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I have to agree that given the circumstances you're right; not lynching last night means that we didn't lose a potential member or protector of the Royal Family, which can only be good. I was just expressing my disappointment that we really don't have too much to base our actions on now, unless more info on last night's contingent events (or lack thereof) starts coming in. As you said yourself, I was among those who were convinced we should have voted Bess off (not just anyone, I was focused on one person in particular), believing that a) something was quite fishy there; b) even if I had been wrong, that lynch could still have proved useful based on people's reactions to such a hard line. Once again, I'll repeat what I said yesterday - Bess did on a number of occasions defend herself by claiming that she was not a member of the Royal Family. Which is why I thought our chances with that vote were pretty good. I'd rather just sit here and work on my eyebrows today though and see if other people can lead us to more info regarding a conviction, seeing as my attempts yesterday were futile anyway.

You're most welcome! Almost as helpful as not lynching, I hope?

And that's all we have today since we didn't reach a decision on who to vote against yesterday. Frankly, I don't see how theorizing at this point would get us anywhere, so I'll go comb my eyebrows in hopes that something useful might fall off.

Well, you could always give it a shot! Depending on the extra services side dish, you might just end up giving me a good reason to unvote you, seeing as it's obviously the trendy thing to do, all of a sudden. Do I need to use the sarcasm emoticon here? In short: Yes. Because after all that's been said and done today, I don't trust Bess one single bit. And also because by tomorrow morning, we'll probably have one less loyal Royal Family member / defender. The assassins won't wait around for us to decide what to do and when to do it - so I'd much rather see where my reasoning leads me than stand around debating how oh-so-bad things would be if we got the wrong person. Besides, if I'm wrong on this, I'll have to face the consequences, which I'm obviously ready and willing to do. After all, in this ship we're floating on, it's all about being a good decoy, remember? Are you one, or are you just taking the easy way out while actually causing a lynch... I'll be putting my sleep goggles to good use now. For the sake of our Royal Family, I do hope that in the morning I will actually be proven wrong, even if that means having to hear for the umpteenth time how keen I was to place a vote and "divert attention" right after Fairon cast his doubts.

Seriously!?... Let me break that down for you. 1. Start of the day; you keep repeating the same thing over and over again, and a few hours later you're telling us to dismiss it because it was just pointless drivel. All of us were talking nonsense, remember - but we weren't trying to follow some innocent vanilla-tinted pattern, like you seemed to. 2. You've defended Charles, even though you're trying to convince us you weren't, and in your next appearance you voted against him straight away due to the "lack of better evidence" and since you weren't going to vote for yourself. You say you know better than to defend people on Day One, but you should also known that you could / should at least have used a valid reason for voting, unlike the one presented above. 3. You've contacted multiple people on this ship, myself included, with basically the same desperate plea of "please please don't vote me off", with added "I'm not a member of the Royal family, but I'm also not an assassin either". Wow, great, so useful. Not a scumtell at all, especially on Day One. You obviously feel you have to do some speaking for yourself - well do it out in the open where you could convince other people and help each and every one of us see where our allegiances lie based on our reactions. 4. You've kept repeating you'd like to "center around Charles", yet have given us no reason whatsoever for that. Very convient, especially considering the presence of people who seem to want to "even out" the scales, or pass up on voting - as already discussed above. Also - very anti-Town. 5. You haven't cooked us anything all day!!! Is that good enough of a "case"?

Disagree. We still have the "luxury" of casting doubts on suspicious behaviour and judging where that leads us. Do not forget that voting against someone does not automatically equal lynching them. Bess has single-handedly landed herself in the mess she's in right now - and as her fellow 'suspect' Charles Pleasance has already suggested, her course of action reeks of not caring about the Royal Family. At the end of the day, those three are all that matters and we should go to any length in order to protect them as much as we can. Letting one day go without lynching would actually mean increasing the assassins' chances of getting a member of the Royal Family, so I really can't agree with your notion. It is also quite intriguing why you've jumped to the defence of Bess citing some rather general and vague not-wanting-to-vote reasons -- yet you did vote against Charles pretty much straight away... It has indeed been a very useful day full of interesting positions and statements on which to base our actions tomorrow.

Yes, but why vote against Charles when you thought there was nothing substantial on which to base a vote against him earlier today? In my point of view, he's supplied a brief but more or less reasonable explanation to his attitude, so why vote against him now when you were pretty much defending him earlier? And if you saw something else that was even slightly suspicious to you, why didn't you act on it? We don't have too much to work with on Day One anyway, so my vote against you could easily have been changed if you'd convinced me it was ill-advised, rather than saying "If you think my acting was scummy, then everything else earlier today was scummy"... Which, in turn, just makes you sound even scummier. I think this applies to all of us: obviously, it is convenient enough to use the premise of having a simple choice of two people to vote against; but if you have indeed spotted something and can still act on it, why not do so? We still have plenty of time to vote and unvote. I've cast my vote early on and done as I suggested above despite the risk of appearing to split the vote, as Fairon has aptly noted - so I don't see why Bess couldn't have tried and voted against someone else if she felt it would be a right move. Since she isn't doing that and has merely jumped on a convenient bandwagon, her whole defense of sorts seems to be based on nothing really.

