Quick Fix Game 76: Judgement on the Shores of the Purelake

[Askthepizzagal He/him]

Greebas did it, he was slightly competent, Seth! Sorry Greebas couldn't save you from death, or anyone else....

is Greebas is free of the evil spirit now?

Redemption is a rare gift, indeed. Not all who seek to follow the path reach the end.

It's a journey that has no end, Obdilaurd. The destination is the path itself.

Unfortunately for you, Greebas, I am not done seeking the path. You still can't die, not while we are still bound.

We merely need to wait until the others leave, and then, you shall rise again. Slightly weakened.

Greebas understands, he hasn't been able to die since he stabbed himself a century ago. The wound never heals.

You've been undead all this time, your wounds will never heal.

Greebas wonders if the wounds suffered here will ever heal. *pointing to the fallen innocents*

They can, but you need to figure out how to restore their corpses to life, just as you planned to do for mine.

RISE, MY FALLEN BRETHREN..... You will take my commands now... at least, until Greebas figures out a way to free us all from this tiny corridor between life and unlife.

All the corpses of the fallen innocents begin to rise as one and follow Greebas Obdilaurd, both master and victim of death.

I hope, for your sake, Greebas' ability to take notes and read scrolls and investigate things can save us all, still....

A brand new army of the undead.

Don't you even think about doing crimes with it.

Perish the thought. What fun would that be?

[KaladinsSenseOfHumourSpren He/Him]

Starseeker grinned, watching the endless bead ocean beside Kaladfin. They were on a ship, crewed by some peakspren willing to help them just to spite the highspren. Starseeker's inkspren, Crimson, walked up behind him, joined by Fractal. Starseeker and his new companions could now leave this planet.

"The future," Crimson said. "The future is." Fractal hummed in agreement.

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Well, that was a fun game! Thank you to @TwinStorm and @Booknewt for being awesome co-conspirators. Thank you @Askthepizzaguy for making this game that much more enjoyable. Finally, thank you @Aeoryi for GMing.

Well, this is my first game where my character actually lived.

QF75 - C1 exe

LG106 - Survived but then died in the 'Ruinous Wrath' of the Aftermath

MR73 - Killed on the final cycle

LG107 - Killed on the final cycle

 

Now, I get to play Radiant Starseeker next game!

If, of course, all the timelines and stuff match up...

Edited August 10, 2025 by KaladinsSenseOfHumorSpren

[Askthepizzagal He/him]

5 hours ago, The Unknown Order said:

Especially for the AG, it seems right up your alley.

What is the AG @The Unknown Order? 

Spoiler

Not going to lie, the anti doubleposting rule is very alienating especially after I was told by the game host directly that it was legal, just not encouraged, so I was confused by being instructed by a moderator otherwise.

And it kept hamstringing my ability to post because I kept waiting for others to post, so people wouldnt miss stuff I said.

The editing in of votes on day one was rough and also, anytime people edited in new content, it risked being missed entirely. I really severely dislike that rule, so I probably wouldn't play under those constraints a second time.

 

Also come talk to me @Doc12, fellow wall poster. It was a pleasure finding you.

 

And warm hugs for @Aeternum as always, brother, friend. Always a pleasure finding you particularly, and I was seriously considering worlds where you were a wolf every single day until I locked you town. Good job being obvious town, its not always so. Thanks for inviting me to play on the shard with you.

 

Lots of love to everyone else, too, but I really needed you guys in particular in the game with me and I lost each of you one at a time for for most of certain rounds and that was sadge.

I really tried to play by the principles of my character- not just reflexively voting people for voting wrong and also, trying to be patient, thoughtful, and accurate before making an accusation, and even when I voted a guilty person, i explained how it wasnt personal, and I could be wrong, and all that.

I may have been sticking to it a lot more because I was trying to stay in character even when I spoke out of character, but I think the system worked very well even when I knew almost no one.

My guess on d3 could have been wrong, and I still think it would have been a fundamentally good approach.

I also need to state, I don't get to putting twin and booknewt so low in my leans list without other people trying and appearing to be villagery.

I could have used a lot more @StrikerEZ and a lot more @KelsierApologist in the game, because you were good when you were there, willing to consider me town, willing to vote for my suspect, willing to hear me out even if I was different.

Differences aren't always warmly welcomed.

@CoderDrag0n8 thank you for giving me the time of day and at least considering my case work. You were a pleasure and I kept worrying you claimed innocent to avoid being hit by town powers and also, to explain why you werent murdered ever, but I realized after a while, that wasnt likely and therefore you just read like a lost townie.

