FG: Mafia XXV - Renaissance in Italy

[Ljube]

It's 4-3 now. Too close to call. I'll wait for Jonny and Gamecube64.

[Jonny]

Skanky.

[Gamecube64]

Skanky

[joncha]

(again)

I'm beginning to think some of you folks don't trust me.

[Skanky Burns]

You are all domed. I mean, doomed!!

[DrSpike]

Once again Joncha gets away with it. When will you people learn?

[Ljube]

Chapter 7 - Art is dead


Pope Pius III received Niccolò Machiavelli who reported on his investigation into the death of Cardinal Girolamo Savonarola and the footprints the murderer left in and out of the cathedral.

“In addition to the footprints, the cardinal who committed this murder also left his hat behind. This is going to be fairly easy to spot,” concluded Machiavelli.

Pope Pius III was sceptical.
“I don’t know about that. The last time we employed this method, we convicted the wrong guy. A heretic perhaps, but surely not a murderer.”
“Your Holiness, this is the best chance we have got to catch the killer. I implore you to let me try my method once more.”
“I am inclined to give you another opportunity, but not today. Besides the cardinals have already voted on the issue. One of them remembered that it was not Titian but Michelangelo who did the battle of the centaurs so the cardinals decided Skanky Burns should be decapitated too. And so he was, half an hour ago.”

****

That evening the Medicis met to decide on their plans.

“With Savonarola dead, I can safely return to Florence and restore our rule there”, Piero de Medici said to his two years younger brother Giovanni.
Giovanni replied.
“And I can strengthen our position here. Pope Pius III is frail. He won’t last that long. And we are young. With you as the prince in Florence and me as the pope we can unite entire Italy under the Medici rule.”
“OK, I’ll leave for Florence at ten PM tonight. I should get there by morning and you’ll get the word from me in a couple of days.”

****

The rain started again just before dawn. The deacon that went into the cathedral to make it ready for the morning service, discovered on the altar, under the cross, the dead body of Gamecube64, who was apparently slashed with a butcher knife. His internal organs were also missing.

When Machiavelli came, he immediately recognised the familiar footprints in the mud outside the cathedral. They were again visible in spite of the rain.

“I am going to nail him now”, thought Machiavelli.

Cardinal Giovanni de Medici soon arrived.

“Oh, my poor brother. He was supposed to leave Rome for Florence at 10 PM last night. He must have been murdered before that time.”
“But it is impossible”, protested Machiavelli, “the footprints wouldn’t have survived that long.”
“I’m telling you what I know to help you find my brother’s killer.”
“Hmm, if the footprints were left several hours ago, the killer must have been a very heavy person. Now he won’t escape me.”

[Ljube]

Name

Role

Status



1. Tuberski

 Cardinal Cesare Borgia, Archbishop of Valencia, Vicar to the Pope 

Alive



2. FlameFlash 

 Cardinal Giulio de Medici 

Stabbed - mafia round 1



3. Adagio 

 Raffaello 

Executed - round 3


4. joncha 

 Niccolò Machiavelli  
Alive


5. duke o’ york 

 Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, Archbishop of York 

Alive


6. Kassiopeia 

 Lucrezia Borgia 

Alive


7. SnowFire 

 Cardinal Girolamo Savonarola 

Killed with a picture frame and butchered - mafia round 6


8. gjramsey 

 Pope Pius III

Alive


9. Skanky Burns 

 Michelangelo 

Executed - round 6


10. rah 

 Pope Alexander VI Borgia

Killed with a picture frame and butchered - mafia round 2


11. Spaced Cowboy 

 Giovanni Sforza, duke of Milan 

Executed - round 1


12. Jonny 

 Cardinal Giovanni de Medici  
Alive


13. Whoha 

 Cardinal Martin Luther  
Burnt at stake - round 4


14. Gamecube64 

Cardinal Piero de Medici  
Butchered - mafia round 7


15. DrSpike 

 Titian  
Executed - round 5


16. reismark 

 Juan Borgia, duke of Gandía  
Stabbed - mafia round 5


17. Theben 

 Leonardo da Vinci  
Stabbed - mafia round 3


18. Kalius 

 Cardinal Alessandro Farnese  
Alive


19. Ben Kenobi 

 Pope Julius II 
Killed with a picture frame and butchered - mafia round 4


20. Sparrowhawk 

 Cardinal Giuliano de Medici  
Executed - round 2

[Sparrowhawk]

OMG, it looks like they got one.....the stabber is dead (I think )

[Ben Kenobi]

About time!

Given that the clues implicating Michaelangelo have been there since my death.

Now who's the other Mafia left?

[Skanky Burns]

[Theben]

Serves you right, you murdering (skanky) bastard.

[reismark]

Ah, Skanky, you might have gotten away with it if you hadn't followed though on your impulse to off me for tossing one vote your way...

MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

[Ben Kenobi]

No, he was down earlier if he let me live another round. Can you say dogpile?

[Theben]

No, but we can say docpile.