Author Mafia - Game Over!

[Lemony Snicket]

I see we have been transported back in time to the Colosseum.

I agree with Rucks that a "Gladiator" type of ability seems counter-intuitive for a criminal to have. If a criminal had such an ability, then they would presumably attract more votes as people looked between the two choices. There is no motivation for a criminal Seuss to force such a situation as well.

Danielewski -

I understand that the paper speaks in headlines, but many are unclear (especially the response to my request). And the paper has spoken without headlines before. The lack of clarity and seeming ignorance of my request is what prompted my vote, not the fact that he speaks in headlines.

Regarding the three you asked about:

Austen's argument with Seuss has put her in the light of a criminal, while it has put Seuss in the light of, for the lack of a word that will better convey what I want to say, a gladiator. Her #388 and Seuss's #390 are what made me believe that (specifically in 390, the point he made about the contradiction between Austen's #107 and her most recent statements, as well as the general dodgyness, a word which apparently is not an actual word, in her arguments).

Phelps looks like an innocent caught up in a tunnel. Now that the choice is between him and Miss Austen, I do not believe that tunnel will be alleviating anytime soon.

Stein is a possible criminal. Her vote has floated around as much as a frog crossing a busy street, and she blatantly role fished in her most recent post.


UNVOTE:
VOTE: Austen

[HP Lovecraft]

Gladiatorial Votecount 1.1
Jane Austen - 6 (Seuss, Poe, Danielewski, Bradley, Rucks, Snicket)
Dr Seuss - 2 (Austen, Joyce)

Not Voting - 13 (Shaft, Pynchon, Shakespeare, Confucius, Kaufman, Wilde, Williamson, Stein, Paper, cummings, James, Phelps, God)
With 21 alive, it's 11 to lynch. Deadline is 12/17 1PM EST

[Gregory Williamson]

I'm sorry for my lack of posts. I'll get to this sooner rather than later, pinky promise.

[Jane Austen]

Vote: Seuss

I agree with Rucks that a "Gladiator" type of ability seems counter-intuitive for a criminal to have. If a criminal had such an ability, then they would presumably attract more votes as people looked between the two choices. There is no motivation for a criminal Seuss to force such a situation as well.

That does not seem stricly speaking true. Seuss had Phelps against him, and with the game state being as it was he had motive to cut the day short; you are giving him what he wanted. It may be pertinent to note that his suspicion of me only came when I was one of the largest wagons - he voted me in post 380 - and that he had obvious reasons as a criminal not only to cut the day short, but also to demonstrate his power. There are no shortage of motives for the criminal Seuss.

Miss Bradley, well didn't you comment on the threesome point?

[Mark Z Danielewski]

Fantastic.

Since I have confirmation that player meta is completely fair
game in-thread if a player happens to out themselves--

Empking/Austen, you are playing stupid. You may be obstinate, but
you are not stupid. That "truism" of insisting you would find any
hypothetical further posts by Seuss scummy is horribly scummy.

It might pass from a player
with less skill who
was convinced he was
on

to

something.

From you? Nah.

And you? Mr. Lurker Major, calling someone else out on lurking (yadda yadda Seuss's posts lack the nullish posts one might expect yadda)?

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.

HA.

I dare anyone to look at

Austen's posts and say

that they look like legitimate

Town-thin

k,

with the now open knowledge that they are coming from

Empking.

[Jane Austen]

Empking/Austen, you are playing stupid. You may be obstinate, but
you are NOT stupid. That "truism" of insisting you would find any
hypot hetical further posts by Seuss scummy is horribly scummy.pid. That "truism" of insisting you would find anyhypothetical further posts by Seuss scummy is horribly scummy.

That is misleading, and I would contend purposely so, the phrasing makes it sound like I said that I would find all of his posts scummy, and you'd agree that is noot what I said. I fail to see how a

truism

- whatever its content - can have scummy content, the context might make it scummy, but that's not what your saying. It's a fact that had posted more than one post and had posted as many posts as myself then he'd have had more than one scummy post; do you doubt the truth of that statement?

