London Mafia - SCORES ARE IN - See you in London 2

[London Mod]

Chapter 14: Epilogue

It was a dark and bitterly cold night. His clothes were stained with dust and dirty snow, and his face was extremely pale. However, Mr Stapleton was overwhelmed with satisfaction, and his eyes sparkled with intense joy.

He arrived at Waterloo Station at eight o'clock, and headed straight towards platform two - the Southampton line.

The Southampton express was ready to leave - a few porters were busy loading a Lady's luggage in the first class wagon. Stapleton decided to wait a little before getting in the train. He would sit one last time on one of these fine London benches. After all, benches in South America were quite less comfortable. Besides - he deserved a moment of triumph.

He sat down and opened his suitcase. His eyes found the two envelopes he had carefully stored inside.

The first envelope would make him rich: the enclosed documents proved that he was, without the shadow of a doubt, the last Baskerville alive.
As the only heir to the Baskerville domain and possessions, he would claim them - from Argentina. He would obtain the fortune without ever returning to England at all.

The second envelope would make him even richer. He had seized the Duke's secret documents by chance - on the body of one of Moriarty's thugs. He would have all major powers bid for them.

His Hound had served him well. Too bad he had had to shoot the poor beast before coming to the station - after all, he had only bought one ticket.

There was a general clearing. Stapleton picked up his suitcase and was about to start off into the darkness when a stranger accosted him.

'You killed my Duke and Grandmaster. Die'

.

It was Dragon Phoenix.

'Stop him, stop him !'

Korais666 ran along the platform.

'LYNCH HIM !'

, Irene Adler shouted.

'POLICE - STOP HIM!!!'

, Wiggins, Sam, and the two Holmes yelled.
Sherlock and Mycroft managed to throw Korais to the floor.
Ellen Sutton picked up the suitcase, and handed it to the three Scotland Yard inspectors who had appeared on the platform.

'I think these gentlemen have some questions for you', Sherlock concluded. 'As to you all, my dear friends, thank you for your help in putting these crimes to an end... And please - follow me to Baker Street, for I believe we deserve some sort of celebration !'

TOWN WINS ! CONGRATULATIONS !

[CaptainBlicero]

Sweet!

This game was awesome.... any chance we can get the full setup posted?

I'm guessing DS was Sherlock, d8p was Irene, and Dourgrim is the last mason. I was Wiggins.

[MeMe]

I knew this couldn't last much longer without me....

I should have gone ahead and made my fake role claim when I "exposed" UT as a liar -- would that have made a difference? I was going to claim Ambrose Hebron, veterinarian. Nightly I make a house call to discern whether any animals on the premises are being abused. In my notes, I had that I checked UT earlier (which - after my heated back and forth with Arminger - was unavaoidable) and found him to own no pets. So, to keep the integrity of my claim intact, I HAD to out him when he said he controlled the hound!

The weird thing is that UT and I were discussing the game a couple of days ago (after we were both out) and he was truly under the impression that he had been the one controlling the hound...which is not the same as the information I had. I thought that I'd yet to contact the Hound Mafia, which would mean that UT had nothing to do with it. Which of us is right? Please tell me there was no mix-up! It'd be

awful

to find that he claimed to be hound mafia because of a PM error!

Congratulations, town. This was a tense game and I enjoyed myself immensely --

regardless

of the fact that I'm a loser this time!

[Dragon Phoenix]

W00t!!

Awesome game. I wished I had been in right from the start.

Anybody pick up my identification of Dourgrim as remaining mason?

[massive]

Well, I'm thankful I didn't butcher this game and screw it all up. Imagine if you guys had bandwagoned me at any point! Townie! Name? Liza Doolittle!

Yeah, you would have lynched the girl from "My Fair Lady" pretty quickly.

Good game all, was fun to participate in.

[Night Stalker]

As soon as I saw my characters name was John Smith, I knew I was doomed.
So I figured I'd have a little fun with it...

[Untrod Tripod]

Awesome game, guys.

[Quagmire]

Great job, town.

WHo killed me right away?!

[Norinel]

I liked the game and am awaiting full disclosure perhaps at least as much as the sequel. The town had it pretty easy, though- pretty much all the scum got nightkilled or made a pathetic claim.

