Long Game 103: Eyes of Red and Blue

[Lord Spirit he/him]

Jonoh decided to stay in town for the night instead returning to his house. He didn’t like the idea of being near voidbringers, but being completely alone was even more dangerous. He wished that some of the other suspects would say more. He couldn’t judge them based on a few words.

[DrakeMarshall he/him]

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Writeup added. I apologize for the delay.

Anyhow, the night has around 4 hours left. As a reminder, everyone is allowed to submit an action!

 

[stiltedmoth she/her]

Pleasantly surprised that her intuition had been correct, Giethri was still unsettled by the recent execution. Whilst Volomir, and likely Sever, seemed to be trustworthy faces, she was still a traveller in an unfamiliar town which seemed awfully amenable to offing its even slightly suspicious denizens. Giethri was still curious as to the identity of the remaining Unmade, and Metorem voting for her right after she had accused Cillian seemed far too obvious...

Giethri shook her head. It wouldn't matter once she was out of here, and surely the others would be able to figure it out. She left a note with her thoughts on her table, along with handful of chips to settle her tab from dinner, and walked out into the night. Surely there would be someone making the trip to Herdaz she could catch a ride with?

[DrakeMarshall he/him]

Rise and shine, night's over.

[DrakeMarshall he/him]

The sun came up and it was a new day. Something in Ru Eris was different.

 

Overnight, rumors sprouted up about people sighting an actual Marabethian Princess in town.

 

This was more than passing odd, because the last one had been caught and outed as a fraud. But there were multiple witnesses this time.

 

Granted, certain details in the reports were still sparse. Nobody really recollected her saying very much. Nobody could really describe her appearance in much detail, except for a drunk outside the Leaky Bucket who swears he glimpsed under her hood and saw something inhuman carved out of oily midnight, but that's drunks for you. For that matter, nobody was quite sure how she arrived in town. When you got down to it, nobody really had all that much to say, beyond attesting that she was certainly a genuine Marabethian Princess.

 

Still, surely these were normal eccentricities for a Marabethian Princess to have. And it wasn't every day that a small town like Ru Eris got visited by royalty, now, was it? Even if Marabethia did have quite a few different royal families.

 

Not only that, but someone had plastered practically every surface in Ru Eris overnight with a mass-produced pamphlet:

 

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CONGRATULATIONS L U C K Y W I N N E R !!!!

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That’s right – Any one (1) wish of yours will come true! *

That’s right:

unlimited chouta,

immortality,

friendship,

crypto,

and more! can all potentially be yours

reclaim the lost wisdom of the ancient radiants!

cure the common cold!

duel everyone!

anything is possible!

 

It’s just like magic

 

You have exclusively been selected for a limited time for the the opportunity of a lifetime!!!

All you have to do is chant the magic spell nine times to sign up ***
 

THE MAGIC SPELL (say it 9 times fast):

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skcabekat on
 

*** Please also SPREAD THE LOVE and forward this message to 9 other people!!!!!!!

Something amazing might even happen if you do (!!)

Something tragic will happen if you don’t ಠ_ಠ

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...Upon closer inspection, each one of the pamphlets appeared to be coincidentally torn, such that the fine print at the bottom was unreadable. It probably didn’t say anything important.

✺

 

Nobody died!

Day 2 has begun, and will end in 2 day at 06:00 GMT December 14th.

Player List

1. @Araris Valerian - Arenta - The Gossipy Innkeep That You Owe Money To
2. Ookla the Benefflicted - Cillian O'Cillian, son of Cillian - The Sailingest of Sailors Surge of Tension, Unmade
3. @stiltedmoth - Giethri - The Unlucky Traveller
4. @Kasimir - Volomir Kassarm - The Scambaiting Silverlight Streamer
5. @Ookla the Irreplaceable - Matoro - The Honest Herdazian Hustler
6. @Ookla the Violist - Jonoh - The Procrastinating Paranoid Prepper
7. @Ookla de los cuervos - Sever - The Shin Assassin; Relation to Vallano Unclear
8. @CadCom - Metorem - A Prognosticative Philosopher of Stormy Secrets

Edited December 12, 2024 by DrakeMarshall

[Kasimir he/him]

"Welcome to Volo's Special Guide to Roshar," Volo said brightly, though really he felt a little shaky inside.

