Mafia: The Aurora Express [N3: No-Show]

[TehPilot]

Pilot there's one thing I'm confused about. You still had a vote out on Mathgirl at the end of D1. Why didn't something bad happen then? (or is the whole Obo-not-lynched thing because of that?)

Mathgirl wasn't the lynch that day. She wasn't even near softlynch, so no penalty keeping my vote there.

As for what happened with Obo, I'm just as lost as anyone else is.

[Palamedes]

Better question Pilot! Why bother voting at all outside of hammering?

Actually hell. Pilot I don't want to lynch you, but I do want you voting for someone without being the hammer vote. Or convince people your town without that somehow but right now you're being reel fishy.

[anacreon]

some reads after a first read through.
Also, aS didnt leave me any notes to work with in his quick topic. So I have no idea what he was thinking.

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Pala is town
Heroguy i have no clue what to make of.
Obo i believe his 3p claim.
Cat i feel is town.
seedy i have not noticed much of and the posts made seem kind of bleh to me.
Airey i would like dead for being Airey.
Pharmacy - did not notice this person in my first reread

Would like obo and cat to confirm that tehpilot does indeed have the night apple also i am sure people have questions for me.

[anacreon]

ebwop: didnt mean to submit that when it wasnt finished will repost the full read list later

[Dragon Fogel]

Hmm. Rereading, I see the discomfort with Limanya much more clearly, but I still personally read her as just confused; that said, her comments to Scofflaw right before he gets lynched do make me uncomfortable. Not enough that I'd vote her myself, though. Not unless there weren't any other feasible options, which looks like it might be the case today.

I was also struck by Seedy's relative silence, but on the other hand I'm pretty happy with the reads she did give. Notably, she had Scofflaw as one of her top reads, although she didn't vote for him. But her other prime suspects were Heroguy, ZigZagas, and TehPilot; all people I have some degree of suspicion on. If one of those three is scum, I would be very surprised if Seedy were as well.

For the moment, I'm keeping my vote where it is. But I'd like to take the opportunity to ask Pilot a question while he's actually talking.

Can you tell me why you went from "Scofflaw looks okay" on Day 1 to "I like none of Scofflaw's posts" on Day 2? That kind of shift without explanation still makes me uneasy.

[TehPilot]

Better question Pilot! Why bother voting at all outside of hammering?

Actually hell. Pilot I don't want to lynch you, but I do want you voting for someone without being the hammer vote. Or convince people your town without that somehow but right now you're being reel fishy.

Just want to put pressure out there. And considering the activity state of the game, we need those votes. Besides, if I withheld my vote, that wouldn't win any favor either! Although now that I'm outed... eh.

Would like obo and cat to confirm that tehpilot does indeed have the night apple

That thing is merely a rock I tell you. A rock. It's not even an apple.

Can you tell me why you went from "Scofflaw looks okay" on Day 1 to "I like none of Scofflaw's posts" on Day 2? That kind of shift without explanation still makes me uneasy.

It was largely something I picked up on when I flipped back through those days on D2 - I found myself agreeing with Scoffles when his posts were just in a similar vein of thought as mine, and when I saw his posts D2 I wasn't as happy with them. Then there was his claim, which was such BS and after that I was like "yeah, lynch 'im" and then I remembered my role and vote shenanigans happened.

Just a misread on my part, really.

[curiousCat]

Vote: TehPilot

ya I gave him the apple
I think

[Dragon Fogel]

Okay. Day ends in a bit over 24 hours. Activity is still low.

So we've got to consolidate votes. I wouldn't make it a choice between Pilot and Limanya just yet, though. I'm going to reread to see if anything clearer shows up, and would recommend everyone else do the same even if they already have today.

[ZigZagas]

Well, while his activity doesn't exactly vindicate him, I feel a bit better about pilot than I do limanya now. Not good about him in general terms; come tomorrow he'll probably still be a good suspect but honestly Limanya, yes she's new, but she's given almost no opinions, which seems like newbie scum to me rather than newbie town, so my vote is sticking.
That said this thing with Pilot's role I'm not sure what to make of; I'm pretty bad at interpreting roleclaims, but I can say at least it doesn't seem like something somebody would make up? It could be useful to explain votign patterns, but I don't think as a fake role it would occur to anybody, but maybe it's just me. Then again if he did make it up he could basically explain away his previous votes however he liked, I really have no conclusion on it but they're my thoughts.
Basically, I'm gonna keep voting for limanya, because she's still said nothing, and I think hasn't contributed previously due to scum/lurkness rather than newishness.

