Indigo Weasel Posted January 25, 2025 Posted January 25, 2025 (edited) Don't love that. Time for snacks. Based on their EOD (end of day) statement, Swan Soothed Nibbles' vote. That should have made it Swan (2), Hyena (3). Instead, it's Swan (3), Hyena (2). +1 on Swan, -1 on Hyena. That looks like a Rioter among the voters for Hyena, specifically Vulture or Mouse. Did Rioter!Mouse need to vote late if they wanted this outcome? It's more likely Rioter!Vulture being protective of E!Hyena. Edited January 25, 2025 by Indigo Weasel Edit: sorry it's big
Azure Mouse Posted January 25, 2025 Posted January 25, 2025 Its... Mildly annoying to not have voters this close to endgame but I am also too silly to care. We ball and move on. Goodnight.
Ivory Dragonfly Posted January 26, 2025 Posted January 26, 2025 Sew was right for the wrong reasons. She had guessed that the Spiked had vote manipulation. However, it was clear that Acks was not the manipulator. She had finally proven her role, for what it was worth. She had Smoked herself and Weasel. When Coral tried to save himself, Weasel's vote had not vanished. However, a vote had vanished on Hyena's train. Whether through Rioting or Soothing, she wasn't sure. However, that was clear enemy action. Hyena was extremely likely to be a Spiked at this point. They needed to get Hyena first. Furthermore, they needed to have Copperclouds at the ready. @Azure Mouse Please smoke yourself and someone else. We have to get this right, and we can't allow the Spiked to slip through our grasp again.
Azure Mouse Posted January 26, 2025 Posted January 26, 2025 3 minutes ago, Ivory Dragonfly said: Sew was right for the wrong reasons. She had guessed that the Spiked had vote manipulation. However, it was clear that Acks was not the manipulator. She had finally proven her role, for what it was worth. She had Smoked herself and Weasel. When Coral tried to save himself, Weasel's vote had not vanished. However, a vote had vanished on Hyena's train. Whether through Rioting or Soothing, she wasn't sure. However, that was clear enemy action. Hyena was extremely likely to be a Spiked at this point. They needed to get Hyena first. Furthermore, they needed to have Copperclouds at the ready. @Azure Mouse Please smoke yourself and someone else. We have to get this right, and we can't allow the Spiked to slip through our grasp again. Wait but you're claiming the smoke and saying it was evil that did that?
Ivory Dragonfly Posted January 26, 2025 Posted January 26, 2025 31 minutes ago, Azure Mouse said: Wait but you're claiming the smoke and saying it was evil that did that? I'm claiming the Smoke on Weasel. I didn't want Coral Swan to wiggle out of the vote if he was guilty. I'm not claiming the removal of a vote on Hyena. Pretty sure Hyena is evil, and also has vote manipulation powers.
Indigo Weasel Posted January 26, 2025 Posted January 26, 2025 31 minutes ago, Ivory Dragonfly said: Sew was right for the wrong reasons. She had guessed that the Spiked had vote manipulation. However, it was clear that Acks was not the manipulator. She had finally proven her role, for what it was worth. She had Smoked herself and Weasel. When Coral tried to save himself, Weasel's vote had not vanished. However, a vote had vanished on Hyena's train. Whether through Rioting or Soothing, she wasn't sure. However, that was clear enemy action. Hyena was extremely likely to be a Spiked at this point. They needed to get Hyena first. Furthermore, they needed to have Copperclouds at the ready. @Azure Mouse Please smoke yourself and someone else. We have to get this right, and we can't allow the Spiked to slip through our grasp again. So, another Soother then? Nibbles wonders if they've attempted to vote manip before and failed, thus going unnoticed until now. The distro would be something like Smoker/Smoker/Smoker/Rioter/Soother/Soother. It's swingy, but maybe that's why there's so many Smokers. Or it could just be E!Mistborn who rolled that. Hyena should definitely be the next vote
Azure Mouse Posted January 26, 2025 Posted January 26, 2025 (edited) Hm. Well we need to assume that the Spiked have a Mistborn at least. Hm. I don't think that the elim on Swan was good but it does help confirm more of the roles that town has which I do actually think makes your claim suspect? EDIT: Not being a good mechanical player has its burdens, ugh. Edited January 26, 2025 by Azure Mouse
