Harriet Slutter and the Philosopher's Balls: Chapter 1

[Hinckley]

Interlude

vote tally

Flabflom Flimflam: 7 votes (penalty, penalty, penalty, penalty, penalty, penalty, Snarky Snickerpuss)

Durmudgelous Krup: 10 votes (Nicholas Dickory, Godric Goaty-Blather, Rutherford Habblabble-Bibble, Boris Biddlesdorf, Gertrude Tincanchew, Orion Kettleboil, Helena Hippopaw, Wong Wang, Purplonia Pink, Ariattny Sugarbottom)

Bartholomew Bearbutt: 1 vote (Dillpickle Catterweed)

Wong Wang: 3 votes (Drubulum Panck, Belinda Bugglesby, Twatty Tittlesteen)

Purplonia Pink: 1 vote (Barkonius Twitch)

24 25 hours remain in Day One.

[Ariattny Sugarbottom]

Post #152. It was posted after I called out to you and you said I was lying. It was directed at the person who tried to fish.

I didn't feel adressed.

[Durmudgelous Krup]

Well now you know it was addressing you.

I didn't feel adressed.

[Ariattny Sugarbottom]

Nah, I think it was just adressing the fact that you claimed that it had happened.

[Durmudgelous Krup]

Nah, I think it was just adressing the fact that you claimed that it had happened.

The Gods knew, you can't run away from that. It was a sign that the Gods knew. The Gods wouldn't interfere if I am the one who sins and lie about making that call.

[Ariattny Sugarbottom]

Look buddy, If I were fishing, I would not be here anymore. I did not fish. YOU KNOW HOW YOU MESSED UP. There is no reason to fish, if you freaking know it already. Seriously, It's that simple. Surely Alien Overlords realize that. AND YOU REALIZE THAT. You are flailing.

[Durmudgelous Krup]

Look buddy, If I were fishing, I would not be here anymore. I did not fish. YOU KNOW HOW YOU MESSED UP. There is no reason to fish, if you freaking know it already. Seriously, It's that simple. Surely Alien Overlords realize that. AND YOU REALIZE THAT. You are flailing.

Seems to me that you only cared about yourself. That is not Town behavior.

[Dillpickle Catterweed]

My vote hath come upon an unintended crossroads. Whereby the fates of others and potentiality for malodorous attack among them hath superseded that of Bartholomew. As such: Unvote: Bartholomew Bearbutt. However, it hath been noted duly that Bartholomew has yet to comment upon the accusations of my earlier vote for him.

To Krup or Wang. To Wang or Krup. That is the question. Whether by deceit intentional or slight of mind, Krup's behavior hath raised suspicion such that I would not look unwillingly upon his passing should his fate be sealed. With Wang the case is equal in my mind. Wang's accusations have ebbed with the tides, flown along the breeze of ill temper rather, it woudl seem, than to be directed be the very force of Wang's own will. It hath struck me thus: that Wang has followed those that placed their accusations strongest at the time. Yet Krup's attempts at absolution hath struck akimbo, his case akilter. Behold...

Secondly, I admit I wasn't serious with my defences, I was still in fluff-mode, and that attracted a lot of attention. Now that I am awake, its all good for me.

Oh, how I wish this were true. A longing deep within me would wish that it were simple. Verily I say that I wouldst rather cast my lot agin Wong Wang, yet this brief retort folds beneath the weight of evidence upon thee.

Ok, I prayed.

Maybe I have come out a little strongly on Ariattny, sorry Ariattny .

She did not "ask" for my true identity, but she was trying to get me to reveal my true identity.

Hope that clears everything.

The Gods can bear my testimony.

Just to clear it up, Ariattny sent me a potato message at the start of Day 1 asking for my real identity. I mean I am Durmudgelous Krup. It is a bit of a tongue-twister, but there you go.

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For the record, I sent 5 potato messages to 5 randomly selected furballs (Ariattny excluded).

