Author Mafia - Game Over!

[Dr Seuss]

I bid each and every one of you good day. Mrs. Lovegood has decreed it is time to play. I wish you all the best of luck, but while this is all in good fun, it is also a game -- a game which is meant to be won. So seek out the scums wherever they may be, but if you're having trouble, you could always sheep me!

Vote: Gregory Williamsen

[Dr Seuss]

Why would you harp on cotributions deemed frugal,
Barely one page into the game, Daily Bugle?
It seems as though you might be a shtoogle--
An anti-frugal shtoogle, Bugle!

[Dr Seuss]

I've received a prod. It was pointy! It hurt!
I'll catch up later, when I'm not so curt.

[Dr Seuss]

Vote: Bret Easton Ellis

He's a good guy; clearly it's so.
But it's time for someone to go.
Lurk for a month and throw down a hammer.
Shock! Awe! Lock Seuss up in the slammer!

[Dr Seuss]

Fuck my life. I just wrote up a big long in character post and then my browser crashed so now you get bullet points and none of my incredible wit and rhyme.
I'm a giant cunt and I trollhammered because why the fuck not? The game wasn't going anywhere anyway and I happened to glance at it when someone was at L1.
I haven't read hardly any of the game.
That guy I hammered was town because what were the odds that the big L1 wagon would be on scum?
You all can suck my old dead childrens-rhyming dick.
Lemony Snicke tand Marion Zimmmer Bradely are both evil.

Vote: Lemony Snicket

[Dr Seuss]

1.)

Dr. Seuss, answer my questions from Post #272. And why do you not replace out if you do not intend to play? Your last post dishonors you.

"That Sam I Am, that Sam I Am, I do not like that Sam I Am"
Do you dislike green eggs and ham?

If I were going to answer your query, I would have done so. Is that true? Very! Putting words in my mouth quite contrary. I never said I wasn't playing, merry. Don't you create false accusations; it's scary! Your scary contrary query won't scare me! You'd best be off to the morturary!

The suspicion here is juvenile. "He hammered! So quickly! He must be vile!" There is surely a bad man or two to be found here. Could it be you, Confucius, dear? You want to dump more suspicion on me without voting? Your underhanded tactics are something I'm noting. There's not enough support for you to hop on pop. You'll wait until the wagon "can't" be stopped. Be 4th on the wagon, or does it just scare you? Take a chance and vote; I fucking dare you.

[Dr Seuss]

"Scumbag" Seuss has two choices before him.
Hammer the guy and get run up? Or just ignore him.
The former leads to all sorts of bad stuff.
The latter? He gets off free, and the town has it rough.
Tell me which one is the smarter play for scum?
Staying below the radar? Or hammering someone?

Seuss is an easy target in a still-active game. He's the obvious scapegoat to shoulder the blame. It's laughable that Joyce says he hasn't improved, when several authors cannot be moved. You hold the key to the world in your hands! It's time to rise up and take a stand! Don't be LAZY, James Joyce, good host. I've contributed far more today than most. There's no analysis of my actions. Just really awful knee-jerk reactions. The game was stagnant as could be yesterday. The mods were fretting over how it could stay. Now that time has cleared up a bit, I'm having another go at it. But you put me on your list to die? I have to ask,

really

why?
Look at the bufoons who park their vote, then sit in the background writing nary a note.
Look at the people who go "Dr. Seuss! He made a bold move, he must get the noose!"
Look at someone who can't be arsed to hunt. Is he just lazy, or is he a scum-cunt?


Kind folk, this day is yours, you can be the best! If only you'd stop behaving in jest!
You have control of your destiny! You can do it; find some scum with me!

[Dr Seuss]

EBWOP: *still-inactive game

[Dr Seuss]

Listen, you nonsense-speaking hedonist, if I'm "tunneling," it's because I've found Seuss' answers to be non-existent. Not even lacking, just non-existent.

What do we learn in this thread?
Reading comprehension escapes Fred!

[Dr Seuss]

I am around; had a busy week.
In the next few days I'll grant the post you seek.
But first, something NEEDS to be addressed.

Seuss's response to the Bugle wagon was scum trying to opportunistically ready himself to get on a wagon, while not wanting to end up trapped on it if it went nowhere; it is his reaction to that wagon that lead to my voting him.

And yet you fail to recognize that TWO PEOPLE HAVE DONE THE EXACT SAME THING TO ME. I even questioned one of them directly about this VERY thing.

I also think that with deadline coming up as it did, then the hammer can't really be called a quickhammer; if Seuss hadn't tried to be smug with the reference to Ellis' towniness, then people wouldn't have looked at it as they did.

So your vote is because of
Me making fun of Bugle for going after lurkers ON PAGE 2 but not voting him;
And me saying 'Ellis is likely town but fuck it' and other people interpreting it more harshly than they could have.


Masterful work there. You basically just admitted that you're making this stuff up as you go along. Much like your literary works, I would imagine.

Vote: Jane Austen

[Dr Seuss]

AND AND AND AND AND

I simulposted with Rucks, so there was really only ONE VOTE on Bugle at the time. How can I "react to that wagon"

WHEN THERE WASN'T EVEN A FUCKING WAGON ON BUGLE?

Nope. Scum. Full of shit. Hasn't even bothered to come up with a real reason I could plausibly be scum.

Vote Jane Austen.

[Dr Seuss]

Except there isn't any logic whatsoever behind your assertation.

At what point in Post 38 did I assert that Bugle was scum?
Why would scum care about getting "caught" flinging around a RVS-stage vote?
What empirical evidence can you provide that suggests that town are MORE likely than scum to move their vote within the first 40 posts of a game?
What is your role? (Note: This is not a joke.)

[Dr Seuss]

Oh one more.

