Now Billy rapped all night 'bout his suicide
Lucy's stealing clothes from unlocked cars
Freddy's got zits from picking off the stars from his face
Now Jimmy looks sweet 'cause he dresses like a queen

OK, so now we're on All the Young Dudes ... Bowie again. 'Changes' and that verse of Dudes imply change - everything changing 180 degrees ... so is bad now good & good now bad?

Night one: Debbie
Night two: GillB
Night three: ARR
Night four: Pip

Quoted from ARR 350:

I'm leaning towards this. In any case, it doesn't seem like we'll figure it out until we have some information, e.g. bengel's results tomorrow.

So, Vote: GillB. The reversal messages are doing nothing but confusing us right now, so I'll pick up where I left off.

CK

I agree. I'm just getting confused by all these "hints"...so I'm gonna ignore them and return to my - "shall I let Gill defend herself a last time or finish the day now" - statement.

This however does not apply right now, as Gill is only at 3 votes so I can without a problem Unvote EJ and Vote Gill

What's the point of defending myself? I've explained the emails I've had and that I've been told I'm on the town's side.

I'm still searching for my soul-mate who evidently doesn't know I'm searching for him/her. I don't know what I am and I seem to be singularly unlucky at picking people's names.

Is that enough to lynch me? You all seem to think so, but I just get the feeling that if you do so, you may well regret it later.

Quoted from GillB:

You only fear the lynch if you are scum. Otherwise, you just get to wander the grey fields. Time to bring the curtain down, methinks.

Vote GillB

"Would anyone like some headache pills," Marjory asks, "I have some aspirin here. Oh, we still need 5 to lynch."

Lynch candidates:
GillB = 5 (EmperorJay, Pip, Caesar K, Berend, Angel Reckless Rodent)
Pip = 2 (Niempie, GillB)
EJ = 1 (Bengel)

Still to vote:
None...

EDIT: Pesky Rodents... hehehe updating votecount..

LYNCH SCENE ON WAY

[This message has been edited by ConLao (edited 07-09-2004 @ 04:43 PM).]

*cries*

I give up waiting for my moment of fame in the promised lynch scene ... it's long gone bed-time.

The town turns on GillB. Her protesting and crying isn't enough to convince them that they should spare her life.

The town, led by CaesarK, takes GillB to the stone table and holds her down whilst her hands and feet are bound. Marjory brings forth the knife and GillB continues to struggle but Niempie tightens the ropes.
"Any last words?" CK asks, laughing as GillB struggles to talk.

"I would have got away with it if it weren't for you pesky kids! You know who you are - Kill them all!" She screams.
Marjory steps forward and passes a knife to CK, who raises it above his head. The last thing GillB will see is the glint of the knife in the sunlight. Or maybe not.

He brings the knife down into GillB and it stops cold in the air! With his other hand he struggles to push it through the air, as if the air itself was getting thicker. Seeing this, Marjory jumps on top and helps to push. But it is not enough.

The crowd looks on and sees Gill is chanting in some strange language, probably Welsh. She is focused on the knife just centimetres from her chest. The two struggle to keep it in place, but her will is strong.
Seeing this, ARR helps too, and finally the knife pierces GillB's body. There is an explosion and the entire town are thrown to the floor!

GillB, the magician of knives, is DEAD.

YAY Town!

Current Status: NIGHT FIVE: Deadline = 23:59 GMT Tuesday.

All players must submit one name (unless previously instructed). Use this Email Address.

[This message has been edited by ConLao (edited 07-10-2004 @ 04:12 AM).]

CURRENT STATUS: Game Over

Through a bizarre set of circumstances it became apparent that the remaining scum member was being cured of his wicked ways - Reckless Rodent is now a fully contributing and nice member of soceity.
This could not be attributed to anything in particular but all is good now in the town of Lethe. The remaining citizens rejoice the peace that has come to the town.

As Mod - I officially declare a stalemate.

[This message has been edited by ConLao (edited 07-10-2004 @ 01:31 PM).]

Please find a brief explanation of the setup. Any questions can be directed to me personally by email or in thread.

SCUM
Team 1 - Can write the Green messages
Angel Reckless Rodent - SoulSucker
GillB - MagicianOfKnives

Team 2
Darth Bane - SK (Poisoner)

COPS
Bengel (Sane - the bumbling bit was just the addition of the word 'probably' with every result)

DOCS
Niempie

MASONS - Can write the Yellow messages
Caesar Alan
Caesar K

OTHER ROLES
Pip (Alternate between INSANE COP & DOC)
Berend (Message Reader)
Debbie (LoneRanger76)
EmperorJay (Mayor - Reverse Roleblock)
Rocky (Message Writer - Blue)
WeaveCaeser (Pollster - Choose 3 names and get told how many are scum)

Special thanks to PeterKane (HarryPotter).

