The Trouble in Waiting [Concluded]

[civplayah]

Ohhh, we must have lynched a mafia before, because if we didn't the game would have ended.

[seireikhaan]

I was sitting on a marble bench the next morning, impatiently tapping my foot, waiting for news. My nerves were becoming increasingly shot as the seconds ticked by. I was started by a faint pop behind me, only to find Jannette smoothing her jacket out. “Morning, John,” she whistled. “Isn't this exciting? We'll find out if you've helped lead the group to victory!” I just swiveled on the bench away from her, feeling ill. I couldn't believe that, even now, she was still the same appallingly chipper woman.


There it was. The tell tale sounds of footsteps against the marble floor, coming from the privacy quarters. Did we do it? I felt my spirit lift against the shadow of doubt hovering over me. Out from the hallway stepped Renata and woad&fangs, each with a smirk upon their face. “... Have you two seen Captain Blackadder or Death is Yonder?” I asked them. Renata tilted her head to the right in some kind of thoughtful maner.

“Well.... I guess you could say that,” she said. She winked to the man beside her. They both held their right hands aloft, and a jet black dagger materialized in each. “Its all over, Heathen....” They leaned forward to start into a sprint, when....


“CONGRATULATIONS!” A new voice rang out from nowhere. Streams of confetti shot across the room from unknown sources, and the knives disappeared from their hands. Trumpets and trombones could be heard but not seen. A marble platform appeared in the middle of the room, as well as two new workers, who ushered woad&fangs and Renata onto it. Several simultaneous pops clicked at once, and suddenly the room was filled to the brim with everyone from the past week or so, all whole and healthy, if a bit dazed. From behind me, Jannette was clapping excitedly, smiling as always.


“Wha... what? How? WHYYYYYYYYYYYYY?” I cried out in near tears. Jannette briskly stepped up to the platform where woad&fangs and Renata stood, looking about as stunned as myself.


“Congrats to both of you, you did an excellent job!” Jannette congratulated them. “Its been a while since we've seen such an excellent performance by the mafia!”


“The... the mafia?” myself, woad, and Renata all queried at once. “Oh yes, you two were the mafia. That's what we call 'the intruders' in this exercise,” she explained. “Wait.... exercise?!” we screamed. “This was just an exercise!”


“Oh, yes, of course sillies. People can't actually die up here,” she said with a wink to me.


“But... but... but.... whyyyyyyyyy?” I cried. “Why all this?”


Jannette looked quite puzzled. “Isn't that obvious? It really does get dreadfully boring up here. I mean, there's not even any internet!” she shook her head a bit. “I was to help get this exercise going by telling dear woad and Renata here that everyone was plotting against The Boss, so they naturally took up what was a sacred duty. And quite well, to reiterate. I'm just happy I was able to go back home while you were in transience, otherwise I'd have been a week or more without facebook! Can you imagine? Oh, well... I guess you can, but oh well. Anyways, yes, this was to liven things up in this dull place. It sure beats Bingo, doesn't it?” She winked again.


“Now, for you two, I have a prize, of course! For such an excellent job and winning the exercise, I present you with something you'll be able to use once you're finished here.” Jannette pulled a few slips of paper out of her jacket pocket and handed two slips each to woad and Renata.


Woad read the lettering aloud. “Good for one free entree with the purchase of another of equal or greater value.... to Bennigans. Wait, where are we all heading when we're done with this?” Jannette just winked at him one last time.


“Well, toodles everyone, I'll see you in a week or so for Twister!”


TOTAL MAFIA VICTORY!



ArepeggiateTHIS
Askthepizzaguy
Beskar
CaptainBlackadder
Civplayah
Death is Yonder
Diana Abnoba
God Emperor
Frozen in Ice
Landlubber
Pinman
Renata- MAFIA
Romanic
Secura
Skooma Addict
splitpersonality
woad&fang- MAFIA

[Death is yonder]

I will say this much: The distancing vote between woad and Renata on round one, plus his incorrect vote on me this round, is indicative of their partnership. I would also suggest that it was indeed Renata who killed off Diana and Split, for very smart reasons.