Why would I have felt "trapped" if I had moved my vote and nothing had happened?

[Dr Seuss]

Oh, how droll.

"At what point in Post 38 did I assert that Bugle was scum?" Said Dr. Seuss.
"In the third and fourth line of post 38, and I would ask you to check posts rather than asking for the obvious answers." Said Miss Austen.

So you took a nonsensical word spoken in the very earliest portion of the RVS and assumed it meant I accused him of being scum? The word "schtoogle" was just thrown in there to maintain writing style. I did not, at any point, ascertain that Bugle was scum. I was mostly calling him an idiot.

"Why would scum care about getting "caught" flinging around a RVS-stage vote?" Said Dr. Seuss, smirking.
With her puzzlement clear on her face, "i don't see why you're pretending to quote me, I didn't use the word caught, or anything of that sentence."

Caught/Trapped. Stop harping on word choice and answer myq uestion. Why would scum care about somebody NOTICING them switching their vote? If I avoided voting Bugle because I didn't want to get "trapped" on him, what would the dire consequences of being "trapped" on that wagon?

"Again I haven't suggested that? With your great declaration of Bugle's scumminess, then you couldn't move your vote off him if the wind changed - as scum would like - and as such couldn't vote him at all in case it didn't go anywhere."

SO... you deny saying this?

Jane,

I agree with Mr Wilde's vote for Dr. Seuss, but we must remember that Seuss is not simply the chosen lurker. Votes must not go his way only because he does not post!

It is true that a vote should have substance, a word which here means "reason behind it." Yet I do not see a reason for a Seuss vote other than that he has been lurking in the shadows. Why are his rhymes and poems scummy?

His only post after his random vote is prepping to go on the Bugle wagon, yet he didn't enter it; that level of opportunistic forethought is most likely to come from scum.

You absolutely DID say that it's more likely to come from scum. And now you're fucking LYING about it.

"Why would I have felt "trapped" if I had moved my vote and nothing had happened?" Said Dr. Seuss.
"You strongly said Bugle was scum, and if you left him for some other out of RVS wagon then people would look at that strongly; if you had voted him and moved, then even your greatest defenders would feel the need to bus you." Said Miss Austen getting her breath back as she found herself on familiar ground.

"STRONGLY"?!??

What the fuck are you on? I never said anything of the sort, and I certainly didn't say it STRONGLY. Why don't YOU go back and read. Even if I did intend for "schtoogle" to mean "scum," I said "it seems to me you

might be

." How the fuck is that a STRONG accusation?
Furthermore, your assertation that somebody would have to bus me for leaving an RVS-wagon for a real vote later on is completley and utterly nonsensical. People RVS all the time and then move on, so why would anybody feel a need to bus me if I had voted Bugle and later moved elsewhere?

No.
You rhetoric will get you nowhere. You are a proven liar, you're MAKING UP your case against me, because you don't fucking HAVE anything. You're scum.

You have.
Literally one opportunity to:
A) Claim
B) Explain why you LIED about saying opportunistic scum are more likely to fail to vote Bugle there; and
C) PROVE that people who fail to move their votes in RVS are more likely to be scum.
If you are protown. If you believe for even ONE MOMENT that what you've said in the past is actually genuine, you will not hesitate for even a moment to answer at the very least B and C. And if you think I'm bluffing about threatening your life, I'll just fucking kill you. ZERO fucks given.

[Dr Seuss]

Welp. I tried.

Gladiator: Jane Austen

[Dr Seuss]

Vote: Jane Austen

[Dr Seuss]

1.)

Dr. Seuss, answer my questions

Answer my second question.

...

3.)

William Shakespeare, answer my question.

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.

Confucius has yet to provide any analysis of who HE thinks is scum, and why. The "answer my questions" bit is getting real old, and it has lost its effectiveness already. Nobody's going to answer to you at this rate until you give us some indication that you're actually trying to find scum already.

So, use our collective failure to answer your questions in your analysis if you must. But I'm not answering to you when all you do is ask questions, contribute

NOTHING OF VALUE

to the collective scumhunting effort, and ask for prods. Activity-mongering in lieu of scumhunting is a massive scumtell, and if I weren't back on Lemony Snicket (yay vote count reverting), I'd most certainly be pushing for Confucius' death at this point.

[Dr Seuss]

Little Janegirl was filthier than even my filthiest wet dreams!

@mod please follow the convention of writing mafia in red please.

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Yet until hope was lost, you supported her and voted for me.
Whyever, however, could that possibly be?

[Dr Seuss]

We got a scum, pat yourself on the back!
But now is not the time to slack!
Activity dips, it dives, it wanes!
Where's Cummings? Ruks? Williamson? James?

(Mod: Can we get prods on the afore-menitoned players?)

[Dr Seuss]

Too lazy to post IC right now.
- I would have loved to have lynched Joyce yesterday.
- I did not receive any fruit from anyone N2.
- According to the Night Action Resolution list in Post 1, Blocks happen before Redirects, so I don't think Confucius-Blocking-Wilde implies that Joyce had a guilty on Hogan. I really wish Confucius had read the rules before needlessly claiming.
- I'm concerned about the potential existence of a Mafia Rolecop. I woul like Wilde to claim all of his results before the day's end.
- I don't see any reason not to lynch Stein but I don't want another short day. If I'm not satisfied with Wilde, I would almost rather lynch him, as I feel more certain he is town.
- I think there are a number of reasons for no kill last night, and have little interest in pursuing Hogan at this time. I do not buy into the idea of a Mafia Fruit Vendor a this time.
- I still think that Lemony Snicket is worth looking into.

Now, it is time for my heart to grow three sizes. Merry Christmas to you all.

[Dr Seuss]

Er, more certain he (Wilde) is scum.

[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.