Long Game 90: Undiluted Powers

[Shining Silhouette he/him]

4 minutes ago, Matrim's Dice said:

I can’t say I do

shadow, I’m trusting past me and my v!Bookwyrm read and voting here. I think the tie is fine though I don’t feel as strong about this as I did with Stick.

I’ll read your spoiler boxes during the Night turn provided I survive

Honestly thinking about it Bookwyrm has been contributing and even if E!Bookwyrm that's still more info to work through.

So Bookwyrm

I'll finish my spoiler boxes during the Night turn :P.

Fine also voting Shadow also now that I think about it  

 

VC:

Mat (2): Illwei, Shadow

Shadow (4): Archer, Bookwyrm, Mat, Shining

Bookwyrm (2): Silvereye, Xino

JNV (1): Dannex

Edited October 30, 2022 by Shining Silhouette
adding VC

[Shining Silhouette he/him]

Not enough time but just wanted to say for the record considering asking Mat to vote JNV with me

[Araris Valerian he/him]

The turn has ended! 

[Araris Valerian he/him]

The trio of deaths the night before spurred the folk of Tyrian Falls to continue their hunt for the Spiked. Finding a second traitor after Etam was confirmation that the shadowy group opposing the town was both active and vulnerable.

However, as the day progressed, the initial enthusiasm stalled. Nobody was able to connect Dancer or Etam firmly with anyone left, though a few names were tossed around.

Eventually, his stomach rumbling with hunger, Adam pointed out that the town's resident Mistwraith, Shadowblob, was acting far too intelligently compared to the stories told of those creatures. From there, Terrific Birthday Disaster (who still hadn't visited Hadrian to get his name changed) noted that spiking a Mistwraith would dramatically increase it's intelligence. Not to mention that the creature was eating a significant amount of the town's stored meat.

Of course, when it came down to it, nobody could figure out how to kill Shadowblob. Mistborn could control the Kandra, some said, but their relatives didn't share that weakness. The villagers determined to banish Shadowblob, but when they approached her, the mistwraith simply melted away, translucent ribbons of flesh evaporating into the nightly mists.

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shadow1 (Shadowblob) was a Village Tineye!

Night 3 has begun, and will end at 5 PM EDT on Monday the 31st.

PMs are still open!

Edit: @Conquestor will be replaced if he doesn't post this turn.

Vote Tally:
shadow1 (4): Matrim's Dice, Shining Silhouette, Archer, The Bookwyrm
The Bookwyrm (2): Just a Silvereye, xinoehp512
Matrim's Dice (2): Illwei, shadow1
JNV (1): Dannnnnnex

Player List:

Spoiler

1. @Matrim's Dice (Adam)
2. Ashbringer (AraRaash) Village Mistborn
3. The Wandering Wizard (Too Big Dancer) Spiked Rioter
4. @Conquestor (Simeon Venture)
5. @The Unknown Novel (Edven Tyrian)
6. @Illwei (The Best Destroyer)
7. @Shining Silhouette (Terrific Birthday Disaster)
8. @Cinnamon (Evenlyn Royale)
9. @JNV (Atelos)
10. shadow1 (Shadowblob) Village Tineye
11. @The Aspiring Archivist (Thoughtful Book Dude)
12. @Just a Silvereye (Felix)
13. @dannnnnnex (Terrible Breath Dispensation)
14. @xinoehp512 (Tiny Bearded Dwarf)
15. @Archer/Devotary (Ora)
16. @The Bookwyrm (Rylim Libran)
17. Turtle (Tortoise By Day) Village Vanilla
18. _Stick_ (;eyes;) Village Soother
19. Kasimir (Koren) Village Smoker
20. Alvron (Riven) Village Vanilla

Quick Links:

Spoiler

Day 1
Night 1
Day 2
Night 2
Day 3

Edited October 31, 2022 by Araris Valerian

[Shining Silhouette he/him]

Shoot. Okay. Thank goodness we still have a Tineye.