All the 5 potato messages were of similar content and structure:

Part 1 - A reference was made to whatever that furball said during the first 24 hours

Part 2 - A suggestion was made to cooperate to save Harriet

Since it is Day 1 and we have nothing to talk about, 3/5 furballs responded with an in-game character-type-of response, which was a good read.

1/5 furball made a suggestion to me that I should adopt a certain strategy to oust the Odor Eaters (seriously?)

1/5 furball (Twatty) was suspicious of me and asked me what I wanted to know at this early stage.

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Comments?

Where, o fluff, is thy gentle softness that I shouldst grant thine author reprieve? I see no fluff here, nor can it be found.

And so thou artless beff-witted minnor, I will Vote: Durmudgelous Krup

If thou art indeed a member of the OotP, thy hath done us all a great disservice.

[Durmudgelous Krup]

My vote hath come upon an unintended crossroads. Whereby the fates of others and potentiality for malodorous attack among them hath superseded that of Bartholomew. As such: Unvote: Bartholomew Bearbutt. However, it hath been noted duly that Bartholomew has yet to comment upon the accusations of my earlier vote for him.

To Krup or Wang. To Wang or Krup. That is the question. Whether by deceit intentional or slight of mind, Krup's behavior hath raised suspicion such that I would not look unwillingly upon his passing should his fate be sealed. With Wang the case is equal in my mind. Wang's accusations have ebbed with the tides, flown along the breeze of ill temper rather, it woudl seem, than to be directed be the very force of Wang's own will. It hath struck me thus: that Wang has followed those that placed their accusations strongest at the time. Yet Krup's attempts at absolution hath struck akimbo, his case akilter. Behold...

Oh, how I wish this were true. A longing deep within me would wish that it were simple. Verily I say that I wouldst rather cast my lot agin Wong Wang, yet this brief retort folds beneath the weight of evidence upon thee.

Where, o fluff, is thy gentle softness that I shouldst grant thine author reprieve? I see no fluff here, nor can it be found.

And so thou artless beff-witted minnor, I will Vote: Durmudgelous Krup

If thou art indeed a member of the OotP, thy hath done us all a great disservice.

You tweaked my words to form an argument against me. That's scummy. OotP tAke note.

[Firuz Foxtail]

Before I forget, Vote: Durmudgelous Krup

Nothing has happened to convince me otherwise since my earlier attempt to cast a vote for you, but there are still plenty of muggle hours left in the day.

[Bartholomew Bearbutt]

It sounds from what's been posted that Dumudgelous has been acting strange both in private and he's now really weird here in public too. I don't get why someone would be contacting people so early unless maybe they thought it was a townie thing to do? What could they hope to gain from it? It;s all weird but part of me feels he's just the town fool the scum try to get lynched on day one. The fact that Gertrude is so vocal about lynching Dumudgelous is also weird, as if she's really pushing for it to happen.

However, it hath been noted duly that Bartholomew has yet to comment upon the accusations of my earlier vote for him.

I'm still not sure what you're accusing me of. I pointed out problems I had with Wong's behaviour, but for me it wasn't enough to vote on at the time. I think he's become more scummy, so now I am willing to vote for him after giving him the opportunity to contribute more than just repeating which he hasn't. He just continued in the same way and even made a really odd post about voting for someone who already has a lot of votes which isn't using your vote in the interests of the town because he wouldn't actually be voting for someone he thought was actually scum. Vote: Wong Wang you look like you're waiting to see which way the bandwagon is going so you can just hop on the easy lynch.

And I don't like Snarky's attitude either. We need all the townies we can get, so we shouldn't vote for someone if we don't think their scum, and its very selfish to not even look at whats going on and make an informed choice to best help us.

I looooooove rock n roll, so put another dime in the jukebox baaaaaaaaaaaby!

[Flabflom Flimflam]

Yeah baby I'm a smegmus! Fresh camel chocoballs are on sale at Flappyflom's Tasty Magical Surprises Shop today and today only!

Don't be naive, Flabflom. We have no choice but to lynch someone with very little to no evidence on this first day. I will care for other people when I have a reason to believe that they aren't stinking Odor Eaters. Wait, can Odor Eaters stink...?

