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[Dunnstral]

He claims inno on me, I don't see the point in pressing him further on it today. There isn't a reason to be

that

determined to lynch Luv here over someone else today

[Espressojet]

He didn't claim JK.

He's not

not

claiming JK

[Wake1]

Creature, could we have a current Vote Count?

[Dolly Parton]

Because that's just our luck this game, with the PRs being the worst people to get em.

Maybe that's a reason for scum to keep them around.

[Dolly Parton]

Creature, could we have a current Vote Count?

Please. It doesn't have to be a big fancy one if that takes up too much time.

[Creature]

Spoiler: (Delaware River Viaduct, by Elizabeth O'Reilly, which can be found in artsy.net.) Letters of the Morning If you thought journals would be extinct, you thought wrong. In fact, I was just hired for one. Take photographs before the authorities come, write a sobbing story about the victim, 75 bucks per article, take or leave. Although the online news have come close to surpass the journals, they weren't able to match the folding papers containing extraordinary stories of tragedies. Letters of the Morning has been an example of that. "Fast, persistent and efficient", that's what my boss said, "we gotta bring the news before anyone else and bring it with good quality". The driver left me close to the viaduct where the train goes by. They just said there was a dead woman's body and I was tasked to take as many photos as possible from every angle. The photos would be immediately sent to the journal department. I began to take photos of the viaduct in general before approaching the scene. There I stood shocked as I saw the corpse of a young woman. I caught a glimpse of her blonde hair, red thick lips, small round nose and horrified blue eyes, all printed in her now pale face. She was wearing a yellow dress and high heels, as if she just returned from the party. My mobile vibrated and I could see a new message from my boss: Hello, Edward. Thanks to your photographs, we were able to find the identity of the victim. She is Mary Hillinger, secretary of the Porto Branco bank. I decided to search for her name in my mobile. I found her social media and as I scrolled through it, I could tell she was last night partying at the annual Grand Festival wearing that same yellow dress. The mobile vibrated again and a new message appeared from my boss: She was last night at the Grand Festival and she seems to have been under heavy alcohol influence. It's probable she tried to return home alone, decided to walk through the train rails and fell thirty feet. This was quite what I suspected. As I checked her wounds, there was no doubt it was due the fall, but with a closer inspection, I could see small wounds around her wrists and neck. I notified my boss about it and in a few seconds I received a message back: We don't know what happened at the festival. She was found dead recently by a witness who used to work with us. It's probable the wounds originated from last night's party. I shrugged the feeling off and walked all the way to the upper part of the viaduct to take photos from an upper angle. The place was very dangerous and I couldn't figure out why someone would ever take that way. Mary Hillinger seemed to be a pretty decent woman and I don't think she would have got that drunk, let alone walk alone through this place. I followed the train rails to the other side and when I stepped off it, I found a few footprints on the soft ground. There were high heels marks, but there were also other foot marks. I instantly began to take a photo of them when I received a new message from my boss: Please, stop what you're doing right now. "Why?", I sent. I know what you're trying to achieve, but that's not something you should put your nose on. It's probable she was just hanging with some men. Anyway, our only job is to inform, not to suspect. You have already done a good job and I have just sent the driver to take you back. I was left in disbelief. Everything indicated she was murdered, but by who? Why was my boss so adamant about it? The driver had arrived. On the way back to the journal's department, I searched for more LOTM news, which included drowned guy at the pool, man ran over by a car, middle-aged woman founded dead hanging in a rope. There was something fishy about all of them, mainly the way Letters of the Morning got there first. I arrived to the department and immediately went to my boss' room. "Oh, hello Edward. Good work! I hope you write as good as you take photos...", congratulated my boss. "Cut it off!", I said, "if she was drunk she wouldn't look so horrified!". "Edward, I already told you..." "Who is the witness? Why did he or she called us first and not the police?" "The witness doesn't want to be identified, but he or she is pretty close to us..." "So are the witnesses who found the drowned guy? The man ran over by a car? The woman who supposedly hanged herself?" "Edward, you're being..." "Do you happen to have murdered them?" "Of course I didn't!" "But you admit it was a murder, right?" There was suddenly a silence, which I took as a guilty admission. "You're right. No one nowadays wants to buy journals over getting online news for free. We needed to find a way to make them interested in our journals again. We figured to stay in market we needed rapidity, persistence and efficience. In order to do that, we had to arrive first and bring shocking tragedies, which, of course, included murders". I was left astonished at the confission although I already figured it was them. I immediately went towards the exit door, but the light on the side turned red and the door shut locked. "Before you leave, you may want to know the true story about Mary Hillinger", I heard my boss talking smoothly, "before you there was a middle-aged photographer-editor. He was our employee for ten years and he knew what this journal has become. He still complied long enough, but one day he decided to rat us out. He tried to tell the police, but the police didn't find the proof enough. Obviously we didn't allow his articles to go through and he was turned down by multiple other journals. He then asked his daughter for help, who had knowledge about the internet. We soon found out they were plotting to send this to the online news. The corpse you saw there was Mary Hillinger, the daughter". I was left astounded at how far it went. "Edward, do you remember mentioning your little son during your interview?", the boss continued, "Wouldn't he make an interesting news to..." "Stop it! Enough! I'm doing whatever you want! Just leave my son alone!" "Don't take me bad, Edward. I'm a mere pawn of this game and I'm in the same situation you are. Reporting the LOTM will only get us screwed", said the boss, who seemed to be pretty honest, "now, please, finish your article because we have to send the journal this morning". I organized the plentiful of photos my boss selected in two columns. Between them, I started typing: I n the morning of Saturday September 16th, an anonymous witness reported finding a dead body by the side of the train viaduct. T hrough the photo the witness has sent, the reporters were able to identify the victim as Mary Hillinger, the secretary of Porto Branco Bank. S he was last seen at the Green Festival. M ary, in her social media, posted multiple photos of the party. U nder heavy alcohol influence, she opted to return home alone and walking on her high heels. R outing the train rails, she found the viaduct in front of her. D ark and alone in the night, she was under heavy risk of being assaulted or worse. E very minute counted, she needed to get back home as soon as possible and she couldn't get around it, so she took the risk of walking the viaduct. R ight as she took a misstep, she fell over thirty feet. L ong ago, Mary was accepted as the secretary of Porto Branco Bank. O ver the years she became popular and more outgoing, over her social media she racked up to four thousand followers. T he future for her was promising and everything pointed she would have accomplished her dream of becoming an actress. M uch to her dismay, her beautiful life ended so abruptly. " I t's weird, when she came she was just a shy girl and I could see with my bare eyes her opening to the world", S aid her coworker. G rand Festival is an event that happens every year during the third friday of September and it's known for selecting potential artists. U nder 15, Mary already played Macbeth, Twinkling Star and Journey of the Year in small theaters. I n one of them, the original author took notice of her. L ast year she was present in the selection, but didn't pass. T his year she was offered another chance, but she turned down for unknown reasons. Y ou will be missed, Mary Hillinger. Edward von Fark, Photographer-Editor of Letters of the Morning (LOTM) Saturday - September 16th, 2021

