Capo de Tutti Capi - II [Concluded]

[Haudegen]

I guess you´re right.

Apologies to Kage, Sigurd and everybody else.

[Kagemusha]

I guess you´re right.

Apologies to Kage, Sigurd and everybody else.

There is nothing to apologies. Lets just see this journey through.

[Crazed Rabbit]

I would, but Alas, I am dead and hence it would be breaking some game rules. Oh, there are some nifty red pieces in there too.

How does it feel townies? having a big LOSER written on your foreheads.

How's it feel to be dead, receiving your just desserts in the afterlife? I'm up on a heavenly ski slope sipping cocktails and you're cleaning the toilets in Hell. All that criminal activity kind of loses its luster when your dead, doesn't it?



And don't you work with computers and networks? Shouldn't you have thought of IP tracking? And yet you were found out by a engineering student who hasn't taken a class related to computers since his freshman year of highschool.



And for my money, Crate's family seems to be in a very good position; they don't have to protect their don tonight.

CR

[Husar]

And I'm also going to use this post to remind everyone, and no one in particular, that this is still a game and should be treated as such. Some seem to have forgotten that essential fact, and it's ruining a great game.

I'm just having a very nice, friendly "game's almost over"-chat with my friend Don Kage, don't see what your problem is. Because he's my friend I also told him that his victory is lame of course.

[Seamus Fermanagh]

For host's convenience, the deadline is extended by one hour until 1600 EDT (2000 GMT).

Numerous orders do not match. If you have ANY concerns, a fresh PM would not be amiss. My notes are chaotic at present and clarity would help.

Thank you.

[Sigurd]

How's it feel to be dead, receiving your just desserts in the afterlife? I'm up on a heavenly ski slope sipping cocktails and you're cleaning the toilets in Hell. All that criminal activity kind of loses its luster when your dead, doesn't it?

There is no hell. Why? Because I said so.

And don't you work with computers and networks? Shouldn't you have thought of IP tracking? And yet you were found out by a engineering student who hasn't taken a class related to computers since his freshman year of highschool.

Never knew you could do that stuff CR... You get a star in my book.
I guess I masked my IP's a little too late.

I got you back though, Don Cunnio... Too bad I hadn't time to do a decent fake reveal, the kind that would keep me alive. A little more time for the hitman role to sink into the minds of the town and mafia ... it could have worked.

[Seamus Fermanagh]

Triudecanoctis finis est. Writeup to follow when possible.

Host a bit ill, and not quite as up to speed as he'd like.

[Crazed Rabbit]

Numerous orders do not match. If you have ANY concerns, a fresh PM would not be amiss. My notes are chaotic at present and clarity would help.

Sounds interesting.

CR

[Seamus Fermanagh]

This is main thread post #3639



"King of the castle
More room at the top
All sorts allowed
Now the gloves are off
Heya! hello neighbour
Benevolent mother
Smother the child
The benefactors are in denial
The banality of evil"
-- Nine Horses



Summary, Night Thirteen


Elite Ferret was headed home after dinner, walking alone as was his custom. The streets weren’t deserted, but he hadn’t passed anyone for blocks. Previously, he’d found these walks calming, but tonight he started off feeling a bit relaxed – after all, without pretense it was easier to just get things done. Though relaxed, he hadn’t let his guard down completely. When the stranger stepped out of the alley a few feet ahead, his hand was into his coat and his revolver out of its holster quickly.

“Relax,” said the shrouded figure. “I only have a message.” The figure knelt and placed an envelope on the sidewalk in front of Elite Ferret, then backed away. Elite Ferret walked forward and knelt…

The <> of the sniper rifle sounded the moment Ferret squatted and became immobile. The thirty-ought-six round struck the back of his head, killing him instantly. He crumpled softly to the pavement. Inside the envelope was a simple typed message: “Dal capitano, con Amor.”


On his way home, norwegian nerd tried to play it safe. He stuck to busy streets, paused to wait for a beat-cop to “shadow” him where possible, and always kept an eye out for escape routes. But he couldn’t avoid the lobby of his own building.

As he walked in, the night clerk of his building seemed strangely quiet and unmoving. Nerd paused long enough to note that something was wrong, when the first bolt struck from behind, through the doorway.

The heavy steel quarrel, though slowed by the armored vest, was a non-deforming penetrator, so it wen’t through the vest and into nerd’s left kidney. He staggered forward.

