Werewolf Lite CCXXIII: In fealty to the God-Emperor

[Capt. Kiwi]

Mm. Well, no denying the best team won, but sadly that wasn't much of a bar to clear.

I'm aware you planned to hunt me Night 1 before Seen jumped on Kingepyon. Had you any indication I was seer, or was that just a bonus?

 

[Taiisatai64]

Was it actually the pack that Taii pointed out having voted together for two days in a row?

Ballsy...

If it is, I'll be exceptionally proud of myself.

Sigh, well, I came too late to change anything, I'm afraid. I had my suspicions about Randakar because he posted large walls of text that never led anywhere, it seemed to give the impression that he was helping the village, without him actually helping the village. I'm still confused over why Randakar suggested King as a target, but then again...

 

[Capt. Kiwi]

Was it actually the pack that Taii pointed out having voted together for two days in a row?

Ballsy...

reis guessed 3 out of 4 on day three. Taiisatai was close to getting it today with 3/4 also, but changed his mind.

 

[randakar]

I disagree.

With reis, today would have had a good chance of being me/reis being run up.

With the way it was now, I had a clean slate to completely work the village. I'm just really happy Mr. G and Boris told us they were JL right away, if they would've waited, it could've ended poorly.

Well, it worked.
What I *expected* would happen were that people were going to start looking at his accusations and go .. "wait a minute .. maybe there is something to that after all!" and then proceed going after you.
Not to mention that his suspect list was basically our entire pack minus me ;-)

If he'd lived, people would probably have written him off as a madman, and gone after him anyway.
That, and boris would have been dead instead

 

[esemesas]

Not entirely. EL wasn't in it.
King, the_hdk, me, najs.

And yeah, we were sorta blatant. So blatant that people couldn't believe it

I guess we've reached a point where blatant wolf behavior is less likely to get you lynched than sneaky wolf behavior.

Congrats on the Stalingrad. Did you hunt me at random or to purposely mislead the village?

 

[Kingepyon]

Mm. Well, no denying the best team won, but sadly that wasn't much of a bar to clear.

I'm aware you planned to hunt me Night 1 before Seen jumped on Kingepyon. Had you any indication I was seer, or was that just a bonus?

Just a lot of speculation and a bit of luck on my part.

I assumed that if the seer had scanned a wolf they would have either voted opposite of the wolf, or voted the wolf they had scanned.

You voted randy, then opposite of him when it was obvious he was going nowhere.

Really - I just got lucky.

 

[the_hdk]

the village lost due to too many semi zombies. The only way to bring us out was AOK-mayham. LAst 20 mins before deadline, brining up bandwagons on different targets and watching how everybody reacts.
In that small space of time, wolfs, us, would make mistakes.

 

[Kingepyon]

I guess we've reached a point where blatant wolf behavior is less likely to get you lynched than sneaky wolf behavior.

Congrats on the Stalingrad. Did you hunt me at random or to purposely mislead the village?

Najs was like "Hey, lets hunt esemesas!" so we did.

Then we realized you were hunted first last game, and felt bad.

 

[esemesas]

Najs was like "Hey, lets hunt esemesas!" so we did.

Then we realized you were hunted first last game, and felt bad.

*shakes fist*

NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAJS!

He's the spawn of the devil, he is!

 

[Kingepyon]

Well, it worked.
What I *expected* would happen were that people were going to start looking at his accusations and go .. "wait a minute .. maybe there is something to that after all!" and then proceed going after you.
Not to mention that his suspect list was basically our entire pack minus me ;-)

Oh yeah, that's why I did the full day "recaps" before I proceeded. People rarely take the time to go back and read. You'd be surprised how much stuff we did that I played down/didn't include.

If I was a villager going through it I would have myself, HDK and you pegged as wolves.

 

[Capt. Kiwi]

Just a lot of speculation and a bit of luck on my part.

I assumed that if the seer had scanned a wolf they would have either voted opposite of the wolf, or voted the wolf they had scanned.

You voted randy, then opposite of him when it was obvious he was going nowhere.

Really - I just got lucky.

I had very different plans to that should I scan a wolf night 0, or even night 1

 

[randakar]

Mm. Well, no denying the best team won, but sadly that wasn't much of a bar to clear.

I'm aware you planned to hunt me Night 1 before Seen jumped on Kingepyon. Had you any indication I was seer, or was that just a bonus?

King did some analysis based on you pointing at one of us quietly and then disappearing. Which really had no basis in facts, since you hadn't scanned any of us, but it worked anyway.

If it is, I'll be exceptionally proud of myself.

