Mid-Range Game 70 - Ankh You!

[Aeternum]

Good morning town! 

I'll admit to having only skimmed the roleset. I also have no knowledge of what this is based off of, so no funny RP things from me.

I will be a little less active than usual this game, but hopefully everyone else will pull through.

And hi Experience!

[Ashbringer he/him]

I've only read the "first" one. The Color of Magic?

I don't think that's what most of this is about, though.

Edit: is it The Color or A Color? Seeing two things.

Edited August 17, 2024 by Ashbringer

[xinoehp512 he/him]

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Hello fellow countrymen! 

A fine day today, is it not?

 

 

Lobsang sniffed the item. 

"100% food," said C. M. O. T. Dibbler. "Guaranteed 100% food. Only two dollars, and that's cutting me own throat."

Lobsang sighed, pulling two crumpled and ragged bills out of his pocket and handing them over. Knowing Dibbler, 100% was an overestimate- but, frankly, he would take any percent food. Living a life of austerity was all well and good, until you woke up one day with pieces of your anatomy loudly complaining.

 

[Coffeecat she/her]

"'eoo einn! ow ss ik oin? " a voice loomed out from the rooftops above, it's gravely countenance echoing around the alleys. 

"Ee gach ss er"

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Color of magic! Arguably the worst in the series haha, pretty good but it totally doesn't match book 3 or 4 onwards. 

Anyways, I'm just hanging around for a bit, I know a fair bit about the setting if anyone wants to ask, for now I'm gonna say I have a role. 

(Read along to my character's speech with your mouth open, I struggle to speak considering my mouth has a pipe coming out of it and can't be closed)

 

Edited August 18, 2024 by Coffeecat

[Araris Valerian he/him]

Hey everyone! It's been long enough that I'm feeling rusty, but let's kill Ashbringer. He looks out of place.

[Experience he/him]

Wow, this game is pretty slow. Let's start some discussion. 

@RoyalBeeMage, how's it going? RoyalBeeMage

[Aeternum]

3 hours ago, Araris Valerian said:

Hey everyone! It's been long enough that I'm feeling rusty, but let's kill Ashbringer. He looks out of place.

What makes you think that?

@Lego Mistborn come post

RBM possibly has a volume tell btw. I don't remember, would have to check.

[Araris Valerian he/him]

1 hour ago, Aeternum said:

What makes you think that?

23 hours ago, The Unknown Order said:

@Ashbringer as Schroedinger's AraRaash, who looks a little out of place

Ashbringer. Also, just to put it out in the open, I'm a golem that has to change or retract my vote every post, so don't bother killing me and don't worry if my votes seem erratic.

[Lego Mistborn he/him]

As he woke from a deep sleep, he wondered what was his name. Leo, Leo Misty, at least that's what they called him these days. He got up and went to work at the post office. On the way he saw exparience harassing royal be mage.

So, I vote experience.

[Aeternum]

2 hours ago, Araris Valerian said:

Ashbringer. Also, just to put it out in the open, I'm a golem that has to change or retract my vote every post, so don't bother killing me and don't worry if my votes seem erratic.

 Interesting.

@RoyalBeeMage come post!

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Edited August 18, 2024 by Aeternum
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[Coffeecat she/her]

Well here we go! finally some action. Alright so,

Araris votes Ash

Experience votes RBM to create discussion, fair.

Araris reveals he is a golem and his shtick is retracting votes, retracts a vote.

And then Lego votes Experience for harrassment.

 

Alright my thoughts so far? Araris has no reason to lie, he didn't have a reason to claim golem either. that we know of.

Experience had the right idea, with the wrong target. RBM is never going to answer. I've seen it time and time again. Reaction voting RBM never gets us anywhere. The only possibility is RBM gets voted out.

Voting Experience is also interesting! and i think could produce some results.

We have

RBM(1): Experience

Experience(1): Lego

So im going to do the only logical thing.

Lego

Alright hear me out. A three way tie? amazing! that is a lot of deduction happening on the first day alone. We would much rather have three exes all at once, which have a chance of hitting an elim, than three exes over three days, which would be offset by elims definitely hitting villagers those times.

I just want to see what happens, who changes votes, who interferes. etc. Will be watching you guys!

[Experience he/him]

I disagree. In later game, yes it would be better to do higher hits, but there are a couple problems.

First, there's vote manipulation so if the elims have any they can just tip the tie and choose the single villager to die.

Also, later cycles mean we have more information and can make informed votes. I don't think it's a good idea to do random mass voting as that only really helps the informed side which happens to be the elims.

[Araris Valerian he/him]

2 hours ago, Coffeecat said:

Lego

Alright hear me out. A three way tie? amazing! that is a lot of deduction happening on the first day alone. We would much rather have three exes all at once, which have a chance of hitting an elim, than three exes over three days, which would be offset by elims definitely hitting villagers those times.

