Pirate Ninja Robot Zombie Mafia IN SPACE [Concluded]

[Zack]

Would a mafia do that, no.

Would a mafia make a sweeping generalization to make themselves look better?


YOU BET YOUR GLOWING ORANGE GUITAR THEY WOULD

[Double A]

Based on prior experience, edse's statement leads me to believe he is town.

Based on being wrong all the damn time, lynch edse.

Are you referring to the Ocean Mafia game over at TWC? That was not acting without thinking of the consequences. I realiseed I might get lynched and I wanted to see what people would do to a reveal like that. I think Choxorn is on a good thing, so I will vote:edse

I have no idea how to respond to this.

[Chaotix]

Tally:
edse - 4 (Choxorn, wideyedwanderer, classical_hero, Ironside)

Choxorn - 1 (Jarema)
wideyedwanderer - 1 (edse)
Jarema - 1 (Visorslash)

Plan:
NOBODY HAS ANY CLUE WHAT TO FREAKING DO - 7 (classical_hero, Choxorn, edse, Ironside, Jarema, wideyedwanderer, Visorslash)

Round ended. Standby for write-up.

[Chaotix]

EVEN IF YOU CHOOSE NOT TO DECIDE, YOU HAVE STILL MADE A CHOICE
[WAKE CYCLE 7]

The seven remaining Space Cadets spent the majority of the day accusing each other and running to hide when the occasional deafening roar sounded closer than usual. Without anyone to lead them, their debate quickly devolved into chaos, with threats and accusations flying fast between them.

And what was more, nobody had any clue what they were supposed to do now. None of them were tech-savvy enough to figure out how to get the Harpoon back online, and for all intents and purposes they were stranded in the middle of a tropical rainforest filled with giant, ferocious predators.

They were pretty much screwed.

But there was one cadet who was more screwed than the rest, and that was edse. In their discussion of who they believed killed the Captain and Engineer and sabotaged the ship, his name kept coming up, and by the end of the day (that’s right, this planet actually had days and nights), he appeared to have drawn the ire of the majority of the group.

“We know it was you, edse. It’s the only outcome that makes sense. You always stood there with that smug look on your facing, always voting for Choxorn and not caring about what was going on. You must be guilty!”

“Look, it totally wasn’t me! It’s all just one crazy coincidence. You’ve got to believe me!”

“I say we shove a knife in his eye and burn his face off, just like he did to The King and SalmonSoil!”

“Yeah! Then we’ll stab him in the back and slit his throat. Just like Montmorency and Major Robert Dump!”

“Guys, wait! You can’t just do this. We’re a team, remember?”

“And then maybe we’ll feed him to one these giant monsters out here. Ahahahaha!”

The Space Cadets started picking up flaming pieces of wood from the fire they had built. A few of them produced pitchforks; where they had procured them was anyone’s guess. They started to slowly advance on edse, chanting for his death

“NOOOO! You’ll never take me alive!”

All the Space Cadets braced themselves, expecting edse to attack. Instead, he turned around and ran, sprinting away as quickly as he could from the campfire. A couple tried to chase after him, but he was just too fast. Before they had gone ten yards, he had already disappeared into the jungle.

Now bored and disappointed that they wouldn’t get to skewer him, they dropped their pitchforks and went back to sitting around.

---

edse looked back over his shoulder. Not an angry Space Cadet in sight. That was good. He might have just lost his job and his ride back home, but at least he was alive. It might be difficult living out here in the wilderness, but he was sure that given a few weeks he would be a regular Tarzan. Space Cadets always made the best frontiersmen, it was said.

edse slowed his sprint down to a walk. He was safe now. He kept moving, but slowly so that he could catch his breath. Every few seconds he would nervously look behind him to make sure he wasn’t being followed. It was during one of these moments that he walked straight into a tree trunk.

Upon getting his bearings, edse realized this was a very strange looking tree trunk. It was bigger than any of the other trees around, and it was kind of greenish in color. And it was covered in scales. And there were a few short white roots sticking out one side that looked conspicuously like toes.

It was the only tree of its kind in the- oh, wait. There’s another one that looks just like it right over there. It’s pretty funny, together they look like a pair of…

Legs. They are not trees. They are legs. edse looked up his heart slowly beating faster and faster. What he saw practically paralyzed him with fear. It roared with such force that edse was thrown off his feet and landed in the dirt.

