Cthulu Mafia - TOWN (drunk) WIN, MADNESS SOMEWHAT AVERTED

[Li Syaoran]

First off, something that is starting to get aggravating:

Then the Cult Leader kerfluffle.  Previously, Kolmogorov seemed to recognize that alignment-switching roles were out.  But then he reacts to Hellsnake as though such roles are back on the table.  He switches and votes for Hellsnake right after that, saying the snake's role is unbelievable due to power level.  This comes right after the Cult Leader line, so it's not hard to read it as a continuation of that, though in fairness that's not explicit.

Um, no, and this is why it's irrelevant. Take the Cult Leader line out there and that post doesn't lose its meaning - that role *was* quite unbelievable due to its ridiculous power level, and I fail to see where my reasoning failed there.

However, you do bring up a good point re: Moses Bike's claim, and thus I am not 100% sure about my read of Seamus O'Excal again. <mutter>.

Seamus looks...the phrase "just there" comes to mind. He's never said anything objectionable, but he's always been in the background. Not quite active lurking either though, because he's had an opinion, it just never happened to be actively bad. Eh. Going to put him in the "likely Town" box for now.

Hutchins to be posted in a second, first want to get my case and vote out, and that is the one specifically on Hayles. He has failed to impress me at all since his last post. For instance,

Nikolai's latest post does nothing to remove those suspicions. Past the first paragraph, we have: excuse of posting on instinct (which does nothing to remove my suspicions as it's just as easily a cover for a mistake as it is the truth)

Yes, so it's a null tell and not a scumtell. Next.

The rest of it is equally invalid - the only valid point on me is the lurker charge - but in that way, how am I different from several other lurkers (Andrews, etc)? And don't bring up the Cult Leader point because it's not a scummy mistake in the slightest, it's just a mistake.

Now, see, I agree with a lot of your principles, at the same time, you don't seem to actually be scumhunting effectively either. You seem to mix up scumtells with things that are inconducive for determining alignment or sometimes just plain derp-type mistakes, and several of your cases these days have been centered around them - which doesn't endear you in my eyes in the slightest.

##Vote: Ethan Hayles

[Tanaka]

Doing a re-read on Nikolai right now (I still don't see him as that scummy, but maybe I'm missing something by reading his posts from the last post view instead of in context), but for now... Peyton, I'm going to have to ask you again: Who did you target last night?  I'm thinking there's more to your power than you know, or perhaps more than you're letting on.  And I'd like you to answer before the next night, please.

[SnowFire]

Votecount.

Nathan Greaves [1]: Chad Hutchins
Nikolai Kolmogorov [3]: Ethan Hayles, Nathan Greaves, Kyle Handley (Sopko)
Ethan Hayles [5]: Seamus (Excal), Jack Daniels, Ronald Dale (Bardiche), Samuel Hargreaves, Nikolai Kolmogorov
Kyle Handley (Sopko) [1]: Martin Andrews

No vote placed: Peyton Hadley

Ethan Hayles is 1 vote away from the fathomless void of eternal oblivion heaven.

With 11 investigators, it takes 6 to lynch.  It is Potential LYLO.  Day 3 will end in 75 minutes at ~9:00 EDT.

[Margaret Houlihan]

((Yes, that particular point was a null tell, but when you're already looking suspicious and your defence does nothing to alleviate those suspicions, then it's worth mentioning.
Andrews' content since his return has, in my opinion, been quite good, and that's the big difference between you and him. And the Cult Leader thing looks scummy to me, no matter how many times you say it isn't. Chalk it up to playstyle or whatever, but that looks horrible to me and the fact that you keep dismissing it by simply saying "It's nothing" is just even worse.

I like how your entire case against me seems to be attacking me for, what, focusing on mistakes that could be made by either side? Funny that that should be the basis of your case when all that effectively does is... disregards my case against you.))

