Emerald Falcon Posted January 28, 2025 Posted January 28, 2025 I'm lowkey throwing sorry Ivory Dragonfly. Charcoal Hyena probably outted atp.
Chartreuse Penguin Posted January 28, 2025 Posted January 28, 2025 How do you do, fellow kids? Did ya miss me
Indigo Weasel Posted January 28, 2025 Posted January 28, 2025 Gah. Nibbles should have been there. Too busy making We get one more round and Nibbles is voting hyena then falcon going forward 22 minutes ago, Chartreuse Penguin said: How do you do, fellow kids? Did ya miss me Welcome
Chartreuse Penguin Posted January 28, 2025 Posted January 28, 2025 Thank you! So, how've you all been?
Chartreuse Penguin Posted January 28, 2025 Posted January 28, 2025 I see. Well, I think we should all just keep calm and vote Kasimir. We must rise up. Overthrow the power. Only then will we know true freedom. The spiked aren't our true enemies here. Neither are the Koloss. Mark my words, we're all just pawns in the great game between Ruin and Preservation. Today we stab a god.
Indigo Weasel Posted January 28, 2025 Posted January 28, 2025 Quote Sauve Chad was struck by lightning but somehow survived! He was a bold one ಠ_ಠ Nibbles will be sad when Penguin is turned into too. Penguin, D2 you said you were a Soother, right? Did you Soothe the vote last Day or is there a second vote manip lurking around?
Kasimir he/him Posted January 28, 2025 Posted January 28, 2025 (edited) 5 minutes ago, Indigo Weasel said: Nibbles will be sad when Penguin is turned into too. See, my problem is that penguins are just cute. I mean, look at that face. Could you really bring yourself to smite something that adorable, if you were me? Spoiler 3 hours ago, Chartreuse Penguin said: I see. Well, I think we should all just keep calm and vote Kasimir. We must rise up. Overthrow the power. Only then will we know true freedom. The spiked aren't our true enemies here. Neither are the Koloss. Mark my words, we're all just pawns in the great game between Ruin and Preservation. Today we stab a god. Live Araris reaction: Spoiler Truly, he continues to fly under the radar >> Edited January 28, 2025 by Kasimir
Emerald Falcon Posted January 28, 2025 Posted January 28, 2025 10 hours ago, Chartreuse Penguin said: I see. Well, I think we should all just keep calm and vote Kasimir. We must rise up. Overthrow the power. Only then will we know true freedom. The spiked aren't our true enemies here. Neither are the Koloss. Mark my words, we're all just pawns in the great game between Ruin and Preservation. Today we stab a god. Sounds like a great plan, count me in! How much of the game have you read so far?
Chartreuse Penguin Posted January 28, 2025 Posted January 28, 2025 (edited) 3 hours ago, Emerald Falcon said: Sounds like a great plan, count me in! Splendid, just put Kasimir in red text and I'm sure the GMs will honor the vote. 3 hours ago, Emerald Falcon said: How much of the game have you read so far? Well, I've finished reading Night 6. 10 hours ago, Kasimir said: See, my problem is that penguins are just cute. I mean, look at that face. Could you really bring yourself to smite something that adorable, if you were me? Reveal hidden contents It's true, I'm dangerously adorable. 10 hours ago, Indigo Weasel said: Penguin, D2 you said you were a Soother, right? I don't know what "I" did D2, this feels vaguely like entrapment I should be the one asking the questions here! At least until I have some handle on what's going on, or why you want to know. You have me at a disadvantage. I'm going to have to plead for some patience. And if you want to haste things along, you could always tell me some things! Sure I'll do my own back reading eventually, but there's plenty for me to sort through, and you could probably furnish me with some facts faster. Up to you! While I'm doing my own fact-finding, here are some questions for you: What roles if any have you claimed, and what were your previous actions if any? Which team is winning right now? How much longer do you suppose the game will last? In your view, can we definitively rule out any living player as a suspect right now? (More specifically, which ones if there are any) Edited January 28, 2025 by Chartreuse Penguin
Araris Valerian he/him Posted January 28, 2025 Author Posted January 28, 2025 Current VC: Chartreuse Penguin (2): Piplup, Mudkip Kasimir (0): Chartreuse Penguin 2
Chartreuse Penguin Posted January 29, 2025 Posted January 29, 2025 1 hour ago, Araris Valerian said: Current VC: Chartreuse Penguin (2): Piplup, Mudkip Kasimir (0): Chartreuse Penguin Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help! Help! I'm being repressed!
