The Godfather, Part 3 [Concluded]

[GeneralHankerchief]

Voting closed.

[Askthepizzaguy]

[Zoidberg] "Hooray! I was useful!" [/Zoidberg]

[Csargo]

I wish I was in pizza heaven

[Askthepizzaguy]

Fear not. My new signature line will bring you there, my GLORIOUS friend.

[Csargo]

If only....

[GeneralHankerchief]

Day 3

For some reason, this day seemed twice as long as usual, but most villagers chalked it up to the inverse of the "time flies when you're having fun" rule, as only the Chief of Police seemed to be enjoying the proceedings. Speaking of which, shlin28 denied any and all involvement in using his alleged godlike powers to extend the day, to which everyone groaned.

While everyone was voting, he was lording it around the Gameroom square on his beautiful white stallion, which everyone assumed that he would personally ride during the actual execution. Eventually, though, he dismounted and called "time" on the voting. After a couple of minutes of counting, he motioned over to his "Chief's Aide", still clad in her stunning black bikini.

"You," he said, "Fire my gun in the air a few times to get everybody's attention." She complied, handing the gun back to shlin afterwards. All eyes were on the Chief of Police.

"All right, people, it's time to kill somebody else! Lord Winter, come on dowwwwwwn!" He droned the last word out, making an enunciation similar to that of the announcer on the classic American game show "The Price is Right". The irony was not lost on a few Gameroom villagers, but Lord Winter was in no mood to appreciate it. He trudged up to four horses, grumbling.

"Well, we can't have any of that," shlin said, noting Lord Winter's grumbling. He took out a police baton and whacked Lord Winter over the head with it, sending him unconscious.

After a couple of minutes, all four of Lord Winter's limbs were attached to a separate horse. The Chief of Police and three volunteers from the crowd each mounted a horse (shlin, to nobody's surprise, took the beautiful white stallion). Looking at shlin for word of when to start, they took the reins.

"Three... two... one... GIDDYAP!!!"

There was a terrible popping sound. The crowd cheered. After listening to another boring speech from shlin about how he hoped everyone had did their duty and that there would be no more murders, everyone went home for the night.

Day 3 tally:

Lord Winter: 4 (Sasaki Kojiro, White_eyes:D, YLC, Askthepizzaguy)
Sigurd: 3 (Andres, TinCow, 777Ares777)
Sasaki Kojiro: 2 (Reenk Roink, TevashSzat)
187Beefyz: 1 (Seamus Fermanagh)
Jolt: 1 (LittleGrizzly)
White_eyes:D: 1 (Gaius Scribonius Curio)
LittleGrizzly: 1 (Jolt)

Abstained: 7 (shlin28, Lord Winter, 187Beefyz, Chaotix27, taka, Rythmic, Quintus.JC)
Didn't vote: 3 (Sigurd, glyphz, Ignoramus)

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Still alive: (22)
shlin28
YLC
777Ares777
Andres
TevashSzat
Quintus.JC
Rythmic
White_eyes:D
Chaotix27
Sigurd
Reenk Roink
glyphz
187Beefyz
taka
Seamus Fermanagh
Jolt
LittleGrizzly
Gaius Scribonius Curio
Ignoramus
Askthepizzaguy
TinCow
Sasaki Kojiro

Killed:
Tratorix
CountArach
seireikhaan
boudica

Executed:
Ichigo
Lord Winter

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Let's chalk up this round's massive "abstain" count to the weekend. However, if it happens again, I will have no choice but to remove it as an option, meaning, if you abstain, you don't vote. If you don't vote, you get Wogged. Just keep that in mind.

[Askthepizzaguy]

I suppose you aren't thinking of selecting someone with pizza-ish tendencies for the delightful and cheesy task of burning the WOGbait players at the stake... after which, with only a plastic picnic spoon and a large drum of barbecue sauce, I will feed everyone here a meal they will not soon forget?

And yes, I think that was a question. I always liked the idea of inquisitions, heretic burnings, and tossing the witches into the lakes and rivers and streams. If I were Chief of Police, I'd build a hydroelectric dam out of discarded witch bodies. There's just something delightfully macabre about groupthink from the dark ages leading to mob justice. Mmmm... toasty and painful.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

I suppose you aren't thinking of selecting someone with pizza-ish tendencies for the delightful and cheesy task of burning the WOGbait players at the stake... after which, with only a plastic picnic spoon and a large drum of barbecue sauce, I will feed everyone here a meal they will not soon forget?

And yes, I think that was a question. I always liked the idea of inquisitions, heretic burnings, and tossing the witches into the lakes and rivers and streams. If I were Chief of Police, I'd build a hydroelectric dam out of discarded witch bodies. There's just something delightfully macabre about groupthink from the dark ages leading to mob justice. Mmmm... toasty and painful.

Sometimes I question your sanity.

[Askthepizzaguy]

What exactly are you doing the rest of the time?