Sigh, well, I came too late to change anything, I'm afraid. I had my suspicions about Randakar because he posted large walls of text that never led anywhere, it seemed to give the impression that he was helping the village, without him actually helping the village. I'm still confused over why Randakar suggested King as a target, but then again...

The last day before parity who the pack is usually becomes rather obvious to at least one or two villagers. You can't really prevent that. However, if nobody else buys their analysis ..
As for why I went after King - I expected people to at least listen a little to reis. Especially EL. And if King got exposed some of us would be exposed too. This was just a way to make sure I'd have some cover in the next days. Or that King would have that cover, if I got lynched somehow.

 

[Kingepyon]

If it is, I'll be exceptionally proud of myself.

Sigh, well, I came too late to change anything, I'm afraid. I had my suspicions about Randakar because he posted large walls of text that never led anywhere, it seemed to give the impression that he was helping the village, without him actually helping the village. I'm still confused over why Randakar suggested King as a target, but then again...

He thought the village was on to me day 3, so he was going to alibi out on me.

Boy was I annoyed at that

 

[Capt. Kiwi]

the village lost due to too many semi zombies. The only way to bring us out was AOK-mayham. LAst 20 mins before deadline, brining up bandwagons on different targets and watching how everybody reacts.
In that small space of time, wolfs, us, would make mistakes.

I could see that coming, and was doing my best to clear out potential zombie chew toys. I needed at least one more day and preferably two, though.

 

[Kingepyon]

I could see that coming, and was doing my best to clear out potential zombie chew toys. I needed at least one more day and preferably two, though.

As I said in the PMs, your scans almost ruined my plans completely. Then, as I was doing analysis, I realized I could tie taii and Yakman together in some kind of plot to alibi out E_L (using pretty much the same idea that reis was using to get me lynched - thanks reis ) and went with that.


Edit: and on an unrelated note - I posted a lot this game. I'm turning into a spammer

 

[Capt. Kiwi]

As I said in the PMs, your scans almost ruined my plans completely. Then, as I was doing analysis, I realized I could tie taii and Yakman together in some kind of plot to alibi out E_L (using pretty much the same idea that reis was using to get me lynched - thanks reis ) and went with that.


Edit: and on an unrelated note - I posted a lot this game. I'm turning into a spammer

Speaking of ties, who's mad idea was it to try and set one up on the final day? Yes, a successful tie has a 78.6% chance of getting a wolf. But if you assume a successful wolf snip, you're actually going from 50/50 to 78.6% wolf win. Penultimate day is when you tie, not final.

 

[Kingepyon]

Speaking of ties, who's mad idea was it to try and set one up on the final day? Yes, a successful tie has a 78.6% chance of getting a wolf. But if you assume a successful wolf snip, you're actually going from 50/50 to 78.6% wolf win. Penultimate day is when you tie, not final.

I don't think anyone except maybe Mr. G wanted to create a tie. I just said we should run up Taii and Yakman, and with a bit of help from my packmates, it happened.

Edit: I was also going to suggest a tie yesterday, but decided that the more people there were on the last day, the higher the chances the wolves had, so I didn't suggest it.

 

[Vainglory]

Day/Night 4​

Early on the fourth day of open Chaos activity in St Peters Port, Frederick William IV and Fridrich Walter came to Major Madsen, the ranking officer in the PDF and de facto generalissimo of the city. Both had been working with Captain Wulf before his murder, and wanted to share what little information they had. The scant information did little to help, but through the day, as the last gangers were eradicated, suspicions fell on two people in particular. Cadet-Commissar Gorvacheg was scrutinized for his mistaken suspicions about Nautilu, but the better class of Imperial citizens closed ranks and instead focused their attention on the dregs of society: the mutants. Ultimately they focused their attention on a group of ratlings living in the very worst of the rotten habstacks of outer St Peters Port. Major Madsen was unwilling to risk any of his remaining precious armored units, and sent in troops on foot. Resistance was pathetic anyway, limited to a handful of low powered stub guns. The ratlings were quickly exterminated, but although they tore the place apart, not a shred of evidence linked the mutants to the cult.

Much of the tired infantry refused to walk back from the fringes of St Peters Port to their base near the city's heart. As the sun set on St Peters Port discipline within the military totally collapsed. The suspicion directed at a member of the Commissariat had undermined respect for the Commissars, and the inability of the Imperial leaders to unearth the Chaos cult left the rank and file more terrified of Chaos than they were of Commissars. Men began to desert in droves, some stealing transports to escape the apparently doomed city, others disappearing into brothels and bars, to die in style. Some of the revellers, civilian and deserter alike, clashed with the remaining patrols. Major Madsen could still call on a solid core of men loyal to him within the PDF, however, and he drew up plans to remove whatever men he could muster to the Governor's palace in the heart of St Peters Port, to protect the Emperor's representative on Saumarez. The palace was designed with defense in mind, and from there the remaining loyalists could hope to hold out until reinforcements arrived to deal with the anarchy.

