Sensible Erection | Sensible Mushroom Kingdom, World 2-1

Friday, 8 February 2008

quote [ Good lord! The Sarcasm Canary... it's dead!

EVERYBODY OUT OF THE MINE!!!!!111!!12one ]

It seemed like as soon as I closed my eyes to sleep, it was morning and the Caravan was preparing for the day.

But it was a strange morning. The air seemed hazy and thick. I blamed my immense fatigue, but occassionally objects in my field of vision disappeared for a split second, and reappeared in a slightly different position. Was I going mad? Were my grief and the heavy burden of responsibility driving me over the edge? I had no answers. Only a body and a crater.

Narrenschiff had not survived the night. He had been crushed from above. His broken goggles would have revealed him to be Luigi even if his battered face hadn't.

The crater stood where CapnSilver had slept. We were resigned never to discover his identity, until an impossibly long arm was discovered up in a tree. Waluigi had followed his nemesis into the long night.

At this point I was approached by a shyguy who thanked me for the Mini-Mushroom I had given him. He told me it was delicious. I expressed concern, as eating both servings of a Mini-Mushroom in one sitting could upset the stomach. But I suppose I had greater worries than the digestion of those around me.

After all, the old koopa shipyards stood between us and the inland sea. The industrial complex was destroyed after one of Bowser's failed coups, but the ruins remained as a grim reminder of war. Still, it was a no-man's land and we wouldn't be in any more danger than we'd been thus far. And I was determined that we reach the sea beyond. Perhaps this fel enchantment didn't reach beyond it. It was a small shot, but one we had to take.

justus walked by me, rubbing the bruise on his head and cursing that "fucking cheap-ass red shell bullshit." I shrugged and reread the letter written to me last night somberly.

Toadsworth,

He is gone, and with him my heart, and my hopes of salvation.

What am I without a Mario? What are any of us?

Pixels and static.

Nothing.

-Peach

LIVING

juju - shyguy bricklayer
Alacron - shyguy soothsayer
Zelgius - shyguy wheelwright
kishi - shyguy mushroom farmer
Misanthrope - shyguy venture capitalist
eightysix - shyguy pipe fixer ("plumber" is a reserved title)
Anti-fuites - shyguy pastamaker
thumble - shyguy shopkeep
nibbon - shyguy private eye
Stratafyre - shyguy firework technician
Aidentas - shyguy mortician
gmg - shyguy watchmaker
Breven - shyguy athlete
Caffeine - shyguy history teacher
Ashura Stephanos - shyguy scholar
justus - shyguy shyster
foobar - shyguy meteorologist
-_- - shyguy reporter
rattus - shyguy exterminator
Context - shyguy gourmet
TeDDD - shyguy brassiere model
mego - shyguy nerd
headlessfriar - shyguy painter
Equinophobe - shyguy artist
sythe - shyguy con artist
badgerbaiter - shyguy glassblower
FifthSpango - shyguy shyguyblower
macst34 - shyguy block distributor
KingPellinore - shyguy crazy old man
theluckysean - shyguy bum
Dismortis - shyguy high score calculator

DEATH BY LYNCH

Jewbaccus - MARIO poet
sociology boy - LEMMY KOOPA blockmaker
JewyPEZ - KLEPTO THE CONDOR moneylender
Cleave - KAMEK dancer

DEATH BY FLAME

mwoody - FIRE BRO. manwatcher
assbastard - MARIO erotic dancer
shiny things - TOAD sniffer

DEATH BY IMPACT

Narrenschiff - LUIGI watchman
Omegaphobic - PARAGOOMBA tailor
alupigus - BUZZLE BEETLE math teacher
theolypse - FIRE SNAKE pastamancer

DEATH BY EXPLOSION

CapnSilver - WALUIGI songwriter
verycleanteeth - THWOMP soapmaker

World 0-0: http://www.sensibleerection.com/entry.php/69188
World 1-1: http://www.sensibleerection.com/entry.php/69300
World 1-2: http://www.sensibleerection.com/entry.php/69331
World 1-3: http://www.sensibleerection.com/entry.php/69411
World 1-4: http://www.sensibleerection.com/entry.php/69455

[mafia game] [by skainsmate@9:53amGMT] [+10 Good]

Comments

CapnSilver said @ 9:57am GMT on 8th Feb
first!

CapnSilver said @ 9:57am GMT on 8th Feb
Oh. And last...

-_- said @ 10:39am GMT on 8th Feb
Alpha and Omega?

Toadsworth said @ 9:58am GMT on 8th Feb [Score:2 Informative]
I didn't quite feel myself, so I concentrated on tallying the day's votes.

thumble said @ 10:30am GMT on 8th Feb
Vote to lynch Aidentas for obvious reasons.

-_- said @ 10:38am GMT on 8th Feb
Aidentas must die to avenge Luigi.

Stratafyre said @ 10:40am GMT on 8th Feb
Hopping on the Aidentas bandwagon.

headlessfriar said @ 10:46am GMT on 8th Feb
Another vote the AIDS bandwagon.