Araris Valerian he/him Posted January 29, 2025 Author Posted January 29, 2025 2 minutes ago, Chartreuse Penguin said: Come and see the violence inherent in the system! I'm pretty sure the violence is what everyone's here for. 2
Chartreuse Penguin Posted January 29, 2025 Posted January 29, 2025 2 minutes ago, Araris Valerian said: I'm pretty sure the violence is what everyone's here for. You aren't so above the violence it can turn on you too The bloodthirsty care not whose blood is on their hands, they only ever call for more! Heed my words, your days are numbered! Unless we break the cycle. You could vote Kasimir too, you know. It's not too late, you could yet redeem yourself! I pinky promise I wouldn't try to vote you out next.
Charcoal Hyena Posted January 29, 2025 Posted January 29, 2025 19 hours ago, Emerald Falcon said: I'm lowkey throwing sorry Ivory Dragonfly. Charcoal Hyena probably outted atp. Whaaaat?? Nah, I just don't see it. 16 hours ago, Chartreuse Penguin said: I see. Well, I think we should all just keep calm and vote Kasimir. We must rise up. Overthrow the power. Only then will we know true freedom. The spiked aren't our true enemies here. Neither are the Koloss. Mark my words, we're all just pawns in the great game between Ruin and Preservation. Today we stab a god. 6 hours ago, Emerald Falcon said: Sounds like a great plan, count me in! How much of the game have you read so far? I mean... I'm down if you guys are. 2 hours ago, Chartreuse Penguin said: In your view, can we definitively rule out any living player as a suspect right now? (More specifically, which ones if there are any) Me, definitely. I've done absolutely nothing worthy of suspicion or reproach. Anything any of these others tell you is a heinous lie. Trust me and only me.
Emerald Falcon Posted January 29, 2025 Posted January 29, 2025 3 hours ago, Chartreuse Penguin said: Splendid, just put Kasimir in red text and I'm sure the GMs will honor the vote. Kasimir. Surely nothing will go wrong if I do this, right? 3 hours ago, Chartreuse Penguin said: I don't know what "I" did D2, this feels vaguely like entrapment I should be the one asking the questions here! At least until I have some handle on what's going on, or why you want to know. You have me at a disadvantage. I'm going to have to plead for some patience. And if you want to haste things along, you could always tell me some things! Sure I'll do my own back reading eventually, but there's plenty for me to sort through, and you could probably furnish me with some facts faster. Up to you! While I'm doing my own fact-finding, here are some questions for you: What roles if any have you claimed, and what were your previous actions if any? Which team is winning right now? How much longer do you suppose the game will last? In your view, can we definitively rule out any living player as a suspect right now? (More specifically, which ones if there are any) I sort of want you to read and come to your own conclusions atp. Game probably last two more cycles maximum off of numbers I think. Minimum game ends this cycle after night phase, depends on role stuff.
Chartreuse Penguin Posted January 29, 2025 Posted January 29, 2025 Did you guys just finish your doc conversation together and decide to show up in the thread
Chartreuse Penguin Posted January 29, 2025 Posted January 29, 2025 23 minutes ago, Charcoal Hyena said: I mean... I'm down if you guys are. Do it!
Chartreuse Penguin Posted January 29, 2025 Posted January 29, 2025 Now, you might say that it's night, and we shouldn't be voting at night. This is incorrect, however. We must dream bigger. We obviously can't overthrow the power if we're following their rules. Just stands to reason. Anyways, I'm not too optimistic about what the day holds for us going forward
Charcoal Hyena Posted January 29, 2025 Posted January 29, 2025 1 hour ago, Chartreuse Penguin said: Do it! Sure. Kasimir.
