Mid-Range Game 64: Shades of Crimson

[Amanuensis he/him]

4 hours ago, |TJ| said:

aman gut evil. quiet aman, posted but less speaking aman, speaking but not really speaking aman, gut immediately says evil aman. 

Here's my new current read pyramid.

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TJ, Wonko, TKN,
Archer, Matrim, DeTess,
Devotary, JNV, Ash, TheAloha

Oh and here's my sign up, in case people forgor

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I’ll join as Lazy Bones, then. A man so old that he’s practically a skeleton, and grumpy enough to make the local children think he’s a Shade possessed corpse in disguise. Truthfully, he’s the last surviving citizen of his generation, but instead of becoming a leader of Crimson, he says he’s done enough work for two lifetimes and insists that he’s retired.

And in case you ask, no. He does not own a porch, though he’d really like one. Maybe someday he’ll get out of his “lawn” chair to build one. But probably not.

(OoC: Considering my work schedule, I’m aiming for a chill game. Don’t expect a ton from me plz)

[Devotary of Spontaneity]

Don't see why Alpha keeps pushing an elim claim against someone he doesn't know who might well vote for him after Mat has already done voted Alpha. Very confident if evil. Wonko seems genuinely concerned. Agree on not flipping first person but that's not a choice knife people get to make. More of a dawnshard thing even though we don't get alignment that way. TJ would have known Aman planned low activity if they were evil together.

[Mat he/him]

Love the passive aggressiveness from Aman there :eyes:

[Amanuensis he/him]

1 minute ago, Matrim's Dice said:

Love the passive aggressiveness from Aman there :eyes:

Passiveness was intended, but aggression was not

[Wonko the Sane he/him]

Ashford strolled through the Forests of Hell on his usual morning amble. He bore a pensive expression, absently tapping the letter from Dr. Lestibournes against his trouser leg, his ornate black wood cane striking the ground beside him with every other step. His outfit made a sharp contrast with the gloom that surrounded him: brown tailcoat over a ruffled shirt, waistcoat, and striped cravat, top hat perched gracefully on his head. Occasionally, a shade would drift curiously past him, but he paid them no heed -- the Three Simple Rules had been the first Threnodite cultural touchstone he'd documented. Rather, he found his thoughts chewing through the letter, and the decidedly untidy situation he’d found himself in.

Ghostbloods barging into the Crimson Tavern and causing a commotion. Old Parable Ellisworth the bartender gone missing, undoubtedly murdered by the offworlders. Homesteaders shouting in the streets, throwing around words like “banish” and "execution". Yes, there was certainly a great deal of untidiness afoot.

Ashford detested untidiness.

Idly, he wandered between the trees, eventually settling on the direction of a creek he’d found in the past. As he walked, he stopped briefly to admire a particularly resplendent sunrise just barely visible through a wild tangle of branches.

Oh, certainly he understood messiness. Why, basically everything to do with people was messy, and he wouldn’t have it any other way. The knotted, self-contradictory mess of human behavior was what made anthropology worthwhile.

Satisfied with the sunrise, he at last picked his way through the forest to the creek and began to follow along its winding path.

Neither did he have any particular problem with dirtiness, for all his care to keep his fine leather shoes out of the early-morning muck of the creek bed. Many of the most interesting people and societies humanity had to offer could be found squirreled away in the dirty, oft-neglected corners of the cosmere. No, it simply did not do to have a stiff neck about grime in Ashford’s profession.

He followed the creek until it flowed into a broad pool, remarkably deep for the terrain. He stopped there for a while, captured by the deep, seductive blackness extending down from the surface.

Even ugliness was something he could appreciate, in a primal sort of way. That fascinating streak of brutality that underlied mankind; their manifest propensity for cruelty and violence. He knew all too well how deeply the siren’s song of bloodshed was carved into the nature of humanity. It was a necessary part of the whole, and thus beautiful in its way.

