Topic: Mafia LXVIII: Animal Kingdom. Day 1 - Call of the Wild.

[Khushrenada]

Except from The Sunfish Sun-Times:

Animal Kingdom Election in Full Monkey Swing!

With tensions in the Animal Kingdom growing, attention turned towards the two current candidates and their plans to help make the Animal Kingdom safe again. Insanolord the Jackass (aka Mule) has pledged to increase spending on early danger detection with the Eagle Airforce to get more help in spotting trouble sooner. He also met with Police Chief Rin Tin Tin to enact a new bill with the goal of launching a taskforce directed at cracking down on the rumoured Shere Khan Mafia and their corrupted grip of power. The Pawtriot Act bill has been rat-ified to go into effect starting today.

Meanwhile, Khushrenada the Cat has stated his intention to build a wall around the Animal Kingdom to help keep out the most dangerous animal of all, Man! "Man poses the greatest threat to us all and by shutting him out of the Animal Kingdom we will all be protected. Man is the true enemy and my opponent seeks to blind us from that fact by his attempt to stir up distrust with another in this quixotic crusade against a supposed Animal Mafia. Trust me. I'm the only one who has your best interests at heart," stated Khushrenada to stadium of snakes today. When asked what they thought of the speech, one snake said, "Beats me. Snakes don't have ears. But I did like his vibrations. That cat gives off some killer vibes."

With much displeasure from the two candidates currently running, many wonder whether there may yet be a surprise dark horse candidate to enter the election but so far the only word from the Black Beauty stables is nay. Yeah, I just wrote that. It's late and I don't care anymore about the quality of my writing! As always, your trusty reporter Wendy the Weasel will keep snooping around for all the latest happenings in the Animal Kingdom to report to you first.


And now an ad brought to you by the Citizens for Khushrenada the Cat!



Khushrenada the Cat! He makes the hard decisions. This month, elect the Cat who's purrfect for you and I. Vote Khushrenada!

[Khushrenada]

Announcements:


As mentioned, days will be handled a bit differently this game. The day will last until Wednesday Midnight EST unless a majority vote is reached before then. With 16 players, a majority vote today would require 9 votes. However, if everyone has voted and there is one player who has the majority of votes and no one has changed their vote for two hours, than the day will end and that player in the lead is voted out even if they hadn't reached 9. A player with nine votes simply means we don't have to wait for any players who haven't voted to show up since they can do nothing at that point to overrule the majority.

If you have questions on this, please ask I'll be happy to explain them.

Do check out the Players List thread so that you know who's in and what roles are out there.

All townies were sent a message stating "You are a Townie." I tell you this to spare you the time of trying to compare notes with one another as those who did not get townie roles now know how to fake a pm townie message from me.

Otherwise, feel free to pick an animal and make whatever kind of animal comments you like.

[pokepal148]

Announcements:

Nya-w those are some fascinating announcements.

All townies were sent a message stating "You are a Townie." I tell you this to spare you the time of trying to compare notes with one another as those who did not get townie roles now know how to fake a pm townie message from me.

Role PMs haven't been sent out yet.

[Wah]

Squeak! Howdy i'm Lucario the bilby, a greater bilby to be exact! This events are terrifying i wonder what's going to happen?

[NWR_insanolord]

Vote Khush

[Khushrenada]

Vote Khush

[TOPHATANT123]

Hello everyone, Shere Khan threatens us all and it is the duty of all members of the animal kingdom to oust this villain from within our midst. If you have any information please come forward and present it to us all.

[Mop it up]

Vote Stratos

What an animal!

[Stogi]

Vote Dasmos

[ThePerm]

I'll vote tomorrow. I'm always suspicious of people who jump right into voting. This game supports bandwaggoning, so, I'm going to jump on that.

[NWR_insanolord]

My main issue with this game is that Khush picked a theme that isn't very conducive to hijacking and turning into another NewsRadio themed game.

[nickmitch]

Finally got my avatar ready for the game. LET'S DO THIS!

[Spak-Spang]

Vote TheNorthSea

This is a placement vote.

[pokepal148]

vote Khush

He stole my roleplaying strategy.

[oohhboy]

Vote Dasmos

[pokepal148]

I'll vote tomorrow. I'm always suspicious of people who jump right into voting. This game supports bandwaggoning, so, I'm going to jump on that.

As townies it's in our best interest to drag the days out as much as we can in order to see what kind of patterns begin to develop. The Mafia will want to end the days as quickly as possible so they can get as many kills as possible before we know what hit them.

However an attempt to drag out the days will give the Mafia more chances to try and deceive us. We can't let that happen either. Beclaws of this we must remain vigilant.

[Wah]

vote Stratos

[Dasmos]

Vote Dasmos

Vote Dasmos

God, two votes already? Without any explanation? Smells like mafia!

Going to VOTE THENORTHSEA as an act of self-preservation.

Also did Khush steal the cat as his animal? Unacceptable!

[pokepal148]

If we have to start picking cat breeds to differentiate ourselves I call dibs on the Norwegian Forest Cat.

[ThePerm]

Vote TheNorthSea

I'm trying the secondary bandwagon.

[pokepal148]

Vote TheNorthSea

I'm trying the secondary bandwagon.

Suit yourself. I find that the original bandwagon is the cat's meow.

Vote: Stratos

[Dasmos]

If we have to start picking cat breeds to differentiate ourselves I call dibs on the Norwegian Forest Cat.

I'll be the wondrous Lettuce Cat is so last week. Mock me for being behind the times.!

[TOPHATANT123]

 Vote nickmitch

[TofuFury]

Having not played a Mafia game since 2009, it's exciting to sign on and find a few votes headed my way already. Glad to see I'm not completely forgotten, and it's good to be back!


First round votes are always a bit of a shot in the dark. It's so easy for me to accidentally kill off an important townie than actually hit one of the mafia. Really, all it takes is just for a name or two to get thrown around to find your first victim. I get why I have a few votes, as I'm bit of an unknown player, so there's the wildcard element.


It's tempting to vote Dasmos, just as there's a few votes slotted against me already. I don't begrudge him for his vote, as I might have to vote for him just as a method of survival, but I hope it doesn't have to come to that.


I'll probably wait until tonight to make my vote, as I'll have more information to work with then. But remember, this honey badger does care, and he cares for this town.

[Khushrenada]

Current Vote Tally in alphabetical order and number of votes

TheNorthSea - 3
Stratos - 3
Dasmos - 2
Khushrenada - 1 (Doesn't actually count. This isn't a twist game and the host isn't a suspect.)
Nickmitch - 1

There are 11 hours left until Day 1 is over and since we aren't close to a 9 vote majority, we're probably going all the way on the Day vote time limit.