Mafia Game (After Party)

[bagheera]

Oh, you finally realized that opposing this makes you look more like the Mafia?

Dec 17, 2010 14:50:56 GMT -8 Ryan Roos said:

I only ask that all of the villagers join up with iCraft and Syko once I'm gone to lynch the remaining mafia. If you all don't work together then you will die and lose the game.

Very interesting. I'd say this makes it near-100% sure that iCraft is the remaining Mafia member. It's possible you're tricking him into being thought of as the fourth member so we'll lynch the wrong person later, though, in which case he'll immediately play the "I was duped, I'm not actually Mafia!" card after we die and your role is revealed. Hmm.

[iCraft]

Dec 17, 2010 15:09:20 GMT -8 bagheera said:

Oh, you finally realized that opposing this makes you look more like the Mafia?

Dec 17, 2010 14:50:56 GMT -8 Ryan Roos said:

I only ask that all of the villagers join up with iCraft and Syko once I'm gone to lynch the remaining mafia. If you all don't work together then you will die and lose the game.

Very interesting. I'd say this makes it near-100% sure that iCraft is the remaining Mafia member. It's possible you're tricking him into being thought of as the fourth member so we'll lynch the wrong person later, though, in which case he'll immediately play the "I was duped, I'm not actually Mafia!" card after we die and your role is revealed. Hmm.

Then how come i have a pm from you offering me a free question just so you can get my vote.

[bagheera]

Dec 17, 2010 15:12:29 GMT -8 iCraft said:

Dec 17, 2010 15:09:20 GMT -8 bagheera said:

Oh, you finally realized that opposing this makes you look more like the Mafia?



Very interesting. I'd say this makes it near-100% sure that iCraft is the remaining Mafia member. It's possible you're tricking him into being thought of as the fourth member so we'll lynch the wrong person later, though, in which case he'll immediately play the "I was duped, I'm not actually Mafia!" card after we die and your role is revealed. Hmm.

Then how come i have a pm from you saying that you are sure im not mafia and now your saying i am again

Honestly? Because I probably wrote that PM to Nightwalker and added your username as an afterthought in case you wanted to ask me anything, either, so I could make sure to contact both potential villagers. I must have forgotten to change that line.

Edited: Nice edit.

Edited: Huh, it appears I didn't say that to you...

Since you're the villager that won't budge...

That's the only thing I said.

And it's pretty obvious from everything that's happened, and from the way Ryan is pushing people to follow your lead.

[iCraft]

Dec 17, 2010 15:14:53 GMT -8 bagheera said:

Dec 17, 2010 15:12:29 GMT -8 iCraft said:

Then how come i have a pm from you saying that you are sure im not mafia and now your saying i am again

Honestly? Because I wrote that PM to Nightwalker and added your username as an afterthought in case you wanted to ask me anything, either, so I could make sure to contact both potential villagers. Forgot to change that line.

Huh, it appears I didn't say that to you...

Since you're the villager that won't budge...

That's the only thing I said.

And it's pretty obvious from everything that's happened, and from the way Ryan is pushing people to follow your lead.

Edited: Nice edit.

Sorry i sall i was wrong, but if your so sure im mafia why would you want my vote.

[Ryan Roos]

Dec 17, 2010 15:09:20 GMT -8 bagheera said:

Oh, you finally realized that opposing this makes you look more like the Mafia?

Wow really Bagheera?

I can't win with you can I? How does both of us dying not reveal you as mafia? Opposing it doesn't make me look like mafia. It makes more sense for as many villagers as possible stay alive. But I did the math and assuming everyone works together after you die it doesn't matter if I'm around or not. The villagers will still have how many they need to pull off a win.

You wanting to kill us both is only to injure the villagers, since its likely in a tie breaker (popular vote perhaps) you will be killed all alone. You just want to drag me down with you.

Just for the record, when I opposed the double lynching Bagheera criticized me. When I supported the double lynching Bagheera criticized me.

[bagheera]

Dec 17, 2010 15:26:03 GMT -8 Ryan Roos said:

Dec 17, 2010 15:09:20 GMT -8 bagheera said:

Oh, you finally realized that opposing this makes you look more like the Mafia?

Wow really Bagheera?

I can't win with you can I? How does both of us dying not reveal you as mafia? Opposing it doesn't make me look like mafia. It makes more sense for as many villagers as possible stay alive. But I did the math and assuming everyone works together after you die it doesn't matter if I'm around or not. The villagers will still have how many they need to pull off a win.

You wanting to kill us both is only to injure the villagers, since its likely in a tie breaker (popular vote perhaps) you will be killed all alone. You just want to drag me down with you.

Just for the record, when I opposed the double lynching Bagheera criticized me. When I supported the double lynching Bagheera criticized me.

