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I'm planning on reading them all, so I will get round to that one! The next M. Banks book I plan on reading though is Feersum Endjinn because I picked it up dead cheap at a second hand bookshop, so I actually have it to hand to start reading.

My favs so far are Look To Windward and Excession. I'm lead to believe that The Hydrogen Sonata is gonna be one of the ones that I especially like (though I adore them all (except for Inversions) of course).

I am reading The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M. Banks. Finally on the last (published) of the Culture books. Been very excited for this one.

We did skip cycle 6, yes.

The meteor hit hard. The first strike caused devestation - but it was only the beginning. Wave after wave of smaller projectiles, combined with the dust covering the atmosphere, conspired together to, bit by bit, kill anything and everything. It was over. Creation had been for nothing. Nobody won! But like, seriously, no one was even close to their win conditions. I do apologise for the utter mess that this game has been from beginning to start, and I'm grateful to everyone for not going off on one at me. You're welcome to look in the Spec Doc for my reasons as to ending the game early (or.. late, as it were). It's not pretty. Again, I'm sorry. I hope you all enjoy the rest of your time in SE - I probably won't play again (even though I definitely recall swearing off playing before...). You can catch me on the discord - come talk to me about the horrors of US imperialism, mathematics, or cute animals. Your choice. Here's to making SE history. Doc links: GM Doc - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SBs5tiPaX6hi39qrcJSq9v5ScUzM2biXOaNO8pX4yUg/edit?usp=sharing Spec Doc - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Dl7FZoqsF6QtBK1NpOn5iV83Vp_sH7KM84CKnSVYE9U/edit?usp=sharing WorldBringers Doc - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CSoH2FdRXayvn4YrYb4ikBMWeOlQUGQWhquZDoRP8iU/edit?usp=sharing Agents of Chaos Doc - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rXAXaM_bpdYFpsjtcpZvJhJO5ZUrLbSmHb7wohJP5qM/edit?usp=sharing Brotherhood of Peace Doc - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1c9boo_ANTEs4CZ1HKOJ8xoDHwRa9JvhvAeOleyJin3M/edit?usp=sharing

"All humans are descended from one pair of ancestors, Rangi and Papa, who are also called Heaven and Earth. In those days, Heaven and Earth clung closely together, and all was darkness. Rangi and Papa had six sons: Tane-mahuta, the father of the forests and their inhabitants; Tawhiri-ma-tea, the father of winds and storms; Tangaroa, the father of fish and reptiles; Tu-matauenga, the father of fierce human beings; Haumia-tikitiki, the father of food that grows without cultivation; and Rongo-ma-tane, the father of cultivated food. These six sons and all other beings lived in darkness for an extremely long time, able only to wonder what light and vision might be like." Maori Creation Story No rules were voted in! The Rule Submissions for this turn are: #1 - The Brotherhood can convert no more than three people in addition to those converted when the faction came into existence during the course of the game. If they have made these conversions, and target someone they would normally have converted, nothing happens. I know this won't matter too much now, but I'd still like to fix this anyway. also, if allowed, I'd like to use my secret-keeper power on this one. The Rules, as of Night 5: Factions Roles General Abilities Passive Rules The Lynch Set-up No one was lynched! Roleblock votes: Hemalurgic_Headshot (1) - HH wilson (1) - wilson Jondesu (1) - Jondesu Orlok (1) - Orlok Sart (1) - Sart randuir (1) - randuir Aonar (1) - Aonar Lemonelon (1) - Lemon Everyone not on this list is Boring. Player List Straw - Straw coal - King Cole Qwertyuiop - Hemalurgic_Headshot Hastur Hastur Hastur Willow - little wilson Hoid - winter devotion Kintas - Jondesu Locke Tekiel - Orlok Tsubodai Non Sequitur - Sart Bob the Omnipotent - Ecthelion III mysterious Speed Force energy - Flash Blade - Sami Elias - Bartimaeus Insanus - Darkness Ascendant Kel - randuir Silver Feather - Roadwalker Majestic Eagle - Majestic Ati - Drake Marshall Sol - Eternum Ad - DroughtBringer Elithanathile - Elithanathile Amarthion - Elenion Aed - Aonar Faileas Bortholomew the Blind - Bort Nocturnal Flying Mammal Man - Grumpy Dula Bugg - Clanky Magestar - Magestar Fess - Arinian The Lemon - Lemonelen Caramelion - Megasif Bri - Brightness Radiant Olbar - The Young Bard Searanatha theranson threson the 45th and a half - Ornstein Turn ends: Anyone who wants to complain about how long turns are taking can come PM me personally to volunteer to run the game and convince me not to walk away from it completely.

