Author Mafia - Game Over!

[HP Lovecraft]

Votecount, Vol. 5 No. 1

Shaft - 0
Thomas Pynchon - 0
Edgar Allan Poe - 0
Confucius - 0
Lemony Snicket - 5 (Spinning Paper, Shaft, Pynchon, Eliot, Wilde)
Charlie Kaufman - 0
Oscar Wilde - 2 (Lord God, Kaufman)
Dr. Seuss - 0
Spinning Paper -0
TS Eliot - 0
EL James - 0
Hulk Hogan - 0
God - 0
Mark Z. Danielewski - 0
Rucks - 0

Not Voting - 8 (Poe, Confucius, Seuss, James, Hogan, Danielewski, Rucks, Hogan)

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

[Lemony Snicket]

ooc because I'm lazy:

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

I pretty much gave the wording I had in my N2 action -- there were so many people that I couldn't tell who was who. It would be pretty ridiculous if I saw everyone, because then I would have seen every single PR who submitted an action last night and was dragged by the rod.

Re the mod error thing: There was no correction, and I didn't ask for a clarification beyond asking why I got a tracker result. I assumed that if he wanted to give me a result, he would have when he said he made a mistake.

Wilde, I chose Seuss because he was pretty much conftown (and the only, iirc) N2and N3. Confucius I thought would be NKed tonight, or at least the target of SOME activity by scum.

[Hulk Hogan]

OOC:

This is all giving me a headache. Waiting on Confucius.

[Confucius]

Ability will never catch up for the demand for it.

~

I indeed had a licentious time with Lemony Snicket last night. The tidbit on his role suggested he was very tired from staying awake all night, and I took the wording of it (which I cannot quote) to suggest he might be a Watcher/Tracker (who would be stressed from sitting and trying to watch somebody all night) or possibly a nervous role (like a Paranoid Gun Owner). I see he has claimed Watcher, which I cannot say my information contradicts.

I am

very

suspicious of the claim that Lemony Snicket allegedly watched David Foster Wallace and was given a Tracking result. Seeing as David Foster Wallace was a

Townie

, the Mod accidentally revealing that he "went nowhere" does not even reveal any information to a Watcher at all, and I would fully expect in such a situation that a real Watcher would insist on getting a

proper

result, and the Mod would

have

to relent given that the improper result could not possibly have harmed the game whatsoever. Alternatively, if the Mod actually felt the game had somehow been compromised, Lemony Snicket should have been force-replaced and a true result should have been given to his replacement.

I think more likely is Lemony Snicket targeted every player he claimed (perhaps he expects that Spinning Paper has a tracking result on him, and therefore he cannot afford to lie) with the possible exception of the Dr. Seuss watch on Night Three. Besides the very obviously suspect Night One result, it is the Night Three claimed Watch that instills any shred of doubt.

I will likely vote Lemony Snicket in due time, but I am in no rush. The lack of any effort to get a proper Night One result is not believable.

[Confucius]

Thinking on it further, a Mafia Watcher (for example) would be likely to watch players who were likely to be killed by the opposing scum team, or who are likely to be protected (in order to suss out protective roles). And so even if Lemony Snicket is a Mafia Watcher, him targeting Dr. Seuss on Night Three would actually make a good deal of sense.

As such, I have very little doubt that Lemony Snicket thought he had found a clever way to get out of his Night One action but failed to realize that if what he claimed were true, he would have reacted very differently as Town Watcher getting a Tracking result. I fully expect Lemony Snicket in actuality killed David Foster Wallace on Night One.

[Spinning Paper]

I am very suspicious of the claim that Lemony Snicket allegedly watched David Foster Wallace and was given a Tracking result. Seeing as David Foster Wallace was a Townie, the Mod accidentally revealing that he "went nowhere" does not even reveal any information to a Watcher at all, and I would fully expect in such a situation that a real Watcher would insist on getting a proper result, and the Mod would have to relent given that the improper result could not possibly have harmed the game whatsoever. Alternatively, if the Mod actually felt the game had somehow been compromised, Lemony Snicket should have been force-replaced and a true result should have been given to his replacement.

