Kasimir he/him Posted April 1, 2022 Author Posted April 1, 2022 You have slightly under twenty-four hours remaining in the cycle! The write-up also now exists, thanks to the wonders of YouTube and sheer bloody-minded determination never to fail to post a write-up
Kasimir he/him Posted April 1, 2022 Author Posted April 1, 2022 Didn't manage to get in before the lock, but yes, cycle has most definitively ended, Devo has agreed not to yell at me for doing a bookend post, but I will judge you if you post after this one!
Mat he/him Posted April 1, 2022 Posted April 1, 2022 Looked at xino, focusing on his reads progression. Cycle One's list is apparently unordered, but the others are all ordered. Note: When I use quotes 'like this' I'm not using to imply that the contents within the quotes is incorrect, I'm just using it as an easy way to direct quote/paraphrase xino. When I "do this" it's a direct quote. Cycle One, List One : Spoiler Village- Mat, Illwei, Orlok, Bort, JNV Elim- Striker, Stick, TJ, Archer, Thaid, Araris Note that Araris wasn't included in the list, but when it was pointed out that Araris was absent, xino stuck him into the evil slot. This list was posted entirely without reasoning, but xino was aware of this, so that itself isn't suspicious imo. When asked, had 'good vibes' from Bort Thought TJ's aggressiveness was elim (which is fair since TJ just came off of a power/deepwolf game :P) but fair or not it's not a super great reason Had 'evil vibes' from Stick, from a 'confrontational tone'. Also: xino was the first person to outright village read Bort, in fact when he did so Bort had 2 votes. Further prodding made xino move TJ to the good bucket, but that was never reflected in any of his lists. This is a good spot to again mention Araris' switch from me to Striker- he did so because "there are too many names in that good list for my liking". At the time, xino had one less name in his good list than Striker, which sure, is less, but I think if xino and Striker were v/v he wouldn't have singled out Striker so much. But he also glossed over me, so idk. After this was when xino put Araris in the evil bucket, which I mention again for clarity in timing's sake. Bort and xino voted Thaid back-to-back, tying him with Stick. Idk if that means anything, maybe just further confirmation that Thaid is village :P. Cycle Two, List One Spoiler Village- Mat, Stick, Orlok, Bort, JNV Elim- Thaid, Archer, Striker, TJ Probably the most interesting thing I find about this is, despite claiming C1's list was unordered, the village tier is basically exactly the same; the only difference is Illwei is substituted for Stick. That seems like an elim was lazy in making a new list This theory would be better if the elim tier was closer, but it got shuffled pretty good. There's no change to it though, despite moving Stick wayyy up for reasons that were never articulated. Reasons, which came later at request, were: Archer is elim because he's defending Thaid Bort and JNV village because 'good vibes' C1 Araris elim because Araris was "arguing that using the fang would be detrimental to the village, which seemed like something an elim would say." Look at that last point for a second- it's interesting to me, because xino did something similar in implying the Fang isn't meant to be a massive help. It's not exactly the same thing, but it's also not a view that goes in line with the Araris suspicion, imo. Plus, that wasn't really the vibe I got from Araris to begin with, elim or no. Cycle Two, List Two Spoiler Village- Mat, Stick, Orlok, JNV, Aman Elim- Thaid, TJ, Archer, Striker, Bort Bort inexplicably shifts down because of 'bad vibes'. In between xino's two lists this turn, the first with Bort giving 'good vibes' and the second with Bort giving 'bad vibes', Bort posted a total of five times, two of those being confusion about the term 'bus' (which I think was a legit confusion, for what it's worth, since the Araris train was pure ) and the other three being defenses, one replying to Orlok and the other two in response to Archer. I think there's enough here to theoretically change a read, so I won't end this paragraph with saying that I think it's weird xino did this- it isn't. I