Day Two

[storyteller0910]

Chastened and increasingly fearful after the unfortunate passing of zuma, most of the gathered colonists departed the Town Hall common room quickly and quietly. Some headed for an assortment of seedy watering holes, or to other, even less savory, pastures. Others headed for their homes, and there wasn't a one that didn't cast a wary glance into a darkened alley along the way.

Dawn in New Canaan does not wait for its single sun, which due to an odd accident of planetary rotation falls upon the planet's occupied side only once every three hundred and twelve hours. Instead, after a prescribed rest period, the colony's automated climate management system ignites the multiple banks of lights scattered throughout New Canaan - this creates the hazy, Earthbound-city-esque glow that passes for daylight in the Colony. So it was that the New Canaan colonists gathered together in the morning under the same blanket of stars that looked over the execution of zuma.

The group moved together toward Town Hall, conversations about the new day's preferred companion for the electric chair already beginning. Governor Rugger led the way, but as he came around the corner he stumbled over a large form in the middle of the path. As he attempted to clean the mud stains off his tie, Governor Rugger was initially heedless of the murmurs from behind him; it was only when the first person began to dry heave that he turned.

Lying on the ground was a mass of flesh that had once been a citizen of New Canaan. Her arms had been removed from her shoulders, and used to batter her into unconsciousness; the Coroner would ultimately find that death actually occurred when the deceased choked on her own right foot. Since everything about her that was once internal was now external, it wasn't difficult to determine that the departed had been no Replicant; a quick search of her belongings and identification told the colony everything else it needed to know.

hockey monkey, a Vanilla Colonist, has been murdered, or chosen an extremely unlikely means of suicide. Probably murdered.

After cleaning up the remains of their fellow citizen, the colonists moved in an even grimmer herd toward the Town Hall. But a terrifying sight awaited them: another body, flayed from head to toe, transfixed above the doorway to the great domed building, upside down. Examination of the corpse would reveal complete exsanguination; the assembly was forced to step over the small scarlet pond created by what had been the victim's circulatory system on the way into the common room.

CatinaSuit, a Vanilla Colonist, is no more.

But the worst news of all was yet to come. A brief roll call quickly revealed that one of New Canaan's citizens, was not among the mob. A team was quickly dispatched to her residence, where the door was ajar. Inside, there was no mess, and no sign of violence - apart from the corpse of the apartment's inhabitant, shot twice in the back of the head with a small caliber weapon. Extended search of the apartment revealed some curious artifiacts - most notably, an incredibly elaborate computer system, which was evidently designed to allow its user in-depth access to every section of the datasphere. Using this system, a skilled hacker could do very nearly anything. Unfortunately, the brain of the only person in New Canaan skilled enough to make use of it was now sullied with two bullets.

Kat, the Neuromancer (Pro-Town Investigator/Role Blocker), has been logged off.

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Day Two begins now, and will end on Thursday afternoon, November 29, at 5:00PM. With 21 players alive, a majority will be reached with 11 votes. Good luck, and try to stay alive out there.

P.S. - To any of the recently dead: if you're interested in getting back into the game, we have spots to fill. PM me if you want to take one of them. Thanks!

[Merestil Haye]

This is double double plus ungood. You'll all be missed.

But somewhere the Replicants are cackling with glee - either they've eliminated a huge threat or someone's done it for them.

CatinaSuit and HockeyMonkey and Kat.

[Drain Bead]

Crap on a cracker. That was brutal.

Time to go re-read Day One, since my leading candidate for scum is now dead, and wasn't scum.

[Gir!]

Damn. Damndamndamn. My first power role, too.

Edited to add: Go Town!

[Boozahol Squid, P.I.]

Awwww... fuck.

This may make my insta-vote change somewhat. Probably not, but I'll do a reread before I make it.

[Gir!]

Hey, you need to change the news fader!

And, I agree with Diomedes' sig. ;D

[episodeofblonde]

Yikes. This really sucks

[sinjin]

I feel like Hudson:

Well that's great, that's just fuckin' great man. Now what the fuck are we supposed to do? We're in some real pretty shit now man... That's it man, game over man, game over! What the fuck are we gonna do now? What are we gonna do?

