The Settlement [Concluded]

[Sasaki Kojiro]

tincow: 7 (white_eyes, tristan(2), jolt(2),khaan(2))
Ichigo: 7 (yoyoma(2),seamus,taka,captain blackadder(2), littleGrizz)
jolt: 1 (tincow)

I believe this is correct...anyway, having seen the "investigation result" on TinCow (if you read FH's role he isn't a detective) it leads one to the conclusion that he is not the sorcerer. I don't believe he should be lynched.

[Askthepizzaguy]

I'm undecided. It's not a full investigation, for sure, but it has vital info. Since he's been exposed, I think we can afford to leave him alive and dispose of Ichigo. Then we challenge him next round.

But, I'm dead, and I'm also the fool behind the pro-town network which cannot keep secrets, even though this time, it wasn't my fault. And since I am a fool, ignore me.

[TinCow]

I can't because I don't know since I haven't seen the Investigation results. FH, which has the investigation results, however seems to think you might be the sorcerer. And since he can't quote the results of his investigation, I'll just have to take his word for granted. If there is any other Pro-town investigator, then maybe he can investigate you. Since you can't explain yourself, I'll have to deduce you have something to hide. As such, the benefit of the doubt I gave you when you defended Ares is now expired.

A point of order, good sir. It is not that I am incapable of explaining myself, it is simply that I do not have such a desire. It is as the great Marcus Tullius Cicero once said, "As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved."

[Jolt]

A point of order, good sir. It is not that I am incapable of explaining myself, it is simply that I do not have such a desire.

Exactly so.

While I have no qualms letting TinCow live another round, I see him he is much more suspicious than Ichigo.

[Reenk Roink]

Just to tell you, I'm not a stickler for the voting rules like some other hosts. When I read through the thread, if I see you made a vote basically explicit, despite it not being bolded or unvoted propery, I will count it. Day ends in 10 minutes.

[TinCow]

Unvote: Jolt
Vote: Ichigo

Sorry, old man, but my head is prettier than yours!

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Damn, lol, that's what I call cutting it close.

[Reenk Roink]

TinCow's vote counts (it was mentioned in the gameplay section of the first post)

Voting ended, stand by.

[TinCow]

Fear not, good citizens of the Settlement! Who amongst us would better know whether I should live or die but me? No one, says I! Indeed, I have lived with myself nearly my entire life! I've known myself from the day I was born! Why, I know every single one of my own deep, dark secrets... well, except for that one time when I woke up in a ditch with a dead donkey next to me and an empty bottle of grog. I can't exactly remember what happened there, but I'm pretty sure I'm innocent of any malfeasance that may or may not have been committed! Regardless, I am certainly the best judge of mine own character, and I therefore pronounce myself innocent!

Hooray, we're saved!

[Askthepizzaguy]

This kind of stuff is precisely why I want him alive. Interesting slash ballsy play always gets the nod from me. Except when Reenk does it. Then it's just plain evil.

[Reenk Roink]

Day 4

The day was filled with lively discussion about the man named Ichigo and most everyone except for the somewhat quiet fellow Ichigo participated. One man with the monkier Tin Cow who had been especially notable in spreading his enlightened ideas of how the settlement should be run earned the ire of many of the settlers and began garnering much support for his execution.

As the deadline approached, there was a tie, and Tin Cow realizing that he would be at the mercy of the decision of the priest king, preferred the certainty of being second and cast his vote for Ichigo at the moment Reenk Roink opened the door to carry out the execution.

Feeling safe, he again began to pontificate his virtues and how he was the one who would lead the charge against the usurper plot and later lead the settlers to an enlightened life.

As the priest king called for the damned, the Bronze Companions went to fetch Ichigo who was not present in the discussions. However, suddenly a man yelled: "Stop! Someone has changed the tally!"

Reenk Roink and his settlers went to the large clay tablet where the votes and challenges were stored and indeed saw one extra tally in favor of Tin Cow and one tally removed from Ichigo.

Reenk Roink addressed his subjects: "Obviously someone has tampered with the tally tablet, but we know that it is Ichigo that is to be executed, so bring me-"

A man interrupted: "We cannot do this priest king. We agreed in our charter that the man who had the most votes according to the tally tablet would be executed. It was... a preventative measure against your tyranny. The charter has spoken, we must execute Tin Cow!"

Reenk Roink buried his face into his palms in disbelief. After some moments and some muttering, he finally looked up and hastily said: "Bring me Tin Cow and let us get this over with."

Tin Cow had by this time resigned himself to the unfairness of this irrational and superstitious society. He began to pontificate to the priest king about how to be a wise ruler and so on.

