Metropolis: Revisited [Game Over]

[ReaperCharlie]

Metropolis:

Revisited

— End of Day Eight

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StrangerCoug [3] – Albert B. Rampage, Kast,

Magua

Hasn't struck a blow yet

– StrangerCoug

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They looked at him with critical scowls, sizing him up.

Was he the killer? Most likely. Why was he being so silent? Why hadn't he taken a stronger stand on issues? Where was the fruit of his labor? What good had he done for them?

A doctor had just been eviscerated; somebody had to pay. And so they made their choice and there was no going back. This man was going to die. Blow after blow fell upon his frame, and he said nary a word in resistance.

The final blows were dealt by a man named Magua, who had never been this involved in beating someone to death with the town before. However, he apparently had some metal knuckles in his possession, and with these, he began to pummel StrangerCoug's face, over and over. And over.

There were bruises everywhere. StrangerCoug's face was nearly unrecognizable, and as Magua's fists flew at his indistinguishable visage again and again, black liquid began to flow from his cracked lips as he grew increasingly incognizant of the situation.

Magua appeared to relish the indignity of having another man's blood spattered across the ground, and across himself. The other two could only look on in horror as he systematically pounded StrangerCoug into oblivion.

StrangerCoug

, yet another

Citizen of Metropolis

, was beaten to death on Day 8!

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Nobody died on Night 8. It is now Day 9. The deadline is (still) May 19th at 8pm PST (11pm EST).

.

[Kast]

Damn...if it's not SC, then I dunno between Magua and ABR.

I'm assuming the delay was to give DSK a chance to pre-submit a kill...but it also looks like it isn't just an auto-loss with an immediate kill.

Anyway, trust Kage's info a bit more than ABR's claim (it

is

supposed to be a semi-open role game...). If it's Magua, well sorry town.

Strike: ABR

[Magua]

Ergh.

Kast, all details about your role that you can give out, please.

[Kast]

@Magua-
I started the game as a regular citizen. I am currently a regular citizen. There was something in between that I'm restricted from posting, but is easily figured out from carefully reading my prior post made before I was informed about any post restrictions.

Also, AWESOME! No Magua hammer means I made the right choice. If we lose now it's all on you.

[ReaperCharlie]

Metropolis:

Revisited

— Day Nine: Flesh and Blood

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And so it had come down to it.

There were only two others left. And then he could move on to the next city and continue his cycle of wreaking havoc on anyone within sight... he'd been doing it for years, and now he was so close...

He made his move when their backs were turned. First, the one with the cool head, then the loose cannon. Charismatic as the former was, he had to be the one to go first, otherwise he might be able to convince the other helpless soul to trust him.

And that wouldn't do,

thought the killer.

It'd be lights out, if they were to gang up on me.

Luckily though,

he thought,

I have one last trick up my sleeve.

The killer grabbed some throwing knives from his satchel, determined to make a long-range kill so that the other victim couldn't screw things up for him while he was performing the deed. And there they sat; discussing things heatedly, arguing openly, each without a thought or care in the world except for his own survival.

"Teamwork?" one of them said. "Yeah, right. We've been slaughtering each other, daily, and you wanna talk about

teamwork?"

Heh heh,

he thought.

They would never know what hit them.

"Hey you," he called out to the bickering pair.

As Kast turned, the killer threw one of the knives directly at his head. Kast's eyes barely had time to see the flash of the blade before he was dead, the blade buried in his forehead. As blood spurted out generously, his body pitched backwards, lifeless.

His fate had been sealed.

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Kast

, the unluckiest

Citizen

in

Metropolis

, took a throwing knife to the forehead on Day 9!

---

The other victim realized immediately what was going on, and without hesitation took off at a dead run, eyes wild with fear.

"Ah yes," intoned the killer. "'The hunt.'"

He pulled a foot-long hunting knife from his backpack arsenal filled to the brim with assorted tools of death, and began sprinting after the man whose entire security force he had killed or helped to kill. His years of experience in 'tactical sapien management and removal' paid off; his physique was in excellent form, and he caught up to the wiry runner without too much of a chase. Before taking him down, he began to play with his prey.

"What's the matter," he taunted, "...out of shape?"

