Murder Manor III- Game thread [Concluded]

[Renata]

Vote: YLC.

Oh crud, my bold doesn't work, since I'm dead.

[Secura]

"What about the sink? Doesn't water come out of that?" Methos noted.

"Oh yeah. That might have worked." Secura said. "My bad."

What is it with hosts painting me as a dumb blonde? First Andres in Daggers, now Pizza... :<

Can I ask what we're supposed to be lynching exactly? Are we saying that one of the players is a demon-child thing now? How does one go about lynching the paranormal? :/

[Askthepizzaguy]

What is it with hosts painting me as a dumb blonde? First Andres in Daggers, now Pizza... :<

Just so you know, I'm painting almost everyone as incompetent, when slapstick comedy is involved. Anything for a joke. Nothing personal.

White_Eyes took it like a trooper!

[Winston Hughes]

I just received yesterday's research:

Cursed Places, Part II:

You discover that there are no more cursed places than the ones you learned about before. So, you decide to look for cursed objects and that place that demons don't like very much.

Cursed Objects:

Power tools, butcher knives, blades of any kind, beds, ceiling fans, coat hangers, furniture, mirrors, and yard equipment are all cursed objects. If they are in the same room as someone, they aid the demon's strength and can be used against the people in that room.

Any object which does not provide light is generally a threat. The other objects can be used as weapons by the supernatural.

These objects could potentially be used by mortals as strength-boosting objects, should they ever find themselves in a situation where they would need to kill one another, or fight off mortal attackers. Even a piece of broken furniture could be used in this way. But holding those objects before the demon is slain causes one to become a bigger target.

You note that, from your own observations, the only place the demon has struck and anyone lived to tell about it, was the Living Room. You do a little more research and you learn that the Living Room is quite literally the place that is "full of life".

Figures. Another stupid riddle.

You note that the living room has an amplifying effect; all objects which create light will increase in strength by 1.5 when held inside the living room.

Given that the demon was just barely repelled by the light last time, and the demon seems to be gaining in strength all the time, you feel that there's very little time left before the demon will be able to overcome the light in the living room, even at maximum strength. After 11 days of strengthening, the Demon seems almost unstoppable. There may be no safe places left at all to move to. The only course of action is to fight.

Who was it that said that the Parlour was the safe place?

And what should I research today? The choices are:

1. History of the house (already researched twice)
2. Folklore and Demonology (already researched once)
3. News Reports on Demon Sightings (already researched once)
4. Cursed Places (already researched twice)
5. Church teachings (already researched once)
6. Scientific studies on hauntings (already researched once)

[Secura]

Who was it that said that the Parlour was the safe place?

T'was slashandburn, funnily enough; he's not even in this game and posts when he's really quiet in ones he does sign up to! :P

Your research is interesting, but it leads me to ask again... what the fudge are we supposed to do? It says that 'the only course of action is to fight'... but fight how? Do we vote: demon?! Do we PM Pizza and say we want to target the demon at night? Just how do you even fight something that appears to be the equivalent to a combined movie experience of The Ring & The Grudge? -_-'

[Askthepizzaguy]

[Diana Abnoba]

Well Winston, we may not need you to do any more research (and join us in a safer place) if Methos would just post his results, from his several computer searches, like I have asked him to do several times! (and anyone else that has been on the computer)!
What is the hold up Methos, I thought before that you were trying to help, but now maybe it seems you were trying to hinder. Post your results, all of them, so we don't waste any more time redoing what you have already done. If not done soon (by this phase) you will get my vote to lynch you. I asked nicely before, but maybe you need more pressure to comply. Granted.

[Diana Abnoba]

@ Secura

My understanding is that one of us is the mafia, this is a mafia game after all. Lynch that player, kills the "evil force". As far as I know.

[ULC]

My book feels suddenly useless - most of the chapters relate to light oriented objects. That would've helped in the early rounds, when we had the chance to collect things.