Reenk Roink was getting annoyed by the supercilious attitude of this balding man covered with dust and he ordered his Bronze Companions to pelt Tin Cow with figurines of cows made of tin. Unfortunately, these tin cows were not doing enough damage as a traditional stoning so the impatient priest king ordered molten tin to be poured in the talking man's mouth, silencing him once and for all.

Deep in the Divine Forest the gods watched the proceeding execution with glee. All their differences disappeared as they saw the molten tin enter Tin Cow's throat.

Vode remarked: "I now somewhat regret plotting against this priest king, for he has done such a great deed in our eyes." OsiOsi nodded and handed the god of wars and foreign peoples a drink.

Kefy however, quickly got over her glee and snapped at OsiOsi: "You have no need for Pisuf now, destroy him!"

OsiOsi replied: "Rather I will let Pisuf lead himself to destruction."

Voting Record:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Jolt votes Sigurd
Jolt votes taka
Captain Blackadder votes Ichigo
LittleGrizzly votes Ichigo
White_eyes:D votes Ichigo
Seamus Fermanagh votes Ichigo
Tristan de Castelreng votes Ichigo
TinCow votes Jolt
seireikhaan votes TinCow
taka votes Ichigo
White_eyes:D votes TinCow - final
Yoyoma1910 votes Ichigo
Tristan de Castelreng votes TinCow - final
Psychonaut votes abstain
Jolt votes TinCow - final
TinCow votes Ichigo - final

Challenge Record:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

seireikhaan challenges TinCow
TinCow rejects seireikhaan duel

Vote Tally:

TinCow - 7 + 1 = 8 (seireikhaan, White_eyes:D, Tristan de Castelreng, Jolt)
Ichigo - 8 - 1 = 7 (Captain Blackadder, LittleGrizzly, Seamus Fermanagh, taka, Yoyoma1910, TinCow)

abstain: 1 (Psychonaut)

Challenge List:


Alive:

taka
White_eyes:D
seireikhaan
Lord Winter
Captain Blackadder
Psychonaut
CountArach
boudica
Jolt
Ichigo
Yoyoma1910
Tristan de Castelreng
Sigurd
LittleGrizzly
Seamus Fermanagh

Executed:

777Ares777
Askthepizzaguy
Andres
TinCow

Fallen in battle:


Killed:

TheFlax
pevergreen
Gaius Scribonius Curio
Sasaki Kojiro
Beefy187
shlin28
GeneralHankerchief
FactionHeir

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Ahahahaha

Classic...

[Askthepizzaguy]

Pizza no like. Bad medicine.

[LittleGrizzly]

Very dodgy, we should make lynches less close so no one can change the towns decision... any idea whether this was a pro town player or anti town player ?

[Askthepizzaguy]

I know who it is. If a bunch of townies want him lynched, I will reveal. Otherwise it is a secret.

[TinCow]

Hmmm... interesting. I suspected someone's side goal was to eliminate me, but I never thought it would be Pisuf. Well played my friend. Out of respect for your boldness, I shall leave you to continue your important work, along with our other friends. I may have failed to save my own neck, but as my mission was only to save the Settlement, I will continue to work towards those ends, putting aside any desire for revenge. (This is what I get for trusting the damnable Gods... though I didn't exactly have a choice, now, did I?)

People of the Settlement! Fear not, for your salvation is almost here! I have been busy sneaking into your homes and tents on a nightly basis to see what nasty things you were up to. Fortunately, I have a fondness for sake, which naturally led me initially to the home of our dear, departed friend Sasaki. He was, of course, most heinously guilty, though I suspect he was simply out for his own ends, rather than in league with this legion of Vode. I communicated this information to my dear, dear friend Pisuf, who disposed of the problem most conveniently. Fear not, for despite Pisuf's apparent betrayal of my most enlightened wisdom, he is truly a protector of you all. There are many friends amongst you still, and due to your own wisdom and the good work of those who watch over you, three criminals now lay dead.

Ares was your own good work, and I can claim no part in it, for I was truly skeptical of 'miracles' such as convicted him. I'm sure there's a rational explanation for what happened there, but I haven't had time to discover it yet. Probably has to do with evolution of a pebble or something.

Sasaki, as I said, was a most guilty party. Assembling some kind of cult or other, I suspect. In any case, we dealt with him so that you did not have to.

Andres was a minor player in the cult of Vode, not the independent minded assassin that he claims. He was also detected as guilty, though by another one of your protectors, not myself.

I know that some of you who are still living are innocent, but in order to protect you from the usurpers I shall refrain from naming you at this moment. Be assured, if I see that you are in peril, I will make my knowledge of your innocence known to all.

