90's Action Hero Mafia - Game Over - Mafia Wins

[Zander?]

39 minutes ago, Darthe said:

The station was shrinking in the rear-view mirror when Jacobs finally spoke.

“No more bullshit.”

John said nothing.

“You’re gonna tell me exactly who’s after you, what’s coming, and why we’re risking federal prison just driving you out of there.”

John leaned his head back against the glass. He looked tired in a way that didn’t come from lack of sleep. He took a long breath, eyes half-closed, like he was weighing which knife in the drawer would hurt the least to hand over.

“They’re cleaning house,” he said at last. “That’s what this is.”

Jacoby frowned. “What house?”

John looked at him. “Ours. What’s left of it."

He pulled something from his coat pocket—a small, scorched flip phone. He held it like it was sacred.

“This was Hummingbird’s. I stayed with him after the others left. We fought, he fell, and he bled out. I told you that. What I didn’t tell you is... it rang. After.”

Jacobs and Jacoby said nothing. John continued.

"I must've sat there half the night after the fight with Poe. I'd killed before, but this was different.  This felt like murder."  John reached over to a bag of his stuff Jacobs had retrieved for him on the way out.  Inside was an old flip phone, almost as dirty as he was.  

He held it like it was sacred.

"I told you about our fight, but I didn't tell you what happened afterwards.  This was Hummingbirds - Poe's - phone.  No lock.  No web access.  It's been off since that day." He held down the power button until a screen flicked to life.

Jacobs and Jacoby stayed quiet.  

"It rang... Hours after the fight.  Flash probably thought he was calling his friend.  I couldn't answer it, so I left it for voicemail.  Listen."

The slightly flattened sound of a recorded voice filled the cabin.  

"HB it's Flash.  The Agency knows our house is not in order.  Cleanup is in route, I've got to get out of this goddamned hospital.  This is important man, listen to me.  The families, they're a red herring.  They might even be cover.  Dusty and I had it about cracked yesterday.  Jesus man, can't believe he's gone.  Anyhow, you know the way Dusty gets sidetracked, but the boy's a genius.  This whole damned thing's Agency work.  The timelines, the activities.  We're a test.  Keep your head down buddy, and watch out for the old heads. Hammer especially.  If we've got people inside they aren't traitors, they're loyalists.  We're just a proving ground for whatever the f-" The next sound was a clatter, as if the phone fell to the floor.  Footsteps, growing closer, and then breathing.  A moment later the recording ended

John cut the phone back off and popped out the battery.

Jacoby was wide-eyed. “He didn’t die in the explosion?”

John shook his head. “Not right away. But someone made sure he didn’t leave that hospital alive. Finished the job quiet. Clean. He figured out more than we were supposed to know, and paid the price.”  He stared down at the phone like it might come back to life.  "And he died for it.”

Jacobs kept his eyes on the road. “You said they’re cleaning house.”

“They are,” John replied. “Anyone tied to the original ops. Anyone who knew how deep this thing went. They're not just burning evidence. They're erasing the concept of what we were.”

Jacoby leaned in slightly. “You mean the CIA?”

“No, not the whole Agency anyhow. The people we worked for don’t wear badges or carry clearance cards. They're working in the Agency, but they don't really consider themselves part of it. Independent. Untraceable. They’ve taken the blueprint and gone dark with it.”  Jacobs didn't answer. But the silence told John he’d gotten their attention.

“You asked what I need,” John said. “I need time. That’s all. Time to find the last of my people before the other side does.”

Jacobs exhaled through his nose. “You think any of them are still out there?”

John looked out at the wet forest rolling past them, dark and endless.  After a moment he nodded.  "They have to be."

"The other team?"

A nod.  "There were a number left, but if they survived they'd have gone dark.  These guys, they stay off-grid on purpose.  We had a drop point after Cape Town, and unfortunately I made it there too early.  Right place, wrong time."  John grimaced, again wincing at the wound in his side.

Jacoby understood though.  "Your fight with the local gangs was an accident wasn't it?"

John nodded.  He didn't need to explain any more, they were starting to get the measure of him now. He wasn't the strongest, or the smartest, but he had an edge that other people lacked.  He didn't crack.  He didn't run.  He endured.  And now, it was time to find his team.

 

Cape Town, Four days ago.

