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Re: Beginner's Mafia IX, Day Two: Bloody Water and Seven Lights
« Reply #345 on: February 24, 2010, 06:59:49 pm »

More extension, please.
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Re: Beginner's Mafia IX, Day Two: Bloody Water and Seven Lights
« Reply #346 on: February 24, 2010, 09:05:31 pm »

More extension, please.

5p to extend 24 hours.
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Re: Beginner's Mafia IX, Day Two: Bloody Water and Seven Lights
« Reply #347 on: February 25, 2010, 12:00:10 am »

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SirBayer [4] - Siquo, Halmie, spitfire684, HFS
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EDIT: just altered the end so it would flow better.

"Yes, hardly human," Pandarsenic continues.  "Can you call any man human who would happily slay a child?  No, young friend, though they may have been men when they converged on Bayer that day, their solemn silence as they regarded his flailing death condemned them."

"... A child?" asks Aureliusz Vektor.  He almost wants to smile at the ludicrous impossibility of it, pushing away all other feelings in favor of cold laughter--for when he was a younger man, who walked with Anna in those nightmare chills of Poland,
hand in aching hand, he had

"On that day," says Dakarian, "they chose a child among them and said with little regret:

"'You, dear heart, shall die.'"


hand in aching hand and the chill wind blistering their reddened faces

as though in dream cold to the bone and roaring

as though in dream he heard a voice say i'm... hungry and he was glad to have that voice to light the night by

"You are... speaking lies," says Vektor.

"There is no lie more cutting than the truth, is there?" asks Pandarsenic.  "They gathered around him and saw some deep evil in his rounded childish eyes.  They did not ask who he was--they did not need to.  He was Bayer the Child, and his guise said simply this:

"'I am young and uncared for, and when you kill me I will be helpless before you.'

"And so it was, for he had not yet learned to speak dishonesty with a snakish smile."

"You forget, Pandarsenic, that he was not so quiet as you say.  He looked up at those dirty tired men who surrounded him, and asked of each this unanswered query:

"'Are you my daddy?  Mommy said you'd never come back, but I knew you would.  We'll sail on a boat some day when I'm a Sea Captain.'  He repeated this phrase to each man, who merely shook his head and looked away.  They stood in that solitary hanging balance which each man must face, peering towards a future their hearts knew was wrong but their heads thought right."


they peered through that foggy window to a country white as eiderdown, their joints aching their stomachs clenched.  it was a land of cold.  Anna said

"They were silent for what seemed like hour upon hour, cowards all, who stared upon a child they thought a villain and could not kill him."

Anna said

there is no more cabbage or wheat or pork

and he said

there is no more wood

and he said

"Pandarsenic took offense at this and snuck softly around that circle, whispering into every ear terrible stories of what madness he would visit upon them, should they not move forward.  To some he threatened the pain of a great fire; to others dreams lost forever; and to others still, he merely smiled and said:

"'I hear it's very cold outside, and this cathedral has a great many windows.'"


and he said softly this

give me the shovel and your wedding ring

"It was very cold outside," says Pandarsenic, "and they wasted piles of coin on flimsy sheets of colored glass."

he opened the door into a wall of cold and ice their rings clenched in his palm (he could not let go of them yet precious and valueless) and he dug his hands red and chapped and blistered bleeding in the barren winter and dug and closed the door

he dug and closed the door and shambled through the slicing snow his trousers soaked with ice and he shivering and them shivering

Aureliusz Vektor throws more logs on the fire.  He is cold and admires the wood's fine scent, its sparks swarming at every disturbance.  It is lively and takes his mind off things, and so he absorbs himself in its bright burning flare.  He is a man in love with flames.

"Isn't it warm enough, old man?" asks Dakarian.  "It hasn't snowed for three days now."

"It is never warm enough," he says.
  it was not ever  He will not ask them to continue.  The most he can do is listen.  He does not want to listen.  He would like to close his eyes and sit bent before the roasting fire, to hold his shaking hands over the flames.  If he burnt them, he cared not.  In that pain he would at last be warm.

