WD Mafia Style

[Zephiris]

Riku's brow furrowed as he awoke to the lights returning to Traverse Town. Carefully he made his way down to the meeting room, his brain rapidly contemplating the situation. It occurred to him that the ghost didn't tell them of the victim's occupations when the died. It was unfortunate and an inconvenience, but couldn't be helped.

As he entered the room he looked about at everyone remaining. He sighed, ruffling the back of his head with his hand, and spoke. "Well. . . what now? Should we start making claims? We're not getting anywhere, not if the cops don't start reporting their finds. That is, if we have any cops left."

He tried not to let the murders get to him, not yet. Here he couldn't afford to display anything but strength. Not in front of Kairi and the others.

[halen2020]

"He wasn't anybody, you bunch of jerks. He was just insert-random-murder-victim-here. I'm not lying. It's more fun for me to tell you guys the truth. That way you feel guilty... Heh, hehheh... Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!" Nappa bent over, laughing hard "And you guys! You're so pitiful with your morals and niceness. If you don't stop being nice, you'll never find out whodunit."

(flips switch: Posting order deactivated. Post as often as you like, as long as you don't double post.)

[ohnojenny]

Skell frowned at the ghost's insensitivity, "Yeah, well your truth isn't telling us too much at all. He couldn't have been a nobody. He had to have been someone important. Everyone is important here, no?" She then sighed at the pushiness of the ghost, "Okay... if you want us to stop being so nice...

"Does anyone have any leads? Any guilty leads, that is? If not, we can assume that both cops are dead... although I really don't want to... did Mikhail say anything important before he died? Jason didn't get to say a thing."

Skell's eyes gazed upon each member that was left. Everyone looked so usual -- like you could see that person for everyday of your life. But one of them, no, two, were going around murdering. The thought was unsettling.

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With a tired rub of her eyes, Yuffie stepped into the square and glared at the annoying ghost. "Well, it'd be nice if you'd give us a bigger hint then that. It's a shame it was Mikhail died, but we're not getting anywhere just discussing it." With a slight shift of her eyes, she said, "Okay, last time I was quick to jump to a conclusion, and I'm sorry. But I feel that we should determine who's innocent. And I feel that I know one person who is innocent. I think that Sage," With a point, she gestured at the girl. "Is innocent."

[Zephiris]

Riku turned to Skell and shook his head. "No, I don't think so. The ghost mentioned that Mikhail wasn't anything. I think he was just. . . a 'villager', say, with no specialization at all." It was a horrible thought. But the question was, had Jason died innocent as well?

"In that case we should still have at least one cop left."

After he spoke, words from Yuffie caused Riku to turn his head sharply and gaze at her suspiciously. "What makes you say that, Yuffie? Anyone here could be innocent. Do you have any proof?" At this he shifted slightly to address all present. "Or more like, does anyone have anything to contradict her?"

He wanted Sage to be innocent. He wanted everybody to be innocent, to have the ghost be lying, and have those innocent people not actually dead. Unfortunately, he rarely got what he wanted.

[sagefirefox]

Sage looked at Yuffie and narrowed her eyes. Why did she have to be thrown into this? This whole time the Firefox had been standing against a wall with her arms folds neatly across her chest glancing around at the scene unfurling around her. Now that she was noticed though, she couldn't necessarily go back to glancing around. Damn her antisocial behavior.

"Of course I'm innocent. If I weren't then I probably would have said something by now." [/b]

She stepped forward, making her way into the center of the street where people could see her.

"Having been pointed out now that I am innocent, I will most likely be killed now next round by whatever sick freaks are doing this." [/b]

She ground the sole of her shoe into the stone beneath her foot, much like a cigarette addict would do to stomp out a cigarette. This bothered her. The whole thought of killers being around her was bothersome. Thanks to that chick to the left of her with dark brown hair and equally brown eyes, Sage would probably be killed next. Whoever was killing seemed to have knack for murdering the innocent. Going back to her most previous statement, she spoke again, "Look, whoever is killing these people is probably here before my eyes right now. I'm sure they're trying to act all innocent to try and gain your trust but they aren't innocent. Just be careful."[/b]

Sage stepped back. She had taken her 10 seconds of the spotlight and she was done now. She didn't feel like throwing out names as to who the killers might be. In truth, that would only cause an uproar which, at this point, was not needed. If there was any one person though that the Firefox had a desire to kill it was that annoying thing of a host. It was always popping in at the worst times and going 'hahahaha' in that annoying voice. Yes, Sage desired to call out that thing's name to be lynched. For now, she would simply go back to her nice little corner and watch, that is, until they murdered her next round.

The little vixen figured that it was only logical that she be killed. For now she had given advice to the innocent villagers and a motive to kill her off for the murderers. If she didn't die then she would be shocked.

((Sage votes for no one at the moment))

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"Whoawhoawhoa, I only said I think she's innocent." said Yuffie, waving her hands in front of her in a defensive gesture. "Any one of us could be innocent, and any one of us could be murderers. But if you can't trust me, then I'll just ahve to prove myself. My vote..." she paused for a second, "Is for myself."

