Mini 1875: Pine's Death Trap Post Game - Town win!

[Pine]

Pine's Death Trap Mafia

Moderator

: Pine

Back Up Moderater

: Aeronaut

Reviewers

: Firebringer, Mykonian, Mastina

Special Thanks

: Aeronaut, Nexus, and the reviewers for their assistance in getting this running. Cephrir and Firebringer, from whom I shamelessly stole the base ruleset and many formatting aspects.

Player List

1. Alisae
   
2. Grendel
   
3. ThinkBig
   Akarin
   
   
4. Rautherdir
   
5. gerryoat
   
6. JarJarDrinks
   
7. TheRealGin-N-Tonic
   Lil Uzi Vert
   
   
8. nancy
   Transcend
   
   
9. Cooperative Sheep
   Soumil07
   
   
10. Keyser Söze
    
11. Fro99er
    Vifam
    
    
12. mattblackguy
    
13. RadiantCowbells

* indicates a prod

Spoiler: Fighting for Survival (Alive)

Grendel has survived the deathtrap! He was a

Vanilla Townie

.
nancy has survived the deathtrap! She was a

Vanilla Townie

.
Cooperative Sheep has survived the deathtrap! He was a

Vanilla Townie

.
Fro99er has survived the deathtrap! He was a

Vanilla Townie

.
mattblackguy has survived the deathtrap! He was a

Town Jailkeeper

.
RadiantCowbells has survived the deathtrap! He was a

1-shot Bulletproof Townie

Spoiler: Perished in the Attempt (Dead)

Gerryoat was impaled upon a barbed door! He was a

Town Cop

Alisae was thrown from a high catwalk! He was a

Vanilla Townie

JarJarDrinks was crushed beneath an enormous stone! He was a

Mafia Goon

.
Rautherdir was conveyored into a man-sized blender! He was a

Vanilla Townie

.
Keyser Söze has died, ground into a Townie smoothie. He was a

Vanilla Townie

.
TheRealGin-N-Tonic has died, killed by a backfiring revolver. He was a

Mafia Goon.

ThinkBig has died, with the antidote shoved down his throat and his skull bashed in as a battering ram. He was a

Mafia Goon.

Spoiler: Gleefully Slaughtered (Modkilled)

Better stay empty

Important Links

Game Start | Cooperative Sheep replaces Soumil07 | End of Day One
Start of Day Two | nancy replaces Transcend | Lil Uzi Vert is punished | Fro99er replaces Vifam | End of Day Two
Start of Day Three | ThinkBig replaces Akarin | TheRealGin-N-Tonic replaces Lil Uzi Vert | End of Day Three
Start of Day Four | End of Day Four
Start of Day Five | Endgame

Vote Counts

1.0 | 1.1 | 1.2 | 1.3 | 1.4 | 1.5
2.0 | 2.1 | 2.2 | 2.3 | 2.4 | 2.5 | 2.6 | 2.7
3.0 | 3.1 | 3.2 | 3.3 | 3.4 | 3.5 | 3.6 | 3.7 | 3.8 | 3.9 | 3.10
4.0 | 4.1 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 4.4
5.0 | 5.1

[Pine]

General Rules

1. The site-wide rules and Boilerplate Mafiascum Game Rules are in play. Please know them.
2. Be nice. I will be the arbiter of what 'nice' is. I am pretty tolerant about this but there is a line.
3. Do not discuss the game outside the game thread, except with the moderator, unless your Role PM specifies that you may do so. Do not discuss other ongoing games in this thread or in any topics you might have access to.
4. You may ask me questions either in the thread or via PM. For some questions, I may be willing to answer via PM but not in-thread for a variety of reasons.
5. Do not quote private communication with me directly. Paraphrasing is acceptable; if you're not sure whether a post violates this rule, ask me or don't post it. You also may not pretend to quote communications with me. This includes your Role PM.
6. My color is

DARK ORANGE

; please don't use it.
7. No dice tags or otherwise provably arbitrary algorithms.
8. Do not attempt to emulate out-of-thread communication using encryption or hidden/obscured text.
9. Don't do things you know you shouldn't do, even if I've neglected to include a rule on the matter. Likewise, attempts to circumvent these rules via semantics will be treated harshly.
10. I reserve the right to warn, force-replace, or modkill as I deem necessary. Don't push it.
11. I reserve the right to add to or change the rules.

Procedural Rules

1. If you wish to vote for a player, please use vote tags or bold tags. That said, if you forget the tags, your vote will still count if it is clear to me that a vote was intended.
2. A player is considered lynched when he or she reaches a number of votes equal to half the number of living players rounded down plus one.
3. You may continue discussion in twilight before I show up and lock the thread. Do not post after I officially state that you are dead.
4. If no majority is reached by deadline there will be No Lynch.
5. Days will have a non-negotiable deadline of 2 weeks. I may choose to extend a deadline in special circumstances, but it's unlikely. Don't count on it.
6. Nights last 48 hours.
7. Prods go out after 48 hours. Failure to post in a timely fashion after a prod, or accumulating several prods, may result in force replacement at my discretion.
8. A single mafia member can both kill and take another action.
9. All Private Topics, including any Mafia factions, have daytalk enabled.

What follows is a sample Vanilla Townie role PM:

Spoiler: VT Role PM

Welcome to Pine's Death Trap! Here's your role information:

You are a

Vanilla Townie

. You have no special powers.

Win Condition: You win if the town eliminates all opposing factions. At least one member of your faction must survive.

Please /confirm in thread. Day One will be started after 12/13 players have confirmed.

[Pine]

All role PMs sent out, confirm here.

[Pine]

Poor, poor fool.

[Pine]

[Pine]

I'm afraid I can't answer that.

9/13 confirmed.

[Pine]

I'm so used to Pine as a player. Pine as a mod feels so weird.

I haven't modded in like five years, so it's weird for me too.

[Pine]

11/13 confirmed.

[Pine]

/confirm?

Accepted. Soumil07 still has a day or so before I go looking for him. Locking thread pending flavor...

[Pine]

A dim, flickering light intrudes on the splitting headache that greets you as you slowly wake up. A fresh wave of dizziness greets you as you sit up, surrounded by twelve other people in various stages of their own groggy awakenings. Looking around, you see a moldering old room, appearing to be a stripped-down old storeroom or basement. The only illumination comes from a pair of bare incandescent bulbs hanging from wires on the ceiling. By its dim light, a series of framed portraits, incongruous for their elegance, may be discerned. They depicts a different instrument of torture and interrogation, each more unsettling than the last. A caption beneath each image tells the story of that devious device, delighting in the perverse. A few ratty old couches are the only other furnishings, and an imposing steel door covered in cruelly-barbed spikes bars the only exit.

Yessss...that's it, children, time to wake up! The game is afoot, and the party is ready to begin! Welcome to my humble little maze. Each of you has been injected with a lovely little cocktail which I like to call Pine's Pick Me Up. It shall, of course, kill you.

A fairly ominous silence resonates for a few interminable moments.

"An antidote is available to those who can prove their worthiness, which is to say, those who can most effectively amuse me!

A deep and unsettling laugh echoes around the sparse chamber.

"Of course, the game would be dreadfully simple if it were no more than a puzzle, a game for the insipid and weak. I have therefore elected to introduce a little...healthy competition. Some survival of the fittest, if you will! Some among you have received a little extra perk in your Pick Me Up, a special concoction designed to increase bloodlust and obedience. These, my minions, will only receive the antidote if they can overpower and help me murder the rest of you.

"The first door may be bypassed only with a blood sacrifice. Offer me one of your own, impale them upon the door, and I will...consider...unlocking it.

"GO!"

[Pine]

==> Vote Count 1.0 <==

With 13 votes in play, it's 7 to lynch!

The Rack is an ancient torture device, with a history stretching back at least to the time of Alexander the Great. While there are innumerable variations on the design, the basic premise is that the subject's hands and feet are bound and stretched in opposite directions, with the objective to inflict stretching and pulling damage. Reports indicate that the most gruesome aspect of this devious device is the popping and cracking sound as the victim's joints, cartilage, tendons, and bones snap and crackle as they are gradually rent out of position.

[L-7]

Alisae -

[L-7]

Grendel -

[L-7]

Akarin -

[L-7]

Rautherdir -

[L-7]

gerryoat -

[L-7]

JarJarDrinks -

[L-7]

Lil Uzi Vert -

[L-7]

Transcend -

[L-7]

Soumil07 -

[L-7]

Keyser Söze -

[L-7]

Vifam -

[L-7]

mattblackguy -

[L-7]

RadiantCowbells -

Waiting for their DOOM

- Alisae, Grendel, Akarin, Rautherdir, gerryoat, JarJarDrinks, Lil Uzi Vert, Transcend, Soumil07, Keyser Söze, Vifam, mattblackguy, RadiantCowbells

Day 1 ends in (expired on 2017-02-13 01:17:00)

[Pine]

==> Vote Count 1.1 <==

With 13 votes in play, it's 7 to lynch!

The Heretic's Fork was a tool used by many Inquisitions, devious in its utter simplicity. Consisting merely of a double-ended two-pronged length of iron, the fork was strapped tightly to the victim's neck, points resting on the underside of the miscreant's chin and the top of their breastbone. The threat of piercing tines prevented the subject from resting or eating, and would be combined with sleep deprivation to force confessions. Often applied to heretics, blasphemers, and apostates.

[L-6]

Alisae - gerryoat

[L-5]

Grendel - Keyser Söze, mattblackguy

[L-6]

Akarin - Rautherdir

[L-4]

Rautherdir - Vifam, Alisae, Transcend

[L-7]

gerryoat -

[L-7]

JarJarDrinks -

[L-7]

Lil Uzi Vert -

[L-7]

Transcend -

[L-7]

Soumil07 -

[L-7]

Keyser Söze -

[L-7]

Vifam -

[L-5]

mattblackguy - RadiantCowbells, Lil Uzi Vert

[L-6]

RadiantCowbells - JarJarDrinks

Waiting for their DOOM

- Grendel, Akarin, Soumil07

Day 1 ends in (expired on 2017-02-12 15:02:00)

Soumil07 has not picked up their role PM. Seeking a replacement.

[Pine]

I might go dig up a vote count of what the Matt wagon looked like when it was big cuz that's important.

[L-2]

mattblackguy - RadiantCowbells, Vifam, Keyser Söze, Lil Uzi Vert, Transcend

Done. This was its peak.

[Pine]

Cooperative Sheep replaces Soumil07

[Pine]

==> Vote Count 1.2 <==

With 13 votes in play, it's 7 to lynch!

