Imperial Intrigue (Endgame, OUT OF NOWHERE)

[Wraith]

Spoiler: Lynch Scene

[MacDougall]

and

[MattP]

turned to

[Magua]

as soon as the

Beran

read off the names of the dead. "All the evidence points to you now," said

[MacDougall]

. "Everything you said and did yesterday looks very suspect now."

"I'm afraid I disagree," said

[Nero Cain]

. "With so few of us left, the traitors are doubtlessly hiding amongst what little crowd we have left. We need only look for the combination of lurking and incompetent to find our men." He pointed at

[vezokpiraka]

, who was standing behind

[MacDougall]

and

[MattP

. "I say THAT is our man! If not him, then his accomplice

[EtherealCookie]

."

[vezokpiraka]

merely shook his head, frowned, and narrowed his eyes. Before he could say anything,

[EtherealCookie]

, standing behind

[Nero Cain]

and

[Bogre]

, piped up, "I have to agree with the others. Suspicions of

[Magua]

return."

[AGar]

elbowed his way between the other two men and shoved an accusatory finger into

[EtherealCookie]

's chest. "That's farfeck. YOU'RE farfeck. You haven't done anything noteworthy or bold throughout this entire crisis! You've just been lurking, hiding behind stronger men. You have mere minutes to prove yourself to me before I lead everyone to rain hell down upon you. I. Want. ANSWERS!"

[EtherealCookie]

knocked away

[AGar]

's hand and narrowed his eyes, staring into

AGar]

's. "I am the

Domarch

of House Tyranus. My blood fought and shed their own in defense of our lands and Imperium during the War. THAT should be MORE than enough evidence of loyalty for you."

"You CONTINUE to evade questions. Even in the face of death or exile, you refuse to take a major role in defending the Imperium you CLAIM to remain loyal to!"

[AGar]

turned and walked away. "I'm done with this garbage."

"I have to agree with

[AGar]

on this," said

[kdowns]

. "Everything you have said and done throughout this situation, what little there is, has been nothing but following the strongest leaders you can attach yourself to. You're playing it safe when we should be bold. And that's why I'm going to cast the deciding vote."

The

Beran

waved his hand. "So be it." Two men of black cloaks suddenly appeared and escorted

[EtherealCookie]

out of the hall. He was silent until reaching the door: "You've made your last mistake, you pompous fools. You've doomed yourselves!"

EtherealCookie

,

House Tyranus (Loyalist)

, Exiled Day Six

Night Six

has begun.

Deadline for Night Six is

November 20, 2011

. Please forward all night actions via PM.

I would personally like to get through this night phase as fast as possible, as I will be leaving on V/LA on November 23 and will likely have no internet access.

[Wraith]

Spoiler: Daybreak

"Who was involved?" asked the

Beran

.

"In the altercation last night?" replied a man in a black cloak. The doors to the hall suddenly burst open and several stewards filed in, preparing the hall for the day's session. "It is a matter best disclosed privately,

herr

."

Sturmengard inhaled deeply and scowled. "Very well. Was that really all that transpired in the dark?"

"There were no deaths or disappearances last night,

herr

, merely altercations."

"Hmmm. Perhaps the crossfire last night spooked our night stalkers into inaction. We may yet have a final chance to turn this around," the

Beran

turned and walked back toward the Burning Throne. "Send for the stewards to wake the delegates."

Deadline for today is

December 1, 2011

.

With 8 alive it takes

5

to lynch.

[Magua]

Ok. Claiming time.

I'm a Jack of All Trades. I had a one-shot investigation, one-shot doctor, and one-shot roleblock at my disposal.

N2, I protected Shinki.
N3, I investigated MacDougall and got back loyalist.

I held onto the roleblock until last night because I wanted to keep it until there was only one mafia on a team. Last night I roleblocked Bogre.

I did *not* roleblock vezokpiraka N4.

My roleblock only explains one missing kill. Not sure on the other, though I have suspicions that I don't want to share right now until everyone's checked in.

