The Thing Mafia [Concluded]

[[MAFIA] Nick]

I think its someone else, so it's probably not whomever I suspect.

Vote: Luigi

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But, what if Reenk has changed his strategy from lurking to hiding in plain sight, through one of the big names?

[[MAFIA] Vito]

That's entirely possible, but right now it's more advantageous of us to get rid of a lurker. Later on, if Reenk is hiding in plain sight, we have a better chance of getting him due to good analysis.

[[MAFIA] Vito]

Basically, to sum this up, I couldn't give two hoots about whether or not the person we lynch today is actually Reenk or not (if it's Reenk it's just a bonus) so long as it sets ourselves up well for the endgame.

[[MAFIA] Rocco]

Luigi's posting style suits itself to Reenk far more than Vinny's. Most importantly, it gives him an opportunity to actually post, unlike Vinny.

[[MAFIA] Rocco]

Later on, if Reenk is hiding in plain sight, we have a better chance of getting him due to good analysis.

That's what Reenk would like you to think.

[[MAFIA] Rocco]

But, what if Reenk has changed his strategy from lurking to hiding in plain sight, through one of the big names?

Certainly. You must decide whether or not Reenk would continue to lurk, or if he would shift his behavior and imitate, say, Askthepizzaguy.

[[MAFIA] Nick]

What is 2 + 2, Rocco? You have 10 minutes.

[[MAFIA] Nick]

Pizza posted in the Gameroom 9:51. The deadline was 9:50. Rocco missed the deadline. Ergo, Rocco is not Pizza OR Pizza has abandoned us to our deaths.

[[MAFIA] Nick]

Vito? Anyone?

[[MAFIA] Vito]

Here.

I don't think it's as bad as you think; last time there was a tie IIRC TinCow chose randomly. Actually I'm quite happy with how that one turned out - I was the lynch candidate that survived.

[[MAFIA] Nick]

What? How does that address my concerns? I asked Rocco to post when Pizza was active in the Gameroom. I gave him ten minutes. 11 minutes later, Pizza posted in another Gameroom thread. Rocco has not posted. Well?

[[MAFIA] Rocco]

I didn't want to respond initially, but since you are continuing to advance the point, your concerns weren't addressed because, as a matter of principle, all Org staff intentionally avoid looking at the online list and viewing profiles in connection to mafia games. It's a code of honor thing. Your little request may not fall under the letter of that code, but it falls under the spirit I'm afraid.

[[MAFIA] Nick]

Well, that's embarrassing. Then I rescind and apologize.

[[MAFIA] Rocco]

No problem. Given that Org staff can not only see invisible mode users, but we can also see exactly who somebody is private messaging, it would be trivial to cheat the system in a game like this. Which is where the honor code comes in.

[[MAFIA] Vito]

Yeah, for instance I can see through Reenk's invisible mode, which would make it pretty easy to determine who he is based on "last active" times and the like, but I've been purposely avoiding it (as GH anyway, Vito's analysis is fair game for the people that don't have invisible mode turned on ).

[[MAFIA] Sonny]

啊，热烈的天气真令人很懒惰。

Vote: Luigi

I concur that lynching lurkers will make it easier to decide in the end game.

[TinCow]

Tally:

Luigi: 4 (Rocco, Vito, Nick, Sonny)
Vinny: 2 (Frank, Luciano)
Not Voting: 2 (Luigi, Vinny)

Please note that I am very busy this morning and will not have time to do a proper write-up. The phase will end on time though, and I will do my best to fill it in with a full write-up later.

[TinCow]

Luigi has been lynched. As noted earlier, I will try and do a proper write-up for this later today.

Luigi: 4 (Rocco, Vito, Nick, Sonny)
Vinny: 2 (Frank, Luciano)
Not Voting: 2 (Luigi, Vinny)

Night 6 will end in:


Alive: (7/17)
[MAFIA] Frank
[MAFIA] Luciano
[MAFIA] Nick
[MAFIA] Rocco
[MAFIA] Sonny
[MAFIA] Vinny
[MAFIA] Vito

Killed:
[MAFIA] Bertha (N1)
[MAFIA] Fat Tony (N2)
[MAFIA] Paulie (N3)
[MAFIA] Bobby (N4)
[MAFIA] Silvio (N5)

Lynched:
[MAFIA] Salvatore (D1)
[MAFIA] Bugsy (D2)
[MAFIA] Emilio (D3)
[MAFIA] Johnny (D4)
[MAFIA] Luigi (D5)

[TinCow]

(Sorry, real life has been a bit hectic for me over the past couple days. I don't have time to go back and do a nice write-up for the last phase.)

