A Bridge Zhou Far - Three Stars Rising [Concluded]

[wideyedwanderer]

General Handkerchief, I did not vote for you, but you have my full support. If you need my assistance in any way, you have it.

[Subotan]

About protection groups:
You do not need to specify what weapons you will use to defend your target. If you do, it will have no effect on the success of your defence.

Also, all that you need for your protection group to be successful is to have three members defending. Four or five make no difference towards the success of the defence, other than that if one of your group is incapacitated, then so long as there are still three people protecting your target, then your protection will remain successful.

[Subotan]

The phase has ended. Write up will commence in one hour.

[Subotan]

It is a fact that during the war the enemy may take advantage of certain people who are lacking in conscience and patriotism and induce them to join the guerrillas for the purpose of betraying them. Officers must, therefore, continually educate the soldiers and inculcate patriotism in them. This will prevent the success of traitors. The traitors who are in the ranks must be discovered and expelled, and punishment and expulsion meted out to those who have been influenced by them.

In all such cases, the officers should summon the soldiers and relate the facts to them, thus arousing their hatred and detestation for traitors. This procedure will serve as well as a warning to the other soldiers. If an officer is discovered to be a traitor, some prudence must be used in the punishment adjudged. However, the work of eliminating traitors in the army begins with their elimination from among the people. – Mao Zedong, on Guerrilla Warfare

Beskar was thirsty. His dry throat had his complete attention, and the irritation was preventing him from getting to sleep. He tossed and turned in his tent trying to think of Mao’s plump cheeks and his surely rousing voice, but his mind always drifted back to fountains, rivers, oceans-

Beskar snapped out of it. Putting on his boots and strapping his holster to his chest, he wiggled out of his tent into the night. The night was clear, but the waning moon did not allow for perfect vision. Embers from the campfires glowed at the entrance to some of the tents. Beskar glanced around him to make sure that no-one had noticed he was breaking curfew. The coast was clear.

Beskar slowly but surely began to tip-toe towards the stream which ran past the camp. The stream was about knee deep and twelve feet wide, with large flat rocks dotting the current, and its pebbly banks crunched as Beskar slunk towards the flowing water. Beskar’s tongue hung out as he gazed upon the water. Beskar lay down and began to dink deep, practically submerging his head in the clear water.

“Glug, glug, glug…”Beskar, now fully refreshed, lifted his face out of the stream stood up to a crouch, and opened his canteen, filling it up for fear of getting so dehydrated again. As the water pooled in the flask, Beskar looked around him. The stream seemed oddly quieter then it did a moment ago, and the various noises which the night amplifies so loud had all but ceased. He began to feel uneasy. Beskar’s eyes found themselves fixed to a bush on the opposite bank which was shadowed by a large tree. Beskar, eyes glued to the bush, removed his flask from the water and screwed the lid back on, tight.

Suddenly, Beskar dropped his flask, and his hand went to his waste to pull out his pistol. As his hand touched his holster, a terrific bang exploded from across the river, and Beskar felt a woosh nearly touch his ear. Bekar leaped to his side and fired a return shot blindly across the bank. An angry shout was heard and the bush was uprooted and tossed aside to reveal a furious, unwounded Japanese Officer standing behind the bush, pulling back the bolt on his rifle.

The Officer jumped down onto the pebbly bank on his side of the stream, and still holding his rifle, leapt from stone to stone with the speed of a demon. Beskar could only look on in horror as the Officer got closer and closer and closer, avoiding Beskar’s bullets as if they were ladybirds. Beskar threw away his useless weapon and began to scramble up the bank towards the camp, screaming for help. But the Officer was too quick for him, and landing on the shore with a nimble grace, he brought down his rifle butt on Beskar’s head with a skull splitting crack. Tutting in disapproval that the now unconscious Beskar’s head remained intact, the Japanese dragged him back to the river, and held his head under the water. Large bubbles escaped from Beskar’s nose, and the psychopath grinned as he kept Beskar’s head submerged.

