Madagascar

Plush you're obvioushly not the shpiked Rioter from the firsht day. Nyali or Wonko may be though. An if you're a thug, I expect that clearsh you of bein' the shpiked lurcher too. I would alsho rather you not be lynched. I'll be really intereshted to shee if any of the people votin' fer Rae come back to defend their votesh or not. *Matilda cracks open a new bottle and inspects it with one bulging eyeball* Oooh, there'sh a bug on the bottom of thish one! That meansh it'sh eckshtra good, right? Have a bug, kittiesh!

Indeed. Plush Nick actually bein' a shpiked would mean she had advocated eliminating her own Mishtborn and encouraged othersh to do sho on the firsht day. Methinksh shume people are jusht lookin' fer excushesh to keep Nyali around. Unfortunately, those people sheem to be the majority.

If you think that'sh enough, you're clearly undereshtimating jusht how many catsh there are. *once again, everyone can't help but notice there are no cats*

Pffft, why do I even bother doin' all that research about how Rae probably ain't a shpiked in firsht plashe. No one even mentionsh it, jusht jumpsh on to the firsht talkin point. No one lishensh to Matilda. I find it all the people throwin' catsh at Rae very intereshting, especially as few have given much explanation beshidesh the one that'sh been heavily cri-shized already. No one'sh shpeshifically shaid they're defendin' Nyali but an old woman hash to wonder... Anyway, if'n Nyali really ish a shpiked, Rae'll probably die either from the votesh or the rioter. But we'll shee. *crunches pastry* Oooh thish ish lovely, Hemalurgic! Can you make more pashtriesh for my catsh? I eshpeshially likesh the pashtry cone what'sh shoe rich an buttery you can pour like 3 bottles o' whishkey in it an not a drop shpillsh out!

Nyali- Madagaschar, Arinian, Jondesu, Elenion (4) Rae- Nyali, Doc12, Silverblade (3) Manukos- Headshot (1) Wonko- Arrenae (1) Madagashcar- Gamma (1) Headshot- Manukos (1) Ish thish *hiccup* right? Jusht that there ish at leasht one shpiked rioter out there apparently.

I *hiccup* reeeeally want to change me vote to Wonko too right nowsh, the catsh have been telling me he wash evil too an' it turned out to be a mishtake it wouldn't be as much a lossh ash if we lynched Nyali an' it turned out to be a mishtake. But there'sh sho many votin' fer Rae now I dunno if'n that could turn around. Anyway *hic* Grumblesh, day one lynchesh aren't my shtyle but I'd voted fer Dalinar when it looked like he an Wonko were goin' to lynch Hemalurgic. Took it off when he PMed me ashkin' me to an' it didn't sheem neshesshary. How about any of the people trying to get ush to not lynch him but like more shubtly, an who weren't the onesh to firsht get him almosht killed the firsht day?

The over-the-top nature of your argu*hic*ment kind of made me think that shomethin' like that wash up, shinshe I figured a real shpiked would be more likely to cut'n'run than shtick around makin' a sheen. At leasht that'sh what they ushually did in theshe booksh I made the catsh read. I dishtrusht Nyali and Wonko the mosht for now, an' hope that Lopen having mentioned shume of the shame feelingsh before dying meansh he wash on to shomethin'. Alsho have I mentioned I have lotsh of catsh?

Oh, Matilda doesh that all the time! Her bonesh may be rickety but they shtill love to bounshe! It drives her craashy how the people will dangle a shtring in front of her noshe, an it'sh a nishe shtring an Matilda wantsh it shoooooo badly, an when Matilda jumpsh for it BOOM! They pull the shtring away! An' it leavesh me without any shtring! IT'S SHO UNFAIR! I'M AN OLD LADY! WHY CAN'T PEOPLE JUSHT LET ME HAVE THE SHT RING?!?! *Matilda starts breathing faster and faster* ... I... I may have drunk too much moonshine an' now think I'm a cat guysh.

To be *hic* fair, it could have been both.

I mean, I'm not *hiccup* shtupid, I know shpiked can vote for each other. But my inshtinctsh make me feel it'sh likely to be you all the shame. Me catsh have jusht had a nagging feeling about you for a while I guessh. Maybe it'sh the human allergiesh.