[Secura]

vote: atheotes

Why, you might ask? Well, it's probably easiest to take a look at his posts, or lack thereof, and see what you think yourself.

On the third night, TheFlax is killed, and during the following day phase, every player (including myself and Beefy, both replacements) manages to post, but atheotes fails to appear until the phase is complete. Having been 'absent' from the game for the past five days (though we don't seem to acknowledge said absence!), atheotes states that he wasn't online and thus couldn't process his orders for the night, which seems to appeal to our better nature and make us believe that he couldn't have been responsible for Flaxy's death.

This is not the first attempt to prove his innocence; after the night concludes and YLC requests the actions of everyone, atheotes dutifully obliges and again manages to reiterate that he failed to process orders to Pizza. He then deftly diverts attention to White_eyes:D in order to not have to discuss his lack of actions, by stating that White_eyes:D was clearly the party responsible for switching the electricity off, something already stated by both Niklas and Winston Hughes.

He does not stop there, however, as he later presses Methos into ensuring that White_eyes:D does not tamper with the computer while Methos is using it; prior to this post, our attention had been diverted to the tool shed, it's contents and possible signs of blood, and this post from atheotes is a possible attempt to turn our attention back to White_eyes:D and his tampering with the circuit breakers.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

I must say before I proceed that I find it very odd that Methos did not challenge this statement from atheotes; having stayed in the Computer Room on the seventh night with Diana, Beefy, Winston and Methos himself, I can tell you that only one person is permitted to use the computer at any one time, thus Methos would have had to have stopped using it for it to be tampered with by White_eyes:D... Methos should have known this information too, so why didn't he take atheotes to task on his statement?

Later we see atheotes post two PMs from the host in-thread; on the outside this appears to be a response to Renata's earlier questions, but it also comes across as a third attempt to reassure us that atheotes is following the same goals as us by showing us signs of fear and anguish in his PMs.

Following the attempted exorcism upon White_eyes:D, who was very much the number one suspect at that point, people began to ask the significance of the chicken dance, something atheotes shrugged off entirely... an attempt to lead us to believe the process was pointless, perhaps?

Following an attempt to look helpful by making a suggestion about the clock and yet another attempt to appear innocent, atheotes proceeds to 'agree' that the town's exploration of the house is going nowhere, and subtlely suggests that he might adopt typical mafia tactics as a way to approach the game; does he mean kills or lynches?

Having taken this harder stance, however, he then contradicts himself in his next post by voting to do the very thing that he saw as pointless!

Then, in his final post of the thread thus far, atheotes spots Diana's argument against Beefy and jumps upon it almost immediately with his own vote, declaring that the lynch will get the game moving even though the accusations were largely baseless in the first place (sorry Diana!). When it transpires that more people voted to move than to lynch, Beefy was killed overnight anyway... mere coincidence or something more?

Now, I am aware that this post was made over two weeks ago and that he's not cropped up since, but he has been active since that post; within the next three days we saw Beefy evade that lynch and then die during the night, during a time that atheotes was still posting in both the Resident Evil discussion thread and repeatedly in Daggers of the Night. So why did he fail to comment on Beefy's death, even if it was merely to acknowledge his motion to lynch him was incorrect?

I readily admit that it is possible that atheotes is simply busy with exams or work etcetera, but it's perfectly plausible given his previous behaviour up to this point that he's still popping up to post orders and relying upon the YLC-Methos situation to help him stay below the radar, and that is why he gets my vote.

[ULC]

o_____O;...

O_____o;...

O_____O;...

Well, that was a sledgehammer from nowhere.

[Secura]

I was talking to someone about my playing style, and it came up that I'm usually too reserved in my accusations and usually keep them to myself or go along with those of others; they told me that attitude wasn't going to help against the demon and that lynching was the way to deal with it.

