Capo de Tutti Capi [Concluded]

[Seamus Fermanagh]

Summary Night Five


The Stranger was exiting the evening meeting when a strange gust of wind sent a large object of glass and metal hurtling through the air at him. It revealed itself to be the round-screened cathode ray tube of the amazingly new RCA television sets being constructed in Camden. Somehow, there was even a picture displayed on the screen! The screen showed a single word – Screenies – with a gray circle (no color tubes of course) with diagonal slash superimposed on the bold-typed word. The Stranger was stunned, but not dead. <> everyone wondered?


Ultrawar was taking no chances. He wore armor under his trenchcoat. He drove a vehicle with discretely armored sides and bullet resistant glass. His neckband had metal D-rings sown into it so that a garrote would find no purchase. He carried a Broom-handled Mauser submachine gun. He even had a syringe of epinephrine with him – just in case. He never made it home from the voting.

On the slick roads he traveled toward home, a heavy Packard touring auto braked sharply in front of him. The Packard had an unusual rear grill, with three long spikes protruding from the reinforced bumper. His armored vehicle had but one weakness – the reinforced grille at the front of the radiator. All three spikes plunged through the radiator, tearing it apart and slamming it back into the motor’s fan.

Two men leaped out of the Packard, carrying heavy pistols. Ultrawar smiled – his car was proofed against anything shy of a bazooka – and the cops would be along before too long. Both men dropped metal facemasks over their already masked faces and each quickly pulled a welder’s torch from their packs. Within seconds, the locks on both sides were slagged and very shortly thereafter all of the doors – and the trunk – had been spot welded shut.

Ultrawar tried to get out, but with the doors welded, the heavy immovable glass and thick armor of the car now prevented him from exiting. He hammered on the windows to no avail.

Meanwhile, the welders had returned to the Packard and driven it quickly into a garage while a third person, dressed as a police officer, calmly directed what little traffic was on the street around the “stalled” vehicle. Within minutes, the welders had returned driving a tow truck. Ultrawar’s armored car was hitched up and slowly towed to the docks.

There, one of the cranes they’d used to ship Shermans over to kill krauts was employed to quickly lift the car up, out, and gently down into the water at the side of the pier.

Water slowly made it into the vehicle – it was armored, not hermetically sealed – but the trapped air formed an air bubble in which Ultrawar could cling to life – for a while. The air bubble ran short on oxygen, and anoxia is every bit as painful as drowning. It would be nearly 4 AM by the time Fermanagh’s boys found the car – hours too late. They were also perplexed to find a “tin star” like those used by the Texas Rangers welded to the driver’s door.


For no discernible reason, at least according to the 12 witnesses interviewed afterwards, at about 1:15 AM theRTWGuru finished a final shot of rye whiskey, put his revolver to his head and blew his brains onto the wall at the far side of the booth.


Dutch_Guy was not going to be anybody’s fool. When the man knocked at his door at 9:30 PM that night and said he had to “read the meter,” Dutch didn’t hesitate. The man was pulled through the door, slammed into a chair in the parlor and treated to a close view of Dutch’s .38 police special. The meter man peed himself.

“Not too tough now, are you Wise Guy,” said Dutch. “Now it’s time for you to make like a canary…”

The man looked up, perplexed and scared, but then looked past Dutch towards the front Door. Dutch glanced away quickly, and was surprised to see two police officers standing behind him, guns drawn. He recovered quickly.

“Officers! This man is one of the mafia assassins we’ve been hunting. He was trying to masquerade as a meter man – after 9PM – like I’m supposed to believe the power company is ever THAT responsive to its customers.”

“He’ll end up dead quick enough,” said the younger officer. He then calmly shot the meter man in the chest twice, killing him.

Dutch wasn’t expecting that to happen, so he missed the second police officer’s quick shot from the hip – though it didn’t miss him. His gun arm was shattered by the dum-dum round, the arm almost severed at the elbow. He stared at the blood pulsing from the wound in shock then looked up at the face of the cop.

