The Sopranos: A Deadly Game (GAME OVER!)

[Locke Lamora]

Not that people are bothering to post much here anyway, but...

Mod (and everyone else): my masters dissertation is due to be handed in soon and I really need to get in a few solid days of work, so I will be V/LA until around the weekend. The better it goes, the more likely I'll be back to posting frequently, so I'm going to focus on it this week rather than trying to juggle that and my mafia games.

[Empking]

Don't know if anybody's missing me or not yet, but if nobody noticed, my interest has dropped significantly around the time when we had no mod.

I do hate leaving a game, though, so I'll try to get back into it. The mod seems to be active enough now.

We're lynching CJ.

[mneme]

We're lynching CJ.

Are we?

Probably for the best, actually -- CJ as town probably means there's a scum roleblocker, and those aren't -that- common.

unvote
vote: CJmiller

[zwetschenwasser]

Votecount please

I fully intend to hammer this fakeclaiming scum that CJ is.

[CJMiller]

I. AM. NOT. SCUM.

[zwetschenwasser]

Sure.

[al_kohaulec]

Vote count is on last page, so it looks like CJ has 7 votes, 9 to lynch, or by deadline tomorrow he's deadline-lynched. Looks like either way, he's going down.

Vote: CJ

His claim is plausible, but questionable. Altogether, his play has been poor and anti-town. He's posting now, with minimal content, because his head is on the chopping block. But before that he just lurked and ignored any posts directed at him.

[CJMiller]

Unvote

Vote: CJMiller

Watch as you lose one of your own PRs.

[SSF352]

CJ, that bit about the sandwich and meat market seemed kinda cryptic. Whats up with that? Also, selfhammering isnt helping. Not that it matters now.

[Dr. Melfi]

Will update lynch scene at some point tomorrow, hopefully. Busy week right now.

[Dr. Melfi]

Sorry for the delay. As I noted earlier, it's been a busy week. I was hoping my co-mods could help pick up the slack. Anyway, I'm V/LA today, but I should be able to put this to night tomorrow. Thanks for being patient.

[Dr. Melfi]

Due to incredibly unforseen complications, night will be delayed until Tuesday. I should have time to take care of it then.

[Dr. Melfi]

The day was quick and nasty. "Pussy, we've heard about you, you're a rat!" Alarmed, Sal Bonpensiero backed toward the door with his hands up in protest. "Guys, you've been misinformed. There's no way I would ever inform on Tony!" That did nothing, however, to placate the angry mob. Face with imminent death or worse, Sal pulled out his own gun and shot himself, ending his life before the mob could end it for him.

CJMiller, Sal "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero, Tracker Miller, Lynched Day 3

New jobs were announced before the mob dispersed:

Job #1 -

Payment: $55,000
Description: The guys from down in Miami sent somebody up here to cause trouble for us. He's been talking to the wrong people, and he needs to be stopped...for good. Make sure he doesn't get away.

Job #2 -

Payment: $30,000
Description: Down in Atlantic City there's a Jew named Herman Baar, and I hear he's got a sweet little business proposition for us. Head down there and see what he wants, and make sure we get paid.

Job #3 -

Payment: $40,000
Description: One of the waste disposal outfits up north has been having trouble keeping up with their business. Go "convince" them to consolidate their business with ours. Once we've annexed them, make sure they know who owns the business around here.

Vote Count #12:

CJMiller - 9 (inHimshallibe, MafiaSSK, SSF352, Empking, Kise, rajrhcpfreak, mneme, al_kohaulec, CJMiller)

Kise - 1 (Empking)
Porochaz - 1 (Locke Lamora)

With 9 votes, a lynch has been reached. It is now Night 3. You have 72 hours to send in your night choices. Anyone who can talk to another player at night may do so now. All choices must be received by 3:00 PM CST on Friday, September 25th. Day will open on Saturday or Sunday, once all choices have been processed.

Still searching for a replacement for magichands.

[Dr. Melfi]

Jacob Miller knew how to get things done. He was on the lookout for his first target, sitting outside a diner. As he saw him leaving, Jacob started up his car to follow. Turning the corner behind him, he hit the breaks quickly as a car pulled out of the parking lot in front of him. Preoccupied by driving in reverse to create space, he didn't hear the doors shut as two men got out and walked towards him. As he turned around to go forward again, he took two bullets through the skull. Jacob didn't hear a thing.

