FG: Mafia 28 - Crimson tide

[Ljube]

Update will be around midnight GMT, so about 6 more hours to vote.

[reismark]

Lord Nuclear

Might as well finish what we ought to have done many rounds ago, even if it looks way too obvious now.

[Hercules]

oooh can't wait.

[Ben Kenobi]

Haven't you had enough of that, joncha?

[joncha]

So... did we get him?

[Whoha]

Lord Nuclear is most assuredly dead Joncha, you got him.

[joncha]

[Nikolai]

If you guys don't take out the Evil Mafia joncha, you'll all end up dead...

[Ljube]

Chapter 9 – Bye bye Captain!


“What a short piece of wire”, Lt. Zimmer said observing the wire found down on the floor, under Seaman Bennefield’s body. “I can’t imagine how this could have been used to strangle anyone.”
“The killer must have been very strong to do something like that”, Petty Officer Danny Rivetti added.
“Or a figure of authority like our missing Captain Ramsey”, Lt. Zimmer suggested.

Lt. Zimmer addressed Chief Kline.
“Chief, I want Captain Ramsey found and arrested pending court-martial for the murder of Seaman Bennefield.”
“Yes, Sir!”

At that moment the loudspeaker announced the news.
“This is the Captain speaking. Yes, your true captain, Captain Ramsey. I have retaken the control of this ship with the help of Mr. Westergard and my first order is to resume the countdown.”

Lt. Zimmer was shocked. He quickly recovered from his initial surprise.
“Kline, Rivetti, take the guns and follow me!”

They armed themselves and proceeded for the bridge. Captain Ramsey has already started the launch sequence and barricaded the bridge. It appeared nothing could stop the missiles.

“Captain Ramsey, surrender at once! Stop the count-down immediately!” Lt. Zimmer shouted.
“No way Mr. Zimmer. I’ll launch the nukes as ordered by the President or die trying.” Captain Ramsey responded.

Lt. Zimmer’s party was unable to get to the bridge and there was not enough time to try and stop the launch sequence from the nuclear missiles launching room. Lt. Zimmer did the only thing he could and went to the communications room to send the request for a confirmation message. Half a minute later an Emergency Action Message followed.


Back on the bridge the lights were flashing indicating an EAM was received.
“Captain, we have received an Emergency Action Message Sir. We ought to check it out,” Lieutenant Westergard said to Captain Ramsey.
“No way Darik”, replied Captain Ramsey, “I’m not falling for that cheap trick again.”
“But there’s no trick Captain. We have received the message. We must read it and act upon it.”
“Lieutenant Westergard, you will follow my orders without question. This message is nothing. I will not allow this commie spy to sabotage yet another launch.”

Lt. Westergard understood he made a grave error siding with Captain Ramsey who was clearly insane and switched sides again, taking his key out of the launch control lock and releasing Master Chief Duke.

“What are you doing Darik? You traitor!”

Lt. Westrgard opened the door to the bridge and let Lt. Zimmer and others in.
“I’m sorry Sir, but I can’t follow your orders any more. Not when we have received an EAM. You have violated the navy protocol far too many times Sir”, Lt. Westrgard said to Captain Ramsey.

“Now Captain Ramsey, let’s hear what kind of message you were desperately trying to prevent us from receiving”, Lt. Zimmer said and read the EAM out loud. It said:

The order to launch nuclear missiles at the designated targets is hereby called off. All armed forces readiness is reduced to DEFCON 3 level.


Captain Ramsey paused a little and then said.
“Well Roy, I guess you were right and I was wrong.”
“Yes Captain, but this is not the only thing you were wrong about. You were also wrong to kill so many of your crew including Seaman Bennefield”, Lt, Zimmer said.
“I did not kill anyone, though I certainly wouldn’t have made a mistake had I killed you at the same time I ordered Commander Hunter’s execution.”
“As commanding officer of USS Alabama I hereby sentence Captain Frank Ramsey to death by torpedoing out of the submarine”, Lt. Zimmer declared.

