* Jack Daniels stands up, a little more steady, a little more sober.
"Right now the lot of us ain't doin' much but pissin' on krauts. *Hic.* I ain't one to trust nobody from outside Marbury, but I reckon that this ain't got nothin' to do with it. We got a buncha loudmouths bickerin' and blowin things out of proportion, a few of us that ain't contributed much a tall, self included, and a few folks who done sat back and kept quiet."
* Jack Daniels takes a swig of the hooch and wipes it from his beard.
"Now, which group's the most suspicious? On the one hand, whoever done the crime knows damn well to keep quiet and let others draw attention to themselves, avoidin' the axe tonight and maybe tomorrah since us good natured folk won't have much to put again'em 'cept their silence. With that in mind I think
Martin and
Nick-o-lai best start contributin' somethin'. We got a lot o' daylight left but the bottle's only gonna get emptier."
He moves over to
Chad and places his hand on the boy's shoulder. "This goes for you too, sonny. Yer pa was a good man and I know it's hard on ya, losin' him so soon after yer ma, but the best way to take care of this is to start helpin' with the investigation. Mopin' about never did no good for nobody," he says, not without a twinge of self aware irony.
"Pietro, you ain't said much since tellin' me to back off on Kyle. F'give me if this means I start associatin' the two of you as compadres until you speak up some."
"The only one I'm inclined to believe at this point is ol' Moses. His story's detailed and, I don't think enough of his imagination to make somethin' like that up. The contradiction's a small thing, and hell, I know enough that the memory confuses things. Now maybe that contradiction'll play a bigger role once we got more to go on, but right now I'll let it slide."
Another drink. "Don't think this means I trust yeh. I just ain't got enough to jump on yeh yet, and I ain't so drunk as to start another fight jes yet."
He belches, and stumbles, using Chad to hold himself upright. "Nah, on the other hand? Maybe the criminals know the game. Maybe they been through this so many times they dun picked up some tricks, tryin' to obfuscate folk's suspicions. Seems to me the Hellsnake just got caught up in it all, and the boys kickin' up dust the most ah slightly more suspicious. Three votes on a man ain't so close to a majoritah that we need to be makin' a mountain out of a molehill jus' yet."
"I ain't movin' my vote jus' yet, made in drunken instinct though it may be. Plenty of booze left afore last call, and I'm so suspicious of all y'all that my (joke)vote ain't no worse a choice than anythin' else."
OOC:
tl;dr: Lurkers, speak up. We've got plenty of time and just started, so maybe Imm and Shale just haven't had time to check in yet. Another day or two and I'll get more LAL on people, though. For the people posting content, I'm frankly more suspicious of the people jumping on multiple people voting for the same person than the people who did the voting. We're nowhere near hammer time yet. Not even half way there on votes. Sheesh.
Right now, Alex seems the most suspicious to me, though, since he posts without saying much and may likely be using his character's flavor to lay low.
As an aside, I would REALLY REALLY appreciate it if those who haven't made a separate account for this do so soon. It's rather hard to keep things organized for me when people are referring to Seamus while the username is Excal, etc. I know Snowfire said it was optional but given the flavor-heavy nature of this game, it will help a lot if I can just look at the SN and see whose post I'm reading instead of having to flip back to page 1 to see WTF Excal's character is.