"My homeland would be pleasant for you, then," says Pandarsenic.  "It is lovely in the spring."

"Let us not speak of the seasons, Pandarsenic, but continue our tale.  If we stall here, we shall keep our host awake all night."

"Ah yes," says Pandarsenic.  "I am most certain you wanted to hear what happened next.  Those men who had been strong in their defiance of their own wills quickly crumbled, their true feelings soon showing through."

"Those men who had been strong in their defiance of you quickly crumbled, the intrinsic frailty of mortal men soon betraying them.  They gathered around Bayer and he was compliant, laughing even as they flung his young body over his shoulder and carried him up the cathedral stairs."

"They walked and walked until they found the high bell tower, open to the evening air and freezing in the chill," says Pandarsenic.  "They peered through that foggy air upon a country white as eiderdown, their joints aching and their stomachs clenched.  It was a land of cold."

"Someone mentioned the bells and--"

"They were hungry in the extreme," said Pandarsenic.  "They were soon to freeze to death, and no matter who 'won' they would all die.  They had no cabbage, wheat, or pork.  They had no firewood.  They stood in that open and freezing air, eyes stinging and streaming, their hands shaking in the violent cold, and their secret thoughts were all villainous.

"They thought 'if only I could leave, and never come back.  I'd tell them I'd come back soon with wood and food.  I'd head out into the snow, and if I ever returned I'd be greeted by a mausoleum.'

"They wanted to take the easy way out--I'm sure you can sympathize, Aureliusz Vektor?--they wanted to survive with no consequences and see no more men die.  Had they been surrounded by their own families, they would have felt the same.  A cold and starving man is desperate.  He sees his wife's wan face and hears the mewling of his sick child, and wants nothing more than to escape.  Whatever goodness or honesty he possessed is tarnished and can never be clean."

"They hanged--"

"They lifted Bayer to the mouth of the smallest bronze bell, the Little Maria, and wrapped the cord around his narrow neck.  They turned their faces away and did not watch, cowards all, what their fear and malice had wrought--they were men like any other, as you have been told.  They heard his gasping fumbling breaths and the bell clanged harsh across the countryside."

"They took his body and--"


he opened the door the rings sold he a poor man with near-nothing left but their smiling faces and

"They stood, eyes averted, and when the knell ceased its tireless ring, they turned as one to see an innocent pauper hanging in the dead air."




Spoiler: SirBayer the Child (click to show/hide)

SirBayer the Child, Innocent, has been lynched.  You have 24 hours to send in your night actions.  Day 3 will begin at 12:00 PM Thursday board time.



Apologies to the Oxford English Dictionary and William Faulkner (again), as well as Laura Ingalls Wilder.  Apologies to Victor Hugo, as usual.  Additional apologies for the incoherent narrative, but I felt it worked, so I went with it.  I'll also apologize to Motoi Sakuraba for stealing the name of one of his songs.

Note also that the next update is going to be... interesting.  The story continues with some craziness quite soon =)
« Last Edit: February 27, 2010, 01:40:56 pm by Vector »
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Re: Beginner's Mafia IX, Night Two: A bell rings in the chapel of memory
« Reply #348 on: February 26, 2010, 12:43:06 am »

My apologies, but night is being extended 24 hours.  I can finish the PMs or the update, but not both--and this is a particularly important round, so I can't skimp on either.  This means that everything will be sent out tomorrow night.

Please note that night is officially over--i.e., no night action targets may be changed.  This is time extension due to mod mistakes, not a real extension.
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Re: Beginner's Mafia IX, Night Two: A bell rings in the chapel of memory
« Reply #349 on: February 27, 2010, 02:17:59 am »

"You watched the young one die," says Vektor.  His voice is flat.

"Is it my place to meddle in the affair of mortal men?" asks Pandarsenic.  "Am I their keeper and their slave?  Am I their master and their guide?  No... no, I am a man like other men, neither servant nor tyrant.  It is they who chose their fates, not I."