The turn is over! Rollover shall be out... at some point.

" When the earth first became hot and the heavens churned and the sun was dark, land emerged from the slime of the sea. The deepest darkness of caverns, a male, and the moonless darkness of night, a female, gave birth to the simple lifeforms of the sea. The coral that builds islands was born, and the grub, the sea cucumber, the sea urchin, the barnacle, the mussel, the limpet, and cowry, and the conch and other shellfish. Born was the seagrass, guarded by the tough landgrass on land; born was the Manauea moss of the sea, matched by the Manauea taro plant on land; born was the Kele seaweed, and the Ekele plant of the land." - Kumulipo Rule #1 was voted in. The Rule Submissions for this turn are: #1 - changelings 4 factionless are converted to the changeling faction. This faction has the following win-condition: Have at least one member survive till game end. Collectively absorb at least 2/3 of the roles. This refers to the unique instances of the role, not the total amount of roles in the game (so the changelings only need to absorb 1 strong-willed, 1 potato-master, 1 elementalist, etc.) 1 Changelings can absorb the power of a lynched person (who has to have died from the lynch), provided he/she voted on that person during the lynch with a red(killing) vote. One random role the person had is added to the collective pool of roles the changelings have access to.The use of this faction power is mentioned in the write-up, though the identity of the changeling isn't revealed (For example: Drake Marshall has been lynched. A changeling has absorbed one of his roles). Any changeling can decide to start using an absorbed role at the end of a night cycle. He will lose his own roles, but gain the absorbed role until the end of the next cycle. Afterwards, he'll lose the absorbed role and regain his own roles. After use, the absorbed role is put back into the 'pool', and can be used again by another changeling. A role can be used in consecutive cycles, by both the same changeling or by different ones. 1 changeling can also choose to watch someone during the night. If this person dies during the night, one of his roles is absorbed, in the same manner as when someone has been lynched. However, any actions against the watched person during the night have a 33% chance of hitting the changeling watching him instead. Ecthelion III has died! They were a Potato Master. The Rules, as of Day 4: Factions Roles General Abilities Passive Rules The Lynch Set-up Player List Straw - Straw coal - King Cole Qwertyuiop - Hemalurgic_Headshot Hastur Hastur Hastur Willow - little wilson Hoid - winter devotion Kintas - Jondesu Locke Tekiel - Orlok Tsubodai Non Sequitur - Sart Bob the Omnipotent - Ecthelion III mysterious Speed Force energy - Flash Blade - Sami Elias - Bartimaeus Insanus - Darkness Ascendant Kel - randuir Silver Feather - Roadwalker Majestic Eagle - Majestic Ati - Drake Marshall Sol - Eternum Ad - DroughtBringer Elithanathile - Elithanathile Amarthion - Elenion Aed - Aonar Faileas Bortholomew the Blind - Bort Nocturnal Flying Mammal Man - Grumpy Dula Bugg - Clanky Magestar - Magestar Fess - Arinian The Lemon - Lemonelen Caramelion - Megasif Bri - Brightness Radiant Olbar - The Young Bard Searanatha theranson threson the 45th and a half - Ornstein The turn will end in 48 hours:

The thread is now closed. We'll get the next turn up as soon as possible.

