Micro 953: Treestump Express [Game Over]

[SherlockHolmes]

Our journey began, Watson, at the station. A motley bunch of characters were boarding the train with little knowledge of the tale of peril and daring that was yet to come...

[SherlockHolmes]

I’ll be honest, Watson: I’d relapsed and smoked a lot of opium the day that this story begins. Imagine my surprise when instead of finding myself aboard the Oxford Milk Train, I instead discovered myself on a grand ocean liner, powered in all her majesty by several magnificent steam engines! Her name? The Treestump Express.

[SherlockHolmes]

Two of the first fellows I met on the voyage were a man of the pharmaceutical persuasion and a chap with a donkey who spoke in an almost indecipherable Scottish accent for the entire voyage.

[SherlockHolmes]

The Scottish gentleman had an interesting theorem he wanted to share with me before the voyage was underway. Something about 50-2 being treated as 50-1 (he kept using Roman numerals, like the eccentric I knew he was). I inquired as to why we should treat 50-2 as the equivalent of 50-1 for the duration of the trip. Perhaps, I postulated, it was to do with water density and changing timezones?

[SherlockHolmes]

Among my other companions Watson, were strange melding of pig and hawk, a slightly insane English fellow (I believe he may have had some form of multiple personality disorder), what seemed to be a talking bear, a dog, and a scholar of the arcane arts. I was somehow able to communicate with all of them during the voyage but how I cannot say — but what came to pass Watson, well, it is more horrifying than you are perhaps ready to hear. For two amongst our number were responsible for a murder most foul— that of our Captain, northsidegal. I knew that it was, through use of my exemplary deductive reasoning principles, down to me to establish who was responsible for this awful crime.

[SherlockHolmes]

I have a survey for everyone to fill out - this is very important and vital for safe travel.

1) What is your favourite type of boat?
2) Should Shrek continue his RP? Please answer yes to this question.
3) Who would you throw overboard? Please pick the person you feel has the most to live for.

-Hectic

The slightly insane chap began the voyage asking us our opinions on a number of things: for instance, I told him that my favourite kind of boat was a steam liner much in the vein of the one we were on, that I enjoyed the Scottish gentleman’s indecipherable accent, and that the dog would be the most optimum passenger to be thrown overboard given that, oh my god, he sucked!

[SherlockHolmes]

VOTE: pighawk

[SherlockHolmes]

An interesting quirk of the voyage was that my fellow passengers decided they would play at being detectives too! Quite a sight it was, Watson. Yes, I see you laugh, after all, the world’s greatest detective was already aboard — but some would prove surprisingly adept before this adventure was over! Among them, I had a good initial impression of a passenger I believe I haven’t yet mentioned in this telling: another dog, only this one with a small cop on her head.

Among the others who I’ve already introduced you to, the strange melding of swine and bird made me uneasy. Perhaps it was simply their monstrous form, or perhaps I was already picking up on something more sinister. I wondered, at that moment, if their insinuations towards the arcane scholar might not be with malice in mind — seeking to set up a fellow passenger to disguise their own misdeeds?

[SherlockHolmes]

An interesting quirk of the voyage was that my fellow passengers decided they would play at being detectives too! Quite a sight it was, Watson. Yes, I see you laugh, after all, the world’s greatest detective was already aboard — but some would prove surprisingly adept before this adventure was over! Among them, I had a good initial impression of a passenger I believe I haven’t yet mentioned in this telling: another dog, only this one with a small cap on her head.

Among the others who I’ve already introduced you to, the strange melding of swine and bird made me uneasy. Perhaps it was simply their monstrous form, or perhaps I was already picking up on something more sinister. I wondered, at that moment, if their insinuations towards the arcane scholar might not be with malice in mind — seeking to set up a fellow passenger to disguise their own misdeeds?

Ebwop

[SherlockHolmes]

I found myself wondering if there was a history between the pighawk and the arcane scholar y’shtola, so I set my mind upon inquiring to the beast whether he had previously encountered her?

[SherlockHolmes]

Traumatised by the vicious murder of our fair captain, I feel into a deep and dreamless sleep (the opium may have helped).

My mind refreshed, I turned back to the case at hand. I had heard rumours that the bear was spreading rumours that no other than I myself might be responsible for the foul play that had taken place the night before. I sought him out and demanded answers as to why he would slander me in such a way. Could he be the one responsible, seeking to cast suspicion on me (and impugning my name as the World’s Greatest Detective!) to distract from his own guilt. I was not sure, Watson, until he provided me with his answer that morning...