“But…you…”

“Don’t worry about it,” said the officer. He fired the coup de grace. “Don’t trouble yourself about anything.”

As he dropped the white glove on Dutch’s body, the younger “officer” spoke.

“Pity about the meter guy.”

“It got the door opened,” replied the second faux-gendarme.

“True, but Dutch is gonna have one hell of a penalty charge on his next power bill.”

“We should help him a bit then.”

The second “officer” walked over to the doorway, carefully turned off all the lights, and then both of them left.


Peasant Phil had had enough. Distraught over all the carnage and just unable to reliably feel “connected” anymore to his fellow Fatlings, he had decided to end it all. Liking fast cars, he had chosen autocide, figuring a high speed run down the main boulevard would be a thrill and that when he hit the obelisk in the center of the City Hall traffic circle, he wouldn’t feel much of anything. His plan worked – more or less. His high speed run – topping 110 in the last stretch – was a thrill, and he did reach the circle at speeds guaranteed to squelch him in an instant. He hadn’t counted on the blowout, however, so when his car veered into the café just across the street from City Hall he realized he wasn’t going to crush that stupid obelisk he always thought looked so out of place.

Instead, his car went through the front of the café, through the booth occupied by Hepcat, Ignoramus & Zalmoxis – wrong place, wrong time, and into the brick wall at the far side of the building. Phil’s objective had been achieved. Hepcat, Ignoramus, and Zalmoxis just weren’t quite active enough to see this one coming and get out of the way.


Sigurd Fafnesbane thought his role in Fatlington important. As a leading voice on the committee of vigilance, he knew that he could help bring about a better place – but dealing in secrets is hard. He needed time to collect his thoughts, gain perspective and revive his zest for life. He needed an anodyne for these trying times.

This is what brought him to a small room off Boyle Street. The red light coming from the buildings outside mixed with the smoke inside to give the place an other worldly quality. This was how Sigurd liked it. Even more, he liked what was moving in the red haze in front of him, a nubile form with long black hair.

All of his senses were alive and the troubles of Fatlington far away. As she came close, her hair brushed his face and her nails trailed lightly across his cheek. His breath caught in a delighted gasp. Sigurd hardly noticed the prick at the base of his neck. She continued to sway slowly in front of him, each gentle turn suggesting, inviting, taunting. His eyes reached for her, but his hands didn't follow.

<> And that’s when the tingle of fear began.

His body was no longer his. What was happening? His head swam. She stepped back and away. He was no longer her concern. Things went numb and he crumbled to the floor. Lying there unable to move, his head throbbed and his vision was hazy, but he could see shiny black shoes and realized someone else was now in the room. It was difficult to focus.

<> The words floated over him.

A quiet, resolved woman’s voice spoke. “I mixed in twice the amount of jando.”

“A bit excessive,” a man’s voice replied. “Anyway, here is the rest of the money and the ticket. You'll have a comfortable passage back to Sao Paulo and your family won't need to worry ever again.”

Sigurd saw a white glove drop to the floor in front of his face.

<> he thought. <>

Whiteout.


The morning briefing followed its usual sad course. As always, Chief Fermanagh tried to finish up with the “good” news of the post-mortem investigations.

“Well, it would seem that pevergreen wasn’t lying. We’re not sure what group he was officering, but his claim to be a mafia “Don” is checking out. We’ve got payment receipts and orders to anonymous associates – he was as bad an egg as Dutch Schultz. Moroever, our informants are now singing a little, and it would seem that two more Wise Guys were taken out of the picture. Sir Boo and AndrestheCunning were players and met up with some folks who took offense to their actions. On the down side, information from all sources makes it pretty clear that Caius Flaminius, Sir Moody, and Copperhaired Berzerker were just what they always claimed to be, regular old townies.”

“Keep after them folks, don’t let up the pressure on those scum!”