didn't know it wouldn't be until I checked how many times Bort posted, and what those posts were TJ's claim 'is suspicious' and xino doesn't like his persistence on Stick (ironic, considering xino's persistence on TJ), and that something about TJ 'feels off' I think that overall, the changes from C2L1 to C2L2 seem natural to me. When Thaid's exe isn't going through, votes TJ instead. (This will come up again later) Cycle Three, List One: Spoiler Village- Mat, Aman, Stick, JNV Elim- TJ, Orlok, Bort, Thaid, TUN This list came halfway through the turn. Perhaps notable that Thaid stayed in the elim tier, despite derping several times since xino's last list, but perhaps not. No further reasons are given for the list or changes to it. However, I think there's something to be said about his vote on TJ. Remember last turn, when xino switched to an exe candidate that had a chance of being exed, despite them being lower in his list? (Thaid -> TJ) Well, in this exe, he stays on TJ despite the two candidates being Orlok and Bort, the next two players in his elim list. That's a notable behavior change, and one that looks suspicious considering Bort was evil. I don't think Orlok has to be elim here to make xino elim, either- If TJ/Thaid is v/v, e!xino would have no preference between the two. But in an e/v exe, xino does have a preference and would perhaps not want to show it when everyone else was leaning towards Bort. e!Orlok does work here, though. Cycle Four: Just says that his opinions have not changed, and makes no comment on the Bort flip. Other Misc Thoughts xino was on the wait for the Fang team, which probably doesn't mean anything since Bort heavily advocated for using it immediately. I'm of the opinion that the elims are more likely to be on the wait for the Fang team, but I don't know if that's actually true. Mentioned the possibility of an elim Veteran on D1 (relook at if xino flips evil) It's interesting to me that I've been parked at the top of xino's village list for literally the entire game, with no fluctuation in the slightest :P. Especially with Striker and Archer being elim reads, and Stick moving around, clearly xino thinks a bus is possible- why leave me there, ignored, at the top? Conclusions: Nothing crazy. I'm perfectly happy keeping my vote on xino, based on the game so far. I think with the PoE we have and the likely group of villagers, xino makes sense as a next step. Connections: xino/TJ not e/e xino/Orlok potentially e/e xino/Thaid probably not e/e
xinoehp512 he/him Posted April 1, 2022 Posted April 1, 2022 Well, guess I'll throw down a vote on TJ.
Thaidakar the Ghostblood he/him Posted April 1, 2022 Posted April 1, 2022 Aman, Mat, you've convinced me Xino.
Mat he/him Posted April 1, 2022 Posted April 1, 2022 8 minutes ago, xinoehp512 said: Well, guess I'll throw down a vote on TJ. Why not vote on TUN or Aman here? I understand that Aman is in your village reads (and now doesn't have any votes :P) and TUN is inactive, but surely you realize that there's pretty much no chance of a TJ exe this cycle and would want to self pres.
Bort he/him Posted April 1, 2022 Posted April 1, 2022 On 31/03/2022 at 6:36 PM, Kasimir said: “I remember, Bortington, when you named yourself a son of mine. When you were discovered by accident—first a vial of poison, and then an unlucky background check.” I know I'm dead, and I'm sorry but I just had to say... Kas, you're a storming legend Ok, off to the Beyond now. Have fun guys 1
Kasimir he/him Posted April 1, 2022 Author Posted April 1, 2022 Just now, Bort said: I know I'm dead, and I'm sorry but I just had to say... Kas, you're a storming legend Ok, off to the Beyond now. Have fun guys Glad it worked for you, but shoo, your thread has been severed, old ghost. 1
xinoehp512 he/him Posted April 1, 2022 Posted April 1, 2022 1 hour ago, Matrim's Dice said: Why not vote on TUN or Aman here? I understand that Aman is in your village reads (and now doesn't have any votes :P) and TUN is inactive, but surely you realize that there's pretty much no chance of a TJ exe this cycle and would want to self pres. Nah, don't really feel like it. If a villager that's not me gets exed this cycle, I'll get exed next cycle and we lose.