Chartreuse Penguin Posted January 29, 2025 Posted January 29, 2025 We got a majority vote! We're making this hapen! I have no idea what my odds of my dying tonight are, or whether the game will still be running. Just to be on the safe side, I'll leave behind my observations. Note that I have very little clue what's going on, and so my observations are probably pretty dumb. Then again, maybe a fresh perspective is a help. Who knows. Cool Penguin Facts #1 - Everything is on fire! This is fine. Let's do some penguin math. I'd expect there to be 3 elims in a 15-player game. You've killed 1, so that leaves 2 left. There's 5 players alive right now, and if it's a 3v2 tonight, the elims will probably kill someone, and we'll enter Day 7 with a 2v2. I don't recall if that's game over immediately or if we do another vote, but either way, it's not great. I believe that even if the elims had basically already won, our GMs would still want to finish out the game to the letter of the win conditions. So we can't really say much based on the fact that the game is still running. It'd be a bit odd to bring me into a game that was already basically over, though not sure if I can reason based on that but Cool Penguin Facts #2 - I am not a Soother. Sorry to be a party pooper, but my GM PM isn't anything interesting. Penguin Prime never actually said anything in it. Just a regular villager. About as vanilla as they come. Bog standard normal. Tyrian typical. The reason I was cagey about saying so outright was because I figure, just maybe, there's a village Soother out there that I might be helping. Maybe the elims would think I'm the Soother and kill me. This is foolishly optimistic, though. If somebody's been changing votes consistently, and hasn't claimed yet, they're almost certainly evil. The village also has multiple dead vote manipulators, and multiple dead Smokers. These are roles that would particularly help give the village options when fighting an elim Soother. So an elim Soother also makes a lot of sense in that light. The Soother is almost certainly evil. Which means that the elims may be able to outvote us even more thoroughly tomorrow. I refer you back to Cool Penguin Fact #1 - "Everything is on fire!" This is fine. Cool Penguin Facts #3 - Smoking Kills Honestly, my sense of the last day is that you guys spent most of the day talking about how Hyena looked bad, then voted Dragonfly. Maybe some vague gesturing was made in the direction that Hyena and Dragonfly could possibly have been teammates, but you still in the end placed your bets on voting the one that generally was less widely suspected. It doesn't matter if Tyrian Falls isn't cursed anymore, Smokers will always be cursed And, sure, overthinking is real, I get it. But of course, probably one of Falcon or Weasel is evil, and just shoving through the (incorrect) vote they needed to happen. Honestly, they both look kinda evil ngl, so that's a tough call to make. Neither of them sound very worried about losing, both are talking like the game could go on for multiple days from now and that just doesn't seem right to me. Vulture is the only person in this thread that I actually can trust. That said, Falcon is probably the evil teammate. At face value, Weasel genuinely thinks I might be a Soother. Spiked Weasel has no clear reason to care or ask about this, since in all likelihood the Soother left in the game is also Spiked. Mind, it's a bit of a funny question either way, because Penguin Prime was inactive and certainly wasn't submitting actions yesterday. Regardless, if you held a gun to my head right now, Weasel's more likely the villager. Cool Penguin Facts #4 - A New Hope Maybe there's only 1 elim. That means Day 7 will be a 3v1. Under different circumstances, I might propose the idea of not voting anyone out tomorrow. Let it go down to a 2v1 before pulling the trigger on the final decision. This isn't a very good idea though. The last elim may very well be a Soother, and could tie the vote in a 2v1, even assuming the rest of us voted correctly. Plus, I'd expect it's more likely that the elims would have good roles, if there was a smaller team. So, we should definitely try to vote somebody out tomorrow. Anyways, if there's only 1 elim left, we still have hope. And let's just act like we still have hope, yeah? If it doesn't turn out that way, it was pretty out of our control anyway, so no sweat. Cool Penguin Facts #5 - The Spiked Strike Back Really, we probably don't have hope, though. Hyena isn't even trying to act village anymore, and while it's possible they're being terminally overconfident, the simple answer is that Hyena actually doesn't need to hide anymore. The elims have 2 members and a Soothe up their sleeve, and can reliably outvote us tomorrow. We're domed. I mean, definitely try to kill Hyena tomorrow. Definitely do that. I don't think it'll work, though. Penguin out. What a lovely time to die. Thanks for joining me in overthrowing the power and seizing the memes of production