Wish I'd gone for Bookwyrm but that's whatever.

Cause procrastination is a thing and my applications are due Tuesday I won't actually finish up my post tonight (......sorry) but I'll get to it as soon as I can!

[Mat he/him]

Maybe I should stop messing with ties close to EoD >>

Shining, yes I would have rather gone for JNV but next time don’t ask me at 1:59:30ish xD

[Cinnamon]

Was I the only one who V! read shadow?

I have read through other peoples reasoning for voting or being suspicious of her, but I can’t really find anything solid.

Spoiler

@Matrim's Dice, @The Bookwyrm, @Shining Silhouette, @Archer

Could you please further explain why you voted for shadow?

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Shoot. Okay. Thank goodness we still have a Tineye.

I don’t understand this. How do you know ‘we’ still have a tineye?

Edited October 31, 2022 by Cinnamon
Wrong pronoun ;-; (I am so sorry shadowwww)

[Mat he/him]

5 minutes ago, Cinnamon said:

I don’t understand this. How do you know ‘we’ still have a tineye?

PMs are still open.

The driving force behind my shadow vote was my village read of Bookwyrm more than anything else but Archer’s assessment of her turtle vote seemed fine to me. I wasn’t sure what I leaned there but I knew I village read Bookwyrm.

[The Bookwyrm he/him]

10 minutes ago, Cinnamon said:

Could you please further explain why you voted for shadow?

I think I gave a pretty long explanation in the thread. I put Shadow at about the same suspicion level as I did Archivist and Silvereye. No one else voted for Silver or Archivist, though, but Archer voted for Shadow, and so I went along, because at that point Shadow was the only one of my main suspects with someone else voting for them.

Of course, now we know that Shadow was a villager, so I feel silly, look suspicious, and need to go reassess my previous conjecture.

Edited October 30, 2022 by The Bookwyrm

[Shining Silhouette he/him]

24 minutes ago, Cinnamon said:

Could you please further explain why you voted for shadow?

Wish I hadn't now, of course. Originally voted Bookwyrm but I had not much time to think things through once more and acted rashly once more. What I should have done is kept my vote on Bookwyrm and let it tie.  

Also I didn't like how close it was, anyone could have changed their votes last minute (and vote manip!) and I decided that I would make it a bigger majority lynch to be sure.

Note to self: stop changing mind eod

14 minutes ago, The Bookwyrm said:

I feel silly, look suspicious, and need to go reassess my previous conjecture.

I feel like you've said variations of this several times.

Edit: 

24 minutes ago, Cinnamon said:

I don’t understand this. How do you know ‘we’ still have a tineye?

This:

2 hours ago, Araris Valerian said:

PMs are still open!

 

Edited October 30, 2022 by Shining Silhouette

[The Bookwyrm he/him]

13 minutes ago, Shining Silhouette said:

I feel like you've said variations of this several times.

I have indeed said variations of this several times.

[Archer he/him]

10 minutes ago, Shining Silhouette said:

(and vote manip!)

Have we had any vote manip yet? I'm thinking it'll only happen if a Mistborn rolls it. 

34 minutes ago, Cinnamon said:

Was I the only one who V! read shadow?

I have read through other peoples reasoning for voting or being suspicious of him, but I can’t really find anything solid. Could you please further explain why you voted for shadow?

Pretty sure Shadow's female. Illwei strongly village read them, going so far as to make them one of two PM buddies they had in the early game. So full credit to them, although I'm not sure what their justification for the read was. 

I'll explain my Shadow vote once you explain your vote :P. By the way, your late round annotations are overwhelmingly positive. You approve of pretty much everyone at some point, so I was struggling to spot who you actually suspected before the reads list. I also disagree with: Who says someone's full username after almost a full week of playing? I don't think someone in the elim doc. Doubt this is coached, it's too random of a thing to be coached. It's an interesting theory, but I think you're reading too much into player personality. 