Seamus turned and walked from the room.


OOC

The Butcher’s Bill to Date:

Attacked: Proletariat (N1), Sasaki Kojiro (N1), Redleg (N2), Moros (N3), theRTWGuru (N3)

Lynched: Kralizec (D2) [mafia don], Beirut (D3) [mafia made], pevergreen (D4) [mafia don], Lord Motep of Kendermore (D5)

Murdered: GeneralHankerchief (N1) [mafia luca], Stig (N2) [wise guy], AggonyDuck (N3) [wise guy], Major Robert Dump (N3) [mafia made], Caius Flaminius (N4) [townie], Sir Boo (N4) [wise guy], Sir Moody (N4) [townie] AndrestheCunning (N4) [wise guy], Dutch_Guy (N5), Sigurd Fafnesbane (N5), Ultrawar (N5)

Suicided: Ichigo, (D2) [townie], Tribesman (D2) [townie], Copperhaired Berzerker (N4), Peasant Phill (N5), theRTWGuru (N5)

WoGged: MarcusBrutus (D5), Hepcat (N5), Ignoramus (N5), Zalmoxis (N5)


PM's with results and investigation results will be delayed.

Day 6 voting will begin, Sceduled to finish at 1600 HRS EST on 1/28/7.


NOTE:

I am very upset at the screenshots thing. It is possible that someone "did not know" that screenshots were forbidden by the rules even outside the thread. I will accept such an explanation for now.

Please be advised, however, that if this kind of cheating continues, I will have to consider my game compromised and unplayable. Yes, this is one thing that will upset me enough so that I take my marbles and go home.

The goal here is fun, not real life police work.

[The Stranger]

Ultrawar was attacked by a mafia other than the White Glove Mafia

DG was prolly killed by 2 wiseguys or detectives or sumthing...

[Proletariat]

My point then is- was she not killed because she was protected, or because Ichigo's group wasn't large enough etc.? If protected, by whom?

Seamus touched on this after it was brought up originally (I'll dig up the post if need be), that a write-up wouldn't so directly point out someone's role. Otherwise any lone townie could go attempt attacks on anyone each round they thought might be a Don, and it'd be tantamount to a public 'investigation', since the entire game would see the manner in which the attack failed.

So now we know Redleg knows something that's basically illegal... Not sure how we can take his opinion from here on out, or Luigi's since it was most likely his screen shot. Either way, Sasaki's PM seems legit, and like Hughtower, I think the White Glove Mafia is LOLing while the rest of the town lurks or squabbles amongst each other.

[Omanes Alexandrapolites]

Vote: Proletariat

Kill her now, she is the woman mentioned above. She is an assistant member of the white glove mafia! KILL HER! The thing that makes her suspicious is that she is the only female in the game! Clearly mafia!

[Dutch_guy]

Vote: Proletariat

Kill her now, she is the woman mentioned above. She is an assistant member of the white glove mafia! KILL HER! The thing that makes her suspicious is that she is the only female in the game!

Are you serious, Omanes ?

Pretty shallow accusation right there if you ask me.

[Redleg]

So now we know Redleg knows something that's basically illegal... Not sure how we can take his opinion from here on out, or Luigi's since it was most likely his screen shot. Either way, Sasaki's PM seems legit, and like Hughtower, I think the White Glove Mafia is LOLing while the rest of the town lurks or squabbles amongst each other.

The screenshot did not come from luigi. The matter has been dealt with by Seamus and the parties concerned, and its mentioned in the write-up. I don't mind accusations but the posted material by Seamus directly contradicts yuor statement here..

The Stranger was exiting the evening meeting when a strange gust of wind sent a large object of glass and metal hurtling through the air at him. It revealed itself to be the round-screened cathode ray tube of the amazingly new RCA television sets being constructed in Camden. Somehow, there was even a picture displayed on the screen! The screen showed a single word – Screenies – with a gray circle (no color tubes of course) with diagonal slash superimposed on the bold-typed word. The Stranger was stunned, but not dead. <> everyone wondered?