VOTE: Bogre

[Nero Cain]

Well with EC flipping town I'm not so sure about Vezok. Although EC was right about Vezok and tunneled on him mosta the game. *shrugz*

We should be lynching Magua or Borge me thinks.

p-edit: I'll buy Magua's claim

vote: Borge

[MacDougall]

I believe Magua because he got at least one thing right that I know for sure and there is already a dead scum cop.

vote Bogre

[Bogre]

Okay, I think Magua must be the Bremburg rolecop then.

I am Vorian Argelev, one of the younger members of imperial family, who's existence was kept secret in plain sight in guard against anti-imperial treachery. I am a Neighborizer/X-shot Hider. My abilities:

Recognize Your Rightful Primarch: You may visit a faction once per night and make your claim to the throne, confirming to them your status as a rightful heir. I of course used this n1 with David Xanatos, cause I was betting that a scum group wouldn't gambit that early, which was good, cause especially with the talk from gandalf and stuff about heir-faction-alignment craziness I was feeling hesitant to use it and proclaim my heir status to a scum faction or third-party.

Second ability is:

Imperial Masquerade: Your training allows you to conceal yourself within the ranks of another faction, avoiding any ability targeted at you that night; however, attacks targeting the faction you infiltrate will affect you as well. I was originally leery on using this too, but when I asked the mod if hitting scum killed me, I got the answer that I wasn't a vanilla hider: I can conceal myself with anyone without dying if I hit anti-Argelev. Unfortunately, that in essence took away the investigative powers normal to a hider role. I only used it last night (I hid with MacDougall), as I didn't think I was going to get killed because someone had generally had claimed, and I've only got limited uses. Last night, I figured either me/kdowns/MattP/Magua/maybe Nero Cain would be killed, and Macdougall/Vezok/Agar were pretty safe (either as scum or as what scum would consider potential lynches).

VOTE: Magua

[Magua]

Recognize Your Rightful Primarch: You may visit a faction once per night and make your claim to the throne, confirming to them your status as a rightful heir. I of course used this n1 with David Xanatos, cause I was betting that a scum group wouldn't gambit that early, which was good, cause especially with the talk from gandalf and stuff about heir-faction-alignment craziness I was feeling hesitant to use it and proclaim my heir status to a scum faction or third-party.

So you can confirm your alignment as town to someone...and you only used this N1?

Lulz.

No.

Okay, I think Magua must be the Bremburg rolecop then.

1. Why Bremburg? Why not Eastern?
2. According to you, if I were a rolecop I'd've gotten no result. How does that reflect at all in my claim that made you suggest it?

[Nero Cain]

b/c there's a dead eastern rolecop Claim seems fake though.

[Bogre]

Recognize Your Rightful Primarch: You may visit a faction once per night and make your claim to the throne, confirming to them your status as a rightful heir. I of course used this n1 with David Xanatos, cause I was betting that a scum group wouldn't gambit that early, which was good, cause especially with the talk from gandalf and stuff about heir-faction-alignment craziness I was feeling hesitant to use it and proclaim my heir status to a scum faction or third-party.

So you can confirm your alignment as town to someone...and you only used this N1?

Lulz.


No.

Okay, I think Magua must be the Bremburg rolecop then.

1. Why Bremburg? Why not Eastern?
2. According to you, if I were a rolecop I'd've gotten no result. How does that reflect at all in my claim that made you suggest it?

Cause I could only neighbor one faction....?

And yeah, that would be true, if you rolecopped me YESTERDAY, but I think the you did it previous to last night.

[Magua]

Cause I could only neighbor one faction....?

Recognize Your Rightful Primarch: You may visit a faction

once per night

and make your claim to the throne

[Bogre]

To join their QT, yeah. I wasn't going to try and hit any other factions.

[kdowns]

Major Emphasis on the "Once Per Night". Bogre if you had went to the Scum group you could of gotten the whole group and all the members that are in it, although you most likely would of died.

[Magua]

To join their QT, yeah. I wasn't going to try and hit any other factions.

