Madagascar

This little piggy went to market This little piggy stayed home This little piggy had roast beef And this little piggy had none And this little pig went Whee, whee, whee! And sprang across the town and did karate with her teensy weensy hooves Because this pig was a feminist and did not subscribe to patriarchal notions of porcine gender roles that restricted her to the home, market, and dinner plate of the oppressor. I noticed Steel's phrasing of the possibility of an insane convert as "tenuous" seems suspicious to me. I might be reading too much into it, but I don't agree that the possibility of a converted inmate is tenuous at all. We know there was a conversion. We weren't told the details, but the possibility of a converted inmate is something that should definitely be considered. So dismissing the possibility seems to be minimizing, distracting. I think if he is a converted escaped inmate, he would want us to forget about the conversion until it was too late. So I guess since Steel’s going to keep insisting on leading my pigs off to market without giving any reason why, I suppose I'll unleash them and let them have their way with him so that his carcass can be forensically examined for signs of neurological impairment.

So when people vote for you, they owe you a logical explanation, but when they vote for Mad Mapadonet and her pigs, nothing more than a vague comment that I'm "suspicious" and "no reason" is required, apparently. I see where I stand in this city's pecking order, as envisioned by Steel. So as far as the pigs see it, Nabbers and Devotary have both claimed to be scholars and so far their voting records contain people who were not insane. They've both made some noise about suspecting each other, though haven't voted for each other yet. Nabbers was scanned by Eternum, so seems likely to be a confirmed scholar, while Devotary is not. Steel's response to the suggestion he might have been converted seems kinda touchy. I actually think it's a fair point that obviously someone was converted, and that Steel could have been a good one, even if I do not know whether or not I should trust Nabbers himself. Sorry I haven't posted much today, I have been kind of busy and exhausted so I've been mostly averaging one post a day.

And that's about all Mapadonet's got to say right now. Right now she's gotta chase a lot of pigs. They heard a rumor that there were free eggs lyin' around downtown Kharbranth and they're kinda out of control. Need to catch them before they get hurt. Poor things didn't realize it was fool's day, because no one ever gives me and mah piggies free anything, really It's just a trick of the shopkeepers to lure them in and try to turn them into chouta. So, uh, yeah, this is important, obviously, but I kind of have priorities. And did we ever hear what Jondesu's role was called again?

I also suppose someone could be a Scholar and still be evil. I seem to recall Chaos an' Kynedath havin' the same role but bein' on different sides. I could look it up, but I'd rather play in the mud with my pigs for the rest of the day. For, errrrrr, science, of course.

*Mapadonet rises from a hail of pigs* Plenty of people know what mah piggy wiggy's role is. I'm a brilliant scientist. I told Stink a few days ago, and Eternum told everyone else. I can't fault you fer voting fer me to survive, but at least get yer facts straight.

As Kharbranth's first and foremost porcine psychiatrist*, I'm here to keep prisoners locked up. Sometimes I gotta *crack knuckles* fight them. I'm immune to conversions. I don't think it's bad to tell that since there already was a conversion, and there haven't been any more, so I doubt anyone is going to try to convert me in the future. There's a little more, but I think me actually spelling out anything more would probably be a bad idea for our side, especially since the protector died on the first night. Interpret that as you will. I'll retract Coop for now. I still don't really trust anyone, including him, but he's answered my questions. I don't really have a solid reason to condemn him. I don't have a solid reason to condemn anybody. Furthermore, me and mah pigs are likely going to be preoccupied sorting through all this cool trash we found yesterday, and sadly probably will not have time to pay super close attention to all the cool analysis you folks are promising at the last minute. *Mapadonet is Kharbranth's only porcine psychiatrist.