My information came from an analysis of the written material that is available in the thread, and the PM's listed in the post. You can believe what you will about it or not. But ask yourself this question, What in law enforcement does a rogue mean? How does one become a rogue detective? What is the function of a Rogue?

[Omanes Alexandrapolites]

Are you serious, Omanes ?

Pretty shallow accusation right there if you ask me.

If anything better comes up about anybody else I will probably go with them. In the meantime she is extremely suspicious - being the only female around that could possibly be involved in a kill.

[Crazed Rabbit]

Omanes -um, of all the various suspicions thrown around here recently, that might be the worst.

Do you think the mafia would write a kill description that implicated one of their members?

We are better off following different, more suspicious leads than some rabid accusation.

Perhaps this is your first game, in which case you should know that people can write kills in which they have assitants who are not real players. The guards of the director, for example, serve a role in preventing attacks on the director, but they aren't composed of real people.

As Dutch guy said, it's pretty shallow.

Crazed Rabbit

[Proletariat]

If I was in the White Glove Mafia, I'd be an imbecile to write myself up as a murdering stripper.

[Omanes Alexandrapolites]

Sorry guys, didn't realize that - I though Seamus was hiding clues in the write ups. Sorry again.
Unvote: Proletariat
Vote: Abstain

[Proletariat]

The screenshot did not come from luigi. The matter has been dealt with by Seamus and the parties concerned, and its mentioned in the write-up. I don't mind accusations but the posted material by Seamus directly contradicts yuor statement here..

Actually, not accusing you, just trying to gauge what should be made of the screen shot thing. It must not be a big deal if Seamus is willing to drive on, and if there's anything I know about you from our exchanges in the past, you might be mafia, but I sincerely doubt you're a cheater. I'm actually fairly certain you're townie, and these last few pages have been distractions.

[Kagemusha]

Allright another night over and it seems the Mafia hasnt lost its strength at all.Infact i think they are right under our noses.How i see this is that we have few of these "couples" that act together like: The Stranger and Moros, Redleg and Luigi and Sasaki and BKS. They make huge noise attacking eachother that can be also just a smoke screen to fool us. I say we start lynching one from each "couple" and see how they turn out .Im pretty sure that one of the mafia families is playing us by acting as townie protection group. If these people are townies they dont mind dying for the cause of the town. And as we start to get results from their post-mortem investigations,im pretty sure we start to find our Mafia goons also.

[The Stranger]

Or what about you... what have you done for the town. Even though I might have suspicions about Sasaki, atleast we (the 6 mentioned above) have done all they can for the town... you just come around and lynch people...maybe those that will find out incriminating stuff against you...?

[Kagemusha]

You can start from me if you want.I have nothing to loose.How about you?

[The Stranger]

Interest in the game.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

I'm just going to sit here, taunt you and wait for mistakes in your replies.

Funny you should mention that:

None of the other role-descriptions have this sort of narrative writing in it - check your own. It completely contradicts Seamus' concise, succinct tone in all the other role-PMs

It looks to me like you just let something slip. How do you know that "none of the other role-descriptions" have something like that? Sounds like you've seen most of them...including the don, made, and luca pm's? How exactly did you convince pever that you were the white glove don so easily? I think he'd have asked for proof.

[Csargo]

Lynch'em all let God sort'em out.

[Redleg]

Vote:Sasaki

Discussion has alreadly been presented.

[Caius]

Kill the mafia!I want revenge!

a voice said.

[CountArach]

Phil’s objective had been achieved. Hepcat, Ignoramus, and Zalmoxis just weren’t quite active enough to see this one coming and get out of the way.

Hehe, great joke...

[Orb]

Against Redleg + TSs Sasaki hunting

"Kralizec and Beirut might have been ratted out or maybe we were lucky. But one fact remains, the White Glove Mafia is alive and is killing. Sasaki, no longer working for Pevergreen is probably working for them. His socalled pro-town behaviour is Pro-White-Glove.

