Shadows

A manly drink for manly men.

Bear this in mind people. If you're attacked, hope your attacker wins because otherwise you'll be accused of all kinds of evil when you expose them. And they turn out to be scum. And a cop. Oh, heaven forbid it's a scum cop. Let me be your example of what happens. UNBELIEVABLE! Except for one problem... I've never once expressed a desire to kill the mayor, even after he attacked me based on mob claims. Not one time. Please show me where I have. Anyone. The only thing I have ever expressed is doubt about his loyalty, and I've done that with a lot of people... we're fighting a hidden mob! But have I so much as voted against him? Even once? No, to be blunt I am much more suspicious of you than I have ever been of him. Ok, let me get this straight. The scum who have been killing our citizens are less risk than I am. Oh, right, I've been manipulating them since day 1, of course. Would you like to back that up with any proof? On day 1, they tried to convert me and on day 2 they tried to kill me. On day 3, as you will so loudly wail, I got one of them killed! If that's manipulating them, you'd better hope I can continue to do so or this town is lost. Chief, you're a fraud. You're either scum or a coward. You've hidden in your vest and done NOTHING to help this town. Now you're actively trying to hurt it. If that isn't the definition of scum, nothing is.

Really? That? I could make a better argument against me than that. Seriously, you're siding with the lies of a scum boss who took her parting shot at me as she was led to her death all based on a piece of information that can't even be confirmed? There is no way we've seen every scum night action or we would have known there were three families. THINK! And even if you don't want to think, you're overlooking everything Mr. Stash said, including the fact that he knows the chief is lying to him and has named 2 members of the scum, which the chief is ignoring completely... I knew it! He's doing the old horizontal hokey pokey with one of them! The Chief plus the scum, sittin' in a tree ... s c h e m i n g ... NOW IT MAKES SENSE! YOU BASTARD.

Yes, it's typical to expose the scum killer who tries to take your life. I'm sorry, but unless you think I'm some kind of time traveler, I couldn't have known ahead of time that she would be converted, then plan for her to kill me so I could kill her to take control of a group I didn't even know the names of (that's right, none of us were told who the others were except the leader of the group). Since they know all of this is true, they know you're full of crap. Who exposed that? Oh, right, your friend the godfather. No one else has been stupid enough to claim such an idiotic and clearly untrue thing except her and her new followers. I think the voters are smart enough to see exactly what's happening here, we're being led by the dead mob in the form of a puppet police chief. And yes, it is just you and me. Wanna crack open a bottle of something? I'll light some candles ... I'll leave that to the pigs, thanks.

You mean your police officer who was so poorly trained that she was able to be converted to scum? And then you try to blame me for exposing her and ridding the town of her filth, making it appear I have some imagined goal of killing cops? Desperation, that's all you have left now... *gasp* I confess! I led the town to kill a police officer! A police officer you hired personally. A police officer who was working for the SCUM and tried to murder me ... WHILE ON DUTY AND BEING PAID BY YOU! *gasps again* You're pathetic, Chief. Clean out your own house before you try to clean up the town. Hell, just clean up your face, you're a drunken mess and you're not doing any of us any good.

In other words, I'm a confirmed member of the Night Watch, a group that has loyally devoted itself to protecting this town and is aware of who targets it at night. I can't provide proof of one specific action because of the voice in the sky and no amount of pushing from you will make me stoop to that level. Poker? I barely know her ... Thank you, your honour, no more questions for this hostile witness. No, I was a Navy SEAL, which is what allows me to do your job for you and not be killed in the process. I don't need a vest from a fashion designer. If you didn't maybe he wouldn't know that you're a liar as he's so clearly indicated. As for my tongue, take a closer look.

I'm not allowed to share what I receive from the voice in the sky. Maybe they do it that way wherever you come from, but my people have dignity and honesty to account for. Only the scum could know that for sure. There is absolutely no way we can know that we've been shown every action. No possible way. Why is the FBI parked outside your house and your wife sleeping with another man? Now that I think about it, you know for a fact that we haven't been shown every action... if we had, we would have known about the third family before having to be told directly. I always figured we were getting a limited view of things, especially since it's silly to show failures that don't effect the game of life, but now it's clear that we've always been given less than complete information. Want to deny that? Can you tell me what the third family did each night, as shown in the next day opening?