[Askthepizzaguy]

Makes sense.

As some info was leaked to Sasaki, but not all, many are still safe. However, given how I've bungled things, and given how complex this game seems to be, and how terrible I am with complex games... I think I'm going to bow out for the remainder, so hopefully I won't wreck the town's chances this time.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

I'm not the slightest bit guilty...as I said earlier, tincow appears to have a general "anti-gods" role.

[Askthepizzaguy]

I'm not the slightest bit guilty...as I said earlier, tincow appears to have a general "anti-gods" role.

I don't know; after you condemned townie networks, you seemed awfully cooperative and wanted lots of information once you joined. Sudden character shift and all. I think it would be safer for town if both Sasaki and I remained dead and buried.

[TinCow]

Ah... even in death I receive enlightenment. Apparently our good friend Pisuf is not necessarily our good friend Pisuf. Pisuf, it seems, can choose whatever path he wishes. He could help you, he could help the servants of Vode, or he could simply seek victory for himself. Pisuf has apparently chosen to eliminate everyone and live only for himself. Pisuf's abilities alternate between investigation and killing. Tonight he can investigate, so he cannot kill. Pisuf is also completely immune to lynching one time, so you would need to lynch him twice to dispose of him. Since his alignment is now for himself alone, it seems like he will most certainly have to die. Fortunately, there is a man amongst you who is capable of disposing of this fellow tonight to avoid the most problematic double lynch.

Pisuf, my friend, I welcome you to your impending death.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

I don't know; after you condemned townie networks, you seemed awfully cooperative and wanted lots of information once you joined. Sudden character shift and all. I think it would be safer for town if both Sasaki and I remained dead and buried.

And you gave me information, hence proving me point...

Now that my only recruit has been lynched I'm solidly pro-town

[TinCow]

Addendum, apparently I was incorrect about the alternating ability to investigate and kill. He is apparently capable of doing either of them whenever he wants. For this reason, and since I do not know whether the one person I know who can solve this problem will be online to submit his orders, I feel the need to call in the assistance of the Sorcerer of Vode. Mr. Sorcerer, while I do not share your goal of destroying the settlers, Pisuf is now a threat to us all. As he can survive his first lynching, the only effective way to eliminate him is to kill him at night. Pisuf is probably a greater threat to you than the entire rest of the settlers combined. For this reason, you should dispose of him tonight, so that you can then return to killing Settlers in peace from there on out. After all, not only can you not lynch Pisuf, he will surely start killing immediately now that he has been exposed. He may eliminate you through sheer luck.

For these reasons, Sorcerer, I highly recommend that you kill CountArach.

[TinCow]

Now that my only recruit has been lynched I'm solidly pro-town

I said it privately when I saw it happen, and I'll say it again. Volunteering that information about the 'cult' as a 'test' of ATPG was sheer genius. I was mightily impressed when I saw it. That is deviousness that deserves high praise.

[Jolt]

Who, what, when, where? What just happened? Someone has the ability to mess with the lynches? And CA is Pisuf? If his goal is to kill everyone, why has he only killed Sasaki so far? It all seems very wierd.

[Thermal]

lynch count arach

[Reenk Roink]

nvm

orders please

By the way I feel so left out of this townie network. The usurpers have let me watch their party so I demand the pro town networks bring me up to speed!

[TinCow]

Who, what, when, where? What just happened? Someone has the ability to mess with the lynches? And CA is Pisuf? If his goal is to kill everyone, why has he only killed Sasaki so far? It all seems very wierd.

Because he was biding his time waiting. If he was going to side with Vode, he needed to find them first. If he was going to go solo (which he has apparently done) he had to kill off as much of the competition as he could. His only mandatory goal was to kill me, as my role was essentially an atheist. I was a pure detective with no other side goals at all, but apparently the Gods don't like people who don't believe in them. I wouldn't be surprised if other God-related roles also had my death as a side objective.

I didn't have much of a choice in this whole thing. CountArach contacted me on the very first day phase and told me exactly who I was and what I could do. I saw no point in worrying about him killing me, since I had no way to retaliate and couldn't stop him even if I wanted to. So, I worked with him up until the point at which he finally cut my throat.

Also, if there are any roles out there that can block or otherwise hinder someone else's night actions, targeting CountArach would be extremely helpful.

[LittleGrizzly]

So we should lynch CA tomorrow... CA anything to say about this ?

[Captain Blackadder]

I think we will have to lynch him since I believe we have lost our pro town nk roles.

[Seamus Fermanagh]

What an utterly glorious game -- squirrely in nintenn directions at once. I am having fun.