Author Mafia - Game Over!

[HP Lovecraft]

Diary Entry 17

Yet again we have killed in error. Though the murder felt righteous at the time, that was merely the animal instinct taking over as I helped strike killing blows into the rather irritating woman to whom we were putting an end. I remember not who started the fighting, although we had been discussing getting rid of her for days now, but once the frenzy started we were like wild animals rushing in for the kill. I shudder to think what half-primal dreams I will have tonight.

Voting Log, Vol. 4 Final

Shaft - 0
Thomas Pynchon - 0
Edgar Allan Poe - 1 (EL James)
Confucius - 0
Lemony Snicket - 3 (Paper, Pynchon, Confucius)
Charlie Kaufman - 0
Oscar Wilde - 1 (Gertrude Stein)
Dr. Seuss - 0

Gertrude Stein - 9 (Poe, Wilde, Eliot, Bradley, Danielewski, Kaufman, Hogan, Snicket, Danielewski) Lynch!

Spinning Paper -0
TS Eliot - 0
EL James - 0
Hulk Hogan - 0
God - 0
Mark Z. Danielewski - 0
Marion Zimmer Bradley - 0
Rucks - 0

Not Voting - 4 (Shaft, Seuss, God, Rucks)

Gertrude Stein,

Vanilla Townie

, lynched Day 4

Night actions are due by 1/6 at 1PM EST

[HP Lovecraft]

Diary Entry 18

The sweet, soft-spoken woman who spoke mostly of aliens was found murdered in her bed this morning. Despite the strange blood patterns that adorned her sheets, I have not much to say about her demise. She left not much of an impression on me, probably due to the rather bland and pedestrian nature of her writing. Sadly though, we found that she was the person who had been clandestinely applying first aid to those of us injured in the violent events at the workshop. I wonder how we will get on without her...

Marion Zimmer Bradley,

Town Doctor

, killed Night 4

With 15 alive, it's 8 to lynch. Deadline is 1/20 at 9PM EST.

[Marion Zimmer Bradley]

bah

win it for me town ♥

[Lord God]

"Mr Elliot, I have been completely forthcoming about myself, and I have been open about my wish to protect the doctor's privacy. Revealing the doctor's identity makes them a target. Revealing the name but not the role also makes them a target in that it reveals that I consider the information worth holding onto. Disclosing that I know who the doctor is only endangers myself, as I can prove or disprove claims of medical expertise. Until such a time when the doctor's death is clamored for or that it becomes more beneficial for us to know than it is for our enemies to not know, I'd prefer to keep that information."

Marion Zimmer Bradley,

Town Doctor

, killed Night 4

Vote: OscarWilde

Would like to hear from Confucius.

Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.
~Leviticus 19:29

[Spinning Paper]

Lemony Snicket still at large.

Vote: Lemony Snicket

[EL James]

OOC:

Oscar was the pushing point for me to get Stein.

Is anything happening about Rucks?

[Mark Z Danielewski]

EL James, that

still

doesn't qualify as content. What are your reads?

[Thomas Pynchon]

hey God, tell me about those quotes, why they make Wilde scum?

Vote: Lemony Snicknet

Same reason as yesteday, in case it wasn't clear, seeing what comes of the Paper's soft-claim.

[Charlie Kaufman]

Hey Mark, wanna do this?

VOTE: Oscar Wilde

[Thomas Pynchon]

God, I get it, I think.

Vote: Oscar Wilde

Why kill Bradley, unless you know she's a doc?

[Shaft]

I'm considering that scum may have followed Wilde the night he visited Marion, or found out about Marion by their own methods of investigation. Safer choice for me today....

vvote lemony

[Mark Z Danielewski]

Can all of you stop assuming that scum are stupid? Thanks. There is no reason for OscarWilde-scum to reveal that he found a Doctor (though that was BLOODY FOOLISH anyway) and then kill her. He could have just kept his mouth shut and/or crumbed his result to any buddies out there. But scum would have to be really stupid to not play the deduction game from this:

Last night I investigated somebody who was revealed to me to be a Doctor. I would rather not expose that person without their consent which is why I would prefer to wait for them to step forward. If a person does not come forward I will accept a voice vote from those gathered, with every vote also being counted as consent to reveal their role if I have investigated them. Is that acceptable?"

