Long Game 6: Daes Dae'Mar, The Great Game

[little wilson]

We're not dead yet. If we hadn't killed a DF at least today, we would be, but as long as we get the Forsaken tomorrow, we'll be fine.

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Also, this will probably be my only post today. I'm helping on the gaming floor of Westercon at the moment and can't really check much.

[Sir Jerric]

I'm guessing that if the Viewer survives tonight, we would like to learn more about Trimat's role. If he's faking being a Viewer, it would be nice to get a clear idea of his actual role. With that and the role that was scanned last night, we should be able to lynch accurately enough to have good odds of winning this.

11 players remaining

1 darkfriend down

(Good case)

- 8 vs 3 -

Night 5:

- 6 vs 3 -

Day 6, if the Forsaken is lynched

- 6 vs 2 -

Night 6:

- 5 vs 2 -

Day 7, if a darkfriend is lynched

- 5 vs 1 -

Night 7:

- 4 vs 1 -

Day 8, if a darkfriend is lynched

- 4 vs 0 -

Game over, village win

(Rough case)

- 8 vs 3 -

Night 5:

- 6 vs 3 -

Day 6, if a darkfriend is lynched

- 6 vs 2 -

Night 6:

- 4 vs 2 -

Day 7, if a darkfriend is lynched

- 4 vs 1 -

Night 7:

- 2 vs 1 -

Day 8, if the Forsaken is lynched

- 2 vs 0 -

Game over, village win

(Bad case)

- 7 vs 4 -

Night 5:

- 5 vs 4 -

Day 6, if a darkfriend is lynched

- 5 vs 3 -

Night 6:

- 3 vs 3 -

Day 7, if the Forsaken is lynched

- 3 vs 2 -

Night 7:

- 2 vs 2 -

Day 8, if a darkfriend is lynched

- 2 vs 1 -

Night 8:

- 1 vs 1 -

Day 9: If the last darkfriend is Aiel-blooded

Game over, village loses

(Worst case)

- 7 vs 4 -

Night 5:

- 5 vs 4 -

Day 6, if an Aiel-blooded is lynched

- 5 vs 4 -

Night 6:

- 3 vs 4 -

Game over, village loses

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[Aonar]

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Leas watched as Bunnt's corpse swung slowly in the fading light. A few had offered to cut him down and bury him, but he and Waes had told them to leave Bunnt where he hung. Bunnt didn't deserve a burial. His body would be left as a message for the other Darkfriends. Their time was coming, and it wouldn't take long.

 

He'd put a rotating guard over Trimat, Khamsi and Dellan as they determined how best to deal with them, but seeing how there were two Channellers in their midst, that wasn't likely to hold them long. 

 

If only we could tell which was which...

 

The diagram on his table had shown him the connections between the Darkfriends, but not what they could do. Khamsi had the most ties to the other Darkfriends, and was obviously the mastermind, but power over the True Source didn't necessarily make one a leader. Trimat connected Bunnt to Khamsi, and he was the most obvious suspect, but the strongest evidence against him relied on information that was freely given out by Khamsi, and backed by Dellan. If Trimat were truly important to the group's structure, there's no way they would purposefully make him more suspicious.

 

That left Dellan. He was directly connected to the deaths of Malai and Senna and tied to Khamsi, making him an clear choice for a Darkfriend. However, the evidence for him was more subjective, and had claimed abilities that couldn't be proven if he didn't want them to. He, of all of them, seemed to have been covered the most carefully. It wasn't concrete proof, but were Leas a betting man, he would've put good odds on Dellan being the Forsaken.

 

He sighed and turned away from his contemplation of Bunnt's corpse, heading home to get some sleep before doing his own time on guard duty.  

Edited July 6, 2014 by AonarFaileas

[Shivertongue]

Khamsi gasped in utter shock as the sudden change in the simple farmer. The tone on his voice sent icy chills running down her spine, and she suddenly found herself on the ground, scrambling backwards, needing to get away from the dreadful voice.

 

The *SNAP* of Bunnt's neck echoed throughout the nearly-empty village and embedded itself into Khamsi's memory forever. Taking a deep breath, she pushed herself to her feet, brushing dust and dirt from her beloved cloak. "Light," she said softly, breaking the silence that had fallen on the rest of the town. "That was ominous."

 

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Despite accusations in both RP and in blue, I still maintain my innocence! Khamsi is so clearly being set up.

