Author Mafia - Game Over!

[HP Lovecraft]

Voting Log, Vol. 2 No. 9

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

Not Voting - 6 (Confucius, Williamson, cummings, God, Bradley, Stein)

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

V/La:
Poe - Through 12/13

[Gregory Williamson]

Vote: Fred Phelps

[Thomas Pynchon]

The gathering of the crowds of people paid attention to Austen or who Austen paid attention to makes me want to put a bunch of people on the back burner, for awhile, to simplify things, so it pretty much comes down to Shaft, Shakespeare, Joyce, Williamson, Phelps, God and Rucks. I've got to grip on

something[/b]. Rucks is okay in my books. God, I'm iffy on after Austen's flip, it's just about his timing. Joyce's lapse of reason in doubting Seuss is for that moment is shocking, and the wifom of it is enough for me to want to lynch her. Shakespeare could easily be scum, and the others, the others (Phelps, Shaft, Williamson) I have to get to, soon.

You know, how much you want to, how much you fear to, that you can't contain the impulse.

Vote: James Joyce

[Confucius]

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

~

Yes, Lemony Snicket, I have seen your questions. I will point out that they are not very good questions, either.

To answer:

1.)

Yes, I have read the game. It is mildly insulting that you would even ask this.

2.)

You keep acting like my questions are keys that I use to unlock deep secrets into players. They are not. The fact that I ask a question does not mean I have great things to say, or that an answer will immediately clear things up for me.

Furthermore, players have largely

failed

to answer my questions. Dr. Seuss was one of the few who gave a response, and you will note that I did not pursue him after his answers (meaning I did not suspect him as much after he answered). Other than that, I have no revelations to give you.

3.)

I already said that I have several suspicions, and that they largely align with the players I have been pestering with questions. I do not have very

firm

feelings about the game (hence my lack of a vote), and I am not going to create them for the sake of "having suspicions."

It is simplicity itself to call a player scum and vote for them for some reason or another. But it is another matter entirely to be

accurate

.

~

Out of character: I lazed over the weekend and although I tried to reread the game in its entirety tonight with an eye towards Jane Austen interactions (or lack thereof), I have relapsed into "skimming mode" and so I plan to pick up where I left off tomorrow evening.

[OscarWilde]

Wilde lifted a flask to his lips and took a quick swallow.

"I like your passion Mister Phelps. I actually believe the indignation in your voice."

UNVOTE: Phelps

"I wonder if anybody else finds the exchange between Austen and Poe to be a little exaggerated. I think perhaps that Miss Austen thought to disassociate herself from Mister Poe by playing the victim. It would certainly help to defend from fallout should either be found out."

VOTE: Poe

[Fred Phelps]

The gathering of the crowds of people paid attention to Austen or who Austen paid attention to makes me want to put a bunch of people on the back burner, for awhile, to simplify things, so it pretty much comes down to Shaft, Shakespeare, Joyce, Williamson, Phelps, God and Rucks. I've got to grip on

something[/b]. Rucks is okay in my books. God, I'm iffy on after Austen's flip, it's just about his timing. Joyce's lapse of reason in doubting Seuss is for that moment is shocking, and the wifom of it is enough for me to want to lynch her. Shakespeare could easily be scum, and the others, the others (Phelps, Shaft, Williamson) I have to get to, soon.

You know, how much you want to, how much you fear to, that you can't contain the impulse.

Vote: James Joyce

Again, by all means show me where I paid any attention to Austen.

[Thomas Pynchon]

Sometime it seems as though it's the path that's guiding us, and while I can see what Wilde is getting at, I think that the probability that path will lead us where we want to go is too small for us to start off on it today.

Phelps, the thing is that you didn't pay attention to her.

[Fred Phelps]

It's a Large Theme, I can barely be bothered to give special snowflake attention to every single last one of you sodomites.

[Lemony Snicket]

First, I apologize for offending you Confucius with my first question, but it was interesting to see your reaction.

You keep acting like my questions are keys that I use to unlock deep secrets into players. They are not. The fact that I ask a question does not mean I have great things to say, or that an answer will immediately clear things up for me.

