Never felt so newbie even in my first game.
Very weird to see someone getting dead in middle of day after no kill in night. So I really doubt that we have cop & doc here. Else hint of poison kind of thing would have been given surely in write-up during end of day for doc to protect.
Related to black.. May be to do with people belonging to NZ, national color is black.
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One more way of looking at it - 'His voice faded off as he was trying to say something'
Correlating it, Simon was the first person to mention about poisoning. So it might be something like, you will get killed as soon as you are trying to figure out the actual mafia clause here? Meaning, it could be just smart figuring gameplay & lynching the mafia to save ourselves from getting killed? Am I reading too much?