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

[StrikerEZ he/him]

Man you talk a lot Pizza lmao

Not a diss, just an observation. You're like a more casual Kas basically. It's neat to have another wall-poster here.

Anyway, I think I'm leaning towards Booknewt being innocent now. Also, I could have sworn I had read Twinstorm sussing Book, but maybe I just conflated all of Pizza's posts about Book in my head with Twinstorm somehow. Wouldn't surprise me, since I haven't been putting in the most effort into this game, admittedly. 

Coder definitely feels village to me, I refuse to vote her out.

Iced has got to be an elim at this point. If Iced flips town, then I reevaluate. Probably would go after Aet next.

Twinstorm could go either way.

Polly and KSacue are extreme neutrals to me. KSauce is Starseeker right? They've been putting in a lot of effort on that RP, but not a whole lot on the game itself. If we exe a villager today, that puts us at LyLo tomorrow. Which is too close to comfort for me, and we really should be focusing more on solving right now than RP. So slight sauce on KSauce actually. Polly is basically MIA, which has me worried. She's an experienced player. Almost wonder if she's intentionally avoiding the thread to let us go at each other's throats. here.

[TwinStorm He/Him]

13 minutes ago, StrikerEZ said:

Man you talk a lot Pizza lmao

Not a diss, just an observation. You're like a more casual Kas basically. It's neat to have another wall-poster here.

Anyway, I think I'm leaning towards Booknewt being innocent now. Also, I could have sworn I had read Twinstorm sussing Book, but maybe I just conflated all of Pizza's posts about Book in my head with Twinstorm somehow. Wouldn't surprise me, since I haven't been putting in the most effort into this game, admittedly. 

Coder definitely feels village to me, I refuse to vote her out.

Iced has got to be an elim at this point. If Iced flips town, then I reevaluate. Probably would go after Aet next.

Twinstorm could go either way.

Polly and KSacue are extreme neutrals to me. KSauce is Starseeker right? They've been putting in a lot of effort on that RP, but not a whole lot on the game itself. If we exe a villager today, that puts us at LyLo tomorrow. Which is too close to comfort for me, and we really should be focusing more on solving right now than RP. So slight sauce on KSauce actually. Polly is basically MIA, which has me worried. She's an experienced player. Almost wonder if she's intentionally avoiding the thread to let us go at each other's throats. here.

lol yeah a game with Pizza and Kas on opposite alignments would be crazy

[CoderDrag0n8 He/They]

30 minutes ago, StrikerEZ said:

Man you talk a lot Pizza lmao

Not a diss, just an observation. You're like a more casual Kas basically. It's neat to have another wall-poster here.

Anyway, I think I'm leaning towards Booknewt being innocent now. Also, I could have sworn I had read Twinstorm sussing Book, but maybe I just conflated all of Pizza's posts about Book in my head with Twinstorm somehow. Wouldn't surprise me, since I haven't been putting in the most effort into this game, admittedly. 

Coder definitely feels village to me, I refuse to vote her* out.

Iced has got to be an elim at this point. If Iced flips town, then I reevaluate. Probably would go after Aet next.

Twinstorm could go either way.

Polly and KSacue are extreme neutrals to me. KSauce is Starseeker right? They've been putting in a lot of effort on that RP, but not a whole lot on the game itself. If we exe a villager today, that puts us at LyLo tomorrow. Which is too close to comfort for me, and we really should be focusing more on solving right now than RP. So slight sauce on KSauce actually. Polly is basically MIA, which has me worried. She's an experienced player. Almost wonder if she's intentionally avoiding the thread to let us go at each other's throats. here.

*cough cough*

*him

[TwinStorm He/Him]

Kaladfin crashed through the bramble. He was close. He could feel it. The woods that surrounded the Purelake were dense, but nothing Stormlight and a Shardblade couldn't solve. The evildoers were said to be hiding in the woods. 

Fractal pulsed, hiding on his sleeve. You are angry. he noted.

"Angry? Yeah. People died. Javert died. I liked him. Too many died. That's why I'm angry."

Good lie. But wrong.

Kaladfin froze. What? Wrong? "Fractal . . ." he tried. "I'm angry because they're dead."

Worse lie.

"What . . . fine. Okay. I'm angry . . . because of what they did to me. Some time ago, Fractal, before I met you, in Kharbranth, I was mugged. These people . . . they stole my money, beat me half to death. I want justice for that. In some ways, I am a Skybreaker."

