Trifia: Town wins after Day Eight

[Phoebus]

I would think that if a GF got blocked, there would be no kills.
Who would give the orders?
I doubt that's the case here...

[Fuldu]

Submitted Answers

:

AndrewS - David Gould
Bengel54321 - Nitrogen Gas
Coron - Bob Dole
Dmi - David Gould
Dragon Phoenix - Nitrogen
Flying Dutchman - V.I.L.E.
Internet Stranger - Nitrogen
Leonidas - David Gould
Locus Cosecant - V.I.L.E.
Maximumum - David Gould
Mgm - V.I.L.E.
mneme - Berlin
PeaceBringer - David Gould
Phoebus - V.I.L.E.
PookyTheMagicalBear - Berlin
Quailman - Nitrogen
Raccoon_TOF - Nitrogen
Save The Dragons - David Gould
Talitha - V.I.L.E.
Thoth - V.I.L.E.

Players yet to answer

:
inHimshallibe
Mastermind of Sin
Quagmire

Deadline in slightly less than 24 hours

[Fuldu]

Water: And finally, decompression sickness ("the bends") is caused by an excess of

Nitrogen

dissolved in the water in the diver's body...

Also, I'm not going to be a stickler about this, but please do try to put the bolded word

Answer

in front of your answer. I missed this one the first time through.

[inHimshallibe]

Answer : Berlin

I've got nothing else.

[Quailman]

Mastermind of Sin chose Water and has not answered.

[Fuldu]

Mastermind of Sin chose Water and has not answered.

Yeah, yeah. That was just a typo. He's labelled as such in my notes.

[Dmi]

I don't think Coron's plan is going to prove him innocent to me.
If he's mafia, his partner(s) will do the kill. I'd usually think it suspicious, but I thiink it's just a stupid action in his case.

[Coron]

Nah, my action is likely to hurt town if anything if I use it tonight(not scum though). Feel free to speculate

[Dmi]

Vig? Roleblocker?

[Talitha]

If you're town would you mind not dropping blatant hints about your role.

[Dmi]

Maybe it's some intricate role we won't guess and he's just messing with us.

[Coron]

Well, my blatant wrong answer should have told as much.

[PookyTheMagicalBear]

or he's a newb and he should've masked his role more effectively by just waiting for someone else to answer and then copying that person's answer.

Would've been real nice for blending in.

If he's not scum he's just outed himself out to the scum and is asking to die,

if he is scum then he's trying to get us to think he's innocent,

either way we should lynch him

[Mastermind of Sin]

oh crap. sorry about that...I didn't realize that we had questions yet...luckily for me, I just took Advanced Chemistry and on of our last tests had a question like this, so I'll have to say

Answer:Nitrogen

[Coron]

I disagree. This seems a game where everyone will have a role, therefore the fact that I have a role not to be used night one doesn't mean much...

[Phoebus]

The "newb" name calling amuses me.

Coron: Assumption may be a dangerous thing.
Someone might as well kill you for being impulsive and if not's scum tonight, it might as well be the town tomorrow since you can be dangerous and all.

[mneme]

Strategically, I don't see anything wrong with preparing a later roleclaim (both town and scum can do this, honestly).

OTOH, I agree with Talitha that if you're going to do this, it should be subtle, not blatant -- you can point to Day 1 to prove your lack of a night action even if your answer is only deliberately (or not) wrong in retrospect. No reason to give scum more info than they get honestly.

[Fuldu]

As the deadline approaches, REGIS hums to life:

Due to his lack of response, the following wrong answer will be assigned:

Quagmire - Beaverton

So, to recap, the complete list of submitted answers is:

AndrewS - David Gould
Bengel54321 - Nitrogen Gas
Coron - Bob Dole
Dmi - David Gould
Dragon Phoenix - Nitrogen
Flying Dutchman - V.I.L.E.
inHimshallibe - Berlin
Internet Stranger - Nitrogen
Leonidas - David Gould
Locus Cosecant - V.I.L.E.
Mastermind of Sin - Nitrogen
Maximumum - David Gould
Mgm - V.I.L.E.
mneme - Berlin
PeaceBringer - David Gould
Phoebus - V.I.L.E.
PookyTheMagicalBear - Berlin
Quagmire - Beaverton
Quailman - Nitrogen
Raccoon_TOF - Nitrogen
Save The Dragons - David Gould
Talitha - V.I.L.E.
Thoth - V.I.L.E.

The cryopods are now unlocked. Everyone will be able to use their pod's REGIS interface to send me processing requests for during the stasis. However, only those of you who answered correctly will have their requests processed. Have a nice night's sleep.

It is Night. Please send choices via PM by Friday, 6:30 PM GMT. I will begin looking for a replacement for Quagmire, unless I hear from him before a replacement is found.

[Fuldu]

Jaguar replaces

inHimshallibe

Quagmire.

Edit

: inHimshallibe did submit an answer and I completely missed it. Fortunately, he pointed it out before Jaguar picked up the role PM, so he stays and Quagmire is replaced. That's what comes of trying to do this on two separate computers.

[Fuldu]

You are revived from stasis feeling stiff and cold. Life support appears to be functioning again, which is good news, but the REGIS screens in the cryobay are still dark and unresponsive. Worse, your fears of sabotage seem to have been confirmed. Three of your crew members are discovered to be even stiffer and colder than yourselves. Mgm and Talitha are frozen in their cryopods; a brief examination indicates that their pods were disabled remotely, presumably by the saboteurs. And the less said about Coron the better. Someone seems to have gone for a slightly more straight-forward means of killing him, shattering the glass of his cryopod and mashing his internal organs. You search the bodies for evidence of their identities, but find little to distinguish them from yourselves.