[Tanaka]

Hm.  The problem, Nik-o-lai, with askin' us to disregard the whole cult leader gaffe... well, you make it AFTER you point out that the rules allow for no alignment switching.  Pointin' out the rule comes on April 25, 2AM, and talkin' to Moses about being a cult leader comes on April 25, 4PM.  A mistake made in earnest?  Perhaps, an' I'm inclined to buy at the moment that given it's the only thing that I really see wrong with yer play, lurkin' aside.  The whole thing about Pietro playin' like a cop comes before we know fer sure that he's a paranoid cop, an' though I ain't followed Mafia enough to know proper cop play, layin' low and goin' after someone I done examined the next mornin seems like the thing I'd do.  

I think that Greaves and Hayles beat you out on bein' suspicious but yeh ken't just ask us to stop bringin' up what's a pretty dang large mistake.

Now, Hargreaves... I done think, given we're an hour to deadline... well, seein' how the next hour goes you may be inclined to divulge what makes you so confident in the ruskie.  If it's lookin' like he ain't gonna be the one lynched (and since Hayles is at L-1 he may not be), an' we're all still around in the mornin', well... You may want to divulge the infermation tomorrah.

[Princess Leia]

Indeed. I won't say more unless Nikolai's actually on the block; should I die in the night, well, you lot should be able to figure it out.

[Helga Pataki]

O'Malley continues to fall of my radar.  (OOC, ha!)

I believe I've already covered the O'Malley/Hellsnake interaction on Day 1.  In short, I think Hellsnake did one thing clearly wrong before his roleclaim and assorted weirdness, and that's not putting a vote down and defending not putting a vote down.  The initial lack of a vote seems to be the crux of O'Malley's argument against Hellsnake, but it's surrounded by stuff I can either generously call flavorful or otherwise say is just bad reasoning.  Toward the end of the day he switches to Pietro in a post that does have solid analysis on multiple cases.  I'll note that he says he'll be around at deadline, but doesn't post.  In fairness there wasn't much to say at that point.

But whatever, Day 1.

On Day 2, starts off on Pietro and is the first to note Pietro's BS about Ty being useless as a reason to vote him.  He continues to provide solid analysis on multiple cases throughout early day 2, including bringing up some stuff no one else seemed to touch on (like the way Dale and Hayles kept interacting to that point).

To this point I'm thinking, only objection is Day 1 and he's otherwise looking good, an involved townie.

Then, though, he comes with this weak sauce.  This is his Miller claim, which I have no problem with (he immediately delivers flavor, which I think is good because it lets us look for inconsistencies).  O'Malley drops his vote on Hellsnake and bases his case on a combination of Hellsnake's "rolefish" (which, I swear, did no one else but me understand what he was doing there once he claimed Miller?) and then, ironically, on Moses's information - the very thing Hellsnake's miller claim was to try to puzzle out.  O'Malley doesn't seem to consider the possibility of a Godfather, even though almost every game has one, and instead says three Millers is one Miller too many.  (I think four is, for the record.)

A mistake or a Scummy action?  It looks Scummier to me because that's O'Malley's last contribution of the day (Hellsnake, of course, goes on to get lynched), and then on Day 3 defends his very bad reason for making that switch.

In the same post he says Miller is a null tell "unless Daniels and Kolmogorov are both Scum," again ignoring the Godfather stuff - this time AFTER others went over it on Day 2.   I note that he seems very eager to silence this line of inquiry, mentioning it again in a later post.  Chad is also in on this.  I... do not agree that Moses's information was useless.  I can see AT LEAST one scenario that fits it, if not two.  Flipflops on Ronbard, first saying Ronald doesn't look as bad, then in his next post saying he still thinks there's something between Ronald and Ethan (votes for Ethan).

Day 2 end and Day 3 look very shaky to me, downright Scummy at times but probably not as bad as the other two?

Multiple ninjas!  Jack's is the most relevant.

Jack, I did not target you, if that's what you're asking.  I do not wish to say who I did target, however, because if the person I targeted is NOT Scum, I'm almost certain they have an informational role!