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Votals: Now With Posts!

anacreon - (1) - Palamedes
TehPilot - (4) - Dragon Fogel, ThunderJolt, Paranoia, curiousCat
Limanya - (3) - Heroguy, ZigZagas, TehPilot

Abstaining - (7) - Pharmacy, anacreon, obolisk0430, crepuscularDissembler, Airey, Limanya, SleepingOrange

With 15 alive it takes 8 to lynch and 5 to soft lynch.The day will end on Wednesday 3rd of October, at 5PM GMT.

[Dragon Fogel]

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Heroguy is suspicious, and I personally don't like how this changed to this) so that's a thing especially since he wants me dead

Noting this because I see what Skunk was getting at and have mixed feelings on Heroguy over it. On the one hand, he jumps from "I don't know a lot" to "Vote: Obolisk" to "I'm not actually that sure Obolisk is scum but I've got nothing better" to "Skunk might be Obolisk's scumbuddy" to "Skunk's a safer lynch" before finally reaching "Vote: Skunk". On the other hand, Heroguy does give some reasoning for most of these steps; it's not really good reasoning, but it isn't as though he's just suddenly shifting positions arbitrarily. Still, overall effect is that I'm not too happy with him here.
Also, in this same post Skunk is the one person to say "hey, I think what Obolisk was actually trying to say is this"; with Obolisk probably being third-party, I think it's a bit unlikely that Skunk said this to get Townie Karma Points when Obolisk turned up nonscum. At the very least, I think Skunk actually believed this even if they're scum, and that kind of sincerity makes me disinclined to believe they're scum.
On the whole, at this point I dislike Heroguy slightly and like Skunk slightly.

Acio is being way docile for him, but I'm going to attribute that to not wanting to scare the new players away
Slorange and Schazer are D1-unreadable as per usual
Feeling pretty good on Heroguy and Obo for more bold newbie play than I'm used to seeing
Don't like Thunderjolt testing how SRSBSNS the voting is
Not super fond of Skunk but Mathgirl gets my vote because awful votepost

This reminds me that Acio/Cat was by far Scofflaw's favorite person - note the claimed copcheck. Of course, Scofflaw has a history of buddying Acio anyways and probably wouldn't switch to suspicions on Cat unless she did something terrible, and he must have known he was doomed when he made that check claim, so it's just full of wine. Ultimately, this is inconclusive on Cat; I'm a bit wary of her but I don't think I have gret reasons for that.
Also I've been feeling good about ThunderJolt today even if I don't feel as strongly on Limanya as he does; Scofflaw poking at him here strengthens that feeling.
Compliments Heroguy and Obolisk, dislikes Skunk. This adds to my feelings in the opposite direction on Heroguy and Skunk.
(Why do I feel better about Skunk for sticking up for Obolisk when confirmed mafia did the same? Because Skunk gave more reasoning! Scofflaw just cites "bold newbie play".)

...and now khalvin's soft-defending Skunk (who he has in Neutral), going after Heroguy (and MathGirl, but she's dead now), which is a point in the opposite direction from what I was leaning. Hmm.
Also going neutral on Acio in a complimentary way. Scum often don't have a chance to coordinate if there's a daystart, and khalvin was new, so this is a slight point towards Cat.

Is throwing your vote around considered a scumtell around here? That's a question, not an accusation.

If khalvin wasn't already dead, I'd be voting him hard for this, it looks so much like "I want to know if it's okay to join in the accusations".

Now ZigZagas is being talkative for a bit. Weak jump on Obolisk, which even he admits is a "got nothing better"; soft defense of Heroguy and grumbling at Slorange for voting him; says "reading Acio as town but he's Acio", which could be a thing if Acio/Cat turns out to be scum; questions on Pala which are understandable; and...

Schazer - Haven't a clue

A bit odd because 1) it's not like he's commenting on everyone and 2) Schazer isn't the focus of conversation at this point. So why mention someone he has no ideas on? That said, Schazer was being intentionally playful this day, and it's not as if this screams scum; just weird.

Zig, can you tell me why you felt the need to mention Schazer despite not having anything specific to say about her?

