Shadows

Must have been a momentary glitch or something because those sets are their normal price right now.

What is it with suiciding for lynches? Horace drowns himself and Gilda died of old age or something. So there we go, folks, we've done it, barring some completely ridiculous twist, we've finally done it, we've rid this town of the trash and filth and can return to our happy little fuzzy lives! I think this calls for an orgy a party! *rubs her good luck charms and gives one more baaaaaaa for old times sake*

You voted for a scum when a townie was going to be lynched, no lie to that, it's a fact. Any scum can place a vote knowing that they could always unvote if it got close enough to matter. That's no alibi at all. Carly was a townie, and one who we were kept in the dark about, so there was no harm to you voting early. My point holds. Or so they would say now. Who said cultists are sane, anyway? If they all behaved exactly the same way, we'd never have a problem finding them, would we? Fair enough, but it won't happen, I'm certain of it. Baaaaa-d logic, or no logic, but at least you admit that your vote makes no sense.

Unless you somehow know the name of the second one and have been holding out on us, revealing it wouldn't give you an idea of anything, it just won't help at this point, but if all goes as planned, they won't see the light of day and should enjoy their last one here. As for the serial killer, we don't need them to take out the second cultist, we have the vig for that. Baaaaa-sk in the sunlight, the clouds are finally clearing.

It does! I care. And that is why I've been thinking and thinking some more, and something finally came to me, and it's so simple it's ridiculous. Some of this has been said before, theorized, but it's time to follow through with action. We're alive today because the serial killer isn't counting against us, but with us. There's no other alternative. In any other situation, a tie would mean we lose, but here we are, and the flowers said it was 3 vs 2 with 1 dark pink in the middle, so we've been wrong this whole time. It's time to fix that in the only way I can think of. Since I've been cleared of being scum or the SK and I'm still actually concerned about this town, I think it's my job. Dear Serial Misunderstood Killer, Since this began, we've assumed that you are evil. We were wrong. Yes, your actions have hurt a lot of our friends, but looking baaaa-ck, I see what you were doing and when I look at why, I suddenly realise that your intentions were actually good, just a little crazy. Hey, it's ok, we're all a little crazy sometimes, and it's not like we haven't been killing our friends too, for the same reason, to stop what we see as evil. In our case, it really is evil we're trying to stop. In yours, I think you started off trying to stop the tree stump, then when that was done, you kept killing, thinking you could stop the scum as well. Looking at that honestly, I can actually understand it. The tree stump is what the evil fox became in the old village, the evil we're fighting now. Trying to kill it seems perfectly normal, especially since it would have killed you if it had found you. Yes, Portia told me that and that you are called "the lumberjack", which makes sense with your axe and all. You never wanted to kill any of us, just that stump that you mistook as the old evil one. I also understand why you haven't been killing as much lately, you're actually not sure who is scum and who is town and you need the town to win, as shown in the word of god above. Since it's pretty well established that I'm town, I'm coming forward to ask you to contact me. Yes, I know it's risky, but you can't afford to make a mistake at this point, and neither can we. We've wasted a lot of time behind closed doors trying to figure out who you are so we could kill you, when instead we needed to understand and reach out to you. That was stupid on our part, and has now ended. What do we do now? We vote. Yes, I have a very definite idea of who the scum are, so I'm going to start a vote. I ask that you join us and also that you contact me so I can make sure you aren't killed tonight. Even if you don't feel secure doing that, at least don't kill anyone tonight and we'll do the best we can to find the last scum. We need you and you need us, let's be friends. Did I mention that I have cupcakes. The Vote Who doesn't participate until it's time to get a townie killed? Who has nothing to add, but then shows up to make a silly and quickly disproven accusation against me at a time when we need to be paying attention and actually trying to help our town? Who was always there to place an early vote for a wrongly accused townie but the last in line to convict a scum (both times)? Who did that last scum vote for, in an obvious attempt to mislead us into thinking they must be a townie? Gilda "I'm flying under the radar while eating your stuff" Goat. Vote: Gilda Goat (Quarryman)

Baaaaaaa-d! You really haven't paid attention. Given that he was the second person tested and then informed of it by the serial killer hunter who was later confirmed to be a townie, it's the one area where he is reliable. Of course he drifts back into delusions by the end, but as long as you stick to the facts, you see I'm not the serial killer either. I must admit that it is an interesting idea that the serial killer needs to kill everyone. If that's the case, we can count on them to side with the town and lynch another scum today, which would actually be quite nice, assuming they know who is who better than we do. Then tomorrow is tricky again. We can't seem to get a break around here.