*shrug* I call it like I shee it. If it'sh a trick it wash a good one and she'll get Mosht Awful Shpiked Ever award for both getting her Mishtborn killed and then failing sho hard to "establish her innocence by pointing at her earlier vote" that she got killed right afterwardsh. Dalinar'sh posht made me suspect either you or her wash shpiked, and I think it'sh more likely to be you. In my experienshe the loudesht people like Rae are ushually confushed villagersh that cunning shpiked ushe ash dishtractionsh. Maybe I'm wrong. I only hope me and my catsh live long enough to find out. At any rate, she'sh not the shpiked rioter. She wash voting for Dalinar when the rioter shaved him. You weren't voting for anyone, which makes me alsho wonder if you were the rioter.

For the record, thish ish why I'm not voting for Rae. Rae wash alsho the firsht pershon to direct attention to Dalinar. If Rae was an eliminator she'd be tryin' to hide and blend in, not flippin' out an caushin ' a scene. I think either Rae or Nyali ish probably evil, that it can't be both, an it'sh probably Nyali.

Well, if there'sh one thing I can shay with complete shertainty, it'sh that Rae ish almosht chertainly not a *hiccup* Shpiked. She wash the very first pershon to vote for Dalinar this firsht day and never changed it, even digging her heelsh in. If not for Rae, we might never have found Dalinar at all. If you wantsh proof I got bored of building shtocksh sho I got jusht SHUPER drunk an' did a shurvey of the day'sh votesh on the firsht day (shorry Rae I had to do it myshelf becaushe I can't make headsh or talesh of your thing). Rae was the vital firsht vote on Dalinar. Interestingly, it wash during the point on the firsht day when your were in the lead where Dalinar came in an' voted fer Conqueshtor with that shpeech I wash analyshing, tying it up, helpin' you out. If Rae ishn't a Shpiked, an' you ain't a shpiked, why would Dalinar do any of that? You shay a shpiked would never defend another shpiked, an' then vote Rae for defendin' a shpiked? One that she had lead the lynch on the firsht day? You're not makin' shenshe to me. I think you keep talkin' about the last day to keep ush from lookin at the firsht day.

I'm not shuper good at figurin' thingsh out from behavior becaushe of how jusht everyone looksh the shame (evil), sho I jusht triesh to shee what connectionsh I kin cotton onto after lookin at everything really carefully. Or drunkly. Ushually drunkly.

*hiccup* FINE MAKE MATILDA DO ALL THE WORK. Catsh! Analyshe Dalinar'sh poshts fer me! Huh that wash fasht. Man, thoshe catsh are efficient! I should give'em a raise sometime really. Daliinar'sh voted fer four people I can tell, Lopen, Hemalurgic, Conqueshtor, Ecth an himshelf. Lopen an Ecth were clearly innoshentsh, while he wash clearly not. He choshe to *hiccup* vote fer Hemalurgic over Wonko on the firsht day when he had to pick shumeone to try an' tie wif. Wonko jumped right in to kill Hemalurgic. It'sh seemsh to me from thish that if Dalinar an' Wonko end up bein' the shame shide, Hemalurgic ish probsh a very nishe law abiding citizen. I won't be shurprished if Conqueshtor ish ash well. Mayb ehe choshe a fellow shpiked to tie with, but the catsh are willin' to give Hemalurgic the benefit o' the doubt right now. Rae made a posht containin' a grammatically ambiguoush shentenshe at one point, which varioush people ushed ash reashon to vote fer Rae, shtartin' wif Nyali. My feelin' at the time wash that people wash graspin' fer shtrawsh to kill Rae and found'em shushpishioush. Nyali later became the focush of shushpishion, includin' from Lopen . In fact one o' the reashonsh Lopen voted fer Dalinar wash due to hish feelin' Dalinar wash coverin' for Nyali. He defended both Nyali an' Rae, but Rae wash callin' fer Dalinar'sh death later, which doeshn't sheem like shomethin' what the shpiked would to do their mishtborn the firsht day. I'm willin' to be inclined to think Rae wash jusht mishguided an beguiled by Dalinar'sh wilesh yeshterday until I get evidenshe otherwishe, caushe I alsho don't think an actual shpiked would have been that incredibly shtupid. So after lookin' at the recordsh o' thoshe accushin' them, I don't share the shushpishionsh of Rae an Hemalurgic. I think it'sh more likely Dalinar wash tryin' to help Nyali out after she got caught tryin' to kill Rae on shaky groundsh, an' jusht ushed Rae ash a cover to look fair an' highminded. Alsho, an no one but Lopen hash lishened to me about thish sho far, I am utterly convinshed Dalinar wash tryin' to keep me from votin' fer Wonko the firsht day in PMsh. Nothin' but Wonko'sh dead body ish going to convinshe me otherwishe. Votin' fer Nyali doeshn't mean I've shtopped thinking that. It jusht meansh I'm waiting until I can convinshe enough people to kill him and find out. Both Wonko and Nyali are on the lisht o' nonvotersh which includesh the shpiked rioter, which hashn't changed my nagging uneashe about their continued exishtenshe. I'd rather kill Wonko really. Or hear a word from him. Like a single one. I think at leasht one hash to be evil, if not both. Or elshe I'm shtupid. That ish alsho posshible. Those cats can drone on and on, don't they. They just will not shut up. The voices... the voices in my head.

