Imperial Soldier's Mafia: Day 4

[Alex the Great]

Ive been reading this book called Red Moon Mystery and he resemble this character called Tony Peck.

I thought that book was banned in the army.

But I think we must vote: Pvt. Reutal (Dragonator), for if he is not a deserter then we know that Pvt. Perot is one, so we'll get someone in the following days. But if Pvt. Perot is right then Sgt. Stanley will be in trouble

[Shadows]

What do I have to gain from lying about this? I'll be the next one voted off if I'm wrong about Reutal.

Or you could use the defense you already set up when you were still in hiding and say, "oh no, I must be paranoid, please don't kill me, it'll only cost us another honoured..."

I'm still processing all of this information spinning around. I'm not pleased with the lack of ability to confirm anything anywhere well enough to vote safely. If others feel more secure, I don't know how.

[Stash2Sixx]

Well, I don't know about Pvt. Reutal, because I haven't investigated him, but all I do know is the evidence is stacked up towards Provost Guard Ian Des. So without being able to fully investigate him, and looking at the fact that he has a knife in his pack, hidden secretly, I will have to vote for...

VOTE: Provost Guard Ian Des/Iamded

[Alice]

I am so confused. I am not secure enough to vote off any of my fellow soldiers as deserters yet. It seems unlikely that the investigator is accurately only finding deserters at this point. I believe he may be a bit paranoid looking for traitors at this point. I must contemplate the information before feeling secure in sending one of my fellow soldiers to the firing squad.

[Shadows]

looking at the fact that he has a knife in his pack, hidden secretly

We have no confirmation of that either, or any way to know what it would mean if we did!

Madness, people, madness! It's like playing the dueling banjos investigators and someone is going to end up with the sore behind.

[MagPiesRUs]

Or you could use the defense you already set up when you were still in hiding and say, "oh no, I must be paranoid, please don't kill me, it'll only cost us another honoured..."

Well, clearly you won't let me get away with that excuse, and I'm sure the rest of the regiment won't either. If Reutal turns out to be loyal, I'll be voted off no matter what.

But as I've said, I'm just about certain I'm sane.

Also, you'll notice that Sgt. Hemphill wasn't blocked last night, which would've been the first thing the scum would've done had he really been an honoured investigator. Instead they blocked me. As far as we can tell, Hemphill wasn't attacked by the killer last night either.

[Dragonator]

Gentlemen, please, stop a moment and let us try and think this out. I'm overjoyed that nobody died last night, it shows that we, the honoured, at least managed to do something right then, but don't now negate this victory by voting off a fellow loyal soldier. I am shocked and confused by Pvt. Perot's claims and the accusations he has aimed at me, as I know that at least in regards to myself there is no truth in them at all. I'm most certainly no night killer, but of course, you only have my word for that. Just like the only "evidence" against me is the word of Pvt. Perot. Firstly, since I know I'm loyal I can tell at a glance that what he is saying is wrong, but secondly, his supposed investigations just don't add up in my eye. I mean, two deserters found on the first two nights, and one of them coincidentally confirmed as the killer at that? It seems unlikely from the start, and when I look at this with the knowledge that I myself am innocent of the proposed charges, I can only conclude that either Pvt. Perot is purposefully trying to mislead us or, far more likely in my eye, considering the huge risk to him when I turn out to be loyal upon conviction, he is somewhat paranoid in his investigations, or some other third party has tampered with the result here. For example, it is entirely possible that I was framed on night two, leading to the incorrect conclusion Pvt. Perot has presented. There is something not right here, and I urge you all to rethink your votes, for you will only be losing another loyal honoured soldier and taking yourselves a step closer to destruction at the hands of the deserters.

[Rick]

Pvt. Perot, you did indeed mention why you didn't vote. I'm sorry, that slipped my mind.

As to the Provost Guards, I don't know, but as I said before, our information points to Ian Des having - at most - a clean knife. This could mean he's an asset to the honored side of this regiment. Pvt. Reutal has been found to carry a blood-stained rag along with his knife.