Silvio Dante closed up after another grueling day, making sure the Bing was cleaned up once everyone left. He locked up the business and got in his car, going out about his evening business. Upon returning home sometime after midnight, he saw a figure in the darkness approaching from the side of his house. Reaching for his gun, he looked up with an expression of recognition as a round of bullets impacted his chest.

mneme, Silvio Dante, Investigator, Killed Night 3

Earnings Ladder:

Highest Earner:

Locke Lamora

- ($105,300)
Second Highest Earner:

Gorrad

- ($73,990)
Lowest Earner:

rajrhcpfreak

- ($12,050)

It is now Day 4. With 15 alive, it takes 8 to lynch. As lowest earner, rajrhcpfreak can be lynched by 6 votes.

Deadline: Sunday, October 18th, 5:00 pm CST

[Dr. Melfi]

Still searching for a replacement for magichands. Please let me know if you find anyone interested in joining the game.

[Locke Lamora]

Did only one job get done last night?

Vote: Empking

For jumping on the CJ wagon with absolutely no justification and generally doing very little the whole game.

[zwetschenwasser]

CJMiller, thou wers't an idiot.

Vote: Zoneace

[Locke Lamora]

What's the Zoneace vote for, Zwet?

[zwetschenwasser]

For not helping.

[Locke Lamora]

I think Zoneace has been helping more than most of the players in this game. Besides, if 'not helping' is your reason, you could probably vote for most of the players left alive on the same basis. Why Zoneace specifically?

[Empking]

LL; I helped CJ get lynched, that's something.

It lokes to me that SS is likely scum. (Gut)

Vote: SS

[Locke Lamora]

Well done. You lynched the tracker. Good job.

SSF or SSK?

[Locke Lamora]

Something else that just jumped out at me on a reread. Let's go back and look at the Al wagon:

Vote Count #3:

al_koaulec (8) - ashmc1984, fuzzylightning, zoneace, millar13, Locke Lamora, inHimshallibe, mneme, CJMiller

millar13 (2) - Monkeyman576, rajrhcpfreak
Kise (2) - hohum, elvis_knits
Empking (1) - porochaz
CJmiller (1) - SirTornado
zoneace (1) - al_kohaulec
inHimshallibe (1) - Empking
zwetschenwasser (1) - Kise

With 22 alive, it takes 12 to lynch.

Look at the people on Al. Of those 8, millar, mneme, Locke I and CJMiller are dead. Fuzzylightning is now me, so I know they're town. Raj's assertion at the time that this was a scum-driven wagon is looking less and less likely. Furthermore, look at who's sitting there on the eventual lynch millar 13: two people who not only argued that there wasn't any merit to the Al wagon but have also been on all three lynches: MonkeyMan(Kise II) and Raj. I wouldn't mind betting that this isn't a scum-driven wagon at all: this is a wagon on scum, who gets saved by the millar13 wagon.

Now watch how the tide turns after this votecount: Porochaz, offering virtually no reasoning, supports the millar wagon. SSF, after being AWOL for a while, comes back in and also goes for millar, saying that the Al wagon is based on 'word confusion and flavor assumptions'. He also buddies up to me a little in this post. Al is no longer the substantial vote leader. Millar proceeds to dig himself further into a hole by being uncooperative and unhelpful and you know the rest.

Vote Count #6:

millar13 (12) - MonkeyMan576, rajrhcpfreak, Porochaz, SSF352, CJMiller, elvis_knits, hohum, ZONEACE, al_kohaulec, Locke Lamora, MafiaSSK, zwetschenwasser

CJmiller (3) - Sir Tornado, Kise, millar13
al_kohaulec (2) - fuzzylightning, mneme
inHimshallibe (1) - Empking

I think knowing Al's alignment would tell us an awful lot. I think it's fairly likely that amongst MonkeyMan, Raj, Porochaz, SSF and Al, there's a whole lot of scum. Empking's also scum but he can wait, as his lynch would tell us much less and he's not going to bother responding to people properly anyway. Vig him or something.

Unvote; Vote: al_kohaulec

[Empking]

vote: SSF

LL; Even the tracker thought he was the best lynch. I don't think I can be blamed for that.

[ZONEACE]

For not helping.

says the person who's had the largest percentage of contentless posts in the game