07 - Christmas in July Mafia - Day/Night #2

[Durro]

Everyone voted, so there's no penalties for tomorrow.



Any player with a specific posting condition as a present can now post normally. No prizes for guessing who I might be referring to...

[Xeno]

To all those townies who helped with this even though not voting directly for wolty, thank you for your efforts which under the circumstances you will understand I place at Protium's footstool, below his dapperly shod feet. I would like to co-ordinate investigations on our top list and will be in touch.

[Blip]

I'm in PM contact with a player who had an investigative power last night. As my current gift isn't valuable, I've agreed to post the results of the investigation on behalf of that player.

Mjt is guilty.

[Annie]

Originally Posted by Xeno

Rest easy, lover boy. I will whisper something before lights out.

Will someone just kill them both. I'll pay 500 shekels!

[Mjt]

Originally Posted by Blip

I'm in PM contact with a player who had an investigative power last night. As my current gift isn't valuable, I've agreed to post the results of the investigation on behalf of that player.

Mjt is guilty.

Blip that's not very nice, telling fibs. Is it cos I voted for you?

[Xeno]

Originally Posted by Durro

Any player with a specific posting condition as a present can now post normally. No prizes for guessing who I might be referring to...

Ah, there was I so devoted I missed this until someone pointed it out to me in PM.

Apparently, they were out of buckets.


By the way, I can say that the news passed on by Blip is consistent with my own analysis of replies from Mjt. She was second on my list after wolty, but the woltyhider was more important and had more to hide. It is hard to say whether DBD is being obtuse or is hiding something. He is the only other person apart from borealis, who never saw my questions afaik, not to answer.

Now to sort out the others.

[Mjt]

Um don't remember saying that protes

[Darwinsbulldog]

Aw geez, I missed the damn night banana-land time vote again.

[Xeno]

Originally Posted by Darwinsbulldog

Aw geez, I missed the damn night banana-land time vote again.

No, you voted early but not often.

[Xeno]

Good morning people. I am looking forward to a break after the scum kill me last night. Yesterday I was on the computer from about 3.00 to 10.00, completely filled my mailbox from empty and had to clear it for more before the evening was out.

Here is a list of where I think things stand on each player, and what ought to be happening overnight. Not only to I hope to get some people cleared or found guilty, but also to give you the chance to cross-check information from those supposed to be taking actions.

On gifts, borealis, DBD and wolty were the three who did not reply. We know borealis held immunity and was innocent. I was able to work out that wolty held the gun and was scum so he had to go, and happily he proved to be the Don so no-one is immune from investigation.

DBD told me he held "coal" but from the list I think he held some form of protection device, the one held by wolty the night before. Everyone else replied in a consistent fashion and I know what every gift is. That information has been given to two other people, loubert and Protium, and today they will go through the same routine of demanding gift name and number. Town will co-operate, scum will to the extent they can risk it, and we should learn more. There is a day investigation power, which found me as the SK and found Mjt yesterday. I hope that falls into town hands again, if it is available.

People, in alphabetical order:

• Annie - Voted for Praxis then Rhys, neither suspicious nor clearing. Was open to me about her power yesterday and has agreed to investigate DBD. She is also being investigated tonight, as a cross-check. Annie claimed to Praxis that she would appear as scum if investigated. Why did you say that, Annie, given it is most improbable?
  
• Blip - Voted for Praxis (between LBA and Annie) following me, then Annie, of whom she said she was suspicious, then wolty following me. She was not in the bus position on wolty but rather tipped him over the line at that point. Others would have done so had I requested it. I was highly suspicious of her yesterday but I believe her outing of Mjt (she did the investigation, you need to know that) is correct. I had to encourage her to investigate Mjt rather than Annie or Volts.
  
• DBD - either playing truculently or using it as cover for scum. He held a tracker power on night one but did not use it. On night 2 he told me he held coal but never told me the number. I believe in fact it was some protective device, possibly explosive, which was held the night before by wolty. Voted only once, on day 2 for Protium early. Nothing to be read from that. I am having him investigated by Annie.
  
• loubert - Voted Witti day 1 and Blip day 2 with my suggestion. He was ready to jump to wolty if needed, but that of course is untested. Despite that, all behaviours have been consistent with town and I place him as one of the two most trusted.
  
• Mjt - Voted Threat day 1 for no good reason (although few people have good reasons on day 1) and for Blip on day 2 at my direct suggestion. At the time, I though Blip also to be scum and was entertaining myself about the scum writeboard having Blip investigating Mjt while Mjt voted for Blip. The fact that Mjt did vote for Blip, third, putting Blip at risk for no great reason, is one of the reasons I now class Blip as most likely town. Mjt's replies to me pinged so Protium wrote to her and got a cute "writeboard/whiteboard" dodge. All PMs were far too much the noob using noobishness as cover. Mjt is too smart a lady to take that long to work things out, if town. Lynch her. In the hugely improbable event she is innocent, lynch Blip. I doubt that will arise.
  
• Protium - It is easy to be suspicious of Protium but his actions have consistently been town. The biggest mark I have had against him has been that he was last to vote against Praxis on Day 1, but then, I encouraged him to do it with my own accusations of her. He cured me and was voting early for wolty about whom he always held suspicions. Killing his own Don so readily? I do not think so, making Protium town or deadly. I have asked him to investigate Annie but he has failed to tell me that he has undertaken that. Demand to know.
  
• Rhys - Voted for loubert on day 1. On day 2, voted Annie then hopped on the bus position on wolty. He investigated and outed me as the SK (note he correclty said "guilty", not "scum" at the time. It is in scum's interests to remove the SK, so that does not clear him. He holds the block power and has agreed to block Mjt. If any other person is blocked, Rhys and the person claiming to be blocked are suss. Always trying to get me on to Annie or Volts. I think Rhys is scum and hope to know it today.
  
• Voltairine - Voted Protium on day 1, understandably, and Blip at my request on day 2, to place Blip in an exposed position should Protium and I choose to switch. On the first night she held the gun and said she did not use it because on the first night you are more likely to kill a townie. In fact, I blocked her that night anyway so unfortunately I can not confirm her story. If I had not blocked her then I would know she was telling the truth . I rate Voltairine town. Suspicious people cast aspersions on her but I chose not to investigate her last night. Her further behaviour will be revealing, I trust.
  
• Witticism - Unavailable, genuinely, day 1 and proxied me promptly on day 2. Agreed to investigate whom I asked without demur. It is only the relative lack of total communication that has me not quite rating Witti with Protium and loubert. In fact, treat those three as the most trustworthy and you will be guaranteed two out of three in the unlikely event it is not three. One technique I use from time to time is to blind carbon another trusted person on occasional PMs, and Witti was one of those backups, loubert the other.

So here are the actions again.
Protium investigates Annie who investigates DBD.
Witticism tracks Rhys who blocks Mjt (latter will have no effect. the question is, will he be seen to do as he says?)

Everybody complies with the requests by Protium and loubert for gift number and name. They each have their own copy of my full gift list, and can track what is happening.

Have fun peeps.

Your ever helpful and shortly dead ex-crazy elf.

Hey Volts, was that my town game?