I just want to see what happens, who changes votes, who interferes. etc. Will be watching you guys!

Coffee. I suppose this makes a 4-way tie, but in principle I'm pretty against ties in games with vote manip. Or ties in general. They give the elims too much power. The vote is the village kill, so we need to put more thought into it than random ties. Aside from my compulsion to vote, I'm voting for you because you proposed something that is essentially promoting anti-solving.

[Ashbringer he/him]

... I feel like removing half the players on D1 is probably not the play?

I mean I've never actually seen that happen, so it would be interesting, but... also how about no.

Experience. Mostly because I want to tiebreak, but also of the tiebreakees, you expressed disagreement with the tie without changing it.

 

Also, I'll probably not be awake for rollover - or might be working during rollover. I'm not really sure.

 

12 hours ago, Araris Valerian said:

Ashbringer. Also, just to put it out in the open, I'm a golem that has to change or retract my vote every post, so don't bother killing me and don't worry if my votes seem erratic.

... huh. That explains some. And also feels targeted 

Edited August 19, 2024 by Ashbringer

[Coffeecat she/her]

You know what, fair enough. It is a bit unsolvy right now. But with only 8 players we are aren't getting many exes, and as of now there's not much we can do in the way of solving. In a way my three way tie is an attempt at stopping the apathy dominating this second half of the day. In a way I'm forcing experience and lego to act. To little success sadly. Maybe we don't need the tie anyways. I just don't know who else we would take on. 

 

Ninjad by Ash, ok experience is going? How about we take out RBM as well? A two way tie surely is good enough for you guys. 

[Experience he/him]

Why are you voting RBM now? Also, no. Any ties at all will not help us in cycle 1.  CoffeCat

Yes, I realize this just makes a different two way tie, but there's still time for votes to move around so this is where I am right now. 

[Coffeecat she/her]

This is a three way tie right now, which is so funny. You know what I'm kinda ok with this? I don't want to die but also it's really funny. 

Experience 

As a purely self serving vote. 

Edit: I have a bit more time to do more explaining. 

 

The only real solving I can provide right now is... Very little. 

I realize I look like the aggressor here but all I did was see an opportunity for a three way tie and use it, It brought out much more discussion than if I had just voted RBM like I was originally planning to. I had very little expectations of the tie actually succeeding. 

In a way, I did succeed in getting more reactions out of people, but at the cost of making myself look very aggressive and trigger happy. 

Experience does genuinely seem villagery on their own, they did realize a tie would favor the elims who have more information, something I didn't think much about since I didn't genuinely expect the tie to succeed. However, and Ash pointed this out, Experience doesn't actually do anything about it at all? In fact they were pretty happy to create a tie as long as it did not involve them dying. Pretty villagery so far, but here comes Araris with a vote that 

1: makes the tie even bigger, and

2: open the possibility for Experience to vote on me, thus saving themselves. 

This kind of implies cooperation on my mind, they are working to save the other, but have enough conversation to know that the other is going to help as well. (Araris could have voted Lego or RBM to save experience, but didn't need to because he knew that Experience was going to vote on me if he did.)

So yes, that's my solving up to now. It is what I was expecting to get out of the three way tie. A target for now. I'm willing to change my mind if anything else comes up, but that is that. 

Edited August 19, 2024 by Coffeecat

[Aeternum]

RBM, where are you?

Coffee townlean for trying to actually solve in this gamestate. Everyone else meh.

[Lego Mistborn he/him]

Hey all, I'm colorblind which means it's sometimes very hard to see the red text and know that it's red. I appreciate the bolded red, so would it be appropriate to request in the future for this game it all get bolded? Or no. And is this appropriate use of blue?

Okay, let's see if I can decipher what anyone is saying here.

5 hours ago, Coffeecat said:

This is a three way tie right now, which is so funny. You know what I'm kinda ok with this? I don't want to die but also it's really funny. 

Experience 

As a purely self serving vote. 

Edit: I have a bit more time to do more explaining. 

 

The only real solving I can provide right now is... Very little. 

I realize I look like the aggressor here but all I did was see an opportunity for a three way tie and use it, It brought out much more discussion than if I had just voted RBM like I was originally planning to. I had very little expectations of the tie actually succeeding. 

In a way, I did succeed in getting more reactions out of people, but at the cost of making myself look very aggressive and trigger happy. 

Experience does genuinely seem villagery on their own, they did realize a tie would favor the elims who have more information, something I didn't think much about since I didn't genuinely expect the tie to succeed. However, and Ash pointed this out, Experience doesn't actually do anything about it at all? In fact they were pretty happy to create a tie as long as it did not involve them dying. Pretty villagery so far, but here comes Araris with a vote that 

1: makes the tie even bigger, and

2: open the possibility for Experience to vote on me, thus saving themselves. 

This kind of implies cooperation on my mind, they are working to save the other, but have enough conversation to know that the other is going to help as well. (Araris could have voted Lego or RBM to save experience, but didn't need to because he knew that Experience was going to vote on me if he did.)

