Pirates III- At Forum's End

[Atreyu the Masked LLama]

Finally AMEN is able to gather enough votes to lynch Zar Peter overboard. The astronomer hollers WAIT!!! Since you all like voting so much how about a quick game of cloak and dagger. Surely, AMEN members would like to play Cloak and Dagger.

*The other passengers all nod and wait for Zar to hand out the lists. Many shoot others evil looks and some whisper back and forth. Every so often one will go up and hand Zar Peter a slip of paper.

He cheerfully goes up and writes the first update totals on a chalkboard.

Shadow 10 points
Raldor 8
Magtok 7
Azakiel 3
Janusnori 1
White helm 1
everyone else is at 0

Things look bad for the naked man. Second update will be soon.

*A few minutes later and after a few notes are exchanged, Zar Peter updates the new totals*

Shadow 12
Magtok 10
Raldor 6
Zar Peter 4
Azakiel 3
White Helm 1

Hahaha. Very funny. You know I'm not on anyone' kill list or heal list.

*after 10 minutes, he tallies up the final score for the 1st round.*

Zar Peter 215
Magtok 12
Shadow 8
Raldor 7
White Helm 1

Hey! That's not right! Thats impossible.
But the crowd doesn't listen. They run up and grab Zar Peter and hurls him overboard. Even Xavier gets in on the action by pushing in the chalkboard. As he splashes down, Zar Peter starts laughing and HE FLOATS!!

Fools! You forget that the heart of Cloak and Dagger is treachery. I'm wearing a life jacket." Xavier throws a rope to Zar Peter who climbs up into the ship. Xavier holds out his hand for a tip and coughs.

Zar Peter was lynched. He was saved by his life jacket. If AMEN and the pirates can get their kills and recruits in soon, we can update tonight.

[whitehelm]

*shrugs* Your death has only been delayed Zar.

Edit: Oh, and Atreyu? It's whitehelm...one word.

[evnafets]

Very tricky Zar Peter. I see Faerwain was not the only one to purchase a life jacket. I presume that was from the first shopping trip? I gave the merchant my money at the last place, but they never delivered the promised package aboard ship.

Very well then. I suggest you use this night to pray to your god.
And make sure you finish your prayers appropriately.
AMEN.

[Shadow]

Very well then. I suggest you use this night to pray to your god.
And make sure you finish your prayers appropriately.
AMEN.

Haahaahaa!!!
Good one!

[Atreyu the Masked LLama]

(thanks to an AMENite to write this for us.)

Whitehelm - Figured you come make a bump in the night.

El Jaspero - I’m here to bump you off.
What the bump did I do to you?

Nothing, but someone needs to be bumped off this ship. Else we continue bumping along for far too long.

Well make it quick. I don’t want to be bumping up breakfast while you bump me to be bumping up daises.

You bumping bet your bump that we’ll bumping make it quick. We don’t need any more bumps in the road.

You sure I can’t bump into AMEN?

AMEN is bumped up enough as it is. It bumping needs to get all us bumping pirates into it before the game bumps. You ready?

I really don’t want to bumping bump?

Bumping sorry mate. Can’t make our bumping omelet with out bumping a few bumps. Let me just turn on the bumping radio, so you can bumping scream if you like….

El Jaspero turns up the dial on the alarm clock radio. You hear the following tune…

[music]
….Bump Bump
The Mac Dad will make you Bump Bump
The Daddy Mac will make you Bump Bump
Kris Kross will make you Bump Bump

Don't try to compare us to another bad little fad
I'm the Mac and I'm bad give you something that you never had
I'll make ya Bump Bump wiggle and shake your bump
Cause I'll be kicking the flavor that makes you wanna Bump
How high? Real high
Cause I'm just so fly
A young loveable, bumpable type of guy
And everything is the bump with a little bump
And inside-out is wiggida wiggida wiggida bump
I come stompin' with somethi' to keep you bumpin'
R&B and this thread is what I'm bumpin'
And ain't something about Kris Kross we all that
So when they ask to the rocks they believe that

Bump Bump
The Mac Dad will make you Bump Bump
The Daddy Mac will make you Bump Bump
Kris Kross will make you Bump Bump
[/music]

Behind the music, you can hear Whitehelm’s scream barely make it through.
BUUUUMMMMPPP...

Whitehelm was killed by Pirates. He was a passenger. Day begins and will end whenever AMEN wants it to apparently or 11 PM EST on Friday.

[Shadow]

Should we kill ZP again?
*points at ZP while temporarily putting on a pair of pants, just so that he can turn them around backwards.

[evnafets]

Why not. Do you think the life jacket will work a second time?
evnafets points at Zar Peter

[Lord Magtok]

Nah, I'm pretty sure it's a one-use item.

Magtok points at Zar Peter.

[Zeb The Troll]

*Zeb points at Zar Peter* again.