Knowing someone had tried to kill you and that someone else had saved your life did that to a person. 

"I seem to have made some new fans! Last night, someone tried to stab me in my sleep. Fortunately, someone else saved me. According to the Elders, it had to be via Progression, because Cohesion would not result in my knowing I had been saved."

[Kasimir he/him]

Volo did have other thoughts about the situation but he had to get a stream done first. He'd also rested poorly as he'd spent the night first trying to use any Surge he might have had on Metorem and then trying not to die.

He was still wary of Metorem and thought to voice suspicion of Jonoh for the moment. 

While Volo thought it unlikely that Nergaoul was in operation (too swingy), he also felt that Nergaoul was easily managed by making note of the earliest voters on each person and only worrying about that Unmade should the Elders determine there were more than two murderers in total. 

His concerns with his earlier suspicions of Metorem lay with the likely distributions of Surges. For that, Volo needed sleep to be able to think about the results.

[Ookla de los Cuervos he/him]

Sever had visited Jonoh in the night. Using infiltration tactics, he found the man talking with a voidspren. He relayed as much to everyone else.

4 hours ago, Ookla the Villager said:

"Welcome to Volo's Special Guide to Roshar," Volo said brightly, though really he felt a little shaky inside.

Knowing someone had tried to kill you and that someone else had saved your life did that to a person. 

"I seem to have made some new fans! Last night, someone tried to stab me in my sleep. Fortunately, someone else saved me. According to the Elders, it had to be via Progression, because Cohesion would not result in my knowing I had been saved."

He walked over and said "Jonoh. I saw them. I saw them try to stab you. It was unmistakable."

8 hours ago, DrakeMarshall said:

The sun came up and it was a new day. Something in Ru Eris was different.

 

Overnight, rumors sprouted up about people sighting an actual Marabethian Princess in town.

 

This was more than passing odd, because the last one had been caught and outed as a fraud. But there were multiple witnesses this time.

 

Granted, certain details in the reports were still sparse. Nobody really recollected her saying very much. Nobody could really describe her appearance in much detail, except for a drunk outside the Leaky Bucket who swears he glimpsed under her hood and saw something inhuman carved out of oily midnight, but that's drunks for you. For that matter, nobody was quite sure how she arrived in town. When you got down to it, nobody really had all that much to say, beyond attesting that she was certainly a genuine Marabethian Princess.

 

Still, surely these were normal eccentricities for a Marabethian Princess to have. And it wasn't every day that a small town like Ru Eris got visited by royalty, now, was it? Even if Marabethia did have quite a few different royal families.

 

Not only that, but someone had plastered practically every surface in Ru Eris overnight with a mass-produced pamphlet:

 

 

...Upon closer inspection, each one of the pamphlets appeared to be coincidentally torn, such that the fine print at the bottom was unreadable. It probably didn’t say anything important.

✺

 

Nobody died!

Day 2 has begun, and will end in 2 day at 06:00 GMT December 14th.

Player List

1. @Araris Valerian - Arenta - The Gossipy Innkeep That You Owe Money To
2. Ookla the Benefflicted - Cillian O'Cillian, son of Cillian - The Sailingest of Sailors Surge of Tension, Unmade
3. @stiltedmoth - Giethri - The Unlucky Traveller
4. @Kasimir - Volomir Kassarm - The Scambaiting Silverlight Streamer
5. @Ookla the Irreplaceable - Matoro - The Honest Herdazian Hustler
6. @Ookla the Violist - Jonoh - The Procrastinating Paranoid Prepper
7. @Ookla de los cuervos - Sever - The Shin Assassin; Relation to Vallano Unclear
8. @CadCom - Metorem - A Prognosticative Philosopher of Stormy Secrets

Sever groaned. he started taking down the pamphlets. Someone really wants to scam us.