((If you want me to reveal my results, post something to the effect of "I would like Mr. Wilde to reveal his night results. If I am a doctor who is not currently claiming, I give him my consent to reveal my role."

This person has been suspected by several players.

If they have claimed in thread they have not claimed honestly. If a claim comes forward I will confirm or deny it with my next post.))

After several other roles had been revealed, and with some people being read as solid Town one way or another (hi), it was quite easy to guess who the Doctor was likely to be. Woo, genius work, I know.

[Thomas Pynchon]

Fair enough.

Vote Lemony Snicket

[T S Eliot]

Mr. Wilde still looks quite wicked; however, upon further contemplation, the best lynch for today does indeed appear to be Mr. Snicket.

I must say I disagree with Mr. Danielewski on the simplicity of aforementioned deduction. Plenty of players are or have been suspected by several others.

That said, Wilde is not that great a fool; if Mafia he is, he did not target Ms. Bradley.

Vote: Mr. Snicket

[OscarWilde]

VOTE: Lemony Snicket

"The papers have indeed had a record of identifying villains early, and I am curious to see to see what comes of it."

((Yeah, I thought somebody might pick up on that after I posted it, especially after Marion mentioned being pretty sure that we did have a doctor in the setup. I think that was a big part of everybody figuring it out. Fortunately it seems like both teams got the same idea last night, so at least there's that.))

[Lemony Snicket]

I see I am already two away from being lynched. Very well. I am the watcher.

N1 there was moderator error and I received a tracking result instead of watching result. I watched/tracked David Foster Wallace, and saw him go nowhere.
N2 I watched Seuss but was dragged along with the Lightning Rod. I saw no one, because there were too many people visiting Williamson and I couldn't tell who was who.
N3 I watched Seuss again, and no one visited him.
Last night, I watched Confucius, but my action was not successful.

Now, if you all could stop voting me, that would be as wonderful as when I dream about Beatrice.

[Edgar Allan Poe]

OOC: (sorry haven't read much of this, just kind of skimmed, will be reading later, but just wanting to point something)

Wow wow, so did all actions get redirected to Williamson or not? Because, here, Confucius claimed:

On Night Two, I tried to look for players who seemed like they could be connected to either Jane Austen or William Shakespeare. I ended up targeting OscarWilde.

that he targeted Wilde successfully?

So Snicket got dragged by the lighting rod but Confucius didn't?

[Edgar Allan Poe]

This also should've been quoted, sorry:

Last night I asked the Mod if I had successfully targeted OscarWilde on Night Two (the alleged "Lightning Rod" Night), and it was confirmed that I had

[Edgar Allan Poe]

Also, according to the NAR, inspect roles resolve after redirects?

[Edgar Allan Poe]

Wait, no, I got that backwards

[Lord God]

I see I am already two away from being lynched. Very well. I am the watcher.

N1 there was moderator error and I received a tracking result instead of watching result. I watched/tracked David Foster Wallace, and saw him go nowhere.
N2 I watched Seuss but was dragged along with the Lightning Rod. I saw no one, because there were too many people visiting Williamson and I couldn't tell who was who.
N3 I watched Seuss again, and no one visited him.
Last night, I watched Confucius, but my action was not successful.

Now, if you all could stop voting me, that would be as wonderful as when I dream about Beatrice.

If I may paraphrase,

night1, you watched a night kill, but the mod gave you an incoorect restult, and left it at that, instead of the correct result called for by your role?

night 2, you watched the lightning rod and instead of seeing everyone who visited him due to his ability, you saw no one?

night 4, you watched the RBer, who apparently targeted you?

