WW 2013 Edition: The Conglomerate

Doh!

I've just woken up

Vote Count 1.04
Pascal (2): TLR, Daven
Daven(1): DroptheBanana
Keith(1): Bikes
Jyms (4): XTR1000, Keith, Aubrey, Bigred
Fulksey (4): Boog690, Gabe, Pascal, Rong
Bigred (1): Wufwugy, Jyms
XTR1000 (1): Ongbonga

Not Voting: Hoopy, Jackvance, Nightgizmo, Fulsky, and GatorJH

Deadline is in roughly 1.5 days. 11 votes needed to lynch.

I am now bolding the name of the first wagon to reach the deadline threshold for a lynch.

A more accurate deadline will be posted once we hit about 24 hours remaining

Writing Cover Letters Sux.

daven

There is some inconsistency in his posting as someone else pointed out already, he's my best bet atm. I could switch to Fulksey though, inactives have to die.

It's davens first game, he's posting lots and paying attention. Lynching him is a terrible idea. He hasn't the experience to maintain that level of activity as a wolf without slipping up. I'm strongly against lynching him.

Yeah I'm not lynching daven either.

This xtr wagon isn't going anywhere.

lynch pascal

I like the stuff daven has posted so far, seems very natural for a new player.

JV is still a casual wolf.

lynch jackvance

If fulksy doesn't turn up soon I'll be switching to him.

Writing Cover Letters Sux.

TRUTH!

Something is bothering me about boog. All we have had from him is a couple of votes saying we can't let the wolves slide by without posting and therefore lynch the inactives. Then he makes his post asking me gator etc to explain why we voted for Jyms .

Is he too lazy to go back and look up the reasons given when we bolded Jyms. Also if he is so determined to lynch inactives why question why we are lynching inactives. For me , it was because Jyms was acting contrary to how he said he was going to act in the signup thread .

THe timing is also Fkn suspicious, boog puts these questioning "why jyms" posts and people voting for him must be wolves posts and two minutes later Jyms is announcing he's back. Its almost as if Boog was trying to get credit for saying lynch the inactives in case Jyms didn't show up in the wolf den , but the wolves didn't want to hurry along a Jyms vote hoping that jyms would show up. Then Jyms shows up in the wolf den and after some discussion they try and use it to point suspicion at other players.

This happened in a previous WW when gator was a wolf and one of the wolves was modkilled for inactivity.I want some explanation from Boog and if Boog shows up as a wolf , i'm pretty sure that Jyms will as well.

rescind Jyms since he has shown up . I'm not keen on a Fulksy lynch since he hadn't logged into FTR since saturday so he wouldn't know his role. therefore a lynch on him could end up lynching a special. If the deadline is approaching and he still hasn't shown up it would be different as he's likely to be modkilled anyway.But the fact he hasn't logged in doesn't make him a wolf.

Originally Posted by rong

Re gabe post 104. Jyms is not usually inactive, quite the opposite in fact.

Originally Posted by rong

Hmm, last post is irrelevant.

I'm down with fulksy. Not that long left and he's prob modkilled. I'm not explaining why that's bad again.

lynch fulksy

wolves generally don't read the thread with the same level of attention that villagers do, but still want to look like they are. These two posts scream wolf to me.

lynch rong

[/B]rescind fulksy[/B] on the grounds of potential special but if he doesn't show its a no brainer imo. Someone else, maybe gator? Posted something about jyms before he showed up which also caught my eye. I'm not going back to find out because its such a pain in the ass on my phone, but Keith, can you look it up as it ties in with your boog comment.

FYI I hadn't read your last post gator before I posted.

But in response the gabe comment was easy to misread and as I posted I'd just woken up.

Re the near end of day comment, someone posted something similar shortly before me which I tooj as accurate without checking the rules myself, I did just explain what a pain in the ass that is on my phone but as I'm being bolded I guess I will have to look that up.

Also, you thinking I'm a worthwhile target for day one is suspicious in itself as I'm always involved, post regularly and there are better targets in terms of lower contributors and noobs and I, imo, have a good read on you when you're a wolf.

Originally Posted by NightGizmo

Lynching an inactive on day 1 doesn't necessarily immediately help us, but the day 1 voting record and discussions definitely come into play later in the game. Killing off an inactive now is better than taking the modkill if fulksy doesn't bother to show up.

