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  1. Appreciate it, but I definitely can’t do it this year as I’m going to Curitiba, Brazil near the end of July for my mission Seconding all the other nominations so far though!
  2. Nope! So unless you’re my 11 year old brother’s friend… Also— thanks everyone! Muito amor! :D.
  3. I got my mission call today Brazil Curitiba South Mission, Portuguese speaking! Reporting to the Brazil MTC on July 31. Incredibly excited and grateful
  4. oh hey i finally graduated from my own thread as of a month and a half ago :p. i made this when i was 14 thats kinda wild
  5. I’m not an authority here, but I would assume that the AG being in LG form means that a QF would be next up.
  6. You can mark me as inactive on the GMing sheet. It’s not quite the right word, but it’s the one that’s used and I’m not planning on running another game I’ve got an unused pass (and an unused ruleset for it…) that I can make up for grabs. Idk if I’m supposed to give it to someone specifically, or just chuck it out into the stratosphere for someone to claim, but whatever is the correct thing I’ll do that. Speaking of unused rulesets— I don’t actually care about my pass ruleset, but I have an epic Shattering of Adonalsium blackout ruleset that I’d be more than happy to pass on if someone wants it. I know Elan and Straw already saw the blackout rules, years ago. The reason I never ran it was because it needs like 27 players minimum which just isn’t reasonable these days, so if you want it just know that it’s kind of a pipe dream, but knowing that dream lives on would be enough for me
  7. Good job Stick And Faerie, wow, I was not expecting Vulture to be a new player. You did very well and certainly deserve that pass! Was I one of them? Glad I got to play with you after GMing your first game here. And funny that we ended up paranoia death spiraling on each other. Tbh that was probably predictable As I’ve been saying, this was probably my last game. At least for awhile. My last semester of high school just started and I’m busier than I’ve ever been, and I think recently I’ve sort of been playing SE just because it’s something I do. Call it obligation, or habit, or whatever, but the AG felt like a good time to rip the bandaid off and call it a day. I had a good run; now it’s time to pass the torch I actually think I’ll play one more this summer, in the weeks leading up to when I leave on a church mission, after I graduate. But until then, o7 and have fun y’all. I may pop in and spec now and again, we’ll see. Thanks for the last game, everyone, it was fun and I’m glad we technically got the win
  8. Hopefully you can complete it faster than me I did it in one take, but across multiple sessions and multiple days.
  9. I only have P4 and NKG left percentage wise. I could banish the Troupe I suppose.
  10. Ummm idk xD I think I sat against the wall and spammed quick focus and quick slash and that seemed to work fine. I don’t remember exactly what I used.
  11. I only did it three times cause that was all it took to get the new menu but that try I got 76
  12. The Eternal Ordeal THE ETERNAL ORDEAL!!! Also I finally beat the Trial of the Fool lol Cheesed the no heal section with Hiveblood :P.
  13. I think the next game is the AG (anniversary game, which is also anonymous) which I think won't go up until after Christmas at the earliest. But I'm not running that so I don't know for sure.
  14. GM Thoughts: Distro: I liked this distro when it came up for a few reasons, many relating to Kas For one, him being Brandon was a neat in-world explanation for how an SEr is actually Brandon in a wizard beard, but more than that I thought it would be nice to have a lurcher who wouldn't necessarily default to protecting Kas every other cycle like many of us would be wont to do (ignore the fact that Kas self-protected every other cycle). As Wiz pointed out, Brandon was designed to be cover for the SK, but over the course of the game Coffee wasn't attacked and no one was lurched, so But I think it worked fine anyway. Another thing I liked about the distro was e!JNV against v!Kas, which I didn't set up intentionally but was definitely a factor in picking the distros RNG gave me. In the past I've full-on sheeped Kas' JNV meta reads that were beyond what I could tell, and he was always right, so I wanted to see how he would fare against e!JNV. And I got my answer in literal C1, where he e read him pretty early on. He waffled a bit but ultimately was right again. So there's a question answered! No pressure for future games, Kas The elim team ended up being more inactive than I was anticipating, though I maybe should have guessed. Ash going full Dingo was not in the plan (you're fine, Ash) and neil was a gamble, but hey that part of it paid off! @neil the beguiled it was super fun to watch you play and I hope you stick around long enough for me to play with you myself. 