i'd like to apologise for forgetting one of the rule proposals

"Long ago, well before there were any people, all life existed in the sky. Olorun lived in the sky, and with Olorun were many orishas. There were both male and female orishas, but Olorun transcended male and female and was the all-powerful supreme being. Olorun and the orishas lived around a young baobab tree. Around the baobab tree the orishas found everything they needed for their lives, and in fact they wore beautiful clothes and gold jewelry. Olorun told them that all the vast sky was theirs to explore. All the orishas save one, however, were content to stay near the baobab tree." Yoruba Creation Myth No rules were voted in! The Rule Submissions for this turn are: #1: A giant meteor will strike the thread on Day 7, killing everyone, reducing their lives to 0. The game will end after the meteor strikes, with win conditions being determined at that time. #2: Drake Marshall has died! They were a WorldSmith and a member of the Brotherhood of Peace. They were a Dungeon Master! No one was lynched! Lynch results - Roleblock: Wilson (1) - Wilson Jondesu (1) - Jondesu Orlok (1) - Orlok Sart (1) - Sart Ecthelion (1) - Ecthelion Flash (1) - Flash Roadwalker (1) - Roadwalker Arin (1) - Arin The following players are now boring: Straw, King Cole, Hemalurgic_Headshot, winter, sami, bart, DA, randuir, Majestic, Drake, Eternum, Drought, Elithanathile, Aonar, Bort, Grumpy Dula, Clanky, Magestar, Lemonelon, Megasif, Brightness Radiant, Bard The Rules, as of Night 4: Factions Roles General Abilities Passive Rules The Lynch Set-up Player List Straw - Straw coal - King Cole Qwertyuiop - Hemalurgic_Headshot Hastur Hastur Hastur Willow - little wilson Hoid - winter devotion Kintas - Jondesu Locke Tekiel - Orlok Tsubodai Non Sequitur - Sart Bob the Omnipotent - Ecthelion III mysterious Speed Force energy - Flash Blade - Sami Elias - Bartimaeus Insanus - Darkness Ascendant Kel - randuir Silver Feather - Roadwalker Majestic Eagle - Majestic Ati - Drake Marshall Sol - Eternum Ad - DroughtBringer Elithanathile - Elithanathile Amarthion - Elenion Aed - Aonar Faileas Bortholomew the Blind - Bort Nocturnal Flying Mammal Man - Grumpy Dula Bugg - Clanky Magestar - Magestar Fess - Arinian The Lemon - Lemonelen Caramelion - Megasif Bri - Brightness Radiant Olbar - The Young Bard Searanatha theranson threson the 45th and a half - Ornstein The turn will end in 27 hours:

Day 4 is over. The next turn will begin at 4pm UTC tomorrow. We'll have a 27 hour night.

"In the beginning, neither heaven nor earth had names. Apsu, the god of fresh waters, and Tiamat, the goddess of the salt oceans, and Mummu, the god of the mist that rises from both of them, were still mingled as one. There were no mountans, there was no pasture land, and not even a reed-marsh could be found to break the surface of the waters. It was then that Apsu and Tiamat parented two gods, and then two more who outgrew the first pair. These further parented gods, until Ea, who was the god of rivers and was Tiamat and Apsu's geat-grandson, was born. Ea was the cleverest of the gods, and with his magic Ea became the most powerful of the gods, ruling even his forebears." Babylon Rules #1 and #3 have been voted in! The rule proposals for this turn are: #1: An action may be spent to pass any item you hold to another player. This does not include bunnies. The Rules, as of Day 4: Factions Roles General Abilities Passive Rules The Lynch Set-up The way the ruling in proposal #1 went, bunnies would still eat pancakes. This would, however, have been ridiculous. They now eat nothing. I'm letting you all off on this one, because apparently everyone assumed it was working that way anyway. Player List Straw - Straw coal - King Cole Qwertyuiop - Hemalurgic_Headshot Hastur Hastur Hastur Willow - little wilson Hoid - winter devotion Kintas - Jondesu Locke Tekiel - Orlok Tsubodai Non Sequitur - Sart Bob the Omnipotent - Ecthelion III mysterious Speed Force energy - Flash Blade - Sami Elias - Bartimaeus Insanus - Darkness Ascendant Kel - randuir Silver Feather - Roadwalker Majestic Eagle - Majestic Ati - Drake Marshall Sol - Eternum Ad - DroughtBringer Elithanathile - Elithanathile Amarthion - Elenion Aed - Aonar Faileas Bortholomew the Blind - Bort Nocturnal Flying Mammal Man - Grumpy Dula Bugg - Clanky Magestar - Magestar Fess - Arinian The Lemon - Lemonelen Caramelion - Megasif Bri - Brightness Radiant Olbar - The Young Bard Searanatha theranson threson the 45th and a half - Ornstein The turn will end in 48 hours:

Night 3 is over. We'll be taking 24 hours to do rollover, so sit tight. In addition, because the edits I made didn't save last night: Drake got lynched instead of Straw and Len's rule proposal shouldn't have been posted.