I'm still giving fulksy his 36 hours before I cast my vote, and I haven't seen any convincing evidence yet to vote for anyone else today.

This was the post that made me think it was nearly the end if day one. Ie the 36 hr comment.

The whole gator and jyms back and forth stands out to me. It's what I was referring to above. Jyms turns up late, obviously attention will be on him, gator then leads the assault and also quickly kills it off before it could ever go anywhere. Looks potentially planned. I think its potential info for later rather than reason to lynch either right now.

Originally Posted by rong

[/B]rescind fulksy[/B] on the grounds of potential special but if he doesn't show its a no brainer imo.

On this, never played a game with specials before. Does that increase the value of inactives to the village if we think they'll be active in later game?

Suspicious of XTR, he's been very quiet so far but pointed at Ong being defensive when it was more him attacking me and me getting in some glancing blows. He might see Ong as a stronger villager than me and so want to lay basis for a wagon IMO

I like Keith to go with wuf for my villager reads so far, Boog seems lazy rather than suspicious. He's always inactive anyway, although obv that doesn't mean we should just keep him round anyway.

Also yeah I admit being suspicious of daven but I think that was maybe too early to say, like others said if he is a wolf he'll burn himself out. When I was wolf in the 2nd game I played with no experience I was quiet and tried to avoid making myself stand out whereas he's the opposite which def isn't normal for a newbie IMO

Originally Posted by Keith

I want some explanation from Boog and if Boog shows up as a wolf , i'm pretty sure that Jyms will as well.

You want to tell me what you want me to explain? Jyms is always a worse lynch than fulksy, always. He posts a ton every single game so to quickly label him "inactive" and have him lynched isn't too great. Fulksy and Bigred on the other hand...

It's all a bit weird right now. I ongbonga and Keith act like either very bold wolves or just ambitious and overly eager villagers. I'm a bit concerned how many of us are all misty eyed dreaming up their next soul read when it's not (yet) about lynching wolves but extracting info.

What's up with JV?

Originally Posted by jackvance

daven

There is some inconsistency in his posting as someone else pointed out already, he's my best bet atm. I could switch to Fulksey though, inactives have to die.

Agreed. lynch dozer . Dude be tripping

Originally Posted by rong

The whole gator and jyms back and forth stands out to me. It's what I was referring to above. Jyms turns up late, obviously attention will be on him, gator then leads the assault and also quickly kills it off before it could ever go anywhere. Looks potentially planned. I think its potential info for later rather than reason to lynch either right now.

I don't think wolves do that kind of stuff, especially on the first day. Day 1 is mostly about excluding 2 people for being wolves together imo, much more reliable than trying to find pairings.

Originally Posted by XTR1000

What's up with JV?

What's up with me?

When I was a wolf with jyms he was all about early game strategy and fun and games, going straight after crazzvette from his first post onwards, so I wouldn't put it past him.

Wtf is with bolding an active noob. There is no value in it.

Originally Posted by rong

Wtf is with bolding an active noob. There is no value in it.

An active noob who is acting rather dodgy

He's the 4th highest poster. If he's a woof there is no way he can keep that up and not slip up.

Dtb has posted once and has been known to slip under the radar. Aubrey is a noob and has made 4 posts so could be hard to read. Tlr has only posted twice. Both Xtr and jv are sitting on 3 posts.

I'd much rather target one if these than Daven who is putting in the effort and should give away his role soon enough.

We always bitch about low posters but never do anything about it. I don't see how anyone on the side of the village can consider Daven an optimal day one lynch.