Bah! I did keep telling you all I was an esteemed and highly accoladed academic. No one believed me. BUT NOW WHO'S LAUGHING??? So it appears that the argument for voting Nabbers was that he was not a Scholar, but then it turned out he is a Scholar, so ... are we still voting for him? I don't have any particular reason to be sure Nabbers ain't one of them escaped crazies that I'm trying to round up (round up meaning "kill," of course, look, medical science at this point can only do so much), but if it's based on him not being a scholar, him still being a scholar seems to disrupt that line of logic. But whatever. *pulls out a pig and squints at the notes daubed in mud on its side* So yesterday Coop voted fer Jondesu. He was then voted for by Eternum. Coop then claimed, quote, "I already have the hiccuping disease" and said he was going to ask Elenion about it. This claim influenced my decision to not vote for him, as I did not think a bad guy would be so incautious as to willingly infect himself with an unknown pathogen. Speculation about the long term effects of the hiccuping disease ensued. I asked Coop about his question. Coop later said "I am not infected," the opposite of what he said at first. Devotary voted for Ecthellion and mentioned Coop having volunteered "to be a guinea pig." However, Coop retracted his vote for Jondesu at the last minute, ensuring he did not get hiccups. I have no idea what happened here. *oinks* But a good politician wouldn't necessarily know who was good or not, though, would they? There's another scenario you left out, which is a good politician blocking a good person. Assuming someone is evil just because a possibly good person did something to them is a strange justification. I like chouta. Coop, if you don't have the hiccuping disease, why did you tell everypiggy you did? Gonna need some data on your thought processes here. *scribble scribble*

Mapadonet had a bunch of stuff to say, but she is not staying up until 3:00 AM to talk to you people! The pigs need their beauty rest, by storm! *disappears into a pile of straw and pigs, a single hand waving goodbye* FAREWELL!

I thought Coop said he "already had" the hiccuping disease last round after he voted fer the jon dude? *OINK OINK OINK OINK OINK*

@Coop772 Did you get any answers about the hiccuping disease? Well, I'll vote Ecthelion, who could possibly be evil or whatver but certainly lacks civic pride. I'm not sure about Jondesu or Cooper, at least not enough to infect meself and me piggy wiggies with hiccups yet, so like Nabbers I'd rather eat chouta made out of someone who isn't bein' helpful than someone who's bein' cool if I don't have a better idea.

Oh my word, somehow in her ol' Mapadonet skimmed over Nabbers' ... solution for the labor issues with the pig workers. That was ice cold, Nabbers. Ice cold. But ... then again *chomp chomp* I can't really argue with the results, which are excellent, if high in cholesterol. So don't kill Nabbers. So in my extensive search the pigs have also not found any giant red beeping alarm buttons. I found a great deal of discussion about hiccups, of all things. I have warned the (surviving) pigs to stay away from Jondesu. Their health is delicate and they are susceptible to any number of infections. Who knows what hiccups would do to their fragile little bodies, what further symptoms could develop! Having mentioned my fiery hatred of lurkers, I agree that killing Ecth makes a certain amount of sense. It's really annoying. Mostly I don't like lurkin' because it's not fun. And it's not like he hasn't had fair warnin' that the pigs like chomping on people who get drunk and fall asleep. It concerns me a bit that we don't know what the long-term effects of these hiccups are and am curious by Coop's decision to deliberately infect himself, which seems a little rash. I guess their vote fer the hiccup person could be construed as a defense o' Ecth in a way if you put on your paranoid hat, but we don't know what Ecth be either so that don't go nowhere ... *squints at the noonday sky* Well, I was thinkin' to vote fer Ecth but I'll see how this plays out a bit instead. Can eat lunch first. Takes a while to pick out all the bits of curly tail ... Ice cold.

Evidently, it makes you hiccup. Gonna need a sample of Jondesu's bile, blood, and sputum before making an official forensic analysis, though. That or have one of the sharper pigs smell him all over for olfactory results.