[Rucks]

Kid came back from a tour on the walls and sighed a little sigh. It had been long. Too long.

He wasn't really interested in explaining the little details. Things came up, he was gone, and it was bad. Nothin to be done but draw his hammer and make up for lost time.

Had to take stock in his reads. He could have sworn Joyce was one of the good folks, and Stein was a villian. Two misses. Right about Zimmer Bradley. Not much consolation.

What did he know? Danielewski is either town or a different mafia faction than Joyce was. Poe's town. If Confucius isn't town, he's very good at false thinking along the same line as the Kid. Kid doesn't think that's too likely - but that could just vanity.

Who's out for blood? Harder question. Kid had to hit the books for that one. As he skimmed, he wondered if there had already been an answer to the difference in purple and orange names.

On more recent events, Kid had a lot of questions about Snicket's tape 690. Too many people? Can't tell who is who? What's the story here? What exactly was he told?

And hell, while we're playing back tapes, here's one more:

Hey God, tell me about those quotes, why they make Wilde scum?

Vote: Lemony Snicknet

Same reason as yesteday, in case it wasn't clear, seeing what comes of the Paper's soft-claim.

Kid was curious what Thomas, himself, thought about Snicket. Take the paper out of it, how do you feel then?

[Mark Z Danielewski]

Spinning Paper did not softclaim as far as I can see. "High percentage play" may well mean reads, not night actions.

As it is, I have no interest in rushing the Day, but there are several things I dislike about Snicket's claim, and would be voting there if he wasn't at L-2 already.

[Mark Z Danielewski]

night1, you watched a night kill, but the mod gave you an incoorect restult, and left it at that, instead of the correct result called for by your role?

I mean, this is pretty much horrid. No matter how many replacements this game has struggled with, the mod wouldn't just leave you with a tracker result on a night kill

from a moderator error

when you are a watcher, especially since the flip would already prove whatever result he gave you from a

track

, and render your Night action useless when you had

actually caught scum

. I can't believe UT didn't do one of two things: force-replace you, or give you the actual result on the NK watch.

@Mod: I'd hope that "Kill" doesn't resolve before "Doctor", which is how you have it in your NAR. "Doctor" seems extraneous anyway, since you have "Protect" before "Kill". What's up with that?

[OscarWilde]

OOC:

Confucius, the hammer was dropped before I could answer you. I spent most of the last week on Marathon so I didn't have time to switch from my main. So, answers.

1.) OscarWilde: what are your "pet theories" for what happened on Night One? Do you have any similar "pet theories" for Night Three?

They're invalid at this point. I forgot that there were two scum teams and I thought a Vig might have taken a shot at whatever newspaper got shot on the off-chance that it was scumlurk/flake. I didn't mention it earlier because I didn't want to get scum looking for a Vig, and I didn't mention it later because I was very wrong and I didn't want to waste time with it.

2.) OscarWilde, why did you not crumb any results on Day One or Day Three?

You of course mean Day 2 and Day 4 for Night 1 and Night 3. Quite simply because I hadn't meant to breadcrumb at all this game. I'm pretty sure everybody I've gotten a result on is town. I'd intended to just kind of hoard them until it was important.

3.) OscarWilde, why do your first posts of each game Day start with a reference to the dead players?

Flavor. The work I'm most familiar with from Wilde is The Picture of Dorian Gray, so I just went with a narrative style and treated the game as a roleplay. Night results are something easy to get me started writing. I didn't mention it in character today because I'm feeling kind of lazy.

Lemony Snicket:
Honestly questioning your judgment a little here. Why Seuss? Why Confucius. Confucius, did you block Lemony Snicket? If so, Confucius should have learned something about Snicket, so he can give us a hint about the claim's validity.

Confucius is definitely a prostitute, and I definitely got role-blocked by him. There's no question of that. I'm guessing that everybody being in the same room caused some odd things to happen.

PEdit: Danielewski keeps posting before I can get this up. Agreed on the points here. Nobody vote before Confucius has a chance to weigh in.