Chapters Let's Play: The Mafia Game
"Ugh! There's nothing to do!" complained Rainbow Dash, as she tossed her Daring Do book on the floor.
It was a hot summer day in Ponyville, the air was thick and muggy. It was one of those days where you just don't want to do anything and that's exactly what the Mane 6 was doing. Early in the morning, before Twilight was fully awake, Rainbow Dash had busted into the castle looking for something to do. Since Twilight had just gotten a shipment of Daring Do books Rainbow raced to the library to read it, only to find out they were ones she had read before.
It was so unbearably hot that nobody was working, all the kids in town had gone to the pool for the day making it too crowded to go there. Since Rainbow was already at the castle, Twilight had decided to invite the rest of the girls over to figure out what they could do today.
"You could always help reorganize the library." said Twilight, motioning to the giant mess of books around Rainbow Dash.
Rainbow turned to face her, "Yeah, no. It's way too hot to work!"
"Agreed." said Rarity, as she braided Fluttershy's long pastel pink hair, "It's simply unbearable!"
"Mac an' I had ta stop workin' cause it was so hot, this mornin'." added AppleJack, taking off her hat to fan herself.
"It totally doesn't help that the power went out either! Which means no fans!" exclaimed Pinkie, her mass of bubble gum pink curls bouncing as she spoke in her usual animated fashion.
"So, um, what can we do?" said Fluttershy, pushing a stray strand of hair out of her face.
Silence fell over the group as they thought of what they could do. Before anyone could state an idea, three young girls and a young drake ran into the room, laughing and smile.
"Heya guys! How was the pool?" asked Pinkie, jumping up to talk to the group.
"It was great!" said Spike, running a hand through his still wet emerald and lavender hair.
"Yeah! Especially when Pip got Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon with that big wave!" Scootaloo added with a toothy smile.
"The looks on their faces!" chuckled Apple Bloom, as she set the beachball on the floor.
"It was priceless!" Sweetie Belle said with a squeak.
"As glad as I am that you four had a marvelous time," said Rarity, looking at the puddles that the children where leaving on the floor, "I do believe, you should get dried off."
Spike looked down at the big pool of water under the group before looking at his friends, "Yeah, we probably should."
"We'll clean this up first though!" said Sweetie Belle, as she used her towel to mop up some of the water causing the others to follow suit.
After they cleaned up the water on the floor, the CMC and Spike went off to get changed out of their wet clothes, leaving the Mane 6 to figure out what they were going to do. After a few minutes the children came back in the room and got to work occupying themselves. Spike picked up the strewn books and put them away while the CMC discussed plans for tomorrow.
"Hey guys! Why don't we play the Mafia game?" asked Pinkie, jumping to her feet.
Pinkie's exclaimation was met with silence. Silence that was broken by Rainbow Dash.
"The Mafia game?" Rainbow raised an eyebrow, "I dunno Pinks."
"It'll be fun! Cheesy told me all about it!"
"How do you play?" asked Twilight, closing the book she had been partially reading.
"Simple! One person is a murderer, they go around and kill all the other players. Another person in the doctor, they try to choose the same player that the murderer is trying to kill so they can save them. Two other players will be the policemen, they'll try to find out who the killer is and arrest them, thus ending the game! The other players can accuse each other of being the murderer.
"Here's the catch, no one knows who the murder or the doctor! Only those players know who they are and they can't tell anyone!" exclaimed Pinkie.
"So you won't know if your talking to the murderer?" asked Rarity
"Nopey dopey! Only if the policemen correctly accuse someone will they find out." answered Pinkie.
"We wanna play!" said the CMC collectively.
"Wait uh minute." said AJ, "Jus' how do ya 'die'?"
"Oh, no one will really die! We'll just stick a foam bullet on them! The murderer can only kill one person each day, and only at night! The 'dead' players can still help the other living players stay alive. That is, without revealing the murderers identity."
"I guess it could be fun.." said Fluttershy, twiddling her thumbs.
"Let's try it!" said Rainbow with a large smile.
As the other voiced their agreement Pinkie smiled, "Great! We'll start tomorrow!"