Rule #5 is no longer being considered for the rule proposals - it should have been deleted last night but for some reason that didn't work

i am apology for the mess that is this rollover

“Long before the world was created there was an island, floating in the sky, upon which the Sky People lived. They lived quietly and happily. No one ever died or was born or experienced sadness. However one day one of the Sky Women realized she was going to give birth to twins. She told her husband, who flew into a rage. In the center of the island there was a tree which gave light to the entire island since the sun hadn't been created yet. He tore up this tree, creating a huge hole in the middle of the island. Curiously, the woman peered into the hole. Far below she could see the waters that covered the earth. At that moment her husband pushed her. She fell through the hole, tumbling towards the waters below.” Iroquois Creation Myth Rules 1, 4 and 7 passed! The rule proposals for this turn are: #1 - Bunnies no longer consume items and return all items already consumed. #2 - Bunnies cannot eat pancakes. If you spend two full cycles with no items, your bunny dies. #3 - No one may use an ability or item with the same effect more than once in a turn. #4 - In the wake of the bunny civil war, there is now a ravenous horde of displaced bunnies on the loose. When somebody dies, there is a 50% chance that their body is swarmed by hungry bunnies and devoured, preventing their role, alignment, and possessions from being revealed in-thread. Drake has been lynched! They have lost a life! Lynch votes: Drake (10): Wilson x3, Winter x3, Straw x3, Dula Arinian (1): Roadwalker Roleblock votes: Flash (1): Flash randuir (1): randuir The following players are now boring: King Cole, Hemalurgic_Headshot, little wilson, winter devotion, Jondesu, Orlok, Sart, Ecth, Sami, Bart, DA, Roadwalker, Majestic, Eternum, Drought, Elithanathile, Len, Aonar, Bort, Dula, Clanky, Magestar, Lemon, Megasif, Brightness Radiant, The Young Bard Elenion has died! He was a WorldSmith and a member of the Brotherhood of Peace. The Rules, as of Night 3 Factions Roles General Abilities Passive Rules The Lynch Set-up Player List Straw - Straw coal - King Cole Qwertyuiop - Hemalurgic_Headshot Hastur Hastur Hastur Willow - little wilson Hoid - winter devotion Kintas - Jondesu Locke Tekiel - Orlok Tsubodai Non Sequitur - Sart Bob the Omnipotent - Ecthelion III mysterious Speed Force energy - Flash Blade - Sami Elias - Bartimaeus Insanus - Darkness Ascendant Kel - randuir Silver Feather - Roadwalker Majestic Eagle - Majestic Ati - Drake Marshall Sol - Eternum Ad - DroughtBringer Elithanathile - Elithanathile Amarthion - Elenion Aed - Aonar Faileas Bortholomew the Blind - Bort Nocturnal Flying Mammal Man - Grumpy Dula Bugg - Clanky Magestar - Magestar Fess - Arinian The Lemon - Lemonelen Caramelion - Megasif Bri - Brightness Radiant Olbar - The Young Bard Searanatha theranson threson the 45th and a half - Ornstein The turn shall end in 24 hours:

Turn's over. Next thread should be up shortly.

Typo. Thanks

The way I saw the "vote doubling" as working would double "3" once for each time it was used, whereas Drake and Len saw it as multiplying the previous total each time. So I got 3*4, powerful, ridiculous, but not... this. Drake got 3**4. Might as well let y'all know that I'm going to be going with the former. Regardless of how the wording of the original rule went, I'm making a call to nullify that for the sake of game balance.

Okay, let's be clear - there will not be a game wipe or restart. That is not going to happen. Wrt "any two of the following thing", I appear to have interpreted it differently to Wilson and Aonar and told the DMs that they may use that to do the same thing. I'm still not making any clear statements on whether what Drake has done is going to be allowed. And, bunny names. There are exactly 2 valid bunny names and they are Foo Foo and The Rabbit of Caerbanog. EDIT: Another thing. Elementalists - the elements in use are the Wu Xing classical elements and all the implications that they have. Keep that in mind.

Couple notes as well: First, Stick is helping me out with the game, which is why she is now in all your PMs. Second, the Secret Keeper was only introduced this turn due to an administrative error, so keep that in mind. Third, I haven't been counting role proposals as actions, so keep that in mind two. Fourth, since I've been seeing people messing it up, my pronouns are she/her or they/them. Finally, I'd like to apologise for my poor performance as a GM so far. It should get better now there's two of us working on rollovers.