Anyways, Pala asks Zig to expand on why he's voting Obolisk, he does by pointing Obolisk's admittedly strange question to Heroguy, says it's still not a strong feeling.
Could be trying to set up an easy lynch while hoping to avoid getting too much blame for it later; or could be uncertain town who's afraid of looking noncommittal. I lean the former a bit, but right now that's mostly a gut feeling.

Now a little after this we have khalvin talking again, after being pressed to give more reads. Jumps on Limanya (with a Light Scumread) after she points to Schazer and Mathgirl without giving reasons. Let's see if he lets up on her later, that could be informative about the current push on her.
He's still going after Heroguy, hmm. Also worth seeing if he lets up later.
Pushes on "me" (Inox) and Pharms for not saying anything. Oh hello, what's this he points out Kiven and Seedy for only posting once, but not Pilot. In fact, he only comments on Pilot at all for suspecting Mathgirl, who he's pushing on... hmm, then again Kiven and Seedy have had less content than Pilot at this point. Slightly feeds my dislike on Pilot.

He doesn't mention Airey at all, which I notice because Airey posts right afterwards. He mentions literally everyone else.

Only you and Obo were around at the time too so there was nobody else to look at suspiciously.

First thing that makes me actually wary of Pala. I can understand pointing most of his questions at the people who were around to answer them, but why not throw one at someone else too? It makes him sound a bit opportunistic.
Not enough to vote, and I feel good about him in general.

Scofflaw votes for Pharms, now I note she popped in briefly D1 and voted Obolisk.
It now occurs to me she could have been told in scumchat not to go for the most obvious suspect the next day and Inox may even have been suggested as a possibility for his lurking. Although I'd kind of expect one of the other scum to do something with that if it were a plan.
Moving Pharms down to a neutral read.

Limanya never expanded on her vague suspicions of Schazer and Mathgirl and then pops in again to answer a question from Thunderjolt... in which she says "don't know about Skunk, Obolisk votes too quickly but I could be wrong." I think this is why I read Limanya as a confused newbie, she's extremely noncommital all the time, and it seems pretty sincere to me.

Para defends Heroguy, joins the Obolisk wagon, blasts ZigZagas. If it turns out that Heroguy's scum and Zig isn't, I'd take a closer look at Para.

khalvin's been going after Slorange really hard. Combined with Slorange's activity D2, I'm feeling pretty confident on Slorange. Anyways, back to khalvin's reads... still going on Limanya and Heroguy, what's more he goes after Limanya on Schazer and Mathgirl at a time when everyone else seems to have forgotten that comment! Yeah, I don't think Limanya's scum - not because he's still going after her but because he's bringing up things that other people aren't mentioning. That looks like an attempt to start pushing opinion against her, not to put distance between them.
His current read on Heroguy is this:

Hero: Has settled on Obolisk. Though still wishy-washy and new-ish.

This comes across as weak. I'm getting less suspicious of Heroguy now.
Adds Zig to the light scumreads after a consistent neutral streak. Doesn't do much for my suspicions either way.
Wait...

ArmoredSkunk/Eidolonic/Scofflaw/Pilot: are all waiting to hear back on questions they asked their suspects. Thus I'm waiting to ponder deeper.

Did Pilot do this? I don't remember that. Certainly doesn't seem like he did so memorably enough to note that over his infrequent posting. Could be an attempt to defend Pilot.
I went back and checked. Pilot's only outright question is "Hey Limanya, can I get some of your opinions?" khalvin's excuse on Pilot is flimsy, and I don't like that.

Now Limanya says she didn't really have a reason for voting Schazer, didn't clarify on MathGirl at all, and looks like she's buddying khalvin, no wonder people are voting her. Still feel that khalvin's consistent suspicion on her and bringing up a forgotten line of inquiry outweigh that.

ZigZagas starts voicing suspicions of Schazer because she hasn't done much this day, doesn't change his vote or explain why Obolisk is still more suspicious in his eyes. Let's see if he gets pressed later.

Limanya actually tries to explain things! ...And goes with khalvin's reads as her main reasons. If she were clumsily tying herself to a scumbuddy, I'd expect her to act similarly around the others, such as Scofflaw. From D2 on, sure, she could have been coached, but here, it doesn't seem clear why she'd pick out Khalvin specifically.

Oh, yeah... it looks as if the dislike of Skunk seems to have stemmed from him keeping his vote on Schazer through Day 1. anacreon doesn't have any notes or anything from Skunk, though; so unless that reason's role-related, we'll never know it.

khalvin makes a last-minute push for Slorange and doesn't vote Obolisk. Obolisk is lucky he had a supportable third-party claim, otherwise he'd look pretty bad here with known scum trying to go after him.

