Long Game 90: Undiluted Powers

[Shining Silhouette]

TUN

Seems like an obvious attempt to blend in 

Also I see my TBD character in the writeup has been dubbed "Terrific Birthday Disaster". Might as well roll with it.

***

Terrific Birthday Disaster sighed. 

It had been another one of those days. Those annoying juveniles on the street had called him names again, and the children he had tried to entertain had thrown rotten fruit. He'd always known being a clown would be difficult, but each day seemed to drag on for an eternity. 

With a bitter taste in his mouth, TBD contemplated his life choices. Maybe I should find another career, he thought. Go find a real life, like Mother always said. A respectable occupation like a soldier, or- TBD gasped as it hit him- a baker!

With a start, TBD tore off his clown nose, ran to the baker's shop, and dashed inside. "Sir!" he shouted excitedly. "Let me be your apprentice!"

Unfortunately for him, the room was filled with mysterious men, and the baker was nowhere in sight. 

"There's been an incident," a man in the front said. "Cake Culinarian is being suspected for murder. I'm afraid I have some questions for you as well..."

***

[The Bookwyrm]

Wait...so we just kind of vote randomly at first? This is my first game and I am still slightly confused.

***

Rylim Libran stood on the balcony of the Libran mansion, overlooking a portion of Tyrian Falls. There was a light ashfall at the moment, but not enough that he felt the need to go inside. The red sun shone above, marking the time as some point in the late afternoon.

A messenger had shown up earlier today bearing grave news. On top of the troubles with the nearby Koloss Garrison, there were apparently people among the population of Tyrian Falls who were spiked, just like those Inquisitors the Lord Ruler used. And they were causing problems.

With Rylim's father practically on his deathbed, the responsibility of running the house had fallen primarily on him. And this did not bode well for anyone who wanted to keep themselves and their house stable.

A servant ducked out onto the balcony.

"My lord," he said respectfully, "Your father would like to speak to you."

Of course he would, Rylim thought wryly. He wants to make sure I handle this situation his way, and not my own. My dearest father, ever afraid of someone screwing with his house and reputation.

Rylim nodded curtly to the servant and turned and walked inside.

The coming days and weeks were going to be quite interesting indeed...

***

[The Unknown Ajah]

10 minutes ago, Shining Silhouette said:

TUN

Seems like an obvious attempt to blend in 

Also I see my TBD character in the writeup has been dubbed "Terrific Birthday Disaster". Might as well roll with it.

***

Terrific Birthday Disaster sighed. 

It had been another one of those days. Those annoying juveniles on the street had called him names again, and the children he had tried to entertain had thrown rotten fruit. He'd always known being a clown would be difficult, but each day seemed to drag on for an eternity. 

With a bitter taste in his mouth, TBD contemplated his life choices. Maybe I should find another career, he thought. Go find a real life, like Mother always said. A respectable occupation like a soldier, or- TBD gasped as it hit him- a baker!

With a start, TBD tore off his clown nose, ran to the baker's shop, and dashed inside. "Sir!" he shouted excitedly. "Let me be your apprentice!"

Unfortunately for him, the room was filled with mysterious men, and the baker was nowhere in sight. 

"There's been an incident," a man in the front said. "Cake Culinarian is being suspected for murder. I'm afraid I have some questions for you as well..."

***

Ah yes, blend in with the one person who posted, kill me now, I must be a rampant spiked murderer. 

[Shining Silhouette]

3 minutes ago, The Unknown Novel said:

Ah yes, blend in with the one person who posted, kill me now, I must be a rampant spiked murderer. 

HE ADMITS IT

guys this is our chance

Edit:

4 minutes ago, The Bookwyrm said:

Wait...so we just kind of vote randomly at first? This is my first game and I am still slightly confused.

Some people wait to vote, but mostly depends on your style. My first game I was too nervous to vote but voting is good and we should all do it.

Edited October 22, 2022 by Shining Silhouette

[The Unknown Ajah]

(TUN)

[Ashbringer]

AraRaash finally had a turn. It had certainly been a while, hadn't it? Since he'd been out and about. Since he'd visited Tyrian Falls. That had been an adventure. But it was different now. They didn't know the Spiked, but the Spiked also shouldn't be acting at full capability. He'd know if they were. 