Originally Posted by rong

The whole gator and jyms back and forth stands out to me. It's what I was referring to above. Jyms turns up late, obviously attention will be on him, gator then leads the assault and also quickly kills it off before it could ever go anywhere. Looks potentially planned. I think its potential info for later rather than reason to lynch either right now.

i agree BUT jyms did pull the 'ask anyone if theyve seen me on skype!' which is kinda dirty but does help us as a village. this will definitely warrant coming back to the pair if one of them seems dirty

Originally Posted by Pascal

On this, never played a game with specials before. Does that increase the value of inactives to the village if we think they'll be active in later game?

u wolfy imo. weird question and surely you could think about the answer


imo the fact that fulk could be potential special is not a reason to spare him. what do we expect..him to claim hes a special and us not lynch him? a wolf would do that too so it doesnt matter

checking in from bedside puke bucket to say lynch fullsky who unless i am hallucinating, likely given stupid flu, has not posted yet

checking in again to say recind fullsky touche gabe

I'm tempted to lynch Pascal, but if he is a wolf then he'll continue to fall apart on day 2. I still prefer avoiding the modkill by lynching the only inactive left on Day 1.

lynch fulksy

Originally Posted by jackvance

What's up with me?

Only a wolf would ask that!

Seriously tho, since Jim showed up I rescind trainer jyms and switch to
fulsky for not showing up.

Well since Bigred is posting I'll rescind that one too. Right now I have no idea as does most of the arguements D1. Thinking...

Well since Bigred is posting I'll rescind that one too. Right now I have no idea as does most of the arguments D1. Thinking...

Gabe, gizmo, bikes, what's your thoughts on lynching Daven.

I'm calling you 3 out because you just posted.

Originally Posted by rong

Gabe, gizmo, bikes, what's your thoughts on lynching Daven.

I'm calling you 3 out because you just posted.

Pretty bad idea today, for multiple reasons:
1. It's his first time playing, that's bad if we want him to keep playing in future games. (not really applicable to this specific game, but it's a big reason in my book, remembering my first time playing).
2. He's pretty active, so which is always a benefit to the village (even if he's a wolf, if he's active that will just give us more info to find him out later). And his activity is constructive -- he's trying to analyze the game and players.
3. There hasn't been any solid evidence against him -- so far, it's just "he's so active for a noob, he's wolfy!". I hate logic like this.
4. There are so many other low-content active players -- why is daven being singled out over those players?
5. If you really want to go for a new player -- why is daven preferred over aubrey, who has barely participated so far?

I agree completely gizmo.

He has a few bolds though, so if anyone else has strong opinions then spit them out. Fence sitters don't help the village at all.

Rong what's the big deal? Daven has 3 votes with 11 needed and more than 24 hours to go. He's the only one that had something stand out so far, so I voted for him. It's a fair point that we can just wait, if he remains this active he is sure to make it more clear where he stands. But right now it is looking more and more that Fulksy has to be lynched. I hope he still shows up so we can reassess.

Originally Posted by Pascal

On this, never played a game with specials before.

This isn't true, seeing as I looked you up when I was seer.

Originally Posted by OngBonga

This isn't true, seeing as I looked you up when I was seer.

Ya the specials didn't make much dent in the Vamp/Werewolf game though. They were short lived

Based on the above posts and te clear facts, a gator lynch is the clear choice. Disagreements implies wolfiness and communism.

Jv, several reasons its a good idea to have that debate.
1. I want to see who votes for him at this point considering my opinion of the worthiness if the lynch and want to know why. People need to be held accountable for their choices and made to justify them upon a relevant challenge.
2. Bws can take off pretty quick and this one is stupid.
3. I wanna lynch inactives for once as per regularly stated strategic preferences.
4. Day one votes can be used to avoid being noticed. I want players I believe could be doing this to be challenged and made to justify decisions. It helps to have more people than just me challenging their votes so I'm attempting to whip it up.
5. Anything that encourages debate is a good thing.

Originally Posted by bigred

Based on the above posts and te clear facts, a gator lynch is the clear choice. Disagreements implies wolfiness and communism.

I agree with Comrade Red, allowing gators and wolves to live stains the honour of Mother Russia!

errrrr I mean capitalism rocks!

daven just seems like he's trying. it's hard to pinpoint a noob as a wolf early. inactivity can't be tolerated, we know this. more posts = more info = more village win

post 5

Originally Posted by BooG690

Can't. Lynch. JKDS. Totally. Lost.
In all seriousness though, we go after low-posters. No exceptions.

post 92

Originally Posted by BooG690

Let's cut the fat. Jyms and fulksy still inactive. Let's not let ourselves let the wolves go inactive again. It's an easy road to victory that we need to block.

