A Room in the Castle Volant

 

 

Scenario:

 

Hey, you know those jokes which start with the punchline first? This is one of those:

 

Maurice Kennedy is dead.

 

Hahaha!!!! No, really, it's funny. It's funny in that ironic way, where the man best suited to the 'situation' (as we shall call it) is already taken out of the equation. And it's a shame, too, as he was really a thoughtful and sensitive guy. He liked flowers, and had an impressive library. Well, the library is a bit more, archaic, shall we say than most you will find provided by your local living community - big focus is evident on the damned, the dying, and the not-really dead.

 

In fact, you could say he was investigating some people in the community... which is why his demise may have been more than 'natural causes.' But, not being one to start a witch hunt (or a necro-hunt, in this case) he took his time - and took a little but too long, as someone most likely now took all the time he had left.

 

Anyway, let's rewind and tell this story forward. But FIRST, the RULES!

 

CONFIRMED PLAYERS:

1/ Falzis

2/ CanucksDynasty

3/ ScoutX

4/ Aquinas

5/ Narsis

6/ AKCPLUTO

7/ junkahoolik

8/ KevinH

 

Rules:

[01] Votes should be in bold. If you do not bold your vote, it will not be counted, unless you're clever and add it to the spreadsheet also. Failsafe system!

[02] Please put some effort into making posts longer than 1 or 2 sentences. I can't force you to do it, but it would be helpful.

[03] Lynching will require a simple majority of votes. Once a player has reached the necessary majority, their pleas are useless and any attempts to unvote will be unheeded. The exception to this rule is if the deadline is reached, and no majority has been achieved - see below *

[04] You may vote: no lynch. Majority votes of this kind are necessary to end the day without a death.

[05] Once your death scene has been posted, you’re dead. You can make a single “Bah!” post but no relevant information.

[06] No small text. Don’t edit/delete previously submitted posts either.

[07] Don’t quote any PMs from me. If you do, I will destroy you.

[08] If you have a night choice to make, it is due by the posted deadline. I will not wait for you. If you do not submit a choice to me, I’ll flip a coin or get creative, depending on how much I've had to drink.

[09] If you anticipate being unavailable for more than a 24-hour period, please post a notice to that effect in the thread. Treat this game as a commitment. Be considerate – don’t leave us hanging.

[10] If you have any questions at all, please PM me or post the question in the thread.

[11] Remember, it’s a game and it’s supposed to be fun. Be nice to your fellow players.

 

*"What happens if the deadline is reached, and there is no 'majority'?" This is most likely to happen if either (1) some people are inactive, or don't vote or (2) the spread of votes is evenly distributed. In scenario 1, all those unvoting members at the deadline become "abstaining" and lose their vote that round, and in the case of (2) whoever has the oldest vote of lynch gets it. Believe it or not, this is to HELP the townies, trust me.

 

Vote for a player to be lynched by posting and using the NIFTY SPREADSHEET BELOW. The spreadsheet shows you (at any moment) how things stand, the posting is so historically people can look back and decide how evil or decent you are. Yes, we can also post votecounts, but the spreadsheet is the best way to make sure I don't miss something or screw up. If there are 2 players with the same amount of votes at deadline, then I will lynch the one who reached that number of votes first.

 

Finally....

THE NIFTY SPREADSHEET OF AWESOMENESS

 

The above link is to a spreadsheet which lists everyone still alive, and a column for each player. This is to save me the endless back and forth that I've seen here. Open the sheet, find the column at the top with your name, and then place an X in that column under who you want killed (list of candidates is on the left).

Okay, back to the story:

 

Scenario Part 2:

 

Every 15 years in the village of Mo'Merde a strange gathering of clouds and lightening occurs. Thunder rakes the sky, rain lashes down onto the houses, and it gets rather chilly. Predictably, the townspeople named it 'the fifteen year storm.' Travel advisories recommended people stay away during this time (although the town never really had much of a tourist industry anyway) and as the 15 year anniversary approaches only one traveler is staying at the inn.

 

Through a sequence of random events, this traveler is invited (along with a drinking companion) to come stay at the Kennedy residence - a foreboding structure which looms over the town and is named.... Castle Volant (did you guess?). Maurice Kennedy's house is known for many things, and now as the storm gathers it is not only inhabited by his children and these two guests, but also by those retained by the Kennedy family. Nine people in all, including the lord of the dance manor.

 

But as the house servant arrives at the castle and immediately begins to draw up the castle's bridge, a scream echoes throughout the manor. All rush to the source of the noise and see the tragedy: Maurice Kennedy, benefactor and town leader, has been stabbed through the heart. Was this suicide? Possibly - his hands are bloody and wrapped around the letter opener (bearing his initials) - but were those hands pulling the opener in, or pushing it away?

 

Shocked, all wander away and return to their designated rooms. Kennedy's personal footman quietly shuts the door of the library (where the body was found) and locks it. He will deal with the situation when he has absorbed the death (and its ramifications) later. For now, dead is dead - and nothing else can be done to save Maurice.