Usually filled with molten lead, tar, boiling water or boiling oil, it was used to torture victims by dripping the contents onto their stomach or other body parts like the eyes. Using this device the torturer would proceed to pour molten silver on the victim’s eyes which resulted in agonizing pain and eventual death

[L-7]

Alisae -

[L-4]

Grendel - Keyser Söze, mattblackguy, Cooperative Sheep

[L-7]

Akarin -

[L-5]

Rautherdir - Vifam, Transcend

[L-5]

gerryoat - RadiantCowbells, Alisae

[L-7]

JarJarDrinks -

[L-7]

Lil Uzi Vert -

[L-7]

Transcend -

[L-7]

Cooperative Sheep -

[L-7]

Keyser Söze -

[L-7]

Vifam -

[L-6]

mattblackguy - Lil Uzi Vert

[L-6]

RadiantCowbells - JarJarDrinks,

Waiting for their DOOM

- Grendel, Akarin, gerryoat, Rautherdir

Day 1 ends in (expired on 2017-02-12 15:02:00)

[Pine]

Who the fuck is cooperative sheep when the fuck did they get here

Cooperative Sheep replaces Soumil07

[Pine]

Hey cooperative sheep, are you a fan of the word 'grok'?

The mod is a HUGE fan of the word, but rarely uses it. I find that it is a handy shorthand for a fairly sophisticated concept of deduction, reasoning, and comprehension. However, the rarity of the word obviates its utility as a shorthand when it needs to be defined on every use.

One mod cookie to RC.

[Pine]

==> Vote Count 1.3 <==

With 13 votes in play, it's 7 to lynch!

Denailing is among the most common and brutal methods of interrogating, and consists of yanking the victim's finger- and/or toenails out whole. This is a particularly agonizing means of coercing information, particularly given the horrifying anticipation that it will happen to you nineteen more times. Eighteen, seventeen, sixteen...

Interesting side note: The mod actually suffered a denailing once. In September of 2015, he was shifting position in the back of an ambulance when his partner hit a bump. Said bump jammed his left middle fingernail into the tiny gap between a ceiling light fixture and the ceiling, then slammed him back down onto the bench seat. The fingernail stayed jammed in the light fixture - his finger did not. He considers the incident the single most painful experience of his life, though he of course took it like a man and refused the supervisor's offer of the rest of the day off. It caused him great pain for a full month, including during his wedding, and took approximately four months to grow back.[/color]

[L-7]

Alisae -

[L-5]

Grendel - Cooperative Sheep, JarJarDrinks

[L-7]

Akarin -

[L-6]

Rautherdir - Transcend

[L-4]

gerryoat - RadiantCowbells, Alisae, Grendel

[L-5]

JarJarDrinks - Vifam, mattblackguy

[L-7]

Lil Uzi Vert -

[L-6]

Transcend - Rautherdir

[L-7]

Cooperative Sheep -

[L-7]

Keyser Söze -

[L-6]

Vifam - gerryoat

[L-6]

mattblackguy - Lil Uzi Vert

[L-7]

RadiantCowbells -

Waiting for their DOOM

- Akarin, Keyser Söze

Akarin will be prodded

Day 1 ends in (expired on 2017-02-12 15:02:00)

[Pine]

@mod vc pls?

Please bold requests. Working on a VC now.

I have been pretty regularly targeting VCs for midday and midnight (EST) give or take an hour or two. Do you need them more frequently? The votes are not actually moving as fast as the group seems to think.

*pats the puppy*

[Pine]

Sowwy.

In fact, only three votes have changed since the last VC, one of them yours. Another was an unvote.

==> Vote Count 1.4 <==

With 13 votes in play, it's 7 to lynch!

The Breaking Wheel, also known as the Catherine Wheel, this is a torture device use to slowly kill the victim. First, the victim’s limbs were tied to the spokes of a large wooden wheel which would then be slowly revolved as the torturer simultaneously smashed the victim’s limbs with an iron hammer to break them in numerous places. As the bones were broken, the victim would be left on the wheel to die or could be place on top of a tall pole so the birds could feed on their flesh while still alive. This was slow indeed since it could have taken days before the victims would die from dehydration.

[L-7]

Alisae -

[L-5]

Grendel - Cooperative Sheep, JarJarDrinks

[L-7]

Akarin -

[L-7]

Rautherdir -

[L-2]

gerryoat - RadiantCowbells, Alisae, Grendel, Lil Uzi Vert, Transcend

[L-5]

JarJarDrinks - Vifam, mattblackguy

[L-7]

Lil Uzi Vert -

[L-7]

Transcend -

[L-7]

Cooperative Sheep -

[L-7]

Keyser Söze -

[L-6]

Vifam - gerryoat

[L-7]

mattblackguy -

[L-7]

RadiantCowbells -

Waiting for their DOOM

- Akarin, Keyser Söze, Rautherdir

Day 1 ends in (expired on 2017-02-12 15:02:00)

[Pine]

[L-1]

gerryoat - RadiantCowbells, Alisae, Grendel, Lil Uzi Vert, Transcend, JarJarDrinks

For Transcend's benefit.

#trollmod

[Pine]

I quiver with anticipation.

[Pine]

==> Vote Count 1.5 (FINAL) <==

With 13 votes in play, it's 7 to lynch!

Given his name, it should come as no surprise that this was the most favored method of execution by Vlad the Impaler. In 15th century Romania; the victim was forced to sit on a sharp and thick pole. When the pole was then raised upright, the victim was left to slide down the pole with their own weight. It could take the victim 3 days to die using this method and it has been said that Vlad once did this to 20,000 people all while enjoying a meal.

[L-7]

Alisae -

[L-6]

Grendel - Cooperative Sheep,

[L-7]

Akarin -

[L-7]

Rautherdir -

[LYNCH ACHIEVED]

gerryoat - RadiantCowbells, Alisae, Grendel, Lil Uzi Vert, Transcend, JarJarDrinks, Vifam

[L-6]

JarJarDrinks - mattblackguy

[L-7]

Lil Uzi Vert -

[L-7]

Transcend -

[L-7]

Cooperative Sheep -

[L-7]

Keyser Söze -

[L-6]

Vifam - gerryoat

[L-7]

mattblackguy -

[L-7]

RadiantCowbells -

Waiting for their DOOM

- Akarin, Keyser Söze, Rautherdir

Day 1 ends NOW

[Pine]

The hours pass eventfully, with many accusations thrown and desperation growing. Each of you can feel a crawling, vaguely burning sensation in your extremities, a sure sign that Pine's Pick Me up is working to achieve its fatal effect.

The arguing and backbiting reaches a fever pitch, and the crowd begins shoving. Some cower in the corner, trying to look small and unthreatening. Others begin grabbing, frantically trying to make sure that someone, anyone, other than themselves is sacrificed to the evil plotter's twisted designs. Finally the scuffle reaches a crescendo, and Gerryoat is thrown forward. As the wickedly sharp tines of the great iron door prod at his back, Gerryoat raises a hand, preparing to scream out a warning. Too late, Vifam barrels into the poor victim without heeding his final plea, impaling him upon the barbs.

Gerryoat twitches pathetically, like a fish on the hook, raising again his outstretched hand. The only sound that escapes is a sickening death rattle, and the light fades from his eyes. A shining golden shield tumbles from his hand as it falls limp by his side.

Gerryoat has died, impaled upon a barbed iron door. He was a

Town Cop

.

Oh, goody! I was hoping it wouldn't take you too long to divest yourselves of that pestilential do-gooder. Very well, I shall release the door, and you are one step closer to your salvation. Think not that this shall be your only loss on the way, my friends!

The door swings slowly open, leaving a thick trail of Gerryoat's blood as his feet trail along the floor. Cautiously, you all file through the door, stepping out onto a long catwalk, high above a shadowed floor. As soon as the last of you step out onto the catwalk, the overhead lights suddenly switch off with an ominous, hollow sound.

[Pine]

Night 1 ends in (expired on 2017-02-03 15:41:00)

[Pine]

Shouts erupt in the sudden darkness, and a mad scuffle ensues. Noses are bloodied, and many toes are trodden upon. After a subjective eternity, a singular scream pierces the blackness, rapidly fading into the distance below until it cuts off with a dull, meaty

'THUD'

.

The lights immediately flicker on. As you pick yourself, rub bruises, and stanch lacerations, illumination falls upon the broken body of one of your number, shattered on what appears to be the floor of an abandoned warehouse or factory.

Alisae has died, thrown down from a high catwalk. He was a

Vanilla Townie

.

Poor Alisae. Truly, the good die young. A most worthy young lad with the aspect of a most worthy young lass, he shall be surely missed by...well no one, really. You people never really cared, and neither do I!

With more than a little grumbling, the company proceeds across the rest of the catwalk and down a spiral staircase, finding themselves in another room. This room appears to be a small, enclosed office of some kind with a smashed desk and broken, long-obsolete computer in the corner. This room is lovingly adorned with various portraiture of bizarre and obscure methods of execution. The far door is chained and barred shut.

A single scarlet bell cord of satin, much as one might find in the mansions of the wealthy, descends from the ceiling.

Welcome, friends, to your second challenge. The objective here is simple - if you wish to leave, pull on the cord.

Just make sure you choose someone you don't like very much.

[Pine]

==> Vote Count 2.0 <==

With 11 votes in play, it's 6 to lynch!

anging has been a common method of capital punishment since medieval times, and is the official execution method in numerous countries and regions. When performed extrajudicially by a ravening mob of townsfolk, often suddenly and on the innocent, it is referred to as a lynching.

[L-6]

Grendel -

[L-6]

Akarin -

[L-6]

Rautherdir -

[L-6]

JarJarDrinks -

[L-6]

Lil Uzi Vert -

[L-6]

Transcend -

[L-6]

Cooperative Sheep -

[L-6]

Keyser Söze -

[L-6]

Vifam -

[L-6]

mattblackguy -

[L-6]

RadiantCowbells -

Waiting for their DOOM

- Grendel, Akarin, Rautherdir, JarJarDrinks, Lil Uzi Vert, Transcend, Cooperative Sheep, Keyser Söze, Vifam, mattblackguy, RadiantCowbells

Day 2 ends in (expired on 2017-02-17 18:00:00)

[Pine]

[Pine]

Happy birthday, Transcend!

[Pine]

Shaddap. VC incoming.

[Pine]

==> Vote Count 2.1 <==

With 11 votes in play, it's 6 to lynch!

The guillotine was invented in France in the late eighteenth century, at the outset of the French Revolution. Prior to the guillotine, executions by beheading were often messy and barbaric affairs, and there are numerous stories of botched beheadings, sometimes taking many strikes to fully slay the victim. The guillotine, therefore, was conceived as a more humane means of dispatching the condemned, as it was (theoretically) guaranteed to perform a single clean blow. The guillotine gained great infamy as the execution tool of choice during the Reign of Terror, claiming tens of thousands of lives.

[L-6]

Grendel -

[L-6]

Akarin -

[L-6]

Rautherdir -

[L-6]

JarJarDrinks -

[L-6]

Lil Uzi Vert -

[L-5]

Transcend - Cooperative Sheep

[L-5]

Cooperative Sheep - Transcend

[L-6]

Keyser Söze -

[L-6]

Vifam - Grendel

[L-3]

mattblackguy - RadiantCowbells, Keyser Söze, Lil Uzi Vert

[L-4]

RadiantCowbells - JarJarDrinks, mattblackguy

Waiting for their DOOM

- Akarin, Rautherdir, Vifam

Day 2 ends in (expired on 2017-02-17 18:00:00)

[Pine]

==> Vote Count 2.2 <==

With 11 votes in play, it's 6 to lynch!

