Roman Brutality [Concluded]

[Askthepizzaguy]

Well, the evidence looks pretty serious for atpg, but I'm not altogether sold yet. vote: atpg, but I may change my mind.

I don't believe you would have intentionally bussed your own teammate in the manner you did. That wasn't necessary.

What I would believe is that there was a distancing attempt.

Autolycus > Joooray
ATPG > Joooray
Cute Wolf > decides to bus Joooray, thus making him look innocent.

Then, Auto switches to Cute, Tibs switches to Cute, Joooray was already voting for Cute.

I really don't see it being the other way around; but I do know that I have been set up to fail. It was not me.

Of the two, I vote: civplayah.

[Askthepizzaguy]

Not to edit my vote post, so I will post here.

It's also entirely possible that there was no intentional bussing. I've had mini games where the two mafiosi are on the same team and who each other are. The Night Santa Went Crazy, for example; one mafia accidentally lynches the other mafia, and went on to win the game due to cred.

[autolycus]

Well, your logic follows my concerns, atpg, and I'd rather lose to an active scum than to a coin flip due to one party's not voting, so at least until civplayah shows up, I'll unvote: vote: civplayah.

[Askthepizzaguy]

One more comment; I was active all the way up to the end of the round. If Cute Wolf and I were partners, we could have waited until the very end of the round, not two hours beforehand, to switch to Joooray.

There would have been no way to counter that, and it would have been game over. And that's exactly what I would have done. There's no need to leave 3 1/2 hours of mind-changing time before my vote switch and the end of the round.



edit: I have to leave, see this post for why. I should be back in time for the deadline.

[civplayah]

Well, your logic follows my concerns, atpg, and I'd rather lose to an active scum than to a coin flip due to one party's not voting, so at least until civplayah shows up, I'll unvote: vote: civplayah.

I have showed up...

[autolycus]

So what's your take? Who's the killer?

[civplayah]

Honestly, there hasn't been enough activity to tell.

[Askthepizzaguy]

civplayah, why would you volunteer to replace Joooray if you weren't going to vote? You had at least two chances to vote and discuss.

[Diamondeye]

Day 3 Ends:
The three remaining survivors had gathered in an atmosphere of decisiveness, but it quickly turned to desperation in their lack of solid clues. Finally, the laundress was seized by one of the others, autolycus. She protested and yelled, but the man who restricted civplayah only believed it to be evidence of her guilt. While he struggled to keep her, he bade the other man, AskThePizzaGuy, to go find a weapon that they might end the life of the traitor swiftly and with no unnecessary brutality. The woman went into hysterics. "What are you doing! Release me, you're making a mistake!"
The man who restrained her had many years of training from the legions, and indeed had been hired to train the sons of Gnaeus in martial arts and Roman discipline. He was unflinching in the face of the hysterical woman and patiently waited for the other man to exit with a weapon.

Finally, he looked up at the sound of the door of the mansion closing. AskThePizzaGuy exited with a weapon in his hands, but not any weapon. Only his discipline as a soldier let him keep his grasp through the shock as autolycus stammered, "Where did you find that bow, Decius? Gnaeus was found with an arrow through his-"
AskThePizzaGuy broke him off; "Oh, it's mine alright." Without further ado, he let the first arrow fly, striking autolycus in the chest and sending the man gasping back on the ground, releasing his constriction of the laundress. "And the name's Decius Brutus, by the way," AskThePizzaGuy added, no small amount of malice seeping into his voice as he let another arrow fly, robbing autolycus of his life.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

autolycus, the martial trainer Gaditicus Casitas, was loyal!

The shocked and hysterical laundress, civplayah, got up and looked at the murderer in front of her. "You scum! Rascal! Verily, the honor of your entire family will be in tatters once the world knows of your misdeeds here!"
The Brutii assassin shrugged. "Oh, but they won't know. A little more blood will wash these hands clean as snow."
The laundress shrieked in agony and fell to the ground as the arrow pounded into her chest. As the assassin left the scene and found his horse, ready to start for his home with the message of a job well done, the lifeblood of civplayah soaked the grass around her.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

civplayah, the laundress Sofia Calpurnia, was loyal!

Mafia (Brutii) victory!

Congratulations to AskThePizzaGuy and Cute Wolf, and thanks to you all for playing!

The postgame discussion can commence now, at will. I will post all role PMs later.

I hope to see the veterans from this game in the next game in this setting, whenever I may have the time and energy to undertake such a venture without the delays that sadly lengthened this game a little.

[Askthepizzaguy]

As is traditional for me, I would be lighting up a cigar with Cute Wolf and then tossing it on the pile of bodies, but the Romans didn't have tobacco and Cute Wolf is dead due to my own incompetence with maths... (did not count down the hours correctly last round, and that was my bad) I will simply pour myself a celebratory goblet of wine, one for me, and one for my fallen homey. Then with the lantern oil on the bodies of the fallen, and I'll rub sticks together to start a fire. Somehow I will make it work, darn it.

Thank you gentlemen for a fun game.

[God Emperor]

As is traditional for me, I would be lighting up a cigar with Cute Wolf and then tossing it on the pile of bodies, but the Romans didn't have tobacco and Cute Wolf is dead due to my own incompetence with maths... (did not count down the hours correctly last round, and that was my bad) I will simply pour myself a celebratory goblet of wine, one for me, and one for my fallen homey. Then with the lantern oil on the bodies of the fallen, and I'll rub sticks together to start a fire. Somehow I will make it work, darn it.

Thank you gentlemen for a fun game.

Even you, Brutus

[autolycus]

If civplayah had voted, I almost certainly would have switched back to you, atpg, but I don't much like the coin flip for decision.

[Skooma Addict]

It's always Pizza. Always...

[Askthepizzaguy]

If civplayah had voted, I almost certainly would have switched back to you, atpg, but I don't much like the coin flip for decision.

I pretty much knew that. I knew I didn't actually have you fooled. I just had to give you what you needed to hear to consider it mildly plausible.

If I lost then I lost, I should have lost the game when I did not LAST SECOND switch my vote with Cute Wolf. I miscalculated and we did it too early. So I deserved to lose at that point. But I wasn't going to just lay down and admit defeat. Even if I lose there's a bit of theater and suspense and doubt involved.

Nobody would have any fun playing with me if I conceded defeat when I was beaten. I'll just consider this my birthday present, as it is right now, my birthday.

Thanks again everybody.

This will once again spark a cycle of lynch pizza, innocent, lynch pizza, innocent, lynch pizza, innocent, don't lynch pizza, guilty. It's been that way for almost a year now.

[Joooray]

Seems I should have stayed in the game after all. I could have voted yesterday and I would have at least tried to defend myself a little.
Not sure if it would have been enough to get Atpg killed though.

So all in all I enjoyed this game a lot, thank you Diamond.

[civplayah]

Sorry I didn't vote, I didn't want to randomly vote at the end, and I was waiting for...

Well, I don't know what I was waiting for. Good job, mafia!

[Cute Wolf]

yeah... nice mafia game...

too bad... I should be more cautious ano0ther time