 

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[Newan]

Ok I totally trust Aonar at this point. I'm still a little bit confused on the Dellan=DF wisdom thing, but I trust your judgement.

Besides the three that we pretty much know are dark, and the three people I trust (myself, Aonar, and Awesomeness) there are five others: Erik, Witless, Douza, Nath, and Rishi. Erik seems pretty trustworthy at this point, being all helpful and stuff. And I've heard Witless's arguments at least three times now (sorry Wilson for the repetitive accusation. But I still don't trust you) and she was also part of the non-council, so I wouldn't be as good at analyzing her as Awes, Aonar, or Erik would be. So I'm going to talk about the other three.

The fact that Bunnt was a regular and we didn't know it means that she could have dragon fang voted in place of the forsaken so the forsaken could appear to be a regular. The forsaken could very well be someone that Awesomeness has already verified as a regular. So if any of these three are regulars, I would be wary.

Douza: I trust Douza, and I'm not sure why. I can't remember a specific thing that he has done, but he just seems right in the same way that Bunnt sort of seemed wrong. Also, I think Bunnt was trying to cast some suspicion there by voting for him as mayor.

Nath: I do not trust Nath. I don't specifically mistrust her, but I also don't see any reason to trust her either. Khamsi could have been trying to make us trust her, or he could have been using reverse psychology. Nath, what do you have to say for yourself?

Rishi: where the heck has Rishi been?! Have I missed something, or has it been a while since she posted? Because of her absence, I am going to put the dragon fang on her right now, but if anyone gives me a compelling argument, I'll change it.

edit: typo

Edited July 5, 2014 by New One

[Aonar]

Storm it, Shiv. Who gave you the code? I know you didn't break it. (You made a small mistake. We haven't used the letter Z in any of our messages yet. You used the word puzzle.  Right in the bit where you implied you broke the code, ironically enough.)
 
This really isn't helping your case, but it is extremely annoying. Wes was the only person who never contributed to our decision to lynch Bunnt, but he can't have used Water on you. Wilson was privy to info that could have made things much more difficult for us much earlier on. The only person I can't account for is Jerric, but he hasn't acted especially suspicious. Whatever you say though Shiv, I still stand by my assessment that you're the Channeller Darkfriend. It's the only thing that makes sense. Bunnt's guilt kind of sort of proved that you, Dellan and Trimat are Darkfriends.

 

...Egads. Now I'm worried someone in our inner circle is the Forsaken, and the good side is screwed. Very nicely done, Shiv.  

Edited July 5, 2014 by AonarFaileas

[+Quitecontrary]

Rishi: where the heck has Rishi been?! Have I missed something, or has it been a while since she posted? Because of her absence, I am going to put the dragon fang on her right now, but if anyone gives me a compelling argument, I'll change it.

edit: typo

 

Well, I have certainly been inactive, but following. It takes a little bit too much thought to post RP and participate but I've been reading the discussions and basing my decisions from that.

 

Fanging me is pure idiocy, Newan. Inactivity is not a sure sign of darkfriendedness, and you'll be wasting that fang on someone who's confirmed herself a villager to the other players. Or have you not learned from our mistakes in the past day cycles?

Edited July 5, 2014 by Quitecontrary

[Newan]

Aonar: how hard is your code to break? I doubt Khamsi would reveal that he knew the code if doing so would put their forsaken in danger.

Rishi: Don't get mad, cupcake. Inactivity wasn't the only reason. In my post I also stated that we should be wary of anyone who has been confirmed a villager. Plus, you defended Khamsi a couple of days back. I know it's not condemning evidence, but that's the kind of stuff I have to work with. Instead of saying my actions are idiotic, convince me that someone else seems more guilty than you and I will gladly change my dragon fang vote.

[+Quitecontrary]

Rishi: Don't get mad, cupcake. Inactivity wasn't the only reason. In my post I also stated that we should be wary of anyone who has been confirmed a villager. Plus, you defended Khamsi a couple of days back. I know it's not condemning evidence, but that's the kind of stuff I have to work with. Instead of saying my actions are idiotic, convince me that someone else seems more guilty than you and I will gladly change my dragon fang vote.

 

Newan, I don't have to convince you of someone else's guilt at all. I just feel that you are wasting your dragon fang on me when you could use it for those who have had more evidence piled against them, like Dellan. Unless you're a DF yourself and are just hellbent on fanging regular villagers like me. On my defense of Khamsi, at the time I defended her, I didn't suspect her at all. It's as simple as that.

