Author Mafia - Game Over!

[OscarWilde]

Wilde glanced at the Spinning Paper and nodded. "Well, it seems that the new paper is a bit of a lighter read than our dearly departed Bugle. I hope to see reasoning for the vote on Shakespeare in the next headline."

[HP Lovecraft]

Voting Log, Vol. 2 No. 1

Christopher Marlowe - 0
Thomas Pynchon - 0
Shakespeare - 2 (Thomas Pynchon, Spinning Paper)
Edgar Allan Poe - 0
James Joyce - 0
Confucius - 0
Lemony Snicket - 0
Charlie Kaufman - 0
Oscar Wilde - 0
Dr. Seuss - 2 (Jane Austen, James Joyce)
Gregory Williamson - 0
Gertrude Stein - 0
Spinning Paper - 0
Jane Austen - 0
ee cummings - 0
EL James - 0
Fred Phelps - 0
God - 0
Mark Z. Danielewski - 0
Marion Zimmer Bradley - 0
Rucks - 0

Not Voting - 17 (Marlowe, Shakespeare, Poe, Confucius, Snicket, Kaufman, Wilde, Seuss, Williamson, Stein, cummings, James, Phelps, God, Danielewsi, Bradley, Rucks)

With 21 alive, it's 11 to lynch. Deadline is 12/17 1PM EST

[Lemony Snicket]

Everything he has said is completely scum; he's had the same number of scummy posts as they the typical scum, but is missing the null posts that normally accompany them. He is still scum because his posts come from opportunism rather than scumhunting, and his lack of posts should not let him be forgiven from it.

I have to agree with this. The rhymer Seuss still has not come down for our gathering today, despite the fact that his name has been mentioned frequently. Also, I have to agree with the sentiment, a word which here means feeling or idea, that Seuss calling Ellis a "good guy," before he forced him out of our gathering is suspect.

For now I will

VOTE: Seuss

I have not found the time to check the posts I wanted to. But I do acknowledge that I am looking at Poe with the "evil eye," as he said. As the giving of Thanks, also known as a holiday that contributes to the mass genocide of turkeys everywhere, approaches my schedule becomes more booked, so I am not sure when I will be able to give Poe's novelette a look.

[Rucks]

"People can talk with voices not their own," the Lovecraft fella had said. Or something like it. Kid didn't really understand. Well, it didn't concern him, anyway - he'll keep doing what he always does, and so will I. No changes here.

Seuss? Ha, now there's a mystery. Kid didn't have any trouble with him swoopin in and putting poor Ellis outta his misery. He woulda done the same, no two ways about it. His comments were something else entirely, though. Not the part where he said he thought Ellis was a good person: there was no chance of anything else, by my words if nothin else. But the second two lines were something to worry about. Too cheeky. Didn't sit right.

Still, to properly suss things out, Kid wanted to hear from Seuss first. For now, he had another bone to pick. This with the new Spinnin paper.

Phelps, now he knew how to show up. He comes in, tells us what he thinks and why, Kid gets to know him real quicklike. But the paper? Day 1 was scarce but not empty, but here it is already in gettin-by mode. Kid needed a REASON for Shakespeare. Without giving that, a vote is just ticking a box without aiming for a wagon, and there's only one kind of person that does that.

Vote: Spinning Paper

[William Shakespeare]

Shakespeare, evil minded Shakespeare, inferred right for once. Williamson showed up looking like any traditional townie, looking for votes on a wagon he cared about. Five minutes later, he's on Wallace's ass for trying to get Poe lynched, doing the same thing.

Vote: Shakespeare

Beholding dear departed Foster's skills,
I judged him able to feign such a push
As seemed in weaker ones a sign of truth.

Pynchon and Bradley form a vile pair;
Please read the two together for yourselves.
VOTE: Pynchon

[Marion Zimmer Bradley]

Due to some RL issues that I had not expected I will be V/LA for a few days. I have informed our dear esteemed Hastur of Hasturs of this issue.

I will be back to discuss the villainy of the Terrans as soon as I can.

[EL James]

I slam the table. "Uh!" I shout almost as a moan. I blush a bit before placing my vote forward. Maybe this time I'll win.

Vote: Rucks

[Edgar Allan Poe]

I fear I must follow in Madame Bradley's footsteps. I will be semi-V/LA until Sunday night.

[Dr Seuss]

Fuck my life. I just wrote up a big long in character post and then my browser crashed so now you get bullet points and none of my incredible wit and rhyme.
I'm a giant cunt and I trollhammered because why the fuck not? The game wasn't going anywhere anyway and I happened to glance at it when someone was at L1.
I haven't read hardly any of the game.
That guy I hammered was town because what were the odds that the big L1 wagon would be on scum?
You all can suck my old dead childrens-rhyming dick.
Lemony Snicke tand Marion Zimmmer Bradely are both evil.