What? You're all shtill up yammering? Quiet down in there! *Matilda bangs on the ceiling* Shume of ush are tryin' to shleep! *continues complaining about the noise even after everyone quiets down*

Hi! I misshed all the exshitement, I had fallen ashleep in thish pile of catsh. *points to a bunch of whiskey bottles* An' we killed a shpiked mishtborn, cool. It took a couple of daysh, but they alsho washted a bunch o' nightsh tryin' to kill people sho it'sh about even I shaysh. @Herowannabe Me regret wash genuine, but to be fair I feel bad about gettin people killed even when I'm part of the faction what'sh shupposhed to do that (Matilda hash lived in a lot of villagesh in her 80 yearsh). Anyway, twash the Rioter what shaved Dalinar an' my vote ended up bein' shuperfluoush, but your pointsh are fair, though I wash shimply bein' my Chaotic Neutral shelf. I cain't remember mosht of your nameshesh (why can't you have normal namesh like Whishkersh and Mishter Flufflesh?) but I'll jusht shay Wonkersh an' Nyali are shtill the onesh I shushpect the mosht, now that Dalinar'sh dead. I remember Dalinar shpeakin' out in defenshe o' Rae an' Nyali the firsht day back when he probably figured he could do sho wifout shcrutiny. That could make them both look shushpishioush, exshept Nyali wash tryin' to get Rae lynched at the moment, indicating they wash on different shidesh. I guessh my instinct ish that he wash defendin' Nyali an' jusht ushin' Rae ashe a shmokeshcreen to look fair (Rae done later voted fer Dalinar if my notesh are correct) but that'sh why I shushpectsh Nyali more than Rae. Or he could have been shmart enough not to openly defend a fellow shpiked, but who knowsh. Mosht shushpishioushly to me, Dalinar bashically refushed to vote fer Wonkersh when I suggeshted he do sho in private convershashunsh the firsht day (I, er, may have had it out fer Wonkersh for sheveral daysh in a row now), but wash more than willing to try to tie the vote wif HH or Ecth. Sheemsh like undue favoritishm from a shpiked. Alsho it sheemed to me like Wonkersh wash tryin' to shneakily help Dalinar out. Either one could be the rioter. Anyway wif that boring talk over, I'm opening a Free Cat Bar in my hovel. It'sh a plashe where you kin drink alcohol an' pet catsh. I thought we could all ushe a little rela-ACK-ACK-ACK-sayshun (shorry, wash jusht hackin' up shum phlegm) in our livesh! It'sh not ack-ACK-ACK-*hiccup*-shooally free though. You need to pay all the money to go inshide. Whishkey ain't cheap.

Now, lovesh, jusht becaushe we're in a village shurrounded by terrifyin' shpiked bein' forshed to kill each other to shurvive doeshn't mean we can't all take a drink an' enjoy each othersh company all the shame. Have a tipple. Though you know, even if we do manage to kick out all the shpiked don't we shtill have the Kolossh to fight next? We're... we're not going to having a vacation for a while, are we? It'sh true, the dishusshin hash focushed moshtly on Dalinar an' Lopen. I'm shure the shpiked are either very happy or very unhappy about thish. Either way I am paranoid and have told the catsh to be on the lookout for tricksh. However thish turnsh out, shpiked or shetup, the shpiked will have had plenty of time to plot and plan on how to ushe hish death to their advantage and shet up their next movesh. It'sh true we don't know very much. I am eighty yearsh old but even I have learned @Seonid Forgive me if I mishundershtand, but we're here to kill shpiked, aren't we? Learning how many protectorsh there are might be intereshting but it'sh the shpiked I'm the mosht worried about. The way you're phrashing it, I'm not shure if you're shaying to lynch Lopen for bein' shushpishioush to you or to shee if he'sh a village Lurcher. We shtill have shume time before the day endsh an' we have more time to dishcussh thingsh. I volunteer! My name ish Matilda! I'm not lurking! Dishcussh me.