Ashura_Stephanos said @ 10:49am GMT on 8th Feb
Aidentas

Equinophobe said @ 11:29am GMT on 8th Feb
Aids

juju said @ 11:35am GMT on 8th Feb
Aids

TeDDD said @ 11:36am GMT on 8th Feb
"Aidentas."

eightysix said @ 11:45am GMT on 8th Feb
Aids of course.

Anti-fuites said @ 11:55am GMT on 8th Feb
Third time's a charm I guess. Aidentas

foobar said @ 12:08pm GMT on 8th Feb
Aids, of course.

kishi said @ 12:25pm GMT on 8th Feb
Aidentas. Because it sounds like a dentist. And my passing knowledge of musicals has taught me never to trust barbers, major-generals, street gangs with immaculately choreographed knife fights, and dentists, when there's a meat-eating, giant plant around. I think we all know how dangerous that can be.

Dismortis said @ 12:37pm GMT on 8th Feb
Aidentas. Duh.

sythe said @ 12:40pm GMT on 8th Feb
Aidentas

skainsmate said @ 2:09pm GMT on 8th Feb [Score:2]
It's 100% bandwagons that make me wish I had the balls to make Bob-omb kill everyone responsible for his death.

sythe said @ 2:19pm GMT on 8th Feb
hehe

kishi said @ 2:20pm GMT on 8th Feb
I'm so glad I was already dead by the time the massive explosion demolished most of Sensible Seamen. It was a lot funnier that way.

-_- said @ 3:41pm GMT on 8th Feb
Wish I'd been in that game.

skainsmate said @ 4:47pm GMT on 8th Feb
I was the guy that started the bandwagon that blew up the ship. Spent a lot of time citing evidence and everything. I sure felt sheepish. Especially because I suspected he was the disgruntled crewman after a sly remark from sythe.

-_- said @ 4:49pm GMT on 8th Feb
Lol, that was epic though .. an occurence to take pride in being part of.

Misanthrope said @ 2:57pm GMT on 8th Feb
well we are certain aidentas isn't a bobomb

-_- said @ 3:41pm GMT on 8th Feb
Luckily for us it wouldn't matter much if he was.

-_- said @ 3:45pm GMT on 8th Feb
In Sensible Express I had 2 splodeys in a 25 person game and they both took out one person apiece(the serial killer and the Bad Guy leader) from attempted night kills, though they could have taken out everyone if they'd gotten themselves bandwagoned.

Aidentas said @ 3:50pm GMT on 8th Feb
Sensible Hollywood also had two splodeys, each with a variable kill numbers. One splodey killed the first voter + 7, the other splodey the first voter + 9 (for day kills only; night kills were different).

...I wonder what a game would be like if all the baddies were splodeys...

-_- said @ 3:58pm GMT on 8th Feb
I had an idea once for a witch doctor that chose one person each night to make into a splodey (without them realizing it) for two nights.
But you'd need a really big game (50+) to do something like that tot he players.

sythe said @ 4:00pm GMT on 8th Feb
a really big game you say?

-_- said @ 4:07pm GMT on 8th Feb
Yeah, I'm still sketching out new ideas for Sensible Sunnydale but when it's run I want to try to get somewhere between 50 and 100 players ... if there's even that many players on SE.

sythe said @ 4:11pm GMT on 8th Feb
psst, check the wiki.

-_- said @ 4:19pm GMT on 8th Feb
Aye aye.

skainsmate said @ 4:44pm GMT on 8th Feb
Which wiki?

-_- said @ 4:46pm GMT on 8th Feb
The uber secret Sensible Sunnydale wiki sythe and I use.
Shhhhhhhhhhh... don't tell anyone.

Context said @ 5:03pm GMT on 8th Feb
You'd better finish with that soon, friend. I am all a-tingle with anticipation. And not shaving for a week.

*scritchy-scratch*

Aidentas said @ 4:01pm GMT on 8th Feb
Ooh.

Dismortis said @ 5:39pm GMT on 8th Feb
That is FUCKING sexy.

Dismortis said @ 5:48pm GMT on 8th Feb
Single kill exploder or mounds of flaming carcasses on a snking ship exploder?

Breven said @ 3:30am GMT on 9th Feb
AIDS

-_- said @ 5:13am GMT on 9th Feb
you put it under the wrong comment.

-_- said @ 5:13am GMT on 9th Feb
Mounds is what I'm thinking but the design isn't finalized yet :)
might be most playable with a 3-6 person blast zone.

Dismortis said @ 8:03am GMT on 9th Feb
Dude, think flechette rounds. Carcasses shredded and immolated! Shivering scraps of flash-fried meat raining like hail on a blasted and ruined landscape! CARNAGE, MAN! CARNAGE!

Oops. Boner. Better deal with it.

And here come the tears!

Misanthrope said @ 2:58pm GMT on 8th Feb
aidentasbecause I doubt he can negotiate anything.

