Sensible Erection | Sensible Mushroom Kingdom, World 2-3

Wednesday, 13 February 2008

quote [ I think there was a pixel shortage that year ]

Our ship was sinking, and with it our hopes of crossing Wendy O. Koopa's inland sea.

Luckily, the old thing had a few lifeboats. It was odd that Bowser's foresight would help us like that. Still, there was no real way to propel them.

We washed ashore on a small island possessing naught but a tree and an inactive pipe. Stranded. We made camp and settled in for the night.

---

The morning dawned after a dreamless night. I felt a crushing fatigue. I must have slept. I must have.

My first thought was to search for a body, but there was none. kishi found something interesting lodged in the tree, though. It was a massive hammer. It must have been hurled with some force, and it was far too big to have been wielded by a Hammer Bro.

Sumo Bro. must have managed to stave off an attempt on his life last night. The large Citizen sleeps like a log, though. It was a stroke of luck that he was awake enough to defend himself.

I returned to the problem at hand: how were we to escape this island? The lifeboats drifted inevitably back to its shores.

"If I may be so bold, sir, I believe I may have a solution." macst34 held aloft a ? block. "I happen to still have some of the late Lemmy Koopa's stash."

He tossed it into the air above my head. "Please, sir, you do the honors."

I gave the block a good THWACK with my walking stick, and a beanstalk sprouted out of it.

And so the Caravan spent an arduous two hours hauling their things up to the heavens. Toward Iggy Koopa's castle in the clouds.

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
gmg - shyguy watchmaker
Breven - shyguy athlete
Ashura Stephanos - shyguy scholar
justus - shyguy shyster
foobar - shyguy meteorologist
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

KIDNAPPED

Caffeine - PRINCESS PEACH history teacher

DEATH BY LYNCH

-_- - MOUSER reporter
Aidentas - WENDY O. KOOPA mortician
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
World 2-1: http://www.sensibleerection.com/entry.php/69485
World 2-2: http://www.sensibleerection.com/entry.php/69517

[mafia game] [by skainsmate@5:22pmGMT] [+9]

Comments

Toadsworth said @ 5:27pm GMT on 13th Feb [Score:4]
The clouds were firm but pleasant, and the view was breathtaking. Still, as I gazed into the distance, I felt as though there was a haze in my senses. Or maybe in my mind.

theluckysean said @ 6:17pm GMT on 13th Feb
I vote juju

eightysix said @ 7:29pm GMT on 13th Feb
I vote for rattus.

Stratafyre said @ 10:53pm GMT on 13th Feb
I vote for myself because I'm going to be crazy busy the next few days, and I don't want to not vote. I'll probably pop in and change this later.

kishi said @ 12:12am GMT on 14th Feb
I vote misanthrope.

rattus said @ 3:29am GMT on 14th Feb
I vote rattus. I'm on to his tricks.

rattus said @ 3:29am GMT on 14th Feb
He couldn't fool me forever! I figured it out eventually!

Alacron said @ 5:54am GMT on 14th Feb
Well for missing the most town votes so far I vote for badgerbaiter He is dead weight and I've always wanted to see how far someone could fall from up on these clouds.

headlessfriar said @ 6:46am GMT on 14th Feb
Despite synthe's assurances, I still am going to finger theluckysean.

gmg said @ 8:12am GMT on 14th Feb
This may seem out of left field, but it's the only lead I got at the moment. I'm gunna vote for Ashura_Stephanos . Mainly this comment struck me wrong:

Ashura_Stephanos said @ 5:54am on 7th Feb - moderate/reply
Isn't revealing stuff like that after you're dead, y'know, bad? (Even if it was painfully obvious from the post)

It was obvious Narren was dead, but still... He sounds like he was the guy who killed him and therefore was 100% positive Narren was already dead.

KingPellinore said @ 8:42am GMT on 14th Feb
Man, we gotta kill Badgerbaiter! Maaaaan, he's not being slient...he's concentrating, so he can burrow his thought weasels into my braaaaaaaaain...

Luckily, I have this tinfoil shyguy mask on...

badgerbaiter said @ 8:44am GMT on 14th Feb
Vote for one rattus in order to save my sweet flesh.