There was no indication of 3 families until today. This hasn't exactly been the most clearly informative game...of life ever. It was the voice in the sky that gave me the ability to know who targets me as a member of Night Watch (do you need that confirmed next?) and was the one to tell me who it was. Same as the voice told me Carrie attacked me. Same as the voice telling me that someone had given me "absolute proof" of their innocence, despite that not appearing in the day opening. I know that person provided it to others as well, and I know of many night actions that haven't been shown the next day, so you're actually making a case against a large number of people in the same situation. I'm sure they'll notice the irony there and ignore your stupidity. She clearly didn't think it was serving as an alibi, she was bitterly attacking me and mistakenly thought that would somehow condemn me. She probably thought that someone would be stupid enough to try to use it against me. Seems she had your number after all, Chiefy. If I do, it'll be with a yellow Fabuland shovel, and then I'll break it. You haven't done so yet, all you've done is taken one statement by the scum to attempt to trick the town into killing me the only way you can, by vote. Nice attempt, but I have more faith in them than that. They see your vested interest clearly now. On the other hand, if you want us to trust in your skills, how about going after the real scum? Think you can muster up the fruity balls to do so?

Isn't it funny that the people accusing me never thought of maybe killing one of the scum before following the dying ramblings of a scum boss and trying to take me out? Who do they trust more, the mob or Mr. Stash? Who are they protecting, the town or themselves? The saddest part is that they not only don't need to protect themselves from me, but they are opening themselves to danger by allowing the scum to live. Talk about bad logic. First day. I was told that I was followed by Sandy, but that she kept her distance and didn't approach. I didn't know what specific action that was to indicate, so I didn't mention it at the time. Later, as she was cornered by all of us, she tried to use that event as an alibi, confirming it happened. After that, she admitted that she knew I couldn't be converted or night killed, proving she'd tried both (and failed). I can only assume that she was allowed 2 conversion attempts at the beginning (since 1 failed).

I've done all of that, both individually and with the town. Are you sure we should be paying you to do this job that you clearly aren't doing well? Bitch tried to kill me! ... according to a convicted scum boy boss. If that's who you consider a legitimate source of evidence ... Exactly. Now run along and study your police handbook and maybe you can join the adults who are trying to stop the problem that your leadership helped to allow.

Talk about speculating... I have done nothing to hurt this town. I haven't stood by and let the mob infiltrate it, I exposed one of their killers. How many of them have you caught so far, Chiefy? The only person who had a vest who's alignment has been revealed was scum. That's all the proof either side has. Are you going to try to deny that? Should also add that a real policeman would get his vest from ... the police department, not a green haired fashion designer who sells to the mob.

Blah blah blah. The Ronzoni's tried to convert me and failed. They tried to kill me and failed. Their godfather admitted as much while making their dishonest attack against me. It's almost amusing that they're using the police force to do their work now. Maybe they always were, or maybe the speculation is right and you're the source of the third family. Whatever the case, there is no indication that anyone tried to kill you whatsoever. That's one point that I will have to concede to our esteemed Mayor (scum that I think he is)... just because you can't be killed at night or converted doesn't mean you're loyal any more than it proves I am. An investigation would have proven me loyal, but I guess no one bothered. Further, there is no proof that anyone outside the mob has a vest. I don't even need one to be protected at night, my training does that, so why do you? I'd think that a loyal cop would have had some training, but you're hiding in your little vest and getting drunk instead. However this goes, it will have been a revealing day full of evidence that I hope the smarter members of the town will make use of later. I hope to be here to help you with that, but even if I'm not, good luck, you deserve better than what you've gotten from your impotent police force. Be vigilant! Amusing that our Chief Drunk would try to use Stash as an alibi now, given what Stash thinks of him. Is anyone paying attention here?

A lynch mob of your fellow neutrals? Please take a moment to tell the town how you plan to kill two of it's citizens for a crime you claim they committed. Mr. Stash isn't the only one with sources of information, you know.

