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Hedgeowl wrote:
Mongoose wrote:
Hedgeowl wrote: Made me want to go watch old favorites again.
You have unmasked our sole intent for producing this game!
<- 3D glasses for Film Noir.

It was funny when you got killed twice in the same night.

We were laughing because the lie detector never detected one lie, the baddie detector never detected one baddie, and the role checker never found a baddie.

We were really worried that with all the info roles, the baddies would be at a severe disadvantage, but all of the info roles got extremely unlucky.

Role List

1. A Person - Nick Charles
2. Roxy - Bruno Anthony
3. Hedgeowl - Barton Keyes
4. Vompatti - James Temple
5. Flyin' High - Mark Cardigan
6. timmer - Sam Spade
7. Metalmarsh89 bea - Waldo Lydecker
8. S~V~S - Billy Wilder
9. Lizzy - Franz Kindler
10. Epignosis - Cassie Hartley
11. Dom - Preacher Harry Powell
12. Kate - Dashiell Hammett
13. Turnip Head - Nora Charles
14. SpaceDaisy Nevinera - Cody Jarrett
15. agleaminranks - Philip Marlowe
16. Enygma Eve - Norma Desmond
17. Kneel4justice - Asta
18. boo - Frank Bigelow

The End of Rico

The few remaining detectives turned on bea, suspicious at her miraculous return from the grave.

Only Vompatti offered a word in her defense.

She herself made no move to stop them as they descended upon her.

Little did she know that this was no longer about solving a missing persons case. They had gone way beyond that.

Vompatti watched helplessly from his wheelchair, as he realized that they had all been played like so many fiddles from the start.

Sometimes, a guy just can't catch a break.

Bea has been lynched. She was Waldo Lydecker.

The Mafia has won the game!

Congratulations to Dom, Lizzy, Nevinera and Roxy!

Night 6: You Only Live Once?

The detectives hopped off the train at the next station, which was listed as Scarlet Street.

"Is this where we wanted to go?" asked Nevinera.

"I'm not sure, but we have to look for bea!" shouted Vompatti.

"Look! There's a sign!" said Lizzy.

"I don't really believe in that stuff," said A Person.

"No, I mean, an actually sign! Look at that billboard!"

"Call Northside 777," read Timmer.

"I think there's a courtesy phone in Mac's Diner we can use!" Vompatti remembered.

"I would like a grilled cheese and some fries and a strawberry milkshake," said Lizzy, who was still hungry after her candy bars.

"C'mon!" A Person said, pulling her arm.

They talked into Mac's Diner. A man with impeccably groomed facial hair was behind the soda fountain, wiping down the counter. A woman with long, shiny hair sat in the corner, doing paperwork.

"Can we use your phone?" asked Nevinera.

"Sure thing," Mac replied. He turned to the woman keeping the books. "Hey, Toots, show these cats where the party line's at."

"You got it, Mac. Right this way, if you please. Wow, you are all so filthy!" she stated.

She pointed to a rotary phone near the restrooms.

"I'll leave you to it!" she spun on her heel and quickly padded back to her table of papers.

"Who should make the call?" asked Timmer.

"Not me," whispered A Person.

"I dunno k," Vompatti said.

"Give it to me!" said Lizzy, snatching the phone from its bed. She tersely dialed the numbers in the correct order.

"Ssh, it's ringing!" she said to the others.

"Hello?" said bea, on the other end of the line.

bea is alive!
Timmer has been killed. He was Sam Spade.
You have 24 hours to send in your PMs

Who traded murders?

A Person
0
No votes

Vompatti
0
No votes

timmer
3
Lizzy (6), Nevinera (7), Vompatti (9)
30%

Lizzy
0
No votes

Nevinera
2
A Person (3), timmer (8)
20%

Stephen King, that hack!
5
thellama73 (1), Mongoose (2), Epignosis (4), kneel4justice (5), S~V~S (10)
50%

Total votes : 10

We all crave certainty in our lives.

The poll will end at 8:00 EST sharp!