Context said @ 3:38pm GMT on 8th Feb
As a formality, Aidentas

-_- said @ 3:45pm GMT on 8th Feb [Score:-1 Repost]
In Sensible Express I had 2 splodeys in a 25 person game and they both took out one person apiece(the serial killer and the Bad Guy leader) from attempted night kills, though they could have taken out everyone if they'd gotten themselves bandwagoned.

Aidentas said @ 3:45pm GMT on 8th Feb
Aidentas, because I've run out of ideas.

justus said @ 4:37pm GMT on 8th Feb
Aidentas because, well, is there any reason to vote for anyone else today?

Alacron said @ 5:57pm GMT on 8th Feb
I vote to lynch Aidentas like that was a surprise

Zelgius said @ 10:36pm GMT on 8th Feb
Aidentas

macst34 said @ 11:12pm GMT on 8th Feb
Aids it is

gmg said @ 3:57am GMT on 9th Feb
aids

Caffeine said @ 6:12am GMT on 9th Feb
theluckysean

nibbon said @ 6:40am GMT on 9th Feb
ive been out this weekend i had no time to read anything - aids is my vote as it has bee.

Toadsworth said @ 9:59am GMT on 8th Feb
You know, in my youth I used to chase starmen for days and days. I never caught one, but I'd heard rumors of a young boy who did. He wasn't from the Mushroom Kingdom, though. No one knows for sure, but for some reason I always suspected he used that star to become a great wizard. I wonder what the star's name was...

-_- said @ 10:54am GMT on 8th Feb
OMG how many years of Mario filled days need there be in my past to give me even the barest chance of figuring this out?

skainsmate said @ 10:58am GMT on 8th Feb
Exactly 0.

I never said all the riddles would require Mario knowledge.

This is arguably the most powerful PowerUp, so you've got to comb the entire spectrum of existence for the answer I'm looking for.

No one's been close so far.

theolypse said @ 12:50pm GMT on 8th Feb
I wish I were still playing. I know this one.

-_- said @ 12:52pm GMT on 8th Feb
And you didn't even hide a clue in your comment :(

skainsmate said @ 1:14pm GMT on 8th Feb
The Starman has been awarded.

There were three correct entries from the living, and one from the deceased.

-_- said @ 1:20pm GMT on 8th Feb
Damnit, the best I could find was that Glenda the good witch said something about a star being named Kansas in the wizard of Oz .. apparently that wasn't the answer :(

kishi said @ 1:22pm GMT on 8th Feb
I might have had the answer, but I mailed it to -_-. And it was probably too late anyway. Bah.

-_- said @ 4:26pm GMT on 8th Feb
I didn't ask you at the time because I didn't want to be accused of having a PM conversation with another player but how in the world did you make that mistake anyway?
I mean seriously dude, my profile and skainsmates couldn't be much more different from one anothers and you had to pass through mine to click "send private message".
-_- skainsmate, nope I don't see the similarity.

skainsmate said @ 4:49pm GMT on 8th Feb
Maybe because I stole the whole "quoting a player in the previous day for the new day's quote" thing from you.

I think I did, at least.

-_- said @ 4:51pm GMT on 8th Feb
Yeah, that was me .. I saw it as a way to mildly reward the talkative ones.

sythe said @ 4:54pm GMT on 8th Feb
I don't know, -_-, Sk-ai_nsma-te, I could see how you make that mistake.

kishi said @ 4:59pm GMT on 8th Feb
Sleep deprivation. I started a new job on Monday. My sleep schedule has gone from falling asleep about 3 am, to now waking up at 6 am. I got about three hours of sleep last night, worked eight hours today, then walked around town for three hours 'cause my wife wanted to go out to eat and do a bit of shopping. Then I got home, figured out the riddle, and for some reason clicked on the name *under* the question, rather than the name *above* it.

Context said @ 5:06pm GMT on 8th Feb
Ouchies.

I've made that kind of change a few times now. The first two weeks are truly awful, but you get adjusted. The best advice I have is to not, no matter how much it hurts, to not sleep in on your days off. It messes you up for another week, and it'll take an eternity to get accustomed.

kishi said @ 5:20pm GMT on 8th Feb
Yeah, it's pretty terrible. But, on the other hand, I'm pretty fond of the idea that someone's going to be giving me money. So, it balances out.

Misanthrope said @ 2:55pm GMT on 8th Feb
was it howl btw?

Misanthrope said @ 2:55pm GMT on 8th Feb
er calcifer or whatever

sythe said @ 3:01pm GMT on 8th Feb [Score:1 Informative]
yessir

Anti-fuites said @ 2:52am GMT on 9th Feb
Heh, I was way off. I went with a Fred Savage movie.

skainsmate said @ 4:34am GMT on 9th Feb
You and literally everybody else until I posted the hint.

nibbon said @ 1:36pm GMT on 9th Feb
i didnt get to see this post til real late but i thought it was something related to earthbound and Ness ... I was gonna answer Mr. Starman hah

Ashura_Stephanos said @ 7:17am GMT on 9th Feb
Oh good Lord, I need to find my damn copy of that movie again. I can't believe that didn't occur to me.

theolypse said @ 6:01pm GMT on 8th Feb
Was I first?

skainsmate said @ 4:35am GMT on 9th Feb
Nope.