“Hey! Stop!”

The Rightist spun around to see three men, all holding weapons running from the camp towards him. Abandoning Beskar, the murderer scrambled to pick up his rifle and aimed it at the newcomers. The newcomers in turn pointed their weapons at the maniac, but uneasily due to a lack of training and concern for their drowning comrade. The Japanese slowly circled around the Communists, making sure that they would be unable to both catch him and rescue Beskar. The standoff was lip-bitingly tense.

The Marxists suddenly lost their nerve and ran to rescue their charge from the water. Seeing their attention was distracted, the Officer turned and slipped into the shadows back towards the camp. The Marxists pulled Beskar out of the river, and rolled him onto his back. Seeing he wasn’t breathing, and lacking any medical training, they slapped his face, shouted and punched his chest.

Happily, with a cough and a splutter, Beskar woke up, albeit with a headache and a newfound fear of water.

***

The following morning, GeneralHandkerchief assembled the Communists before him.

“It is as Subotan feared. Last night, as we slept, one of our Comrades was attacked by vile Imperialist forces.”

Another gasp went through the crowd

“Last night, we were lucky. Men were assigned to watch over Beskar, and he is managed to escape with only concussion” Said GeneralHankerchief

“Yeah, “only concussion” ” muttered Beskar, nursing his head and his pride, still damaged after losing the election.
“But we are fortunate” said GeneralHankerchief “For I have picked my Officer Corps, who shall surely help us rat out the traitors.”

“a completely inoffensive name is now the Political Commissar ”

Hearing his name, ACIN stood up and gave a crisp salute to the Chairman

GeneralHankerchief continued: “Seamus Fermanagh is now our Medical Officer, autolycus is now our Director of Proletarian Justice and Yaseikhaan” he said with a slight pause and smile, “Is our Special Operative”.

All of the mentioned (Save Yaseikhaan, who stood still at the back of the gathering) walked to the front of the group and each gave long winded speeches about how they were going to serve PEXDET and Communism in China fully and how they would deviate from the Revolutionary line etc.

When the speeches had finished, GeneralHankerchief resumed speaking “I suggest, in order to prevent a dictatorship by myself, that whilst marching, we collectively select someone who at the end of the day is lynched by us, so that we shall be able to find the traitors and punish them as one”

Everyone in PEXDET agreed, and GeneralHankerchief dismissed the meeting. Everyone then rushed to collect pots and pans, roll up tents and bury the Lavatory Pit, and within ten minutes, PEXDET was marching once again, down through the valley and through rice paddies and villages, in the direction of Yan’an, and safety.



***

It is now the day phase. This phase will last for 23 hours until 21:00 GMT+1. Please Vote for who you think is an imperialist using the Vote:Lynchee mechanism, and it would be nice if you could remember to put the name of the person you are unvoting if you change your mind.


Alive players: 40/40
ACIN
ArpeggiateTHIS
autolycus
AVSM
Azathoth
Beefy187
Beskar
Captain Blackadder
Chaotix
Cultured Drizzt fan
Cute Wolf
Death is yonder
Double A
GeneralHankerchief
johnhughthom
Jolt
Joooray
landlubber
M3YUZ
Methos
miotas
Nictel
Niklas
Pinman
Psychonau
Renata
Romanic
Sasaki
Seamus Fermanagh
Secura
shlin28
Sigurd
spL1tp3r50naL1ty
taka
TheFlax
Thermal Mercury
wideyedwanderer
Winston Hughes
Wishazu
Yaseikhaan
YLC

Lynched players 0/40

Killed Players 0/40

[GeneralHankerchief]

[Beskar]

You know, the Mafia did a pretty bad job. If you were just going to kill me GH, you wouldn't need to hide behind the Japanese or the Nationalists, you would have just done it in the name of "Loyalty to the Revolution".

I think our first suspect should be some one who executes poor WIFOM's... is Kagemusha in this game?

