Episode Five - Confessional

[Cory]

Tina is such an obvcit. Seriously.

[Cory]

Mary, much less so. I think there's probably a 75% chance Mary is a Citizen. Tina's obviousness is more difficult to put into words. Her hunt for Spies is just genuine. Not faked at all.

Speaking of faked... With Isaac gone and proven to be a Spy, I think it says quite a bit about Jasmine. In their little feud, both looked genuinely pissed off with one another. I am noting that it is highly unlikely that they were two Spies distancing from one another. This is good news because Jasmine was someone who I would have slightly leaned Spy on prior to this.

Similar can be said about Claude, I'd say, but I wouldn't put it past him to hyperbus someone like Isaac. Unlikely, perhaps. But not impossible.

[Cory]

Yes, indeed. This is a striking blow for the Spies, I'd dare say. A lot of information has come from it. Far more than what we got out of Alexei's exile. The problem is that, yet again, I am not seeing much in terms of connections with Isaac. I see a lot of people who I can write off as unlikely Spies, but Isaac wasn't really one to defend people from what I noticed. Perhaps if I can dig deeper, I will find something.

Next subject: More doctoring nonsense.

It's sad, but I am a doctor who outlives his patients. That can't be good for my professional reputation.

[Cory]

(02:07:26 PM) spies8Cory: Did you two talk much?
(02:08:20 PM) spies8broderick: Not really no. Our last conversation was right before the third exile I believe. I was questioning if his suspect Themba voting for his other suspect Jasmine made him rethink
(02:08:39 PM) spies8Cory: What was his response?
(02:08:50 PM) spies8broderick: No was his response
(02:09:25 PM) spies8broderick: spies8isaac (19:59:16):Why, My argument is sound and I can totally back up my claims I why I vote for Jasmine. The fact the Themba wants to do the same thing has no bearing what so ever on my vote

On first glance this doesn't look faked. On the other hand I get sort of mixed signals from Broderick. I feel as though he is holding back from his true potential and playing defensively as of late. Will keep an eye on him, but right now I think there are better people to consider for this upcoming Exile.

[Cory]

So the plan is as I said last episode... I will come up with a secret Q/A, and Owen will deliver this to Mary and one other person. Should I need to reveal myself to either of these people after Owen perishes, I will be able to answer the question successfully.

Not sure what it will be just yet, but I suspect it will involve 'pine floats.'

Mary wanted a CC to be made public, but I am hesitant. I don't want to use any strategy that is fully unbreakable because I recall similar coming up in the last game, and it was deemed as crossing the spirit of the game of Mafia we are playing here, which requires some degree of intuition and good judgement. Let's at least make it possible that someone could get it right and get me mis-exiled. It will also be possible that both recipients will be Spies. There is enough risk here that I don't feel like it's gaming the system.

[Cory]

Of course, Sam, if you disagree, you need only let me know.

[Cory]

In the meantime, the Philosoraptor is going to pick up the pace a bit this episode. This Isaac exile will do our morale some good. But the trophy is not yet in our hands. Five Spies remain, and we must be ready for whatever tricks they have up their sleeves.

[Cory]

These fucking Spies... They killed Gabriel. They killed Nita. They will kill Tina and Owen next.

There is no forgiveness for these crimes of theirs.

[Cory]

(07:19:54 PM) spies8broderick: FTR. I find that Owen picked Mary for the Senate, when they hadn't talked until ep 4 to be fishy.
(07:20:13 PM) spies8tina: *sigh* who else would he have picked?
(07:20:19 PM) spies8tina: I told him not to pick me.
(07:20:50 PM) spies8stephanie: he didn't have the opportunity to talk to her until ep 4 did he?
(07:21:43 PM) spies8stephanie: and if i had to guess, i think he might be have been trying to bridge the rep/dem divide
(07:22:08 PM) spies8stephanie: i know he expressed dismay at the us vs them during ep 3
(07:22:59 PM) spies8broderick: He said he thought her citizen. So how could he really get a good read on her, if he'd only first talked to her ep 4?
(07:23:24 PM) spies8stephanie: idk, love at first sight?
(07:24:27 PM) spies8Cory: Owen is a good guy
(07:24:30 PM) spies8Cory: nothing fishy here.
(07:24:40 PM) spies8stephanie: brod are you just mad cause he didn't pick you?
(07:25:40 PM) spies8broderick: I'm not mad
(07:26:39 PM) spies8broderick: I didn't say Owen was a bad guy. I said I thought it was a fishy move.
(07:27:02 PM) spies8tina: It was a solid enough choice I think.
(07:27:30 PM) spies8tina: Whole lot more worse then better choices.
(07:27:39 PM) spies8zedekiah: I've got t' leave for now, later everyone
(07:27:41 PM) *** spies8zedekiah has left the conversation.
(07:28:33 PM) spies8Cory: Fishy seems to imply bad intentions
(07:28:39 PM) spies8Cory: And I doubt there were any
(07:31:13 PM) spies8broderick: That still does equate to 'Owen being a bad guy'
(07:31:22 PM) spies8broderick: *does not
(07:31:33 PM) spies8Cory: Then what does it equate to?
(07:31:54 PM) spies8Cory: I'm not seeing what you're getting at unless you think his choice makes him more likely to be a Spy.
(07:32:22 PM) spies8broderick: It equates to a fishy move.
(07:33:02 PM) spies8broderick: You say you think someone is a cit, but out of 4 eps you only talked to them for the first time the latest ep?
(07:33:29 PM) spies8broderick: Why not pick Tina and tell the Doc to protect her?
(07:33:51 PM) spies8Cory: Shhhh