post 108

Originally Posted by BooG690

I'm here. I'm not disappearing. There is no thing where I'm not paying attention. I just believe day 1 is a bunch of dribble and simply works best in hindsight. To think you have some kind of soulread on someone on day 1 is egotistical in my eyes. The best thing we can do is make a point that this isn't the game to be completely inactive.

half an hour later and 2 minutes before Jyms makes his appearance he has a total change of mind. It no longer a case of lynching inactives regardless, now he has classes of inactives and voting for Jyms means your a wolf. Also he excludes Aubrey from having to explain why she voted Jyms for not knowing that jyms is higher value yet completely ignore the fact that i havent played with jyms since I havent played for nearly 2 years.
The timing of his change of mind ,together with his earlier posts saying no exceptions to lynching inactives, minutes before Jyms miraculously appears seems far to big to be put down to coincidence .
once i post about boog and jyms we get

Originally Posted by BooG690

You want to tell me what you want me to explain? Jyms is always a worse lynch than fulksy, always. He posts a ton every single game so to quickly label him "inactive" and have him lynched isn't too great. Fulksy and Bigred on the other hand...

compare that with post #92 where he was perfectly happy to label Jyms as inactive and part of the fat that should be cut. He's obviously been eating too many dog curries and turned into a confused gibbering wreck.lets put him out of his misery.
lynch boog

Originally Posted by OngBonga

This isn't true, seeing as I looked you up when I was seer.

Ah shit good point. I've learnt a fair bit since then tho so considered them more. Plus I got outed and slaughtered fairly quickly in that game. No idea what's wrong with my question, I have no idea on end game in terms of villagers/inactive villagers/EV of specials so no I don't know what the answer is.

Pascal ,is someone who can't be arsed to post in the early stages likely to see the light and be interested later in the game .

Originally Posted by Hoopy

errrrr I mean capitalism rocks!

I laughed

Originally Posted by Keith

Pascal ,is someone who can't be arsed to post in the early stages likely to see the light and be interested later in the game .

Probably not, and they'd be more likely to post if they were a special surely. And PMs go to email. I find it hard to believe that anyone doesn't check their emails at least every couple of days but that's just me.

Originally Posted by Pascal

Probably not, and they'd be more likely to post if they were a special surely. And PMs go to email. I find it hard to believe that anyone doesn't check their emails at least every couple of days but that's just me.

I don't get emailed when receiving a pm...

Weird, pretty sure that was default option for me. Wouldn't be surprised if VB changed default settings as some point (they aren't applied retroactively) a few years ago. You can enable it if you want, Profile -> Options -> tick box

You seem to know a lot about PMs, wolf...

Originally Posted by bigred

You seem to know a lot about PMs, forum manager...

fyp

Originally Posted by Hoopy

I like the stuff daven has posted so far, seems very natural for a new player.

JV is still a casual wolf.

lynch jackvance

If fulksy doesn't turn up soon I'll be switching to him.

TRUTH!

This post caught my eye, it is not typical of Hoopy to go after strong players early, I find it very suspecious

I am sticking with pascal but hoopy can also be a decent choice

apparently everybody wants bigred in the endgame again. as usual

lynch pascal

Originally Posted by wufwugy

apparently everybody wants bigred in the endgame again. as usual

lynch pascal

Can't fault people for wanting to win...

BooG690 - You get the first post in and make it a point to say we should target "low posters," which, in and of itself, is logical. Then, you barely post relative to what other people are posting. When called you out on this, you claim that you're here, but imply that the reason you're not actually posting is because "day 1 is a bunch of dribble and simply works best in hindsight." You then say that "the best thing we can do is make a point that this isn't the game to be completely inactive."

So first it was "low-posters," but then you save your low-posting by claiming that it was inactivity that you wanted to target. But it wasn't, because you said low-posting. If day 1 really is so pointless that you think it's okay for you not to post, why should we target low posters? That just doesn't make sense. There's an inconsistency with your language here.

i will give Jyms benefit of the doubt (unless he's hardcore enough to not post on FB at all for strategy… it's possible? I dunno if he's a fb whore) Someone who's friends with him on fb should confirm this, because otherwise the strategy of showing up late on purpose is not an unlikely one.

rescind Jyms lynch (since its basis was that he was inactive)

I also agree with Gabe that daven just seems like he's trying. Unless he's lying about this being his first ww game, it seems silly to jump on him so soon.

