05 Sherlock Holmes Mafia Day 3

[Bolero]

This morning, the fog is thick and impenetrable. Who is that lying spreadeagled awkwardly in the middle of Trafalgar Square, blood pooling from a single rifle shot wound to the head?







Can it be the (not so) long arm of the law...??



Lord Blackadder was Detective Inspector Lestrade, a sympathetic, if somewhat incompetent, police associate of the great Holmes. He had a one-shot Day Investigation, and had started to become a rallying point for town...








But what's all this, then?


There is a scream from a nearby alleyway, and the group turns, holding their breath, to find another body - that of a sexy and mysterious woman - lying glass-eyed in a gutter, having been strangled to death...







Davo was Irene Adler, and Holmes should have heeded the old adage about a woman scorned. Irene has been using her feminine wiles to seduce and confuse the citizens of London, acting as scum roleblocker for Moriarty.





Living to fight another day
Wolty
Xeno
Threat
Voltairine
Rhys
Crocodile
Logic please


Bad luck, chaps
simonecuttlefish
Durro
loubert
Lord Blackadder
davo



You must vote to lynch one of your number before 9pm.

[wolty]

Fuckit and good.

Drained.

[Lord Blackadder]

*gargle gurgle* Cop killers! *gurgle*

<slump>


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[Threat]

Ahhh.. Detective Insepctor... Lestrange? Lestrade. Now he was a man who was... a detective inspector. Knew how to wear a hat.

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[Threat]

Originally Posted by Threat

Ahhh.. Detective Insepctor... Lestrange? Lestrade. Now he was a man who was... a detective inspector. Knew how to wear a hat.

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Sorry, bolding

[Sir Patrick Crocodile]

Woah. If Lord Blackadder hadn't over-compensated in "good guy" style, she may still be around.

[Xeno]

I have this remarkable feeling about being slightly frustrated by something I wanted . Based on accepting LBA's position I had mentally drafted a proposal that we vote equally for davo and LP, to see if a third scum tried to save one just in case there was an innocent. No such information will be obtained now but at least someone has kept the numbers where they need to be, a good working majority for town. Best of all, LBA's analysis is confirmed over my lingering doubts of yesterday.

[Xeno]

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[Logic please]

Sorry people, but clues are being missed by some, including:

Originally Posted by Bolero

The angry mob advances on a lone and frightened-looking loubert, still crying out for her husband.

Pitilessly, they surround the hapless lady, and bludgeon her to death without so much as a second glance at the figure of davo disappearing by the skin of his teeth into the night. (my emphasis)

In retrospect, this was a definite clue. Davo, being scum, had indeed escaped by the skin of his teeth.
Reading Bolero's eulogy for the detective:

...a sympathetic, if somewhat incompetent, police associate of the great Holmes...

Why "somewhat incompetent"? It makes sense only if LBA was suspecting the wrong person.

Well, LBA wasn't wrong about davo, but is wrong about me.

And I suggest looking at davo's voting behaviour yesterday... staying under the radar until the very last, no late voting switches but little outward involvement and analysis for scum-hunting. Just claimed to "vote along with the crowd" about loubert. I, on the other hand, have been reasonably active in looking for scum.

Getting the scum roleblocker was great, but we lost 2 good townies in the process. Can't keep doing that. The good thing is that we still have Holmes and a town vigilante (who got the scum roleblocker).

[Sir Patrick Crocodile]

At least Irene is no longer around to confuse everybody. And given she was a roleblocker, it's good that she's gone.