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I'm also still happy to keep my vote on Mary. Pierre sounds reasonable from the tone of the PMs, and he had the opportunity to lie a few times, and didn't.

At the time I voted there actually had been a swing in votes towards Jordan, but I don't think it was clear cut by any means who was going to get lynched. See, this is the kind of vague accusation that I don't have any problem with. I actually agree that there will be a couple of Scum lurking in the background waiting to see how it all plays out. But it's making a point without being overly aggressive about it. As for Babs's reveal, I am confused. I know, many of us are. I agree with Jack's assessment, that if it plays out like Babs states, then there are several neutrals running round that really don't need to help the Town as long as they find the diamond. My question is, is Babs looking simply for any Scum at all, which will transfer the diamond to her, or is it more likely to be a specific Scum who has the diamond? Because if it's the first, then her odds are obviously a lot better. As for "Lynette", I will await some explanation before switching my vote from Mary.

Tarn surveyed the rubble of the Stone General before they teleport. "That was a masterful plan of Hybros. He does have a knack for strategy. And Jun, such a devastating move, I have not seen its like before, something I say often about the Ji Pei, it seems."

So... I was posting enough for you to notice I kept writing off the numbers, BUT I was also flying under the radar? I can't really do both, can I? For the record, I said twice that they may not mean anything, during some wild speculation, and I was eventually proved wrong. OK, so if I had immediately put up a vote (as what Mary did), that would have been a Scum tell too? How about being accused of summarizing and then when I actually vote I'm then accused of over-justifying my vote? Like what Bristol was saying, it seems once someone has fixated on you for a lynch, there's no way of doing something that isn't supposedly a "Scum tell". As you yourself state, I have done everything I set out to do. I can't be held accountable for not coming up with startling new evidence on day one, despite your feelings on what my analysis was going to reveal, and therefore looked closest at the two people who had accrued the most votes. My opinion on Mary is the same as it was yesterday. Due to the mistake about the passenger number, she gets my vote still as being most suspicious. Vote: Mary (TheBoyWonder)

After being in my cabin all night sleeping off a bout of seasickness, I don't think I'll be partaking in any tropical drinks today, but it's good to have something to take our minds off this ordeal. Now, I know Jonathan in particular believed me to be in league with the Thieves simply because I was weighing up a vote and didn't vote immediately after I had spoken about the two most likely candidates. I guess he'll call this summarizing too. Anyway, without anything more concrete than that, against me, all I can do is stick to my beliefs and state yet again that I hadn't made a decision at that time, and wanted to go over things. It turns out that Jordan was in fact Town, so I am glad I did not vote for him and felt that Mary's case was a little stronger. Still not watertight, but stronger. Without anything specific to address here, I am not sure what to say. At what point did I give the impression I know people's allegience? Do you have anything I actually said that implied that? I can't think of anything. For what it's worth, I clearly don't know this kind of information and am as much in the dark as most of us here. I know I am not as well known as some of you, but if I am being accused not by my past actions/previous experiences, but on something that happened to somebody else when I wasn't even there, then how can I defend myself?

Tarn does nothing along with the rest of his party. He aches to strike at the enemy but even for him, the Stone General was a hardy foe.

Tarn grinds his teeth. He hears his Party Leader and backs off of the Brother, but his Bezerker nature won't allow him to switch to fighting anyone else, so he does nothing except wish he'd told the Copper Fox he wanted to train as a Raider.

I try not to have evil, evil villains, although Sorona was pretty far gone towards the end with the creation of the Sisterhood. The Maginastra wasn't really a villain at all, just misguided. Haroka was more of an object to find than a fully fleshed out villain, both times he appeared. He did more evil things historically but it was difficult to show them happening in the present. I'd argue the Darkstar was more villainous!

Through teeth gritted in pain Tarn answers the bandit in a calm, measured tone. "We shall stop you, and we shall stop your brothers, regardless of how high they are or how good at hiding. We do not fear any of you bandits. We will reclaim this pagoda for the Ji Pei. Now come feel the sting of my blade!" Tarn attacks Short-Lived Second Brother from the back row using Lion's Heart.

Knowing that his War Cry had made the party even stronger, Tarn launched himself at Short-Lived Second Brother once again, from the front row with Lion's Heart.

"I will take on Short-Lived Brother from the front row using Lion's Heart!" said Tarn to Namyrra.