[Tanaka]

'snot what I'm asking at all.  I'm asking you to divulge this information because whether or not they die tonight will confirm or deny my suspicions.  And, if revealed after-the-fact, then it's much harder to take the information at face value.

But since at the moment I'm more concerned about powers you're unaware of than I am of powers you're outright lying about (and thus your alignment), I won't press the issue further today.

[Helga Pataki]

KYLE HANDLEY

Day 1/2 case stands as it was.  Attacked Moses on the basis of flavor, then switched to Hellsnake it what seemed like a totally random manner.  I completely disagree that his case on Hellsnake was worth a damn, because on my Hellsnake reread the snake looked good up until his roleclaim and the following shenanigans.

I've said all of this before.

His Day 3 play looks much better and more sensible.  Lots of analysis, multiple well-reasoned cases.  Off the table for today, as far as I'm concerned, since my only serious knock against him is his Day 1/Day 2 switch.

Ninja'd by Jack:

O_o

I'm going to be very upset with the Mod if my seemingly not-even-supernatural bodyguarding ability turns out to have an attached slowkill.

But yeah, I strongly believe it's better if I don't post the name at this point.

[Helga Pataki]

I strongly want to vote Nicolai.  To me he seems the scummiest, but I don't want to put him at L-1 due to Hargreaves' stuff. -_-

[Helga Pataki]

Looking at it again, he'd only be at L-2 and all the other people I think have looked significantly Scummy are already on him.

##VOTE Nicolai Kolmogorov

Completely torn between trusting someone who I think has been a good Townie to this point, and trusting my own scumhunting, but I just can't let Kolmogorov slip.  He's had so little content and almost all of it is bad, when it isn't regurgitated.

[SnowFire]

Votecount.

Nathan Greaves [1]: Chad Hutchins
Nikolai Kolmogorov [4]: Ethan Hayles, Nathan Greaves, Kyle Handley (Sopko), Peyton Hadley
Ethan Hayles [5]: Seamus (Excal), Jack Daniels, Ronald Dale (Bardiche), Samuel Hargreaves, Nikolai Kolmogorov
Kyle Handley (Sopko) [1]: Martin Andrews

Ethan Hayles is 1 vote away from the gallows.

With 11 investigators, it takes 6 to lynch.  It is Potential LYLO.  Day 3 will end in 25 minutes at ~9:00 EDT.

[Chad Hutchins]

Back from being out all day.  I don't like Greaves and I don't like Handley and I'm not too hot on Andrews and Seamus either.  No time now to go try to make detailed examples but their play just feels... smug, as opposed to the disorganization and wariness in the rest of town.  I don't like Hayles either - STILL on the cult leader business?  Come on man that's just clearly meaningless either way.

I guess I will hammer Hayles if need be since I really dislike the Kolmogorov train.  I'm not at all sold on him being town but I feel the attacks on him are coming from shady reasons.

Kyle especially is all up the wrong tree I think.  "Being on both trains" day 1 and 2 doesn't tell us anything that simply being on the day 1 train doesn't since BOTH MAJOR TRAINS DAY 2 WERE TOWN.

[Margaret Houlihan]

((Yep, fine, guess it's come down to it. I've been avoiding the claim for two very obvious reasons - one is that it's a power role, the other being that it's only been against the dead, although for very clear reasons.

I'm a Cop. And, as for me? Not confirmed, but Insane.))

Y'see, this whole thing here? It ain't actually happening. This is a dream - a dream shared by me and Hutchins. I'm controllin the good guys, he's controllin the bad guys, y'see? He said somethin after a meetin about tryin t'get the people to kill each other, but needed the right incentive to kick things off. He said his death would be good enough, and that we could, y'know... dream it.

What with it bein my dream an' all, I can see some things I shouldn't know, but... there's somethin else there. I think it's Jon, so I'm kinda reluctant to trust my results...

