[Korabas]

Tulas Shorn, on 04 December 2010 - 11:31 PM, said:

unfortunately, night won't strt till the freeze ends, so this may be redundarnt...

Yup. But better get the vote in already, than wait for someone to do it then...

[Emurlahn]

i hope this doesnt put u off playibg mafia in the future but...

vote rashan

hes too much of a distraction

[Galain]

Well looks like you guys solved that one for me.

I can't find where D'rek talks about the freeze? Will night still run just 6 hours max or are we stuck until Sunday night/Monday morning?

[Galain]

Korabas, on 04 December 2010 - 04:22 PM, said:

Galain, on 04 December 2010 - 06:20 AM, said:

Y'know, I definitely want to vote off Rashan, but I'm pretty annoyed with the implications that I'm tied to him. Like, if he comes up Yuan Shao, I suspect you bastards will lynch me in your zealous fervor. So that's the only thing holding me up.

I understand your sentiments, it is not a whole lot different from the way I felt with the whole Ruse = Korabas' team-mate and Ruse must be YS thing I was in yesterday.

There is also a bit of a reverse side to the conundrum you present here. It might well be that people'll stop watching you immediately if Rashan CFs HZ/ZX. You are a smart player, you have been playing with strategy, and while I don't know with whom you are sided, I do know that my team can only compose of so many players - great if you're on it, but dangerous if you're not - doubly so if everyone assumes you are on theirs when you're not.


I think one thing is for certain: Rashan is aligned to a faction and won't give us a Mockra/Ruse like CF which leaves us with elaborate guesswork regarding his true colours. Based on that alone, he may be a good lynch target - although were he to come up ZX or ZH, that team is taking a lot of hits.

Also, while I appreciate the vote of confidence, I also know all too well that flattery can get you very far in games... ^.^

[Korabas]

Galain, on 05 December 2010 - 01:58 AM, said:

Korabas, on 04 December 2010 - 04:22 PM, said:

Galain, on 04 December 2010 - 06:20 AM, said:

Y'know, I definitely want to vote off Rashan, but I'm pretty annoyed with the implications that I'm tied to him. Like, if he comes up Yuan Shao, I suspect you bastards will lynch me in your zealous fervor. So that's the only thing holding me up.

I understand your sentiments, it is not a whole lot different from the way I felt with the whole Ruse = Korabas' team-mate and Ruse must be YS thing I was in yesterday.

There is also a bit of a reverse side to the conundrum you present here. It might well be that people'll stop watching you immediately if Rashan CFs HZ/ZX. You are a smart player, you have been playing with strategy, and while I don't know with whom you are sided, I do know that my team can only compose of so many players - great if you're on it, but dangerous if you're not - doubly so if everyone assumes you are on theirs when you're not.


I think one thing is for certain: Rashan is aligned to a faction and won't give us a Mockra/Ruse like CF which leaves us with elaborate guesswork regarding his true colours. Based on that alone, he may be a good lynch target - although were he to come up ZX or ZH, that team is taking a lot of hits.

Also, while I appreciate the vote of confidence, I also know all too well that flattery can get you very far in games... ^.^

Sometimes one needs to state the obvious. In mafia, you have to state, re-state, repeat, repeat, rinse, repeat, quote, re-quote, get angry and quote again to get your opinion across

[Rashan]

.....


dead people don't talk

This post has been edited by Mentalist: 05 December 2010 - 06:51 PM

[Korabas]

Posting while dead is not allowed

[Kessobahn]

Looks like the person taking the weekend break most seriously is our mod ... so, since he's probably drunk, I'll join in.

[Path-Shaper]

Kessobahn, on 05 December 2010 - 09:34 PM, said:

Looks like the person taking the weekend break most seriously is our mod ... so, since he's probably drunk, I'll join in.

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Since you guys have decided to lynch Rashan, I'll give you the half-day scene now. The timer is currently frozen at the instant of the hammer, so it's still day but the lynch is irreversible (and you can still send/change NAs).

