Daggers in the Night [Concluded]

[Andres]

Night 9 - Conclusion

The moon was shining over the Alhambra, but TinCow didn't pay too much attention to it.

After his computer went down, he could no longer play Civ IV. He only had two books with him, and "DIY - Putting on paint clothes for dummies" was pretty boring.

So, there he was, enjoying a bottle of Spanish wine while reading "Famous Dagger Lawsuits". He particularly liked the episode about the brilliant interpretation of article 54 §3 of the Vampire hunting Code juncto article 23 of the Dagger Act in the famous Van Helsing vs. The Stranger case from 2000. Surely, this was something he could use tomorrow!

"This, this and this will certainly convince them!" he said, still amazed by the cunningness of the outstanding brilliant lawyer Andres Something mentioned in the book.

Yes, he would be well prepared now. A good thing that his computer broke down, so that he could finally pay some attention to this vampire hunting stuff. He'd probably save the brotherhood just in time.

He smiled confidently and opened another bottle of rosado. This country was great and, much to his surprise, they had some excellent wine. He shouldn't forget to buy a few bottles before leaving this place. There's always room for excellent stuff in his wine collection. Some of the bottles he planned to buy were pretty expensive, but surely his better half would understand. And if not, he'd just use the ultimate defence: "But it was on sale!" That'll teach her!

As he was thinking these fine thoughts, he didn't notice the dark figure sneaking up on him. Just when the killer was ready to hit TinCow on the head with a wooden club, his target suddenly exclaimed:

"Go ahead! Make my day!"

TinCow quickly jumped up and pointed his Magnum .44, loaded with silver bullets, at his attacker.

The attacker stayed ice cold and said to his victim: "You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya punk?”

TinCow trembled.

His attacker slowly moved forward and nodded in approval: "A good man always knows his limitations.”

TinCow regained control over himself and he pulled the trigger. The gun made a soft clicking sound, but nothing else.

TinCow started to yell at the gun. "This stuff has cost me 8.000 €. It's designed especially for me! With that kind of money, I could have paid someone to renovate my house instead of buying that stupid DIY book! This is outrageous! A scandal! I will sue the idiot who sold me this rubbish gun! I... I... " TinCow was all red. Rage had taken over.

The attacker simply shrugged. "If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.”

TinCow looked up. "Are you still there?"

The attacker didn't answer, but simply jumped forward, swinging his club at TinCows' head. Before the brilliant man of the law hit the floor, his head was already seperated from his body.

The killer shrugged and left the scene.

***

"Wake up!"

He opened his eyes. He couldn't feel anything.

"Wake up!"

He tried to scream, but there was no sound. He tried to move his arms, but he couldn't.

"Wake up!"

Suddenly, he floated through the air. He saw a headless body. He looked down and to his aggony, he noticed that he didn't have a body. A flash and his head was being attached to his body again.

He remembered vaguely. "I'm atheothes. I'm dead."

The powerful creature standing in front of him nodded. "Indeed, and that's all you need to know about your past. Now go my child. Go."

***

Kukrikhan was in a hurry. He needed to go back to his hotelroom. He looked around and felt very hungry. Shaking his head, he ignored the hunger and continued to walk further.

Suddenly, he felt like someone was following him.

Kukrikhan stayed calm and walked forward; suddenly, he took a small, dark alley and turned around. Fast as lightning, he punched in the direction of his follower, but there was nobody there.

"No human being can be this fast."

"Much has changed since you last encountered us."

Kukrikhan looked at his attacker, who was sitting on a nearby rooftop.

"You won't kill me, my child."

Suddenly, Kukrikhan disappeared.

The dagger jumped down from the rooftop, turned to his left and threw his silver dagger.

The scream of a beast broke the silence, a raw sound of anger and frustration. Allthough the drugs had him in their grasp, the dagger lost his selfcontrol for a brief moment. Kukrikhan tried to take advantage of this by clawing at his attacker. But the dagger was fast, too fast, for the wounded Kukrikhan.

He decided that he would flee. But before he could start to run, the dagger grabbed him. Kukrikhan managed to throw his attacker off him and drew his blade. The dagger did the same and a fierce duel began in the streets of Granada. Attack, block, riposte, block, attack. The duel continued and both men were equally matched.

