Then he climbed up one of the chains, proceeding to leap off of it and deliver an aerial blow to the dizzy dinosaur. Yoshi was blasted back a few feet by the attack, and landed on his face at the edge of the platform.

DK grabbed Yoshi by the neck, lifting him several feet into the air. Then, grinning even wider, he took out his trusty banana and held it up to the side of Yoshi’s head. Yoshi struggled violently, but was unable to break free. Unable, that is, until he decided to Flutter Kick the giant ape in the face.

Yoshi broke free as Donkey Kong screamed angrily. DK was now ready to finish the stupid dinosaur off. He pulled out his Coconut Gun, which fired in spurts. If he shot Yoshi, it was gonna hurt.

But as he looked up, he saw the dinosaur holding an egg- aimed directly at his head. The two angry animals were now engaged in a stand-off: neither dared attack the other for fear of the deadly retaliation. Eggs and coconuts were nothing to laugh at- there was real, life-threatening danger here.

Suddenly, Yoshi broke the stand-off by leaping high into the air and then throwing his egg. Although Donkey Kong managed to shatter it with a Coconut blast, the sparks caused by the explosion were enough to blind him temporarily. Using this time to his advantage, Yoshi slammed back onto the platform with a Ground Pound, sending DK flying.

DK just barely managed to grab the edge of the platform with one hand, but he no longer had the strength to pull himself back up. Yoshi was approaching him fast, and he felt his hairy monkey fingers slipping. Donkey Kong fell towards the lava pit… but was caught by Yoshi’s tongue.

Surprised he could fit such a giant ape in his mouth, Yoshi nonetheless spit DK back out onto the platform. He left the room while the monkey was still unconscious.

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Kammy Koopa floated through the dungeons on her broomstick. She stopped when she reached Princess Peach’s cell. After all those years serving King Bowser as a Magikoopa, old Kammy had both poor sight and smell, so she failed to notice the wall of hardened Pidgit droppings in the poor lighting. She did, however, notice that Peach’s guards seemed to have disappeared.

“My, my… look at this! Both of the Koopatrols I assigned to guard your cell are gone, Princess. How do you account for this?”

“I’m not telling you anything, you miserable old witch!”

“Hmph! Suit yourself. A block will do just as- hey, what is that smell? Ugh… Princess, you really ought to wash more often. I bet it was your horrid smell that drove those Koopas off…”

Kammy droned on and on, continuing to enrage the Princess with each word that she spoke. So absorbed were the two in their one-sided conversation that neither noticed the shadowy figure walking slowly up to them.

“Ahem.”

Both Kammy and Peach screamed, and the former tried to fly away on her broomstick, in the process smashing into the smelly Pidgit wall. Kammy was boxed in with no hope for escape.

“Hmm… let’s see, how shall I do it? Fire is probably not the best option, as I might accidentally burn this lovely lady in the cell.”

“Hey! What about me, you rapscallion? I’m not a lovely lady, too? I’ll teach you a lesson in manners, you little whippersnapper, you!”

Kammy began firing blocks at the intruder, all of which he deflected or shattered with his fists. Eventually the old Magikoopa got tired out and stopped attacking, simply groaning insults at him instead.

“Well, I’ve made my decision. I think Green Thunder, my signature attack, is the way to go her. Gotta look good for the ladies, after all.”

Green lightning shot from the intruder’s hands, electrocuting Kammy. When he was done, Kammy was nothing but a blackened heap on the floor, next to the wall of Pidgit droppings. The intruder turned to leave.

“See ya later, babe. Have fun in that cell, there.”

“Hey, wait!”

“What’s up?”

“Luigi… help me. Let me out.”

“Luigi? Who’s that? Looks like you’re looking for the wrong guy.”

The intruder strode off down the dungeon corridor, leaving the Princess alone.

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Yoshi’s companion had finally reached their destination room. There was only one to do the job, now, but the mission was an easy one, so there wouldn’t be a problem. The door to the room was massive, and made of steel. What’s more, it had been locked, so that the intruder couldn’t even push it open with sheer strength.

