Choose Your Own Adventure Mafia [Concluded]

[Montmorency]

two of the crew members' eyes.

Note the plural possessive " s' ".

I think it may be ambiguous at first glance.

1. The eyes of two crew members glinted.

2. The (?) two eyes of a single crew member glinted.

Because of the plural possessive " s' ", interpretation #1 should be preferred. Or do you think the final scum has more than two eyes, that "two" should be specifically used instead of both?

I would accept your interpretation if the line were something like, "A red glint flashed in [both of] a certain crewmember's eyes."

[Chaotix]

NIGHT 8

When Csargo woke up, he found himself in the ship’s nearly-abandoned Med Bay for some reason. He was in one of the hospital beds, dressed only in patient clothing, and there was an IV in each of his arms.

As he groggily assessed his situation, still half-asleep, he noticed that the bags attached to the IVs were definitely not blood-colored. In fact, he didn’t feel injured. Why was he in the Med Bay at all? This was starting to freak him out. He moved to remove the IVs from his arms.

“I WOULDN’T DO THAT IF I WERE YOU.”

Csargo couldn’t tell where the voice was coming from, but it didn’t sound friendly. A different voice boomed in alongside it.

“You see, those needles are attached to a tripwire that leads directly to a set-up of approximately 500 diet cola bottles hidden under your bed, in the walls and above the ceiling tiles. Suspended above each cola bottle is a pack of Mentos. If you so much as move those needles, the tripwire will trigger the Mentos to fall directly into the cola below, and you will be engulfed in an explosion of fizz and sugar! Mwehehehe!”

“I-I don’t understand! Why? What’s so important about these IVs anyway?”

“Oh, well those are hooked up directly to two bags of Pixi Stix dust. Right now they are flooding your veins with pure sugar. In about 2 minutes your blood sugar will be high enough to force you into diabetic shock! Mweheheheh!”

“What? Just what is going on here? So if I stay put and do nothing, I die, while if I try to escape, I die? Why even give me a choice?”

“IT MAKES IT MORE FUN.”

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Meanwhile, in the Command Center, the assault on Coldenskgrad was running quite smoothly. The ship had engaged its combat AI (which was incidentally also the Bingotron 9000) and was firing plasma cannons, dropping anti-matter bombs, and generally just wreaking all kinds of havoc. The shields protected the ship from any sort of retaliating the surprised Coldenskian forces could manage. Foreman Chaotix looked on with pleasure behind his gas mask.

“For the Republic! Soon, we will bring freedom to all these Coldenski dogs, whether they like it or not!”

A couple of the team members present wondered if there would be any Coldenskians left to bring freedom to. Who had even voted for that “Smash” idea anyway? Why were they doing this again?

The Foreman laughed a short, terse laugh and the bombardment continued.

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Csargo couldn’t take it anymore. He was sweating and breathing heavily and his heart was starting to beat faster and faster, and he was pretty sure it wasn’t just because he was nervous. It was also becoming, very, very difficult for him to sit still, likely as a result of the forced sugar high. Then it started to hurt.

“How’s it going there, old chap? I hope you’re not going to give up yet, after all we have enough Pixi dust in those bags to last an hour! Mwehehehe!”

Csargo screamed in mixed pain, frustration, and rage. In that moment he jumped out of the bed, tore the needles out of his arms, and started running. The tripwire was triggered, and the Mentos dropped.

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A huge explosion shook the entire left side of the ship. The explosion then reverberated against the shield keeping in it, bouncing back and hitting the side of the ship again. What was left in place of about 30% of the ship was a huge smoking hole.

“Left engines down! We’ve taken too much damage to the hull! We’re going down!”

CRRRRRRAAAAAAASHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

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Luckily the Bingotron 9000 engaged auto-seat belts so the team was safe. Well, most of them.

After they escaped the wreckage, they looked around them.

“This is… the Hexagon! The military headquarters of the Coldensk Union – or what’s left of it, anyway. And I’ll bet the Space Whale artifact is here as well. The resistance has been crushed; now we just need to decide what to do with it.”