Amanuensis he/him Posted April 1, 2022 Posted April 1, 2022 (edited) 2 hours ago, xinoehp512 said: Nah, don't really feel like it. If a villager that's not me gets exed this cycle, I'll get exed next cycle and we lose. If you're Village, what do we do tomorrow if TJ flips Village? Who do you think is an elim then? ED1T: (3) Xino: Mat, JNV, Thaid, (1) TUN: Aman, (1) TJ: Xino, Eh. @|TJ| @Orlok Tsubodai @The Unknown Novel could really use your thoughts I don't know how I feel about 3 of my town reads voting Xino rn =\ maybe it's just him but I don't get the stubborn "I'm voting TJ only" conviction + I'm surprised he didn't vote Orlok over Bort yesterday. Something isn't right here and I need more perspectives to work it out. TJ! What do you think about Xino tunneling you, as someone who spent most of the game tunneling Stick/Archer? Orlok! You caught Bort, so who do you think his partner is? TUN! You caught up with the game, right? How do you feel about the others / the game state? Is there anything you find unusual? Edited April 1, 2022 by Amanuensis
JNV Posted April 2, 2022 Posted April 2, 2022 2 hours ago, Amanuensis said: I don't know how I feel about 3 of my town reads voting Xino rn =\ maybe it's just him but I don't get the stubborn "I'm voting TJ only" conviction + I'm surprised he didn't vote Orlok over Bort yesterday. Ok look in all honesty xinoehp is probably good and The Unknown Novel is the last evil guy but I fele like if thats not the case then we have basically nothing to build a new case on and wed end up voting xinoehp next anyway and I cant conceive of a world where anyone but xinoehp and The Unknown Novel are evil which is probably concerning but oh well the audience can laugh at me in the dead doc Oh and by the way no one caught this but when I said this On 3/31/2022 at 9:08 PM, JNV said: So its 8 2 worst case they win on outnumbered so technically we have 4 wrong votes to death but functionally 3 cause that last ones a 50 50 and conveniently enough I have only 3 pepole Im down to voting off plus the kill will be informative cause again everyone but Amanuensis feels evil and Matrim suspects Amanuensis so I dont think theyll be killed soon actually for kill speculation probably me honestly I think people like me right now so that means I die I was being an idiot its down to 6 2 worst case 3 errors to death functionally 2 so I feel pretty comfy getting this wrong cause I dont think the fang would be put in place without some help to elims and sure maybe its The Unknown Novel with two lives but even then we have a spot to burn so yeah I want the only confusing person left in my reads list gone but if you can convince me to move to the chronic inactive who I simply cant read by virtue of there being no book before cycle end then yeah sure Id be down And now some RP cause I forgot earlier The past was an old friend, the oldest of friends, but the weight of history that the stranger spoke of did not resonate with Kai. They did not remember the past turns of the Wheel. They did not taste memory on the wind. They did not feel the weight of foreign years left in the dust of the Wheel's path. They had only their past, their history, and there was nothing else for them. If history was doomed to repeat, perhaps that was for the best. One set of memories was more than enough. (The sand in their eyes and the pressure in their chest they cannot breathe they cannot breathe they cannot breathe) Yes, yes, truly it was better that they did not have history like ink staining their soul, like stamps upon a stack of papers imprinting on the ones beneath. They just had the one life, and it was the only thing that was truly theirs. No one else could live their life. No one else could possibly lay claim to it. They couldn't say that about many things, these days. And if their eyes stung with phantom pain and they woke up choking on perfectly good air and they couldn't wash their face without trembling, there was nothing more that can be done. They had the one life, and they would live it as best they could. 1
Amanuensis he/him Posted April 2, 2022 Posted April 2, 2022 2 minutes ago, JNV said: Ok look in all honesty xinoehp is probably good and The Unknown Novel is the last evil guy but I fele like if thats not the case then we have basically nothing to build a new case on and wed end up voting xinoehp next anyway and I cant conceive of a world where anyone but xinoehp and The Unknown Novel are evil which is probably concerning but oh well the audience can laugh at me in the dead doc Oh and by the way no one caught this but when I said this I was being an idiot its down to 6 2 worst case 3 errors to death functionally 2 so I feel pretty comfy getting this wrong cause I dont think the fang would be put in place without some help to elims and sure maybe its The Unknown Novel with two lives but even then we have a spot to burn so yeah I want the only confusing person left in my reads list gone but if you can convince me to move to the chronic inactive who I simply cant read by virtue of there being no book before cycle end then yeah sure Id be down Yeah, I think we're in the same headspace; it's very likely just 1 between TUN/Xino based on how I feel about others being Townier, but when things seem too easy, that's when I begin to expect that I'm missing something and start worrying most =\ In a 4-person-team scenario, If Xino flips elim and the game isn't over, then I think TJ could honestly be the 4th person? I don't know why he'd not fight his death and continue to tunnel TJ otherwise, except to clear TJ for lylo. But if Xino flips town, it's either just TUN or TUN and someone that's pushing Xino over TUN (Mat, JNV, Thaid) or someone else that's currently not participating at all with hopes of riding their town cred to lylo. Fortunately, every kill the elims make further narrows the poe, so even if we get the yeet wrong today, we should have a better idea of the game state tomorrow. There's also a possibility that in a solo-TUN world, there won't be a kill tonight period because he's inactive, so technically safer to yeet Xino today and confirm if there's an active elim or not. So wait and see I guess =\
The Unknown Medallion he/him Posted April 2, 2022 Posted April 2, 2022 Still on c3, I'm not going to get much done this weekend, so I'll get back to you later. Hopefully I'll be able to read some more though.
