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The Mysterious Mystery of the Codex Murders

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lol completely forgot about this

was just out with friends and sprained my previously broken ankle

will check in few
 

Mr. Pink

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PC RPG Website of the Year, 2015 Codex 2016 - The Age of Grimoire Steve gets a Kidney but I don't even get a tag.
24.5 hours remain.

Reminder: If you lynch an innocent today, you are guaranteed a loss, since the next day will begin with two killers and an innocent.
 

Doktor Best

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I wanted to point out that none of the victims died by drinking poisoned water from a well, so it probably wasnt the jew.
 

Nevill

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The teams that make sense to me:
Duraframe + Viata - strikes me as unlikely
spigot + CJM - very unlikely
Duraframe + CJM - possible
Viata + CJM - possible

I am certain that there is at least one killer in Duraframe and Viata duo.

Thing is, Viata is all over the place. It is impossible to analyze his actions, because he exhibits traits from both sides, innocent and criminal, in a very exaggerated fashion. In fact, his behavior can be best described by making a big neon sign 'I DID IT' with speakers broadcasting 'will you hang me already' at 120 Db. :roll:

Lapses in logic, sudden accusations and even more sudden withdrawals of those, self-destructive tendencies, incoherence - it is all so over-the-top that it makes me think 'naah, can't possibly be a killer, that would be just weird'. But such behavior would be no less weird for an innocent too!

On the other hand, Duraframe has laid low recently despite usually being moderately active. Any sudden changes in behavior at this stage are suspicious. Maybe he is waiting for us to kill Viata with baited breath.

It is interesting that they accused spigot and Jew Master, but not each other. :?
 
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Duraframe300

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There's not much for me to say anymore. As I said, I'm confused as hell.

Viata doesn't make sense to for the same reason you just named
In fact, his behavior can be best best described by making a big neon sign 'I DID IT' with speakers broadcasting 'will you hang me already' at 120 Db.

Edit: It could be your reason I dunno. I'm staying at least with it as my final decision.
 
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i like Viata as another killer in that I think he's trying to lose everyone in white noise. i think it makes an interesting team tactic if you have one dude spouting so much shit and the other barely posting. meanwhile Duraframe's continued confusion comes off a bit thick at times. I posted previously that I rate them all on the same level suspicion wise, but I'll bump Viata up a step. I'm not going to change my vote now but I'll check in tomorrow morning for any late developments.
 
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So I've been investigating everyone and I've fouOo oOoO Ooo OOO oOo O OooOO Oo oOoOo oOOOoOoOoo ooOOOo
 

Grimgravy

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Codex 2016 - The Age of Grimoire
I was leaning more towards Duraframe, but I had thoughts along the lines of what Spigot said as well.
 

Nevill

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1.5 hours until the lynching. Hope we have the right guy this time. :M

If Jew is guilty, Viata is the most probable suspect due to this:
I remove my votes for Jew and Spigot, and accuse myself.
If Jew is innocent, we are all dead so it does not matter. :salute:
 

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PC RPG Website of the Year, 2015 Codex 2016 - The Age of Grimoire Steve gets a Kidney but I don't even get a tag.
Because of Viatas withdrawal of his votes, no one person here has more than two votes!

a bear named spigot and Corporate_Jew_Master require one more vote to be hanged.


Nevill and Corporate_Jew_Master have also yet to vote for anyone. is this correct?

I'd like to get the input of these two people before I start nightfall.

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Mr. Pink

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PC RPG Website of the Year, 2015 Codex 2016 - The Age of Grimoire Steve gets a Kidney but I don't even get a tag.
Nevill, Viata, Duraframe300, a bear named spigot, and Grimgravy close in on Corporate_Jew_Master, daggers gleaming.

The Jew Master tried to manuvuer his way around his executioners, but is backed into a corner. When he realized there is no escape, he prays desperately to his jew god, Moloch for salvation.

"You were just too quiet. It's only logical to kill you off." said nevill. The Jew Master looked into the eyes of Nevill, hoping to provoke some kind of empathy, but it was hopeless.

Nevill stabbed Corporate Jew Master in the gut and twisted the knife.

"for the codex."

One by one, the survivors stabbed Corporate Jew Master, until he breathed his last...

-------------------------Later That Night---------------------

"Goodnight, men. We may have slain one killer, but another is still on the loose. May you all be extra careful tonight." said Duraframe. The survivors retreated into their chambers and lock the doors, each one praying that they would survive the night.

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nevill opened his eyes. He can hear the morning birds chirp outside his window. He breathed a sigh of relief, for he had survived the night. He unlocked his door to check in on the others.

Nevill knocked on the door of Grimgravy first, the only confirmed innocent except for himself. No response. He turned the doorknob.

that's strange... I thought we all locked our doors... thought nevill.

"wake up, grimgravy." said nevill as he walked towards the slumbering codexer. It wasn't until he was at the foot of the bed when he saw...

Grimgravys face was frozen in horror. His two eyes were replaced with freshly picked strawberries. Fresh fruit jam mixed with blood flowed out of his open mouth, like a delicious erupting volcano.

Nevill ran in panic, screaming for help, but nobody answered. He ran down the hallway to his nemesis, Viatas room. Although they had fought and bickered, Nevill knew Viata was far too erratic to be the killer, and trusted him deeply.

When Nevill opened the door, the stench of gasoline and burning hair pushed him back. On the bed was all that was left of Viata: a charred skeleton.