"No... no," says Dakarian.  "You are a man like no other man, both tyrant and servant.  It is you who twisted their fates' path, and they who chose to walk it."

"You are no man," Vektor snarls.  "You say words no one understand and talk in circles.  Stop chasing your tail and tell what was done!  Did you watch?  Did you do nothing?  Did you save him?

"Do you tell truth or is this lies?"

"What is a lie," says Pandarsenic, "but an unhappy truth left festering in the dark?  This is some man's truth, and that is all that matters.  Whether I saw or did as I say is immaterial.  Some man left a child to die in the cold, and that is the truth I tell."

"And you?" Vektor asks Dakarian.  "Does he tell truth or lies or nonsense?"

"What is nonsense," says Dakarian, "but harshness averted by a jungle of words?  He is kinder to you than he might be, and that is all that matters.  Whether he saw or did as he says is immaterial.  Some man left a child to die in the cold, and that is the truth he obscures."

Vektor draws himself up.  He is neither tall nor imposing, but a muscle jumps in his cheek.

"I apologize to the clientele," he says, pronouncing the phrase syllable by syllable, "but I'm afraid you must leave."

He knows these words well.  He has practiced them.  He is well-versed in throwing people out.

"I apologize to the barkeep," says Pandarsenic, pronouncing the phrase syllable by syllable, "but I'm afraid we will not."

Aureliusz Vektor strikes the knight across the face with the back of his trembling hand.  He is livid.  Dakarian remains seated, placid, as though nothing has occurred.  He is lost somewhere, as though he had been expecting everything and forgot to react.  He is an observer, and nothing more.

"Go now," says Vektor.  "Go now, and leave me.  Say no more words and end your story here."

"We drank your ale," says Pandarsenic, "and we will tell our story--and don't think you'll leave on pretenses of feeding your cat or some other nonsense.  The story will be heard, and you will listen to every word.  You are not a man like any other, Aureliusz Vektor.  You are--"

"A man who as suffered too long and too much," says Dakarian, awakening from his stupor with a jolt.  "Please listen.  The story has a happy ending."

"The story has an ending suiting its start," says Pandarsenic.  "Do you hear me, Aureliusz Vektor?  You--"

"I will tell you what happened next," says Dakarian.  "They found gentle Spitfire drowned at dawn of day, facedown in the baptismal font."

"His face was bloated, tongue black, a corpse beyond re--"

"Please leave," says Vektor, voice breaking.  He rubs his eyes.  "I beg."

"Sit down," says Pandarsenic.  "We are telling a story."

"Sit down," says Dakarian.  "We will not go."




Spoiler: Spitfire684 the Lover (click to show/hide)

Spitfire684 the Lover, Innocent, has been killed in the night.


You have until Midnight on Tuesday to decide what happened next.  Begin.



Apologies to Cain, Abel, and... sure, why not.  Sorry, Jesus.  A million apologies to The Count (snicker), and to T.H. White for stealing that one mannerism.  Okay, fine.  Apologies to that jackass who wrote the Phantom of the Opera stage play, as well.  It was terrible.  The only thing that saved the movie was the reams of Jungian symbolism, because Gerard Butler CAN'T SING, BY THE WAY.  Moron-cupcake.  Don't get me started on Susan Kay, though.  Leroux fangirl forever <3

"Do you tell truth or is this lies?"

"Truth?  Lies?  THIS IS SPARTAAAAAARGH"
« Last Edit: February 27, 2010, 01:39:19 pm by Vector »
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Re: Beginner's Mafia IX, Day Three: Broken balance
« Reply #350 on: February 27, 2010, 02:30:36 am »

That's depressing.
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Re: Beginner's Mafia IX, Day Three: Broken balance
« Reply #351 on: February 27, 2010, 02:35:47 am »

That's depressing.

Er... my apologies.  I fear that the tone for this is rather heavy =/
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Re: Beginner's Mafia IX, Day Three: Broken balance
« Reply #352 on: February 27, 2010, 02:40:14 am »

I like the flavor. It's good. Don't take it as a complaint.
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Re: Beginner's Mafia IX, Day Three: Broken balance
« Reply #353 on: February 27, 2010, 02:56:09 am »

I like the flavor. It's good. Don't take it as a complaint.