This post has been edited by Path-Shaper: 06 December 2010 - 12:03 AM

[Path-Shaper]

Yuan Shao's overwhelming assault had killed countless men on both sides and had severely reduced the Zhang Xiu-Huang Zhong alliance's stock of horses, arrows and ships. Ultimately, though, Yuan Shao's forces had been unable to storm the western fortresses and had returned to Xiang Yang to plot their next attack. As repairs began across the camps, Zhang Xiu sounded the drums, convening a general assembly of the alliance's commanders, outside his tent. Zhang Xiu began: "Yuan Shao's million-strong horde, deployed along a three-hundred-li stretch of land and shore, will not be defeated in a single day. I am ordering the commanders to take three months' rations and prepare to defend our line." Huang Zhong's strategist Pang Tong came forward, interrupting him. "Never mind three months' - thirty months' rations won't do the job," he said. "If we can beat them this month, then let's do it. If not, what choice have we but to throw down our weapons, face north, and sue for peace?"

Zhang Xiu explored in fury. "I lead our troops to destroy Yuan Shao. The next man to advocate surrender dies! Now at the very moment of confrontation between the two armies, how dare you weaken our morale?" Roughly, he barked orders to his guards: "Throw him to the ground. One hundred strokes across the back should teach him a proper lesson." Huang Zhong rushed forward to make an appeal, but Zhang Xiu overturned his table, silenced them with a gesture, and ordered the whipping carried out.

Pang Tong was stripped and forced facedown to the ground. After fifty blows of the rod the officers appealed for mercy. Zhang Xiu said, "You have dared to show your disrespect! The other fifty will be held in reserve. Any further insults will be doubly punished." Still muttering angrily, he re-entered his tent. The officers helped Pang Tong to his feet. His skin was broken everywhere and his oozing flesh was crossed with welts. Returning to his camp, he fainted several times. All who came to express their sympathy wept freely.

Pang Tong lay in his tent all day. Commanders came to sympathize, and Tong moaned but did not speak. As the sun set, Pang Tong rose, dismissed his attendants, and instructed his guards not to permit entrance to anyone for two days. Disguised as a fisherman, Pang Tong snuck out of his tent and stole a boat on the south shore of the river. At the third watch, he reached Yuan Shao's camp...

[Tulas Shorn]

another strategist?
and a defection?

[Path-Shaper]

It is Day 3. The clock has been frozen with 16 Hours and 00 Minutes remaining.
10 Players still alive: Emurlahn, Galain, Kessobahn, Korabas, Merrid, Omtose, Rashan, Silchas Ruin, Tiamatha, Tulas Shorn

6 votes to lynch, 5 votes to go to night.

6 Votes for Rashan ( Kessobahn, Omtose, Tulas Shorn, Tiamatha, Korabas, Emurlahn )
1 Vote for Kessobahn ( Rashan )

Players not voted: Galain, Merrid, Silchas Ruin

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The timer will resume in about 8 hours, at which point the lynch will process and you'll go straight to night.

This post has been edited by Path-Shaper: 06 December 2010 - 05:23 AM

[Korabas]

Tulas Shorn, on 06 December 2010 - 04:26 AM, said:

another strategist?
and a defection?

So it seems.

[Tulas Shorn]

which begs the question: is it going to be a fake again? (presuming Mockra's defection was a fake)

or are people genuinely starting to flock to YS?

in which case, further questions arise about how genuine Venge was in his reveal, since his CF hasn't confirmed which side he was on, one way or the other.

[Emurlahn]

im hoping that when day officially ends we will get a fuller cf

[Tulas Shorn]

Well, i'm not even sure that the scene was inrelation to Rashan, tbh.

[Path-Shaper]

Day 3 is over.