Mongoose wrote:It probably doesn't help that two of the site's chattiest members are the hosts and not players!

Snip-snap!

Who hated Hedgeowl so much as to perpetrate such a disgusting scene?

Poll runs till Sat Mar 01, 2014 10:56 pm

A Person
0
No votes

Vompatti
0
No votes

timmer
3
S~V~S (5), Nevinera (12), bea (13)
23%

S~V~S
3
Vompatti (6), Lizzy (8), timmer (10)
23%

Lizzy
0
No votes

Nevinera
1
A Person (7)
8%

Steven Spielberg (host/dead/np)
6
thellama73 (1), Hedgeowl (2), Flyin' High (3), Mongoose (4), Epignosis (9), MovingPictures07 (11)
46%

Total votes : 13

If it was true that S~V~S liked to listen to her gut, she would find that considerably harder to do once the increasingly frenzied mob of investigators disemboweled her. To say nothing of what they did with her ears.

Fleeing the dark (and now rather noisome) alley, the group found themselves on a major street, where a brightly lit marquee advertised a bout of heavyweight pugilism. A crowd of people milled anxiously about, thirsty for the blood and sweat of what was sure to be a brutal fight. If only they knew what they had just missed, their appetites for violence may not have been so great.

"We're getting nowhere!" said Vompatti. "We're no closer to finding the killer, and we're tearing each other to bits!"

"Forget it, Vomps," said A Person. "It's Chinatown."

"No it isn't," said Lizzy. "It's midtown, if anything."

No one had a map handy, so they had to take her word for it.

S~V~S has been lynched. She was Billy Wilder.
You have 24 hours to send in your PMs.

Hedgeowl was having a bad night. It seemed like nothing was going her way.

Suddenly, she saw a shiny penny on the sidewalk just outside the dark alley and thought, "Finally, my luck is turning around!"

As she bent over to pick it up, she felt a heavy weight collide with her head.

What happened to her next is best left to the imagination.

Hedgeowl has been killed by Franz Kindler.
Hedgeowl has also been killed by Cody Jarrett.
Everything about Hedgeowl has been obliterated.
You have 24 hours to find out who would do such a terrible thing.

Kneel4justice has been killed by Billy Wilder.

Carry on.

Who's been a naughty little gangster?

Poll ended at Thu Feb 27, 2014 10:25 pm

A Person
0
No votes

Roxy
2
Nevinera (6), Hedgeowl (9)
20%

Hedgeowl
0
No votes

Vompatti
1
A Person (8)
10%

timmer
0
No votes

Metalmarsh89
0
No votes

S~V~S
3
Lizzy (4), Vompatti (5), kneel4justice (10)
30%

Lizzy
0
No votes

Nevinera
0
No votes

Kneel4justice
1
timmer (7)
10%

M. Night Shyamalan (host/dead/np)
3
thellama73 (1), Mongoose (2), Kate (3)
30%

Total votes : 10

Their numbers getting thin, the detectives fled the smoke-filled room through the only door they could find.

At once, they were hit in the face by a blast of cold air as they found themselves outside in a darkened alley.

Far in the distance, a streetlight pointed the way back to the main drag, but that seemed a whole world away from the narrow gap between the buildings in which they now stood, reeling from the gruesome deaths they had just witnessed.

"Whodunnit?" exclaimed A Person.

"Musta been a dame. Dames is tricksy like that," snarled kneel4justice.

"But which one?" queried Vompatti.

"Not me!" insisted Hedgeowl.

"Then it must have been Roxy or S~V~S," said Nevinera, logically.

"Or me!" said Lizzy.

"Quiet, you," said bea. "I just got here."

Timmer, of course, said nothing.

The mob descended on the pair as one, and the ladies screamed in horror at what was sure to be their inevitable fate.

Roxy has been lynched. She was Bruno Anthony. You have 24 hours to send in your PMs.

Bonus question: The image above comes from one of my favorite noir films. Be the first to name it for a prize.

Effective immediately, bea is replacing Metalmarsh89. She cannot be targeted tonight or lynched tomorrow.

