Assassins Game Première: Speed Kills

[DrSpike]

I thought it before, but now I am certain. Imran you better have voted right!

[Zopperoni]

Episode 7 - The Grand Finale

"Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to what should be the conclusion of a rather tragic week. A week where several people have died, either at the hands of a serial killer or at the hands of the race paddock people", said Imran, "several teams have withdrawn already, and a number of spectators is too scared to come watch the race, but most of the teams will continue to the end."
Slowly, the cars were lining up on the start grid ready for the start.
"One of the victims this week is my partner, Anita Blake. Because of her absence, we can't give you any inside details from the pits, but I suspect that DrSpike Miller will start with a lower fuel load to help dictate the race pace. The lights go on! Ladies and gentlemen, the Poly 500 is about to begin and... we're off!"

DrSpike had a good start, but Ronnie Joncha followed closely. Right up until the first series of pitstops, the two rivals never had more than two seconds between them.

"DrSpike Miller is now in the pits, so that means that Ronnie Joncha is now the race leader. That car of Joncha is looking great today and if he still has a considerable amount of fuel left, he could take control of this race."

"Ronnie Joncha is now entering the pits. He's built up a substantial lead over DrSpike Miller now, but is it enough to hold the lead?"

It was barely enough, but Ronnie Joncha kept the lead in the race. Joncha kept the lead over DrSpike, and both men were now entering the final stage of the race.

"I'm going through the paddock votes for who they think is the serial killer and things don't look good for DrSpike there, but heeere's Joncha! Ronnie Joncha wins, DrSpike Miller second, Buddy Rice finishes third, great racing!"

"Ronnie, you're winner! How's that?"
"That sounds like it came from some piss-poor Russian truck racing game, but really, I'm delighted, and I'm dedicating this to the dead team members."

"Commiserations, DrSpike, it looked like you did have the right strategy, but just came up short after the first stop."
"Definitely, we just needed the one or two seconds more, but hey, that's racing."
"There... there is one thing you've won though."
"Really?"
"Yes, the paddock vote."

And DrSpike was escorted to the flag poles where he was hanged.

"It's typical isn't it?", Joncha said.
"What is?", Imran replied.
"DrSpike started on pole, and he finished on pole as well."

**********

Imran was preparing to leave his commentary box after a very exhausting week when he heard a knock on his door.

"Come in", Imran said, "oh Ronnie, I didn't know you were still here"
Joncha came in with a plastic bag with something in it.
"Turn around and close your eyes, Imran, I have a surprise for you"
As Imran did so, Joncha pulled a box out of the bag and put it on the table, he then pulled the bag over Imran's head.
"Seven days, seven victims. Like you said: I'm winner"


**********


Joncha survives and wins the Poly 500 and the first edition of Assassins

Alive

Name
Role
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Name
Role

Joncha
Team SBR Driver
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Dead

Name
Cause of Death
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Name
Cause of Death

Ljube-Ljcvetko
Assassinated
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Trokair
Paddock

Rasputin
Assassinated
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Chaunk
Paddock

Urban Ranger
Assassinated
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:) Smiley
Paddock

Skanky Burns
Assassinated
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HongHu
Paddock

Loinburger
Assassinated
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DarkCloud
Paddock

Anita Blake
Assassinated
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DrSpike
Paddock

Imran Siddiqui
Assassinated
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Status
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Votes

Day
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R1: Trokair - Three votes 

R2: Chaunk - Four votes 

R3: :) Smiley - Four votes 

R4: HongHu - Four votes 

R5: DarkCloud - Three votes 

R6: DrSpike - Two votes

[Zopperoni]

Post Mortem

First off, I picked Joncha to be the Assassin, because I thought his chances of survival would be good, and they were. No-one suspected him until the fifth round, so he played well

The voting went like this:

Round One

Victim: Ljube-Ljcvetko

DarkCloud --> Trokair
DrSpike --> Trokair
Joncha --> Trokair
Skanky Burns --> DrSpike
Rasputin --> DrSpike
:) Smiley --> Urban Ranger
Loinburger --> Urban Ranger
Urban Ranger --> :) Smiley
HongHu --> :) Smiley
Imran Siddiqui --> Chaunk
Trokair --> Chaunk
Chaunk --> Loinburger
Anita Blake --> Rasputin