[Aonar]

I can see it being done, but it wouldn't be easy. Shiv was careful enough to pretend to miss a few parts of the system (parts that we weren't exactly consistent on), but he couldn't have deduced a letter we didn't use (our code isn't exactly logical, if you haven't noticed). Someone gave that to him. It's true that they wouldn't reveal that they knew our code if it put one of their own in danger... unless their Forsaken is already in danger. I'm feeling pretty confident now about Dellan. Shiv is just trying to mess with our heads to change our lynching target, I think.

 

This has been their game the whole time; holding back information to reveal as soon as we come to a conclusion. We decided Trimat was a Darkfriend, they used info from Bunnt to dress him up as a Viewer. We decided on Khamsi, they take advantage of Trimat's inactivity to name him a fraud. We now decide on Dellan as the Forsaken, they reveal a leak. They've been baiting us, leading us around in circle by presenting targets to move our focus away from the bigger players.

 

...I fully expect to be thoroughly proven wrong next cycle, but this is the idea I'm sticking to. 

Edited July 5, 2014 by AonarFaileas

[Sir Jerric]

The only person I gave the code to was Gamma Fiend, the GM, in regards to a usage ruling. I doubt that he gave the code away. And Aonar, you missed an element in your accusation. I used 'z' in my second coded post, in a context that would make it easy to identify with the other letters known.

While the code looks messy, and I'm no cryptographer, I wouldn't be surprised to find that he had broken it. There are far to many consistent elements. After seeing this community break the WoR epigraph code, I wasn't expecting this one to last.

I'm fine with using Dellan as the lynching target next turn. To simplify things, placing the dragon's fang on him will help prevent the need for all active player's to vote, and if two people die tonight, we could be as close as 5 vs 4, so I'd like to be sure the Dragon Fang is going to benefit the village.

[Aonar]

Huh. I'd kept a record of all the messages in a Word doc on my computer, but that one isn't on there for some reason. So, nevermind that then. (Sorry Shiv) That doesn't really change anything in regards to the suspected Darkfriends though, other than reducing the likelihood of an information leak. 

 

I agree with Dellan as a Fanging target though. Khamsi is unlikely to be the Forsaken, and there's no reason why the Darkfriends would try to get their Forsaken lynched, so Dellan's our best option.

[little wilson]

First, can someone fix that down vote on Newan's post? I'm on my phone and while scrolling through reading the thread, I accidentally tapped the screen in just the wrong spot...

I still haven't decoded Shiv's message yet so I have no idea what he said. I only barely got Aonar's epistle done (seriously, Aonar? You had to write that much? I'm doing this manually since I don't have my computer...). However, I agree with Aonar. Both the coded message and the one right here.

There isn't any point in writing in the code now is there? Since Shiv broke it... However, I hope there's evidence of that on the doc. I want to see it. That's the biggest thing I was looking forward to, post-game.

[Gamma Fiend]

Howdy all! I've been a little inactive the last day or so, and won't be getting on as much the new couple of turns, but I should still be getting write-ups up in time. (or at least results. Some of the write-ups going forward from this point forward may be a little bit lackluster. But you all have Meta's game to keep you happy and distracted!

 

This Turn will still end at the noted time and any orders sent in after 1:30PM EST will not be recorded.

[Gamma Fiend]

Bah so I'm lame and don't have time for a write-up. So here's the results.

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Waes and Nath were killed! Waes was a Villager Channeler and Nath was a Villager Viewer!
A Dragon Fang was scrawled on Dellan's gut door.

 

I'm just going to keep the rest of the game in this one thread for however long it may last after this.

 

 

Forgot to post when the Turn ends, but it's 48 hours after the post went-up, so around 2:30PM Tuesday, July 8th.