Well at least this isn't a surprise, though it's good to see as it speaks volumes about you. You do realise it's 3 vs 3 now, and the only way we're going to convict anyone today is if a townie goes along with the scum, right? Obviously the scum aren't going to be that stupid, but all it takes is tricking one townie into the wrong vote and we lose. Of course you realise that. As for Camoron Cameron, all he had to do was realise he was being used, or at least consider the possibility, and reveal the tracker. If he'd given a damn about this town, that's exactly what he would have done. Instead, assuming he wasn't just playing a hunch made up in his own mind, he stuck to illogical accusations and repeated chanting of "scummy scum scum!" based on a lie (his or a scum-provided one) as the rest of us lynched a real scum and at least kept ourselves alive one more day. I can't say I'm particularly impressed. Carry on, though, you're looking delicious today, maybe in a light tempura baaaaaaaa-tter.

We don't know what to say now. Even when we do right, something goes wrong. Exactly. Baa, or lucky charms or however it is we're supposed to act today, I don't even see that listed.

It's still a little creepy seeing dead people, including that scum, in the mod note. Scumbaaaaaa-g. *baaaaaaa-rf* Oh, and we didn't even get the pleasure of lynching that horsey baaaaaa-stard, he drowned himself. Hardly seems fair, but it does disprove the old adage that "you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him sink," as he did quite well there. Let's hope the rest of his buddies go down that easily. Straight down to hell where they belong.

As the day draws to a close, I get the distinct impression that I won't survive the night, even though I have no action. Still, I want to take this chance to thank all of you for seeing through the obvious scum distraction and bringing one of them to justice. It may have taken a few days, but we've finally done the right thing, which should reduce the number of losses we suffer tonight and give us the time to clean up this town in the coming days. With some logic and determination, I know that we can do it. Or, more likely, that you can do it. The baaaaaa-ttle lines are looking pretty obvious to me, and I've left a detailed outline of what I think the scum have in mind with a couple of trusted allies. Use your heads and get the job done.

An unidentified figure in black and the claim of a tracker who could just as easily be the scum who made the person in black do what they did. No other explanation but yours? No appearance by said tracker or even a fake one to try to trick us? Shows how little talent you scum have left to draw on, just more hollow words designed to save Horace. Funny we can all see his guilt and you can't, having said yourself that you have no opinion on Horace. Like hell you don't. We are. Finally. No more distractions, no more misdirection. The one we should have done on day one, had it not been for the two bumbling idiots making themselves look suspicious by forming a day 1 alliance based on one telling the other his role. That wasn't suspicious enough for you? As for you leading the case, you're a liar, plain and simple. That was actually one of the idiots, Gordon, finally figuring out his mistake and doing right. He made the first case that day and placed the first vote against her. You came along after that. Leading means being in front, not grabbing onto someone else's tail and going where they go so you can later claim to have done the work yourself. Yes, those two bumbling idiots, the ones that led us away from Casey and got how many people killed along the way? At least Gordon redeemed himself, and you want to take the credit for that. You may not respect the difficulty of their decisions, but I think the rest of us at least understand them. ...already being done without you misleading us again. Baaaaa-d croc-o-shit, you're not saving your scummy friend that easily, not again.

Picture clues. Bohemian Rhapsody. There's some hippie megablocks if I ever heard it. There most certainly is evil and it's killing us and you're helping. Baaaaaaa-stard fox! Shouldn't be surprised considering our history with them. That'll teach him! Can the rest of us have cupcakes? And voting time! He's probably the serial killer and the flowers make me think he's been converted to scum as well (sure only manages to kill us townies). Anyone who has been paying attention for days knows the case against Horace and how much effort has been put into stopping his lynch. Feel free to go over it again, just don't let the scum sidetrack us this time, please, it's very clearly vital at this point, we can't afford another mistake. Stopping them from another night kill and reducing their numbers by one will give us the fighting chance we need. Vote: Horace Horse (iamded)

