Mafia 4: Space Station Whisky - The Game

15:58 / 04.06.03

there's kanji, hiragana, and katakana. I forget which is which. I know that Chinese writing has 214 determinatives which have semantic content & combine with thousands of other characters which are generally phonetic. I am guilty of having a linguistics degree and still being really ignorant about all this stuff.

Maybe Orr will explain it to us. Unless he's mafia!!!

16:05 / 04.06.03

He could be Japanese mafia. Quick, check to see if he has all his knuckles! The yakuza aren't very forgiving of blunderers...

16:17 / 04.06.03

And you know this because?

21:01 / 04.06.03

I have all my knuckles - they may be a little grazed from dragging on the ground, but they are all present. I am not intimately acquainted with Japanese printing and to honest couldn't have named hiragana and katakana without research. I thought that for popular print such as newspapers kanji were used but I can't remember where I got that from. I'm certainly no expert.

We seem to have a number of different approaches to this last round ouf voting. There's the 'let's prove that we're all mafia' approach, the 'talk off-topic gibberish because I'm confused and have nothing useful to add' strategem, the 'lurk and wait' ploy and faint attempt to engage with the nutters on a rational level. Is this getting us anywhere (other than passing the time in an enjoyable manner) and if not, given that most peoples minds are made up, should we not proceed to the vote early?

23:30 / 04.06.03

If you're going to be so nasty about my gibberish, why don't you vote first, Orr?

01:19 / 05.06.03

Er, that would be my gibberish and your 'engaging with the nutters'. Apologies for the confusion. My usual stand-by of gesturing wildly when talking doesn't translate well in this medium.

You know what I'm waiting for before I vote.

01:24 / 05.06.03

I tend to get a little nervous when it become apparant that somebody actually knows something about the subject upon which I am pontificating for no good reason. I think I may get a flash-card made up with the legend "actually that was just a throwaway line and you lost me three sentences back". Could come in handy.

02:32 / 05.06.03

Er, that would be my gibberish and your 'engaging with the nutters'.

Does that make the rest of us the nutters, then?

Hmph. I think I know where my vote is going...

08:00 / 05.06.03

Are you trying to find offence in my posts? I've been posting in the wee small hours when werry, werry tired so, for the purposes of clarity, here is the breakdown and then I'm taking my ball and going home:

'nutter', 'gibberish', 'confused', 'nothing useful to add' = me (and possibly Todd.

'you're all guilty - I'm the only innocent' =

...and I've just spotted who posted the last comment. I think we all know where your vote is going. Why not just make it official so the rest of us can concentrate on finding an actual mafioso? Maybe you could back it up with all that closely reasoned argument about how I'm shifty and suspicious because I'm not throwing accusations about with absolute certainty and have a tendancy this game to pick holes in peoples logic. Oh well, another bloody shift beckons...

12:09 / 05.06.03

I've pretty much given up at this point. No one seems to trust me anymore, and obviously my last gambit was a resounding failure, so... At least no one's accused me of being the Vampire yet.

13:58 / 05.06.03

Oooohhh. We're a mite testy, are we?

As for everybody knowing who I'm going to vote for... I haven't picked on Orr yet at all. I'd been gunning for Baz in the previous vote and have had suspicions about him from early on, especially when he showed no sorrow after the lynching of our ninja (may Qal Yn enjoy the company of those cheerleaders!). Everybody knows.... it's enough to make a girl feel down, even without cuing up Leonard Cohen. Maybe a second cup of coffee will help, although that may just feed my paranoia. If everybody knows what I'm going to do, then maybe there's a vast conspiracy and I am the only innocent?

Actually, you should feel flattered/reassured, if you really think I was out for your neck. With the exception of my vote last round, I've been quite mistaken in my choice of targets.

14:22 / 05.06.03

In the words of another dearly departed:

Frell it. I'm going to vote for Orr.
I want to get things moving, and I'm tired of the snipe and carp.

Oh take me to the slaughterhouse
I will wait there with the lamb

Stories of the street, Leonard Cohen

ephemerat

15:18 / 05.06.03

And on related Leonard Cohen lyrics:

I came upon a butcher,
he was slaughtering a lamb
- The Butcher, Leonard Cohen

No surprises here, I'm not changing my mind.