|TJ| he/him Posted April 2, 2022 Posted April 2, 2022 (edited) 14 hours ago, Amanuensis said: TJ! What do you think about Xino tunneling you, as someone who spent most of the game tunneling Stick/Archer? I think there's a difference here xD He's not mentioned a single suspect other than me (and maybe Thaid?) during the entire game whereas I've had the average PoE of [Mat, Stick, Archer, Orlok, Xino, Bort] during the game :P. I'd be a little more lenient towards reading him if he had stated some other suspicion at least. My PoE is currently [TUN, xino, Mat, Aman] and Mat's in here because that Orlok-suspicion-turned-Bort-defence post looks really bad for him :P. Edit: You know what? I change my mind. Aman Xino @Kasimir, edited in the vote bro. Edited April 2, 2022 by |TJ|
JNV Posted April 2, 2022 Posted April 2, 2022 7 hours ago, |TJ| said: Edit: You know what? I change my mind. Aman Xino @Kasimir, edited in the vote bro. sdfljsdlfjs why????? please reasons I like reasons 5 minutes ago, Matrim's Dice said: Aman Same question to you this is very confusing are you colluding 4 minutes ago, xinoehp512 said: Xino whyyyyyyy??????? 11 hours ago, Amanuensis said: There's also a possibility that in a solo-TUN world, there won't be a kill tonight period because he's inactive, so technically safer to yeet Xino today and confirm if there's an active elim or not. You wanna switch to xinoehp since your heads on the chopping block? Oh wait youre offline if you die then sadness I guess you were cool
|TJ| he/him Posted April 2, 2022 Posted April 2, 2022 1 minute ago, JNV said: sdfljsdlfjs why????? please reasons I like reasons I donno bro, gut is saying xino is village (read his D1, his posts subconsciously hints at Elder even prior to his claim). Mat could be playing some crazy deep-wolf game because the only solid reasoning I have for v-reading him is his 4th vote on Araris. You seem... thinking is a villager, I suppose. Even if you're mainly tunneling on me (or just plain confused about me :P). Orlok is not evil, not unless he's evil with Mat (assisted Araris bus by retracting from Stick) and that doesn't make sense because Mat went after Orlok first last cycle. Remaining players are Aman and TUN, and I'd be happy to shift to TUN too, but I know I have Mat's support here, and if Aman flips e, I can finally stop paranoiding over Mat .
Mat he/him Posted April 2, 2022 Posted April 2, 2022 9 minutes ago, JNV said: Same question to you this is very confusing are you colluding A massive amount of gut that refuses to go away, primarily, but it's also not based on nothing. First, I see a difference between Aman this game and Aman in his last games. It reminds me more of the AG, where he was Hyena, and elim, than any other game. His votes don't match with what he's saying. Last cycle, he vocally suspected Bort, but voted Orlok. This turn he vocally suspects xino, but votes the inactive. That doesn't make sense, nor match with how I think v!Aman usually plays. There are a lot of other little things as well. Like the strange confidence in being NKd, the fact that he wanted a PM with Orlok and didn't send Orlok a PM (implying to me that he was concerned Orlok could use the PM to decipher his alignment), his mid-game assumption of 3 elims when the consensus has always been 4. All these things together is something that I can't ignore. A warning to everyone that I won't be on for the last hour of the cycle, so don't expect me to last minute switch back to xino if that's what we're doing. I won't be there :P.
