LG104: Aftermath - Mother

[|TJ| he/him]

Aftermath - Mother

Sierin's plan was working. It seems such a risky move when she hatched it, but you do not get to climb the ladder without rolling a few heads. She walked into the trapdoor set in the tavern nearby and there she was, her prized possession, the last of the Black Ajah - Altea of the White. There was a reason no one could find the last Black Ajah despite the best efforts the new Amyrlin. Sierin had moved quicker, faster than anyone expected her to be, and had correctly figured out the secret of Altea. But instead of handing her over to the Amyrlin, she went about her plan. Altea was not too smart to evade capture forever. Eventually, she'd be caught and the influence of the Amyrlin would grow. What if... I captured Altea and kept her in a place where no one could find them, and I continued killing the Aes Sedai here in the Tower? 

It was such a brilliant move! She'd never be suspected as she had already passed her test with the Oath Rod as she hadn't really sworn to the Dark. She was just ambitious to the point of evil, and not every evil person needs the Dark One's promises. 

"Why? Why are you doing this? What has He promised you?", wheezed Altea. 

"Huh, you wouldn't understand." 

Just a few more nights, a few more deaths of her Sisters and the Hall would grow restless. They already though they had placed a figurehead at the top and the petty squabbles of the Sitters turned a lot serious now. There were rumours about Stilling the Amyrlin already, with the Sitters discussing the next person to be Raised. Sierin would then be in the best position to swoop in, the Sisters already mentioning support to her in whispers. 

It was to her greatest surprise, then, that the trapdoor was broken in and she found herself face-to-face with the Amyrlin and her strongest and most vocal supporters. Getting over her shock is a matter of moments, she put on her sweetest face, "Mother! Look who I found for you!"

"Indeed, look what we have here. It seems like you've had her for days, Sierin. You weren't keeping her from me, were you?"

"No Mother! I couldn't be sure if there was another one of them at the Tower, who could get to her. Naturally, I thought of questioning her away from the Tower."

"Naturally."

"And I was right! The killings continued well after I captured Altea."

"The killings continued because you killed them, Sierin."

This time she couldn't hide the surprise off her face. The Amyrlin had spoken a direct statement, she truly believed in it. She knew...

"Mother?"

Sierin never even realised the Shield was in place as she tried to access her Source. 

"Mother, no! Please! Let me explain." 

Just like that, Sierin was cut off from her source as the Amyrlin had already moved on towards Altea. 

***

Everyone was searching for Jane Steel as they assumed poor Jane was another one of the Black Ajah's victims. Meanwhile, John had enough of cosplaying as Aes Sedai. Those ladies were going insane and killing each other. And they say male channelers are the ones going crazy??? How were they involving him in those discussion? Never again, never again...

He had escaped the tower before they even noticed he was gone. Maybe he'd sneak aboard the ships of the Sea Folk next...

***

Illwei was exiled! She was from the Black Ajah!

Vote Count:

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Illwei (2): BridgeBoi
Steeldancer (1): Illwei

Congratulations to the Hall of the Tower for winning the game by successfully eliminated the Black Ajah! Also, a big thank you to the pinch-hitters - @Aeternum and @Illwei. Without them, we'd have a lot more inactivity deaths and the game would have been a lot less fun. Massive shout-out to Illwei for taking the game right down to the wire and making it very close in the end. Another thanks would be to all the players who have joined SE and trusted me to be your entry to it, namely - @BridgeBoi(another shoutout for taking on the responsibility of being a Sitter and then the Amyrlin Seat and bringing the victory home to the village), @Terrisman, @Teldris Anuar and @ThatOneWorldhopper. I hope you all continue to play with us, and please do not think that you had a bad game or any of the sort. We only learn by play more :). All in all, I hope everyone had fun! I know we had a couple of moments of GMClusterchull, but I will probably talk about it later in my GM Thoughts. For now, thank you all for indulging. :') 

Docs:

GM Spreadsheet
Spec Doc
Black Ajah Doc
Green Ajah
Blue Ajah
Grey Ajah
White Ajah
Yellow Ajah
Brown Ajah (hehe :P)

Player List:

Spoiler

1. @The Wandering Wizard - Evelyn Rosemary Hall of the Tower
2. @KelsierApologist - British Racing Black Ajah
3. @TwinStorm - Melian Black Ajah
4. @Experience / @Aeternum Hall of the Tower
5. @Ashbringer Hall of the Tower
6. @Steeldancer - John Steel Hall of the Tower
7. @Kasimir - Kamil Lovric Hall of the Tower
8. @The Unknown Flame - Verde Black Ajah
9. @ThatOneWorldhopper - Alkarii Tay'TerTüne Hall of the Tower
10. @DrakeMarshall Black Ajah
11. @Mark IV Hall of the Tower
12. @BridgeBoi - Taimon Hall of the Tower
13. @Terrisman - Terri Hall of the Tower
14. @Teldris Anuar - Tesan Alruddin Hall of the Tower
15. @Sart - Sartala Hall of the Tower
16. @STINK - Rasmuht Hall of the Tower
17. @xxGaea / @Illwei - Altea O’Canavan, aka Nameless Whisper Black Ajah
18. @A Joe in the Bush - Emmett Hall of the Tower

Edited April 10, 2025 by |TJ|

[OoklaApologist She/her]

Gg everybody. Nice job @BridgeBoi

[BridgeBoi]

Wait Sieran was evil the whole time!?!? Whatt

Anyways fun game yall!