Good truth. 

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going to a wedding this evening so won't be active

 

[StrikerEZ he/him]

23 minutes ago, CoderDrag0n8 said:

*cough cough*

*him

Oop sorry, I thought I saw someone else say her in reference to you. My bad!

[Ookla the Newt she/her]

Okay, this is my count of votes so far, correct me if I'm wrong.

Aeternum: IcedPenguin (1)
IcedPenguin: CD, TwinStorm, Starseeker, Striker (4)
Booknewt: Pizzaguy (1)

Still working on reads, however I'm wondering what people's reasoning is towards IcedPenguin (which... prob makes me look guilty given people saying that if Penguin's elim I am, but still curious what people's reasoning is). Kinda getting a wolfy read on him, bc he is randomly popping up with votes and nothing else today, and he was online an hour ago, but I want to hear both his reasoning and what people's reasoning is against him before I vote.

Pretty certain Pizzaguy's town. There is no reason for an elim to be drawing attention so much by refusing to vote, and he's been lifting fog-of-war. In a world where he is elim: he is an amazing elim, and I have no idea what that world would mean frankly.

I'd say I was leaning elim on Striker, but my rational would sound decidedly hypocritical, soooo yeah. The non-hypocritical portion: Kinda voting for who people suspected a lot - People were suspecting Penguin, then he voted Penguin, people (okay mainly PizzaGuy at that point) were suspecting me (which made sense honestly, I don't have a grudge about that) and he voted me, but then CD backed away from suspecting me and Pizzaguy did somewhat, and he switched back to Penguin. Similarly, yesterday lots of people were voting HoidSlayer and he voted HoidSlayer.

CD: Leaning town on him. Not sure why - might be slight bias bc he's the main person here I've talked to a lot outside of SE, but still leaning town. Partially bc he's new as well. Still working though him fully though.

Those are the reads I've got so far, still working through TwinStorm, Aeternum, Starseeker, and KelsierApologist. I'll prob have those in 20-30 minutes.

So ig right now my elim candidates are HoidSlayer and Striker, along with a third unknown person. Not going to vote for now until I hear people's responses to those though, and until I finish working through my reads.

Also abbreviations I don't understand:
LyLo, dome.

[IcedOutPenguin He/Him]

1 hour ago, CoderDrag0n8 said:

@IcedOutPenguin, any defense?

 

I'm innocent 

[Ookla the Newt she/her]

Could... you give something more than 1-3 word posts?

[IcedOutPenguin He/Him]

You'll all have one more cycle to catch an Elim after voting me out. You'll have to deal with it on your own

 

[CoderDrag0n8 He/They]

1 hour ago, StrikerEZ said:

Oop sorry, I thought I saw someone else say her in reference to you. My bad!

Its fine

43 minutes ago, Booknewt said:

Okay, this is my count of votes so far, correct me if I'm wrong.

Aeternum: IcedPenguin (1)
IcedPenguin: CD, TwinStorm, Starseeker, Striker (4)
Booknewt: Pizzaguy (1)

Still working on reads, however I'm wondering what people's reasoning is towards IcedPenguin (which... prob makes me look guilty given people saying that if Penguin's elim I am, but still curious what people's reasoning is). Kinda getting a wolfy read on him, bc he is randomly popping up with votes and nothing else today, and he was online an hour ago, but I want to hear both his reasoning and what people's reasoning is against him before I vote.

Pretty certain Pizzaguy's town. There is no reason for an elim to be drawing attention so much by refusing to vote, and he's been lifting fog-of-war. In a world where he is elim: he is an amazing elim, and I have no idea what that world would mean frankly.

I'd say I was leaning elim on Striker, but my rational would sound decidedly hypocritical, soooo yeah. The non-hypocritical portion: Kinda voting for who people suspected a lot - People were suspecting Penguin, then he voted Penguin, people (okay mainly PizzaGuy at that point) were suspecting me (which made sense honestly, I don't have a grudge about that) and he voted me, but then CD backed away from suspecting me and Pizzaguy did somewhat, and he switched back to Penguin. Similarly, yesterday lots of people were voting HoidSlayer and he voted HoidSlayer.

CD: Leaning town on him. Not sure why - might be slight bias bc he's the main person here I've talked to a lot outside of SE, but still leaning town. Partially bc he's new as well. Still working though him fully though.

Those are the reads I've got so far, still working through TwinStorm, Aeternum, Starseeker, and KelsierApologist. I'll prob have those in 20-30 minutes.