VictorTyne said @ 10:09am GMT on 8th Feb [Score:1 Underrated]
I haven't really been following the game, but I saw that some dork hit you with a repost mod, so you get a +1 AntiRepost.

skainsmate said @ 10:31am GMT on 8th Feb
Right back atcha.

-_- said @ 10:34am GMT on 8th Feb
Whoa ... Luigi and Waluigi both at the same time!?
The Koopas are doing pretty damn good with their kills for having lost their investigator so early on.
Perhaps it is a Koopa which got the mini-mushroom?

-_- said @ 10:37am GMT on 8th Feb
Perhaps I'm just bitter that my Mario themed epic relaxation Haiku did not win me the mini-mushroom.
Well, there's no accounting for taste ( I tease, skainsmate I tease ).

Stratafyre said @ 10:40am GMT on 8th Feb
I tried "Do the Mario!"

-_- said @ 10:44am GMT on 8th Feb
Is that a dance?

thumble said @ 10:49am GMT on 8th Feb
Swing your arms from side to side!

Ashura_Stephanos said @ 10:52am GMT on 8th Feb
Dammit!

Ashura_Stephanos said @ 10:51am GMT on 8th Feb

kishi said @ 12:27pm GMT on 8th Feb [Score:1 Funny]
That's the only dance I've ever learned, and I can still remember the lyrics.

My wife is ashamed to be seen with me when we go to the club.

-_- said @ 12:35pm GMT on 8th Feb
I'll dance with you at the club as long as you don't mind me doing The Egyptian.

kishi said @ 11:19am GMT on 9th Feb
Sure, but what I'm really looking for is someone to help master The Robot.

thumble said @ 10:46am GMT on 8th Feb
Let's hope one of the good guys used the mini-mushroom...

thumble said @ 10:47am GMT on 8th Feb
and found one of the bad guys... *sigh* the odds just mount against us!

-_- said @ 11:05am GMT on 8th Feb
Let's see ...
On the bad guy side there's just Bowser and some Koopalings ... oh, and a convert left right?
And on the good guy side there's Peach, the Yoshis, Pirhanna Plant, and Bob-omb?
And then there's still Wario and ??? as well.

Do we need to track down and lynch all the Koopalings and the convert as well as Bowser?

-_- said @ 11:17am GMT on 8th Feb
And ... did I miss anything/anyone?

sythe said @ 12:18pm GMT on 8th Feb
WART

-_- said @ 12:30pm GMT on 8th Feb
I thought we already decided that ??? was Wart didn't we?
But you're right, I should have mentioned Wart by name.

sythe said @ 12:36pm GMT on 8th Feb
Ah, I had read that to be ?who else?

-_- said @ 12:51pm GMT on 8th Feb
Sorry about that, I went back and did some skimming and apparently it was you that initially theorized that "???" is Wart and I have no reason to disagree.

rattus said @ 4:07pm GMT on 8th Feb
Well since the game is called "Wart's revenge" in the guy who is running the games profile, I think it seems likely.

Equinophobe said @ 11:28am GMT on 8th Feb
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp1Lbmutry0

Anti-fuites said @ 12:20pm GMT on 8th Feb
Please enjoy these previews, we will return to your regularly scheduled video game shortly

Anti-fuites said @ 12:30pm GMT on 8th Feb [Score:1 Funny]

sythe said @ 12:29pm GMT on 8th Feb
So the lynch today seems like an obvious and forgone conclusion, would anyone like to speculate on what this last night's actions could imply? Narren's death was obvious, but any particular reason for CapnSilver? If I recall he was one of the few people not voting for a koopa yesterday.

kishi said @ 12:30pm GMT on 8th Feb
He was called out by Aidentas, wasn't he?

-_- said @ 12:34pm GMT on 8th Feb
Yeah, him and Breven.

sythe said @ 12:39pm GMT on 8th Feb
But if anything, they were some of the most suspicious yesterday. I was going to suggest we look at the three of them today in the remote possibility that they were not so bright koopas. Then again, I just sorta assumed eightysix would be toast along with Narren last night.

Breven said @ 2:37pm GMT on 8th Feb
Yes well I can give you my assurance that his claim against me seemed a little sketchy, I have not contributed enough to have any proof against me.

-_- said @ 3:49pm GMT on 8th Feb
That is part of what makes you seem suspicious, another part is that you voted to lynch Narrenschiff.

Dismortis said @ 12:42pm GMT on 8th Feb
For what it's worth, CapnSilver, Breven, and Theluckysean were voting for Narrenschiff yesterday.

I find that more confusing than anything else.

-_- said @ 1:14pm GMT on 8th Feb
Breven was particularly odd..

Breven 3:56am Feb 6th
I like what you said Narrenschiff.

then there's Cap and Theluckysean with..

