Author Mafia - Game Over!

[Lord God]

1 Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father,
and attend to know understanding.
2 For I give you good doctrine,
forsake ye not my law.
3 I know that which is evil, and will reveal it unto thee
4 At a time that is most fortuitous for your own understanding
5 Let thine heart and mind retain my words:
keep my commandments, and live.
5 Get wisdom, get understanding:
forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.
6 Others who know not of the universe shall not see; for they are blind to the evil
7 And blind in their own ignorance.
8 Wisdom is the principal thing;
therefore get wisdom:
and with all thy getting get understanding.
This will come by harkening to my words.
8 Look not for evil where it is not; seek it amongst those in the present.
9 Evil can be found, using your own free will.
In this I will emulate you
In order to teach you.
10 Hear, O my sons and daughters, and receive my sayings;
and the years of thy life shall be many.
11 I have taught thee in the way of wisdom;
I have led thee in right paths.
12 For all things in the universe are made by me;
And none of it is random
13 Take fast hold of instruction;
and bring your votes to the way of my light
And goodness.
14

Vote: David Foster Wallace

Proverbs 4:1-14

[Lord God]

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

--G. K. Chesterton


I am still a tad suspicious of the Daily Bugle. I understand that he has constraints on him because of his native tongue, but I would like to see more from him. However, the haste with which some authors jumped onto the wagon seems a bit suspicious too. I will be watching several of you very closely. If only I had a bit of the Alderan Donas of seeing the future, but I lack that gift. Renegades to the Comyn, they may be, but that gift of foresight and others run strong in them.

For now, I will keep my vote where it lies, while I continue my research. I feel we need to unravel things a great deal more before we retire for the night.

33 For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.

34 Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.

35 And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.

36 What? came the word of God out from you? or came it unto you only?

37 If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord.

38 But if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant.

39 Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.

40 Let all things be done decently and in order.

41 Let not a vote which is unrighteous and founded in sin be the vehicle for your deliverance. For your Bugle vote was pronounced during the time of Creation, and the attempt to turn a sinful lie unto the truth is most evil.

42. Smite that which is evil, lest it bring destruction down on that which I have Created.

43

Vote: Marion Zimmer Bradley

1st Corinthians 14:33-43

[Lord God]

Thinking something does not make it true. Wanting something does not make it real.

-- Michelle Hodkin


You who call yourself God, I have met many men like you in my life. Small minded men who use Scripture to prove that a woman's place is being barefoot and pregnant and most of all, the chattel of men. Many who deny the Goddess, and limit themselves to an unbalanced and skewed view of the world. If you are planning on pursuing me and blackening my name as scum, you will have to do better than saying I am scum because I am female. Have you ever seen a Cheiri? They are both male and female at different times in their lives, though many spend most of their life in a neuter state. Thanks to them interbreeding with the early settlers on Darkover, many powerful Gifts came to the Comyn. All Gods are one God and all Goddesses are one Goddess, just multiple facets thereof. But you need BOTH to be balanced.

And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

-Genesis 2:22

A sharp edge does not automatically make a sword a good weapon. Only the wielder can do that.

-- Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson
I see the sword thrusts have already begun. There must be a Terran among us, or maybe even one of those renegade Alderans!
VOTE: Daily Bugle
What kind of name is that Mestro? For I am sure as I am Comynara and Leronis, that you must be a commoner, you do not even seem to have red hair?
I will be observing all of you closely with my Laran, and find out who the imposters are.

I am still a tad suspicious of the Daily Bugle. I understand that he has constraints on him because of his native tongue, but I would like to see more from him. However, the haste with which some authors jumped onto the wagon seems a bit suspicious too.
For now, I will keep my vote where it lies, while I continue my research.

41 Let not a vote which is unrighteous and founded in sin be the vehicle for your deliverance. For your Bugle vote was pronounced during the time of Creation, and the attempt to turn a sinful lie unto the truth is most evil.

