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Was Barney hit over the head with a heavy object?
Was Barney planning to hang himself?
Was the other victim strangled with a rope?

Did Barney kill the other victim deliberately?
Did the other victim kill Barney deliberately?
Were both bodies found in the same room?
Was either victim strangled?
Was either victim stabbed?

Did Harland get attacked while in jail?
Was Harland released because he needed treatment?
Was it a long time after his imprisonment that Harland received his compensation?
Is Harland gay?

Was Harland found at the scene of the crime?
Did Harland know that a crime had been committed?
Was Harland drunk?

Was the plan for their deaths already in action before the restraining order was given?
Was the restraining order a result of you doing something to cause their eventual deaths?

Firstly, good case, Snarky! It may have looked like I knew where it was headed, but I actually didn't have a clue right up until the end. I was just stumbling about blindly and got lucky with the questions that I asked.

So, on to the next case!

Is the dead body human?
Is the letter on the fridge door open?
Is the letter addressed to Anna?
Is the letter addressed to Fred?

Are the pills for cold/flu relief?
Was the murderer male?
Was the murderer female?
Was the victim male?
Was the victim female?

Are the pills painkillers?
Do the pills prevent motion sickness?

Did the victim give the murderer the pills?
Was the murderer incapacitated in some way before they took the pills?
Did the pills contain a hallucinogenic?

Oh, thank you, cat!

Happy Birthday, Josiah! I hope you're having a great day!

Happy Birthday to Sinitrena and Baron! I hope you both have a great day!

And also Happy Birthday to all those I've missed over the past few months!

Ha, I'd forgotten about that!

Thanks for the game, Sinitrena! I liked how the opening/closing phases were in the form of newspaper articles, that was a nice touch. And don't worry about the civilian thing. It all worked out in the end.

Well, there you have it. I'm not nearly as sneaky as everyone seemed to give me credit for. I'm glad Mandle and Josiah believed me in the end, I'm not sure what else I could have done if they hadn't changed their minds.

Well, let's hope that Josiah agrees!

[Day Phase:]

Day Phase:

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A lynched player may no longer post in this thread. Every player is allowed to keep a „journal“ that the other players „find“ when they are killed. Every player is allowed to send a PM to the GM every Phase (Day and Night) with information he or she wants revealed in case of his/her death. The information does not have to be accurate or true. The GM will not censor this in any way or form. I will only look at the last PM from any killed player that has „Journal“ in the title. Please keep such PM‘s short and remember that I need them before the player is killed because the reveal of the journal happens at the same time as the reveal of the death. The only exception to all this is that a Psychic‘s last scan will be added by the GM to the last words should the Psychic be killed in a Night Phase.

First post, under "Day Phase", bolded for emphasis by me.

Fair enough. If you've already made up your mind then I'm already in a no-win situation. If I don't put forward any arguments why I'm telling the truth then I won't convince you, and if I do then you think I'm protesting too much. I suppose it's karma for what happened in the last game.

Can I ask why you found me more suspicious than Stupot from this post onwards? Because I'm not sure what I did other than not use the word "civilian".

[Reply In Case You Are Telling The Truth:]

Well, reading through these posts has been a rollercoaster!

Firstly, let me reply to/comment on the previous posts:

Reply In Case You Are Telling The Truth: Well played! And, naw, you shouldn't have lynched yourself because what if I was the Murderer and had also been privy in my intro PM to the fact that Town players were called Civilians? This was an option I kind didn't mention on purpose yesterday and I'm kind of surprised no one else brought it up.

It didn't even occur to me that the murderer may have been privy to that info. Why would they? My own role info literally just stated my role and nothing else (other than Sinitrena saying that the game would start shortly), so why would the murderer get extra information? That's why, once you'd revealed your method, I was certain that you must have been telling the truth. In my mind, there's no way you'd have known that Sinitrena used the term "civilian" if you weren't one yourself.

If Stupot is the Seer then Riaise killed VW. She wouldn't have been able to kill Stupot as that would have revealed his Seer role and she would be the obvious lynch today. This would have been an auto-lose for her. She would have figured out, quite cleverly, that the only chance she stood was to keep the Seer role in doubt and claim it for herself ASAP in this day phase and then it would be her word against Stupot's, giving her at least a 50/50 chance of a win.

Oh, and I realized that my logic of why Riaise wouldn't have killed the Seer also applies to Stupot so that was faulty thinking on my part.

Please keep this in mind. The logic is absolutely correct, you've just applied it the wrong way around in the first instance.

I thought for sure Riaise would kill me because if she believed Mandle's theory was correct then she'd know I'm the psychic.

You have contradicted yourself.

Yes, he has. So would you rather trust someone who has contradicted themselves and had to come up with an explanation later, or someone who has not contradicted themselves at all?

@Mandle. What I mean is that IF your theory was correct the Riaise would definitely be the killer so it would have been a waste to scan her as she would have killed me anyway (although it turned out she didn't). So I was playing with my idea that you were the murderer. If you were, there was still a chance you wouldn't have killed me and I would know whether or not you were the murderer.

So, if I was the murderer then I would definitely kill you, but if Mandle was the murderer then he probably wouldn't? What? Also, if the psychic is killed then their last scan is revealed anyway, so no scan is wasted. Surely this is something that the psychic should know?

And, as I know Riaise is much sneakier at these kind of things than Stupot (hopefully)...

You have vastly overestimated my sneakiness.

And lastly, let me just mention one more thing. After Mandle set his idea in motion, my first post was this:

Yeah, that's similar to what I was thinking. There could be both a psychic and a doctor, but I would think it's more likely that there's only one of them with so few players. So one murderer, one doctor or psychic, and three normals.

Not that it makes much difference at this stage. There's no way of knowing who to trust yet and I'm not about to go trusting just anyone. Not this time, anyway.

Note how I try to distract from the psychic role by introducing the idea of there could be a doctor instead (very subtly, I admit). It's not much, but it was the best I could do to try and keep my role hidden for as long as possible. Now, here's Stu's post:

I'm also up for not lynching anyone this time.

I was actually wondering if none of us are the murderer, or even sinitrena herself, but that would be very devious. Good experiment though.

Vote to lynch: nobody.

He does exactly the same thing but trying to distance himself from the role of murderer.

So, yeah, I think that's all. If it hasn't convinced you, then I don't know what else I've got. All I can say for definite is that if I get lynched then we have lost the game.

[Vote to lynch: Stupot]

Poor Wombat. What a gruesome way to go.

Anyway, on with the game. Mandle's suspicions are partly correct. I am not a normal civilian, I am a psychic and because Mandle worked out who the normal civilians were, last night I scanned Stupot and he is, indeed, the murderer. So now it's up to Mandle and Josiah to decide whether they believe me. Which brings me to the interesting conclusion that I should have lynched myself yesterday, because then they could be certain of who the murderer is. But I didn't think far enough ahead and assumed that my role was too important to throw away, so apologies.

Vote to lynch: Stupot

[Vote to lynch: None]

Thank you, I'm honoured. I'm not the murderer, but I'm pretty sure you must already know that.

I agree with Josiah, there's no reason to lynch anyone today. Despite Mandle's mystical method, there's a much higher chance of lynching an innocent player than finding the murderer. And, obviously, I don't want to be lynched, so...

Vote to lynch: None