According to you, claiming that there is an anonymous tracker who we could have used dearly before now. One who happened to track me, despite the fact that any real tracker would have checked out Horace, knowing that he was where we would be looking today. Sorry, you didn't think this through carefully enough and now you'll pay for your mistake. Personally, I think Brigit was our tracker, claiming that she had heard from one the same way she used to tell all of her gossip claiming it came from someone else. In this case, she would have been doing it to protect herself, and the scum clearly saw through it and killed her to protect Horace. When that didn't work, you stepped in and saved him, now you're trying it again. Too bold, scumbaaaaaa-g, too bold for us to miss. So far, you're the only one twisting the night. For all we know, you aren't even the blacked out figure, that could be the scum target you directed to kill someone else, who was stopped by Heidi, thinking she was saving him. I would hope that such a person would step forward and admit it, but they're probably worried that they would be accused, the same way I'm being pointlessly accused, through evidence that doesn't even exist. It can't exist, I don't have a night action, it's that simple. You'd like for us to believe that, but in fact, the only thing we know is that someone in black is saved by and then kills Heidi. We don't know who that is or who your claimed tracker is, so we can't look at their possible motives, we're just supposed to believe that this person automatically. Let's consider the other option, you're being used by a scum. IF, as you say, someone contacted you with this claim, what are the odds that it's the same scum who tried to kill you (assuming it is you in black), following up on their failure by having you accuse me? They would know exactly what happened and could very easily pull this because you would be confused by the night and looking for answers, answers that they conveniently supply for their own gain. They don't even need to be subtle anymore, this is it, we've seen the flowers, they need a townie to die today, and they don't care who it is. Or do they? Why not pick someone they might assume is the vigilante? Yes, they may assume that because I've made at least one comment in the past that pointed at it, though it wasn't intended that way. They're wrong, but I can see them thinking it and it would be hard to pass up that opportunity. What fire? There's no evidence here except a claim of a magically convenient tracker who either doesn't exist, or is scum. I can safely call one of you that since I know I have no action and wasn't told that I did anything last night (because I can't). No opinion about Horace? You've worked so hard to save him, but you have no opinion? Seriously. You claim that today's sudden revelation came from a tracker, yet you have no opinion on Horace, who we were told was probably scum based on evidence from a tracker. Oh, right, that tracker never stepped forward, so it was dismissed as useless. How has that changed today? As for Maurice, I pointed out something he did that I felt looked scummy or naive, but that isn't what turned us away from Horace and on to Maurice, that came from you. We made a serious mistake yesterday, we aren't making it again. Except you won't. 1. I'm not scum. 2. If I'm killed, the numbers make it clear that we won't even see another day, you'll have single-handedly given the win to the scum, which will either make you their hero, or the fool of the town, depending on whether or not you're being tricked or willingly trying this.

You were told that you unsuccessfully targeted yourself. Let me get this hilarious claim straight. You were told that you targeted yourself. Then someone who Heidi says she's protecting killed her in front of all of us. You credit her with protecting you, so you also admit to killing her. Oh, and since you unsuccessfully targeted yourself, that means you wouldn't need to kill someone else, at that point no one was targeted anymore, yet you killed her. Somehow that makes it me? Oh, right, someone supposedly tracked me, except at least one member of this town has previously checked me out and found me sleeping at home, the person who was trying to catch the serial killer before that monster killed him. I was working with him when he died, and since then I've been working with someone he trusted, and who I trust by extension. I'm also willing to bet I've been checked out by others along the way, and anyone who has, has found me at home. I have no action, I never have had one, but I can't say I blame you for trying. You really are that desperate to save Horace again? Yeah, we know what you're doing, you did it yesterday with your convincing tale that made us lynch poor Maurice and leave Horace to another night of evil. You got away with that once, you won't get away with it again, but I have to give you credit for trying, you're the first scum to at least put up a defense, transparent as it is. I think we all planned to deal with Horace today, to avenge our Mayor and Maurice and even Brigit, but maybe you've changed that decision. That was your only goal here, but will you be happy with the results? Scumbaaaaaa-g.

2 words... oh megabluck. We were wrong about Maurice... we were wrong about Carly and have been assuming the opposite for days... all losses... At least I think we know what direction we're going in today, right? It seems fairly obvious, but the previous ones have too. God, this is very baaaaaa-d. Yes, I made my animal noise. You should too, we don't need any penalties on top of all of this.

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Cameron, I can't find a single flaw in your analysis of Maurice. I would add his desire to immediately jump on the situation where Gordon admitted to targeting Brigit. Obviously a scum wouldn't admit such a thing, but a confused townie would. It's been the most obvious town tell he's shown in this game, so it seems pretty naive or scummy to try to use it as a way to throw suspicion at him. Your voting style, however... Vote: Maurice Mouse (Cecilie) Yes, I'm sure that's it, just as the pics teach us that you and Horace are buddies sharing "shrooms." Now, if you don't mind, I need to go get lucky. What? Lucky is the name of my good luck bracelet, I wear it whenever I vote, hoping all this horror can end soon and we can go back to our cute, furry little lives.

Oh god, more pictures to scan furiously! I don't see anything! Anyone? I hope I wasn't hurt tubaaaaaaa-d. I blame the concussion. Or the percussion. No, that's brass. Good thing I didn't fall on my brass. Just lucky it isn't the 13th.