CapnSilver 4:33am Feb 6th
narrenschiff sorry man but you sound like you're lying
and
theluckysean 11:45am Feb 6th
Sorry I missed a vote I had a midterm - I vote... Narrenschiff

Both of which might have been trying to lay cover stories but there's no way to really know.

-_- said @ 1:14pm GMT on 8th Feb
To be clear the above are copies of their votes.

Dismortis said @ 12:46pm GMT on 8th Feb
What was that business with Justus and the red shell?

-_- said @ 12:53pm GMT on 8th Feb
Good question.

sythe said @ 12:54pm GMT on 8th Feb
I was wondering that myself, is it some sort of failed kill or protection or some such?

thumble said @ 12:54pm GMT on 8th Feb
That is peculiar. I didn't notice it first time I read through... My first instinct is that justus was attacked in his own domain and evaded.

-_- said @ 1:10pm GMT on 8th Feb
What do you mean "justus was attacked in his own domain"?
Particularly your reference to justus's domain.

thumble said @ 1:15pm GMT on 8th Feb
All of us vanilla townies are attributed to a domain in which we can't be killed. ie fish-type creatures can't be killed in underwater worlds etc.

sythe said @ 1:19pm GMT on 8th Feb
Indeed, why wouldn't -_- know that I wonder....

-_- said @ 1:37pm GMT on 8th Feb
Because I'm an idgit and haven't looked at my initial PM from skainsmate since I first got it ... nearly 2 weeks ago, now that I look at it again.
I was just thinking of it as an immunity.
Now I wish the word had rung a bell for me though :/

Dismortis said @ 2:52pm GMT on 8th Feb
If the answer was "because I'm a yoshi" I'd buy it.

But this answer? Not so much.

-_- said @ 3:28pm GMT on 8th Feb
Well sucks to be me then because I'm not a Yoshi, just a guy that's been making little memory mistakes like this since the game began.

Aidentas said @ 2:54pm GMT on 8th Feb
Fine. Fine.

Let me live, and the Princess is safe.

I'm negotiating a cease fire between Koopas and Citizens. We know who the princess is. We also have a good idea who the entity is.

Let me live, and the Princess is safe.

sythe said @ 3:00pm GMT on 8th Feb [Score:1 Insightful]
um...yeah...suuuure. First thing's first who's the entity? Since that's the only thing you could possibly have to offer.

Aidentas said @ 3:58pm GMT on 8th Feb
Lavos.

...Wait, wrong game.

sythe said @ 4:02pm GMT on 8th Feb
I believe "Ayla" is the term you're searching for.

Ayla said @ 4:04pm GMT on 8th Feb
Ayla strong girl. Ayla queen of village. Ayla strong. Crono strong. Ayla like Crono.

*humps Crono*

Lavos words "big" "fire". Entity Gaia. No teleological argument.

Glenn said @ 5:02pm GMT on 8th Feb
Mine name is Glenn!

Cyrus's hopes and dreams...

and now the Masamune...

forwith shall I slay Magus and restore honor!

Misanthrope said @ 3:10pm GMT on 8th Feb
And what proof do you have?

-_- said @ 3:39pm GMT on 8th Feb
A.) what would it benefit the townies to know who the princess is?
With no protector left we can't stop you from kidnapping her anyway.

B.) Neither town nor Koopas win if the entity avoids exposure so it's in your best interest to share that info anyway.

If the Koopas don't use this opportunity to share info with the town before you're lynched this evening then they're just shooting themselves in the foot ... after all, if Bowser goes after the entity alone and it turns out to be Bob-omb laying subtle bait then the town will be that much closer to winning.
Come to think of it ... if Bowser moves on his suspicions alone and he's right it benefits the town and if he's wrong it may benefit the town too.
So how is your offer worth anything to anyone but Bowser?

Aidentas said @ 3:44pm GMT on 8th Feb
Bowser doesn't talk to anyone :(

Aidentas said @ 3:44pm GMT on 8th Feb
Well, at least not me. I wish I were a townie.

-_- said @ 3:56pm GMT on 8th Feb
Ok, so you're saying that the Koopalings know who Peach is and have a reasonable suspicion of the entitys identity but that you don't communicate with Bowser.
Thanks for that, It's been in debate as to whether the koopalings run errands/night kills for Bowser and I think you've given us some insight into this.

Still, the remaining Koopalings need to take out the entity if they want to win ... and they get night kills.
So, if I may repeat myself, what makes any of the info you are offering of any value to the town?

Aidentas said @ 4:00pm GMT on 8th Feb [Score:1 Funny]
I want to be you.

I want to live.

I want to dance and frolic in the forests of the Mushroom Kingdom.

...And I'm willing to sell information to do so.

...Would you be interested in say... Bowser?