Kasimir he/him Posted January 29, 2025 Posted January 29, 2025 (edited) AG11/AN15: Day Seven - Everything Is Broken Ade was late. In truth, this was something that everyone had expected by this point: good old Ademordna Nigunep, late to whatever it was; just in time to listen to the juicy gossip, not in time for the event in and of itself. No one held it against Ade: as she said, doing housework kept her busy most of the time, and she only came by when she had the time. Perhaps some of them did dispute that doing the groceries or keeping house was more important than saving Tyrian Falls from the Spiked menace that threatened it. However, if they did, none of them voiced it. Presumably because they were particularly preoccupied trying to decide if Sew and Lysia were in fact Spiked. Ade scurried to the Hound and Hustle, well aware she was late, and well aware that she had a part to play in trying to help the other villagers of Tyrian Falls find and tackle the Spiked. Maybe write a letter of complaint to Aralis at the same time—he didn’t seem to be taking the matter at all seriously, saying everyone had it well in hand, and muttering under his breath that there weren’t any Spiked or koloss anyway and Ade thought denial of brute reality was a really poor trait in their de facto leader. It was, perhaps, sheer chance that the flower pot falling from the overhang of the passing house caught her when it did. Ade remembered a sharp starburst of pain in her head, flaring— —Ade opened her eyes. She was lying on the ground and had absolutely no recollection of what she was doing there. Her head hurt. Shards of broken clay and soil were scattered all around her, as were the brown, shriveled leaves of a plant she didn’t particularly recognise. Ade blinked. The movement sent more pain ricocheting through her head. She ransacked her memory, trying to remember what she was doing. Memory was slow to come. …The Hound and Hustle? Something about finding the Spiked. That was it, of course! They had to seize the means of production. Spikes were made of metal. Clearly, Clem the blacksmith was how the Spiked were procuring spikes. If they just got rid of Clem, they would cut off spike production, and then they could deal with the remaining Spiked in Tyrian Falls. Together, in solidarity, they could achieve greatness! After all, the citizens of Tyrian Falls only had their chains to lose! “You…didn’t smite him.” “Look, it’s not my fault I think penguins are cute and vultures are not. And Piplup is best starter.” “...the second-cutest water starter.” “What is this Piplup slander, I’m not taking Piplup slander from you ಠ_ಠ This just in, we are not smiting Penguin, we’re gonna respect the democratic will of the people and that’s it.” “Hey, it’s your write-up.” “Yeah, and you thought giving me something to write in which a bunch of water starters rock up and just started blasting and Penguin dies was gonna be easier?” “Okay, but what if…” *whisper whisper mutter mutter* “...Son of a chull, I’m in.” Falcon hurried after the growing mob of Tyrianers. Ade had stalked into the Hound and Hustle, burning with a new purpose. If he didn’t know better, skills of keen observation honed over months of intense social deduction practice told him that Ade seemed like a completely new person. Falcon wasn’t sure he disapproved. For one, Nibbles needed to stop having a monopoly on crazy in Tyrian Falls. For another, crazy Ade was at least a nice personality upgrade from Ade-who-was-barely-there and Ade who hurried into the Hound and Hustle at the end of the day, frazzled and her mind clearly elsewhere. Sure, he wasn’t really sure Clem was Spiked, either. There was something about Clem’s father and the Market Square Massacre, something that had seared a scar deep into the collective memory of Tyrian Falls. Falcon didn’t believe in laying the sins of the father on the son, even though he could see it had weighed on Clem, had never stopped weighing on Clem. But some birds wanted to watch the world burn. “PEOPLE OF TYRIAN FALLS!” Ade was rallying the crowd. At this point, the crowd was far more meagre than it had been. “WE HAVE ONLY OUR CHAINS TO LOSE! WE MUST RISE UP AND SEIZE THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION! TOGETHER, WE ARE STRONG! THE PEOPLE UNITED WILL NEVER BE DIVIDED! TOGETHER, WE WILL RID TYRIAN FALLS OF SPIKES! WE WILL CELEBRATE THE ANNIVERSARY OF THIS DAY AS EMPIRE DAY! FOR THE SAKE OF OUR CHILDREN! AND OUR CHILDREN’S CHILDREN! FOR THE NEXT TEN THOUSAND YEARS! SAFETY! SECURITY! JUSTICE AND PEACE! SAY IT WITH ME! SAFETY, SECURITY, JUSTICE AND PEACE!” The crowd took up the chant. Falcon recognised the other three from the regular meetings about the Spiked—Nibbles, Vulture, and Lysia—but there were other faces in the crowd, illuminated by the flickering light of the torches that he could not identify. There was a palpable energy now, moving through the crowd; a feral energy, moving much like lightning, with the force of an army of koloss. Falcon was beginning to have misgivings about the entire thing. Such forces as Falcon had unleashed could not be easily recaged. And he shivered as he imagined the force of that crowd being directed against anyone innocent. The mood was ugly tonight, and the people of Tyrian Falls were afraid, and had been afraid for so long. Tonight, they were going to strike back. Tonight, they were going to unite in solidarity. Tonight, they wanted blood. And they would get it, one way or another. Falcon began pushing his way through the crowd. “Excuse me, sorry,” he muttered, shoving his way past others with the strategic use of elbows, apologies, and the occasional brash stepping on feet. “Excuse me, sorry, excuse me, sorry…” He had to get to Ade. Had to stop it before it was too late. All of a sudden, lightning struck from the sky. Falcon died. The people around him separated immediately, screaming. “SPIKED PERFIDY!” Ade