Kasimir he/him Posted January 26, 2025 Posted January 26, 2025 (edited) AG11/AN15: Day Six - Every Grain of Sand Another day came and went, and with it, another death. Acks had been killed in the ensuing affray, though Clem privately suspected that Nibbles was just…Nibbles, and had a thing about making his suspects his entire personality. The villagers of Tyrian Falls had retreated for the night: not to the Hound and Hustle, which had become a place of confrontation and death, but to their homes, to shut themselves in, and to pray to the Lord Ruler or to whatever heretical gods they worshipped in defiance of the Steel Ministry that they would live to greet the dawn. What was the point? Clem wondered. Was there anything that was worth saving any longer in Tyrian Falls? Had there been anything worth saving at all? For the second night in a row, Clem was not returning from the palisades. Maill and Jerric had the watch for the night; paired to avoid what had happened to Gam. It’d seemed to have worked, the night before, although Clem did not know if it was because the Spiked had simply turned their attentions on murdering the would-be defenders of Tyrian Falls. But it wasn’t just the Spiked, was it? The Spiked, Clem was beginning to dimly grasp, were only the tiny part of a large, snarled knot that was bigger than any of them could begin to understand. They were killing themselves, inexorably. Each time they clashed, each time they exchanged harsh words, each time the people of Tyrian Falls hunted for the Spiked in their midst, and each time they failed, they were dooming themselves. Tyrian Falls was breaking apart, stroke by stroke, as surely as a blacksmith tapping an iron rod with his chisel to make caltrops. The need to defend their village was, in and of itself, something that bore the seeds of their ruin. How many Tyrianers already had the blood of their neighbours on their hands? How could such a village defend itself from the koloss? Could they even still trust each other? Somewhere out there in the night, the koloss were advancing on Tyrian Falls, inexorably. Each day and each night that passed brought them closer to the village and its meagre defenses. Even if they found the Spiked tomorrow, Clem thought, would they be able to hold the village against the onrushing koloss? Teys had thought so. But Teys’s plan had relied on a united village, one determined to work together to fend the koloss off, motivated by a common love of their hometown and their community. Was Tyrian Falls, the Tyrian Falls that now was, the one that had been having been lost when Halsen had died in the brawl in the Hound and Hustle, even still worth saving? He did not know where his nighttime wanderings were bringing him. Or he did know; because his body seemed to know where he needed to go, even though his mind was doubting, conflicted. Mouse watched. All his life, Mouse had watched the people of Tyrian Falls. It was easier, on reflection, to watch, Mouse thought, rather than to do. Sometimes, you could just sit on a bench and watch the people scurrying around like little ants in their ant nests, preoccupied with their little tasks and things, and you could even make it a bit of a game, trying to work out what they were thinking, what motivated them. In that light, trying to find the Spiked seemed to be something that Mouse thought he was pretty ready for. If the Spiked were hiding among them, then Mouse figured that a careful watcher should be able to find the Spiked. Their fell intentions should be written upon their actions, be concealed within their body language. All the sorts of things that someone who’d spent most of his life watching should be able to find. He’d picked up on Byrar, for all he’d ended up being suspicious of the Jaist priest. In Mouse’s defense, he was pretty sure that religious devotion sometimes wound up looking a lot like mass-murdering fanaticism, so he wasn’t too upset with himself for getting a little mixed up between the two of them. Either way, they’d found and stopped Byrar, so that was a win in Mouse’s book. Lysia, though. There was something uncanny about Lysia that made Mouse feel…uncomfortable, and whatever it was, Mouse just wasn’t sure he could put his finger on it, which only unsettled him more. He was used to being able to make sense of what he saw. Part of watching people was waiting for the moment the puzzle pieces slipped together, the way you could point to a woman hurrying home with her groceries under her arm and say, she’s worried about the Spiked, and the man going the opposite way, with a bundle of iron rods, he’s headed for the blacksmith and so on and so on. The pieces weren’t fitting together, and the fact they didn’t was jarring, and Mouse—wasn’t used to that. So Mouse decided to try doing something, for a change. Something bold. Something a little different. He tailed Lysia. Lysia’s trail seemed to make no particular sense to Mouse. She wandered through most of Tyrian Falls—to the Hound and Hustle, through Market Square, past the bakery, where the scents of freshly-baked baywraps lingered, even at night, with a brief pause by the docks where the canalboats would’ve been loaded, back when they saw more traffic between Fadrex and Luthadel—but Mouse realised that he didn’t really know where Lysia lived. He tried to keep Lysia at least two streets behind him, ducking behind corners and signs to avoid being seen. All the same, Mouse was surprised to turn the corner and discover he was walking into a dead end. The alley terminated in a solid brick wall, which was swarming with bugs, but there was no real sign of where Lysia had been. That’s strange, Mouse thought. Were those bugs…he’d remembered seeing them around the village, a few times, and yet the more he thought