Vote: Lemony Snicket

[Lord God]

Shakespeare, evil minded Shakespeare, inferred right for once. Williamson showed up looking like any traditional townie, looking for votes on a wagon he cared about. Five minutes later, he's on Wallace's ass for trying to get Poe lynched, doing the same thing.

Vote: Shakespeare

I'm a big fan of crypticism, but with the power of the printed word, this convoluted mess would make an angel vomit. Explain, expand, and point out the where this happened. (274 is a good beginning, but pointing to the words means more)

Post 265 is the reasons I sometimes regret the whole "Free Will" thing.:sigh:
However, in your vehement hatred, you forgot to, you know, actually vote. Deeply interested in why.

@Marion Bradley- I heard your sigh of relief even through all the harp playing going on here. Since your 223 was so well researched, please apply those skills to the 12 players on the Ellis wagon, including their reasons for being there.

Voting Log, Vol. 1 No. 7

Edgar Allan Poe - 1 (

The Daily Bugle

)

Bret Easton Ellis

- 13 (James Joyce, Thomas Pynchon,

David Foster Wallace

, Rucks, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Jane Austen, Charlie Kaufman, Oscar Wilde, Gregory Williamson, Edgar Allan Poe, ee cummings, Lemony Snicket, Dr Seuss)

Jane Austen - 2 (Confucius, Spinning Paper)
ee cummings - 1 (Rucks)
The Daily Bugle - 2 (David Mamet, Christopher Marlowe)
Brian Jacques - 1 (Mark Z Danielewski)
Marion Zimmer Bradley - 3 (God, Shakespeare, Gertrude Stein)

Not Voting - 2 (Fred Phelps,

Bret Easton Ellis

)

With 24 alive, it takes 13 to lynch. Deadline is in flux

The Suess hammer is not alignment indicative. The rate of the game and the time it took the wagon to build means that town wants a hammer to move the game, and scum want a hammer to kill town-Ellis.

Deaths last night: Can't see scum shooting Daily Bugle- that seemed lurker-vig kill. He's up here next to me and wants me to tell you he forgives his killer. Wallace is less forgiving.
231 summary

TL;DR28 version:
Scum:

Ellis

, Poe, Stein, Shakespeare
Lean Scum:

Jacques

, cummings, James,

Wiseau

Null-Scum: Marlowe, Seuss, Poquelin
Null-Town: Williamson, Danielewski, Rucks,

Bugle

Lean Town: Kaufman, Wilde
Town: Joyce, Austen, Snicket, God, Bradley, Pynchon

but I think this will be the basis for this new day's search.

Some men's sins are open beforehand, going before to judgment; and some men they follow after. ~1 Timothy 5:24

[Mark Z Danielewski]

Dear, dear Johnny:

Today one of the attendants of this Old English Manor had an impressive amount of posturing with no regard for motivations.

If Seuss was to post more than one post, then I am sure I would find more than one post of his scummy.

Can people argue over whether Seuss is here; that he is hiding, and waiting? The so honorable Poe is still definitely scum, though I'm not voting him, because my suspicions of Seuss have been vindicated; I feel they have been at least.

Vote: Seuss

I realize we've had a variation of this dialogue before, but why do you feel so strongly about Seuss being a criminal when he has said so little to judge upon?

Everything he has said is completely scum; he's had the same number of scummy posts as they the typical scum, but is missing the null posts that normally accompany them. He is still scum because his posts come from opportunism rather than scumhunting, and his lack of posts should not let him be forgiven from it.

VOTE: Jane Austen

All my love,

Mommy.

[Fred Phelps]

The Suess hammer is not alignment indicative. The rate of the game and the time it took the wagon to build means that town wants a hammer to move the game, and scum want a hammer to kill town-Ellis.

Now, hold up, son. Are you honestly trying to give Seuss a free pass? Just because the wagon isn't alignment indicative? This is a clear and complete perversion of the viewpoint that's been set forth so far. It isn't just the hammer that gives reason for concern, The fact that you're trying to toss that sad little monkey wrench into the machine that would lead to his righteous death makes me wonder if you're not protecting him.

Fuck my life. I just wrote up a big long in character post and then my browser crashed so now you get bullet points and none of my incredible wit and rhyme.
I'm a giant cunt and I trollhammered because why the fuck not? The game wasn't going anywhere anyway and I happened to glance at it when someone was at L1.
I haven't read hardly any of the game.
That guy I hammered was town because what were the odds that the big L1 wagon would be on scum?
You all can suck my old dead childrens-rhyming dick.
Lemony Snicke tand Marion Zimmmer Bradely are both evil.

Vote: Lemony Snicket

Look at this! The fag agenda is so blatant in this. He's caught red-handed and he knows that he'll soon be kneeling at the filthcock of his Great Master Satan. He isn't even pretending to help us find sinners.

