i read that, you fool
it's just that that's the first time arsy mentioned the mayor voting for nolio

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The citizens gathered at the City Square to see the results of the lynching. Rumours had travelled fast about the events of the previous night when someone had been viciously attacked beside the City Docks.

The people wanted answers. The people demanded answers.

And so a public lynching vote was called to decide who it was who perpetrated the incident. Much of the day was spent deliberating who they would vote for, but it seemed as if more and more votes were piling onto Arnor's lap. After only a few hours, Arnor had the majority of the votes from the citizens of Earth 2.0.

The game moderator, who stood in the centre of the square, looked in Arnor's direction and then took a control panel out of his pocket and keyed a nine digit number. Arnor, who appeared nervous, immediately froze as if bound by invisible ropes. The people who were standing around him edged backwards slightly so that there was a clear path between him and the centre of the square. The moderator pushed another button and Arnor began to move towards him under no will of his own, like some sort of magnetic field had been activated and was now pulling him.

The crowd looked on expectantly, eagre to see what the outcome would be. But it was over within a flash. The game moderator had taken a gun-like machine and aimed it straight at Arnor's forehead before pulling the trigger. A flash of white light escaped from the end of the machine and punctured the space between his eyebrows. Life was immediately wiped from Arnor's body as if his battery had expired. His eyes slowly closed and his rigid body fell to the ground in a heap. The game moderator reached down towards the nape of neck and removed the piece of skin to reveal a control panel. After further inspection, he removed the control card from its insertion slit, dropped it on ground and crushed it with his foot.

"Humans and humanoids, Arnor was an ordinary humanoid. We have made a mistake. However, get home now as light is getting dim. We shall try again tomorrow."

Murmurs of shock ran throughout the crowd as they looked at the lifeless body of Arnor and realised that they were probably just as bad as the people they were out to catch...

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A few new things to clarify:

- I realise lynching was over very quickly today and it seemed a lot like jumping on the bandwagon by everyone... as a result, it will change a little for the next day phase. I'll post more details tomorrow.
- The mayor vote is a secret and sent to me during any point of the day phase. I will do my best to post the vote as soon as I see it.

We're now entering our second **** NIGHT **** phase!

The following characters have until 18:00 London time (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/) on Thursday to send their decisions to Random01 in #1458:
Mad Scientist (and the hacked humanoids)
Medic
Serial Killer
Police Officers

Good luck people.

be careful of bandwagons, they make you look so guilty

I say kill off irc inactives so those who want to play can play! stop killing ppl on past roles.

Due to RL issues, Gibsons Finest will not longer be part of this game.
Genesis will now take on his role.

in my case i wasn't in chat, i went with what other people went with....upon getting home and reading what nolio's grand theories were i have decided that they were baseless heresay at best...

"well this doesnt plea for nolio. However i guess he was the only one with some form of theory so people followed that."

I had theories, people just didn't listen to them X(

how is it that, everytime, Arnor dies first?

I actually had a message from Gibsons Finest this morning saying that he is too busy with RL to play, so decided to replace him immediately rather than wait for the inactivity rule to kick in...

1 hour til sunrise!

lol nolio really loves dying early eh

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"To all customers, the store will be closing at 10 o'clock tonight. The checkouts will be closing in approximately 20 minutes!" the tannoy system announced to the near empty supermarket. Beside the fruit counter stood a humanoid loading bananas from a crate to the shelves above. His shift would end as soon as the store closed and he was looking forward to getting home and shutting down. But life wasn't going to be so easy. As soon as he placed the last bunch of bananas in their place, his vision immediately blacked out. Puzzled, he closed his eyes and reopened them when suddenly everything turned red and an image of the mad scientist appeared before his eyes.

As the hacked humanoid received his instructions, the city mayor packed up his shopping and headed out towards the deserted car park. He looked around shiftly before opening up the boot of his car and dropped the bags he was carrying into the storage area. The mayor then climbed into the vehicle and drove off, unaware of the ShopKing van which was following him.

A few minutes later and the mayor had arrived at his destination. He took a look at his watch and realised that he was very early. But better be earlier than too late. He reached into the glove compartment, took out a brown bag and quietly got out of his car. The mayor had parked towards the back end of a house but it wasn't his house. He kept to the shadows of the overhanging trees as he made his way towards the front of the house. Luckily no one was around which made him able to find a good hiding spot. Whilst hidden in some tall bushes close to the front door of the house, he gripped his chest as he felt a sharp twinge of pain where he was hit by a sonic boom the previous night. He ignored it and opened the brown bag he brought with him and took out the electric strike device he used to injure the humanoid besides the city docks. Tonight, he was adamant he was going to succeed and finish the job he had started.

However, he was wrong. At that moment, the mayor felt another twinge of pain and gripped his chest again, but was shocked to find a sharp metal pole pertruding from his body. He coughly violently and a pool of blood spurted out of his mouth. He staggered backwards and the pole was pulled out again, but didn't have any time to recover before it was plunged back through his body, this time through his lower back. It connected with his spine like a knife cutting through butter and his whole upper body sagged forwards. The hacked humanoid behind him knew that his job was done. But the mad scientist wanted proof.

The humanoid released the pole, bent down and grabbed the gold chain from around the mayor's neck. He looked at the golden pendant and smiled as he read out the inscription: "This chain is awarded to the 4th mayor of Earth 2.0 - You_Fool."

Meanwhile, at a different location across the city, a man grinned as he looked at his handiwork. It had been 5 years since he had returned with the infrantry troop from the Battle of Mars and he was as good at making bombs as ever. He pushed a button and relished at the sound which came...

"Tick... tick... tick..."

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A new mayor will be elected shortly!

But now we are back into the **** DAY **** phase!

As before, we will have a majority votes required. However, there will now be a minimum time period.

- The lynching will only stand if the majority number of votes has been reached by the minimum time period.
- If the majority is reached before the minimum time, people are still able to vote/change votes up until the minimum time period.
- If the majority hasn't been reached by the minimum time period, then people will still be able to vote/change votes until the majority figure has been reached... then voting will stop.

Majority - 12

Minimum time period - 09:00 London time on Friday.

Genesis