While I can understand, and to some extent support, your vote for Methos, I felt atheotes had been just as suspect despite his recent drop in activity; it doesn't necessarily mean he's not still dropping by for orders... cos if he's been languishing around in the same room for the last two weeks worth of updates, he should have been easy pickings for the demon by now. :S

[Splitpersonality]

I think I love secura, so Vote: atheotes.


Please don't analyze my play styles now please

[White_eyes:D]

Just so you know, I'm painting almost everyone as incompetent, when slapstick comedy is involved. Anything for a joke. Nothing personal.

White_Eyes took it like a trooper!

Only because it's you Pizzaguy.

[Askthepizzaguy]

Only because it's you Pizzaguy.

One of these days, White_Eyes, when you're kicking some butt in one of my games, I'll write in something badass just for you. I owe you one by now.

[Diana Abnoba]

I agree Secura. I've had a gut feeling most of this game that Atheotes was scum, but couldn't put my finger on why. Atheotes does lurk at times, so he can get away with, going for a time in a game, with little activity, and we don't really seem to notice until it is too late. (and like with Beefy, my gut can be off at times). Oh, okay I'll just go for it as well.

Vote: Lynch Atheotes

[Renata]

Well Winston, we may not need you to do any more research (and join us in a safer place) if Methos would just post his results, from his several computer searches, like I have asked him to do several times! (and anyone else that has been on the computer)!
What is the hold up Methos, I thought before that you were trying to help, but now maybe it seems you were trying to hinder. Post your results, all of them, so we don't waste any more time redoing what you have already done. If not done soon (by this phase) you will get my vote to lynch you. I asked nicely before, but maybe you need more pressure to comply. Granted.

Methos has all but disappeared from everywhere the last couple of weeks. He's asked to be replaced in ATPS even though he won't be on vacation for almost two weeks yet.

I agree he's not helping.

[Renata]

That was awesome Secura, whether you're right or not. Moreplease.

[Winston Hughes]

vote: atheotes

Any case is better than no case, and Secura makes a plausible one.

[Winston Hughes]

Uh oh. I think I may have broken the computer. I researched "Scientific Studies on Hauntings" and, after giving me the info below, the comp shorted out...

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

6. Scientific studies on hauntings

There have long been rumors of houses being haunted by ghosts, but scientific evidence is inconclusive as to whether there have actually been any real hauntings. In general, ghosts are supposed to be former human beings; the souls of the dead. Although these ghosts can be benign or malevolent, usually there is some shred of humanity in these beings. Science however cannot back up any of these claims. There have also been reports of angel sightings, but angels do not generally "haunt" houses.

Demons, however, are also believed to appear and cause events which are similar or worse than ghostly hauntings. The general consensus is that demons are not human, never were human, and are purely malevolent.

While science has found nothing conclusive to prove the existence of demons, throughout history there have been strange and unexplained homicides which have yet to be solved. Many examples of these had circumstances where the deaths were ruled a suicide because it was simply impossible for anyone else to have been responsible. But the manner of death in those cases seem contradictory to self-inflicted murder, because the victim of his or her own actions would be in severe agony.

There have also been cases of otherwise ordinary people with sane psychological profiles being convicted of gruesome murders that they claim they weren't responsible for, even though all evidence shows that they were. Often times they assert that the "Devil" made them do it, or that they were possessed by a demon. Some confessed murderers admit to their crimes, but still claim another outside force controlled them and forced them to do it.

While this evidence is nothing more than witness testimony and is not conclusive, it has happened enough times where it may be the most plausible explanation other than mass hysteria or drugs.

Scientists investigating houses that are claimed to have demons inhabiting them have recorded video of odd happenings at night, which have remained unexplained, some of which include:

flashing lights
loud noises
hallucinations

Some scientists investigating this phenomenon went missing and were never found, or were later found dead with grotesque wounds. Because of this, very few people have tried to prove or disprove the existence of demons, and demonology as a science hasn't expanded beyond rumor, speculation, and inconclusive evidence.