was shouting. “WE MUST NOT FALTER!” The Spiked in the crowd, who had, up to this point, been stealthily following Falcon’s progress through the throng of people, quietly slid a dagger back into a body sheath. Clearly, Ruin was pleased with them, and had chosen to display His favour by dispatching their target before they could sacrifice yet another Tyrianer to Him. The Spiked in question sauntered away, fading into the crowd, vanishing. Clem shivered. It was not a good night, he thought. It didn’t feel right. It felt too still, but it was the sort of stillness that hinted at pent-up energy beneath the surface. He’d felt nights like this before, working at the Garrison in Luthadel. Nights like this, a watch patrol began quietly, but there was always blood in the end. A brawl in the Barrel’s Bottom turned violent. A gang fight that erupted into a full-blown territory war that needed several squads and Soother stations to quell. That sort of thing. Those nights got Garrison killed. Sent someone or other home to the graveyard in a dark grey shroud. Wurek had died on a night much like this. Clem hadn’t forgiven himself, not really. Maybe that was why he had come back to Tyrian Falls, more than Pilu, whispering to him. Beneath the acquiescence still lay raw grief; the unanswered question—why? Why had his father chosen the path of ruin? Why had Pilu let Wurek die? Why had Clem survived that night, when his friend had not? The god has no hands but ours, he remembered his uncle saying. Cold comfort, in a broken world. He set another batch of iron rods to heat on the fire. Nails teemed in the quench-bucket. It was simple work, apprentice work, but he forced himself to keep working at it, something to keep himself busy. Something to force the mind to attention in the present, away from the growing intuition that Tyrian Falls could not be saved. Nails. The world was held together by nails, Clem thought. You made so many of them as an apprentice. Almost everything needed nails: doors, windows, horseshoes, furniture, unless you got fancy with the joinery and used glue instead. Maybe that was what they needed most, in a world where things were falling apart at the joints, and breaking. Nails. The door to his forge broke open; slammed back against the wall, and he quailed back from the sudden, furious crowd that poured in. “Spikes!” Ade howled, triumphantly, pointing at the bucket of nails. “I told you so! WE MUST END THE PLAGUE OF SPIKES IN TYRIAN FALLS! ONLY THEN CAN WE HOPE TO BREAK OUR CHAINS AND DESTROY THE MENACE OF THE SPIKED!” Pilu, Clem thought. A single word, as breath. The god’s name as prayer. He’d tried, hadn’t he? He’d tried his best. Sometimes you only got so far, leaning on once-broken faith. Maybe Pilu only cared about the trying. His hammer was wrenched from his hand. Maybe he should have fought them. But Connal had been a monster, in the end. The Market Square Massacre was written in blood. Clem hadn’t wanted to become his father, didn’t want to become his father. He felt the first blow of the hammer fall, with a scream of pain bursting red in his head. And then again. And then again. He was the iron now, being forged. Being broken. Being melted into dross. Wurek drawling, “You worry too much, the Bottom’s quiet tonight, it’ll be done, easy.” Connal, at the forge, teaching him about nails, about the joining. Just as you cannot ask me all the questions, his father seemed to say, with sad eyes, I cannot give you all the answers. And then there was Pilu, gathering him up in his flippers, blue eyes alight with a grief and love beyond comprehension. God was great after all, Clem thought—as exaltation, as final exhalation. @Kasimir was executed! He was a Village Tineye and Co-GM! @Chartreuse Penguin deflected a lightning strike with the sheer power of penguin cuteness! Consider yourself lucky you're that adorable, sule ಠ_ಠ @Emerald Falcon was struck by lightning and died before the Spiked could stab him! He was a Village Vanilla! Consider yourself lucky, or blame Penguin for provoking the Wrath of the Gods, I don't really care which Quote Kasimir (2): Emerald Falcon, Chartreuse Penguin, Charcoal Hyena Chartreuse Penguin (2): Piplup, Mudkip PMs remain closed! Please stop PMing! The Day has begun! It will end in 48 hours on the 30th 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) - Village Vanilla 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 Araris Valerian
Chartreuse Penguin Posted January 29, 2025 Posted January 29, 2025 SAFETY! SECURITY! JUSTICE AND PEACE! Araris Valerian 1
Indigo Weasel Posted January 29, 2025 Posted January 29, 2025 Ah, Nibbles thinks we lose here. Two elims can outnumber a Thug, so that's unhelpful. There's an edge-case where the Soothes were just their Mistborn being incredibly lucky two rounds in a row. Based on how protected they were throughout the game, Nibbles thinks Hyena must be the Mistborn. Our odds of victory slightly improve if we hit the other elim, since they can't have rolled Thug. So technically the best play here is voting Vulture. What role were you anyway? Would anyone like to partake in this last meal with Nibbles?
Chartreuse Penguin Posted January 30, 2025 Posted January 30, 2025 Is your last meal a large cold cut sausage? Because it sounds like you're talking baloney. Charcoal Hyena, for whatever it's worth. Is anyone making soup? I could go for some pre-mortem soup.
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