(KindofMafia) Assassin in the Castle!

[Caluin Graye]

The room was a bloodbath by this time. Nobody was clean or innocent anymore. Everyone had participated in the murder of loyal citizens of Caltopia, and nobody would escape this room without some black mark upon their soul.

If they escaped at all.

The conversation turned back to Gwaihir. The decision was made quickly, but nobody wanted to be the final vote that sealed his fate. Gwaihir tried to deflect away from himself, but nobody would hear of it. Eventually, the time came, and his death was decided.

Unfortunately, to the grief of nearly everyone in the room, he was not the assassin. He had been loyal to the end.

Four men remain.

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At this point, should the group lock someone for a lynch, and all participants agree to it, I will be happy to end the day earlier than scheduled. However, I will need all four remaining players to say it is ok. If even one player states they would rather wait the time out (even by PM, contradicting what they might say in the thread!), then the lynch will happen at the normal time.

Preferably you'd all let me know before the lock actually happens. =)

 

[omgwtfbbqpwned]

Well, ****.

 

[omgwtfbbqpwned]

The guards are at 50/50, the King and Assassin are at 1/3. Should anyone other than the Assassin get two votes today, then the Assassin is at 50/50 as well.

How do you guys want to play this out?

 

[pharphis]

I can't believe how awful this has gone. I wanted to be around at day end, but I don't think I would have changed my vote, anyway. My boss was teaching me stuff, so I couldn't really duck out even though my eye was on the clock.
I don't really know what we should do. I'll obviously think about it though, throughout the day.

What do you think Gory?

 

[Goryani]

I think we should keep going with the WIFOM stuff. Finding the assassin is for naught if it's done in a manner that exposes the king.

Vote: omg
Reason: random.org told me so

 

[pharphis]

I like the idea of starting with random.org.
Vote: Bad Ash

Who's next?

 

[Caluin Graye]

Current vote count:

omgwtfbbqpwned [1]: Goryani
Bad Ash [1]: pharphis

Not voting: Bad Ash; omgwtfbbqpwned

You guys are killing my thread. Figuratively stabbing it in the heart multiple times until it bleeds out, all the while listening to its moans of mercy to stop killing it. You're all horrible people for murdering my thread.

 

[pharphis]

I don't think I'll be around for day end. Have to go get groceries. So I'm leaving it to you guys!
unvote: Bad Ash

 

[Bad Ash]

vote: omg


Not feeling anything
We are screwed

 

[omgwtfbbqpwned]

Vote: Goryani

God speed, my liege. May Odin bless your sacred family jewels for all time.

 

[Caluin Graye]

Everyone was tired. Exhaustion from the constant adrenaline, lack of food and sleep, and stress of the situation were causing the remaining few to slip in and out of reality. Each found a corner in the room and huddled there, lost in their own world.

Sad as it was, though, someone still had to die. omgwtfbbqpwned closed his eyes, if but only for a moment, but that was all that was needed. That first sign of weakness. The others descended upon him silently and his eyes never opened again. At least he died peacefully.

Perhaps if they were thinking straight, the few remaining loyal Caltopians would have remembered that assassins don't sleep when their mission is unfulfilled.

Three men remain.

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It is now two votes to lock a lynch. The game will end as soon as someone is locked.

 

[pharphis]

Well, that sucks. Once again I'm going to wait for the others to make a move. The only hope for us now is to hope my other team-mate doesn't screw up.

 

[Goryani]

Random.org isn't very good at playing this game, not that the rest of us are any better.

 

[pharphis]

Well, I spent a lot of time thinking about it, and it's too late to determine people's roles from different crumbing throughout. Everyone has voted for someone else at one point or another, pretty much.


The way I see it, if the assassin makes the first vote, they have a very very good chance of either causing the lynch of the wrong person, or by guessing the king correctly.
If the assassin doesn't make the first vote, then it is seems to be 50/50 in every regard from there on. (Does king vote first and hit the correct person? or does assassin lock in the wrong target? - The guard picks the right target, and the king follows along, or incorrectly guesses the assassin?)

The time for trickery is over.
So I'll just take a shot at it.

vote: Goryani
We'll see soon enough if I chose the wrong action.

 

[Goryani]

or does assassin lock in the wrong target?

This scenario still leads to an assassin win. It becomes a two person game - king and assassin - which makes finding the king rather easy.

Vote: pharphis

 

[pharphis]

So the game doesn't end until someone is locked?

 

[Caluin Graye]

No, the game has ended. Bad Ash has not posted for this day phase, therefore I am forced to modkill him. Since he is the king, that means the town has lost.

Congratulations to Goryani who played an excellent assassin. For the record, Goryani PM'd me stating he would assassinate Bad Ash even if he had posted, so ultimately the modkill was unimportant.

I am late to a baby shower for my best friends, so I have to cut this short. I'll edit this post later on tonight with a proper ending story (I have a good one in mind, so check regularly!), and with final thoughts on how the game went. Over all I'm pleased.

Thank you everyone for playing.

Edit -
As promised, an ending story:

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Bad Ash was slumped in the corner, apparently already dead. There were no wounds on him, no cuts nor bleeding. It was as if his heart had just given out. I like to think that he just couldn't bear seeing his loyal subjects giving their lives in vain to protect him.

Pharphis weeped openly, for his King was dead. Mercy for him was quick, as an assassin does not revel in a kill. And, with that, only one man remained. The Cult of the Hydra had accomplished the impossible; not only had he successfully killed the one man capable of creating peace, but he survived in the process. Goryani, bloody and tired, slumped into an open chair next to the long dead royal proxy. On a whim, he took the crown and twirled it in his hands.

A fluke, perhaps, but at that exact moment in time, the door to the royal hall opened and guards swarmed in. Goryani smiled, knowing that while he might die here today, his sacrifice was not for nothing.

No peace would be signed that day. War would continue, and Caltopia would fall to the heathens.

And that, my son, is the story of our downfall. That is why we wear chains around our ankles. That is why... at first light's break... we will march to our graves. The last of us will die.

No men will remain. Only monsters.

 

[pharphis]

/10chars

 

[Goryani]

Thanks for hosting CG! Assassin in the Castle is a nice change of pace.

One suggestion: make role PM's public. My boomshankalaka comment wasn't an accident.

The guards (and king) did a good job of hiding the identity of the king. My first guess was Solar Ice. I thought there was no way his questions regarding pharphis' list would be essentially ignored by the town unless he was the king. When given the chance to lynch Solar, I took it. The list provided some clues as to who couldn't be the king, but I was never sure if some of the more subtle clues were real (Gwaihir and omg mostly, though Sathoris might have thought I was a guard and wanted to see who jumped on my wagon).

Taking BA to two votes (twice!) was good cover.

edit: (because I can now!)
I tried playing the game like I think a guard/king should be playing it. I'm all for scumhunting and strategery and all that, just not talking about it in thread.

 

[Kestegs]

They durka dur! Vote: Bad Ash First one to signup is always a shady character.

Your first comment.

I played it out a thousand times and had to assume that you knew he was the king and that you were a guard. Was it just luck that you made that post?

Thanks, cg, nice change of pace. All in all it was kinda frustrating though. You can think someone is scummy, but you can't say why because that would blow the kings cover. Kinda removes most of the tactics.