"Stay away from me!" was the reply. "Heeeelp! HEEEEEEELLLP!!" he began to shout, as he continued fleeing from the killer.

A throaty chuckle emanated from the depths of the killer's belly at the utter futility of his prey's attempts to summon aid. Even as he followed his victim at a close distance, he could feel the rush of the chase, the thrill of the hunt, pumping endorphins through his body at an intoxicating rate.

"There's nobody left to hear you now." he spat out with a savage bent.

"Nobody to hear you yell... nobody to hear you... SCREAM."

And then with a flying leap, he dove for Albert B. Rampage's heels, and their bodies tangled and went down together. Albert B. Rampage was screaming like a little girl as the killer drove the huge knife deep into his stomach, again and again. The psychotic murderer's face was twisted into a sinister smile as he tore and slashed at his victim, whose sickening screams left nothing to the imagination, ranging from the highest of highs to the lowest of lows. And then, lowest of all, as the killer grew tired of the screams and slashed his windpipe, severing the vocal cords and sending even more blood squirting into the air. Guttural grunts were all that the victim could muster as he was mercilessly gutted like a fish.

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Albert B. Rampage

, the forsaken

Security Supervisor

, was brutally butchered on Day 9!

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After he had finished his horrifying job, the killer stood. The deep, red stains of fresh blood were quite literally everywhere, and his final victim's body was in so many pieces that it was entirely unrecognizable as a human being. The killer couldn't bear one last taunt.

"Thanks for starting off most of the riots, too," he spoke, to no piece of his victim in particular. "You were very... useful."

He wiped his hands on the grass, and cleaned the blade he'd used to fillet his victim.

"I couldn't help but save you for last..." he spoke again. "It was the least I could do for you..."

And then he looked to the sky, his ephemeral euphoria fading slowly with the sun as it went down over the horizon. He knew that his blood lust could no longer be sated here, and so he gathered his things, and left the amusement park after cutting a hole in the park's gates with his blowtorch (which he'd welded shut earlier, so that no one could escape). He reflected in passing that he could have used that particular tool to great avail when it came to earlier bouts of torture he'd inflicted upon citizens of Metropolis, before he'd killed them.

Ah well,

he thought remorsefully...

Hindsight, as they say, is always 20/20.

He slipped through the cut bars, and made his way down to the highway, and began to walk along it toward the next city, with his thumb out for any passing vehicles. His normal modus operandi between 'appointments'.

As he looked back at the gargantuan metropolis, he reflected again, this time out loud. "Yes, 20/20 indeed..."

"But there's always next time."

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Magua

, the

Day Serial Killer

, has survived and won the game!

Congratulations on a game well played!

Game over.

.

[Mute]

*clap clap clap*

[Plum]

Mrf.

Good game, all.

[Kublai Khan]

Hrm.

[camn]

Another Follow-the-cop failure in the books.

Fun game, nontheless!
For me at least!

[Kublai Khan]

Well, I guess shame on us for playing "follow-the-cop" in a game with framers and for assuming that serial killers would investigate as anti-town.

Congrats, Magua. You played a great game and I'm more than annoyed that I saved your ass on the night that Exe (I think?) targetted you.

@RC - Good game and I liked the setup. The one problem I had (if you'll indulge a little constructive criticism), was the inclusion of both the strike and inner circle mechanics at the same time. I think the inclusion of both is what caused players to get frustrated and out their partners. If we had regular voting, then the mafia wouldn't feel like all was lost because you can always argue against an L-1 situation. Conversely, if there was no Inner Circle, then mafia members definitely wouldn't out their scum partners in frustration as they were getting struck.

Plus I think I hate the whole striking mechanic now that this game is over. It's hard to get everyone to agree on a plan of action after one or two goes off half-cocked and limits everyone else's choices. I read the "feeling" that you were trying to create and in storytelling-terms, it works. But in actual gameplay practice, it just created frustration. I think the difference is that as players, we're not literally fearing for our lives.

The wiki-changing was unfortunate and did change the course of the game. Nothing you can really so there except admit fault and avoid any similar mistakes in the future.

In the end, though, I had fun. Great flavor, a lot of good interesting players to play with, and an interesting setup. Kudos.