So ig right now my elim candidates are HoidSlayer and Striker, along with a third unknown person. Not going to vote for now until I hear people's responses to those though, and until I finish working through my reads.

Also abbreviations I don't understand:
LyLo, dome.

I think i've been able to pick up my pieces

35 minutes ago, IcedOutPenguin said:

You'll all have one more cycle to catch an Elim after voting me out. You'll have to deal with it on your own

 

Thats like saying 'guys trust im not evil, if you say im evil, youll have to choose somone else'

can you give us LITERALLY ANYTHING else?

[IcedOutPenguin He/Him]

17 minutes ago, CoderDrag0n8 said:

can you give us LITERALLY ANYTHING else?

Nope, nothing that will save me

[Ookla the Newt she/her]

Okay, updated reads (aka the reads where I go a bit too deep into wine-in-front-of-you):

I'm like 85% sure that Penguin's elim, not sure how he can be town at this point. Bc... yeah that was not at all a helpful defense, to the point that it's more incriminating than anything else. Then again, if he was elim maybe he'd be more defensive, so maybe he's too elim-y to be the elim. Prob more like 60% actually. So I'll wait to vote until @StrikerEZ says his rational. (bc Striker's my other good read). 

Additional Reads: (hesitant to say for certain many people are positive, hence the "leaning" for positive ones until an elim's found bc then it gets a lot clearer)
Aeternum: Leaning positive, however I want to hear more about what he thinks during this cycle. Mainly leaning positive bc Penguin's been solidly against Aeternum this cycle, and everyone he's been against is either in my certainly positive category or has been proven town. In a world where Aeternum's elim, then either Penguin is town, or it was a planned action in the hopes it would clear Aeternum if Penguin was voted out. I might be reading too deep there though.

TwinStorm: Leaning slightly elim, but like Pizza said (came to this conclusion independently though) very dependent on other readings. I don't think him and Aeternum are the same alignment - TwinStorm's been decently anti-Aeternum - unless it's meant as a diversion tactic. In a world where TwinStorm's elim - given he voted Aeternum that means that Aeternum's either town, or it was a hope that a train wouldn't pile onto it and trying to space out elims and such, and Aeternum's elim. In a world where he's town, then too much can't be read into that though. Similarly, he's been consistently anti-Penguin, so about the same conclusion but sub Penguin in for Aeternum (don't really want to type all that out again.)

KelsierApologist: I have no clue. Been radio silent since Cycle 1, but there's no point in voting a person who's about to get hit by inactivity filter, soooo yeah. If town, is just busy, if elim, is prob trying to either increase fog of war, go under the cover, or let us go at each others throats, but Striker said that he suspects Kelsier, so if Kelsier's elim, then Striker isn't, and vice versa. Unless the elim team thought that ppl'd think that. @KelsierApologist, what's your perspective on recent stuff?

Edit: Since I finished my reads, I have time to type up some rp (in italics to distinguish) (this is prob real bad bc it's basically off the top of my head):
Booknewt looked around, scanning all those on the shores of the Purelake. She couldn't let herself be wrong again. Not after what had happened the night before. She had panicked. And it had cost Wishikk. 
Someone had killed Seth and Javert, though. Someone among the group's number was false. And she had to make a decision on who she thought it was. Not yet, though. Not yet. 

Edit 2: Wow this is dead for 2 hours before the cycle ends
 

Edited August 9, 2025 by Booknewt

[Aeternum]

7 hours ago, TwinStorm said:

@Aeternum: At this point, I'm kind of scared for you chances as village. D1 votes don't hold against you, and an elim team generally contains one veteran, leaving <Striker, Pizzaguy (technically), and you.> All of Pizzaguy's reads and lots have seemed fairly town standard, and Striker is too gone too do anything abt it. At this point, I'm gonna have to vote Aet, tho I want you to defend yourself, since I definitely missed something in my reasoning.

1) Aeoryi has already mentioned she randomizes who is picked as elim. It is possible there are zero veterans on the elim team.

2) Town can be wrong. In fact, I am very, very good at being wrong. You can ask Pizza for my credentials on this.

3) You are saying here that because I am the only unflipped person on a dead town wagon, where there were two other town voting, I am always an elim for that. Which is just not how it works, especially because TOW wagon effectively became relevant at EoD. I already semi talked about VCA yesterday and the fact that e!me does literally not need to make another wagon there unless I'm exactly e/e with Iced (given wagons were me/Iced ish iirc), which... should be pretty obviously not possible atp given our treatment of each other.