((So there you have it. First night was 'Snake, came out Scum. Decided to ignore it on sanity reasons, and targeted Pietro N2. Came out Scum. Miller apparently overrides sanity, and I'm insane. Haven't had an actual use for it yet, unfortunately, so make of that what you will.))

[Helga Pataki]

Looking back, I think Nathan is MORE LIKELY to be a philosophical difference, whereas Ethan, where he's been bad, has just been bad (and suspicious).

I think I'm sitting on the following:

Kolmogorov > Hayles > O'Malley = Greaves > Kyle/Sopko > Andrews = Chad

Not enough time to post on those last two, generally "not enough" on the former and "consistently disagree, but not necessarily think is Scum" on the latter.

[Helga Pataki]

AAAND there's the almost certain lie.

DO NOT BELIEVE Miller overrides Sanity.

[Bardiche]

Ronald Dale;

Returns "scum" to sane cops and "town" to insane cops

From the Hellsnake flip, Hayles. What's next, you'll be Paranoid?

[Helga Pataki]

I don't think Hellsnake was the best Night 1 target, Pietro was, by a lot.  And considering you hardly MENTION Hellsnake early on, DO NOT BELIEVE.

Pietro was a shitty Night 2 target as well.  He played like 100% Scum and you would have had extra reason to doubt his Copclaim.  DO NOT BELIEVE.

##UNVOTE

##VOTE Ethan Hayles

That's Hammer.

[SnowFire]

As Hadley notes, that is in fact the judge's gavel. 

Lynch result will be posted shortly.

[SnowFire]

Final votecount.

Nathan Greaves [1]: Chad Hutchins
Nikolai Kolmogorov [3]: Ethan Hayles, Nathan Greaves, Kyle Handley (Sopko), Peyton Hadley
Ethan Hayles [6]: Seamus (Excal), Jack Daniels, Ronald Dale (Bardiche), Samuel Hargreaves, Nikolai Kolmogorov, Peyton Hadley
Kyle Handley (Sopko) [1]: Martin Andrews

---
At the last second, Chad decided that the funeral would be held on the green in town, not up in the mountains as Jon had allegedly requested.  "Trust me," he said.  "It's...  better, this way."

Most people shrugged and accepted that it was the scion of House Hutchins' choice.  There was one odd exception, though, in Jeb Cress, the proprietor of Rosie's.  His eyes flaring, he declared  "UNACCEPTABLE.  This sounds like the Altar of Aorako!  This is a sacred quest; we must obey.  YOU!  Show me the way to the original funeral site!"  A poor, cowed, pallbreaker shrugged and went off with him to the stables to hire a horse from new stablemaster Seamus O'Malley, who took Jeb's money without asking much for the reason behind his sudden shift in behavior.

"What's got into 'im?" whispered Farmer Hayles to Ronald Dale.  "I have no idea.  Only been a local for...  uh...  not that long, really," the novelist replied.

---

Even during the funeral, people were at work in the background.  Sheriff Hutchinson exited the funeral to be greeted by his excited deputy.

"We've found Pietro's diary, sir!  It makes for...  interesting reading.  Seems like..."  Deputy Webster trailed off, then continued in a fierce whisper - "He was a communist."

"I should have guessed."  Sheriff Hutchinson shook his head.  "Those Italian immigrants, bringing their popery and their socialism and their wine...  well.  I have to admit, the wine isn't bad.  Back when it was legal, of course.  Uh...  let's just not talk about that anymore.  Anything else interesting?"

"Well.  There's lots of information about his... er... activities with the Manzoni family in New York, and routing legal Canadian liquor through Marbury on its way to Boston.  It might be best if this was left out of any public records, though.  Can't have Marbury looking like a den of vice.  There was, ah, one other thing.  Seems Pietro was planning to set up some stills locally to skip having to make the trip to Canada.  They set 'em up...  somewhere in the mountains...  not really sure from the description he wrote, but anyways, one of his compatriots, Patrick - you met him, tall, freckles? - he up and disappears two and a half weeks or so ago!  Pietro goes nuts, best I can tell.  Starts ranting about how Pat was reliable and wouldn't just leave.  Apparently his next trip to Boston - this is a week and a half ago- he searches for Pat, comes up empty, and then returns to Marbury, and starts leaving crazed scribblings about how this entire town is guilty of his murder and should be investigated!  I mean, come on now.  Our town's a great town, right?  Why would anyone think that?  Pat's probably off with a mistress in Rochester right now!"

