Night Three

[storyteller0910]

The final hours of the deathwatch bled away with terrible slowness. Near the platform stood the figure the other colonists knew as Pleonast, now marked for death, chained and bound and perfectly calm. Contemplating the chair in which he would reach the end of a long and eventful life, the thoughts of the condemned drifted. His name was not Pleonast, of course, whatever the people of New Canaan might believe. What New Canaan knew about who and what he was couldn’t fit into a thimble. He was not precisely afraid, for he knew his death to have a purpose.

When the appointed hour drew on, the being called Pleonast mounted the dais without complaint, as the previous victims of the New Canaan electric chair had done before him. He faced his executioners in cold silence; his final words were on record, and he had nothing further to say to those who would destroy him. Gently, he was eased down into the chair.

Suddenly, some long dormant survival instinct sprung to life; he lunged forward against the two colonists charged with fastening his restraints, and nearly broke free of them. They might have described his strength as superhuman, had anyone bothered to ask. He fought violently against his end - never making even the tiniest sound - but with the assistance of two or three additional colonists, chosen for their brawl, he was finally forced into the chair and restrained. Governor Rugger met the cold, blue, gunslinger’s eyes of the man in the chair and then, grimly, did his appointed duty.

The Coroner was in with Pleonast’s remains a bit longer this time, and when he emerged, he was typically silent. With bloodied white gloves, he held up a strip of metal, also covered in blood and obviously drawn from inside the remains of the dead man. On it was stamped a string of characters - a serial number. Pleonast was a Replicant.

The celebration was as muted as it was short-lived. An enterprising colonist quickly found a database and matched the serial number to the Replicant that possessed it. As the Earthbound name of this particular Replicant appeared on the screen, each of the colonists recoiled in amazement and horror - some real, some feigned. And for the first time in three days, the town of New Canaan was filled with perfect silence.

Pleonast, A/K/A Rick Deckard, a Pro-Town, Replicant, Blade Runner, has finally escaped suspicion.

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Night Three begins now. It will end at approximately 12:00PM on Friday, December 7 - I’m extending the Night ever so slightly because I will be out on Friday morning and unable to post the Dawn until around noon. Night actions are due at this time. In the meanwhile, please commence Night discussion. I imagine you have quite a bit to discuss.

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In case anyone was wondering, Pleonast had the power to investigate players during the Day and determine whether or not they were Replicants; he also was a Night vigilante. He also had limited resistance to Night kills, and a percentage chance to take his killer with him if he was Night killed. However, if he made a truthful role claim, he’d have lost all of his powers.

[CatInASuit]

@rse!!

[Santo Rugger]

*shaking fist* Og, DAMN it!

[Drain Bead]

SON OF A BITCH.

[sinjin]

Bastard mod.

[kassia]

ah shit.

[Pollux Oil]

Well good news is, at least people can stop being suspicious of Pleonast now.

And I guess Pleo's parting words means our Governor was investigated as pro-town.

Maybe now we can actually find some scum, eh?

[Drain Bead]

I was just about to point out that now Santo Rugger is officially cleared. No WIFOM for us. I suppose that's about the only positive to take from this.

Now I'm going to go searching for the other breadcrumbs.

[ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies]

Bah. That is some expensive information we just bought.

atarus said:

And I guess Pleo's parting words means our Governor was investigated as pro-town.

That is the breadcrumb that I plan on clinging to, and it allows us/me to set aside the whole Gov/tie debate, at least as long as Rugger is among the living.

[NAF1138]

Ok, so now I am frustrated. Because Pleo was right. As a town, the way we are going about finding scum is idiotic. Neither zuma's lynch or Pleo's lynch should have ever happened.

[ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies]

Pleo's consistent votes for kassia do not bode well for her...

[Santo Rugger]

atarus said:

<snip>And I guess Pleo's parting words means our Governor was investigated as pro-town.<snip>

I'm guessing he investigated me on the first Day, after I was elected Guv.

As for Days 2 and 3, the links to the posts he references are broken. I'm assuming they're referencing his point scheme posts, which I actually liked the idea of. Now that we know he could have manipulated the points to send us a message, they make even more sense. However, I'm not seeing it yet. We may be WiFoMing on this one for awhile.

Unfortunately he wasn't more specific in the second two Days. Maybe he wasn't allowed to be? It kind of sucks (for me) that the scum know the town knows I'm a Colonist, though, as I'm probably going to die sooner now that the Replicants don't have that WiFoM over the town.