That explains why some people have been hesitant to oppose you, even after you were clearly outed as neutral, they need you to protect them. I'm glad that my night protection doesn't work that way, they're probably trembling at the thought of losing you and being exposed to town justice. That's a lot of stuff to sort through. Right... A daring and self-sacrificing move like this tends to add some strength and validity to your words. I can't see where killing you helps, but if it goes to prove that what you say is true, I guess it would have some value. Still, I don't know that I can place a vote for someone I'm sure isn't scum, it goes against everything I stand for, but ... You make a good point there. Opening up the scum to night kills would be a very good thing. I hope it's worth the price. Vote: Stash the Stylist / Stash2sixx

The point here shouldn't be for me to argue to stay alive, my actions have done that for me. The point is for you to prove one bit of evidence that isn't based on the word of the scum boss who hated me. You don't have that, which tells me that you don't have an interest in the good of the town, you have a specific intent to get me killed in the only way anyone can, by vote. Now who would benefit from that? Ask yourselves that question before you make a foolish vote. I don't know why you people didn't just investigate me after the scum boss flipped his lid and spewed trash on the town, then you wouldn't be asking questions now. The scum, as it has been confirmed by the voice in the sky, started with 1 member each. They all hate each other, so literally it's 1 vs everyone. Any smart neutral would immediately side with the town who have the sheer numbers to clean things up. I can't kill. It wouldn't be hard to count the daily kills in comparison to the amount of confirmed scum kills to know that. If I was out to wipe out any group, one of you would have died every night. Nice try, but note the murder weapons used. We've been shown that the gun killer works for the Ronzoni family, and if you're about to claim that they would have killed anyone on my behalf, you're clearly crazier than you already seem.

I understand all of that, I really do. I'm just a little annoyed to be doubted based on the word of a scum boss who tried to corrupt then kill me and who would do anything to destroy me for defeating their evil plans. I didn't mean to sound quite so confrontational about it, but the point had to be made. I know that we're all doing what we can, except for the scum, I just don't want us to let them make us lose track of the real enemy here.

Die, Godfather, DIE! A third family? Great, the voice in the sky is a big fat liar. Just what we need... Of course she had a reason to lie, it's called revenge. She tried to convert me on night 1 and failed, she tried to kill me on night 2 and failed, I personally led the charge to stop her killer the next day. If you're honestly going to take her word on things, read what she said carefully. She confirmed that I can't be converted or killed at night. I'm the strongest ally you have, and you want to kill me? As for her wanting to help prevent another party from winning, that much is true, she wanted to do exactly what she wanted since the beginning, stop the loyal members of the town from living in peace. Getting rid of me is her last way to hurt everyone, and you're going to take her seriously? I guess you'll be after Mr. Stash next, since she claims he wanted to work with her. What have you done to help this town? Shall we compare? Now see, that's a reasonable response, and I hope it's clear what her motives were. I really don't have a story, I'm just one man trying to do my part to help this town. She claims I'm neutral, which any investigator can disprove easily, and I've clearly shown my value to the town as a loyal member, so I don't really know what else to say. Like I say, there is no story. I'm loyal, I've helped the town, she hated me for destroying her plans at every step along the way. I would like to ask that the town not reward her with a victory after death, but that is up to you.

Fixed and added! And by fixed, I mean I fixed them three times and they were still messed up, so I rearranged them and noticed that no matter what I did, the last three links on the page are messed up. How did I brilliantly fix this? I added three dummy links at the end. I have no idea what is causing that...

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You're such a silly little 'girl'... Now, at least, I know we're right about your allegiance, godfather. As for the rest, you already lied when Stash posted your PMs, don't expect anyone to believe your lies now. I'm a loyal to this town as anyone, and proved that when you tried to have me killed and failed. Killing cops? I can't help that you used one to try to kill me, but aside from that, we've been taking down mob bosses. Are they cops now? What a nutter (sorry, Nutter family, no offense intended).

I've tried to weigh all of the possibilities, and it comes down to the usual. One side made a better argument, which, if it's false, will get them killed tomorrow. Vote: Sandy / Sandy Quest

Thanks! I was too lazy to do that.

It's all yours, congrats again!