@Elenion are Orlok, Stick, and Aman still in the game (by which of course I mean the game of life) or does "left Kharbranth" mean they've ditched us for good to go live the good life in the highrises and abandon all their old friends from the hood? The pigs have noticed the last non-pig person (some people just say "person" but I find that super anthropocentric) person that the crazy guy Kynedath voted for was Steeldancer. Maybe that means Steeldancer isn't crazy? It could be a feint, or maybe Steel changed his alignment, I guess, but it's a data point worth noting. I spent more time wading in mud than keeping up with arguments, so maybe that's what everyone thinks already. Speaking of ... Nabbers, the pigs are threatening to go on strike.While your stance on hiring the non-human is admirable, they have become spoiled and demand more. They want a pay raise and a 10 minute mud wallow break for lunch.

*scratches pig's head* I'm sorry, is it written somewhere that I should not have voted for Chaos, Stick? Was that a great cosmic rule, without which the very nature of the universe will fall apart? I appreciate the last minute attempt to kill me all the same, though. It makes me feel loved. Busy, shall not vote today.

A mysterious fat, squat figure waddles up to the sign and hands in an application written in mud on a slip of parchment. "What's your name?" "Oink." "Do you have any experience working with chouta?" "Oink oink." "Where do you see yourself in five years?" "Oink." "Are you two pigs tied together and covered in a blanket and sent out to make Mapadonet money so she doesn't have to work anymore?" Blast! Thwarted again. Money. Time. Mapadonet has enough of neither. Does anyone have a vote count?

Not this one! NOT THIS ONE ANYTHING BUT THAT

I'm a Ph.D in Porkology, but even I don't really know what those acronyms are. I assume those are some kind of chemical compounds, which when mixed with maple syrup, lightly glazed, charbroiled, and ingested will result in truly delicious flavor compounds. Just to be clear, my vote for Chaos was not purely out of gutless self preservation. I was resigned to the possibility of being lynched. I consider my life to be that of a pig's-- fragile, small in the scheme of things, easily shattered by axes and hungry Texans. If me and my miserable pigs was all I cared for, it would have made far more sense for me to vote Drought, who I think had more votes and would have lifted me more cleanly out of danger rather than keeping myself as one of the candidates on the chopping block. I voted for Chaos because she was lurking, and I dislike lurkers and the way they're always drooling in their sleep, and someone had suggested it, and I thought it would be appropriately chaotic to have a three-way tie featuring someone named Chaos. Now that Chaos has arrived, my special dislike for her has dissipated and been replaced with the normal, regular-intensity dislike I hold for all non-pig persons in the universe. *looks at people arguing over whether or not to believe neutral claims* I think my position is clear so just gonna nope out of that particular discussion. Had enough of that already. Also I don't know if anyone has asked God what happens in a tie yet. I had the impression one of the tied victims died anyway, but looking over the rules it ain't spelled out. As a totally legitimate scientist, I can't say I care for asking God for favors, but @Elenion can you tell the pigs what happens in a tie.

Quote from Drake Marshall: "But that's not really my agenda. I've deliberated and I see no reason not to reveal I'm a neutral." Mapadonet rises from the pile of trash and pigs where she was resting, checks that all limbs are present. "I stand by my argument that the logic that evil people are unlikely to risk lying and say they are neutral or villager is shaky at best." Back to sleep.

@Drake Marshall I just want to make clear that what I said in PMs was meant to be out of character. While it's true that I find this forum overwhelming, it's possible I should have just left my whining for the dead doc. I definitely wouldn't want to guilt anyone into not voting for me, if they want to, based on the PM. It's just a game, after all. Oink.

You can always just do what I do and insert pigs into everything, regardless of whether or not it makes sense. I can't help it. They're wriggly little creatures, and the mud makes them slippery and hard to restrain.