I didn't have time to post at EoD, not that I would have changed my vote, but I would like to generally sus the collection of people who showed up for the last hour after being unnoticeable for the rest of the round eg. Xino, who is a consistent voter. Shout out to the 5pm lurkers: Shining, Mat, Silvereye, Dannnex, TUN. Normally I'd give TUN credit for not voting, but it was probably v-v again and they were probably ready on standby if things changed. 

Silvereye draws my attention because they didn't post. The usual theory about that is they're watching to make sure a teammate doesn't suddenly come up for the exe, but are otherwise non-committal since they don't have to be. 

Can we get past the e!Bookwyrm theorizing after another round of them surviving not because anyone cast votes to build alternative wagons, but instead, people just changed their minds and unvoted them? I don't see their team support anywhere. 

[dannnex male]

36 minutes ago, Shining Silhouette said:

(and vote manip!)

 

5 minutes ago, Archer said:

Have we had any vote manip yet? I'm thinking it'll only happen if a Mistborn rolls it. 

there is no vote manip =P

[Shining Silhouette he/him]

12 minutes ago, Archer said:

I'll explain my Shadow vote once you explain your vote :P. By the way, your late round annotations are overwhelmingly positive. You approve of pretty much everyone at some point, so I was struggling to spot who you actually suspected before the reads list. I also disagree with: Who says someone's full username after almost a full week of playing? I don't think someone in the elim doc. Doubt this is coached, it's too random of a thing to be coached. It's an interesting theory, but I think you're reading too much into player personality. 

Are you talking to me or Cinnamon? You quoted Cinnamon, but I'm assuming you're talking to me, so yeah, that's a very valid point. I think I've been looking for the wrong kinds of things. I am going to finish up that post now though, and try to improve on that point.

As for silvereye, yes, I might be reading too much into it, but I'm sticking with it for now. Like, can you really see someone go a full day and night in the elim doc discussing players and not pick up on the nickname? If I'm wrong, eventually I'll stand corrected, but yeah I'm defending Silvereye.

12 minutes ago, Archer said:

Illwei strongly village read them, going so far as to make them one of two PM buddies they had in the early game. So full credit to them, although I'm not sure what their justification for the read was. 

Do you mean Devo? :P.

12 minutes ago, Archer said:

Can we get past the e!Bookwyrm theorizing after another round of them surviving not because anyone cast votes to build alternative wagons, but instead, people just changed their minds and unvoted them? I don't see their team support anywhere. 

I'm fine with that.

Really the biggest issue I had with Bookwyrm wasn't anything he did, it was just that his tone seemed super thought-through and self-aware, which I didn't like.

But seeing as we still have ~4 elims out there yeah it does seem useful to look elsewhere.

 

Finishing up my post now, btw.

Edit:

6 minutes ago, dannnnnnex said:

 

there is no vote manip =P

Oh, you're right, for some reason I thought Soother/Rioter was manip :P.

Edited October 31, 2022 by Shining Silhouette

[Mat he/him]

10 minutes ago, Shining Silhouette said:

Oh, you're right, for some reason I thought Soother/Rioter was manip :P.

It normally is, tbf

[Shining Silhouette he/him]

Noooooooooooooooooo

I just lost my post. Consider my annotation's annotations postponed

 

[Illwei]

8 minutes ago, Shining Silhouette said:

Do you mean Devo? :P.

No, he means illwei.

Unless he /also/ means devo, which would be funny. 

@Shining Silhouette ftr, silly terminology thing, but rioter/soother is a manip role. It's an action manip, not vote- but still manipulation role. 

As for agenda, I'd like to pressure conq and silver tomorrow. I don't think that ita simply this easy for conq, but when people are easy to find as village (such as wiz) when they're not immediately findable its always a little worrisome .  

[Shining Silhouette he/him]

1 minute ago, Illwei said:

No, he means illwei.

Oh apologies then, Archer. I misinterpreted and thought that you were referring to Devo's PMs before you swapped in.

