Mafia XX - The French Revolution - Part 2

[gjramsey]

great story and very good clues Ljube-ljcvetko.

Well done Rah, and thanks for not whacking me....

[rah]

With the amount of clues against me. (and yes, they're much easier to spot when you know they're pointing at you), I can't believe I survived.

The biggest clue (some will say obscure) was my method of killing. Flog, or as pointed out in the last clue, backwards spells GOLF. I even flogged with a stick (nickname for golf clubs) instead of a cat-o-nine-tails to draw attention to it. And in the final kill used a club in an attempt to make it even more obvious. After the last game where I kept specifying to Hong Hu, that I didn't play tennis, just golf, I figured this clue would be a give away.

I'm sure our GM will enjoy detailing all the other clues. It will be a long list. But I will thank him for one specific red herring that he put out there after the weasel clue. Which I thought would be the end of me, especially after it was pointed out.

And come on, one of the clues was a card with my name on it.

But yes it's much easier when you know the answer already.

[gjramsey]

I agree with you Rah, I just saw all the clues pointing to Ben, and was just waiting for the light to dawn for the others. I was surprised I lasted as long as I did with this one.

[rah]

Yes, thanks for all the clues pointing at Ben.
It allowed me to wack him before he did it to me by accident. In multiple Mafias games, it's very important to find the other and eliminate him, (but not too early). It's usually easier since you know the clues pointing at yourself so you are left with those pointing at the other and a few red herrings. Much less confusing.

[Hercules]

Congratulations Rah. Keeping under the radar helped you a lot this time.

[Nikolai]

Congratulations rah! A good(and not to say lucky) game!

[SnowFire]

Okay, I definitely want to see the list of clues. The rats & weasals eating the body is a cute touch, but what would Guilotin be doing with an expensive jade statue? And what would he be interested in from the museum? (Not to mention that I, and I suspect others, had no clue that rah liked to golf, and even if I did, I doubt I would have connected a club beating to golf). Guiltoin, the humane executioner, also slightly throws me as being the sadist (since if you look back, I said earlier that he was one of the few who I considered who couldn't possibly have done it).

gjramsey: Yeah, by all rights you should have died before you were able to kill Napoleon, but I was busy being distracted defending myself rather than putting the pieces together about the rhombus frame. Excellent clues there, -tko. For that matter, the whole game has been excellent- the French Revolution is a wonderful setting for a Mafia game. It worked out halfway historically, too, with incorruptible Robespierre offing most of the people early on before getting the guillotine himself.

Anyway, all hail Emperor Guilotin.
That Directorate sure didn't last long.

[Kassiopeia]

It was rah! Hah! Chances are I'll know who the second mafia is in the next game, too.

Oh wait.

[rah]

And yes, and assist to Snow for helping me uncover my counterpart. When I switched my kill orders to move him to the top, Ljube-ljcvetko immediately PM'ed be to ask what had given him away.

And I think you would be surprised at how many people know golf is my passion. Especially after the last mafia game. And while the "club" part wasn't enough. "backwards flog" and club should have been quite obviously seen as a golf club. But I did discuss this clue with Ljube-ljcvetko to see how obvious he thought it was. It was to be the last clue, so I wanted to draw attention to it, but not too obvioius. Not like a card with my name on it.
He did a great job with ALL the clues (as you will see later) He and I had some fun conversations down the stretch. This was much better than the last time I was the mafia.
I may be biased , but Ljube-ljcvetko was an excellent GM.

[Theben]

I have to admit that -tko did a great job as GM, including picking the setting.
And both Ming and rah have stated many times that they love golf. I stopped paying close attention after I was dead, but I can't believe I missed that 'flog' clue.

[Ljube]

Chapter 13 – Vive l’Empereur


The directory met a few hours later. Guillotin and Desmoulins voted the third director off and condemned him to guillotine. Smiley was executed only half an hour later.

Then Guillotin discussed the Jacobin card found underneath one of the victims.
“After careful reconstruction work, I have managed to recover the name on the card”, Guillotin said.
“So, whose card was it? Mirabeau’s?”
“See for yourself.”

And Guillotin passed the card to Desmoulins and the card bore the name Philippe-François-Nazaire Fabre d'Églantine.
“So it was vovan’s card. No wonder we found it next to his body. It wasn’t a clue after all Damn!”
Guillotin replied.
“I think we got the sadist regardless. I never trusted Mirabeau anyway.”

*********

In the evening Guillotin invited Desmoulins to visit him at the hospital of Bicêtre. Guillotin has just perfected a new design of his device so he wanted to show Desmoulins the test run he was planning to perform on the bodies in the hospital. Desmoulins came, but Guillotin seemed to have left. He looked around for a couple of minutes and just as he was about to leave, Guillotin stepped before him and quickly swung his golf club and knocked Desmoulins out.

When Desmoulins regained consciousness, he noticed his arms and legs were tied rendering him completely immovable, but his mouth wasn’t gagged. He was completely naked. Guillotin prepared his golf club.
“What are you doing? Let me go!”
“I will. I’ll let you go straight to hell.”

And Guillotin started to beat Desmoulins heavily. Desmoulins was screaming and begging, but that didn’t deter Guillotin. He kept flogging loinburger until he was dead. Then Guillotin tested his device on Desmoulins’ body and later that night disposed of it.

*********

Several months later Guillotin became Emperor of France.

[Ljube]

Name

Role

Status



1. Nuclear Master

Roi Louis XVI

Guillotined - round 4



2. Kassiopeia

Reine Marie-Antoinette
Guillotined - round 5


3. Spiffor

 M. Robespierre

Guillotined - round 9


4. Alva

M. Couthon
Poisoned - round 2


5. Spaced Cowboy

M. de Saint-Just

Guillotined - round 2


6. Guynemer

M. Danton

Flogged to death - round 10


7. Loinburger

M. Desmoulins

Flogged to death - round 13


8. Vovan

M. d'Églantine

Flogged to death - round 9


9. Snowfire

M. Hébert

Guillotined - round 7


10. Rasputin

M. Necker

Flogged to death - round 11


11. Octavian X

M. Brissot de Warville

Poisoned - round 4


12. Jonny

Marquis de
Lafayette 
Flogged to death - round 3


13. Tuberski

Comte de Sade

Guillotined - round 3


14. Rah

M. Guillotin

Mafia and winner


15. Smiley

Comte de
Mirabeau 
Guillotined - round 12


16. Adagio

Roi Charles X

Flogged to death - round 12


17. Kalius

Roi Louis XVIII 
Guillotined - round 11


18. Geomodder

Fürst von
Metternich 
Flogged to death - round 5


19. Jon Miller

Roi Louis XVII

Flogged to death - round 1


20. Jamski

Herr Feld
Marschall von Blücher 
Guillotined - round 6


21. Chaunk

Mr. W. Pitt jr.

Guillotined - round 1


22. GJRamsey

Mr. B. Franklin

Guillotined - round 8


23. Theben

Mr. T. Jefferson

Flogged to death - round 7


24. HongHu

Miss S. Hemings

Poisoned - round 6


25. Hercules

M. Generale N.
Bonaparte 
Poisoned - round 8


26. Skanky Burns

M. Chauvin

Guillotined - round 10

[vovan]

Damn you rah! I knew you couldn't go against the furry animals clue! And you did get me out of the way so I would shut up, though I must say, I was sure it was loinburger with the consecutive clues.

A game well-played, mate. Congrats.

[Snowflake]

Wow such a great play rah! And I helped you in saying "it couldn't be rah because I would have been killed much earlier" right? But you didn't kill me did you?

[vovan]

Oh, and who was the poisoner again? ramsey?