[Untrod Tripod]

Hey! my claim wasn't pathetic, just stupid...

[MeMe]

I don't think the town had it

easy

...but you're right about the role claims (not pathetic...but not convincing, either), for which I think we can blame the crash. Three out of the five remaining post-crash scum were replacements. It was hard enough trying to remember what I'd experienced first-hand; to be asked to step into a scum role midgame and play it well would have been a daunting assignment, to put it mildly.

It's amazing that despite losing so many players the game was able to recover and still be exciting to play. That, to me, says "excellent design." Thanks so much, Leo & Cad!

[rite]

Awesome game, dudes.

[korais666]

If I had ANY knowledge of Holmes at all, I would've kicked some butt. Seriously. Did you purposely give all the evil roles to people who had never read Holmes books?

By the way, can anyone (good or evil) think of a role I could have claimed in retrospect?

Still, being the last man standing was cool. Although... apologies to Meme for killing you. You put on a good show. I was sure you were some pro-town special role in whose death I would benefit.

[MeMe]

It was amazingly difficult for me to play. I had to look guilty enough to make the scum with whom I hadn't met yet not want to kill me...and innocent enough to make the town not want to kill me...after I died I said this to London Mod and he said something like "well, you achieved it -- just backward...the guilty thought you were innocent & the innocent thought you were guilty." D'oh!

[Norinel]

Well, Werebear (I think) had put up a useful link of Holmes stuff (Which I had then linked to in my summary); you could have looked at that a bit and named some pro-town side character or victim in a story. On the other hand, the first few names I find in looking through stories I've read recently might not work, like Doctor Trevelyan from The Resident Patient (Or is he in the game and would be replaced by Elizabeth Blessington?) or Jabez Wilson from The Red-Headed League (A mason). Maybe Mrs. Saint Clair from The Man With The Twisted Lip would work.

[Talitha]

No way! It's over!?!?

I was sure this Londontown was chocka full of scum, and that's why no-one wanted to vote for MeMe!

Well done DP, 2 well-chosen bandwagons and voila!

[korais666]

So, how many points did I get!?!?

[Dragon Slayer]

GREAT GAME guys. I was, as you all expected, Sherlock. I was so frustrated with getting UT lynched, now you all know why. However, even without my guilty investigation, I still made some valid points against him and IMO, made some of my best arguements ever in mafia scum. Of course, I had some extra confidendence by knowing him to be guilty but hey- not like that's cheating.
Awesome job, London Mod. Great job everybody. Go town!

-DS

[Talitha]

Yeah I figured you were Sherlock. Jalyn followed you and found out that you "try to figure things out at night". That's why I was completely happy to lynch UT when DP proposed him as bandwagon candidate. (I didn't want to vote with you because I was worried about giving away your identity).

[d8P]

Wahooo!

Fantastic

game, guys. Hat goes off to DP, of course.

I was Irene Adler.

When is the next one? Is it ready?:)

[Dragon Slayer]

Here's some of my notes:

 Kelvin = Freemason, and you have now deduced that
Dourgrim = Freemason.

You believe the Duke of Kent may also be a Freemason.

 Upon investigation, Dourgrim seems to be Jabez Wilson, a painter. You get the feeling he knows more about the Duke of Kent. You just can't seem to figure out the exact involvement.

You do know that he's a highly respected man. (See above for his actual role)

Proof I’m Holmes. What mathcam wrote- DSISH

mathcam, Mon Apr 21, 2003 7:25 pm

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omeone's

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ead, other than mine, tingle a mite funny since both murders took place in the same location? Maybe the hound followed around the stabber? More likely, the murders were physically close together for maintaining the flow of the scene, but I just thought I'd throw it out there.

Cam

[Untrod Tripod]

Hmm, at least I'm part of DS's best arguments....

[Talitha]

Hehe. DSISH. I love it.

[korais666]

Dragon Slayer Is Sherlock Holmes?

*feels smart*

[Werebear]

Mycroft Holmes actually had an ability, that I never revealed. Should Sherlock die, I would get his notes. I had no investigations myself.

...so if someone had killed DS, I at least would have salvaged his notebook. Nothing like having a role that the mafia don't consider worth killing, while also having the power to reveal investigations if need be. Then the mafia could lynch me, I would have already done my worst.