I'm going to be perfectly honest. Part of me is thinking the sooner I die, the sooner I can be with my flying pigs who went to Pig Heaven (the existence of which I received the first of my three totally existent Nobel Prizes for), and can be blessedly free of all this ill-natured bickering. I'm getting old, and it ain't as fun as it used ter be. That's why I haven't voted for Drought, even though doing so would probably save me. But, then again, I also dislike people who refuse to talk with the power of a thousand suns, because it ain't no way to play the game (by which I mean the totally serious battle for life and death we are in), so I vote we see what happens when we throw the spirit of Chaos herself into a black hole brimming with cosmic energy. This doesn't really save me, just throws the votes into chaos... which is fitting for this kind of day, really. (Imagine the data we can collect from this experiment, Professor Snout!)

(I'd also be pretty cross, to be honest.) (Yeah, who would feed us? No one else cares about us pigs.) (Wait ... wait, guys. I have an idea. We could eat her corpse.) (Hooray for science!)

This. Hey guys, I'm back! I've been busy with a game ... a game called ... Life. One that is, shockingly, even more serious than the one going on here. And what do I see? Fingers pointing at sweet little Mapadonet? I don't know who this Madagascar person is you keep referring to, but from all the accusations and the weird ominous feeling, I think that's ... me? Gosh, I better get talking! So the pigs shall apologize if they do not satisfy everyone's concerns enough, because, well, I'm pretty lazy. I mostly just thought Eternum was using poor logic, and hadn't actually voted based on that. Anyway, I agreed at the time that that weren't overwhelmingly evil and anti-piglike, if confusing. I didn't vote for him then, did I? Orlok, it seems we simply don't agree on what constitutes careful or what eliminators would do. I've seen things you wouldn't believe. Attack pigs on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched Pig-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. All of those moments will be lost in time, or when I forget them, which will probably be tomorrow. Where I come from, evil people can be cautious. They can also be insane as hell. How things are here, I may not know, but I was trying to add my own thoughts rather than rehashing other people's. My thoughts may not chime with everyone else's all the time, but they're mine, and I'm fond of them. If you must know, I wondered if Eternum was an eliminator who panicked and forgot to retract while defending himself, but who knows, right? I addressed Aman's timing because it seemed to me like he was twisting Eternum's word to vote for him. I voted for Eternum because he seemed to be backpedaling and to add more pressure. After all, with two votes, someone can just tie, but with three they really have to start oinking. And he's responded so ... Eternum, I still think your logic was weird and that it's silly to think someone's not evil just because they say so, but hey, being silly doesn't always mean evil. That's one of the first rules the pigs taught me. Mapadonet is busy for the time being. Professor Snout shall take over questions from the audience (but possibly not really, because, again, life).

I'm kind of in a rush, but for now I'll vote Eternum. The pigs *hiccup* still don't understand this: All Legend said was that he "didn't have an eliminator condition," which I think is reasonable for everyone here to say, truthfully or not. But I am not sure what you're saying: first you say he could easily be lying, then you ask why he would lie and imply he wouldn't bother? But wouldn't eliminators obviously lie, because we're trying to kill them for delicious chouta? Furthermore, didn't he already claim villager (or non-baddy person)? It sort of feels like you're trying to backpedal more than clarify here. This is mostly a hunch, but I've *hiccup* voted on less before. I may just be acting rashly out of confusion, but, well, the pigs are confused ... when they get confused they get bitey ... I don't want them to turn on me...

Yeah, sure, keep the pig. It's definitely not trained to monitor your actions, movements, and biodata constantly and relay data back to me for analysis. Careful what you feed it though ... it's a real farter. I just noticed the drake guy showed up, so suppose I should retract in order to avoid becoming an inept unintentional hypocrite myself as poking him is unnecessary at this point. Fun, yes, but unnecessary. Did I miss something? Since when are we taking people's word for things like that? I feel like this isn't the first time someone's said something like this. Also, er, you're still voting for someone you're saying isn't an elim. Ol' Mapadonet's sorry if she's bein' thick, but she don't understand. *people type while Mapadonet is typing* Oh. Never mind then. I have a very important presentation on pig science tomorrow so ... I must go. *disappears gracefully into the mist* Farewell. *sounds of tripping and a loud splat sound* Storm it.