Happy birthday Stitch! Should have said it earlier, but you were kinda lynched, unfortunately
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All houses in Animal Crossing were dark during the night, save for one, where a candle stood in a second floor window. Mellow Ezlo had decided to leave his buddies to the dirty work of the night and spend extra time with his significant other, PokaLink. They had had to close their store during the investigations and could not dare to glance at each other else the town would target them as criminals.
They sat next to each other on the floor reading books, and Mellow slowly lifted his eyes off the page and took in her lovely pink fur and her deep, kind eyes. He wondered if she suspected. She would understand. Of course she would. His mind drifted to their shop, and he considered the countless hours they put into it. She would understand.
Knock knock knock. PokaLink jumped to her feet, startled, but Mellow pushed her back onto the floor and galloped out of the room, turning on the lights as he went downstairs. He paused for a moment at the front door, assuming a careless facial expression, and opened it.
Light spilled out on an animal with a bushy tail, a long snout, and sharp eyes. “Can I help you?” Mellow asked. The skunk still stared at him, narrowing his eyes. Mellow Ezlo slowly reached into his pocket and put his hoof on his knife. The skunk’s eyes darted to Mellow’s pocket. In an instant his own knife was out and against Mellow’s throat. Mellow Ezlo pulled out his own knife and backed away, before lunging forward and aiming a stab at the chest, but the skunk sidestepped and drove his knife into the alpaca’s heart. As Mellow gasped and crumpled to the ground, the skunk smirked when he saw PokaLink standing a few yards away wielding a long metal bar. She stared blankly at Mellow for a moment, and then slowly lifted her eyes to the skunk’s face. Her eyes at once fierce and devastated, PokaLink charged forward and swung the bar at the killer’s head, determined to avenge Mellow or die with him. The skunk ducked around the attack and jumped back.
“I don’t want to hurt you,” he warned. In response, PokaLink charged forward and this time swung the bar at his feet. With an “oof” the skunk went down but aimed a hard kick at the angry alpaca. PokaLink took the blow with a grunt and swung down the rod. Panicked, the skunk hurled his knife into the alpaca’s stomach to give him two free paws and grabbed at the rod to protect himself. He rolled to the side, leaped to his paws, pulled out the knife, and then ran out the door as fast as he could.
Meanwhile, in another house, Thareous sat quietly in her bed, thinking over the events of the day, realizing that her known innocence made her a target. She had boarded up her windows, confident that nothing could break in that way, and locked the door and pushed a bunch of furniture up against it. She still worried about her safety, keeping her up.
Suddenly she cried out and hissed and then moaned, clutching her belly. Her white sheet started to turn red as something rustled beneath her bed and thudded out of her room and down the stairs. A long, sharp sword had been stuck up through her bed and into her abdomen.
The three bodies were all found in the morning, and realized that Mellow Ezlo was Cyrus, the Mafia Lover, PokaLink was Reese, the Villager Lover, and confirmed that Thareous was Katie, the Innocent Child. Close friends began to eye each other warily after finding out about Cyrus's loyalties as the sun rose to signal the new day. The volunteers seemed emboldened by the death of a criminal, but saddened by the deaths of two innocents.
Still Alive: 9
-Fig
-A Link in Time
-Musicfan
-DekuNut
-AvatarFlygon (replaced by Heroine of Time)
-Fiery Klongo
-FarnabyIsland42 (replaced by Imogen)
-PancakeSamurai
-Repentance
Dead: 11
Findemaxa/LittleGumball, Mable, Mason, lynched Day 1
Heroine of Time, Dr. Shrunk , Modified Doctor, killed Night 1
Mido, Blathers, Vanilla Townie, killed Night 1
Fused_shadows, Tortimer, Vanilla Townie, killed Night 1
Atticus, Zipper T. Bunny, Mafia Godfather, lynched Day 2
Imogen, Booker, Jailkeeper, killed Night 2
pkfroce, Blanca, Serial Killer, killed Night 2
Stitch, K.K. Slider, Vanilla Townie, lynched Day 3
Mellow Ezlo, Cyrus, Mafia Lover, killed Night 3
PokaLink/Ver-go-a-go-go, Reese, Villager Lover, died with Lover Night 3 <3 <3 <3
Thareous, Katie, Innocent Child, killed Night 3
Day 3 Begins!
Day 3 ends on Sunday, July 6th, at 7 PM EST. As 9 people are alive, it takes 5 votes for a majority lynch. If majority is not reached by the end of the day, the person with the most votes will be lynched.