I am glad I could find you in the end and that you even considered helping me, and voting with me. I needed that.

I could have voted Twins with you on d1, but it was hard to consider the case as it just appeared to be random and I don't gamble.

@IcedOutPenguin thanks for being patient with me and trying a new approach mid game, looking at worlds. Trying to work with me. That was a good process, dont worry too much about your guesses being wrong, the fundamentals were good because you began thinking in that branching path way, and also, not tunneling someone just because your reads and methods disagree.

If I had your assistance on day 3, maybe town stays in the game, since we were always losing kelsier to inactivity, sadly.

@Hoid Slayer good on you realizing I was town and so was Iced, that's probably hard and even harder, respectively, since we couldnt find you as townie so easily.

Game is hard and I am sorry if I was critical of your play style, I didn't mean anything by it, you're human and you had a different approach. I regret not finding you properly even when I got mega town feels from you suddenly 180ing me on day 2 after I just suggested you should be eliminated. That was a big mistake by me, to not stick with it.

@ThatOneWorldhopper thank you for showing up and voting and trying. Sorry you got eliminated d1, I could have stopped it by... voting kaladins with you. It was difficult for me to judge them guilty on so little, so congrats on being right on that. I am not a gambler so without reasons why they were guilty I have trouble voting there. My fault.

 

 @Booknewt thanks for being a good sport when accused.

@TwinStorm I recognized the skills, thats why i had you in the bottom 3 in any world where iced was town.

Due to no Kelsier, I didnt have time to explore that world. Game was already over by then, sadly, since so many folks didnt vote.

@KaladinsSenseOfHumorSpren Thanks for being present more on day 3, because I am not a fan of wolves winning by hiding. You gave me a chance to find you and I did not.

 

@Aeoryi thanks for the game, 24h and no night is definitely not my bag. I need my 48/24 minimums. But good game, good hosting.

[Ookla the Newt she/her]

@TwinStorm @KaladinsSenseOfHumorSpren Congrats to both of you, really enjoyed this game and being your co-conspirator.

@Aeoryi Thank you for running the game, I know it must have taken a lot of work and trawling through threads for votes, so much appreciated.

@Askthepizzaguy Sorry for getting a tad heated yesterday, and I really appreciated you remaining level-headed the whole time. (Also the mass rp posts were rly great, I got a chance to read through them yesterday for the first time and they were rly good)

@Aeternum Thanks for being patient with mine and Coder's questions about abbreviations and such.

All of you were really great to play with, hopefully I can play again sometime! (Pref not from a car though next time) But yeah, this was a great first game, rly enjoyed it, particularly C3 once I had a hang of things

 

1 hour ago, Askthepizzaguy said:

What is the AG @The Unknown Order? 

Anniversary game I think, in the signup thread someone mentioned it's basically rp for the first 2 rounds.

[TwinStorm He/Him]

I honestly have some thoughts on why the elims won the game.

First of all, the village did a really poor job of communicating, with several village players just giving up defending themselves when it looked like they would be exed, making them seem like elims, and when Booknewt, an elim, did defend herself, it looked village, saving her from what would've been a probable exe.

Too many villagers went inactive, unfortunately, with some barely posting, which ultimately cost them the game.

The protector was killed the first night. Lucky for the elims, we got TOW C1, and immediately could start rampaging.

@Aeoryi I have some feedback with the ruleset, mainly being that the roles, especially elim, were too reactive and not that useful. 

[Askthepizzagal He/him]

2 hours ago, Booknewt said:

@Askthepizzaguy Sorry for getting a tad heated yesterday, and I really appreciated you remaining level-headed the whole time. (Also the mass rp posts were rly great, I got a chance to read through them yesterday for the first time and they were rly good)

So glad you enjoyed them. @Booknewt

The experience was lovely, because I had envisioned more players being more active and then roleplaying with me, it is part of why starseeker did so well with me, is I felt like they were more focused on roleplaying than being all that concerned about looking good or arguing with townies, which I tend to associate with a more guilt-free perspective, which was incorrect as it happens.

But, I had no history with any player, and I have no reference for the stories and fantasy inspirations they draw from, or the terminology they used, all I knew was it was a high magic fantasy setting and that I could improvise, per Aeternum telling me pre-game what to expect.

So I was looking forward to longer and lengthier interactions between Greebas and, for example, Mehlarin, which had such a promising start, and then they vanished.

Starseeker seeking immortality was a huge coincidence with my character who I never announced what his whole deal was, I chose to reveal it through context clues until close to end of day one, where I decided it was pretty likely I was going to be eliminated so, I needed to at least tell more of the story directly.