While I don't know anyone here well enough to necessarily deem it strange, it did make me raise an eyebrow that Ongabonga was so intent on us not lynching fulsky. He also accused NightGizmo of being aggressive, except NightGizmo totally wasn't, and OngaBonga was, relatively speaking, way more aggressive in response.





well those are my thoughts so far. it's a bit hard 'cause I gotta analyze each of you guys individually. when i read through the thread you all just sound like the same person to me after a while. will prob post later with some thoughts on other people (of which i have, but i'd still like to formulate them a bit more so they're at least somewhat coherent)

for now lynch fulsky because i don't feel strongly enough about anything else and he's inactive. simple as that.

Vote Count 1.05
Pascal (4): TLR, Daven, Ongbonga, Wufwugy
Daven(3): DroptheBanana, Jackvance, Bigred
Fulksey (6): Boog690, Gabe, Pascal, Nightgizmo, Xtr1000, aubrey
JackVance (1): Hoopy
Rong (1): GatorJH
Boog (1): Keith

Not Voting, , Fulsky, Rong, Bikes, and Jyms

Deadline is 23hrs, 24min from this post. 11 votes to lynch

Rule of Votes: Its not a vote if I don't see it. Make them conspicuous and clear to avoid mishaps.

Deadline lynches: Ties can get pretty complicated actually. Instead of cluttering the thread with it, just know that the first wagon to get the most support is very likely to be lynched.

I applied for a Summer externship with the Public Defender's Office in Las Vegas. This is totally not related to it being in Vegas >.>

If I become the lowest poster on this thread (please count quality as I've left a bigger trail than Bigred's higher quantity but low-quality shit), please kill me. There.

I know I don't post much. I simply don't have the time. I'm available to post for maximum four hours per day. These hours are generally low-traffic. All I really do is respond to any new information the village has gotten. So far, the village hasn't gotten any.

I can comment on people wanting daven dead. I find that ridiculous He obviously seems to be trying. He "played the noob card" because, well, he's a noob. Fulksy remains my vote. Bigred is reserved for tomorrow.

that's fair - I'm in a similar boat. I have a full-time job and will be doing school full-time next week. I also have a grandfather with alzheimers that I am babysitting most of the time. I'm definitely not attacking you for low post count and I don't think anyone who doesn't post all the time should be targeted for that alone. Hell I clearly have a low post count, lol. I have time to post, but I will miss a lot because I can't be on the forum 24/7, and people here definitely have more time for that than you or I do. I tend to lurk more than I do post because I don't want to just say shit for the sake of it (although I understand it's still important to be as active as possible - I didn't know wtf this game even was till Wuf told me about it, so I'm learning).

I'm just saying, given all that you just said, it's weird that you chose that as your first thing to say. That's all.

I agree 100% about daven. I saw my noob eagerness in him immediately. The difference between us is probably that he's less self-conscious than me, and thus posts more. I don't know what his schedule is. If he is a wolf, he's doing a pretty fucking good job.

What is VC? I assumed I couldn't post after that but since you just did I guess it's okay that I am...

It's the first thing I said due to my wolf team's easy win last game and the low-posting wolves of the game before that (or was it two before that?). It's simply a scenario that can't be allowed to happen. I said it as my opening argument and I'll stick by it until, at least, Bigred is gone.

Oh nvm. Vote count. Derp.

While I don't know anyone here well enough to necessarily deem it strange, it did make me raise an eyebrow that Ongabonga was so intent on us not lynching fulsky. He also accused NightGizmo of being aggressive, except NightGizmo totally wasn't, and OngaBonga was, relatively speaking, way more aggressive in response.

Only it's not out of character for me to be aggressive. But maybe I'm seeing aggression in gizmo's post when none is intended.

Rong (1): GatorJH

This looks like a carefully placed vote so as not to be on a successful town wagon, or linked to other wolves. This wagon is never going through, is it? So why bother voting for someone who has shown himself to be a strong villager in the past? This vote is highly suspicious. I got my eye on you gator.

fulks has been so inactive i dont even know if his name is fulksy or fulksey or whatever. hes gonne die so lets lynch him now so we dont have to wait another whole day.

my short wolfy list includes pascal, rong, jackvance, gator and bigred. id like to see one of them go next

Originally Posted by OngBonga

But maybe I'm seeing aggression in gizmo's post when none is intended.

this seems most likely, then.

