We continue on the road to seek out the Holy Grail.
Shaken by the Mennis incident, King Arthur refused to speak to any more peasants, though it was clear he still had absolutely no f*cking idea where he was going.
“Sire, we’re lost.” I whispered to him after three days of wandering around in circles.
“We’re not, Patsy.”
“We are. Just ask someone to tell us if they’ve seen the Grail.”
“No. I’m sure it’s right around here somewhere.”
“We’ve already been past this grove of trees five times. It’s not here.”
“That’s a different grove of trees.”
“No, it’s not.”
“Yes, it is.”
Unlike the other five times we’d passed that same d*mn grove of trees, there was a table with a sign hanging above it. On it was painted, “Questions Answered. 5 pence.” At the table sat a young man. In front of him, hanging from the edge of the table was a small sign that said, “The Answerer is IN.”
“There Patsy, see! It IS a different grove of trees.”
I rolled my eyes. “Mayhap he knows where the Grail is, Sire?”
In short order, we were at the table, addressing the young man.
“Good morning, I’d like to have question answered, please.” King Arthur had learned his lesson about throwing his Kingliness around to unknown people.
“Certainly sir, have you been here before?” the young man inquired. On his chest was pinned a tag that read Jamaha.
“No, this is my first time. Will it take long?”
“I see. Well, that’ll be five pence.”
Arthur slid over the money, which disappeared quickly.
“No.” Jamaha answered.
“No, what?”
“Five pence, please.” Jamaha smiled pleasantly.
“I already paid you!”
“Five pence.”
Grumbling, Arthur handed over another five pence.
“It won’t take long,” answered Jamaha.
“What won’t take long?” Arthur asked.
“Five pence, please.”
“I already bloody well gave you five pence, you git!”
Jamaha, unruffled, quietly replied, “Five pence to have a question answered, sir.”
Grumbling louder, Arthur slammed the money on the table.
“Your answer.” Jamaha smiled pleasantly at the scowling Arthur.
“Look, you! I’ve paid for three bloody questions, and so far you haven’t said anything worth listening to. When do I get to ask my question?”
“Five pence, please.”
“I’ll ‘five pence’ you, you idiot.”
“Five pence,” replied Jamaha, nonplussed.
Arthur took his last five pence and threw it at the young man.
“You just did, sir.” Jamaha got up and picked up the money, then turned the sign in front of his table over, so that it said ‘The Question Answerer is OUT’. “I’m not taking any more questions today, but you’re welcome to return tomorrow. Have a good day!” With that, Jamaha picked up his briefcase and began walking home.
Arthur, unable to contain his rage -- not only with the Question Answerer, but for the encounter with Mennis and the French Knight and the fact that his mother never kissed him at night like he wanted her to -- pulled out Excalibur and ran Jamaha through.
“Well, I suppose that answers that question.” Arthur cleaned his blade on the dead man’s shirt, and called, “Come Patsy. I know exactly where we’re going.”
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Raia, in an entirely different part of the country, stepped bravely onto the bridge.
The old man addressed her, “What is your name?”
“Raia, the citizen,” she replied confidently.
The old man continued, “What is your quest?”
“To get across this bridge.”
The old man asked his final question, quickly, spraying spittle, “How much wood can a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood?”
“Uh.....ARRRRRGHHHH!!” she screamed as she was hurled over into the abyss.
The horde of black dressed spies looked on with disappointment, and began grumbling among themselves that this was not what it said in the script. They used the time they were not killing Raia to sharpen their knives and send out for pizza.
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CASTMEMBERS:
Damien, CITIZEN, died of natural causes Eruve Nandiriel, CITIZEN, died of natural causes msquared, POLICEMAN, killed by mafia Raia, CITIZEN, killed by mafia, sort of Ryuko, CITIZEN, killed by mafia T_Smith, CITIZEN, killed by mafia Youth ap Orem, CITIZEN, killed by mafia Damander, MAFIA, lynched hansenj, MAFIA, lynched Head Ditch Digger, MAFIA, lynched jamaha, CITIZEN, lynched Narnia, DOCTOR, lynched
Anna Avadaru blacwolve celia60 Erik Slaine Feyd Baron fugu13 newfoundlogic pajeba Ralphie rivka Ryan Hart sarcasticmuppet Sopwith Synesthesia Troubador Zevlag
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Oops!
Sorry, jamaha! Posted by Sopwith (Member # 4640) on :
Oops!!
Sorry Jams. You looked all suspicious and stuff... Posted by Patsy (Member # 5699) on :
NATURAL DEATH PERIL WARNING:
Fugu13, you need to post sometime today or risk dying of natural causes.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
And Patsy, today's deaths were as clever as always.
Poor Raia! Posted by Patsy (Member # 5699) on :
thank you, rivka. I'm looking forward to the weekend to have time to think up what to do next.