Day 1 final votes: Four votes on Schazer for basically no reason, but my reads on the individuals have me reading this as "silly" rather than "suspicious". I thought there was something else a little weird, but then I started reading D2 and forgot about it when I came back and looked again. Well, there's Airey voting for Acio, that's all I've got.

And Day 2. Schazer dissects khalvin, other than that there isn't a lot noteworthy for a while.

Until Zig says this:

Main thought atm is not exactly a scumread:
Limanya voted schazer to have the apple, and immediately rescinded it - this just tells me limanya is allowing others (or pala at least, though I think any dominant player) to lead her into decisions. Otherwise why vote for schazer? If she just forgot then presumably her suspicions on schazer weren't actually that strong else she'd have remembered them immediately.

And now we have oddities. He doesn't vote here. Today, he raises similar points on Limanya and votes her, after somebody else has raised the subject and there's a vote on her. These happened at more or less the same point in the day. Zig, why did you feel it warranted a vote today and not yesterday?
Oh, wait, never mind that. He votes after Schazer says this:

Scoffles and ZigZagas, I want something more substantial than poking things from a distance with a damn stick.

Now his vote today looks like an attempt to avoid this sort of comment. On the other hand, he goes after Scofflaw early in the day, (doesn't vote him though) and also Skunk; if Skunk's scum, Zig probably isn't.
Compliments Heroguy on being more forthcoming, explicitly says he's not making an alignment call.
Then Heroguy joins the Scofflaw wagon.
Right, okay. I don't think Zig and Heroguy are on a scumteam together, although there is the possibility of a planned bussing. Especially considering that Scofflaw could vanish in the night if he survived and then claim False Martyr; that would be a nice distancing strategy.
Going to tentatively call them not coaligned just yet.

Heroguy asks why nobody's voting Obolisk, who hasn't fullclaimed yet. This is a good question, actually! More specifically, why aren't people who were happy to see Obolisk lynched yesterday not going after him? Let's check that wagon.
obolisk0430 - (6) - Palamedes, ZigZagas, Pharmacy, Acionyx, Heroguy, Paranoia
Acio was replaced, and Cat may not have the same reads. Pharms was absent, and didn't show up D2 until Obolisk had claimed.
We're left with Pala, ZigZagas, Heroguy, and most interesting of all, Paranoia. He was the last to vote Obolisk... and the first to note the third-party claim! He also posted late in the day but didn't unvote, or at least qualify his vote.
So Para, tell me why you didn't note the third-party claim on D1. Heroguy, ZigZagas, Pala, tell me why you didn't jump on Obolisk again on D2.

Phew! Not done, but I think I've got enough to go on. Okay, for people too busy to read through all that, here are my questions:
ZigZagas - You singled out Schazer as someone you didn't have a clue about on D1. Why mention her and not all the other people you presumably didn't have a clue about?
Heroguy, ZigZagas, Palamedes: Why didn't you stick with your Obolisk votes on D2?
Para: Why did you not say anything about Obolisk's third-party claim on D1, and then bring it to everyone's attention on D2?

So, opinions: At the moment, I would like to stick with a vote on Pilot. Second choice is ZigZagas, third is Heroguy, fourth is Skunk because that would at least be informative (really don't want to, though, because anacreon just replaced in and I like their reads so far), fifth is Para for weird behavior on Obolisk and how he acted around my second and third choices.
I don't think Skunk and ZigZagas are on a scumteam together.
I don't think Para and ZigZagas are on a scumteam together.
To a lesser degree than either of those, I don't think Heroguy and ZigZagas are on a scumteam together.
If it turns out none of those five are scum... I actually have no idea who I'd go with. Maybe Pala or Cat on an outside chance. Or Airey because I always end up wanting to lynch Airey.
I blame the lurking for making it hard to read people.
I think Limanya's town, though admittedly she's not actually playing the game and it would be nice if she started to.

Anyways, I'd prefer to keep my vote on Pilot. What's everyone else got to offer?

[Dragon Fogel]

Whoops, I meant to include a warning about the length of those notes, they're pretty scattered. Don't feel obligated to read them right now, just ask me about any particular opinion you'd like me to expand on, or even a specific player I didn't mention.