Execution by elephant was a common method of capital punishment in South and Southeast Asia, particularly in India, where Asian elephants were used to crush, dismember, or torture captives in public executions. The animals were trained and versatile, able to kill victims immediately or to torture them slowly over a prolonged period. Most commonly employed by royalty, the elephants were used to signify both the ruler's absolute power and his ability to control wild animals.

The sight of elephants executing captives both horrified and attracted the interest of European travelers, and was recorded in numerous contemporary journals and accounts of life in Asia. The practice was eventually suppressed by the European empires that colonised the region in the 18th and 19th centuries. While primarily confined to Asia, the practice was occasionally adopted by Western powers, such as Ancient Rome and Carthage, particularly to deal with mutinous soldiers.

[L-6]

Grendel -

[L-5]

Akarin - Vifam

[L-4]

Rautherdir - RadiantCowbells, Transcend

[L-6]

JarJarDrinks -

[L-6]

Lil Uzi Vert -

[L-3]

Transcend - Cooperative Sheep, Rautherdir, JarJarDrinks

[L-6]

Cooperative Sheep -

[L-6]

Keyser Söze -

[L-5]

Vifam - Akarin

[L-4]

mattblackguy - Keyser Söze, Lil Uzi Vert

[L-5]

RadiantCowbells - mattblackguy

Waiting for their DOOM

- Grendel

Day 2 ends in (expired on 2017-02-17 18:00:00)

[Pine]

Four people are coming up on prods in the next eight hour. Let's not slack our activity, folks!

[Pine]

==> Vote Count 2.3 <==

With 11 votes in play, it's 6 to lynch!

凌迟; 凌遲, transliterated as

Lingchi

and translated loosely as "lingering death" or "slow slicing" but popularly known as the "death by a thousand cuts" was a form of torture and execution used mainly in China starting circa AD 900. The process involved tying the condemned prisoner to a wooden frame, usually in a public place. The flesh was then cut from the body in multiple slices in a process that was not specified in detail in Chinese law, and therefore most likely varied. The punishment worked on three levels: as a form of public humiliation, as a slow and lingering death, and as a punishment after death. This form of execution was reserved for especially heinous crimes such as high treason, but also patricide and matricide.[/color]

[L-6]

Grendel -

[L-6]

Akarin -

[L-5]

Rautherdir - Transcend

[L-6]

JarJarDrinks -

[L-6]

Lil Uzi Vert -

[L-1]

Transcend - Cooperative Sheep, Rautherdir, JarJarDrinks, Vifam, RadiantCowbells

[L-6]

Cooperative Sheep -

[L-6]

Keyser Söze -

[L-4]

Vifam - Akarin, mattblackguy

[L-4]

mattblackguy - Keyser Söze, Lil Uzi Vert

[L-6]

RadiantCowbells -

Waiting for their DOOM

- Grendel

Day 2 ends in (expired on 2017-02-17 18:00:00)

[Pine]

How many days do we have until the deadline

More than nine days, actually. I'll get a VC up this afternoon, but little has changed.

[Pine]

"Day 2 ends in 9 days..."
not "Day ends in 2 days."

I am the best at reading.

Debateable.

#trollmod

[Pine]

==> Vote Count 2.4 <==

With 11 votes in play, it's 6 to lynch!

Hanging, drawing, and quartering is among the most involved of all classic execution methods. This elaborate technique combined several other means of killing a man into one complex ritual, as the victim was first bound to a wooden framework and either marched or dragged to the site, then hanged by the neck nearly to the point of death. The barely-conscious criminal was then cut down, castrated, and disemboweled. Their innards and genitals were then burned in front of them. Then the victims limbs were bound to four horses and stretched to the point of breaking and tearing, and finally the executioner killed them with a blow to the body with an axe or sword. The dead man's limbs were severed and sent to be displayed in the four corners of the realm, while their head was cut off to be displayed prominently in the capital. Needless to say, such an elaborate and brutal method of dealing death was generally reserved only for the highest of crimes.

[L-6]

Grendel -

[L-6]

Akarin -

[L-6]

Rautherdir -

[L-6]

JarJarDrinks -

[L-6]

Lil Uzi Vert -

[L-1]

Transcend - Cooperative Sheep, Rautherdir, JarJarDrinks, Vifam, RadiantCowbells

[L-6]

Cooperative Sheep -

[L-6]

Keyser Söze -

[L-3]

Vifam - Akarin, mattblackguy, Transcend

[L-4]

mattblackguy - Keyser Söze, Lil Uzi Vert

[L-6]

RadiantCowbells -

Waiting for their DOOM

- Grendel

Day 2 ends in (expired on 2017-02-17 18:00:00)

[Pine]

nancy replaces Transcend, effective immediately.

[Pine]

Sure can.

LUV has been prodded.

[Pine]

Oh, so you people are still here? I assumed you'd starved long ago.

Why continue to drag your feet? Choose a victim...I mean, a volunteer, and pull on the cord so you can leave. It really is as simple as that!

VC incoming.

[Pine]

==> Vote Count 2.5 <==

With 11 votes in play, it's 6 to lynch!

Keelhauling was a form of punishment or execution, once meted out to sailors at sea. The sailor was tied to a line that looped beneath the vessel, thrown overboard on one side of the ship, and dragged under the ship's keel, either from one side of the ship to the other, or the length of the ship (from bow to stern). As the hull was usually covered in barnacles and other marine growth, if the offender was pulled quickly, keelhauling would typically result in serious cuts, loss of limbs and even decapitation. If the offending sailor was merely to be punished, they would be keelhauled along the beam (the widest part of the ship), though this could still maim or kill. Keelhauling along the entire length of the ship usually resulted in death, whether from drowning, blunt force trauma, or simply being shredded apart by barnacles.

[L-6]

Grendel -

[L-6]

Akarin -

[L-6]

Rautherdir -

[L-4]

JarJarDrinks - Akarin, RadiantCowbells

[L-5]

Lil Uzi Vert - mattblackguy

[L-5]

nancy - Cooperative Sheep

[L-6]

Cooperative Sheep -

[L-6]

Keyser Söze -

[L-6]

Vifam -

[L-5]

mattblackguy - Keyser Söze

[L-5]

RadiantCowbells - nancy

Waiting for their DOOM

- Rautherdir, Vifam, JarJarDrinks, Grendel, Lil Uzi Vert

Day 2 ends in (expired on 2017-02-17 18:00:00)

[Pine]

You unvoted after you voted RC

I was messing with Pine

An eerie music slowly builds, a sound like that produced from an old music box, or perhaps a street organ grinder. Thin, scratchy lyrics are piped into the abandoned factory:

All around the mulberry bush,
The monkey chased the weasel.
The monkey thought ’twas all in good fun,
Pop! goes the weasel.

A penny for a spool of thread,
A penny for a needle—
That's the way the money goes,
Pop! goes the weasel.

Jimmy’s got the whooping cough
And Timmy’s got the measles.
That’s the way the story goes,
Pop! goes the weasel.

I've no time to wait and sigh
No patience to wait 'til by and by
Kiss me quick, I'm off, goodbye!
Pop! Goes the weasel

At the last

POP!

, a previously-hidden hatch opens in the wall, just large enough to admit a cruelly-barbed crossbow bolt, which flies with unerring accuracy to skewer Lil Uzi Vert through the meaty part of his thigh. Try as he might, there is no way to remove the projectile without excruciating agony.

Mocking your host will NOT be tolerated. You are here as my guests and are required to enjoy my hospitality. Further impertinence will be dealt with savagely.

I would leave that where it is. Tt will cause more damage coming out than going in. Unless it hit the femoral artery. Then you're fucked.

A tense minute or so ticks by.

Haven't bled out yet? Apparently it didn't hit the artery. Pity. That sumbitch can bleed a man dry in minutes. You'll live, for a little while, long enough for the Pick Me Up in your bloodstream to do its work.

Speaking of work and time running out, GET BACK TO WORK!

[Pine]

Seeking a replacement for Vifam. Sending out some PMs before putting up a notice on the Replacements thread.

[Pine]

Fro99er replaces Vifam with immediate effect.

[Pine]

==> Vote Count 2.6 <==

With 11 votes in play, it's 6 to lynch!

A firing squad is normally composed of several military personnel or law enforcement officers. Usually, all members of the group are instructed to fire simultaneously, thus preventing both disruption of the process by a single member and identification of the member who fired the lethal shot. To avoid the disfigurement of multiple shots to the head, the shooters are typically instructed to aim at the heart, sometimes aided by a paper target. The prisoner is typically blindfolded or hooded, as well as restrained, although in some cases prisoners have asked to be allowed to face the firing squad without their eyes covered. Executions can be carried out with the condemned either standing or sitting. There is a tradition in some jurisdictions that such executions are carried out at first light, or at sunrise, which is usually up to half an hour later. This gave rise to the phrase "shot at dawn."

Execution by firing squad is distinct from other forms of execution by firearms, such as an execution by a single firearm to the back of the head or neck. However, the single shot by the squad's officer with a pistol (coup de grâce) is sometimes incorporated in a firing squad execution, particularly if the initial volley turns out not to be immediately fatal.

[L-6]

Grendel -

[L-6]

Akarin -

[L-6]

Rautherdir -

[L-1]

JarJarDrinks - Akarin, nancy, Grendel, Lil Uzi Vert, Fro99er

[L-3]

Lil Uzi Vert - mattblackguy, Keyser Söze, RadiantCowbells

[L-4]

nancy - Cooperative Sheep, JarJarDrinks

[L-6]

Cooperative Sheep -

[L-6]

Keyser Söze -

[L-6]

Fro99er -

[L-6]

mattblackguy -

[L-6]

RadiantCowbells -

Waiting for their DOOM

- Rautherdir

Day 2 ends in (expired on 2017-02-17 18:00:00)

[Pine]

==> Vote Count 2.7 (FINAL) <==

With 11 votes in play, it's 6 to lynch!

Stoning, or lapidation, is a method of capital punishment whereby a group throws stones at a person until they die. No individual among the group can be identified as the one who kills the subject. This is in contrast to the case of a judicial executioner. Slower than other forms of execution, stoning within the context of contemporary Western culture is considered a form of execution by torture.

[L-6]

Grendel -

[L-6]

Akarin -

[L-6]

Rautherdir -

[LYNCH ACHIEVED]

JarJarDrinks - Akarin, Grendel, Lil Uzi Vert, nancy, Rautherdir, Fro99er

[L-3]

Lil Uzi Vert - mattblackguy, Keyser Söze, RadiantCowbells

[L-4]

nancy - Cooperative Sheep, JarJarDrinks

[L-6]

Cooperative Sheep -

[L-6]

Keyser Söze -

[L-6]

Fro99er -

[L-6]

mattblackguy -

[L-6]

RadiantCowbells -

Waiting for their DOOM

-

Day 2 ends NOW

[Pine]

Following the punishment of Lil Uzi Vert for his impertinence against your host, the group seems to learn its lesson and quickly gets to work. A dark thread of conspiracy and suspicion mars the brief harmony that had begun to form between strangers caught in a life-and-death situation. This ugliness rapidly turns nasty, and the anger focuses on one of you which had, until now, been fairly well-regarded. JarJarDrinks is at first disdainful of the accusations, but they quickly grow in momentum as the group turns on him. JarJarDrinks is relentlessly shoved forward. He quails away from the silken pullcord, regarding it as if it were a fanged serpent. Eventually he is shoved down next to it, falling to his knees, and a hand reaches out to yank the cord. As JarJarDrinks screams and tries to scramble away, the rest of you bolt. A deep gong sound echoes through the room, and a hatch in the ceiling opens, dropping a giant stone onto JarJarDrinks, smashing him into pulp against the floor, shattering a giant hole down to the next level.

