Vampire IV: The Song of Night

[Tasroth]

Yes. Pointing. *checks who's still alive*

Thufir, for some variety.

[Diva De]

Bushranger HAS been oddly quiet this game.

[Duneyrr]

I don't like this bandwagon. I'm going to vote for Istari again.

[PirateMonk]

I don't like this bandwagon.

Agreed. Tasroth.

[Helgraf]

((I'm back. Lynch results to be posted shortly.))

[Helgraf]

The crowd mulled among themselves. They came to a decision quickly, but the one known only as [The Bushranger] would not go quietly to his death. He fought against the others, and in the struggle, seized up Dr. Alexander Pickman-Leng, snapping his throat before he was subdued, then bludgeoning Kenneth O'Rias severely about the head and shoulders until he fell to the floor. Not ones to let an opportunity pass them by, the crowd threw all of them outdoors.

Later, when they found the body of Sir Ruthven Marmaduke Fairfax face down in his oatmeal, they threw his body outside too.

The Bushranger was lynched.
Dr Alexander Pickman-Leng [banjo1985] was autolynched. He was a Vampire.
Kenneth O'Rias [Korias] was autolynched.
Sir Ruthven Marmaduke Fairfax [Thufir] was autolynched.

The servants moved some people around as several of the outbuildings have been declared unsafe. The following buildings have been condemned, their doors and windows boarded up.

Check the housing there here for the current arrangements.

Andrews - CONDEMNED
Donovan - CONDEMNED
Robertson - CONDEMNED
MacDonald - CONDEMNED

Night 12 begins

[Helgraf]

Twelve days and twelve nights the horror had been endured. Twelve days and nights of paranoia, betrayal, and murder as they sought the monsters among them.

Count Din Elfre sat in his throne in the great hall, a goblet in his hand from which he sipped occasionally. His eyes pierced the gloom before him; with the fires doused the only light came from feeble streamers of moonlight that managed to peer between the thick curtains that held back the cold windy night without, yet he had, over the last few weeks, become accustomed to this paucity of illumination, and could make out the shapes of the room with ease.

Shadows crawled along the walls, indistinguishable from the darkness around them; yet still they came, moving in complete silence, flowing down the walls and across the floor until they formed a roiling mass of darkness pierced by tiny crimson specks before the throne.

The Count lifted the mug to his lips and drank deeply.

"Once I had the rarest rose that
ever deigned to bloom.
Cruel winter chilled the balm,
And stole my flower too soon
O loneliness, O hopelessness
To search the ends of time,
For there is in all the world
No greater love than mine."

He then tossed the goblet to the side, where it clattered against the stone of the floor; rising to his feet with a dignity not yet betrayed by the vintage in his veins - he strode forth until he was enmeshed in the swirling mist.

"Thou'rt come to claim the prize."

There was no spoken reply, simply a continued roiling of the shadowy mass.

"You believe you have earned the reward. What have you done? Drawn the Inquisition into my lair. Killed several Stonemasons. Thinned the ranks of the nobles. Killed ... my ... pet dragon. Misplaced your own sire and his bride. Years of subtlety brought down in twelve gore-drenched nights!"

He glared at the others venomously.

"Give me one good reason I shouldn't have you all staked in the morning."

There was a slight occlusion in the mist, then the sound of a body hitting the floor.

The Count rolled the body onto its back with his toe.

"Hmmm. Desmond Carbery. Well, at least you remembered the kind of blood I like."

Desmond Carbery was killed by the Vampires. With this death, the number of Noble-aligned players became equal to the number of Vampires, giving the Victory to the Vampires.

The Inquisition completed its original secret goal of eliminating 60% of the Council before losing half of their team, so they claim a minor team victory. Sadly, they were not able to discover the last remaining Council member before the game ended, so they don't earn their "even better' victory condition.

The Doppleganger survived to the end of the game, but did not achieve his victory condition, despite many valiant efforts. As a neutral, he earns a minor victory for surviving.

The Lycanthrope died early on, and the list of the infected never equalled or exceeded 50% of the living playerbase.

Renfield and Mrs. Morris kidnapped Adelheid and escaped into the night before the monsters could claim them ... setting the stage for Vampire V: Paris by Night.

Who was who!

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Shadow was Samuel Hadow, (Noble Council, High Magister) and was Lynched on Day 2.
Reinholdt was Mr. Buttons (Noble Council, Farspeaker) and was Lynched on Day 3.
Robert Blackletter was General Blackletter (Masonic, Inquisitor) and was Autolynched on Day 4.
ThePhantom was Count Philippe de Chagny (Vampire, Dracula) and was Lynched on Day 4. - But See Below!
Lady Tialait was Matron Violetta (Vampire, Star-crossed) and was Lynched on Day 5.
Logarr was Duke Alistair Smyth, Esq. (Neutral, Lycanthrope) and was Autolynched on Day 6.
Mordokai was Mordokai (Masonic, Inquisitor) and was Lynched on Day 6.
Ghanz Nmi was Ghanz Nmi (Noble, No Secondary Role) and was Lynched on Day 7
Cristo Meyers was Sir Niko Almasy (Psychic, Wandering Friar) and was Lynched on Day 8
Shadowcaller was Shadowcaller (Noble, Master Politician) and was Lynched on Day 9
billtodamax was Sir Harold Ryebecker (Noble, Feuder) and was Lynched on Day 10
otakuryoga was Higgins (Vampire, No secondary role) and was Lynched on Day 11
banjo1985 was Dr Alexander Pickman-Leng (Psychic, Bride of Dracula) and was Autolynched on Day 12
Korias was Kenneth O'Rias (Masonic, Stonemason) and was Autolynched on Day 12
Thufir was Sir Ruthven Marmaduke Fairfax (Noble, Van Helsing) and was Autolynched on Day 12
The Bushranger was the Bushranger (Masonic, Inquisitor) and was Lynched on Day 12
calar was Sir Vincent Von Holderbar (Noble Council, Feuder & Necromancer) and was killed on Night 1
rakkoon was Alistair Raccioni (Psychic, Bishop) and was killed on Night 3
Aemoh was Aemoh (Noble, No secondary role) and was killed on Night 5
cd4 was Sir Cedric the Fourth (Masonic, Stonemason) and was killed on Night 6 (Event)
Murska was Dan (Masonic, Stonemason) was killed on Night 6
Griever was Herr Griever von Lufdel (Vampire, Beast) and was killed on Night 7 (Event)
Lamech was Lamech (Noble Council, Blood Magus) and was Killed on Night 7
Zar Peter was Sir Peter Zar, MPhys (hons) (Masonic, Stonemason) and was killed on Night 08
Gray Mage was Leonard (Masonic, Inquisitor/Witch Hunter) and was killed on Night 09
Dragoon was Lady Astrid (Noble, Rabble Rouser) and was killed on Night 11
Internet Flea was Desmond Carbery (Noble, No secondary role) and was killed on Night 12.