Finally, with the morning stretching on towards noon, Ashford shook himself and began the trek back to civilization. Little had visibly changed when he arrived in Crimson, but the tension in the air spoke a different truth — this town was two steps shy of total hysteria. The homesteaders went about their lives, stalwart as always — but watch long enough and you could see each darting furtive glances over their shoulders.

Troubled, Ashford made his way in the direction of his small home near the center of town, calling neighborly greetings to those he passed; greetings which, incongruously, the sullen townsfolk returned in kind. Even in his dandy Forter getup, he was one of them. He’d earned that.

By the time he arrived at his little hut, he’d made up his mind about what to do. Oh, he’d follow old Nowko’s orders; there was no question that the Dawnshard needed to be in safe hands, and he’d do what he could to make that happen. But he’d be damned if he let the town of Crimson, with all its beautiful culture, be torn apart by this.

Outside a neighboring home, he spotted the person he needed.

“Good morning, Barnaby!” He called.

“Oh! Uh, good morning, Mr. Longfellow.” The scraggly boy answered, looking discomfited.

“You didn’t show for lessons last night; had me worried there, young man! I do hope everything is all right?”

“Oh! Um, yessir. It’s only, my ma says I’m not to go to lessons no more, on account of it’s not safe bein’ out at night, with all them Forters hangin’ about.” Barnaby looked positively wretched. “I’m awful sorry about it, Mr. Longfellow. I tried to talk her out of it, honest I did!”

“That’s quite all right, Barnaby. I might just pop round this evening and have a word with her myself. In the meantime, I’ve a different job for you. I can pay you two measures of silver for the day’s work.”

Barnaby gaped. “Mr. Longfellow, that’s too much, sir! I can’t let you do that!”

“Oh, poppycock, I know you’re worth it,” said Ashworth. “Besides, lad, you know your mother could use the money. What do you say?”

“I say…” Barnaby hesitated for only a moment. “I say you got yourself a deal, Mr. Longfellow! Only… what is it you’re needing me for, sir?”

“Well, you can start by following me to my brewery, and helping me load a few dozen casks onto a wagon. After that… we’ll see.”

…

Just shy of four hours later, Ashford pushed open the door to the Crimson Tavern, Barnaby following quietly behind. He surveyed the empty seats, the unlit lamps. Just one day without a proprietor, and already there was a hollow feel to the place. It reminded him of the looks he’d seen in the homesteaders eyes that morning; of their too-mechanical movements. It reminded him of darker days, long shoved away in a corner of his memory.

Untidiness.

He could understand messiness, dirtiness, ugliness. He could even learn to love them, after a fashion. They were a part of the world, and that was the proper way of things. But untidiness — things straying out of place, events falling out of the proper order, tasks left undone — untidiness was different. That was something he could not abide.

He straightened his shoulders and took a long swig from his brandy flask, feeling the strength flow back into his bones. Then, he lifted the heavy wooden sign on the door that read ‘CLOSED’, and flipped it so it read ‘OPEN’.

“All right, Barnaby,” he said. “Let’s get moving. There’s work to be done.”

Edited July 14, 2023 by Wonko the Sane

[Ashbringer he/him]

... Alpha, if you're claiming evil because you're RPing a sleeper agent assistant, you can RP as evil and not just claim it 

besides sleeper agent implies they're sleeping

[Amanuensis he/him]

Finally got around to reading the mechanics, so here’s my low effort thoughts that no one asked for

