END OF COURT PHASE 3 VOTE COUNT!

yogsloth (4) - Microfish, JoeSapphire, dedoporno, FlockeSchnee
Microfish (1) - yogsloth

Not voted: Lifthrasil, JoeSapphire, dedoporno, Vitek, trentonlf, FlockeSchnee, yogsloth
Not voting: Vitek, trentonlf, FlockeSchnee, Lifthrasil

yogsloth is closest to lynch at L-1.
Eight players. It takes five to lynch.

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All the guards in the room looked at Achmed sternly. Or rather, with some sort of killing intent. Achmed, bewildered and drunk with potions, let out a weak "what? Mind your own business!"

"We should put him in jail, your Highness!" Mohamed Salem said while facing the Queen. "He's an alchemist more than a guard! He knows how to poison a person!"

The Queen smiled. She really wanted to ditch this guard. Her thought of tossing him out of the room excited her. She couldn't even care less where he went, as long as he wasn't part of the guard. But she waited for the votes...

Abd-allah followed up. "I agree. What is his use anyway? He's a freaking apothecary!"

Faraam and Sagi held Achmed by the arms. "Wha'tha hell's up with all a' yous!?" He retorted, as if becoming a different person once learning of his fate. "I only sell mewares! Delicious drink'ds that cure an'heal! And ye tossin' me for a couple o'rats!? I live for tha' Queen, she helped so many times with her price raisin' and all that stuff, like hell I'd want 'er head!"

"Even if he was on our side, your Highness, he would sell his potions to the rebels." Sagi spoke, with Faraam nodding longwise.

"Well." The Queen spoke softly, with everyone shutting their mouths in turn. "The guards have spoken." She stood, before pointing with her hand at Achmed. "You're fired."

"Wha!? No way!"

"Be happy I didn't put you in jail. If you know what's good for you, you'd take your sorry asshole out of this room and never show your fucking face again! Aybak!"

The head of guards held Achmed out of the room, with the help of the two who held him. Despite his loud mouth, he was pretty frail and easy to move around. He eventually gave up after a couple of hallways separated him from Queen Hoda. But just before leaving, he had to...well, take off his guard uniform. And be screened for anything odd before leaving the Castle, never to step foot in it again.

It turned out, he had hundreds of potions. But not a single wild rose. It wasn't even part of any of his concoctions to begin with! Oh, and did you know his potions were mostly just sweet stuff thrown together? Not even medicine!

yogsloth, A.K.A. Achmed ibn Hamam, has been fired! He was Town Regular.

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It is now Intrigue Phase 3 (Night 3). Please stop posting. The phase will end at approximately 9:45PM London Time (UTC+1), Sunday, July 12th. (Countdown)

yogsloth is allowed one bah post.

The commotion with Achmed and firing him had died down a bit. Everyone wasn't really happy about firing yet another guard, even if said guard offered liquid candy more than any protection services, but you all moved on. Keeping up with all the weird occurrences that happened exactly after sending someone to prison, the guards were on...guard.

That didn't stop the inevitable as the handy soldier Abd-allah al Jameel suddenly dropped on the ground. The last thing he was seen doing was drinking a cup of water. Half of the people in the room were vocal about their distaste of the man, but the Queen kept her thoughts to herself, "Wow, what a fucking tool."

The glasses of water and the man himself were sent, as usual to the medical quarters. One has been searched thoroughly while the others were sampled, analyzed. But who was going to wait for the analysis of the water? What mattered is the presence of the Wild Rose.

Or in this case, the lack thereof.

JoeSapphire, A.K.A. Abd-allah al Jameel, has been sent to medical care! He was Town Regular.

It turns out the water was thankfully not poisoned, but it was mixed with some sleeping powder. It was strong enough to affect him quickly, but not too strong as to make him sleep forever. He was going to wake up in due time, no problem.

But hey. He was all muscle, but he might as well have been headless.

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Court Phase 4 will end on July 18th, Saturday, at 8PM London Time (UTC+1). (Countdown)

JoeSapphire is allowed one bah post.