Not really in the mood to analyze anything rn, which is unfortunate in a 24/0 game. Atm think it's better to resolve in me/Iced today because if we're v/v that's probably just losing.

@Booknewt LyLo is when town needs to vote correctly or lose. Dome is like saying one of us is always an elim and forcing other people to vote between us (it never works).

@IcedOutPenguin if you're town, stop flailing and solve the game smh. It is very hard to figure out your alignment if you are not going to solve, and if you're town, ideally we find that out before you die.

[Ookla the Newt she/her]

1 minute ago, Aeternum said:

Not really in the mood to analyze anything rn, which is unfortunate in a 24/0 game. Atm think it's better to resolve in me/Iced today because if we're v/v that's probably just losing.

All right, I get that. What's v/v and e/e? (Sorry I'm asking about so many abbreviations)

Also, until he shows up to explain what I pointed out: I'm voting Striker. Iced seems too obvious to be elim, quite frankly. Almost feels too easy (also I don't like voting on trains much.) Very subject to change though, this is possibly just going to be a poke vote. 

So 2 hours before, the voting stands at (correct me if I'm wrong on any of this):
Aeternum: IcedPenguin (1)
IcedPenguin: CD, TwinStorm, Starseeker, Striker (4)
Booknewt: Pizzaguy (1)
Striker: Booknewt (1)

Yet to vote: Aeternum, KelsierApologist. 
Yet to post: KelsierApologist

[Aeternum]

v/v refers to both players mentioned being town. e/e same but both players being elims together.

[KaladinsSenseOfHumourSpren He/Him]

6 hours ago, Askthepizzaguy said:

Starseeker, Ive been really... really struggling to get there. i don't like sneaking from one day to the next, I like it when everyone collaborates and is open and active, as much as possible. I was wary of this person on both previous days, but I wanted to find them innocent if possible. I am leaning this is the case, because they are putting in both the RP and the effort. It's just hard for me to be super solid about it.

 

6 hours ago, StrikerEZ said:

Polly and KSacue are extreme neutrals to me. KSauce is Starseeker right? They've been putting in a lot of effort on that RP, but not a whole lot on the game itself. If we exe a villager today, that puts us at LyLo tomorrow. Which is too close to comfort for me, and we really should be focusing more on solving right now than RP. So slight sauce on KSauce actually. Polly is basically MIA, which has me worried. She's an experienced player. Almost wonder if she's intentionally avoiding the thread to let us go at each other's throats. here.

Yeah I'm Starseeker. 

Well, you see, in my evenings when I have the most time, Pizza is like the only one that's both awake and online, so after I've responded to important things that've been said before, I don't have much else to do besides RP.

4 hours ago, IcedOutPenguin said:

I'm innocent 

3 hours ago, IcedOutPenguin said:

Nope, nothing that will save me

...

This doesn't sound like an elim to me.
But then again, could be intentional...

I'm wavering.

To me, Coder does not sound like an elim any longer, just a confused villager. 

I still think it could be Iced, and I don't have anything better, so I'm keeping my vote on him.

As for Booknewt... a little suspicious to me, though it could just be what she's said.

[Aeoryi she/her]

Current VC

IcedOutPenguin: (4) StrikerEZ, CoderDrag0n8, Twinstorm, KaladinsSenseofHumorSpren, 

StrikerEZ: (1) Booknewt

Aeternum: (1) IcedOutPenguin 

Not Voting: KelsierApologist 

 

Cycle ends in about 25 minutes!

[Aeoryi she/her]

That's the cycle! 

 

[Aeoryi she/her]

QF76: Aftermath - Order within Chaos

Skybreaker Uranihran didn't like special cases. They were unfair, but not deemed unfair by the law. They were in a very peculiar spot that made them difficult to deal with.

This was a special case. Nine participants remained. Nine who hid. Several had bonded Spren. Kaladfin, who hid his Spren from wandering eyes. The Elsecaller, Starseeker, who had now accomplished his only purpose here. And of course, CD. The one who drove himself mad listening to the wretched utterings of the Cryptics.

The next day, the verdict would be decided. They would miss again, further proving themselves to be the Ten Fools incarnate. 

“Perhaps it is I who have failed them,” Uranihran said to himself. He stood at the shores of the Purelake, gazing into the perfectly clear water. “Perhaps I have misled them into my false interpretation of the law.”