Dioxin said @ 5:27pm GMT on 13th Feb
I like peaches. I have peaches in my basement.

sythe said @ 5:29pm GMT on 13th Feb
Well then, you should let her out of the shackles.

badgerbaiter said @ 9:04pm GMT on 13th Feb
Or invite me round....

juju said @ 5:48pm GMT on 13th Feb
Hmm, well, after that I have to reevaluate things. Did they go for that move because my write up was wrong and they wanted to send suspicion onto an innocent, or because they didn't like that I promised to share more of my "suspicious list" write ups for whatever reason...

sythe said @ 5:52pm GMT on 13th Feb
um, so you're saying you're the sumo bro?

juju said @ 6:01pm GMT on 13th Feb
Yessir. I considered not saying anything, but really if the baddies already know I might as well let everyone else know instead of waiting for my eventual death. But we'll see if that was a good decision or not. And if the motivation had anything to do with the fact that I said I'd be putting my list out there I might as well get that out in the open.

sythe said @ 6:03pm GMT on 13th Feb
So what is your immunity?

sythe said @ 6:03pm GMT on 13th Feb
...strike that, don't answer it if it's still in play.

theluckysean said @ 6:18pm GMT on 13th Feb
if he has immunity it lets me have a throw away vote :D

sythe said @ 6:32pm GMT on 13th Feb
Interestingly enough, you're one of the few players in this game I'm sure is a townie. Makes that vote all the more interesting.

thumble said @ 7:21pm GMT on 13th Feb
Can you be sure sumo bro is immune to daytime lynch though? I'm sure you'll change your vote when we have a more salient lead today, but be careful... initial votes snowball into bandwagons surprisingly quickly.

juju said @ 6:31pm GMT on 13th Feb
I was wondering why you would ask such a specific and dangerous question... suffice it to say that Sumo Bros are "badass."

sythe said @ 6:42pm GMT on 13th Feb
Mainly because I'm just not sure that I believe you and I was hoping that your answer would shed some light. Skainsmate has been pretty good at making immunities "make sense" in the general Mario ethos and if yours didn't make sense... Catch-22 though unfortunately in the off chance that you are telling the truth.

juju said @ 6:48pm GMT on 13th Feb
Frankly, I don't know how I could convince anyone. As I said a few days ago death is the only way I'd be willing to accept anyone else's non-koopa-dom, so I expect plenty of doubt.
I think anyone who's been on my side in a special group knows I'm too cautious to do something rash like fake a role reveal when that role was still out there.

Plus if everyone does end up not believing me there are several days for me to get my stuff all in order to post up here. Just in case any of it is useful once you guys confirmed the hard way that I'm not ballsy enough for this to be a fake-out Hollywood style.

eightysix said @ 6:46pm GMT on 13th Feb
I want to posit that sythe is on the Koopa side, but I don't have time to back this up. I do know he's been a very vocal proponent of finding and lynching the ???, who's the only unknown factor that could prevent a Koopa victory.

Since everything will take its due course in the game, the only thing that could upset his Koopa victory was the unknown factor. This could also explain why sythe, despite everything he's put out there, has not had an attempt on his life as of yet.

I'll search for more evidence backing this up when I get more time. Out of the Koopa lynches, I can say off hand that Kamek, Mario (Jewbacchus) and Wendy O. were inevitable.

juju said @ 6:52pm GMT on 13th Feb
I don't know if I'd say that Kamek was inevitable without sythe's prodding, but that did occur before the recruit. I would be surprised if sythe wasn't a prime target for that, but I also want to believe that I'd actually be on the same side as him for once. Though I have a hard time the longer we go without an attempt on his life.

eightysix said @ 7:03pm GMT on 13th Feb [Score:1 Insightful]
Of course, as this is being said, considerations are being made in Koopa HQ about leaving sythe unmolested so we'll pick him as a lynch target one of these days.

eightysix said @ 7:19pm GMT on 13th Feb
Of course, I think that if claiming to be the Sumo Bro is a bluff, it's a really risky one that I doubt you'd make.

Consider:
- There is no evidence to support there being more than 1 of each role, barring Yoshi. Claiming to be the Sumo Bro if there is only one is very risky if the real Sumo Bro decides to reveal and cast doubt on juju's claim.
- Although, logic would dictate that the Sumo Bro can only be a Bro if he has a Bro. Your disbelief at what you just read parallels my disbelief at what I just typed. I mean to say there could be 2+ Sumo Bros.
- juju did not (and it's probably a good move) specify the specifics of her role, so she could obscure the fact that she could be a second Sumo Bro if one already exists (i.e, she's bluffing) But then, she can't specify her role in the interest of self-preservation, so there is no way to tell.

