[RP Game] ALL THE SILVERSTEEL!

Selos read over the leaflet in his hands once more, and shook is head in horror and disbelief. He was used to fighting and death down in the mines, but up here in the settlement? Half the people here he'd known for years... but there was one he'd only seen rarely. She'd always seemed a little different, but never  human. But those mushrooms had smelled like death...

After being alone for some time Ithilwien knew it must be close to time for the vote, so she begrudgingly heads back to the tavern to await the news and see if her fellow towns people felt the same way she did.  

Du ín awoke.  It wasn't a slow awakening, such as one would expect from someone who had been, until a moment ago, deep in peaceful dreams of dwarves mining and glittering spheres of silversteel.  Rather, it was the sudden alertness of someone who knows there is danger nearby.  Very quietly, he rolled out of bed and placed his feet on the floor.  There had been a murder.  That meant that there was someone, somewhere, who wanted dwarves dead.  Someone very clever.  Someone.... human.  And he wasn't about to let that person find him. 

[Still only 11/19 votes but I can't wait forever.. Since this is so late, the next vote is the day after tomorrow (although please send early rather than late) Sorry for the delay everyone, I just wanted to give everyone chance to get their vote in. For clarity, I'll use forum names for the voting but rp names for the actual kills.]

Queen Auraya called for everyone to gather in the central Trove mines where she prepared to read the results of tonight's vote. She was trembling slightly but hid it well, her father always taught her a true leader never shows fear. When everyone was ready, she stood and in a strained but steady voice began to read:

Ozymandius: Thes
Thes: No lynch
Moka: Mayflower
Halithore: No lynch
Scorpiain: No lynch
Ithilwien: No lynch
Bartok: Thes
Dspn23: No lynch
Mayflower: No lynch
ElfLark: NinjaMuncher
Aral: ElfLark

Vibs, NightOwl, Susan Calvin, Milkwater, Meme, Mirail and Coltaine did not attend the vote. [and will be killed for inactivity day after tomorrow if no vote is cast a second time]

Auraya released a breath she hadn't realised she'd been holding and announced, "No lynch!"

The crowd cheered and departed in good spirits but she knew it would be short lived. Eventually, they were going to have to start voting properly or else they would all be doomed. The silversteel had been locked away and only she had the key. The knowledge was comforting but it was also risky - if she were assassinated, the entire village would be unable to access it's wealth.

Troubled, Auraya wandered to streets to delay the inevitable sleepless night ahead. As she was passing the library, she heard a suspicious thump. She decided to investigate. The library was dark and silent, nothing stirred. She entered slowly, a chill running down her spine. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary. She advanced past the bookshelves, thinking herself silly. About to leave, she noticed a candlestick on the floor. It seemed odd. Auraya picked it up and examined it - definitely only human quality. Blood covered one end and as she turned, the body of Selos Silverblade lay beaten in a heap. She screamed. Selos had been on guard tonight, his small dwarves frame was contorted and limbs were pointing in all the wrong directions. Gruesome as the scene was, Aura couldn't take her eyes off him.

A bitter laugh came from behind her and Auraya span round. A body was hanging from a chandelier which hadn't been there when she entered. 'The murderer must still be here!' she thought. Terrified, she made a run for the door, passing the corpse hanging in the centre. As she passed, she noticed it was a very tall dwarf and stopped. She turned and forced herself to look at who had been taken. It was a human! Pinned to his clothing was a note which read, 'Stop destroying our planet or you will be after NightOwl.'

Queen Auraya stared at the human body before her. It bore no resemblance to the dwarf she had known as NightOwl and yet.. in her heart, she knew it was he. Appalled by what she had seen this night yet curious about whom had delivered them from this traitor and the meaning of the message, Auraya left the library and went to tell Yoink what had happened.

After the the queen's announcement, Roryn went to his room to try to sleep.  Tossing and turning, he finally gave up sleeping, and headed down to the tavern.  There were a surprising number of dwarves present this early in the morning... or maybe not too suprising after the events of the evening.  Spotting a dwarf he knows as Hamlick rousing himself from a long night, he shakes his head and leaves for the forge.