[Lord God]

...I pray...

Noted and received.

[Lord God]

Madame Bradely voted first, at RVS. A wagon, which seemingly appeared out of little and less, surfaced. Miss Bradely decided “I am still a tad suspicious of the Daily Bugle…. However, the haste [of the] wagon seems a bit suspicious too.” She, however, simply puts not effort into attempting to analyze the voters. Tell me, Madame Bradely, why do thou insist on camping a simple random vote on The Bugle when the wagon is springing faster than one can descend into madness? Surely, if thou no longer agree with thy original mark (for surely, no man – or woman – can simply know before hand of someone’s guilt – and surely, you confessed to the rest that thou hath suspicions of the wagon), why must thou insist on keeping thy mark on the Bugle? Thy rambling towards “God” does you no favors, either, Madame.

A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels.

~Proverbs 1:5

[Lord God]

http://forum.mafiascum.net/viewtopic.ph ... overview=1


Son of man,

speak

to the children of thy people

~Ezekiel 33:2

[Lord God]

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

-- Helen Keller


Even at my age, I still learn new things. I am trying to discern the meaning behind some of the authors and their words. Even someone with the Ridenow Gift of Empathy, would have some difficulties with the manner of speech some of you portray.

This makes the job of finding those in league with the Terrans and the Alderans much trickier.

@ Thomas what do you mean by flatlander? I was raised in the mountains.

@ Charlie, being naked is not a crime especially in the Towers where you are so close to the other Leroni that it is like living with your skin off.


Now that Mr Cummings is actually starting to participate, and I am seeing more from Thomas as well as Ms Stein, I am getting a better handle on them. I will also take a solid look at the words in isolation of the esteemed Ms Austen who seems to have so suddenly come under scrutiny. However for now, I will put my vote on my number 1 suspect of this villainy that has been plaguing us.

VOTE: Gertrude Stein

1 Look not to repeat thyself, for in all things, things you say sound the same, e'en though the words are not.

2 No, alas, they are the same too.

3 When you speak, I look for the goodness that is within your heart, for I know it can BE there, for the Lord THY God has given thy goodness.

4 But, some have turned away from their LORD, and turned to evil. And they shall also speak evil, and will not be reconciled except unto death.

5 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance.

~Hebrew 6:1-5

[Lord God]

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

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!

If not for the scummy nature of Mr. Mamet, I would find myself voting Dr. Seuss; sadly I have only one vote and it is promised to another. With Dr Seuss, I am afraid we have a scum hiding waiting for an opportunity; where he will rush up only to hide again, and wait for the next opportunity. I know this this, yet I am made unhappy, and I have good reason to be: I can not exercise my suspicion of Seuss without leaving Mamet with just the tendrils of suspicion, and none of my fellows are willing to make the first leap onto Seuss; though that would be the gallant thing to do.

The alacrity in which that paragraph had been been written lead to the missing of two major reasons to calm my soul; the two great heroes who have voted Seuss. While others focus on distractions that shall lead to nothing; that

can't

lead to anything. Although I still

FOS: Mamet

I can with comfort

Vote: Seuss

11 Judgement of your fellow man should be made in caution, for no one KNOWS the heart of MAN, save the Lord thy GOD.

12 Suess said naught with FORESIGHT, and called out the shtoogle that is THE BUGLE.

13 And you have said, falsely, that Suess was UNFAITHFUL to the tenets of the Lord.

14 Sayeth Austen "With Dr Seuss, I am afraid we have a scum hiding waiting for an opportunity; where he will rush up only to hide again, and wait for the next opportunity."

15 Some extrapolations are BEYOND the realm of GOODNESS; those that are false should NOT be, and should be exiled from the LAND of My people and thy thoughts.

~Deuteronomy 30:11-15

[Lord God]

1 And so sayeth the LORD

2 Thomas Pynchon has not given a reason for his cummings or Bradley vote. This is displeasing to the LORD.

3 Lemony Snicket, thou hast moved thy vote from Jane Austen unto Jane Austen's death candidate. Speak more on this lack of CONVICTION.

