Plus, he'll just be like "I targeted so and so and they didn't die so they must not be Wineskin" or "I was blocked" while his mafia buddies use the kill.

Soooo easy for him to lie if we give him an inch.

I think the MSU lynch is the right way to go. Vote: MSU. I'll be at work a little while longer, but then going to a friends for clix and Firely. So will be hit and miss between 7:30 and midnight.

I think that was a hammer.

Vote MSU

In case its needed. Sorry MSU I just don't think I believe you.

So... Nothing personal MSU, but looks like your time is done. For what it is worth I didn't not believe you. I just didn't believe you either...

I wouldn't be terribly surprised if he flips town (aside from the never lynched as town meta). But I think at this point, it's unlikely and we need the voting records moving forward.

And this isn't me saying I hope we lynch town. It's me saying even though I want to believe MSU I don't know that I can here.

Also, didn't realize that I was hammering. Sorta sorry about that? Better safe than sorry but there was still some daylight left, no?

Well I'm pretty sure mafia is on this lynch so the record will be interesting.

Yeah, records aren't as helpful with two mafias on the board.

This is where I landed too.

Unless he turns up Suiciders

I mean Brood players can safely vote for MSU because they have nothing to gain by him surviving. Today only helps us catch Suiciders.

Vote Tally

MSU (12): Jackofhearts2005, The Darkstone, Afrcgny, Immortal_Raven, CaptainNifty, adamical, CaptThulkman, brainiacFTW, colonialbob, Jawapimp, rorshachparadox, Aranatta


With 22 players, 12 votes were needed for a majority.


A majority has been reached!


Writeup to follow.

____ Lock regained consciousness as the shackles sealed her wrists together. A long chain wrapped around her legs. It was attached to herself and continued on to Anti-Spawn, a kid she'd later learn was Babylon, and Deadhawk in the back. Her lips felt swollen and her muscles sore from the punches she'd taken from Superiorman's Squad, but at least she was alive. She couldn't say the same about Cypress.

____ "Psst," she whispered to Anti-Spawn. "Where are we going?"

____ "The colloseum."

____ "Oh okay." They continued to walk. A few minutes later she whispered again. "Psst, why are we going to the colloseum? I thought we escaped."

____ "Does it look like we escaped?"

____ Lock shook her head.

____ "Then no. We lost."

____ "Is Deadhawk okay?"

____ Anti-Spawn looked at the end of the line. Lock noticed that the man in the red tattered robes was completely quiet and sullen.

____ "Just ask him yourself."

____ "Okay. Psst, Deadhawk."

____ "I can hear you two talking. I'm right here. Shut up!" Said Desperado, who was leading them forward.


____ They came back into the colosseum through the Eastern entrance. Bodies were piled nearby of those who had tried to escape during Superiorman's siege. Many however had survived, and were being marshaled back to the Black Tower. Lock watched them all go.

____ In the middle of the colosseum, Inferno was speaking to the announcer. Lock couldn't quite make out what they were saying. Although that wasn't what interested her. There was someone else, a woman. She had a flowing crimson dress, dark spiky hair and long razor sharp claws. The woman was riding some kind of dragon. Or something. It had the head of a tyrannosaurus and tiny wings like a wasp.

____ Cuuute.

____ Lock and the others were brought before the woman. She stepped off the limbless creature's back.

____ "Found them in the lab. I also extinguished our little issue."

____ "Good," said the woman. Her voice was smooth but full of poison.

____ "Do you want to do the honours my love? Or should I end them myself?"

____ The woman gazed upon them. "Where is Cypress?"

____ "Dead when I got there."

____ "A shame. I would have liked to see him fall in the arena. My little pets."

____ "Pets who can't obey get put down."

____ "Put down my little pets? You'll make me sad, Inferno."

____ "I'm sorry."

____ The woman smiled. "That's alright my dear, we all make mistakes."


____ "Wineskin..." Someone whispered.

____ The woman blinked, she turned from prisoner to prisoner. "Did one of you have something to say?"

____ "Wineskin," said Deadhawk. He stepped towards her. The announcer moved to attack, but the woman waved him away.

____ "Oh Deadhawk. What can I help you with? Do you want mercy?"

____ "I just wanted to say that I'm sorry. Sorry for...what you've become. I know now that it was my fault. I'm so sorry."

____ The Brood Queen stared into his eyes. She had no pupils, only a white abyss. "Kill him first." She said with a smile, and walked away.

