29-06-2004 19:22									#241
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Guynemer

	29-06-2004 20:01									#242
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SnowFire

JOn Miller

	29-06-2004 20:13									#243
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Nuclear Master

	29-06-2004 20:37									#244
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quote: Originally posted by Skanky Burns Nuclear Master

	29-06-2004 21:07									#246
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* alva thinks Skanky should step into the light and stop resisting his faith.

	29-06-2004 22:02									#247
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I have no clue. And it looks like I was wrong on my last two guesses. So I'll just go with the crowd, and say Guynemer...

	29-06-2004 22:33									#248
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That's eight for Guynemer, and we have only fifteen people left. Jon Miller and Snowfire voted for each other, so there are only five votes left to give to anyone - thus I declare Guynemer toast.

	30-06-2004 02:52									#249
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quote: Originally posted by Skanky Burns

	30-06-2004 05:05									#250
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quote: Tuberski was taken away by Vovan and Jonny, and then DarkCloud staggered into the room from the closest kitchen. "I... can't believe this... I made it myself... and Tuberski...!" and so he slumped to the floor.

This is amusing since I was spitting up blood earlier today

	30-06-2004 05:07									#251
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quote: Originally posted by DarkCloud This is amusing since I was spitting up blood earlier today

Not a sentence I thought I would ever see constructed by a supposedly sane person.

	30-06-2004 05:08									#252
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sorry, I'm on painkilling drugs

	30-06-2004 05:21									#253
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You better be sorry

	30-06-2004 05:55									#254
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Sigh. 'Poly was crashing on me earlier, not that it would have mattered. My vote, irrelevent as it might be, goes to Jon Miller.

And it wasn't me, folks. Sorry.

	30-06-2004 06:37									#255
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Chapter Six

Vovan had a revelation when he watched Guynemer plummet.

"Ella Green!" he yelped in triumph.

Jonny gave him a blank look. "Huh?"

"Jon Miller was rambling to me about this girl who jumped down the building, killed herself. He thinks her spectre is the one behind the killings. Nobody remembered her name. She was a gardener, there was a small garden on the roof. She wasn't too good a gardener though..."

With this new piece of information rah, head of HR, logged into the computer system to check out on the mysterious gardener.

"This is odd", he said. "All information under 'G' has been deleted."

The others eyed rah and gjramsey suspiciously.

"We can't delete records!" rah defended himself and ramsey. "Whoever did this must've used Kassiopeia's pass code. If the murderer could lock us in, certainly he was able to delete some files too. Look, the modification time - before we found the president's body."

Meanwhile, the SMAC LAN game had to be ended prematurily due to a lack of players. Alva, coloured pale and greenish by the sight, stumbled upstairs to inform everyone that SnowFire had been found dead on the floor of yet another toilet, with the usual utensils sticking out of him. He had been stabbed in the chest with what was probably a gardening fork.

code:



Name

Position

Status



1. Hercules

Secretary of the President

Defenestrated - R3



2. Duke o' york

Chief Executive Officer
Present


3. :) Smiley

Secretary of the CEO

Poisoned - R1


4. Kalius

Chief Financial Officer
Defenestrated - R2


5. Theben

Accountant

Present


6. Jonny

Accountant

Present


7. DrSpike

Chief Information Officer

Staples and pencils - R2


8. Jon Miller

Helpdesk

Present


9. Skanky Burns

Chief Technical Officer

Staples and pencils - R4


10. Adagio

IT Specialist

Present


11. Method

IT Specialist

Present


12. SnowFire

IT Specialist 
Staples and pencils - R6


13. rah

Human Resources Manager

Present


14. gjramsey

Assistant HR Manager

Present


15. alva

Chief Recruiter 
Present


16. Imran Siddiqui

Chief of Public Relations

Present


17. Ljube-ljcvetko

PR Consultant 
Defenestrated - R1


18. Guynemer

Company Doctor 
Defenestrated - R5


19. Tuberski

Company Nurse

Defenestrated - R4


20. Zopperoni

Chief of Marketing 
Present


21. Spaced Cowboy

Marketing Advisor
Present


22. DarkCloud

Statistical Analyst

Poisoned - R5


23. Nuclear Master

Security Guard

Poisoned - R3


24. Vovan

Security Guard

Present

	30-06-2004 06:57									#256
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Okay, we have the same clues again basically. Green. Plants. Garden. And we still haven't got one Mafia, apparently.