4 Christopher Marlowe, it is KNOWN unto the people of God and the Writers of the game that The Daily Bugle has wandered off into the WILDERNESS, there to praise me and return to the people MY WORDS. He is not amoungst us, and your pressure lies fallow within OUR HEARTS.

5 Shakespeare, thou hast hidden thy MIND, but thoust cannot hide from the LORD. Your list of players and their roles indicates thy heart, but it is unshared thy MOTIVATIONS of they heart. WHY is what thou needs to speak.

6 Furthermore, if cummings is GOOD-NATURED, what roles are those that have ENSLAVED him?

~Ephesians 12:1-6

[Lord God]

I have heard thy prayers given up UNTO me.

My PRESENCE will return unto thee.

But for now, it's My day of rest.

[Lord God]

Edgar Allan Poe - 4 (The Daily Bugle, David Foster Wallace, Jane Austen, Lemony Snicket)
Jane Austen - 4 (Gertrude Stein, Charlie Kaufman, Moliere, Tommy Wiseau)
Marion Zimmer Bradley - 4 (God, ee cummings, Gregory Williamson, Edgar Allan Poe)

It seems I'm short of a prophet to inspire at the moment, so I'll be speaking directly into your head.

I appreciate you, My creations in My own image, using your free will I gave you and all, however, we really must reach a consensus.

While I really want to hang the unintelligible authors right off the bat, that's probably not really an effective guage of alignment. However, I refuse to allow it to become the shield behind which scum will hide.

My point on Bradley that she kept her RVS vote on on Bugle and with poor reasoning (52). This is later followed up with a distracter from the game based on writing style (78). While she seemed to be trying to play better after that, she hasn't fulfilled that promise/expectation, and most of the other players I have town reads on or they aren't posting enough to get reads on.

Right now, even if I disagree with their overall reads or wish they would take Creative Writing 101 & Use of English Grammar 101, I have Poe, Snicket, James Joyce, Suess, and Bugle as town (yes, some weaker/stronger reads than others).

And Austen ignoring 134 while responding to 5 other authors is also somewhat telling. If it needs to be translated, why is Suess "... scum hiding waiting for an opportunity; where he will rush up only to hide again, and wait for the next opportunity." when his posting rate is on par with almost half the players?

Kaufman's reminding me why I didn't like either of those movies, and is coming in second place for saying a lot and making less sense.

Anyway's I'm showing the three "leading" wagons at the moment (quoted above). While I would currently vote for Bradley or Austen, I would accept reasonable cases on just about anyone at this point.

So, for the sake of the game, please make your next

post with a case

OOC, then feel free to become obtuse once more.

Now Go Forth and Post, My Children!

[Lord God]

@Good Host Lovecraft- Blessed art thou loins if you present an updated vote log.

1 Bradley's revelation of where each author stands with her garners much appreciation.

2 Appreciation of the Lord will result in HIS blessing.

3 A counterwagon of Ellis will be looked upon with scrutiny by MY CHOSEN people.

~Revelations 9:1

[Lord God]

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

I'm a big fan of crypticism, but with the power of the printed word, this convoluted mess would make an angel vomit. Explain, expand, and point out the where this happened. (274 is a good beginning, but pointing to the words means more)

Post 265 is the reasons I sometimes regret the whole "Free Will" thing.:sigh:
However, in your vehement hatred, you forgot to, you know, actually vote. Deeply interested in why.

@Marion Bradley- I heard your sigh of relief even through all the harp playing going on here. Since your 223 was so well researched, please apply those skills to the 12 players on the Ellis wagon, including their reasons for being there.

