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Anniversary Game 7/Anonymous Game 9: From Embers, A Flame Welcome to Anniversary Game 7/Anonymous Game 9! Happy Holidays and a hearty congratulations to all of SE for surviving another year of bloodshed. As if 2020 didn’t have enough death already, we just had to add more! We’re just overachievers. Before discussing the game itself, we have a few important announcements to make. First, just like the last couple years, we’re once again making changes to the moderating team. @Fifth Scholar is stepping down, retiring to the game balancing committee. Fifth, you’ve been a great help the last few years on the team, and I’m sad to see you leave the team, but I absolutely understand life just getting too busy. I’m glad we’re not losing you completely and I know you’ll be a great addition to the committee. While replacing Fifth, we’ve decided to expand the moderating team from 4 to 5, and are promoting @Elandera and @Araris Valerian. I’m confident both of them will be excellent additions to the team, given their years of experience in the games, level-headedness, and impartiality. I’m quite looking forward to working with them both. Next, we’re making some changes to the game balancing committee. On top of Fifth joining the team, we’re also adding @Straw, @Haelbarde, and @Young Bard to their number. The full committee is now Amanuensis, Stink, Sart, Fifth, Straw, Haelbarde, and Young Bard. Moving past the moderators and committee, we’re rolling out a few other changes. The biggest change on this list is the pinned threads. For a few years now, the SE General Rules and Etiquette thread has been in desperate need of a revamp. We’ve finally completed that. This includes a couple substantive changes (detailed below), but is more focused towards making the rules more beginner-friendly. I would recommend everyone re-read the General Rules, especially if it’s been a while since you last re-read them. Just in case some of you don’t, there are two big rules changes in the general rules. First, eliminators can no longer copy and paste player PMs into the eliminator doc. This standardizes the copy-paste rule across the board, which is in place not only for proving-truth reasons, but also because players other than the intended recipient of a PM shouldn’t be able to analyze its language. The second big rule change is that ciphers are no longer allowed, as they’re a way of circumventing GM-intended limited PMs and the previous rule was more confusing than helpful. Along with the rules revamp, we will be unpinning the meta discussion thread since most of this type of discussion now happens on the SE Discord server. We will not be hiding this thread, so you’re welcome to continue using the thread if you’d like. A new pinned thread will be taking the place of that thread- the GM Signups and Discussions thread. We’ve long had the GM stuff take place in a PM, but this discussion makes more sense to be on the subforum, in its own thread. This will allow prospective GMs to sign up for a game directly in the thread, merely by posting there, rather than needing to be added to a massive PM. We’ve also had a number of discussions about the term “lynch”, and have decided that, given that word’s racial connotations, it would be good to perhaps use a different word. This is not a rule, nor will it be enforced in any way, but we do recommend that you change to something else, and we as a moderating team will endeavor to avoid the term. We’re still tossing around ideas for this term. Some ideas we’ve discussed have been remove, expel, and execute. If you have other good ideas, we can talk about that and try to come to a consensus. For the duration of AG7, we will be using ‘removal’ as the replacement term. At some point in 2021, we’re planning to roll out Break Tank games, which will be a shorter format of SE games that are not played to completion. These games are only to test new mechanics that are likely broken, to see where the breaks are and how to fix them. We’re still figuring out the exact form and rules of these games, and input is appreciated in our Discord server or in a PM to the moderators. I believe that’s all for announcements and changes. Let’s move on to anniversary game-relevant stuff. As per usual for the Anniversary Games, we will be handing out 3 non-Sanderson passes at the end of this game. These passes will be given to the three players who get the most votes for Best Cosmetic Role Roleplaying. These passes can be used to approve a non-Sanderson setting for a future game and the winners of each pass will get to award them to a game of their choice. Cosmetic roles are player-chosen roles that can develop a character for RP. They do not affect your role in the game or the actions you can do. In the next post, with the rules, we have a list with descriptions for some general cosmetic roles, but if you’d like something cosmere-specific, there are a few examples at the bottom of the list from Scadrial and Roshar. You are also welcome to create your own cosmetic role and/or browse past AGs for roles not included below. We recommend that everyone has a cosmetic role, but it’s not a requirement. If you know for sure what cosmetic role you would like to use for the game, you can mention it when you PM Wilson and myself, but this is not required to sign up. If you do not mention it in your signup PM, please note your cosmetic role in your first post of the game. That concludes this first post of the anniversary game. Continue reading for the rules and how to sign up. (Do not sign up in this thread.) Player List Quick Links

Hello SE, and congratulations on somehow surviving another year of murders and bloodshed. Welcome to Anniversary Game 6/Anonymous Game 7: We Shall All Be Changed. Before discussing the game itself, however, I have several important announcements to make on behalf of the moderating team, and would encourage all of you to fully read through them. The first and most pressing matter is that of the moderation team itself. Unfortunately for all of us, both @Orlok Tsubodai and @Alvron have felt that their schedules no longer permit them to serve as effective moderators for the subforum, and have decided to step down. Needless to say, this is very saddening, as both have given years of service to SE and its community, helping to shape it into a better place, and both the logic and clarity of Orlok and the (sometimes lurking) activity of Alv will be missed on the moderating team and the subforum. We wish them the best of luck as they dedicate themselves to their respective pursuits, and hope that they will find the time to occasionally sneak back into a game or two. Their replacements on the moderating team will be @Elbereth, the other GM for this game, and @Devotary of Spontaneity, and I am confident that both will be excellent additions who will help Wilson and I