Capo de Tutti Capi [Concluded]

[Louis VI the Fat]

Hello Ichigo,

I who wrote this message, am of the Maffia. Let me get to the point at once: we might be interested in recruiting you.
At this point we can't be sure if you're just a regular townie, or have a special role. As you could have derived from the rules, we only may investigate two people every night.
Since we can't be sure of you, you must start earning our trust...if you're interested, of course.
We want you to kill a person. Assuming you're just a regular townie: you'll need to find 3 co-conspirators to carry out a succesful murder. You'll need to do this yourself.
As for your victims: pick one of the following:
Banquo's Ghost, Doc_Bean or Proletariat
Your conspirators may not include: Beirut, ByzantineKnight, Cowhead418, General Hankerchief, Hepcat, HughTower, Ignoramus, Kommodus, Kralizec, Pevergreen, Redleg, Reenk Roink, Sasaki Kojiro, Sir Moody, The Stranger, Ultrawar or Zalmoxis. You may not include one from the list of potential victims either, even those you did not select for the kill.
If you manage to pull it off this night-phase, well done. The next nigh-phase would be acceptable as well, however.
You may mention to your fellow conspirators that this act is to bring you into the good graces of one of the crime families (and that they’re also eligible), but you may not mention the contents of this PM.
When you have arranged the conspiracy and sent a PM to Seamus Ferganagh indicating that you want to kill someone from the list of potential victims, PM AndrestheCunning back and ask him to deliver it to his Maffia contact, before Seamus Ferganagh posts the results. When you’ve completed your mission, we just might have a career opening for you.

Signed: a maffioso

This is clearly the work of an educated non-native English speaker.

‘Let me get to the point at once’ instead of straight to the point, ‘get you in good graces’ instead of ‘get you into good graces’. ‘derive from the rules’ ‘we only may’ instead of we may only, ‘Since we can't be sure of you’. ‘You’ve’, ‘you’ll’, ‘can’t’ everywhere, instead of you have, you will or can not.

Some of these constructions would be used by native speakers, but not this many in a single short text. And I didn’t even mention half of them. There are too many of these non-native constructions. And there is a certain ‘unnaturalness’ to the language, and some spelling mistakes that are quite telling: ‘Contents’; ‘3’ not spelled in letters as in proper English; ‘successful’. Success in English has a double s, not a single one as in Flemish. Maffia is also Flemish for the more common single 'f' mafia in English.

This is the work of a Flemish or Dutch speaker, or someone impossibly good at imitating their writing style.

Wait, did I say Flemish? Isn’t AndresTheCunning from Flanders? And a lawyer, that is, an educated non-native English speaker? And isn’t surrealism a Belgian invention?

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Well actually there is some truth in that.

We have elections next year. Those elections are necessary to change our constitution and to make some important changes in the organisation of our state. Important negotiations are at hand and they might be decisive for the continuation of our country as a whole. If these negotations would fail, we might split up for real in the long run. Our state is currently in transition towards a real federal state and the current chaotic, abominable structure and organisation needs a change asap.

The "strong support for the extremistic party Vlaams belang" exists for a long time. What is new is the current position of the CD&V towards the "staatshervorming" like it is called. The CD&V, which cannot be considered as an "extremistic" party, but as a Center-right one, made some serious and rather hard statements towards the walloons. Off course, alot of walloons call the CD&V also an extremistic party nowadays, allthough their claims are very reasonable and realistic. Calling the CD&V "extremistic" is ridiculous.

Anyway, the timing for this kind of jokes could have been better.

This "joke" also shows the power of the media and how they can make us believe what they want us to believe (it lasted for more then 10 minutes, before they mentioned it was a joke, only after the walloon minister of media demanded it (RTBF is the official walloon tv-station)). Meanwhile alot of walloons were panicking and reacting with fear, disbelief and even anger. Things would have gotten out of hand very easily if it would have last for another 10 or 15 minutes.

A lot of journalists seem to have ruined their reputation, since they've lost a lot of credibility.

The current climate of our country does not leave many room for this kind of jokes and it was dumb. Very dumb and irresponsable.

[pevergreen]

But all of that can still be faked...hard to do but still possible.

[Reenk Roink]

I am so lost...

Vote: Reenk Roink (courteously)

PS: Who would win:

(a kid with a pogo stick pony, a toy sword, and a hyperactive imagination)

or

(chester the goldfish)

?

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

I don't see why it would need to be someone active in the Frontroom. Andres posts in the backroom quite a bit.

[Redleg]

As dawn begins to show its pale gray light I awake from a fitful night of sleep, body drenched in sweat from the nightmares of the past. The words of Chief Fermanagh brought back distant memories of a time past, a small town on the plains, a prairie fire, a horrible serious of murders deep in the dark, long days of death and fear as the vigilantes ran amuck not caring about the truth, only to lynch others on the slightest whim of personal slights and even older wrongs.

As I get out of my bed, I look over to an old wooden chest and begin to think about the contents contained within that ancient chest. Are the instruments of my past needed, or will calmer heads and wisdom prevail with this committee of vigilance.

As the sun breaks the horizon, the news of the nights events brings about a necessity to make a choice.

As the crowd and its mummers begin to grow, the path becomes clear........

[Stig]

I know doc and Dutch from previous games and they spell mafia with one f...
Hence I am going to go with GH’s find.

If that's true, then:
Unvote: Doc
Vote: Moros

Andres is mainly active in the Frontroom, and Krazilec hasn't been in there for ages really. Moros however is quite active, next to that he's also a Belgian. And they seem to like eachother, in a forumy-sense of way.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Doing a search, Kralizecs english seems much better than the pm's. Disappointed in how lazy some of the townies are being. If they are indeed townies.

[Stig]

I don't see why it would need to be someone active in the Frontroom. Andres posts in the backroom quite a bit.

The Talk Your Own Language Thread is in the Frontroom

[pevergreen]

Unvote:Abstain
Vote: Redleg

His post above mine makes him scary to me. And for lack of anyone better.

"mummers" are growing I couldnt resist.

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

You guys voting Beirut are aware he can't be killed, right?

[Motep]

You guys voting Beirut are aware he can't be killed, right?

Now you now why I changed my vote, Sasaki!

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Now you now why I changed my vote, Sasaki!

Why didn't you say so originally then? It sounds like you couldn't think of a good reason until BKS posted that.

[JimBob]

Andres isn't playing. That's what the fuss is about, otherwise he'd have been lynched by a landslide by now

Yes yes. This is what I get for posting while talking on the phone. My mind has been dulled by the end of finals exams.

Vote changed accordingly...