[Romanic]

Hmmhm. Beskar attacked and successfully protected, early in the game. Dejà vu

You wouldn't do that two games in a row as mafia, eh Beskar?

[Double A]

You know, the Mafia did a pretty bad job. If you were just going to kill me GH, you wouldn't need to hide behind the Japanese or the Nationalists, you would have just done it in the name of "Loyalty to the Revolution".

I think our first suspect should be some one who executes poor WIFOM's... is Kagemusha in this game?

Beskar, don't tempt fate again!

[DELETE_THIS]

My gun was jammed! Reporting for duty now!

[Secura]

Seamus Fermanagh is now our Medical Officer... and Yaseikhaan is our Special Operative.

Cos nobody else saw that coming from a mile off, right? -_-

[Beskar]

Beskar, don't tempt fate again!

I am not scared of some Lazy-eyed Nippo who cannot even shoot straight. I was there in the open, and they completely missed from the other-side of the bank. It was probably some conscripted paddy farmer from the urban Owara, trying to grow rice in cement.

[Seamus Fermanagh]

1 Japanese officer attempts solo kill of Beskar. [mafia? special solokiller role?]

Beskar caught doing/being normal. [provisionally suggests Beskar not a verdamnt kuokleptorightwinger? Certainly not Jappo]

Protection group picks Beskar for a good save. He was an obvious target for the rightwingers to sow dissension among the ranks of the peoples soldiers, so the choice wasn't hard, but it was a sound one. We cannot rule out KMT status for Beskie, but....

[Double A]

I am not scared of some Lazy-eyed Nippo who cannot even shoot straight. I was there in the open, and they completely missed from the other-side of the bank. It was probably some conscripted paddy farmer from the urban Owara, trying to grow rice in cement.

There, that's better. But now Seamus said it.

mafia, I mean

[taka]

wow, things going pretty quick, i didn't manage to come back home in time to send the protection pms glad it didn't have any effect

[a completely inoffensive name]

Sorry Japs, I have no school, a two liter bottle of Shasta and my gf is angry that I wouldn't share my Wendy's fries (if she wants them why doesn't she just order them herself for Christ sakes!) so I have all the time in the world. Game over.

[Beefy187]

Sorry Japs, I have no school, a two liter bottle of Shasta and my gf is angry that I wouldn't share my Wendy's fries (if she wants them why doesn't she just order them herself for Christ sakes!) so I have all the time in the world. Game over.

やばいな。

[autolycus]

I would like to hear from Comrade M3YUZ. I am not familiar with his background, and wonder if he might have slipped in from the armies of the Japanese Imperialists.
Vote:M3YUZ

[Beskar]

やばいな。

Vote: Beefy187

[Captain Blackadder]

Interesting to say the least my good fellows. A protection in the first night is an interesting occurance.

[Beefy187]

Vote: Beefy187

wo de gege shi han bao bao
Ni kan kan zhe ge zhenme yang.

Happy?

[Cultured Drizzt fan]

wo de gege shi han bao bao
Ni kan kan zhe ge zhenme yang.

Happy?

No

Vote: beefy

just kidding Comrade beefy, all is well and good yes?

[Double A]

Only I can vote for Comrade Beefy for no reason

[Renata]

Hmmhm. Beskar attacked and successfully protected, early in the game. Dejà vu

You wouldn't do that two games in a row as mafia, eh Beskar?

[Double A]

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

laugh4 is less creepy.

See?

[taka]

i think beefy's a two way spy...........

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Vote:Beefy

[a completely inoffensive name]

Can someone tell me what Beefy said? Google translate is failing me.

[Double A]

Yeah same here.

[johnhughthom]

I got "It is Dangerous" from here: http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&sou...L9liqmrSgGf6XQ

[Beskar]

Can someone tell me what Beefy said? Google translate is failing me.

He wrote it in Japanese, and not Chinese. (John gave the best translation)