The wind screamed in off the Atlantic, carrying rain that came in sideways sheets. The pier was half-submerged, water rushing through shattered wood planks and broken metal fencing. Smoke twisted into the sky from a wrecked vehicle smoldering near the shipping containers.  Bottom’s boots slipped on the wet concrete as he dragged one of his team members—Strummer, maybe, or Slacks—back behind cover. Bullets sparked off the metal around them. Shadows moved in the dark, shapes that ducked and weaved too fast, too precisely.  He keyed his radio, voice tight and hoarse.

“They were ready for us.  We’ve been setup!”

Another burst of fire pushed him down behind cover.  As he surveyed the scene, he saw his team pinned at every corner.  Then, a low rumble behind him. The roar of an engine. Bottom turned to see Hammer’s commandeered flatbed burst through the container maze, headlights blazing like judgment. The team surged forward behind it, rallying in the light, their fire coordinated now, cutting through the darkness with purpose and fury.  One by one, the enemy fell.  By the time the smoke cleared, Hammer stood in the rain with steam rising from his gear, chest heaving, his side bleeding through his shirt—but standing.  Somehow, the pier was theirs.

Zander - Mike Lowrey - Will Smith - Bad Boys, Town Vanilla has been killed.

It is now Day. You have 48 hours.

 

 

Glglglglgl Town 

[DPR]

15 minutes ago, Verbal32 said:

 

It's fun.

 

And he likes to act like it was all the lynchee's fault and not the lyncher's.  Our job is to town read the right people - he's not doing it properly.  So either he's playing poorly, or scum.  Considering he hasn't been cc'd, he's just playing poorly.

 

So I'll rub it in until the tables are inevitably turned, heh.

lol you waiting 10 hours to post this

[DPR]

Correction - 12 hours 

[DPR]

41 minutes ago, Verbal32 said:

 

It's fun.

 

And he likes to act like it was all the lynchee's fault and not the lyncher's.  Our job is to town read the right people - he's not doing it properly.  So either he's playing poorly, or scum.  Considering he hasn't been cc'd, he's just playing poorly.

 

So I'll rub it in until the tables are inevitably turned, heh.

But okay, since your town reads have been perfect so far - please tell us who is town and who is not. And make sure to include reasons. 

[DPR]

@dicetosser1 You’re up. 

[Darthe]

Official Vote Count

 

 

 

Not Voting
Ithi, Dice, Marsh2, Nyn, DPR, Verb, Key, Tig

 

 

With 8 alive it takes 5 to lynch.

Countdown to EOD.

[Nynaeve]

Did zander have a recent read list?

 

Can we lynch dice now?

[dicetosser1]

Sorry everybody. I’ve been caught up with work and did t even realise deadline was past

 

i got no result. I viewed Tig 

 

and now I wanna know why I am alive. I thought I’d die last night with a slight hope they decide to rb and kill dpr 

[dicetosser1]

2 hours ago, Nynaeve said:

Did zander have a recent read list?

 

Can we lynch dice now?

there 8 people left 3 of them not town and you want to lynch the cop

 

 

seriously?

[Nynaeve]

12 minutes ago, dicetosser1 said:

there 8 people left 3 of them not town and you want to lynch the cop

 

 

seriously?

 

No, not seriously. 

Wishful thinking.

 

But thanks for doing the math for me. Maximum effort.

[Nynaeve]

17 minutes ago, dicetosser1 said:

Sorry everybody. I’ve been caught up with work and did t even realise deadline was past

 

i got no result. I viewed Tig 

 

and now I wanna know why I am alive. I thought I’d die last night with a slight hope they decide to rb and kill dpr 

 

I'm wondering why Zander. He's been in the town core but not like at the top imo. I don't have time to look now but that's why I wanted to know if he posted a recent read list. Maybe he was on the right track.

 

If you are actually the cop, it could mean the rb is deep wolfing... but it's not a must cause they can basically kill you any night without risk because the doc is out of the picture.

[Nynaeve]

If they left me around it means I'm gonna need to recallibrate some.

 

Might be up for voting key today.

[Ithillian Turambar]

Morning. I still think Tig is suss as heck. She could be the 3rd party, but I've got some other thoughts about that after going back through the game again. 

 

I can't remember anyone doing the list thing yesterday. 

 

And I can't tell who the 3rd person is that I'm missing is yet.

