Tonight the townsfolk leave the square just as the sun is setting. Everything seems a little more hopeful under the gorgeous pink and orange of the sunset.

The night is calm, the first in quite some time to be so. No winds, no storms, just stillness and cicadas.

The morning dawns cool and clear. The sunrise is golden, and there’s nary a cloud in the sky. It almost seems as though the events of the past few days haven’t happened. Well, except for the amorphous white figure muttering to itself while walking in a circle twenty feet in the air.

As the morning goes by however, someone’s absence becomes more and more conspicuous. Where is cristigale?

Eventually, worried for her safety after what happened to Bookwyrm, a small group of townsfolk go out to the small farmhouse where she lives alone. No one answers their knock, and they stand around debating for a while before deciding to break a window. Inside, everything is perfectly silent. There is no sign of a struggle, the bed isn’t slept in, her car is still parked in the driveway. Cristigale has simply disappeared.


cristigale is dead.


Saddened and quieted by this mysterious disappearance, the council reconvenes early today. Everyone wishes to get on with the business at hand. Also, everyone is secretly wondering if cristigale and HijacK will return in the same way as Bookwyrm did.

As the mayor calls the room to order, there is the same rushing noise and intangible breeze, and a second amorphous figure appears beside Bookwyrm. Bookwyrm waves a ghostly hand at the new figure, then returns to his pondering.


cristigale is now a Spectre.


However, the young scholar that was Lynched yesterday does not reappear. The reason? Who can say…


HijacK is gone.


The mayor rises.

”We are gathered together here for a third time. Apparently we haven’t killed all of the cultists yet, for I can only assume that cristigale was killed by them. What shall we do? Please, help me. This can’t go on much longer, this is a small town.”

The mayor resumes his seat, looking pleadingly out over the assembled folks.

At that moment, CSPVG rises from his chair and walks towards the door.

A chorus erupts behind his back, "Where are you going? Why are you leaving??"

He turns and surveys the room. "I'm going to Africa. Any questions?"

A stunned silence falls.

"Good. My evil twin, yogsloth, will be quite sufficient to take my place. Either that, or you can talk to my stuffed raccoon. Adios, amigos."

The door slams behind him.

Moments pass, as people digest this unexpected piece of information.

Then the door opens again and yogsloth enters the room, holding a stuffed raccoon under his arm.

"CSPVG sent me. What's all this about?"


CSPVG is being replaced by yogsloth.



I received the Night actions quickly. Therefore, the Day begins quickly.

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

The deadline is Wednesday, May 18 at 20:00 EST.

Awww...pity. Since Bookwyrm was old and HijacK was new, would've been helpful to have him as a spectre and have Bookwyrm disappeared. Unless HijacK really WAS evil, in which case does existing as a spectre not count as a point against evil? Also, spectres cannot be killed, right?
So cristi, some insight perhaps? Were you something?

Also, seriously, like. Can we please get lynch drealmer7 now?
vote drealmer7

Ok, hope the 10 minute gap is enough to not let the two posts merge. The typos in my last post were really frustrating me :D. Also, the lack of resolution with the deaths is also frustrating.

drealmer7 had 5 votes on day 1. What happened between then and now?

It is 10 minutes, as you can obviously see. I always wait for 11 minutes to show on my previous post, because I don't trust GOG rounding. ;)

@cristigale - nooooo. Miss you. Seems to be a recurring theme with women in my life. Or out if my life.

Why cristigale? She was reading town - but did scum see PR potential in her? I don't remember her hunting anyone viscouslu but I'll have to go back and look.

If bookworm was 99% town, I'm putting cristigale at 82% town. It's actually a lot lower than that. Probably actually low 60's. But because of my affinity for her, 82% sounds right. I just can't see scum killing one of their own just for the spectre vote. Obviously some WIFOM - but that's a lot for what could just be one day of life for Cristigale if exorcist chooses to remover her (if exorcist survives ).

Who comes out of the woodwork ?

@A4plz. - how do you feel about your unvote being too late ?

Sorry to see you leave the game CSPVG, I hope all is well. Welcome yogsloth, hopefully we are not as crazy as the people in the other games seem to be LOL.


I think the right decision was made to remove Hijack by the exorcist, I think Hijack was trying to get the real herbalist to reveal themselves so scum would know who to target.

Also, why did the mod call yogsloth evil in the Day post? I am not saying yogsloth is evil (I have no idea of his alignment but I think CSPVG was good), but I would not be happy if the mod labeled me evil, even if it was to be funny, seeing how it's a good vs evil setting.

yoggy! Let me welcome you as I should!

Vote yogsloth

There, all done.

Unvote yogsloth

Sorry to see CSPVG go, who will break the monotony with snippets of creative writing now?
Welcome yogs, good to see you :)

I was going to do a little skit on the song Africa by Toto saying how I missed CSPVG but either all the lyrics sites or wrong or the line is actually:
"I bless the rains down in Africa"

...

My whole life is a lie.




Anyway, back to the game. I have a really busy day so probably won't be able to post much.
There are two options, one we just lynched our Herbalist, two we hit scum.
I'm fairly certain it was the later (if I were scum I would have claimed a PR too at lynch), not least because the pleasant weather mentioned in the OP feels like a hint.

But I'll look into both options in more depth as soon as I can.

I doubt scum will have hit their own yet so I'm assuming cristi is town too, I had her leaning that way anyway so I'm comfortable making that assumption for now.

I think drealmer should be next, the end of yesterday (and his over reaction to HijacK's lynch) felt like he was trying to save a buddy.