[Ink]

"Sorry mate, I think it's time for you to die now."

Ink points at Zar Peter

[Akaziel]

Akaziel points at Zar Peter.

[janusnori]

Die!

*points at Zar Peter*

[Zar Peter]

((Hey, I only wanted to be the last passenger!))

Xavier points at Zar Peter!

You, you are no Amenite!

But it stands there in my sig! I'm the official Astronomer!

You forgot that you deleted it to get space for all the other stuff in your sig! Die!

Oh, crap, he's right!

((@Atreyu: Great scene, thanks!
@evnafets: I reclaimed my purchase yesterday, they sent me a package with it))

[evnafets]

Hmmm. Maybe I should go check with the postmaster. Or at least see if I can get my money back.

You're going to be doubly blessed with two death scenes. What a lucky guy. Is there a "deja vu" game somewhere around? Maybe we'll invent it just for you.

[Timberwolf]

Points at Zar Peter.

[Atreyu the Masked LLama]

Wow! I think we hit a majority within the hour. Well, I can't post an ending at work today, and I this I have a game of D&D right after this, but I'll have Zar Peter killed off sometime tonight, if one of my fellow co-narrators is unable to take care of it this afternoon.

That will also give us a bit of time to prep an ending.

[Supagoof]

Wait! Wait!

Points at Zar Peter

Phew. Almost didn't make it....

@V It's cause we love you Zar! Really.

[Zar Peter]

((I'm honoured that the most of you are trying really hard to come to my second funeral.))

[whitehelm]

points at Zar Peter anyway!

Even death will not keep me from the final lynch!

[Artemis97]

I wonder if this game will end with no bad guys dead. Oh well. *continues to party in the pirate free paradise*

[whitehelm]

Yep..with Zar's death, AMEN (along with the newly joined pirates) wins.

[Vonriel]

(( A reminder, the game isn't over yet, and until it is, discussion of things that may affect gameplay is a no-no for us dead folk. Including speculation as to the end of the game. ))

[Indurain]

AMEN MMLLLXXXVII: The gnome who didn't want to die

The day is drawing to a close and the remaining “passengers” search for Zar Peter. Frustrated at their inability to dispose of the pesky wizard yesterday, they are now hungry for blood. But their search appears to be fruitless. That is until Xavier decides to save himself by showing the AMENites the secret beer storage that Zar discovered on his first night on the ship. What they find there is a sad sight indeed. Zar splayed out over a few empty kegs of beer, completely passed out. The AMENites grab the unconscious body of Peter and haul him up to the top deck, and quickly deposit him over the side of the ship.

They wait for the sound of that satisfying splash, but it doesn’t come.

“Not again.” Says Shadow. “How much longer can this drag out?”

It’s only when they look over the side of the ship, that they realise…they’re docked. The cruise had come to an end. And as they look down they see Zar Peter slowly coming around, on top of a pile of stuffed bunnies.

“What happened?” He asks, slowly getting to his feet. He looks up and sees the AMENites staring down at him in anger. Slowly realisation dawns on him. “Missed again suckers!” He screams as he starts to run away from the ship. Zar runs into the town and the AMENites can only look on in disappointment. That is until…

*HOOOOONKKKKK* *SPLAT*

A large banana truck cuts Zar Peter’s celebrations short.

Summary: Zar Peter was killed by a banana truck. He was a passenger.

The AMENites raise a mighty cheer that echoes over the entire island. The pirates among them begin to tear apart the ship, looking for any and all remaining post counts they may have missed. Then, Ink, now decked out in his full El Jaspero uniform comes up to the deck.

“Ar…look what I found.” He yells.

As the AMENites and Pirates gather round they see that Ink has a map, more specifically a treasure map. The only text on it is at the top, a cryptic message: TACO. Realisation soon downs on the crew that the map is of the very same island they are on. Ink quickly jumps overboard onto the pile of stuffed bunnies and tears off into the jungle. Everyone follows behind. After nearly an hour of traipsing through stifling heat and dangerous traps and pitfalls, the AMENites come to a small clearing shaped like a taco. Sitting in the middle of the clearing is a large rock, also suspiciously shaped like a taco. Sitting atop the rock is a brilliant white helm. Ink slowly approaches the rock, constantly checking his map.

“It should be right here.” He says. “Come on boys, help me move this rock.”

People quickly rush over, and soon the rock has been over turned the impressive white helm carelessly discarded in some tall grass. As soon as the rock has been cleared hands begin digging through the dirt until Supagoof screams out.

“AAARRRGGGHHHH…I hit me nail. Oooooh, that stings.”

Soon the earth has been cleared leaving a treasure chest…and on the front, where a keyhole should be is an indentation in the shape of…you guessed it…a taco. Try all they might the AMENites cannot break into the chest. The treasure of the taco is safe…but for how long?