 

Rand never gave who he protected cos he never actually claimed but he had Nyn as his number 1 town. I also have Nyn as town.

 

I have DPR as town and he has claimed Hider. 

 

Dice has claimed Town Cop. The simplest explanation for that is because he is the Town Cop. 

 

I don't think Marsh is 3rd party. I had a Town read on Turin and nothing Marsh has done since has made me think this slot is not Town.

 

I have Key as Town because she's been actively making cases and her reasoning seemed sound. But I thought my reasoning was sound. Still nothing obvious has caught my attention as yet. I'm not willing to put her in my possible mafia/3rd party as yet though. I can see how logically Key is Mafia, but I think Tig is more Mafia and I can resolve Key later.

 

I think Verbal might be the 3rd party, because he was trying to draw the Mafia kill last night. But he might have been pretending to be the 3rd party so he wouldnt be killed. 

 

I think the 3rd party has to be resolved but I'm not sure if it's imperative yet.

 

The target's not been found yet, as the condemner and the target have not been removed from the game. If he is the condemner he would have his BPV so if the Mafia had tried to kill him he wouldn't have died. 3rd party can win with Town. But the list of targets is getting smaller. If his target is Mafia then that's good, cos a Mafia and a 3rd party get removed from the game. If his target is Town then it affects how many days we have left to solve this. I can't do the maths and I've tried. 

 

I think Tig is Mafia. She had Heavy as her top suspect yesterday but wouldn't vote him all day. She also spent an awful lot of time still talking about Marsh and Rand and I didnt think there was any real reason to do that. if she's not Mafia then she is the 3rd party and that would also explain why she's been so fence sitting and neutral. But that would mean there are 2 Mafia out there still to find. 

 

I didn't like that there was such a long wait to Hammer. I was wrong about Heavy, but at least now I can move on and not be so tunnelled on him, so I'm kind of glad I hammered him and just got an answer or I'd have been still banging on about him again today.

[Ithillian Turambar]

And I have to work now so no more deep thoughts for a while or I'm gonna get in trouble for not tapping on my keyboard or wiggling my mouse enough.

[Nynaeve]

5 minutes ago, Ithillian Turambar said:

Morning. I still think Tig is suss as heck. She could be the 3rd party, but I've got some other thoughts about that after going back through the game again. 

 

I can't remember anyone doing the list thing yesterday. 

 

And I can't tell who the 3rd person is that I'm missing is yet.

 

Rand never gave who he protected cos he never actually claimed but he had Nyn as his number 1 town. I also have Nyn as town.

 

I have DPR as town and he has claimed Hider. 

 

Dice has claimed Town Cop. The simplest explanation for that is because he is the Town Cop. 

 

I don't think Marsh is 3rd party. I had a Town read on Turin and nothing Marsh has done since has made me think this slot is not Town.

 

I have Key as Town because she's been actively making cases and her reasoning seemed sound. But I thought my reasoning was sound. Still nothing obvious has caught my attention as yet. I'm not willing to put her in my possible mafia/3rd party as yet though. I can see how logically Key is Mafia, but I think Tig is more Mafia and I can resolve Key later.

 

I think Verbal might be the 3rd party, because he was trying to draw the Mafia kill last night. But he might have been pretending to be the 3rd party so he wouldnt be killed. 

 

I think the 3rd party has to be resolved but I'm not sure if it's imperative yet.

 

The target's not been found yet, as the condemner and the target have not been removed from the game. If he is the condemner he would have his BPV so if the Mafia had tried to kill him he wouldn't have died. 3rd party can win with Town. But the list of targets is getting smaller. If his target is Mafia then that's good, cos a Mafia and a 3rd party get removed from the game. If his target is Town then it affects how many days we have left to solve this. I can't do the maths and I've tried. 

 

I think Tig is Mafia. She had Heavy as her top suspect yesterday but wouldn't vote him all day. She also spent an awful lot of time still talking about Marsh and Rand and I didnt think there was any real reason to do that. if she's not Mafia then she is the 3rd party and that would also explain why she's been so fence sitting and neutral. But that would mean there are 2 Mafia out there still to find. 

 

I didn't like that there was such a long wait to Hammer. I was wrong about Heavy, but at least now I can move on and not be so tunnelled on him, so I'm kind of glad I hammered him and just got an answer or I'd have been still banging on about him again today.