____ The announcer moved in.

____ "Wait!" He exclaimed. "I have your son."

____ The Brood Queen waved down her ally and stepped back towards Deadhawk. "My what?"

____ "It's true." He turned to Babylon. "Go on."

____ Babylon took a step forward. Lock could see him sweating. Maybe it was fear, or just a nervous reunion. "Mother. I've been searching for you for so long. My boyfriend, he always encouraged me to find you. He always said to keep trying, keep looking. You would have liked him. I never forgot your face, not ever. Finally mother, I've come home."

____ The Brood Queen studied the young man. She looked him over, and then smiled widely. "My little prince, give your mother a hug!"

____ Babylon smiled and hugged the Brood Queen.

____ The woman put her long claws over his shoulder, and then in one smooth slash she slit Babylon's throat. She held him close and continued to hug him, with a huge smile on her face, as the man gurgled and struggled. His blood poured onto her.

____ Deadhawk looked horrified. He stepped back as far as his chains would allow.

____ Desperado was laughing.


____ Once the wound stopped gushing, The Brood Queen gently laid the body onto the sand.

____ "Send them back to their cells. My little pets should get some rest before their fights tomorrow."

____ Lock didn't say a word as Inferno led them all back to the confines of The Black Tower. Babylon's corpse dragged along, still in its shackles.

____ The first match of the day was between a large four-armed woman and a man with some hi-tech goggles over his eyes. The match started simple enough, with each combatant slowly moving towards the other, feeling their opponent out. The four-armed woman ran in first, but she wasn't expecting a torrent of rainbow sand in her eyes. The man in the goggles pressed on, suffocating the warrior with his rainbow sand.

____ In minutes it was over. The Brood Queen clapped politely. The announcer approached the man with the goggles and declared him the winner. Right before the man's arm was raised in victory, he sucker punched the steel announcer with a rainbow sand fist. The man then tore off on a sand slide, towards the Eastern gate.

____ The announcer stumbled back. "Looks like we have a runner!" Shouted the announcer, in a low booming voice. He gripped his mallet tightly and then burst forward toward the escapee. The announcer moved faster and faster with every step, to the point where the audience could feel a slight rumble as he moved.

____ The man in the goggles looked back. The steel powerhouse was quickly catching up to him.

____ "Get back!" Shouted the man. He fired and missed.

____ The announcer caught up. He pulled his mighty mallet back as he ran and in one powerful motion he slammed it into the escapee's spine, slamming his body into the Eastern wall of the colosseum. The man was splattered like a bug, and his goggles were destroyed.

____ "Looks like we have a tie!" Said the announcer, gesturing towards the two dead bodies.

____ The Brood Queen clapped politely.




____ The frozen figure had patches of ice all over his stout body. His face was half shielded by a part of his containment suit, while the other half of his face was just ice. He was somewhere between the colosseum and The Black Tower, or was that another tower? He had no idea anymore. He had better stay here for the night and continue on when the sun was up.

____ "It's iglooing time!" Shouted the frozen figure. He pulled out his freeze gun and created a small igloo for the night. Even though he was in a desert, his ice would not melt unless he allowed it. No one would bother him tonight.




____ Everyone thought it was a monster, but it wasn't a monster. It had only come to Earth to enjoy the beauty of the universe. But no one understood it here on Kryptala. They wanted to hurt it. They wanted it to suffer, why?

____ It spent so long on that ship just trying to survive, but then that evil being Desperado confused it. Made it do bad things. It didn't want to do bad things.

____ The techno organic virus had saved it and slowly purged the influence of The Brood from its body. It was able to break free and try to survive on its own. But now that same virus was killing it. Or maybe it was just loneliness.

____ "Selffriends all dead. Self...just want to be happy..."

____ The creature sat down in the cool sand of the desert. It had been walking so long. Most of its vegetation was dead or dying.

____ "Self cannot survive. See the horrorgoobin for the last time." It would wait for the sun to rise, the beautiful Kryptala sun. Then it would be dead.




____ The rocky figure stalked through the wreckage of the lab, looking for food or something to sustain it. It was a big figure, with rock covering its entire body, jutting out in every direction. It had been one of the first to escape during the breakout.

____ It came to the end of the pale hallway, but there was nothing. If any food had been there it was long gone. It turned around and found itself face to face with a dead man in a blue cloak.