about it, he’d never seen their like before. For all he’d watched, Mouse had spent most of his time watching people, not the flora and fauna of Tyrian Falls, and so the realisation shocked him, like a sudden ashfall on an otherwise clear day. When had he first started seeing them? Mouse reached over to pick up one of the bugs, when he heard a whisper of soft cloth, as though— He was turning, trying to catch whoever it was, when someone whispered, in his ear, “Hello, little Mouse,” and an arm like an iron bar closed over his throat. There was a strange cold. Looking down, struggling against his attacker, Mouse realised he’d been stabbed. And again. And again. Blood gushed from his wounds. It was as though he was watching it happen to someone else, Mouse thought. Watching his own death. Aralis was sitting on his rocking chair, on his porch, watching the gleam of the distant stars with a warm cup of herbal tea. His thwacking staff rested to the side, within easy reach. He’d never needed the staff, Clem figured. All his life, he only remembered Araris using it to thwack someone or other who irritated him. Clem nodded to him. “You’re not…worried?” he asked, at last. Giving voice to the thoughts that swarmed his mind. “Why would I be?” Aralis replied, raising a sardonic eyebrow. He set his steaming cup down on the side-table. “There aren’t any Spiked, kid. Aren’t any koloss, either. Saboteurs, yes—-a whole bunch of people going around, making us go for each other’s throats. But the others have got that well in hand, and I’m not going to interfere if they’re doing the job.” “They’re killing each other,” Clem said. “Hayden was innocent. So was Acks. So was Kael Voss.” “I’m not thrilled they’ve taken to killing their suspects before we can get anything out of them,” Aralis conceded, “But the Watch is run pretty ragged right now. Everyone’s jumping at shadows. And they can’t be talked out of the koloss obsession. What we’ve got is what we’ve got.” Clem hesitated, for several long moments. Aralis simply picked up his tea again. “...Do you think Tyrian Falls can be saved?” he asked. Not because he thought Aralis had an answer, but for the sake of asking the question. As though in asking the question aloud, in setting it loose on the world, he had in some way eased the burden on his own soul. Maybe because he wanted to hear the answer, wanted to hear someone else tell him that Tyrian Falls could be saved, that there was something worth saving. …He probably should’ve picked someone if he wanted comfort, someone who wasn’t Aralis. “From the koloss? Or the Spiked?” “From ourselves,” Clem said. Because there was no way any conversation involving the koloss or the Spiked was going to get off the ground, where Aralis was concerned. “I don’t think it helps to worry,” Aralis said, at last, which was more thought than Clem’d expected him to give to it. “More people are working on this than before, even if they’re still getting hysterical about the Spiked. There’s no point worrying ourselves about the outcome before we know what it’s going to be.” Clem nodded. “I see,” he said. He didn’t, though. In his mind’s eye, there was an hourglass, and the grains of sand were slipping, slipping, slipping away, inexorably. Unless you tipped the hourglass. Unless you gave Tyrian Falls a new lease of life. Unless Tyrian Falls was worth saving. I watch each grain of sand as it falls, Pilu whispered, and then was silent. @Azure Mouse was killed! He was a Village Smoker! PMs remain closed! Please stop PMing! The Day has begun! It will end in 48 hours on the 27th January 2025, 11PM ET. Player List: Spoiler 1. @Amber Vulture - Sauve Chad (Ruinous Skeptic) 2. Amethyst Scorpion - Malmoc (Herbalist) - Village Vanilla 3. Azure Mouse - (Watcher) - Village Smoker 4. @Charcoal Hyena - Lysia (Tinker) 5. @Chartreuse Penguin - [Ade]mordna Niugnep 6. Coral Swan - Acks (Matchmaker) - Village Soother 7. Cream Tuatara - Hayden Vendel (Drunk) - Village Lurcher 8. @Emerald Falcon - (Observer) 9. Fuchsia Ostrich - Kael Voss - Village Rioter 10. @Indigo Weasel - Nibbles (Chef) 11. @Ivory Dragonfly - Sew (Hopeful Orphan) 12. Magenta Albatross - Alais Short (Gambler) - Village Vanilla 13. Mauve Crocodile - (Jaist) - Village Tineye 14. Melon Dingo - Rind (Orphaned By Mistwraiths) - Village Mistborn 15. Mint Heron - Byrar (Unlucky Craftsman) - Spiked Smoker Edited January 30, 2025 by Kasimir