Broderick seems completely unaware that the doctor can only protectsave once. The Spies, with their murder of Gabriel, have shown some indication that they know this to be the case. Points for Broderick, then.

[Cory]

Lilith & Dane : Not Spies together.

[Cory]

(10:46:39 PM) spies8claude: And if they were planning on imprisoning her anyway(if Jenny is a Spy), then Jenny would just out Nita immediately. This makes her look great, and very much lessens the chance of Nita getting another Doc save.


Claude = Cit.

[Cory]

(10:56:54 PM) spies8Cory: (10:46:39 PM) spies8claude: And if they were planning on imprisoning her anyway(if Jenny is a Spy), then Jenny would just out Nita immediately. This makes her look great, and very much lessens the chance of Nita getting another Doc save.
(10:57:00 PM) spies8Cory: Is your assumption here that Nita was saved?
(10:57:10 PM) spies8claude: I thought that was established fact or something
(10:57:12 PM) spies8claude: That she got saved on N1
(10:57:25 PM) spies8Cory: I think that rumor started as a result of that spy message
(10:57:35 PM) spies8claude: ah
(10:57:46 PM) spies8claude: I don't think that part actually matters, but that is good to know.
(10:58:08 PM) spies8Cory: Trying to catch up with this chat
(10:58:11 PM) spies8Cory: Lol.

[Cory]

Dane is stirring up some bullshit with Awohali in the main chat right now, trying to twist his words and such. Not liking it. Dane has been pretty low key for the past week or so, and now comes out of nowhere to try and pin Awohali against the wall.

Tsk tsk.

[Cory]

(01:12:45 AM) spies8owen: I'm impressed by your reading skills.
(01:12:48 AM) spies8owen: Don't look like the type.

Then this happened:

(01:56:55 AM) spies8Cory: Ok odizzle
(01:57:02 AM) spies8Cory: Time for the philosoking to sleep
(01:57:05 AM) spies8owen: I'm about to head to sleep.
(01:57:09 AM) spies8owen: Oh shit son.
(01:57:13 AM) spies8Cory: God dammit


