Hmm, seems like I'm rather bad at reading the most recent page in the thread. Lets hope this time goes a bit better.

In any case, I have a guess that perhaps protection orders fail if two or more factions perform them on the same person. We're rivals who don't trust each other after all, and that would explain the last two nights of failed mass protections.

Nothing in the write ups themselves suggest the defenders are getting in each other's way though.

And in closing, Ituralde seems like the best bet based on ATPG's analysis from yesterday, especially because of his immediate but not over-committed defense of Dcmort.