The dagger forced his opponent to the edge of a nearby ravine. Hardly noticing his bad position, Kukri kept fighting. Suddenly, he lost his balance.

The dagger swung his blade at Kukrikhan for a devastating blow, but Kurki's body was already falling down.

The dagger looked down. Nobody would survive this. He had done his job and would now return to his Naib.

***

Renata was fanatically reading an article about an ancient civilisation, when somebody knocked on the door of her hotel room.

Without thinking, she stood up and opened the door.

"You?"

The man standing in front of her didn't say a word.

"You!" she exclaimed. "This cannot be! You were dead! Decapacitated! This is not possible."

The abomination standing in front of her didn't answer, but stepped forward and grabbed Renata by her throat.

The former Naib was surprised by this attack, but her reaction was fast. She drew her silver dagger and stabbed her attacker.

atheotes simply kept strangling Renata with his bare hands. Renata kept stabbing her attacker, but he didn't bleed. He didn't make a sound. It was as if the knive couldn't hurt him.

This continued for more than a minute and Renata slowly lost her strength.

atheotes strenghtened his grip and was rewarded with a sickening cracking sound.

He opened his hands and the dead Naib fell on the floor, her neck broken. Immediately, atheotes' body dissolved and ashes and dust were carried away with a cold breeze...

***

Lightning and rolling thunder. Heavy rain was falling down.

Somebody could be heard screaming. A scream of joy.

"Finally! Finally! Power will be mine! I will rule! Ruuuule!

Then the lightning storm stopped as suddenly as it had started...

***

Day 10

Diana Abnoba was calm. The sight of the small group saddened her. Not too long ago, their numbers were much larger. It would take several generations to get back to their full strength.

"Three of us died last night," she said. "I ordered the death of one of them and we have reasons to believe that he was not human."

The Naib paused and continued: "TinCow got killed in the same way as many others. The death of Renata was..."

The Naib shrugged. "I have no explanation for it. It has never been seen before in our history."

Diana shrugged again. "But let us get down to business, shall we. We need to vote and we also need to elect a Naib today."

***

Alive (13)

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

Killed (18)

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


Lynched (8)

Csargo
Askthepizzaguy
Seon
GeneralHankerchief
White_Eyes:D
Romanic
atheotes
Beskar

WoG (1)
AVSM

***

It's now day. You can start voting. You'll also have to elect a new Naib. Day will last for +/- 24 hours.

[Renata]

I suppose being (probably) killed by a third party is better than being killed by the mafia?

Something tells me Khan isn't really gone, either.

[TinCow]

Kukri was the vig target? Meh...

[Renata]

Meh?

[Askthepizzaguy]

Does the fact that he didn't seem to be human, as confirmed by the game host, reverse your opinion of "Meh"?

[The Stranger]

wow, i hadnt expected this...

anyhow. seems like tc is actually innocent. i take back what i said.

can diana confirm who she has vigged, if she has vigged at all.

i suppose it was kukri.

[Scienter]

Kukri was the vig target? Meh...

Your death scene was funny, surprisingly on target, too. ;)

[TinCow]

Meh?

I was hoping that TS would be disposed of.

Does the fact that he didn't seem to be human, as confirmed by the game host, reverse your opinion of "Meh"?

I thought that was referring to the dagger that killed him, not Kukri. I am reading that wrong?

[Scienter]

I thought that was referring to the dagger that killed him, not Kukri. I am reading that wrong?

I thought you were saying "meh" to the selection of Kukrikhan as the target.

[TinCow]

Hmmm... nm. On re-read, I agree it looks like Kukri might have been mafia. I recommend that Kage be the #1 lynch again today, with TS in the #2 spot.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Confusing.

-edit-

Your death scene was funny, surprisingly on target, too. ;)

ALMOST LIKE THE MAFIA HAD INSIDE KNOWLEDGE

[Renata]

Argh, I'm not sure. That whole section was ambivalent, though Diana does say at the end that Kukri might not have been human. But there's something weird about the one chosen to perform the kill, also.

[Jolt]

Nice hit.