Anyway, I'm a reasonable crocodile. If I see something that convinces me that someone else is a better option to vote out today, I'll change my vote.

I can certainly see better options right now. Where are you?

One question Flabflom Flimflam: why the need to edit your comment anyway. I wouldn't want to see a lynch based on it, because the only time I've seen a person lynched for editing a post, that person turned up town, but what could make you edit your post? It's not one just forgets they're in one of these mafia scenarios, because they are looking a little different than normal.

It really was nothing more than distraction and tiredness. I intended to add add to my statement, and hit edit by pure habit. I can't provide more details about this without discussing 'real life' and perhaps giving clues to my identity, but I was simply not thinking straight when I made that mistake. I will of course do everything to avoid such a noobie mistake again.

As much as adding to the Durm vote would be the easiest way for me to make sure that I'm not lynched on a stupid mistake, I'm not really confortable with this choice. Durm's behaviour has been difficult to analyse but I'm seeing him more as a flailing Penis caught in a confusing situation caused by overeagerness. Barkinius sums it up best for me:

Krup, you are flailing and doing yourself more harm than good. I don't think you're an Odor Eater, but you're being one hell of a distractive Penis.

I don't believe Krup is a Odor Eater. Why would he be causing such a commotion Day One? Why fish already? Why not wait just ONE night?

Drum's has been playing with fire and the payoff for Odor Eaters was unlike to be worth taking such risks, in my opinion.

When people started voting you, why would you still be in fluff mode? Stop back pedaling and rationalizing your erratic behavior with weak, contentless defenses. If you're scum, you're doing such a shoddy job defending yourself that you are actually making people think you're town. Great job. If you're town, I expect more effort to go into your game than posting random crap even when the pressure starts on you. If you aren't lynched today, I will be seriously disappointed in the town.

I need to go to bed. Nothing personal, but I seriously hope you get lynched of I don't return by the day's end. Please do post a list of suspicions publicly, though, as it would be helpful to analyze no matter which way you flip.

You come off as awfully confident about this lynch -- and yet, you seem to be ambivalent about Drum's allegiance. It seems like a leit-motiv today for some -- no matter what they are, let's lynch the easy targets.

Unvote: Boris Biddlesdorf Vote: Durmugelous Krup

I didn't fish. I basically said: I know who you are. You know how you messed up. So you know that I am not joking around when I say I know. I contacted with you because of three things: To mess with you, for messing up, and to make sure you knew that I know. That's all there is to it. You're just lying and digging a hole for yourself now.

Why was it important that you let know Durm he gave away his identity?

[Ariattny Sugarbottom]

Why was it important that you let know Durm he gave away his identity?

It seemed fairer than to keep it a secret I knew.

[Twatty Tittlesteen]

Durm will likely be lynched today, it seems. Though I was suspicious of him before, I do actually think he is appearing to just be a confused townie, or probably a newer, less experienced player. All in all, I wouldn't be surprised tomorrow if Durm turns up town, and I'm not voting for him because I think he's town now (since he's shown us some focus). If he ends up as an Odor Eater, then we will likely have a great day two, with boosted confidence. If he is an OotP, then oh well. We'll have to try again tomorrow, and seeing how he will be a Day 1 lynch, it makes me even less confident that he is scum. I won't be surprised if he is town, but at the same time, I won't be so surprised if he is scum.

Sorry, I just got confuseditis.

[Looney Lumpylove]

I'm having trouble seeing Durm as scum. I think there was a misunderstanding, and it spiraled completely out of control, thanks in large part to his lackluster initial defense.

Since Jesus isn't around to pen a play, I'm going to attempt one of my own.

Here's what I think happened in PM (Note: I have no idea if this is even close. This is all pure speculation):

[Durm posts with his RL account in this thread]

Ariattny: Hey dipshit! You posted with your RL account. It was you, wasn't it?

Durm: Ummmmm! I'm tellllliiiiing! You're fishing for my RL name!

Ariattny: No I wasn't! You used your RL account for all to see, that's not fishing.