On day two most people dropped their roleplay so it was harder for me to do it alone, and I would have preferred if people tried to stay in character more, or roleplay at all.

Striker, for example, discussed playing a short fellow named Var, and it never came up. Some players had no names for their characters and did not roleplay.

I found that to be a source of fun when players like Kelsier, you, Striker, were not present, or when Kaladin wasn't doing anything for most of day one, or when I missed out on Aeternum for large portions of each day, or when town was completely doomed by day 3 due to being scattered and having town on town suspicions.

Even when every single day was a pretty bad result for town, what interested me and what was fun were those in character snippets where we could actually treat this as an improvised play, and have fun with one another.

I regret there wasn't more of that.

It also helps, because it helps us remember it is a game, and we are playing characters who are not ourselves.

You and I would have no real argument in real life were it not for our little figurines in this dungeons and dragons game being opponents. Being in character while playing out the conflict between those characters brings an extra degree of separation and reminds us, by being in character, that we are not enemies, our characters might be, and that's fun.

I know that being the target of a case, correctly or incorrectly, can be stressful, you've happened to bump into a player in me who is kind of... usually successful at getting the person I accuse dead, not just by reputation alone, but as you can see, I take my time with it and I try to bring as much decisive evidence as I can muster.

It can be really jarring when I am otherwise so affable and take the position of a defender of other people's honor and town alignment as my primary task as much as possible.

So when you are suddenly condemned by me, it's really, really jarring at times.

Its like when the sweetest old man in the entire village out of nowhere just starts blasting you with magic missiles and fireballs and death spells. It is really easy to take that strong and aggressive push on you as a personal attack outside of the game, when instead, it's just Greebas the arcane magic user determining you were, correctly, a monstrous villain that was the enemy of the village and was simply defending it.

If that monster was being played by anyone but you, you'd probably be rooting for him, because that's kind of awesome.

Not so much if youre not separated from your character, or don't have a character, and you weren't prepared for that kind of critical offense.

If everyone had been roleplaying, I promise you, I would have done a lot more posts about how I'm just throwing magic spells at you, one after the other, and would have made it more narratively interesting, but with Kelsier about to be eradicated due to inactivity, and the whole game literally riding on people believing me and following me to your execution, I chose to just focus on the out of character aspect of the game, which is why I felt you were guilty. I thought being clear in my explanation would also help you defend yourself if my guess were wrong, as well.

But it would have been lots of fun for you to roleplay with Greebas throwing lightning and fireballs and whipping up tornadoes, or Nybbeth Obdilaurd raising the actual dead in the vicinity, all four corpses, to come and attack you.

That would have been so cool. So imagine that's how our battle went, and you and your allies ganged up on Greebas and won the fight, slaying the wizard Greebas in combat.

That's my head canon. Well fought.

Edited August 10, 2025 by Askthepizzaguy
canon with one n, silly pizza.

[TwinStorm He/Him]

3 minutes ago, Askthepizzaguy said:

So glad you enjoyed them. @Booknewt

The experience was lovely, because I had envisioned more players being more active and then roleplaying with me, it is part of why starseeker did so well with me, is I felt like they were more focused on roleplaying than being all that concerned about looking good or arguing with townies, which I tend to associate with a more guilt-free perspective, which was incorrect as it happens.

But, I had no history with any player, and I have no reference for the stories and fantasy inspirations they draw from, or the terminology they used, all I knew was it was a high magic fantasy setting and that I could improvise, per Aeternum telling me pre-game what to expect.

So I was looking forward to longer and lengthier interactions between Greebas and, for example, Mehlarin, which had such a promising start, and then they vanished.

Starseeker seeking immortality was a huge coincidence with my character who I never announced what his whole deal was, I chose to reveal it through context clues until close to end of day one, where I decided it was pretty likely I was going to be eliminated so, I needed to at least tell more of the story directly.

On day two most people dropped their roleplay so it was harder for me to do it alone, and I would have preferred if people tried to stay in character more, or roleplay at all.

Striker, for example, discussed playing a short fellow named Var, and it never came up. Some players had no names for their characters and did not roleplay.

I found that to be a source of fun when players like Kelsier, you, Striker, were not present, or when Kaladin wasn't doing anything for most of day one, or when I missed out on Aeternum for large portions of each day, or when town was completely doomed by day 3 due to being scattered and having town on town suspicions.

Even when every single day was a pretty bad result for town, what interested me and what was fun were those in character snippets where we could actually treat this as an improvised play, and have fun with one another.

I regret there wasn't more of that.

It also helps, because it helps us remember it is a game, and we are playing characters who are not ourselves.

