Wednesday, May 13

Epilogue - Beyond the End

In the basement of the Imperial Hotel...

As the last fifteen players woke up in what was presumably the Phantom Hotel, in the graveyard, they slowly made their ways to the inhabited levels of the Hotel, some falling again to Boss Vahlia's rifle in irritation and being scared several times by spectators jumping out at them and then disappearing again, because everyone knows that's the best part about new deadies; scaring the daylights out of them.

Anyway, when they finally made their way to what served as the conference room of the Phantom Hotel- the Ballroom, the relatively small crowd still watching looked only mildly surprised.

"Eh, the game’s over?" said the real Regy Rusty, apparently burning what appeared to be the records of Boss Vahlia's role-played actions over the last few days in the fireplace.

"Oh good." Phoenix Aoshi said, barely looking up from a book. "Now we can tell them how much they utterly fail."

"WHOOOOOO TEAM VI WON!" yelled the original Boss Velotix, nearly knocking a townie over with the VI flag he'd made.

“So,” said Sakuro, as she strolled over to the crowd while taking off the name tag that read SERENA DE SAILLUNE VI on her shirt. “I’m sure you all have a few questions. And we all have more then a few comments, I’m sure…”

“But that can wait, not that I really care anyway.” Allan interrupted, slightly horrifying the people who hadn’t seen his new, fabulous ribbon covered dress as he came to stand by Sakuro’s side.

“However, mostly I’d like to say that I hope you all had fun playing this game, because I certainly had fun GMing-“

“Even if your stupidity has made us want to throw kittens into woodchippers.”
“And GMing with Allan has been a pleasure-”

“When I become overlord of Mafia City, all of you will die. Except maybe her. And MSOB, since everyone knows trying to kill him proves you are Too Dumb to Live.

“Well, I’m sure we all have more to say, but that can wait until you look around a bit and see what you missed behind the scenes and read our, umm, lovely commentary.” Sakuro finished mildly awkwardly, looking as if she was trying to recall whether or not she had said something she needed to apologize for or not.

“Kekekekekekeke.” was apparently all Allan had to add to that.

And so the Users versus Users conflict officially ended, although some were confused as to whether this had actually happened, or was another Game, so they decided to elect Boss Velotix mayor of the City, ousting Allan Aokage, and banned DahliaXKristoph or Addikt from ever pretending to be Boss Velotix and/or Regy Rusty again. The game masters reopened access for all players to all points in the City as the players and spectators looked through copies of the Final Game Design, the Impossible to Achieve Locational Evidence Conditions, and Hidden Roles and Effects, or just wandered around the Phantom Hotel, occasionally getting scared witless by a spectator hiding behind a tombstone or worse.

Mafia City would be in relative peace for a while, even as players, spectators, and game masters prepared their verbal walls of text, and Boss Vahlia and R. Bond planned their wedding, and friends waved goodbye as players had to leave Mafia City to return for another Game or war, et cetera... and things went back to normal. As "normal" as Mafia City can be, anyway~

Day X - Otherworld

This morning, we found Zyfarius' and Pie's bodies lying in the City Centre; as they were both vanilla Townies, we decided to not bother to check who killed them.

As dawn broke, the Townies huddled together in a corner of the Centre - they noticed that there was only four of them - this was shortly before each of them noticed that they were down to three people - Vahlia had shot one of them through the back with a rifle and was clearly getting ready to kill the last three - they knew they could not run; even if Vahlia was not shooting at them, there were four people in VI -with only four Townies remaining, it looked like the Town had lost.

Everything below this point is fluff and the most likely outcome of the game.

Soon after the Town died, it became apparent that Team VI now ran the city - the Mafia tried to rise against them and met their deaths rather quickly; Haruka and RandomJibberish were the first to go, as proud Dishonourable Citizens. Soon after, General I, aka DahliaXKristoph found himself victim to Regy's razor top hat.

Soon after, VI, with the help of Allan, proceeded to kill starfoxx322 aka Hidden Role Pie - they also demolished the Hidden Location Neon Bar, the bastards.

And since VI now ran the City, there was only one thing for Boss Vahlia, Addikt aka Regy Rusty and their recruits (Videocrazy and R. Bond) to do - kill Bee and became Overlords of Mafia City. As they walked into Bee's office, Vahlia pointed her rifle at Bee, saying something about "agree to hand over the city or die" or some such.

Bee only raised a single finger in protest - it did help that, somehow, Bee could shoot a giant laser through his fingers; apparentely, being the ruler of Mafia City had some benefits, despite how much logical sense it made. A few moments later, Team VI was a pile of ashes, probably along with Aokuro as well.

"Always with the taking over Mafia City and asking for money." said Bee, going back to leaning back and sipping tea.