-_- said @ 4:15pm GMT on 8th Feb
*looks around*

Sure, I'd change my vote if you gave up Bowser ... I mean that right there would be a good token of faith now wouldn't it?
And it wouldn't be the first time that a bad guy (ok, so last time it was a serial killer) sold his services for continued life.
If you're looking to be the towns pet Koopaling then you should give up Bowser so that everyone can test your trustworthiness .... hell, it would at least buy you one more day ... and you can turn out Peach and the entity on successive days for continued life.
Note: do not out Peach before Bowser, that will just get you lynched as fast as possible.

eightysix said @ 4:45pm GMT on 8th Feb [Score:1 Insightful]
i'd be inclined not to follow up on this deal, but that's just me. if aids throws up a townie, that'd be 2 townies dead, and no koopa for today. as opposed to 1 townie and 1 koopa dead. selling your services as a serial killer is ok since you don't have a team, but with his team behind him, you got to wonder how they are maneuvering behind the scenes to keep on top. (having 2 townies dead and 1 koopa safe from the noose for today helps the cause of their eventual win, but it might not just be that.)

Context said @ 5:09pm GMT on 8th Feb
Absolutely agreed.

One of my favorite things about mafia is that you don't have to be alive to win. This is just a fairly transparent plot to off another of us.

rattus said @ 4:15pm GMT on 8th Feb
Dead man talkin'

I'll tell you what. I'll vote for someone else if you tell me all you know.

foobar said @ 4:40pm GMT on 8th Feb [Score:1 Insightful]
How are you going to prove it? Why would we lynch someone of your choosing without verification?

-_- said @ 4:44pm GMT on 8th Feb
good point ... maybe we should let sythe handle the negotiations on this ... he has experience.

sythe said @ 4:58pm GMT on 8th Feb
heh, only from the other side, and if I recall that didn't work out so well for me in the end.

Aidentas said @ 4:51pm GMT on 8th Feb
Well, if I give false information, most likely I'll be killed tomorrow.

If I give true information, most likely I'll be killed tonight.

thumble said @ 6:16pm GMT on 8th Feb
Thing is, Aids, there's no possible way to convert you back to a regular joe townie. If the town is to win, you're going to have to die anyway. Best you just walk your own ass to the chopping block, ok?

kishi said @ 6:41pm GMT on 8th Feb [Score:1 Insightful]
There's a bit of validity to the thought, really. Neither side can win unless the mysterious entity is destroyed. It is a common enemy.

But if the Koopas have an idea of who the mysterious entity is, they can just kill it off by themselves. I don't know that we necessarily have much to gain by letting Aids live. And a temporary cease-fire probably serves them more than us.

Ashura_Stephanos said @ 7:20am GMT on 9th Feb
What if the entity is immune to night kills?

kishi said @ 7:35am GMT on 9th Feb
Then Aids should just say, straight out, who they think it is, so we can lynch them tomorrow. Unless Aids is telling us that the Koopas are going to capitulate and let the entity win the game by doing what they can to protect it from a lynch unless we let Aids live (which is foolish) than there is no reason to trade Aidentas for their suspicions of the mysterious entity identity.

It's like this: Either they know, or they don't. If they know, either they can kill him/her/it at night, or they can't. If they can't, they're going to have to reveal the name at some point anyway so that a lynch can be arranged. I don't see why letting Aidentas live would affect that logic.

Sorry, Aids. If you've got the information, share. Otherwise, it doesn't serve us much good to negotiate with you. In fact, we're better off if we leave it to the Koopas to kill the entity- that means we can focus our lynches on hunting you bastards down.

Aidentas said @ 7:45am GMT on 9th Feb
No time to negotiate; I'm dead in 40 seconds!

Right now, in my opinion, it looks like a Wart victory is likely. Good luck to all parties.

I love you all Marta.

kishi said @ 7:48am GMT on 9th Feb
You still have time to tell us. Unless you're going to die while typing a post. That'd be suspicious.

kishi said @ 7:49am GMT on 9th Feb
Oh, you don't have time. Never mind. For some reason, the clock was two hours off the first time I looked at it. Well, crap.

Dismortis said @ 5:51pm GMT on 8th Feb
O.o

Congratulations. I have no response to this. I'll try to see if it makes any sense in the cold light of dawn.

Stratafyre said @ 12:21am GMT on 9th Feb
Yeah, I believe you about as far as I can throw you. You'e toast, Koopaling.

Breven said @ 3:00pm GMT on 8th Feb
Tell me good shymen what words can I say to ease your mind? I'm as innocent as a the word I just spelled (if anyone can think up a good metaphor for innocence reply it please)

Narrenschiff said @ 4:21pm GMT on 8th Feb
sigh... sure wish I could talk. sigh...

Narrenschiff said @ 4:22pm GMT on 8th Feb
At least now I can hang out in my mansion.

-_- said @ 4:29pm GMT on 8th Feb
Oh that's right, you did another investigation last night.
Damn it I need an Ouija Board, candles, incense, and something that belonged to Luigi STAT!

Breven said @ 4:59pm GMT on 8th Feb [Score:1 WTF]
I have Luigi's red overalls he only wore them once Mario saw him with them on and broke his arm in three places for 'biting his style' it was a dark day for the mushroom kingdom.