This sucks, three killing factions. WTF over.

[ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies]

Well that seriously sucked. Sorry to see you all go.

Looks like we could very well be swimming in blood within the next few Days. Hopefully at least one of those kills were one-off powers, though.

So it would appear that (unless there are even more killing factions out there, which seems preposterous) no one decided to take a swipe at either of the two claimed allegedly pro-town power roles, nor at our dear Guv'nuh. Interesting...

[Parzival]

Man, I got sick on Thanksgiving, and now this.

Farewell to the recently deceased - Kat, hockey monkey, and CIAS. I hope we can something out of whatever was said and done Yesterday.

[diggitcamara]

Three deaths?!? Man-o-man... this bodes ill.

[kassia]

wow. dude...now I just feel like hiding in a hole somewhere. sorry to see y'all go.

[RoOsh]

Yeah, I read the fader and it said "wanted new Governor" and I was thinking Pygmy's gone and bit the dust....

But now, 3 Night Kills. Damn. We're playing with some heavy shit this time around....
I'm gonna be in and out this week (My Hell Week starts now Until Dec. 3rd), but this game def. is sucking me in, I wanna go an read up on what they've been doing, but I dunno if I'll be able to do the detailed analysis/posting summary this time around.

But we've got our work cut out for us- 3 Kills does NOT bode well....

[Zeriel]

First thing I noticed last night, from sinjin:
"So I guess I should have lost myself in the one off's." in response to someone asking zuma voters for updated thoughts. Speaking as someone accused of a minor verbal slip that was potentially scummy, that one looks like a MAJOR slip--why are you interested in hiding, sinjin?

[CatInASuit]

Ouch that was a painful night.

Good Luck Town - You're gonna need it

storyteller0910 said:

P.S. - To any of the recently dead: if you're interested in getting back into the game, we have spots to fill. PM me if you want to take one of them. Thanks!

Umm. Rejoin with this death rate - we 'd have to be crazy.

[Hockey Monkey!]

Well crud, go Colony!

[Drain Bead]

zeriel said:

First thing I noticed last night, from sinjin:
"So I guess I should have lost myself in the one off's." in response to someone asking zuma voters for updated thoughts. Speaking as someone accused of a minor verbal slip that was potentially scummy, that one looks like a MAJOR slip--why are you interested in hiding, sinjin?

Not to go defending anyone, but I read that as sinjin having made the wrong decision when it came to breaking the tie. I looked back to see where sinjin's vote was when he voted for zuma, and he wasn't voting then. The other two vote leaders were two claimed town power roles. Seeing that you were responsible for the death of a townie, and the other two leading candidates have claimed town as well, means that you probably should have voted a one-off. I don't see that as a slip at all.

[Drain Bead]

cometothedarkside said:

So it would appear that (unless there are even more killing factions out there, which seems preposterous) no one decided to take a swipe at either of the two claimed allegedly pro-town power roles, nor at our dear Guv'nuh. Interesting...

This is where I start WIFOMing until I drown in cabernet. Best I can come up with is that IF they are telling the truth and are town, the scum think we can do their job for them and get rid of them during the Day. I'd imagine no Vig would have run the risk of taking out NAF or Pleonast (definitely NAF, at least). If there's a Vig, they probably went for CIAS. CIAS was so begging for a vigging that now I'm assuming there's a Vig in this game. ;D

And that's pretty much all I'm going to say about my ideas about what happened last Night. I hate the post-mortem breakdown on Day Two, especially in a closed game.

[Death By Irony]

Yeesh. This does seem to suggest a vig and an SK in addition to the regular scum. One can only hope that toMorrow won't be as brutal.

(Here's to hoping that some of the dead do sub back in - I can attest to the fact that it's great fun to have an immortality of a sort! ;D)

[sinjin]

zeriel said:

First thing I noticed last night, from sinjin:
"So I guess I should have lost myself in the one off's." in response to someone asking zuma voters for updated thoughts. Speaking as someone accused of a minor verbal slip that was potentially scummy, that one looks like a MAJOR slip--why are you interested in hiding, sinjin?

