Round 27: Lylat Mafia

I might not be able to get back to civilization until sunday, going to visit family I barely know/care about. Just a warning for tomorrow.

Oh, that reminds me. I've got some nasty weather heading my way during the weekend so in case no one hears from me, that's why.

POLLS ARE CLOSED
Update to come soon.

But first, I'm going to address something that I forgot to mention (because it rarely shows up). Any vote you place against yourself will be treated as an abstain. This is mainly because of the way votes are placed.

The battle rages on for hours. Great Fox takes out some of the larger ships and Cornerian fighters take out most of the venomian Fighters. Eventually, the Venomians retreat just as Solar begins to set.
"Ok, who was shot at the most?" The commander inquires.
"Hmm....it came pretty close between Scept and Spplmj but it looks like Spplmj was shot at the most."
"Very Well." He leans over his console. "ROB 64, take down the fighter designated Spplmj."
"Affirmative."

The Fighters spread out and begin returning to base. They all boost forward except Spplmj and the Great Fox fires a laser at him. It hits the ship directly and the wreckage crashes down onto the surface of Katina.
A little Vehicle then zooms out of the base towards the wreckage and scans the area. After a few minutes, it picks up a box and returns to the base. It drops the box in through a small slot near it's storage area. The box is then taken to the command room.
"Now we see if they chose well. Display the black box's recording of the last 5 minutes."
Almost as soon as the image appears on screen, they realise they made a mistake and killed one of their recruits.
"Goddammit. All Pilots be prepared to deal with Venomian reinforcments. We chose poorly."


"Excellent, they got one of their own. But we can't just wait and hope they all kill each other. We've got to help them."
"So, should we move out and start planting more bombs?"
"No, only one of us should leave and we're only going to plant one bomb. We have no idea when they're going to start attacking again. Anyway, I doubt we'll be the only ones moving about at night and we can't allow ourselves to be seen."
"Ok, so who do will we blow up?"

The sun begins rising over the Base and it's not long before the alarms begin blaring as more Venomian ships start approaching the base. Shortly after the alarms start, the cornerian fighters begin launching from the base. Scept's ship doesn't get very far before it suddenly explodes.
"Damn, I was hoping they wouldn't do that. Send the recovery drone and get the black box."
The drone zooms off to the wreckage of Scept's ship. After about 20 minutes, it returns without a black box.
"What happened? Why couldn't it find the black box? There's no way it was destroyed."
"Commander, it's possible that whoever sabotaged the fighter may have stolen it's black box."
"What? This just keeps getting better, doesn't it?"

Spplmj was incinerated by friendly fire.

Spoiler:

Scept blew up but his identity remains a mystery.


Voting ends on the 8th of September at 3PM EST.

Hm... either Scept was a weird role, or we're looking at a mafia member that obscures the role of dead people.

I really don't have anything on anyone, but something is nagging in the back of my head about two people... one of whom is Nale.

Nale - 1 - Leo

Total - 1/14

It's most likely a janitor or something. Unless it was a weird third party. Obscuring your own death as a townie is counterproductive.

Anyway, voting Pheonix because he abstained yesterday. That's CLEARLY suspicious.

Nale - 1 - Leo
Phoenix - 1 - Zyquux

Total - 2/14

Mentle seemed to want to get a townie...

Nale - 1 - Leo
Phoenix - 1 - Zyquux
Mentle - 1 - Nale

Total - 3/14

Welp a possible janitor and a townie murder.

Until further inspection I shall place my judgement upon pilot Nale as well.

Nale - 2 - Leo, Nyu
Phoenix - 1 - Zyquux
Mentle - 1 - Nale
Total - 4/14

>Barely avoid getting lynched
>Get night killed.
Darn it.

Nyu Voting.
Call it a Formulamatic Hunch

Nale - 2 - Leo, Nyu
Phoenix - 1 - Zyquux
Mentle - 1 - Nale
Nyu - 1 - Stalin
Total - 5/14

My only regret was that I had boneites

Vatvotan.

Nale - 2 - Leo, Nyu
Phoenix - 1 - Zyquux
Mentle - 1 - Nale
Nyu - 1 - Stalin
Vat - 1 - Draco
Total - 6/14

I can't into strategy, but I can sure as hell try. *ahem*

Boy, I hope those janitor powers of yours aren't one-use, mafia. Scept was a mason. You're looking at the other dude who would know this right here.
That having been said, I'm just as good as a vanilla now. So I'm basically useless, except for my sub-par analytical skills.
That having been said, abstaining.

Nale - 2 - Leo, Nyu
Phoenix - 1 - Zyquux
Mentle - 1 - Nale
Nyu - 1 - Stalin
Vat - 1 - Draco
Daddy screamed real good before he abstained - 1 - Orion
Total - 7/14

Nyu votan because troll logic

Nale - 2 - Leo, Nyu
Phoenix - 1 - Zyquux
Mentle - 1 - Nale
Nyu - 2 - Stalin, Panda
Vat - 1 - Draco
Total - 6/14

Zyq votan because abstaining is suspicious.

