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Translation (attempt):
The day is over and the assassins didn’t kill anybody! Heads up!
How many assassins are there? Are there now three assassins (because they targeted a coward)?
Or was one person protected? And there are still only two assassins?
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Ruby is a condemned man as things stand. The remaining assassin’s best shot is to convert the coward and try to swing the vote somehow. If the coward was protected in the last day shift (which we don’t know for sure) he’s vulnerable in the next one.
Somehow we have to sniff out that other assassin quickly.
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Initially I figured Vsotvep for the coward and Ruby as the seer masquerading as the coward. As more information came in I reversed that position. Now with Ruby confirmed as an assassin, I’ve gone back to my original idea that Vsotvep is simply the coward. The smuggler must protect Vsotvep next if that’s possible, which I fear it isn’t.
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Vsotvep is right, @fiddlehead - the coward has no idea that he is a coward, at least not before the assassins come to get him.
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El Ka-Oz lets out a hoarse, suppressed scream and punches the wall with his fist repeatedly. These … idiots, what have they done! , he mutters under his breath.
The seer is dead now, the only person who could have helped us finding the assassins… Although, as it seems, he did find one of them and let us know, so that is the good side of it. And at least no one was killed during the day. I hope that’s because the smuggler made a good choice in protecting the one the assassins wanted to murder - and not because the assassins bribed someone to become one of them. Maybe let’s just assume the first for now.
And then let’s go through everything again… He closes his eyes as he tries to remember the conversations from the previous nights.
So, Ruby is an assassin, so much is clear.
Marco (bugcat) is innocent, we also know that for sure.
Vsotvep has been most helpful in our discussions - I strongly assume he is innocent.
I, El Ka-Oz, have hopefully proven to everybody to be innocent by repeatedly expressing my doubts regarding Nghtstalker’s execution.
Zal (Haze) was quite calm so far, but also didn’t want to vote against Nightstalker, as the only one beside myself. Probably innocent.
Fiddlehead believed Nghtstalker in the beginning and suspected Ruby - probably also innocent.
That leaves only Clement (Claire) of whom we don’t know much yet. But as everyone else gives me an impression of innocence, I am inclined to believe he might be the other assassin.
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El Ka-Oz, my early impression of Nghtstalker was that his suspicion of Ruby was acceptable as a theory, but nothing more than that. As time passed, his refusal to consider the possibility that it was wrong was alarming to me. He could have put my mind more at ease by coming out as the seer. However, it seems he became infatuated with the idea of falling on his own sword. He made it virtually impossible for us to not execute him.
If Vsotvep is an assassin, he would never have offered Nghtstalker that deal. He would never have locked himself into an arrangement that would have him vote to execute his supposed partner Lord Ruby. He had every reason to believe that Nghtstalker would take the deal, and I’m sure the outcome surprised him as much as anyone else.
Lord Haze is the only one of us who didn’t vote last night. I considered the possibility that he was just indisposed, unavailable. But he had commented earlier. Something about everyone else just wanting to avoid being conspicuous. You seem to feel that his absence in the vote suggests innocence, but I see it as evasive, something for a person who wants to remain in the shadows. As evidence goes it’s very thin stuff, I admit. But I’ll be watching Lord Haze very closely now.
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Somehow we have to sniff out that other assassin quickly.
Lord Fiddlehead, there were four members of the contra Nightstalker camp.
- Lord Ruby himself,
- Lord Vsotvep,
- me,
- and you.
Lord Ruby has been, it seems, discovered as the assassin. Let us put him aside.
In his note, the late Lord Nightstalker absolved me from the collective suspicion. That leaves you and Vsotvep; it is likely that one of you is the assassin. As I recall, you pushed the case against Nightstalker more energetically than Vsotvep did.
Therefore, don’t you, Lord Fiddlehead, seem the most suspicious candidate as the second assassin?
Is that why you’re so set on “sniffing him out”, as you have first set misleading words about yourself like strong-smelling herbs?
Empta domus fuerat tibi ducentis:
Abstulit hanc nimium casus in urbe frequens.
Conlatum est deciens. Rogo, non potes ipse videri
Incendisse tuam domum?
“You paid two hundred for your house;
An accident too common in this city destroyed it.
You collected ten times more. Doesn’t it seem, I pray,
That you set fire to your own house?”
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Lord Bugcat, why do you assume that the remaining assassin must belong to what you call the contra Nightstalker camp? As I recall, there were five votes against Nghtstalker, with Lord Haze not voting at all. Will you not at least consider Claire Yang and Haze as suspects?
We had good reason to suspect Nghtstalker. We are hardly to blame for the fact that he refused to identify himself as the seer, which would have worked to our greater advantage. Given Lord Ruby’s behaviour, we would almost certainly have sided with Nghtstalker if he had only been more open about it, and we’re now paying a heavy price for his decision.
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I agree - we all had good reasons to suspect Nghtstalker. His behavior was definitely odd. And even though I thought he was probably innocent, I also was not at all sure about it - and I also thought he could impossibly be the actual seer, but it turned out he was.
So, voting against Nghtstalker by itself gives little to no information.
I still fully stand with the assumptions I made above:
Ruby - confirmed assassin
Marco (bugcat) - confirmed innocent
Vsotvep - most likely innocent, but not sure
El Ka-Oz - innocent (and I hope the reasons why I can claim that are clear)
Zal (Haze) - probably innocent, but not sure
Fiddlehead - probably innocent, but not sure
Clement (Claire) - very little information, but more likely to be an assassin than any of the others
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Yes, I know, Vsotvep, it is definitely possible that one of the so far innocent people is now an assassin – in that case, it wouldn’t help to know who had been innocent yesterday – , but we simply can’t know, so for now we should, in my humble opinion, work with the assumption that there are only two assassins. That is the only way to make use of the information we already have.
And only when there should come a moment when two assassins have been killed, but it turns out there’s still one left, only then we can truely know.
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I can see that your minds are set on reporting me today, and I must admit the case against me looks pretty damning. I do not know why Lord nghtstalker refused to tell us the truth about his vision, nor do I know why he targeted me. He clearly did not investigate me.
Since anything I say today is likely to falsely incriminate more innocents, I will refrain from speaking of anyone but myself. It won’t be too difficult. It’s my favorite subject after all.
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May I ask why you consider Clement to be so suspicious?
Has he done anything incriminating?
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No, it’s just like I said:
It’s basically an exclusion mechanism – for everyone else (except Ruby) there are at least some reasons to assume they are innocent, but for him not. Nothing. That makes him, in my eyes, most likely to be the second assassin at the moment.
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Oh yes, Nghtstalker clearly did investigate you. If he had investigated two innocent prisoners, there would have been two names on his note – but there only was one, so the other one he investigated must have been an assassin, and that is you.
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It’s too bad about your eyes being plucked and all. You didn’t get a chance to see my devilishly charming smile. 
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Rrrrrrr. 
But no, your charm won’t save you, traitor!
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