Context said @ 5:13pm GMT on 8th Feb
That's funny I tried to read it out loud to my roommate though and I found as I was reading more and more of your comment I found that there was no punctuation to allow me to naturally stop and take a bit of a breath so I ended up trailing off a bit at the end because I wasn't pacing myself right and he didn't quite hear the end right but then I read it back like Christopher Walken because he takes all of his scripts and erases the punctuation to form his own speech patterns and anyway I've heard a theory that punctuation is unnecessary and a waste of time what do you think of that thought?

thumble said @ 6:17pm GMT on 8th Feb
Clearly the question mark was necessary.

Waluigi said @ 5:54pm GMT on 8th Feb
*visits narren*

Hey! I'm not evil. I'm just an underutilised character meant to round out a roster in a party game.

Breven said @ 5:13pm GMT on 8th Feb
I have to say Aids voting for himself has got to be pretty worrying I know he's going to hang and nothing can stop it but has anyone ever voted for themselves in the past? it seems wrong somehow.

Aidentas said @ 5:23pm GMT on 8th Feb
I've done it about 15 times now.

Narrenschiff said @ 5:24pm GMT on 8th Feb
I'll have you know that I started that tradition.

Narrenschiff said @ 5:28pm GMT on 8th Feb
Right HERE!

YES I LOOKED IT UP

mwoody said @ 7:46pm GMT on 8th Feb
Shhhh we're dead!

sythe said @ 5:24pm GMT on 8th Feb
If you don't stop saying things like this, the town is going to waste a lynch on you.

Aidentas said @ 1:45am GMT on 9th Feb [Score:2 Funny]
VOTE TALLY

So... 6 hours remaining.

10 people haven't voted for me yet.

-_- said @ 5:19am GMT on 9th Feb
I love gallows humor.

sythe said @ 6:59am GMT on 9th Feb
Haven't bothered since it seemed pointless today:
Voting Update
Less than an hour to go

Aidentas ∞
theluckysean 1 (Caffeine)

People who have not voted for Aidentas: (rattus, mego, badgerbaiter, FifthSpango, KingPellinore, theluckysean)
Of this bunch, rattus is the only one who's even shown up in the thread at all today.

Caffeine said @ 7:05am GMT on 9th Feb
I'm unique! :D

skainsmate said @ 8:17am GMT on 9th Feb
Gotta love inactives who promised they wouldn't be.

-_- said @ 8:33am GMT on 9th Feb
Ahhhh... such is the eternal question for Mafia GMs.

Dismortis said @ 9:00am GMT on 9th Feb
Blacklist time!

Toadsworth said @ 8:35am GMT on 9th Feb [Score:5 WTF]
The Caravan angrily marched Aidentas to me, while Caffeine pushed theluckysean out next to the mortician. I told theluckysean that he could go rejoin his friends. He gave a look of shyguyish irritation at Caffeine, but was then clocked by a blue shell!

"Ow! What the Hell? Who threw that?"

No one stepped forward to own up to the deed, and so I turned my attention back to Aidentas.

I was angry.

"You. You're a Koopa. I know you are. Luigi knew it, and he paid the ultimate price. You people murdered Mario. You murdered his brother, and other innocents.

"You murdered my nephew."

I turned away from him, ashamed of the rage I was feeling.

"You're lucky that I cannot make you suffer as you deserve." My fists were clenched tightly around my walking stick, my eyes were shut. "You're lucky I have no-"

A loud gasp rose from the members of the Caravan. I spun around and witnessed... something impossible. Aidentas was being torn apart! Little bits of color were being ripped away from him as if by an unseen force.

He screamed a sound of pure agony. "Make it stop! Pleeeeeeease. I admit it! I'm Wendy O. Koopa! I'll do anything! Just make it stoooooooop!"

And then, moments later, it did stop. There was nothing left of her.

Shaken, I walked to my tent. I felt the oppressive silence, and the weight of the entire caravan's stare.

Narrenschiff said @ 8:38am GMT on 9th Feb
Hardcore!

-_- said @ 8:44am GMT on 9th Feb
Is there a clue in this?
I mean apparently we now have a minor plague of people getting hit in the head with shells but they don't seem to do anything else but give em a bump on the old noggin so I can live with that I guess, but what's up with the manner of Aidentases death?
I suppose it's not too different from the previous lynching where someone got killed by an "angry sun" but I don't know enough about Mario games to make any sense out of this ... anyone?

sythe said @ 9:11am GMT on 9th Feb
Well, if this is all toadsworth's dream then maybe he's got some influence over it. Hate someone enough and they just melt away. Alternatively, he may have just been describing how bosses dissipated on the old NES.

-_- said @ 9:48am GMT on 9th Feb
I suspect the latter as it's exactly the kind of thing I'm ignorant of about these games.