JarJarDrinks has died, crushed beneath an enormous stone! He was a

Mafia Goon

.

Oh, how delightful! You will never know how worried I was that that stone might not break through to your next challenge. I spent ages weakening that section of the floor, but these damn factories are always so overbuilt. It sure would have made me silly if I had to come out there myself with a crowbar and help you through! ANYway, feel free to proceed on, don't mind the bloody corpse in the way, good minions are SO hard to come by these days.

The group makes its way down through the hole, climbing down onto the bloody rock into a pitch-black room filled with ominous-looking machinery...

[Pine]

Night 2 ends in (expired on 2017-02-15 18:20:00)

[Pine]

The party descends into the darkened room with care, helping one another to climb through the hole in the floor despite not being able to see more than a few feet into the blackness. What else is there but to go on?

Perhaps surprisingly,

NO ONE

was harmed.

As your eyes adjust to the inky darkness, conveyor belts and unknown machinery resolve into focus. Upon a table some distance into the room is found a pile of torches and a box of matches. Soon, flaming brands are in the hands of each surviving member of the group, and the orange glow of torchlight illumines the room. Arrayed among the equipment are a number of elegantly-framed portraits of murderers through the ages, each with a small caption describing their escapades.

Unremarkable factory appliances sit covered in dust, and the door of the only exit appears to have been replaced with another heavy iron slab. Just looking at the barred portal, it is obvious that there is no way to force it open, though several of you try.

Well, well, well! It looks like my little minions among you have been slacking yet again. Perhaps I erred in choosing them! Damnable disappointment. First one gets killed, then the rest fail to entertain me? Come on, kids, the dark room was a perfect setup. I disapprove.

"Ah well. At least this time I'll see some blood. In a moment, I'll turn one of these conveyors on. Simply send one of your number along on it, and you will be one step closer to your freedom. Ta!"

True to his word, a conveyor belt not far from the iron door whirrs to life, a few dull lightbulbs flickering on next to it. Peering down the shaft, the conveyor crawls through the wall into the darkness of the next room

[Pine]

==> Vote Count 3.0 <==

With 10 votes in play, it's 6 to lynch!

Gilles de Montmorency-Laval (1405 – 1440), Baron de Rais, was a knight and lord from Brittany, Anjou and Poitou, a leader in the French army, and a companion-in-arms of Joan of Arc. Gilles de Rais served as a commander in the French Royal Army, and fought against the English and their Burgundian allies during the Hundred Years' War, for which he was appointed Marshal of France. After retiring from the military de Rais was accused of engaging in a series of child murders, with victims possibly numbering in the hundreds. The killings came to an end in 1440, when a violent dispute with a clergyman led to an ecclesiastical investigation which brought the crimes to light, and attributed them to Gilles. He was condemned to death and hanged at Nantes on 26 October 1440.

[L-6]

Grendel -

[L-6]

Akarin -

[L-6]

Rautherdir -

[L-6]

Lil Uzi Vert -

[L-6]

nancy -

[L-6]

Cooperative Sheep -

[L-6]

Keyser Söze -

[L-6]

Fro99er -

[L-6]

mattblackguy -

[L-6]

RadiantCowbells -

Waiting for their DOOM

- Grendel, Akarin, Rautherdir, Lil Uzi Vert, nancy, Cooperative Sheep, Keyser Söze, Fro99er, mattblackguy, RadiantCowbells

Day 3 ends in (expired on 2017-03-01 19:50:00)

[Pine]

I was hoping the intervention of a night phase would cool tempers and distance you folks a little, but my patience with the personal attacks wears thin. I have zero qualms about force-replacing people should unwarranted and personal issues continue to be a primary means of discourse.

There will not be a second warning.

[Pine]

Could we get a vote count please?

I'll be home in a few hours. At my parents' for dinner.

[Pine]

==> Vote Count 3.1 <==

With 10 votes in play, it's 6 to lynch!

Vlad III Tepes, known as Vlad the Impaler or Vlad Dracula, was voivode (or prince) of Wallachia three times between 1448 and his death. He was the second son of Vlad Dracul, also voivode of Wallachia, and is often conflated with his father. Vlad began a purge among the Wallachian boyars to strengthen his position, and came into conflict with the Transylvanian Saxons. Vlad plundered the Saxon villages, taking the captured people to Wallachia where he had them impaled (which gave rise to his cognomen). Vlad III also had several conflicts with the Ottomans, massacring tens of thousands of their subjects. After centuries, the Impaler, son of Dracul, the son of the Dragon, became associated with all kinds of butchery and evil, ultimately being immortalized as the inspiration for the antagonist of Bram Stoker's

Dracula.

[L-6]

Grendel -

[L-6]

Akarin -

[L-6]

Rautherdir -

[L-6]

Lil Uzi Vert -

[L-6]

nancy -

[L-6]

Cooperative Sheep -

[L-6]

Keyser Söze -

[L-3]

Fro99er - RadiantCowbells, mattblackguy, nancy

[L-5]

mattblackguy - Fro99er

[L-6]

RadiantCowbells -

Waiting for their DOOM

- Grendel, Akarin, Rautherdir, Lil Uzi Vert, Cooperative Sheep, Keyser Söze,

Day 3 ends in (expired on 2017-03-01 19:45:00)

[Pine]

Indeed, the pansy Normal review committee has decided to make Godfathers non-Normal because it involves moderators giving inaccurate information to players. Weenies. GF used to be normal, and I consider it a fairly integral part of balancing Cops and other robust investigators.

Consider this mod-confirmation that the game qualifies as Normal, despite the thematics.

[Pine]

==> Vote Count 3.2 <==

With 10 votes in play, it's 6 to lynch!

Jack the Ripper is the best known name given to an unidentified serial killer generally believed to have been active in the largely impoverished areas in and around the Whitechapel district of London in 1888. The name "Jack the Ripper" originated in a letter written by someone claiming to be the murderer that was disseminated in the media. Attacks ascribed to Jack the Ripper typically involved female prostitutes who lived and worked in the slums of the East End of London whose throats were cut prior to abdominal mutilations. The removal of internal organs from at least three of the victims led to proposals that their killer had some anatomical or surgical knowledge. "Jack" was never caught, and great fascination through the years has been devoted to speculation on his (or her) identity. Some claim he is still at large.

[L-6]

Grendel -

[L-6]

Akarin -

[L-6]

Rautherdir -

[L-6]

Lil Uzi Vert -

[L-6]

nancy -

[L-6]

Cooperative Sheep -

[L-6]

Keyser Söze -

[L-3]

Fro99er - RadiantCowbells, nancy, mattblackguy

[L-3]

mattblackguy - Fro99er, Lil Uzi Vert, Keyser Söze

[L-6]

RadiantCowbells -

Waiting for their DOOM

- Grendel, Akarin, Rautherdir, Cooperative Sheep

Day 3 ends in (expired on 2017-03-01 19:45:00)

[Pine]

Jailkeeper and roleblocker targeting one another causes both to be roleblocked. The actions occur simultaneously.

[Pine]

@Mod can you prod sheep. It's been 48 hours since day start

I am aware. He only just passed 48 hours an hour or so ago, and I was planning to prod him at the end of the upcoming VC.

He's posted now, and I will be following up by PM. Your mod is on top of things.

[Pine]

==> Vote Count 3.3 <==

With 10 votes in play, it's 6 to lynch!

Genghis Khan, born Temüjin, was the founder and Great Khan (Emperor) of the Mongol Empire, which became the largest contiguous empire in history after his death. He came to power by uniting many of the nomadic tribes of Northeast Asia. After founding the Empire and being proclaimed "Genghis Khan", he started the Mongol invasions that conquered most of Eurasia. In just a few short decades, Genghis Khan would conquer most of what is now Central Asia, China, Korea, the Middle East, Russia (minus Siberia and Kamchatka), and Eastern Europe. He and sons and grandsons conquered more territory than any other empire in history, dwarfing both the Romans, Macedonians, as well as the colonial powers of later centuries. Their dominion was built on the blood and corpses of their enemies, as they would execute the populations of entire cities who refused to surrender. Mongol warriors were frequently given a quota of executions they had to perform before being allowed to rape and pillage. A most brutal conquest.

[L-6]

Grendel -

[L-6]

Akarin -

[L-6]

Rautherdir -

[L-6]

Lil Uzi Vert -

[L-6]

nancy -

[L-6]

Cooperative Sheep -

[L-6]

Keyser Söze -

[L-2]

Fro99er - nancy, mattblackguy, Rautherdir, Fro99er

[L-4]

mattblackguy - Lil Uzi Vert, Keyser Söze

[L-6]

RadiantCowbells -

Waiting for their DOOM

- Grendel, Akarin, Cooperative Sheep, RadiantCowbells

Day 3 ends in (expired on 2017-03-01 19:45:00)

[Pine]

I hate this game so much right now

This delights me!

[Pine]

You're at L-5, nancy.

[Pine]

2 days zero hours as of a few minutes ago. I'll prod after dinner.

[Pine]

Akarin has been prodded.

[Pine]

Ahem. It's spelled 'bloc'.

[Pine]

Shower me with praise all you like.

I think you just earned yourself an extra bloody end, though.

But hey! Maybe you win and survive!

HAHAHAHAHA THEY THINK THERE WILL BE SURVIVORS SHHHH DON'T TELL THEM

[Pine]

Akarin has not picked up his prod. While he technically has two hours and change to do so, I have begun the replacement search.

VC incoming.

[Pine]

==> Vote Count 3.4 <==

With 10 votes in play, it's 6 to lynch!

毛澤東, transliterated as Mao Zedong or Mao Tse-tung, popularly known as Chairman Mao, presided over the greatest loss of human life in history. Most of the 'Great Helmsman's victims were his fellow Chinese, murdered as ‘landlords’ after the communist takeover, starved in his misnamed ‘Great Leap Forward’ of 1958-61, or killed and tortured in labour camps in the Cultural Revolution of the Sixties. Mao’s rule, with its economic mismanagement and continual political upheavals, also spelled poverty for the bulk of China’s enormous population. His policies were also designed to massively inflate the Chinese population, as he felt that nuclear war was inevitable, and hoped that mere thousands of surviving Europeans, Russians, and Americans could be overwhelmed by millions of Chinese survivors of nuclear holocaust. This inflation of the Chinese population helped drive further scarcity and reliance on agrarian economic systems. Between 45 and 60 million Chinese were killed under Mao's tenure, perhaps more than the purges of Hitler and Stalin combined, rivaled only by the most horrific estimates of the Mongol conquests under Temujin.