Any way, I am still as lost as ever, so I am going to say Spaced Cowboy. He is the only one I can relate to gardening, because you know, Cowboy, farm, plants. But I suspect that ain't right either. Maybe we should all reread the intro story...

	30-06-2004 07:01									#257
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Tempting as it would be to have the AI I uploaded into my SMAC computer ask for vengeance against Jon Miller, whom I suspected (and was subsequently killed), it should be noted that the suspiciously helpful help-desker JM has been the main source of info about the phantom. If he was killed and he wasn't the pencils killer (who is also the killer with Kassipoeia's passcode, as a reminder, meaning that once he's done in the game's over, as everybody leaves the building), then we'd have cut off our main source of clues. Well, not we, you. Do what you think best.

Did anybody else see that first season X-Files where they had the similar set-up of a company with a super-automated building whose CEO died and the crazy AI took it over?

	30-06-2004 07:04									#258
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The clues have been murky, but they will get easier as the story progresses. I'm trying to balance this in favour of the Mafia since Mafia wins have been rather rare lately. Striking a balance between "obscure" and "blatantly obvious" isn't easy though.

quote: (who is also the killer with Kassipoeia's passcode, as a reminder, meaning that once he's done in the game's over, as everybody leaves the building)

Why would they reveal the code if caught? You'll need to get all Mafia(s) for a game over, nothing more nothing less.

	30-06-2004 07:11									#259
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Why would he reveal the code if caught?

Well, everybody who hasn't revealed the code so far has been tossed off the building... that can be a powerful incentive, ya know.

P.S. Kass: I agree about the Mafia winning being difficult. Let me go finish my half-written program to calculate how often the Mafia wins if people vote completely randomly (and the Mafia kills randomly), though I can tell you right now that it's not good. If the clues are helpful, things get even worse, of course. Let 'em squirm.

	30-06-2004 13:14									#260
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Well there were no obvious gardening clues in the prologue and I don't read OT threads about gardening, so (no doubt risking my own neck by doing so), I'm going to vote for rah purely on the basis that his ferret is in a garden.

	30-06-2004 18:37									#261
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I'm going for Rah as well.

	30-06-2004 19:26									#262
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quote: Originally posted by Guynemer And it wasn't me, folks. Sorry.

OK, I believe you. But then please explain how did you know the poison used was cyanide and not one of strychnine or arsenic?

	30-06-2004 20:20									#263
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There must be some kind of method to all of this.

	30-06-2004 20:44									#264
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quote: Originally posted by duke o' york Well there were no obvious gardening clues in the prologue and I don't read OT threads about gardening, so (no doubt risking my own neck by doing so), I'm going to vote for rah purely on the basis that his ferret is in a garden.

Sounds like something worth voting for... right rah?

	30-06-2004 20:45									#265
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I am back to the help desk. Jon Miller

	30-06-2004 23:12									#266
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It would be amusing if Rah and Guynmeyer, the two people I voted for were the guilty culprits

	30-06-2004 23:23									#267
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It wouldn't be funny at all, because then rah would be mafia two times in a row, and that just isn't cool.

	01-07-2004 00:15									#268
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rah

Jon Miller

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quote: Originally posted by Ljube-ljcvetko OK, I believe you. But then please explain how did you know the poison used was cyanide and not one of strychnine or arsenic?

You'd have to ask Kassi, he wrote it.

	01-07-2004 01:02									#270
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Don't think it's Rah either, very rare to have the same mafia two games in a row, and the garden clues are pretty obvious for the ferret, and Kassi said the clues are still vague at this point.