Quick Fix 75: The Tower's Pressure

[StrikerEZ he/him]

1 minute ago, BigBadBagsworth said:

@Lord Spirit DON’T FORGET HIS TOTALLY UNEXPLAINED POLLY VOTE!,! AND I SPECIFICALLY WARNED ABOUT THIS POSSIBILITY!

Hey, I actually think my Polly vote is perfectly justified. It's meant to save my ass. That's a pretty good justification, all things considered. I know I'm village, even though everything looks like I'm an elim, and keeping myself alive is the best way for my team to win.

[BigBadBagsworth He/him/his]

[Kasimir he/him]

Give me a while guys. I'm groggy since I left medical earlier and passed out for a while. I'm gonna put a holding vote on Striker because a quick scan gives me mad openwoofing energy here but probably won't be back for a bit.

[StrikerEZ he/him]

Just now, Kasimir said:

Give me a while guys. I'm groggy since I left medical earlier and passed out for a while. I'm gonna put a holding vote on Striker because a quick scan gives me mad openwoofing energy here but probably won't be back for a bit.

I have no idea what you're talking about. I've just been clearly framed and I'm tired and give zero crems at this point. You'll all see when I'm dead, trust me.

[Kasimir he/him]

Just now, StrikerEZ said:

I have no idea what you're talking about. I've just been clearly framed and I'm tired and give zero crems at this point. You'll all see when I'm dead, trust me.

Dude I may be drugged out of my mind but there's no way in hell you reasonably vote Polly here.

Now the only damned thing we need to do is to secure protection from a Mercy shot because this is probably at least a four-team.

[BigBadBagsworth He/him/his]

@StrikerEZ MULTIPLE PEOPLE I TRUST HAVE READ POLLY AS VILLAGE, SO EHAT’S THE POINT OF A VOTE FOR POLLY IF ALL IT DOES IS TRADE ONE V FOR ANOTHER, WHILE ALSO MAKING IT EASIER FOR THE ELIMS TO TIE!?!!???!?

You’re too expirienced for me to belive this is an accident.

[Kasimir he/him]

4 minutes ago, BigBadBagsworth said:

@StrikerEZ MULTIPLE PEOPLE I TRUST HAVE READ POLLY AS VILLAGE, SO EHAT’S THE POINT OF A VOTE FOR POLLY IF ALL IT DOES IS TRADE ONE V FOR ANOTHER, WHILE ALSO MAKING IT EASIER FOR THE ELIMS TO TIE!?!!???!?

You’re too expirienced for me to belive this is an accident.

Imma respect Aet's read on you and whatbut BY GOD IF THIS IS ELIM DISTANCING I JUST WANNA HAVE BLOODY SAID IT >>

Anyway I also wanna add that Penguin's flip IMO looks pretty good for TUO given the TUO push. I will now actually try to get caffeine and wash up and figure out what happened. 

[StrikerEZ he/him]

7 minutes ago, Kasimir said:

Dude I may be drugged out of my mind but there's no way in hell you reasonably vote Polly here.

Yeah there's a reason: to save my ass. Polly had the most votes going into the start of this cycle, so I voted her. That seems very reasonable to me

7 minutes ago, Kasimir said:

Now the only damned thing we need to do is to secure protection from a Mercy shot because this is probably at least a four-team.

Nah, using the mercy shot on me would be an absolute waste. Like, even if I was an elim, I'm sure I'll get most, if not all, of the new votes this cycle. All using the mercy shot would do is delay the inevitable. Though, maybe the elims are so not suspected that they would feel comfortable using the mercy shot on me, framing me, while they just coast on by and win the game. That would be crazy.

5 minutes ago, BigBadBagsworth said:

@StrikerEZ MULTIPLE PEOPLE I TRUST HAVE READ POLLY AS VILLAGE, SO EHAT’S THE POINT OF A VOTE FOR POLLY IF ALL IT DOES IS TRADE ONE V FOR ANOTHER, WHILE ALSO MAKING IT EASIER FOR THE ELIMS TO TIE!?!!???!?

You’re too expirienced for me to belive this is an accident.

That's actually a fair point. So I'll switch my vote to TUO. I've been elim-reading him all game anyway.