Instead of trying further to open the door, the intruder looked for another way to get inside- and spotted what appeared to be a small ventilation shaft. The intruder rolled up into a ball and entered the shaft, moving through it quickly. Upon seeing this, a tall, thin figure in the shadows simply gaped in astonishment. Then he tried, unsuccessfully, to squeeze himself into the vent and follow his target.

Surprisingly, the lights were all on in the large bedchamber, and they caused Samus’ armor to gleam as she shifted back out of her Morph Ball form.

Standing on the bed, waiting for her, was Ludwig von Koopa, the eldest of the eight Koopalings, magic wand at the ready.

“So… you vish to vattle me, eh? I fink you vill have a more difficult time van you imagine… GWAHAHAHAR!”

Ludwig began attacking relentlessly, alternating between fireballs, blasts from his wand, and spinning in his spiked shell. Samus strafed around the Koopa kid at all times blasting him with her rapid-fire Power Beam. Most of the shots, however, simply bounced off of his radiant blue shell. Finally, Ludwig managed to land a hit with a magic blast, proceeding to follow up with spinning shell attack.

It was now that Samus decided it was unlikely she would leave the room without expending any missiles, and so she decided to stop playing around. Still smarting from the last attack, Samus switched modes to her Ice Beam, and began charging up a shot. As soon as she had a clear shot, she let it loose, and it struck Ludwig directly in the chest, freezing him solid. Samus then switched weapons again, this time firing a Super Missile. Ludwig shattered into a thousand pieces.

With her mission accomplished, Samus turned and fired a second Super Missile at the steel doors behind her, blowing them off their hinges. She exited the room calmly and quietly.

Samus was out of earshot when the ceiling vent collapsed and Waluigi came down with it.

But Waluigi was too much in shock at what he had just seen to be bothered by the pain. He scratched his head and began thinking about how tennis rackets and Bob-Ombs would fare against that… metal monster.

Then, Waluigi’s head began hurting even more. It felt as if someone were inside his mind, trying to take over his conscience. With his superior and crafty mind, however, Waluigi managed to fight off this unwelcome force.

“HAHAHAHAHA!”

Waluigi looked up to see who was laughing at him.

“I HAVE CONFUSION! How is it that a FINK-RAT such as you can be withstanding my invasioning of your thought-box?”

Waluigi snarled in rage. He pulled out his tennis racket and began lobbing Bob-Ombs at Fawful.

“I HAVE APOLOGY! If you will have ceasement of your fury of bombardment, FINK-RAT, then I will be considering a peace-filled icing on this cake of evil!”

Waluigi paused mid-shot, confused, then quickly remembered to throw the Bob-Omb away before it blew up in his face. Fawful hovered closer to Waluigi and held out his hand. Waluigi scratched his chin again. What to do…

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Mario raced through the Castle, stomping Goombas and dodging Thwomps as he went. It was time he stopped wasting time; the faster he defeated Bowser, the quicker this whole ordeal would be over.

He stopped short, however, when he reached the final set of doors.

“Mama, Mia…”

In front of him, blocking his way, were Boom Boom, Reznor, and Goomboss- three of the last minions he had been hoping to see right now. It appeared getting to Bowser would be more difficult than he thought.

Even if Mario did manage to defeat all three of them right now, he would have alerted the whole Castle to his presence in the process… and then, assuming he had kicked every Koopa shell in a 2-mile radius, he would then have to go up against Bowser!

Mario was known to be quite the intrepid adventurer, but on this occasion his brain outweighed his vengeful spirit, and he began running in the other direction, stomping Goombas and dodging Thwomps on the way back. The three mid-bosses chuckled to themselves, even though each one had silently wet himself only a few minutes before.

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Write-up Summary
as requested by ATPG

Lakitu Bro investigated scottishranger (Kamek).
scottishranger (Kamek) was killed.
Yoshi was attacked by Donkey Kong.
Thermal Mercury (Kammy Koopa) was killed.
Khazaar (Ludwig von Koopa) was killed by Samus.
Fawful tried to control Waluigi's mind.
Mario tried to attack Bowser, but was halted by Boom Boom, Reznor, and Goomboss.