There was a giant tyrannosaurus rex standing in front of him, and it looked pissed. What’s more, it was carrying a laser gun. Oh, they must be intelligent dinosaurs, thought edse. Then its gaping maw shot down and snapped him up, its terrible teeth killing him instantly.

---

Ok, it was getting really boring back at the campfire. There was literally nothing to do except poke the fire and make the flames bounce up in little different ways. Then something arrived to make things interesting.

It was a human-sized lizard with a cool techno-visor and a laser gun in hand. At first, the Space Cadets flipped out and were about to get their own laser guns. But then the lizard introduced himself quite civilly.

“Greetings, wanderers. I... am the Philosoraptor.”

“What are you doing here?”

“I do not know. But I am pondering it. In the meantime, you must come with me.”

“Wait, if you don’t know why you’re here, why do you need us to come with you?”

“These are the kinds of questions I ask myself all the time. I believe we will get along quite well.”

As suspicious as they were, the Space Cadets didn’t really have anything better to do, so they followed the Philosoraptor. Along the way, he shared them quite a few philosophical quandaries that he was thinking about, such as, “If guns don’t kill people, people kill people, then do toasters not toast toast, toast toasts toast?” and “Is there another word for synonym?” Usually, the cadets had no answer for him.

He led them on a long, winding trail through the jungle, and eventually they came to a clearing with a great pyramid. Up the steps of the pyramid they went, and when they were just outside the entance, the Philosoraptor stopped to talk.

“If Physics has laws, who governs it? This is a question I have pondered for many a year. But now I think I finally have an answer.”

“Well, what is it? What do you mean? Does Physics have a government?”

“No. The government of Physics was taken over long ago in a coup. Now those who rule over Physics have abused its power. They do not have its best interests at hand.”

“How can you know all of this?”

“Well, it is quite simple. One of you is a servant of the new rulers of Physics.”

“Which one of us is it?”

“I do not know.”

“If you know one of us is a bad guy, how do you not know which one?”

“This is a question I have asked myself since I first came across your group. I do not yet have an answer.”

“So if you can’t help us, why did you bring us here?”

“Hey now! I’m the one supposed to be asking the questions here. Inside this pyramid, there is a portal. I do not know where the portal goes. Nobody I have sent through there has ever returned.”

“How many people have you sent through?”

“None.”

“How many dinosaurs have you sent through?”

“Only nineteen. This portal leads to the place where the usurpers of Physics live.”

“How do you know that?”

“Somebody just told me.”

“Who?”

“I do not know. But I do know that now it is time for me to leave. But I don’t know why it is time. But I do know that I still have many things to ponder. And I don’t know if I will get to keep pondering them if I stay with you.”

And with that cryptic message, the Philoraptor vanished into the darkness of the jungle. The six remaining crew members decide to wait out the night here, and check out the portal in the morning.

---

Alive: 6/28
classical_hero
Choxorn
Ironside
Jarema
wideyedwanderer
Visorslash


Not Alive: 22/28
Zaccino - Space Cadet - Immortal, but eaten by a Space Whale
autolycus - Space Cadet - Bit off more than he could chew
Askthepizzaguy - Space Cadet - Died in madness having seen the future
Memnon - Zombie - Together he stood, divided he fell
Jolt - Pirate Ninja Robot Zombie - In the Cooler. The Space Cooler.
DaveShack - Space Cadet - Sleeping with the dinosaurs and the sharks
Arjos - Space Cadet - Got ding-dong ditched, extreme edition
Seon - Samurai - Was bested by the Western men and their guns
woad&fangs - Space Cadet - He couldn't change time, but time has changed him
Csargo - Space Cadet - Is popular. Too popular.
thefluffyone93 - Pirate - Is a good chum.
Double A - Space Cadet - Is feeling a little crabby
dcmort93 - Space Cadet - Made the tastiest morsel of them all. A dcmortsel.
Greyblades - Faded into nothingness and was replaced [Ironside]
robbiecon - Space Cadet - Has returned back to his basics
BSmith - Robot - Free to do all the math he wants in Robot heaven
Xehh II - Space Cadet - Quit while they were ahead
Montmorency - Space Cadet - Not sure right now. Try again later.
Major Robert Dump - Exorcist - Was caught off guard by the man in the shadows and his big stick
atheotes - Space Cadet - Wishes you could see it the way he does. It's so... perfect.
The King - Engineer - Is like one of those barbie dolls after your little brother gets his hands on it
SalmonSoil - Captain - Died as he lived: half-blind and steering a sinking ship to safety
edse - Space Cadet - Dinosaurs don't eat people, people eat people

