July 17, 1995
6:58 PM
Echo Bay, Maryland
WVOQ station headquarters
"and you're live in 10... 9... 8..."
Andi Mathers has been a newscaster at WVOQ for 13 years, but nothing that's ever happened here has prepared her for this. certainly, there's always been crime in Echo Bay, some of it violent, but the recent wave of death across the city has been more extreme and more frequent than anything that's ever happened here. for three years after she graduated college, she'd been a reporter in Charm City, nary an hour away, and she'd dealt with her fair share of death, but she came here looking for change, and this was what she faced instead. was this her future? was this just the way people were now?
"7... 6..."
the man counting down went silent. just hand signals now. the silence filled the whole room. a somber, hopeless feeling. she had grown complacent in this job; she sat behind a desk and read the news each night at 7 PM, and that was it. but tonight, things were different. she turned and looked at her co-host, who nodded somberly. tonight, her regular co-host was out. he was mourning the death of his sister. murdered by a violent, angry mob.
there would be more death. but what would make it end? that was impossible to say.
a producer slid a sheet of paper toward her. it informed her of a prison riot at Echo Bay Penitentiary following the murder of another prison employee. more bad news.
mastina has died, and was a town jailkeeper.
please submit any night actions you have in the next 48 hours.
the reporter hastens her speed to match his. he clearly wants to avoid this conversation, but she isn't going to allow that.
"Mayor, what do you have to say about the string of violent deaths that have struck the town in recent weeks?"
"I don't have anything to say. no comment."
"you don't think the office of the Mayor needs to comment on these brutal attacks? twice now a mob has killed innocent people. you don't care about that?"
"I said no comment."
"...off the record?"
she makes a big show of turning her voice recorder off. she's genuinely curious to hear what he has to say about the wave of death that has stuck his town. he stops and turns to her.
"...you want my opinion? off the record? fine. whole world's goin' to hell. things are just gonna keep getting worse. I'm here to keep the lights on."
"so you don't care?"
"who said I don't care? of course I care. I got this job because I was retiring. that doesn't mean I'm good at it. here's the thing, though: I don't think anyone is up for it. Dad certainly wasn't. people respected him enough to do what he said, but that doesn't mean he knew what folks should be doing."
"couldn't you gain the respect you need to stop this death if you ended this media silence?"
"...maybe."
"maybe? what does that mean?"
"I'll get back to you."
Jingle has died, and was a town triple voter.
Dannflor has died, and was a mafia day 3 vigilante.
Smooth as silk when he's scum, and very much capable of running things from behind the scenes while appearing to be doing minimal effort. - Almost50
Xtoxm is consistently great - Shosin
you were the only wolf i townread at endgame - the worst
In post 2508, Wagonomics wrote:Like, the way I get a little nervous here was, if you are scum:
a) One of your scumbuddies helped you get caught up on the thread with a summary of claims to help you get started
if we're looking at one scumteam 5 minimum
party boat out of those three
Smooth as silk when he's scum, and very much capable of running things from behind the scenes while appearing to be doing minimal effort. - Almost50
Xtoxm is consistently great - Shosin
you were the only wolf i townread at endgame - the worst
Smooth as silk when he's scum, and very much capable of running things from behind the scenes while appearing to be doing minimal effort. - Almost50
Xtoxm is consistently great - Shosin
you were the only wolf i townread at endgame - the worst
I haven’t pushed she talks “agenda” you don’t talk that. You push that, and secretly.
Her play directly benefits a scum agenda.
You're so confident it's pushing me in the other direction.
Stop making excuses. If I'm obvscum.
Lynch me.
Over mastina.
posts like this one, and other aspects of his play like unvoting mastina because he didn't want a lynch before he caught up, not caring about getting into an argument with FL on patchy game knowledge...more likely coming from town.
Smooth as silk when he's scum, and very much capable of running things from behind the scenes while appearing to be doing minimal effort. - Almost50
Xtoxm is consistently great - Shosin
you were the only wolf i townread at endgame - the worst
ok so if we say 5..4 remaining..light, PB, von? ausuka?
Smooth as silk when he's scum, and very much capable of running things from behind the scenes while appearing to be doing minimal effort. - Almost50
Xtoxm is consistently great - Shosin
you were the only wolf i townread at endgame - the worst
21p is 5 as standard, if its singleball 4 would honestly shock me as we are 24
if its multiball anything goes
Smooth as silk when he's scum, and very much capable of running things from behind the scenes while appearing to be doing minimal effort. - Almost50
Xtoxm is consistently great - Shosin
you were the only wolf i townread at endgame - the worst