[Seamus Fermanagh]

What exactly are you doing the rest of the time?

His ongoing re-design of Osaka Castle to incorporate the best Western siege features without ruining the overal aesthetic.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

His ongoing re-design of Osaka Castle to incorporate the best Western siege features without ruining the overal aesthetic.

[Chaotix]

Hm... I should really make a habit of Abstaining after posts that I make during the day phase that are not votes. As it is, I am 5 hours too late, but I likely would not have voted decisively anyway.

Honestly, the first person who comes to mind while considering the "lifting" of a write-up is seireikhaan. Mostly because he's a sneaky . (I mean this in a good way )

Unfortunately, he's dead.

And so the second, ironically, is ATPG. He had a seemingly extensive knowledge of Mafia even before he started hosting or playing in games, and I would not be surprised to see him start taking write-ups from games that he had previously followed.

My third guess would be Reenk, based on his previous use of already-established material in his Watcher posts of Fillet Royale.

It does not seem to me that Gaius would have lifted his own write-up and then pointed it out afterwards as a clue. If he had done that, it probably would have been Night 1, as well. And even then- as he's said, Gaius only has 3 or 4 more write-ups to choose from. If he kept using them, he'd run out eventually and have to start writing them from scratch, at which point we would probably notice that the new write-ups are shockingly similar to the old ones in style.

[Beefy187]

That lynching reminds me.. How Lord Winter whined about him being lynched in almost all the revolutionary games just for him being called the "Lord"

I guess we'll find out if you were guilty or not...

EDIT: Shlins starting to scare me... Can't lynching be more peaceful like feeding him 100 icecreams and making him fat or something?

[LittleGrizzly]

FoS: LittleGrizzly
Vote: LittleGrizzly

1st reason: I am in exam season plus I don't have internet where I study. How do you want me to post?
2nd reason: ....What? I'm proud of writing and speaking better English than many American counter-parts. (No offense intended, while I have been offended.)

My reasons for voting LittleGrizzly is that it is the second time he votes for me without any plausible reason whatsoever or anything like it. Last time that happened to me (Ephesus), one of my bandwagons was scummy.

No offence taken, like i said not long after tincow analysed the kills 'i murder english'. I would say your english is better than mine but not perfect, no offence is meant...

1st reason, mafia can use this excuse as easily as genuine people...

2nd reason, yes you can speak it better than some americans im sure (and even this english person) but your english is good but not perfect... similar to the write up...

Retalitory voting is a scummy move, i had my reasons listed above, the main suspects weren't appealing to me so i looked for a better suspect, i had a feeling earlier on in the game (but posted in the wrong thread...) and i decided without anything better to go on that i should vote for you.

Im sure everyone has been voted for by scum at one point or another, that does not mean that people voting for you are always scummy....

FoS: Jolt

and not for retalitory reasons...

Edit: i think the executions should be stepped up a gear, lets put some huge headphones on thier head blasting out barbie girl, slowly turn up the volume until... *pop*

[Askthepizzaguy]

And so the second, ironically, is ATPG. He had a seemingly extensive knowledge of Mafia even before he started hosting or playing in games, and I would not be surprised to see him start taking write-ups from games that he had previously followed.

Yeah, I would be capable of something like that, yes. I often lurk in dead threads collecting information. However, I prefer to be creative and bold with my strategies, not cowardly or ripping people off to mask my writing style. I can easily speak as though I have difficulty spelling, and I can write in a British style which would mask my Yankee origins. That being said, I am not the mafia in this game. I could easily have left several hours ago to avoid being questioned, like certain suspects of mine have.

Your suspicion of me seems genuine, not forced. As such;

Halo of Innocence: Chaotix27

I don't mind being made a suspect for what appears to be legitimate reasoning. But rest assured, a weak case against me always shows up on my scum detection, falsely or not.

I don't buy that Gaius is in any way cleared of my suspicions because of the unlikeliness or irrationality behind using his own murder writeups. As a mafia, sometimes I go out of my way to do something that doesn't necessarily follow from pure logic, because that makes the motivations difficult to detect. To me, unless Gaius' behavior in-thread improves from speculation without conclusion, multiple reasonless votes, and skipping out on questioning, he's very much a suspect to me. And a creative mafia would definitley do something that doesn't make sense on the surface, and it does not necessarily follow that just because it didn't happen night one that it still couldn't be his strategy.

Mafia will try to throw you off by doing the unexpected and the irrational, if they are any good at it. And regardless of whether it might fit GSC's personal play style, a mafia veteran is likely among the 3 scums who could formulate a deceptively bizarre strategy to throw us off.


Besides, if I were mafia, would I do this???

"Hey, whassa matta, you look-a so hungry, maybe Don Pizzaguy will bake you a hot and fresh-a pizza to make you feel better after the death of your-a friends. Excuse me while-a I wash-a my bloody hands-a."