Sheriff Hutchinson nodded.  "Yeah, we didn't receive any reports of a murder or a missing person back then.  Can't imagine there's anything to it.  Fellow just overreacted a mite.  I have to wonder, maybe he was killed in self-defense?  He goes all crazy on some innocent Marbury resident, who then has no choice but to...  uh...  stab him 14 times.  Maybe that was a little excessive, but still.  You just don't say that kind of thing about Marbury, claiming we're guilty of murder.  Speaking of murders..  well.  This Bike fellow sounds like a suicide, but I suppose we should do something about finding Giovanni's killer, assuming this wasn't some kind of commie-gangster infighting.  And Callahan could still have had accomplices when he murdered dear old Jon.  Let's gather up the suspects again, and have a chat."

---

The discussion seemed to drone on interminably, never really reaching a conclusion.  At last, Jack Daniels grew impatient.  "Hayles!  You're not helping us enough!  Sitting back on the sidelines..  you must not really want us to find the real killers!  Which means you must be one!"

"This is ridiculous!  Since when is being unhelpful to the town of Marbury a crime?  You don't see the Widow Avil being helpful ever, and we're not lynching her!"

"Yeah, Jack is right!"  Others now joined in.  "Why'd you do it?  Poor Jon...  stabbed in the back!  ..no mercy for 'im, god rest his soul..."

Ethan had a more annoyed look on his face, now.  "Come on!  A knife?  That's not my style at all!"

"Objection!" yelled Seamus.  "So you admit you have a style!  A fatal error which is as good a confession as we could ask for!"

"You're...  you're being irrational!  You're just afraid your superegos will be damaged by this, your self-image of manly confidence.  Failure to act would lead to a critical breakdown between what you imagine yourself to be and the cruel reality of not actually being able to solve this crime!  This is just a case of the id running wild in this town."  Hayles now turned to Sheriff Hutchinson.  "Now, Sheriff.  Let's think this through, and what it'll be like for you tomorrow.  You'll 'ave hung an innocent man...  and you'll be in tears, begging your wife or a minister to forgive you.  You'll feel terrible!  Now wouldn't you rather just avoid that?  Let's go play baseball instead!"

The room paused a moment to consider Hayles' words.

"He...  he's got a point in there, I think," the sheriff eventually replied.  "I WOULD feel terrible after I hung an innocent person.  Huh, maybe we should just go home after all."

"... wait a second," Sam Hargreaves, village vet, noted.  "Aren't we just going on his own word he's innocent?  Won't we feel great if we hang him and he's guilty?"

"Aw, shucks, ya got me."  Hayles gave a jaunty slump of his shoulders.  "'ow 'umiliating to 'lose' in my own dream!  Oh, fine, I'll let you all in on the secret.  See, you're all fake versions of the real townspeople in me brain.  This is a fun alternate version of Marbury where you're all secretly witches and sorcerers who need to be purged!  I was playin' along with Hutchins.  It is pretty weird 'ow long this dream has lasted, but I guess I'll just feel really well rested when I wake up next morning, 'eh?  Still, it'll be nice to visit the real Marbury again, where everyone is just honest folk and friends!"

---

Hayles maintained a dippy smile on his face all the way to the gallows.  Once more, Dr. Gottlieb and Rev. Jones were summoned to watch.

"Aw, man, I don't want this to be a nightmare or nuthin'.  Let's just finish this short an' sweet.  Okay... waking up...  any second now...  annnnnyy....  second...  now...."

There was a thud, and then - a crack.

The town held its breath...