This doesn't even parse at all. If this was your role, why would you not be confirming yourself as town to someone every night?

[Magua]

And if you'd confirmed yourself as town to the David/monk/whispersilk masonry, how come none of them ever mention you, say they have a townread on you, etc?

[Bogre]

And if you'd confirmed yourself as town to the David/monk/whispersilk masonry, how come none of them ever mention you, say they have a townread on you, etc?

Cause that would out information to scum, where a later game reveal might throw a serious wrench in scum plans.

[Magua]

So, just want to make sure I have this straight:
- You can confirm yourself to be town to someone every Night, but you only did it N1, and there's no indication that he or the other masons ever actually received this information.
- You don't confirm yourself to anyone N2-N5.
- N6, at a point where there's less than ten people in the game and no one has a townread on you, instead of confirming yourself as town to someone, you hide.

Do I have all that right?

[MattP]

Vote: Bogre

Bogre is at L-1

[AGar]

Two things: 1) Magua's claim is fairly extremely damning.
2) Bogre, your Argelev "family" claim is bullshit.

VOTE: Bogre

[MattP]

Players that will be remaining after this lynch that may be mafia (in my opinion. I think dougall and magua are town). Out of them, 1 or 3 are mafia. Sorry to be annoying, but could everyone list these five from most to least scummy / why they are in that order? There are some of you that have not made your opinions known. I'll start:

16. vezokpiraka -- The VI cover is wearing thin. If there are 3 mafia left it's pretty much irrefutable that he is scum. This is because kdowns is probs town so with a75% chance of hitting it would not be hard to believe that a player that is acting scum, whether VI or not, is scum. He is my next lynch target.
24. Nero Cain -- If there are 3 scum I'd bet he is partner with Bogre based off 1503. He put bogre as his second option to be lynched. Jeez, how many times does scum do that? However, could also very well be scum with vezok.
7. AGar -- Could very well be scum. I don't like his pushes on Magua and MacDougall, but he is also being ballsy and that usually doesn't correlate with scum. Still, if there are three more mafia he is one of them.
19. kdowns -- Pretty much town
18. MattP -- I have a STRONG feeling he is town. If you lynch him and he turns up scum, lynch me next

[Magua]

MacDougall is town, 100000000000%
kdowns is town, 99.99%

I'm assuming that after the traitor deaths N5, we've got one of each scum remaining. Given that:

If Bogre flips some form of Neighborizer/Hider thing, then I just don't know. Worst case from this point, tomorrow is 1:1:3 lylo.

Bogre flips some scum faction, should leave us 5:1 tomorrow facing the other scum. In this case, I'd be all over a vezokpiraka lynch just to ensure he doesn't see lylo.

The thing to remember is vezokpiraka's claimed roleblock during N4. Given Eastern flipped a rolecop, I can see Bremburg having a roleblocker, but why roleblock vezok of all people? That part really gives me pause, but the thing is, I don't see vezok being the type to lie about it.

I'm not nearly as suspicious of AGar as I was, given the Andrius-town-flip. I'm leaning fairly town on MattP. So I'd be looking at Nero Cain, simply because everyone has really been calling him town and yet he's still alive, and not getting roleblocked in preference to vezokpiraka.

So: non-lylo, lynch vezok. Lylo, probably lynch Cain.

[Wraith]

Pretty sure that's a hammer. I'm away from home, and therefore easy typing, so no scene until I get back.

[Wraith]

Votecount 7.1

Bogre

(5)

:

Magua, Nero Cain, MacDougall, MattP, AGar

Magua

(1)

:

Bogre

Not Voting

(2)

:

vezokpiraka, kdowns

Bogre

has been lynched.

Lynch scene forthcoming.

[Wraith]

Spoiler: Lynch Scene

As soon as the eight delegates entered the hall and the doors were closed,

[Magua]

confronted

[Bogre]

. "I

wonder

why nobody died last night, traitor,"

[Magua]

said. "Do you care to provide an explanation,

herr

?"