Votecount 2.2
	Players	L-6	L-5	L-4	L-3	L-2	L-1	Hammer
1	Dolly Parton	Zote the Mighty
2	Dunnstral
3	Elsa Jay	Nero Cain	Dolly Parton
4	Espressojet
5	Flavor Leaf	Frank	Rabid Schnauzer	MariaR
6	Frank
7	Gamma Emerald
8	Lil Uzi Vert	Gamma Emerald	Flavor Leaf
9	MariaR	Dunnstral	Lil Uzi Vert	Espressojet
10	Nero Cain
11	Rabid Schnauzer rb
12	Wake88
13	Zote the Mighty LucianRoy
Deadline: (expired on 2020-01-06 16:00:00) Currently the top wagon is MariaR

[Frank]

He didn't claim JK.

He's not

not

claiming JK

JK isn't an investigative role

[Frank]

Just lynch Flavor Leaf please. Even if not scum we get so much info on the flip this game gets so much clearer I think.

Rabid and FL are honestly the only 2 people we should be considering lynching here.

[Rabid Schnauzer]

Just lynch Flavor Leaf please.

[Dolly Parton]

VOTE: Flavor Leaf

Happy?

[Elsa Jay]

Why can't we all live in peace and harmony?

[Gamma Emerald]

Why are you defending her so hard? How did you come up with such a strong town read on her?

I don’t particularly townread her but *shrug*, however the main reason I’m doing this is because you’re pushing something that imo is a very weak point if even at all valid.

[Gamma Emerald]

More by gamma than by you actually. He's being a dick in this game for some reason.

p-edit: @ Dolly

Well idk if it’s cause you’re on an alt but I really feel like you’re not playing very well here rn
Like I feel like you should be capable of realizing that everyone says weird stuff as both alignments, maybe I just rated you too highly

[Gamma Emerald]

I’m an investigative type of role.

Not going to claim what it actually is so hammer away.

What the actual fuck is this

I don’t buy this for a second

[Gamma Emerald]

VOTE: flavor leaf

let's just quick lynch this and figure the rest out later

assume for a moment LUV is telling the truth. for me that makes my dunnstral read wrong. FL pulled that weird gambit and his activity as a whole tapered off in a weird way that I expect from scum him. He also claimed to be able to read LUV pretty well and going off the assumption LUV is town, he's wrong. day 2 BoP on FL or lynch rabid today and BoP FL on D3. That's where I'm at.

red FL basically clears LUV and by extension Dunnstral. Then it's probably Jet and ???

