No.

There’s no justice like mob justice.

      He hasn’t done anything wrong.

Hes the killer! Says so in the rules lol

Quote from Hix, from this post: http://blognomic.com/archive/the_fusebox_is_repaired/

“I was wondering if the Murderer would make this mistake!

Alethiophile moved to the basement to turn the lights on.  But only Servants, Detective, and Murderer can do that.  Alethiophile is the Attorney, NOT A SERVANT.  So he is the Detective or Murderer.

Probably, he sent in a Dark List to move to the Master Bedroom, attack Purplebeard, move to the Basement, turn the lights back on, and then move back to the Parlor.  But he didn’t realize that the last part of the Dark List wouldn’t be processed (anything after the lights come back on is not processed).”

Oh yeah.

or he is the detective…

Either way, a good interrogatory would be on the safe side…
Sorry alethiophile! =P

Attack a named Guest (known as the Target) that they share a room with. Only the Murderer may take this Dark Action.

The murderer could have separately attacked…

so.. how can the detective attack when the rule says that only the murderer can attack someone?

The murderer could have SEPARATELY attacked…

I assume I am allowed to vote on this? :P

Yep, you can =P

Hix knows perfectly well that this is silly and unwarranted.  I am sure that Aleth has a good explanation for why he moved without announcing it in a post, in the GNDT or, as far as I know, otherwise.

The question is that the ONLY way he might have moved is by being either the detective or the murderer. I strongly oppose any act of violence against him, but we have 1 chance out of 2 that he’s the culprit of the attack so I agree that we must at least restrain him until we decide what to do.

The fact is*
Sorry, my French is acting up =P

He is almost certainlt the Murderer.

It sucks that its this early, but it’s necessary.

Ugh.. I don’t like this but.. alternative?

Absention to allow Crisis-speed resolution (a quorum of non-Dormant players is currently only 16):

We know that he is either the Murderer or the Detective.

1. If he’s the Murderer and we restrain him, we won’t have to deal with any attacks the next time the lights go out (or at most one when the second Murderer is added).

2. If he’s the Detective, either:
a. The real Murderer attacks, and we’ll know alethiophile is the Detective. If he is, the Murderer must know this already, so this is a positive for us.
b. The real Murderer doesn’t attack, in the hopes we’ll assume 1. is true. We keep alethiophile restrained until he does and we’ve effectively neutralized the Murderer’s attacks.

It’s win-win.

Except for alethiophile =P

Purplebeard, did you get a glimpse of who attacked you?

Explicit author

These are not 50-50 odds we’re dealing with here.

We know for certain that the Murderer sent in a Dark List that was processed.  And only 2-3 other Guests performed useful moves before alethiophile flipped the switch.  The only way he is not the Murderer is if it just happens that the Murderer and the Detective were both among the first 4 Guests (out of a possible 33) to send in Dark Lists.

CoV   I understand Hix’s logic now.

(Also, sorry for not repairing the fusebox, I was offline during the whole thing)

Given that Kevan isn’t a non-dormant player for the purpose of dynastic rules, does his vote count on this?

The rule is just that “a Dormant Guest may not propose a Crisis or vote on one”; Dormant Guests are excluded, rather than non-Dormant Guests included. My vote counts.

(Although thinking about it, we could probably do with rewording that to say that a Dormant Guest’s vote doesn’t count, not that it can’t be made - if someone votes on a Crisis and then gets knocked unconscious, their vote shouldn’t count any more.)