...and the 'dream', if that be all the world is, did not end.

---

"Look at this!" yelled Deputy Webster, pointing to a library of books off to the side in Hayles' home.    "Freud... Jung... Adler... Charcot... Binet...  who would have thought that a farmer with an 8th grade education would have been such a fan of psychology?  The hobbies people secretly have...  can't say I've found anything else suspicious here, though.  Certainly no bloody knives or secret organization regalia.  Hayles was an odd one, but he seems innocent enough...  to me, at least?"

Ethan Hayles, Scum Psychologist, has been lynched!  (Nightkills aren't normal nightkills; they seem to be based on psychology somehow...*)

It is now Night 3.  You have 24 hours to submit night actions.  As a flavor note, "Night 3" will take 3 in-game days, as asking people to assemble on an impromptu citizen's jury on the weekend would be just un-American.  Not to mention that everyone's going to be watching the Marbury - Hilton game, right?

* As a reminder, scum do not get full flips this game, though any information given is accurate.  Also don't assume that this role has anything to do with the "Psychiatrist" role, which is an illegal alignment-changing role, so this does not imply a serial killer exists.)

[SnowFire]

Thus, the town went to sleep.  The disturbances of late had been exceedingly strange, but perhaps they would be gone with the mad Hayles' death?  It's true that there didn't seem to be any evidence that he'd committed any murders, but he had appeared quite insane and had claimed to be trying to purge Marbury of witches and sorcerers...  not that there were any to be had here, right?

There was a good distraction on hand anyway: the Marbury - Hilton game, which could make or break the Ospreys' hopes of reaching States.  Could tiny Marbury Senior High stand up to Hilton despite Hilton's superior training and larger bench?  The answer rested on star running back, Chad Hutchins.  It was a rocky start for Marbury, as Hilton's quarterback burned through Marbury's weak pass defense to jump to a 14-0 lead in the first quarter...  but Marbury didn't give up hope.  Nope, their running game kept on slogging through, with Chad routinely taking 3 tackles to down.  Even after Hilton began expecting it, they had great difficulty stopping the Hutchins rush.  And Marbury kept at it, even in the second half.  For those who had seen Marbury's earlier games, this was quite the surprise, as keeping up pressure with such a small team was difficult.  If anything it seemed like they were getting stronger, and shrugging off repeated blocks as if they were nothing, and showing no signs of exhaustion.  And Chad...  why, it seemed Chad had almost grown an inch in the course of an hour itself.  His face was inscrutable, his expressions frozen, and his muscles bulging.  Why, it almost seemed unnatural how much punishment he was able to take as he repeatedly ran down the field, scoring 3 touchdowns himself to even the game up...

With 45 seconds left, Hilton broke the tie by kicking a field goal.  Marbury was now down 24-21, and everything would depend on this kickoff return.  Sure enough, Chad lined up to receive...  and charged down the field at an alarming rate, his legs seemingly elongating.  An attempted blocker was sent flying 6 feet into the air from attempting to stop Chad's frenzied rush.  "The 20... the 10...  touchdown, Hutchins!  Marbury has won the game!"

Amid all the celebration and dancing amidst the Marbury side, only a few noticed one oddity.  Chad Hutchins, the sole reason the football team had come so far, didn't join in, and instead walked off into the horizon almost immediately, not turning to anyone, and not letting anyone see his face.  His form was...  unusual.  Bent, not right.  Had he been injured and was hiding it?  Or was this some other change he was shameful of?

--

On Saturday night, as Sheriff Hutchison made a casual drive about town, he noticed the light on in the second floor of the Hutchins household...  if he recalled correctly, the reading room from his last visit there.  Was the young Hutchins ignoring Jack Daniels' advice and reading the works of his father?  Hutchison shrugged.