(And I'll second Magua for Best SK in the scummies... He had everyone fooled, even without the cop result)

[Magua]

Hooray!

Game was pretty stressful for me at times, and I was unsure even up until the last day about whether Kast might have some surprise up his sleeve that could ruin things for me.

(What was up with your role anyways, Kast?)

Knifing the Night SK also made me a sad panda. =/

Congrats, Magua. You played a great game and I'm more than annoyed that I saved your ass on the night that Exe (I think?) targetted you.

Thanks for that! In return, I killed you quick. =)

[ReaperCharlie]

*hint hint nudge nudge*

http://mafiascum.net/forum/viewtopic.ph ... 0#p3018570

[StrangerCoug]

I believe Magua eluded me. Congratulations to him.

[Bunnylover]

lol.
Good game all.

[Bunnylover]

REAPERCHILD, SHOW US WHO THE IC WERE.
IT HAD TO BE LLD RIGHT RAWR!

[Lady Lambdadelta]

REAPERCHILD, SHOW US WHO THE IC WERE.
IT HAD TO BE LLD RIGHT RAWR!

No.

[DrippingGoofball]

I hate you Magua, you are now the Night 0 corpse of any future game I mod.

If you hadn't cheated all game with invisible ink posting, I totally would have been on to you.

:secret handshake:

[camn]

I had a surprise if I could have slowed things down a little!
But sadly, I couldn't.

GG all.

[Mute]

I've no comments to say, really. First time playing in a large game, and theme at that. Was still somewhat fun for the incredibly little I did.

[Kast]

@All-
I was completely honest. I started the game as a regular citizen. I got recruited after the first IC member died. We were told we would have severe consequences if another member died. We lost our vest AND our DayQT when Hrezs died. We were told it's game over if Mute or I died and the other would be modkilled. However, after Mute died I got returned to town team with the post restriction that "my mind was wiped" so I'm not allowed to post anything IC-related.

As far as finally picking Magua vs ABR, it really came down to I like Magua more as a player so I preferred if his team won. I didn't want to post that in case Magua was town and thought I was claiming SK.

@Mute-
I'm sad that you claimed scum in thread. We could have convinced Plum and Magua (Magua obviously now since he was the DSK). KK might have switched since ABR was being ridiculously anti-town about claiming and would have screwed up his claim (as he did later). But you were dropped into a tough spot so meh...

I thought the ICs did a great job as far as night actions and PRs go (we had Kise nailed as one doc, Kage nailed as cop, and KK nailed as a PR(guessed security officer though)). Hrezs and Friend just both did horrible jobs at the not being scummy thing.

@Magua-
Nice job. You framed Camn really well. How exactly did your kill work?

@Balance-
I think the DSK had a heckuva better chance than the Night SK. Also, could have been a completely different game if the Night SK was an actual player instead of a permanent-lurker slot.

[Toogeloo]

Knifing the Panda also made me a sad Day SK. =/

Fix'd that for you.

[ReaperCharlie]

REAPER, SHOW US WHO THE IC WERE.
IT HAD TO BE LLD RIGHT? RAWR!

The Inner Circle were composed of curiouskarmadog, Hrezs, and Friend/Xalxe/Mute.

And a "fourth" member,

Kast

, was recruited (non-consensually) when curiouskarmadog died, to complete the Cycle of Three, but he was also given the choice to

Free his Mind

when he out-survived all of the other Inner Circle members. If you still have a blank look on your face, don't worry; it will all make MUCH more sense when the mod notes on the setup are posted.

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My full comments on the game (along with Role PMs, Night Actions, thoughts, etc.) will come later.

I am also going to take two surveys about the game and the players, which will be coming up.

[Kise]

Yeah so, I self-protected a lot with the hope that the other Paramedic would do the same so we could confirm each other later. Woops! I did protect Magua after thinking he was cleared by KL, and then I protected ABR the next night. Other than night, I was being... SELFISH.

Magua deserves this. Town would have had it too easy thanks to the gangs self-destructing on paranoia, and of course we blindly followed KageLord post-death.

I had fun, Reap.

[Albert B. Rampage]

Eh. Game lost on following KL.

We made the right moves, odds just weren't on our side.

[Albert B. Rampage]

This setup was terribad, all the scum bussed each other or claimed in-thread