Nevill scrambled out of the room and shut the door behind him.

This can't be happening... There's only one killer left, how are there two bodies?

Theories of faked deaths and a third killer raced through his head, but Nevill knew that the simplest answer was usually the most plausible. He screwed up.

Corporate Jew Master was innocent. Nevill wept in the hallway, the guilt of being responsible for so many of his friends deaths weighed on him like a sack of bricks made out of solid despair.

"Duraframe..."

"a bear named spigot..."

"They played us like a damn fiddle!"

THUMP THUMP THUMP

Heavy footsteps stomped down the hallway. Nevill jumped up like a startled cat and dashed into a bathroom and locked the door. The only escape routes were a small window and a vent. Nevil stood on the toilet, desperately clawing at the screws that held the vent closed. For a moment, he regretted clipping his fingernails last night.

*THERE'S NO ESCAPING NOW, CASUAL SCUM* rang a muffled yet inhumanly loud voice from behind the door.

Nevill gives up on the vent shaft and tries opening the window instead, but it's jammed shut. He screams as the head of a fire axe penetrates the wooden door.

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*HERE'S INCLINE!!!*

The vault boy head peeks through the hole in the wall, and Nevill recognizes the clothing. It's Duraframe. Nevill grabs an object to defend himself; it's one of Excommunicator 's horse dildos. He briefly considers throwing it at Duraframe, but decides to break the window with it.

The mighty girth of the equine phallus is enough to smash the window. Nevill crawls through the window just as Duraframe hacks the door off its hinges. Duraframe grabs Nevills foot and winds up to chop it off, but Nevills slipper slides off, knocking Duraframe off balance. Nevill runs half-barefoot into the dark forest as Duraframe struggles to get his giant vault boy head through the window.

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Feet bleeding from running barefoot, Nevill loses sight of the manor. In every direction is nothing but trees now.

The woods... The natural habitat for bears...

a bear named spigot leaps forward and knocks Nevill down. Its claws dig deep gashes into Nevills chest. Nevill swings his horse dildo at the bear, slapping it right in the face but to no effect. Spigot lunges and barely misses as Nevill stumbles backwards. The bear winds back, and then emits a blast of fire from its mouth, incinerating everything in front of it. The man is barely avoids the fire blast, losing only all of his hair on his head.

A bear named spigot stops for a moment to recharge its solar energy, and the last survivor uses that opportunity to run. For what feels like hours, Nevill runs through the misty woods, hunted down by both a bear and by the vault boy, who had caught up with him.

Ahead, he sees a highway. Hoping to flag down a car, he waves his arms frantically, but nobody stops. The bushes rustle behind him, and he knows he has little time left. Nevill leaps into traffic hoping to stop a car. The last thing he hears is a blaring horn, before he was slammed against the windshield of a freighter truck.

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Nevill opens his eyes.

An unfamiliar ceiling...

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It's a hospital room.

It's over. It's finally over. He made it out. Nevill cries tears of joy, alerting the nurse.

"What's wrong with me, doc? I can't feel my arms?"

The nurse sighs and reads Nevills patient information on a cilpboard.

"You broke several limbs, ribs and your spinal cord. You also have what appears to be a chunk of horse dildo permanently lodged in your skull. Unfortunately, we can't take it out without risking immediate death."

"The doctor will be with you shortly to discuss your situation in more detail."

The nurse leaves and holds the door for two doctors.

Disguised in scrubs and a surgical mask, Duraframe and a bear named spigot walk in.

"Hello Nevill. Are you ready for your operation?"

Duraframe puts on his surgical gloves as a bear named spigot holds a scalpel in its paw.

"This won't hurt a bit..."


------------------------THE END--------------------
 

Nevill

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Oh. So I was wrong, huh?

Good job, a bear named spigot, well done! I did exclude you from the suspect lists altogather. :salute:

The justice is served. All the lurkers are dead. I can die in peace.
 
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rip my former housebuddies, it was a good ride with lots of ups and downs, and I feel like we all became a lot closer in those moments before you were killed.
 
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here's some behind the scenes info: we didn't do much planning or scheming, first night we didn't even tell each other who we were killing (tigranes was duraframe's, hoax was mine). second night duraframe wanted to kill a lurker in either grim or cjm (I recommended grim) while I wanted to kill a more active poster, either taxalot or nevill (he recommended taxalot), nor was there talk about what/how to post itt. after nevill's reveal and grim surviving we thought we were fucked, and I thought I was definitely going down. seems like the lurkers hurt the other team, the previous day when it was either Jim or me he didn't even vote for me, let alone try to convince others to do so. and then on the final day cjm didn't even show up to defend himself. not to mention excomm going down the very first day.
 

Nevill

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I think the game works better in its original form - if you make a mafia team bigger and increase the number of killers, but let them act only once at night.

It would be slower, though.
 

Mr. Pink

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PC RPG Website of the Year, 2015 Codex 2016 - The Age of Grimoire Steve gets a Kidney but I don't even get a tag.
Are you guys going for another round? Because if you are, I would like to play too.

Anyone is free to pick up the game master position. I have work so I won't have the time to commit for another round until atleast christmas.

Congratulations to spigot and duraframe for their top notch acting.
 

Tigranes

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If someone else picks it up, count me in, because fuckers I LIVED FOR 24 HOURS.
 

Doktor Best

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I'd also join if youre in for another round.
 

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