So yes, that's my solving up to now. It is what I was expecting to get out of the three way tie. A target for now. I'm willing to change my mind if anything else comes up, but that is that. 

Not sure I fully track everything here, but basically you're saying ehp is sus? I was already thinking that, so I'll keep my vote. Are you also implying arrraris is suspicious for helping? I'd take it a step further and say that because they immediately claimed to be a golem, instead of just following rules, it makes me automatically suspicious. I would find it more trustworthy if they just changed their vote and kept quiet about things, it's not like that's something absurd.

P.S. can someone explain opening PM's to me s'il vous plait?

[Experience he/him]

7 hours ago, Coffeecat said:

This is a three way tie right now, which is so funny. You know what I'm kinda ok with this? I don't want to die but also it's really funny. 

Experience 

As a purely self serving vote. 

Edit: I have a bit more time to do more explaining. 

 

The only real solving I can provide right now is... Very little. 

I realize I look like the aggressor here but all I did was see an opportunity for a three way tie and use it, It brought out much more discussion than if I had just voted RBM like I was originally planning to. I had very little expectations of the tie actually succeeding. 

In a way, I did succeed in getting more reactions out of people, but at the cost of making myself look very aggressive and trigger happy. 

Experience does genuinely seem villagery on their own, they did realize a tie would favor the elims who have more information, something I didn't think much about since I didn't genuinely expect the tie to succeed. However, and Ash pointed this out, Experience doesn't actually do anything about it at all? In fact they were pretty happy to create a tie as long as it did not involve them dying. Pretty villagery so far, but here comes Araris with a vote that 

1: makes the tie even bigger, and

2: open the possibility for Experience to vote on me, thus saving themselves. 

This kind of implies cooperation on my mind, they are working to save the other, but have enough conversation to know that the other is going to help as well. (Araris could have voted Lego or RBM to save experience, but didn't need to because he knew that Experience was going to vote on me if he did.)

So yes, that's my solving up to now. It is what I was expecting to get out of the three way tie. A target for now. I'm willing to change my mind if anything else comes up, but that is that. 

I did not change my vote at the time because I wanted to see people's reactions to what I said and did, and am constantly doing this. If you think that makes me elim, do what you will.

As for Araris and I both being elims. Firstly, there are probably only two elims in this game because of the small numbers. It would be doubtful they would do things to tie themselves together especially this early on in the game. Plus, there's not much point in placing saving votes when there's still 12+ hours in the cycle and votes are very likely to change around a bit before it ends.

Plus, Araris would be much more likely to let his teammate die to get village credit then tie themselves together trying to do obviously protect them. 

Also, @xinoehp512 and @RoyalBeeMage, come join the discussion!

[Araris Valerian he/him]

Coffee. 

3 hours ago, Lego Mistborn said:

P.S. can someone explain opening PM's to me s'il vous plait?

In your PM with TUO, say something like: “Cycle 1: Open a PM with Araris”. Of course, if you have another action you could take, you’ll have to decide what to do.

 

49 minutes ago, Experience said:

Plus, Araris would be much more likely to let his teammate die to get village credit then tie themselves together trying to do obviously protect them.

I would say that I would bus my teammate so fast that that they wouldn’t realize I’d gotten them killed, but yeah.

 

8 hours ago, Coffeecat said:

2: open the possibility for Experience to vote on me, thus saving themselves. 

Uh, one problem with a tie (especially between more than 2 people) is that the folks involved can always break it. My vote didn’t change that; Experience could have voted on Lego originally.

[Experience he/him]

People I won't be killing this cycle: Araris, Ash, Lego

I'm fine voting on anyone else really. I don't normally like activity killing but in a game this small, activity is really necessary for us to have a fighting chance. If given the chance, I will vote on someone to try to save myself, unless they are one of those three. Seeing as there is just over an hour left in the cycle though, I don't have very much hope in there being much change unless more people start discussing. 

[xinoehp512 he/him]

Lobsang frowned. Something was wrong. He could feel it.

His sense of time was off.

He pondered as he walked, too deep in thought to notice the angry mob pouring through the streets.

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Man, does life fly you by!

Can I get a VC?

 

[Experience he/him]

Vote Count:

RBM (1): Aeturnem

Experience (3): CoffeeCat, Ash, Lego Mistborn

CoffeeCat (1): Experience

[Aeternum]

Experience seems fine at a glance to me, not exactly sure why there's a wagon there.

Turns out RBM doesn't really have a volume tell, after checking LG101. Still, activity is yay, less activity is Not yay. I'm kind of leaning towards giving high activity people a pass for the day, but this is a very small game, and I have no idea what KP looks like, so possibly a bad idea.

Not gonna lie, nothing much has caught my attention so far.

I do have a slight issue with Araris's claim that I'm probably going to leave for now, but worth noting.