[Santo Rugger]

naf1138 said:

Ok, so now I am frustrated. Because Pleo was right. As a town, the way we are going about finding scum is idiotic. Neither zuma's lynch or Pleo's lynch should have ever happened.

I would say that zuma or Dio's shouldn't have happened. YMMV.

[Parzival]

CRAP. Things are not going our way at all.

[CatInASuit]

pygmyrugger said:

atarus said:

<snip>And I guess Pleo's parting words means our Governor was investigated as pro-town.<snip>

I'm guessing he investigated me on the first Day, after I was elected Guv.

As for Days 2 and 3, the links to the posts he references are broken. I'm assuming they're referencing his point scheme posts, which I actually liked the idea of. Now that we know he could have manipulated the points to send us a message, they make even more sense. However, I'm not seeing it yet. We may be WiFoMing on this one for awhile.

Unfortunately he wasn't more specific in the second two Days. Maybe he wasn't allowed to be? It kind of sucks (for me) that the scum know the town knows I'm a Colonist, though, as I'm probably going to die sooner now that the Replicants don't have that WiFoM over the town.

I would also agree that Santo Rugger was investigated on Night 2, which means the more important detail will be on Day 3.

His links are fixed in my follow up post and also are here as well.

Day Two

Day 3

[RoOsh]

...Fuckshit. He couldn't tell the TRUTH in his roleclaim?
That's fucking BASTARDLY, Storyteller.... I didn't ever expect a person on the StraightDope to use that Mafia role play card because I figured that one was too much....
Wow.
This game... just got a whole lot tougher, and my hats off to you Story for having the balls to put a clause like that in the game.

[Drain Bead]

I just looked over the threads for breadcrumbs. I think he made them relatively obvious. I don't want to die toNight so I'll save that strategy post for the morning. I encourage everyone to re-read day Two and Three, especially Pleo's last strategy post (the one where he directly breadcrumbs SR) and see where that gets you.

[Drain Bead]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaand someone already said what I was withholding anyway.

[Santo Rugger]

catinasuit said:

pygmyrugger said:

<snip>I would also agree that Santo Rugger was investigated on Night 2, which means the more important detail will be on Day 3.
<snip>

storyteller0910 said:

<snip>Pleonast had the power to investigate players during the Day and determine whether or not they were Replicants; he also was a Night vigilante. <snip>

So, they were Day investigations, as one might expect from a pro town role (as opposed to scum roles, which one might expect to be Night actions).

[Santo Rugger]

Ok, Pleo voted for kassia twice, and also gave her the most absolute value of points toDay. He also gave atarus the most absolute value of points, in the other direction, yesterDay. But I'm going to shut up for awhile, the thread seemed to progress just fine during my weekend binge.

[CatInASuit]

Rereads....

In case anyone was wondering, Pleonast had the power to investigate players during the Day and determine whether or not they were Replicants; he also was a Night vigilante. He also had limited resistance to Night kills, and a percentage chance to take his killer with him if he was Night killed. However, if he made a truthful role claim, he’d have lost all of his powers.

He had Day and Night powers? Good Grief.

In which case, I think his important stuff should be in Night 2/Day 3 somewhere if he received his info from the end of Day 2.

[RoOsh]

drainbead said:

I don't want to die toNight so I'll save that strategy post for the morning. I encourage everyone to re-read day Two and Three, especially Pleo's last strategy post (the one where he directly breadcrumbs SR) and see where that gets you.

:headslap:
Um. By SAYING that... you become an at night target. Just like Dio.
Gorram it.... Saying "Guys, I HAVE Valuable information that I want to share, but I don't wanna get killed, so I'm gonna shut up until the morning"
Puts a HUGE Target on your back.
This is what I was trying to say Night 1: Either make it a point to NOT say anything until the morning, or say it right then and there at night. By saying "Well, I could say something, but I won't say nothing" that just hurts us doubly, because 1. You become a target for stating something.
2. If you die, well we lose that info because you didn't' share it.

-If you really wanted to have something to say, you could have just waited til Dawn to state it rather than the stating "ooh ooh ooh! I See something!"

:sigh: Times like these i wish i had that headslap smiley. Words don't do it justice.

[Parzival]

And also - Pleo was a pro-town REPLICANT. That was a nice twist. Wonder if Gaff will be making origami unicorns for his grave.
"That test of yours - have you ever taken it yourself, Mr. Deckard?"