I didn't call anyone out for lurking, and the quote you posted shows that I was being forced to respond to Mr. Snicket's statement of Dr. Seuss's lurking; it is hard to believe that you can read those quotes and think that I raised the point of Seuss having had 'said so little to judge upon'.

[HP Lovecraft]

Diary Entry 11

As we had begun to jeer and carry on like wild animals, a tall negro, wearing a long leather coat and sporting ridiculous facial hair, strode into our midst and coldly announced that he would be replacing the absent Christopher Marlowe, who had apparently found the exit door that the rest of us found so curiously invisible. One in our midst asked if he was "the sex machine for all the chicks out there", to which he responded "damn right".

I fear for my very soul.

Shaft replaces Christopher Marlowe

[William Shakespeare]

Our options now are ended. Seuss's mind,
With wild brandish't truth and honest words,
Hath naught to fear from joining in the ring.
VOTE: Jane Austen
This dark opposing figure seeks defense
From misbehavior's vindicating light;
As naturally the wicked witch must leap
To try the good for lightly trod missteps.

[Shaft]

Word on the street is we need to kill this old white bitch?

[Thomas Pynchon]

Vote: Jane Austin

They

couldn't have a gladiator, could they?

[James Joyce]

I realize I was drunk on the smell of Miss Austen's chocolatey petticoats.

Dr Seuss may love chilled run, but he can nut pussy bley be scum. My vote fore him was soaked in tears of gin and whiskey.

While I see the errors of my ways, I would wager a pint that Miss Austen will be found to be a naughty-in-the-bedroom, completely honest piece of citizenry.

[Confucius]

Never give a sword to a man who can’t dance.

Vote: Jane Austen

~

1.)

William Shakespeare,

answer my questions.

2.)

Edgar Allen Poe,

answer my question.

Bemoaning whether you look like scum is not an answer.

3.)

Gertrude Stein,

answer my questions.

4.)

Jane Austen,

answer my questions.

And to be clear: I want you to

explain

how Edgar Allen Poe and Lemony Snicket have been taking your posts out of context to attack you. And when you do so,

stop posting in-character

. The fact that I understand your accusation generally does not mean I specifically understand your accusation.

~

5.)

EL James, where is your promised content?

6.)

I am not willing to call Dr. Seuss Town solely because of his role:

24) Setup Design:

The roles were fully randomized. There is no correlation between author and role. Do not try to outguess the mod.

But I think Dr. Seuss is more likely to be town than Jane Austen is. And I will point out that scum with such a role

would

want to wait for pressure to start dying on them before they used it, or else the momentum would likely roll right back and with potentially more force given the restricted options.

[Jane Austen]

I want you to explain how Edgar Allen Poe and Lemony Snicket have been taking your posts out of context to attack you. And when you do so, stop posting in-character.

I never claimed that Snicket took my words out of context, and I'm interested in what gave you that impression?

It is a pity that when I'm lynched you'll still consider his role as proof positive of Seuss's towniness; I wish that wasn't so, and as a general point I'd ask if anybody thinks that it would be broken as scum as it is certainly useful for scum?

[James Joyce]

...thinks that it would be broken as scum as it is certainly useful for scum?

My beautiful little pig, you know that's just not possible. Why would a scumbag jeopardize his own neck of the woods, and chance a slice on his own juggler? No, Seuss is not a scumbagaroni. He would NOT use this role if pastascum - not with Fraid Feltphs screaming for his demise.

I was very drunk on your enchanting fumes once again, and I swear I counted the votes and calculated and lactated that you were dead. I was very, very far from anything assembling the truth. Inebriation, Sir! Al Kohel said so!

UNVOTE: Seuss

[Charlie Kaufman]

Confucius:

- Basically Spinning Paper, only with actual content to go beneath his glossy stylistic tones

Shaft:

- Fuck this game.

[Confucius]

Behind every smile there is teeth.

~

I want you to explain how Edgar Allen Poe and Lemony Snicket have been taking your posts out of context to attack you. And when you do so, stop posting in-character.