Because I pointed out what you bolded a lonnng time ago and you went all, "I'M NOT GOING TO LET YOU TAKE ME DOWN".

[Ryan Roos]

Dec 17, 2010 15:43:01 GMT -8 bagheera said:

Dec 17, 2010 15:26:03 GMT -8 Ryan Roos said:

Wow really Bagheera?

I can't win with you can I? How does both of us dying not reveal you as mafia? Opposing it doesn't make me look like mafia. It makes more sense for as many villagers as possible stay alive. But I did the math and assuming everyone works together after you die it doesn't matter if I'm around or not. The villagers will still have how many they need to pull off a win.

You wanting to kill us both is only to injure the villagers, since its likely in a tie breaker (popular vote perhaps) you will be killed all alone. You just want to drag me down with you.

Just for the record, when I opposed the double lynching Bagheera criticized me. When I supported the double lynching Bagheera criticized me.

Because I pointed out what you bolded a lonnng time ago and you went all, "I'M NOT GOING TO LET YOU TAKE ME DOWN".

I'm done talking to you. People will see what you really are soon.

---

Ryan slowly walked up the gallows and surveyed the crowd. Pitchforks and torches everywhere. Some still had the price tags hanging on string fluttering lightly in the breeze. He looked over at Bagheera, that mafia trickster, being marched up the other side. At least there would be some justice for his own death.

Two nooses hung from the hangman's beam. Ryan looked up at the sky and cleared his throat. His eyes met friends in the crowd.

"Villagers! Friends! I tried my best to help you all. I understand in such times that justice is blind." His eyes met with those of his wife. He held back his tears. The fur coat, he bought her for Christmas just yesterday, draped over her shoulders. He gave it to her this morning when he decided he might not see Christmas."I did my best to fight the crime of this city. Out there among you even now are dangerous people. When I am gone you must not give up hope. You must not waver in your convictions. You only have each other to get you through this tough time. Please, my last request is that you find the evil in this town and you remove it. It is a stain, a cancer, it must be cured."

Ryan turned and walked towards the noose that would take his life. He turned and looked at the sky, the sun starting to set. He made eye contact with his wife one last time. The hangman's hood coming down blocking his vision...

[bagheera]

bagheera ambled up to the gallows, her head held high as she met the eyes of the villagers. She smiled at some, smirked at another in a "you'll see" fashion, and then just gazed into the distance, reflecting before the noose as only certain death can do to a person.

Just as she had hoped, the first of the four Mafia was about to be taken down, unravelling their powerful alliance and giving the villagers a chance to eliminate the criminals amongst them, the ones she had so long ago begun to name.

She couldn't say she was dying with no regrets, but she would die with her shoulders eased of the burden of protecting the town, even those who doubted her, at any cost. It wouldn't be long before she met Phaelyn again, the villager who had, even with her dying breath, begged the village to listen to her words. Such an unnecessary death, a cruel one, an oft-mourned one, but still, history was doomed to repeat itself.

But that was no longer her concern. She'd given everything in these last three days to protect the villagers whom she had come to think of as her villagers, even the stubborn ones and the uncertain ones. Blessed and cursed at once with a job that was dangerous, unforgiving, and haunting, she had used it to the best of her abilities to, she hoped, help her surviving friends outlast the Mafia.

And above all, she had been honest and unfaltering in her loyalty to the people she was going to be survived by. That assuaged her anxiety about death, comforted her in these last few moments, full of burning torches, beautifully barbed pitchforks and woefully plain ones, and chaos.

Speaking softly at first before her voice started to rise, she smiled as she spoke her last words. "My villagers, friends, and companions... I've given everything to help you -- to help us, the village, since death does not strip a true villager of his or her community and friends -- survive. I'm grateful for the faith all but one of you put in me, for the chance to begin unravelling the Mafia at long last, and for the way some of you have refused to listen to the impassioned pleas of a guilty man. I've given you all I know and all I suspect to help guide you through these last tumultuous days before the village has cleansed itself of Mafia. I go now to join Phaelyn in a righteous death, a death that is honest and pure, and I am confident it will not go unavenged."

She glanced at that noose, then over at the sea of pitchforks, her resolution unfaltering. "Thank you for listening to me, and for helping me to finally reveal those who are Mafia," bagheera sincerely spoke. "My spirit will remain in this town to protect you, if you welcome it, and will comfort those of you who have yet to die from the Mafia's vile crimes overnight. Even now, I feel the spirits of the other villagers lingering, waiting to welcome me... waiting for justice. When all has settled, a new era of peace and prosperity will surely begin, one which is worth my own life."

