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Mafia 4: Space Station Whisky - The Game

 
  

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lolita nation
13:59 / 05.05.03
I'm not bluffing, and I did give a reason: Patrick MM was too quiet and uncommunicative. Besides, he was Mafia, so I wouldn't have targeted him if I were mafia myself.

If I ever get out of this pressurized kennel, there's one passenger whose leg is not getting humped, and his name starts with Q-A-L-Y-N. Arf! Get your facts straight.

Otherwise, my poor dog brain is floundering for lack of information. In the last game, we were told when a hit was foiled and against whom. I can't even remember what characters are/might be left. Anyone? Can I have the general status of the station?
 
 
gravitybitch
14:36 / 05.05.03
2 MAFIA
2 Masons
1 FINK
1 Ninja
1 Governor
1 Bulletproof
1 Detective
1 Doctor
1 Vampire (may be turned to MAFIA)
1 Changed: likely bulletproof or vampire (or possibly anything except Doctor or Mafia)
 
 
Whisky Priestess
14:46 / 05.05.03
In answer to various people's questions, no, you would not be informed if the reason for no victim last night was that the Doc had successfully foiled a MAFIA attack. This is because I have to leave some ambiguity about non-killings because to tell who was targeted and protected would be giving too much information away to the innocents and MAFIA both too early in the game - and would probably make the innocent targetee even more of a MAFIA target next time. If that makes sense.
 
 
gravitybitch
14:55 / 05.05.03
'szaBelele, originally quite hopeful, has yet another disturbing thought.

"Unfortunately, I'm not sure that I, Lolita, and the able-bodied Qal Yn are completely cleared. I would ask the detective to ask about us, and for the populace to hold off on lynching us... I don't think we can ever assume the MAFIA are stupid. They may well have followed the same trail of thought as Qal Yn, and attempted to hit one of us in the night. Which means that one of us might be the vampire, now MAFIA..."

She pokes at the suspicious "breakfast" and then continues.

"We each can proclaim our innocence... but I can't think of any simple way to resolve this in one step, as we have only one detective."
 
 
8===>Q: alyn
16:29 / 05.05.03
"What are you talking about, Lolita Nationovna? Have... have you been reading my journal?!? Great Scott! I guess I shouldn't expect a dog to have any respect for privacy. But, please, those were only speculations. I don't have a clue."
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
16:39 / 05.05.03
Attempting to suggest that someone who helped seal the dead Mafioso's fate, might not be innocent, Qal Yn? You're either not thinking this through very well, or evil yourself. I know which one I'd go for.
 
 
Whisky Priestess
19:09 / 05.05.03
The Captain Priestess clears her throat and attempts to organise her thoughts. Both actions take rather longer than expected.

"Allow me to clarify why I have not revealed the identity of last night's victim to an information-hungry populace.

Let us say the MAFIA targeted X.

If everybody knows who X is,
a) they will know that probably, X is innocent (unless they are a turned Vampire)
b) the Detective will ask about X that night and if X was a Vampire (now MAFIA) they will be lynched next round. Too easy.

If the Doctor protected X, ze will know for sure that X is not MAFIA. In that case, the Changeling will become like X – and therefore know X's secret identity. If, for example, X was a Detective the Changeling would know that because ze had become a Detective too, and could start working with the other Detective. Same goes for Ninjas, or even Finks. Too much knowledge = too much power for one side or the other. So far the balance is still pretty even, with one Detective and one Mafioso dead, & I don’t want to be accused of bias.

I'm also following the Princeton rules on this, which state that in games with a Bulletproof and/or Vampire, if an assassination fails the Mayor (Captain) should simply state that "no-one died in the night".

So, sorry for the cloak-and-dagger act, but it's the law. And I AM THE LAW!"
 
 
Whisky Priestess
19:14 / 05.05.03
Qal Yn:
Captain Whisky: "Well done, Governor! You have made the right choice and saved an innocent from a hideous death." Does she reveal herself? It's unlikely at this stage that more than one MAFIA would get caught in an essentially random group of four,

Allow me to remind you that with 3 MAFIA aboard, they could all be present in a group of four (although statistically it isn't likely), but at least one of the group has to be innocent. The Governor saved the life of that at-least-one-innocent by choosing Patrick MM to die over hir. Hence my comment. But I'm afraid none of the rest of you are off the hook.
 
 
gravitybitch
21:37 / 05.05.03
Well, I'm distinctly uncomfortable with the voting pattern. I hadn't intended to give the impression that I was a detective (I'm not!), but it definitely appears that a number of people thought so... and I find it very suspicious that two folks who are running on something close to Barbelith Mean Time waited until after I voted (I'm 8 or 9 hours behind) to cast their votes against me. It smells of MAFIA plotting against a presumed detective...
 
 
8===>Q: alyn
01:06 / 06.05.03
I said it's possible, Flyboy. I also said it's likely she's innocent. But like the Captain sez...
 
 
Nietzsch E. Coyote
02:59 / 06.05.03
but it's the law. And I AM THE LAW!