2/3 elims not voting the first two cycles screwed with the village for awhile but with an assist from Coffee they got back in it. And I suppose Coffee was a gamble as well (see my note at the start of the SK doc) but I feel like that also was a good decision. I don't like to be predictable with who gets what role as I like the idea of pure random distros so making a long returning player SK and a new one elim wasn't something I was afraid of doing Convention Game: This... went about how I expected xD Around half the players did this for the first cycle or two, which was basically what I had pictured. The CG suffered greatly, imo, from me making up what it was literally the day before the game started and I don't think the conception was all that good, which was /fine/ because it didn't really mean anything as far as the actual game was concerned. It also suffered from rules inconstancy with me making a rule change that sort of made sense to correct something I thought made even less sense, but what I'd imagined to be a competitive race for points turned out to be pretty clunky. Which again I think is fine as the CG doesn't matter all that much. I only made two actual mistakes with this. The first was deciding that elims couldn't be teamed together, which though I never confirmed, absolutely could have been metagamed to huge village advantage. (Shoutout Archer for not doing this :P). In general I failed to consider the implications of the CG, but it never got out of hand unless you count JNV's second point coming because Ash told them who his opponent was. The second mistake was that I gave Coffeecat the exact same CG role as their opponent, making them both Corrupted on accident. The worst part of this is that Coffee being inactive for the first 24ish hours gave me ample time to notice and fix this mistake, but I only noticed immediately after Coffee checked her PM :P. Again though, this didn't actually matter in the long run. And I guess that's it. Thanks again to everyone who signed up and played, making it the most well-attended con/SE game in awhile, and certainly the longest in awhile I had a lot of fun with the more unconventional (or perhaps more conventional ) setting and writeups. After the AG I'm going to try to ease off on SE as I finish up school so idk if I'll GM again, but if this was my last I definitely would call it an excellent end. Oh yeah, shoutout to Tallybot, the real MVP of the game xD But seriously, it's a great tool. I definitely recommend it for future GMs, provided Kas/Drake are able to distribute it and explain to the GMs how to click the button without blowing it up As you should be. Idk if I mentioned it explicitly in the dead doc, but yeah, I was impressed with your reads this game. You're a very underrated villager, imo.
  15. MR67: Aftermath: A Successful Lurch Once Kasim returned, the remaining SErs gathered together, circling up like they had at the beginning of this convention. Before this madness had begun. Though Mat supposed that it had begun the moment he'd helped suggest and set up this SE meetup. In a lot of ways, he blamed himself for what had happened to everyone. But he knew that was the wrong way of looking at things. He never could have known, never could have done anything more to stop it. He joined the circle, though everyone knew he was innocent. That last death note had most definitely come from one of the four standing around him. He looked them over, one by one. Kasim was certainly good; he had given so much to rid the convention of the killers. And the grief on his face was as genuine as Mat had ever seen. Not to mention him being the literal Brandon Sanderson. TKN refused to meet his-- or anyone's-- eyes, but Mat didn't think that meant anything. He was as unreadable in real life as he was on the forums. Illwei, on the other hand, studied everyone else one by one, analyzing for an unknowable purpose. She had arrived late to the convention, but not late enough to prove innocence. And then there was neil, who Mat knew nothing about. Did anyone know anything about neil? Mat felt the tension in the room shift, focusing on the newcomer. He wasn't the only one who had come to that realization. They'd accepted neil's words when he had said that he was a friend of Stick's, and he clearly knew Illwei from previous encounters. But he'd seemed genuinely terrified when he'd seen her walk in the room. In a flash, neil's arm snapped forward, suddenly clutching a knife he must had produced from within his trench coat. But the knife's progress was stopped as Kasim grabbed neil's hand and slapped it away in a perfectly executed disarming. "No," he growled. "No one else dies. Not at my convention." neil gulped. But said nothing. "That's what I thought," Kasim said. "You're coming with me." --- Once neil had been detained, Kasim stood by Mat, TKN, and Illwei on the streets of Salt Lake City, staring at the convention center that had housed nightmares for the past weekend. At a huge cost, it was now over. "I want to thank you," Kasim said, "for defending the con these past days." "You did a lot, too," Illwei pointed out. "I honestly still wasn't sure of neil at the end there." Kasim shook his head. "It was a team effort. Because of you, my work can continue. Those murderers had it out for me. I couldn't have borne the knowledge that my stories would go untold, but now I don't have to." It was only then that Mat fully registered that Brandon Sanderson was standing next to him. His favorite author, the reason he was here at all, the reason he knew any of these SErs, right there. He almost asked for an autograph. But it didn't feel right. "Will there be a Dragonsteel 2025?" Mat asked instead. He couldn't imagine the lawsuits the Dragonsteel company would be facing. But Kasim-- Brandon-- only smiled, and shrugged. "If we can manage it. I still have stories to tell, after all, and there are those who want to hear them. But if not, the books will still be there." He paused, scratching his chin. "But there is one thing." "What's that?" TKN asked. "We're going to need much better security." * * * neil the beguiled was removed from the convention! He was a Crazed SEr! Kasimir was attacked, but survived! Vote Count: Illwei/Ooklil (1): neil the beguiled neil the beguiled (2): Kasimir, The Known Novel/Bald The Known Novel/Bald (1): Illwei/Ooklil The game is over! Congratulations to the Reasonable SErs for defending Dragonsteel 2024 