Updated VC:

• StrikerEZ (5): BigBadBagsworth-1, ThatOneWorldhopper-2, Negative_Null-2, The Unknown Order-4, Aeternum-5,  BigBadBagsworth-6, Lord Spirit-6, Kasimir-6,
• KelsierApologist (4): |TJ|-1, Kasimir-1, KelsierApologist-4, KelsierApologist-6, 
• The Unknown Order (4): Negative_Null-1, BigBadBagsworth-2, Lord Spirit-2, Lord Spirit-4, StrikerEZ-4, The Unknown Order-6, StrikerEZ-6,
• BigBadBagsworth (3): IcedOutPenguin-3, BigBadBagsworth-4,
• ThatOneWorldhopper (2): IcedOutPenguin-2, ThatOneWorldhopper-6,
• Kasimir (1): Tinwatcher-1,
• Lord Spirit (0): Negative_Null-3,

EDIT: Fixing those damn emojis

Edited May 26, 2025 by StrikerEZ

[Jo and the Bush all/any]

The Emoji problem is real, and I feel for you Striker.

1 minute ago, StrikerEZ said:

• StrikerEZ (5): BigBadBagsworth-1, ThatOneWorldhopper-2, Negative_Null-2, The Unknown Order-4, Aeternum-5,  BigBadBagsworth-6, Lord Spirit-6, Kasimir-6,
• KelsierApologist (4 |TJ|-1, Kasimir-1, KelsierApologist-4, KelsierApologist-6, 
• The Unknown Order (4 Negative_Null-1, BigBadBagsworth-2, Lord Spirit-2, Lord Spirit-4, StrikerEZ-4, The Unknown Order-6, StrikerEZ-6,
• BigBadBagsworth (3): IcedOutPenguin-3, BigBadBagsworth-4,
• ThatOneWorldhopper (2): IcedOutPenguin-2, ThatOneWorldhopper-6,
• Kasimir (1 Tinwatcher-1,
• Lord Spirit (0 Negative_Null-3,

 

[Kasimir he/him]

CHRIST THIS ISN'T BETTER, PENGUIN WAS DOWN WITH THE TUN PUSH AND ONLY STOPPED BECAUSE HE GOT CHALLENGED!

[StrikerEZ he/him]

3 minutes ago, Kasimir said:

CHRIST THIS ISN'T BETTER, PENGUIN WAS DOWN WITH THE TUN PUSH AND ONLY STOPPED BECAUSE HE GOT CHALLENGED!

So I should vote Triple B since he's voting for me? Got it.

[Kasimir he/him]

Caffeinated Thoughts:

• V!Striker does not vote Polly or TUN here. In fact, V!Striker just doesn't vote without considering if he thinks is target is Village/Elim, if I need to spell this out. The fact he is choosing a CW carelessly, particularly given the first two targets, indicates he is Elim and just openwoofing at this point.
• Striker doesn't openwoof here unless his team has a PtV planned. I'm going to assume they have one. There are a narrow slice of worlds where they don't, and he's just screwed, but I think in general he does. My guess is we are 5v2, but could be wrong. Striker probably has a partner (will at least assume it since if he doesn't, the game ends when we exe him) and the Mercy shot, meaning we cannot afford more sidetrain BS at this point.
• My rough guess or his gameplan is something like this: regardless of whether he has a partner, Striker is probably going to try to do another sidetrain tie situation. The Soothe + the Mercyshot means we have to try to kill Striker (or the last Elim) twice so we really should not be trying to make this easy for him. I'm also of the view that if there is a partner, we might get taken by surprise.
• In light of this, unless there's a clear indication that this isn't correct, I'm gonna say we just converge on Striker, and assume anyone who refuses to do so at this point is Striker's partner. I repeat: Striker's first choice to save his life was pretty much one of the more Village ones due to her vote history. That's not an accident, that's refusing to gaf about whether a player is Village or Evil and that's an Elim mindset. I think the TUN move also looks pretty bad because last cycle, Penguin was pretty aggressively pushing for a TUN exe until I intercepted him.

On 5/25/2025 at 10:29 PM, IcedOutPenguin said:

Funny that TUO has 3 canceled votes on them...

23 hours ago, IcedOutPenguin said:

Since I am suspicious of TOU having three canceled votes. So until further notice I'm voting TUO

23 hours ago, Kasimir said:

If TUN flips V, Penguin should be in the immediate PoE. You do not set up a frame without counting on someone in thread to drive the narrative.

Proceeds to stay on TUO until quite a few posts later.