The Space Cadets' Reserve
johnhughthom

[thefluffyone93]

*slow clap*

[Chaotix]

NIGHT 2 (LOLWUT)
[SLEEP CYCLE 7]

The entrance chamber of the pyramid was large, and the six remaining Space Cadets had spread themselves out, distanced from each other on the floor. They had known implicitly that a traitor was among them all along; they had thought it was edse, and after they chased him away they were safe. The Philosoraptor, in his mysterious wisdom, had proved them wrong. He had confirmed the presence of the enemy, and after that the cadets found themselves unable to trust anyone.

Choxorn was standing out on the top level of the pyramid, just outside the entrance. He was thinking about edse, of whom he had been the main accuser. It was probably his fault that edse had been driven away, and according to the Philosoraptor he was apparently innocent. If he was still alive, maybe he would find his way back to join up with them again… but that seemed unlikely. This jungle was dangerous. He probably hadn’t survived. And if he had… well, they weren’t exactly welcoming to him the last time they saw him. He might want to stay away for fear of his own life.

“Watch out for those stairs. You might fall.”

Choxorn spun around. The voice had come from the entrance to the pyramid, but he couldn’t see anyone there. It was dark, though, and the other cadet might be just inside the doorway.

“I’ll be fine, thanks. I’ve used stairs before.”

“Well, that’s where I’m going to have to disagree with you.”

That time the voice had come from behind him, where he was just looking before. This was starting to get pretty creepy-

A hand grabbed the back of Choxorn’s neck. A foot swept out his legs from underneath him. Before he knew what was happening, Choxorn was tumbling down the stone steps, breaking and cracking bones as he went.

“I warned you about stairs, bro.”

Choxorn thought it was going to end, but it kept happening. He kept falling down and down again and again. He hadn’t realized how tall the pyramid had been. By the time he hit the bottom, he was bruised and bloody, and his skull had been cracked open.

As it happened, he landed right next to Ironside, who had been answering a call of nature. Upon seeing the body, Ironside promptly stopped answering a call of nature and started screaming for help. The he was all the way at the bottom of the pyramid, though, and the roars of the giant laser gun toting dinosaurs in the jungle drowned out his cries. There was no way anyone would hear him over that racket.

And then, before he knew it, another Space Cadet had shown up. He couldn’t see his face in the darkness, but boy was he relieved.

“Oh, I’m so glad someone’s here! It’s Choxorn, we have to help him!”

Choxorn was clearly beyond help.

“I warned him about the stairs. I told him.”

“Oh, you saw him fall? What happened?”

“I pushed him.”

Before Ironside could register what he had just been told, he had half a dozen shuriken sticking out of his chest. By the time he did register it, he had about two dozen more. There was scarcely a space on the front of his body that didn’t have a shuriken in it. He fell flat on his back, groaning in pain.

“Those shuriken are poisoned. You won’t bleed to death.”

Oh, that was good. At least the pain wouldn’t last too long.

“Instead, the poison will cause your blood to clot at the lacerations. After that, it will slowly attack all of your internal organs and force them to rupture. Soon you will be bleeding internally, but the blood will have nowhere to flow out to. You will become bloated. So bloated, in fact, that your eyeballs will explode, and blood will start gushing out of your ear canals. Then you will die.”

That didn’t sound so good after all. Ironside thought he might have preferred it if the Shinobi had just left the shuriken un-poisoned. But he had no such luck. The Shinobi vanished in the darkness, leaving him to die alongside his buddy Choxorn.

---

In the morning, the four remaining Space Cadets found the bodies at the base of the pyramid.

This was it. If they went through that portal in the pyramid, they would be facing off against the Space Krakens themselves, to save space from being destroyed. As noble a cause as there ever was.

But if they went through there now, they would only be stabbed in the back by the traitor, and it would all be for naught.