[Lord Spirit he/him]

Jonoh approaches his accusers worried. These strangers invaded his town, and now they were saying he had tried to kill Volo. He didn’t like the man, but Jonoh wasn’t desperate enough to resort to violence yet.

“I don’t know what you saw, but it wasn’t a failed murder. I did use my power on Volo, but if my memory of the surges are correct, I either saved him, switched places with him or blocked his action (which I believe you would probably know if that happened). I’m inclined to think the first because it seems like someone must have switched with me if you saw a voidspren. Let’s hear the others explain what they did and maybe we’ll be able to figure out who actually did it. Hasty votes often lead to misinformed decisions. I have some suspicions, but I’m not going to vote until I’ve heard some more people’s story.”

[Ookla de los Cuervos he/him]

48 minutes ago, Ookla the Violist said:

Jonoh approaches his accusers worried. These strangers invaded his town, and now they were saying he had tried to kill Volo. He didn’t like the man, but Jonoh wasn’t desperate enough to resort to violence yet.

“I don’t know what you saw, but it wasn’t a failed murder. I did use my power on Volo, but if my memory of the surges are correct, I either saved him, switched places with him or blocked his action (which I believe you would probably know if that happened). I’m inclined to think the first because it seems like someone must have switched with me if you saw a voidspren. Let’s hear the others explain what they did and maybe we’ll be able to figure out who actually did it. Hasty votes often lead to misinformed decisions. I have some suspicions, but I’m not going to vote until I’ve heard some more people’s story.”

Sever hissed in disagreement. "I have studied the stones, and practiced with the Honorblades. I know the powers of the Unmade. Nobody could have changed my light of Illumination from seeing you that night..."

[Lord Spirit he/him]

1 hour ago, Ookla de los cuervos said:

Sever hissed in disagreement. "I have studied the stones, and practiced with the Honorblades. I know the powers of the Unmade. Nobody could have changed my light of Illumination from seeing you that night..."

"Does not the surge of transportation say that "The target is swapped with you, actions that would hit one hit the other."? More people need to say what they did last night before we can fully assess what's happened."

[Ookla de los Cuervos he/him]

10 minutes ago, Ookla the Violist said:

"Does not the surge of transportation say that "The target is swapped with you, actions that would hit one hit the other."? More people need to say what they did last night before we can fully assess what's happened."

Sever leans back, a smirk on his face. "Who did you visit?"

[Lord Spirit he/him]

1 hour ago, Ookla de los cuervos said:

Sever leans back, a smirk on his face. "Who did you visit?"

"As I mentioned earlier, I visited Volo and quite possibly saved him.

[Araris Valerian he/him]

Whatever "streaming" was, it certainly seemed to be popular. Arenta had herself paid Volomir's room a visit in the night (just to check that he was sleeping well, of course), but beyond that apparently he'd been attacked and saved and possibly more. Hopefully she could catch some whispers of who else had been tramping around the Bucket at night, since her sign on the door clearly stated that unauthorized visits carried a charge of an entire clearmark. For now she jotted down two new lines in her ledger until the culprits revealed themselves.

Breakfast didn't serve itself, but during the busywork Arenta mentally noted her suspicion of Matoro. For a murder conspiracy to unravel so quickly, couldn't it be that one of the killers had found themselves unable to help their companion? 

[TwinStorm He/Him]

Matoro strolled through the streets, pockets full of money, waiting to talk to somebody.