At some point, it occurs to someone that most of their belongings should be in their quarters. Furthermore, the same should be true of all of you, so it ought to be possible to identify the scum who did this by a room-to-room search. Heading toward the living area, you find yourself worrying, "Did I make my bed after the last time I slept in there? Are there dirty clothes on the floor? Is there anything lying around that might be embarassing or misinterpreted as criminal?"

Fortunately, or not, depending on how you want to look at it, all those questions are moot. The doors to the living quarters seem to still be affected by whatever was done to locks throughout the ship in preparation for the alien boarding. Only four doors will open, released by the deaths of their occupants, plus a fifth leading to an unusually cold airlock at the end of the hallway.

justinl has a substantial cache of decorative, but ammunitionless, weapons in his room, so there's nothing to indicate he was planning on using them against the crew. Tactics and strategy manuals line the walls, along with physics and propulation articles. There's little doubt that justinl was the Ratite's

Munitions Officer

.

Coron's room is a pigsty, but the type of clutter bespeaks a very specific personality. The walls are covered with Post-It notes with scrawled usernames and passwords. The floor is littered with pizza crusts and Chinese takeout boxes, replicated specially for him in the Ratite's mess to store in his small fridge, which is stocked to overflowing with caffeinated sodas. The desk space is filled with REGIS terminals, looking unusual in disuse. Atop the uppermost of these is a bright yellow book,

Network Administration for People Much Smarter than You[/b]. Clearly, Coron was the Ratite's

Systems Administrator

.

Mgm's living space, by comparison is immaculate. The books are all shelved alphabetically. The papers on the desk are stacked neatly. Even the row of pens is perfectly parallel. Of course, this doesn't tell you anything about who he was, but one of the knick-knacks, an unopened Librarian Action Figure (with "amazing push-button shushing action") gives it away. Mgm was the Ratite's

Reference Librarian

.

Talitha's living space could be called immaculate, but it might be more appropriate to call it pristine. Aside from a cable protruding from the rear wall, there is no furniture, no belongings, barely any dust. Only one individual could have lived in this sparsity, the Ratite's

Cyborg

.

Having addressed the issue of the dead crew members and found no evidence that any of them were working against the ship's best interests, you turn to what to do next. The discovery of a cold and dark airlock presents the opportunity to identify and kill potential saboteurs. With enough support (you suspect about half the crew would be sufficient), you ought to be able to drag someone into the airlock against their will, where they will quickly succumb to hypothermia. Since the door only opens from the outside for security reasons, anyone put in the airlock will be unable to escape death.

That leaves the matter of continuing repairs to the ship. You return to the bridge, hopeful that REGIS will be more compliant and responsive. It seems that may have been too much to ask...

Coron the Systems Administrator (target swapper) has been mangled.
Mgm the Reference Librarian (knowledge gatherer) has been frozen.
Talitha the Cyborg (replacement) has been frozen.

justinl the Munitions Officer (vigilante) is still dead.

With 20 alive, it's 11 to lynch.

[Fuldu]

Good Morning, REGIS chirps perkily as you return to the bridge. I hope everyone had a good night's sleep. I'm sure you're all wondering about yesterday's trivia questions, so let's get right to it.

REGIS's terminal lights up with the following information:

AIR: As was pointed out, this question was unintentionally worded somewhat vaguely. It might have better read "From what city did the zeppelin's first, and last,

North American

journey originate?" However, as both the specified flight and the Hindenburg's very first flight departed from the same city,

Frankfurt

, the question is valid under either interpretation.

1937's eighteen scheduled American Hindenburg flights were advertised as round-trips between Berlin and New York. However, this first flight departed not from Berlin, but from the zeppelin hangars in Frankfurt.

Bob Dole was in the Army in World War II, not the Air Force, was not quite eleven in Russell, Kansas in May of 1937, and, in any event, is a person and not a place.

Beaverton, Oregon is the home to Nike and their popular Air Jordan series of shoes (and all that followed), but that has little to do with the Hindenberg.

EARTH: Carmen Sandiego and her crew of thieves make up the

Villains International League of Evil

, a.k.a.

V.I.L.E.

in their criminal enterprises around the globe.

FIRE: Donald Trump's very first television victim was M.D./Ph.D.

David Gould

. Incidentally, Leonidas, although I wouldn't dispute that Glenn Gould is preferable to the arrogant business school doctor of

The Apprentice

, I actually like Elliott Gould best, myself.

WATER: Deep sea divers who surface too quickly run the risk of having (metaphorically speaking) carbonated blood, which can cause all manner of health effects, up to and including death. I say metaphorically, because it isn't carbon dioxide bubbling in their veins, it's

nitrogen

.

So, all answers submitted for AIR were incorrect, all others were correct. I hope that was fun, because you're going to get to do it again. In the next 72 hours, please select from one of the following four categories:

WAR
FAMINE
PESTILENCE
DEATH

REGIS's speakers bubble to life again, this time to say this:

Also, there's this other deadline to be concerned about, life support will go down again in 144 hours. To be honest, I'm not quite sure why that's happening. All my scans indicate that the power generators seem to be working fine. So, we'll just put that timer on hold while you select your categories.

As REGIS says this all the other terminals on the ship light up with another countdown:

Life Support Disabled in 144:00:00

HELD

You have a bad feeling about the next few days...

[Quailman]

Category: War

And since Locus Cosecant was so anxious to vote yesterday, I'll start with

vote: Locus Cosecant

[Maximumum]

Since I can't have feast....I'll take,

Category: Famine

[Mastermind of Sin]

Category: War

[PeaceBringer]

pestilence