Mini 981: Descent into Chaos (Game Over)

[SaintKerrigan]

I followed slightly behind a group consisting of Rachella, Hyperion, and Ferdinand, leaning on Hyperion's shoulder. We were heading in the direction of the nearby forest.

"There's something I don't quite understand, though," Rachella was saying. "People kept bringing up this necromancy book you were supposed to have, Ferdinand, but when we searched your stuff we weren't able to find it. So what the daemon happened to it?" A thoughtful look came into her eyes. "Hey, what if you used that necromancy book to raise yourself from the dead?"

Ferdinand stared at her incredulously. "Ahre you sehriyous?"

"He was dead, stupid," Hyperion pointed out. "How in the name of hot sex do you bring yourself back to life

after

you're dead?"

"Supernaturally!" Rachella exclaimed. "You know, I had this dream once about some random person who got nailed to a tree and died, and three days later brought himself back to life..."

"You aren't on illicit narcotics again, are you?" Hyperion inquired bluntly.

"Hey!" Rachella protested. "I've been clean for quite some time now, thank you very much."

"Wehll," Ferdinand remarked, "sahmtimes weh wohnder..."

We came to a stop just outside the forest's edge and sat down, but now the thought of the missing necromancy book was running through my head.

Thanks a lot, Rachella...

Players Sleeping

Albert B. Rampage (2:10 p.m. on June 12th)
Chronopie (3:40 p.m. on June 12th)

Vote Count 2.3

(4) Albert B. Rampage: ReaperCharlie, easjo682, Me=Weird, VasudeVa
(1) Chronopie: Kenman
(1) ReaperCharlie: Pittbunny

Not Voting: vIQleS, Nikanor, farside22

With 11 players alive and 2 asleep, it takes 5 votes to lynch.
Deadline is Tuesday, June 15th, 2010 at 2:00 p.m.

Additionally, I would like to request that if you have a question about something, please check the ruleset first to make sure I haven't already provided an answer there. I wrote all those rules out for a reason. It's in your best interests to be familiar with them.

[ReaperCharlie]

@ Pitt: Huh? at your vote.

@ easjo: why not? if I was scum, would I rez a townie? (insert wifom here)

[easjo682]

why not? if I was scum, would I rez a townie? (insert wifom here)

theres also the WIFOM of if you are the resurrector

[Pittbunny]

Funny, I fakeclaimed Jesus Christ not too long ago..

[VasudeVa]

Funny, I fakeclaimed Jesus Christ not too long ago..

You do not know how hard I'm laughing right now.

[Kenman]

stupid vote randomization didnt mean to vote chronopie....

vote abr

[Me=Weird]

Umm... You realize it's only 5 votes to lynch don't you?

[ReaperCharlie]

why not? if I was scum, would I rez a townie? (insert wifom here)

theres also the WIFOM of if you are the resurrector

Fine, don't believe me. I don't see anyone counter-claiming, though.

[ReaperCharlie]

Btw I'm gonna sleep tonight if nobody minds

If you mind, shut up. I'm sleeping anyway.

[SaintKerrigan]

Final Vote Count Day 2

(5) Albert B. Rampage: ReaperCharlie, easjo682, Me=Weird, VasudeVa, Kenman
(1) ReaperCharlie: Pittbunny

Not Voting: vIQleS, Nikanor, farside22

With 11 players alive and 2 asleep, it takes 5 votes to lynch.
Deadline is Tuesday, June 15th, 2010 at 2:00 p.m.

A lynch has been achieved. Lynch scene forthcoming...

[SaintKerrigan]

We hadn't been there long before Ferdinand stated weakly, "Ah nehd sahmthin' tah eaht. Leht's gah bahck."

"Hey, we just got here," Rachella protested, her lips in a pout. "I want to stay here for awhile."

"You can do that," Hyperion stated, helping Ferdinand to his feet. "The rest of us will be gentlemen and help the recovering man."