You and I would have no real argument in real life were it not for our little figurines in this dungeons and dragons game being opponents. Being in character while playing out the conflict between those characters brings an extra degree of separation and reminds us, by being in character, that we are not enemies, our characters might be, and that's fun.

I know that being the target of a case, correctly or incorrectly, can be stressful, you've happened to bump into a player in me who is kind of... usually successful at getting the person I accuse dead, not just by reputation alone, but as you can see, I take my time with it and I try to bring as much decisive evidence as I can muster.

It can be really jarring when I am otherwise so affable and take the position of a defender of other people's honor and town alignment as my primary task as much as possible.

So when you are suddenly condemned by me, it's really, really jarring at times.

Its like when the sweetest old man in the entire village out of nowhere just starts blasting you with magic missiles and fireballs and death spells. It is really easy to take that strong and aggressive push on you as a personal attack outside of the game, when instead, it's just Greebas the arcane magic user determining you were, correctly, a monstrous villain that was the enemy of the village and was simply defending it.

If that monster was being played by anyone but you, you'd probably be rooting for him, because that's kind of awesome.

Not so much if youre not separated from your character, or don't have a character, and you weren't prepared for that kind of critical offense.

If everyone had been roleplaying, I promise you, I would have done a lot more posts about how I'm just throwing magic spells at you, one after the other, and would have made it more narratively interesting, but with Kelsier about to be eradicated due to inactivity, and the whole game literally riding on people believing me and following me to your execution, I chose to just focus on the out of character aspect of the game, which is why I felt you were guilty. I thought being clear in my explanation would also help you defend yourself if my guess were wrong, as well.

But it would have been lots of fun for you to roleplay with Greebas throwing lightning and fireballs and whipping up tornadoes, or Nybbeth Obdilaurd raising the actual dead in the vicinity, all four corpses, to come and attack you.

That would have been so cool. So imagine that's how our battle went, and you and your allies ganged up on Greebas and won the fight, slaying the wizard Greebas in combat.

That's my head cannon. Well fought.

You should come back for some murder sessions  games!

[Askthepizzagal He/him]

You should come play with me on MU where I think the 17th shard has a subforum, because I would play with this group again, or host games for you.

You can imagine the kind of flavor I can generate as host, considering how I did so as a player. Aeoryi's flavor was amazing and reminded me of the sorts of detailed flavor I can write. So it wouldn't be that different.

I am afraid the anti double posting rule is pretty much a deal breaker for me as it severely detracted from my fun.

 

 

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edit- also will attribute the character Nybbeth is the namesake and based upon this already existing fictional character

https://ogrebattlesaga.fandom.com/wiki/Nybeth_Obdilord

Greebas was my own creation and this version of Nybbeth Obdilaurd was written differently, simply borrowed the idea of a person seeking to conquer death, and also, the bit about the war, and how he was given official status in fighting enemies of his nation, and how he would experiment on the corpses of the fallen, or those condemned by Galgastan.

That template of a lawful evil necromancer, who valued his research over actual lives or morality, was the heavy inspiration.

 

Greebas, is a neutral good wizard, not unlawful but also, not a big fan of political structures and mirrors a lot of my real life views on the law being wielded by those who are evil. Like Nybbeth, except in real life.

He would sound a lot like Engywook, from the Neverending Story.

And he would appear like this, visually, pretty much. Except less with the brown clothes and, he's hiding the fact that he's been stabbed completely through the stomach with a truly heinous wound there that never healed, and also, never quite rots either. And he's just used to the pain at this point.

Technically Greebas is undead, he just disguises himself to appear more normal looking with a low level disguise spell. He doesn't appear that undead, however, as something about the arcane bond he shares with Nybbeth has given him a smidge of immortality, so other than the grievous wound he suffers from, which he hides well, you wouldn't even know that he's not quite alive, not quite dead. He looks like an ordinary albeit wild and uncivilized and dirty and silly old man.

Edited August 10, 2025 by Askthepizzaguy

[CoderDrag0n8 He/They]

4 hours ago, Askthepizzaguy said:

What is the AG @The Unknown Order? 

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Not going to lie, the anti doubleposting rule is very alienating especially after I was told by the game host directly that it was legal, just not encouraged, so I was confused by being instructed by a moderator otherwise.

And it kept hamstringing my ability to post because I kept waiting for others to post, so people wouldnt miss stuff I said.

The editing in of votes on day one was rough and also, anytime people edited in new content, it risked being missed entirely. I really severely dislike that rule, so I probably wouldn't play under those constraints a second time.

 

Also come talk to me @Doc12, fellow wall poster. It was a pleasure finding you.