--

Sunday morning brought a new queerness, as Rosie's proprietor Jeb Cress finally returned from the mountains...  ecstatic and raving... and...  who's that woman with him?!  "RAŠGA KALAGUL!  She returns!" Jeb exultantly declared.  "I can reveal my secret now!  My wife Mary didn't really die three years ago!  No, no...  she... uh...  she was taken to a very secretive medical clinic that tried a revolutionary new treatment on her!  But they insisted I go through with the funeral for show, and we just used a doll for the body!  Yes!  That's it!"  The woman, "Mary," still seemed shell-shocked and confused, and said nothing.  News of her amazing return spread like wildfire.

There was another oddity.  Not exactly a return, but...  Sheriff Hutchison found a strangely familiar man visiting his home.  Doesn't he look like Moses Bike?

"I'm, uh...  I'm Moses' younger brother.  Heard about his tragic end, came up to Marbury do what I could, collect his possessions and all."

"I see the both of you have the family looks good 'n' strong."  The resemblance was uncanny.

"Yah.  People always said that we were spitting images of each other.  Anyway, uh, I found my brother's diary of the events up here.  I'd say I'm pretty up to speed about things, and since I wasn't here around the time of Jon Hutchins' murder, you can pretty well trust me to be a neutral voice.  Would be happy to lend a hand on the off chance my brother's madness was related and to avenge him."

The sheriff nodded, while still being impressed at this strange doppelganger of a brother.

--

Sunday night, Sheriff Hutchison saw the light on in the second floor of the Hutchins household again.  Was Chad still reading up there?  Had he been at it continuously?  "Not my problem anyway," the sheriff thought.

--

"AIIIIIIIIIIEEEeeEEEe!" shrieked Margie Jenkins, the maid who cleaned the Hutchins household every Monday.  "It's...  it's GONE!  Come look!"

The stately Hutchins house had always been a bit apart from town, in its own secluded wooded area.  Except now... now...

...there was nothing left but bare earth.  As though it had never existed at all.

The only thing Sheriff Hutchison was able to find were a few burnt and illegible journals, and a strange symbol traced in the dirt.

Chad Hutchins, Town Squeaky-Clean Doctor, went crazy and disappeared!  (Can protect one person a night from normal nightkills.  Can protect self only once ever.  Returns just 'doctor' to rolecops.  Unknown to self, always returns a sanity-independent and mod-guaranteed town to cop investigations due to trustworthy All-American nature.  Doctor targets also lose Miller status permanently.)

Mr. Gershom Bike, Moses' brother, came to Marbury to help out!

Mary Cress (NPC) must not have actually died three years ago and is now back!

----

It is now Day 4.  With 10 investigators, it takes 6 to lynch.  The Day will end in 72 hours.  (So, yes, it is no longer potential LYLO.  This is a normal Day.)  Note that with a relatively "short" day like this, another prolonged spurt of inactivity from certain players risks getting them modkilled on the spot rather than saved by the Day just naturally being long.  Don't let it happen.

[Hunter Sopko]

Hmm... a few thoughts on rolestuff before I start the day in earnest.

This all but clears Jack for me. Chad's flip all but confirms what happened on Night 2 regarding Jack's miller status clearing up. Originally I thought "Why the heck would Chad doc him in the first place?", until the simple explanation hit me that he was doing it specifically to test out the power. Given Chad didn't call him on it, I think we have a winner there. This also explains Jack's "euphoric" state yesterday (That was him, right? Correct me if I'm wrong). We should see if he breadcrumbed anyone else as well. We had Chad on Nathan the entire day, but I don't know how much that tells us because Night 2 Chad would have had to have been on Jack, so it'd be Night 1 if he doc/copped him. So I'll have to look over Chad's Day 2 stuff, but it might have just taken until Day 3 for Chad to realize what the role did, since it was apparantly unknown to him.

Given the scum role we just got and the results of night, I think the only kills scum have access to are the slowkills we've been seeing. So far Pietro's death was an isolated incident (Moses died due to the crazies), so that discounts a Serial Killer. So we either have a one-shot vig who made a judgement call or something else all together. Given the role setup, entirely possible, but just throwing this out there. Was anyone else stricken last night? Peyton, if you can, tell us who you protected last night?