Dismortis said @ 8:53am GMT on 9th Feb
I don't know what's stranger. That people are getting pelted with shells, or that they don't seem to be doing anything.

juju said @ 9:00am GMT on 9th Feb
Maybe the shells only kill baddies? But that would be dangerous to assume I guess. From skainsmate's post on the consolation prizes (in world 1-4), both the shells have been used, but the banana peel is still in play, whatever that does.

sythe said @ 9:10am GMT on 9th Feb
Or maybe the shells really don't do anything. Skainsmate added them in as an extra bonus for the people that didn't quite make the mini-mushroom cut, so maybe he didn't want to fuss with the game mechanics too much. On the other hand, someone has to be throwing them for a reason I would think.

-_- said @ 9:44am GMT on 9th Feb
So it's been justus and theluckysean that have gotten pelted.
justus at night and theluckysean during the day.

justus vote .... comment pattern
day 1. headlessfriar .... 2 comments
day 2. mwoody ........... 6 comments .... Cap accuses
day 3. Aidentas ......... no comments
day 4. Aidentas ......... asked Aidentas one question
day 5. Aidentas ......... no comments

theluckysean vote .... comment pattern
day 1. assbastard ....... no comments
day 2. Aidentas ......... no comments
day 3. no vote .......... no comments .... 4 lynch votes
day 4. Narrenschiff ..... no comments

The only thing that seems at all interesting in this is that theluckysean was voted for by both Aidentas and Jewbacchus on day 3 (along with headlessfriar and Caffeine)when Aidentas was one of the lynch leaders ... both of which voted for Aidentas on day 4 when Jewbacchus was lynched.
I suppose there's the possibillity that theluckysean is the highest ranking Koopa and Aidentas was trying (with the help of Jewbacchus) to make him seem less suspicious by voting against his continued survival (the last few votes of a cornered bad guy can be powerfully applied to deflect suspicion from others) but none of that would explain the shells.

-_- said @ 9:46am GMT on 9th Feb
Looks to me, from the above, like theluckysean is trying real hard to lay low.

sythe said @ 10:03am GMT on 9th Feb
Or just not even bothering to play since he didn't post today either.

-_- said @ 10:05am GMT on 9th Feb
Well he looks like a prime candidate for getting kicked from the game and letting someone else play his role then.

Dismortis said @ 11:10am GMT on 9th Feb
I don't think anyone has been kicked from the game. Skainsmate would have updated the names. And given we're going into day six, it's kind of late to do so. Seriously, we need a blacklist for this sort of shit.

Narrenschiff said @ 11:39am GMT on 9th Feb
Yes, but I'd say the blacklist should be for those who don't vote and don't talk at all-- I think that keeping low while voting is a legitimate tactic for specials, townies, and baddies alike.

sythe said @ 11:44am GMT on 9th Feb
While I agree, it's a bloody irritating tactic. They're to mafia games what campers are to 1st person shooters.

-_- said @ 11:50am GMT on 9th Feb

kishi said @ 11:55am GMT on 9th Feb
Plus you can make s'mores. Delicious.

On the other hand, skainsmate did say he'd have little patience for "lying low" in the registration post.

Context said @ 2:24pm GMT on 9th Feb
I think there's a difference between "lying low" and being inactive. Hard to really draw a line of distinction, but I like to think that I am more along the lines of lying low. Usually until the fifth or sixth day, when I'll start to be a bit more talkative.

I usually do try to comment here and there, even if it isn't strategy. Way I see it, if I start throwing around accusations, that just gets attention drawn to me, when I'm not really quite certain what I'm even talking about.

That all being said... why did Caffeine vote for sean?

justus said @ 3:39pm GMT on 9th Feb
Man, did I really only leave two comments on day 1? I've been trying to be more active than I usually am (past games I feel like I typically just vote), but I guess I'm not very good at it.

I'd also like an explanation of what the shell did, because all the PM said was that it gave me a nasty bruise. Maybe it's just like the rubber ball from the OMGWTF mafia game played earlier (i.e. a gag item).

Context said @ 4:35pm GMT on 9th Feb
Well, he had to put shells in somehow.

right?

eightysix said @ 12:55pm GMT on 9th Feb
If I could count the number of times I've been killed by my own shell playing Mario.

-_- said @ 9:49am GMT on 9th Feb
BTW: if someone will give Toadsworths comment one more up mod it will be at the top of the page where everyone can easily find it :)

Jestyr said @ 12:44pm GMT on 9th Feb
you know what I wish sometimes? I wish that tampride played these games.

Narrenschiff said @ 12:53pm GMT on 9th Feb
I had a simulation of that once, and it turned out okay.

sythe said @ 12:54pm GMT on 9th Feb
I'd think that tampride would fit right in, people choose to defy logic quite frequently in these games.

eightysix said @ 1:45pm GMT on 9th Feb
I've only been wishing for that since like the first game I played.

Alacron said @ 1:57pm GMT on 9th Feb
With all the ignoring of logic that happens in these games and all the sock puppets that tamp uses, it might be possible that he has already been in a mafia game

eightysix said @ 2:57pm GMT on 9th Feb
*pulls off his rubber mask*

those darn kids said @ 4:26pm GMT on 9th Feb
Jinkies!