"How do we know who we are?" asked Rarity, folding her arms.
Pulling a hat full of strips of paper out of nowhere Pinkie said, "Everyone take a paper, no one say what's on your paper, and then tomorrow we'll start the game!"
As each person grabbed a strip of paper Twilight said, "You girls could stay over at the castle tonight. That way we can start the game as soon as we wake up."
"Fantasic!" Pinkie smiled mysteriously at everyone, "Tomorrow, the games begin!"
Author's Note
AND HERE WE GO!
This will more than likely bomb and I'll just cry and stuff. Whatever.
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Let's Play: The Mafia Game
The next morning was cooler than the previous, something that everyone was thankful for. Now that the game had begun, everyone was on edge, trying to figure out who could be the murderer.
"Okay!" said Pinkie Pie the next morning during the group's pancake breakfast, "Here are some additional rules for the game. Numero Uno, until the game is over you can't leave the castle!"
"Pinkie, that's absolutely ridiculous." said Rarity as she wiped her mouth with a napkin, "I have to go back to the boutique today, I have an order to finish by next Wednesday."
"You could finish it here!" replied Pinkie before leaning close into Rarity's face, "Unless that is just an excuse and your really the murderer! I mean its a awfully convenient that you have an 'order' to complete by next wednesday."
Rarity leaned away from the pinkette, "I told you about it last week, darling."
Pinkie leaned back in her seat with a look of recollection, "Oh yeah! Tehe! I forgot. Either way, you can't leave! I'll just ask someone to bring the stuff here for you!"
"Pinkie," started Twilight, setting down her fork, "It's not possible for everyone to stay here all the time. AJ has to go back to the farm, Shy has her animals, and Rainbow has weather patrol."
"Actually I don't." corrected Rainbow, as she soaked her pancakes in syrup, "Clear Skies and Open Skies are taking doing my part for the next week. Said they needed the over time."
"Still, AJ and Fluttershy have things to do."
"Um, actually Twilight." said Fluttershy, as she shifted the pancake around with her fork, "Pipsqueak asked me if he could take care of the animals for a few days. He's a real natural with them so I'm free to stay."
Twilight sighed before casting a glance at AppleJack, "Let me guess you don't have to go back to the farm soon either."
"Eenope." replied AppleJack, imitating her older brother, "Not until it cools down a whole lot more."
"Yippee!" exclaimed Pinkie Pie, jumping up, "Then we can all stay!"
"Great." muttered Twilight, "Just great.."
Twilight had recruited everyone to help with the cleaning of the castle. Due to all the pollen and dust in the air the castle had become quite dusty. The CMC and Spike had been charged with cleaning the dining room. Well, more like Spike was cleaning the dining room while the girls tried to figure out who the killer could be.
"Did ya hear what Twilight said at breakfast?" asked Apple Bloom, leaning on the broom she had been pushing.
"No, what did she say?" replied Scootaloo, pausing mid dust.
"Well, she didn't seem too happy tha' everyone could stay." Apple Bloom propped the broom against awall.
Spike sighed and looked at Sweetie Belle, who just blushed deeply in reply. Spike looked back to the glass shelf he was dusting. He did wonder who the killer was, but he doubted it was Twilight. He got the role of a police officer, his badge was safely hidden in his back pocket. As badly as he wanted to tell his friends he was a good guy he couldn't afford to. What if they where the killers, what if-
"Spike?" asked Sweetie Belle, tapping the boy's shoulder, "You okay?"
Spike snapped out of his trance, "Oh yeah, I'm fine."
"O-okay. I was just worried, you've been dusting the same area for ten minutes." Sweetie Belle turned back to the pictures she was straightening.
Spike looked at her a little longer, could she be the killer?
Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie where cleaning the main corridor. The former was quietly sweeping and the later rapidly talking and dusting.
"Who could it be Flutters?" asked Pinkie, jumping to reach a particularly dusty spot.
"I don't know." replied Fluttershy, grabbing the dustpan before looking at her hyperactive friend, "If you don't mind me asking, is it you Pinkie?"
Pinkie's expression turned dark and eerie, "Maybe it is. Wahaha!" Pinkie giggled, her light manner coming back, "Nah, it's not me Flutters! Is it you?"