In that case, I thank you.  I'll try to keep it up =)
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Re: Beginner's Mafia IX, Day Three: Broken balance
« Reply #354 on: February 27, 2010, 03:13:32 am »

Your flavor provokes an emotional response. It's good writing. And it's just plain fun. :D
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Re: Beginner's Mafia IX, Day Three: Broken balance
« Reply #355 on: February 27, 2010, 07:23:45 am »

The flavour is delicious. The blood of innocents less so...

So this is it, final day. I'm going back and re-read, and try to find out why who did what, again...
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Re: Beginner's Mafia IX, Day Three: Broken balance
« Reply #356 on: February 27, 2010, 08:57:36 am »

1.  I have returned ("Za Khaladas.")


Vector, if you ever decide on a side operation besides mathematician get into writing.   No, don't go "what? Meh" at me.  Go!  The world doesn't have enough good writers (and I don't have near enough writers that catch my interest).

@Everyone else

Today is lylo.  The mafia will be at their strongest this day, their most bold and hungry.  Meanwhile, the town has lost it's sacrifical edge: they know if they choose wrong or are lynched they lose.  This will mean that they will be the most hardest to find today since the mafia will be more prone towards towniness while the townies will be tempted by scummish behavior.

Your first step is a hard one: READ BACK!   Let go of your worry over this day and nitpicking over small things and READ THE PAST DAYS! 

While the scum will be at their least scummiest today, they were still scum in days 1 and 2.  Their sins still taint the past and that past is unchangeable. 

So take all of your knowledge of what is considered mafia behavior and read the past.  Look specifically at how the surviving players acted.  Remember that mafia tend to be:

- Knowledgable: they KNOW who is town and who is scum already
- self-preservating:  They do what they do ONLY to survive the next day.  Nothing else, in fact, matters.  They attack someone in order to appear to be attacking.  They vote only because they have to.  They do 'townie' things so that they can be seen doing them. 


All scumtells fall along those lines.  The defensiveness, the reactionary, the fake-attacking, 'follow the crowd' behavior is all based on those two facts.   

You are least likely to see it this day.  You will be most able to find it in the past.

So go read, and attack, and hope.  Remember, if you are still unsure of what to do, the game is half lost.
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Re: Beginner's Mafia IX, Day Three: Broken balance
« Reply #357 on: February 27, 2010, 12:37:23 pm »

Ugh, they keep killing the people we are suspicious (or even semi-suspicous) of.
Hmm...I better get reading.
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Re: Beginner's Mafia IX, Day Two: Bloody Water and Seven Lights
« Reply #358 on: February 27, 2010, 01:44:09 pm »

I'm back. Internet trouble, need I say more?

Looking over this thread, SirBayer.

Can't elaborate because I don't know how much time I have until my internet fails again.

Yes, a lot more, HFS. Please tell us why you're hardly posting at all, why you jump bandwagons without a reason, and give us the reason you just made up as to why you did vote for SirBayer.
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Re: Beginner's Mafia IX, Day Three: Broken balance
« Reply #359 on: February 27, 2010, 01:46:38 pm »

Your flavor provokes an emotional response. It's good writing. And it's just plain fun. :D

The flavour is delicious. The blood of innocents less so...

So this is it, final day. I'm going back and re-read, and try to find out why who did what, again...

Vector, if you ever decide on a side operation besides mathematician get into writing.   No, don't go "what? Meh" at me.  Go!  The world doesn't have enough good writers (and I don't have near enough writers that catch my interest).


First off, my thanks to all of you.  Second...

"What?  Meh."

>_> <_<

In more seriousness, one of my goals before dying is to write and publish a novel.  Last time I was doing this, I stopped thanks to noticing that I'd been psychoanalyzing myself.  The current plan is to improve my chops a little and then probably try again, once I've figured out which idea(s) I want to use.  If I actually write something, however, you will hear about it ;)
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