Day Six
Chapter 10: Send in the Clown
As the red balloon floats away,
Pietro has an awakening. Often ignored in the village, he has managed to move around the island largely unnoticed. But seeing his good pal
Jacques be driven away and knowing of his friend’s innocence, he knows that he has just had about enough. Sooner or later, he knows that he will end up as the target of the wrath of his fellow islanders.
“Ungrateful Town! Only if they knew what I do for them”….
He knew what he must do. There is only place he can think of.
Nook Headquarters.
Pietro carefully knocked on the big massive brass door that symbolizes the shameless wealth of the Nook familial dynasty. The door opened to reveal a burly and immense presence.
“What is your business here, peon?”
“I came to talk about our common enemy and hated foe…that owl bastard…”
The agent mumbled something to his watch and finally spoke after a few moments “You have five minutes. One wrong move and you’re dead”
“Of course! Of course!”
Pietro replied, assuring them to his cooperation, he was then shown to a maze of doors and walls and more secret doors and compartments.
“The boss is waiting for you.”
Pietro had been staring down for some time now, and wrenched his gaze from the immaculate flooring, surely made and maintained with blood, sweat, and tears. He found his walking partner's appendage, and followed it down an even more luxurious hallway, ending with an enormous and brutally stark pair of iron doors.
The agent left him, and
Pietro began to walk down the hallway towards those very doors. Opening them, he saw the most lavish room he ever laid his eyes on. It is a huge contrast to his own house on the island, with lots of colors and pastels. And with this luxury, the room extended it's own sense of authority, all centered around it's notorious occupant,
Tom Nook
“Clown,"
Tom Nook spat with contempt. "I was told you wished to discuss a shared problem, the fowl,
Blathers.”
Pietro replied, anxiously, “Yes, yes, I know exactly where he is going to be tonight. I can show you! We can kill him tonight!"
“And why I should believe you? You've been with the revolution for some time. Why would you suddenly turn on it like this?”
Tom, the patriarch of a dynasty, snapped his fur-covered fingers resoundingly.
“You know that for years they have been laughing at me, chastising me and my every move. But as for what turned me to this: did you see what they did to my friend
Jacques? Look at hat they did to your nephews! It's been more than three days,
Tommy has probably already died of dehydration at this point. And now I know why you do what you do. I just want to be on the winning side for once.”
“Very well” said the ominous voice, his back turned from
Pietro. All
Pietro could see was smoke coming from around the plush chair.
“Prove to me that you are worthy. Another agent will come with you so you can do…what you need to do. Make sure that that Ancient SOB is gone”…….
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Blather’s Museum….
“Blathers….”
“
Pietro, you startled me!” Blathers exclaimed in mild annoyance, this interruption devastating his delicate work.
Blathers is sitting in his chair and doing his taxidermy for the day, quite unsettling when it's done to something that used to be able to think and speak.
“What are you doing here? Go away! Don’t you have better things to do? Like scaring the other islanders?”
“Blathers…You and the villagers have not been nice to me. I tried my best to be good to town but you, especially, always manage to-"
“Ahh , save your breath, clown! Go away now and perform your foolish tricks on someone else!”
“NO!”
Pietro drew his gun and pointed it at Blathers.
Blathers shocked and bewildered jumped and said “
Pietro, you fool, I knew you are rotten. What on earth has gotten into you..”
At that moment, the Nook agent that was with
Pietro appeared on the scene and pointed a second gun at Blathers…
“Ok
Pietro…what is this? Are you working for
him? You swine?!! I knew it, I knew it, you evil clown."
“You all made me like this.. You and the rest of the town. You all have to die!” and with that,
Pietro aimed his gun at the Nook agent and shot the heart of the agent. Unbeknownst to him though, a second Nook agent is hiding in behind a separate piece of furniture, outside his own range of vision, and, impressively, Blathers' as well. The moment he shot the first agent, the second agent shot
Pietro in his chest and made the decision to tactically retreat from engaging with Blathers as well. Blathers' rage was well known on the island by this point, as well as his tactical genius and insane savagry.
“Pietro, what the hell!”
Blathers quickly took the dying Pietro to arms
“I’m sorry Blathers…but I had to make you all…see…see…I did it..I killed one..of them. You seen it…you seen it..please tell everyone….please tell everyone….don’t forget me….I ….I….”
Pietro closed his eyes. Like a true clown he died with a smile.
As his comrade died, Blathers turned around to search for the body of Nook's dead agent, only to find that it wasn't there. Instead, all he found was a broken piece of complex machinery with a bullet hole going through it, Nook agents nowhere to be found. Despite dying in vain, his impact was still felt.
Pietro's sacrifice would, at least, be acknowledged and seen by his fellow islanders.
Hollowkatt's Role said:
Pietro - One-Shot Vigilante
Laughing on the outside, and crying on the inside. You have steeled yourself for months on this island, waiting for the day that you get back. Now that you've learned that you'll have to fight to leave the island, your prior preparations for, uh, a different project may prove to be useful. A particularly sharp, if fragile axe, might just change the course of this conflict
Once during the course of the game you may shoot a player. In the event that you are roleblocked you will be explictly informed as such and your shot will be refunded. This is one of the few situations where a player will be explicitly informed they were roleblocked, besides the use of lost and found items.
Town Win Condition: Eliminate all the mafia.
You have 48 hours to vote for exile. There will be no item vote today.