[L-6]

Grendel -

[L-6]

Akarin -

[L-6]

Rautherdir -

[L-6]

Lil Uzi Vert -

[L-5]

nancy - RadiantCowbells

[L-4]

Cooperative Sheep - Grendel, mattblackguy

[L-6]

Keyser Söze -

[L-5]

Fro99er - Fro99er

[L-4]

mattblackguy - Lil Uzi Vert, Keyser Söze

[L-6]

RadiantCowbells -

[L-5]

No Lynch - Rautherdir

Waiting for their DOOM

- Akarin, Cooperative Sheep, nancy

Day 3 ends in (expired on 2017-03-01 19:45:00)

[Pine]

Did you know I'm a Ravenclaw?

Me too! My friends say I'm a Slytherin, but that is Fucking Horseshit.

[Pine]

Akarin has not picked up his prod. While he technically has two hours and change to do so, I have begun the replacement search.

Any update on Lil Uzi Vert too?

Sigh. Prodding. I could have sworn he was on V/LA, but that was last week. My bad.

[Pine]

Right. These are my best mates, and they know me as well as just about anyone, but they're focusing way too hard on the whole "Slytherin are clever and resourceful" thing. The Slytherin mindset is all about

ambition

. They apply their talents towards self-advancement and don't care if they have to climb over others to do it. They can work together, but always their goal in collaboration is their own advantage. Look at what happens with the Death Eaters, and especially with Crabbe (Goyle in the movie) when Malfoy shows weakness at the end. He asserts that Malfoy's time has ended, and tries to take control and become Voldemort's new golden boy.

Ravenclaws, on the other hand, are all about intellect as a worthy goal in and of itself, as well as the means by which all other goals are attained. To Slytherins, knowledge is a tool to achieve power. To Ravenclaws, power is the knowledge itself.

[Pine]

ThinkBig replaces Akarin, effective immediately.

Thanks, TB!

[Pine]

Well, it isn't quite as simple as that, actually. The drive for ambition merely concentrates those prone to bad behavior in one place, as ambition is a primary motivation for bad actors. Remember that there were members of all Houses who went over to Voldemort, and it wasn't even Gryffindor that had the fewest; it was Hufflepuff, as their defining attributes include loyalty and service to the community. Peter Pettigrew, after all, was sorted into Gryffindor, and Snape into Slytherin.

This is really drifting into another conversation, so let us table it for another day.

[Pine]

ThinkBig replaces Akarin, effective immediately.

Thanks, TB!

Happy to replace in. I'll be reading tomorrow. Can someone give me a summary so far? Thanks!

Stuff happened. Things were said. People were lynched. People were NKed. Other things happened.

There, caught up. #trollmod

[Pine]

Will be reading this when I get off of school.

@mod: does the scum team have day chat?

Under Normal rules, moderators must include in their ruleset on page 1 the answer to this question. Specifically, Procedural Rule 9 contains the answer.

@Mod can we get a VC

Your wish is my command. Surprisingly, very few votes since the last VC have actually changed until a few hours ago. I am generally calibrating my VCs on when there is a shift in the wagons, people tend to be okay tracking one or two votes over a few pages. If this is insufficient I can step up the pace and guarantee a VC every day no matter how little has changed. I was already writing one up when I read this though.

[Pine]

==> Vote Count 3.5 <==

With 10 votes in play, it's 6 to lynch!

Countess Elizabeth Báthory de Ecsed (7 August 1560 – 21 August 1614) was a Hungarian noblewoman and alleged serial killer from the Báthory family of nobility in the Kingdom of Hungary. She has been labelled by Guinness World Records as the most prolific female murderer, though the precise number of her victims is debated. Báthory and four collaborators were accused of torturing and killing hundreds of young women between 1585 and 1609. The stories of her serial murders and brutality are verified by the testimony of more than 300 witnesses and survivors as well as physical evidence and the presence of horribly mutilated dead, dying and imprisoned girls found at the time of her arrest. Stories which ascribe to her vampire-like tendencies (most famously the tale that she bathed in the blood of virgins to retain her youth) were generally recorded years after her death and are considered unreliable. Her story quickly became part of national folklore, and her infamy persists to this day, with Báthory known popularly as 'The Blood Countess'.

[L-6]

Grendel -

[L-6]

ThinkBig -

[L-6]

Rautherdir -

[L-4]

Lil Uzi Vert - RadiantCowbells, ThinkBig

[L-6]

nancy -

[L-3]

Cooperative Sheep - Grendel, mattblackguy, Fro99er

[L-6]

Keyser Söze -

[L-6]

Fro99er -

[L-4]

mattblackguy - Lil Uzi Vert, Keyser Söze

[L-6]

RadiantCowbells -

[L-5]

No Lynch - Rautherdir

Waiting for their DOOM

- Cooperative Sheep, nancy

Day 3 ends in (expired on 2017-03-01 19:45:00)

[Pine]

Further "Replace Out" requests will not be retractable. I am not a fan of this practice, and my tolerance for it is spent. Setting up and running a game requires a great deal of volunteer effort for which there is little reward, and finding replacements is a pain. I would appreciate that effort not being treated with flippancy.

At work now, will get a VC up when I get home.

[Pine]

Further "Replace Out" requests will not be retractable. I am not a fan of this practice, and my tolerance for it is spent. Setting up and running a game requires a great deal of volunteer effort for which there is little reward, and finding replacements is a pain. I would appreciate that effort not being treated with flippancy.

At work now, will get a VC up when I get home.

Pine's mad

Not mad, just a little irritated by the flippancy. Replacing out should only really be done to quell insurmountable personal friction or for out-of-game reasons.

We can discuss this more post-game. VC incoming.

[Pine]

==> Vote Count 3.6 <==

With 10 votes in play, it's 6 to lynch!

Mary Mallon (September 23, 1869 – November 11, 1938), better known as Typhoid Mary, was the first person in the United States identified as an asymptomatic carrier of the pathogen associated with typhoid fever. She was presumed to have infected 51 people, three of whom died, over the course of her career as a cook. However, as she used many aliases to evade the authorities and worked for many employers for only a short term, the number is likely far higher, including as many as an estimated fifty fatalities.

While Mallon was not a cold-blooded murderess, her recklessness and felonious irresponsibility makes her no less a killer. Mallon was adamant throughout her life that, despite the omnipresence of typhoid fever around her, she was perfectly healthy and could not be the cause. She rejected the medical science, and denied the utility of handwashing and other precautions that would have prevented her from spreading the disease. After refusing to cooperate with physicians, she was legally compelled to not work as a cook. After only a brief period of compliance, Mallon adopted a pseudonym and returned to work, infecting more people. Ultimately, Typhoid Mary was confined to a quarantine hospital on an island in New York's East River until her death.

[L-6]

Grendel -

[L-6]

ThinkBig -

[L-5]

Rautherdir - RadiantCowbells

[L-4]

Lil Uzi Vert - mattblackguy, Grendel

[L-6]

nancy -

[L-6]

Cooperative Sheep -

[L-6]

Keyser Söze -

[L-6]

Fro99er -

[L-2]

mattblackguy - Lil Uzi Vert, Keyser Söze, Fro99er, nancy

[L-6]

RadiantCowbells -

[L-5]

No Lynch - Rautherdir

Waiting for their DOOM

- Cooperative Sheep, ThinkBig

Day 3 ends in (expired on 2017-03-01 19:45:00)

[Pine]

Fail.

(#trollmod)

[Pine]

fuck what happened to my post nuuuuuuu

I ate its liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.

[Pine]

My count is L-2 for MBG. I will put up a more official VC after work.

[Pine]

[L-1] mattblackguy - Lil Uzi Vert, Keyser Söze, nancy, Fro99er, Cooperative Sheep

Official spot check. Full update in 3-4 hours when I'm home.

[Pine]

Hello, players, I am sorry to have been a bit of an absentee mod the last few days. For the last 17 years, I have spent my summers (and a good chunk of the offseason) working at and volunteering for a non-profit summer camp. We also offer winter and spring break day camps, and winter camp was this week. As tiring as summer can can be, and as muddy as spring camp can be, winter camp is always the toughest. I've been coming home exhausted to the core every day, and was briefly sick in the middle of the week. Fortunately it was raining today, and playing board games all day is a lot less draining than sledding or capture the flag in the snow.

I'm back, and am working on a VC now.

[Pine]

==> Vote Count 3.7 <==

With 10 votes in play, it's 6 to lynch!

Thug Behra or Buhram (ca 1765–1840), also known as Buhram Jemedar and the 'King of the Thugs', was a leader of the Thuggee cult active in Oudh in northern central India during the late 18th and early 19th century, and is often cited as one of the world's most prolific serial killers. He may have been involved in up to 931 murders by strangulation between 1790–1840 performed with a ceremonial rumāl, a handkerchief-like cloth used by his cult as a garrote.

The Thuggee cult, from whence comes the English word 'thug,' wandered the Indian subcontinent for perhaps six hundred years, gaining the confidence of travelers and murdering them ritually. They believed themselves the children of Kali, the Hindu goddess of death. They believed their 'work' to be for the greater good, as Kali would destroy all mankind if not appeased. The Thuggee were believed to be eradicated by British colonial forces in the 1830s.

[L-6]

Grendel -

[L-4]

ThinkBig - nancy, Fro99er

[L-6]

Rautherdir -

[L-5]

Lil Uzi Vert - mattblackguy

[L-6]

nancy -

[L-6]

Cooperative Sheep -

[L-6]

Keyser Söze -

[L-6]

Fro99er -

[L-4]

mattblackguy - Lil Uzi Vert, Cooperative Sheep

[L-6]

RadiantCowbells -

[L-5]

No Lynch - Rautherdir

Waiting for their DOOM

- ThinkBig, Grendel, RadiantCowbells, Keyser Söze

Day 3 ends in (expired on 2017-03-01 19:45:00)

[Pine]

==> Vote Count 3.8 <==

With 10 votes in play, it's 6 to lynch!

Edward Teach or Edward Thatch (c. 1680 – 22 November 1718), better known as Blackbeard, was a notorious English pirate who operated around the West Indies and the eastern coast of Britain's North American colonies. After serving under Benjamin Hornigold, Teach captured a French merchant vessel, renamed her Queen Anne's Revenge, and equipped her with 40 guns. He became a renowned pirate, his cognomen derived from his thick black beard and fearsome appearance; he was reported to have tied lit fuses under his hat to frighten his enemies. He formed an alliance of pirates and blockaded the port of Charles Town, South Carolina. He accepted a royal pardon and retired before returning to the sea, after which he was hunted down by the government of Virginia and hanged.

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Grendel - nancy,

[L-6]

ThinkBig -

[L-6]

Rautherdir -

[L-6]

Lil Uzi Vert -

[L-6]

nancy -

[L-5]

Cooperative Sheep - Grendel

[L-6]

Keyser Söze -

[L-5]

Fro99er - mattblackguy

[L-2]

mattblackguy - Lil Uzi Vert, Cooperative Sheep, Fro99er, RadiantCowbells

[L-6]

RadiantCowbells -

[L-5]

No Lynch - Rautherdir

Waiting for their DOOM

- ThinkBig, Keyser Söze

Day 3 ends in (expired on 2017-03-01 19:45:00)

[Pine]

Lil Uzi Vert has been prodded.