Kasimir he/him Posted April 2, 2022 Author Posted April 2, 2022 (edited) Cycle Five: The Gardener's Choice Three years ago, Daian went to Eaton Strikk about the matter of a weed. To be exact, a flowering thorn had taken root in his garden, strangling his vegetables, and choking them. He couldn’t exactly work out where it’d come from, but focused on the problem at hand. The flowers were lovely: violet, with a soft fragrance that reminded him of the air after a storm. But the thorns were choking his plants, and he couldn’t have that. Three years ago, no one accused Eaton Strikk of being a Darkfriend. Everyone knew that if you wanted your garden to flourish, you talked to Dagr, and if Dagr wasn’t in a talking mood, there was always Eaton Strikk. Strikk listened, and went over to Daian’s garden where he bent over and inspected the thorn, and then pulled on thick gloves, the sort you used for gardening. “Do I uproot it then?” Daian asked. The flowers were beautiful, and so was the scent. But he was torn deeply between the scent of rain, and the need to ensure his vegetables survived. “You make the gardener’s choice,” Strikk said, shortly, cupping the plant in his callused hands. Moments before he dug into the soil, examining how deep the roots go with his knife. “Which is a flower? Which is a weed?” Daian understood: what was to be valued, and what was to be eradicated without mercy. You killed the weeds, because they killed what was to be valued. What mattered in this world. These things, Daian thought, were not written into the world, not the same way that sunlight was good, and the clear taste of water down a parched throat was good, and the sharp sting of burns from the cook-fire was bad. When Rambler and Lin Mindrigurin and Jóhannsson and Xin dragged each other before Mayor Wilsa, shouting accusations, demanding judgement, and they looked at him, and Mayor Wilsa wanted to know what he thought, Daian looked back at them, lost. He tried. He really did. But these things are not written into the world. The hearts of men are not sunlight, are not well water, are not cook-fire burns, are not the sting of nettles. And Daian, for all of his faults, has been little more than a gardener. While he had participated in the hunt for the Darkfriends, it had been more out of a sense of obligation than a capacity to find evil hidden in the hearts of fellow villagers, some of whom had lived in Helgen for years and years. “I think Lin Mindrigurin is suspicious,” he replied. For no particular reason that that Rambler had taken to asserting furiously that Lin had truck with the Shadow, to which Lin had replied that he had fought on the Blightborder while Rambler had hidden away in Helgen. Surely someone who had fought on the Blightborder and walked away was the sort of person who might broker deals with the Shadow, might slowly defect to what he had once fought. But then there was Xin. Xin, who as Lin Mindrigurin had pointed out, had accused Stieg, and seemed hellbent on damning Jóhannsson as a Darkfriend next. Was Jóhannsson a Darkfriend? Daian didn’t know. The thought of the sort of man who made music being a laughing servant of the Shadow sat ill with him. The gardener’s choice, he thought. You just decided, which was the weed. And then you moved on with your life. “I think it’s Xin,” he said. “Lin…He doesn’t seem that sort. He just doesn’t.” Weak, even to him, but Mayor Wilsa nodded gravely, as though he had pronounced judgement. It wasn’t judgement, though. Not quite. The others were still accusing each other; Kai was accusing Xin, while Lin had decided that Lorum Ipsum, who had largely kept to himself since the discovery of Gamen’s death, was more suspicious than Xin. He was just one voice, after all. Still, thought Daian, as he walked home to his garden, home to his world of vegetables and flowers and weeds, he had made his choice. Someone else had made a different choice. Silently, so silently that Daian hadn’t heard, a shadow padded after him. A garotte looped about his throat all of a sudden and then drew tighter, and tighter, unyielding, no matter how Daian choked and struggled and gasped for air. Eventually, Daian stopped struggling. We are all weeds, in someone else’s eyes. Edler limped into the Tree, with Gaeta supporting him, and looking up from the counter, Wyden blinked. “Light’s mercy, man,” he murmured. “You look like you fought a warband of Trollocs in the Blight.” Blood stained his bandages. “I feel like it,” Edler muttered. “He’ll need food,” Gaeta said matter-of-factly. “Healing exhausts the patient.” She helped Edler to the stairs, clearly intending to return to their rooms. “But…where did you get injured?” Wyden managed, confused. He supposed there was a stew he had heating at the fire that he could bring up to them. “I told you,” said Edler. “The Shadow is at work in this town.” “Gaidin,” snapped Gaeta, in