• Fighter: @Szeth_Pancakes, can one Fighter injure the same player twice in a row to effectively make themselves an every other cycle assassin? (In either case, I suspect this would be the one ((and possibly only)) role elims have). Also, Szeth—if two Fighters injure the same player at the same time, does that result in an instant assassination?
• Homestead Leader: I think we might want to banish a player with a Silver Knife as soon as possible, otherwise the RNG flips will likely become a detriment with more Shades to choose from (especially when the NKs are more or less Village by default). Unfortunately, this cannot be done via public claiming without putting ourselves at risk, since the elims could NK said Player to steal the Knife and deny us info. Granted, a Bodyguard could protect the Silver Knife claimant, but with a theoretical e!Fighter and e!Vanilla scenario, there’s a decent chance of them blocking the protection, costing us 1/2 of our Knives and what’s probably our only protective role. Would like to hear everyone’s thoughts / solutions.
• Player Count: I’m actually a tad bit sad that we only have 11 players, because I think this games rules could scale quite nicely, and open up some really fun options (like elims NKing one of their own to get trusted and resurrected, or the elims starting with one of the Silver Knives to potentially gain trust by willingly accepting banishment, then return with the help of a Survivalist, whether e! or v!). As it stands, I expect 2 Knives and 2 elims, which means we’ll probably be operating off vibes and gamesense more than any useful flips.

Oh and Alpha. Ash’s theory is probably correct that his elim claim is RP related. If not, then @TheAlpha929, I request you use the NK on me tonight. If someone else gets killed, we can likely safely assume Alpha is village. If the elims kill me to frame Alpha, y’all can discuss which is more likely to be true with hopefully better formed reads and more info tomorrow. I can also be resurrected—or not, if the holder of the Dawnshard of Time decides to let me rot—but in either case, I’m fine with being the first NK

P.S. I promise to role claim to the first 3 players to PM me 

Edited July 14, 2023 by Amanuensis

[Ashbringer he/him]

Frederrick was doing some sewing when the news had arrived. Interlopers, who'd killed or somehow disappeared a bartender. It was news. One might even say it was dramatic news. But Frederrick was looking for news that was a bit more... he wasn't sure. Impressive. Outrageous. Something he could cry from the walls of one of the fortress towns. Something truly revolutionary. But that wouldn't happen until the shades vanished or undid themselves, or the Evil left the Homeland. Or if the Evil came here, he supposed.

But that wasn't what had happened, so he kept sewing together his jerkin. He liked sewing. It was necessary, and something other people seemed a bit hesitant to do. Needles and blood and all sorts of things. Frederrick thought that was ridiculous - shades were only upset by blood spilt by someone else, not yourself pricking your finger on a needle. And besides, there was still a butcher in town. That was actually risky. Even Jormmuthar hadn't wanted to do that, not for cheap.

So sew he did.

Well, what else did you expect him to do?

 

It's been a while since I've actually had to, you know, play the game. Or it feels like a while. LG95 was a beast, LG94 was a trust pitfall, and life is busy.

But I'm going to vote Devotary. Something about those posts feels a bit off to me. If Alpha keeps up the E!Claim I may pivot there though.

Edit: also Town of Salem 2 is out, apparently. That's kinda cool.

Edited July 14, 2023 by Ashbringer

[DeTess she/her]

So, first things first, I don't really buy the Alpha evil claim. I just don't see any reason why e!alpha would do that while being serious (though I could theoretically seeing e!alpha do this to troll and confuse). 

5 hours ago, Amanuensis said:

• Homestead Leader: I think we might want to banish a player with a Silver Knife as soon as possible, otherwise the RNG flips will likely become a detriment with more Shades to choose from (especially when the NKs are more or less Village by default). Unfortunately, this cannot be done via public claiming without putting ourselves at risk, since the elims could NK said Player to steal the Knife and deny us info. Granted, a Bodyguard could protect the Silver Knife claimant, but with a theoretical e!Fighter and e!Vanilla scenario, there’s a decent chance of them blocking the protection, costing us 1/2 of our Knives and what’s probably our only protective role. Would like to hear everyone’s thoughts / solutions.