Reminder to everyone: This is a three day weekend. We will resume the game on Tuesday. Votes still need to be in by 9pm Pacific tonight.
Posted by eslaine (Member # 5433) on :
Entertaining, as always. Thanks for the laugh!
Posted by msquared (Member # 4484) on :
Hope you all are happy.
I am going to haunt all those who vote without info from the police.
What if jahama had been police? Where would you be then?
msquared
Posted by eslaine (Member # 5433) on :
You have been haunting me. And your chocolate is ready.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Well, I do hope that if jamaha had been police, he might have said so.
Actually, I wonder why he didn't try to defend himself at all. I feel guilty about lynching Ryan last game, but just kinda sad that we lynched jamaha.
Posted by Anna (Member # 2582) on :
Well, msquared, now we know you were police but any mafia could now pretend he is police when he is not, so... Anyway, I'm happy I didn't change my vote to vote Jamaha !
Posted by eslaine (Member # 5433) on :
I may have voted for myself the other day, but at least I defended myself too!
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Exactly, Erik.
Wait, I'm agreeing with you . . . *eyes Erik suspiciously*
Posted by celia60 (Member # 2039) on :
i posted my reasons, and 2 out of 3 are still true. someone had already voted, so i didn't see the crowd abstaining, and they'd voted erik, who i just don't think is mafia.
i didn't get a chance to come back after voting yesterday, but i was kind of suprised at the steamrolling jamaha got when i looked at that thread today. is there a vote after me that isn't jamaha? rivka and sopwith jumped on quickly, but they'd already posted him as on thier lists, so i'm not sure if they were trying to create momentum, or just going with thier original instincts.
i have to leave in less than an hour and won't be back until monday. for now i'll abstain, but i'll check back again before i go.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
I can't speak for Sopwith, but I had already been very suspicious of jamaha. Having celia vote for him just sealed the deal for me.
And I'm leaving in less than two hours. Also won't be back until Monday.
If there's a cop out there who knows something, it would be good if you spoke up soon.
Posted by Feyd Baron (Member # 1407) on :
I feel slightly bad about voting to lynch a citizen, but other than the doctor fiasco, that's the first. That's really not bad for a game of Mafia.
I think there are only two people I would vote for today, and since I don't want to start the steam roller today, I'll abstain for now. If the voting begins for either of the two I'm thinking of, I'll add a vote. Until then, no.
Feyd Baron, DoC
Posted by Erik Slaine (Member # 5583) on :
Well, since it's Friday, and I am full of good will, and other nonsensical things like that, I will break character and abstain.
Posted by msquared (Member # 4484) on :
Feyd,
You not lynched a citzen for the most part becuase the police gave you two mafia to go after. The third, while correct, was luck and cost us the doctor. If the townies had all abstained, the police would have checked damander that day and we could have lynched her the next. It is possible right now that there could still be three dead mafia and the doctor and jahama still alive.
msquared
Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
AAAAH! When did this happen??? *sniffs*, a poor, honest citizen... hmph...
*goes off to pout in corner*
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
*pat pat*
Posted by Feyd Baron (Member # 1407) on :
Call me crazy (or mafia, or whatever), but I really don't play a game of Mafia to simply abstain until I'm thrown a bone.
Lynching the wrong people gives me pretty good indications on how not to act in future games. Anything less than that just seems fairly stagnant and uninteresting. I enjoy watching the debates, arguing, and protests of innocence. It beats walking into a thread, and just looking to see if someone's said "Lynch this person". I suppose I don't have that killer instinct. I'd rather enjoy a vital and well played game (and possibly lose) than play it safe an win.
Feyd Baron, DoC
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
I'm with Feyd on this. Not voting for a day or two when things first get started I was ok with.
Not voting on every day that there's not a definite ID by cops is not.
Posted by Erik Slaine (Member # 5583) on :
Well, Feyd. You have shaken me out of my lethargy.
Now I really can't fault anyone for voting for me in the past. I'm pretty suspicious, I admit (I even voted for myself!). So, it seems to me that pajeba has been pretty quiet. Good thing for a Mafia type to be, since they have been a dying species.
Go ahead and hang me for it....
[ September 26, 2003, 10:24 PM: Message edited by: Erik Slaine ]
Posted by sarcasticmuppet (Member # 5035) on :
My vote is for Sopwith, because I've been suspicious of him for a while.
Posted by Feyd Baron (Member # 1407) on :
Well, that settles that I suppose. My vote is going for SarcasticMuppet.
I'm currently not suspicious of Sopwith, even though he did blind vote for me. He was among the first to vote for two of the three mafiosos who got lynched. And, if I recall, he did so before a positive ID was announced. That's a horrible gamble for the mafia to take, sacrificing two of their own right off...
And, I have to vote for someone, or I'd be a hypocrite.