Aggony Duck also told Sasaki his role and of his protection group, Sasaki probably set the kill up himself. "

1. The Rogue Detective role pm can only be (in my view) written by Seamus. Sasaki does not even do a write-up for his own games, I doubt he would be able to do that. Also, if you had your own rogue detective, TS, as you claimed soon after he made his post, and his PM differed from Sasaki's, you'd have contradicted him on that and posted the real thing.

2. You said that Aggony Duck and Sir Boo were wise guys and part of protection groups in one of your own posts. Sasaki wasn't, therefore, the only one who knew. An alternative explanation is that you and Redleg are the two main organisers of protection groups, so if you were mafia, you would know exactly who not to attack and who to pick off. This seems extremely plausible to me, so Vote: Redleg

Redleg, at the statement that other games are irrelevant because you weren't in them: We caught Kralizec because of his spelling in previous games. Sasaki has always acted like this, there's nothing really suspicious about it. If anyone is acting suspiciously, it's you by overreacting.

Similarly, Luigi's analysis would suggest that he has quite a large number of PMs, this is suspicious in the extreme.

So for now, my prime suspects are The_Stranger, Luigi and Redleg. I'm going to vote Redleg because he seems to be carrying on this insane hunt with virtually no cause.

[Pannonian]

Vote: The Stranger

Kill the vigilantes so the detectives can actually make some sense of their results. At the moment, all three results of guilty, criminal and innocent can be explained away by his gang.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Vote tally as of #1642

Sasaki - 1 (Redleg)
Redleg - 1 (Orb)
The Stranger - 1 (Pannonian)
Abstain - 1 (Omanes)

Edit: Added vote tally.

[The Stranger]

Orb, after that i immediatly posted that i made a mistake and that was infact how they looked like.

Lynch Tally

Redleg - 1 (Orb)
Sasaki - 1 (Redleg)
The Stranger - 1 (Pannonian)
Abstain - 1 (Omanes)

[Csargo]

Against Redleg + TSs Sasaki hunting

"Kralizec and Beirut might have been ratted out or maybe we were lucky. But one fact remains, the White Glove Mafia is alive and is killing. Sasaki, no longer working for Pevergreen is probably working for them. His socalled pro-town behaviour is Pro-White-Glove.

Aggony Duck also told Sasaki his role and of his protection group, Sasaki probably set the kill up himself. "

1. The Rogue Detective role pm can only be (in my view) written by Seamus. Sasaki does not even do a write-up for his own games, I doubt he would be able to do that. Also, if you had your own rogue detective, TS, as you claimed soon after he made his post, and his PM differed from Sasaki's, you'd have contradicted him on that and posted the real thing.

2. You said that Aggony Duck and Sir Boo were wise guys and part of protection groups in one of your own posts. Sasaki wasn't, therefore, the only one who knew. An alternative explanation is that you and Redleg are the two main organisers of protection groups, so if you were mafia, you would know exactly who not to attack and who to pick off. This seems extremely plausible to me, so Vote: Redleg

Redleg, at the statement that other games are irrelevant because you weren't in them: We caught Kralizec because of his spelling in previous games. Sasaki has always acted like this, there's nothing really suspicious about it. If anyone is acting suspiciously, it's you by overreacting.

Similarly, Luigi's analysis would suggest that he has quite a large number of PMs, this is suspicious in the extreme.

So for now, my prime suspects are The_Stranger, Luigi and Redleg. I'm going to vote Redleg because he seems to be carrying on this insane hunt with virtually no cause.

Kralizec was a Don, Pevergreen might be a Don. He his a important mafia, that is for sure.

I recieved that from that guy which is supposed to be Stranger.

For your number 1 Sasaki is capable of writing, whether he is really the rogue Detective won't be proved until after he is dead or when the game is over.