 

And warm hugs for @Aeternum as always, brother, friend. Always a pleasure finding you particularly, and I was seriously considering worlds where you were a wolf every single day until I locked you town. Good job being obvious town, its not always so. Thanks for inviting me to play on the shard with you.

 

Lots of love to everyone else, too, but I really needed you guys in particular in the game with me and I lost each of you one at a time for for most of certain rounds and that was sadge.

I really tried to play by the principles of my character- not just reflexively voting people for voting wrong and also, trying to be patient, thoughtful, and accurate before making an accusation, and even when I voted a guilty person, i explained how it wasnt personal, and I could be wrong, and all that.

I may have been sticking to it a lot more because I was trying to stay in character even when I spoke out of character, but I think the system worked very well even when I knew almost no one.

My guess on d3 could have been wrong, and I still think it would have been a fundamentally good approach.

I also need to state, I don't get to putting twin and booknewt so low in my leans list without other people trying and appearing to be villagery.

I could have used a lot more @StrikerEZ and a lot more @KelsierApologist in the game, because you were good when you were there, willing to consider me town, willing to vote for my suspect, willing to hear me out even if I was different.

Differences aren't always warmly welcomed.

@CoderDrag0n8 thank you for giving me the time of day and at least considering my case work. You were a pleasure and I kept worrying you claimed innocent to avoid being hit by town powers and also, to explain why you werent murdered ever, but I realized after a while, that wasnt likely and therefore you just read like a lost townie.

I am glad I could find you in the end and that you even considered helping me, and voting with me. I needed that.

I could have voted Twins with you on d1, but it was hard to consider the case as it just appeared to be random and I don't gamble.

@IcedOutPenguin thanks for being patient with me and trying a new approach mid game, looking at worlds. Trying to work with me. That was a good process, dont worry too much about your guesses being wrong, the fundamentals were good because you began thinking in that branching path way, and also, not tunneling someone just because your reads and methods disagree.

If I had your assistance on day 3, maybe town stays in the game, since we were always losing kelsier to inactivity, sadly.

@Hoid Slayer good on you realizing I was town and so was Iced, that's probably hard and even harder, respectively, since we couldnt find you as townie so easily.

Game is hard and I am sorry if I was critical of your play style, I didn't mean anything by it, you're human and you had a different approach. I regret not finding you properly even when I got mega town feels from you suddenly 180ing me on day 2 after I just suggested you should be eliminated. That was a big mistake by me, to not stick with it.

@ThatOneWorldhopper thank you for showing up and voting and trying. Sorry you got eliminated d1, I could have stopped it by... voting kaladins with you. It was difficult for me to judge them guilty on so little, so congrats on being right on that. I am not a gambler so without reasons why they were guilty I have trouble voting there. My fault.

 

 @Booknewt thanks for being a good sport when accused.

@TwinStorm I recognized the skills, thats why i had you in the bottom 3 in any world where iced was town.

Due to no Kelsier, I didnt have time to explore that world. Game was already over by then, sadly, since so many folks didnt vote.

@KaladinsSenseOfHumorSpren Thanks for being present more on day 3, because I am not a fan of wolves winning by hiding. You gave me a chance to find you and I did not.

 

@Aeoryi thanks for the game, 24h and no night is definitely not my bag. I need my 48/24 minimums. But good game, good hosting.

Oh my Twin vote was completely random.

[Askthepizzagal He/him]

This is why I accept that random voting is valid, it is a guessing game and guesses for just about any reason or none are completely respectable ways to play the game.

I don't like to gamble, but sometimes in a huge dearth of information I will pick someone for shrug reasons too.

[Hoid Slayer He/Him]

Evinir Cragborn hid the nervousness in his body behind a façade of resolve, maintaining his face emotionless as he stepped out of the Oathgate into the shadow of the tower. Urithiru. A shining pillar of light, the pinnacle of human achievement on this world. Even after all this time, Evinir's new life still seemed impossible. And yet, it was. His mind lingered on that topic as he walked through the halls of the ancient city, briefcase held tight in his hand as he made his way through a flood of other people. They passed him, each one fading away. Evinir thought of their stories; their goals. He wished for a world where he could merely exist here, and explore this strange world. But time was fleeting, and he was here for one man alone.

Hoid awaited him atop a balcony, overlooking the landscape. His back was turned to Evinir, who walked up to stand behind him. As Evinir approached, Hoid spoke, still refraining from turning to look at him.

"Magnificent, isn't it? One day, this will all be gone. Those mountains will erode, fade into dust. Even this tower, in all it's glory, will crumble." Evinir was used to Hoid's introspective moments. This time, he wasn't in the mood to acquiesce.