They had to catch the Shinobi now. Today. This was their final chance, and if they didn’t get it right, their mission would be a failure. This is it.

DAWN OF THE FINAL WAKE CYCLE

---

Alive: 4/28
classical_hero
Jarema
wideyedwanderer
Visorslash


Not Alive: 24/28
Zaccino - Space Cadet - Immortal, but eaten by a Space Whale
autolycus - Space Cadet - Bit off more than he could chew
Askthepizzaguy - Space Cadet - Died in madness having seen the future
Memnon - Zombie - Together he stood, divided he fell
Jolt - Pirate Ninja Robot Zombie - In the Cooler. The Space Cooler.
DaveShack - Space Cadet - Sleeping with the dinosaurs and the sharks
Arjos - Space Cadet - Got ding-dong ditched, extreme edition
Seon - Samurai - Was bested by the Western men and their guns
woad&fangs - Space Cadet - He couldn't change time, but time has changed him
Csargo - Space Cadet - Is popular. Too popular.
thefluffyone93 - Pirate - Is a good chum.
Double A - Space Cadet - Is feeling a little crabby
dcmort93 - Space Cadet - Made the tastiest morsel of them all. A dcmortsel.
Greyblades - Faded into nothingness and was replaced [Ironside]
robbiecon - Space Cadet - Has returned back to his basics
BSmith - Robot - Free to do all the math he wants in Robot heaven
Xehh II - Space Cadet - Quit while they were ahead
Montmorency - Space Cadet - Not sure right now. Try again later.
Major Robert Dump - Exorcist - Was caught off guard by the man in the shadows and his big stick
atheotes - Space Cadet - Wishes you could see it the way he does. It's so... perfect.
The King - Engineer - Is like one of those barbie dolls after your little brother gets his hands on it
SalmonSoil - Captain - Died as he lived: half-blind and steering a sinking ship to safety
edse - Space Cadet - Dinosaurs don't eat people, people eat people
Choxorn - Space Cadet - Has fallen and he can't get up
Ironside - Space Cadet - Is a poor substitute for Life Alert

The Space Cadets' Reserve
johnhughthom

[Visor]

Will analyse CH, wew and Jarema after I write the prologue up for my game. I'm feeling Jarrema though.

[Jolt]

I believe this image conveys my sentiments in regard to the town efforts throughout the whole game.



All that is left now is to:

[Visor]

Doing this once more?
vote: Choxorn

Goes to the other side, Choxorn and Edse are both likely lynch targets, lets go for one of them.

Vote: Edse should try to avoid every single asteroid

Now votes Choxorn's nemesis, Edse, again no reasoning and this sequence of votes is scummy to me, he's hiding in the wagons, trying not to be picked up.

vote: Choxorn
vote: Pool
We can use it to make a harpoon later

Votes Choxorn again, no reasoning.

vote: Dcmort behaviour seems more scummy than other abstainers/nonvoters

Well, while we're lynching people who aren't me, you'll do just fine! Picks a random abstain target. Easy wagon/lynch.

@ ATPG, I think that you are generaly right about concentrating lynch on abstainers/no voters (the ones who avoid woging)
I believe that it is good because it: does not allow mafia to hide easily (as you mentioned), but also encourages more active play from townies. Which is, again, good for two reasons. First, it generates material for later analyses (and therefore benefits town). Second, it makes game more interesting. I, for one, find it more interesting both as mafia and as a town to do something in a game thread, at the very least voting every day. And I also believe it makes game more interesting for others.

Yes, yes, concentrate the lynch on those who avoid wogging. Not anyone else. Kill all the lurkers,because you're not one of them. To me, seems scummy.

Well I start to believe that body that we found is a body of the person we will sent back in time...
vote: surface
vote: edse

Continues OMGFOS with an OMGUS on the person who voted him.

why do want to send your brightest teammate for certain death?
FoS: Edse

OMGUSFOS. Scummy.

I understand from write-up that we have three options? Seafloor, surface, or time-machine?
And what is this thing with time machine? Can anyone volunteer to go into it? or is it associated with someones ability?

Questions setup again. Not much scumhunting.

wait..

he was pirate ninja zombie robot?
Was he member of all this scum factions? or a faction of his own? (like SK)?
questions are almost endless...