Originally Posted by OngBonga

This looks like a carefully placed vote so as not to be on a successful town wagon, or linked to other wolves. This wagon is never going through, is it? So why bother voting for someone who has shown himself to be a strong villager in the past? This vote is highly suspicious. I got my eye on you gator.

I explained why I went after Rong and still think he wouldn't be a bad choice.

With that said since you are correct in that it isn't going anywhere and I would ALWAYS prefer to lynch inactives instead of letting them get modkilled I will switch to a lynch fulksey

lets make it 8 for him

lynch fulksy

hes not a likely wolf, but today's lynch will be either him or pascal, and pascal will defend enough

fulksy has a history of being awol for long periods of time. he was once gone for a week during the night phase as the remaining wolf. i like playing with him, but if he's afk there is no choice but to gat him

lets just rack it up to 11 and get to day 2 imo

rescind Daven
lynch fulksy

I'll concede that Daven will have a hard time keeping up his "I'm new" approach with his post count if he's a wolf.

lynch fullsky checking in again to lynch the wanker who hasnt posted. fucking flu

10 votes

why 48 hours for wolves to decide? i recall when modding, i wanted to find a way to make it 12 hours

Lynhc fulsky, I'm going to bed.

And 24 hours should be more than enough for wolves and all the others to decide

Vote Count 1.07
Pascal (4): TLR, Daven, Ongbonga
Daven(3): Jackvance, Bigred
Fulksey (11, Lynch!): Boog690, Gabe, Pascal, Nightgizmo, Xtr1000, Aubrey, GatorJH, Wufwugy, DropTheBanana, Bikes, Jyms
JackVance (1): Hoopy
Boog (1): Keith

Not Voting.: Fulksy and Rong.

THREAD IS LOCKED. DEATH SCENE INCOMING

NO MORE POSTING IN THREAD

Perhaps a better way to accomplish what I want is to allow the wolves to extend thier limit up to 48hrs instead. My intention is to allow wolves to have lives like weekends/holidays.
night deadline is now 24 hours, wolves have the option to extend

Thread is still locked

And with that, it was decided.

You can feel your heart. Slow, almost silent, but you can feel it.

A sweet and sultry voice, “By majority’s consent, the council has condemned Fulksy to die.”

-----

The air is sweet and the world has found a new richness, a beauty and warmth, a sharpness.

“I have been inside for too long. I belong here.”

It had been two years since the vacancy of the Chief Prefect of the Chinachem Group. He held the post since the inception of the company. When he stood, he stood a full head shorter than anyone else in the room. Liver spots and splotches flecked his face and neck with their majority distinct beneath the thin wisps of black hair decorating his wrinkled skullcap. His skin sagged away from a flat and unflattering face.

He had been a rigid man, curt with everyone. Word of his pallid contempt surrounded him like ripples around a rock into a pond. He had not even the time of day for another living soul, no regard for anyone between the Earth and the sky.

“But on the day I saw into his eyes, his eyes smiled back. In that moment, he remembered to love me. He wanted to know me. Laugh at every story I could share.”

He died days later. Not before finalizing sweeping changes to his Last Will and Testament, adding riders and conditions to each bequeathment.

The fallout was visceral. None that had a say could say anything against it, there was too much to gain for compliance and everything to lose to fight. But the fight was all that was left to them. You take the arms from a boxer, the legs from a sprinter, lobotomize a chess master, and you would know the Hell wrought in your name.

It’s over now. Two years of legal battles, dead ends at their inception, hoping to misread what was all too clear.

"Fulksy, Chief Prefect of the Chinachem Group? The car is waiting.”

-----

Your heart. You can feel your heart.

“I’m here by mistake. The old man thought I was his dead son… or father… or something, I shouldn’t be here!”

But you are. They decided to kill you. You’ve never been an enemy to anyone.

“I never said I was against anyone! You can’t kill me! Why would you kill me?

I’ve only ever tried to help. To help all of you! To help everyone.”