(My guess? Probably until the next game of Pirates. *wink wink*)

THE END! AMEN wins. Flawless Victory.

[Indurain]

Roles: (sorry for any poor spelling...I'm tired)

Akaziel - Smellie Hippie
almighty salmon - FRAN
Artemis97 - Passenger
B-Man - Passenger
bassetking - FRAN
Calamity - Passenger
Captain Van Der Decken - Alarra
Castaras - Passenger
Dolie Master - Thes Hunter
Eldritch Knight - FRAN
evnafets - ZRS
Faerwin - Pirate
fleeing coward - Passenger
Funky Odor - Trog
helgraf - Passenger
hyram graff - Passenger
Ink - El Jaspero
inky13112 - Passenger
janusnori - Pirate
Jontom Xire - Passenger
Khaldan - Passenger
Kyrian - Lord Magtok
Lord Magtok - Pirate
Lord Fullbladder - Passenger
Malmagor Andrigal - FRAN
pingcode20 - Passenger
Shadow - Indurain
Serlahc - Passenger
Smellie Hippie - Passenger
Raldor - Passenger
Supagoof - Pirate
The Almighty One - Passenger
Timberwolf - FRAN
Vonriel - FRAN - Korith
Vicarin - Passenger
whitehelm - Passenger
Zar Peter - Passenger
Zeb the Troll - Llama

[Zar Peter]

That was great! Awesome! Better than I imagined! Thank you, Indurain, Alarra and Atreyu for this game, I'm happy to come to a Pirate and Amenite free heaven!

[Jontom Xire]

I've just worked something out. DOH!

I suspected early on that Shadow would be taken over by the AMENites. I made a bit of a mistake by hinting at my suspicions to him. Then SupaGoof claimed to be the seer and a bit of cross-checking with Shadow proved he wasn't. Shadow then very neatly tricked me by saying I should leave the investigation into his hands. At the time I assumed that Supagoof was kept alive because Shadow was trying to get deeper into the pirates - find more of them out. Then I got killed and kind of lost interest a little.

It's only now I realise that Shadow wanted me to back away from Supagoof because he knew Supagoof was a pirate (what else could he be) and got him recruited into the AMENites. I unwittingly handed the AMENites the entire pirate contigent on a plate. I suspect now that I was killed because I knew SupaGoof was a pirate.

Thinking a bit further, how can the AMENites not win unless they have really bad luck in about the first 4 or 5 turns? Lord Magtok needs only lie low for that long before he has probably unearthed the pirates and the masons. Once he recruits more than half of either and at least one of the other, he can use one group to whittle the other down until he controls it too. Being only one guy he is really hard to find, so even if everyone decides that their number one priority will be to find and kill Lord Magtok it's still a bit of an impossible task to accomplish.

Oh, and did anyone remember my list of six that I said would have a higher proportion or pirates and everyone said I was spouting rubbish? It had two pirates on it. The reason I knew it would have a higher pirate density was because of the 9 people who voted for me, I knew three of them were not pirates for sure, and I knew that none of the remaining 6 were Legion because I asked Almighty Salmon.

Congratulations to Akaziel. I was almost convinced he was a member of the Legion of Fran. Well played.

[janusnori]

Lord Magtok isn't that hard to find, JX, considering that we scried him on turn 1.

Good job Supagoof and the others for devising such a clever plan. (which I'm sure he will love to explain.)

Good job pirates!

*Final Fantasy victory music plays*

[Zar Peter]

I think it also helped a little that Shadow was attacked and saved at day one.
So everyone knew he was Indurain and he served the head of the seer to the Amenites and the Pirates on a silver tablet.

[Fleeing Coward]

*Note to self, don't accuse Smellie Hippie and Lord Magtok of been pirates during the night next time.

The passengers just had some bad luck having Shadow revealed as Indurain on the first night, once that happened, he was bound to be recruited by Lord Magtok and that pretty much sealed the fate of the rest of the passengers as soon as the masons and seers revealed themselves to Shadow.

Also all those days where everyone pointed at JX certainly didn't help matters and gave the AMENites plenty of time

The power of recruitment is just too powerful even with only one person starting out especially when they can recruit the pirates as well giving the AMENites control of the night time killings as well day time lynches after a few nights of recruiting barring bad luck as JX said.

Just a suggestion but it might give the passengers a better chance if recruiting was cut down to every second or third night or if pirates can't be recruited. Since as it stands, once the AMENites gain control of even one pirate, it's likely that alliances will form between the two that'd pretty much end the game as it stands now.

That been said, congratulations and well done to the pirates and AMENites, I had absolutely no idea who some of the pirates were even at the end of the game.

[Ink]

Haha, good game all. Thanks for the game everyone, and thanks to Atreyu, Indy, and Alarra.

Well done, my pirates and Amen mates. 7803 posts looted in total, not a bad haul eh?