Tuesday, May 12

Night 9 - No Rest For the Weary

Today we watched the Town run around in circles and Allan Alexis Aokage the puppy kicking murderer won the election to be mayor because he was the only candidate. In other words; not much happened, and we at the news station spent the day playing chess instead, which was infinitely more amusing.

Until dusk came, anyway. As Boss Vahlia skipped out of the Imperial Hotel wearing a crown of pink roses and looking quite pleased with herself indeed, the remaining citizens of the town gathered around the stage, the resulting crowd being significantly smaller then it had been only a few days ago. Once again Boss Vahlia was put on stage as a couple of townies debated how to kill her, as she idly plucked petals out of a rose, until...

"Psst!"

"Hm?" Vahlia looked above her and saw Sakuro crouched on the catwalks above the stage, holding... a shower cur- oh, some sort of gun. Vahlia glanced at the two citizens closest to her, engrossed in an argument over whether she should be burnt with fire or electrocuted, and waved to Sakuro. At once a circular blue... thing appeared next to her on the floor of the stage, looking like it led to... a floor of the Imperial Hotel? How bizarre...

"I sto- er, borrowed this from Blassy. Isn't it neat?" Sakuro said as she leapt lightly down from the catwalks. At this point the Not Completely Oblivious Townies were heading towards them, so she grabbed Vahlia's arm and the two jumped in. The portal shortly dissapeared, leaving the Townies grumbling yet again over the loss of their target. They really needed to start chaining down these guys or something.

An overly excited silver haired citizen insisted they look at Ryuusai64 next, but as he was dragged to the center a brown haired nurse walked by, carrying a small book. Interupting the proceedings, she poked Ryuu with a pen a few times, scribbled down some notes, and turned to address the crowd. Or maybe she was muttering to herself- either way.

"Hm hmmm, definitely Infected. Or at least a Dishonorable Citizen. And fire is totally a better way to kill anyone then electricity." She said, pulling at a lock of hair. "But then," she added, looking thoughtful, "death is not the end of any player in this game, I suppose..." Tucking her pen back in a pocket, the mysterious nurse strode out of Town Center. For some reason no one seemed particularly surprised when she dissapeared in mid air after leaving the square.

With that the Town dispersed for the night, whether to sit in Town Center under one of the old trees or to a more distant location, who knows.

Sunday, May 10

Day The Ninth - Godless Sinners

And that sums up why Allan should be elected mayor of Mafia City - remember, vote Allan because he kicks puppies! Tell your friends.

But now there is less serious work afoot - the night's murders. But since they happen every night, nobody cares too much; nevertheless, we found Kinokiita lying in the Town Centre with a giant wound from a magical gem that changes clothes, or something. Allan's probably trying to use it right now. Nevertheless, a scrap of the Death Note was found in her hand - "Kinokiita, Vanilla Townie. Dies from a magical gem that changes clothes". Take that how you will.

We also found djoftheweb lying face-down in the dirt. It seems he had died from both vampire neckbites (a clear sign of serial killer DahliaXKristoph) and an unexplicable sand-axe thing (an axe made of sand). We suspect that DahliaXKristoph bit her victim to death, then Velo smashed dj over the head with an axe to feel special, or something. Either way, the fact that he radiated a holy aura of paranoia was a clear sign that he was OMG Cracker, God of Paranoia.

Take that as you wil; and now we cut to the fact that magical items have been popping up all over Mafia City. So far reported;

-A blade of grass that irons clothes; found by Regy.
-A talking cat (that is actually a reincarnated dead person) and a magical gem that changes clothes; found by an 8-year-old Sakuro who's in a timewarp.
-A magical turkey that dusts curtains - 'Bumble Bee'.
-A game that Phoenix_Apollo likes more then Xenosaga (it's called MafiaDirt, MafiaScum's younger brother).
-Velo finds a key that cuts his toenails.

And if you tune in at eleven, we'll take a look at A. A. Aokage's proof that all Christians are godless sinners - we also get to see him get stabbed through the head by some guys named Christian and a girl named Christine.

Saturday, May 9

Night The Two Times Four, One Minus Nine - NO MORE FUGGIN' BLACKOUT

Our typical newsreader is not here at the moment, so you have the narcissistic arsehole instead.

Now, the Town turned on one DahliaXKristoph today - some said "GET THE FUCK ON WITH IT", while others protested that Donald Serrot was a better target, or that he was a giant net or something, I'm not too sure on the details. All I cared about was watching someone die, so I proceeded to retrieve a herring from an American cupboard (so it wasn't a crime to steal from it). As the Town circled around DahliaXKristoph and Donald, somewhere, in the sky, a divine force looked down upon creation... and flipped a coin. But as if to counteract this, it appears that the vote tally was not as it appeared - somehow, there were five votes on Sir Donald Serrot, not four. The divine force shook it's head, muttering something about age - a giant laser beam turned Donald Serrot into ashes, leaving only his Townie ID Card.