Alien Overlord: Ariattny wasn't fishing. Don't use your RL account again, or I'll smite thee.

After that, everything has been mostly public. I compiled this from what Ariattny and Durm have been saying happened, and filling in some of the gaps that they couldn't say without violating a rule or two (three in Ariattny's case ). I can only swear that 5% of it is true (that Ariattny and Durm actually PM'd each other.)

Now as for those that actually have been acting scummy. Godric placed a really poor vote on Ariattny for her unfortunate personality quirk. This doesn't strike me as scummy, per se. Seems much more newbish to me.

Snarky's vote on Flabflom, however, seems very scummy. Add to it his comment about not caring who gets lynched, as long as it isn't him, and I think my mind has been made up.

Sorry Snarky, you don't get your wish. Vote: Snarky Snickerpuss

[Hinckley]

vote tally

Flabflom Flimflam: 7 votes (penalty, penalty, penalty, penalty, penalty, penalty, Snarky Snickerpuss)

Durmudgelous Krup: 12 votes (Nicholas Dickory, Godric Goaty-Blather, Rutherford Habblabble-Bibble, Boris Biddlesdorf, Gertrude Tincanchew, Orion Kettleboil, Helena Hippopaw, Wong Wang, Purplonia Pink, Ariattny Sugarbottom, Dillpickle Catterweed, Firuz Foxtail)

Wong Wang: 4 votes (Drubulum Panck, Belinda Bugglesby, Twatty Tittlesteen, Bartholomew Bearbutt)

Purplonia Pink: 1 vote (Barkonius Twitch)

Snarky Snickerpuss: 1 vote (Looney Lumpylove)

[Ariattny Sugarbottom]

Things.

Except for the fact that I did not ask any question at any point, that is fairly accurate, and I think you might be right, actually. Krup is just being dumb with his insistance on calling it fishing or whatever, which does seem suspicious, and his moves could very well have been a poor attempt of trying to get me lynched, although I am not convinced of that at all.

As I said earlier, Snarky's voting statement do not really speak in his favor. Snarky, please speak up.

[Regelius Snoot]

Observing the piling bandwagon on Durm, it seems he's just the victim of jumpy people looking for someone to toss under the bus in this early stage.

I'm having trouble seeing Durm as scum. I think there was a misunderstanding, and it spiraled completely out of control, thanks in large part to his lackluster initial defense.

Yes, exactly, that was my thinking too.

Snarky's vote on Flabflom, however, seems very scummy. Add to it his comment about not caring who gets lynched, as long as it isn't him, and I think my mind has been made up.

You're echoing my thoughts here, scary

I'm not sure I'm ready to vote for Snarky yet, but I'd sure like to hear him explain why he's doing these things.

[Drubulum Panck]

Has anyone else reading very scummy things in Wong and Snarky's almost complete silence since they were accused? Wong has made some pitiful statement about why he wanted to vote for the walrus guy and started talking about a tie vote and all. I don't think I need to quote his post.

Krup has given off every sign of being scum in my book, but I still can't actually come to think that he actually is one. Don't know why. Regardless of what he flips though, if he is lynched, and the vote does seem to be leaning that way, we should have some interesting information to work off of tomorrow.

[Lulu Pittoolo]

Neigh! Neeeeeeeeeigh!

I don't like how fast the bandwagon against Krup has formed. His attitude hasn't been helping, and he is flailing around, but I can't see how this makes him scum. He has been acting weird, but I think he's town. He just doesn't seem to have a scum team helping him. Sure, I doubt on Day One the scum would actively defend one of theirs, but unless they willingly bus Krup, I doubt the bandwagon would have formed the way it has. They would at least plant the seed of doubt somewhere and thus decelerate the bandwagon.

On the other hand, I'm suspicious of Wang. Mainly because of this:

I know I probably don't look useful if it seems I am repeating stuff or seemingly saying things just for the sake of seeing things.