I don't really agree with you that elims would seek to target any claimed silver knives. The reason for that is precisely because of the stealing mechanic. If the holders of the knives claim, and then one or both of them get NK'd, and then at a later point someone gets executed and a silver knife pops up again in redistribution, it means that that execution was almost guaranteed to be a hit. In fact, knowing where the knives are could make it harder for elims to select their kills. Killing a knife-holder means that if the one that did the kills gets executed the village could figure out their alignment pretty much immediately, and the opposite is true too. If someone was executed after a knife-holder is night-killed and they don't drop a knife we know that at the very least they weren't the elim to submit the kill.

Of course, if the elims don't kill the knife-holders then the above tracking doesn't work, but if it is publicly known who the knife-holders are then any village bodyguard can focus on others, further narrowing the field of people the elims can safely kill off.

Of course, it's not guaranteed that all knife-holders are village and anyone claiming a knife shouldn't be seen as guaranteed good, but just generally being able to track the knives could help later on if any of the knife-holders gets night-killed.

Anyway, I've basically convinced myself at this point that claiming knives is in the village's interest, so, you know...

*brandishes Silver knife menacingly*

5 hours ago, Amanuensis said:

If not, then @TheAlpha929, I request you use the NK on me tonight. If someone else gets killed, we can likely safely assume Alpha is village. If the elims kill me to frame Alpha, y’all can discuss which is more likely to be true with hopefully better formed reads and more info tomorrow. I can also be resurrected—or not, if the holder of the Dawnshard of Time decides to let me rot—but in either case, I’m fine with being the first NK

I really don't like this at all. Whether or not you get killed means basically nothing after this challenge. If Alpha is evil there is no reason to think their comment was serious and that an evil Alpha team might follow up on it, but also no reason to think they wouldn't. And the same goes if Alpha is village. This is just deep IKYK territory and you know this as well as anyone. If anything, the apparent willingness to get night-killed in this post seems like it is designed to make you look more village, and stuff like that makes me more suspicious. Moving my vote from Mat to Aman.

[Archer he/him]

Wonko Devo

15 hours ago, Devotary of Spontaneity said:

Little point in having blades claim since enough shades to make knife activation likely also means a low chance of getting the flip of someone whose alignment is relevant. Banishment is useful in that banished elims count as dead, and there's a decent chance they either don't have a survivalist or only have two members total. Two elims including the homestead leader can't be ruled out though.

I disagree with two elims with one being a Survivalist being viable. If the Survivalist dies or needs to burn their action on unbanishment instead of NKing, they're in a bad place. It'd make more sense to give them an offensive boost in a 2 elim game, rather than a defensive one. But I think Szeth started with 3 elims and built around that. 

I've come around to the idea of e!Survivalist being OP, pending crazy distro revaluations.

31 minutes ago, DeTess said:

I really don't like this at all. Whether or not you get killed means basically nothing after this challenge. If Alpha is evil there is no reason to think their comment was serious and that an evil Alpha team might follow up on it, but also no reason to think they wouldn't. And the same goes if Alpha is village. This is just deep IKYK territory and you know this as well as anyone. If anything, the apparent willingness to get night-killed in this post seems like it is designed to make you look more village, and stuff like that makes me more suspicious. Moving my vote from Mat to Aman.

mmm Aman he gambiting, good vibes

 

-I imagine Szeth gave the elims the opportunity for a WGG because gambit are fun to enable, but knives are RANDOMLY distributed so they technically can't be meta read. FWIW I believe DeTess' knife claim though 

[Devotary of Spontaneity]

11 minutes ago, Archer said:

I disagree with two elims with one being a Survivalist being viable. If the Survivalist dies or needs to burn their action on unbanishment instead of NKing, they're in a bad place. It'd make more sense to give them an offensive boost in a 2 elim game, rather than a defensive one. But I think Szeth started with 3 elims and built around that. 

I've come around to the idea of e!Survivalist being OP, pending crazy distro revaluations.

You agree with me then. E!Survivalist is overpowered on a three person team, so chances are good there isn't one or there isn't a three person team.

