Mafia: The James Edition

[Fatch of Southsward]

Wow! Well spotted Groddil (I think it was Groddil...?(

That's some impressive detective work!

[Søren]

The shipping PMs were a week earlier.

[Delthion]

Rhe? Who's that?

[Chipster of Noonvale]

Oops.  I was too late.

Oh well.  It doesn't matter.  Things aren't going very well for the blue mafia, are they?

And, for the record, the poll results:

Timestamp   Member   Choice   Choice Label   /   Comment
11 September 2016, 19:44:25   Groddil   3   Søren
12 September 2016, 00:18:54   Søren   11   Sagetip
Posts non-existent, potential clues point to him.
14 September 2016, 06:23:33   Skyblade   3   Søren
14 September 2016, 08:17:00   Lord Ashenwyte   9   Lord Ashenwyte
14 September 2016, 08:34:49   Fatch of Southsward   3   Søren
14 September 2016, 08:42:24   Gonff the Mousethief   3   Søren
15 September 2016, 06:55:28   Sagetip   3   Søren
15 September 2016, 08:03:05   Aimless Gallivanter   3   Søren
17 September 2016, 12:37:19   Rosie Willowwater   3   Søren
17 September 2016, 16:52:40   Peony   11   Sagetip

[Cornflower MM]

Well that was an oops on my part.

This should be interesting. I have theories now! Yay!

[Fatch of Southsward]

Anyone have anything worth talking about?

[Cornflower MM]

@JAMES GRYPHON!

[James Gryphon]

@JAMES GRYPHON!

Don't get all worked up. Sheesh.

Can't a guy have a breakdown every once in a while?

All the orders came in a few days ago; I've been late getting the story in, but I should have that up tonight or tomorrow.

[Cornflower MM]

@JAMES GRYPHON!

Don't get all worked up. Sheesh. I wasn't, I was just trying to get your attention.

Can't a guy have a breakdown every once in a while? Mm. I suppose.

All the orders came in a few days ago; I've been late getting the story in, but I should have that up tonight or tomorrow. Okayyyyy.

[James Gryphon]

After too long a delay, and some severe writer's block...

It was a dark and stormy night. A very loud and dramatic thunderstorm blew in around 10 PM, and lasted all night, only receding when the sun began to come up. The members weren't unduly bothered by this, though -- in spite of James' insinuation that the members should go to bed at 8 PM, they, said moderator included, proceeded to spend the next eight hours playing one of his more bizarre concoctions, "Ultimate World Domination RISK".

Even though a lot of the members said they didn't particularly like Risk, it had managed to turn into an enjoyable event nevertheless. Sage kept up a lively conversation with Peony most of the night, drawing more than a little attention from Ashe, and several grotesquely bright grins from Delthion. Sky made a point of keeping Peony entertained after the latter was eliminated from the game, keeping up a stream of puns that were able to bring a wry smile to her face. Fatch played a masterful diplomatic game, enthralling early eliminee Galliver, who seemed to hang on his every word. Eulaliaaa played a stout defensive game with her chosen ally, Gonff, on one occasion saving him from Matthias' invasion with a well-timed missile strike. Rosie played with undeniable vigor, making and breaking several alliances, and taking advantage of cards and a lucky series of dice rolls to frustrate Daniel's expansion and wipe out Rain's forces in the biggest stab of the game.

At last, though, it began to wind down. The majority of members, having been eliminated, first began to trickle upstairs around 2 AM, finally leaving only James and the two 'alliances' to finish the game. After a dramatic showdown between the final surviving alliances of Sky, Groddil and Chipster, and Søren, Del and Daskar, the last Green army gave up the ghost in Myanmar, and the remaining exhausted players began to find their way back to their rooms an hour later.

At 5 AM, Jet woke up and decided to go to the bathroom. After flushing, he stepped back into the darkened room, squinting to try to adjust to the dramatic change from light to dark. He didn't see anything, but heard the sound of a plastic trigger depressing, and felt the stream of water as it hit his nightshirt...