And now we cut to A Divine Entity, who's burning dresses in the mall or something. And the blackout is gone now, or whatever, be happy. Let me go and drink my shame away.

Thursday, May 7

Day 8 - Singing in the Rain~

Through the mist and through the rain, citizens of Mafia City attempted to shelter in various places last night. Some people, however, actively decided to brave the elements- why should a little rain get in the way of WORLD DOMINATION?!

...or City domination, at least. But you know, you start with one Town, and then another...

...anyway. DahliaXKristoph bravely put on some butterfly decorated rainboots last night, and clutching her parasol and a revolver tightly, set off to find the target of the Mafia's wrath. And maybe buy a jacket- this dress was simply not cutting it in the rain. Around midnight, after quite a few hours of trudging around miserably in the rain and several oaths to kill whoever was manipulating the Mafia City weather controls in an extremely violent way, she stared at the entrance to the last place she was going to look before saying "screw it" and going home; the entrance to the Neon Bar, in the basement of the Cadenza Nightclub.

From the dim light of a few candles lit on the bar, the redheaded mafioso could vaguely make out Starfoxx322's features, slumped over the bar and sound asleep, as if ignorant of the storm outside. Dahlia aimed her revolver and shot at the figure...

But this seemed to merely wake her target up.

"Owwwww, that hurt! I was sleeping, you know!" Star complained, looking only mildly concerned with the bullet wound she had sustained.

"Y-y-you... You should be DEAD!" Dahlia yelled.

"Why? D:"

"..." Instead of answering this question, Dahlia decided to shoot Starfoxx a few more times. After this prompted only more confused questions as her target ducked for cover, she threw her revolver to the ground in disgust and stomped out of the bar.

In another part of the City, someone in the Art Studio suddenly realized that Fatal hadn't been around in a while. Course, it wasn't all that difficult to imagine she'd been killed in this City, and she really didn't want to walk to the Imperial Hotel and check, so...

Let's just assume fatalfeline, the Honorable Citizen aka Vanilla Townie, is gone for good.

And citizens woke to grey morning light and the same driving rain and fierce thunder they had (somehow) managed to fall asleep to... the Blackout continues.

Wednesday, May 6

Night 7 - Twas a Dark and Stormy Night

Honestly, when Boss Vahlia is tanning in Town Center, occasionally looking up, tilting down her white sunglasses, and telling a Townie "No, don't do that, do this," one has to wonder exactly what's going on in the City these days.

At any rate, there was a brief shower of votes for DahliaXKristoph today before the redhead turned the tides and inspired a torrent of votes for Phoenix_Apollo. Deciding it was wiser to give in under the pressure rather then bother fighting against the will of the almighty Boss Vahlia, he spent the rest of the day handing out flyers and arguing with citizens over who was a better lynch, him or Boss Vahlia, along with a couple other citizens.

The Town was not particularly interested, however.

As the sun went down, it grew cloudy over the City, with some distant sounds of thunder. Paying little attention to this change in the weather (although Boss Vahlia seemed rather annoyed, stomping back to the Imperial Hotel to fetch a warmer outfit and muttering over the scizophrenic weather of this City) and started to crowd around Phoenix_Apollo. They hadn't been able to lynch someone THEY chose in ages, and damnit, they were going to do so today!

Phoenix_Apollo, aka Aoshi, Leader of Team Aoshi's last words were something about not even death being able to stop his eternal love for Allan Aokage, something that will probably lead to his grave being danced on later, and he was then shot dead.

More importantly, with the death of Aoshi, the Game Master Faction Team Aoshi is no more. As the gravity of this sunk in, it started raining heavily. It appears we will be experiencing violent thunderstorms for the next day or so and-

Town Center grew quiet as the screens above and around the stage announcing the phase results suddenly went black and silent. Even Boss Vahlia was baffled as she peered out from the now completely dark halls of the Imperial Hotel. Citizens didn't spend much time in Town Center pondering this, however, with the most intelligent of them scurrying off to hide indoors from the crashing thunder and pouring rain.

Hope you're not afraid of the dark, because Mafia City appears to be experiencing a blackout.

Monday, May 4

Day The Seventh - The Return Of The Face Heel Lancer Of The Magical Mafioso

As if to announce the return of the scum that climbed out of the bottom of the pool, lightning hit buildings all over Mafia City. Mirrors all over the city soon found themselves shattered for no explicable reason - people cried it was an omen, but that is what the Saxons cried when they saw Halley's Comet; the fact they got fucked over by the Normans shortly after was a complete coincidence.