 

Later, as the cook serves up dinner, our traveler from the beginning of the story timidly announces he discovered a book among his belongings while changing for dinner. On opening the parcel, he finds the book is about horrific demon-lovers called the Vampy Fanclub. Apparently, while this book is of ancient origin, someone had taken the time to annotate the pages in loopy script the children of Maurice admit to being their father's handwriting. On the first page, that same hand scrawled 'Please read this, I will come find you later - we have much to discuss. Something is going on here, and you may be the key.' Leafing through the pages, the traveler noticed "death by the victim's item" to be listed as the Vampy Fanclub's opening salvo when taking on a township. Could this mean the letter opener, with MK carefully polished into the wood, was a murder weapon?

 

Over the dinner table, all eyes meet each other. As no-one left the castle, this is now a locked room inquiry, and the footman vows he will not let anyone leave until his master's murder is solved.... or everyone is dead.

 

CHARACTER LIST aka Cheat Sheet:

1/ Falzis - Stephen Fry

Comedian, author, star. Dead.

 

2/ CanucksDynasty - Jan Hiroshima

Caregiver to Léone, born and raised locally.

 

3/ ScoutX - Albereé une Balle de Brass

Former personal footman of Maurice Kennedy, born and raised locally.

 

4/ Aquinas - Giséle Kennedy

Daughter of the dead Lord of the Manor, younger sister to Léone.

 

5/ Narsis - Hereé Coq

House servant of the Castle Volant, born and raised locally.

 

6/ AKCPLUTO - Léone Kennedy

Son of the dead Lord, older brother of Giséle.

 

7/ junkahoolik - Dorian Gray

Young wanderer, student of the world. Invited with Fry to come stay at the castle.

 

8/ KevinH - Elena le Pickle

House cook of the Castle Volant, born and raised locally.

 

DAY 1 COMMENCES

If we don't have a majority vote (which starts the lynch), deadline is MIDNIGHT MONDAY 2/15 your time.

 

 

YOU SHOULD ALL SHORTLY HAVE PMs SITTING IN YOUR INBOX WITH CHARACTERS. LET ME KNOW IF THERE ARE ANY SNAGS.

Edited February 16, 201016 yr by Bastille Hades

Vote: Falzis

 

Not sure why you want to be following KevinH.

Sounds like you want to be buddy buddy to a townie.

 

Not really. I agree with his post about false dichotomies.

ok tell me when in the past has Kevin been a townie were he has straight up said i will not no lynch without first going no lynch?

 

yes i agree that maybe he changed his gameplay style(and man i would so love it if he did). why do you think i didnt vote him? i just find it very odd that he is straight up going for a lynch without the whole no lynch stance.

 

on a side note it is somewhat refreshing to more or less completely skip the RVS.

Narsis does have a point. i mean, if kevin did 2-3-4 posts before conceding to a lynch vote it would be something. but he did it after the first vote. to me it looks like he was just searching for a reason to lynch and he jumped on it fairly quickly. however, why did pluto bandwaggon after falzis's vote??

Well, EM also in another game immediately said he will be changing his style and he drew fire for it and he was proven town. I'm open to people changing gameplays immediately. It's not as if KevinH hasn't had a lot of games before to think it over and not push through with his no lynch crusade.

 

Though I do concede that the possibilities you raise Narsis are possible (he's cop or mafia), I just don't like how you presented it as the only possibilities.

Let me correct myself.

 

If a no-lynch band-wagon gets started, I will happily join it.

 

However, playing with the same players as in most of the previous games, I feel the chance of a no-lynch is almost nil.

 

An analysis would be interesting to see if those that most vocally oppose the no-lynch ultimately are proven scum.

 

 

since in all games i've played, kevin gets wagoned for the no-lynch stance he takes, i'm going pre-emptive on his arse since it seems the trend

 

i mean, if kevin did 2-3-4 posts before conceding to a lynch vote it would be something. but he did it after the first vote. to me it looks like he was just searching for a reason to lynch and he jumped on it fairly quickly.

 

Let me summarize:

• junkahoolik wants to pre-emptively prevent me from arguing for a no-lynch
• junkahoolik thinks I should have posted 2-3-4 times before abandoning the no-lynch strategy

 

I find this suspicious.

 

 

Narsis does have a point. i mean, if kevin did 2-3-4 posts before conceding to a lynch vote it would be something. but he did it after the first vote. to me it looks like he was just searching for a reason to lynch and he jumped on it fairly quickly. however, why did pluto bandwaggon after falzis's vote??

 

(@ Narsis, we were sorta discussing this today)...Junk, well, I am aware of the pusedo-gaming entires in MafiaScum's wiki (Main Page - MafiaWiki), but the bandwagon vote is cuz like a) I do not know better...I just picked the same guy for no reason at all I trust Falzis c) This is my way of tipping my cap for that game that just finished. Yeah, I'm not sure about the ethics here, but I take it that "reasons" b-c with regard to that other game are frowned upon? Am I going to get banned for it?

 

Either way, rest assured that I am a townie. After all, why would I lie?

Ugh, because you could be scum?