Emerald Falcon Posted January 26, 2025 Posted January 26, 2025 Time to go through the 5 stages of "did they kill Azure Mouse to set up Ivory Dragonfly as a misexe?". Charcoal Hyena voting me because I'm vanilla and then swapping to self-pres on Coral Swan who was towny and a PR is certainly something. Self-pressing isn't inherently wolfy, it's just hm. Ivory Dragonfly is probably 90% outted off of distro, though. 6 left is 4 v 2. We have 1 misexe, so a pool of 2 to hit 1 elim between them. Mm. Quote Charcoal Hyena (2): Amber Vulture, Azure Mouse, Coral Swan Coral Swan (3): Charcoal Hyena, Indigo Weasel, Ivory Dragonfly Coral Swan said they were Soothing Indigo Weasel. Ivory Dragonfly claimed to have Smoked Indigo Weasel, and claimed to not be responsible for the vote removal on Charcoal Hyena. So that accounts for Coral Swan's wagon staying at 3 votes, and also that is such a questionable target by Ivory Dragonfly. I would maybe tentatively pair Ivory Dragonfly with Charcoal Hyena, because Indigo Weasel being Soothed puts wagons at 2-2 (assuming elim vote manip on Charcoal Hyena wagon), but it's extremely tentative because Coral Swan only claimed their action on Indigo Weasel one minute to rollover, and Charcoal Hyena would have to be a strong role. Elims are most likely responsible for Charcoal Hyena wagon's vote removal, which does look insanely bad for Charcoal Hyena. If wagons were v/v, they wouldn't have a reason to mess with vote manip, but I suppose they could've been setting up for the future. I don't think elims would need to, though, they're likely in a pretty good spot rn. I'm pretty sure Ivory Dragonfly is a Smoker off of their actions, which means either town has 2 Smokers, or elims have 2 Smokers, I think? Idk this could be wrong, I am unfortunately cursed with being terrible with mech. I thought about distro a bunch and I have no idea where a Smoker would fit because town has had 2 vote manip roles flip. It's also possible Ivory Dragonfly is Mistborn, but they most likely did Smoke Indigo Weasel, barring weird circumstances maybe, idk. So that leaves unaccounted for e!vote manip that... hasn't been seen so far? Or I don't remember seeing. Part of me wants to just vote Ivory Dragonfly for distro reasons, and part of me wants to vote Charcoal Hyena for looking bad. I think Ivory Dragonfly is more likely to be a hit, but also Charcoal Hyena looks so bad and there are small things pointing towards Charcoal Hyena, and I also get the feeling I'm insanely wrong right now, though, so idk this is stressing me out more than it should.
Indigo Weasel Posted January 26, 2025 Posted January 26, 2025 6 hours ago, Emerald Falcon said: "did they kill Azure Mouse to set up Ivory Dragonfly as a misexe?" Nibbles first read was that when the Hyena voter was killed, Hyena looked more suspicious. But we should really spend the day considering every option so we get this right, so carry on. 6 hours ago, Emerald Falcon said: So that accounts for Coral Swan's wagon staying at 3 votes, and also that is such a questionable target by Ivory Dragonfly The smoker target was selected the Night before, so intent is less relevant. They might have seen Nibbles voting Swan coming, and known Swan was likely to Soothe Nibbles. That'd imply they're most focused on proving their role, not protecting Swan. But they voted Swan, so it tracks with their suspicions. 6 hours ago, Emerald Falcon said: . I don't think elims would need to, though, they're likely in a pretty good spot rn. Nibbles agrees, but there's situations where E!Mistborn rolled vote manip for the round and had to use it before they lost it. A full Soother hiding their ability using there doesn't make much sense since, ignorant of Dragonfly's coppercloud, they would have brought it to 50/50 at best. Maybe it's worth trying to save E!Hyena anyway, especially if they're the Soother. Nibbles is backing off of the village cred they gave Dragonfly for claiming Smoker initially. It turned into a difference check with E!Heron, which means one of them walks away looking good. The random thoughts Nibbles has about Dragonfly is that they took a long time to answer Swan's challenge where the GMs removed a rules clarification and messed them up. They took a long time with that one, meaning they waited for a GM response before telling their story, they didn't explain the truth first and then count on the GM to back them up. That's cautious playing. Nibbles wonders if part of the confusion is that they copy/pasted the original rules into the elim doc and had to sort out the later discrepancy. Based on yesterday's vote, they might be paired with E!Hyena. Otherwise, it's Vulture or Penguin. Time for brain food
Ivory Dragonfly Posted January 26, 2025 Posted January 26, 2025 11 hours ago, Emerald Falcon said: Time to go through the 5 stages of "did they kill Azure Mouse to set up Ivory Dragonfly as a misexe?". Charcoal Hyena voting me because I'm vanilla and then swapping to self-pres on Coral Swan who was towny and a PR is certainly something. Self-pressing isn't inherently wolfy, it's just hm. Ivory Dragonfly is probably 90% outted off of distro, though. 