It took the strength of Rono, ship’s cook, Chief Kline and Master Chief Duke to get Captain Ramsey to the torpedo room. Once they all got there, Captain Ramsey said just one more thing to Lieutenant Zimmer.
“Do you know who Judas was Zimmer?”
“Yes I know who he was”, replied Lt. Zimmer, “He was a commanding officer whom I admired and who disgraced the uniform he put on and betrayed the country he swore his allegiance to.”

Lord Nuclear said nothing more. He just got into the tube and got fired out of the submarine.
“Well, he deserved it”, Petty Officer Rivetti concluded.

*******

Next morning the body of Petty Officer Jonny was discovered in the canteen. He was sitting down on a chair and his head was lying on the table, covered with his own tunic. He was smothered to death. When they uncovered him, they discovered two glasses and two doughnuts on the table. There was also a distinct smell of alcohol and three empty bottles of bourbon were found near the table.

Name

Title

Status



1. Kassiopeia

Petty Officer First Class Grattam (Ryan Phillippe) 

Torpedoed – round 5



2. Hercules

Officer of the Deck Mahoney
Throat cut with a pocket knife – Mafia round 6


3. Sparrowhawk

Seaman Lawson

Head smashed with a tube – Mafia round 1


4. Joncha

Lt. Roy Zimmer, USS Alabama Communication Officer
Alive


5. Tuberski

T.S.O. Billy Linkletter

Torpedoed – round 3


6. DarkCloud

 Chief of the Watch Hunsicker

 Torpedoed – round 4


7. Jonny

Petty Officer First Class Danny Rivetti

Smothered – Mafia round 9


8. Skanky Burns

Seaman William Barnes

Torpedoed – round 2


9. Lord Nuclear

Capt. Frank Ramsey (Gene Hackman), USS Alabama Captain

Torpedoed – round 8


10. Theben

Lt. Cmdr. Ron Hunter (Denzel Washington), USS Alabama XO


Torpedoed – round 1


11. Paddy the Scot

Chief Kline

Alive


12. Snowflake

Capt. Ramsey Aide 
Alive


13. Whoha

Seaman Marty Sotille 

Throat cut – Mafia round 5


14. Spaced Cowboy

Lt. Bobby Dougherty, USS Alabama Supply Officer

Torpedoed – round 6


15. DrSpike

USS Alabama Doctor 
Slashed with a scalpel – Mafia round 4


16. Ben Kenobi

USS Alabama Chaplain

Alive


17. Nikolai

Lt. Peter ‘Weps’ Ince (Viggo Mortensen)  
Torpedoed – round 7


18. duke o’ york

Chief of the Boat (George Dzundza) 
Alive


19. Pave

Lt. Paul Hellerman 

 Head smashed with a tube – Mafia round 3


20. Adagio

Petty Officer Third Class Russell Vossler
 
Slashed – Mafia round 2


21. rah

Rono, Head Cook
Alive


22. FlameFlash

Seaman Bennefield

Strangled with a piece of wire – Mafia round 8


23. Dauphin

Diving Officer

Throat slit and stabbed to death – Mafia round 7


24. Reismark

Lt. Darik Westergard

Alive

[Nikolai]

There can only be one, one I say!

[Ben Kenobi]

Joncha

[Nikolai]

Good, good...!

[rah]

Joncha

I don't think the mafia would have the balls to make the first accusation at this point. (especially since I made the first one last round) And I'm not ready to have the priest killed yet. Even though the wire is probably a red herring, there are other reasons.

Maybe they will next round.

[joncha]

That is just Ljube trying to frame me, as usual.

The alcohol clearly points Paddy the Scot, as did the St. Patrick's Day reference a few turns back.

[duke o' york]

Have a torpedo Paddy, just to make things interesting.