You may resume posting.

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@Micro, I hope you have a good investigation report to share with everyone.

oh boobs

"Salem was seen on his hands and knees with his magnifying glass close to his eye (a la Sherlock Holmes), slowly moving around the throne room studying the carpet and marble flooring.

The Queen spoke sharply, "you idiot, what are you doing!"

Salem answered, "Your majesty, I was looking for footprints, or even hoofprints!"

"You stupid idiot! this is a throne room! Of COURSE there are going to be footprints! And what would a hooved creature dare to be doing in MY throne room anyway?!"
Well...I thought..."
"that's the trouble with you--you didn't think! Are you insane? Why the sheer audacity, the nerve! Of all the Unspeakable, Unprintable, Unmentionable Deleted So-and so-s! You...You..rat!!!"

Aybek thought here that he had never seen the Queen's visage grander, nor more terrible.

"Mr Rat, If. You. Please!" said Salem promptly and daringly.

The queen looked more incensed, if that was even possible and screamed, "You DARE to say that phrase in MY COURT?!?!?!"

Immediately, however--even before she had finished talking--the sound system in the courtroom (which, be it known O Gentle Reader, was indubitably the best in the known universe) reacted to <i>that</i> turn of phrase and started blaring that old, 19-century AD classic tune, as sung by a renowned basso profundo, a scintillating mezzo-soprano, and a jolly good chorus, accompanied by a superb orchestra. (Nothing shall be said about the conductor, however, as no one had ever heard of his name.)
"For I hold that on the seas
The expression, "If you please",
A particularly gentlemanly tone implants.
[Here the response came in..]
"And so do his sisters, and his cousins, and his aunts!
[And here the chorus swelled...]
"And so do his sisters, and his cousins, and his aunts!
His sisters and his cousins,
Whom he reckons up by dozens, and his aunts!"
The music crashed and died away.

"That tune! Why of all the Unmitigated Gall!" cried the queen.
Aybek looked uncomfortable. "Well, well WELL!?!? Speak!" quoth She.

"If it please your Majesty, my half-great-grandmother on my Uncle's side was a Gaul...."

"AGH!!! of all the..." Here the queen descended to muttering under her breath, while giving everyone and everything a series of nasty looks.


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I investigated trentonlf and was roleblocked.

Sorry for being absent the whole friday. I sudeenly got sick out of nowhere and spent last 3 days feeling miserable and trying to get better.
I am not there yet but it's better and I should be able to participate today.

It took me about half of this post to realize it's not official Pooka's flavour. :-)

Why did you choose trenton?

I hope that you feel better soon!

:D :D
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I chose to track trentonlf because he has consistently been very hard for anyone to figure out; as far as I recalled, no-one had any concrete leads on trent, leaving him firmly in the pile of "maybe scum". This game, he has been one of the most enigmatic characters for me, personally, and I figured it was worth a try to see if he moved, and if so, where. Other options included Flocke, and you, just because you two are almost tied with trent, in my mind, for being unknowns.

i have a slightly better feel about lift, but only barely.

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Ooooh. I forgot the one bit of the queen's speech that I meant to incliude. the "Billions of billious blue blistering barnacles" bit.
I hope that you feel better soon!

:D :D
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I chose to track trentonlf because he has consistently been very hard for anyone to figure out; as far as I recalled, no-one had any concrete leads on trent, leaving him firmly in the pile of "maybe scum". This game, he has been one of the most enigmatic characters for me, personally, and I figured it was worth a try to see if he moved, and if so, where. Other options included Flocke, and you, just because you two are almost tied with trent, in my mind, for being unknowns.

i have a slightly better feel about lift, but only barely.

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Ooooh. I forgot the one bit of the queen's speech that I meant to incliude. the "Billions of billious blue blistering barnacles" bit.