BEGIN DAY 9

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Alive: 5
BSmith
dcmort93
Elite Ferret
LazyMcCrow
Visorslash


Not Alive: 21
Choxorn - Should've said he was a witch.
Zack - Will probably be reincarnated as a Space Whale.
The King - Is probably wishing he was still called Ibn Khaldun.
Darth Feather - Never liked licorice much anyway.
Montmorency - Is probably medium-rare right about now.
Makrell - Is in sweet, sweet heaven.
TinCow - Shouldn't have lost his head in that argument.
Arjos - He may be dead, but his legacy lives on...
Ishmael - Is between a rock and a hot place. Actually, he is between two hot molten rocks. Or actually it could be three.
Double A - Swam in so much sugar he got the bends.
Jolt - Has been put on ice.
Askthepizzaguy - His maniacal plans have been foiled.
Ironside - Victim of a post-hijacking.
robbiecon - Endured horrors so terrible they could not be shown in this programme.
Gaius Scribonius Curio - They say you are what you eat, but he never did eat his vegetables.
edse - Should've listened to the rules.
autolycus - Snacked out, then bit the bullet.
Jarema - Is now the engine of Republican victory.
Riedquat - They took his life, but not his dignity.
White_eyes:D - Forgot to bring a parachute.
Csargo - FREEEEEEEEEEEDOM!


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You have two options today, and since we are getting real serious up in here, we have a nice moral choice: Destroy the Artifact or Use the Artifact.

[BSmith]

vote: visorslash Convince me you are not scum. Where is your normal analysis at this stage of the game?

let's use it!

[LazyMcCrow]

I am 100% sure it's Lazy and Visorslash.

100% sure you may be my friend, but that does not make you 100% right. DCmort can't be scum right? Who only posts twice in a game when they're scum? Which means that someone needs to wake him up pronto. So its' two of Visor, Bmith and EFerret

Let's assume Visorslash is scum number 1. That means he either voted for his scum buddy yesterday and jumped off to prevent a tie, or the Ferret is innocent and he's being bussed by his scum-buddy today (see BSMiths peachy keen vote above) I don't know. Anyone want to lend a hand? Ferret is the obvious choice unless yesterdays vote was all subterfuge, but he just seems less scummy to me than BSmith, who is all 'do the right thing' this morning.

The other option of course is that BSmith and EF are scum and Visor is having an off game, so I'm quite willing to change this vote - assuming people actually respond to the trhead: vote: Visorslash

[Askthepizzaguy]

Ferret is the obvious choice unless yesterdays vote was all subterfuge, but he just seems less scummy to me than BSmith, who is all 'do the right thing' this morning.

I call you on this. If you think BSmith is scummy, then vote him.

[LazyMcCrow]

and of course vote: Use the Artifact ...duh?

[Visor]

Vote: Bsmith

my analysis says you are scum.

[Visor]

Just a quick look at your posts suggest that you have been playing to go under the radar.

And no, I am not always super townie. Go look at Leaving Limbo, Darkling, etc.

[Visor]

Players left:
Elite Ferret
BSmith
Lazy
Dc

Now, DC is either inactive scum or inactive town, regardless should not be lynched today. Therefore this leaves Lazy, Elite and Bsmith. I'm going to recap a few things from memory from each of them.

Elite Ferret and BSmith have been very similar in their postings. Both have stayed under the radar, both have made relatively safe votes, and neither have really done much analysis or cases or discussion in the thread besides Bsmith with Jolt. However, Lazy has focused only on Riedquat which is a tactic I remember from my small game I hosted when he was mafia with atheotes. He seems to be repeating it here on a scummy target (riedquat) that no-one will question. Considering his following votes, he is a top contender to be mafia.

When it comes to deciding between BSmith and Elite Ferret, I take note of both past performances as scum. Elite was more joking, post more, questioned more. This is not the behaviour he is displaying right now. Whereas Bsmith is displaying his slow posting, lack of information, under the radar style.

From seeing both play, it seems to me that Bsmith and Lazy are scum. And are searching to get a quick lynch on me, the obvious target.

[Askthepizzaguy]

Note the plural possessive " s' ".

"Crew members" would be plural anyway.