[Mafia] Close Circle 2

[Mr. Lee Hammer]

> Investigates the other houses. Someone could have framed Spamton framing Cookie. (Lucky)

You do check out the other houses and other than the medium-sized footprints, you don't see anything else.

[PopcornPie]

"Geez, this is really a fuckin' puzzle.

> Do any sets of footprints lead anywhere else?

[Mr. Lee Hammer]

> Do any sets of footprints lead anywhere else?

Doesn't seem like it

[PopcornPie]

"Well, guess I have to be the logical one. Hey, accused!" He points his nub at Spamton. "Explain in depth what you were doin' when the fire broke out. Or right before. Or very before."

[Caret]

"I'm a <Image Vendor>, not a <Shoesman>!! Besides, if <Best Tumblr Sexymen 2021> did <Sell Now> them, wouldn't he have some <Free Stock> laying around?"

> scour Spamton's house for any extra shoes

[Mr. Lee Hammer]

> scour Spamton's house for any extra shoes (Steve)

The only thing you do in his house is accidentally lock yourself in the bedroom closet.

[Florien]

Well, I don't think you'll necessarily find anything in Spamton's place. Do you see the rest of his inventory? Yet nonetheless, he's a salesman, so he has it with him somewhere. Probably in the void between worlds or some such impractical place. But perhaps you will find something.

As for you, Lucky, I get where you're coming from, but I don't understand what contradictable statement could be made by Spamton. There is no reason he can't say "I stayed inside all night, buy my shit.", and no reason he wouldn't say that, innocent or guilty.

[Kennifer]

Instead of seeing if anyone has any extra shoes in their house, Mila will...

>See if it looks like any more shoes are missing from anyone's house, other than what they're wearing. Such as spots on closet floors that look like they've got marks matching the pair of shoes that were found.

[Mr. Lee Hammer]

>See if it looks like any more shoes are missing from anyone's house, other than what they're wearing. Such as spots on closet floors that look like they've got marks matching the pair of shoes that were found. (Mila)

No one seems to be missing any shoes from their houses.

[Kennifer]

"Worth a shot. Better than blindly following the word of somebody I ain't sure I can trust. Which is... pretty much everybody, but it'd be nice if someone had a theory that made sense to more than just them. Still trying to work my head around the uh, logic there."

[PopcornPie]

"It just don't seem right, sending the first accused to the electric chair." Lucky shrugged. "On the other limb, we ain't finding much evidence for or against. You found a possible murder weapon in there, right?

[Despair's Archon of Memes]

Yeah... A burnt... Blunt weapon of some sort. Telling from the whole thing about Reina, it's probably a baseball bat...

[Kennifer]

"So maybe we should be thinking 'bout who could swing a bat with enough force to bash someone's head in rather than making tracking cookie puns."

[Florien]

Oh, what would be right, then, Lucky? To send the second accused to the electric chair? Or the third? Or the fourth? Someone's going to have to die, and if we're wrong, we can easily fix that particular problem tomorrow.

Again, we have room to maneuver.

Also, Seriously, Mia, my idea doesn't make sense to "Just Me" It makes sense to, I assume, most people who aren't you. I think you're either being willfully belligerent or, worse, actively abetting the assassins. Now, I don't think the latter is very likely, but certainly, your implications that my plan is bad when you've just found evidence of shoes from apparently nowhere, which implicates Spamton... that raises questions.

Look, even if it isn't, by some misfortune, Spamton, then we can take out the cookie tomorrow without question, and we're very likely in a good position. I just think it's more likely that Spamton did it, and I don't see any proper evidence to the contrary. So, get on board the death train and let's run some people over!

Also, if you're going to bring up a bat's "force" I really don't think that implicates the Cookie less than Spamton. The cookie is a small child. Do you think a small child could bash in a skull with a bat? If so, you must think Spamton also could. If you don't, then Spamton still could.