Ah, must have been the same infamous Roleblocker that supposedly blocked Carradice too! ;-)

It's really a bother that it seems unlikely that you faked all your breadcrumbs and that there was no counter-claim. Everything in my gut-feeling still says, that you are scum. Surviving the Night, reporting a block like the proven scum Carradice, ineffective and partially strange selection of targets... You look quite scummy and yet I should treat you as confirmed Town. Time to re-calibrate my gut-feeling, I guess.

Oh, come on...


That's annoying. I hope you feel better soon!


Yesterday you were literally going to vote for Flocke in order to stay alive which means she was "a lot more likely scum" yet you went for someone who was "maybe scum".


I think Joe might have been right all along. The role claim may have been true. Just not the alignment. For me the whole thing carried tons of weight because of that and because of speculation about game balance. But leaving the role aside, Micro's actions throughout the game don't really say "most likely Town". Yog asked to consider targets - I'm OK with Micro choosing me on N1. I can see how Micro can choose you on N2 even though Yog didn't make sense of that. But Trent over Flocke, I don't really get.


We are likely at MYLO. Unless someone else has something really good to claim I believe we are at the point where everyone claims and try make sense out of this.

Supposedly the scum have a Roleblocker and a Role Cop. Likely something else as well.

We had a Doctor, a 1-Shot Commuter, allegedly a Tracker and a Tracker Bullshitter (Visitor). The last role is more likely going to be a Town hindrance than anything else if the Tracker is also Town. On the flipside the Visitor becomes slightly more useful if the Tracker is on the scum-side. That is the likelier scenario in which the scum might also have a Roleblocker.

How does everyone feel about claiming? If we mislynch Today we can't make use of any supposed PRs anymore anyway. So a useful power action might help out with this.


@Lift, am I wrong giving Trent the pass I'm giving him?

Are you entirely sure you were roleblocked? Not that your action failed but were blocked.

If you doubt Micro's claim, do we have anyone that would confirm there is mafia RB at all or was Carradice the only one before who claimed there is one?


Thanks (to Micro too). It is better already. But on Friday it caught me by surprised and it came out of nowhere.

I don't know if I doubt it, yet, but it's appears less plausible and more convenient Today than Yesterday. Last time the roleblocker was mentioned was to support Carradice's fake claim. I don't have any recollection of anyone else bringing that role up or hinting/wondering about it in any way. It's possible that the scum do have a Roleblocker and Carradice/Micro made use of something they had first-hand information about. But it can just be an excuse of a role to support the fact they don't have a good report. Micro no longer has an excuse to track me, we did scum's dirty work for them with Yog and they took care of Joe. I don't think Scum!Micro can't afford to report a successful track of movement as there are some potential issues with that:

- If he is lying about his target he may end up hitting a hidden power role that did something else than his report in which case it's likely he will be the one who is mistrusted

- If he isn't lying he would likely confirm a Townie or possibly try and fake-confirm his buddy. Issues may arise for scum from either of these.

The safest option in terms of investigations would be to claim a block so he doesn't have to explain himself and risk getting called out.


Again, technically it's possible that the scum do have both Role Cop and Role Blocker and we do have a Tracker but in that case the Visitor is a defacto anti-Town role. That's why I think we need to do the mass claim because the setup in this way makes no sense to me.

MAYBE, if there are only two scum they can have these roles and that might make things a bit more balanced but then it doesn't look that great for the scum team - if they ever want to achieve anything one role (likely the Role Cop) is practically meaningless as the Blocker is objectively more useful and they would always want to block and kill each night.

That's true, if he is lying block is most likely the course of action to not possibly slip and either confirm someone or get buddy in trouble.

I think claim may be in order but I really need to hear from Micro (and possibly others) before saying more on these matters (both claim and your Micro "musings").

That's thing I am not even going to entertain. Even if there were no roles for town, 2 mafia against 11 townies would make no sense at all.

On top of that giving all mafia some kind of role is good in role-heav game because it forces them to decide what they forgo in the favour of NK, but it's not something I would expect for 2-players team.

This absolutely has to be a group decision and action rather than people just spilling information out of order as soon as they see this post.