Vote: Splitpersonality

Split hasn't explained the fact that he brandished a neat program to track votes/posts? and yet remained silent most of the game.

[TheFlax]

The way I read it, the Dagger attacking KukriKhan is on drugs that make him faster. Its mentioned that KukriKhan is "Fast as lightning" and when he is hurt "The scream of a beast broke the silence"

Though, I'm not actually sure we can take this as the fact he was one of the henchmen.

atheotes rising from the dead and killing Renata (that's how I read it) is rather disturbing.

EDIT: it seems I was massively too slow...

[Scienter]

Confusing.

-edit-



ALMOST LIKE THE MAFIA HAD INSIDE KNOWLEDGE

Nah, there's no way I'd write it up as him drinking Spanish red wine.

[Renata]

Again it's ambivalent, the dagger is also described as breaking free from the drugs for a moment around that time. Heck maybe Diana used Kage as the attacker and that explains that part; we'll have to wait for her.

[Askthepizzaguy]

vote: Methos

Elect: TheFlax

[TinCow]

ALMOST LIKE THE MAFIA HAD INSIDE KNOWLEDGE

While there is a rather large amount of personally specific information in that kill write-up, pretty much everything described was known to Andres and I don't have difficulty believing it was his work. If Scienter was mafia in this game, it's her first experience as a mafioso. I doubt Scienter would so blatantly ID herself as my killer in that manner; she strikes me more as a lurker mafioso than an intentional WIFOM mafioso.

[edit]What was the reasoning that resulted in Kukri being the vig target, btw? I didn't expect him to be picked at all, would be nice to know how he was chosen.

[Splitpersonality]

Nice hit.

Vote: Splitpersonality

Split hasn't explained the fact that he brandished a neat program to track votes/posts? and yet remained silent most of the game.

I don't recall ever doing that.


I remember taking someone's spreadsheet and putting it in words, but that's it.

[Askthepizzaguy]

@Tincow- A lot of people had him down as a suspect. This vig kill was very democratic.

The reasoning behind him was a combination of the fact that he wasn't discussing much, was very low key, not controversial, and he was pretending not to know the rules of the game. He's more competent than that.

[TinCow]

Hmm... the more I read Kukri's death, the more it reads like both people were a bit non-human. If Kage was the person chosen as the killer, that would make sense for one of them. We couldn't possibly have gotten so lucky as to have had the mafioso kill off the special role, could we?

[Askthepizzaguy]

Hmm... the more I read Kukri's death, the more it reads like both people were a bit non-human. If Kage was the person chosen as the killer, that would make sense for one of them. We couldn't possibly have gotten so lucky as to have had the mafioso kill off the special role, could we?

I don't think so. I think it is those drugs the Naib uses to shoot up her help with.

I'd consider it, but I specifically said to pick someone who couldn't possibly be mafia, who shall remain nameless in public.

[atheotes]

that was an interesting write up to say the least...

the vig kill was probably decided based on the PMs sent to Diana...i know at least one person who though Kukri was guilty

the Renata kill could have been done by Nikaloas (secret role) because he suspected Renata to be one the grunts.

[Askthepizzaguy]

that was an interesting write up to say the least...

the vig kill was probably decided based on the PMs sent to Diana...i know at least one person who though Kukri was guilty

the Renata kill could have been done by Nikaloas (secret role) because he suspected Renata to be one the grunts.

Okay Nikaloas, who are you killing next?

Please, let it be a certain strange person.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

I don't think kukri was mafia. Weird way of doing things.

[TinCow]

I don't think kukri was mafia. Weird way of doing things.

I'm thinking he might have been the special role, which is probably the guy who made atheotes kill Renata.

[edit] Notice that the thing that resurrected atheotes called him "my child" which is the same thing Kukri calls the dagger that killed him. Andres also tends to do his write-ups in chronological order of events, so the resurrection prior to Kukri's death fits.

[atheotes]

Okay Nikaloas, who are you killing next?

Please, let it be a certain strange person.

[Beskar]

See?

Atheotes is always the mafia.

[Choxorn]

Maybe atheotes IS the special role.

Anyway, Vote: The Stranger.

[Beefy187]

I'll vote later. Not sure who to vote for just yet.