Feyd Baron, DoC
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
And I'm pretty sure that neither Sopwith nor sarcasticmuppet is mafia.
As for pajeba, I don't have an opinion.
So I guess I'm abstaining, after all. Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
I take that back! I just looked at the cast list again, and remembered that I'm very suspicious of Zevlag.
So that's my vote.
Posted by sarcasticmuppet (Member # 5035) on :
Woo-Hoo! A four-way tie!
Posted by newfoundlogic (Member # 3907) on :
Sorry Jamaha but you would have been better off explaining why your actions weren't mafia than voting for yourself.
Posted by pajeba (Member # 5656) on :
Whoa, Erik, I wasn't expecting that. I have been having a really crazy week at school, so that is one reason I haven't said much - I just don't have a lot of extra time. And I'm still getting used to the whole forum thing, I'm a shy n00b I guess Posted by sarcasticmuppet (Member # 5035) on :
Which reminds me, it's time for my R & J:
You've seen me play. You've seen me give good reasons why I voted the way I did. I voted for hansenj when we were positive that she were mafia, and Demander when we weren't so positive and my vote could have made a huge difference. I voted for Slaine the first time because he seemed suspicious at the time, and I voted with the crowd for Jamaha, which I regret. And I voted for Soppy today, because up until yesterday I was pretty suspicious of him. Not so much now, but I'd rather act on that suspicion then follow the crowd to another unhappy end.
Edit: why do I keep convincing myself that I voted for HDD? weird.
[ September 27, 2003, 11:32 AM: Message edited by: sarcasticmuppet ]
Posted by Homestar Runner (Member # 5724) on :
"Lets all get a good spanking"
Posted by Patsy (Member # 5699) on :
That was almost the scene I used for today's story, HSRunner. To the point of writing it up and then figuring out that it didn't really work. Jahama may be disappointed with the death I gave him when he hears that I *was* going to have him die at the hands of the girls of Castle Anthrax. Of exhaustion. So don't tell him, okay? Posted by jamaha (Member # 4874) on :
Sorry guys! It just seemed to me that when people defended themselves it didn't seem to do much for them. I was kind of joking when I voted for myself (my vote didn't change anything that wasn't already going to happen).
Oh, and I'm a girl.
*floats away eerily*
Posted by Feyd Baron (Member # 1407) on :
That would have made the Anthrax death scene so much funnier...
Feyd Baron, DoC
Posted by Avadaru (Member # 3026) on :
eslaine seems really suspicious to me, so I'm going to follow a hunch (which is probably incorrect, as usual...) and place my vote for eslaine.
Posted by Patsy (Member # 5699) on :
LOL...Oh man, that was a mental image I didn't need.
My apologies jahama. If you play again in the future, I'll get your sex right that time.
Posted by eslaine (Member # 5433) on :
It's really hard to emphasize your gender with a name like jamaha....
Posted by newfoundlogic (Member # 3907) on :
I agree with Rivka, zevlag .
Posted by blacwolve (Member # 2972) on :
I also think zevlag is the most suspicious right now.
Posted by Sopwith (Member # 4640) on :
Sure, Zevlag. Why buck the system?
Posted by Erik Slaine (Member # 5583) on :
pajeba offered a quite good defense. I change my vote to zevlag!
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
*jumps on that bandwagon and votes for Zevlag too
Posted by Troubadour (Member # 83) on :
Damn way too late to vote, but my football team won by about 40 points in the Australian Grand Final.... so I'm happy.
FWIW Zevlag would've been my vote.
Posted by Anna (Member # 2582) on :
too late for me too, and I don't know about Zevlag.
Posted by fugu13 (Member # 2859) on :
*posts*
I should be able to post more today, Saturdays are slow here. I had wednesday and friday off, which means no internet without a walk, and I had lots to do around the house. I am snagging an AOL disk later so I can at least get online until my DSL activates.
Posted by Patsy (Member # 5699) on :
That's good to know, fugu, thanks. Posted by Zevlag (Member # 1405) on :
WOW! Great, I'm dead, and for what?
Because Rivka thought I was suspicious?
I've been out having the best horse ride of my life (and the longest) and I die!
I would have let y'all know I was leaving, but this came up pretty much out of the blue. Left late Thurday night, just got back.
Where is the due suspicion for me?
JEEZ!
[ September 27, 2003, 10:41 PM: Message edited by: Zevlag ]
Posted by newfoundlogic (Member # 3907) on :
Actually I reviewed your posts and that's why I agreed with Rivka.
Posted by fugu13 (Member # 2859) on :
And of course we had a fast saturday (stupid traffic shaping), but I did snag an AOL disk, so a free 1045 hours of internet are mine. Of course, after that first post there wasn't much reason to post, except possibly to vote, and I just haven't had the time to put into voting the thought it deserves. So I'll settle for staying alive (*cue cheesy music*).
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