But what was not a coincidence was the fact that one DarknessLord was sitting in a comfortable leather chair, sipping some evil fluid that was almost exactly, but not quite, exactly unlike tea. He gave a witty remark on the texture of this substance before noticing that he appeared to feel his body growing cold - he noticed this as he felt his heart stop - DarknessLord has fallen victim to the wrath of Allan A. Aokage, Knight of Injustice - a small scrap of the Death Note found in the DarknessLord's mailbox said that he was a Vanilla Townie - it also stated "OOPS YOU CAN'T READ THIS, YOU'RE DEAD". I suspect that Sir Aokage is a colossal jackass and should be thrown into a fire for being a prick.

The investigators looked over the rest of the city - they apparently found the remains of Game Over, an exploded Prinny - there was something about him being a Vanilla Townie and having been thrown by DahliaXKristoph, which led to his death - but since he was a Prinny, I couldn't care less.

Incidentally, Mid-Boss rolled by for a chat this morning - the poor chap had lost his head; the tip-off was when I noticed he didn't have a chest - no, he lacked everything bar his head. After casting a Speak With Dead spell, he told me that he was a Vanilla Townie, and I threw his head out of the window - it's Mid-Boss, who cares?

And now we have a look at the fine line between insanity and brilliance - Regy Rusty is doing a handstand while reciting Pythagoras' Theorem, Allan is doing a (mimed) cartwheel on the insanity side and Saint Kagami the Paladin is currently saying "What the fuck" over and over again. We now go to Queen Kagami the Paladin.

"What the fuck what the fuck what the fuck..."

Sunday, May 3

Night 6 - No One Mourns the Inactive

Town Center was relatively quiet today, with several votes boredly thrown on DahliaXKristoph as she looked gravely on from her suite in the Imperial Hotel. Some debate on the suspicious activities (or lack thereof) of Endless Blasphemy was also discussed, but all and all it was a slow day. As the sun set and it drew to a close, Boss Vahlia, as she had taken to calling herself, entered the square and ascended the stage, pale and looking quite serious indeed as she faced the crowd. For a few moments, there was almost complete silence...

However, apparently a certain magical girl had different plans for how the evening would end.

Interrupting the SRS moment of SILENCE, Sakuro jumped onto the stage, startling the Game Master preparing to kill DahliaxKristoph and smiling widely as the crowd was thrown into an uproar. Sakuro, upon taking Dahlia's navy cape, twirled it around and shortly made DahliaXKristoph dissapear just as Kinokiita had a couple days before, before donning the cape and running off the stage, leaving as abruptly as she had appeared. This news reporter commends her speediness, as the citizens of the town were not pleased about Boss Vahlia being snatched out of their clutches.

In their anger, they went to storm the Golden Dragon hotel, supposedly where Endless Blasphemy had been staying. She hadn't been doing anything, like, all game, and apparently this had also made the Town very angry. Found in her hotel room playing Team Fortress 2, she tried and failed to use the nearest object she could grab- her laptop- as a flamethrower, she was handcuffed and taken away to jail to face trial for inactivity, which is obviously a more heinous crime than murder. Searching her laptops files returned absolutely nothing of interest- apparently she was just a Vanilla Townie.

Muttering a few choice words about Sakuro and DahliaXKristoph under their breaths, the players moved on to their chosen shelters for the night.

Friday, May 1

Day 6 - Here it Goes Again

After the last few relatively deathless phases (or as "deathless" as this City can be) tonight was much more chaotic. While citizens mingled around Town Center discussing D&D, Spanish homework, some users were not in as fair a situation...

The body of fatalfeline was found this morning in the art studio, sliced into almost unrecognizable ribbons by what can only have been Dahlia's razor winged butterflies. In fact, it proved impossible to tell exactly who she had been. Relatively used to this nonsense by now, her death was filed away by the authorities and the question of her role in the recent conflicts set as a 45 picarat puzzle to be solved at a later date.

On the other side of the city, Force was found dead at the Imperial Hotel. Although everyone knows Zakeri has long departed from the City and that playing Syringe Roulette with an unqualified "doctor" is a very, very bad idea, some players must have decided to take the risk anyway for a improvised game at the Imperial Hotel. We're pretty sure Force was an Honorable Citizen, so maybe the others will learn their lesson. But knowing these people, probably not.

NaturallyLazy, meanwhile, had decided to take a stroll through the City this fine spring night, instead of staying inside, before heading out of town for some business. Unfortunately for her plans, she was found lying on the ground in Masque Park, almost thought to be sleeping (although why anyone would think the influential mafioso would be sleeping in a park like a hobo is beyond this news station) until someone poked him and didn't have his hand immediately sliced off by a rapier. The mafioso, recently so confident in his position in the City, had apparently fell victim to a NOT AS PLANNED moment early this morning, as it was determined NaturallyLazy aka FerdieLance, of the Mafia had ultimately died of a heart attack. And somehow, I get the feeling this wasn't exactly according to anyone's plans...