6 left is 4 v 2. We have 1 misexe, so a pool of 2 to hit 1 elim between them. Mm. Coral Swan said they were Soothing Indigo Weasel. Ivory Dragonfly claimed to have Smoked Indigo Weasel, and claimed to not be responsible for the vote removal on Charcoal Hyena. So that accounts for Coral Swan's wagon staying at 3 votes, and also that is such a questionable target by Ivory Dragonfly. I would maybe tentatively pair Ivory Dragonfly with Charcoal Hyena, because Indigo Weasel being Soothed puts wagons at 2-2 (assuming elim vote manip on Charcoal Hyena wagon), but it's extremely tentative because Coral Swan only claimed their action on Indigo Weasel one minute to rollover, and Charcoal Hyena would have to be a strong role. Elims are most likely responsible for Charcoal Hyena wagon's vote removal, which does look insanely bad for Charcoal Hyena. If wagons were v/v, they wouldn't have a reason to mess with vote manip, but I suppose they could've been setting up for the future. I don't think elims would need to, though, they're likely in a pretty good spot rn. I'm pretty sure Ivory Dragonfly is a Smoker off of their actions, which means either town has 2 Smokers, or elims have 2 Smokers, I think? Idk this could be wrong, I am unfortunately cursed with being terrible with mech. I thought about distro a bunch and I have no idea where a Smoker would fit because town has had 2 vote manip roles flip. It's also possible Ivory Dragonfly is Mistborn, but they most likely did Smoke Indigo Weasel, barring weird circumstances maybe, idk. So that leaves unaccounted for e!vote manip that... hasn't been seen so far? Or I don't remember seeing. Part of me wants to just vote Ivory Dragonfly for distro reasons, and part of me wants to vote Charcoal Hyena for looking bad. I think Ivory Dragonfly is more likely to be a hit, but also Charcoal Hyena looks so bad and there are small things pointing towards Charcoal Hyena, and I also get the feeling I'm insanely wrong right now, though, so idk this is stressing me out more than it should. "Really?" Sew supposed by this point she should be used to this. It was still disheartening. There was also a lot wrong with this post. First up, there had been unclaimed vote manipulation last round. That meant LyLo was now, not later. From a distribution standpoint, that was terrifying! Since the Spiked had manipulation, it was obvious why they had gone after Mouse. They didn't want their power being blocked, and, well, Mouse was more trusted than Sew. Sew wasn't one hundred percent sure what type of vote manipulation the Spiked had. The evidence from yesterday suggested a Soother, but all Soothes before this point were claimed by Swan. It seemed quite possible that the Elims had a Mistborn. Sew was frankly terrified about the possibility of them rolling Pewter, or Zinc, or Steel. An extra life, an extra kill, an extra vote; those could all prove deadly in this situation. She also had to address another part of the argument. Weasel was the best target for Smoking. Nibbles had voted on the Spiked every single cycle. Plus, he had also claimed to be a Thug. Basically, he was extremely unlikely to be a Spiked, and he was extremely unlikely to die. Sew wanted his vote to count, and was suspecting a claimed Soother, so she really wanted his vote to count. 3 hours ago, Indigo Weasel said: Nibbles first read was that when the Hyena voter was killed, Hyena looked more suspicious. But we should really spend the day considering every option so we get this right, so carry on. The smoker target was selected the Night before, so intent is less relevant. They might have seen Nibbles voting Swan coming, and known Swan was likely to Soothe Nibbles. That'd imply they're most focused on proving their role, not protecting Swan. But they voted Swan, so it tracks with their suspicions. Nibbles agrees, but there's situations where E!Mistborn rolled vote manip for the round and had to use it before they lost it. A full Soother hiding their ability using there doesn't make much sense since, ignorant of Dragonfly's coppercloud, they would have brought it to 50/50 at best. Maybe it's worth trying to save E!Hyena anyway, especially if they're the Soother. Nibbles is backing off of the village cred they gave Dragonfly for claiming Smoker initially. It turned into a difference check with E!Heron, which means one of them walks away looking good. The random thoughts Nibbles has about Dragonfly is that they took a long time to answer Swan's challenge where the GMs removed a rules clarification and messed them up. They took a long time with that one, meaning they waited for a GM response before telling their story, they didn't explain the truth first and then count on the GM to back them up. That's cautious playing. Nibbles wonders if part of the confusion is that they copy/pasted the original rules into the elim doc and had to sort out the later discrepancy. Based on yesterday's vote, they might be paired with E!Hyena. Otherwise, it's Vulture or Penguin. Time for brain food Sew understood the temptation to pair Hyena and herself. She had saved the tinker's life after all. However, it was clear that Lysia @Charcoal Hyena was evil. Once again, she referred back to Day 3. She did not believe for a second that the train on Octopus was clean. Yes, Heron had voted on that train but that was as self preservation. She highly suspected that a second Spiked was on that train. Well, all the other members of that train were dead, except for Hyena. Hyena broke a 3 way tie between Swan, herself, and Octopus, deciding on Octopus. From Sew's perspective, that seemed like Elim action to her.
Amber Vulture Posted January 26, 2025 Posted January 26, 2025 Charcoal Hyena's time has run dry, Sauve Chad believes.