Confucian faith on the rise.

[Dr Seuss]

We have three claimed roles who get information on their targets. We are lynching one of Wilde, Snicket, Confucius today (which really means, one of Wilde and Snicket). The rolecop is likely a mafia rolecop. Watcher could go either way, but is probably from the other scumgroup. I am doubly troubled by the claimed role of "Town Flavor Cop." Flavor implies what Confucius gets. Information which indicates the nature of a player's role (like "tired from staying up all night"). And I see no reason for the mod to NOT give Snicket a Watcher result from N1, especially when the "tracking result" would be known upon Wallace's death as a

Vanilla Townie

. That's the easiest "moderator error" to clean up.

Vote: Snicket

for now I guess.

[EL James]

EL James, that

still

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

I examine this. There's only one odd rabbit in the hat that I've pulled out, I remember. It was Ms. Stein and was influenced due to Mr. Wilde's notices.

"I have two suspicions at the moment." I state pleasantly with a smile. "Rucks and Snicket. Both have refused my advances." I say with a giggle.

[Edgar Allan Poe]

My apologies, I still have not read in depth yet. However, from what I have read I am in support of a Snicket lynch.

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Vote: Snicket

[Thomas Pynchon]

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

After that claim - scum, scum, scum.
Before the claim, without the paper, bleh, I'd probably have said probably town.

Notice you didn't say peep about the claim though. Whatchathinkin' Rucks?

[Lemony Snicket]

Most people would say death is a horrifying thing. It is comparable to, say, being forced to go to different restrooms than another group of people. Or it is comparable to stubbing your toe on hot concrete. In the last instance, it is your own fault for having an open toe around hot concrete.

Some do not fear death, mostly out of stubborn pride. Being above death is the greatest thing of them all, for nothing is more frightening or death defying than it.

Both of these groups of people are fools.

VOTE: Snicket

We are finally reunited, Beatrice.

[HP Lovecraft]

Diary Entry 19

Although one can never fully acclimate to the types of horrors we are now seeing on a daily basis, when there is a more gentle deviation from the norm it comes as almost a comfort. It was almost anticlimactic when Mr. Snicket, at the height of accusations as to his character, pulled out a small purple capsule and swallowed it without water. He was dead within moments. In an almost perfunctory manner, we walked to his armchair and examined his person, and found the following note

The ease with which he sought his own demise fills me with a nameless dread, as if the end times are so close for all of us that he did not even bother waiting.

Lemony Snicket,

Mafia Watcher

, lynched Day 5

Night actions are due by 1/11 at 9PM EST

[HP Lovecraft]

Diary Entry 20

A grisly tableau awaited us upon waking the next day. Dr Seuss and Confucius were both killed in their bed, at least we assumed so, from the aggregation of blood in those areas, although their parts were scattered around their rooms. Curiously,

certain

organs, ones known at least to me as having special cult significance for daemonic rites, were missing from the corpses. We will all have to be doubly on our guards the next night. The killings shew no signs of stopping and with this number of murders, surely the time is drawing nigh for our antagonists to reach their goal.

Dr Seuss,

1-shot Gladiator

, killed Night 5
Confucius,

Prostitute

, killed Night 5

With 12 alive, it's 7 to lynch. Deadline is 2/1 at 5PM EST

[Mark Z Danielewski]

Will think about this tomorrow. As it is, my oh my do we have two scumteams alive and kicking. Is it two of you, or do we get the pleasure of being in an 8:2:2 situation?

It's painfully obvious that Spinning Paper isn't purple, and I would say he's Town, period. (Hi.) Snicket's panicked claim was the result of him presuming that the Paper had a result of some sort on him, which is enough to clear the Paper given how sloppy the claim was. (No criminal mastermind trying to clear his own buddy as he goes down.) The rest of the Snicket claim is annoying because the people who could be cleared are, well,

dead

.