You were here before? In time, before? the voice of Faleast said in the back of his head.

"Yep. Before the rebellion. Someone wanted a Contract that was more... extensive than usually permitted. And I wanted to take a look."

And a look AraRaash had gotten. And more than enough Memories.

 

A little trip down memory lane never hurt anyone, right? 

Not entirely sure how much time I've got but I should have enough to pay attention.

Also Cinnamon and all, welcome to SE!

[Mat]

Silvereye

14 minutes ago, The Bookwyrm said:

Wait...so we just kind of vote randomly at first?

Pretty much  

I’m wanting to RP more this game, since I’ve sorta forgotten about that part of the game. Just one time would be an improvement, so here’s that.

***

Something was wrong. An unsettling feeling touched Adam’s spine lightly, and he hastily searched for the source of the problem.

There. A piece of paper, about halfway through the stack on his desk, was out of place. Adam nudged the corner, completely aligning the stack. Immediately the distressed feeling in the back of his head vanished. He’d always had a sixth sense when it came to spotting small order discrepancies, which was useful when they annoyed him so much.

The stack in question were research notes taken with his own hand. Notes that explored the Koloss; their behavior, theories on origin, and anything else he could find. Most folk avoided thinking about the beasts like the plague, and Adam’s own fascination with them was by far his most polarizing trait.

Though, with the impending threat of the Spiked and the assembling Koloss army, he figured the other members of this town would be glad to have an expert close by. A self proclaimed expert, anyway.

Edited October 22, 2022 by Matrim's Dice

[Shining Silhouette]

5 minutes ago, The Unknown Novel said:

(TUN)

If we think about it logically and use a little bit of ancient wisdom, we remember that:

"First is the best, second is the worst

Third is the one who is always cursed

Fourth is the one who dives headfirst"

 

Thus, using the order in which we posted:

Me: I'm going to have a fun game

TUN: Self-admitted murderer, nothing else to say about it

Mat: Probably going to get voted out for absolutely no reason

Archivist: The whole game will go all out on a read made D1

[The Wandering Wizard]

15 minutes ago, The Bookwyrm said:

Wait...so we just kind of vote randomly at first? This is my first game and I am still slightly confused.

Yup, pretty much bookwyrm. 

[The Bookwyrm]

13 minutes ago, Shining Silhouette said:

Some people wait to vote, but mostly depends on your style. My first game I was too nervous to vote but voting is good and we should all do it.

 

3 minutes ago, Matrim's Dice said:

Pretty much  

Okay then.... we'll just go with Ashbringer, because I think it's weird to vote for someone who hasn't even posted yet.

(And yes, Mat, I realize that you just did the same thing, but I'm going with it anyway.)

Edited October 22, 2022 by The Bookwyrm

[The Aspiring Archivist]

2 minutes ago, Shining Silhouette said:

Archivist: The whole game will go all out on a read made D1

I don't know what this means.

[The Unknown Ajah]

2 minutes ago, The Bookwyrm said:

 

Okay then.... we'll just go with Ashbringer, because I think it's weird to vote for someone who hasn't even posted yet.

(And yes, Mat, I realize that you just did the same thing, but I'm going with it anyway.)

It is actually pretty normal, and is called a poke vote.

1 minute ago, The Aspiring Archivist said:

I don't know what this means.

It means someone will make a read (elim or village), which will determine the entire game I think.

[Mat]

14 minutes ago, Shining Silhouette said:

Mat: Probably going to get voted out for absolutely no reason

As if that isn’t how I’m always voted out /jk

Wiz

I’ll be afk for the next few hours, pop in once, then I have work tonight so I’ll be gone then too. As a heads up.

[Shining Silhouette]

13 minutes ago, The Aspiring Archivist said:

I don't know what this means.

Well, based on our wonderful rhyme (which I definitely did not adapt to make myself "the best"):

"Fourth is the one who dives headfirst"

So since you were the fourth vote, I'm predicting that you will dive headfirst into the action with a read (how you feel about a player) you make early on (D1 = Day 1) and just keep swimming along that vein.