Questions setup. Appearing like a active questioning townie. (But asking useless questions.)

Better go for the Space Whale, always fun and dangerous.

And, vote: Jolt.
Why others are not voting??

Questions inactivity, votes for scum, but not a reasoned vote, a random one.

Vote: Choxorn should paint the ship. But the name should be simpler. Morgue, that is

Morgue because you're going to be killing us all?

Conclusion from Jarrema: He's sliding along, playing it safe, and hiding in wagons. Doesn't post more then he has to. To me its scummy play and he plays a lot stronger as a townie, and especially the fact there is reveal on death and he barely comments on things pings me. I know he likes reveal on death, yet he is not scumhunting, he is just sliding through.

[Visor]

To be fair, the game is nearly over, and if edse really is town, he's doing the right thing by defending himself. edse's post wasn't actually that long; most of it was quoted text he was responding to. However, all he really did was try and defend his position as not being scum. He didn't really point out an alternative as to who might be scum.

In his last post, edse said this about Choxorn:



Um...edse...if you don't think Choxorn is scum...why did you vote for him?

And you haven't done any sum hunting either. Pushes the edse lynch. (as long as no-one is voting me, thats good)

Why is this our best bet?



Choxorn makes a strong case against edse. For now, I'm going to vote: edse.

Ooh, lets jump on the wagon again!

When did he claim a pro-town role? I went back and looked at The King's posts. I found nothing of the sort. The King has just one more post than I do, and they all seem to be short posts at that. atheotes, classical_hero and Ironside all have fewer posts than I do. I certainly have not been particularly active in this game, but I wouldn't exactly consider The King as being a whole lot more active.

Scum caught in a slip?

Vote: The King

No reasoned vote (again) on claimed power role.

Vote: Pool.

Vote: The King. Because I really don't know who to vote for. Are there any solid leads?

Let's play confused townie. Votes for (later I believe?) claimed power role, and asks for leads (looking for a wagon?)

Unvote, Vote: dcmort. Just to make things interesting.

Ooh, let's set up a tie. Ties don't help town. Kill ALL the townies!

Vote: Path 3

and

Vote: Abstain. For now.

Abstains. "For now". Waiting to see a good wagon to jump on?

Sorry for missing the vote again. I thought I had already voted.

Let's not get my vote on record. Let's play the avoid the Wog game.

Vote: Space Whale and Vote: SalmonSoil.

D2 vote, not much of interest here.

Conclusion: Similar to Jarrema, they both are just playing it safe and jumping onto wagons. Both are rather scummy.

[Visor]

Are you referring to the Ocean Mafia game over at TWC? That was not acting without thinking of the consequences. I realiseed I might get lynched and I wanted to see what people would do to a reveal like that. I think Choxorn is on a good thing, so I will vote:edse

Jumps on bandwagons.

vote:The King A three way tie looks to be fun. I have not been following this as much as I would like, due to illness.

I think this is after he had claimed a role, regardless, ties are bad for town, and a threeway tie if it ends like the last tie did, would be deadly for the town if it had all town players involved, and classical would love that, being scum.

vote:path 1

vote:AA

Reasonless vote on AA (I assume based on ATPG's reasoning?)

Vote:Space Whale
Vote:Chaotix for forgetting some basic rules. Just kidding. My real vote is vote:Jolt

Votes for the Jolt bandwagon.

vote:classical_hero for the thankless task of painting the ship. Planet Express should be the name of the good ship.

Self vote. That's a good way to look innocent, isn't it?

Conclusion. Classical is scummy as well, but to me at least, a lesser degree. He is too inactive (and when he is inactive, he is inactive, not lurking, that's how classical is). Voting for the King for a three way tie just shows that he hasn't being paying attention to the game.

Out of the three, I think Jarrema is the scummiest.

Vote: Jarrema

[Major Robert Dump]

Lynching edse and killing Choxorn on the same night was amatuerish.

Choxorn would have been a leading candidate for lynch today

For that reason I don't think Visor is mafia

[Montmorency]

Vote: Choxorn should paint the ship. But the name should be simpler. Morgue, that is

Were there another lynch, Jarema ought to be lynched for this alone.

Lynching edse and killing Choxorn on the same night was amatuerish.