[ohnojenny]

Skell furrowed her brows at Yuffie's odd self-vote. It didn't make sense.

"What good does voting for yourself do if you're innocent? You've just narrowed down the number of people that the killers need to get. And that makes no sense..."

Skell scratched her head. Yuffie was probably the most confusing one here. In any other circumstance, we could probably determine whether she was lying or not, but really... there was no way to make this one out. Skell grumbled. Both of the cops couldn't have died on the first two nights. This was ridiculous!

"Are there seriously no leads out there? I'm with Riku, I am in high disbelief that there isn't another cop out there. Look, I understand if you're not coming out for safety purposes, but unless someone says otherwise, lynching Yuffie might not be a bad idea. She could be lying and posing as innocent when she's actually guilty just to throw us off. But... on second thought..." Skell sighed. None of the options sounded good, "Nevermind. I'm just a little frazzled. I don't want to no vote, just because I feel like that'd be a waste, but I'll do it if we don't have anything else to go off of."

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With a look at Skell, Yuffie reconsidered. "On second thought...scratch my self-vote. I agree with her, we need more evidence to determine the killers. But that means another will die tonight..." With a shudder, Yuffie said, "Yeah. Scratch that vote, please."

((Gah, I'm confusing myself! o.O))

[halen2020]

"Yah know, when this same thig happened somewhere else. It was fun. People lost control. Accusations flew! I had a good laugh, but not here. Oh no, you're all too noble for that. Guess someone else is going to die tonight, and you guys ain't nowhere close to finding out whodunit. Oh well. I hope the next victim squirms a lot. Maybe the killers should hang them, so someone hangs." The ghost glanced at the lights. They were slowly dimming. "Bedtime, kiddies. Hope the monsters don't GETCHA!"

(begin the next night. I'm not going to remind people about doing thier jobs anymore. It has been a week. If you don't pick someone, then you don't pick someone.)

[halen2020]

"Good MOOOOOOOOOOORNING!!! Someone else is dead!! Why am I not surprised! Her name was Sage! And what did you guys do yesterday? You were noble. Well, here's what noble gets you. Are you gonna keep bein' noble? Or is it time to get your hands dirty?"

[nomacaa]

Saxen had simply watched the whole time, not knowing what to say. He didn't have any grounds to accuse anyone. Finally, once the ghost had finished, he stepped forward. "As much as I hate to say it, the annoying ghost is right. I think that it's everyone's best interest to start figuring out something." He paused for a moment to close his eyes and try to clear the last doubts out of his head. Then, reopening his eyes, he continued. "We may even have to kill someone. I'll do it if everyone else is too afraid to." He closed his eyes once more and hung his head. He had killed plenty of people in battle, but...this...this was different. "Everyone needs to make a case for themselves. I don't want to go around killing random people. Please, let's make this as easy as possible."

It was then that Deathblade finally decided to speak up to Saxen. "If killing someone's too hard for you, I can do it. I may be trying to become a better person, but a few more needless kills won't be a big deal. Besides, it's not murder for me. I'm not one of you."

"I'd rather it not come to that. I'm hoping that we can figure this out..." After his short conversation, he looked back up and looked around at the people there, wanting to avoid their eyes, knowing he may have to kill one of them, later, but still making contact to try to make out intentions.

[Zephiris]

This morning Riku didn't hesitate to open the door and walk into the room. His eyes were glinting with impatience, but he kept a cool and composed gait as he joined the slow trickle of people entering the meeting place. He then strode to a corner of the room and crossed his arms as he waited.

Eventually a new voice spoke up. Riku nodded in agreement to his words, although he disliked the prospect of murdering innocents. He added his own low voice once the other had finished. "Alright. Now things will get moving. We will have no more pointless deaths."

He took a step away from the wall and brushed his hair away his eyes. "I'm the doctor," he said off-handedly. His aquamarine eyes flashed as they struck a brief eye contact with each person present. "If the next thing out of anyone's mouth isn't their occupation, role, specialization, or counter to one of the previous claims, I'm going to be forced to assume they're hiding something."

[ohnojenny]

She woke up, alive another day. She sighed, looking out her hotel window, seeing a couple people aggregating already in the town square. It was time to discuss and decide, today. They had to.

Once she got out there, she had caught the second half of the volley between the sword and Saxen. She found it very grim -- but the sword had a point. And then Riku spoke up, assuming almost a leadership role in the situation. Finally... some direction.
But then he revealed he was doc. Ho, man. You just didn't do that in moments like this... that could really get you in trouble.

"Well, if we're really doing it this way, I'm cop... but I have no clue if I'm insane or not. I've gotten three guilties, so either all three are innocent, or all three are maf. A hit on a dead person would've been nice, but, alas... I never got so lucky."

[halen2020]

"Heh, you guys want a hint? Here goes. There are three villagers. Two of whom are dead. There are two cops, one insane, one not. One is dead. There's a doctor, as the little boy there just pointed out. There's a Hooker too. I'll bet some of you have been wondering who that is. Finally, there are two Mafia. Bothe of whom are alive. Have fun with that."