[Dylflon]

The banquet hall had gone into an uproar. There were so many different voices shouting that Germanator found it difficult to catalogue his thoughts. These thoughts were mainly of fire. While the followers of the seven gods squabbled in vain, Germanator knew that only the light of the one true god R'Hollor could grant enlightenment. Germanator would have to use flames to divine an answer but convincing anyone that this was the most prudent course of action would be difficult.

The body of Grand Maester Dylflon had recently been discovered. If accounts could be believed, after being stabbed, Dylflon had used the last of his strength to write the number five in his own blood. Thespis had declared that this was obviously a sign that there were five murderers involved. This of course was a well reasoned argument, but Germanator found the fact that Thespis made his argument in rhyme quite vexing.

Maester Teuthida regaled the court of enchantments and sorceries from the lands in the East. Given the bizarre nature of the death of the servant, either of these conclusions seemed logical. But what Teuthida failed to realize is that he had just thrown the gates open to a witch hunt. Now that there was proof in death of whether or not any person in the room was guilty, many would begin to feel justified in killing. Germanator realized that he would have to use this as much to his advantage as he could. If he could convince the king to give suspects to the flame, he would be able to use the flames to divine the remaining killers and win favour with the realm. It was time to do R'Hollor's work.

Unfortunately, everyone was far too busy throwing accusations around blindly. The septon Typhoid layed the blame at the obvious door, announcing that this could only be the work of Fyacin being the resident professional murderer.

The knight Vampyr shouted in agreement. Then he decided that that made no sense and then accused the septon himself of murder. Just as quickly, Sir Vampyr reaffirmed his accusation against Fyacin as if he had never said anything to the contrary. Queerer still, Sir Vampyr then proceeded to wave around an imaginary sword, shouting at Fyacin and Septon Typhoid. His fellow knight Sir Jeepnut tried to convince Vampyr to sit down, but Vampyr only pointed his sword at Jeepnut and declared him guilty of attempted regicide. Sir Vampyr had taken a mighty hit to the head in the tournament the day before the after-effects of the damage were plain for all to see.

Many other accusations flew around the room, most of them baseless. Sir GameMaster yelled for quiet. He stood up on a table and pointed directly at Sir BreakABone, the Lord Commander of the Royal Guard. “Sir BreakABone is guilty of attempted murder! I overheard him speaking earlier this day of a plot to kill the king and many other people seated in this very room." “Preposterous!” shouted the Queen. “Sir BreakAbone has been in my presence this whole day.”

The eyes of all in the room turned on Sir GameMaster, a local hedge knight who had won glory in yesterday's tournament. Everyone was soon shouting that Sir GameMaster must have been in on the plot if he was so eager to cast blame. The mob surrounded him and would surely have torn him apart had the Queen not intervened a second time. “Give the accused to Lord Germanator. Use the knight's body as kindling so we may root out these other schemers.” A slow smile crept across Germanator's face. The Lord's work would be done.

Later, as Sir GameMaster's body roasted over a small pyre, Germanator stared hard into the flames. No spirit had risen from his body but hopefully he could at least discern something useful. All he saw in the flames was the crazed knight Sir Vampyr. He was surrounded by multiple assailants. These attackers were piercing his body with their blades. Vampyr swung his imaginary sword back at them but to no avail. Germanator looked up from the flames at the doomed knight and pondered warning him of his fate. But he decided perhaps it was better to let him enjoy the rest of his short life.


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The Dead

GameMaster - Knight (Villager) - killed by the vote
Vampyr - Knight (Guardian) - killed by the Vigilante and by the Mafia


PLAYER LIST/CHARACTERS/SUSPECTS

1. BreakABone - Lord Commander of the Royal Guard
2. thatmariolover - Brother to the King
3. Dyne - Hand to the King (essentially vice-king; can speak with king's authority)
4. Bond - Captain of the City Guard
5. manasecret - Royal Guard
6. Teuthida - Maester (scholar/healer)
7. Swan - Lord Father of the Bride
8. Schadenfreude - City Guard
9. uber_paddler - Prince
10. Typhoid - Septon (high priest)
11. Fox 6 - Knight
12. Angrist - Sellsword (mercenary)
13. Germanator - Red Priest
14. jeepnut - Knight
15. Jason1 - Royal Guard
16. Combine 017 - City Guard
17. Thespis721 - Singer
18. Fyacin - Assassin


This round ends at 10:59 am PST / 1:59 pm Eastern on Monday December 22nd