Eliminated: Trokair


Round 2

Victim: Rasputin

Skanky Burns --> Chaunk
Loinburger --> Chaunk
Anita Blake --> Chaunk
DrSpike --> Chaunk
Imran Siddiqui --> Urban Ranger
:) Smiley --> Urban Ranger
HongHu --> Loinburger
Chaunk --> Loinburger
DarkCloud --> :) Smiley
Joncha --> Imran Siddiqui

Eliminated: Chaunk


Round 3

Victim: Urban Ranger

DarkCloud --> :) Smiley
Loinburger --> :) Smiley
Imran Siddiqui --> :) Smiley
DrSpike --> :) Smiley
Joncha --> DarkCloud
Skanky Burns --> DarkCloud
Anita Blake --> DarkCloud
HongHu --> DrSpike
:) Smiley --> HongHu

Eliminated: :) Smiley


Round 4

Victim: Skanky Burns

Anita Blake --> HongHu
DrSpike --> HongHu
Joncha --> HongHu
DarkCloud --> HongHu
Imran Siddiqui --> DrSpike
HongHu --> Loinburger
Loinburger --> Imran Siddiqui

Eliminated: HongHu


Round 5

Victim: Loinburger

Anita Blake --> DarkCloud
Joncha --> DarkCloud
Imran Siddiqui --> DarkCloud
DarkCloud --> Joncha
DrSpike --> Joncha

Eliminated: DarkCloud


Round 6

Victim: Anita Blake

Joncha --> DrSpike
Imran Siddiqui --> DrSpike
DrSpike --> Joncha

Eliminated: DrSpike

Clues
I basically used the same clue system as Jamski in Mafia 18, just to see if someone would pick it up. Unfortunately that wasn't the case. Here's a run-down of the events:

The marks were mostly nothing. They merely told you to look that direction, but they didn't carry any meaning except for the circle.
I made the Anita's murder very similar to Ljube's murder and planted a circle on her. This was an indication that you had to go back to first murder and make a full circle.
The important thing was all the objects near the victim, all the objects on/of which all the marks were made: the jerrycan near Ljube, Ras' overall, the newspaper on UR, Skanky's chart, Loinburger wearing the helmet, and the audiocassette in Anita's hand. Put them together, and you get:

Jerrycan
Overall
Newspaper
Chart
Helmet
Audiocassette

[Skanky Burns]

Very well played, and nice clues too.

[Ljube]

Yes nice clues. Well hidden, but still there for enyone to recognise them. And only a few clues with much text in-between meaning basically nothing and great herrings.

[duke o' york]

Originally posted by Zopperoni
"Ronnie, you're winner! How's that?"
"That sounds like it came from some piss-poor Russian truck racing game, but really, I'm delighted, and I'm dedicating this to the dead team members."

Nice game Zop, and you got the mafia to win.
Secret ballots make a heck of a difference.

[DrSpike]

Imran you muppet!

[Anita Blake]

Nice game Zopp.

[Rasputin]

great GM this was the best so far !!!

[Imran Siddiqui]

Oops

[loinburger]

I told you guys we should've killed Imran!

[:) Smiley]

Great game.

[Snowflake]

Well done joncha!

[joncha]

Thank you, thank you.

I couldn't have done it without all the little people I asphyxiated along the way.

I decided early on to go after both teams, leave the other driver alive and blame the sponsor. I had expected DarkCloud to go before Smiley (which would have been perfect).

My only mistake (I think) was jumping on DarkCloud so strongly, which made him push back out of desperation and made DrSpike suspicious.

I was planning on pinning everything on Imran in the final round, but Spike forced my hand.

[DarkCloud]

Actually Joncha- I wanted to vote for you starting in round 4- remember, I mentioned something about platics= burning rubber starting then- but I was afraid I would get voted for- so I had to vote for HongHu since I knew she would fall if I voted for her

Good game

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and Imran- shame shame... you should have been allowed to change your vote for me to joncha... shame