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Alive: 28
Sasaki Kojiro
spl1tp3r50naL1ty
A Very Super Market
Beskar
Captain Blackadder
pevergreen
Askthepizzaguy
Greyblades
White_eyes:D
Captain C
Yaseikhaan
Death is yonder
Stildawn
rhawn
Paulus Tertius
Sigurd
A1_Unit
Centurion1
atheotes
Diana Abnoba
Double A
Tratorix
Beefy187
Psychonaut
Joooray
YLC
Cronos Impera
Yoyoma1910

Dead: 7
Cultured Drizzt fan
TheMarioKarters
taka
Sprig
scottishranger
Thermal Mercury
Khazaar

Far away and never returning: Thefluffyone93

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Begin Day 3

Sorry about the delay, there. It took me a full hour just to get all the text-formatting and images right once I had the writing done.

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, so it's gonna be another 48-hour phase, or maybe more if there isn't a whole lot of activity.

Result PMs will be out as soon as I do them.

[Beskar]

Tonight, you decided to investigate Sigurd again, and boy did you get a surprise!

Sigurd is Samus Aran, a bounty hunter from another dimension. Apparently she’s working with Mario to help kill all of the Koopas. With that armorsuit and cannon she’s got, she can probably kill just about anyone she wants.

Vote: Sigurd

[scottishranger]

Edited out, cant reveal.

[Splitpersonality]

Vote: Sigurd

[Captain C]

Wow, did we just have 3 anti-town members revealed?

[Beskar]

I hope there are some protections and role-blockers out there in the town.

[Beefy187]

Vote: Sigurd

[A Very Super Market]

Why don't you vote?

FoS: Captain C

Vote: Sigurd

[White_eyes:D]

Vote:Sigurd

[seireikhaan]

Edited out, cant reveal.

Do realize, of course, that Donkey Kong was originally a nemisis of Mario...

I'm curious as to how you know both of these, given another detective's reveal. Trying to relieve pressure off of your mafia buddy?

However, Vote: Sigurd, for this round.

edit: Editing, not certain as to whether its in the spirit of gamesmanship to act on illegal knowledge...

[Askthepizzaguy]

Edited out, cant reveal.

I'm going to play as if I didn't see that.

Anyways.

Vote: Sigurd because I got someone properly revealing on that one.

[scottishranger]

Sorry all, my bad for above post.

[Chaotix]

Sorry, I'm gonna take responsibility for that post above, because I didn't explicitly state in my abbreviated rules that post-mortem reveals were not allowed. I assumed it was a common enough rule that it was basically implied.

For a full clarification:

The dead may not reveal their own roles or anyone else's.
The dead may not communicate outside the thread.

EDIT: There's also something that I find incredibly funny about this that I will tell you all after the game is over.

[Captain C]

Why don't you vote?

FoS: Captain C

Vote: Sigurd

Well when I first posted there were 3 people named and I wanted to think about which one should be lynched today, but seeing how apparently two of those people weren't supposed to be revealed I'll vote for the other guy.

Vote: Sigurd

[Death is yonder]

Tonight, you decided to investigate Sigurd again, and boy did you get a surprise!

Sigurd is Samus Aran, a bounty hunter from another dimension. Apparently she’s working with Mario to help kill all of the Koopas. With that armorsuit and cannon she’s got, she can probably kill just about anyone she wants.

Vote: Sigurd

[Captain Blackadder]

vote sigurd

Detective reveal seems good enough reason for me.

[Double A]

Sorry, I'm gonna take responsibility for that post above, because I didn't explicitly state in my abbreviated rules that post-mortem reveals were not allowed. I assumed it was a common enough rule that it was basically implied.

For a full clarification:

The dead may not reveal their own roles or anyone else's.
The dead may not communicate outside the thread.