exasperation, her words as unforgiving as the mule driver’s stick. Edler looked at her. “His arms. His wrists. The scars. I noticed them the other day. They’re harder to make out within the inn, but then he was by the stables while everyone was talking about the gambler’s death, and I saw them for the first time.” Gaeta’s eyes narrowed. “You’re sure?” She turned to Wyden. “Show me,” she said, imperiously. “What does that have to do with anything?” Wyden objected. “Show her,” Edler prompted. “No,” Wyden said, shaking his head. No. Not again. Blood and bloody ashes, not again. Not another Aes Sedai. Part of his mind was retreating to the cellar, to the rack of thorns, to the Embrace of Pain, the weave that Edler had named proscribed. Forbidden. He couldn’t trust them. Couldn’t bring himself to. And yet there was Edler. There was the conversation of the sword. Cool fingers grasped at his wrist, turned it over, and Wyden lashed out, but Edler was there, holding him firmly by the shoulders. “Peace, innkeeper,” he said. “She needs to see this.” “She doesn’t need to,” Wyden snapped. They were his scars, his past, and all he could see in that moment was the gloom of the cellar, the glint of the Great Serpent ring on the channeller’s finger, and her ageless face, smiling as the thorns dug through his flesh. “She does,” Edler said, grimly. “I told you that no Aes Sedai would. That it was the work of a channeller who serves the Shadow.” Wyden looked at him. “I told you,” Edler growled, but this time, his gaze was on Gaeta, as though there was a quiet conversation that Wyden was not privy to. “There is a Dreadlord in Helgen.” “Dreadlord?” Wyden asked. “Channeller sworn to the Shadow,” Edler said, flatly, distaste lacing his words. “Or Black Ajah. Take your pick. The Aes Sedai all say there is no Black Ajah, but I think we’re past the point of raw denial.” He looked over at Wyden, with the air of a man revisiting an old argument. “Fell things happen on the Blightborder. A forbidden weave being used to kill a man doesn’t count. What sort of threat could that gambler have posed that a true Aes Sedai would feel compelled to kill him in that way?” “We knew this already,” Gaeta stated. “The Gateways. The residue from the weaves. There is something very, very wrong buried within this village, and the Shadow has its thumb on the pulse of it.” She released her grip on his wrist. For a moment, he thought he could see her gaze was troubled, before her expression assumed Aes Sedai calm, like a still lake on a moonless night. “The scars are distinctive,” she said, quietly. And to Edler, “If you were any other man, if this were any other day…” said Gaeta, at last. “I would have struck you for this.” She looked troubled. “The White Tower’s official position is that the Black Ajah does not exist. If I had not seen with my own eyes that this gambler had been killed in this same manner…” “If it quacks like a duck, and swims like a duck, what else can it be?” Edler challenged her. The corners of her mouth slanted in a smile. “So be it. Highly improbable for a wilder to have discovered the Embrace of Pain on her own. So whoever our Dreadlord is, she was taught.” “What does that have to do with me?” Wyden snapped. Edler said, “Where did you get those scars?” A single moment can change the course of a life. In the stories, Waes Starsworn’s life changed for the first time when he loosed the fatal arrow that slew a king. In the stories, a fateful meeting at a fountain, for instance, or in the plazas of Tar Valon or the manors of Cairhien could alter the course of a life forever. It was not a moment that changed the course of Wyden’s, but a span of time—he was never quite sure how long it was; pain seemed to change the way you measured time. Always the same thing, as the thorns dug into his flesh, writhed beneath his skin, crept along his arms, growing ever so slowly towards his throat and eyes. Shift schedules. Passphrases. He resisted at first. Fought it, held off the pain with stubborn steel. But even bright steel was dulled by rust. He accepted the pain then, fed it steadily into the flame and the void, felt it leave him. There was pain. And then there was the oneness. But the pain grew and grew, twisting deep into his flesh, until he screamed and screamed and then there was no oneness, only him, only Wyden, only suffering. He leaned into the pain, then. Let it blossom in his mind. If it hurt enough, he would scream everything and anything. He couldn’t break. He had to hold. In the end, he didn’t. Shift schedules. Passphrases. Even the Fade, gliding past him, hidden somehow from their sight as he mumbled beautiful lies and the soldiers at the guard post believed him, even when the shreds of his decency screamed for him to stop, to warn them, to take it all back. The thorns stopped him. They always did. Everyone has a breaking point. And Wyden had found