"

Neg

, I have nothing to say on that matter,"

[Bogre]

replied, non-chalantly.

"Well, I know for a fact that men under my command confronted you last night, and forced you and an entourage back into your rooms,"

[Magua]

snapped.

[Nero Cain]

,

[MacDougall]

, and

[MattP]

raised their eyebrows at that, moving to surround

[Bogre]

.

"A sheer coincidence,"

[Bogre]

replied. "Considering I am Vorian Argelev, rightful heir to the throne, I have been spending my nights visiting my...future subjects and ensuring their loyalty to me."

"

Farfeck

,"

[Magua]

cursed.

"I must agree," said the

Beran

. The Brotherhood and trusted Guardsmen alike have informed me of your...nocturnal activities. If you are doing as you claim, then you have only done so during one night."

"How can you turn against me,

Herr Beran

?"

[Bogre]

asked. "You have sworn to uphold my family line."

"You are not a son of House Argelev,"

[AGar]

cut in. "But you are a liar. Goodbye."

It was barely a blur, but

[Bogre]

moved. He swiftly charged for

[Agar]

, who was leaning against one of the large pillars, wielding a knife. He was mere inches away from his slowly-reacting target when a distinctive curved blade descended - emerging from the shadows beyond the pillar - to slice off

[Bogre]

's arm at the elbow. Screaming in pain, and stump spurting blood,

[Bogre]

tumbled to the floor. A man in a black cloak, wielding a curved, shining blade at the ready, stepped out of the shadows. "You will NEVER win,

Duranniya

swine!"

[Bogre]

swore, spitting a stream of Terran curses.

"We have already defeated you once, and now twice," said the

[Beran]

, standing and scowling. The other, remaining delegates loomed over

[Bogre]

, glaring with unrivaled hatred. "And that is more than enough for me." The

Beran

made a brief gesture with his hand, and the Watcher's blade descended.

Bogre

,

The Usurper (Eastern One-Shot Bulletproof)

, Executed Day Seven

Night Seven

has begun.

Deadline for Night Seven is

November 27, 2011

. Please forward all night actions via PM.

I will be V/LA from approximately

11/24/11-11/27/11

. If you get actions in fast enough, I will begin the Day, but will likely be absent for most of it. Otherwise, this night will be extra-long until I either have access earlier than expected or return from Thanksgiving Vacation.

[Wraith]

Spoiler: Daybreak

Garen Sturmengard stood in the dim darkness of the morgue, staring at four bodies that had been recovered during the last, deadly night. Two were soldiers of no consequence, accomplices in a brutal murder, but the other two were victims of opposite sides, whose loyalties had been revealed to most...unexpected.

[MacDougall]

lay on one slab, his body riddled with bullets and head mangled beyond recognition, the latter no doubt being the final killing blow. "I heard his words,

herr Beran

," the Watcher had said. "There was no doubt."

"Loyal to the end," the

Beran

muttered. "Though none believed it."

The other corpse would be unrecognizable if not for the words of the Watchers - it was missing its right arm and head. The blood from the confrontation in the halls would take months to fully expunge. "The commander of the Imperial Guard," the Watcher had said. "Murderer of

Domarch Morvanus

."

"I had thought him loyal, as did many others," the

Beran

muttered. "Some things never change."

MacDougall

,

House Morvanus (Loyalist)

, Murdered Night Seven

Magua

,

Imperial Guard (Bremburg Recruited Enabling Traitor)

, Executed Night Seven

Deadline for this day is

November 30, 2011

With 5 alive it takes

3

to lynch.

Considering I will be out of town from tomorrow to Sunday, there will be no flavor until I return but Nocmen will handle votecounts and flips, if necessary.

[vezokpiraka]

Ok. So I am someone else are confirmed town. That persons knows itself and can come out. Only if they want to.
kdows was considered town by most so he is out of the list.

That leaves Nero cain , Mattp and agar.

One of these is confirmed town probably.
Lynch one then tomorrow the other and the game is won.