Let me summarize:

• junkahoolik wants to pre-emptively prevent me from arguing for a no-lynch
• junkahoolik thinks I should have posted 2-3-4 times before abandoning the no-lynch strategy

 

I find this suspicious.

 

your first point is off. i went ahead of the whole rvs after which everyone argues about your no-lynch strategy and voted for you. so i just pre-emptively voted for you. i can't prevent you pre-emotively for arguing for anything really. and yes, i think you dropped your normal no-lynch stance far too quickly this game.

Well, EM also in another game immediately said he will be changing his style and he drew fire for it and he was proven town. I'm open to people changing gameplays immediately. It's not as if KevinH hasn't had a lot of games before to think it over and not push through with his no lynch crusade.

 

Though I do concede that the possibilities you raise Narsis are possible (he's cop or mafia), I just don't like how you presented it as the only possibilities.

 

not quite. EM said so before the game even started. and he got lynched because of the fact that he was spotted by the oracle of that game (SJ i think) while doing the NK, not because he got heat from altering his usual game play style (there was a bit of that but it was minimal really, and it was noted mostly because he pointed it out before imo).

Ugh, because you could be scum?

 

true that. i mean, scum wouldn't say they are scum now, would they?? however, i think ack is townie for now. not sure for Falzis though...

am i ahead of everyone else in posts now mommy??

Well today is deadline day.

So it's time to make your vote/voice be heard.

 

I'm keeping my vote on Falzis.

Unofficial Vote Count...

 

SinKon (1) - ScoutX

KevinH (1) - junkahoolik

Narsis (2) - Falzis, AKCPLUTO

Falzis (1) - CanucksDynasty

Aquinas (1) - KevinH

 

Not Voting (2) - Narsis, Aquinas

 

@anyone - can someone update the google spreadsheet? My firewall is preventing me from using it.

 

@ScoutX - you might want to change your vote since it seems the MOD has decided your vote for SinKon was not in jest.

Unofficial Vote Count...

 

SinKon (1) - ScoutX

KevinH (1) - junkahoolik

Narsis (2) - Falzis, AKCPLUTO

Falzis (1) - CanucksDynasty

Aquinas (1) - KevinH

 

Not Voting (2) - Narsis, Aquinas

 

@anyone - can someone update the google spreadsheet? My firewall is preventing me from using it.

 

@ScoutX - you might want to change your vote since it seems the MOD has decided your vote for SinKon was not in jest.

 

guess i can do it. i'll first go ahead and

 

unvote

 

first because there is the possibility that Kev is the cop, not just scum.

note: i used CDs unofficial vote count. blame him if your vote is off... (i also didn't touch ScoutX's vote)

This game needs more activity!!

note: i used CDs unofficial vote count. blame him if your vote is off... (i also didn't touch ScoutX's vote)

 

 

There's only 3 pages to look at...so it wasn't that hard to keep count

 

 

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Unofficial Vote Count...

 

SinKon (1) - ScoutX

Narsis (2) - Falzis, AKCPLUTO

Falzis (1) - CanucksDynasty

Aquinas (1) - KevinH

 

Not Voting (3) - Narsis, Aquinas, junkahoolik

**************

 

 

 

 

 

 

@Narsis - looks like your neck is in the noose for the deadline lynch.

Any last words?

Day 1 is always a bit random.

 

It's tough to make meaningful analysis when there is nothing really to analyze.

 

I'll state the obvious.

If Narsis is scum, Falzis and AKCPLUTO are probably townie.

 

If Narsis is townie, Falzis and AKCPLUTO have a better chance to be scum than the rest of us.

 

 

Day 1 is always a bit random.

 

It's tough to make meaningful analysis when there is nothing really to analyze.

 

I'll state the obvious.

If Narsis is scum, Falzis and AKCPLUTO are probably townie.

 

If Narsis is townie, Falzis and AKCPLUTO have a better chance to be scum than the rest of us.

 

 

Now where did I put my Captain Obvious pic?

vote Falzis

 

something bugs me about him... he made me look up dichotomy in the dictionary so... anyway, i don't see where narsis said adamantly that Kevin is either scum or cop but he can't be townie.

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Unofficial Vote Count...

 

Narsis (2) - Falzis, AKCPLUTO

Falzis (2) - CanucksDynasty, junkahoolik

SinKon (1) - ScoutX

Aquinas (1) - KevinH

 

Not Voting (3) - Narsis, Aquinas

**************

 

Interesting.

 

One would think that Narsis would be voting for Falzis to save his own skin.

 

ScoutX, Aquinas, and I also now have the ability to switch votes and influence the lynch.

 

However, I think both Narsis and Falzis equally have a 2/7 chance of being scum. My vote stays on Aquinas for inactivity.

 

Kevin, Narsis and I only have a 1/7 chance of being scum individually. Together, it's misleading to say we have 2/7 chance of being scum.

 

It's like saying if all of us had one vote placed upon each one of us, then we have a 7/7 chance of being scum (which is 100% and quite impossible)!

sorry. with the Olympics in town i've been away.

 

Vote: Falzis

 

yeah i know save my own skin blah blah blah. i would much much rather vote Kevin...but it is a vote that would go unheeded i'm afraid.