[Mafia] The Aurora Project - [END]

[Despair's Archon of Memes]

Then why are you so willing to throw away morality for a project like this? WHAT'S THE POINT OF THIS? WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH?

[Caret]

"Exactly. You said that this project would become the "ultimate telecommunications hub," yet you didn't specify how. Innocent people are dying here, Heeko. You probably knew in advance that there would be murderers out for our blood, yet you invited us to work for your project without warning us in advance. Instead of actually trying to confront the traitors yourself, you're making us play a killing game on your behalf because... why? We're trying our best to find the traitors but we currently don't have a lot of evidence to go off from, and yet, you still expect us to execute a person every single day. Do you want your workers to be executed because of a single mistake? Is all of this worth it just to build yet another cell tower?"

[Cassie]

...he remains sternly silent, not answering.

[MadameButterflyKnife]

Answer us, asshole! Before we throw you off this fucking mountain!

[Despair's Archon of Memes]

...

/Vote Heeko

[KungFuCutbug]

"Q—" [Sherry notices Reisen voting for the host and pauses.] "...Espere. Of course... he insist that we vote for someone and condemn 'em to die. Never said we couldn't do that to him! You're a genius, Reisen!"

/vote Heeko

[Magolor]

"Back off."

Here comes the Pianist to save the day.

"I'm not about to tell my friend the person I was working with died because of some mutiny bulls—t. As much as I want to punch this guy in the face for this plan of his." The Pianist ends up standing between the group and Heeko.

In other words, perhaps it's no longer time to search up and down for the minor not-so-helpful clue, and instead talk social deduction.

[KungFuCutbug]

"Oh yeah? Well, too fucking bad, gatita—that's why the traitors are even here! To get everyone killed in 'mutiny bullshit' like you said, and I'm damn near certain that includes you and the boss as well! Clearly you know who they are—clearly he knows who they are, too, and instead of taking them out he's lazing around on his ass and letting them pick us off one by one while we throw around baseless accusations made from literal shreds of evidence and make their jobs easier for them! Do you think such an idiot like that's worth working for? Let alone dying for?!"

[Magolor]

The Pianist laughs, shortly.
"Hmph, like I'd die here."

A pause.

"Now, I'd help out with the whole "find the traitors" thing, but I'm not good at reading their actions. I'm just here, to help build that communications tower, and stop something like this from happening. Besides, who knows what would happen if Heeko dies? Those traitor guys from outside could just come frolicking in, without a care in the world." She squints. "What's to say they even keep you guys around?"

[Caret]

It looks like Bow jotted down something on a piece of paper while the others were attempting to vote off Heeko. She trots up to the others and holds up the paper for everyone to see. It's barely legible as expected from a creature without thumbs; bad handwriting aside, written on the paper is a tally of every vote cast so far.

"I don't know exactly how useful this information is, but maybe this can help us use social deduction to find the traitors and whatnot."

Voting Records

Day 2 (6/11 needed to execute)
June (8/11) (Cracker; self-confessed before the first vote was cast)

• Sherry
  
• Reisen
  
• Ruby (Yeti)
  
• KMIY (Defector)
  
• Nintendo
  
• Bow [HAMMER]
  
• Voi
  
• Holly (Hacker)
  

Day 3 (5/9 needed to execute)
Ruby (7/9) (Yeti; choose Russell (Hacker) to die in her place)

• Sherry
  
• Reisen
  
• Voi
  
• Holly (Hacker)
  
• Bow [HAMMER]
  
• Nintendo
  
• Ruby (Yeti)
  

Day 4 (4/6 needed to execute)
Heeko (2/6) (host)

• Reisen
  
• Sherry
  

"Does anyone find it strange that Sherry and Reisen are always the first people to vote? Maybe it's just a coincidence, but still..."

[wingedcatgirl]

"Hmm. Keep in mind, June confessing kinda makes her whole vote situation weird. Cause, like, normally traitors would get caught up in a loop of how-to-act-like-town cause they're worried people will figure out they know their teammates, but after a confession, voting will be literally the only option available - unless they wanted to claim she was actually the Yeti, I suppose. Not sure how that would go. Hmmm..."

[MadameButterflyKnife]

Whoever these fucking traitors are, they probably wouldn't want to give themselves away that fucking easily. Might be a coincidence, but at the same time, we might wanna focus a bit on the shitheads at the end of the train. Hoping on so they don't seem suspicious.

[wingedcatgirl]

Dubhe nods. "We've got a few votes that came in after a hammer - if someone did that, they'd know it wouldn't make a real difference. It looks like those were... Holly and Ruby, who we already know their deal, and... Voi and Nintendo.

"Huh. Didn't Sherry say Nintendo seemed off?"

[MadameButterflyKnife]

I never trusted a fucking corp. But let's also probably take into account timing-maybe these dipshits were distracted at the time for other reasons unrelated to the investigation.

Time zones are very hard to hint at in character.

[Caret]

"What about Reisen? From what I've observed so far, she stays mostly silent during investigations, even more so than Nintendo. The most I've seen her help out was when that weird doctor died, and even then the traitors probably planned to make it obvious that June was behind Reisen usually only helps out with the body search before dipping out, and is always one of the first to cast a vote. Like Nintendo, she just might be easily distracted, but still. Silence can speak volumes."

[KungFuCutbug]

"If I were a murderer, wouldn't I try to hide somewhere in the middle of the bandwagons instead of always immediately starting 'em? That doesn't discount Reisen though, since she's always been following right behind me. She could've been waiting for someone else to start the wagon so she could jump on and not get sussed out..."

[A pause.] "Aye, wait a minute. Didn't KMIY die in a fire? And it didn't look like we could find anything that could've started it, 'less I'm misremembering. Reisen has those eye lasers, saw her using 'em yesterday while she was dealing with the animals. Maybe she started the fire with those. And then for Holly, either she intentionally manually disposed of the evidence—" [And here, Sherry holds up the melted mass of material that was retrieved from the fireplace.] "—to throw off suspicion, or her other teammate was the one who killed 'em and didn't have the option to use her lasers."

[Oggy123]

"Come to think about it, it is interesting that Reisen tend to be one of the first people to vote! And she is kinda.. silent when we investigate..."

[wingedcatgirl]

"Yes, Nintendo, both of those things have been pointed out already."

[Oggy123]

"Hey, we can't be sure if Reisen is really involved in these deaths! But... someone's gotta be responsible for those deaths, and we can't let them get away with it..."

[Despair's Archon of Memes]

Yeah! There's simply no way to really know for sure! So we REALLY NEED to think strategically about this. After all... We're ONE mistake away from the Traitors winning... And... At least I've been trying to keep up with this. I just... yeah... And also... Wouldn't the traitors try to AVOID using any of their special powers or traits? I mean... by definition, any unique powers the traitors might have is unique to them, so using those powers would be a smoking gun to their identity...

[wingedcatgirl]

"There is that, yes. Though if they thought everyone believed that, they might think they could get away with it..." Dubhe tilts its head in thought. "The best way to murder someone with a special power would be if it's one nobody knows you have. So, who here can set things on fire but we don't know that yet?"

[KungFuCutbug]

[Sherry just blankly stares at Dubhe for a minute.]

"...Do you think they'd actually answer that?"

[Caret]

Bow shrugs. "I don't know any Fire-type moves and Moonblast can't set things on fire as far as I know, so not me."

[wingedcatgirl]

"Pff- no, obviously they wouldn't just tell us, Sherry!" Dubhe says. "No, we have to find out! ... Somehow! ... I'm kinda stuck on this part of the plan!"

[Oggy123]

"I can't make fire, so i can't be the one."