His glib reasoning reminds me more of Gary Glitter than, oh, say Habbakuk. Seuss, the child touching-pervert must on this night be given a one-way ticket to his true home in hell. He is a murderer, plain and simple. He willingly assisted in the murder yesterday by throwing the hammer, and his whorish lies now are an attempt to cover the fact. He doesn't care who dies as long as he lives to touch the children of our town another day.

"But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die." - Exodus 21:14
The Holy Scripture is completely clear on this. There's no in-between, you idiots. If he is allowed to get away with murder, than each and every one of you are culpable and liable for that murder in the eyes of God, and all will suffer in the lake of fire.

Vote: Dr. Seuss

God hates child molsters. God hates murders. And above all-else, God hates Dr. Seuss. 'Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels.'

[Spinning Paper]

Uproar in academia as Jane Austen and Shakespeare are implicated in the Jimmy Savile scandal.

Unvote, vote: Jane Austen

[James Joyce]

Fuck my life. I just wrote up a big long in character post and then my browser crashed so now you get bullet points and none of my incredible wit and rhyme.
I'm a giant cunt and I trollhammered because why the fuck not? The game wasn't going anywhere anyway and I happened to glance at it when someone was at L1.
I haven't read hardly any of the game.
That guy I hammered was town because what were the odds that the big L1 wagon would be on scum?
You all can suck my old dead childrens-rhyming dick.
Lemony Snicke tand Marion Zimmmer Bradely are both evil.

Vote: Lemony Snicket

Brown potatoes are the liscious. I very approve of the above post.

UNVOTE:

Uproar in academia as Jane Austen and Shakespeare are implicated in the Jimmy Savile scandal.

Unvote, vote: Jane Austen

The above is a diss guised FOS BUDDY and vote TOWNY.

It is lake shoo tingfish Innabar ale.

VOTE: Spinning Paper

[Thomas Pynchon]

Now Shakespeare had been brought up on underhanded rhetorical devices and illogical arguments. One of the things I've encountered is how mafia are daft for such things.

God, how do you spell omniscient? It's not for me to help you, but I'll give it a shot.

And Joyce, maybe we could

do

that other thing first?

OOC:

Pynchon and Bradley form a vile pair;
Please read the two together for yourselves.

poisoning the well, trying to tie people together before flips.

I'm a big fan of crypticism, but with the power of the printed word, this convoluted mess would make an angel vomit. Explain, expand, and point out the where this happened. (274 is a good beginning, but pointing to the words means more)

Post 70 GW votes for Bradley
Post 83/84, 136 GW encourages votes for Bradley.

Post 80 DFW votes for Poe.
Post 102, 135: DFW encourages votes for Poe

 I, ii 
        
 [Enter] Shakespeare. 
SHAKESPEARE
  'Tis time to work through yonder evidence.
         
 Readeth Thread 
  Sir Williamson beseeches us for votes.
    Now by my troth, were I a murdrous one
  I'd not so purposelessly seek support.
    My colleague Marlowe lacks both wit and harm
  For pressure is a 'vestigative goal
    A paragon Joyce in his strangeness seems;
  His fervor and his efforts like him well.
    But David Foster Wallace is no saint!
  How typically he builds his vote for Poe.
    I sense a mind of real substantial skill.
  I sense this mind intends substantial ill.
      
 Voteth David Foster Wallace

[Exit.]

Cognitive dissonance in his reads on GW and DFW.

The above is a diss guised FOS BUDDY and vote TOWNY.

It is lake shoo tingfish Innabar ale.

VOTE: Spinning Paper

Can we lynch the buddy Shakespeare first?

[James Joyce]

Can we lynch the buddy Shakespeare first?

It's 50 cents or a half-dollar, Sir Tomato Pincher.

VOTE: Shakespeare

[Jane Austen]

Today one of the attendants of this Old English Manor had an impressive amount of posturing with no regard for motivations.

My good sir would you mind explaining?

[Lemony Snicket]

Seuss - is your vote on me reactionary? Surely it must be.

Also a clarification:

That guy I hammered was town because what were the odds that the big L1 wagon would be on scum?

Are you saying you thought Ellis was scum or not? You seem to be changing your opinion on this, unless I'm not understanding what you mean here like I don't understand why I wake up in the middle of the night whispering "Beatrice."

Ms. James: what has Rucks done to make you think he is a criminal?

[Charlie Kaufman]

INT. EXECUTIVE'S OFFICE - DAY

Charlie Kaufman sits on a luxurious couch, nervously bouncing his knee up and down. Across from him sits Paula Garner behind a mahogany desk, thumbing through what little of the script there is.

PAULA GARNER

This is... not much, Charlie.

CHARLIE KAUFMAN

It has been more difficult than I imagined.