Did Owen just ID the philosoraptor? Damn you, Owen. Damn you to hell.

~~~

We went through the people who we think would not make good exile candidates for this week based on interactions with Isaac. The working list is currently something like: Lilith, Magalie, Kiara, Dane, Lawrence, Chance, Jenny, Stephanie, Rondak, Zed, Awohali, Hambone, Allan

Hopefully we can scratch a few more names off so we can have a better idea of what we're doing. Sadly, Isaac didn't really incriminate many people. Except, possibly, Lawrencelot. There was an interesting theory raised by Tina. She mentioned how both listed each other as mutual suspects but never acted upon them. I will look into this more closely when it is not 4 AM(yes, 4 AM, I do not live out west).

[Cory]

I don't think I will die tomorrow, fortunately. However, this is the first episode where I feel that I am a viable option. No heat on my end because I had a sneaky vote on Isaac last episode. Fortunately, if I die, I can rest assured that it was not due to my doctor claim. I think I played this one pretty much as well as I could.

Mmm, I might need to start picking up some heat again. I'd really like to make it past episode six this time around. Fortunately there are a few more tempting dominoes for the Spies to knock over before they get to me.

Really, I'm not saying this selfishly anymore. I've had a decent run, I wouldn't mind dying relatively soon. However, I want to keep the claim till later when the suspect pool is dwindled. It would be an unseen issue for them to deal with on a whim. The "silent threat" I like to refer to it as.

[Cory]

(03:07:44 PM) spies8lilith: Cory, will you protect me from those spies kidnapping me tonight?
(03:07:44 PM) *** spies8jenny has left the conversation.
(03:08:08 PM) spies8Cory: Whyever would they take you?
(03:08:10 PM) spies8chance: quick, say a lot of stuff that we won't have to have seen in the group chat go go go.
(03:08:30 PM) spies8lilith: Cory - if you don't know, it is better that way. :-)

It would seem that Lilith is going through with the plan, after all. Unfortunately, I have no idea why she is hinting at it so publicly. The entire point of this was to test Jenny. Not to see if Lilith could take a bullet for no reason.

Not that I would mind. Lilith dying tonight would save Tina for another week, and get rid of someone less valuable(no offense!).

[Cory]

Oh yes, Sam. I have a T-rex costume due to arrive in about 2 weeks. I intend to go back and do video confessionals starring as the Philosraptor, whether dead or alive.

I just need to find myself a top hat, glasses, a cane, and maybe a doctor robe + stephoscope. I'll be the most pimped out raptor ever to walk this planet.

Now that's dedication!

[Cory]

Lilith has been Imprisoned by the Spies.

You will never see her again.

THEY TOOK THE FUCKING BAIT.

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[Cory]

(06:54:42 PM) spies8Cory: Thanks for taking the bullet.
(06:59:18 PM) *** "spies8lilith (spies8lilith)" signed off at Fri Jul 09 20:59:18 2010.

Aww, I feel bad now. Well, she should rest assured that her death furthered the Citizen Cause <TM>.

[Cory]

Everyone I touch dies. It is depressing being a Philosodoctor in this here Burg. Depressing indeed.

~~Team Doc & His Trusted Subjects~~


~~Acquaintances Not Yet Worthy of Knowing His Name ~~


~~Conflicted Motives But Loyal to the End~~


~~The Philosoraptor's Martyr - Taking Bullets For the Doc Since Day 4~~

[Cory]

If Owen is a Spy, he needs a friggin medal. He would have knowingly wasted an imprisonment on Lilith, with whom he plotted this entire scheme. There's just no way he would do that. It was totally needless. I even told him outright I thought he was a Citizen.

Yes. Owen is categorically ruled out unless he is alive at the final three.

This whole thing makes Cinnamyn look odd. According to Odizzle, Tina hinted that Lilith had a role in a conversation yesterday. But I must question who else got wind of this privately, because Lilith was all open arms about it in the chat earlier today.

Alas, I don't think there is much to be gleaned from all of this. Rejoice that Lilith made a nice sacrifice, but simultaneously, don't get too caught up in its implications...

I like how I follow the above advice for all of five seconds before breaking it. I just remembered that Broderick was trying to sway me into exiling Lilith last night. Why would Spy Broderick do such a thing if he knew she was going to be imprisoned today? Yet again, Citizen points for Broderick.

I will conclude by saying it is very difficult for me to keep my philosotrap shut when speaking with the likes of Tina. I want to spill the beans so badly, and I may even do so. Strategically, I don't think there is a ton to gain from it, however. However, deep down inside I fear that the longer this chain of dead Citizens grow, the less likely people will be to accept that there is no deception somewhere along the line. Especially with everyone believing that Lilith is the Doctor.

I'll have to ponder it through.

[Cory]

(08:02:18 PM) spies8claude: If the Lilith = Doc thing is really why she got killed, she must have REALLY impressed that upon someone
(08:02:27 PM) spies8claude: Probably worth reading up on the conversation when that all took place.
(08:02:57 PM) spies8jenny: Don't need that much impressing. I'm sure they'd want to jump at any chance they had of finding them.
(08:03:20 PM) spies8claude: Yeah but still, to kill someone random like Lilith, they had to think that there was a really solid chance it was her.
(08:03:23 PM) spies8dane: but they could have caused so much more discord taking out one of the three exilers and creating the possibility of a tie
(08:03:31 PM) spies8tina: When it is someone like Lil who everyone thinks is a cit, all the better for them.
(08:03:40 PM) spies8claude: Which is very surprising to me, because I am absolutely convinced that the Doc is a Republican.
(08:04:25 PM) spies8jenny: An original Rep you mean?
(08:04:31 PM) spies8claude: Lilith is one of the absolute last people I would have picked to have that role. She logged on like once during D1; the idea that she got so lucky on a Doc protection with effectively no information available is so unlikely.
(08:04:36 PM) spies8claude: Yeah of course, sorry.

[Cory]

Might I just say that I like this challenge both because I think I have a shot at actually winning it, but also that it will spark activity.

[Cory]

~~~Have~~~
Broderick
Cinnamyn
Mary
Jenny
Owen
Chance
Lilith
Stephanie
Tina
Gertrude
Kiara
Hambone
Allan
Awohali
Claude

~~~Need~~~
Magalie
Zedekiah
Rondak
Jasmine
Lawrence
Dane

[Cory]

This format is prettier...

[Cory]

If I manage to get 10 whole lines out of Magalie over a 15 minute period while she's on her mobile phone, then I will win at life.

[Cory]

I will take a moment, yet again, to express my love for Magalie. I don't even care that she's not helping us win. I really don't. She's subtly entertaining, and that's something that is missing from a lot of people in this game. You need a few dimwitted, yet lively people to make this game fun. So hooray Magalie!

[Cory]

Dane is being a dickgrabbing assclown and refusing to speak with the Philosoraptor private.

I will get my damn vote back. I will. I will. I will.

[Cory]

I will have JasMan's conversation before she leaves tonight. This will put me ahead of anyone who misses the opportunity to speak with her.

I also intend on taking another shot at Dane later. I may even have Owen vouch for me if it really comes to that.

[Cory]

Just four to go. With one refusing to give me the point, one unlikely to log on, and the other two up in the air