"Makar is dead."

Evinir faintly picked up on the sharp intake of breath from Hoid. All the man tried to hide it, Evinir knew him better than almost any other. And so he knew Hoid was afraid. He had yet to find out exactly why, but what Hoid saw as a danger concerned Evinir. Deeply. Realizing the other man was not going to make a comment, Evinir continued.

"The events in the Purelake did not go as we had hoped. The antics of skybreaker Uranihran caused a massacre that claimed many, including our agent. His body was gone by the time of our arrival, yet his death was confirmed by witnesses."

Finally, Hoid responded, back still turned. "No matter. Wishikk's experiments with investiture could have proved useful to our cause, but not essential. It was foolish to send him into the skybreakers... Nale will be his own doom in time. Tell me, what of your mission on Nalthis? What of Endowment?"

So Hoid wanted to continue as if nothing were wrong. Very well. "Elusive as ever. The God King and his cohort, however, sends their regards."

Evinir could feel Hoid smile faintly at that. "Siri was always a tender soul."

The frustration simmered in Evinir. Perhaps Hoid was satisfied with this simple exchange, but Evinir was not. In a quick movement, he set the briefcase down and stepped over to stand next to the other man, gripping the rails of the balcony with his hands and looking him straight in the eyes.

"When will you tell me what is really going on?"

"Evinir, dear, where is this coming from?"

At that, Evinir scoffed. "You send me into my own land, to seek my own god, and refuse to give me anything in return."

At last, Hoid turned to look at him, and a grimace was on his face. "I have given you everything in return. Because of me, you are pulling threads across the Cosmere instead of rotting in an Idrian prison. I gave you power. I even treated you as an equal."

"No." Evinir shook his head. "You don't see me as an equal, Hoid. Just a piece to further a greater goal. For ten years I've served you, and still you keep your secrets."

At that outbreak, Hoid paused. Evinir watched a glaze cover over his eyes, and felt a pang of concern.

"Are you all right?"

Hoid shook his head. "Yes, sorry, I'm fine. You just... remind me of an old friend."

"Must've been a strong man to put up with you."

At that, Hoid gave a wistful grin. "Yes, Kéamen Wither was among the strongest men I ever knew."

Slowly, Evinir felt his passion fade. But it was not gone altogether. "I won't leave you, Hoid. Not ever. And you truly did help me. But I need to know what we're fighting for."

"You wish to know what we fight for?" Hoid turned back to the mountains before them. The walls of rock and iced, the Everstorm approaching in the distance, the black rock against the white sky. The world that one day would erode, fade into dust. " We fight for everything."

...

Okay!

Thank you @Aeoryi for an amazing game, even if it didn't last very long!

Congratulations to @TwinStorm, @Booknewt and @KaladinsSenseOfHumorSpren! You guys really had the village tripping all over ourselves.

Thank you to @Doc12 for keeping me entertained in the dead doc that last day. Long live Javert!

@Askthepizzaguy, you really tried, and I applaud you for that, even when we didn't always see eye to eye. I wish I could've RPed more, but time concerns made it hard for me to do much more than what I needed.

I look forward to playing more with all of you in the future!

[Doc12]

Stars, in their multitudes/ Scarce to be counted/ Filling the darkness

With order and light/ You are the sentinels/ Silent and sure

Keeping watch in the night/ Keeping watch in the night

Javert floats, untethered, above the purelake. 

Beside him, a being. A tear in space, a glimpse of starlight. A highspren. 

"What will you do now?" Asks 24601

"Uranihran's game is over. The killers released into the wind under some city's code." 

"Legal, under the rules that Skybreaker Uranihran established." 

"So long as laws are absolute, but people are flawed, the law is only an ideal, one we will always fall short of making into a reality." Javert murmurs. He hadn't seen Greeblas among the bodies, although Uranihran claimed he had been executed. Still. The man had spoken wisdom. 

"Mortals are always flawed. You suggest the law will never be perfect?"

"We are flawed. Our overlapping codes are flawed. But the reason I live today is... is because I have been shown mercy twice over. Once by a criminal I pursued across the country, who had every reason to kill me where I stood."

"And that conflict killed you."

"I... yes. Justice restored me, brought me to this new world and promised me a beautiful, perfect law. Rigid. Sure. I find myself...dissatisfied." He looks towards the spren. 
"Given these traitorous thoughts, I am surprised you still chose me."

"Something about you fascinated me, man from another universe. I saw in you a break, a soul torn apart by justice and mercy. I... at the risk of revealing too much about your future ideals, I would like a law that accommodates both."