[Kennifer]

Mila rolls her eyes, then winces because yeah, the whole black eye thing.

"Okay it's Mila, not Mia. Anyway, no, if we all agreed with you then we'd have voted Spamton out already instead of trying to figure out more clues. So I'm guessing I'm not the only one confused here. And second, your argument's what, he's a salesman so he might have shoes to pull out of nowhere? Some dumb tracking cookie pun? I ain't saying the cookie couldn't have been framed, but I'm trying to figure out if your theory's right or if someone else done it. 'Cause, like I said, I don't trust you any more than I trust anybody else here and soundin' all confident isn't gonna change jack shit about that. Hell for all I know you're the guilty one and makin' up stories about Spamton to try and deflect the blame. Maybe, maybe not. It could be almost anybody, s'why I'm gonna keep looking for a solid answer."

[Risdio51]

"Blunt weaponry? Please, I'm above such simplicities."

[Florien]

Oh. My. Fucking. God. If I was guilty, I'd be demanding you execute the obviously framed cookie right the fuck now. I wouldn't be going after Spamton, the person who presumably has access to shoes, who cannot be ruled out, and who is a short person.

FORGET. The FUCKING. PUN. The pun is irrelevant. I made the pun as a JOKE. That wasn't meant to be evidence. Just because I included a joke in my reasoning as to why we should execute Spamton doesn't mean my reasoning is invalid. I think it makes a hell of a lot more sense than you do, but maybe you're just not thinking it through. Like everything else in your life, you aren't THINKING, you're just DOING, avoiding any hard choices because of some belief that they'll be made easier. There is a lot of other reasoning you're weirdly insistent on brushing over with "tracking cookie pun", and I don't know why you don't like my idea of taking out both suspects. It doesn't impact you in any way, and you've presumably had a hard life. You should understand that things are much easier when you just make the numbers decision, and my argument isn't an opinion. This is a basic fact that you seem to be resistant to.

Even six to one, the absolute worst case, is an incredible advantage to us, especially this early. So why are you so insistent on avoiding it?

[PopcornPie]

"I'm way too small to pick up a bat like this without Demon voodoo. Thing is, what if it's neither of them? Framing someone to get ganged up on is something a Yarddog would do."

[Kennifer]

"Yeah. It could be neither of 'em. Then we'd be down more innocents."

Mila sighs.

"Okay, one of their theories we can at least test now. Anyone think they're right that it's gotta be Spamton, vote for Spamton right the fuck now. Prove me to be an idiot rather than just somebody who's not taking the most confident one on their word."

[Florien]

I'll bet you it's one of them for sure. It's either Spamton or the cookie, and I think it's more likely to be Spamton. Join with me and we can resolve this in a way that gets the numbers in a good position for us quickly, and we can do our jobs and make more money on top of the pay from solving either this or the following case.

[Kennifer]

"And are you gonna eat those words along with a big-ass helping of crow if they both turn out to be innocent?"

[Florien]

I mean, sure, whatever. But they won't be. One will be guilty, and I'll be right, and you can eat that metaphorical crow. And some literal crow. That would be great.

[Mr. Lee Hammer]

Spamton has one vote for him already, courtesy of Lindsey. He needs four more and I'll kill him myself. Of course, if you all want to, you can skip voting, but you won't receive any extra money if you do.

[Kennifer]

"Okay, if we both survive this bullshit long enough to know both Spamton and Cookie's alignments, if they're innocent I'll shoot down a crow and you gotta eat it, if one of 'em is guilty and your nonsense-sounding shit is true, you can shoot one down and I'll eat it. Fully cooked in both cases, of course. Don't wanna go to the chair for killin' each other with food poisoning."

Mila smirks.

"And if it turns out you're a lyin Yarddog, I hope you choke on it. In the meantime, I'm waitin' to see if everyone else is gonna blindly follow you like I dared 'em."

[Zanreo]

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