While all the resht of you townshpeople an' shpiked pretendin' ter be townshpeople argue wif each other, I bin doin' shumethin' usheful in thish town fer once. Built more shtocks for thoshe what ash far ash I can tell ain't showed up yet or lasht night. Perhapsh not an egg-shact *hiccup* meashurement o' lurkitude, but Matilda can build only sho many shtocks before her armsh get tired, y'know. Preshumably they found him shushpishioushly noncommittal? Why wouldn't they think he wash at leasht ash shushpishioush ash anyone elshe, after all? The thing wif being an asshasshin ish they may act on their own reashonsh wifout anyone elshe'sh opinion interferin', after all. Blesshin' an' a cursh. They will do their job and we will do oursh. Which in my cashe ish raishin' jusht... all of the catsh.

*shcreechesh incoherently* Hi Reg! How'sh your day goin'? Here. Have a cat.

Oh my, Matilda thinks. Thish ish no environment fer catsh to live in! I gotsh to get them out of here. Here kittiesh, gather around Mama. She'll keep you shafe an' warm in her armsh. Thoshe awful mishtwraithsh won't get you like they got poor Matilda'sh parentsh sho long ago. At leasht I thinksh it wash mishtwraithsh an' not Matilda gettin' real drunk an' accidentally opening a portal to hell while shtudying witchcraft. Uh, not that Matilda'sh a witch or anythin'. We dunno who'sh our friend or not in thish village, but we'll always have each other, kittiesh. An' we'll alsho have alcohol. *hugs a teapot, tries to drink from a cat* I ain't got much in the way o' factsh right now an' not shure what the troof ish, but thoshe what ish open and bold about votin' on their convictionsh gain more credibility wif me and my catsh. I am shinking I will vote fer either one o' theshe people. Dalinar. Much ink hash been shpilt shpeculatin' on Dalinar'sh true nature an' everyone'sh shpent daysh tryin' to kill him. If he doeshn't die we are jusht going to keep obshesshin' about him an' forgetting everything elshe. Shpendin' all our time on a shingle man while the vasht shwathesh of the townshpeople shlip pasht with little comment ish kinda inefficient. But clearly the shpiked have intervened a great deal to keep him alive, an' a few things what he'sh shaid been troubling me with their accurashy, shpeshifically the bit about the "two vote shwing" in PMs (predicting a rioter's intervention, ash opposhed to a soother) an' predictin' an evil lurtscher. Thinkin' about thish mishtborn thing, I kinda think it might shupport the "we randomly hit a bad guy out of randomnessh an' luck" theory. Like, if there'sh jusht one mishtborn on each shide (I don't know, maybe there'sh more, maybe everyone ish mishtborn but anyway for the purposhesh of thish the catsh will asshume there'sh one mishtborn on each shide). Like shupposhe there'sh 7 bad guysh an' 25 good guysh. If we randomly picked a good guy to throw catsh at, the chancesh of hittin' the Village mishtborn would be 1/25, or 4%. But if we randomly hit a bad guy wif catsh, the chancesh of hitting the Shpiked mishtborn would be about 1/7, or 14%. Shtill a freak coinshidenshe but higher. There'sh alsho the posshibility we're incredibly unlucky an' are pershecutin' our Mishtborn for no reashon. Life ishn't alwaysh fair. The other pershon I think of votin' fer ish Wonkorganization, an' I shall let the catsh exshplain. (Orange longhair) He'sh been one o' them onesh what could be the rioter what caushed all that trouble. (Gray Tabby) He voted fer Hemalurgic pushin' him in front o' Dalinar for a bit, which if Dalinar ish evil coulda bin an attempt to shave'im by non-rioter meansh. Mrow. (Black Cat with Hypnotizing Green Eyesh): When people shtarted votin' Dalinar to keep'em from pickin' on the new guy, he an' Dalinar both backed off, which shuccesshfully got shume people to retract Dalinar. It might alsho mean Wonko wash backin' off becaush he realized tryin' to lynch Hemalurgic wash too rishky an' he needed to riot to push it to Ecth inshtead. (Abyssinian Cat) He'sh too quiet an' ash catsh we like eatin' people what don't shtruggle. Obvioushly that alsho hingesh on Dalinar bein' a shpiked. The catsh are votin' in pink for Dalinar an' I'sh votin' in red fer Wonkersh fer now, caush I wanted to lay out my thoughts on Wonkersh an' to avoid accusashunsh of bandwagonin', but I'll probably end up votin' fer Dalinar, barrin' me gettin' bored an' votin' fer shomeone elsh entirely or shomeone pointin' out shomethin' I forgot which invalidatesh my point. Sho, 90% chanshe. Alsho, doesh anyone know what short of alcohol catsh like the besht? You'd think I'd know, being a mad drunk cat lady, but you shee I've alwaysh ended up drinking all the alcohol myshelf. Very shelfish, I know But the catsh desherve a tipple or two.