I'm still looking at Nicolai today. Ethan being first on him doesn't really disprove anything, as it could have been a setup for a bus in either direction. Nathan is still #2, depending on how my re-read of Chad goes.

[Asuka Langley]

The name's Gershom.

Need to make my presence clear and all, but don't have time to do anything until later this evening. Haven't even read the flavour in the start of day post. So here's the important stuff.

1) Hey guys, I'm a confirmed townie. No alignment-changing roles, hope I don't need to explain that any further, but I can if need be.

2) I have the results of my (well, Moses's, same difference) night 2 action. Full information on that later, but for now what I really need to hear is all the flavour that Samuel Hargreaves has. All of it.

3) The mod warned me that this might happen (so that I didn't go and ruin it by asking other players' powers and alignment in the meantime), but I haven't really being paying a great deal of attention. Also, all of these delays mean that I'm coming back into the game just as I'm about to lose nearly all of my free time. So forgive me if the following position is horribly out of date:

I need a good reason not to vote for Nikolai, for partially claiming the slow kill with the whole 'forgetting conversation crap', miller rolecop claim and for what I was perceiving as very controlled lurking and voting.

I've seen people defend Nikolai, so assuming good reasoning is provided for the above, I need a good reason not to vote for Kyle, for dropping the vote on me at the start of day 2. When, assuming that the slow kill is indeed of scum in nature, that scum would know I would be dying that night and wouldn't need lynching. I'd been off him assuming he was a non-scum slow-killer, but that's been flipped.

After that, without actually reading most of day 3 properly, I think I'm at Ronald Dale.

[Chiaki]

On the same page as Kyle, here. Barring some kind of crazy scum miller ridiculousness, in which case I will vote for Snowfire, he's as much confirmed town as the new Mr. Bike. Hell, probably a bit more, because miller-scum is less sane than resurrection turning town to nontown.
 
A quick reread of Ethan's posts has been annoyingly fruitless. He did help get the ball rolling on the Nikolai train, which is WIFOMy in the extreme on its own, but less so when that train ended up being the alternative to a scum lynch. The idea that after two days of total fruitlessness, we suddenly had both leading trains land directly on scum is a nice thought, but it seems more likely that Ethan wasn't the only scumbag on Nikolai's case. So let's see what led Nathan, Kyle and Peyton to cast their votes for the Russkie.

Nathan: Well, this is a right mess. After being on Ethan's case as a possible serial killer, he just reverses course, explaining that, for flavor reasons, he knows that one of the kills we saw is "not some extra option scum has" and found Ethan to be the best candidate for that. Setting aside the part where he phrases his knowledge in terms of what options scum has, he apparently feels that Ethan being the best candidate for serial killer doesn't translate to him being scummy, and never comments on the case for his lynch, one way or the other. He just throws out a LAL vote for Nikolai and doesn't post again after a quick response to me. This sits even worse with me since I already called him out once for jumping off a case for no stated reason.

Kyle: As much as I still hate hate hate hate hate hate HATE his first two days of play (although he does not sound like chapters from a self-help booklet), his reason for voting Nikolai is grounded enough. Charges not related to lurking are that he was on both townie trains, which is suspicious enough I guess but also WIFOMy (since scum know full well when they're about to lynch innocents, while town is flying blind), and says that "today he's just been kinda blathering on non-committal-like." Short on specifics but fair enough.

Peyton: Loads of analysis early on, followed by a quick vote going down to the wire. "He's had so little content and almost all of it is bad, when it isn't regurgitated." Also offers a fairly in-depth look at Ethan.

It's not a comprehensive analysis, but Nathan comes out of that looking rather bad. Kyle's got a decent, if brief, reason for his vote, and Peyton's grounding for his looks solid (and he's the only one who seems to have actually considered the merits of lynching Ethan).

[Chiaki]

"He" being JAck Daniels in that first paragraph. I assume that's obvious, but just to be clear.