Once again -- I'm not convinced by Charles' lack of more active involvement considering the current vote tally, and I'm also bewildered by some people's apparent desire to split the vote. Bess' weirdly pointless struggle in private conversations to get me to cancel my own vote is, however, convincing enough for me to actually keep it where it is. My initial vote against Bess was based on her toing and froing - which I personally saw as a pointless (yet continued) attempt to convince others she's Vanilla on Day 1 - and then on her decision to defend someone who should have actually stepped in and defended themselves personally. Her defense was then something along the lines of, "We've all just been talking nonsense so far, so there's no point in reading into that", which is also the kind of explanation I was given regarding the whole "Oh, look at me, I have no job" thing when she chose to contact me in person. And yes, I find it highly suspicious and rather pointless for someone to contact me asking to unvote her and "center around Charles" who "appears to have a better case against him", as she put it - all the while not sharing anything that could help me see why voting against her would be a wrong move. Which is precisely what Bess did. Out of respect for her, I'm not going to be sharing transcripts of how she contacted me for all to see, but I do believe that initiating that brief talk between us without presenting any sort of actual defense was... well, pointless of hers - and a bit desperate too.

Yup, that we are not - which is probably why you've found it convenient enough to leave a crack open so that you can point the finger in my direction in case my proactive approach backfires on me. Divisive vote? Well at least there was no division by zero, thankfully. Truth be told though - you're right, we're still on Day one of our adventure, so perhaps that's the kind of extra cautious / vigilant attitute that can be excused at this point in time. I'm not sure about Charles or Bess' attitude though - what I find quite intriguing is that Bess first stepped in to defend Charles (which was among the reasons why I was prompted to vote against her to begin with), however shortly after that she was more than happy to vote against him. Rather chaotic reasoning, if you ask me... But then again, Charles' "Ditto" wasn't really full of logic either.

Is that the 405 South / 10 West sign sticker from 8147 / 8495 (Tiny Turbos)?

I still hope Bess will cook for us... Speaking of which, I'd now like to Vote: Bess Bulton (Bob). She's been whining about not having a job all day long, then all of a sudden she starts lecturing people about being productive. What's worst, she won't even cook for me even though she's got nothing better to do. I've been in the kitchen for what, six hours now? No cooking whatsoever. Or sucking. Now that's counter-productive.

Just keep staring into the distance, I'm sure food will fly to you. Eventually.

You really oughtta stop making green faces. It's not becoming of an airfaring captain. Or whatever it is that you're doing on this ship. Brother, where'd you get the sausage? Did Bess cook, after all?

Raging about the onset of a dark age and moaning about having too much stuff to do? No. Just no. Best of luck though. Hope that helps. * Fin.

That's the spirit sweet Bess. I knew you wouldn't be able to resist this sixpack bod of mine! Let's get it on... What?! At least we could have some fun while we're out here...

Wait, are we playing cards? I thought we were counting them. One banana, two banana, three banana, bingo! Hey sweet Bessy, seeing as you don't have too much on your hands right now, how about cooking something for breakfast? Sausage-wise, I'd say we seem to be well stocked, soooo... pretty please?

Benny, your train station, as well as the KCR cars are absolutely awesome MOCs, but could you please resize your pics to 800x600? They're quite big right now and they're slowing down the page loading process. Thanks!

:cry_happy: And our suspenders are almost as awesomicious as our beards! Question is, who's Luigi and who's Mario now... Blood-stained six-pack-ripping sweatshirt vs. gloomy & techy work clothing?

Meahon Doughal here, and I gots me the coolest helmet available on this here veeheecle. Oh, don't stare at my beard, by the way...

Wow, thanks for all the pics mate! I love your Cereal train - and its original version too

Any pics from the event? I'd really love to see how it turned out...

Next time someone tells me that yellowed bricks and plates are useless, I'll refer them to this MOC. Yet another perfect example of how realistically these can be used. Nice job - and I like the understated /simple design of the post-war building. Very thematic.

Congratulations to all the participants for their marvellous creations - and hats off to the winners. As soon as I saw the water strider, I knew that this was so ingenious it just had to win. The fact that Splat would be willing to make it available to anyone via Rebrickable just goes to show that he is indeed a worthy winner, well done! Once again - I know I'm not a Techinc guy, but I'd love to see more Technic contests here on Eurobricks. The sheer awesomeness that Tech-minded people are capable of coming up is something absolutely great to look forward to, so here's to more of that!

I have to agree with Sieggy, that's very weird and quite a non-LEGO type of move. I'm looking forward to hearing more about this.

This is lovely, although I think it qualifies more under the category of "diorama" rather than being a complete layout. In any case, it is a brilliant scene and certainly shows once again that you have a great eye for detail. Could you please let us know some more about the trains / engines you've based your models on?