A reminder that the deadline is fast approaching, with a little over two days to go as I write this. At this time I see no valid reason for a deadline extension.

Also cake day yaaaaayy.

[Pine]

Lil Uzi Vert has been prodded.

Scratch that, it's his third prod, which triggers the replacement clause. He has until I find a replacement to come back. Deadline extended 48 hours as of replacement found.

[Pine]

With apologies to Lil Uzi Vert, TheRealGin-N-Tonic had already accepted the replacement slot and been sent his role PM. He was a bit too johnny-on-the-spot, I'm afraid, and we are on a three-strikes prod ruleset.

Better luck next time!

Anyway, TheRealGin-N-Tonic replaces Lil Uzi Vert!

And it's my scumday, scrub, not my birthday. That's in April. Don't make me get the cattle prod.

[Pine]

Sorry for my absence, I've been sick. Kids are adorable, but they're germ carriers. I'll get a VC up soon.

Yes, the 48-hour extension is in effect. You have a little over 3 days.

Day 3 ends in (expired on 2017-03-03 19:45:00)

[Pine]

Yeah we can afford mislynches. We have to pick whichever slot gives us the best PoE basically. I kind of doubt you're in anyone's lynch pool honestly.

I've kind of ruled out Sheep from being likely scum by VCA so I'm basically locked on Grendel today. It's a good infolynch if nothing else. ThinkBig and I are the other most popular VT lynches last I checked.

And yeah Pine is pure Slytherin evil, don't let him tell you otherwise!! Just look at that avatar.

Ravenclaw, dammit. Would a Slytherin have been such a fabulous IC?

Got a VC worked up. Double-checking it now.

[Pine]

==> Vote Count 3.9 <==

With 10 votes in play, it's 6 to lynch!

Alphonse Gabriel "Al" Capone (January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947), sometimes known by the nickname Scarface, was an American gangster who attained fame during the Prohibition era as the co-founder and boss of the Chicago Outfit. Capone started small, but expanded his bootlegging business through increasingly violent means. His mutually profitable relationships with mayor William Hale Thompson and the city's police meant that Capone seemed safe from law enforcement. However, the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre of gang rivals, resulting in the killing of seven men in broad daylight, damaged Chicago's image—as well as Capone's—leading influential citizens to demand governmental action and newspapers to dub him "Public Enemy No. 1". The federal authorities became intent on jailing Capone, and they prosecuted him for tax evasion in 1931, a federal crime and a novel strategy during the era. Capone died in prison, and his cache of illicit gains was never found, his vault famously empty.

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Grendel -

[L-6]

ThinkBig -

[L-4]

Rautherdir - mattblackguy, nancy

[L-6]

TheRealGin-N-Tonic -

[L-6]

nancy -

[L-6]

Cooperative Sheep -

[L-6]

Keyser Söze -

[L-5]

Fro99er - Rautherdir

[L-4]

mattblackguy - Cooperative Sheep, Fro99er

[L-6]

RadiantCowbells -

[L-5]

No Lynch -

Waiting for their DOOM

- ThinkBig, Keyser Söze, TheRealGin-N-Tonic RadiantCowbells, Grendel

Day 3 ends in (expired on 2017-03-03 19:45:00)

[Pine]

VOTE: Fro99er

VOTE: Dauth

VOTE: RC

VOTE: MBG

Stahp. That just makes things harder for me. I'm the one who's supposed to be trolling you, not the other way around!

@Mod: I'm sorry you have to deal with this

Not forgiven.

Also, nancy...I thought I was your Senpine too?

[Pine]

==> Vote Count 3.10 (FINAL) <==

With 10 votes in play, it's 6 to lynch!

John Lynch (1813 – 22 April 1842) was an Irish-born Australian serial killer, convicted for the murder of Kearns Landregan, but is believed to have killed 10 people in the Berrima area of New South Wales from 1835 to 1841. Possibly the worst serial killer in Australian history, Lynch was a bushranger who murdered and robbed cattle herders and laborers in the trails around Berima. Lynch's murder spree started after he went to the farm of T.B. Humphrey, where he had previously worked, and stole eight cattle before setting out for Sydney, where his intention was to sell them. At Razorback Mountain, he met a man called Ireland along with an Aboriginal boy who were driving a full cattle herd loaded with wheat, bacon and other produce. The cargo was meant to be delivered to Thomas Cowper, who was a stranger to Lynch, and decided it would be more profitable to take Ireland’s load and sell it rather than his initial intention. Early one morning, Ireland asked the boy to help round up the cattle, and once they were away from the camp Lynch crept up behind him and smashed the back of his head with a tomahawk, killing him. Returning to camp while Ireland was making breakfast, Lynch distracted him before crashing the tomahawk into the back of his head, killing him too. Lynch hid both corpses and continued to Sydney to execute his plan with his stolen merchandise. On his way back from Sydney, close to Razorback Mountain, he met a father and son called Frazer, who were driving a cattle herd owned by a Mr Bawten. Lynch fancied this herd and decided he would have to kill the Frazers to get it, accompanying them on their journey. That night, they camped near Cordeaux Flat, and the next morning Lynch killed both men and then buried their bodies. After killing the Frazers, Lynch decided to deal with the Mulligans, who had owed him £30 for stolen goods they had purchased off him. He visited the Mulligan farm and killed the four members of the family before gathering the bodies, built a pyre and set them alight. Lynch claimed to be the new owner of the property, and he bought it off the surviving Mulligans as the family left town without a word to anybody. Lynch was eventually found guilty of the murder of a man named Kearns Landregan, and hanged.

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Grendel -

[L-6]

ThinkBig -

[LYNCH ACHIEVED]

Rautherdir - mattblackguy, nancy, Grendel, TheRealGin-N-Tonic, Fro99er, Rautherdir

[L-6]

TheRealGin-N-Tonic -

[L-6]

nancy -

[L-6]

Cooperative Sheep -

[L-6]

Keyser Söze -

[L-6]

Fro99er -

[L-5]

mattblackguy - Cooperative Sheep

[L-6]

RadiantCowbells -

Waiting for their DOOM

- ThinkBig, Keyser Söze, RadiantCowbells

Day 3 ends NOW

[Pine]

The day drags.

On and on the arguments wend, until it seems unclear who really thinks what. Dozens of rhetorical positions are formed and dissolved, and it seems patently impossible for any consensus to be reached. Ultimately, though, one young man is driven insane from the pressure and practically dives head first down the conveyor belt, screaming imprecations at his accusers. As he disappears, the sound of a mad scramble occurs and is silenced, as Rautherdir is dropped into an enormous blender and rent asunder by the blades.

Rautherdir has died, conveyored into a man-sized blender. He was a

Vanilla Townie

.

Harrumph. Who did he think he was? A deputy indeed. As if I'd let more than one of those damn do-gooders ruin my fun. Oh well. A deal's a deal.

An low whir sounds through the factory room, followed by an ominous "KATHUNK". The iron door budges an inch, and grinds to a halt. The whir and "KATHUNK" sound several more times, but fails to move the door any more.

Hunh. I guess this old deathtrap is finally catching up to me. I suppose you could move on through to the next room the same way Rautherdir did. I'll shut down the conveyor belt, there's no need for all of you to suffer his fate. It would get entirely too dull if you all died the same way!

The conveyor belt shuts down, and you argue a bit more about who will go first down the deadly passage. In the end, though, your veins begin to burn with the poison still coursing through them, and it becomes apparent that you have no choice.

[Pine]

Night 3 ends in (expired on 2017-03-04 17:00:00)

[Pine]

Requests for shortened night will be heard; only if

every

surviving player votes for accelerated night will it occur. I will accept requests in any private topic(s) you may have, requests in the main thread prior to end of day are not accepted.

[Pine]

Finally fixed the last VC image. I had to resort to saving it to my own machine and uploading it myself.

[Pine]

Day start soon.

[Pine]

The party makes its way through the cramped confines of the conveyor belt tunnel, each glancing nervous eyes towards the giant blender filled with the remains of the late Rautherdir. It is due to the group's single-minded attention on the process that no one notices who it was that hurled a small piece of rubble at the big red button at the belt's controls. The machine whirrs back to life, still bearing the last member of your little band. Keyser Söze is whisked into the blender with Rautherdir, and scrambles frantically for the rim before it switches on, sucking the unfortunate Keyser Söze into the slurry and grinding him into a fine paste, spattering everyone with the blood of both Townies.

Keyser Söze has died, ground into a Townie smoothie. He was a

Vanilla Townie

.

Oh, how delicious! I wasn't expecting that, but it looks tasty! Alas, poor Keyser Söze, we knew ye not well enough. Onward and upwards, though!

The group finds themselves in a small room with no features aside from the gruesome blender apparatus and a table bearing a revolver. The now-expected portraits on the walls depict various weapons of death and destruction which changed warfare and killing.

No games this time, children. There's a single shot in the pistol, just pick it up and execute one of your fellows and you can move on.

[Pine]

==> Vote Count 4.0 <==

With 8 votes in play, it's 5 to lynch!

The English longbow, also called the Welsh longbow, is a powerful medieval type of longbow (a tall bow for archery) about 6 ft long used by the English and Welsh for hunting and as a weapon in medieval warfare. English use of longbows was effective against the French during the Hundred Years' War, particularly at the start of the war in the battles of Sluys (1340), Crécy (1346), and Poitiers (1356), and perhaps most famously at the Battle of Agincourt (1415). At Agincourt, it is said that the cream of the French nobility was destroyed, with thousands of knights slaughtered by well-trained commoners wielding these bows, which were effective at incredible range and could punch through even heavy plate. This marked the beginning of the end of specialized and expensive heavy cavalry requiring a noble income, and the beginning of the dominance of trained, professional soldiery.

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Grendel -

[L-5]

ThinkBig -

[L-5]

TheRealGin-N-Tonic -

[L-5]

nancy -

[L-5]

Cooperative Sheep -

[L-5]

Fro99er -

[L-5]

mattblackguy -

[L-5]

RadiantCowbells -

Waiting for their DOOM

- Grendel, ThinkBig, TheRealGin-N-Tonic, nancy, Cooperative Sheep, Fro99er, mattblackguy, RadiantCowbells

Day 4 ends in (expired on 2017-03-19 14:00:00)

[Pine]

I just want to see more flavor from Pine

Your wish is my command. Working on a VC

[Pine]

I might nom this game for game of the year. I think this was one helluva game and I honestly can't think of any games that I thought were as hilarious and dynamic as this one.

[Pine]

Today I fell in love

I got the full story. It's adorable.

[Pine]

WHAT PINE HAS A NEW AVATAR WHAT IS THIS

The avatar you're familiar with was a temporary one that had gotten old and stale. I usually have an avatar of an evergreen of some sort, usually a pine tree.

[Pine]

==> Vote Count 4.1 <==

With 8 votes in play, it's 5 to lynch!