That's all I have right now for my reads list based on my incredibly meticulous methodology

[The Unknown Ajah]

Meticulously meticulous reads formed with meticulously meticulous methods about meticulously selected and often meticulous players. Also known as Shining is crazy. Hence why they're "The Shining."

[Shining Silhouette]

1 minute ago, The Unknown Novel said:

Meticulously meticulous reads formed with meticulously meticulous methods about meticulously selected and often meticulous players. Also known as Shining is crazy. Hence why they're "The Shining."

You understand

[Kasimir]

23 minutes ago, Matrim's Dice said:

Pretty much  

[OOC: Says you.

Don't listen to the liars! Here in SE, on the very first day, we slam down votes with a seeming casualness but these are carefully-crafted Heron(TM) votes, meant to fish out truth and falsehood from players by luring them into dropping their guard and then pouncing when they make the slightest action or statement that reveals their True Intentions and Likely Guilt (TM)! 

Indeed, we are such veritable specialists at the Random But Not Actually Random Cross My Heart Please No Spike Hope To Die (TM) early votes that all SE games are functionally won on the very first page of the very first day!

Checkmate Elims!

Yea, these first votes have already sealed your doom and there is nothing you can do to change the outcome. You have been thoroughly outplayed and outfoxed.

Whatcha gonna do now :eyes:

For these are no mere votes.

These are Heron(TM) votes, meticulously crafted, hand-selected, and weighted for potential effect on the thread and on the target of the vote. In fact, I'm so certain* that these votes are of impeccable quality that if you don't like them, you can go bother @Araris Valerian for your money back, because you sure as hell ain't getting a refund from me >>

*Neither Kasimir nor Heron Industries, whom he represents, assume responsibility or liability for any damages, mental trauma, MLs, losses, Tyrian Curses, and other potential externalities from taking his sales pitch seriously. Shame on you. You should know better >> ]

[The Unknown Ajah]

3 minutes ago, Kasimir said:

Tyrian Curses

Also, since this is a prequel and therefore before the breaking of the Tyrian Curse, aren't we pretty much doomed?

[JNV]

The townsfolk gathered, summoned by the call of Lord Penrod. The wanderer walked on. They were not involved in these affairs. In fact, they had intended to leave this place that very night. Too much danger for their tastes. But it seemed that now they would be entangled in that danger. They had tried to leave the town just minutes ago, only to be blocked by spears and stone faces. No, there would be no escape for the wanderer this night, nor any other. They had run far from their sins, but it seemed that they would soon face the fall for someone else’s. Perhaps it was fate’s way of ensuring justice would be done.

Atelos, they were called, a name of their own devising. Without purpose. Fitting enough for someone who had abandoned theirs. They had been someone great once. Now they were a wanderer, following what little remained of their heart. But every trail ends eventually. This town was as fitting a place as any, which is to say not at all. But no one chooses their grave. Maybe this could be their redemption. Or their damnation.

Atelos the wanderer walked on

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hi hello there its good to see some new faces welcome welcome welcome

Now before we get started I just want to say that Im strongly anti poke vote as a concept because it allows for the perception of effort without actually doing anything and just fills the hall  with meaningless noise but no judgement if you do it I know its a good way to feel like youve contributed and besides it gives the stab votes a smokescreen for pretending to be meaningless noise to see how people react to things like that 

57 minutes ago, The Bookwyrm said:

Wait...so we just kind of vote randomly at first? This is my first game and I am still slightly confused.

Basically you can if you want the red looks nice and throwing knives is fun but you dont have to just sorta exist you know just be around youll get a feel for it soon but by the looks of your other post you kind of agree with me about poke votes so reject the noise and listen to the silence

@Araris Valerian do spiked win at parity or outnumber I cant find it in the rules also is the tineye message an action or no and also in the rules theres this set of two clarifications thats confusing me one says two or more riots on the same target cancel the other says multiple riots use RNG could you clarify here thanks

[Kasimir]

34 minutes ago, The Unknown Novel said:

Also, since this is a prequel and therefore before the breaking of the Tyrian Curse, aren't we pretty much doomed?

Curses, Edven Tyrian was saying.

Yeah. Damned straight I believe in curses.

