MAFIA VII - PROTOSS MAFIA

[Lavarinth]

This is why it's lame that the first "bold" choice is final. Anyone can gang up on someone. Right now- I could strategically change my vote to ShadowFlare, call it even, and die at night instead with glory. But nope, doesn't work like that. Sorry Mill- But it'd actually be a little pleasant to be out of this game with all the rule changing..

Or you could stop being a whiny bitch about it. Votes in boldface are supposed to be final. If it didn't work that way, there would be no point for them to be in bold.

Hey, the only game I've played before this was Rick'y, and Ricky's worked where the final one was the last bold one. I have no idea if what way all the rest work, to be honest. If that's how the rest work, then I probably wouldn't of minded so much. Anyway-

mAc, I can't vote for anyone else, so- I'm stuck at abstain, hah.

EDIT:

AA7, I'll see you in hell, brother! You may only be a Zealot, but knowing you are nothing of importance leaves the likeliness of you being protected.. Unlikely! Now, let this confusing speech end!

[ShadowFlare]

I vote to lynch Lavrinth.

Of course, it's not like my vote even matters at this point.  The only other thing I could do is lynch myself.

[Milldawg]

It is done. Lavarinth is killed by the townspeople, and his body is housed within the cold, robotic shell of a dragoon. The townspeople then blow up the dragoon.

Night falls.

STILL ALIVE:
Aekenon
AA7
Mac Chaos
Thalraxal
Ricky
ShadowFlare
Frozty
Negi

[Lavarinth]

Ooooooooooooooooooohhh.. Agony agony agony agooonnyyyy!

*Explodes in little blue Observer fire*

[mAc Chaos]

[me=mAc Chaos]sleeps... or whatever Protoss do at night.[/me]

[Frozty]

[me=Frozty]meditates.[/me]

[Taeradun]

[me=Taer]is still dead[/me]

[Milldawg]

As day breaks, an uncomfortable silence settles over Eridun. When the militia captain reports that he discovered Aekenon face down in a swamp, a moan echoes through the crowd. But when he holds up his bony Protoss hands for silence, and announces that Aekenon WAS NOT DEAD, the crowd gasps in surprise! Aekenon himself steps out and declares that he is perfectly fine.

GASP

[Ricky_Honejasi]

So it seems Lavarinth was a dark templar after all ... only 1 DT hit instead of 2.

[Aekenon]

There's always the possibility that they only chose to kill one target to mislead us.  Though I don't know how skipping an opportunity to kill someone would be worth it to them.


Anyway, looks as though I've survived yet another attempt on my life.  They don't like me much, do they?  On my way home last night, I sensed that I was being followed.  Fearing my stalkers to be Dark Templar, I decided to retreat into the marsh to lose them.  Unfortunately, what I realized later was that my movement would be more hampered than theirs... so they were gaining on me.

But amazingly, their chase faltered.  They lost me... I couldn't figure out why, until I realized that I couldn't see myself either.  An Arbiter saved me yet again!  Whoever you are, I thank you.

...What?  Why was I unconscious in the swamp?  Er, well...  you see, as it happens, I'm not good at walking while invisible.  Being unable to see where I was placing my feet, I snagged one of them on a branch, and tripped.  I guess I knocked myself out.  ...Yeah, be quiet.


So, here's our updated list:

DEAD:
Mucky (assassinated)
Taeradun (assassinated)
Lavarinth (lynched)

INNOCENT:
Negi
Aekenon

SUSPECT:
Shadowflare
Thalraxal
Frozty
Ricky
Mac
AA7

Down to six in the suspect list.  And at least two of them are guilty of being our murderous Dark Templar.

[mAc Chaos]

Do we have any leads or should we just start throwing out names?

[AA7Dragoon]

^ No, Praetor.  As I previously mentioned, Lavarinth revealed another suspect Dark Templar.  I will now finish the quote to when he changed his strategy from wanting to execute someone the first day, to switching to abstain:

Thalraxal, in a sense, does have a valid point if you understand where Mucky's going on with this. I'll abstain without issue at all. I'm afraid of accusing the wrong person- Simple enough.

It was in agreement with Thalraxal that Lavarinth suddenly wanted to abstain for the day.  I began to probe Thalraxal's remarks, and observed these statements:

Yeah, I'd like to hear from AA7 on all this too.  I'm not sure I trust Lav at all right now, but I don't want to risk lynching an innocent Protoss.  Especially an Observer.  Looking at the people he identified:

Although Thal would later question if Lavarinth was the Observer, his immediate remarks are in defensive agreement for Lavarinth's case to sew doubt in our minds.

Of course, the pressure was too great on Lavarinth, with the final tally counting as:  "2 votes for Lavarinth, 2 votes for Shadowflare, 1 vote for Ricky, 1 vote for mAc, and 1 abstain."

Remember when I said this about Lavarinth:

If indeed you were reckless enough to expose yourself to be an Observer, Lavarinth, where are your Dark Templar brothers to take advantage of the situation?  They should be elated by the prospect to immediately side with my call for your execution.  Why am I nearly the only one so far?

So who were the last to vote for Lavarinth's execution?  Thalraxal and Shadowflare.  Who voted back-to-back to abstain the first night?  Thalraxal and Shadowflare.  You see, brothers, it is quite clear the two sacrificed Lavarinth in order to reduce suspicion upon themselves.  Shadowflare was already tied with 2 votes against her.  They had to vote against Lavarinth because if the two voted for either Ricky or mAc, their identities would have been revealed by the obvious tilting of votes to save Lavarinth and Shadowflare!

[mAc Chaos]

There's always Ricky.  He came after me from Day One guns blazing with no justification and has been at it ever since.

[ShadowFlare]

If you recall, the reason I got votes for myself in the first place had to do with saying things against Lavarinth, not for anything like trying to defend Lavarinth.  I never once tried to specifically defend Lavarinth's or Thalraxal's positions either, IIRC.

As far as Thalraxal, this is just speculation and I currently do not suspect him nor regard him as innocent, because I do not know, but it is possible I was maybe deemed a valueable source of insight or that he just simply wanted to keep it from being a double lynching, where he would possibly be lynching someone innocent.  At this point, lynching two people without a specific reason probably would indeed be a bad idea.

Besides, there were 3 people who waited until the end to vote for Lavarinth, one of whom was Aekenon, who is clearly innocent.  Personally, that's just my style of play, to wait until near the end to see how it plays out first before voting.  This is also just speculation, but it is also possible the other two were already planning to vote to lynch Lav, but just wanted to see how it would play out first, just like me.  If I wanted to, I could have even voted to lynch someone other than Lavarinth to no effect on the outcome, but I voted for Lavarinth because I already suspected him and had the intention of voting for him even before I read your accusations.

In fact, the reason I suspected him is that I am an Observer and I investigated him the night before and found he was a Dark Templar.  The main reason I mentioned nothing of this is that it seemed Lavarinth would already get lynched without my intervention, so I did not want to become the next target of the Dark Templar for no reason.

[Thalraxal]

So I'm a Dark Templar because I was being cautious and didn't have a chance to post earlier that day?  I'm sorry, I've almost lynched Lav for the wrong reason before, I didn't want to repeat that near mistake again.  I'm sure that lynching an innocent Protoss is a mistake you don't want to commit either.

^ No, Praetor.  As I previously mentioned, Lavarinth revealed another suspect Dark Templar.  I will now finish the quote to when he changed his strategy from wanting to execute someone the first day, to switching to abstain:

Thalraxal, in a sense, does have a valid point if you understand where Mucky's going on with this. I'll abstain without issue at all. I'm afraid of accusing the wrong person- Simple enough.

It was in agreement with Thalraxal that Lavarinth suddenly wanted to abstain for the day.

He also agreed with Mucky.  Does that make Mucky a Dark Templar too, AA7?  I guess we're dealing with Crazy Suicidal Dark Templar then.  Guess that'll make our job easier, eh?

I began to probe Thalraxal's remarks, and observed these statements:

Yeah, I'd like to hear from AA7 on all this too.  I'm not sure I trust Lav at all right now, but I don't want to risk lynching an innocent Protoss.  Especially an Observer.  Looking at the people he identified:

Although Thal would later question if Lavarinth was the Observer, his immediate remarks are in defensive agreement for Lavarinth's case to sew doubt in our minds.

Again, caution.  Lav's accusation of Aek was suspicious, and you weren't (and still aren't) a proven innocent.  For all I knew, Lav's remarks were nothing but a slip up and you were a Dark Templar seeking to take advantage of them.  In fact, if it wasn't evident that Lav was a Dark Templar and that you led his lynching, I'd still be suspicious of you, AA7.

And of course, I was merely echoing Aek's own sentiments.  Does his caution make him a Dark Templar too?  No.  They tried to kill him, we know he's innocent!

Of course, the pressure was too great on Lavarinth, with the final tally counting as:  "2 votes for Lavarinth, 2 votes for Shadowflare, 1 vote for Ricky, 1 vote for mAc, and 1 abstain."

Remember when I said this about Lavarinth:

If indeed you were reckless enough to expose yourself to be an Observer, Lavarinth, where are your Dark Templar brothers to take advantage of the situation?  They should be elated by the prospect to immediately side with my call for your execution.  Why am I nearly the only one so far?

So who were the last to vote for Lavarinth's execution?  Thalraxal and Shadowflare.  Who voted back-to-back to abstain the first night?  Thalraxal and Shadowflare.  You see, brothers, it is quite clear the two sacrificed Lavarinth in order to reduce suspicion upon themselves.  Shadowflare was already tied with 2 votes against her.  They had to vote against Lavarinth because if the two voted for either Ricky or mAc, their identities would have been revealed by the obvious tilting of votes to save Lavarinth and Shadowflare!

You realize you fit your own criteria?  You also voted to abstain on the first Day and lynch Lav on the second.  Does that make you a Dark Templar?  No.

Of course, maybe you are one of Lav's Dark Templar brothers seeking to take advantage of the situation.  The Dark Templar have never attacked you, so you're not a proven innocent.  You knew that Lav was finished after his slip-up with Aek, and decided to sacrfice him in order to "prove" your own innocence.  But of course, that's not possible, since we all know that you are the most innocent of us all.

Oh, wait.  It was Dark Templar Lavarinth that said that.  Oops.

AA7, after my investigation, I know you are in fact innocent, and hopefully if any death were to come to you it'd be by the hands of the Dark Templar, and not your brethren accusing you because you are the most innocent of them all.