I'm inclined to accept juju into my circle of confirmed citizens, but others might think otherwise. The only people who truly can know who juju is is juju herself and the Koopas. I've already resigned myself to simply being a buffer between the Koopas and the rest of the Mushroom Kingdom. I might die so that another can live.

juju said @ 7:29pm GMT on 13th Feb
As I've resigned myself to dying if that's what this brings me. Being a "badass" has its responsibility to take it like... well, like a big ugly thing that throws heavy hammers.

eightysix said @ 7:28pm GMT on 13th Feb
I also just read the part about Kamek you were referring to. I can't imagine a Koopa colluding with anyone to take out their investigator the first day, but I'll register a tentative vote for rattus.

Context said @ 8:19pm GMT on 13th Feb
That makes pretty perfect sense, actually. I'm inclined to believe juju's role reveal.

sythe said @ 6:57pm GMT on 13th Feb
I can guarantee you that I am neither a koopa nor a koopa recruit (though for the life of me I don't know why they didn't pick me). I have a very valid reason for my admittedly suspicious behavior this game which I will share if I must, but for my own protection I would rather not unless I absolutely have to.

In the meantime, I've been doing some trolling through votes and this is a list of people I'm convinced are definitely NOT koopas (but could still be recruits I suppose):
Breven, eightysix, macst34, Misanthrope, Stratafyre, TeDDD,
theluckysean

eightysix said @ 7:01pm GMT on 13th Feb
the last time somebody guaranteed he wasn't evil, and said very specifically that he wouldn't lie to me, he turned out to be Darth Vader. ='(

but i think it's strange you haven't been a target so far.

rattus said @ 4:15am GMT on 14th Feb
Is making these lists like this such a good idea?

Sensible koopas have a pretty nice list to pick from then.

Perhaps that's the point?

sythe said @ 8:48am GMT on 14th Feb
At this point in the game, yes, it is. We've got no super specials left and the koopas already know who is and is not a koopa. Being able to form a large voting block of relatively trustworthy people would be of great benefit and basically no risk. Me just sitting on these theories won't get the town anywhere.

juju said @ 7:20pm GMT on 13th Feb
I would say I couldn't come to a conclusion on several of those, either because of lack of information or not finding the voting records that conclusive, but obviously eightysix is included since he was cleared by Luigi. I'd add in gmg as one I'm convinced on. Strat is definitely up there as well.

To be honest I'm not much further in completing my list now than I was when I said I'd post it, but that's been lack of motivation. Now that I almost died in the night I'm more motivated. To the point where I need to be up in 3 hours but I can't seem to turn off the computer...

eightysix said @ 7:24pm GMT on 13th Feb
Go to bed. The rest of us will bear the torch.

juju said @ 7:33pm GMT on 13th Feb
Alright. I'm sure I'll have sexy Mario-themed dreams. And this time hopefully all naked cartoons will have all their limbs accounted for.

Omegaphobic said @ 11:33pm GMT on 13th Feb

sythe said @ 7:31pm GMT on 13th Feb
If you examine the voting patterns of Aids, Soc. and Jewb. before they were outed and combine those with the votes that some of these people have cast you may feel a little more confident about them.

Stratafyre said @ 10:51pm GMT on 13th Feb
Not to throw doubt on myself or anything, but I'd take a second look at some of those. In addition, I apologize for being less active than usual, but I'm engaged in a ridiculous week long battery of tests that require 3 hours of travel to get to and leave from.

juju said @ 5:53pm GMT on 13th Feb
...or maybe just found me obnoxious and want to take over my bricklaying business.

skainsmate said @ 6:07pm GMT on 13th Feb
Actually, I hear it's going to be a banner year for brickslaying.

upmod said @ 6:25pm GMT on 13th Feb
and than i came along and won the game

assbastard said @ 7:54pm GMT on 13th Feb
Narrenschiff, a valentine for you, my brother.

CapnSilver said @ 10:47pm GMT on 13th Feb
Oh, look, it's living people.

CAAAAARNTS!

gmg said @ 8:43am GMT on 14th Feb
wait... i thought the day's and nights were going to be 24 hours....

Alacron said @ 9:38am GMT on 14th Feb
The night is, the day seems to be a little longer for those with the time issues that prevent prolific posting, which stimulates specific and suspicious, speech as well as deceptive and deprecating discussion of carefully cavorting caravan.