I think the most compelling evidence against Pvt. Reutal can be found in yesterday's votes. If he's an honored soldier, the deserters wouldn't have had a problem tipping the vote against him at the last moment and he would have been convicted. The other possibility, that it were the honored soldiers that didn't vote, and that I - maybe with one or two other honored soldiers - was voting with a bunch of deserters against an honored Pvt. Reutal, seems hard to believe.

If we find Pvt. Reutal to be a deserter, the voting record of day 3 will be most helpful in identifying deserters in the coming days.

[iamded]

Well, I don't know about Pvt. Reutal, because I haven't investigated him, but all I do know is the evidence is stacked up towards Provost Guard Ian Des. So without being able to fully investigate him, and looking at the fact that he has a knife in his pack, hidden secretly, I will have to vote for...

Provost Guard Ian Des/Iamded

Um, I feel I should point out you didn't actually vote there. You need to say vote: if you actually want to vote. Now where is the proof of this fact you mentioned? Who found a knife in my backpack? Even if I did have the ability to kill, doesn't mean I would. Also, I'll bet the knife, if it was in my pack, was unused and clean of blood. For (what I doubt is) the last time, all I've been trying to do these past nights is get a good night's sleep! Christ.

[AwesomeStar]

I'm sorry I've been so quiet but I wanted to listen to you all first, and hear all the arguments.

Having considered them all, I too vote for Private David Reutal!

God forgive me...

[Scouty]

As it stands,

5 votes for Privare Reutal and sorta one vote for provost Guard Des.

11 votes are needed to convict.

[i can't do the proper vote count format as I'm 200 miles away from my computer now and just on my phone.

[Sandy]

It was indeed Pvt. Perot that contacted me yesterday, but I can't help feeling duped by him when he didn't vote according to his own investigations. I don't know what he's up today, but I've got people I trust far more telling me he's wrong, so I'll rather believe them.

Ian Des has been on my list of suspicious people from the beginning of the game, while Mr. Reutal has been nothing but supportive to our cause. That's why I vote: Provost Guard Ian Des (iamded).

[NewRight]

Sorry I'm late. I see why there was no conviction last night. That's good although also bad because it seems the deserters are still around. Vote later.

[Rick]

It was indeed Pvt. Perot that contacted me yesterday, but I can't help feeling duped by him when he didn't vote according to his own investigations. I don't know what he's up today, but I've got people I trust far more telling me he's wrong, so I'll rather believe them.

He kinda gave an explanation for his non-voting. And now you bring up other sources yet again? This could equally well be a setup of you and some others to divide the vote of the regiment again. I don't think we can afford another inconclusive vote.

Ian Des has been on my list of suspicious people from the beginning of the game, while Mr. Reutal has been nothing but supportive to our cause. That's why I vote: Provost Guard Ian Des (iamded).

Sure Ian Des has caused some suspicion. In fact I'm suspicious of both Provost Guards! But Pvt. Reutal has done nothing but claim he's innocent himself. I stand by my earlier view that voting off Pvt. Reutal gives us some valuable information whether he's a deserter or not. Pvt. Perot has put himself in a very vulnerable position. Let's get our positions clear well before the end of the day.

Vote: Pvt. David Reutal (Dragonator)

[RileyC]

Sure Provost Guard Des has caused a lot of suspicion but I think that we should focus our attention onto Pvt. Reutal now. This is why I vote, Vote: Pvt. David Reutal / Dragonator

[MagPiesRUs]

Unbelievable. I hope you all realise we'll learn absolutely nothing if we don't vote today. This argument has already gone on for 2 days, let's not let it go on any longer. All the while the scum are killing and converting our loyal soldiers.