Here he repeats that he has been called out for repeating things

And more importantly this:

You meant to say:

Right? No? Anyway I can agree with your logic against me all accept for the part when it comes to Flabflom and and Snarky. Yes I did say that Flabflom has (though maybe D has more at the moment) the most votes, but that's only because of the Alien Overlord gave 6 punishments out to him and Snarky decided to vote for Flabflom. I admit that I have not found anything scummy on Flabflom. I only said I may vote for him because he has so many votes, and not by a bandwagon. In this democracy of death, as one has called it earlier, we can vote, we all know that. Yet, the voting, as is directly democratic and not an electoral college (something some people in a story came up with), can become evenly split amongst the voters, or even take votes away.

Let's say there are two people running for the leader of the Order of the Penis, and one is clearly winning. But if a third person comes in and gains enough traction, that person could pull enough votes away from the original frontrunner and then bring both of them down, leaving the second candidate a lead to become the leader. There are some other examples of this in stories (something about some bull and a moose and I want to say a bear) as well as some store who took some votes from some blood thing and somehow some foliage won something. those are some interesting stories I'll have to share later.

While I am sure this has not changed your mind, hopefully you can at least understand where I am coming from in regard to Snarky and Flabflom.

But anyway, I Vote: Durmudgelous Krup

Why? he has the word mud in his name (and mud can ruin my math papers). In all seriousness, I vote Krup because something is going weird with him, the numbers in my body can feel it.

She has been accused and voted for, but still this is all the reaction we get. First she says "I haven't found anything scummy on Flabflom, but I might vote for him because of his penalty votes", which sounds like she visited the Snarky School of Vote Justification.

She follows it up with a weird scenario of 2-3 town leaders, which I don't get. It doesn't sound like a good defense to me, though.

Then she jumps on the Krup bandwagon, because "something is going weird with him". While the reasons to vote for Krup are not necessarily bad (for a Day One lynch), this one is. She just wanted to jump on there fast enough.

I'm not going to vote for her right now, because I want her to explain the above scenario again and defend herself.

I also want Snarky to speak up, he's been awfully quiet since he caught some flak with his vote and his "anyone but me" mentality, so I'll vote: Snarky Snickerpuss (that's his name, right?) for now. I'll decide later on if I change my vote to Wang. Neigh!

Neigh, neigh!

[Dillpickle Catterweed]

You tweaked my words to form an argument against me. That's scummy. OotP tAke note.

Folderol. Thou said thou was not serious in thy defenses, yet I detected no lack of seriousness in a number of thy previous posts. If thou couldst show me how thou was not serious, or how thy statement that thou was serious I have misinterpreted, I would vote for Wong Wang. I am not bandwaggoning. I am voting for who I believe to be the most unmuzzled hasty-witted lout amongst us.

Has anyone else reading very scummy things in Wong and Snarky's almost complete silence since they were accused? Wong has made some pitiful statement about why he wanted to vote for the walrus guy and started talking about a tie vote and all. I don't think I need to quote his post.

Krup has given off every sign of being scum in my book, but I still can't actually come to think that he actually is one. Don't know why. Regardless of what he flips though, if he is lynched, and the vote does seem to be leaning that way, we should have some interesting information to work off of tomorrow.

I have indeed, and would gladly see Wong go as well.

[Snarky Snickerpuss]

I'm not sure I'm ready to vote for Snarky yet, but I'd sure like to hear him explain why he's doing these things.

Doing what things? Voting?! God forbid, I had no idea I was the only one in this game that wasn't allowed to do that!

Has anyone else reading very scummy things in Wong and Snarky's almost complete silence since they were accused?

I'm sorry that I cannot be present to answer every accusation 24 hours a day...

If it makes you guys feel better, I can unvote: Flabflom Flimflam and vote: Durmudgelous Krup.

Hooray, bandwagon! Everybody must ride it or die!

Seriously, are you guys expecting me to come up with some fancy-pants theories and complex analyses based on how people have introduced themselves? I haven't gotten any Flying Potato Messages from anyone, nobody has told me anything and I can't do anything about any of that. If that makes me scummy in your eyes, it makes you bleeting sheep in my eyes.

Krup has given off every sign of being scum in my book, but I still can't actually come to think that he actually is one. Don't know why.