Yes, that just means the kills will drop to one when woad or Renata is lynched.

You could always drop the kill number down to one now, and pretend I was guilty.

I know you're speaking purely for the "benefit" of the people reading the thread other than me, so I won't bother.

Big fat hint: Renata is guilty.

Ahh the shame

Good game mafia

Well played.

And well done to ATPG too, you got it all right, but we didn't listen.

Ahhhhhhh.

Thanks Khaan for hosting this game

Looks like the curse of Khaan is back eh?

[Askthepizzaguy]

And well done to ATPG too, you got it all right, but we didn't listen.

I thought about it too much on that last round. I should have stuck with my original case on Renata and woad&fangs. It's nice to know the scumdar still works... what was it, 5/5 in the last two small games alone?

I was right about Renata due to who got killed, and I was right about woad based on his scum behavior. And then when woad picked me over Renata, it just confirmed everything for me.

Can't win 'em all. I am always looking at things from different angles and wondering what if I were wrong. I gotta stop doing that. My apologies to civplayah... I should have just shut up and let Blackadder, et al, vote for woad, as they might have done if I hadn't just given it a rest and hoped people followed my case from the round prior.

Congrats Woad and Renata. Thank you Khaan for an excellent game.

[Renata]

Thank you to my scumbuddy woad for the plotting (did you ever think we'd pull it off? I didn't) and to Khaan for the opportunity to play a mafia role in a vanilla game, which is just awesome-sauce.

And to the townies, for allowing it to happen.

I thought about it too much on that last round. I should have stuck with my original case on Renata and woad&fangs. It's nice to know the scumdar still works... what was it, 5/5 in the last two small games alone?

I was right about Renata due to who got killed, and I was right about woad based on his scum behavior. And then when woad picked me over Renata, it just confirmed everything for me.

You did very well (obviously), even if some of your reasons weren't right. Woad picked split, for instance; and I picked Diana largely for the reason I stated in the thread, not directly to weaken you. I was actually thinking to kill you that night, but woad wanted you alive. Speaking only for myself, I wasn't able to put nearly as much thought into the night kills (except the last one) as I wanted to -- one night fell on a weekend, and otherwise I was just really busy.

Also, woad's jumping on you on the day you were lynched actually was a miscalculation -- at the time he thought the same as you argued, that a single mislynch would win it for us. Nothing to do but roll with it once that happened. Like I told him at the time, though, I'm actually glad it worked out that way, and doubly so given the outcome. It's not often you get to openly support your mafia partner like that. That was extremely entertaining in a strange way. I still can't believe it worked. After Blackadder's vote I was all ready to concede.

Can't win 'em all. I am always looking at things from different angles and wondering what if I were wrong. I gotta stop doing that. My apologies to civplayah... I should have just shut up and let Blackadder, et al, vote for woad, as they might have done if I hadn't just given it a rest and hoped people followed my case from the round prior.

Congrats Woad and Renata. Thank you Khaan for an excellent game.

I'm not sure whether you under-estimated us or over-estimated us -- maybe a little of both.

Congrats Woad and Renata :)

You sure had me fooled.

Thanks, Pinman. I suppose my "is he trying to trick me into giving myself away?" reaction is very similar to my "is he trying to trick me into voting for Pizza?" reaction.

[civplayah]

Ah, ha! I knew it!

But you guys had everyone else fooled. :( Good job!

[Romanic]

It's a good thing that I didn't post during the last day because I had DiY and civplayah as mafia partners

Good job Renata and woad&fangs!!

Not happy at ATPG for lynching me on day 1!

And thanks for the game khaan.

[Diana Abnoba]

Congrats to the mafia. Great game, thanks to Khaan for hosting.

[Pinman]

Congrats Woad and Renata :)

You sure had me fooled.

[woad&fangs]

Thanks for hosting, khaan

ATPG, if I may offer some advice...Try to focus on quality of evidence rather than quantity. I think the sheer amount of arguments you had against me worked in my favor because your weak/nonexistent cases against me made your good cases seem petty as well.

Congrats to my partner, Renata.

This is the first time I've survived a game as the mafia! Woohoo!