Pretty Princess Mafia - Day 2 (Rat dies. ;_;)

[Carthrat]

Oh... oh dear. We've already had one dropout and replacement? Oh, wearing the same clothes, too! How... marvellous! Yes! And this one is a famous illusionist!

Luckily, true beauty will always trump a lie~

[Ranmilia]

I'm sure it will, dear.  You keep on believing that.  The rest of us know how to use makeup.  <3

[Carthrat]

Yes, you've certainly used far more of it than I ever would. I can smell the fumes with every word you speak~

[Dhyerwolf]

Princess BH's lobotomy had some scary effects.

[Kilgamayan]

Foxgirl, huh?

Breast Hair, just like I said.

[Taishyr]

You guys have about four more hours until polls close! Get your votes and recommendations in now! The race is a tight one thus far!

Also, will have *vote count up soon.

[Taishyr]

Recommendation Count!

BH [2]: Yakumo, QuietRain
Emma [1]: Ciato
Girl [2]: Meeplelard, Dhyerwolf
Zorro [2]: Nitori, Shale
Ara [2]: Carthrat, Kilgamayan
Sea [1]: Jo'ou Snowbu
Ann [1]: Tonfa
Di [1]: Ran/Alex

Plurality at the end of 48 hours, in addition to the votes in the audience poll, will determine the winner of the first round! Right now it's a tight race, so place your votes now!

[Taishyr]

Aaand day ends! Hammer stop talking not like any of you -were- or anything. >_>

[Taishyr]

"And the votes are tabulated, ladies and gentlemen! In first place, with the audience's support catapaulting her ahead of her opposition, the beautiful and legendary... Princess Zorro!"

The princess stepped onto stage lightly, rotating for the cameras, as Augustine gestured to her with a wide smile. "Illusionists, drop the veil!"

The audience gasped in awe as she stepped forward, the illusion on her face now shattered by the spellcasters as the royal symbols became clearer - three triangles forming a pyramid on the hems of her dress.

"Princess Zelda has won first place in the Pretty Princess Contest! Let's all give her another warm round of applause!"

Princess Zelda (Princess Zorro) has been Recommended First Place!

It is now night. I have all actions already. I will send out night one's results soon and open day 2.

[Taishyr]

As the princesses file into the hall today, Augustine closes the door behind them. There is no audience. Nothing but...security guards.

"Okay, ladies. We have a problem. Princess Zelda was found dead, killed in the night while the guards slept." Augustine says crossly. "Now, I don't know what you people intended to do with this. But she was a general outsider to our world, and such behavior... transcends rudeness. We do not plan on giving in and letting another person be chosen, thus possibly capitulating to the murderer's will. It will take a month or so to revive her, sadly, but it is time we have; the next contest is two months away.

"As such, we have stopped the contest."

Assorted cries of disappointment rise up at this note.

"If you want it back, ladies, you will have to find the killer amongst you all." Augustine eyes the group of ten warily. "Purge the evil from amongst yourselves, and you may have your contest back so second and third place may be decided. If you cannot do this, than I am afraid the show is over."

"Begin."

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##Vote: xxxx has been established!
##Recommend: xxxx has been banned!

Princess Zelda, first place winner, has been found dead!

With 10 alive, it is six to lynch. You have... ~60 hours so that it ends close to Saturday midnight EST in the states instead of at like noon.

[Shale]

Right. Apparently winning wasn't all it was cracked up to be.

[Kilgamayan]

Jeez, makes me glad no one recommended me. >_>

So what do we do now?

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Now, we get real day 1 horror going. Only without the jokes and one of our kin is already dead.

[QuietRain]

*blinks*

Well, that was unexpected.  Beauty contests are cut-throat, but killing your opponent?  That's taking things WAY too far.

[Luther Lansfeld]

;_; Damn. So scum get a kill before we get to lynch people?

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

From where I stand, it feels like Day 1 was essentially a crapshoot in that we could have sent a scummy out there if we got lucky and got rid of her. Didn't quite happen, sadly, but now we'll have to make up for it. At least, we only lost one presumed townie instead of two by the time Day 2 rolled, I guess.

[Luther Lansfeld]

Except we wasn't just we, it was the audience as well. Damn ye, Tai!

[Nitori]

##VOTE: Tonfa

Pink lettering, how cute~...such a perfect way to hide a murder plot while making yourself seem innocent and sweet~

[Dhyerwolf]

Well, that essentially functioned as a day 1! Except it gave us even less to go on, since we aren't getting alignment flips and all the votes among the board were so spread out.

[QuietRain]

Well, we're going to have a limited amount to go on for today due to the setup and starting the serious phase behind the first kill.  So, I'm just going to get started the only way I know how.  Nitori was the main movement behind getting Zorro nommed.  Albeit I don't know if she had any idea that would lead to her death.  It's the only real thing I have to go on, though, so

##Vote: Nitori

[Tonfa]

Oh...my.

Well then, time to get serious. We can't let those Princess Zorro recommenders off the hook!

##VOTE:Shale

[Ranmilia]

Oh.  Okay.  So day 1, we have to either let a scum win, or unknowingly sacrifice a townie for no gain.  That's... nice.  The question here is whether or not the scum knew they'd be allowed to kill the winner.  I'm betting they did.  Unfortunately with how the split went, I don't know if it's possible to say they actually recommended Zorro.  They could just as easily have let it go at 2 votes and thrown their weight as a block in the anonymous poll, since they apparently don't really care *who* got recommended.  As I am surprised that Tonfa and QR would not have thought of this, my vote goes to one of them, eeny meeny miney the more glib one first.

##Vote: Tonfa

[QuietRain]

Alex, of course I had thought of that.  But we don't exactly have anywhere to start with the way Day 1 went.  It's just as random to say that Shale or Nitori might have been scum because Carth was killed as it is to say *spins in a circle and end up pointing at...* Ciato did it because...I don't know, she hasn't posted much (that's like half of us, really).  With nowhere to start, you really have to pick a train of thought and hope for the best.  I'm sticking with the train I've got now until I can see a better alternative.  At least until the conversation picks up and we can start picking things apart.

[Shale]

Mmmkay, so. Basically it's Day 1 all over again, except one of the players starts out dead. It occurs to me that we weren't actually told Rat was town...but then Tai did say affiliations would be obvious even if they weren't explicit. So score one for the scum, in all likelihood.

So. It's the first day, people aren't very active (for which I blame the Touhou game, and it's not like I'm innocent on that count, but still), so let's throw out a talk-more vote.

##Vote Yakumo

[Tonfa]

Ahh, Day 2 is turning out arguably worse in terms of inciting discussion than day 1. How lovely. There really is nothing else to go on than pick one of the, er, "bandwagoners", is that term even applicable here? I'd like to hear if they have any alternate ideas on what went on here, though. Actually, I'd like everyone to get a serious post in at first. Mmph.