Now that's scummy behaviour right there!

"Oh, this one person gives me total scummy vibes, but I'm not going to vote for him because of my gut instincts. Tomorrow when all of you find him innocent, I can totally point how right I was and save my scummy megablocks."

But hey, who am I to go against the Rolling Bandwagon?

Add to it his comment about not caring who gets lynched, as long as it isn't him, and I think my mind has been made up.

Yes, that's exactly what an Odor Eater would say, isn't it?

All I said was that since I couldn't tell anything about any of you, it was all the same as to who was voted out to me today.

I followed by choosing to vote for the one who was acting the most stupid back then, but apparently stupid people are somehow important in this topsy-turvy world... :hpmf:

[Hinckley]

vote tally

Flabflom Flimflam: 6 votes (penalty, penalty, penalty, penalty, penalty, penalty)

Durmudgelous Krup: 13 votes (Nicholas Dickory, Godric Goaty-Blather, Rutherford Habblabble-Bibble, Boris Biddlesdorf, Gertrude Tincanchew, Orion Kettleboil, Helena Hippopaw, Wong Wang, Purplonia Pink, Ariattny Sugarbottom, Dillpickle Catterweed, Firuz Foxtail, Snarky Snickerpuss)

Wong Wang: 4 votes (Drubulum Panck, Belinda Bugglesby, Twatty Tittlesteen, Bartholomew Bearbutt)

Purplonia Pink: 1 vote (Barkonius Twitch)

Snarky Snickerpuss: 2 votes (Looney Lumpylove, Lulu Pittoolo)

About 12 hours remain in Day One.

[Regelius Snoot]

Doing what things? Voting?! God forbid, I had no idea I was the only one in this game that wasn't allowed to do that!

You're joking, right? I quoted Looney, who said exactly what I was echoing, do you need me to repeat it? I'm sure you can go back and read it.

If it makes you guys feel better, I can unvote: Flabflom Flimflam and vote: Durmudgelous Krup.

Hooray, bandwagon! Everybody must ride it or die!

Seriously, are you guys expecting me to come up with some fancy-pants theories and complex analyses based on how people have introduced themselves? I haven't gotten any Flying Potato Messages from anyone, nobody has told me anything and I can't do anything about any of that. If that makes me scummy in your eyes, it makes you bleeting sheep in my eyes.

I think you're missing the point here. It's about your reasoning behind your votes. And this reason isn't much better. Just switching to the bandwagon to get us to stop questioning you. Yeah, that's helpful. And I'm not implying you should make complex analysis here. There really isn't much to analyze... But I'm sure you can do better than this.

All I said was that since I couldn't tell anything about any of you, it was all the same as to who was voted out to me today.

It shouldn't be. Do you want us to vote out a helpful Penis? Or a Penis with a powerful night spell? Just as long as it's not you?

I followed by choosing to vote for the one who was acting the most stupid back then, but apparently stupid people are somehow important in this topsy-turvy world... :hpmf:

Stupid is not scummy. We want to get rid of Odor Eaters, not stupid Penises.

I don't think you have our best interest in mind. So I will Vote: Snarky Snickerpuss

Please convince me otherwise if you're not an Odor Eater.

[Looney Lumpylove]

Yes, that's exactly what an Odor Eater would say, isn't it?

Or a concerned Penis that senses scummy behavior.

All I said was that since I couldn't tell anything about any of you, it was all the same as to who was voted out to me today.

I followed by choosing to vote for the one who was acting the most stupid back then, but apparently stupid people are somehow important in this topsy-turvy world... :hpmf:

But have you even tried to find out who the scum are? You voted for someone who made a mistake, then flippantly changed to someone who has a bandwagon going against him. Why? Because, ... Oh wait, that's right, you don't have a good reason to vote for Durm, do you? You are just following the mob in what could be a good lynch, or could be a Penis stuck in a bad situation.

I've taken a look at what you've said. And what you haven't. And my conclusion is that you look scummy to me at this point. So my vote will stay right where it's at.