“That isn't the case, Skybreaker.” Another voice. His Spren, 17676. “You have upheld your ideals. You have not broken any rules.”

It seemed strange for his Spren to appear now, at this time. Highspren did not care much for the emotions of those they bonded with. They too were scarred by the Recreance, perhaps just in a different way.

17676 continued with a melancholy tone. “We were broken by the Recreance. In the end, the order of the Skybreakers held, but that was not without sacrifice. The Knights Radiant were different then. Some Skybreakers chose to crumble under the pressure and abandoned their oaths. They simply could no longer trust the rules of the world.” 

“You are right. There are no rules that have been broken.” Uranihran squinted his eyes. He could almost see… “someone's running.”

He lashed himself upwards, then towards that direction. It was Mehlarin. He landed in front of the young man. 

“Running, are we?” Uranihran asked, summoning his Shardblade.

“I believed in your order. But this is just wrong. I can't continue playing your games, Skybreaker.” Mehlarin said.

“If you-” Uranihran started, but he was cut off by the irritated Veden. “No, you listen. This game you're playing is disgusting. You aren't following the law. You're just showing off how much you can get away with when you become a surgebinder.”

The Skybreaker took a step back. Mehlarin took a step forward. “You're running from both your duty and your responsibility. You aren't a Radiant, Uranihran. You are nothing compared to the actual Skybreakers we look up to.”

Storms. Uranihran sighed. “Go. You clearly do not have what it takes to become a Skybreaker. You are correct. It is a waste of time arguing with you any further.”

Mehlarin scrambled away. What a rat. But somewhere within Uranihran, there were thoughts. What if a man were not declared evil or good solely based on what the law says, but rather based on what he did within the law? And that… that would make Uranihran a terrible person. And that could not be true. 

 

~ 

 

The next day, Uranihran saw Richard's death. The blacksmith hadn't gone easily, but he too was claimed by justice.

And within the group of thirteen, seven remained. Two had run off, three had been removed under Uranihran’s orders, and one had been killed by the evildoers.

And then, Greebas suddenly fell. His eyes burned out, as a blade was pulled out of the back of his fallen corpse.

Kaladfin stood behind him, holding not a deadeye, but a radiant blade. “I think it's time we addressed the real lawbreakers here, Uranihran.”

The remaining participants moved to the sides, not wishing to be involved with a conflict. This was going to be a duel between Radiants. 

“Ah, Kaladfin.” Uranihran said, “I always knew you were one of them. A Lightweaver, if I recall?” 

CD notably paled at the word Lightweaver. 

Kaladfin circled Uranihran like a shark. Although the man had his Shardblade out, Uranihran did not. He had considered this situation. 

“Vigilante justice, is that what you make of the Skybreakers, Kaladfin?” Uranihran asked him. He just needed to stall out for time…

“Sometimes, actions are necessary, Skybreaker. But this is twisted, and you can't continue this.”

“Wise words for someone who plotted an entire assassination of the King in Kholinar, Kaladfin.” Uranihran said. “And I suppose, out of all of us, you would be the one most familiar with the law?”

“I am no more as guilty of my crimes as you are, Uranihran.” Kaladfin said. His figure was almost too perfect. The way it spoke, the way it…

The Skybreaker realized the trick only a moment too late. A blade was rammed through his chest. Storming Lightweavers. He drew in his stormlight, feeling it rage against the echoes of death. He shoved Kaladfin away, and then summoned his blade. He could only hope that 17676 reached Nale in time. 

He lashed himself upwards, to reduce his weight, and then ran towards the Lightweaver. He swung his blade through an illusion, and then turned and blocked a blow from the actual Lightweaver. Storms. 

Another swipe caused another Lightweaving to disappear. He wasn't gaining any ground. He needed to fly, he needed to get off the ground. He breathed in Stormlight, preparing to lash himself upwards, when he was once again gutted through by a Shardblade. 

“End of the road, Uranihran.” Kaladfin said.

Uranihran drew in more Stormlight to mend his ever increasing wounds. This was it. He was going to die. No Radiant could live forever. He had been outsmarted in his own game.

Suddenly, a male Skybreaker dropped from above. Nale? No. It couldn't be him. 

It was a different Skybreaker. The man forced Kaladfin to step away, who dismissed his blade in the process.