A man stepped from behind the night-clerk – who’d been dead for 20 minutes and only stood courtesy of the spikes nailing him to the front desk, now slumping with nobody holding his head up from behind – leveled his own crossbow at nerd and fired. The bolt took nerd in the pit of the stomach, puncturing the diaphragm.

The shooter spoke as he leaned behind the desk for a second crossbow. “So, who’s your buddy?”

A second man stepped into the doorway nerd had just vacated, leveling a second crossbow of his own. This man didn’t speak, he just put a bolt into nerd’s other kidney. nerd dropped to his knees, unable to get a deep breath and bleeding badly from internal wounds.

“Having trouble talking?”

The inside shooter leveled his crossbow.

“I’ll help clear your throat.”

The quarrel took nerd straight in the Adam’s apple, transfixing his throat and burying the point of the bolt into his spine. Nerd fell over and died quickly, passing out before death finally took him.

The silent shooter turned on the “room available” sign as the killers departed.


Shlin28 ran when he heard the footsteps behind him. Paranoia wasn’t an illness in Fatlington, it was a survival skill. In his haste, however, he’d ended up in one of the few alleys on the block with no exit…of all the luck. His luck continued as he fumbled and dropped his weapon as he turned to face his assailants.

The two assassins behind him weren’t interested in neatness – just results. A pair of fragmentation grenades bounced into the alley next to shlin. Neither went off. Both assassins went for their pistols next, while shlin knelt to desperately try and find his own weapon.

Just as the two killers opened fire, the heavy metal back door of the neighboring restaurant opened into the alley, providing a heavy metal shield for shlin – who decided he’d had enough luck, bad and good, for one evening and ran into the restaurant to make his escape. The perplexed dishwasher watched as shlin raced by him, then went to dump the trash. Both grenades went off and turned him to hamburger.

Neither of the attackers was ever identified.


Ironside had made it home safely…when he noticed his front door was ajar.

<>

He backed away, scanned the surrounding area, and then went quickly to his neighborhood café to use the phone. He’d just sat down in the booth when the phone rang – and then blew to pieces from the hidden explosives placed there. Ironside was killed instantly.

The man sitting at the counter reading the newspaper put the paper down. He picked up the gun hidden beneath it and gestured for the counterman to turn around.

“Just so you’ll stay quiet,” he said, and cracked the man over the head with his pistol. He dropped a white rose on the torn corpse of Ironside as he left to join his accomplice at the phone booth down the block.

The counterman died two days later, never regaining consciousness.


Morning Meeting, Day Fourteen

“So that’s what we know about last night,” said Fermanagh. The Commissioner looked around the room. It was tense this morning and the chief was anything but comfortable.

“Our follow-on investigations have produced the following results. Night 11 appears to have been a battle. The town lost two good citizens, Myrddraal the Surgeon and Doctor Draco Leman. Our losses were heavy. Caeser the III was an innocent townie by all accounts. We had one success. Warluster, whoever killed him, did Fatlington a favor by dieing. Our sources have confirmed that he was a mafia Luca. Unfortunately, we lost two doctors to the Mafia’s one. Your lynch choice was sound, Charge checked out as a Made Gangster working for one of the families. I wish the news were better.”

“The news is adequate,” said Craterus. “Adequate enough to our purpose I assure you. Now, as to tonight’s “departure….”

Craterus smiled faintly.

“…we’ll follow our usual...democratic...approach to the vote."


OOC

Significant Change necessitated by un-pardonable error on part of host. I regret the inconvenience that I know this must cause. I offer no excuses. If a majority of you wish to discontinue play, I will honor that request.


1. Day Fourteen Lynch vote commences. This day phase will finish 0900 EDT (1300 GMT) on 3/12/8.

2. Results/promotions/etc. will be sent later as time permits (no later than tomorrow 1200 EDT 3/11/8).

3. Current List of Players:

Still Alive: (14) Caius, CountArach, Craterus, gibsonsg91921, Joe Monks, Kagemusha, Leet Erikson, Proletariat, Sasaki Kojiro, scottishranger, shlin28, TruePraetorian, Twilightblade, Xehh II.