Emerald Falcon Posted January 26, 2025 Posted January 26, 2025 7 hours ago, Indigo Weasel said: The smoker target was selected the Night before, so intent is less relevant. They might have seen Nibbles voting Swan coming, and known Swan was likely to Soothe Nibbles. That'd imply they're most focused on proving their role, not protecting Swan. But they voted Swan, so it tracks with their suspicions. Ah ok that clears something up (smh me). 3 hours ago, Ivory Dragonfly said: That meant LyLo was now, not later. I would hope not. It's currently 6 players left, and it should be 4 v 2. If it's 3 v 3, lol ggs I guess, but it could explain why town has so many roles. 3 hours ago, Ivory Dragonfly said: and Octopus Who?
Indigo Weasel Posted January 26, 2025 Posted January 26, 2025 (edited) 5 hours ago, Amber Vulture said: Charcoal Hyena's time has run dry, Sauve Chad believes. Vulture Why? Edit (rather than double posting): C'mon gang, it's too quiet right now. Quote Mint Heron (4): Coral Swan, Indigo Weasel, Ivory Dragonfly, Mauve Crocodile, Melon Dingo Ivory Dragonfly (2): Amber Vulture, Emerald Falcon, Mint Heron Mauve Crocodile (1): Azure Mouse Looking at Day Four, @Amber Vulture supports Heron's chances of survival. D2 and D3 they vanity vote when it didn't really matter, and Nibbles doesn't think they were around monitoring the situation enough to change their vote if e!they'd had to. Staying to the side when there was no pressure on elims, then voting Dragonfly when Heron was under threat looks like an elim trying to fly under the radar most of the time. Vulture, why are you voting Hyena today? And how do you square your voting history? Edited January 27, 2025 by Indigo Weasel
Amber Vulture Posted January 27, 2025 Posted January 27, 2025 Sauve Chad firmly believes that Hyena's borrowed time has run out now and that they should not be able to get away with doing nothing.
Amber Vulture Posted January 27, 2025 Posted January 27, 2025 12 hours ago, Emerald Falcon said: And why shouldn't yours? Sauve Chad has not been running on mercy of others like Hyena.
Indigo Weasel Posted January 27, 2025 Posted January 27, 2025 Vulture Not because Nibbles is especially compelled by those answers, but because Nibbles has better things to do right now. Dragonfly, my guy! Nibbles offers a if you can explain why you aren't paired with Hyena. Maybe they broke the tie to save you both
Emerald Falcon Posted January 27, 2025 Posted January 27, 2025 Ivory Dragonfly. Should be 2-2 on wagons.
Ivory Dragonfly Posted January 28, 2025 Posted January 28, 2025 3 hours ago, Indigo Weasel said: Vulture Not because Nibbles is especially compelled by those answers, but because Nibbles has better things to do right now. Dragonfly, my guy! Nibbles offers a if you can explain why you aren't paired with Hyena. Maybe they broke the tie to save you both Because I'm voting for them??? Because I put them as my next suspect after Swan? I firmly stated yesterday that I believed at least 2 elims were on the train of Ostrich. Since Swan has turned out to be innocent, I'm convinced they are evil. 3 hours ago, Emerald Falcon said: Ivory Dragonfly. Should be 2-2 on wagons. I'll also point out that @Charcoal Hyena hasn't voted yet, but has logged in. Considering the blatant self preservation last time, I can easily imagine where her vote is going. We also have unaccounted for vote manipulation! While I hope @Chartreuse Penguin will vote as well, I'm not getting my hopes up. Then again, considering that Amber Vulture was on Hyena, Penguin is my best guess for the 2nd elim. I suppose Vulture's vote could be a bus, but I doubt it.
Charcoal Hyena Posted January 28, 2025 Posted January 28, 2025 Ivory Dragonfly. Yeah, fair enough. Sorry, Dragonfly.