I accuse Todd.

15:46 / 05.06.03

And you want to travel with her
And you want to travel blind
And you know that you can trust her
For she's touched your perfect body with her mind...

Okay, I'm thinking of trusting isz, but I think we should all just admit that we all have no clue who is who... or maybe that's just me...

Whisky Priestess

23:11 / 05.06.03

Excellent start to another happy round of voting. Good work, those entities. Slightly less than 23 hours to go before our next victim is twitching and choking on the gibbet! Super.

What's that, sommelier? Oh, I think perhaps with my fava beans I'll have a nice Chinati.

23:18 / 05.06.03

Right. Iszabelle, I think you're 'it'.

...and may God have mercy on your soul.

23:35 / 05.06.03

Hmmm...this is rough..

wait, no it's not.

Orr.

23:37 / 05.06.03

'Look out Jazzers, it's the Jazz police..."

No alarms and no suprises I'll vote for Iszabelle. Does anyone need me to spell out why and would it make any difference to what people believe at this stage?

Whisky - would a nice poached carp go with that chianti or should I roast the snipe?

04:16 / 06.06.03

Okay, I'm thinking of trusting isz

Riiiight. Damn, I wish I could change my vote right now. I can see exactly how far your trust goes.

Whisky Priestess

08:25 / 06.06.03

Lol - time to beak the tie or create a three-way one, although you won't be getting any doggie treats if you give the Captain a headache.

Just to clarify, if there's a three-way tie I'll kill you all. No, only joking - I'll ask for any or all to change their vote (and you have to state if you're sticking with the original choice or changing so that we're not hanging around waiting for someone who doesn't comment) by midnight tonight (1am Barbetime) or if Lol's vote is near the deadline, midnight tomorrow night.

If there's still a three-way tie I'll roll a dice, probably: if there's a two-way I'll kill both candidates. Sound fair?

ephemerat

13:32 / 06.06.03

Fine.

But. You. Are. All. Insane.

Why iszabelle? Leave her alone.

Bastards.

14:45 / 06.06.03

Since I think I've assured my death at the hands of isz, given a vote change, I'm of the opinion that in the case of a 3-way tie, everyone should die...

..I'm getting WAY too paranoid for this to keep going on...

15:42 / 06.06.03

Crap. Tough decision!!

20:03 / 06.06.03

Fine, fine, fine.

I liked this game better when I was in the Mafia. Much easier! But anyway, sorry Orr honey, but je t'accuse. Now let's just get this over with!

00:20 / 07.06.03

If Orr's not MAFIA, you'll get your wish sooner rather than later!

Don't worry. He is.

Oh, great, now you express a doubt!

00:41 / 07.06.03

Cheng Ch'eng-Kung is up on stage with the karaoke machine singing the Ramones with the volume up to 11:

"I wanna liiiive, I want to live my life! I want to liiiive! I want to live my life!"

Don't lynch us. Go get Orr and Rat.

(Hey, I'm a fink, you're not supposed to trust me. Damn MAF. Nearly get me killed? I'll show you...)

03:07 / 07.06.03

Yeah, riiiiight. Again.

Baz, I think you're MAFIA - I think you're trying to set up Rat.

The FINK wants the MAFIA to win, has absolutely no reason to confess; so I don't think you're the fink.

Liar!!!!!

03:08 / 07.06.03

ooops... I meant:

Liar!!!!!!!!

03:37 / 07.06.03

Never go in with a Sicilian when Death is on the line!

05:09 / 07.06.03

The FINK wants the MAFIA to win, but when the death of the MAFIA seems to be set, and his own lynching secured, the FINK may also act like the sneak he is, and try any means necessary to save his life.

As Orr told me, the point of the game is survival, not loyalty.

05:31 / 07.06.03

I guess this is a Catch-22. At this point I would rather live, and have the MAFIA die, but my near-death confession has seems to have assured that I will die next week after all, and the MAFIA may very well win...but I won't be alive to enjoy it. (sigh).

(shrug). Ah well. Barkeep!