Again, I apologize for overestimating the values of your questions, but the way you defended why you ask the questions earlier today made me do so.

Williamson, your thoughts on the rest of the game? Your vote on Phelps was your first actual post in roughly two hundred of them.

[Lord God]

I have read and seen that which has happened, but must off to work. I'll speak more on the why, but the what will be [post]400[/post], 408, 409

Time to explain this more.

Draft from before, but covers the events

It seems like I missed the action of the day, but I do enjoy the REVELATION.

As I read the Road to Rome, I saw each brick get laid.

Poe votes Jane
Danielski votes Jane
MZB votes Jane
Rucks votes Jane
Joyce votes Suess
Suess votes Jane (400)
Snicket votes Jane
Williamson dodges a prod
Jane votes Suess
Danielski argues with Jane
Jane argues with Danielski
Shakespeare votes Jane
Shaft questions current events (408)
Pynchon votes Jane (409)
Joyce thinks Jane will flip town

~Romans 8:5 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

Basically, looking for not who took whose side, but how it was taken.

[Lord God]

Snicket's post 400has a vote for Austen, while calling Austen a criminal and Suess a...gladiator?
However, he did have day1 Austen votes.
He was also voting Suess early in day 2
He moves to spinning Paper, giving the same reason as his vote for Suess but the vote actually comes in 369.

There was no agreement or arguement from Snicket with Suess about the Austen case Suess presented when he called her to combat.

I would like to hear more about how your vote went to Austen in 400 when it was on Suess prior to combat.

[Lord God]

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

This post, in the midst of gladiatorial combat, jives not with the stature of the author.

The vote here, 418, is because we would be better off without Austen.

The hestitancy bothers me somewhat, but since Shaft did replace in and 408 was a first post, I'm a little forgiving. However, I will ask:

Why no immediate vote? And What criteria did you choose to select Austen over Suess?

[Lord God]

Vote: Jane Austin

They

couldn't have a gladiator, could they?

This is the third post. While it votes for Austen, it does so in a manner to cast doubt on Suess.

The only previous mention of Austen was a request for MZB to clarify her case on Austen

Suess came up only today.

Suess' play today he just tried to defend himself. He tells James Joyce where to go look for scum, but does nothing himself. His vote is on Snicket, but he does nothing to try to push that. Expect maybe to point out that he might be scum for parking his vote, but why the hell should he have moved it, I don't see a reason.

Thomas Pynchon- Why was Austen your choice for the combat loser, when all previous indications from you were a dislike of Suess?

[Lord God]

Cummings- Bradley, Ellis enough to kill him, now Bradley again today. Avoiding capital letters, explain your other suspects

Unanswered, but not Forgotten.

Vote: ee cummings

[Thomas Pynchon]

It was not my intention to cast doubt on Seuss. I just don't think that it is at all likely that scum would have a gladiator role, so I voted for Austen. God, what's your take on Joyce.

[Marion Zimmer Bradley]

Mestro Pynchon and Mestro Poe could you explain your reasoning for calling Mestro Joyce a Terran? I felt his byplay with the late spy Austen to be more genuine and not a sign of scummy behavior. Do you really think he would be so obviously supporting her then bussing her? I read that as more of a native Darkovan who finally realized he was wrong.

[Edgar Allan Poe]

398 ----> Test of Water.


410 ----> The Hesitancy.


413 ----> The Turncloak.


lim t->∞ ∫[0,t] (410-398)t = Undefined!

[Shaft]

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

This post, in the midst of gladiatorial combat, jives not with the stature of the author.

The vote here, 418, is because we would be better off without Austen.

The hestitancy bothers me somewhat, but since Shaft did replace in and 408 was a first post, I'm a little forgiving. However, I will ask:

Why no immediate vote? And What criteria did you choose to select Austen over Suess?

I had just

stepped through the door

when asking if we should kill off Jane. At that time, I did not do any research myself to base a vote off of. By the time I did vote, I had finished looking over things. As I mentioned, it was Mr Bradley and Dr. Seuss who I felt exposed Jane.