Kasimir he/him Posted January 28, 2025 Posted January 28, 2025 (edited) AG11/AN15: Night Six - Beyond the Horizon This wasn’t the first time the caravan’d stopped in Tyrian Falls. Far as Sew knew, they’d always stopped in Tyrian Falls: it was one of their bigger waypoints—though that wasn’t saying much, considering the size of some of the villages they’d stopped in—-between Fadrex and Luthadel, if you didn’t take the canals. She’d never stopped looking for her parents. They’d left at one stop. She couldn’t remember which. She’d been young then, and all memories faded into a blur; brief sketches of the caravan pulling into one village and departing from another. To the very young, one village looked much like another, and she couldn’t have told you where they’d gone, the places they’d seen. Time was, maybe Old Coop could’ve said something about where they’d gone. She remembered him puttering about the camp, fixing broken axles, or mending a skewed wooden board. Old Coop’d gone though, and some of the faces in the caravan’d changed. The other caravaners’d said something about skaa rebels and hard times. Sew wasn’t really sure what, exactly, because she’d not paid enough attention, but she got that times were bad in the Final Empire, and that some of the regulars who used to ride with the caravan’d gotten cold feet. Most of the others had only faded memories of what stop her parents might’ve left at. Some of them said Loenthal’s Run, some of them said Fadrex proper, some argued it was one of those small waystops, villages barely big enough so the caravan camped on the village boundaries and sold what they could, even though most of the goods were meant for Luthadel, or Fadrex. Maybe she was wrong, trying to find her parents here. Maybe her mum and her dad hadn’t left her at Tyrian Falls at all, they’d left her at Loenthal’s Run, or Far Dorin, or maybe somewhere else entirely, some place her blurred memories couldn’t reach. But she had to believe in something, right? Had to believe that she could find them. That part never changed: how it always felt like it was on the verge of becoming real, that she’d turn the corner and her dad would be there and her mum would be there and they’d hug each other, one family together again at long last, and they’d say they were sorry for leaving her behind, and they’d had their reasons, and she’d tell them about everything they’d missed, in those long years since they were gone. Sometimes, a voice in her head whispered that it was too long since, that they weren’t coming back, that even if they did, would she even recognise them? Would they even recognise her? Sew ignored it though, as she ignored most doubts. She had to believe in something. Some people believed in the Lord Ruler. Sew believed her parents were still out there, and if she asked the right questions, or tried hard enough, she would find them again. There were five in the common room of the Hound and Hustle. Falcon, Sew, Lysia, Nibbles, and Sauve Chad sat there, in one of the side-booths, staring warily at each other. Ade was nowhere to be seen, and Falcon privately thought that Ade’d probably gotten distracted with gossip, or the many things she’d had to do, and then just forgotten to show up. “Lysia’s suspicious,” Sauve Chad said, matter-of-factly, the same way he’d accused Aralis of getting his name wrong several days ago. “One way or another, you all need to stop letting her off the hook, or we won’t get anywhere.” Nibbles was frowning at Sauve Chad. “Nibbles thinks you should eat these chocolate rocks because you’re in a hard place right now,” he announced, shoving a platter of…rocks over to Sauve Chad across the table. Everyone stared at the rocks. They looked just like…rocks. Inert, grey, some of them streaked with colour, and craggy. The sort you’d find at the bottom of the canal or on the slopes of the ashmount Tyrian. “Nibbles,” Falcon began, warily, probably convinced that Nibbles’s remaining eggs had finally cracked. “These are…rocks.” “These are chocolate rocks!” Nibbles insisted. He picked one up and crunched on it as though it were candy. Falcon wondered if Nibbles was burning Pewter. Pewter let you do remarkable things like crunch rocks, didn’t it? “Still, Nibbles will offer a fresh fruit if Sew can explain why she isn’t a Spiked in cahoots with Lysia,” Nibbles said, brightly. “Nibbles isn’t offering a chocolate rock because chocolate rocks are for everyone but especially Sauve Chad!” Falcon ignored the chocolate rocks for his own sanity. “I don’t like Sew, and I don’t like Lysia,” he finally said. “The way I see it, Sew being yet another Smoker? What’s up with that? But I just don’t like how bad Lysia looks here. It’s all those small things pointing at Lysia, really. But another Smoker? I keep going back and forth, but…Sew it is. She’s probably the Spiked we’re looking for.” “Lysia accused Kael Voss to save Byrar,” Sew protested. “Like it or not, you can’t say that’s okay. I’d bet you these rocks that someone else, another Spiked, was working to save Byrar that day. Like, who lets their family down just like that, if you can do something about it?” She picked up one of the chocolate rocks and looked at it curiously, but sensibly did not bite down. “Yeah, no, we gotta stick together or we’re lost, and I’m with Sauve Chad here. I think we gotta do something about Lysia.” Except that she’d said it, and she was Smoking, pushing her Coppercloud out as far as she dared, but she didn’t have all that much Copper, probably just enough to cover Nibbles, whom she was sitting with. …And two pairs of hostile eyes stared at her, across the table, and there