Still proud and fierce in her dedication to the cause of saving the village, bagheera walked to the noose. The beauty of the setting sun struck her, everything in life seeming so much richer and fuller now that hers was about to end. "Farewell," she concluded with a slight nod, allowing the hangman to fit her with the blindfold, her last sight that of the villagers she had worked so hard to protect.

Her last thought was this: Death may be scary, and I might not be ready for it, but I cannot regret anything I have done. This will finally reveal the truth.

[aether]

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Sorry this response took so long, but I had a long drive home today. As for the double lynching, people have expressed their reservations of it. And they're right, it's not fair at all to change the rules halfway through. So I won't. Instead I'll ask that people besides Bagheera and Ryan get involved. I think it'd be nice to see everyone's reasoning, and not just Camp Bagheera vs Camp Ryan.

I must say that I felt the need to rush an ending for my own benefit. I was growing quite bored with the repartee between Bagheera and Ryan, but it's not my place to do anything about it. It's all up to the villagers. If they get sick of something, it's their place to change it, not mine.

Good luck. Sorry about the double-homocide scare.

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[Mr. Spartan]

this is going to go on and on forever but really, I'm not sure who to trust. Definitely Bagheera more since I think she's shown more proof, even though she came out yelling "I'm the Detective!" on Day 2. but then again, Ryan says he knows who the real detective is. The nurse, we have no clue who it is. They're doing a good job at hiding, and same for the detective (if it's not Bagheera). As for mafia, we all agree Jetta is one. And then there are splits on both sides about who the rest are.

Ryan says Bagheera is, and Bagheera says Ryan, Syko, and possibly iCraft (maybe not now). It's all so confusing that only mental people can actually keep up with the past 30 pages. I give props to the ones like Thumper who have done exactly what I just said and stayed away except for voting.

Since we can't lynch both now, why don't we all just kill off Jetta like we originally planned, since she's a known mafia. Then there will be one less of them, and we can move on. Then during the night phase, either Ryan or Bagheera will get killed off, whichever one isn't mafia. If both aren't, and the nurse knows this, then one of them is screwed. Either way, it's a win situation for us villagers because we have successfully killed one mafia.

Vote: Jetta

[Syko Nachoman]

Syko Nachoman picked up his burning torch along with the pitchfork he had purchased from Jetta the previous day (sorry bagheera; prong count is, in fact, a status symbol) and fumbled for his house keys. Knowing that he was already five minutes later for the opening ceremonies to the Third Daily Proboardia Lynching and Chili Cook-Off, he had little time to waste.

Syko arrived, gasping for breath, just as bagheera finished delivering her impassioned speech to the crowd. As the executioner reached for the gallows-noose-hanging-killing switch (all right, I'll just admit I have no idea how a gallows works), the clouds parted, a beam of sunlight shot through, and the voice of God spoke. "Sorry this response took so long, but I had a long drive home today."

God, who Himself had been a potential lynching target as recently as a few hours before the execution, went on to explain that the double lynching would not occur and that, in fact, the lynching would remain a single one as planned. With that, the clouds that had previously cleaved themselves apart cleaved themselves back together and darkness overtook the gallows.

Grumbles of disappointment and agony resonated through the crowd. "What's all this, then?" exclaimed Thumper because he's British and that's what British people say in situations like this. The villagers, becoming ever more impatient for someone to just die already, began to put their heads together and work toward a compromise.

"I'll continue voting for Ryan," said one villager. "I'll continue voting for bagheera," said another. And this pattern repeated several times until dawn broke and the villagers collapsed to the ground in exhaustion and sleep deprivation.

And so it went on, and on, and on, into the night.

[Ryan Roos]

Is it possible that maybe the town we live in has reached a balance of perfect harmony between crime and innocents?

Is it possible that this is the end? That a stalemate was reached. The mafia stopped killing people, the villagers payed for protection from the mafia to the mafia. The mafia invested the money back into the community benefiting the villagers. Lynchings were outlawed unless murder was ever committed again. And everyone lived together, if not in peace, at least in balance and harmony.

Edit: I'm assuming there will be another game played after this one. I would suggest the scapegoat position to eliminate this from happening again.

[Thumper]

Morning Sleepyheads!

I vote Ryan.

My reason - I suspect both Syko and Jetta of being mafia. Early in the week they were voting for Ryan too - then they mysteriously both switched to the Ryan camp.

Sounded too much like a plan to me.

[Thesealion]

yes it does...but it could be Bagheera using them as a plan to make them look like they were on Ryan's side...

[Syko Nachoman]

Bagheera keeps accusing me of being Mafia, which is mean.

Also note how she keeps mentioning that she's been contacting villagers -- clearly there's some degree of manipulation going on. Hence my vote for her.