List^TM of Players:

1)(Kasimir) - Kaim, a retired Thief-Taker Deceased Padan Fain
2)(Little Wilson) - Witless, the Town Fool
3)(Lightsworn Panda) - Jain, Random Traveler Deceased Villager Dreamwalker
4)(TheoryMaker) - Nath, an Average Guy Deceased Villager Viewer
5)(Kal Dell) - Dellan, Quiet Countryman Deceased Forsaken
6)(Alvron) - Ralv, a Passing Wanderer Deceased Villager Dreamwalker
7)(Only Joe) - Joel, Antisocial Hermit Deceased Regular Villager
8)(Leonardus) - Lam, Street Sweeper Deceased Regular Villager
9)(Shivertongue) - Khamsi Zareef, Domani Gleewoman
10)(Mailliw73) - Malai, Horse Breeder Deceased Villager Thief-taker
11)(Grey Pilgrim) - Grimlar al'Pil, Town Drunk Deceased Regular Villager
12)(Renegade) - Gade, Innkeeper  Deceased Villager Whitecloack
13)(Adolin Dustbringer) - Jim Bob Dirt,  Dirt Salesman Deceased Wisdom
14)(AonarFaileas) - Leas Fel, Aiel War Veteran
15)(Lev) - Bela, A Shaggy Mare? Deceased Regular Villager
16)(New One) - Newan, a Seanchan morat'raken
17)(Awesomeness Summoned) - Weas, Cobbler Deceased Villager Channeler
18)(Ashiok) - Trimat, Manure Salesman
19)(twelfthrootoftwo) - Douza, Blacksmith Apprentice
20)(Sphinx) - Senna, Village Weaver Deceased Villager Wolfsister
21)(Jaelre) - Jae, Inn Hall Boy Deceased Regular Villager
22)(Aspren) - Sprell Hanaar, Village Carpenter Deceased Regular Villager
23)(Binnut) - Bunnt Nibbel, Quiet Farmer Deceased Villager Darkfriend
24)(Sir Jerric) - Erik, Homesick Borderlander Deceased Regular Villager
25)(QuiteContrary) - Rishi, Tavern Maid

Edited July 11, 2014 by Gamma Fiend
Updated List

[Dellexe]

I'd like to have the dignity of having the voting against me be started by me.

Dellan.

[Newan]

Hahahahahaha finally a Dragon's Fang on Dellan's gut!  I am just imagining the villagers sneaking up while he's sleeping, drawing the dragon's fang in Sharpie on his stomach.  

 

I don't really understand the whole Dellan=Forsaken thing, but I do trust Aonar and his diagram.  Plus, we cannot afford to split the vote.  Dellan.

I'm not really sure why he voted for himself, but I suspect that he either a) wants to make us think he is expendable or 2) he has already accepted that which is lighter than a feather.  

Or c) he really is expendable, and wants us to kill him instead of the forsaken.  I really hope it's not that one.  

Edit: I didn't want to do a sunglasses smiley-face, so I had to replace "b" with "2"

Edited July 7, 2014 by New One

[Aonar]

That's pretty well what I expected the DFs to do. We can't 100% confirm Dellan as the Forsaken now, but I still feel fairly confident. 

 

For strategic reasons, I'll vote Witless for Mayor, to give us the best possible chance of winning if Dellan isn't the Forsaken.

 

Newan: It's a process of logical deduction. We decided early on that there were most likely only four DFs, and what has happened so far has supported this. (I won't say it's absolutely true, however. Last time I made a definite guess about enemy resources in one of these games, it lead me to catch three of them while being completely and utterly wrong. ) Bunnt turned out to be a Regular. Ashiok cannot be the Forsaken, seeing how Shiv tried really hard to get him lynched as he was going inactive. Even an inactive Forsaken is better than a dead one.

 

Shiv could be the Forsaken, as he was important enough to have been Masked on night Three, but he claimed Aiel-Blooded. Obviously that's untrue, since he wouldn't have tried nearly so hard to save himself were this the case. However, there seems to be no reason to claim Aiel-Blooded, unless he could back it up somehow, and it seems rather redundant seeing how the Forsaken is automatically Masked if they don't make a kill. That leads me to believe that he is the Channeller. Important and fragile enough to avoid a lynching, but still logical if they're claiming Aiel-Blooded.

 

That leaves Dellan, who has done nothing to preclude his role as the Forsaken. He hasn't done a ton to suggest it either, but I feel the most confident about him, of all our suspects.

[Gamma Fiend]

Hey look! I actually got around to a write-up, for I really wanted to make sure each player has their fair chance at having some sort of RP before their death. I was going to say I this doesn't derail any discussion, or distract anybody, but who would I be kidding?

 

Day 6: Knives in the Dark

 

Small, quiet celebrations lasted long into the night, well after the body hanging from the gallows stopped twitching and slowly rocked to a halt. There were no cries of joy or shouts of elation. No dancing or singing, no music to be enjoyed, or spectacular fireworks to be shot into the sky in late celebration for the missed holiday. The villagers of Drell’s Crossing instead gave a silent prayer of thanks to the Creator, and quietly departed into the night.