"Now when chaos had begun to condense, but force and form were not yet manifest, and there was nought named, nought done, who could know its shape? Nevertheless Heaven and Earth first parted, and the Three Deities performed the commencement of creation; the Passive and Active Essences then developed, and the Two Spirits became the ancestors of all things. Therefore 8 did he enter obscurity and emerge into light, and the Sun and Moon were revealed by the washing of his eyes; he floated on and plunged into the sea-water, and Heavenly and Earthly Deities appeared through the ablutions of his person? So in the dimness of the great commencement, we, by relying on the original teaching, learn the time of the conception of the earth and of the birth of islands; in the remoteness of the original beginning, we, by trusting the former sages, perceive the era of the genesis of Deities and of the establishment of men. Truly do we know that a mirror was hung up, that jewels were spat out, and that then an Hundred Kings succeeded each other; that a blade was bitten, and a serpent cut in pieces, so that a Myriad Deities did flourish." Kojiki, Volume 1 Rules #1, #4 and #5 have been voted in! The rules proposed for today are: #1 - If a married couple has a win condition that would require one to kill the other, this particular case no longer applies, and they can win without killing each other. #2 - The Lawmakers When this rule comes into play, 3 faction-less are converted to the Lawmakers faction. The Lawmakers faction has the following win-conditions: - Eliminate the agents of Chaos faction. - The members of the lawmakers should have the combined highest number of adopted rules from any faction at the end of the game(laws submitted and accepted prior to this rule coming into effect do count for the total). Fulfilling either condition will be a win for the lawmakers. Only the first condition will end the game. Lawmakers are not allowed to vote for any rules, but they each gain a veto vote that they can use to have a rule get 1 vote less (This means that they only get 1 veto vote each, even if another rules also gives people veto votes). The faction gets a roleblock as a faction action. Only one member can use this action each cycle. The roleblock lasts a full cycle from the cycle it was initiated. #3 - The game immediately ends. Everyone loses except for Arinian, and everyone on Arinian's team. No one can not lose the game unless they are on Arinian's team. No one can win the game unless they are on Arinian's team. #4 - All currently Factionless players become ‘Stereotypical Villagers.’ Overly paranoid, highly xenophobic, and poor losers, they win if they remove all other factions with a mechanically achievable and game-relevant win-con. #5 - Each family (composing of a living father, mother and at least one adopted child) may choose to adopt an Axehound. Axehounds costing them 1 pancake to feed them every 2 cycles, automatically being deducted from the person with the most pancakes every 2 cycles, as well as a 2 pancake adoption cost. Should a member of the family be killed, the Axehound will retaliate and kill one of the attackers, dying in the process." #6 - If a player does not make a lynch vote in a cycle, they have an attack made against them #7 - Platypus: item. 5 platypi will be distibuted into the game. A person with a platypus may steal a bunny from another player each cycle. A player with a platypus gains the win condition "wins if they have 10 bunnies." Also this action disregards whether someone is boring or not, because bunnies and platypi are always interesting. Platypi are inedible to bunnies, just as bunnies are inedible to themselves. The Rules, as of Day 3: Factions Roles General Abilities Passive Rules The Lynch Set-up Player List Straw - Straw coal - King Cole Qwertyuiop - Hemalurgic_Headshot Hastur Hastur Hastur Willow - little wilson Hoid - winter devotion Kintas - Jondesu Locke Tekiel - Orlok Tsubodai Non Sequitur - Sart Bob the Omnipotent - Ecthelion III mysterious Speed Force energy - Flash Blade - Sami Elias - Bartimaeus Insanus - Darkness Ascendant Kel - randuir Silver Feather - Roadwalker Majestic Eagle - Majestic Ati - Drake Marshall Sol - Eternum Ad - DroughtBringer Elithanathile - Elithanathile Amarthion - Elenion Aed - Aonar Faileas Bortholomew the Blind - Bort Nocturnal Flying Mammal Man - Grumpy Dula Bugg - Clanky Magestar - Magestar Fess - Arinian The Lemon - Lemonelen Caramelion - Megasif Bri - Brightness Radiant Olbar - The Young Bard Searanatha theranson threson the 45th and a half - Ornstein Day 3 will end at:

sorry folks my headache hasn't gone away, so i'm going to try and rest instead of doing the rollover it'll happen tomorrow, probably sorry

i screwed up this might take another hour