[Dragon Fogel]

On further reflection, I can accept a Limanya lynch; not because I think she's scum, but because I think scum are going after her hard and if she comes up town, that bolsters my case. Note that my top three to lynch are all the people voting her.

This is, however, a last resort for me and I will be disappointed if it comes to that.

[Limanya]

Ugh

It's really late here now and i'm tired but yeah
The reason i liked khalvin was probably because of those readlists and me thinking they were really impressive and awesome and big -_-

Anyways. Cat doesn't strike me as scum, haven't seen anything about her yet that makes me think 'ASDFGHJKL SCUM' but eh.
Dragon Fogel....i like him, probably for the same stupid reason as i liked khalvin but yeah he seems to be waaaaay more active than me srry guys -____-
I'll have to check on the others tomorrow though.

[Paranoia]

Fogel: mostly because it felt like some people were going to go after him again and I wanted to remind them that 3party hunting is usually a waste of time. I wasn't around for the end of day claim. Its actually rather hard to respond if the claim happens right before day ends, so the first chance I had to comment was day 2.

[Paranoia]

I'm just going to note here if tehPilot flips scum I want to eviscerate zigzaggas tomorrow. TehPilots said nothing to make me really reconsider if he's town or not and I'd rather not let him slip away just by virtue of having "Said Things.'

[Dragon Fogel]

Oh, hey, I didn't realize until now that Pilot was just one vote away from softlynch. I would greatly appreciate seeing a fifth vote there. In fact, I'd really like a sixth just to be sure.

[Palamedes]

Heroguy, ZigZagas, Palamedes: Why didn't you stick with your Obolisk votes on D2?

Because obo claimed 3rd party, and I wanted to figure out what was up with that before hand.

I'm alright with a Vote: Pilot because yeah I agree that anacreon's been better about being around and I'm not a fan of how TehPilot's been acting. Part of me would still rather see if he dies if he's voting without hammering, but it would be too easy for him to explain why he didn't die if he is just gambity scum (plus it gives us a chance to lose obo). Heroguy looks bad today, but like I mentioned earlier he wasn't really in a bussing position on Scofflaw so I'd rather look at him after some other scumreads (such as Zig, Skunk, and mayyybe Cat).

If for some reason the three on Limany are all not mafia then Limanya doesn't looks so good (since so far my only feelings of town in her relate to her wagon).

[Palamedes]

EBWOP on obo part: Once he came clean about the apple part I didn't want to lynch him because it is easily provable.

[Heroguy]

I don't like a Teh hang as much now as before. He seemed to really come in and toss around a few reads, along with offering an explanation for his actions; all this is quite a bit more then what Limanya has put forth. Nonetheless, I'm willing to call bullshit on his new behavior and see for sure what side he's on with a good old-fashioned hang, if it must come to that.
Vote: Teh
I really hope we're making the right decision here, bros. We haven't lynched town yet, and if he does turn out to be town, then we just lost what looks like someone who could be a valuable and shrewd player.

I decided to hold off on Obolisk because he honestly seemed like a third-party guy. He had those weird apples, and he seemed to know where they are, so he isn't bullshitting on that. But his complete inactivity from the game at this point is a little frustrating. In any case, if we lynch Teh, I think that activates Obo's win condition or something, so that'll be exciting.

Slorange where are youuuuu

[TehPilot]

For the record, it's kinda hard to test my voting-shenanigans claim when I'd have to self-vote for it to work with the current lynch. And even then...

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So, I'm going to Vote: TehPilot. Let's see if you talk some more today.

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I'd probably rather Vote: Pilot especially since after that unvote for no reasoning at all sky-rocketed him to the top of my scumlist.

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TehPilot however still feels worse to me at the moment after that EoD shit he pulled when he popped in and unvoted and did precisely nothing else. (apart from voting scoffles when shit seemed dire. The only thing i remember was when i voted scoffles was at the no lynch and softlynch." I haven't been particularly happy with his contributions as they seem on the whole safe n' empty.

Vote: TehPilot

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Vote: TehPilot

ya I gave him the apple
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I'm alright with a Vote: Pilot because yeah I agree that anacreon's been better about being around and I'm not a fan of how TehPilot's been acting.

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Nonetheless, I'm willing to call bullshit on his new behavior and see for sure what side he's on with a good old-fashioned hang, if it must come to that.
Vote: Teh

[Paranoia]

Is this thing on?