While the spear is among the oldest weapons of all, predated only by the club, the stone knife, and perhaps the axe, the pike is arguably the pinnacle of the form. Unlike many similar weapons, the pike is not intended to be thrown. Pikes were used regularly in European warfare from the early Middle Ages until around 1700, and were wielded by foot soldiers deployed in close quarters. The pike found extensive use with Landsknecht armies and Swiss mercenaries, who employed it as their main weapon and used it in pike square formations. Where the longbow ended the dominance of knights as the masters of the battlefield, extensive use of pikeman tactics removed the dominance of cavalry entirely until the incorporation of firearms into mounted combat. A disciplined wall of pikemen wielding razor-tipped death on the end of twenty-foot poles would break any charge.

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Grendel -

[L-5]

ThinkBig -

[L-1]

TheRealGin-N-Tonic - ThinkBig, RadiantCowbells, nancy, Cooperative Sheep

[L-5]

nancy -

[L-5]

Cooperative Sheep -

[L-5]

Fro99er -

[L-5]

mattblackguy -

[L-5]

RadiantCowbells -

Waiting for their DOOM

- Grendel, TheRealGin-N-Tonic, Fro99er, mattblackguy

Day 4 ends in (expired on 2017-03-19 14:00:00)

[Pine]

Tone down the vitriol, please.

[Pine]

Anyway end-game theatrics are fun and all but let's kill scum now.

VOTE: Ginny

[Pine]

@Mod, vote count please

Srsly? I gave you a VC a page and a half ago.

[L-2] TheRealGin-N-Tonic - RadiantCowbells, nancy, Cooperative Sheep

That's what you're interested in. Your vote on RC is the only other vote in play.

[Pine]

Holy shit, eww. Scorpions are one of my two irrational fears. The other is chainsaws.

My family was vacationing in the cloud forests of Costa Rica, staying at this rustic little lodge, when I suddenly felt a scratching on my calf. I look down and there's a scorpion crawling up it! I shook it off, but it freaked me out to the point where, twenty years later, I can't even look at pictures of them without getting a little vertigo.

Chainsaws are a little simpler. When I was in scouts, one of the other boys' dads lost three and a half fingers to a chainsaw. Twenty years later, I have worked my way up to being able to handle a chainsaw while its engine is running, but not actually use it.

[Pine]

==> Vote Count 4.2 <==

With 8 votes in play, it's 5 to lynch!

The arquebus was an early muzzle-loaded firearm used in the 15th to 17th centuries. Like its successor the musket, it was a smoothbore firearm, but was initially lighter and easier to carry. The arquebus is notable for its status as a fore-runner to more widespread early firearms. While the gun itself was grossly unreliable by today's standards, or even those of later early firearms, its introduction triggered a revolution in tactics and military composition.

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Grendel -

[L-5]

ThinkBig -

[L-3]

TheRealGin-N-Tonic - RadiantCowbells, Cooperative Sheep

[L-5]

nancy -

[L-5]

Cooperative Sheep -

[L-5]

Fro99er -

[L-5]

mattblackguy -

[L-4]

RadiantCowbells - TheRealGin-N-Tonic

Waiting for their DOOM

- Grendel, mattblackguy, ThinkBig, nancy, Fro99er

Day 4 ends in (expired on 2017-03-19 14:00:00)

[Pine]

==> Vote Count 4.3 <==

With 8 votes in play, it's 5 to lynch!

Although the use of toxic chemicals as weapons dates back thousands of years, the first large scale use of chemical weapons was during World War I. They were primarily used to demoralize, injure, and kill entrenched defenders, against whom the indiscriminate and generally very slow-moving or static nature of gas clouds would be most effective. The types of weapons employed ranged from disabling chemicals, such as tear gas, to lethal agents like phosgene, chlorine, and mustard gas. Gas was unlike most other weapons of the period because it was possible to develop effective countermeasures, such as gas masks. In the later stages of the war, as the use of gas increased, its overall effectiveness diminished. The use of gas was emblematic of the way World War I was fought, and why it was so different from all other wars that had been fought to that point. Trench warfare was inhuman, completely impersonal. Gone were the times when the order of the day was one man killing another, now monstrous weapons of science would indiscriminately slaughter hundreds of thousands in a single battle, without ever seeing the faces of those they were killing.

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Grendel -

[L-5]

ThinkBig -

[L-1]

TheRealGin-N-Tonic - RadiantCowbells, Cooperative Sheep, ThinkBig, mattblackguy

[L-5]

nancy -

[L-5]

Cooperative Sheep -

[L-5]

Fro99er -

[L-5]

mattblackguy -

[L-4]

RadiantCowbells - TheRealGin-N-Tonic

Waiting for their DOOM

- Grendel, Fro99er, nancy

Day 4 ends in (expired on 2017-03-19 14:00:00)

[Pine]

==> Vote Count 4.4 (FINAL) <==

With 8 votes in play, it's 5 to lynch!

Nuclear weapons. A cascading explosion caused by manipulating certain elements to critical mass, releasing an enormous amount of energy dwarfing anything previously imagined. Atomic bombs are sufficient to devastate entire cities, killing tens or hundreds of thousands in mere minutes, and release many kinds of radiation and electromagnetic pulses. Only two nuclear devices have been deployed in anger, both by the United States against Japan at the end of World War II, driving the Japanese to surrender. The advent of the atomic era presaged an entirely new kind of warfare, where the potential consequences of all-out war between nations so armed became unthinkable, and belligerents took to fighting a cold war of small-scale conflict and the sponsoring of proxy agents, as well as economic and diplomatic antagonism.

While nuclear war on any scale has never broken out, it remains a specter of doom haunting the descendants of Einstein and Oppenheimer.

[L-5]

Grendel -

[L-5]

ThinkBig -

[LYNCH ACHIEVED]

TheRealGin-N-Tonic - RadiantCowbells, Cooperative Sheep, ThinkBig, mattblackguy, nancy

[L-5]

nancy -

[L-5]

Cooperative Sheep -

[L-5]

Fro99er -

[L-5]

mattblackguy -

[L-4]

RadiantCowbells - TheRealGin-N-Tonic

Waiting for their DOOM

- Grendel, Fro99er

Day 4 ends NOW

[Pine]

It doesn't take the group very long to decide at all, and while he fights valiantly against their efforts, the rabble quickly decides to kill Gin. Two of you grab his arms and pin him to the wall, while nancy grabs the gun and raises it to finish the job. "No!" cries the prisoner, bucking free of the restraining arms. "I am invincible! The cure will be mine!" Diving at nancy, he wrestles the revolver away from her and rolls away, brandishing it wildly. "Back! Stay...stay back!" The group quails away from the maddened Gin, who ultimately starts at a sudden move and pulls the trigger.

The gun explodes, blowing off a goodly chunk of Gin's hand in the process. A rather large shard of gunmetal shrapnel rips through his neck, spraying everyone with bright red arterial blood.

TheRealGin-N-Tonic has died, killed by a backfiring revolver. He was a

Mafia Goon

.

How delightful! I do love a surprise ending! A pity you didn't draw the debate out more, I truly was enjoying watching him squirm.

A previously unseen trap door swings open beneath one of the ratty rugs, its absence causing a clear depression in the filthy material. A few of you drag the rug away after wiping Gin's blood out of your eyes, and the group descends into darkness once more...

[Pine]

Night 3 ends in (expired on 2017-03-09 04:30:00)

Accelerated night is again available upon request.

I'll get around to updating the first post and sending out dead thread invites in the morning, it's 4:30 AM.

[Pine]

We apparently have spectator(s)! If any spectators would like dead thread access, shoot me a PM.

[Pine]

The party emerges into a dimly-lit room after what seems like an endless climb down a rusty iron ladder. A weak night light is all that illuminates this next room, concealing what horror lies within. Hands grope in the darkness, until one of you stumbles across a light switch. To your collective surprise, it clicks on, spreading a warm, soft yellow light from several elegant fixtures on the ceiling and sconces on the wall. Blinking, you look around and take a quick head count.

To your surprise,

NO ONE

is missing.

You spread out, exploring the small and well-appointed room. Plush leather couches and easy chairs abound, even a small bed with fine Egyptian cotton sheets. A carved oak table braces one wall, set with all manner of food and snacks. Steam rises from a whole honey-baked ham and hot chocolate, and the cookies appear fresh from the oven. Cheese and fruit, wine and soda, bread and beer are laid out, all on a red silk tablecloth. Gilt-framed images of famous massacres and losing battles throughout history are placed evenly around the walls.

Welcome to the Halftime Rest Stop! Nothing in this room will harm you or maim you, stab you or bite you, burn you or mash you. The food isn't poisoned. Really! Eat your fill, rest up a bit, and when you're ready, we can move on.

At first, none of you are willing to take the madman at his word and try the food, but nothing else seems to be forthcoming. As the minutes tick by, you all gradually drift toward the table, the gnawing of your empty stomachs becoming too much to bear. Finally, you give in to nibbles and sip, just to test for hazard. When none of you seem in immediate peril of dropping from anything but hunger, everyone falls to and gorges themselves.

Some time later, everyone is sprawled out on the furniture nursing one last drink. One adventurous couple (who shall remain nameless) even rigged up a sheet to provide a modicum of privacy to the small bed in the corner...not that it muffled the sounds of their "relaxation" much. As the last crumbs of the cookies are licked lazily off of fingers, a chime rings out. Everyone is shaken from their repose, and the couple in the corner hastily tugs on clothing. Above the great oaken table, a slot opens, and a small golden tray slides out from the wall, bearing a single silvery pill.

Time for your reward, children! I do always like to have at least one survivor, and it's that time, kiddies! The pill on the tray before you is the antidote to the drugs I gave you, but there's only one dose. Choose among yourselves who shall have it, and that lucky individual will be released through the escape hatch cleverly hidden under the table.

[Pine]

==> Vote Count 5.0 <==

With 7 votes in play, it's 4 to lynch!

The Boston Massacre, known as the Incident on King Street by the British, was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers shot and killed people while under attack by a mob. The incident was heavily propagandized by leading Patriots, such as Paul Revere and Samuel Adams, to fuel animosity toward the British authorities. British troops had been stationed in Boston, capital of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, since 1768 in order to protect and support crown-appointed colonial officials attempting to enforce unpopular Parliamentary legislation. Amid ongoing tense relations between the population and the soldiers, a mob formed around a British sentry, who was subjected to verbal abuse and harassment. He was eventually supported by eight additional soldiers, who were subjected to verbal threats and repeatedly hit by clubs, stones and snowballs. They fired into the crowd, without orders, instantly killing three people and wounding others. Two more people died later of wounds sustained in the incident. The impact of the Boston Massacre is not in the number of people slain in the event, but in the way it resonated with the Patriot cause and fanned the fires of war as an exemplar of British colonial oppression.

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Grendel -

[L-4]

ThinkBig -

[L-4]

nancy -

[L-4]

Cooperative Sheep -

[L-4]

Fro99er -

[L-4]

mattblackguy -

[L-4]

RadiantCowbells -

Waiting for their DOOM

- Grendel, ThinkBig, nancy, Cooperative Sheep, Fro99er, mattblackguy, RadiantCowbells

Day 5 ends in (expired on 2017-03-22 23:30:00)

[Pine]

I know the flavor is salvation-themed, but it's a regular lynch. Just go with it.