"She's gone mad with power, like that albert shwitzer guy"
 
 
Rev. Orr
03:17 / 06.05.03
but it's the law. And I AM THE LAW!

Great, just great. Things start to go to hell on the station and our great and glorious leader turns into Buffy. We're all doomed.
 
 
8===>Q: alyn
03:18 / 06.05.03
but it's the law. And I AM THE LAW!

Thank you, Judge Whisky.
 
 
bjacques
04:22 / 06.05.03
no, I'm doing a drunkard's walk around Barbelith Mean Time. I've been posting around the clock and it was only by accident I was available to vote then. I had time to fling an irresponsible accusation and go to sleep...
 
 
bjacques
04:30 / 06.05.03
Like now. Honestly it was random; I--er, we--wanted to pick somebody who hadn't been accused yet. ZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzz
 
 
lolita nation
05:00 / 06.05.03
Great, just great. Things start to go to hell on the station and our great and glorious leader turns into Buffy. We're all doomed.

This is for when I host high-school mafia, remember?
 
 
Rev. Orr
13:17 / 06.05.03
Johnny Orr awakes with a start, a cough and an ball of black phlegm lurching from his lungs.

Gotta lay off the stims for a while - coming down's a cast-iron bitch. My sleep pattern's shot, I can't play cards for shit and who knows what crazy-ass crap I've been spouting as the drugs worked their way outta my system. Who's this Buffy chick? Shit, what the hell did I do last night? Skip that, who the hell'd I do last night?

Logging into the station intranet he discovers that the night passed peacefully with no brawls, fatalities or mafia disturbance.

Ah, just another night in with Rosie then. Right, kick start the system with coffee and then down to the docking bay. Maybe a few hours tinkering with the old girl will help clear my head and help me figure out how to get off this hunk of crap in one piece.
 
 
Whisky Priestess
22:03 / 06.05.03
"Have you all gone soft? Where are the conspiracy theories? Where are the accusations? Whatever happened to blind, mindless bloodlust?Eh?

In my day, this were all fields ... etc..."
 
 
Rev. Orr
23:47 / 06.05.03
I think one or two people are regretting their earlier openness and are re-considering their position in light of the new evidence. As there's precious little of that I hope usual service will resume soon. Failing that, if nothing's moving by tomorrow night I'll start the lynch ball rolling. Meanwhile I'm elbow deep in an oxygen reclaimation unit and I seem to have lost a couple of washers somewhere. Anybody got a type four jointing valve they want to barter?
 
 
Baz Auckland
14:44 / 07.05.03
"The silence of Bazza and Cheng Ch'eng-kung can be attributed to the Do Not Disturb sign on their cabin door. The squelches and groans coming from within are far more effective than the sign....

....this humble narrator shudders at the thought..."
 
 
gravitybitch
16:07 / 07.05.03
Whatever happened to blind, mindless bloodlust?

"I'm sure that the lynching frenzy will start up as soon as the first accusations get made. But I think that fear of vampire(s) is making people hesitant..."
 
 
Ethan Hawke
16:46 / 07.05.03
As T.O.D.D. cruises through the WTF lounge, looking for business, crew members salute it:

"Hey, T.O.D.D.? Get a shine or something?"

A deeper, more sonorous chip voice answers:

"No, but thank you for asking."

"Ooh, T.O.D.D., you sound so sexy! Did you get a chip upgrade?"

"No."



Later.

"Wow, T.O.D.D., that was incredible! Did you finally get serviced?"

"No. Nothing happened to me. I just feel different today."
 
 
8===>Q: alyn
03:10 / 08.05.03
Let's get to lynching, people! I nominate rat.
 
 
lolita nation
04:24 / 08.05.03
Gosh, I'm all tossed up about this.

Oh no wait.

Qalyn
Qalyn
Qalyn
Qalyn.

Are we clear?
 
 
Baz Auckland
05:57 / 08.05.03
Boooooorrrrooooaaakkkiiippp!

"His majesty seconds Qal Yn. Only because his majesty voted for him the first time around.... and he seems oddly annoying. Lynch him!"
 
 
8===>Q: alyn
11:10 / 08.05.03
That's funny. I was just thinking that our odds of catching MAFIA would improve if we got a few innocents out of the way. Better me than one of you, I guess. Go right ahead.
 
 
Tezcatlipoca
15:53 / 08.05.03


The bar is shrouded in gloom. His Grace, the Very Reverend SquizBizk, lies contemplatively in prayer, his head resting in a puddle of beer, his mandibles clicking in drowsy contentment.
His companion, Yurf, sucks at a cigarette, inhaling almost the entire length before releasing a continuous grey stream of smoke out of the tentacle which protrudes from the rear of his head.
Suddenly the device next to them leaps into a frenzy of flashes. Yurf frowns, then prods his neighbour.