[Terrisman]

Great game!! Well done @Illwei and well done @BridgeBoi

[TwinStorm He/Him]

Great game, very close at the end!

Especially nice job to @BridgeBoi and @Illwei

[Kasimir he/him]

3 hours ago, BridgeBoi said:

Wait Sieran was evil the whole time!?!? Whatt

Anyways fun game yall!

I suspect he's trying to tie it in to canon. We know Sierin Vayu canonically succeeds Tamra as the Amrylin Seat, it's just...weird because she's a Red-sympathetic Grey, and here, uh, I think TJ made her a Red instead

Well played, BridgeBoi, and great game everyone, thanks for GMing, TJ bhai!

[The Unknown Medallion he/him]

Thanks for GMing @|TJ| and @little wilson for being an excellent IM (I never expected you to let us delete that from the doc)

Thanks to @Illwei for trying their all for us despite a late start. Thanks to @xxGaea for trying your hardest. I loved playing with you.

Congratulations village, and especially @BridgeBoi. You did great, even if Illwei is mad you had it right for the wrong reasons, that's just the mark of a good villager.

My only complaint for this game is not enough docs

Edit: Also, congratulations @TheRavenHasLanded on your ACT

[Ookla de los Cuervos he/him]

Why thank you!!!

[Illwei]

Ggs guys @BridgeBoi @Terrisman yall were p great

 

EDIT:

I think the hardest part for me was the inactives in this game. I think it's funny that the villagers dying hurt me most of all, since I wanted Ash and Aet to stay alive.

I decided against killing steel the night i killed sart, and I was really just trying to take away people that seemed to be sided with bb at that point. If you look in the elim doc you'll see the weird and half baked too convoluted plan of trying to get bb to be elected to the seat but like in a pretty stupid way that was never gonna work.

anyways kinda wished I killed steel because my idea was that he would be filtered out, and yet it just- he wasn't. and that hurt me in f3 where there weren't really any kills i could make to win. I tried to keep other people alive (Ash/Aet) but it....just wasn't really possible when no one was on.

I wanna see this game run again I feel like this wasn't the correct path that was taken- the events over the course of the game.

19 minutes ago, The Unknown Flame said:

You did great, even if Illwei is mad you had it right for the wrong reasons, that's just the mark of a good villager

Another edit to say- I'm not mad??

But also having things right for the wrong reasons isn't something I would say is the mark of a good villager. I didn't really follow close enough to say that bridgeboi even had the wrong reasons at all? I'm not going to backread now. I'm just also going to say that you can have good gut instincts but still not be a good villager

nothing of that pertains to bridgeboi, who I enjoyed playing with and look forward to watching in other games. just in a general meta comment sense about the theoretical traits of a good villager.

[Ashbringer he/him]

Wohoo!

That was fun. I like having docs.

Do think things would have gone quite differently without as many inactives, but what can ya do.

[The Unknown Medallion he/him]

9 hours ago, Illwei said:

Ggs guys @BridgeBoi @Terrisman yall were p great

 

EDIT:

I think the hardest part for me was the inactives in this game. I think it's funny that the villagers dying hurt me most of all, since I wanted Ash and Aet to stay alive.

I decided against killing steel the night i killed sart, and I was really just trying to take away people that seemed to be sided with bb at that point. If you look in the elim doc you'll see the weird and half baked too convoluted plan of trying to get bb to be elected to the seat but like in a pretty stupid way that was never gonna work.

anyways kinda wished I killed steel because my idea was that he would be filtered out, and yet it just- he wasn't. and that hurt me in f3 where there weren't really any kills i could make to win. I tried to keep other people alive (Ash/Aet) but it....just wasn't really possible when no one was on.

I wanna see this game run again I feel like this wasn't the correct path that was taken- the events over the course of the game.

Another edit to say- I'm not mad??

But also having things right for the wrong reasons isn't something I would say is the mark of a good villager. I didn't really follow close enough to say that bridgeboi even had the wrong reasons at all? I'm not going to backread now. I'm just also going to say that you can have good gut instincts but still not be a good villager

nothing of that pertains to bridgeboi, who I enjoyed playing with and look forward to watching in other games. just in a general meta comment sense about the theoretical traits of a good villager.