Diva De was Belle Smithson (Noble, Star-crossed) and survived to the end but did not win.
Duneyrr was Jamadagni Bedi (Vampire Council, Illusionist) and survived to the end and won.
Istari was Istari (among other people) (Neutral, Doppelganger) and survived to the end and won a minor victory.
Lex-kat was Cerise (Vampire, No secondary role) and survived to the end and won.
PirateMonk was Father James Santiago (Recruited Vampire (former Noble)) and survived to the end and won.
Sanity702 was Zion (Masonic, Inquisitor) and survived to the end scoring a minor victory.
Tasroth was Lord Benedict Anwyn (Masonic, Stonemason/Her Majesty's Secret Service) and survived to the end but did not win.

Notes

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Due to the effect of the Doppleganger's Yours is Mine Ability, ThePhantom had lost his vampiric powers when he was lynched and showed up as a normal corpse.

On Day 6, the effect of a Renfield spell caused the lynch to go to the second highest vote target, thus Mordokai instead of Ghanz Nmi.

Injuries caused a small number of lynch votes to not count, but it was never enough to change the lynch result when it came up.

Intestinal Death Plague caused me to miss two autolynches. One was already dead by the time I got the records straight. The other was autolynched the following day.

5 players were lost to autolynch. It would have been 6, but one of them got themselves regular lynched before I noticed (see above). Not great, but not bad for a starting field of 34/35 players with loooong days and nights.

Event Roles:
The role of Bane King gave whomever possessed it an extra secret lynch vote; it also made them injury prone though they were not told this.

The Master Huntsman got a 3 day night kill ability (but never used it).

The Belle of the Ball had the ability to void one other player's vote each day (but never used it).

[Mordokai]

I seem to remember to have scried Duneyrr with an item that gave strong scry and he turned up as noble. Was he infected after that?

[billtodamax]

Well done Vampires, and at least that blaggard Calar didn't win.

[Helgraf]

I seem to remember to have scried Duneyrr with an item that gave strong scry and he turned up as noble. Was he infected after that?

Duneyrr was Jamadagni Bedi (Vampire Council,Illusionist) and survived to the end and won.

He was also disguising himself that day.

[Lex-Kat]

Well, that was a fun game. I wish to say good job to my fellow Vampires. It was fun, once we finally found each other.

[Istari]

Aww I only needed to steal on more ability too.
Lets see list of who I nailed.
Got ThePhantom(Dracula)
Gray Mage(Inquisitor)
Duneyrr(Illusionist)

Was messing around with Dracula's power and recruited PirateMonk.
Nailing Dracula early was great, I contacted him and we got into an alliance, but his early demise prevented me from doing anything and I didn't want to take the risk that PirateMonk had refused the recruitment and would get me lynched.

[Lex-Kat]

Then I thank you, sir. You have done a good deed that day.

[Gray Mage]

Wait, we won as well? Sweet. I didn't think that we did, since I figured we'd have received a PM telling us that we only needed to leave the game. It was a fun game, a shame that I got the item from voting for Helgraf as mayor post-morten. It'd have been usefull.

[The Bushranger]

Allllmost made it.

[Lady Tialait]

This was very fun, can't wait for the next one. Matron Violetta is sadly dead....but next time maybe something a little less obviously a vampire.

[Wizibirb]

Huzzah I win! (kinda)

[PirateMonk]

This was very fun, can't wait for the next one. Matron Violetta is sadly dead....but next time maybe something a little less obviously a vampire.

How does a vampire have leprosy, anyway?

[Helgraf]

How does a vampire have leprosy, anyway?

Some poor schmo with a disease when they get turned still has said disease afterward. Forever.

[Internet Flea]

How does a vampire have leprosy, anyway?

Perhaps more frightening, how does a leprous vampire have a lover?

[Lex-Kat]

Maybe he's one of those types who love amputees. So a body part falls off, he get's excited. After all, they need lovin' too.

[Lady Tialait]

Matron Violetta was turned into a Vampire while she had Leprosy this is true. However, she was not always a Leper, or a Vampire. No, at one time she was perhaps the most lovely woman in the world. Perhaps even more so then her lover Belle Smithson, secretly in the night she had told Belle that she loved her. The two had had a fling, never to teach eachother, for fear of spreading her dread disease, perhaps both.

At one point Violetta was a charming girl, and lovely, but the vampirism and leprosy had turned her bitter and hideous....


Yeah, I was enjoying it so much.