Rachella looked at me. "I suppose you're gonna leave me, too?"

I shrugged and got up to follow Hyperion and Ferdinand. "Well, then!" Rachella exclaimed. "You go back and have your food! I shall be brave and stay here!"

"Whatever," Hyperion mumbled under his breath.

When we got back to the camp, however, we encountered a peculiar and foreboding sight: a length of rope had been thrown around the branch of one of the two nearby trees, with Gaston and Theadora holding one end of the rope, and the other end being fastened around the neck of Jules Wescott.

"Hey, Hyperion!" Gaston called. "Come help us with this!"

"Sure." Hyperion gently allowed Ferdinand to stand on his own two feet, then went and joined Gaston and Theadora on the hoisting side of the rope.

"Asinine, deluded fools!" Jules screamed. "You're hanging a man on the whims of a dream--"

Abner held up his hand. "And you of all people, with your studies, should know better than to dismiss the importance of dreams." He nodded to the hangmen. "Hoist him!"

Gaston, Theadora, and Hyperion heaved, and Jules was yanked up into the air, fighting for his every breath. As he suffocate I slid alongside Abner.

"So, what'd he do?" I inquired.

"Started talking in his sleep," Abner replied. "Started saying things like how it wasn't so bad that Alicia died, and how Ferdinand wasn't that important of a guy, any."

I gaped at him. "And this warrants death, how?"

Abner suddenly shook his head and looked at me. "Huh? What's going on?"

"Jules!" I screamed, pointing at the dying man. "You're hanging Jules! Stop it!"

Abner looked up. "By the gods! Let him down, guys, let him down!"

Confused, the three lowered Jules to the ground; it had already stopped moving, however, and a short wait indicated that movement wasn't likely going to happen.

Jules was dead.

"What the daemon were you guys

doing

?" I hissed to Abner.

"I- I don't know," Abner mumbled. "In fact, I can't recall anything that happened after you handed off items this morning."

"So what, some kind of mind-altering spell?"

"Don't know what else it could be."

The others began approaching us. "Dear gods, what have we done?" Theadora whispered. "What's happening to us?"

"Hey guys!" Rachella ran up to my side and stopped, panting heavily. "I, um, got bored with being by myself. So, what's happened?" Then she noticed the corpse. "What the daemon?"

"Something weird is going on here," Abner stated flatly. "All right, let's check Jules' stuff and see if, by some miracle, there is any indication he was a renegade."

* * *

As I'd expected, our search turned up nothing incriminating. We did find a Book of Spells in his possession, however.

"All right, we go through the same process as before," Abner said, bringing over the magic chest. We went through the same ritual as last night, and the Book of Spells was sealed away. By now, the last rays of light were vanishing from the air.

"Everyone, get to bed and get some godsdamned sleep," I said sternly, heading for my own bedroll. For an operation that was supposed to be smooth and easy money, things kept taking a steady turn for the worse, and I wasn't liking it at all...

Albert B. Rampage, Jules Wescott,

Guild Sorcerer

, was lynched on Day 2.

The

Book of Spells (IC: 3)

has been dropped. It will be available to grab at the start of Day 3.

Night 2 has begun. Deadline is on Sunday, June 13th, 2010 at 10:00 p.m.

Also, since vIQleS has not posted for two consecutive phases, I'm going to prod him.

[SaintKerrigan]

I am currently searching for a replacement for vIQleS. The night deadline may be extended slightly because of this. (If vIQleS returns my PM before I find a replacement, he can keep his spot.)

[SaintKerrigan]

havingfitz replaces vIQleS effective immediately. Because of this, the night deadline will be extended by 36 hours.

The new deadline is Tuesday, June 15th, 2010 at 10:00 a.m.

Edit: It seems we're moving to the Shelter Forum today. I'll extend the deadline according to however long our time in the Shelter Forum surpasses the original deadline.