Attacked: (36) Andres (N2, N3), Beefy187 (N1), Brave Sir Robin (N7), Caius (N3), Charge (N9), Craterus (N6), Crazed Rabbit (N6), Cowhead418 (N2), Elite Ferret (N10, N12), Evil_Maniac from Mars (N3), GeneralHankerchief (N2, N3), Glenn (N1, N2), Ichigo (N9), Kagemusha (N6), Proletariat (N4, N4, N5, N6, N7, N8, N9), Sasaki Kojiro (N5, N7), shlin28 (N13), taka (N2), Tran (N5, N7, N8), TinCow (N7), Twilightblade (N4, N5), Xdeathfire (N1)

Murdered: (36) Drisos (N1), Lord Winter (N2), Beefy187 (N3), Glenn (N3), Pannonian (N3), taka (N3), The Stranger (N3), Zorg (N3), GeneralHankerchief (N4), Kommodus (N4), Moros (N4), Xiahou (N4), Chimpyang (N5), Kamikhaan (N5), Motep (N5), Rythmic, (N5), woad&fangs (N5), ajaxfetish (N6), FactionHeir (N6), Lt. Pinard (N6), Louis VI the Fat (N6), Husar (N7), NorthNovas (N7), Makanyane (N8), Sarathos (N8), Tran (N8), Haudegen (N9), Cowhead418 (N10), Ichigo (N10), LittleGrizzly (N10), Myrddraal (N11), Warluster (N11), Brave Sir Robin (N12), Elite Ferret (N13), Ironside (N13), norwegian nerd (N13).

Killed During an Attack: (1) Evil_Maniac from Mars (N8).

Lynched: (13) pevergreen (D2), Hannibalbarca (D3), Tiberius of the Drake (D3), Omanes Alexandrapolites (D4), Andres (D5), Xdeathfire (D6), Dutch_guy (D7), Sigurd Fafnesbane (D8), Hiji (D9), Crazed Rabbit (D10), Charge (D11), TinCow (D12), Kukrikhan (D13).

Removed from Play: (15) Fahad I (D4), Killfr3nzy (D4), x-dANGEr (D4), Sapi (N4), Warmaster Horus (N5), Rob_the_Celt (N5), molonthegreat (N5), johnhughthom (D8), Alexander the Pretty Good (N9), Big King Sanctaphrax (N9), Roadkill (N9), Caeser the III (N11), Draco Leman (N11), JimBob (N12), Jubal_Barca (N12).

[CountArach]

Wow.....

I can see our peace lasted...

[Andres]

IMPORTANT MESSAGE:

Due to a mistake in the first write-up of the previous night, the host has requested to delete all messages posted before the correct write-up had been posted.

I assume the host will now extend this voting round.

[Myrddraal]

So, I'm confused. What's the mistake? Has it been corrected?

Is it night or day?

[Andres]

So, I'm confused. What's the mistake? Has it been corrected?

Is it night or day?

In the first write-up, Elite Ferret survived the attack.

It's day.

[Xehh II]

Weird, I swear when I logged off this morning there were 123 pages, now there's only 122, what happened?

[TinCow]

Weird, I swear when I logged off this morning there were 123 pages, now there's only 122, what happened?

The write-up showed Elite Ferret being attacked and surviving. There was then several hours of debate and voting. Then the night write-up was changed to show that Elite Ferret was killed. All the posts made before this change were deleted, because they were based on an error that did not exist.

As to the 'new' events, Elite Ferret was killed by 2 people. Obviously the mafia truce has not held.

[naut]

Obviously the mafia truce has not held.

Which makes for an interesting and bloody finale.

[Kagemusha]

My condolences to Tataglia family. It is unfortunate that one of us is dead, but this doesnt change anything. In order to respect EliteFerret and his family, Vote: Caius traitors should die.

[Sigurd]

Yeah... Good going mafia

I am hoping there was a plan behind this, because there will be retaliations against Kage or Craterus. I bet this is orchestraded by the brain dead goons not responding to the Don meeting invite.



BTW: Elite Ferret's family will receive Corleone reinforcement. I was holding on to my surviving members for just such a betrayal.

[gibsonsg91921]

Vote: Shlin28

I'll get him ere the day is gone.

Kag, try to split vote on him and Caius! The traitors will be dead by midnight.

[Kagemusha]

Sigurd, my family leaves roses behind. I had nothing to do with Ferrets death and i can control my people so there couldnt have been an "accident" either.

[Louis VI the Fat]

Wow.....

I can see our peace lasted...

A combined mafia victory was never possible, CA. The game mechanics don't allow it.