In the grey fields, people had a choice of 3 from 30 random game altering effects, from being ressurected to ending the day early, adding votes to people and preventing others from being lynched.

Thanks all - was a fun game to mod.

I think overall I gave the grey fields players too much ability and that's what let things down.

[This message has been edited by ConLao (edited 07-10-2004 @ 06:04 PM).]

Ummm ... I'm not sure I understand. Does that mean that Reck wasn't scum any more, yet knew that I was? If so, when did that happen?

Reck was still scum.

Pretty... unexpected end! Well, it was a nice game, altough some things did annoy me (a certain Harry Potter) it was a pleasure playing this game overall, I really enjoyed it.

Quoted from Darth:

How I wanted to answer that!!!!!!
So funny.

why did the game end?

Suffice to say that I discovered that two rules had been broken which basically messed everything up. It was my only option to end the game.

[This message has been edited by ConLao (edited 07-10-2004 @ 03:29 PM).]

This is rather unexpected...

ARR, you continue to amaze me...! What if you had been wrong about Darth?

In any case, you certainly had me

Pip, sorry to be so rough on you...but it was for your own protection You said yourself your defense was that you would be lynched, so I thought I'd help you with that. We wanted you to survive your night, especially since if you lasted just one more night you'd be there to protect us.

And Niempie...bengal, I'm glad the winds of the Grey Fields let you say what you did :

Quoted from me 341:

I was hoping for a yes/no here, but I realize I was being unreasonably obscure.

My 100% was an impossibly subtle reference to

Quoted from bengel 314:

'Yes' would have verified my "suspicions" that bengel's was due to Niempie, i.e. Niempie was our doc.

With Niempie cleared, I was having one of my "aaiee the theory of the game is blowing up!" moments. Plus I was feeling a little suspicious of EJ...though I tried to tell myself that was nuts .

I couldn't have a breakdown in the thread though, or I would be "exposed" of not really believing Pip was scum, and if there wasn't enough pressure on him I was worried he'd end up dead.

Thanks for an awesome game ConLao
CK

editted because I forgot a very important thing

[This message has been edited by Caesar K (edited 07-10-2004 @ 06:15 PM).]

Reck's a very astute player... he pegged me as scum, the same way I'd pegged him AND gill as scum... I regret not taking him out the night before I got lynched and Gill was my target that night...

So why did everyone think I was scum? I'm so rarely anything bad that it can't have been past experience ...

Gill, with you for once I was being completely honest with the town . My reasons were exactly as I stated - no more, no less. You were "squeezed" (I'm using the term very very freely).

I didn't think you were scum until that Night, when I did some real thinking about what roles had to go where.

I thought both you and Niempie were scummy the Night I wrote the message, but it was slightly easier to point to you than to Niempie . Plus, I had really vague gut feelings that Niempie might be innocent, so I went after you.

CK

Gill, let's call it a hunch For once, I was going with my gut.

Quoted from Caesar K:

If I'd been wrong, then it would have removed a townie and given Gill some more time. Besides, by then, most people had roleclaimed, so I had to do something.

This was a very hard game for scum to win once all the roles became clear. With only 2 of us and several investigation/blocking roles, it was always going to be something of an uphill struggle. That's why I felt the need to try something rather different. The Putney Poisoner thing was the clincher for me, though Darth's eagerness to see when the poison kicked in was also a push in the right direction. That said, it was still quite a risk to take.

There was a rather nasty moment after Darth had highlighted the fact that I'd written the green message, since someone in the grey fields had blocked me from posting for 24 hours. I was just relieved that nobody picked up on Darth's post though, and it gave me some time to think up a way to dig myself out of the hole.

In fact, getting rid of Darth was the killer for the scum. Once that had happened, there was almost certainly no chance of us winning the game. In normal games, you can get rid of 2 people in the day/night circle with a lynch and a kill, but here it was only 1. Then again, Darth has already said that he had both Gill and I down as scum, and he would have tried to take us out, so I guess we were in a no-win situation.

Even with my roleclaim, there was no way that I would have won this game. Bengel's "probably dishonest" on me was a real bummer (I gather that 5 people chose me on the first night!!!), and would have been a hard one to explain away. All I could have said would have been "look at my track record", but the town would have nothing to lose by lynching me. With that hanging over me, I'm actually amazed that I lasted as long as I did.

By the way, EJay was my pick to be killed on the final night .