[Forum Game] Werewolf X: The Thing Returns

[Velax]

Don't be fools. I can just shoot one of you to cancel your vote as I did last night. You can't kill me via lynching anymore, so you may as well vote Barek with me.

[Fury]

NIGHT 9 EVENTS

VOTE BAREK - Velax #189
VOTE VELAX - Ketchum #190, Lefanis #194

Brimming with confidence, Secret Government Agent Lefanis strides to the ground floor toilet with Ketchum tagging along. The ground floor toilet is where Velax insists that the dead Barek, the new Thing is hiding and where he intends to conduct his investigation.

As Lefanis and Ketchum walk in, Velax turns towards them and exclaims:

"Right on time! Now BACK ME UP!" he orders as he draws his Desert Eagle and kicks open the cubicle door where Barek was found dead.

"LOOK! See! I..." The three scientists gaze upon Barek's rotting and decomposing corpse and the stench just overpowers them. Barek is clearly deader than dead.

"Fool!" yells Lefanis in delight.
"No, you're the fool", retorts Velax angrily.

Ketchum just looks on as the fool insults go back and forth. Finally, Lefanis unslings his Flamethrower and points it dangerously at Velax as he lights up his ordinary looking cigarette and puffs away in accomplishment.

"Har har har. Game over, Thing." He smirks victoriously as he pulls the trigger. In a stunning move, Velax aims his Desert Eagle and fires before Lefanis can complete his move and shoots Lefanis right in the crotch.

Lefanis the scientist is shot for the last time.

Suddenly, a strange inhuman growl comes from the next cubicle. The primordial terror is too much for Ketchum and Velax and they both tear out of the toilet without even looking back.

Lefanis falls to his knees in shock at the turn of events as the point drives home quicker than a speeding bullet and the knowledge hits him - hard. He had made a mistake. The Thing comes out of the cubicle and smiles at Lefanis as he gently takes away the flamethrower and throws it aside in a mangled heap.

"So, Agent Lefanis... is it?" The Thing asks sarcastically. "Glad to finally meet you - your true identity, that is." Then it snarls as it grabs Lefanis by the throat: "Send my regards to your government. Tell them I'M COMING." It grins and the world goes black as it tears out Lefanis' throat.

Lefanis the Secret Government Agent / Psychologist is attacked and killed.

[Lefanis]

[Fury]

Barek is still dead, yes.
The Thing came out of the next cubicle...

[Ketchum]

Next Cubicle eh? What is going on... I am double, tripled stumped!

[Fury]

UPDATE

With only each other as the currently remaining survivors, Velax and Ketchum look at each other warily but as apparently parity had not been reached and not to mention the Thing had frightened them out of the toilet, it meant that the Thing was still running loose around out there.

This was probably the last night. The Thing was sure to strike again. After ruling out a few people, give or take 1 or 2 persons, and given their prevailing sentiments and knowledge, they calculated their odds of lynching the right person at 1 in 6. It was a long shot but it was the only remaining shot they had.

Like his predecessor in the first Thing attack, Velax was the first to discover the truth and he did it all without any research but would he survive to tell the tale?

The Thing was hungry and cunning. It had evolved and mastered the human art of deception by careful selection of infection. Its original host was dead but its consciousness now lived without fear in a new host, to strike without fear and to put the fear into the hearts of the remaining survivors. It was only a matter of time and the clock was ticking...

[Velax]

Alright, it's not Ketchum or me, because we're the only ones alive and if one of us were the Thing we'd be at parity and have already lost.
It's not Slapsticks or Lefanis, because they died after the second Thing appeared.
It's not Telrunya because he was the original Thing.
It's not Barek because we saw his corpse, and Fury said the Thing was living in its new host.

That leaves Penchant, Zakilevo, Lanyon, Sonya or D'Espana.

[Ketchum]

Sigh, Velax. We can join together to kill off this thing!

[Zakilevo]

I am already dead.

[Velax]

Okay. Once chance left. I VOTE SONYA.

[Lefanis]

The Thing came out of the next cubicle...

Spirit whooshes by...

[Fury]

UPDATE

In a quiet part of the research facility, there are secret communications going on with a certain Headquarters. There are messages back and forth until suddenly there is static. Unexplainably, two-way communications have been mysteriously cut off. No matter how hard it is tried, communications simply cannot be restored and contact with Headquarters cannot be made and Headquarters simply would not respond. Communcations to Headquarters seemed to get through but HQ could not reply. The rookie agent, not having the proper training or the step-by-step instructions on how to capture the Thing... well, he would just have to wing it.

In another part of the facility, the Thing quietly leaves the radio jammer in the on position as it leaves the room and breaks the electronic door entry console leaving no way to enter, at least not before the night was over. He then made his way to where the remaining survivors were holed up. It was time for her next and final meal and her careful patience was wearing out. It was still part scientist and it had calculated the odds in its favour.

There was simply no way for the humans to survive, or could they achieve the impossible and against all odds... survive?

[Fury]

UPDATE

In another quiet part of the research facility, a certain Hunter sits on the floor in meditation. Previously, his meditations brought clarity of mind and purpose but this time he is too troubled to concentrate properly. He can form ideas and thoughts and what-if scenarios but his mind is simply no longer giving him any response. He can still form his selected target in his mind but his sub-conscious is simply no longer responding. Well, apparently he has no choice but to rely on his experience and to just... wing it.

[Ketchum]

VOTE SONYA

This is it, the finale! The last chance we got after all those wrong lynches earlier.

[Fury]

CURRENT VOTING

VOTE SONYA - Velax #204, Ketchum #208

60 minutes till deadline...