[Archer he/him]

2 hours ago, Devotary of Spontaneity said:

You agree with me then. E!Survivalist is overpowered on a three person team, so chances are good there isn't one or there isn't a three person team.

Correct. I'm voting you for unrelated reasons to that. 

[The Paradoxical Phenomenon he/him]

9 hours ago, Amanuensis said:

Finally got around to reading the mechanics, so here’s my low effort thoughts that no one asked for

• Fighter: @Szeth_Pancakes, can one Fighter injure the same player twice in a row to effectively make themselves an every other cycle assassin? (In either case, I suspect this would be the one ((and possibly only)) role elims have). Also, Szeth—if two Fighters injure the same player at the same time, does that result in an instant assassination?
• Homestead Leader: I think we might want to banish a player with a Silver Knife as soon as possible, otherwise the RNG flips will likely become a detriment with more Shades to choose from (especially when the NKs are more or less Village by default). Unfortunately, this cannot be done via public claiming without putting ourselves at risk, since the elims could NK said Player to steal the Knife and deny us info. Granted, a Bodyguard could protect the Silver Knife claimant, but with a theoretical e!Fighter and e!Vanilla scenario, there’s a decent chance of them blocking the protection, costing us 1/2 of our Knives and what’s probably our only protective role. Would like to hear everyone’s thoughts / solutions.
• Player Count: I’m actually a tad bit sad that we only have 11 players, because I think this games rules could scale quite nicely, and open up some really fun options (like elims NKing one of their own to get trusted and resurrected, or the elims starting with one of the Silver Knives to potentially gain trust by willingly accepting banishment, then return with the help of a Survivalist, whether e! or v!). As it stands, I expect 2 Knives and 2 elims, which means we’ll probably be operating off vibes and gamesense more than any useful flips.

Oh and Alpha. Ash’s theory is probably correct that his elim claim is RP related. If not, then @TheAlpha929, I request you use the NK on me tonight. If someone else gets killed, we can likely safely assume Alpha is village. If the elims kill me to frame Alpha, y’all can discuss which is more likely to be true with hopefully better formed reads and more info tomorrow. I can also be resurrected—or not, if the holder of the Dawnshard of Time decides to let me rot—but in either case, I’m fine with being the first NK

P.S. I promise to role claim to the first 3 players to PM me 

Ight cool

I would like to inform you that I’m not a very good elim, and am rather unskilled at killing. But I’ll do my best.

Also, aside from the fact that I’m elim claiming, couldn’t we just like, kill you, and that would somewhat frame me? I understand that my play right now isn’t very smart, but I’m trying it out.

Bah I’m debating dropping the claim

but it’s so funny!

EDIT:  Ash, in reply to your post on my evil claim (which is totally true), I might RP my character as evil if my character wasn’t so busy sleeping on the job. He is twelve years old, so we may want to give some leeway there.

I’ll get around to some RP soon, but I have specific plans in mind for how I’m going to do it, aaaaaaand… I’m not super motivated right now

Current e-reads are tentative Aman… oh yeah, ME. Um… but yeah, I don’t have a ton of reads.

Edited July 14, 2023 by TheAlpha929

[Szeth Pancakes he/they]

Hey everyone. I just realized that I made a mistake in the rules — there is one knife for every *three* people, not four. My sincerest apologies for the confusion.

[DeTess she/her]

34 minutes ago, Szeth_Pancakes said:

Hey everyone. I just realized that I made a mistake in the rules — there is one knife for every *three* people, not four. My sincerest apologies for the confusion.

So, just to avoid any confusion, can you confirm the exact amount of knifes in this game?

[Amanuensis he/him]

1 hour ago, Szeth_Pancakes said:

Hey everyone. I just realized that I made a mistake in the rules — there is one knife for every *three* people, not four. My sincerest apologies for the confusion.

Ooo that's good news.

Did you see my Fighter questions btw?