[SherlockHolmes]

We still have a completely dead slot in the form of Y'shtola which is why we we should probably play slowly still.

I had played with the arcanist before, and felt obliged to inform our canine companion that her passivity was not truly indicative of whether she might have been involved in the crime, but rather a simple personality trait

[SherlockHolmes]

VOTE: egix

[SherlockHolmes]

intent

[SherlockHolmes]

Sherlock before you hammer can you tell me who your partner is? Or explain why you want to lynch them?

Well I was kinda under the impression that hammering scum ends the game, so there’s that?

[SherlockHolmes]

Any final words?

[SherlockHolmes]

unvote

go ahead sherlock I will hammer

Where’s the fun in lynching if I don’t get to hammer?

[SherlockHolmes]

Who says I want to lynch them

[SherlockHolmes]

Can’t believe you hammered yourself, what sort of a play is that

[SherlockHolmes]

I am furious [vote[pighawk[/vote] just in case

[SherlockHolmes]

What’s your read on me anyway pighawk? You’ve been kind of all over the place

[SherlockHolmes]

What was scummy about my vote on egix?

[SherlockHolmes]

One day I’ll manage a whole game speaking as Sherlock, but it is not this day.

[SherlockHolmes]

What’s your read on pooky?

P.edit it came with no reason, prior or since, and I think it was you who engaged in a purely mechanical convo with them afterwards?

I haven’t spoken to egix at all lol

Why is it scummy that it came with no reason attached?

[SherlockHolmes]

So you know I’m town at this point then.

What? No, I’m still going to hammer you I just need to milk the towncred now if I wanna survive in lylo, keep up

[SherlockHolmes]

Wait, is egix not a he? I always thought egix was a he

Yeah, I know, it was partly because I couldn’t be bothered to try and sell people on it in Sherlock!speak but I low-key don’t disagree that him being lurky could be scum

I don’t know what I think of pooky but it seems a bit weird that scum would want to hammer particularly? But he’s kinda being lazy with the push on you imo

[SherlockHolmes]

Flipside I don’t think your ISO is that townie @pighawk, especially not the early day, and while I think you feel town now I don’t know enough about you to know if you’d try this gambit as scum

[SherlockHolmes]

if he's town this is against his win con since a scum can come by and just hammer him and get stump'd

[SherlockHolmes]

I think there are reasonable to good odds that you’re both town and that scum is somewhere in the other 3 votes

Could you please unvote pighawk, pooky isn’t wrong that scum could just hammer here unless they’re both on

[SherlockHolmes]

Chemist feels likely town.
Pooky and pighawk town?
Sherlock town.

If that’s right then there’s 2 left in the others.

[SherlockHolmes]

Oh for fuck’s

sake

[SherlockHolmes]

It’s probably chemist, right?

[SherlockHolmes]

Sorry, I’m kind of prodging because I haven’t had a chance to go back through yet

My initial impression would be that optically chkflip is the most scummy, followed by Chemist, followed by hoptic

But then because of that I sort of feel like hoptic is the most scummy, followed by chkflip, followed by chem

[SherlockHolmes]

Chemist had a good point, I think, about the fact that basically any slot in the game would look good compared to egix in lylo, so putting chkflip in could just be wifom because he looked very scummy from the end of day — but if the alternative was egix, he looks much better

[SherlockHolmes]

Hoptic, you said before that lylo was always going to be a combo of (who’s in it), (me), (egix). Why do you think I’m not in it?

[SherlockHolmes]

Also, how come no one brought pooky? I would totally have brought pooky after his “let me hammer” talk around the pighawk wagon

[SherlockHolmes]

This is an interesting development

[SherlockHolmes]

Hoptic, you said before that lylo was always going to be a combo of (who’s in it), (me), (egix). Why do you think I’m not in it?

Also, how come no one brought pooky? I would totally have brought pooky after his “let me hammer” talk around the pighawk wagon

Can y’all respond to these though?

[SherlockHolmes]

Neat. Conf town?

Sure, unless you’re trolling, in which case please avoid any games I’m in in the future

[SherlockHolmes]

Thanks

[SherlockHolmes]

gg wp, I was leaning chem or hop anyway

[SherlockHolmes]

Yeah, thanks for modding NSG