[Mark Z Danielewski]

Getting pretty tired of being ignored. While this slot hasn't posted in a while (bah effort),

how come there are virtually no stated reads

on me?

And yes, effort. Phelps is still scum. Shakespeare as well--the Paper knows its news quite well. I'll eventually buckle down and actually post more stuff, but I don't think my posts so far have been so outlandishly formatted that no one but the addressee sees fit to comment on them; yet this is what is happening. If it's a matter of formatting or whatever, please let me know. I'm not used to being ignored in games and it's rather disturbing to see it happening here.

[James Joyce]

Four Watts its worth... I feel rather fullish that my intoxication on Jane's Austen tire-tracked pantaloons obscured my jugsment.

I have gradually changed my mind re: Sir Marktoast Zimmerman Danelooski from very scum to very not-scum-at-all.

I'm not show how much creed dance to give this hunch, but I am nut under de-impression that Phelps associated with my dear departed Jane. I would have smelled his holy water scent on her.

[Marion Zimmer Bradley]

Mestro Danieleski if you want to be noticed more then post more.

Mestro Shaft, I am of the female gender and definitely not Emasca. Had I not been set on a career in the Tower, my father would have married me off years ago and by now I would have several children.

Mestro Poe could you come back and explain a tad your odd post? I understand the first three lines, but that last line looks very much like some Terran gibberish.

Mesto Pynchon if you could please answer my question if you would be so kind?

[Edgar Allan Poe]

Mestro Poe could you come back and explain a tad your odd post? I understand the first three lines, but that last line looks very much like some Terran gibberish.

A man a man a man any man,
Is but a simpleton with a clear mind,
For Joycey to change his in short span,
Means he is surly criminal aligned!

[Confucius]

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.

~

1.)

Players I do not think are paired with Jane Austen: Dr. Seuss, ee cummings, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Mark Z Danielewski, and Lord God. James Joyce almost made it onto this list, but his early defense of Jane Austen could have forced his hand (for the sake of self-consistency) in the Gladiator situation. Lemony Snicket also almost made it onto this list.

2.)

Edgar Allen Poe, why did you get the impression that Jane Austen might be a "

nervous

" criminal in Post #172? That is peculiar word choice. Explain where you saw the nervousness.

3.)

Oscar Wilde, what are your "pet theories" you alluded to in Post 260?

4.)

EL James, why the Rucks vote? Please post.

5.)

I am still waiting on answers from Gertrude Stein, William Shakespeare, and Edgar Allen Poe. If I had three votes I know where they would go.

[Edgar Allan Poe]

"I wonder if anybody else finds the exchange between Austen and Poe to be a little exaggerated. I think perhaps that Miss Austen thought to disassociate herself from Mister Poe by playing the victim. It would certainly help to defend from fallout should either be found out."

VOTE: Poe

TRUE! -- nervous -- very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am;
but why

will

you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses --
not destroyed -- not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute.
I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell.
How, then, am I mad? Hearken! and observe how healthily --
how calmly I can tell you the whole story.

2.) Edgar Allen Poe, why did you get the impression that Jane Austen might be a "nervous" criminal in Post #172? That is peculiar word choice. Explain where you saw the nervousness.

Chop, chop, chop. One can take a whole and make but little --
Surely,

surely

it is a sign, not from above but from down below:
The netherworld, where demons lurk, smiling a brightly haunting smirk,
Greeting with "Let us play a game. It's called 'evisceration'. Would thou like to know the rules?"
Thou swallow hard, and hard, and harder - yet thou cannot stomach the anguish.
It spews down from the choice, from the initial choice - to chop, chop, chop.

-- The name is Edgar All

a

n Poe. Just thought I'd make a note of it.

[Edgar Allan Poe]

Lo and behold. The deadline is but three and a half days from now.

Three. It rhymes with we.

Half. It rhymes laugh.

Now. It rhymes with brow.

We

sweat on our

brow

as a

laugh

slowly comes and engulfs us. We must decide. Quickly now friends!