EDIT: There's also something that I find incredibly funny about this that I will tell you all after the game is over.

That Mario attacked Bowser but was scared off by W1 bosses?

Also, is it just me, or are half the roles in this game anti-town?

[pevergreen]

Vote: Sigurd

If hes wrong, we can just lynch him.

[Double A]

Oh right... almost forgot to vote

vote: Sigurd

[Askthepizzaguy]

Everyone in the game should vote for Sigurd so we can at least honor him with an epic holy **** bandwagon.

[Paulus Tertius]

vote: Sigurd

Death to Samus!

[naut]

Vote: Sigurd

Joining the bandwagon in the brief period my internet connection isn't screwed up. (Lighting storms the past week seem to have damaged my connection leading to brief periods of connection time, should be good this weekend onward as I'll be at my other place).

[ULC]

Aww...and I like Samus too! This feels like a betrayal of some sort...

Vote: Sigurd

[Beefy187]

Aww...and I like Samus too! This feels like a betrayal of some sort...

Vote: Sigurd

I prefer using Fox in Smash Brothers.. I feel no remorse.
Though killing Yoshi will hurt me bad...

[Sigurd]

Tonight, you decided to investigate Sigurd again, and boy did you get a surprise!

Sigurd is Samus Aran, a bounty hunter from another dimension. Apparently she’s working with Mario to help kill all of the Koopas. With that armorsuit and cannon she’s got, she can probably kill just about anyone she wants.

What can I say... Obviously a fake.
Why don't the real investigator challenge this? Are you going to let an innocent man - or in this case a squid, get the noose because of an obviously dirty and fabricated result PM?

Sooooo... we can conclude from this that the Mafia can investigate and Beskar will produce results for the remainder of the game. Some fake and some genuine for pro-town effect.

I am afraid this rather sad bandwagon has got too much momentum because of Beskar'singenious early reveal.
Keep a close eye at Beskar.

And to you, the genuine investigator, do please make a protest either through proxy or in person. Beskar shouldn't get away with this.

vote: Beskar - clearly scum, scum and utter scum.

[ULC]

What can I say... Obviously a fake.
Why don't the real investigator challenge this? Are you going to let an innocent man - or in this case a squid, get the noose because of an obviously dirty and fabricated result PM?

Sooooo... we can conclude from this that the Mafia can investigate and Beskar will produce results for the remainder of the game. Some fake and some genuine for pro-town effect.

I am afraid this rather sad bandwagon has got too much momentum because of Beskar'singenious early reveal.
Keep a close eye at Beskar.

And to you, the genuine investigator, do please make a protest either through proxy or in person. Beskar shouldn't get away with this.

vote: Beskar - clearly scum, scum and utter scum.

Don't worry, I'll kill him myself if you come up innocent - I'll waste a bit of sugar for that.

[Khazaar]

Hrrgr... Killed by a chick in a Battlesuit! I hope it wasn´t a revengekill for my epic awesomeness in previous games. I´m just gonna deny my death because it was a noncanon kill, I won´t bow to nonbowser world characters.

Two things of note. mario seems to know now who Bowser is, wich is bad. And eggfart and bananabrains have not killed eachother which might mean cooperation, wich is also bad, too bad!

But the worst thing is, without overstating my importance, I´m dead!

[Beefy187]

What can I say... Obviously a fake.
Why don't the real investigator challenge this? Are you going to let an innocent man - or in this case a squid, get the noose because of an obviously dirty and fabricated result PM?

Sooooo... we can conclude from this that the Mafia can investigate and Beskar will produce results for the remainder of the game. Some fake and some genuine for pro-town effect.

I am afraid this rather sad bandwagon has got too much momentum because of Beskar'singenious early reveal.
Keep a close eye at Beskar.

And to you, the genuine investigator, do please make a protest either through proxy or in person. Beskar shouldn't get away with this.

vote: Beskar - clearly scum, scum and utter scum.

iirc, write up will reveal who you really are.
If you turn up innocent, we will make sure Beskar will pay for him.