and ridding the Salt Palace of its various insane people! Though there is some writing scrawled in the parking garage that needs to be pressure-washed off... The Convention Game has a two-way tie for its winners! @Archer, with two points, who completed his task before his opponent as well as guessed their identity, and @JNV, with two points, who successfully guessed their opponent as well as figuring out that Ash and Aeoryi were paired against each other! Second place is awarded to the 7 players with one point, and the bronze medal can be split between those with none Thank you to everyone who participated in this game! And special extra thanks to @Elandera for answering my questions, keeping the peace, and being the IM this game needed. I'll post GM thoughts later, probably tomorrow but potentially tonight. I have some things about the distro I want to shout out, and general thoughts about the balance and mechanics. It wasn't too complicated so there isn't a lot to say, but if anyone has thoughts about it now's the time to say them Doc Links: Master Sheet Dead/Spec Doc Elim Doc SK Doc Convention Game Full Rules Player List:
  16. One hour remaining. Illwei/Ooklil (1): neil the beguiled neil the beguiled (2): Kasimir, The Known Novel/Bald The Known Novel/Bald (1): Illwei/Ooklil
  17. Oh that’s what happened. Yeah, that was the second option. The first was JNV blocking me N0, which is why I accused them of lying, but that was actually a stupid thing to do because to explain further I’d have to virtually out Devo as the Forsaken. At that point I ghosted the thread but I also was busy the whole rest of the night so I doubt I would have talked anyway. Lying did catch up to me. I guess there’s a lesson in that. But it didn’t catch up to Archer so idk :P. Archer, my post about you pushing me was independent of you being right. I think what happens is that you’re just insane at gut reading me, but you hate to call something a gut read, so you confbais bad reasons to cite. Like, you e read me because I village read you while you admitted to mindmelding. Things like that happen all the time. I guess I have no argument because you continue to be right though, so good job xD I said this to Kas/Drake already, but if the GMs wanna rerand the game and start it again at tonight’s rollover time, it’s be over by Christmas and we could try it again :). :). :).
  18. JNV makes the most sense here I think Mostly am confused because there's no way the Pattern hasn't massively screwed with things but yeah
  19. MR67: Cycle Five: Brandon Sanderson??? "I'm Brandon Sanderson! I'm Brandon Sanderson! I'm Brandon Sanderson!" What on earth? Mat hurried around the corner into the exhibit hall, drawn by the frantic yelling. He'd been puzzling over the remaining threats to the convention on his own, untrusting as he was, but this seemed worth his time. When he saw who was doing the yelling, he blinked, coming to a halt. It was Coffeecat. Silber, as he'd originally known her. She'd been a player in his first ever SE game, but then again, so had twenty-nine others. But she was definitely not Brandon Sanderson. He locked eyes with her. "I'm Brandon Sanderson!" she yelled, shaking a fist at the sky. Kasim stepped forward from where he'd been watching this unfold across the room. Mat watched as the man firmly grabbed Coffee's arm. "No," he said calmly. "You're not." Coffee snapped her gaze to meet his, eyes crazed. No, not crazed. Ballistic. Mat almost cried a warning, but his breath caught in his throat. In an instant, the situation was swapped, Coffee having slammed her free fist into Kasim's gut to escape and then grabbing his throat in a choke hold. The other SErs-- all five still remaining-- burst from the crowd to rush to Kasim's aid. The next few moments were a chaotic mess of tangled punches and confused fighting, but the madness soon cleared up. Leaving Aeoryi and Araris dead on the floor, alongside Coffee, who was unconscious but still visibly breathing. Mat felt dizzy for what he had just witnessed. Kasim knelt on the ground next to the two fallen, seeming to be barely breathing himself. The other SErs-- all three still remaining-- backed off. A small piece of paper fluttered onto the ground, but no one seemed to notice. Mat walked over silently and picked up the paper. Not done yet. Kasim reverently stood, slinging Coffee's body over his shoulder to presumably hand over to the police when this was all finally over. * * * Coffeecat was removed from the convention! She was the Ballistic SEr! Aeoryi was killed! She was a Reasonable SEr! Araris Valerian / Winnie the Pookla was killed! He was a Reasonable SEr! Vote Count: neil the beguiled (2): Coffeecat, Illwei/Ooklil Coffeecat (5): Kasimir, Araris Valerian/Pookla, The Known Novel/Bald, Aeoryi, neil the beguiled Cycle Five has begun, and will end in about 48 hours, on Thursday, December 21, at 3pm PST. There will be an execution today, with no vote minimum and RNGd ties. When voting, please also vote using a non-Ookla name if possible. If you think you've completed your convention game task and haven't heard from me, please let me know. I'm not taking the time to check on everyone's progress, if you want the point, say it! Remember to submit any actions you may have. PMs are closed. Player List:
  20. I'm fully trusting tallybot on this one because my count had Aeo voting Illwei and Illwei voting Coffee but ultimately it doesn't matter because Coffee is a clear leader either way neil the beguiled (2): Coffeecat, Illwei/Ooklil Coffeecat (5): Kasimir, Araris Valerian/Pookla, The Known Novel/Bald, Aeoryi, neil the beguiled 2.5 hours!
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