With the most essential Evil Base facilities completed, the next phase of construction shifted over to providing more comfortable living quarters for the henchmen. The henchmen were very morose; installing beds and living facilities for over a hundred people only emphasized how their group had dwindled in size. There were now only seven remaining, and that increased the workload on each of them. The boredom of assembling flat pack furniture with Allen wrenches soon got to one pair of workers.

"What the is this?" exclaimed one of the henchmen. "Mikea? Have we really performed so poorly that we only deserve a Chinese Ikea knock-off?"

He started in to a minor rant, expressing similar disgruntlements with the way CR and Kage were treating their crew. Eventually, the quieter henchman chimed in. "You know, perhaps we would all be sleeping on king-size Tempur-pedic mattresses tonight if we actually put some thought into this situation."

The complainer scowled at this comment. "Who are you to lecture me, dumb? You're doing no better than anyone else. What do you know?"

The quieter henchman smiled pleasantly. "You may possibly hope to evade the Force of all that hath been said, and to screen false Principles and inconsistent Reasonings, by a general Pretence that these Objections and Remarks are Metaphysical. But this is a vain Pretence. For the plain Sense and Truth of what is advanced in the foregoing Remarks, I appeal to the Understanding of every unprejudiced intelligent Reader. To the same I appeal, whether the Points remarked upon are not most incomprehensible Metaphysics. And Metaphysics not of mine, but your own. I would not be understood to infer, that your Notions are false or vain because they are Metaphysical. Nothing is either true or false for that Reason. Whether a Point be called Metaphysical or no avails little. The Question is whether it be clear or obscure, right or wrong, well or ill-deduced?"

The lecturer put his Allen wrench down and started pacing around the room. "Although momentaneous behavioral deviations, nascent and evanescent scumminess, WIFOM of all Degrees, are in truth such shadowy Entities, so difficult to imagine or conceive distinctly, that (to say the least) they cannot be admitted as Principles or Objects of clear and accurate Science: and although this obscurity and incomprehensibility of your Metaphysics had been alone sufficient, to allay your Pretensions to Evidence; yet it hath, if I mistake not, been further shewn, that your Inferences are no more just than your Conceptions are clear, and that your Logics are as exceptionable as your Metaphysics. It should seem therefore upon the whole, that your Conclusions are not attained by just Reasoning from clear Principles; consequently that the Employment of modern Analysts, however useful in idealized and unrealizable Constructions, doth not habituate and qualify the Mind to apprehend clearly and infer justly; and consequently, that you have no right in Virtue of such Habits, to dictate out of your proper Sphere, beyond which your Judgment is to pass for no more than that of other Men."

By this point, the other henchman had stopped all of his work and was just glancing warily at his partner. The speech continued. "Of a long Time I have suspected, that these behavioral Analytics were not scientifical, and gave some Hints thereof to the Public about five Years ago. Since which time, I have been diverted by other Occupations, and imagined I might employ my self better than in deducing and laying together my Thoughts on so nice a Subject. And though of late I have been called upon to make good my Suggestions; yet, as the Person, who made this Call, doth not appear to think maturely enough to understand, either those Metaphysics which he would refute, or Analytics which he would patronize, I should have spared my self the trouble of writing for his Conviction. Nor should I now have troubled you or my self with this Address, after so long an Intermission of these Studies; were it not to prevent, so far as I am able, your imposing on your self and others in Matters of much higher Moment and Concern. And to the end that you may more clearly comprehend the Force and Design of the foregoing Remarks, and pursue them still further in your own Meditations, I shall subjoin the following action..."

At this point, the lecturer stopped dead in his tracks and stood stock still in the middle of the room. The complainer watched for about 30 seconds, but the lecturer was frozen like stone. Eventually the complainer got up and approached his static colleague. He look closely at the man's face, but everything looked normal. As he started to circle his statuesque co-worker, he noticed something odd and looked more closely. There was a second mouth on the man's posterior. It smiled and said, "Boo!"