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• Fighter: @Szeth_Pancakes, can one Fighter injure the same player twice in a row to effectively make themselves an every other cycle assassin? (In either case, I suspect this would be the one ((and possibly only)) role elims have). Also, Szeth—if two Fighters injure the same player at the same time, does that result in an instant assassination?

 

[Devotary of Spontaneity]

2 hours ago, Archer said:

Correct. I'm voting you for unrelated reasons to that. 

What reasons are those?

[Archer he/him]

25 minutes ago, Amanuensis said:

Ooo that's good news.

Did you see my Fighter questions btw?

 

Part of your problem may be that I'm not entirely certain @ ing people in " boxes works. Let's see

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@Amanuensis

18 minutes ago, Devotary of Spontaneity said:

What reasons are those?

I was kinda hoping you'd self pres onto someone. Would you do me a favor and get that over with so I can think about other people? 

@Szeth_Pancakes was the knife distro an intentional decision or a mistake? There's minor meta implications about the distro, but you're welcome to not tell us. 

[Amanuensis he/him]

41 minutes ago, Archer said:

Part of your problem may be that I'm not entirely certain @ ing people in " boxes works. Let's see

I was kinda hoping you'd self pres onto someone. Would you do me a favor and get that over with so I can think about other people? 

@Szeth_Pancakes was the knife distro an intentional decision or a mistake? There's minor meta implications about the distro, but you're welcome to not tell us. 

Indeed, I only received a quote notification

[Mat he/him]

58 minutes ago, Archer said:

I was kinda hoping you'd self pres onto someone. Would you do me a favor and get that over with so I can think about other people? 

Why would you expect self preservation at this stage of the cycle from Devo, of all people? Seems like a quick way to be disappointed.

I sympathize with Ash saying that he feels like it's been a long time since he's actually had to play the game, as I've been on quite the evil kick lately >> Like, I don't remember actually ever having to read DeTess for real and mostly they just feel different which is nonconclusive because I know they've played as both alignments recently. Actually, maybe that means I have faced e!them before. Idk.

Archer as I mentioned I am agreeing with more than usual but I think that's fine. Don't really know what the Devo train is about, and Aman's Ash vote is wild to me. I don't see the connection between him agreeing with Ash and voting Ash, or between Ash being right and being evil. I do actually lean more towards DeTess' reasoning than Archer's regarding Aman. I also disagree about TJ/Aman not being e/e, like Devo alluded to. 

I don't like Alpha's play. I don't really think he's elim, but I'm gonna stay there anyway. I think Stink might have rubbed off on me, re: Gears :P.

[Amanuensis he/him]

Hm. DeTess.

 

[|TJ| he/him]

gut village feeling from alpha's claim but a very weak one, as it doesn't really feel like a reaction test. not really sure what it is, felt it alpha determined it before the beginning of the game that they were going to claim.

13 hours ago, Amanuensis said:

Ash’s theory is probably correct that his elim claim is RP related.

other stuff in the above amans post shows evidence of involved!aman, so scaling back on that evil read. its not just involved, hes also theorizing and discussing tactics to win. agreed with that the 'alpha shoot me' plan is ikyk so im confused why propose it but not really seeing the motivation for an elim to do it unless evil with alpha. could be e!aman obviously knows alphas alignment. if alpha is village, aman could be posturing because 'i am willing to die' always brings out village read on him instinctually, but ehhh doesn't really feel like it [understand detess (mild gut village for noticing the possible village appeasement attempt) to vote on this particular reason, but my gut says its not e!aman style]. more likely that they are e/e and wanted to backtrack alpha's claim for some reason and they know aman isnt going to die from nk to give alpha the village read. this feels like it has the higher probability, so need to watch for alpha-aman team in the future. 

tl;dr - if aman evil, its more likely to be together with alpha rather than without. but also reading alpha mild village. what does that say about my aman read? currently unsure :P. 

oh and the reason for your ash vote? my gut appreciates of gut-read (talking about ash's vote on devo) but really don't like him leaving the choice open to pivot to alpha later.