 

***

 

Most of the town still lay in shambles after the recent storm, but with the combined efforts from the rest of the villagers, things were finally starting to be put back in order and some form of clean-up had begun. Waes toiled under the light of the moon, sweat pouring off of him as he trembled and pushed himself farther than he ever had before. He could feel the sweet, insane raging tempest within him as he channeled Saidin through himself, using a massive weave of Air to lift a fallen wall of a nearby house as he pushed all of the debris into one large pile where a group of houses used to be. Panting from the exertion, he let go of the thread of magic and the wreckage fell to the ground with a resounding crash, as Waes coughed and covered his mouth with a cloth as the rushing wave of dust that was kicked up rushed past him.

 

 As the new Mayor of Drell’s Crossing, the former cobbler knew he could no longer hide what he was, and decided to put his powers to good use instead of saving them for the cover of darkness. This town needed structure, organization, and hope, not more shadows in the dark carrying out dark tasks. He paused as he saw something from the corner of his eye, and had to fight the immediate urge to fill himself with Saidin, that blazing inferno of molten ice that would pulse through his body and threaten to sweep him away in it’s currents. He slowly lowered his arm, taking deep, ragged breaths as he stared down a rat peering out at him from the corner of the shadows, it’s beady little black eyes mocking him from the darkness.

 

He shook his head to clear the image away, knowing it just to be a trick of his imagination, a trace of the madness that he inevitably would suffer from for his use of the Tainted Saidin.  The rats and other rodents he had seen watching at laughing at him all around town were not actually there, he knew that, but it still didn’t make the creeping, uncomfortable itch of paranoia any less severe. He still had no idea why the villagers had put so much faith in him, an obvious madman, but he would still do whatever it would take to save his village, his hometown. He had even started hearing a few whispers of people saying he may even be the Dragon Reborn! Light!

 

He turned to get back to work, focusing on the task at hand of cleaning the village up, ignoring the small, quiet shuffling sound coming from behind him, knowing it to just be another trick of his mind. He raised his hand up to begin channeling some more air when he felt the knife punch in through the back of his neck, catching him completely unaware. He let out a startled grasp and felt the threads of magic slip right through his fingers as he lost his focus, and fell to the ground with a grunt. Three more quick, practiced strikes followed before he could even raise his arm up to try and fend off the blows, and within a few seconds the cobbler lay still in the streets, with his blood flowing freely out from him into a puddle on the ground.

 

***

 

Nath had always tried to hardest to be an average, regular guy. He had always heard the stories of the heroes and all the legends of the great, wonderful people throughout history doing fantastic, amazing things, performing spectacular feats that would have their stories repeated throughout all of the ages. Nath didn’t want any of that for himself. He just wanted to live a quiet, simple life, where he didn’t have to worry about anything unnecessary or unsettling. That was how he knew the Creator had to have the cruelest sense of humour there ever was to have made Nath how he was.
 

I just wanted to be a regular guy, he complained to himself again as he moved through the silent streets of Drell’s Crossing. I never wanted this curse. He had no idea what it was, or where it came from, but he could see images and auras around people. He didn’t always know what they meant, but whenever he looked at certain people he could see symbols and signs hanging around them like storm clouds, silently brooding overhead and flaring out with phantasmal omens like flashes of lightning. He never wanted this responsibility, for he knew that his gift – or curse, depending on how you looked at it – was one of the best tools the villagers had for hunting down the evil that was assaulting the village of late.

 

It was horrible, being able to look at people and immediately be able to know stuff about them, things that they may not even know yet, themselves. It had cost him many friends and even his family had grown tired of his constant attempts at preventing what were normally unforeseeable events, but no matter how hard he tried, he could never stop what he saw from happening. That was why he had grown so sick over the last couple weeks, with all of the nooses and knives hiding in the dark, waiting above people’s heads, waiting to strike. He shivered, thinking about that dark, ominous cloud of evil that had spread out from Bunnt earlier in the day as he was being hanged. Nobody else had seen it, of course, but the menacing tones of that… bizarre chant the strange darkfriend had recited before his hanging should have been enough to set all of the villagers on edge.