[SaintKerrigan]

Ok, so in case you haven't heard yet game mods have to go through an admin to unlock their threads. I decided to simply leave it unlocked and trust that you guys are honorable enough to know not to post during the night. Just in case some of you aren't that honorable/intelligent, anyone who posts in here before I say so will be modkilled. Without exception. Until the lock/unlock stuff gets resolved, the following rule will be in effect:

Special Rule

When you guys make a lynch, I will post the final vote count and announce an incoming lynch scene and that everyone should stop talking. From that point on, everyone should stop talking, period. Once I post the lynch scene, all posting should have stopped.

Anyone

who posts after a lynch scene during the night will be modkilled. Without exception.

Anyway, the final Night 2 deadline is Thursday, June 17th, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. This should give people enough time to get on the new site and whatever else they need to do. See y'all then.

[SaintKerrigan]

Derp, silly me forgot that I changed the deadline from 11:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m....

Anyway, Night 2 is now over. Day will break once I resolve night actions.

(You're still not allowed to post.)

[SaintKerrigan]

I tossed and turned fitfully all night, trying vainly to procure some sleep. Alas, it eluded me, like a dancing nymph leaping gaily amongst the trees. Try as I might, I could not catch that damn nymph.

Finally, the rays of dawn started to attack the land, and I gave up on sleep altogether. Now that I could see what I was doing, I figured I might as well read a little more from the Daemonica Scripta. Looking around quickly to ensure I was alone, I pulled out the book from my pack and read on.

¹⁰⁹Having established on this world a dominion, satisfied Xastarte was not. Turn his thoughts he did towards the other realm, where abode did the gods. And supremacy did Xastarte desire. ¹¹⁰Convince the other daemon Xastarte did that defeated the gods needed to be, and then masters of everything the daemons would be. ¹¹¹Much agreement there was amongst the daemons. Disagree some did, and destroy them the others did, until once again united under one banner the daemons were.

Yet again a seemingly major event that no one seemed to be aware of. Normally I would have entirely written it off as a hoax, but the age of the book suggested that it appeared long before the first Book of the Gods ever did. I read on.

¹³⁴And as the daemons waged war with the gods, sneak onto the world did a party of gods; Elshar, Belinde, and Macatar their names were. ¹³⁵Capture a daemon these gods did, and instruct humans on how to use a daemon's body to channel his daemonic powers they did. So created the first sorcerers were. ¹³⁶Weak the captured daemon was, and so too the sorcerer's magic was...

I paused, shocked by what I was reading. Not only did daemons give intelligence to mankind, but daemons were the reason behind human sorcery in the first place? It was unbelievable.

And then it hit me:

If magic is drawn from a daemon's body, then the Guild must be using imprisoned daemons to empower their sorcerers...

Which, of course, was something

no

non-sorcerer had ever even heard of...

I put the book away and stood up. I needed to talk with Abner about this. Everything I thought I knew about the world was being turned on it's head...

Suddenly, I heard a shrill scream. "Get down here, fast!" Rachella hollered. "Hyperion's been murdered!"

Hyperion murdered?

I bolted in the direction of Hyperion's bedroll, my sudden revelations pushed into the back of my mind.

By the time I reached Hyperion's bedroll, the others had already gathered around. I could plainly see Hyperion's corpse, with a massive gash on the throat, dark crimson blood soaked into his navy blue robe.

"Dammit," Theadora muttered. "I guess we were merely fortunate last night had no murders."

Jonqin nodded. "I found this among his possessions, though," he added, holding up a thick book. The faded words on the cover read "Encyclopedia Daemonica".

"Give it to Santas, please," Abner told Jonqin. "He keeps all the items until he decides who should have them."

Jonqin nodded and handed the Encyclopedia Daemonica to me. It was quite heavy.

"Let's get straight to business, then," Abner declared. "Santas, you decide who gets the Encyclopedia Daemonica and the Book of Spells, and then we'll get on with figuring out just what is going on here."