Fluttershy shook her head causing some strands of hair to fall from her messy bun and into her eyes, "It isn't me."
"Gee, I hope it isn't one of the kids! How weird would that be?" Pinkie tossed her rag into their bucket of cleaning supplies.
Fluttershy nervously smiled, "Very weird."
Rainbow tossed her rag into a bucket by the door of the kitchen. For the past hour, she had been cleaning the kitchen. Pinkie had made a giant mess making the pancake breakfast. Rainbow pulled a strip of paper out of her pocket and with a sigh she read it again.
'Doctor '
What type of job was that! She'd much rather be a policeman or the killer than the doctor. Ugh! That meant she had to sleep in the same room with whoever she thought was going to die! Naturally tonight she'd stay with Fluttershy, the shy girl needed as much protection as she could get.
With a huff, Rainbow picked up her bucket, she needed to start planning if she was going to protect Shy. Tonight was going to be a long night.
Deep in the shadows a person spoke, "One by one the peices will fall. Scattered throughout the castle will their cold bodies lie. The doctor can't save them, the policemen won't protect them. No one can help them."
Grabbing a black mask, they finished, " Starting tonight these players, these pawns, will die."
Author's Note
Here we go!
Day 1. Next week we will get night 1.
WHO IS THE KILLER GOSH DARNIT!!
Let's Play: The Mafia Game
Dinner that evening was sandwiches, since towards the middle of the day the heat had become unbearable and left the castle a sweltering eighty degrees. With a little convincing, Twilight had allowed an small indoor water gun/balloon fight and now all the residents of the castle were sitting in soaking wet clothing passing sandwich items around.
"Hey AJ, toss me those tomatoes!" called Rainbow, pointing to the container of sliced tomatoes next to the farmer.
With a nod, the apple farmer launched the container into the waiting hands of the athelete, much to Rarity's dismay. While everyone ate taking their time, the CMC and Spike rushed through dinner and soon asked to be excused. Twilight looked at the three children with suspicion in her eyes.
"You usaually never rush through dinner Spike, why'd your rush today?" She asked, wiping her hands on her napkin.
The young drake scratched the back of his head, "We kinda wanted to keep playing. At least for another hour, then I'll come back and finish the dishes, I promise."
"Aw don't worry about it Spike! Shy and I'll clean up!" said Pinkie, rubbing the boy's head, "Right Shy?"
"Hm? Oh um yes."
Spike and the crusaders looked at Twilight with pleading eyes causing the scholar to sigh, "Alright, just stay in the 'wet room' alright?"
Spike quickly hugged his companion, "Thanks Twi." With that the group ran out of the dining hall.
The sounds of the children laughing and talking soon faded as they walked down the hall, leaving the Mane 6 sitting and eating in silence. It was oddly awkward for the six friends, no one made eye contact, busying themselves with their food. After ten more minutes of this Twilight spoke up.
"This is ridiculous!" the scholar exclaimed, "We usually have tons of things to talk about, and this stupid game shouldn't change it!"
"Its kind of hard to do that when you don't know if you're friends gonna kill you in your sleep Twi." replied Rainbow, looking at her friend, "Maybe we're just really getting into it, but I think this game is getting to all of us." with that Rainbow got up and left the dining room.
"If its really a problem Twilight, we can stop the game... I just wanted us to do something.." Pinkie's hair deflated slightly as she got up, "I'll go tell Rainbow and the kids."
Twilight sighed and shook her head, "No Pinkie, we'll keep playing." at those words the pinkette hair reinflated.
"And, um, I'll talk to Rainbow about not taking the game so seriously." said Fluttershy, clearing her and Rainbow's plates.
The small quartet had finished up their water fight a few minutes ago and where heading to their rooms to get changed. They had enjoyed themselves, running and splashing each other. Spike stretched his arms behind him and felt something in his pocket. Pulling it out he realized it was a water balloon. Spike snuck up behind Sweetie Belle, water balloon in hand. Chuckling quietly to himself and closing his eyes, he threw the water balloon, only the shriek he was expecting wasn't the one he got.
