Post by The Mole on Jun 2, 2011 17:18:04 GMT -5
Hello, Archipelago Exodus.
I hear you're all quite the experts at playing Mafia by now, huh? Well, congratulations. I'm real impressed. You sure do know how to sling accusations around and lynch each other. Valuable life lessons for sure. Now if you'll be so kind as to step in out of the playground -- just leave your jumprope by the door -- we can play a real game. Something a little more complex than "He's the most vocal player! KILL HIM ARGHBLARGBLAGH"
Oh! Oh, I'm sorry. You like Mafia? Have I insulted your tastes? Whyn't you sit tight and I'll teach you a game you'll like much more. A game where only a fool would make a public show of accusing those whom he suspects. A game where surviving requires not maintaining a veneer of innocence, but rather drawing as much mistrust toward yourself as possible. A game with only one winner... and only one villain. I am that villain. It's me.
I am the Mole, and already I walk among you. No no, I'm not Pohatu. That would be absurd. He's just the one typing these words right now. In truth, I am someone else. Another in this community who doesn't even yet realize it, but who, in a month's time, will take up my mantle and turn against the rest of you. Not that I won't have help in that regard. Indeed, only give the game its time, and you'll all be backstabbing each other with fervor enough, and to spare. You can't imagine how much I'm looking forward to that.
Thirty challenges, each of which will add EP to the winner's prize if the team can successfully complete them. But I'll be working hard to sabotage as many missions as I can, and deny the team all the EP I can manage. And you'll learn to emulate me, my friends, or at least the smart ones will... those who realize the power over others afforded to them by pretending to be the Mole.
Of course, I know my time is limited. One of you will inevitably expose me, and earn the rich reward that comes with that victory. But not until the rest of you who dare to compete in this game have been plucked off one by one, victims of each others' and my misinformation as well as your own haste and doubt. The road is long, and our party will bid one competitor a fond farewell at every step of the journey, until there are only three: the final victim, the winner, and yours truly.
Do you suppose you're the one who'll see the game all the way through and uncover the traitor in your midst? I hope so. I love a good winner. Then again, I love losers too. I enjoy watching their faces fall as they realize, each in turn, how far they were from discovering me. So why not join us for a while? Cast your lot in. You might go home empty-handed, but then again, you might enjoy a prize in the hundreds of EP.
Or, of course, you might just turn out to be me.
THE MOLE
COMING JULY 2011
I hear you're all quite the experts at playing Mafia by now, huh? Well, congratulations. I'm real impressed. You sure do know how to sling accusations around and lynch each other. Valuable life lessons for sure. Now if you'll be so kind as to step in out of the playground -- just leave your jumprope by the door -- we can play a real game. Something a little more complex than "He's the most vocal player! KILL HIM ARGHBLARGBLAGH"
Oh! Oh, I'm sorry. You like Mafia? Have I insulted your tastes? Whyn't you sit tight and I'll teach you a game you'll like much more. A game where only a fool would make a public show of accusing those whom he suspects. A game where surviving requires not maintaining a veneer of innocence, but rather drawing as much mistrust toward yourself as possible. A game with only one winner... and only one villain. I am that villain. It's me.
I am the Mole, and already I walk among you. No no, I'm not Pohatu. That would be absurd. He's just the one typing these words right now. In truth, I am someone else. Another in this community who doesn't even yet realize it, but who, in a month's time, will take up my mantle and turn against the rest of you. Not that I won't have help in that regard. Indeed, only give the game its time, and you'll all be backstabbing each other with fervor enough, and to spare. You can't imagine how much I'm looking forward to that.
Thirty challenges, each of which will add EP to the winner's prize if the team can successfully complete them. But I'll be working hard to sabotage as many missions as I can, and deny the team all the EP I can manage. And you'll learn to emulate me, my friends, or at least the smart ones will... those who realize the power over others afforded to them by pretending to be the Mole.
Of course, I know my time is limited. One of you will inevitably expose me, and earn the rich reward that comes with that victory. But not until the rest of you who dare to compete in this game have been plucked off one by one, victims of each others' and my misinformation as well as your own haste and doubt. The road is long, and our party will bid one competitor a fond farewell at every step of the journey, until there are only three: the final victim, the winner, and yours truly.
Do you suppose you're the one who'll see the game all the way through and uncover the traitor in your midst? I hope so. I love a good winner. Then again, I love losers too. I enjoy watching their faces fall as they realize, each in turn, how far they were from discovering me. So why not join us for a while? Cast your lot in. You might go home empty-handed, but then again, you might enjoy a prize in the hundreds of EP.
Or, of course, you might just turn out to be me.
THE MOLE
COMING JULY 2011