I never claimed that Snicket took my words out of context, and I'm interested in what gave you that impression?

It is a pity that when I'm lynched you'll still consider his role as proof positive of Seuss's towniness; I wish that wasn't so, and as a general point I'd ask if anybody thinks that it would be broken as scum as it is certainly useful for scum?

I misrembered your accusations, presumably because you have failed to sensibly explain them and therefore they do not leave much of an impression on my memory. You apparently instead accused Edgar Allen Poe of taking both your words and Lemony Snicket's out of context. You could have simply corrected me (as I was talking about the correct three people) instead of acting politely offended.

Now answer my question. This is at the very least the third time you have avoided it.

Finally, if you read

my

post, I never said that Dr. Seuss' role as "proof-positive of Seuss' towniness"; I said that his role does nothing to sway me in either direction given the Moderator's set-up post and the timing of its use.

[Spinning Paper]

Justice up 20%.

Vote: Jane Austen

[Lemony Snicket]

That does not seem stricly speaking true. Seuss had Phelps against him, and with the game state being as it was he had motive to cut the day short; you are giving him what he wanted. It may be pertinent to note that his suspicion of me only came when I was one of the largest wagons - he voted me in post 380 - and that he had obvious reasons as a criminal not only to cut the day short, but also to demonstrate his power. There are no shortage of motives for the criminal Seuss.

You seem to be arguing that Seuss was in some sort of imminent danger, as if we were tying the rope around his head just before he shouted his ability to transport large amounts of people to Ancient Rome. Look at the last vote count before the Gladiator, and you will see that is false, a word which simply means "wrong." Seuss' wagon was diminished to two, you and Phelps. I see no motivation for a criminal Seuss to end the day. He was in no danger, his suspect was under pressure. I think Seuss called for the Gladiator match out of frustration, and a criminal would have no reason to be frustrated under those circumstances. An innocent would.

[Shaft]

Shaft:

- Fuck this game.

How about I fuck your lady instead? Remind me to let you borrow my pick. Your 'fro needs fixing.

Vote: jane

Between her and the

doc

, I think we'll be better off without this she-devil running around. Marion and Seuss did good enough digging in her hide.

Peanut head is scum too.

[HP Lovecraft]

Gladiatorial Votecount 1.2

Jane Austen - 11 (Seuss, Poe, Danielewski, Bradley, Rucks, Snicket, Shakespeare, Pynchon, Confucius, Spinning Paper, Shaft)

Dr Seuss - 1 (Austen)

Not Voting - 9 (Kaufman, Wilde, Williamson, Stein, cummings, James, Phelps, God, Joyce)
With 21 alive, it's 11 to lynch. Deadline is 12/17 1PM EST

Diary Entry 12

The two combatants, each brandishing a cast-iron implement from the fireplace, squared off and endured the jeers of their fellow writers. As they circled around the room I could not help but notice that the baser instincts of both the fighters and the spectators shewed, as if it were an ugly alien face hidden behind a human mask which slipped just enough for one to see the mind-bending grotesquery beneath. This ritual reminded me quite of one detailed in hushed tones within Machen's

The Great God Pan

and I could not help but wonder if our host, who clearly had daemonic inclinations, had set up this bloodsport as a kind of offering to some foul and nameless god. The spectators were becoming involved and they caught Austen off-guard with their bloodthirsty and inhuman shouting. Seuss swung his fire poker at her head and knocked her out cold. As she lay twitching on the floor of the study, he smashed her head again and again with the poker until his blood-flecked skin contained more of her skull than her own body did. Seuss collapsed on one of the chairs, and the newcomer searched her person for valuables. Thankfully, he insisted on a thorough examination of her upper legs, making sure that he very carefully examined her posterior (Ms. Austen was a callipygian lady, for which Mr. Shaft claimed to have quite a fondness) because concealed in a hidden pocket in her garter, he found a puzzling card with a

certain

phrase written upon it. It said "I am a member of the mafia! HaHA!".