Please try to read for comprehension zeriel. I obviously wasn't 'hiding'; my voting for zuma was the opposite of 'hiding'. And I took heat for it as I knew I would. First with a smuge from Santa Rugger:

You may not have demanded me to unvote, but you sure did say that it would be more fair if I did. In addition, you explicitly stated that me contributing to a tie that I was a voter for was unfair. This implies that it would be more fair if I wasn't part of that tie. One way to do that would have been for me to unvote somebody who I thought was scum. Five ways to do that would be for the others voting for Pleo to remove their votes. Fourteen other ways to do that would be for those not voting for either of them to cast their vote for zuma to do so. One did, and a Colonist died.

italics mine

And then from NAF who wanted to know about my vote for zuma "in particular."

[Zeriel]

Snotty, snotty. I'm just saying, it's a really suspicious turn of a phrase--why would you need to "lose yourself" if you're just another townie? I mean, hell, we lynched a townie on day one. That happens--I was voting for him too. You're the only one who's expressed regret in terms of wishing you'd been less visible.

[sinjin]

Yeah I am pretty snotty zeriel. I'm also sarcastic as I was being when I said: "So I guess I should have lost myself in the one off's."

At the time I voted the count was:

PAGE 18 VOTE COUNT

Pleonast (5) - kassia, Santo Rugger, diggitcamara, Roosh, Diomedes
zuma (5) - Cookies, Kat, Yattara, zeriel, Death by Irony
CatinaSuit (4) - NAF1138, drainbead, hockey monkey, episodeofblonde
zeriel (3) - CatinaSuit, Captain Klutz, mhaye
Kat (2) - Pleonast, Parzival
NAF1138 (1) - Hal Briston
mhaye (1) - atarus
kassia (1) - zuma

Pleo and zuma were tied with the Gov. voting for Pleo. I didn't want Pleo toasted Yesterday for reasons I've already gone into. If I voted for anybody but zuma or did not vote at all with Santo being the tie-breaker I figured Pleo was a goner. So I really had to vote for zuma (who I was suspicious of) and hope he was a replicant. When he turned out to be a colonist as the person casting the hammer vote I fully expected to take some heat, but I was a little bitter about it. Hence my sarcastic remark about the one-offs. Because at the end all the one-offs and non-voters were in essence voting for Pleo.

[RoOsh]

Sinjin, I'm disappointed in what you did, but I see you've given your reasoning (during Night 1). And you did what you felt you had to do.
You also seem to understand that YES, it does make you look scummy, and you're willing to take the heat for it. So with that, I will FoS Sinjin. But I'm glad you gave your reasoning. At least its something.
In the future though... I REALLY REALLY hate those last min votes that end up lynching someone, especially in the cases of a Tie, it Does make the Hammer-er very suspicious, but it is usually something that makes me then look at the Hammer-er and the people spared by such a thing.
So Sinjin, you will be (in my mind) tied with Pleo for now (Who i still find slightly suspicious). Your strong defense of him is noted, but I follow your reasoning, and I understand where you are coming from.


Diomedes-You pulled out the "magic shiny bag" during the night. And you lived to tell about it. You said you have promised to share when you gather your thoughts, I await to hear your ideas.

Governor- I actually believe the Governor SHOULD get to vote. He's a part of this community, and just as a player of the game, it's kinda fun to actually be allowed to PLAY. Just to get a role, and then be stuck to be used only in the case of tiebreakers kinda sucks, AND it's also an easy way then if you're scum to simply not have to do any work. You just sit there as governor and NEVER have to vote until a tie breaker. It's something that bothers me. Not that I'm accusing you of being scum yet, Gov. Rugger, but i'm just saying, I want to see information, and I want the Governor to contribute his thoughts and ideas.
-The only thing I could suggest is if there DOES look to be a tie, the two parties perhaps could make their cases to the Governor a final time. And the Governor then must try then to make an unbiased decision. OR if we feels he cannot do that, and may be biased-
Perhaps we have the Governor elect a non-involved party- someone who IS doing a one-off vote to listen to the two parties and decide the matter?
=So this way the Gov. Becomes the party in CHARGE of breaking up ties, but if he's involved in the matter, he has the final say over who CAN break the tie impartially?