"You can tell me about the next ideal, yes?"

"The Ideal of Dedication. What will you dedicate yourself to, Inspector?"

"I... do not know. We just established the law as inflexible. And people too flexible."

"I confess. I should be hurrying you among your oaths that our bond may strengthen and our power grow. And yet this introspection is... comforting. Take your time, my knight. Let us consider our first act as a Skybreaker."

"Well that is easy." Javert smiles darkly. "There are killers loose. Fallen from God and grace. Justice be my witness, I never shall yield till we come face to face." Kaladfin, Booknewt. Starseeker. 

"An Elsecaller and a Lightweaver. They will be difficult to track, especially if they move through Shadesmar."

"I hunted a man across an entire country over the course of a decade. You will find me indefatigable and thorough."

"Very well, Inspector. Impress me."

And so Javert, a bright dot of light, streaks across the sky, for a moment looking like a star himself.

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Well that was a fun game! Thanks to Aeoryi for running it! I am so happy that you allowed Javert to bond a spren and play a role at the end! I do kind of agree with Twinstorm that the roles didn't get much of a chance to come into play, but it just made the game a nice old-fashioned game of seemingly-roleless mafia in the end, which isn't a bad thing. 

It came to my attention in the dead doc that no one really knew who Javert or 24601 was, which is sad  Long story short he's a character from Les Miserables who pursues a prisoner (name Jean Valjean, prisoner number 24601) because he escapes parole. 24601 exemplifies second chances and mercy, and when he has Javert at his mercy spares him, which causes a crisis of conscience and Javert taking his own life - and coming to Roshar where he swears the second ideal  

Good job Elim team, @TwinStorm You played really well, so much that you were low suspects for both me and Pizza. Special shoutout to @Booknewt for crushing their first game! Especially on a road trip! Your third cycle really showed why you deserve to be here with your calm arguments and reasoning (and your deception)! @KaladinsSenseOfHumorSpren Nice job as well!

Thanks to @The Unknown Order and @Hoid Slayer for keeping me occupied in the dead doc - we really went from having 1 page in the dead doc to 19 in less than 24 hours! 

@CoderDrag0n8 Sorry for all the suspicion when you had no idea what you were doing, but I really felt I saw you grow as a player over the course of 3 cycles. Keep at it!

I've said this many times but @Askthepizzaguy You are an amazing player and storyteller, and I thoroughly enjoyed playing with you. You're a formidable ally and would make a terrifying enemy. I respect the dedication to the craft and your endless patience in expounding your principles. I think the most impressive thing you did was not your analysis, but the fact that several times in the game you were able to talk to an antagonistic or upset player, turn down the temperature, and have a reasoned and calm discussion where you helped them sharpen their analytical skills. That's very special.

I had fun you guys! Let's do this again. 

 

[TwinStorm He/Him]

1 minute ago, Doc12 said:

Stars, in their multitudes/ Scarce to be counted/ Filling the darkness

With order and light/ You are the sentinels/ Silent and sure

Keeping watch in the night/ Keeping watch in the night

Javert floats, untethered, above the purelake. 

Beside him, a being. A tear in space, a glimpse of starlight. A highspren. 

"What will you do now?" Asks 24601

"Uranihran's game is over. The killers released into the wind under some city's code." 

"Legal, under the rules that Skybreaker Uranihran established." 

"So long as laws are absolute, but people are flawed, the law is only an ideal, one we will always fall short of making into a reality." Javert murmurs. He hadn't seen Greeblas among the bodies, although Uranihran claimed he had been executed. Still. The man had spoken wisdom. 

"Mortals are always flawed. You suggest the law will never be perfect?"

"We are flawed. Our overlapping codes are flawed. But the reason I live today is... is because I have been shown mercy twice over. Once by a criminal I pursued across the country, who had every reason to kill me where I stood."

"And that conflict killed you."

"I... yes. Justice restored me, brought me to this new world and promised me a beautiful, perfect law. Rigid. Sure. I find myself...dissatisfied." He looks towards the spren. 
"Given these traitorous thoughts, I am surprised you still chose me."

"Something about you fascinated me, man from another universe. I saw in you a break, a soul torn apart by justice and mercy. I... at the risk of revealing too much about your future ideals, I would like a law that accommodates both."

"You can tell me about the next ideal, yes?"

"The Ideal of Dedication. What will you dedicate yourself to, Inspector?"

"I... do not know. We just established the law as inflexible. And people too flexible."

"I confess. I should be hurrying you among your oaths that our bond may strengthen and our power grow. And yet this introspection is... comforting. Take your time, my knight. Let us consider our first act as a Skybreaker."