I nodded numbly.

Rest in peace, Hyperion. Your experience shall be missed...

ReaperCharlie, Hyperion Maci,

Guild Sorcerer

, had his throat slit on Night 2.

The

Book of Spells (IC: 3)

and the

Encyclopedia Daemonica (IC: 4)

are now available to grab.

It is now Day 3. You may now post in the thread.

Kenman (Gaston Hartley)

and

VasudeVa (Theadora Lye)

told me they would not be available to submit sleep actions within the 24-hour window, so I allowed them to send me sleep actions for Day 3 during Night 2. They will wake up on Sunday, June 20th at 12:00 p.m. CST. This pre-submission is an exception, however, and not a rule.

Players Sleeping

Kenman (June 20th at 12:00 p.m. CST)
VasudeVa (June 20th at 12:00 p.m. CST)

Vote Count 3.0

Not Voting: Pittbunny, farside22, easjo682, Nikanor, Chronopie, havingfitz, Me=Weird

With 9 players alive and 2 players sleeping, it takes 4 votes to lynch.
Deadline is Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010 at 12:00 p.m. CST.

[Me=Weird]

Lets not have a quick-lynch again, okay? Welcome havingfitz. *was about to type "I'm going to do some ISO's", and then remembered there are no ISO's* I will skim through the thread again, though. On a side note, I slept last night.

[havingfitz]

Lets not have a quick-lynch again, okay? Welcome havingfitz. *was about to type "I'm going to do some ISO's", and then remembered there are no ISO's* I will skim through the thread again, though. On a side note, I slept last night.

Thanks.

I slept last night as well.

I read up on Monday in preparation for a Tuesday start but the delat due to the forum change has me in need of a refresh. I know I was suspicious of Vasudeva but can't remember why.

Question - Does everyone consider easjo confirmed town?

This should be interesting without post numbers and ISOs. You can sort by player but that is not as clean as the old ISO feature.

[Chronopie]

Grab: Encyclopedia Daemonica (IC: 4)

Grab: Book of Spells (IC: 3)

In that priority, seeing as I don't have room for both.

--

So far, my night actions have been null-results.

Yes Easjo is town. She flipped town and was rezzed.

[Fred Garvin]

Grab: Encyclopedia Daemonica (IC: 4)

If not available, then:

Grab: Book of Spells (IC: 3)

[Pittbunny]

Grab: Book of Spells (IC: 3)
Grab: Encyclopedia Daemonica (IC: 4)
In order of priority, if applicable.

Forgive my lingering paranoia, but I'm still somewhat doubtful of the fact.

I'm not particularly enamored to the idea that Vasu's daynapping, especially after two players that have had at least a moderate amount of antagonism towards him are now dead. One of which appears to have been the Daemonica rezzer.

I would also like the owner of the Fetish-Kit to pass it to me if at all possible, for two reasons.
1. I want to read its description.
2. I have an idea. If it doesn't work due to the description, I'll drop it via post, and we'll simply lynch anyone that decides to take it.

[havingfitz]

Grab: Encyclopedia Daemonica (IC: 4)

If not available, then:

Grab: Book of Spells (IC: 3)

EBWOP...

(Note to self...logout son after he's been on)

[SaintKerrigan]

Grab: Encyclopedia Daemonica (IC: 4)

If not available, then:

Grab: Book of Spells (IC: 3)

Who the hell are you, and why are you posting in a game that you aren't currently playing in?

Just kidding, I saw your EBWOP, fitz.

The countdown timer for both the

Book of Spells (IC: 3)

and the

Encyclopedia Daemonica (IC: 4)

has begun.

[Pittbunny]

@Mod: For curiosity's sake, is the frequency of our roles showing up in the flavor text dependent on how often we post/are talked about ingame?

[Pittbunny]

EBWOP: Failtag.