 

Good post

[dicetosser1]

19 hours ago, Zander? said:

Im definitely not as sold on Tig anymore.  Like not saying she's Town but I'm less convinced.

 

19 hours ago, Zander? said:

I'm still pretty sure at least one of our beautiful amazing awesome ladies are tho.

zanders only reads type posts between heavy’s lynch and his own death

 

 

the rest was all Zander lols

[DPR]

On 4/28/2025 at 7:45 PM, Zander? said:

 

Like I'd say if Dice is faking Cop claims tomorrow 100% if a red peek.  Prolly regardless but ya we can't trust Towns peeks unfortunately.

/inb4 Verb slides in with his “real” Cop claim

[dicetosser1]

Right so I’m gonna tell you the truth DPR even knowing the chance of you believing me is zero

 

i missed the post of Zander’s that you just quoted 

 

 

 

now. Knowing you won’t believe what I just said and being pretty much just as certain what your answer is goi g to be I will ask anyway

 

take Zander’s post and tell me what it says to you that I’ve come out and told you I got no result 

[DPR]

4 hours ago, dicetosser1 said:

Sorry everybody. I’ve been caught up with work and did t even realise deadline was past

 

i got no result. I viewed Tig 

 

and now I wanna know why I am alive. I thought I’d die last night with a slight hope they decide to rb and kill dpr 

I’ll start with this one - you said “with a slight hope they decide to rb and kill dpr”

 

Your saying you know I’m town but you were still hoping that mafia would rb me and kill me, 

[DPR]

7 minutes ago, dicetosser1 said:

Right so I’m gonna tell you the truth DPR even knowing the chance of you believing me is zero

 

i missed the post of Zander’s that you just quoted 

 

 

 

now. Knowing you won’t believe what I just said and being pretty much just as certain what your answer is goi g to be I will ask anyway

 

take Zander’s post and tell me what it says to you that I’ve come out and told you I got no result 

Verb has been soft-claiming Cop all game and I didn’t include a “lol” at the end of my last post. I figure we’ve got a decent chance he’s gonna cc you today. 
 

I want to go back and reread the interactions between Turin and Verb on d1 - I remember thinking that Verb and Heavy were mutually exclusive alignments and Heavy was town, so…

 

To answer your question, I don’t think any of this clears you.
 

Pg. 32 holds at least a couple of posts from Nyn - I have to go back and look - about you posting like you already knew Verb’s alignment. 
 

I need to reread and sort a few other things, but I’m off to get a root canal 😭

 

I’ll send pics lol
 

 

[dicetosser1]

7 minutes ago, DPR said:

I’ll start with this one - you said “with a slight hope they decide to rb and kill dpr”

 

Your saying you know I’m town but you were still hoping that mafia would rb me and kill me, 

I don’t KNOW your the hider but I think you are

 

and yeah cause if they were dumb enuff to rb and kill you I get a view in. And if we are lucky I find scum

 

have you ever played baseball? Or heard the saying take a run for an out? That’s basically what that would’ve been

[dicetosser1]

1 minute ago, DPR said:

Verb has been soft-claiming Cop all game and I didn’t include a “lol” at the end of my last post. I figure we’ve got a decent chance he’s gonna cc you today. 
 

I want to go back and reread the interactions between Turin and Verb on d1 - I remember thinking that Verb and Heavy were mutually exclusive alignments and Heavy was town, so…

 

To answer your question, I don’t think any of this clears you.
 

Pg. 32 holds at least a couple of posts from Nyn - I have to go back and look - about you posting like you already knew Verb’s alignment. 
 

I need to reread and sort a few other things, but I’m off to get a root canal 😭

 

I’ll send pics lol
 

 

iirc I replied to nyn about that.

 

he counter claims he needs to die cause he’s a liar.

 

simple.

[dicetosser1]

Good luck with the root canal

 

 

you sure you can’t just soak it in copious amounts of rum instead?

[DPR]

11 minutes ago, dicetosser1 said:

Good luck with the root canal

 

 

you sure you can’t just soak it in copious amounts of rum instead?

Tried that 🤣🏴‍☠️

[DPR]

What I was hoping was that on n1, mafia shot the Condemner and blew off the bpv -hence no kill. 
 

And then they would circle back and finish them off last night. But that didn’t happen. 

So who are your top 3 for scum?