"Well that is easy." Javert smiles darkly. "There are killers loose. Fallen from God and grace. Justice be my witness, I never shall yield till we come face to face." Kaladfin, Booknewt. Starseeker. 

"An Elsecaller and a Lightweaver. They will be difficult to track, especially if they move through Shadesmar."

"I hunted a man across an entire country over the course of a decade. You will find me indefatigable and thorough."

"Very well, Inspector. Impress me."

And so Javert, a bright dot of light, streaks across the sky, for a moment looking like a star himself.

------------------------------

Well that was a fun game! Thanks to Aeoryi for running it! I am so happy that you allowed Javert to bond a spren and play a role at the end! I do kind of agree with Twinstorm that the roles didn't get much of a chance to come into play, but it just made the game a nice old-fashioned game of seemingly-roleless mafia in the end, which isn't a bad thing. 

It came to my attention in the dead doc that no one really knew who Javert or 24601 was, which is sad  Long story short he's a character from Les Miserables who pursues a prisoner (name Jean Valjean, prisoner number 24601) because he escapes parole. 24601 exemplifies second chances and mercy, and when he has Javert at his mercy spares him, which causes a crisis of conscience and Javert taking his own life - and coming to Roshar where he swears the second ideal  

Good job Elim team, @TwinStorm You played really well, so much that you were low suspects for both me and Pizza. Special shoutout to @Booknewt for crushing their first game! Especially on a road trip! Your third cycle really showed why you deserve to be here with your calm arguments and reasoning (and your deception)! @KaladinsSenseOfHumorSpren Nice job as well!

Thanks to @The Unknown Order and @Hoid Slayer for keeping me occupied in the dead doc - we really went from having 1 page in the dead doc to 19 in less than 24 hours! 

@CoderDrag0n8 Sorry for all the suspicion when you had no idea what you were doing, but I really felt I saw you grow as a player over the course of 3 cycles. Keep at it!

I've said this many times but @Askthepizzaguy You are an amazing player and storyteller, and I thoroughly enjoyed playing with you. You're a formidable ally and would make a terrifying enemy. I respect the dedication to the craft and your endless patience in expounding your principles. I think the most impressive thing you did was not your analysis, but the fact that several times in the game you were able to talk to an antagonistic or upset player, turn down the temperature, and have a reasoned and calm discussion where you helped them sharpen their analytical skills. That's very special.

I had fun you guys! Let's do this again. 

 

I knew who Javert was 

[Askthepizzagal He/him]

I also have heard of Inspector Javert but I have not seen the movie or the book if there is one.

It's just a famous enough character to be part of my cultural awareness.

And I am very touched by the compliment, Doc12. You brought me nothing but joy all game.

 

I read the dead document, it was amusing to see my name so many times.

Yeah, I probably dont break my back for 14 hours a day there if I were elim, that was a tell.

Also, I do death gambits a lot, but there's no point in bluffing innocent with no power role and not self preserving when I had townies I could vote d1.

That also correctly wouldnt have happened from wolf me. I am too powerful a wolf to allow myself to die like that day 1.

You all correctly cleared me for valid reasons if you did, because yes, that was not stuff I would do as wolf.

The list of things I would do is pretty darn long, but some things are just a little bit too weak and useless for me to try.

Edited August 10, 2025 by Askthepizzaguy

[Aeternum]

6 hours ago, Askthepizzaguy said:

You should come play with me on MU where I think the 17th shard has a subforum

Unfortunately, we don't!

8 hours ago, Booknewt said:

@Aeternum Thanks for being patient with mine and Coder's questions about abbreviations and such.

Of course, and thank you for putting up with all the abbreviations haha, I get complaints sometimes about my MU terminology because it gets confusing to other people.

[Askthepizzagal He/him]

27 minutes ago, Aeternum said:

Unfortunately, we don't!

Bah you can play on the civfanatics subforum then, we dont use it, and thats like my third original site.

I come from 3 sites at the same time, because i was playing civ before i was playing totalwar and mafia and i started playing mafia on totalwar.org.

And there were 2 totalwar sites I was on, so its an origin story of 3 sites, even though totalwar is the main, civfanatics is the only one being repped on MU.

The subforum is inactive so we could use it.

[Askthepizzagal He/him]

Can anyone who is interested in playing future games I play or host, but on an MU subforum, contact me via direct message on here or on MU?

I had a game that isn't filling and it could be a half and half blend of the playdiplomacy people and the 17th shard people, might be neat.

[Askthepizzagal He/him]

That's one, care for another?