"Knnnyle?"
"Ere. It's doin summat..."
"Tyyykxxxpt! Pllkylyl?"
"Yeah, more of dat morose code." He squints hard at the flashing light, his jaw set, his three brains lurching into sudden animation as they decipher the series of flashes. "I A.C.C.U.S.E-"
"Priillliiitxys!!!"
"Be quiet. It ain't accusing you. It looks like it's got it in for some poor soul called Qal Yn. Hmmm..."
"Ftry?"
He nods sagely. "Yeah. It is a bit odd, ain't it. Hey! Barman! Wat da hell is dis thing?"
 
 
Whisky Priestess
16:33 / 08.05.03
The Captain muses silently that those who have so far accused the luckless Qalyn will look pretty poor if he turns out to be innocent ...
 
 
Eloi Tsabaoth
16:52 / 08.05.03
Bizunth bobs gently in a lukewarm vitamin bath, only kept afloat by a little inflatable pillow fixed round his shoulders. One of his heralds stands at the edge and coughs discreetly. Bizunth opens a rheumy eye with a sickening squelch.

"Yes, what is it?"
"Mighty evil one, it's time to vote."
"What, again? Haven't they caught the blasted things yet?"
"No, my lord. Will you be voting for John Flyboy again?"
"Who?"
"John... Never mind."
"That little cocktail chap, the gigolobot. He hasn't been round yet, has he?"
"No, my lord."
"No he hasn't , and I'll tell you why."
Bizunth is then silent for 20 minutes. Eventually the attendant leans forward and prods him.
"Sir..."
"...He's MAFIA! That's why. Have T.O.D.D. disemcircuitboarded at once!"
 
 
gravitybitch
17:36 / 08.05.03
"Chairman Maominstoat (and his ferrets of mass destruction, doo dah, doo dah) are suspicious to me. I don't trust bjacques either, but I can only vote for one lynchee.

"And I'm beginning to not trust lolita's fickle swings of opinion... First, Qal Yn is somebody to be despised. Then he's her new best friend. And then, he's the target of her so-vehement vote."

'szaBelele shakes her head in confusion, completely unsure of who to suspect. T.O.D.D's subtly altered demeanor is also confusing - aren't vampires supposed to be sexy and sonorous, as well as decadent and bored??
 
 
gravitybitch
17:57 / 08.05.03
Few seem to be paying heed to 'szaBelele's request not to lynch herself, Qal Yn, or lolita this evening, and she wonders if that's an indication of a conspiracy of murderers or just short attention spans.

'szaBelelle starts to stand up, thinking to go talk to the pilot Jonny Orr to drum up support for her point of view, then realizes she's a little woozy. Her confusion is combining with the variations in psuedogravity to give her vertigo.


Time to go to my quarters instead of talking to people, she thinks... but there's something she has to do before she leaves. She has to make a decision...

"I accuse bjacques of being MAFIA - blue and tentacled and prone to making revealing slips of the tongues - 100% MAFIA indeed!"
 
 
8===>Q: alyn
19:02 / 08.05.03
The Captain muses silently that those who have so far accused the luckless Qalyn will look pretty poor if he turns out to be innocent ...

She's just mad that she's going to have to sluice out her own nugatron separators after I'm gone.
 
 
lolita nation
19:36 / 08.05.03
And I'm beginning to not trust lolita's fickle swings of opinion... First, Qal Yn is somebody to be despised. Then he's her new best friend. And then, he's the target of her so-vehement vote."

When was Qalyn my best friend?

This ship needs a goddamn fact-checking robot.

And Whisky what was that hint all about? Are you taking sides, and if so, is it ours?
 
 
Baz Auckland
19:43 / 08.05.03
She's on the side that's got butter, she is...
 
 
Rev. Orr
20:53 / 08.05.03
Floating across the docking bay comes an intermittant banging and hammering, occasional sounds of venting coolant fluid and a steady stream of sulphurous oaths wandering through the languages of most of the known systems and a disturbing number of dead civilisations. From the twitching of the feet visible at the base of his ship's maintanence acces hatch it would appear that Johnny Orrs repairs are not progressing to plan.

"What the frell is wrong with you today, baby? You're not scared about the impending blood bath tonight are you? 'Cause I'm pretty sure that you're safe what with being a ship and all. Seems you're not the only one feeling the stress around here, though. Todd is rolling around like a new droid which is suspicious enough in itself. Which is more likely do you think, old girl, that the doctor and the mafia picked the same person making him the changeling, or that they struck lucky and he's a vampire? Mind you, as for 'szaBelele's request not to be lynched, I can see how that was never gonna be adopted by everyone. I never thought of the 'asking nicely' defence before, but it might have worked. On the other hand, he/she/it's hardly done much to warrant that much suspicion. Lolita seems very sure of herself, but then when the target is Qal Yn who cares if he's mafia, those tights are just disturbing on a man who spends his life in the filthy recesses of the station.

I'm going to have to go for T.o.d.d. this time though. If he has swapped roles in the night, then, statistically, he's more likely to be bad than good so he's a better bet than anyone else at this stage."

With that, Orr, slowly emerges and goes to register his vote at the nearest info station.
 
  

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