Startled by the sudden attack, Jet instinctively let out a yell. There was the sound of somebody's body hitting a mattress, as they ran back into their sleeping place; meanwhile, the other people in the room began to stir, brought back to life by the noise.

After five minutes, when the lights were turned on and everyone in 218 was up (except for Groddil, who remained in place, snoring), there was no doubt that Jet had been successfully hit by the Red Mafia. Nobody had seemed to see anything. Chipster did comment that while he had been awake, he couldn't hear anything over the sound of Groddil, who was the closest to him.

The sun came up to reveal that Fatch had also received attention the past night, with a blue stain on the back of his shirt. Fatch didn't seem to remember having been shot at any point; Galli surmised that the hit must have taken place while they were walking up to their rooms, when the rain was falling hard and such a shot was likely to go unnoticed.

James revealed, to the Town's dismay and a few players' hidden delight, that both of the 'deceased' were Town, Jet being a vanilla Townie, and Fatch a 1-Shot Blue-Finding Detective. After a morning repast, the players held their elimination vote at about 10 AM.

--- TL;DR ---

Jet the binturong, a vanilla Townie, is dead.
Fatch of Southsward, a Town 1-Shot Blue-Finding Detective, is also dead.
The third Day phase has begun.

[Jetthebinturong]

Alas and alack! Woe is me! What a way to die! A young man, shot down in his prime! Woe, I tell you! WOE!

[Rosie Willowwater]

Okay so the first thing I see is that whoever hit Fatch probably wasn't Part of the group that stayed downstairs because of this sentence,

Galli surmised that the hit must have taken place while they were walking up to their rooms, when the rain was falling hard and such a shot was likely to go unnoticed

And although it's probably way to obvious, couldn't it be possible that Fatch was hit while he was sleeping? And if so then anyone could have hit him not only the first group to go upstairs?

[Gonff the Mousethief]

Hmm, well it seems im alone in my room now  . Also, I don't know if this was intentional, but the thing about Rosie jumping alliances was quite hilarious.


Okay, so I'm feeling that it may be Groddil. He was sleeping in while the others were wide awake, and it seems he could have been waiting for someone all night, then in turn be tired. I dunno.

[Hickory]

A few clues I noticed while reading:

Groddil is the only one making a lot of noise, if any, after Jet is taken out. We're told there's the sound of the murderer jumping into bed, and Chipster tells us that he couldn;'t hear anything over Groddil's sounds. Not snores, sounds. Groddil covering up the sound of the gun, perhaps?

But no. Because Jet clearly hears the sound of the trigger, meaning Groddil couldn't have been covering it up. Furthermore, that means Chipster is wrong. That, or he's a mafia member backing up Groddil, who is now my chief suspect.

Second clue: This is more of a theory. Fatch is noted to have a stain on the back of his shirt, but how could he have gotten a stain on his shirt if it were part of his nightclothes? Again, Galli could be lying, but there's less of an implication since she wasn't in his room, and probably wouldn't have been able to sneak in for the night kill that I'm suspecting. Fatch could just as well have been killed during the walk to his room, but that doesn't mean that it's not possible he was killed in his sleep.

That's just my two cents.

[Groddil]

Problem is that I wasn't even here for a week. Soren died during the time I was gone, and I'm pretty sure James said that he'd already received who was dying from the Mafia before I even got back. How could I have conspired with my buddies then?

In real life, I'm also a very heavy sleeper, not sure if anyone else knows that. I WOULD sleep through what happened.

Finally, with the three blue mafia dead, at least it'll be easier now for Town to dispose of the red guys.

Personally, I'm not sure who to expect. The two surviving alliances could point to something, but we know that Daskar isn't blue mafia, so they could just be random.

Also, bit of an OOC bit here:

@James: Isn't Soren dead? How could he be playing RISK?