"Spike!"
With the expression of that of a child who got caught with a hand in the cookie jar he opened his eyes, "Oh, uh, hi Twilight. I thought you were Sweetie Belle.."
"I thought I told you if you where gonna play with water stay in the wet room!" Twilight moved her now drenched bangs out of her eyes.
"You did, and we did! But I had this one water balloon left and-" he was cut off when Twilight sighed.
"I get it, just go get changed, it's pretty late and everyone's heading to bed. I was just coming to tell all four of you that." She looked at the three girls who were struggling to stay awake.
"Alright. That's what we were gonna do." Spike waved goodbye to his friends who waved lightly and headed to their rooms.
As Twilight and Spike walked together towards their shared room, Twilight looked at her companion. Remembering times from yesteryear a thought popped into her head.
'Could it be him? '
Twilight shook her head lightly, no way it was him. It just couldn't be, if it was it would be bothering him. He'd be jumpy, nervous, she'd've figured it out easily. Twilight opened the door to their room and subconsciously nodded as Spike said he was going to use the en suite bathroom first. Grabbing the comb on her dresser, she combed through her hair, her bangs had dried fairly quickly but they were still slightly damp. After grabbing a set of pajamas she walked behind the changing screen to change clothes. Quickly changing Twilight went and sat on her bed watching as Spike came out of the bathroom and walked over to his own bed.
"G'night Twilight." Said Spike as he laid down.
"Good night Spike." replied Twilight turning off the lamp.
A shadow crept down the large halls of the castle. A storm had come in around midnight and right now the rain was pounding against the windows. Slowly opening a door to one of the bedrooms, the person aimed the weapon at the head of the sleeping victim.
"Bullseye." The killer fired the weapon.
Foosh
Silently closing the door of the victim's room, the person walked back to their room and shut the door. Pulling off their mask and setting the weapon in the closet, they climbed back into bed.
With a smile, they whispered to themself, "One down, nine to go."
Author's Note
WELP!
One persons been shot. They're dead. BYE BYE SYONARA!!
Either way, killer, who are they, SPECULATE!
Let's Play: The Mafia Game
"Morning." mumbled Sweetie Belle, shuffling into the dining room the next morning.
Today was considerably cooler than the days prior, the morning being in the low 50s. Twilight, Spike, AppleJack, and Pinkie Pie where already gathered around the table eating anything from sandwiches to gem oatmeal. Sweetie Belle sat down in the empty seat next to Pinkie Pie and set her head on the table.
"Morning sleepyhead!" chirped Pinkie, standing up, "What do you want for breakfast?"
Sweetie shrugged, "Anything is fine."
Before Pinkie could reply a shrill scream rang though the castle, causing everyone to jump. Pinkie was the first one out the door followed by the rest of them. Racing down the halls, they made it to the door of the room the scream came from. Pushing the door open, Pinkie walked into the room.
"Rarity! What's wrong?" asked Pinkie, rushing over to her friend.
"I've been, been!" Rarity broke out into tears.
"Been what?" asked Twilight, looking at her friend.
"Murdered!" Rarity wailed, falling dramatically back onto her bed.
Fluttershy and Rainbow stumbled into the room, the chiffon haired girl looking utterly terrified while her prism haired companion looked frustrated. The two younger children were right on their heels, peeking there sleepy eyed heads into the room.
"Ugh, what happened?" Rainbow stretched her arms over her head, "What's with the screaming?"
"Rarity's been shot." replied AppleJack, tilting her hat back, "'parently the killer snuck in last night."
"Rarity? She's the first victim? Why? Was she a cop or somethin'?"
Rarity shook her head, "No, I was a poor innocent bystander!"
"At least it wasn't me." muttered Scootaloo to Apple Bloom, causing the girl to nod in agreement.
"How awful!" said Fluttershy, a sad look appearing on her face, "Do you know who did it?"
Rarity sat up in her bed, "I haven't the foggiest idea. Though even if I did I wouldn't be able to tell you."
"Right.."
Rarity got out of bed, "Either way I should get ready for the day."
"We'll leave you to it." said Twilight ushering her friends out of the room.