PAULA GARNER

We've given you over two months now and you've barely completed ten pages of the script. I was hoping for something more finalized by now.

CHARLIE KAUFMAN

Well I'd hit a writer's block, but I'm hoping now I can break past it with the addition of some new characters and removal of some others.

PAULA GARNER

...new characters? Now?

CHARLIE KAUFMAN

I know it seems absurd but it'll help. Trust me.

PAULA GARNER

We are trusting you, Charlie, but you've got to give us something to work with.

Charlie reaches into his bag and pulls out a few new pages of script.

CHARLIE KAUFMAN

Here, just take a look at my notes on the new characters. I think it'll set your mind at ease.

---

Fred Phelps

- Insane and obsessed with antiquated rituals
- Bombastic linguistics
- Beneath the surface lies someone with an excellent analytical mind
- His opposition to Dr. Seuss is one plot thread I'd very much like to explore further

• Seuss hammered someone who was a good guy and openly admitted he knew he was hammering a good guy
  
• Seuss' attempts to explain his motivations are...indescernable at best. He uses a desire for forward momentum as a reason for his terrible actions
  
• He then shifts attention to Mr. Snicket and Ms. Bradley without giving any reason

- I like the content provided by Fred Phelps and I think his complex personality can help the story, just like his introduction to the story has helped force Seuss to crack under pressure

Confucius

- Introducing such a well-known character is difficult, one must be delicate
- He, like Phelps, is antagonist in nature to Dr. Seuss and could prove useful
- There's room there to grow but so far he has not done enough to warrant a full spotlight

Spinning Paper

- Possibly a villain in this story
- Votes Shakespeare without any explanation in his introductory piece
- Continues to say both Austen & Shakespeare are implicitly bad guys, doesn't explain why
- Swaps vote from Sir William Shakespeare to Jane Austen without reason;
- Author's note: if both Shakespeare and Austen are equally implied to be bad guys (as his post 287 suggests) then why the need to switch from one to the other?

---

Paula sits back and sets the notes down on her desk. For a moment, not a word is spoken. Charlie clears his throat and breaks the silence.

CHARLIE KAUFMAN

So... eh... uh... thoughts?

PAULA GARNER

I think... I think it's a good start, Charlie. It shows promise. But there's still no clear villain, here, and audiences don't want ambiguity.

CHARLIE KAUFMAN

Audiences... they don't like ambiguity? I disagree, I think--

PAULA GARNER

Look, Charlie. These are good notes. Turn this into something great and give me a damned draft with at least one clear villain spelled out. I can buy you some time. You've got till the 17th.

---

VOTE: Spinning Paper

[Spinning Paper]

if both Shakespeare and Austen are equally implied to be bad guys (as his post 287 suggests)

Dewey defeats Truman!

[Charlie Kaufman]

Charlie Kaufman stared down the spinning paper.

CHARLIE KAUFMAN

I suppose by invoking that famously inaccurate headline, you're implying that my reasoning is inaccurate. If that's the case, why don't you elaborate on what you meant?

[James Joyce]

if both Shakespeare and Austen are equally implied to be bad guys (as his post 287 suggests)

Dewey defeats Truman!

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[Spinning Paper]

Charlie Kaufman stared down the spinning paper.

CHARLIE KAUFMAN

I suppose by invoking that famously inaccurate headline, you're implying that my reasoning is inaccurate. If that's the case, why don't you elaborate on what you meant?

Equality of numbers is rare, new experiment finds. "1+1=2 a grand cosmic coincidence."

[James Joyce]

Charlie Kaufman stared down the spinning paper.

CHARLIE KAUFMAN

I suppose by invoking that famously inaccurate headline, you're implying that my reasoning is inaccurate. If that's the case, why don't you elaborate on what you meant?

Equality of numbers is rare, new experiment finds. "1+1=2 a grand cosmic coincidence."

To light it with a match is to kill it with fire; a delight to watch and a thrill on the pyre.

Spinning Paper hides bee hind its chosen con strain to big font head lines. His broadsheet soul, sold to Rupert Murdoch, Her Majesty's prisoner U-547258, for no more than five pence.

[Confucius]

The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute; the man who does not ask is a fool for life.

1.)

Dr. Seuss, answer my questions from Post #272. And why do you not replace out if you do not intend to play? Your last post dishonors you.

2.)

William Shakespeare, plainly explain your vote on Thomas Pynchon. And why vote Thomas Pynchon over Marion Zimmer Bradley?

3.)

Jane Austen, if Edgar Allen Poe is "still definitely scum," why only pursue Dr. Seuss? Please also make a concise case against Edgar Allen Poe without quoting yourself.

4.)

Lemony Snicket, what were the "few things" you had to "look into?" Have you done so yet?

~

Mod

, please at the very least prod:

Gertrude Stein
ee cummings
Gregory Williamson
Christopher Marlowe