Vote drealmer7

So, looking at that lynch wagon there are three players I know or can be reasonably certain are town (me, Bookwyrm and cristi). Everyone else on there gets town cred (barring the two newbs at the end, but I can't really see them bussing the way they did because HijacK could conceivably have escaped that lynch) so if we assume that was a 100% town lynch, and that Hyper is probably town as HijacK was voting for him (and was before he really had a wagon going as far as I remember so it's probably not a distancing vote).

Then really we're left with drealmer, flub, JMich and babark as possible scum. I don't really see JMich as scum, and drealmer was trying to push babark (possible distancing there but let's ignore that for now) so that makes drealmer and flub as the most likely scum pairing.
And I'd be happy with lynching either.

If we assume HijacK was town that's a whole other story. There should have been no way for scum to know he was a power role and to push him for that reason (I've been assuming that the way the rules are stated suggests the mafia squad is all vanilla so no Role Cop), which puts everyone at a fairly equal level of suspicion (except for a4plz whose hammer looks worse in that light).
But I know I'm town, and can be fairly sure Bookwyrm and cristi are too; which makes trent, CSPVG, lcw and a4plz possible scum with Hyper, babark and flub as possible team mates.
In that case I would guess we're looking at trent, a4plz and babark (though I wouldn't rule out flub instead of one of the newbs)

I still find that to be the far less likely possibility though, HijacK didn't display any of the behaviours I would have expected from him as town, or make any real effort to defend himself as you would expect a town PR to.
Maybe he was just too busy with RL, but it feels much more like he was scum to me and I'm more than comfortable making that assumption and basing my behaviour on that.

Seeing his inevitable lynch, I wonder if HijacK would relish being able to rub in our faces the lynch of the herbalist?? A plan to call out the real herbalist is possible....but I have doubts. HijacK was all but lynched. Would the real herbalist jump up and expose themselves in order to ensure HijacK was lynched??

The choice between Bookwyrm627 and HijacK (the possible herbalist) wouldn't be easy.

I would assume cristigale would be a choice next Night Phase instead of last night....but that's a moot point.

It had nothing to do with alignment.
It was a joke, perhaps I shouldn't have. But yogsloth always seems like someone's evil twin to me. And I couldn't use long-lost cousin again.

vote adaliabooks

why? feels like this came out of the gates firing. with some plan. some mafia devised plan. i gotta say, adaliabooks - you speak fairly convincingly. So now that you are on the spot -- why were you the first person with a significant post after the new day?


@agentcar - could cristigale have been the exorcist? not asking for reveal, just asking for timing. does the exorcist remove a spectre before they die if they die in the night?


I still don't like drealmer7's actions on two fronts: harping on babark that late in the day. @drealmer 7 - did you really not want hijack killed? I get you wanted discussion to the end, but we saw where that got us on day one. yes it makes sense to vote for who you most think mafia -- in the early hours of the day. but by the end, if everyone is only voting for who they most think is scum, or even think is 2nd most scum - no one will ever be day lynched.
2. Drealmer7 - were you really that angry with a4plz? i get you don't like her coming in at the end to throw the hammer down. i get that that upsets you. i get it feels like a quick action. but - let's look at the flipside on a couple fronts:
1 - she's in a different time zone. she chose to contribute when she could. i don't think you can fault her for that. She - like me - is new. if she's feeling anything like i am - we just want to be able to contribute and play the game. do we have great reads on people versus other games? no. we only have this game, and i'm trying to grasp everything myself. why not vote for someone that will help make something happen? I'd have done the same if i was on the hammer.
2 - who's taken more results based action in this game? you might hate me for saying it, but it's a4plz and not you. she voted for someone who got lynched. she might very well be lurking as mafia. but she put the hammer down on someone - i really don't think you can fault her for that. you can be mad, but demanding a4plz to be killed right away because of your indignation does no good for the town.

I think this has been addressed - maybe even just with the answer being we officially don't know: but are there three or four Mafia in this game?

What are they odds hijack was herbalist? Doubt it. But I loved the "suck it". Didn't feel town at all. Wouldn't the town want justice and to be saved? "Suck it" felt like a "what are you going to do now, b*tches... You can't mess with me"

Beginning to agree with adialiabooks that we got a Mafia. I agree with the thinking that bookworm and cristigale are town - so at least 3 or the 7 were town. I don't know how much town credit I'd give everyone. On subway so can't look - but who was on the dreamler7 wagon that didn't join hijack's ?

@drealmer7 - what's it like living to d3? How do you feel about adialiabooks wanting your blood? I'm not so sure I'm far away from that stance, myself.

I suggest that you read the main mod posts again. Mostly the ones at the beginning of the game, then the two Day End and Day Start posts.

I can answer the question about cristi: she was town.

That "suck it" was pure Hijack. I could easily see him throw that line down regardless of faction.

I agree with Adalia that Hijack was either the Herbalist or Evil. The interesting part to me was that apparently he wasn't caught up on the thread when he dropped his claim.

Hijack was already lynched when he claimed, why would the real herbalist let scum know that we had a lost a PR? Hijack was trying to act as if he was still at L-1 when he said he was the herbalist and trying to save himself. If Hijack really thought he was at L-1 he was not paying attention to the game and I don't see a town aligned Hijack not paying attention to the game especially if he has a PR. If Hijack really was the town Herbalist he played it very oddly, he was deflective in his responses instead of actually defendeding himself and was not invested in the game. If you have a PR in a game like this the last thing you should let happen is getting yourself lynched.