"You know what we have to do?" asked Pinkie Pie after the rest of the group had come down and was seated at the table.
"Wut?" asked Rainbow, mouth full of oatmeal.
"Have an autopsy!"
Everyone turned and stared at the pinkette with no small amount of shock. Even though Pinkie's ideas were usually far out this had to be one of the weirdest. AppleJack slapped a choking Rainbow Dash on the back, clearing her airway. Twilight was the first one of the group to recover.
"Pinkie! We can't have an autopsy! Rarity isn't dead in a physical sense!" Twilight stared as Pinkie giggled at her friend.
"Its not a real autopsy! Its a pretend one, we have a fake set of forensic scientists and they look for clues in the victims room!" Pinkie bounced in her seat.
"But who?" asked Scootaloo, looking around the table, "Everyone here has a role already."
Before Pinkie could reply there was a knock on the castle door, followed by the sounds of the giant crystal doors creaking open on there hinges.
"Hello?" A voice rang out through the castle, "Twilight?"
"One eyed, one horned, flying purple people eater! Where are you!?" Another voice rang out.
"In the dining hall!" Twilight called, not even bothering to get up from her seat.
Sets of armored feet clanked across the crystal floors, only muffled by the few runners that lined some halls. Four guards strode into the dining hall, fully uniformed in Solar Guard gear. Saluting Twilight, they took off their helmets, the others watching in slight awe as the enchantment wore off.
"Hey-o Twilight. Have you seen Discord? He's supposed to travel with us for his weekly get together with Celestia, but we can't find him." One of the guards, Runner asked while shaking out his bright orange mop of curls.
"Actually, no. I haven't seen him in a while, come to think of it." Twilight looked at Fluttershy, who was staring intently at her oatmeal, "Fluttershy, do you know where Discord is?"
Fluttershy jumped in her seat, dropping her spoon, "Oh, no. I haven't seen Discord since our weekly tea last week. He should be at his home though."
"He has a home?" asked the other guard, Golden, pushing up his thick glasses.
"Oh yes." Fluttershy nodded, "Its actually very nice."
"Huh... Who knew?" Shield pushed down on his hair, smoothing it before snapping his fingers, "Oh! Also, we still need to know which guards are going to be part of the 'Friendship' squadron."
"'Friendship Squadron?'" asked Rainbow Dash, leaning back in her chair, "What's that?"
"A group of 4-5 guards that are supposed to be stationed in Ponyville to protect the Castle of Harmony." Starshine stated simply, shrugging her shoulders, "Twilight is supposed to pick out the 4-5 out of the 20 applicants that applied for the positions."
Before anyone could say anything else Pinkie let out a huge gasp. Hopping to her feet she inspected the four individuals. With a nod of her head, she ran out of the room.
"...Does she know of personal space?" Golden stood unblinking.
"It's a concept that seems to escape her, you grow used to it." replied Rainbow as Pinkie dashed back into the room and quickly put goggles and lab coats on the guards.
"...Wut?" Wyatt pushed the goggles up onto his forehead, "I'm confused."
"How about it Twi-Twi?" Pinkie asked, bouncing on her heels.
"I don't know what I'm approving or disapproving." Twilight stared at the pinkette who simply rolled her eyes and laughed.
"My autopsy idea! They can be the forensic scientists!"
"We're on duty though." Stated Runner, "We kinda have work to do."
"Not if she makes you part of her friendship squad thingy!" Pinkie grinned at Twilight.
"...That's a crappy reason to give us the job. I highly doubt Princess Celestia will accept it." Starshine deadpanned Pinkie.
"Please Twilight! Just check!" Pinkie pleaded, looking at her friend with puppy dog eyes.
Twilight looked between her friends. Princess Celestia had been adament about her getting at least a small squadron of guards ever since she became a princess. This would solve that problem, plus it was people she was comfortable with.
With a sigh Twilight said, "Spike, take a letter."
Author's Note
Oh look. I updated this. Finally.
Yeah not sure how I feel about this chapter, but eeeeh what the hell!
Back a while ago Vamp Dash gave me the autopsy idea so THANKS DUDE/DUDETTE!