Then again, I might do that. However, if you're going to lynch me for silly reasons, I'd prefer you do it sooner rather than later. Gives you more time to regroup and look for other suspects when you're wrong. And it's dumb strategy for me to self-incriminate myself with no heat on me, so soon, and in such a big game. Better would be for the mafia to kill me, which would seemingly clear me of suspicion, and then I can be an evil manipulative zombie.

Oh please mister mafia, kill me. Pretty please? I am begging you to end my life. I did nasty things to your daughter in front of her catholic priest, so you need to defend your honor and kill me, you spineless cowards! You couldn't hit the broad side of a barn with your silenced weapons, maybe that's why you do these silly pranks with water and knives.

Besides, you scumbags don't have the cojones to kill me.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Unnecessary WIFOM self-incrimination complete, preparing to be lynched.

Have-a some pizza.

[LittleGrizzly]

Cranium Of Insanity ATPG!

[Askthepizzaguy]

I may look insane, but it's a calculated move. An absurdly bad calculation if I were mafia. Occam's razor, people. I know how to be inconspicuous, and getting myself lynched isn't part of that idea.


I suggest the mafia kill Ituralde. He's been ever so quiet, I wonder why...

[Sasaki Kojiro]

I suggest the mafia kill Myrddraal

[GeneralHankerchief]

I know how to be inconspicuous

No you don't.

[Askthepizzaguy]

No you don't.

I'll have you know that after a recent mafia victory, I am 3 wins for 3 games as a scumbag, with another one at TWC basically in the bag. 4/4 very shortly.

Never underestimate the power of being a big loudmouth to mask your TERRIBLE GUILT!!!!

Who, me? You'd better lynch me just to be sure.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

And I wouldn't gamble the entire game away to satisfy my ego. I have reason to want to keep the streak alive, I'm not going to end it here by being dumb. If you lynch me, I will laugh at you, and then try to nail the mafia myself post-mortem.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

What is it you've done recently that mafia supposedly wouldn't do?

[Askthepizzaguy]

What is it you've done recently that mafia supposedly wouldn't do?

Absolutely nothing. But what I am doing is really dumb if I were mafia.


See? The person bringing heat on me is me, to attempt to prove a psychological point. However, I also know that WIFOM arguments are soooo tempting, even a mafia veteran of legendary status such as yourself will bite, so I will stop. In a perfect world it would prove my point, but townies are paranoid and it is distracting, so I will stop.


Or I could point out that you took the bait and went after an easy suspect.

Have some pizza.

[Askthepizzaguy]

On a more SOLID point of evidence, in every single game as a townie, I've deliberately created WIFOM arguments against myself, and generally avoided doing so as mafia.

That's something you can actually sink your teeth into. If I break this streak, it will no longer work as a way of clearing myself. And it's gotten me lynched almost every single time, and I was innocent every single time.

Mmmm... Cheesy Goodness.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Absolutely nothing. But what I am doing is really dumb if I were mafia.

If it's in character then why is it dumb? You've mentioned several times that you always post a whole lot.

[Askthepizzaguy]

Oh, pardon me, but I have places to be and cannot respond to your questioning kthanxbye!

To respond to your observation, that wasn't the point of what I was saying. What I was saying was, rather than "I must be innocent because I post alot" (Which is false because I do that as mafia), was that I am innocent because I am intentionally, and for no seemingly rational purpose, bringing heat on myself and then responding to questioning.

And it has gotten me dead, every single time I've done it.


If I truly smell funky to you, lynch me. 2 murders will prove my innocence. I don't fear death. I'll even go so far as to say, perhaps you're being a bit too eager to jump on what is clearly baiting evidence planted there intentionally.

I wouldn't peg you for a lazy mafia, but you know, it's the perfect opportunity to get through another round. And you just happen to be here at night. How curious.

[LittleGrizzly]

If you try too much harder to prove your innocence i may vote for you...

[Seamus Fermanagh]

Pizza:

GH never said you weren't an effective mafioso -- he said you weren't inconspicuous.

You make Sasaki seem like a lurker.

Between you two and the inscrutable reenkster, Mafia-ing is quite entertaining.

[Askthepizzaguy]

@LG

Predictable.

Well, you've done it before guys, and as expected, you'll do it again.

I refuse to stop doing this, by the way. If it takes 10 or 20 mafia games, with me being lynched immediately and proven innocent afterward, eventually you will see that it makes no sense for me to keep doing it as a mafia, because it IS handing you my head on a platter.

There's no other way to look at it. Come now, LittleGrizzly.

[Askthepizzaguy]

I haven't given up on the idea that there are ways to prove your innocence without actual proof.

But, if at last it never catches on with anyone besides myself, I may pull an Ichigo and only really ever show up to vote, and get lynched every time for being a lurker. Same result, less effort.

[LittleGrizzly]

Im not saying your guilty but you completely cloud my thinking with your determined innocence talk and it makes me think of you somewhat as a mocking mafia