I was half joking, we had a bit of a convo about it in the dead doc.

[Jo and the Bush all/any]

I very much enjoyed what parts of the game I got to play in, and would like to apologize for 'going inactive'. Midway through Day two, IRL events happened that resulted in me learning the Alignments of Everyone in both the White Ajah and the Yellow Ajah, which prevented me from ethically staying in the game. I really wish I could have stayed in the game.

Regardless! Thank you @|TJ| for running the game! Thank you @Kasimir and @Ashbringer for being the best doc mates I could have asked for other than @xxGaea.  I hope to play with you all again soon.

[Kasimir he/him]

3 hours ago, A Jo in the Bush said:

I very much enjoyed what parts of the game I got to play in, and would like to apologize for 'going inactive'. Midway through Day two, IRL events happened that resulted in me learning the Alignments of Everyone in both the White Ajah and the Yellow Ajah, which prevented me from ethically staying in the game. I really wish I could have stayed in the game.

Regardless! Thank you @|TJ| for running the game! Thank you @Kasimir and @Ashbringer for being the best doc mates I could have asked for other than @xxGaea.  I hope to play with you all again soon.

You were not voted the Amrylin Seat but you will always be my Amrylin Seat and Ash's!

For the Yellow Ajah!

[Teldris Anuar]

Well it was a fun game. I tried to keep up and it was entertaining watching from the sidelines. Once easter passes and work eases a bit ill have to give another game a try

[Illwei]

I still don't fully understand what happened with a n1 teldris kill other than it was intended to clear tun

[The Unknown Medallion he/him]

13 minutes ago, Illwei said:

I still don't fully understand what happened with a n1 teldris kill other than it was intended to clear tun

I mean, it worked as well is could have. It made them quite nearly reconsider. 

[|TJ| he/him]

Alright, I've put this off for long now, so without further ado, here are your GM's thoughts. 

It is arguable that the elim team could be both 4 or 5 imo. Depending on the number, necessary balancing had to be made. 5 made sense because I was fine with the village not electing an Amyrlin Seat as long as they had a perfect game. The village would end the game in D5 if they had a perfect game, and the latest possible cycle the Amyrlin could be elected in is N5, which worked perfectly. Basically - "you don't want to elect an Amyrlin Seat? Fine, have a perfect game then", which the village almost did :P.  , Having chosen 5 elims meant spreading them very narrowly in as less Ajahs as possible without it being too crippling. 5 elims in 5 different Ajah means a possible scenario where 5/6 Sitters are elims, which would bring them very close to their wincon. 3 Ajahs was the maximum access I was willing to give them.

Now the most important question, why did I give a distro with an all-elim Ajah? There are only 2 ways to split 5 elims in 3 Ajahs - 2/2/1 or 3/1/1. I deemed 2/2/1 too strong for an elim team of 5 to have because the games is designed in a way that elims have easier wincons and 2/2/1 essentially guarantees 2 elim Sitters. I gave elims 5 members in numbers and tried to debuff them in any way possible. Funnily enough, I had not thought so deeply into all of this, and just tried to see how the distro would look, and in the very first rand, it gave me an all-elim Brown Ajah. I tried different rands, but the first one I got was perfect and everything else paled in comparison. 

This game does need a better incentive for the village to elect the Amyrlin Seat. As I mentioned in the dead doc, I do think giving the Amyrlin Seat access to elim doc as well is a good idea, with the elim doc being anonymous. Elims would be given the info about all their teammates and their anon-identity in the elim doc on the GM PMs. 

PMs had to be closed this game as essentially, the docs were like PMs except I decide who you talk to :P. I liked the Ajah docs, and glad players enjoyed then :P.

[Jo and the Bush all/any]

2 hours ago, |TJ| said:

This game does need a better incentive for the village to elect the Amyrlin Seat. As I mentioned in the dead doc, I do think giving the Amyrlin Seat access to elim doc as well is a good idea, with the elim doc being anonymous. Elims would be given the info about all their teammates and their anon-identity in the elim doc on the GM PMs. 

The Incentives I had thought of were for the Amyrlin to either be able to learn exactly how many Elims there had been at the start of the game, or for them to be able to learn exactly how many Elims were in one of the Ajahs. The second option is more powerful, but could easily be way too powerful at the end of the game, where as the first option is useful only to do early, since by the time we had an Amyrlin, they already knew there were 5 elims.

Either that or the ability to reorganize the Ajahs, moving people into new docs to revitalize them. IDK, I think just number of Elims would be nice.

[DrakeMarshall he/him]

...Sorry I fell off in this game

 

BridgeBoi I'm proud of u, I knew u were Amyrlin material