We live in a village, Arrenae. A shmall clushtered rural community what ish larger than a hamlet but shmaller than a town. Grumbles, if Matilda don't chaotically shtir the pot, the sheer boredom would kill her before the Koloss, heart failure an' cat allergiesh did. I thinksh Hero an' Lopen are probsh okay, an' even Rae, though I ain't got no proof. Wonkersh and Nyali though I don't trusht much. If'n Dalinar'sh evil I thinksh Headshot'sh probsh a good guy too. But who knowsh? Everythin' I got ish bashed on paranoia. Alsho I cain't remember any of you'sh namesh, like jush any at all. Anyhoo, thish village jusht keepsh gettin' worsh an ' worsh, plush I thinksh I shaw a Koloss try to shteal one o' me catsh the other night. I'm going to keep drinkin' and thinkin'. But moshtly drinkin'. In other newsh, I've found a way to harnessh the catsh' movementsh to power a dishtillery! Shoon the moonshine will run purer and cleaner than a mountain shpring, if mountain shpringsh were made of alcohol and filled with cat hair.

It'sh not jusht me voting, it'sh the catsh. I haff a queshtin fur all you eddicated youngshtersh out there. When Dalinar wash ashkin' me ter help him out the other day he shaid shomethin' like "a vote manipulation ish a two vote shwing sho you votin' wouldn't affect whether or not she diesh". Doesh thish sheem shushpicioush or not? I wash jusht thinking there ish two vote manipulashun typesh, a rioter like what happened yeshterday which doesh count ash a two vote shwing I thinksh, but alsho a shoother. If'n someone wash paranoid like they, they might think that wash a shign Dalinar knew a rioter might intervene, not a shoother, but I'm ashking caush I'm really not shure if it ish shushpishus or if I'm overanalyshing a random comment becaush I'm drunk. From thish being a village an' all the people shaying it wash hish "Day Wun firsht game."

Got nuffin' particular againsht Sheonid exshept hish shilenshe an' tryin' ter kill the new guy hish firsht day. Unless there'sh shomething I forgot which ish probably. Mishter Hoid, the catsh accushe you of shtaying shilent in order to deflect shushpishun from your shecret shpikinessh, until the moment you show up at which point you'll be accushed of only showin' up purely for the purposhesh o' deflectin' shushpishun from you shilent shecret shpikinessh. I hear shumeone shaw you polishin' shpikesh in the garden lasht night... AN' you shaid catsh wash "shmelly". We can't have that. Everyone wash too bushy bickerin' over Dalinar to remember the Contri-byoo-shin Crushade. Figuresh they left it to an ol' lady. Lazy jerksh. Matilda would show'em though. She would show them all...

You're sho lucky, Dalinar! You might getsh people tryin' to kill you three daysh in a row. Mebbe four! No one ever done paid pooor Matilda sho mutsch attention. At leasht after I got old an' unattractive. Exshept the catsh! The catsh are alwaysh here fer me. The catsh... *Matilda sits alone on the porch, muttering to herself* We're either ridiculoushly lucky or ridiculoushly unlucky wif Dalinar. What doesh rollin' copper mean again?