Oh and rabid red flip basically clears FL and then we have LUV as an option again. green rabid points to scum!gamma, and maybe to scum!FL

i just don't see a reason to not lynch in rabid/FL today

I don’t trust this

[Gamma Emerald]

nor do they check dunn of all people n1

That's exactly the type of person I'd check N1. Overtly scummy people can be lynched. Checks are better used on lurkers and nulls.

At least we think the same way here

[Gamma Emerald]

VOTE: FL
This shows how much I remember. Carry on

Okay this feels like a cop out
FL not having actually claimed doesn’t change LUV’s actions, but you seem fine dropping your vote

[Gamma Emerald]

(1) One man's bad town is another man's obvtown.

And besides don't you see how you totally re invent how the entire thing went down.

(2) First you say I put another JK in danger by saying things like that, then you say that I claimed JK myself. I get how my post could be read both ways but you are using both as an argument which doesn't jive with you original argument that I endangered any possible JK.

You say I'm bad at this game but only Town!you would know if I am wrong about your slot.

(3) It doesn't make me a bad player because I felt like LUV's claim should be more flushed out.

1. show of hands, who thinks Dolly is obvtown and found the JK thing to be pro-town?

2. softing jk or even outright claiming any role =/= me believing that you are that role. I never once alluded to or implied that you were actually the jailkeeper. I said you claimed it, or at least made a post so vague that you displayed an illusion of claiming it. In which case, yes, that could be harmful to the game if we had a real jk due to the way that they handle the situation. They wouldn't even have to outright CC you. Your response that somehow saying that was supposed to encourage a potential JK to come out and say "WOAH THATS CRAZY I ACTUALLY DID JAIL DUNNSTRAL LAST NIGHT" and that if such a thing happened it wouldn't be fleshed out naturally, is incredibly pompous and logically has zero merit.

3. Never once said that trying to sort LUV was a bad thing, in fact I have made it painfully obvious that it's the way you've gone about it that is total shit

Frank I think you’re reaching here
Like Dolly seems to have some thought process here, not the best but I get traces of it

[Gamma Emerald]

VOTE: Maria
I guess I can let go of LUV for now but if LUV is scum this has big partner equity and is a decent lynch on its own

[Frank]

Gamma and FL are scumbuddies confirmed

[Gamma Emerald]

lolk

[Frank]

I’m an investigative type of role.

Not going to claim what it actually is so hammer away.

What the actual fuck is this

I don’t buy this for a second

VOTE: flavor leaf

let's just quick lynch this and figure the rest out later

assume for a moment LUV is telling the truth. for me that makes my dunnstral read wrong. FL pulled that weird gambit and his activity as a whole tapered off in a weird way that I expect from scum him. He also claimed to be able to read LUV pretty well and going off the assumption LUV is town, he's wrong. day 2 BoP on FL or lynch rabid today and BoP FL on D3. That's where I'm at.

red FL basically clears LUV and by extension Dunnstral. Then it's probably Jet and ???

Oh and rabid red flip basically clears FL and then we have LUV as an option again. green rabid points to scum!gamma, and maybe to scum!FL

i just don't see a reason to not lynch in rabid/FL today

I don’t trust this

VOTE: Maria
I guess I can let go of LUV for now but if LUV is scum this has big partner equity and is a decent lynch on its own

"I don't buy this"
"I don't trust this"
"let's lynch this instead"

ok

[Frank]

btw scum!gamma feels threatened right now, shading me on some weak shit, pushing the counter wagon to his scumbud. He knows dolly's whole JK thing is BS but he's tmi'ing on her alignment because she's badtown and a good mislynch to keep around for lylo.

Yeah. I feel they have connections with LUV.

Gamma’s pulling a really strong scum move with his Cross Guard if he is scum, and that is definitely not Occam’s.

Cross Guarding: When a Scum attacks a townie who is attacking a townie who is targeting a partner of the scum in hopes to add pressure to that first townie and gain faith and rapport with the townie attacking the partner.

yeah this is scum FL. And the whole cross guard thing could definitely be an S/S play from him and gamma.

[Espressojet]

I don't think frank is scum, I just think he's wrong

And I'm really vibing with those Gamma waves right now

[Zote the Mighty]

He claimed JK? I just fake claimed JK as scum in a game with him.

JK can easily be scum JK or RB

No one is claiming JK fool! Dolly just decided to give a hypothetical scenario for some reason.