Chest of Wonder

Still in shock after the quick secession of deaths, the detectives escaped to a parlor for a smoke. Several detectives knocked their boots up on an old wooden chest to relax after all the necrotic nonsense.

"Um guys, I think this smoke is bothering me," said Enygma Eve. "It makes me want to Kill Everyone!"

She pulled our her handy dandy gas mask and slid it over her face.

Suddenly, Eve went up in a tunnel of white heat and smoke.

This caused K4J to point to the floor.

"That looks like there's blood seeping out of this chest!" he said.

HedgeOwl and the others quickly took their feet off the mask.

"Hey," said Vompatti. "Where's that one gril?"

"Yeah, where IS Kate?" Timmer asked, his voice trailing off as his looked at the chest.

Timmer is silenced for Day 4 for Hays Code violations.

Enygma Eve has been killed by Cody Jarrett.

Kate has been killed by Franz Kindler.

The Hays Code is no longer in effect.

You have 24 hours to find a sleazebag.

Day 3

A Person
1
A Person (12)
8%

Roxy
0
No votes

Hedgeowl
0
No votes

Vompatti
1
Vompatti

timmer
0
No votes

Metalmarsh89
1
Metalmarsh89 (11)
8%

S~V~S
1
Lizzy (2)
8%

Lizzy
0
No votes

Kate
0
No votes

Turnip Head
6
Roxy (4), Kate (5), timmer (6), Enygma Eve (7), S~V~S (9), kneel4justice (10)
50%

Nevinera
0
No votes

Enygma Eve
0
No votes

kneel4justice
1
Hedgeowl

Uwe Boll, that hack! (Host/Mod/NP/Dead)
3
Mongoose (1), Epignosis (3), thellama73 (8)

Hedgeowl wrote:
Kate wrote:So i went back and looked at the poll results and on day one these are the people who voted Flyin High. kneel4justice (12), Turnip Head (13), timmer (15). I think we can find a baddie in this group.

On day 2 K4J voted Dom, first. (Did we ever discuss the fact that Dom only had 2 votes and was lynched over TH?) So I think its least likely to be him.

Out of the other 2, TH has been more outgoing with his willingness to post LD statements and, added to that, Timmer's vote sure looks like a save of Dom. My plan atm is a vote for Timmer.
This right here was my thought as well about the FH voters. I was coming in here thinking I would probably vote K4j, but he's not of the poll, sooo...did I miss where we talked about that? I don't see a public role mechanic that does this.

Oh man, K4J is meant to be on the poll If you wish to vote for him, just post in the thread and we will count it. Sorry guys..

Nevinera wrote: @hosts: are there limits to (a) the nature or (b) the complexity of statements Keyes can test?

Keyes can *ask* to test any statement he wants. Whether or not the result is useful information is another matter entirely.

Nevinera wrote: @llama - did the night kill pass now that Powell is dead?

Yes.

The rest of the group, frightened by the hanging, crammed rapidly into the speakeasy, figuring there was safety in numbers.

There were silhouettes literally everywhere.

"Shhh!" said the bartender. Nobody much liked that. Nobody likes to be shushed.

Once the room had quieted down, the bartender asked what they would like to drink.

Boo opened his mouth to answer, but before he had a chance to speak, he collapsed to the ground.

Epignosis collapsed as well, but in a somewhat larger pool of blood.

Boo has died under mysterious circumstances.
Epignosis has been killed by Franz Kindler.

You have 24 hours to lynch a baddie.

Effective immediately, Nevinera is replacing Spacedaisy. He cannot be targeted tonight or lynched tomorrow.

The Hays Code is now in effect.

Day 2:

Who killed gleam?

