Night 8 - Conclusion




The debate reached a fevered pitch as two of the daggers were singled out as being especially suspicious. However, one of them was haunted by the ghost of a pizza man, and was tormented relentlessly by this apparition before the final decision was made.

"But, I'm not a vampire!" Kagemusha exclaimed. "I've never been a vampire... except for that one time! But that was just a role in a game!"

The Naib, dressed in a flowing black cloak, looked up at Kagemusha with sympathetic eyes, but underneath those sympathies was a desire for justice and a firm resolve.

"Please step forward, my friend." she said.

"I'm really busy, I have things I have to go do...." said the dagger.

"I'm afraid I must insist. It is time." she said.

“I have a job! I work long hours! I need to make a living! I don’t have time for this nonsense!”

“Please,” the Naib said softly.

"You're all out to get me! And that pizza guy... he's controlling your minds from beyond the grave! He’s dead and he’s still talking! And then you say I’m a supernatural being? It's a conspiracy! It's nothing more than a plot to destroy the innocent! I say there's foul business afoot. Our Naib pals around with dead people, and I'm the one who is accused of being a vampire... it's insanity, I tells ye. Don't you see? Don't you see the violence inherent in the system? Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help, help, I'm being repressed!"

Kagemusha went towards the crowd of people to plead his case, but they wouldn't listen. Then, he saw in his mind the image of his foul accuser, and he became enraged.

"You! You think just because you're dead, that means you can't be a vampire? You of all people should know better... so I can only conclude you're hiding something. I'll kill you until you're... even deader!"

Kagemusha unsheathed a long, curved blade, and charged toward the invisible man, slicing through the air, hacking his imaginary foe to pieces. But still, the voices wouldn't leave his mind.

"Why must you torment me so, after all we've been through together? I curse thee! I curse thee and everyone who looks like thee!" said Kage, who spat upon the ground.

The daggers looked confused at the madman who was yelling against the air and the walls of the Generalife.

"Are you ready for your judgment now?" asked the Naib, warily.

Suddenly Kagemusha brightened up and turned toward the Naib with a pleasant grin on his face. "Why, yes, my good lady. I wouldn't have elected you as Naib if I wasn't ready to die by your hand. It would be an honor to die for you."

Diana Abnoba gripped her blade, and waited.

"Come here, glorious leader, and strike me down for the so-called crimes I have committed." he said, advancing toward the Naib.

Diana's face betrayed no emotion, and Kagemusha continued walking in her direction.

"Or should I come running to you when you call? Come willingly to my own death? It would be my pleasure, my lady."

Diana waited.

"But one thing I will not do, is die without a fight, my lady. First, you must defeat me in glorious comba-"

Beskars’ head fell to the ground, with his body crumpling a split second later. Diana calmly walked past the body of the fallen, and retrieved her blade from the hot sand several paces behind him. Then she took out a silver dagger and placed it swiftly into Beskars’ heart.

The other daggers murmured anxiously at the suddenness of the event.

Diana retrieved her knife and then she froze. She stared at Beskars’ body. She turned pale and looked up.

“How? What?”

The daggers looked at their Naib. Some stepped forward.

“That’s impossible!” one exclaimed.

“I swear that I saw Kagemusha attacking the Naib!” another one said.

The brothers and sisters looked around and found Kagemusha, who was standing at the opposite side of the courtyard, alive and kicking. He looked surprised, then relieved.

“I guess it just wasn’t my time yet,” he said, and he shrugged, a slightly amused expression on his face in an attempt to hide that he was facing death no more than a few minutes ago.

It took a while before the Naib calmed down and was able to speak again.

"There's nothing more to see here. Go back to your rooms and remember to lock them this time. Anyone who fails to do so will have to deal with me. Have a safe and pleasant sleep." said Diana, who motioned for them all to leave.

They dispersed quickly, throwing uncomfortable looks at the man who had just cheated death.

The Naib stared at Kagemusha’s back.

What the just happened?

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Tally:

Kagemusha Beskar: 6 (Scienter, Methos, TinCow, TheFlax, Beskar, Renata)

Methos: 3 (Kukrikhan, Diamondeye, pevergreen)
Beskar: 3 (Choxorn, Kagemusha, Beefy187)
TheFlax: 1 (splitpersonality)
splitpersonality: 1 (The Stranger)

Not voting: 3 (Diana (Naib), Jolt, Double A)
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Alive (16)

1. TheFlax
2. Renata
3. Diana Abnoba
4. Double A
5. TinCow
6. The Stranger
7. Methos
8. spL1tp3r50naL1ty
9. Jolt
10. Choxorn
11. Kukrikhan
12. Beefy187
13. Kagemusha
14. pevergreen
15. DiamondEye
16. Scienter

Killed (15)

autolycus
Yaropolk
Chaotix
Centurion1
Ibn-Khaldun
Psychonaut
Sasaki Kojiro
Yaseikhaan
Peasant Phill
Death is yonder
YLC
Secura
Captain Blackadder
GreyBlades
Niklas

Lynched (8)

Csargo
Askthepizzaguy
Seon
GeneralHankerchief
White_Eyes:D
Romanic
atheotes
Beskar

WoG (1)
AVSM

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It's now night. PM's please. Night will last for +/- 23 hours.