At the last footbal (soccer) World Cup, the final four remaining teams were all from the EU. This led to some boasting about an 'EU victory'. For those identifying with the EU maybe morally it was, but not in fact. If the EU wanted a unified victory, the EU should've unified fully and send in a single team. They didn't. If the four EU teams would've refused playing each other after reaching the semi-finals, they would've been disqualified, and the best quarter-finalist from the other countries would've been named the winner.

An apt parallel I think. The mafia families can play together and beat the town. However, if they wanted a unified victory, they should've all unified themselves fully by joining a single family during the game. The rules allow it, but it didn't happen. And similarly again, if they would've refused to play on (ie family v family) after killing all townies, they would all get disqualified (WoG'ed). Meaning a town win by default. So at some point the mafia war had to begin, voluntarily or unvoluntarily.

Louis was right. One family heeded my advice. They will win.

[Kagemusha]

A combined mafia victory was never possible, CA. The game mechanics don't allow it.

At the last footbal (soccer) World Cup, the final four remaining teams were all from the EU. This led to some boasting about an 'EU victory'. For those identifying with the EU maybe morally it was, but not in fact. If the EU wanted a unified victory, the EU should've unified fully and send in a single team. They didn't. If the four EU teams would've refused playing each other after reaching the semi-finals, they would've been disqualified, and the best quarter-finalist from the other countries would've been named the winner.

An apt parallel I think. The mafia families can play together and beat the town. However, if they wanted a unified victory, they should've all unified themselves fully by joining a single family during the game. The rules allow it, but it didn't happen. And similarly again, if they would've refused to play on (ie family v family) after killing all townies, they would all get disqualified (WoG'ed). Meaning a town win by default. So at some point the mafia war had to begin, voluntarily or unvoluntarily.

Louis was right. One family heeded my advice. They will win.

It was either town or one of the families. If it was town, i congratulate for an succesful hit. If it was a baskstab, it will doom the trecherous family. Your logic is flawed, aggression will only give death in this kind of situation.

[Proletariat]

Kage, what do you mean? Two of the remaining families are doomed anyway. You really think there's some truce still?

Vote: Kage

[Kagemusha]

Kage, what do you mean? Two of the remaining families are doomed anyway. You really think there's some truce still?

Vote: Kage

So you think Prole. Town is doomed if anything is doomed.

[Proletariat]

Yeah, the town lost. Just like two of the three families will. Not sure why you're pretending there's another possible ending.

[Kagemusha]

Yeah, the town lost. Just like two of the three families will. Not sure why you're pretending there's another possible ending.

Im not pretending anything. All i can say is that i didnt kill don Tataglia. Either it was town,trying to drive us and Cunnio against each other, or Cunnio, which would be very stupid of Cunnio.

[TinCow]

Well, it couldn't have been town. The hit was by 2 people. That means that it was a mafia hit. Under the somewhat bizarre circumstances of the current end-game situation, I could see the possibility of Seamus allowing a "town mafia" family to be created, but even that would require two Mades, to allow for a "town Don" before the family could operate with two person kills.

Even assuming that the town had multiple wiseguys on hand with enough kills ready to move immediately up to Made status, they still would have had to make at least two kills in three person groups to get two people up to Made level. The town simply didn't have time to achieve this. By the nature of the fact that it was a 2 person hit, the hit HAD to be carried out by the mafia. Obviously they declined to leave a calling card because they did not want to identify themselves so blatantly. So, the question is simply which family did it, not whether it was mafia or town.

[Kagemusha]

Well, it couldn't have been town. The hit was by 2 people. That means that it was a mafia hit. Under the somewhat bizarre circumstances of the current end-game situation, I could see the possibility of Seamus allowing a "town mafia" family to be created, but even that would require two Mades, to allow for a "town Don" before the family could operate with two person kills.

Even assuming that the town had multiple wiseguys on hand with enough kills ready to move immediately up to Made status, they still would have had to make at least two kills in three person groups to get two people up to Made level. The town simply didn't have time to achieve this. By the nature of the fact that it was a 2 person hit, the hit HAD to be carried out by the mafia. Obviously they declined to leave a calling card because they did not want to identify themselves so blatantly. So, the question is simply which family did it, not whether it was mafia or town.

Each family has a signature.You cant leave it out from a hit.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

unvote:shlin,Vote:Cauis

Must make sure the town is eliminated.

[Xehh II]

I am Vote: Kagemusha