Side note: I saw BR:The Final Cut last night. Quite good restoration/clean-up, even though I prefer it edited something closer to the original release.

[RoOsh]

Here is the massive Final Votes count thing. I included the Governor one as well.
And I've put down GovernorRugger as a confirmed colonist as per Pleonast. YMMV, but I'm gonna believe the fucking Blade Runner....
So he'll be bolded too.


FINAL GUBERNATORIAL VOTE COUNT
Santo Rugger (8) - Kat1.0, Death by Irony, diggitcamara, drainbead, episodeofblonde, CatinaSuit1.0, atarus, sinjin
Pleonast (4) - Santo Rugger, zeriel, hockeymonkey, mhaye
NAF1138 (2) - Roosh, kassia
Parzival (1) - Yattara
zeriel (1) - Parzival
Roosh (1) - CometotheDarkSideWeHaveCookies
HazelNutCoffee (1) - Pleonast
zuma (1) - NAF1138

Votes Day 1: FINAL COUNT
Pleonast (5) - kassia, Santo Rugger, diggitcamara, Roosh, Diomedes
zuma (6) - Cookies, Kat, Yattara, zeriel, Death by Irony, Sinjin
CatinaSuit (4) - NAF1138, drainbead, hockey monkey, episodeofblonde
zeriel (3) - CatinaSuit1.0, Captain Klutz, mhaye
Kat1.0 (2) - Pleonast, Parzival
NAF1138 (1) - Hal Briston
mhaye (1) - atarus
kassia (1) - zuma
Non-Voters: (3) BlasterMaster(Zuma2.0), HazelNutCoffee(Tragic)

Votes Day 2: 18 Votes of 21 11 to Lynch, 21 Alive
Diomedes (9*) - drainbead, atarus, Parzival, CometotheDarkSideWeHaveCookies, kassia, Tragic, episodeofblonde, DeathbyIrony, *Dio self votes in final 5 mins
Pleonast (5) - Santo Rugger, diggitcamara, sinjin, Roosh, zuma 2.0, [Diomedes*]
kassia (2) - NAF1138, Pleonast
Death by Irony (1) - Captain Klutz
Zeriel (1) - mhaye
Non-Voters: (5): Hal Briston(CatinaSuit2.0), Yattara (Kat2), Zeriel

Votes Day 3: 18 of 19 votes Cast
Pleonast (10) - zuma v. 2.0, sinjin, Roosh, Santo Rugger, drainbead, CatinaSuit v. 2.0, kassia, Kat, Captain Klutz, diggitcamara
Death by Irony (2) - atarus, CometotheDarksideWeHaveCookies
sinjin (2) - Zeriel, NAF1138
Zeriel (2) - Parzival, Tragic
Roosh (2) - episodeofblonde, Death by Irony
Did Not Vote: Pleonast

[ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies]

Unconfirmed Pleo voters (final votes only, ignoring Gov race):


diggitcamara (Days 1,2,3)
Roosh (Days 1,2,3)

kassia (Days 1,3)

sinjin (Days 2,3)
zuma 2.0 (Days 2,3)

drainbead (Day 3)
Catina Suit v 2.0 (Day 3)
Kat v 2.0 (Day 3)
Captain Klutz (Day 3)

That's a lot of folks to try and play whack-a-scum with based on voting history. I'm tempted to try and treat all three Days as one long Day, since he consistently carried so much suspicion and conversation on each day. Doing so would cause me to look very closely at the 4 people who only voted for him the day that he was actually lynched, at least as much as the two people who voted for him like clockwork.

[Tragic]

Damnit... Roles are dropping quicker than I'd like

There's always toMorrow to re-evaluate and regroup. I have faith that if we just facilitate chatter and put our minds to it we can beat them! (Suddenly I feel the urge to don a cheerleader's uniform.....)

[episodeofblonde]

holy fuck! This is not good at all. But at least we finally have some tangible information. Story, you are a meanie.

I have to agree that Santo is cleared.

[Drain Bead]

roosh said:

drainbead said:

I don't want to die toNight so I'll save that strategy post for the morning. I encourage everyone to re-read day Two and Three, especially Pleo's last strategy post (the one where he directly breadcrumbs SR) and see where that gets you.