[stiltedmoth she/her]

Giethri stumbled back into the inn, tripping slightly over the raised step into the building. Sopping wet hair plastered her face. A small cremling had latched itself onto her trouser leg. "Oh good, you're all alive" she muttered, before collapsing into an empty chair. "If any of you see a seedy-looking sailor pass through here, chuck him in the sea for me" she exclaimed, to nobody in particular. "About yay tall, scar under his eye... no?.. Bastard threw me overboard after I caught him trying to nab my spherepouch. After all I paid him too." Giethri shakes off a boot and starts draining the water from it.

"I ran into Matoro on my way out, though not much came of it I don't think. Word seems to be that Jonoh tried something funny last night? I suppose he's as good as any to look into next."

(oops, didn't mean to send that quite so soon)

Edited December 12, 2024 by stiltedmoth

[Lord Spirit he/him]

These newcomers were starting to about Jonoh. 
Matoro continued to say almost nothing, and Gietheri’s story, while interesting, provided little in the way of actual information. It seemed to him that they would benefit if everyone would say what they had done during the night and who they had targeted.

[TwinStorm He/Him]

17 minutes ago, Ookla the Violist said:

These newcomers were starting to about Jonoh. 
Matoro continued to say almost nothing, and Gietheri’s story, while interesting, provided little in the way of actual information. It seemed to him that they would benefit if everyone would say what they had done during the night and who they had targeted.

Matoro decided to approach Jonoh. "Hello." he said, twirling a sphere. "What's your name?"

[Lord Spirit he/him]

16 minutes ago, Ookla the Irreplaceable said:

Matoro decided to approach Jonoh. "Hello." he said, twirling a sphere. "What's your name?"

"Jonoh. From what I've heard, you're Matoro. What have you been doing?"

[TwinStorm He/Him]

Just now, Ookla the Violist said:

"Jonoh. From what I've heard, you're Matoro. What have you been doing?"

He laughed. "As fine as anybody way down here can be. Say, what're you doing?"

[Lord Spirit he/him]

14 minutes ago, Ookla the Irreplaceable said:

He laughed. "As fine as anybody way down here can be. Say, what're you doing?"

"Trying to find and eliminate the voidbringers among us."

He gives Matoro a meaningful look

"I'm not too trusting of strangers, especially ones I don't know. The sailor was a liar, and I know very little about you. For example, who did you visit last night?"

[TwinStorm He/Him]

2 minutes ago, Ookla the Violist said:

"Trying to find and eliminate the voidbringers among us."

He gives Matoro a meaningful look

"I'm not too trusting of strangers, especially ones I don't know. The sailor was a liar, and I know very little about you. For example, who did you visit last night?"

He laughed. "I played for spheres in the common room and drank myself dirty, just like every night. Ask anybody there, they'll vouch for me."

[Lord Spirit he/him]

7 minutes ago, Ookla the Irreplaceable said:

He laughed. "I played for spheres in the common room and drank myself dirty, just like every night. Ask anybody there, they'll vouch for me."

Jonoh seems even more suspicious. “Are you saying you that you didn’t interact with any of the other suspects? If so, that’s…. interesting.”

 

[TwinStorm He/Him]

8 minutes ago, Ookla the Violist said:

Jonoh seems even more suspicious. “Are you saying you that you didn’t interact with any of the other suspects? If so, that’s…. interesting.”

 

"Don't know what you're talking about." Matoro said, cheerfully. "I don't know anybody, here, and ain't ever interacted with others."

[Lord Spirit he/him]

2 minutes ago, Ookla the Irreplaceable said:

"Don't know what you're talking about." Matoro said, cheerfully. "I don't know anybody, here, and ain't ever interacted with others."

Mentally, Jonoh starts to get concerned. Matoro didn’t seem to be making any effort to seem normal. That didn’t make any sense. If he was a voidbringer, then he would try to fit in, and if he was innocent, he would have no reason to be weird. He didn’t have time to try and deduce the strange man’s intentions. 

“Hmm… If you spent last night at the inn, you must have met Arenta. She’d never let someone like you be in her establishment for that long without cornering you and demanding money.”