Jane Austen,

Mafia Roleblocker

, killed in gladiatorial combat Day 2.

[HP Lovecraft]

Voting Log, Vol. 2 No. 6

Shaft - 0
Thomas Pynchon - 0
Shakespeare - 1 (Thomas Pynchon)
Edgar Allan Poe - 0
James Joyce - 0
Confucius - 0
Lemony Snicket - 1 (Seuss)
Charlie Kaufman - 0
Oscar Wilde - 0
Dr. Seuss - 1 (Phelps)
Gregory Williamson - 0
Gertrude Stein - 1 (Rucks)
Spinning Paper - 3 (Kaufman, Joyce, Snicket)
ee cummings - 0
EL James - 0
Fred Phelps - 0
God - 0
Mark Z. Danielewski - 0
Marion Zimmer Bradley - 3 (Shakespeare, Poe, Stein)
Rucks - 1 (EL James)

Not Voting - 9 (Shaft, Confucius, Wilde, Williamson, cummings, God, Paper, Mark Z Danielewski, Bradley)

With 20 alive, it's 11 to lynch. Deadline is 12/17 1PM EST

Votes can again be cast for other players.

[Mark Z Danielewski]

A
thing
of

beauty


is




a







joy

VOET

VOTE: Fred Phelps

VOTE: Fred Phelps

Fred Pspleh

forever.

✔

[Marion Zimmer Bradley]

Aye we have caught the Terran Spy that makes me very happy. Now to go through and find her conspirators. Such a vile power she had too being able to prevent our people from utilizing theirs. A foul deed indeed.

Mestro Confucius have you seen a Darkovan sword dance? An act of beauty and courage. I highly admire the courage of Lord Seuss he is clearly of noble birth and honor. He clearly adheres to the Compact where no one will use a weapon that does not put them in equal risk. A sword is a fine weapon and has far more honor than these Terrans with their guns and bombs that kill from a distance with no risk at all to the Terrans themselves. We must find the rest that are hiding in our midst.

I am still tired from the long trek from Armida to Hali and then finally back home to my Tower again. I do plan on researching the conversations Austen had with people to see if I can help uncover the others.

I do feel like a bit of scrutiny on the Bard and on Mestro "I hate those who are different" Phelps is in order, since they were the most virulent for hanging Seuss.

[Marion Zimmer Bradley]

ooc

I am totally wiped from spending almost 2 weeks going through my father's things and so on. I will definitely be more active now.

[William Shakespeare]

Enhusking time melts all, but gazing back,
Our laggard past beseems a Golden Age!

Voting Log, Vol. 1 No. 7

Christopher Marlowe - 0
Thomas Pynchon - 0
Shakespeare - 0
David Foster Wallace - 1 (Shakespeare)
Edgar Allan Poe - 4 (The Daily Bugle, David Foster Wallace, Jane Austen, Lemony Snicket)
James Joyce - 0
Moliere - 0
Bret Easton Ellis - 2 (James Joyce, Thomas Pynchon)
Lemony Snicket - 0
Charlie Kaufman - 0
Oscar Wilde - 0
Dr. Seuss - 0
Gregory Williamson - 1 (Dr Seuss)
Gertrude Stein - 1 (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
Tommy Wiseau - 0
Jane Austen - 4 (Gertrude Stein, Charlie Kaufman, Moliere, Tommy Wiseau)
ee cummings - 2 (Oscar Wilde, Rucks)
David Mamet - 0
The Daily Bugle - 2 (David Mamet, Christopher Marlowe)
Brian Jacques - 1 (Mark Z Danielewski)
God - 0
Mark Z. Danielewski - 0
Marion Zimmer Bradley - 4 (God, ee cummings, Gregory Williamson, Edgar Allan Poe)
Rucks - 0

Not Voting - 2 (Brian Jacques, Bret Easton Ellis)

In God and Poe I think our trust is safe,
But Cummings fingered Austen as a foe
Whilst leading justice down a different track,
And Williamson kept off her topic's whole.
VOTE: EE Cummings