[Rick]

Indeed, it's not like a different majority will still form today. As has been said a few times before, I'm willing to admit that I'm not at all sure whether Pvt. Reutal is a deserter or not, but so far he has very serious evidence against him (a bloody knife found by Pvt. Perot) an no evidence to support him. Convicting him will give us important information about the mental health of our supposed investigator Pvt. Perot or even worse: his allegiance. And, because there is no more objective evidence than a voting record: if Reutal turns out to be a deserter, we have quite a list of very suspicious names to pick from. If we don't vote, we give the deserters yet another night to kill, convert, and fabricate 'investigation' stories.

[MetroiD]

Unbelievable. I hope you all realise we'll learn absolutely nothing if we don't vote today. This argument has already gone on for 2 days, let's not let it go on any longer. All the while the scum are killing and converting our loyal soldiers.

Here's another way to look at things - we didn't vote Pvt. Reutal off last night and we're all still here today. If he was indeed the cold-blooded killer you want us all to believe he is, don't you think you or some of his other freshly-made enemies would have been dead some 12 hours ago!?

He had a plethora of people to choose from, all of whom were convinced they should vote him off. Yet all of us are here today - albeit going over the same stuff as yesterday. I don't see why I should vote Pvt. Reutal off just in order to find out whether Pvt. Perot is sane or not - to me, the answer to that question is pretty obvious. If anything, I'd rather vote against Pvt. Perot if what we're aiming at here is finding out what his allegiance is!

[Scouty]

With only three hours remaining in the day, the 42^nd is found to be disorganized and confused. They could hear the Provost General's angry words at the back of their minds...

The captain reads aloud from his notebook the current votes:

Private David Reutal (Dragonator) - 6 votes (Bob the Construction Man, TinyPiesRUs, Alex the Great, AwesomeStar, Rick, Roncanator)

Provost Guard Ian Des (iamded) - 2 votes (Stash2sixx, Sandy)

They wondered what would happen...

[WhiteFang]

Oh gosh... Not again.. I don't like this at all, either half of us are inactive, or simply hide behind those curtains, while all of us are discussing, and now Day 4, we don't have enough votes to convict at least one of them. Without conviction, we aren't going to learn anything useful. I am still thinking whether to vote for Private David, because I had my reservations.. And, I am worried that my vote might wrong him. Then again, I will vote indefinite before the day ends in approx 3 hours time..

[Alex the Great]

We need to convict someone people, the deserters will just take us over. It'll be pretty hard to do any investigating if we get shot when we leave the tent. Even if Pvt. Reutal is innocent that means Pvt. Perot is not, stand up men!

[Captain Genaro]

I am terribly sorry for the silence from me. I had to go to the hopital tent for some issue in my stomach called " food poisoning ". Appearently eating raw saussages is bad for you.

Anyway, back to the topic.

From my bed, I was able to hear some conversation about what was going on. From what I understand, it seems like the old accusations for Pvt. Reutal are back and Pvt. Perot makes a convincing argument so for the second day in a row, I

Vote: Pvt. David Reutal/Dragonator.

Rally together men, if the Pvt. is innocent then tomorrow Pvt. Perot will hang for his accusations againsed the 42nd. If Reutal is the killer, then we know who our loyal investigator is.

Also, Sarge you might have forgoten (or I didn't hear this little detail) but what happened to the info about the original " killer " you investigated and now voting for a provost guard insted of the real killer? Am I missing something or is this mighty suspicious?

[Stash2Sixx]

You're gonna have to help me out here, what 'real killer' are you talking about.

[Shadows]

Ugh, this day has slippinged by and there is still nothing solid. Finger pointing is not proof, gentlemen, especially from unsubstantiated sources.

Still, as much as I hate it, I will make the vote anyway. It may be the last day I can convince myself to blindly vote like this, it makes me very much the uncomfortableness.

Vote: Pvt. Reutal / Dragonator

[WhiteFang]

As much as I don't want to vote without clearer direction, but I quite certain yesterday safety is somehow related to Private David, and I do hope I am right on this..

Vote: Pvt. David Reutal / Dragonator