1 hour ago, BigBadBagsworth said:

(I have a sudden sinking feeling I’m going to be mobbed by Elims)

If there are enough Elims to mob you, we've already lost this game. I'm guessing 5v2 - in the most optimistic world, 6v1, in the least optimistic world, 4v3. If it's 4v3 then regardless of what we're doing, we've lost (Mercy shot) so we might as well not care about it. [Note: In 4v3 world we might still win if the last Elim has enough votes we can tie them with Striker without worrying about the Soothe - however, I think the main candidate for last Elim is Spirit (subject to further backreading, I could see a paranoid TOW world but don't personally buy it at present.) so that's not gonna work.]

In 6v1 world, we just have to stay on train until Striker is dead however many times we need to kill him (lol.) In 5v2 world, it's more down to the wire, but a similar kind of problem. Regardless the only world they can mob you in is 4v3, but I'd appreciate if you can do what you did last cycle and check for any potential places we have to close a gap in the votes. @The Unknown Order Yo. You too.

[The Unknown Medallion he/him]

I leave for three hours. 

How's Openwolfing Striker?

[OoklaApologist She/her]

If you remember, Striker literally did this for TJ too. He’s out of here

[Kasimir he/him]

8 minutes ago, The Unknown Order said:

I leave for three hours. 

How's Openwolfing Striker?

Maybe if you leave for another three hours his last teammate will pop out of the woodwork and openwoof too  

[The Unknown Medallion he/him]

Just now, Kasimir said:

Maybe if you leave for another three hours his last teammate will pop out of the woodwork and openwoof too  

Deal.

[Kasimir he/him]

2 hours ago, ThatOneWorldhopper said:

I'm kind of e!leaning Striker, but at this point: a third of the original players getting killed in one blow; I am not sure if there's anybody that I really trust.

Actually, I'm v!leaning Aet, but I don't have any real evidence.

Are you then intending to vote Striker? I think we need consensus at this point because Striker is openwolfing and this indicates we should not be giving him any leeway.

I note your v!lean, Aet, also voted Striker last cycle.

[StrikerEZ he/him]

21 minutes ago, The Unknown Order said:

I leave for three hours. 

How's Openwolfing Striker?

How dare you slander me like this

EDIT: It double posted for some reason, so I removed the double post

Edited May 26, 2025 by StrikerEZ

[OoklaApologist She/her]

Ok, let’s try to solve.

<BBB, TUO, TOW, Kasimir, Lord Spirit>
 

BBB is out imo because he’s owning Striker a bit too much and his interactions with Penguin are too aggressive to be v/e

TUO, similarly, probably isn’t e/e with Penguin and seems to have just been Penguins’ exe target. Penguin’s four-cycle tunnel clears him.

Kas’ crashout c3 probably isn’t theater and he’s had good vibes in general 

I’m saying one in <TOW, Lord Spirit>
 

[The Unknown Medallion he/him]

5 minutes ago, StrikerEZ said:

How dare you slander me like this

EDIT: It double posted for some reason, so I removed the double post

Sshhhh

I'm leaving for three hours so your teammate comes out.

[OoklaApologist She/her]

2 hours ago, ThatOneWorldhopper said:

I'm kind of e!leaning Striker, but at this point: a third of the original players getting killed in one blow; I am not sure if there's anybody that I really trust.

Actually, I'm v!leaning Aet, but I don't have any real evidence.

 

This is kind of weird without an attached vote, whereas Spirit’s on striker. Main suspect for sure

[StrikerEZ he/him]

2 minutes ago, The Unknown Order said:

Sshhhh

I'm leaving for three hours so your teammate comes out.

What makes you think I have a teammate?

[The Unknown Medallion he/him]

2 minutes ago, KelsierApologist said:

This is kind of weird without an attached vote, whereas Spirit’s on striker. Main suspect for sure

I mean, if I was Striker's teammate (newbies are weird though), I'd be voting Striker here. Makes it harder for us to plan.

1 minute ago, StrikerEZ said:

What makes you think I have a teammate?

Because I'm not that hopeful.

[StrikerEZ he/him]

I think we should start a separate game of mafia within this game. If I win that game, then everyone agrees not to vote me in this game.

Just now, The Unknown Order said:

Because I'm not that hopeful.

Oh ye of little faith

[BigBadBagsworth He/him/his]

Wait. What happens if v!striker?