Cadet Commissar Petr Gorvacheg refused to go with Major Madsen, resolving instead to continue an investigation of his own rather than hunker down and wait for help. If he could just find the cultists then St Peters Port's worst problems would be dealt with. Gorvacheg sought out the two men who had worked with Captain Wulf, criss-crossing the abandoned compound looking for them. He eventually found them in Major Madsen's private quarters. Neither man was quite dead, but at a glance there was no hope for either of them. Frederick William IV, a devout man, had several wounds matching those inflicted by Horus on the God-Emperor. He had then been chained to a gold-painted chair, with a sardonic plaque affixed to it reading "The Golden Throne." Fridrich Walter had suffered even worse, his hands and feet cut off, abdomen sliced open and intensines removed so that he could be strangled with them.

The moment Gorvacheg stopped being sick he sped the two mens' release from torment. It was now obvious that the Imperials had been looking in entirely the wrong place for the cultists. These were no outhab down-and-outs seduced from their woeful lives into reaching for a better one. Major Madsen at least was a respected, upstanding citizen. And now he was marching on the Governor's palace. Gorvacheg took stock and decided there was only one force left in St Peters Port capable of opposing the severely depleted PDF, now commanded by a servant of the Dark Powers.

It took an infuriatingly long time before the local constabulary would let Gorvacheg through their security cordons, and even then they stripped him of his weapons and armor before allowing him to see their Comandant. Gorvacheg didn't object, in too much of a hurry to speak to the Comandant before it was too late. The Cadet-Commissar's words tumbled out in a nonstop, breathless stream. The Comandant didn't appear surprised at all by Gorvacheg's account, but then, he had a reputation for being unreadable. The Comandant heard Gorvacheg out, and had only one question for the young man:
"Who else knows of Major Madsen's heresy?"
"Just you," Gorvacheg blurted out. He didn't even have time to realize his mistake before Comandant Isador Akios brutally executed him with a stub-round to the head.

The governor, Zaphob Beeblebrox, was no fool. When an armed force came marching toward him from a city aflame, he didn't open the gates and welcome them. He was as suspicious of the inept PDF as he was of the inactive constabulary. Beeblebrox ordered the PDF to entrench themselves outside of the palace if they were true servants of the Emperor. Madsen wasn't surprised by the answer, and he wasn't troubled. The two-faced politican was at least in one mind about how best to preserve himself. Beeblebrox was confident he had made the right decision, particularly when his flamboyant chief of staff, "Johnny" Rico, reassured him it was the right decision, pushing a fortifying, but poisoned, tumbler of amasec into Beeblebrox's shaking hands.

When the gates to the palace fell open the PDF, thoroughly twisted by their commander, fell upon the hapless guardsmen within, overpowering and capturing them to use them as sacrifices to the Dark Gods. The last of the forty-three Guardsmen sacrificed this way went to his death screaming, totally unable to work out how he had gone from defending a virtually impregnable palace to being cut into eight pieces on an altar to Chaos. When the last Guardsman was dead, Major Madsen set his men loose on the city to undertake as many atrocities as possible before the remaining loyalists on Saumarez counterattacked the city. His bloodthirsty companion led the way. The man responsible for it all. The first real seed of Chaos planted on the fertile planet: Battle-Brother Tauron, a Chaos Space Marine. Around him, St Peters Port burned.

Yakman the loyal Imperial citizen was killed by the people of St Peters Port.
Boris ze Spider the loyal Imperial citizen was murdered by the chaos cultists.

Parity is achieved, the wolves are victorious.​

The villagers are overwhelmed:

Mr. G as Fridrich Walter
Eternaly_Lost as Random Guardsman #43
Trespoe as Zaphod Beeblebrox
Taiisatai64 as Cadet Commisar Petr Gorvacheg of the Planetary Defense Forces, 23rd Mechanized Infantry Regiment

The wolfpack is victorious:

the_hdk as Battle-Brother Tauron
Najs as Isador Akios
Randakar as Johnny Rico
Kingepyon as Major Madsen of the Saumarez PDF

 

[Kingepyon]

Nice RP. I usually don't read them, but decided to this time. Good read.

Are we going to get a GM AAR?

 

[Taiisatai64]

Nice RP. I usually don't read them, but decided to this time. Good read.

Are we going to get a GM AAR?

Yeah, it was a good read.