That was the initial article, but I also got this as well:

Science is a little fuzzy on whether any of this is possible, but some secret files were removed from government computers and posted anonymously on the internet, on multiple redundant websites.

The existence of Demons has been confirmed by the government. Houses and other property which are confirmed to be inhabited by Demons are often repossessed by the government by use of Eminent domain. The house is then promptly destroyed, and some excuse is given for demolishing the place, often times to build some unnecessary highway.

The grisly murders that happened at this residence were long suspected to be caused by the Askthepizzaguy family, and because the information about demons and the purpose of eminent domain is unknown to the public officials of this particular state, no one has ever targeted this house for condemnation. In an interesting twist, somehow the taxes on this property always get paid, and that is reason enough for a cash starved government to look the other way. They must make a fortune on this place.

You're fairly sure this demon is of the photosensitive variety, and you've also heard the name "Lucifuge" mentioned, so you look up photosensitivity and "Lucifuge" on the interwebs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucifuge_Rofocale

The name Lucifuge comes from two Latin words; lux (light; genitive lucis), and fugio (to flee), which means "[he who] flees the light". The proper pronunciation of "Rofocal", one should note, is an anagram for Focalor, which is the name of another important demon who is possibly in his servitude.
The name seems to fit, as well as the fleeing from the light, but somehow you get the feeling this isn't the Demon's true name.

You look up other demons with the name Lucifuge, and find another interesting name... "one who misleads..." There's a picture of a dog with the wings of a griffin.

[Secura]

Thanks for the vote of confidence, at least; after I was told that lynching was the only way to oust the demon, I started reading the thread, particularly prior to my replacing of johnhughthom, and atheotes' posts just struck a chord, I guess.

I could be wrong, it's always a possibility, but I don't think his playing did him any favours; to me, it comes across as posting enough to pass by, and his recent absence doesn't alleviate my suspicions because it's perfectly plausible that someone could still turn up to submit orders, particularly as he was posting heavily in the Daggers thread up-to and surpassing the time in which we learned Beefy had been killed overnight. And, as I stated, it feels odd that he's have been languishing in the same room for two weeks worth of updates and hasn't been met with the Wrath of God or been the demon's next kill.

To be honest, at this stage there's quite a few candidates for lynch, it's just that atheotes stands out the most due to his posts and activities at night.

Winston: if the computer has really died, I'd suggest you find a room with more light and head there; make sure it's not a bedroom. :3

[Secura]

Alright, looking back over my night results, I've realised that atheotes has been in the Living Room for the past two nights; prior to that I was in the Computer Room so I don't know his movements.

Can anyone else attest to any locations they have been in since Beefy's death (and thus, atheotes' last posts) where atheotes has been in the room too? Trying to ascertain if he has been submitting orders or not, because as it stands, it's possible he's been sat stagnating in the Living Room this entire time and that's why he's not been killed by the demon; it doesn't explain a lack of WOG, though.

[Diana Abnoba]

My results as well have him the last 2 night in the living room (was also in the write up 2 nights ago IIRC, him being in the living room). Nothing before the past 2 nights, on his movements, that I'm sure of.

[Secura]

I've read through his posts again but he only divulges his movements for the first four phases, nothing from there onwards.

It is possible that he headed to the Lounge shortly after that and has been there since, but it really does beg the question why he hasn't been WOG'd after two weeks; whether I am right or wrong, he's a sound lynch.

[Niklas]

As much as my heart is not really in this vote, let's vote:atheotes, better to lynch than not to lynch.

[Secura]

Who would you suggest as an alternative?

[Niklas]

YLC or split.

[Secura]

That's interesting... any solid reasons?

Better to share than to keep them to yourself; that or I can go through the thread and find them. :P

[White_eyes:D]

YLC or split.

I say it's both

They were acting weird for the time I was with them

[Splitpersonality]

I don't recall acting weird but hokay lol