[Reapers XXII] Ghosts Of The Great War - REAPER VICTORY

Nice work, Detective Hammerhead, but I don't think you're quite ready for Vice Squad.

Or to put it another way: SKREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE~

As no one has offered to take on the role, Epsilon has now been mod-killed. The Day will be extended by 24 hours (i.e. it will end at 20:00 GMT tomorrow) to allow the remaining players to change their votes based on the altered situation.

CURRENT PLAYERS

Hammerhead
LadyJo
Scientific Pursuits

DEAD PLAYERS

KahjeForEternity (Blue Suns Commander) was lynched.
Reena Tayn (Human Marine) was smashed into a bloody pulp by the Blood Pack Battlemaster and obliterated.
Hybrid (Eclipse Commando) was overwhelmed by a ravenous swarm.
Archmagus (Rachni Drone) was decimated.
j_proctor (Rachni Queen) was lynched.
Jeral the Improbable (Reaper Lord) was torn into itty bitty pieces.
Icarus (Alliance Admiral) was smashed into a bloody pulp by the Blood Pack Battlemaster.
ProgrammingWithFire (Blood Pack Battlemaster) was felled by a heroic last stand.
Triskele (Ardat-Yakshi Fugitive) was obliterated.
Epsilon (Krogan Berserker) was crushed by falling mod-rocks.

Hm. Well, shit. I'm not entirely sure between unhelpful justicar and wimpy batarian, which one I buy. Obviously our sense that a turian hider didn't fit was correct.

Just out of curiosity, SP. Have you cast a single vote this game?

Well, now I have!
Vote Hammerhead
(explanation to follow)

Day 1, I didn't see the point since it would have been Kahje anyway and he had like all the votes.
Day 2, I honestly wasn't sure whether I suspected Proctor or Icarus more. Both wrong, but hey.
I was all ready to vote for Epsilon today... then she requested a replacement so I thought I'd wait until that'd resolved itself.

As far as my thoughts on you to go...

LadyJo's "buzzing at the back of the head" seems pretty legit because there's something I didn't tell you - my Justicar's got a passive power that makes her immune to any sort of mind control or indoctrination.
I didn't mention it before because I was hoping the last Reaper would try to indoctrinate me on the last night, which then wouldn't work - but now, if there's only going to be two left after a lynch tonight, there isn't much point since if there's a Reaper left it'll be game over. Or at least I imagine that's how it'd work.
BUT if she's a Reaper, indoctrination could be one of her powers. Which is why she'd know about it.

Hammerhead's claim about Ash's interrogation thing fits with Jeral saying he'd been targeted and links the repeated attacks in too.
BUT we've only got his word for that since Ash can't back him up. A clever person could make up that kind of story based on what was in the thread already.

So I voted for Hammerhead because I can at least sort-of verify Jo's claim with what I know.

That's not very prominent, is it?

Vote Hammerhead

(better)

I guess I need to think.

On the one hand SP keeps adding in extra "Well I see if innocent or guilty!" "Well if they are guilty I auto-kill!" "Everyone I investigated is town and dead!" "By the way I'm immune to mind control!" etc. and that's not making me happy, but it makes sense flavor-wise.

On the other, Grissom Academy Student doesn't mesh with the Marine and Admiral flavor all the well but Hammerhead's story seems more legitimate.

Decisions, decisions. Holding off on a vote at present - I need to read back through and think.

Alright SP. Yeah, Ash isn't around to verify my story, and neither is Ic. But your guilty-detector, auto-killing, immune to mind control thing is starting to stretch it. Just as easy to say you investigated dead people as it is to say they were your team. I suspected you beginning today. You show decent logic and good thoughts on some subjects, but didn't think it was worth it until prodded, or as today, the end is close.

Jo's role is kind of odd but at least she doesn't keep adding stuff to it.



Vote SP

Yeah I think the constant additions are putting me off more than anything else at the moment.

Vote Scientific Pursuits

Poopie. I knew revealing that last one wasn't a good idea... but I wouldn't have been able to justify not voting for Jo I if I hadn't :/

I'm not sure if there's anything I can say to help my case. Everything I've said is true... but then I'd say that even if I was scum, wouldn't I?

Yeah but there really wasn't any more suspicion on me than any one of us. Seems like a lot of extra talk to justify something that probably didn't need to be justified. And the sudden end-game activity still bothers me. You've managed to coast the entire game barely posting and in general being very neutral and all of a sudden you're quite twitchy. My vote stands. Hopefully it's the right one.

CURRENT PLAYERS

Hammerhead
LadyJo
Scientific Pursuits

VOTE COUNT

Hammerhead - 1
Scientific Pursuits - 2

Well, this was it. The endgame, so to speak. AVINA had been looking forward to this, to watch them all desperately scramble for their lives, throwing all concern for the other players aside as they fought to save their own skins.

Needless to say, she was disappointed. There was no struggle. No begging and pleading, even very little reasoning. Just two cool, collected votes against Scientific Pursuits, silencing the sole voice of truth.

The screen appeared once again in the centre of the chamber. As the avatar of Scientific Pursuits blinked out, the remaining two players could see the form of a justicar silhouetted against the intense light of a Reaper cannon flaring in the distance. A glorious last stand, as it turned out, for her two comrades suddenly turned on her, one silencing her biotics whilst the other knocked the asari down and crushed her skull.

Ah, but it was not over. LadyJo, it seemed, had made the wrong choice, for no sooner than the justicar's life was snuffed out, one of her two attackers turned against the other. Hammerhead was not what he seemed - the innocent teenager who claimed to be a student of Grissom Academy was none of those things, and his true form was revealed mere seconds before he crushed LadyJo beneath a massive tentacle.

And then... it was over. Though 12 of the original 13 had failed, destined to remain trapped in the simulation forever, Hammerhead had emerged victorious. AVINA did not go back on her promises - he would indeed go free. But the player would have to live with the fact that his victory came at the cost of condemning 12 others to a fate worse than death... and if he was truly any better than the Reaper he had been playing.

Scientific Pursuits (Asari Justicar) was lynched.

LadyJo (Batarian Refugee) was obliterated.

REAPER VICTORY

Role PMs, etc. will be posted some time tomorrow. Comments on the game would be most appreciated.

Phew. Good game, Jo, everyone. I had a lot of fun playing the bad guy again. It's been awhile!

Mrrr. My fault. Probably. I should do more of these maybe?

Participating in more Reapers games is probably the best way to get better at the game, definitely. Looking forward to seeing you in more hopefully.

Way to go teammate! Another victory for the Reapers!

Ah well. That's what I get for having a crappy sense of who is or isn't guilty, I guess. Good game.

I knew Hammerhead was scum the moment he roleclaimed (Interrogating was my power, afterall).
And I'm still wondering what killed me when I tried interrogating Jeral.

Also, Deku, Kahje, We tried our best. That's what counts.

Ah well. 50/50 chance and there wasn't very much to go on. Too bad I made the wrong choice.

Good game, everyone.

Well that was embarrassing.