his. “An Aes Sedai of the Black Ajah,” Gaeta spat, as though the words pained her to utter them. “Could she have taught our Dreadlord, I wonder?” She said, almost to herself. “Surely I would know if there was Black Ajah activity here, of all places.” “She said I was lucky,” Wyden whispered, and watched as both Gaeta and Edler started. “Survived a fight that should’ve killed me. Six men, without injury. The sort of thing you only hear in gleeman’s tales.” Edler said, “One man does not fight six without injury.” “I know.” “Lucky, always lucky…” Gaeta said aloud, strumming her fingers against the counter. “There is some connection there, I know it. But what?” The last of the votes were cast and Mayor Wilsa looked up from counting the last wooden token in the cup, her eyes hard. She’d seen enough winters, as mayor, though she wore her age only lightly. “Xin,” she said, and the words came out as iron. “You are charged by your fellow villagers with conspiracy with the Shadow.” Xin bore the news with stoic indifference. “I’m no Darkfriend,” he said. He looked around the room. “I don’t think Lan is either, but I’m not sure about the rest of you. I know it doesn’t matter to most of you that I’m innocent. But if you keep on rooting out those of us who have been in Helgen for years, then you’re going to fall to the Shadow. And maybe that’s what the Shadow wants.” For a moment, a single, hopeful moment, Xin thought that the others gathered might listen to him. He thought that Rambler was frowning, that Kai kept their own counsel, but maybe Kai would take his words to heart, that Jóhannsson, if he was true, if he was of the Light even though Xin feared otherwise, would listen, would relent, would turn aside from that course of action. “No,” said Lin Mindrigurin. “No.” The moment shattered, like thin ice in the washbasin in the heart of winter. “This man is innocent,” Lin said. “I don’t believe it. How can you live with yourselves, listening to him, and damning him to death?” His pale eyes raked across the room. “Lorum Ipsum. You orchestrated this, didn’t you? You and your fellow Darkfriends—” “Enough,” said Mayor Wilsa, and her words cut through the furious clamour that had once again erupted in the room. “Enough!” Silence fell. “Xin, Elder of Helgen,” she said, her words leaden with formality and finality. “You have been charged of conspiracy with the Shadow. You are sentenced to death.” “He’s innocent!” Lin snapped. “Do your duty,” Mayor Wilsa said. Lin met her eyes. At last, he sighed, and bowed his head. “Death is lighter than a feather, duty heavier than a mountain,” he murmured, regretfully. The old Borderlander saying, come home to roost. Xin was bound, and taken to Brosca’s Point. He did not fight it. What was the use? A shape, falling. Dwarfed by the immensity of stone and sky. Blood on stones. The harsh cry of ravens at dusk, as the fog crept into Helgen once again. More blood, to buy another sunrise. There was always a sacrifice. We always make choices. xinoehp512/Xin was executed! He was a Village Elder! Thaidakar the Ghostblood/Daian was killed! He was a Villager! Quote Xino (2): Thaid, JNV Aman (2): Mat, TJ TUN (1): Aman Cr: @Experience, as promised: Spoiler The cycle has begun, and will end on 5th April, 0100hrs SGT (GMT+8)! Please be reminded not to post in this thread until I've reserved the second post for the player list and rule clarifications, thank you! @Orlok Tsubodai has failed to post for one cycle. Please be reminded that failure to post for this subsequent cycle will get you filter-killed or replaced. Edited April 6, 2022 by Kasimir 4
Kasimir he/him Posted April 2, 2022 Author Posted April 2, 2022 Rule Clarifications: Spoiler why does this even exist at this point Player List: Spoiler 1. Thaidakar the Ghostblood - Daian Villager 2. @The Unknown Novel - Lorum Ipsum, actually Lorumis Ipsimir 3. xinoehp512 - Xin Village Elder 4. @Matrim's Dice - Rambler, disturbed fellow 5. @Orlok Tsubodai - Locke 6. @Amanuensis - Lin Mindrigurin, elderly veteran sometimes mistaken for Lan 7. Araris Valerian - Alain Stern, hardy woodsman Darkfriend Elder 8. Illwei - Wei Villager 9. Archer - Buffy, who has an intense fear of fangs Villager 10. @JNV - Kai 11. StrikerEZ - Eaton Strikk, a guy with a headache and worryingly murderous tendencies Villager 12. _Stick_ - Stieg Village Elder 13. Bort - Bortington the Blind Darkfriend 14. @|TJ| - Jóhannsson, local composer
Mat he/him Posted April 2, 2022 Posted April 2, 2022 Sigh. Almost wish I was NKd. Seriously though, where are the Veterans? >> I don’t even know where to go with this. I’m beyond confused why xino needed my prompting to unvote or why he didn’t self pres, I guess he thought his misexe was necessary, or something? And apparently had no confidence in e!Aman? Idk. No point in talking about that now. TJ/Aman not e/e.
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