FG: Mafia XXV - Renaissance in Italy

[Hercules]

Originally posted by gjramsey
The Archbishop has now returned from a period of self-reflection and is ready to join an alliance.

Adagio is the vote.

* gjramsey is pleased with being from Siena, a place I shall be visiting in a little over a month from now.

Watch out for the horses, especially the one with the big hooves and a gleam in its eye.

[Hercules]

Heah I just realised. I am not in this game. I can safely say.

" No pope here"

[Ljube]

Originally posted by Ben Kenobi



Pierced in his side, Ljube. If you're going to give us clues, get it right.

Intriguing.

Isn't that the same thing?

[Ljube]

The votes so far:

Adagio - 6 votes
Ben Kenobi - 6 votes
Jonny - 1 vote

Votes not cast - 2

[Ljube]

Jonny and Kalius.

I'll wait till tomorrow morning and close the voting in exactly 10 hours from now. If the vote is still undecided then, we'll let the coin decide.

[Jonny]

Well, Rovere has always had a good relationship with our family, so I'll go with Adagio.

[Frozzy]

Hah! I will vote Ben Kenobi just to be faecetious

[Sparrowhawk]

I don't know whether to or

Ties make it somewhat interesting, but hopefully Ljube-ljcvetko doesn't waste a lot of time trying to decide who wins the coin toss.

Too bad the dead can't vote.....wait, I already said I wanted them both dead, so I would have kept it tied

Rather ironic that the potentially deciding vote (for my treacherous brother) was cast by Ben himself!

[Ben Kenobi]

I don't think Raphael is the mafia. so why should I vote for him?

[joncha]

I say kill 'em both. There are two mafias after all.

[Ljube]

Coin time.

The attached password protected zip file contains a text file with a single number: 1 or 2.

So Adagio or Ben Kenobi, guess. And joncha can guess for Ben Kenobi.

[Adagio]

Just give me '1' to get it over with... I'll be killed nomatter what I pick anyway...

[Ljube]

Originally posted by Adagio
Just give me '1' to get it over with... I'll be killed nomatter what I pick anyway...

You are probably right, but choosing 1 will kill you sooner.

The password is 'cardinal' and you die while Ben Kenobi lives.

[Adagio]

But I know that with my luck if I had chosen 2 I would have been killed anyway

[Ljube]

Chapter 4 - Pontifice Terrible


Upon returning from Florence, Girolamo Savonarola met with Cesare Borgia.

“My mission to Florence was a great success. Piero de Medici is overthrown and I rule in Florence now”, Girolamo Savonarola was jubilant. “So, what happened in Rome while I was away?”
“Nothing special”, Cesare Borgia replied, “except that Giuliano Della Rovere is now Pope and I am as good as dead.”
“Surely, something can be done about it.”
“I’ll be damned if I don’t try. It’s him or me now.”

****

The cardinals later met to decide on the small issue of the death of one of the artists. They found it to be a classic case of artists’ jealousy and sentenced Adagio to death.

Pope Julius II formerly known as Giuliano Della Rovere also appointed Piero de Medici as new cardinal.

****

Martin Luther was given the opportunity for an audience with the Pope.

Pope Julius II started.
“My son. You are summoned here to defend your ideas some of the cardinals consider heretical. Some of them are urging me to exorcise those ideas out of you using torture.”
“Your Holiness, I have the right to stand trial if it comes to that and defend my views.”
“Sure you have, but it doesn’t have to come to that. I have chosen another path. As I am generally uninterested in the religious disputes and theology, I solve these problems with the help of simony.”

The Pope paused. Then he continued.
“If you don’t speak about your reforms of the Roman Catholic Church any more, I am willing to appoint you cardinal. Think about it. You are young. One of the cardinals gets elected. You stand a good chance of becoming the Pope one day.”

Thus a new alliance was formed and Martin Luther became cardinal.

****

In the morning the guards discovered Ben Kenobi dead on the altar of St. George’s cathedral, lying face down. Again, his head was bashed in using the corner of a picture frame and his internal organs were removed. Niccolò Machiavelli examined the body carefully.

“Hmm, again a very large knife was used to inflict the deep cut. But what is this?”

Machiavelli found a piece of cloth in the right hand of the Pope. It was a piece of cardinal’s robe. The Pope must have torn it during the struggle with his attacker.

“It appears a cardinal did this. The only problem is there are 23 of them and I can’t indict them all”, Machiavelli whispered but nobody heard him. Fortunately for him.