6 Votes for Rashan ( Kessobahn, Omtose, Tulas Shorn, Tiamatha, Korabas, Emurlahn )
1 Vote for Kessobahn ( Rashan )

Players not voted: Galain, Merrid, Silchas Ruin

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Pang Tong was captured by a river patrol and brought before the Prime Minister. "Only a fisherman," said the patrol's commander, "but he claims to be Pang Tong, an advisor of Huang Zhong." Sitting rigidly at his desk, Yuan Shao said, "A name long known to me, but what brings you here?" Pang Tong described how he had opposed the alliance with Zhang Xiu and urged his lord to surrender to Yuan Shao. "Now, my lord sits idly by while that western tyrant answers my voice of reason with unjust punishment!" Pang Tong removed his robes and showed an astonished Yuan Shao his still-bleeding wounds. "People say that Your Excellency yearns for men of ability. Outraged and vengeful, I wish to defect." Delighted, Yuan Shao said, "If you can achieve real merit, you will be rewarded far above all others." "It is not for rank or emolument that I come," answered Pang Tong. "I am doing what Heaven ordains and men approve." Yuan Shao poured Pang Tong wine and then had him escorted to a tent to rest.

The following day, Yuan Shao called for Pang Tong and said, "Your great name has long been familiar to me, and we welcome your gracious regard. May I hope that you will look over the features of our deployment, offering us advice and instruction?" Yuan Shao called for horses and invited Pang Tong to review his naval stations. There were twenty-four openings facing south, and in each the attack boats and warships were laid out like a city wall, within which clustered the smaller craft. For passage there were channels, and everything proceeded in good order. Smiling delightedly, Pang Tong said to Yuan Shao, "Excellency, if your use of forces is like this, your reputation has not preceded you for naught!" So saying, Pang Tong pointed across the river and cried, "Zhang Xiu, Huang Zhong, the day of your doom is fixed!"

Immensely pleased, Shao returned to camp and invited Pang Tong into his tent to share his wine and talk of military machinations. After much discourse Pang Tong said, "You have good medical services for the troops, no doubt?" "Unfortunately, much of our sailors have been unable to adjust to the southern clime and have been seized with nausea and vomiting. We have too few physicians to treat them all," Yuan Shao responded. "There is a way to free the sailors of their ailments, to make them steady and capable of success," said Pang Tong. Yuan Shao was delighted and eager to learn. "On the river the tide swells and recedes," Pang Tong continued, "and the wind and the waves never subside. These northern troops, unaccustomed to shipboard, suffer from the pitching and rolling. This is the cause of their ailment. Reorganize your small and large vessels: marshal them in groups of thirty or fifty and make them fast with iron hoops, stem to stem and stern to stern. Then, if wide planks are laid so that horses as well as men can cross from ship to ship, however rough the waves or steep the swells, what will you have to fear?" Yuan Shao was amazed and toasted Pang Tong's wisdom. Thanking him, Yuan Shao excused himself to begin the changes immediately.

As Pang Tong returned towards his tent, a man dressed all in tight-fitting black silks approached, grabbed him and said, "Your audacity is remarkable! You use the 'battered-body scheme' to win His Excellency's trust, and now you submit the plan for linking the boats - your only concern being that the coming fire attack might not consume everything! Such insidious mischief may be enough to take in Yuan Shao, but it won't work on me." Terrified, Pang Tong tried to break free, but his captor neatly pulled a dagger and thrust it into the advisor's heart.

Pang Tong, Huang Zhong's chief advisor, is dead. (Rashan and Tattersail)

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It is Night 3. 6 hours remaining
9 Players still alive: Tulas Shorn, Tiamatha, Galain, Merrid, Omtose, Kessobahn, Emurlahn, Silchas Ruin, Korabas

This post has been edited by Path-Shaper: 06 December 2010 - 12:36 PM

[Merrid]

And I'm back. I see we've already had a lynch? Catching up.

[Omtose]

Well guys, my available time is probably going to be decreasing drastically due to real life issues (or Cataclysm, you choose). Should still be around, though.

Looks like HZ/ZX are in a rather bad way.

[Merrid]

Well, I can't say I'm sorry Rashan is gone, he was not playing a good game, and probably helped Yuan Shao more than he helped Huang Zhong by being so vocal about his alignment. For what it's worth I probably would have voted for him, too. Interesting that he copped four votes in such a short time though.

I guess that invalidates Ruse's reveal, then, as the man was clearly not YS, although it looks like he tried to be at the end. In retrospect it seems like he just pointed to the first two people on his train (Rashan and Galain) and tried to set them up as partners by claiming a finder role that incidentally also implicates partners. Rather flimsy looking back, as that's quite a powerful ability.