was Nibbles, whom she’d trusted, but who apparently thought she was Spiked as well, and— —And Sew’s instincts screamed trouble, and you didn’t live as she did, a caravaner, an orphan, without learning she could trust her instincts, and when to do so. She flipped herself over the edge of the booth, scrambling up and over the back of the seat as Nibbles made a grab for her, and ran. The caravan had packed up, and was ready to leave, even as Sew drew up short at the boundaries of Tyrian Falls, gasping for breath. She’d really wanted to make this work. She’d really wanted to find her parents. But the others had been getting restless for a time. They knew what they’d run into, out there in the mists, whatever Aralis was saying. And as the villagers of Tyrian Falls pointed fingers at each other and accused each other, as the streets of Tyrian Falls ran with the blood of unfortunate innocents, they all knew that Tyrian Falls was no safe harbour, no place to shelter from the oncoming storm. Hreon'd taken her aside the previous night. “Things’re getting dark in this village, Sew,” he said, and Sew couldn’t remember a time he’d used her name, a time he hadn’t called her ‘little one.’ He looked at her, his eyes deadly serious. “We can’t stay here. The winds are turning foul. We have to keep moving.” He hesitated. “Anyone in this town is probably lost. They can’t hold back the koloss either. We’ve got to move, Sew.” “But my parents,” Sew’d protested. “They’re here, I just know they are.” Hreon'd looked at her, and there was the ghost of sorrow in his eyes. “Sew…” he began, carefully. “They’re dead, girl.” “No,” she’d said. “No.” They were alive. Sew knew it. She would find them. She had to believe. “There was a raid from the Steel Ministry,” Hreon continued, inexorably. As unstoppable as the footsteps of the Tyrianers pursuing her, after the initial shock. “We don’t know who told on them. Your parents, Sew. They were Mistings, and you know the Steel Ministry’s views on that. You know why we’ve always told you to stay safe, to be careful about who you told about your metal. Thank the Lord Ruler, you were a Smoker, so we never had to worry about whether a Ministry Allomancer would discover you burning metal.” “No,” Sew’d said. “I don’t believe you. You’re lying!” she screamed, covering her ears. Things she didn’t want to think about, things crammed desperately into a box at the back of her mind, one that had come slightly ajar that night. One that flew open, even as she ran from the Tyrianers, from the man she’d thought maybe might be her dad. From Falcon. Her bare callused feet slapped against the cobblestones. The caravan didn’t wait. It was the core rule, the ground rule. You lingered, you were left behind. That was it. It was a final hope. A desperate hope. A fool’s hope. But Sew had always dared to hope, even for the impossible. Maybe they’d waited a little, just for her. Sew didn’t know. But she had to try. She sprinted the last leg of distance, hearing the shouts and the cries behind her. Knowing none of it boded well. And—her heart in her mouth—she realised the caravan was still there. They’d packed up, and the stairs were drawn up, and they were ready to leave, in full line, and yet they were still there. Hreon sat on the driver’s seat of one of the caravans, and he nodded to her, gravely. A line of worry eased on his forehead as Sew sprang up, right next to him. They’d waited. He’d waited. That was what family did, right? As Hreon gave the order to depart, the caravan once again began to move, leaving Tyrian Falls, just another village in the long line of villages they had visited, and maybe they’d visit this one again. Maybe they never would. Sew looked back over her shoulder, watching Tyrian Falls recede into the dust, into the distance. Maybe she hadn’t found her parents. And maybe that was okay. Maybe she had to stop looking back. She’d told herself she could do it, that she could find them. That her eyes were on the future. And maybe all of that really meant that she’d forgotten she had family here too, and these were the people who cared about her, who’d taken the place of her mum and her dad, even if Old Coop was gone. “I’m glad you waited,” she said. “I’m glad you came,” Hreon said. And if it wasn’t an apology, if it wasn’t love, given voice, given a shape in the world— —It was good enough. @Ivory Dragonfly fled with the caravan! She was a Village Smoker! @Chartreuse Penguin has met the inactivity filter and been replaced! Please welcome Chartreuse Penguin 2.0! Quote Ivory Dragonfly (3): Charcoal Hyena, Emerald Falcon, Indigo Weasel Charcoal Hyena (1): Amber Vulture, Ivory Dragonfly The Night has begun! It will end in 24 hours on the 28th January 2025, 11PM ET. PMs remain closed! Player List: Spoiler 1. @Amber Vulture - Sauve Chad (Ruinous Skeptic) 2. Amethyst Scorpion - Malmoc (Herbalist) - Village Vanilla 3. Azure Mouse - (Watcher) - Village Smoker 4. @Charcoal Hyena - Lysia (Tinker) 5. @Chartreuse Penguin - [Ade]mordna Niugnep 6. Coral Swan - Acks (Matchmaker) - Village Soother 7. Cream Tuatara - Hayden Vendel (Drunk) - Village Lurcher 8. @Emerald Falcon - (Observer) 9. Fuchsia Ostrich - Kael Voss - Village Rioter 10. @Indigo Weasel - Nibbles (Chef) 11. Ivory Dragonfly - Sew (Hopeful Orphan) - Village Smoker 12. Magenta Albatross - Alais Short (Gambler) - Village Vanilla 13. Mauve Crocodile - (Jaist) - Village Tineye 14. Melon Dingo - Rind (Orphaned By Mistwraiths) - Village Mistborn 15. Mint Heron - Byrar (Unlucky Craftsman) - Spiked Smoker Edited January 30, 2025 by Kasimir piplup forgot 1
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