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The henchmen were all sleeping in their newly assembled bunks when Kage and CR walked into the room, banging on trashcan lids with truncheons. "Alright you maggots! Time to rise and shine! It's another fine day here in beautiful Antarctica, and we're going to practice a little discipline here today."

Kage tossed something on the ground in the middle of the barracks. It was a bloody fedora, which everyone recognized as belonging to Rocco.

CR began pacing up and down in front of the bunks. "Today, you will learn to kill. So far, you have all been cowardly victims, letting yourselves get eaten by our friend, Mr. Thing, each and every single night. So far, you have failed to apprehend him, and now time is running short." CR pointed his truncheon at each of the remaining henchmen in turn. "Today, you will find your enemy and you will kill him. You will tear him apart with your bare hands and stomp on the remains until it is goo! Failure to do this..." he gestured at Kage, who was picking his teeth with a foot long combat knife, "will be punished."

"So..." grinned CR. "Who shall die today?"

Day 6 will end in:


Alive: (6/17)
[MAFIA] Frank
[MAFIA] Luciano
[MAFIA] Nick
[MAFIA] Sonny
[MAFIA] Vinny
[MAFIA] Vito

Killed:
[MAFIA] Bertha (N1)
[MAFIA] Fat Tony (N2)
[MAFIA] Paulie (N3)
[MAFIA] Bobby (N4)
[MAFIA] Silvio (N5)
[MAFIA] Rocco (N6)

Lynched:
[MAFIA] Salvatore (D1)
[MAFIA] Bugsy (D2)
[MAFIA] Emilio (D3)
[MAFIA] Johnny (D4)
[MAFIA] Luigi (D5)

[[MAFIA] Vito]

Crap, Rocco was actually my suspect for today.

Don't have much time to be online/do analysis right now, I'll try to get on in 12 hours or so. In the meantime,

Vote: Frank

[[MAFIA] Vito]

Also Reenk, if you turned out to be Rocco last round, I'm going to kick myself.

[[MAFIA] Nick]

I told yall knuckleheads. :smirk:

I just hope I get a nice writeup when I'm replaced, given the time I spent constructing all those comments.

Vote; FRank

[[MAFIA] Nick]

Whoops.

Vote: Frank

[[MAFIA] Frank]

I'll stick to the lurkers vote.

Vote: Vinny

Anyway what happened to the poetry Nick?

[[MAFIA] Nick]

I decided to branch out into literary references, but when no one remarked upon them, I decided to speak only when:

a. I find something particularly striking
b. I am directly prompted.

Yeah, watch me Superman these couplets, Frank.
Yeah oh yeah, Soulja Boi, that hoe I'll crank.

[[MAFIA] Nick]

Unvote: Frank

Yeah, you know what?

Day 6: 6 players
Day 7: 4 players
Day 8: 2 players NO VOTE

That's two lynches left to us. But if we abstain for today:

Day 6: 6 players
Day 7: 5 players
Day 8: 3 players
VICTORY?

See, if there's one less person to vote for per round, rooting Reenk out will be that much easier.

Come on, please? Besides, a 3-man showdown would be more fun. Hey?

Don't I have some credibility points to spend here? I mean, I told you about Rocco, bro. I told you dog!

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[TinCow]

It is not possible to avoid a lynch. In the event of a tie, random.org will choose who dies. If no one votes for anyone, then all players are tied and will be included in the random.org list.

[[MAFIA] Nick]

Always, my theatrics are wasted. I hope Day 8 eill be resolved satisfactorily. :/

Vote: Frank

[[MAFIA] Frank]

I like the images XD
Reminds me of "I am weasel" lol

[[MAFIA] Vito]

Right, went back and did a reread. I no longer think it's Frank. If it is, then Reenk's pulling off a damn good fake and my hat's off to him.

Unvote: Frank
Vote: Luciano

DiY's timezone is radically different from Reenk's where I don't think he'd try to pull it off. This leaves Vinny and Luciano, and I still think Vinny is khaan unless Reenk pulled the switch last night.

Considering that right now I'm the only vote on Luciano, if there's not a switch to him by the time I go to bed, I'll most likely move my vote to Vinny.