To help anyone. You’ve tried to protect everything worth protecting. You know the inherent value of everything that is. Nothing has ever become without struggle, and nothing that will continue can do it alone.

“Old Dragon, I am not your enemy! I fully support your cause, your severance. I am your ally. You have the power to dismiss me from this board. I want nothing, I know nothing. Here!”

You grab at the pen, secure the form below your palm, and sign where you’ve signed fewer than a dozen times before.

“There.”

As your pen lifts from the page and you appraise the work you’ve done, you recognize the change. No longer is there an impregnable block of words in the body of the form but instead one stark sentence.

All signatories of this writ move for the immediate death of Fulksy by their own authority and any means necessary.

With your signature.

And that of the Old Dragon.

A razor press of pain slides across your neck. You can feel warmth and pressure build in your face as the wire chokes off your breath. Your eyes begin to bulge and your vision collapses to a shimmering black from outward in. You heart slams against your chest as exhausted blood settles in your skull. A shrill ringing echoes against itself as the world closes to madness.

“I don’t belong here.”

Fulsky, Village Angel, has been lynched!

The Conglomerate

Living Members of the board
Boog690
Hoopy
Pascal
Rong
Bikes
Jyms
Wufwugy
Ongbonga
Jackvance
XTR1000
DroptheBanana
Daven
Tlr
Gabe
Gator
Aubrey
NightGizmo
Keith
Bigred

13 Villagers
1 Seer
1 Even Night Vigilante
4 Wolves

The Deceased
Fulksy, The Angel, Lynched Day1

It is now Night 1, Night will last for 24hrs. I must receive all actions by that time. Wolves may elect, for any reason, to extend this deadline to 48hrs.

The logistics of it were daunting. The legal tangrams it supposed would burn holes in your stomach for half a decade or more. You poured over a list of personnel held in the many wayward divisions of the Operations Bureau for names you knew, names you could pin, names you could trust; laughter juts from your chest; if you still knew how.

FOR YOUR EYES ONLY

FROM THE OFFICE OF OPERATIONS BUREAU CHIEF

THIS MESSAGE GIVES FULL AUTHORIZATION FOR THE FORMATION OF TASK FORCE 1

TASK FORCE 1 OBJECTIVES:

COMPLETE INTELLIGENCE DOSSIER ON TERRORIST IDENTIFIED AS ‘THE OLD DRAGON’ AKA ‘BOARD OF TRUSTEES MEMBER – KEIZAIFUKKO’

TASK FORCE AUTHORIZATION – BLACK

AUTHORIZED: TLR (signature)

The message was with only one man, a move to cement a flesh and blood foothold before expanding the operation to a size capable of executing the objective. As time slowly slipped like water over a falls the seven faces of treachery began to take shape in your mind.

“If he passes the message on to any number of people… if he vets the legal authority of the office to create such a decree... if he uses it as leverage to take my office…”

Those holes started to burn.

“…I’m dead.”

In the instant your pocket begins to vibrate, the phone is lit up in your hand.

Meet me at the Port. 1 hour.

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“What are you thinking Chief? Without instruction from the Chief Executive, you have no right to be conducting such an investigation.”

“You don’t understand. The Chief Executive is well aware of these actions. He requires a level of plausible deniability if things should not unfold as expected. Even more so if they do.

This threat isn’t domestic; whoever this guy is he’s an agent for the People’s Republic of China. He aims down Hong Kong’s sovereign right to exist; our very freedom.

And we know nothing about him.”

“That doesn’t sound like nothing, Chief.”

“I don’t like your tone, Ensign. You’re still an Ensign to me, you know. Still policing fish shit off the decks and eating half-rations after paying your Captain his 1 cup meat and rice tax. I’ve held you close throughout all of my career. And what did I ask for in return?”

“You asked for loyalty.”

“Loyalty.”

“He only asked to fill my pockets for staying close to you.”

He?

“And He’s been good to me.”

The Operations Bureau Deputy Chief raised his Glock 17 service pistol and quickly squeezed off two shots.

The rounds punch into your chest. The shot of pain was sudden and dull. You can feel the cold wash over your face as the blood falls from it. Your knees buckle from loss of blood pressure and your skull cracks against the ground, though you’re too dead to notice.