I say lynch all three: Redleg, Luigi, and Sasaki.

[CountArach]

I am going to vote for Sasaki, and this post is the reason why:

First of all I want to draw your attention to this post:
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showp...postcount=1391

You will note that it is Motep posting it. I am aware of this, but most importantly, look at the post count of Seamus. 2284. The date of this PM from Seamus is 01-23-2007

Now, look at Saski's post:
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showp...postcount=1449

Look at Seamus's post count in the first one. 2284. How convenient?

Now scroll down over the next 3 Seamus PMs...

Notice they all contain this same, magical number... 2284...

Now, I would say that this is suspicious, no? How is it that Seamus went 10 days without a single post? Me thinks Sasaki is fabricating evidence...

Vote: Sasaki

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Sasaki - 2 (Redleg, CountArach)
Redleg - 1 (Orb)
The Stranger - 1 (Pannonian)
Abstain - 1 (Omanes)

Edit: Added Vote Tally

[Csargo]

I am going to vote for Sasaki, and this post is the reason why:

First of all I want to draw your attention to this post:
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showp...postcount=1391

You will note that it is Motep posting it. I am aware of this, but most importantly, look at the post count of Seamus. 2284. The date of this PM from Seamus is 01-23-2007

Now, look at Saski's post:
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showp...postcount=1449

Look at Seamus's post count in the first one. 2284. How convenient?

Now scroll down over the next 3 Seamus PMs...

Notice they all contain this same, magical number... 2284...

Now, I would say that this is suspicious, no? How is it that Seamus went 10 days without a single post? Me thinks Sasaki is fabricating evidence...

Vote: Sasaki

You do realize that the posts add up even after the PM's they aren't going to stay the same.

[Crazed Rabbit]

Pannonian makes a good point - vigilantes give the town less people and confuse detectives, which would be a good reason to vote for The Stranger.

However, it seems, at least for the first few rounds, that the Stranger is pro-town.

Redleg continues going after Sasaki. I'm sorry, but the main point of his accusation is that Sasaki is suspicious because of how he responded to your PMs - is that right? Even though it seems that Sasaki is acting rather normally - and I think, Redleg, you make a mistake in discounting previous games (Look at Kommodus' mafia hunting thread).

Luigi seems a bit...off, but I don't think he's played before.

Right now, I'm torn between The Stranger and Redleg.

However, I think Stranger can help the detectives by telling them who was in his vigilante group.

So, Vote: Redleg

Sorry, but you haven't convinced me yet.

EDIT:
Sasaki - 2 (Redleg, CountArach)
Redleg - 2 (Orb, Sasaki)
The Stranger - 1 (Pannonian)
Abstain - 1 (Omanes)

Crazed Rabbit

[CountArach]

You do realize that the posts add up even after the PM's they aren't going to stay the same.

The post count remains at 2284 for Seamus. How is it that over that whole time, from when Sasaki recieved the first one, to when Sasaki posted that, that Seamus made ABSOLUTELY NO POSTS on the entire forum? Including in this game. If he posts in this game, that is an extra post for him. There have been several lynchings and nights since then, so several more posts for him.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

The post count remains at 2284 for Seamus. How is it that over that whole time, from when Sasaki recieved the first one, to when Sasaki posted that, that Seamus made ABSOLUTELY NO POSTS on the entire forum? Including in this game. If he posts in this game, that is an extra post for him. There have been several lynchings and nights since then, so several more posts for him.

Look at your old posts. They all have the same post count. Every single one. Your very first post will have your current post count.

[CountArach]

Look at your old posts. They all have the same post count. Every single one. Your very first post will have your current post count.

Damnit, oh yeah.

Sorry, didn't realise that the PM count adds as well, I thought that remained static.

Unvote: Sasaki Kojiro

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Sasaki - 1 (Redleg)
Redleg - 2 (Orb, Sasaki)
The Stranger - 1 (Pannonian)
Abstain - 1 (Omanes)