So today was only the same people over n' over again with occasional Guest Stars from the lurker crowds. I'm

not too enthused about anything right now.

[ZigZagas]

Ok so
As for schazer, she'd been the focus of attention earlier for slightly random shenanigans. By saying I didn't have a clue, that means 'I don't know whether to interpret being silly selvoting as just silliness or as actual intentional play', which was a thing I think I wondered abou in the same/a nearby post.
As for obo, I was actually pretty satisfied with 3p claim once it was confirmed that someone had received the apple, and also because obo was the best vote on the first day, but come second day more stuff starts to happen and so more candidates pop up to consider before voting.
Also the reason I went straight to voting for someone today is because like people say activity is variable and I myself can only be on in certain windows of time so I just wanted to open with being as proactive as I could, if you like to say it that way.

Ok so as for pilot V limanya:
I'm feeling pretty weak on both counts, to be honest. Like hero said, Pilot has been a lot more communicative and opinionated that limanya as of today, which is helpful and makes me want to stay on track with limanya. However, pilot has apparently done lots of scummy stuff? I understand the sudden switch of votes is strange, but what else is there that are making people vote for him?
But fogel's uberpost makes me think that if khalvin really was pushing limanya sufficiently, then it seems unlikely for them to be on a scumteam. So I think I'm going to unvote because that just jars with limanya being scum.
Not going to vote pilot just yet though until some kind person gives me a list of reasons because all the ones I can find seem to be either stuff like activity or that one time he voted scofflaw weirdly. There just doesn't seem like that much to support it? I feel like i'm missing something since everyone seems pretty confident about it so to be honest i'd just like someone to tell me clearly why.

Alsoooo what do people mean by bussing?

[anacreon]

I am not quite sure about the pilot lynch.

@zigzag is means scum pretty much pushing a lynch on one of their own.

because of a few things
if he is scum he would have been bussing scoffles since his vote was on him very early in that day and was there all day.

his claim. I am not sure what to think of it. I know it is an easily provable claim though from the way it sounds.
Part of me thinks it is a bs claim since it would give him a good excuse to hop off a wagon.
The other thinks it might be real since it seems like it would be hard to fake claim something like that.

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Final Votals

TehPilot - (6) - Dragon Fogel, ThunderJolt, Paranoia, curiousCat, Palamedes, Heroguy
Limanya - (2) - ZigZagas, TehPilot

Abstaining - (7) - Pharmacy, anacreon, obolisk0430, crepuscularDissembler, Airey, Limanya, SleepingOrange

With 15 alive it takes 8 to lynch and 5 to soft lynch. The day will end on Wednesday 3rd of October, at 5PM GMT.



By the third day it's becoming quite natural. Humans are adaptable creatures, after all, and these ones in particular seemed to have taken to the death and murder like ducks to water.

As always, there are the few who hang back when the mob turn on the victim. But they don't intervene either. Instead they watch silently as the victim, now eerily resigned to their fate, is dragged towards the cliff-side. The noose is laid around his neck.

And then he is pushed.

But this time, something is different. The rope does not go taut. The lynch mob, which had stepped back from the edge in a last mark of reverence, now hurries forward as quickly as their sense of preservation will allow. Furious words are hissed back and forth between the few, but it is only when the rope is drawn up from the edge that those who hung back see what has happened; the rope has snapped.

A quick discussion arrives at the conclusion that the result is the same. Wherever the victim is now, it's likely in a crumpled heap at the bottom of cliff. And if the drop doesn't claim them, then the winter's night will.

And so the lynch mob withdraws from the cliff. It is only as they start to climb back into the train that any more light is shed on the matter.

"Hello?"

Everyone turns. The victim, thought irreversibly dead just moments ago, is standing on the cliff edge with the broken rope still around his neck. He's a little scratched and battered, but undoubtedly alive.

"I - I'm not dead?" he adds, quite unnecessarily. "The rope broke and a branch caught me - so I climbed back up. Is... is that okay?"

There is a stony silence.

Eventually somebody mutters something about pardons in the case of the noose snapping, and everyone is happy enough to accept that. With a few irritated sighs and murmurs, everyone makes their way to bed.

Nobody died. Night has now begun and will end on the 6th of October at 5PM GMT.

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Quite a few people didn't post today. I'm going to be prodding people, but I'm dangerously close to just giving up on this game. It's ridiculously unfair on town if people don't post.