Wilde looks tempting, but. Everything in its own time, every prophet in his

house

.

[Edgar Allan Poe]

I dislike how Phelps deflected Joyce's question, which was a good one as well. However, the rest of his content makes me think he is an innocent.

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.

Mmmm tasty.

Vote: Phelps

[Mark Z Danielewski]

(Also hilariously, something the mod said to me pretty much made it obvious that Snicket was a Watcher, but the weirdness about the N1 result meant he made no sense as a Town Watcher. Go go dead scum being dead, I guess.)

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[Mark Z Danielewski]

So explain to me, Mr. Poe, why are you going after a Fruit Vendor who is not allowed to kill, under pain of missing action = lynched slot? There is no rush for that as long as someone claims to have received Hogan's gift Tonight.

[Edgar Allan Poe]

Dear madness, Marlowe's ghost is still alive?

[Edgar Allan Poe]

So explain to me, Mr. Poe, why are you going after a Fruit Vendor who is not allowed to kill, under pain of missing action = lynched slot?

Good sir, either

I'm

missing something, or thou knowst something the rest of the plain folks don't? Why are thou assuming that criminals cannot take a shot during night and send off fruits on their merry way?

[Edgar Allan Poe]

(On the same night, that is. Take both actions, that is. On the same night.)

[Mark Z Danielewski]

Thinking on it further, a Mafia Watcher (for example) would be likely to watch players who were likely to be killed by the opposing scum team, or who are likely to be protected (in order to suss out protective roles). And so even if Lemony Snicket is a Mafia Watcher, him targeting Dr. Seuss on Night Three would actually make a good deal of sense.

As such, I have very little doubt that Lemony Snicket thought he had found a clever way to get out of his Night One action but failed to realize that if what he claimed were true, he would have reacted very differently as Town Watcher getting a Tracking result. I fully expect Lemony Snicket in actuality killed David Foster Wallace on Night One.

This man was a genius.

From N1, if he was not the killing force on DFW, Snicket had a GUILTY on the orange scum who killed David Foster Wallace. Tomorrow I'll go through his posts to see if he ever brought this up in some form of scumread that can account for this or if it was already-dead orange scum or whatever else if any. Apparently it isn't/wasn't anyone the purples bothered crosskilling (or it was bulletproof! Look at those missing kills!), so.

[Mark Z Danielewski]

That defeats the point of a Fruit Vendor altogether and if we are going to judge it that way then discard his role completely. I see no reason to do so at present when there is so much juicy stuff that ought to be analyzed. In a bit of a rush, are we?

[Mark Z Danielewski]

VOTE: OscarWilde

My dear Johnny,

Dearest child,

get your ass back in here

. Why did you look at the thread and then leave so suddenly, knowing that we have just come out of Night and you have results that might need outed? No comment whatsoever? Why do you leave commentary until later, when a few OOC sentences could convey what you think of the present situation?

[T S Eliot]

Mr. Poe, your case rubs me the wrong way. I must protest that though Mr. Snicket's constant cries of Mr. Hogan's innocence are certainly suspicious, Mr. Hogan himself is not. He has done nothing particularly worthy of suspicions thus far.

As a matter of fact, Mr. Poe, you have done more outright suspicious things than he has.

P-Edit: What Mr. Danielewski said.

[OscarWilde]

"Mafia fruit vendor? Are you kidding me?" ~ Oscar Wilde

"The necessary equipment of the fruit vendor is the fruit cart. And while amusing, the destruction of the fruit cart is merely the collateral damage of justice and a waste of good fruit." ~Oscar Wilde

OOC: I refuse to believe there's anything as lame as a Mafia Fruit Vendor in this game.

Okay, so night results. I can conf-town three people right now.