Voting Log, Vol. 1 No. 7

Edgar Allan Poe - 1 (

The Daily Bugle

)

Bret Easton Ellis

- 13 (James Joyce, Thomas Pynchon,

David Foster Wallace

, Rucks, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Jane Austen, Charlie Kaufman, Oscar Wilde, Gregory Williamson, Edgar Allan Poe, ee cummings, Lemony Snicket, Dr Seuss)

Jane Austen - 2 (Confucius, Spinning Paper)
ee cummings - 1 (Rucks)
The Daily Bugle - 2 (David Mamet, Christopher Marlowe)
Brian Jacques - 1 (Mark Z Danielewski)
Marion Zimmer Bradley - 3 (God, Shakespeare, Gertrude Stein)

Not Voting - 2 (Fred Phelps,

Bret Easton Ellis

)

With 24 alive, it takes 13 to lynch. Deadline is in flux

The Suess hammer is not alignment indicative. The rate of the game and the time it took the wagon to build means that town wants a hammer to move the game, and scum want a hammer to kill town-Ellis.

Deaths last night: Can't see scum shooting Daily Bugle- that seemed lurker-vig kill. He's up here next to me and wants me to tell you he forgives his killer. Wallace is less forgiving.
231 summary

TL;DR28 version:
Scum:

Ellis

, Poe, Stein, Shakespeare
Lean Scum:

Jacques

, cummings, James,

Wiseau

Null-Scum: Marlowe, Seuss, Poquelin
Null-Town: Williamson, Danielewski, Rucks,

Bugle

Lean Town: Kaufman, Wilde
Town: Joyce, Austen, Snicket, God, Bradley, Pynchon

but I think this will be the basis for this new day's search.

Some men's sins are open beforehand, going before to judgment; and some men they follow after. ~1 Timothy 5:24

[Lord God]

Sorry, busy this week making another universe. Thinking I should make them self-creating from now on. Maybe a big bang and there's a universe...

I saw Pynchon respond in 289. I'll have to go back and check your interpretations of the posts, but good to hear a response.

@Phelps- A vote. How novel. Feel free to not use my name in anything you say.
Your main case against Suess was his hammer of Ellis, and you claiming he's not scumhunting. Since the hammer is meaningless, your lack of additional suspects or additional reasoning is troublesome. If Suess is scum, who is in on it with him, and why?

@Spinning Paper- What are your thoughts on Suess? Hammer and all, but more the all. And headlines are less useful without the story beneath.

Bradley, you have said you were gone, but Ellis wagon thoughts would be good.

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

[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

[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

[Lord God]

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.

When you asked this, town.

[Lord God]

I am always receiving gifts, prayers, promises, and requests. Let me check...

They used to be burnt up to me, but I did receive a perfectly normal banana the first night.

[Lord God]

Two more things, then I'll go forth and re-read our three flips.

1. Doctor should not come forward, and should not claim. There is no benefit, and should the doc die or become ineffective, MrWilde can be crucified.

2.

And furthermore, brother Wilde, why'd you RoleCop someone whose role was already publicly known, man? Seems to me you wouldn't do that if you were town.

Not getting what you mean here, Mr. Hogan. Suess day1, me day2, unknown day3. Please elaborate.

[Lord God]

O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.

~Genesis 49:6

Flavor post.

Looking at scum ISOs today.

[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

[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?

[Lord God]

I confirm Charlie's magnanimous gift.

Being a thinking Being, I had not used it.

I did last night, but see no point in naming names unless they are about to be lynched.

Also, yes, I neighborized Danielski I think n2 or 3. It became active the following night. Not a ton of discussion, but reads and thoughts on players are exchanged, and generally agreed upon.

Want to hear from Hogan regarding his missing fruit.

[Lord God]

"You shouldn't have done that." ~Oscar "Ben" Wilde

OOC: I understand why EL James, but was there anybody else you thought about? She's playing awful, but I'm reading town on her.

PEdit: What've you got Hulk? Might as well share it with us.

The other was thyself, but figured to allow town that decision, what with your claim and all.