Poll ended at Sun Feb 23, 2014 11:53 pm

A Person (Mattmatt)
1
A Person (10)
9%

Roxy
0
No votes

Hedgeowl
0
No votes

Vompatti
0
No votes

timmer
0
No votes

Metalmarsh89
0
No votes

S~V~S
0
No votes

Lizzy
1
Lizzy (3)
9%

Epignosis
2
S~V~S (4), boo (8)
18%

Dom
2
Kate (5), kneel4justice (6)
18%

Kate
0
No votes

Turnip Head
3
Hedgeowl (7), Roxy (9), Epignosis (11)
27%

SpaceDaisy
0
No votes

Enygma Eve
0
No votes

Kneel4justice
0
No votes

boo
0
No votes

Roland Emmerich, that hack! (Host/Deadie/NP option)
2
thellama73 (1), Mongoose (2)
18%

Total votes : 11

Less than an hour left and 11 missing votes. It's gonna be a massacre.

kneel4justice wrote:I am a guy. Lol.
I am assuming the icon confuses people. Understood.

Does nobody read the gender guide?

So.... is anyone planning on voting in the lynch poll tonight? I'm sure I don't have to remind you that missing votes will have consequences.

Only 45 minutes left to enter the contest and win a prize! There have been embarrassingly few entries.

Kate wrote:HOSTS: WAS THE LYNCH A TIE?

The votes are available here.

boo wrote:Ok, well to start with the obvious, unless I missed it being mentioned elsewhere:

@mongoose/llama: Do tied votes end with no lynch, broken randomly, or are they broken some other way?

Tied votes are decided randomly.

Event: Scenario Build
Every good noir film starts with the story, and story is just what you’re here to provide. You’re already a cast of colorful characters, so what needs writing is plot! Compose an original plot segment, labeled either beginning, middle or end, and PM it to your hosts. The best entry from each category will be rewarded and the resulting three segments will be strung together Exquisite Corpse style for your amusement. You have until the end of Night 1 to make your submissions.

Suspicion gripped the group of investigators as they gave one another the old hairy eyeball. One of them - at least one - was a killer. But who?

“I don’t trust that Dom fella,” said a bunch of dames in chorus.

“No, it’s Hedgeowl, see?” said Epignosis.

“That’s a lotta malarkey!” retorted S~V~S.

Lizzy tried to get a window open to jump out of, but wouldn’t you know it? Locked!

Meanwhile, the others were quietly busy smothering Flyin’ High with a pillow.

Flyin’ High has been lynched. She was Mark Cardigan.
It is now Night 1. You have 24 hours to send in your PMs.

Who killed Jules Dassin?

Poll ended at Fri Feb 21, 2014 11:58 pm

A Person
1
A Person (14)
6%

agleaminranks
0
No votes

Boo
0
No votes

Dom
3
Kate (7), Flyin' High (8), Hedgeowl (9)
19%

Enygma Eve
0
No votes

Epignosis
1
S~V~S (11)
6%

Flyin' High
3
kneel4justice (12), Turnip Head (13), timmer (15)
19%

HedgeOwl
1
Epignosis (2)
6%

Kate
0
No votes

kneel4justice
0
No votes

Lizzy
2
Lizzy (4), Dom (5)
13%

Metalmarsh89
1
Roxy (16)
6%

Roxy
0
No votes

Speacedaisy
1
boo (6)
6%

S~V~S
0
No votes

timmer
0
No votes

Turnip Head
1
Metalmarsh89 (3)
6%

Vompatti
0
No votes

Michael Bay, that Hack (Host & Non-Player Option)
2
Mongoose (1), thellama73 (10)
13%

Total votes : 16

Less than an hour and a half until the poll closes and an awful lot of missing votes. You do not want to miss votes in this game, I promise. Neither I nor Mongoose is in any mood to be trifled with this evening.

Youse guys have been quick to check in. If everyone arrives and votes, we will end Day 0 early and get on to the lynching!

boo wrote:@Huge Phil Collins fans: Does anyone have information on the poll (and is the bottom option supposed to be a host/non option, or can we vote for any of them?)

I just added a host/np option, so you can vote for any of the others. As far as info goes...

boo wrote:Phh, finding Lana is easy, check it.

Lana. LANA. LANA. LANA! LANA! LANAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

Danger zone...

All role PMs have been sent. If you did not receive a role PM, please notify the hosts via PM at once.

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