And NAF -I hope you start collecting those samples, dude. If you are who you say you are, You could be quite useful.

[Drain Bead]

I thought NAF could only collect one sample. Did I read that wrong?

[ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies]

I believe he has stated that he can collect one sample per day for as long as he is alive, but he can only re-animate a sample in replicant form once.

[RoOsh]

The HockeyMonkey Story:
italics mean a quote from HM.
Day 1:
Reply #4- "I like the idea of Pleonast being Gov. because I regard him as having a level head and having the ability to think things through. " She states she nominates Pleo, but not officially, "pending discussion"

Reply 6: Obviously my nomination was made before seeing Pleonast's thoughts on the office. That's the whole thing.
Reply #53: Votes for Pleonast as Governor. Because she dislikes the Auto-Lynch plan, but thinks Pleo would be a good governor (See Post #4 above).

Reply 160: A Reply to Pleonast's Reply 133.
Yells at Pleo for role claiming Vanilla Townie so early. Expresses discontent over the debate on the mechanics of voting rather than just actually (voting for governor).
Reply #161: Clarifies why she's upset at Pleo for RoleClaiming:
If you are truly vanilla, you have just made it easier for the scum to find the power roles by narrowing the pool down by one.

Reply #164: One could (and should) use the term Colonists to refer to the collective town. By quantifying the statement with the word vanilla, you did in fact make a claim as to your role and alignment. You may not have meant to, but later on in the game, if you claim to be a power role, we'll be looking back at these posts and calling you a liar. -Her thoughts to Pleonast.

Reply #169: Again another response to Pleonast's post 163, who is arguing with her over the use of "Colonist": "I will agree to disagree with you on this issue. Your post read like a role claim and I wanted clarification. Thank you for elaborating."
She agrees to disagree with Pleo over the matter.

Reply 170: Fluff commentary on Pygmy elected Governor.

Reply #335: States she is unsure who is scummy, and 2 days are left to vote. She states that she believe Pleo/NAF are both Townies with Bad ideas, and that she may vote based on her Gut feelings in the next days.

Reply 336: She quotes most of Post 333 by Atarus which is his reasoning for Lynching Mhaye. She states Perhaps I posted too soon. This is a good point in favor of lynching mhaye.

Reply #359: She expresses she dislikes the Zuma pile on. Also expresses distrust of Pleonast's claims. She states To play a role like this in a pro-town fashion, I would think that holding on to that tid-bit and hoping to live through the day would be essential. As well as not using it until you were sure someone is scum. I think Pleonast may have a role similar to his claim, but perhaps it's neither Colonist nor Replicant. I'm just not buying it. And then proceeds to VOTE Pleonast.

Reply #362: She then states her response to the Idea that Pleonast might be a Vig: "I don't believe Pleo's claim, but if it is true, I'm still OK with my vote." and she cites Conspiracy Mafia where she still voted for a claimed Vig.

Reply #364: Well if it's a night action for Pleo to decide who to put the bomb under, then shouldn't we neutralize the threat while we have a chance?

Reply #427: Again more smack talk towards Pleo vs. NAF, and she feels that Pleo is lying.

Reply #429: Reply to Gov. Rugger stating again she believes NAF is telling the truth, while Pleo is lying. I'm sensing a pattern here.

Reply #435: Again another reply to Gov. Rugger: The only person I consider confirmed is myself. I believe NAF's role claim, but until death no one is confirmed in my eyes. - her whole reply.

Reply #490: She quotes Pleonast's Reply #475.
And then UNVOTES Pleonast. She then states:
In light of this post, I'll retract my vote and wait a few days* to see how this information in conjunction with NAF's will play out. I agree with the case that has been brought forth against CatInASuit. I'll admit, that I haven't done the research myself, but Atarus' case seems sound to me. And then VOTES CATINASUIT.

Reply #496: Posts a correction to 490- * that she's going to wait a few game Days and not a few real life days.