Sometimes, no matter what you do, no matter your intentions, it all goes to hell anyway. Just like dropping a rock into a pond. Ain't nothing you can do. The place the rock wants to be is down, and wishing ain't going to change a thing.

I remembered that ward in Luthadel. 

You should stay here, Wurhn was saying, all over again, and damn him for a fool, because them such as he should know better than to try to save me. Tyrian was never good to you, was it? I felt the tight pain in my throat, the emptiness in my chest. I didn't know the words to tell him. Make him understand that I knew it was a curse, damned right it was a curse. My pa'd died, drowning in the wrong sort of water.

And I knew I was gonna die that way too. Didn't make a lick of difference, no matter what his Lordship wanted.

Thing is, time does some awful things to you. Maybe it'd been kinder to his Lordship but I didn't think so.

Hadrian Penrod wasn't the only one feeling that sense of wrongness at Etam's death. Fight alongside a man, and finding out years later that he'd died some way or another just brings it home to you, like nothing else can.

Tyrian was never good to you, was it?

Better than I deserved, I never said to Wuhrn. I was feeling it now, in the marrow of my bones.

"Of course we're doomed," I said. Sure as the sun was gonna rise.

I could just see Sahren, grinning over Edven's shoulder, spikes glinting in his vacant eyes.

Seen enough horrors in the city, walked over enough slaughter that I didn't blink. Didn't flinch for a second.

"Sometimes, that don't make no difference, does it?"

I kicked a pebble loose from my boot.

"That's just how it's gonna be."

I walked away. The dust was caking my throat and the sunlight was glinting too bright in my eyes, turning everything into bright glittering shards all over. 

Damn it all.

I wanted something to drink.

Edited October 22, 2022 by Kasimir
Sorry my bad, Koren says 'pa', edited 'da' to 'pa' for consistency

[Araris Valerian]

31 minutes ago, The Unknown Novel said:

Also, since this is a prequel and therefore before the breaking of the Tyrian Curse, aren't we pretty much doomed?

Well, we never learned what started the curse, did we? 

 

17 minutes ago, JNV said:

@Araris Valerian do spiked win at parity or outnumber I cant find it in the rules also is the tineye message an action or no and also in the rules theres this set of two clarifications thats confusing me one says two or more riots on the same target cancel the other says multiple riots use RNG could you clarify here thanks

Spiked win at outnumber, since the village could still win at parity under a few circumstances. The Tineye message is an action. The thing with multiple Riots is only relevant if a Rioter happens to target another Rioter.

Bonus clarification: Copperclouds are on by default, but it takes an action to add/change the secondary target or to turn them off.

[Devotary of Spontaneity]

Tyrian Falls always needed metal, and so it always needed miners. Lord Penrod personally oversaw the outputs of his mines, but never paid attention to the miners so long as they produced suitable quantities of metal. Drawing Lord Penrod's attention was far more dangerous than mining work, even if both were fatal in the end. Even with 25 years of bribing the apothecary to provide medical care for her fellow miners, every year fewer and fewer people remembered the child who'd started working in the mines so many decades ago. Nobody outside of the mines remembered that person at all, even if they were old enough, like that Koren fellow who seemed to be accusing her of something. As a guard he'd had a reputation of being brutal in his honesty, unwilling to go against Lord Penrod's wishes no matter how many boxings he was offered, though rumor was that man was just as dead as the one whose life Ora had stolen. Would he be chosen as a saboteur? Or would the infiltrators have chosen someone like Simeon Venture (Conquestor), who could go anywhere he wanted and do as he pleased? A Great House noble couldn't be accused publicly, but he could be observed. 

[Mat]

1 hour ago, JNV said:

Now before we get started I just want to say that Im strongly anti poke vote as a concept because it allows for the perception of effort without actually doing anything and just fills the hall  with meaningless noise but no judgement if you do it I know its a good way to feel like youve contributed and besides it gives the stab votes a smokescreen for pretending to be meaningless noise to see how people react to things like that

Just out of curiosity I'm going to fact check this, see if past you has poke voted or not, that kind of thing. I expect not but it's worth seeing if I've caught you in an easy contradiction

[Stick.]

Happy birthday to Alv

@Alvron

[xinoehp512]

Stick has been evil the past two games, I'm just saying