:headslap:
Um. By SAYING that... you become an at night target. Just like Dio.
Gorram it.... Saying "Guys, I HAVE Valuable information that I want to share, but I don't wanna get killed, so I'm gonna shut up until the morning"
Puts a HUGE Target on your back.
This is what I was trying to say Night 1: Either make it a point to NOT say anything until the morning, or say it right then and there at night. By saying "Well, I could say something, but I won't say nothing" that just hurts us doubly, because 1. You become a target for stating something.
2. If you die, well we lose that info because you didn't' share it.

-If you really wanted to have something to say, you could have just waited til Dawn to state it rather than the stating "ooh ooh ooh! I See something!"

:sigh: Times like these i wish i had that headslap smiley. Words don't do it justice.

Well, what I was going to say, but that Cookies beat me to, is that Pleonast voted for kassia on Day 2-3. It seemed relatively obvious, and unlike Diomedes, I wasn't going to post about it toNight and then disappear. Unlike Diomedes, I might not make it past morning, but at least everyone now knows exactly where I was going with that. So there.

[RoOsh]

Btw... Dotchan. You voted for me at the end of Day 3, where the Heck did that come from?

--I mean, I know I've been bitter about your idea in FF, but that was about all I could recall from you, PygmyRugger was the one pointing out your Voting stuff.

In fact, the ONLY time you mention me on Day 3 is in Reply 35: where you stated:
Oh, yeah. I guess it does involve too many powerroles coordinating in the background.

I never said it was a good idea (I specifically ASKED people to poke holes in the trial bubble I floated). And I did admit that the plan was very vulnerable to scum interference.

*goes back to the drawing board*
that's actually THE ONLY POST in Day 3 where you mention me. Reply #35. And then You vote for me in 184.... Wtf's up with that? Color me confused. You AGREED with me on my point that I called you out on... and yet... You then waited a 100 posts before voting for me again stating it's because I've been horribly misquoting you?

When WAS all this? Are you even playing the same game I am, Dotchan?
I've been arguing with Sinjin, Zeriel, and Drainbead for most of Day 3.
I mentioned you in Post 174 just as a joke (on how much I hated your bad idea in FF. It was completley out of this game).

The only other time on day 3, I mention you is in Post 19, where I called you out for a bad phrasing, and you then AGREED WITH ME in post 35.


That was pretty much the only major reference I had to you on Day 3. And You me.

so what the heck is up with your vote? Where have I been secretly butting heads with you all through this game. Which is simply untrue. I don't even THINK I found you suspicious on Day 3.

***SO Dotchan. Please explain what the hell your vote was all about because I'm confused as hell. Did you actually MIS-Vote? Or did you really just make up a reason to vote me and that was the weakest one you could think of? Because its just bizarre.

Here's your vote for me btw:

Speaking of which, I've been butting heads with Roosh over the past few Days now¹, and while I have no issue with him finding me suspicious, it's the way he's been doing it this time²--quoting me horribly, horribly out of context and reading motivations into my statements that aren't there--that makes him my current #1 suspect³, so I'm going to vote Roosh.

1. Really? This is news to me. As um... we had one discussion today. ONE. WAY back in the first 20 posts. Did I really butt your head THAT hard from it???
2. I never quoted you since said Post (#19), which you subsequently AGREED WITH ME on (Post 35).
3. Really? #1? All those people discussing you and you talking to them and butting heads with them got to you? It was MY agreeable post #19 that did it? REALLY, Dotchan?
Am I being whooshed here?


And question: if you really did intend to vote for me:
WHY? I'd like examples where I've butted heads with you TODAY. Day 3. In fact, show me in Day 3 Where I stated you were suspicious (since post 19). As they say over in your Doperville, Cite, please.

[diggitcamara]

roosh said:

Here is the massive Final Votes count thing. I included the Governor one as well.
And I've put down GovernorRugger as a confirmed colonist as per Pleonast. YMMV, but I'm gonna believe the fucking Blade Runner....
So he'll be bolded too.

(snip)

I think you're right about Rugger (God, I hope you're right), but I think there are additional breadcrumbs spread around there. For instance, I haven't looked at Pleo's breadcrumbs yet but he had not one but three (two?) Days to investigate other players. His suspicion lists will probably have changed accordingly. (Those whom he investigated successfully would have appeared and/or disappeared from those lists)

NAF's claim of Replicant invulnerability during the Night should be investigated as well.

Let's look at those past Days, again...