Reply #498: She replies to my (Roosh) Fosing Her. Points out she was busy "dialed in on Pleonast" to really examine CatinaSuit. (Sarcasm detected in her apology). Gives Rolly Eyes to me.

Reply #505: Replies to Episode of Blonde: She apoligizes for attributing the voting of CatinaSuit to Atarus, but instead meant NAF. (This is why I had FOSed her, as I disliked Atarus's idea, and she stated she was using it to vote for Cat, which made no sense to me).

And then she died. Those are all of her Day 1 posts.


My thoughts:
Well, she originally expressed doubt towards Mhaye, but then got into a verbal back and forth argument with Pleonast for most of her posts. She also was replying to Gov. Rugger a bit on her case against Pleonast. She also seemed to agree with Atarus and NAF in her interactions. Why she died? Well, I have no idea, but I just wanted to collect all her Posts for easy reference, and since I'm busy the rest of the week, I'm hoping others can do the same for Zuma, Cat, and Kat. This way it's easy to have a chart/page of reference to see all the posts/interactions made by a player without having to just search for them all. Plus analysis when you have time is always nice. So if anyone wants to look at this further, feel free to use this as a stepping stone.

Anyways, I'm out for now. I just want to start the ball rolling though, I hate inactive lulls in the Town, and I know I'm gonna be busy.

Any volunteers for who wants to examine the others?

Here is also the Final Vote Count for Day 1:

zuma (6) - Cookies, Kat, Yattara, zeriel, Death by Irony, Sinjin
Pleonast (5) - kassia, Santo Rugger, diggitcamara, Roosh, Diomedes
CatinaSuit (4) - NAF1138, drainbead, hockey monkey, episodeofblonde
zeriel (3) - CatinaSuit, Captain Klutz, mhaye
Kat (2) - Pleonast, Parzival
NAF1138 (1) - Hal Briston
mhaye (1) - atarus
kassia (1) - zuma
Non-Voters: (2) BlasterMaster, HazelNutCoffee

Known Townies bolded above.

So let's get cracking, guys!

[Tragic]

Back in the game - subbing in - and if you guys give me today to catch up I'll be ready to rumble!

Cheers,
T

[Tragic]

Starting backwards by reading Day 2 first, it's a bit easier for me.

Also.. I'm trying to work past the problems I had in Firefly (mainly being that I tend to play in games where a lot of the game takes place in private conversations and it's much less out in the open) but I think I'm a step closer to embracing this style of game!

And it starts out with a huge blood shed.. anyone else astonished about this? Well I'd have to say yes after reading all the posts, lol. How in the [censored] did they kill 3 of us in one [censored] night? Maybe I'm still missin a vital piece of the puzzle but goodness knows something is up. And with 3 direct hits against the Cits I'm a little wigged out. We've got to find a Spy today or else we're going to be dealing with a heavily inbalanced equation.

At first the information in sinjin appeared scummy but I have to say after reading the explinations I'm a little less inclined to point a finger. Doesn't mean he's off the hook entirely but it just seems less likely to me at this point in time.

Time to turn around and go read Day One and see what kind of juicy gossip I can pick up!

(and apologies for the double post)

[RoOsh]

-a "Spy"?
()?
-Double posting is fine with me.... I do it all the time.
-And feel free to curse around here....

Otherwise, good to have you back, Tragic, I know you're quite new to this game, and so I'm gonna give you some slack... but still.
"Spy??" (>_O) Where did that come from?

And who are you replacing btw?

[episodeofblonde]

I suppose it's to be expected thatsinjin would get extra attention for her tie-break vote, and fair enough. But from a WIFOM perspective, would not any action she took at that point seem scummy? I'm not saying she's not, but her choices were functionally limited to voting for a claimed power role and zuma. I'm not sure, unfortunately at that point, that there was a 'right choice'. zeriel, I'm not seeing her 'slip' either.
In light of the bloodbath, I think we all need to play, even more than usual, as if we could die at any time.
I'm reallly busy (damn last week of term) but I might have time to look at our late lamented NeuromancerKat's posts later today. If someone else has a little more time and gets to it first, I may still do my own summary but don't not do it since I've volunteered here.