3 minutes ago, Illwei said:

 

@Shining Silhouette ftr, silly terminology thing, but rioter/soother is a manip role. It's an action manip, not vote- but still manipulation role. 

As for agenda, I'd like to pressure conq and silver tomorrow. I don't think that ita simply this easy for conq, but when people are easy to find as village (such as wiz) when they're not immediately findable its always a little worrisome .  

Good to know.

Yeah, what even happened to @Conquestor?

 

Signing off for the night :P. Apologies that I'm still megapost-less, I'm working on it. I'll get it up as soon as I can

From what I remember before my post disappeared I was going to look more into Conq, Illwei, Archivist, Xino

[Illwei]

Don't feel obligated to make long posts with lots of quotes in then Shining. 

It's perfectly fine to have short responses, with every now and then collecting them into a big post, or of you have a solid opinion on someone, collecting all your thoughts on that into one big post. 

Again, Archer and shining are my current two top townreads. 

[Archer he/him]

2 hours ago, dannnnnnex said:

there is no vote manip =P

That's what I said ;D. 

2 hours ago, Shining Silhouette said:

Are you talking to me or Cinnamon? 

I accidentally directed it at both of you. The latter part was about you, the first was about Cin. I'm not inclined to explain my vote to someone who didn't vote at all. 

2 hours ago, Illwei said:

As for agenda, I'd like to pressure conq and silver tomorrow.

I too forgot that Conq was in this game. Are you proposing the Coinshot takes one of them out? 

2 hours ago, Shining Silhouette said:

From what I remember before my post disappeared I was going to look more into Conq, Illwei, Archivist, Xino

Be careful when quoting players. If Araris merges the D3 thread when you're midway through your post, your links will probably break and show up with no attribution. 

[Illwei]

3 hours ago, Archer said:

too forgot that Conq was in this game. Are you proposing the Coinshot takes one of them out? 

I think this is a good place to start. Higher activity people should never be vigged, they're catchable off of posting where inactives aren't. 

Conq specifically, even if he's replaced we have to start from ground 0 on a new player and it's going to be hard especially when that's a prime time to push domeone easily.

[The Unknown Medallion he/him]

16 hours ago, Archer said:

I didn't have time to post at EoD, not that I would have changed my vote, but I would like to generally sus the collection of people who showed up for the last hour after being unnoticeable for the rest of the round eg. Xino, who is a consistent voter. Shout out to the 5pm lurkers: Shining, Mat, Silvereye, Dannnex, TUN. Normally I'd give TUN credit for not voting, but it was probably v-v again and they were probably ready on standby if things changed. 

I'm to the point where I actually have reads (don't ask me to spell them out, I just have them), and the only one I really would have been fine with voting was JNV. The thread attitude didn't seem really for JNV until as Mat said, 2:59:30.

[Mat he/him]

1 minute ago, The Unknown Novel said:

I'm to the point where I actually have reads (don't ask me to spell them out, I just have them), and the only one I really would have been fine with voting was JNV. The thread attitude didn't seem really for JNV until as Mat said, 2:59:30.

If you have them you should be able to spell them out

JNV was in the tie for a few minutes before it switched over to shadow

[Archer he/him]

36 minutes ago, The Unknown Novel said:

I'm to the point where I actually have reads (don't ask me to spell them out, I just have them), and the only one I really would have been fine with voting was JNV. The thread attitude didn't seem really for JNV until as Mat said, 2:59:30.

Would you be more willing to name your village reads? I don't need an explanation for them, just knowing who is off your radar would be interesting. 

11 hours ago, Illwei said:

Conq specifically, even if he's replaced we have to start from ground 0 on a new player and it's going to be hard especially when that's a prime time to push domeone easily.

To parrot a Kas talking point, there's a chance the filter will kill them rather than replace. Pinch hitters are hard to find, especially given the large starting roster for this game. Araris said replace, but we might as well wait to see if that actually happens. 

[Araris Valerian he/him]

I do have a pinch-hitter lined up, for what it's worth.