3 hours ago, TheAlpha929 said:

Also, aside from the fact that I’m elim claiming, couldn’t we just like, kill you, and that would somewhat frame me? I understand that my play right now isn’t very smart, but I’m trying it out.

okaaaaay, unsure about my gut village read on alpha. im not sure if that 'we' in the quoted statement is a slip or deliberate because the 'we' is sounding a lot like an 'elim we'. 

somethings happening there with archer-devo, not quite sure. but gut evil on this response - 

1 hour ago, Archer said:

I was kinda hoping you'd self pres onto someone. Would you do me a favor and get that over with so I can think about other people? 

because this is a non-answer. its not really a reason to vote on someone but i also don't think it is the reason why you voted on devo. archer

also possible e/e here. gut says archer is leaving room for himself to move onto someone else with the question. 

@Matrim's Dice talk to me, uninvolved/non-inquisitive/holding back mat is always not a good sign. similar to my earlier aman read - gut evil by absence. 

village - wonko, tkn, detess
unsure - aman, alpha, devo
null - jnv
evil - archer, mat, ash

edit - ninja'd by mat. so my last point is nullified, don't really have an opinion about the post. im heading to sleep now, night. 

Edited July 14, 2023 by |TJ|

[Mat he/him]

5 minutes ago, |TJ| said:

okaaaaay, unsure about my gut village read on alpha. im not sure if that 'we' in the quoted statement is a slip or deliberate because the 'we' is sounding a lot like an 'elim we'. 

I'm pretty sure that was a deliberate part of his bit, but idk

5 minutes ago, |TJ| said:

@Matrim's Dice talk to me, uninvolved/non-inquisitive/holding back mat is always not a good sign. similar to my earlier aman read - gut evil by absence. 

At some point people will realize that low activity is NAI for me lol I'm on vacation

But also I think I probably ninja'd you so /shrug

Also @Amanuensis I fail to see how that quote is relevant to your vote in the slightest, but that's probably just me. Can you elaborate?

[Amanuensis he/him]

Here’s my new new read pyramid.

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TJ, JNV, Wonko
TKN, Aloha, Archer
DeTess, Ash, Devo, Mat(t)

Also, a VC:

• Devotary (2): Ashbringer, Archer
• Alpha (1): Matrim
• Amanuensis (1): DeTess
• Archer (1): TJ
• DeTess (1): Amanuensis

Also also, a reply to a ninja:

15 minutes ago, Matrim's Dice said:

Also @Amanuensis I fail to see how that quote is relevant to your vote in the slightest, but that's probably just me. Can you elaborate?

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Also in case it was missed, I’m open to being recruited into the Mobborn ASAP. It doesn’t make too much a difference to me which village faction I’m a part of—my only goal is voting Informers, and having a confirmed not Informer teammate would be a wonderful boon for that. Plus I can even be the Mobborn’s public spokesperson and the first sacrificial lamb, if the remaining skaa decide it’s more important to whittle our numbers than kill the Informers.

I was just pointing out that it’s common for v!me to do weird C1 gambits, which DeTess should remember from the Mobborn game we played recently. Their response in that game was different, which might be an indication of v!DeTess in this one, but I want to see how far DeTess pushes this before I decide where I land.

Edited July 14, 2023 by Amanuensis

[The Paradoxical Phenomenon he/him]

24 minutes ago, |TJ| said:

gut village feeling from alpha's claim but a very weak one, as it doesn't really feel like a reaction test. not really sure what it is, felt it alpha determined it before the beginning of the game that they were going to claim.

 

I’m regards to me saying “we”, uh, that was me really getting into the role. Guess I need to kill you today  

this response seems like a big pile of CYA to me (my response, not TJ’s) but you have the choice to believe me. Would not recommend, since I’m just so evil