Post 1560 of main thread.

Day 6

This, by all accounts, was the day that Ishmael was supposed to die. He had survived a trip overboard the previous day by the skin of his teeth. He had fended off an attack at night. The Quartermaster - easily the most vocal person aboard the Presence - was gunning for his head. In no way, shape, or form, was Ishmael to see another sunrise.

And yet...

As the day progressed, a growing discontent amongst the remaining sailors emerged. Where was the Captain? What had he been doing at night? Why was the Quartermaster speaking for him? Where was the supposedly rock-solid evidence that the ship's officers were loyal to the Presence? Where was the evidence that Ishmael was with the Frenchman? What on earth was with that plan designed to infiltrate into the French circle of trust? And why wasn't anybody offering gold for services (that last one in particular concerned El Barto)?

And so, on the sixth day, a funny thing happened aboard the Presence. Ishmael lived, again. Not through some last-minute bartering, as he did the previous day. Instead, he lived because the crewmen by all accounts had turned on their officers. Fed up with the perceived lack of transparency, disenchanted with the strategy pursued, the crewmen hadn't been riled up enough for a second mutiny - yet. They did, however, repudiate the choice of Ishmael as a lynch in favor of someone who nobody seemed to know what he was doing at night: johnhughthom.

"Be ye serious?" the veteran sailor called out. "But what about - oh, hellfire, what be the point?" john had been around ships long enough to know that once the crew had made up its mind, there was no changing it.

"Better save me breath for the swim ahead," he muttered to himself, and then, not waiting to be escorted off the plank, took a running start and dove off into the Atlantic below.

Day 6 tally:
johnhughthom: 8 (BSmith, Montmorency, El Barto, Golden1Knight, autolycus, Ishmael, Zack, Visorslash)
Ishmael: 6 (Askthepizzaguy, dcmort93, Ituralde, Choxorn, Gaius Scribonius Curio, Csargo)
Golden1Knight: 1 (Andres)

Mutiny: 1 (Csar)
Didn't vote: 3 (Double A, johnhughthom, Sprig)

It is now Night 6. Please send in your orders. Night 6 will conclude on Tuesday, October 13th, at 01:00 US Eastern Time.



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Attacked: spaceman98 (n1), Askthepizzaguy (n1, n3), Csargo (n2), Andres (n3), johnhughthom (n5), Gaius Scribonius Curio (n5), autolycus (n5), Ishmael (n5)

Killed: TFT (n1), seireikhaan (n2), Ice (n3), landlubber (n4), Lissa (n4)

Mutinied: Kagemusha (d2)

Abandoned Ship: Ironside (n2)

Walked the plank: Xiahou (d3), spaceman98 (d4), TheFlax (d5), johnhughthom (d6)

Souls aboard: (17)
Andres
Askthepizzaguy
autolycus
BSmith
Choxorn
Csargo
dcmort93
Double A
El Barto
Gaius Scribonius Curio
Golden1Knight
Ishmael
Ituralde
Montmorency
Sprig
Visorslash
Zack