Host? I said a prayer to god and he told me, and I'm paraphrasing loosely because he doesn't like being directly quoted, "are you blind? it's gone." He's a lot like a certain monkey. He also called it a parchment, not a map, but it looks like a map to me in the picture. Whatever the case, I guess a parchment could be a map, or it could be some kind of evil cultist thing, especially since it seems the fox left it. I distinctly remember a play we did where the town was infested with witches but it wasn't and the local foreign merchant stocked a lot of parchment for making spells but not for making spells, but that's a witch hunt for another day. I don't like all this evil talk, it's bad luck, I need to find my lucky penny! *runs home to look for it* Ask the host! Say a prayer! You look a lot like that foreign guy from that other play.

No, we need your assistance to be able to see everywhere. I've obviously looked in all of the available pictures, but don't see it. Wow, that's not a very nice attitude, I'm just trying to do what you asked us to do. Stupid monkey. You know, the FabuChinese (I think they live in a village waaaaaay down the river) warn that monkeys can be unlucky because they are charming and tell tall tales that can get you into bad situations. We're in an awfully bad situation here. Sometimes I wonder if you have a pointy hat at home, hidden in your closet.

There is some logic to this, though it hinges on believing your claim that Gordon is both confirmed and doesn't have an action, two things that I can't be sure of. The one reason I might be able to accept it is the number of likely scum left. I figure they're down to 3, even if they had a conversion. If you're lying, that makes the last three you, Gordon and Horace, and it would be foolish for you to risk defending both of them so openly, all our vig would have to do is kill one and the whole house of cards would come tumbling down. Individually, most of my suspicion of Gordon came from his association with Pennie, including what appears to have been Pennie's turn against him last night, but even that never came with an accusation, just name calling. In private, he's explained things fairly well, even if I still think he should have been smart enough not to accept an unsolicited roleclaim on day 1. At the same time, my suspicion of Horace came from Brigit's comment yesterday, but reviewing her past, she never added anything helpful to any other discussion or gave any reason to believe that she had access to anything that would. If she had, would she have been so bloodthirsty for Ralphy on day 3, writing little lynch poems for her first 2 posts of that day? For now, I'm going to accept your theory, which means we need to look at other peculiarities to explore. You left out a very simple and obvious possibility, maybe the serial killer targeted someone who had already been targeted by someone else. We have no way of knowing how god would make that appear, if it would appear differently at all, so maybe it's that simple. I think it's more likely that he was 'cured' when he found the target of his insanity, but that could be wishful thinking. And now for a matter from last night. Our Mayor noticed something odd in the pictures, but the night ended before anyone could comment, so it seems worth carrying over to the day. It certainly looks like a map, and it's clearly that damn fox. Perhaps Marcellus could let us try to find it in the town square? If anyone finds a four-leaf clover while looking, it's mine!

Very nicely done, a marvel of science! *awaits your army of mantis men*

Burn in hell, bitch! Are you sure we can't keep hitting her? Another success for the town, but the price was high, like it always seems to be. I have to admit, Brigit never seemed very helpful, mostly just making veiled comments that never delivered or that day she wrote haikus attacking Ralphy even before the vote started. The powder and fire and bottle thing is the same as Ernie, but the way it happened was different. What does that mean? And why are the two black figures different? One has a torch and bag, then a different one takes the bottle? Are we dealing with two killers there? Pennie. Now I'm more certain than ever that the trap killer is our vigilante, who clearly had the same suspicions about Pennie's odd behaviour that I think many of us did. I know I did, I outlined it enough times, and that brings me back to my original belief, someone in the unnatural day 1 alliance was using the other. Guess it wasn't Pennie, huh? Is there any chance I could have one of Brigit's feet? I need a new good luck charm and I know she wouldn't mind, it would be like living on forever.

Sounds like you suspect Gordon, but you've sure never brought forward anything to say that until this convenient moment. I did, I pointed out twice that it required making what I think is a stupid assumption that Carly is town. Oddly, I expected someone to rightly point out that it really didn't require that, since Carly could have been used as a meatshield, but no one is paying enough attention to even suggest it. Makes me worry a little about how clearly we're thinking as a town. How nice, you wish you could kill people and would happily metagame. Of course that would also make a great defense, huh? "But I didn't kill Shawna, so I can't be the SK!" The same kind of twat who would step forward on day 1 and admit their entire role to someone they couldn't verify. Can you imagine such a person? With as many people as must know that claim by now, I can't understand the scum letting you live. Strange, isn't it? Duly noted. You know, sometimes I get tired of being a sheep, with the grazing and the sheering and the herding and all, though I do love having my haunches nipped at.