Choxorn would have been a leading candidate for lynch today

For that reason I don't think Visor is mafia

Choxorn was confirmed innocent. I guarantee you that no one would have voted Choxorn in a 4-way after that display - except flailing scum.

Ooh, let's set up a tie. Ties don't help town.

Another double-lynch would have put us into a 3-way final round. This is the usual, and much less of a strain for town to succeed in. You're breaking my heart, potential scum-Visor.

Conclusion. Classical is scummy as well, but to me at least, a lesser degree. He is too inactive (and when he is inactive, he is inactive, not lurking, that's how classical is). Voting for the King for a three way tie just shows that he hasn't being paying attention to the game.

Yet for WEW this is a mark of scumminess - sign of an eminence front.

“I warned you about stairs, bro.”

Instead, the poison will cause your blood to clot at the lacerations. After that, it will slowly attack all of your internal organs and force them to rupture. Soon you will be bleeding internally, but the blood will have nowhere to flow out to. You will become bloated. So bloated, in fact, that your eyeballs will explode, and blood will start gushing out of your ear canals. Then you will die.

I see.

[Chaotix]

ATOMIC SPACE CLOCK - COUNTDOWN TO SINGULARITY

[Major Robert Dump]

Were there another lynch, Jarema ought to be lynched for this alone.



Choxorn was confirmed innocent. I guarantee you that no one would have voted Choxorn in a 4-way after that display - except flailing scum.



Another double-lynch would have put us into a 3-way final round. This is the usual, and much less of a strain for town to succeed in. You're breaking my heart, potential scum-Visor.



Yet for WEW this is a mark of scumminess - sign of an eminence front.





I see.

How exactly was Choxorn confirmed innocent prior to his obituary? All we knew 100% is that he was not a zombie.

[classical_hero]

Lynching edse and killing Choxorn on the same night was amatuerish.

Choxorn would have been a leading candidate for lynch today

For that reason I don't think Visor is mafia

If you have ever followed me while I have played scum, I have never done such things that have happened as this scum has done, since as you said I would have left choxorn alone since he led the lynch of edse and got it wrong and thus was the next candidate, but he got killed thus making it easier for us to possibly catch the scum, but he could be acting this way to make people think your way, that he is an amateur and thus put the scent off him. vote:Jarema

[Montmorency]

How exactly was Choxorn confirmed innocent prior to his obituary? All we knew 100% is that he was not a zombie.

Choxorn was quite clearly a mistaken townie, I at least would not have considered him a suspect following that phase.

[Jolt]

I'd like to say I also think Jarema is the ninja.

[Jarema]

I will vote: wideyedwanderer, who seems most scummy to me.
I am not ninja. And using name I wanted to give for a ship is ridiculous.

[Askthepizzaguy]

I will vote: wideyedwanderer, who seems most scummy to me.
I am not ninja. And using name I wanted to give for a ship is ridiculous.

This is the defense of Jarema-as-townie.

You think he'd put more effort into this if he were the remaining scumbag, folks.

[Montmorency]

And of course he wouldn't aggrieve the one guy who hasn't yet voted.

What's your verdict, Pizza? Time is running out.

[Askthepizzaguy]

I love Visorslash, but if he were townie, he'd be dead by now.

[Askthepizzaguy]

You good folks need to realize the typically scummy behavior you find in Jarema and WEW is their ordinary behavior.

Visorslash is playing the role of supertownie/Askthepizzaguy and he's not convincing the real McCoy.

[Zack]

I agree with Pizza. classical_hero, WEW, and Jarema all survive an unusually high number of games as townies. Visorslash does not.

[atheotes]

Been calling for Visor to be lynched...so obviously i agree as well.

[Askthepizzaguy]

Well Visorslash, as you're about to win based on the fact that you killed off all the townies who were dangerous to you, do you have anything to say in your defense, or would you like to favor us with some evil, maniacal laughter before the clock runs out?

[Jarema]

interesting
I think I believe in your arguments, ATPG.
unvote; vote: VIsorslash who is trying so hard

[Choxorn]

ATPG has several good points, and Jarema's vote doesn't make sense if he's the last mafia.

Visorslash is the Ninja. Kill Him.

[Askthepizzaguy]

We are the .org. Resistance is futile.

[Montmorency]

Classical will not return in time. Where is the White Luck Warrior? He must make the path that he has already taken.