Mafia Round 3 - you shouldn't trust anyone

[Tohrinha]

I'm going to go with narra and vote for Anura, on the same grounds as yesterday. He seems desperate.

[Blurred_9L]

Oh no, dead bodies! D:

I must do something. I'm voting for Sophira... she seems suspicious >.>

[Qara-Xuan Zenith]

I think that eli is in on it as well; he and Qara seemed pretty tight.

he and Qara

eli

he

No true member of this town would be unaware that my legbuddy is a lady. Anura is an insidious outsider, and in the wake of three deaths now, he has my suspicion and he has my vote.

[Sophira]

Wait just a second.

Rick, what did you make the counts of the first lynching out to be? Because I'm noticing some inconsistencies with what people voted and how you counted them. Notably, Krika did not vote for Pixel, but Victin. Would Pixel have been lynched if the vote had been counted as posted?

(Although I do realise - as in, I realise after I posted this - that it might not have mattered in this case since Pixel was leaving anyway. But I think it's still worth bringing up.)

[Sophira]

...never mind, I see Krika changed their vote to Pix.

Carry on!

[edit: Just rechecked the votes and they definitely match up to how Rick counted them. I'm sorry!]

[Rick Healey]

Yeah, keeping track of the votes can be tricky because there is a grace period to change them before they're locked down. Qara also flipped her vote - twice, no less. As for the vote coming down the way it did - keep in mind that, as announced, the mayoral tie-breaker was involved (Pix and Anura each received three public votes). Something different may or may not have actually happened if not for Krika's last-minute vote flip.

Votes in the second round:
Russ has voted to lynch Victin.
Narra has voted to lynch Anura.
Endless has voted to lynch Eli.
Anura has voted to lynch Qara.
Tohr has voted to lynch Anura.
Blur has voted to lynch Sophira.
Qara has voted to lynch Anura.
eli has voted to abstain.
Victin has voted to lynch Anura.
Sophira has voted to lynch Victin.

Not yet voted: Dryu.

[eli_gone_crazy]

I just...
I don't like that people are murdering other people.
It's not nice at all.

There has to be another way to keep people from murdering other people than murdering people. I abstain.

[RussetDivinity]

But eli, when all the murderers are murdered, the only people left with be... okay, they'll be the ones who murdered the murderers. That was going to make a lot more sense when I started writing it.

Do you want some pie to make you feel better? I promise it's not the one I made for the lynching party.

[eli_gone_crazy]

We're having a lynching party?! D:

[Qara-Xuan Zenith]

We're having a lynching party?! D:

I would definitely not vote for that party. D:

[Dryunya]

It isss my party of one.

[Blurred_9L]

It isss my party of one.

What if you're the one getting lynched, eh?

Not that I'm implying anything...

[Victin]

I vote for Anura.

[Sophira]

Dryu, you're just waiting for me to vote, aren't you?

...fine. I'm going to vote for Victin.

[Rick Healey]

I got a little behind because I went on vacation, but let's not drag this out much further. The voting will be closed in 24 hours.

[Dryunya]

Dryu, you're just waiting for me to vote, aren't you?

...fine. I'm going to vote for Victin.

((Actually I got tired from IRL stuff and didn't log on for, like, 3 days. Now let me put on my creepy hat and pick somebody. ))

I'll passss. Sssurprised? Anura isss going to die anywaysss... I'm not going to provoke anyone needlesssly.

So, have we decccided now?

BURN
THE
WITCH.

BURN
THE
WITCH.

[Anura]

You guys suck.

[Rick Healey]

Anura's seething anger is perhaps deserved. As the townsfolk march him towards the gallows, not even bothering to read the mayor's missive, he knows his pleas for innocence will fall on deaf ears. And as his body swings lifelessly, everything found in his home calls truth to what he said - Anura was one of the town.

Night falls, and private messages are sent to me.

[Rick Healey]

Day breaks, and nine people shuffle into the meeting hall, fearful and grim. As the town clock chimes, everyone slowly realizes that one person is missing.

Back at her home, Sophira's eyes are rolled back, her tongue swollen, hand clutching a glass whose contents spilled onto the floor and evaporated during the night. Sophira was killed, an innocent townie victim to this plague of death.

[eli_gone_crazy]

D: WHY DO PEOPLE KEEP DYING THIS IS SO SAD.

[narrativedilettante]

Okay I think we should lynch Eli next because she's being annoying and clearly lacks dedication to the violent eradication of Mafia in our midst.

[RussetDivinity]

Well, I'm back from my little stroll into the country which was not at all mysterious. You guys are really not good at this lynching business, are you? The point is to stop people dying by making people die. You're just... making lots more people die.

[Endless Sea]

Yes, and in order to stop making people die, I vote to make eli die.

...wait.

[Qara-Xuan Zenith]

This is sickening. People are dying, and instead of trying to do something about it, you want to murder the one person who has been soundly against killing people from the start. What kind of twisted logic is that?

Dilly is the monster who suggested killing eli instead of looking for someone who actually might be guilty, so as a preventative measure I vote Dilly.

[eli_gone_crazy]

I didn't mean to be annoying. I didn't murder anyone either. But I don't advocate murder, even to save myself, so I abstain from voting.

I'm sorry if I bothered you, Narra.