tremendously in the coming years. El brings with her a wealth of experience in conflict resolution and a veteran perspective as two other long-time players depart, and Devotary’s keen sense of balance and impartiality will also be welcome in game balance review and our thankfully infrequent moderation. With changes in the moderation team, our game balance committee is also undergoing a shift in membership. We are pleased to welcome both @Amanuensis and @STINK back into the committee, and to receive @Elandera, @Araris Valerian, and @Sart as its new members who will be helping with game review. The committee will also be taking on responsibilities such as keeping the GM spreadsheet updated, revising the rules and Lexicon to reflect a post-AG2 understanding of SE, and giving additional feedback in the Art of Game Creation thread—undertakings which moderation has historically wished to be able to do, but there never seems to be enough hours in the day. With the revitalised committee, however, we hope to see these changes finally be made. The final significant alteration to SE policy is with respect to the SE Discord server established by @A Joe in the Bush and currently owned by @little wilson. While the Discord has been incredibly successful on its own merits, its well-being and the casual community fostered there have come at the expense of the subforum’s health and the activity of socialising institutions such as spectator and dead docs, PMs, and the games themselves, which have experienced a falling-off in activity recently. Therefore, to stem community migration to the server, we are officially divorcing it from the subforum—it will be removed from the General Rules thread, the #game_creation channel will be archived to incentivise participation in the largely defunct Art of Game Creation thread, and we ask that you not invite new members to the Discord, but instead encourage them to remain in the subforum and use the games and docs for social interaction. With these changes, we hope to revitalise the SE community and bring personal discussion and RP back into the games. It might surprise you, but you are allowed to talk about your life or begin off topic discussions in docs and PMs, and doing so actually helps both the community and the games. That should be it for sweeping structural changes, so onto a couple of smaller points. First, the variety of GMs in the spreadsheet for upcoming games is depressingly low, and we’d love to see more people creating and running games. With the reinvigorated committee and mod team, there are plenty of people eager to help out if you have a game idea you’re looking to refine, including El and I, and we’ll get you signed up on whichever list you’d like. (And once it comes to actually GMing, there are plenty of experienced players happy to help you co-GM.) So please contact us if you have any ideas you’d like to see run. Second, we’re implementing automatic spectator lists, which you can sign up for to be immediately PMed a spec doc for any game you’re not participating in, hopefully further incentivising people to contribute to spec docs. Finally, after a break during AG5, we are back to handing out non-Sanderson game passes, and will be distributing 3 or 4 after the game to worthy recipients. We won’t be revealing exact criteria, but worthy players are likely to be active, thoughtful and sensible players who foster discussion and community within the games. Just a thought. /announcements Oh no! Although Dalinar Kholin has successfully re-founded the Knights Radiant upon the formerly lost city of Urithiru, there looks to be an insurgent faction of the new Knights sympathetic to ODIUM, the Lord of Hate. While you’re aware of their existence, a small group of cornered individuals with mystical powers and incentive to kill...well, that can be a dangerous thing. Besides, should the Knights fall, who will guard Roshar when the Final Desolation begins in earnest? Factions: Roles: Cosmetic Roles (please read before signing up): Housekeeping: Each Day turn will be 48 hours long, with a simple no-vote-minimum lynch. The player receiving the most votes at the end of the Day turn will be killed; should there be a tie, a random player from among those lynched will die. Each Night turn will be 24 hours long, allowing the various factions and Radiants to submit orders. An inactivity filter of two cycles will be enforced. This is subject to change based on player count. To reiterate, PMs are open so long as an Edgedancer is alive. Please remember to include both @Elbereth and myself in any PMs made. Rollover will occur at 4 AM EST (-4:00 UTC) and may be posted by either El or myself. Due to writeups and the need to send PMs, this will typically take about an hour. Please be patient and bear in mind that there are likely thirty of you to keep tabs on. This game is a completely anonymous game. Please sign up by PMing both @Elbereth and myself with the title “AG6 Signup Request: [Your Name Here]” and include your chosen character and Cosmetic Role (details above) in the PM. Do not tell anyone whether or not you are playing the game. This both makes identity-guessing more fun and ensures the integrity of any voting we may do at the end of the game for non-Sanderson passes. If you wish to spectate, please PM us in a similar manner, and do not reveal that you are doing so. To facilitate anonymity, this thread will be locked, and we urge any discussion about rules changes to be made in the Q&A/Meta Discussion thread. At the start of the game, you will be issued an anonymous account. There are a number of rules associated with the use of an Anonymous Account. Please follow them carefully. Given the potential for abuse of Anonymous Accounts, any rule breaking using the accounts will be dealt with harshly. 1) Do not change the password of the anonymous account you are issued. Wilson (the IM), El and I will have access to all anonymous accounts for the duration of the game. 2) Do not use the anonymous accounts to PM any non-anonymous account, other than the accounts of the GMs. Please do not use your normal accounts to PM anonymous accounts. 3) Once again, do not tell any other player or individual associated with SE whether you are playing or not playing the Anonymous Game. Player identities will be revealed after the game, not on the death of their avatar. Players must not reveal their own identity after their death, until the end of the game, including in the dead/spec doc. Players wishing to spectate rather than play should PM El and myself for a link to the spectator doc. Questions and rules clarifications should be submitted in your sign up PMs, and will be posted by myself in the signups thread. 4) Do not change anything cosmetic about the accounts, including member title, username, signature, and avatar. Good luck to all, and we hope to get this thing started in about a week. Quick Links: