- Joined
- Jun 26, 2020
Well, as everyone knows I spent some time as your friendly neighborhood radioactive spider. I did not start the game as Radioactive Spider... or, in fact, any kind of Spider. My tenure as the eight-legged chooser of Spider-Man was entirely unrelated to my original role, a role I have now returned to with all the opposable digits and internal skeletal structure perks to which I am accustomed. While my evidence is entirely circumstantial, I support the theory that HW is, in fact, Stan Lee, as I was told my disappearance, Spidering, and Return were the doing of "The Author" who is and was seemingly separate from Zinger, at least compared to how Zinger usually talks in mod office. If that's the case I'm not sure WHY I was chosen to do the choosing, but I'm rather grateful for it. 'twas a quite fun role, even when I was nearly stepped on by Atog and/or Ex (I had a Lynch threshold of 3 as the spider, and while I could Escape Cuffs an infinite number of times, you can't escape in the last four hours of the day) and considering that spiders can't talk.
So, here's the deal: I DO NOT think it is in my best interests, the best interests of Spider-Man, or the best interests of the town to fully divulge the details of my abilities and actions as the Radioactive Spider. However, I believe being partially forthcoming with this information could still be useful at the town.
First of all, I had an ability as the Spider to look at people. I could target my choice of a number of individuals, and would receive physical descriptions of their characters in return, with the caveat that I would not know which description went with which player. I will not inform the whole class of how many people I looked at and who all of them were, but I tried to do this tactically with players I had suspicions on I wanted to confirm or deny.
Through this process, I was actually able to gain a fair amount of actionable information, one piece of which I feel inclined to share: it is my strong personal belief that Vro is Not the Kingpin of Crime. Vro is one of the characters I looked at, and a) absolutely none of the character descriptions I saw were Wilson Fisk; b) None of the character images I saw were ones that I could map to Kingpin characters. There is a degree to which my limited knowledge of Marvel comics may be hampering me here, so after I do some legwork with some of the other descriptions and candidates (now that I have a mere two legs) I might be inclined to reveal my remaining "mystery" descriptions if it would seem helpful to crack them
There's also the fact that Vro was excluded, emphatically, from the Science Hall. I supposed in conversation with Zinger that this meant Vro was neither Century Club nor Maf, but Zinger did point out that a role that had to be kept from there at absolutely all costs might be singled out despite being part of a normally disqualifying group, in case they lost that flag. However, while I appreciate Zinger for keeping me aware of the possibilities, I do think the more likely guess is that Vro had to be singled out because he wasn't caught in those categories. Not something I'd stake the game on, (especially since there are many kinds of bad not covered in that) but food for thought.
And then, of course, there was the second ability of the Radioactive Spider: the ability to Bite. Biting, by default, is non-deterministic so while I was able to mess with the odds I don't actually know where Spider-Man will be emerging from, only that I did my duty as Radioactive Spider and thus it is, presumably, inevitable that we'll have Spider-Man in this Spider-Man Mafia game.
VOTE: KoD
My reasoning is this: with Vro at least semi-exonerated, KoD has become to me the most probable candidate for current holder of the Kingpin title, and this seems as good a place to put an early vote as any.