That was why Nath knew he had to go out once more into the dead of night and try and hunt down the servants of shadow that were hiding in the villagers under the cover of darkness. He knew he wasn’t just a regular guy, and despite his qualms and worries, he would do whatever he could to help the village in it’s time of need. He quietly slid along a wall that was barely left standing – ignoring the freshly scrawled Dragon Fang that was painted on  it and anonymously accusing Dellan of being a darkfriend in dripping, red paint below it --  and slowly peaked his head out around the corner before slipping down the side street he had been watching for a while.

 

 He nearly jumped when he heard a loud bang off in the distance, and a quick glance at the large dust cloud told him it was probably from Waes over on the other side of town, using his strange and dangerous powers to help clear up some wreckage. Nath frowned and worried about the cobbler off on his own, thinking about the strange viewings of rats and rodents he had seen hanging around the newly elected Mayor’s head, relentlessly harassing the poor man. He figured it had to have just been some side-effect from the inevitable taint of madness he would feel from his powers, and despite feeling uncomfortable around somebody wielding the same power that had caused the Breaking of the World, even Nath couldn’t argue that Waes was probably the most effective tool they had at routing out the rest of the darkfriends.

 

Nath continued down the small alleyway, peering intensely into the darkness to try and pierce it and make out anything that could help him. His viewings would only work on people and things that may eventually happen to them, but not what they could potentially do on any given night, and that was the real danger. He knew he had to find a target and observe them for the entire night until he could get a clear reading, or just catch them in the act. So caught up in his attempts at penetrating the shadows with his gaze was Nath, that he didn’t hear the quiet sound muffled steps coming from behind him, and barely felt the sharp, concise slash across his neck as his throat was cut in one fluid motion. As he fell to the ground he briefly laughed at the irony of how the one blessing of his power was that he never got to see or know anything about his own fate, and was oddly grateful that he could at least experience one tragedy and feel some small measure surprise, even if it was as the expense of his own life. He had always wanted to be a regular guy, and he hoped that death would be mundane enough for him to finally be content with as he closed his eyes and waited for the warm embrace of the afterlife. 

[twelfthrootoftwo]

I'm guessing Khamsi used Spirit on Waes? Otherwise I don't see any reason for him not to protect himself/Nath.

Fingers crossed we finish this with Dellan. Khamsi being masked on night 3 doesn't exonerate her in my books, since Forsaken being inactive would be very telling then.

And - I don't fully trust her, but splitting votes is bad - Witless.

[little wilson]

Wes already used his Water weave. We suggested that he use Spirit on Dellan, but I'm not sure he saw it, and even if he did, if Khamsi used Spirit on him, that would've cancelled it. And according to the write-up, it looks like he tried to use Air, probably on Nath (I'd thought he'd already used his Air weave though, on Night 4....).

 

And it may be a little redundant at this point, but Dellan, just to solidify it a little more.

 

As for the mayor....At least this time, I'll be able to make the double vote count for something. Rather than a lynch of an innocent. Good thing they can't kill me tonight.....(unless we're wrong about Dellan being the Forsaken, and the last two decide to double-team me, but I don't see why they would do that...). And yes, I am admitting to being of the Three Fold Land...The only reason I'm doing so publicly at this point is because Shiv already knows (we're pretty sure that's why he claimed Aiel-Blooded in the first place--to get Wes to suspect me), which means the DF's know and if they know, there's no point in keeping it hidden.

[Sir Jerric]

Since the mayor vote and the dragon's fang are the village's only methods of preventing lynch deadlocks if things go downhill, giving the Villager Aiel-blooded is the best means of making use of the title. I will also add a vote to Witless to keep the number high. And since I'm here, there isn't much point in not voting for Dellan's lynching too.

The real question is who we are fanging in preparation for tomorrow's lynch. Assuming Dellan is another Darkfriend, but not the Forsaken, and assuming that four was the correct total of Darkfriends, that would leave Khamsi as Darkfriend channeller and (presumably) Trimat as the Forsaken.

What is interesting about that scenario is that the death of Khamsi would remove the group kill from play, ending the double night kill even though the Forsaken is still able to make his own. But if there were five Darkfriends, then a Khamsi lynch is the wrong choice. The channeller role is meaningless, with no ability to interfere with the lynch vote, just the dragon fang. And I doubt that Khamsi has the weaves to do anything significant there.

So I assume that Trimat will be the fang target, or have I missed something here?