Nice of you to not notice ages before you said this that I did exactly what I said I was going to do and go through things before voting. A bit dark in your tunnel, is it? I'm sorry I didn't find anything extraordinary out with my analysis. It's Day One and we don't have a lot to go on, as everyone knows. But I didn't want to place my vote until I'd done that, chance to unvote later or not. I'm being thorough here, it's what the situation deserves. I know people don't really know me here, but this is how I am doing things.

Well despite casting suspicion on myself just for wanting to vote with all the facts to hand (when I literally couldn't earlier. I won't be apologising for wanting to be thorough, anyway), this is how I see it: I am looking at my passenger card right now, and it really is hard to mistake a 4-digit number like that. The font is clear and plenty big enough to read. And as I said before, on getting a weird set the first time, wouldn't it have been in her best interests to recheck it then? It would still be suspicious but the timing then, and not just after the building contest announcement wouldn't have been a double hit on her credibility. Then we have First Officer Bill claiming not to have a number at all, as well as Jordan. Again, very hard to miss, in my opinion. And Jordan not recognising his own name. I know we have been in similar situations before - my time in Japan I had a lot of similar looking names thrown at me, but you should really have your wits about you in a situation like this. In conclusion I feel my vote is best going to Mary, but the other two should be watched very carefully. Vote: Mary (TheBoyWonder) And no, Jonathan, I was not seriously pinging you back. It was just a retort. I don't find you ping-worthy at this time.

Like Babs said, there's not a great deal to go with on Day One, but I do want to go over exactly what happened so I can vote with a clear conscience that I have fully appraised the facts. I am really looking to see which errors are more telling at the time they occurred. If that makes me look suspicious, or like I'm summarizing, or being wishy-washy, then so be it.

I haven't had the time yet to fully check over everything I want to before casting a vote. Therefore I put up what you accurately decribe as a summary for now. I haven't had the chance to follow everything that has been said recently so I want to make sure I have not reached any inaccurate conclusions based on what we know so far. So ping yourself!

OOC: Likewise, i am confused as to why free hits are happening? I guess because we have been to the kitchen before? Tarn knew that the plan was to draw the Unrestained and Restrained together so that they could be finished off, so he followed Namyrra up the stairs.

It is interesting that we now have confirmation that the numbers are related to a building challenge later on. Bang goes my theory that they were just little 'Easter eggs'. I'll have to do some research into what this 'Star Wars' is. As for Mary, I have known her on several occassions to make mistakes, sometimes this means she is a bad person, and sometimes not. This situation, I am not sure what it means. If she got the number wrong but didn't realise, that would be one thing, but having it linked to such an obscure set, would you not recheck it carefully? I know I would. Likewise Jordan's admissions of forgetfulness about his name and not finding the passenger number initially. My passenger card was very easy to follow. Everyone can be forgetful at times but he's taken that to the extreme. We need people on board who are fully committed to rooting out the thieves, so bottom line, I think either would be a suitable lynch given what we have to go on so far.

I'm just trying to put a different side to the somewhat rampant speculation about what the numbers mean. Maybe they are important, maybe they aren't, nobody knows. My feeling is that they aren't important. I'm not basing that on anything, though.

Like I said before, they may not actually mean anything, other than being a nod to Lego sets. Such a thing would be a cute touch if we were playing a game on a Lego forum and not here on a cruise ship, obviously. Therefore I wouldn't think that just voting off the person with the 'scariest' set is a particularly good idea, but then this is the first day of our ordeal and I doubt we will have anything concrete to go on other than gut feeling.

"Gratitude for the Remedy, Hybros!" said Tarn, following Tesni towards the kitchen.

They were specifically listed as passenger numbers, so as staff, you may not have one.

Maybe they are just numbers.

I think you are confusing astronomy with astrology. I am a stargazer. And a Capricorn As for the passenger numbers, mine is 9491.

"Tesni, you carry so many weapons now, you are a one-woman armoury! Seeing as my best efforts to meditate my way out of this poison using the power of positive thinking have been for naught, I would appreciate a Remedy if anyone has one spare. I will pay you back in kind once we are out of this pagoda."

Good stuff Chromeknight, saves people having to go back 20-odd pages. On the bombs thing, I too think it would work if they ignored SP. They rarely get used as they stand. Except for those Bomb XXs by naive heroes!