____ "So, you look different than I thought. You're probably someone else. Still." The dead man slammed his power staff into the rocky figure's skull. A piece of rock cracked, but the figure wasn't down yet.

____ The rocky figure created its own staff out of solid rock and defended itself. The hits went back and forth, but the dead man was highly skilled and avoided most of the attacks. In the end, the rocky figure had taken too many blows. It staggered and collapsed against the wall.




____ Deadhawk sat in the corner of his cell, staring into the dirt and grime on the corner of the wall. Lock was somewhere close by, but that wasn't who he was whispering to.

____ "No, it can't be you. You're gone, I got rid of you."

____ "Deadhawk you can't get rid of me, I'm your pal! We're a package remember?"

____ "No. You weren't in my head anymore when we were on Earth-55. Even with Luthor you weren't there, you were gone."

____ "You were sane. Happy maybe, or at least content."

____ "And what, now I'm crazy again?"

____ "Well..."

____ Deadhawk shook his head. "You were gone. I was okay, you were gone."

____ "And what's happened since? Cypress is dead. Wineskin's kid is dead. And you're locked in a cage. Maybe you just need some company!"

____ "I'm...not crazy."

____ "Of course you are. You always were."

____ "Cypress?"

____ "You've always been crazy, Deadhawk. A danger to everyone around you. I wanted to help people not kill them. I wanted to create a school for mutants. You just wanted to tear it down, like you do with everything."

____ "No. No I want to help people."

____ The voice laughed. "Help people. Like you helped me? Like you helped Cosmo? Terry? Wineskin? Inferno?"

____ "You didn't help me very well, either." Said Deadbug.

____ "Leave me alone. You're not real, you're just in my head."

____ "Um, maybe this is all in your head. Maybe you're more nuts than you thought," said Babylon.

____ "Please...I'm sorry. Just leave me alone."

____ "You'll never be alone Deadhawk. Not when you have little ol' me."


____ "Deadhawk, get up."

____ "Get out of my head."

____ "Deadhawk, it's time to go."

____ "Get out of my head!" He grabbed Lock by the shoulders and pressed her into the wall. He could still hear them all. They were all talking at once, laughing at him, mocking him.

____ "Get a hold of yourself!" Shouted Anti-Spawn. A tendril pulled him off of Lock N' Load.


____ "What happened to him?"

____ "No idea. But the door's open. Those idiots didn't realize I could squeeze through the bars if I reverted back to my liquid Hellspawn form."

____ "Lets get out of here then. Deadhawk, you okay?"

____ They were all trying to talk to him at once, why couldn't they just leave him be?

____ "Deadhawk?"

____ He stared into Lock N' Load's face. Her features were blurred, swirling, shifting. She had eight eyes. Behind her the prison bars were rotating like a carousel.

____ "I don't want to go on the carousel," he said in an adamant tone.

____ Lock and Anti-Spawn exchanged a glance.

____ "Listen Deadhawk, we have to go now okay? Pretty please?"

____ "Is she coming? I don't like her."

____ "Who?"

____ "Her, over there."

____ They turned to the corner of the room, but no one was there.

____ "Who the hell are you talking about?"

____ "The woman, is she coming too?"

____ "Deadhawk, there's no one there."

____ They were wrong. He could see her. A woman with a pale face and golden hair. She was wearing a green dress and smiling at him. She wanted to come too, but her eyes were snakes and it scared him. It scared him so much.

____ He was so scared.

____ Some time after that, they left the cell. The pale woman did not follow.




____ The icy woman's body was found by one of the guards on duty. She'd been sliced clean in half. One half was on the top of the staircase, and the other half was at the bottom. He could feel the water dripping on his head, from the ice that covered this section of the stairs. Sirens started wailing in the Black Tower as he radio'ed in what he found.




____ A thin figure with skin like milk walked through the mind of his target. He was on a steep slope, moving towards an ancient temple in the distance. There was a pulse in the air that made him feel powerful and strong, as if something in the temple was waiting for him. Below him a a village was on fire. Its people were shooting at eachother with rifles. The thin figure felt guilty but continued on.

____ At the entrance to the temple, the thin figure felt unbreakable and unstoppable. He decided to leave his target's mind before venturing further.

Wow.

Talk about a massacre.

For the record, I checked with Stranger after the final vote came in yesterday, and he confirmed that the reason my vote wasn't counted/listed was because he missed it, not because of me being subject to any kind of vote-changing shenanigans.

No malice, just human error.