[Pine]

It's midnight and I haven't slept in two days. I swear to fuck if I have to stay up to lock this thread in thirty minutes I will cut a bitch.

[Pine]

Thread locked, but can't do endgame in line at Dunkin Donuts

Suffice to confirm Town win for now

[Pine]

==> Vote Count 5.1 (FINAL) <==

With 7 votes in play, it's 4 to lynch!

The Battle of the Alamo (February 23 – March 6, 1836) was a pivotal event in the Texas Revolution. Following a 13-day siege, Mexican troops under President General Antonio López de Santa Anna launched an assault on the Alamo Mission near San Antonio de Béxar (modern-day San Antonio, Texas, United States), killing all of the Texian defenders. In the early morning hours of March 6, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. After repelling two attacks, the Texians were unable to fend off a third attack. As Mexican soldiers scaled the walls, most of the Texian soldiers withdrew into interior buildings. Defenders unable to reach these points were slain by the Mexican cavalry as they attempted to escape. Between five and seven Texians may have surrendered; if so, they were quickly executed. Most eyewitness accounts reported between 182 and 257 Texians died, while most historians of the Alamo agree that around 600 Mexicans were killed or wounded. Santa Anna's cruelty during the battle inspired many Texians—both Texas settlers and adventurers from the United States—to join the Texian Army. Buoyed by a desire for revenge, the Texians defeated the Mexican Army at the Battle of San Jacinto, on April 21, 1836, ending the revolution. Among the dead defenders were such legendary pioneers as William Travis, Jim Bowie, and Davy Crockett, who legend would have us believed was found surrounded by fallen Mexican soldiers.

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Grendel -

[LYNCH ACHIEVED]

ThinkBig - RadiantCowbells, mattblackguy, nancy, Fro99er

[L-4]

nancy -

[L-4]

Cooperative Sheep - ThinkBig

[L-4]

Fro99er -

[L-4]

mattblackguy -

[L-4]

RadiantCowbells -

Waiting for their DOOM

- Grendel, Cooperative Sheep

Day 5 ends NOW!

[Pine]

"Oh, fuck this."

That seems to be the consensus of the group as it is roused from its post-feast torpor. It seems that a moment of safety and respite had the opposite of the intended effect; instead of heightening their impending doom with false hope, Pine's momentary reprieve galvanizes the survivors with genuine hope. Anger sweeps through the group, as they unify behind rejecting the game and resolving to escape together. Their rage and angst is focused on ThinkBig, as he seems to be more focused on his personal safety than on helping the group escape.

"Alright, fine!" shouts RadiantCowbells, "You want the medicine? You want to save yourself over us? That can be arranged!" As mattblackguy holds the struggling ThinkBig against the wall, RadiantCowbells grabs the silvery antidote. Fro99er pries open ThinkBig's mouth, and RadiantCowbells rams the pill down his throat, gashing his knuckles on ThinkBig's broken teeth. nancy holds the victim's shattered mouth closed and pinches his nostrils together until ThinkBig swallows the pill, along with several ounces of blood and the remains of his smile.

While ThinkBig groans in pain and gags on his own blood, the rest of you proceed to trash the lovely Halftime room. Couches are upended, portraits of Little Bighorn, the Trail of Tears, and the St. Bartholemew's Day Massacre are thrown down and shredded, and the remains of the food are dashed to the floor. Even the nice new wallpaper is torn down from the walls of the old basement storeroom. Finally, the group turns its sights on the purported escape hatch. The fine oak table is upended, revealing a tunnel entrance. At RadiantCowbell's direction, Cooperative Sheep and Grendel hoist up ThinkBig, now spasming and seizing, and use his skull as a battering ram to smash down the hatch.

ThinkBig has died, with the antidote shoved down his throat and his skull bashed in as a battering ram. He was a

Mafia Goon.

"Now wait one cotton-picking minute, here, I don't mind you getting a bit extemporaneous on me. I really was going to let one of you go! There's no need to ruin the game just because you value your lives over my entertainment. I really must - "

A loud knocking sound is heard over the live feed from Pine's bunker, followed by

"Open up, this is the FBI!"

A loud crash is heard, and several gunshots. Long minutes of scuffling are heard, until the agent's voice comes over the loudspeaker.

"This is Special Agent Firebringer with the FBI. Remain calm, folks! We don't know how this place is booby-trapped, but the tunnel ahead of you seems clear. We have people moving to meet you at the end. Head down the tunnel and we'll get you to safety."

One by one, you get down on all fours and crawl to safety. You each emerge into the light covered with grime and blood, both your own and that of the dead. Agents Mastina and mykonian of the FBI usher you to waiting ambulaces, who whisk you off to the emergency room. Agonizing hours fly by as you are treated for your superficial ailments, and your veins are burning while drenched in cold sweat when the doctor brings in a pale silver bag of medication. As she attaches it to your IV, she informs you that it is recovered antidote from Pine's lair, and the delay was in analyzing it for your safety. As the cool fluid enters your system, you drift off into a deep and dreamless sleep, as the fire in your blood is quenched.

Grendel has survived the deathtrap! He was a

Vanilla Townie

.
nancy has survived the deathtrap! She was a

Vanilla Townie

.
Cooperative Sheep has survived the deathtrap! He was a

Vanilla Townie

.
Fro99er has survived the deathtrap! He was a

Vanilla Townie

.
mattblackguy has survived the deathtrap! He was a

Town Jailkeeper

.
RadiantCowbells has survived the deathtrap! He was a

1-shot Bulletproof Townie

.

[Pine]

The recovery from your ordeal takes weeks, and even months later it is hard to talk about. The fact that Pine escaped capture doesn't help, nor does the fact that every year on the anniversary of your escape, a post card appears in the mail with a simple, handwritten note:

Thinking of You

[Pine]

Setup, notes, comments, and PTs will be released soon. Still in my Red Cross Instructor training, so all that mechanical shenanigans will have to wait. I'd also like to have some post-game theory discussions, but that can wait too.

[Pine]

Thread is open!

[Pine]

Dead thread has been made public, and is here: Hell is Other People.

Still waiting on final confirmation to release scum PT.

I'm home now, and will be conducting the remaining paperwork to close out the game and provoke some discussion.

[Pine]

Subject: Hell is other people

Yeah, I think post-endgame is going to turn into an ad hoc theory discussion about Town gambits.

Is this the group discussion you want to have Pine?

Yes. I was going to get some other things done first, but let's get it rolling.

There were an absolute crapton of Town fakeclaim gambits this game. I'm looking at you, Rautherdir and RC.

I don't find them to be helpful or pro-Town. They

repeatedly

almost screwed Town over, to the point where it was sheer dumb luck that they didn't. Rautherdir claimed roleblock at the start of D3, after MBG

just happened

to jailkeep him the night before. If he'd claimed any kind of investigation at all, it would have (and should have) gotten him MLed. He also faked an innocent on RC (I think) which could have been disastrous if it had been wrong and believed.

All of the fakeclaims also completely screwed up your setup speculation. This was a very low-power game, and the Deputy + Motion Detector claims really threw that off its axle.

And that's not even touching all of RC's claims. Yeesh.

I'm not saying Town fakeclaims are always a bad idea, but they were way overboard this time around.

[Pine]

Also, if anyone has any advice for me, I'd love to hear it. Learned such a lot over the course of this game, about myself and about the game.

Trust your gut a bit more. You tend to bounce all over the place and turn on a dime. While guarding against complacency is a trait that the best Town cultivate, too much of it can turn into paranoia. Conversely, perseverating on stale reads you don't really believe in anymore is just as destructive. It's a fine balance.

Which claim of mine do you believe hurt down or had serious potential to?

Well......you have a distinct reputation for making fakeclaims, so I don't think they actually affected the game much at all. Which is kind of its own problem. When you gambit so much that it has no effect, you're kind of just spinning your wheels.

[Pine]

No it didn't. TB no-killed for the WIFOM, you didn't have anything to do with it. He was hoping to get MBG's jailkeep target MLed. I'd be utterly shocked if anyone failed to see through the tracker claim.

[Pine]

Yeah, those two points are not connected in any way.

[Pine]

Ok. speaking specifically gambits wise:

do you or do you not think that me treating mbg like confscum in the EOD of D3 contributed to him surviving? Was that a good or a bad thing?

Hell, if I hadn't been fake innod I may or may not have been lynched D2. If I was do you think town ends up winning?

I don't think your gambits had anything to do with any of what you just mentioned. The only thing that may have been believed was that you were full bulletproof, a fib I'd make every time.

What are some situations you've seen that you'd classify as a town fake claim done right?

It's pretty limited. For starters, they're best used sparingly. I'd go several games between attempts, bare minimum. They are also best when they are exaggerations or minimizations of the truth, such as claiming Doc when you're actually a Bodyguard, or Cop as a Hider. My various waffling about my abilities in Clumsy's Curse of Strahd mini is a good example of a Town lie.

When they're bad is when they're provably or demonstrably falsifiable, or when they're made without a clear-cut and direct agenda. Anything that requires you to produce results that could be found to be wrong is dangerous. Doubling down on investigative roles greatly complicates setup spec. Claiming Tracker would have been just fine as BP, because you might draw the kill onto your shield. But doing so flippantly for a murky reason with a robust investigator already flipped when you've already claimed something else is just unhelpful. The dead thread and I collectively rolled our eyes.

[Pine]

What are some situations you've seen that you'd classify as a town fake claim done right?

I can think of a couple of them (even from the same game!), yes.

Fun fact: scumteam didn't believe either of them.

[Pine]

I agree. RC's scumhunting and deductive reasoning, as well as his leadership capabilities focused Town and pushed it to an early win.

Don't get me wrong here, I disagree with the overuse of Town!gambits and found them to be a distracting and ineffective tactic, but RC earned this win.

[Pine]

Mastina's move was great. It just wasn't believable.

[Pine]

Mastina's move was great. It just wasn't believable.

You still wasted your block on me anyway! And then wasted your strongman on me!

Yeah, well, you scary. And you know me too well. And everyone was TRing you with a deathgrip. We needed to break up the Townbloc, and you were deemed the linchpin of it.

The roleblock was to try to frame you, just in case we were wrong. You said it would fail if you targeted scum, so we set you up to fail, mislynch a Townie, then mislynch yourself when they flipped.

The strongman was just because we needed you dead and thought you'd likely be protected.

grendel most obvious town in the game lol lol lol

Don't get down on yourself, Grendel. One of the most valuable things a VT can do is just plain make yourself Townread. PRs have the resort of claiming to dodge a lynch, VTs don't have the luxury. You did fine.

[Pine]

No, I was not. By making himself obvTown, Grendel was a valuable member of the Townteam regardless of his level of input.

[Pine]

<3 nancy

There are lots of times when angst from a game can spill out into the real world and vice versa. They can also amplify one another. Best thing to do is sleep on it, and if it's still a problem, replace out and deal with stuff.