Edited July 8, 2014 by Sir Jerric

[little wilson]

We should probably wait to find the results of the lynch before deciding on the Fang. While it's nice to get a plan of action (and I do love me some plans, as anyone who's been on Team Evil with me can attest), if Dellan's the Forsaken, it doesn't really matter which one we Fang. The only time it matters is if he's not.

[Gamma Fiend]

Night 6: Eye of the Storm

 

 

Like the calm during the middle of a massive storm, the village of Drell’s Crossing experienced a brief, pleasurable respite from the afternoon as most of the villagers came together, completely unanimous for the first time, and decided that Dellan must be the leader of the Darkfriends and called him – and the Dragon Fang on his gut – out as being the Forsaken.

 

The sun was shining in a clear blue sky, with a slight small breeze that would gently tug on the villagers cloaks as they walked Dellan up to the gallows, everyone being extremely careful and almost scared of the mysterious man that almost nobody knew anything about. Almost reluctantly, Witless came forward, once again wearing the sash of Mayor that had a small stain of blood along the edge of it, as it was picked off of the corpse of Waes from the night before.

 

“You are hereby found guilty of being a darkfriend, and are to be sentenced to death by hanging.” Witless recited from the piece of paper in his hand as he looked up after finishing his reading, trying to see if people thought he did a good enough job or not.

At least I’m not letting a bloody horse make the decision for me this time, the Town Fool silently reassured himself as he took a deep breath and steeled himself to grab the alleged Forsaken and lead them to the gallows. I have the strength of the Three-Fold land in my blood. I will not be scared by some wetlander.

 

As Witless laid his hand on him, his sand sunk through the suspected Forsaken’s arm, as the surface of their body began to shimmer and sway like ripples in a pond. Dellan tossed his head back and began to laugh maniacally towards the sky, as he stepped forward, with Witless no longer grabbing hold of him and backing away with wide-eyed horror. Dellan’s insane laugh became louder and louder, starting to warp and distort into a deep rumbling. With each step he took, his clothing and hair and features all blurred and faded away in a cloud of vapor, and by time he had walked completely to the gallows, he stood almost half a foot taller, looking like a plain, nondescript man in his middle years and lank, untrimmed hair. He had a look of utmost arrogance and contempt on his face.

”Foolish mortals!” He boomed, “You think that you would be the end of me? The Great Lord is the Master of Death, and he rewards his servants well. For I Forsaken!”  As he yelled out, the Forsaken raised his arms and the air around him began to shimmer and warp, almost like the haze over a large fire.

 

“I only had orders to keep you petty worms distracted. Look at what you’ve done to your own village in your insatiable quest for revenge! The Lord of the Night shall take great pleasure in my report, and now that I have fully tested the capabilities of this body, I am ready for my next mission!”

With a sudden crashing sound, a large single bolt of lightning shot from the sky and struck the large pile of debris that Waes had gathered the previous evening, igniting it with a blinding flash and a deafening boom, with the shockwave of the explosion kicking up a large cloud of dust as it rushed towards the gathered villagers in a wave.

 

As the smoke cleared, the villagers wildly looked around where the Forsaken was just standing a moment before, but all that could be seen was a single, infinitely thin line that was faintly shimmering in the air before it faded, leaving people asking if that’s what they had truly seen or not. A quick search of the village showed no sign of the Forsaken, and with the setting sun, everybody agreed that they must have fled and wouldn’t bother them anymore.

 

Night had finally fallen, and as the villagers turned to settle in for the night, they were aroused from their beds by the sudden blaring sound of horns surrounding the city. Witless rushed to the palisade surrounding the perimeter of Drell’s Crossing and with complete trepidation saw the shadows moving in mass around the entire town. The Trollocs had finally arrived. But they were still waiting, for something.

Night 6 Begins! Turn will last 48 hours or until all Orders get sent in. 

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Dellan was The Forsaken! Witless is the new Mayor!

 

Votes Count:
Dellan (6) - Dellan, Newan, Leas Fel, Douza, Witless, Erik
 

Edited July 19, 2014 by Gamma Fiend
vote count added

[little wilson]

YES! Oh, it doesn't get much better than that. Things are looking up quite solidly now.

 

So....to get back to the Fang discussion, at this point, I'm okay with either one of them. I mean, it doesn't really matter who we get. Although....actually. Shiv might be better. There's a chance that with Ash camping, he might not be on to make the kill the next night, so we might be able to get by without losing another person. Maybe. It's unlikely, but it's more likely than Shiv forgetting to make a kill.