Author Mafia - Game Over!

[William Shakespeare]

              
AUTHOR MAFIA

                       
NAMES OF THE ACTORS

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

THE PROLOGUE

[Enter] Chorus.

CHORUS
  Two factions, both alike in dignity,
    In this the theme park where we lay our scene
  From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
    Where writers' blood makes writers' hands unclean.
  One seeks a peaceful meeting of the pens
    The other vicious comes to take their lives;
  A gathering which holding all to lens
    Must now toward true directed justice strive.
  This convened council tasked to taint remove
    Where Shakespeare doth the wicked ones engage
  Till every evil hangs in yonder grove,  
    Is now the four months' traffic of our stage
  The which if you with patient ears attend,
  What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.

[Exit.]

[William Shakespeare]

 I, i 
        
 [Enter] Shakespeare. 
SHAKESPEARE
  From death's centurion slumber newly waked
    And yet already facing death's renew
  I find myself. Old Time is playing games,
    And wicked murd'rous spirits skulk about.
      
Enter Poe
POE
  Austen is a mad woman!
  Stein is a mad woman!
  Bradley is a mad woman!
    
Exit
SHAKESPEARE
  It is an easy thing, this naming 'mad.'
    Our state unnatural doth confound us all
  Who have been driven from our proper spheres;
    A fev'rish mind may good or evil be.
      
Enter Wilde
WILDE
  The news is not a worthy source of news.
    The blasphemous miss Bradley must be hanged!
  The day's events require some further thought.
SHAKESPEARE
  Your efforts in deduction praise you well,
    So whilst I work to separate the curst
  And all their tainting grossness from the fair,
    I'll cast my vote in joined strength with yours.
      
 Voteth Bradley 
[Exeunt.]

[William Shakespeare]

I here proffer revision of the cast:

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

[William Shakespeare]

 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.]

[William Shakespeare]

The selfsame words from knights and knaves may spring;
As tears flow free from crocodiles lights,
Our efforts oft are mimicked by our foes.
From David Foster Wallace I sense arts,
And if these global lethards may be moved,
By deadline he shall feel our lethal force.
Yet time's against us staunchly as our foes.

VOTE: Bradley

[William Shakespeare]

In four short hours we shall take our shame
for listlessness to face survival's threat.

[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

[William Shakespeare]

VOTE: Marion Zimmer Bradley

[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.

[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

[William Shakespeare]

Together and alone they worked as scum.

There is rope out there with your name on it.

Vote: Zimmer Bradely

Thomas Pynchon

http://forum.mafiascum.net/viewtopic.ph ... er_sort=Go

I had my doubts on him at first, but more and more I think he is likely to be town. Abrasive fellow he is, but he is definitely not a Terran.

Town

But Austen's death relights the thread of play.

[William Shakespeare]

[Enter Confucius with the asse head]

It also does not explain why you would default voting for Thomas Pynchon over Marion Zimmer Bradley.

The follow-up question I was holding onto but I am no longer going to: after voting for Pynchon, why did you vote for Marion Zimmer Bradley in your

next

post (Post #338) if you had earlier decided Thomas Pynchon was the better vote between the two? Why did you not continue to pursue Thomas Pynchon (even if you were not going to continue voting him)?

Such matters hook no interest from the wise.

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

This was an ill-disguised lurker hunt.
Why this wagon in particular? cummings and Williamson weren't even posting,
so how come you get to pick what they were doing/would do afterwards?

Why the two of them instead of others?
cummings has every right to have multiple suspects, and Williamson was blatantly

Shall I remind thee of our glorious day?
  Miss Austen earned attention from the crowd
But several coted her for other prey
  And for a time they kept her womb unplowed.
In God and Poe I feel our trust is safe,
  Since neither hath much fault beyond a vote,
While Williamson with worthless posts doth strafe,
  And Cummings is two weeks without a mote.
But Cummings' stench hath viler features still,
  Like Crafting early distance 'reft of force      (ooc: see below)
And deviating from his focus nil
  Despite his weak posts wide throughout the course.
The hour of fatal action draweth near;
  The villain needing soonest death is clear.

poe

has Reinventness which is Untruthness

austen

has Awareness which is Scaredness

both fail

but the winner of Scumness

is

austen

[William Shakespeare]

Mestro Shakespeare, however, seems far more likely a candidate to be a Terran spy. He has posted with very little information and seems to want to avoid the limelight. He refused to answer several questions. (including one I made). He is supposed to have a reputation as a man of great word skills, but he votes people without explaining anything. Hiding his thought process from the rest of us is not a very Darkovan thing to do.


(OOC)
Time is running short, and though I would prefer we had more information about more of the players in this game a lynch needs to happen. Rarely is a NL a good idea and this is not one of those rare cases.


VOTE: Shakespeare

To flatter worthless queries likes me not.
  So oft I've writ of giants of the past
Too virtuous for this politick world
  Who get their deaths from those whose fears they fought.
Alas, I lack the powers that they had                              (VT)
  But still I feel their suff'ring as mine own.

[William Shakespeare]

VOTE: Williamson
VOTE: ee cummings

[William Shakespeare]

Shakespeare's push on two lurkers is perhaps the most hypocritical thing I've seen since I saw a man of God stealing from the needy. He is perhaps one of the most prominent lurkers of this game.

UNVOTE:
VOTE: Shakespeare

His double vote is also strange, interesting, but overall miserable. Whether or not it is symbolic we shall see. But I feel like it was a weak attempt to dissuade those calling for his head by faking he had a hidden power.

To flatter worthless queries likes me not.
  So oft I've writ of giants of the past
Too virtuous for this politick world
  Who get their deaths from those whose fears they fought.
Alas, I lack the powers that they had                              (VT)
  But still I feel their suff'ring as mine own.

VOTE: Williamson
VOTE: ee cummings

You claim a simpleton with no powers, and then you follow to double vote? What madness is this?

OOC:
I explicitly stated otherwise. I even used the letters "VT." Also just because I haven't posted much because my voice takes some composing time and I'm busy doesn't mean lurking doesn't make someone else context-considered more likely to be scum. It's your job to tell the difference. Wagon vs counterwagon on d1 is one of the absolute best things to pull scum off of. In this case there were two counterwagon options and Austen was on one so I figured at least one buddy would be on the other and spent my limited reading time investigating the people on it. Cummings and Williamson both look like potential buddies for Austen, especially Cummings given the FoS scumbuddy vote townie, counterwagoning, lurking, and using language befitting a scumbag combo.