Zyquux - 1 - Phoenix
Nale - 2 - Leo, Nyu
Phoenix - 1 - Zyquux
Mentle - 1 - Nale
Nyu - 2 - Stalin, Panda
Vat - 1 - Draco
Total - 6/14

Hey guys did we get on-...oh...the hell happened last night?

Damn, if Orion is right, we just lost a valuable player had that link been used well.

I'll vote Nale today, something about that mudkip bothers me...

Nale - 3 - Leo, Nyu, Axel
Phoenix - 1 - Zyquux
Mentle - 1 - Nale
Nyu - 2 - Stalin, Panda
Vat - 1 - Draco
Zyquux - 1 - Phoenix
Total - 9/14

Voting Table is under Maintenance.

Nale - 3 - Leo, Nyu, Axel
Phoenix - 1 - Zyquux
Mentle - 1 - Nale
Nyu - 2 - Stalin, Panda
Vat - 1 - Draco
Zyquux - 1 - Phoenix
Daddy screamed real good before he abstained - 1 - Orion
Total - 10/14

Maintenance complete on Voting Table.

Phoenix wrote:Zyq votan because abstaining is suspicious.

Zyquux - 1 - Phoenix
Nale - 2 - Leo, Nyu
Phoenix - 1 - Zyquux
Mentle - 1 - Nale
Nyu - 2 - Stalin, Panda
Vat - 1 - Draco
Total - 6/14

Urge to vote Phoenix... rising...
Sticking with Nale for now, though.

Nale - 3 - Leo, Nyu, Axel
Phoenix - 1 - Zyquux
Mentle - 1 - Nale
Nyu - 2 - Stalin, Panda
Vat - 1 - Draco
Zyquux - 1 - Phoenix
Don't get too abstinent, Star Fox - 1 - Orion
Total - 10/14

In the middle of fucking nowhere, with a mobile shitnet and boring family. I don't feel like going through everything when each page taks minutes to load, so I will just take this chance to eliminate a bad player before he Phonics this game.

Nalevotan.

Nale - 4 - Leo, Nyu, Axel, Mentlegen
Phoenix - 1 - Zyquux
Mentle - 1 - Nale
Nyu - 2 - Stalin, Panda
Vat - 1 - Draco
Zyquux - 1 - Phoenix
Don't get too abstinent, Star Fox - 1 - Orion
Total - 11/14

I have nothing interesting to add.

Nale - 4 - Leo, Nyu, Axel, Mentlegen
Phoenix - 1 - Zyquux
Mentle - 1 - Nale
Nyu - 2 - Stalin, Panda
Vat - 1 - Draco
Zyquux - 1 - Phoenix
Too busy barrel rolling to choose - 2 - Orion, Zink
Total - 12/14

POLLS ARE CLOSED
Update to come soon.

"Commander, the Venomians are retreating again."
The Commander sighs as he walks towards the Lieutenant. "Ok, who is it this time?
"Nale, sir."
"ROB, take out Nale. I hope we got one of them this time."

The fighters all begin to return to base. Nale begins to fly a little erratically because he knows what's coming. He panics as the Great Fox lets off two shots. He narrowly evades the first one but the second shot tore a hole through the fighter as it exploded.
The drone recovers the black box quickly. When it's brought to the Commander, they display an image from shortly before it was shot down.
"Not again..."The Commander says as he looks upon a whimpering recruit.


"Wait, why didn't they know who we blew up?"
"I stole the Black Box."
"Excellent. Where is it now?"
"In my fighter. Oh, and you were right about not being the only active people at night."
"Yeah, I saw some people going into other hangars."
"What? I thought I told you only one of us would move at night."
"They'll never see me. I can wait camouflaged in the shadows."
"I suppose you're right. To be safe though, I'll plant the bomb tonight."

As morning comes, the alarms begin blaring again. The remaining fighters launch again to meet a slightly diminished Venomian attack force. This time, Phoenix explodes suddenly.
"Commander, should we send the drone?"
"I see no reason not to. Even if they stole the black box, we should check to be sure."
The drone zooms out and it's not long before it finds the black box.
"See? Now display from 2 minutes before the explosion."
The commander watches the video feed for a few seconds before stepping back in horror as Peppy sits down in the cockpit.
".....Analyse the footage from last night. See if we can find out who did this."

Nale tried to evade but failed miserably.

Spoiler:

Phoenix didn't even get to do a barrel roll.

Spoiler:

Voting ends on the 9th of September at 3PM EST.

So we've lost 2 vanillas, the bus driver, and some other (presumably town-aligned) person. Could be worse, I guess. Still let's avoid lynching another townie.

Voting Nyu, because he's not becoming more like his father everyday.

Nyu - 1 - Zyquux

1/12

Ah blast another unfortunate evening!
And we're left with not much to go on.

I shall counter that so called intuition Stalin had used and point my suspicions on him for the time being.

Nyu - 1 - Zyquux
Stalin - 1 - Nyu

Total: 2/12

It's less an intuition, more a theorem.
Finley crafted throughout the Lab Experiments we call mafia games.

Nyu - 2 - Zyquux, Stalin
Stalin - 1 - Nyu

Total: 3/12