Uranihran pushed himself back up, clutching onto the last few ounces of Stormlight he had left. The strange Skybreaker tossed him a sphere. Uranihran breathed in the light, feeling it start to heal his wounds. 

“Kaladfin. I should've known.” The Skybreaker said. That voice, it was familiar. It was the inspector.

“Is Nale coming?” He asked his highspren. 

“I'm not sure,” 17676 said, “But I also happened to find another Skybreaker. Inspector Javert.”

Right. The other one who left. 

“Javert.” The Lightweaver said. “They told me you were dead.”

“At least Uranihran got that part right.”

“You don't need to fight me, Inspector.” Kaladfin said in a soothing voice. “You and I both know that the real problem here is Uranihran and his twisted games.”

“There's no need to pretend to be the hero, Lightweaver.” Uranihran said. “You are a criminal. I am not.”

“I don't approve of what either of you two have done, but I do know one thing. You, Kaladfin, shouldn't be alive.” Inspector Javert said, pointing his ordinary sword at the Lightweaver. That's not where he is. Lightweavers aren't that simple.

Just before the blade hit the back of Uranihran’s throat, the Skybreaker turned around and blocked it with his shardblade. “Too predictable,” the Skybreaker hissed.

“Kaladfin,” Inspector Javert said, unfaltered by the Lightweaver’s attempted assassination, “You can try to appeal to my sympathy as much as you want, but if there's a lesson you need to learn, it's that the law teaches us where to set aside our emotions.”

The inspector drew his ordinary blade and pointed it at Kaladfin, who had backed off from Uranihran. Now faced with two Skybreakers against him, Kaladfin took a step back, just in time to see a third Skybreaker enter from the sky. The Herald of Justice himself, Nale.

The voice of the Herald was cold and empty. “Enough of these games. Uranihran, I was told of your Surgebinders. I see one. Where are the other two?”

“There and there.” Uranihran pointed to Starseeker, and then to CD… who wasn't there. Smart man. Escaped while no one was watching. 

Nale strode forward. While the Lightweaver might have stood a chance against one Skybreaker, he couldn't take on three Skybreakers.

Kaladfin turned and ran. He ran, and Starseeker did too. But they were fools for thinking they could outrun a Herald. They were fools for thinking they could outrun justice itself.

Judgement had arrived at the shores of the Purelake.

 

~

 

Sometimes you can outrun Skybreakers, Heralds, or even justice, as it turned out. Uranihran guessed that Starseeker probably managed to escape to Shadesmar, but there was no confirmation of anything. All they knew now was that the Lightweaver and the Elsecaller had escaped.

Uranihran stood on the same rocky outcrop that he had first been watching from. He hated special cases, but this one had come crawling right to him. 

“Are you done with your games, Uranihran?” A voice asked from behind. Inspector Javert walked next to him.  

“The game is over, Javert.” Uranihran said without looking at the inspector. “Var and the others have been released. And since the hopefuls didn't manage to find a single evildoer, Booknewt is now free. It's over.”

“Perhaps that's for the best of us. You let them kill innocents in the name of justice, Uranihran.” 

“Those were lessons that needed reinforcement.” The Skybreaker stated. 

“Were they? Either way, I still do not approve of your methods.” Javert said.

“This was a special case.” Uranihran grunted. “It was meant to be different than normal.”

“A terrible special case,” The Inspector said, “Just because we can do something doesn't mean we should do it. You would be familiar with that, Uranihran?”

Uranihran didn't need to hear any more of the newly bonded Skybreaker’s talk. He lashed himself upwards and left.

 

~~~

 

IcedOutPenguin has been executed! He was an Innocent!

AskthePizzaGuy was killed by the evildoers! He was an Innocent!

KelsierApologist was killed by the inactivity Filter! He was an Innocent as well!

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Vote Count

IcedOutPenguin: (4) StrikerEZ, CoderDrag0n8, Twinstorm, KaladinsSenseofHumorSpren, 

StrikerEZ: (1) Booknewt

Aeternum: (1) IcedOutPenguin 

Not Voting: KelsierApologist 

 

 

Quick Fix 76 is over! The Evildoers have escaped and won!

I have some GM thoughts I will share in a bit, but for now enjoy the writeup. Congratulations to the Elims, @TwinStorm, @KaladinsSenseOfHumorSpren, and @Booknewt and a really good effort by the village! Thank you to @Araris Valerianfor IMing this game, and thank you for playing QF76! 
 

 

Playerlist

Spoiler

1. @The Unknown Order as Seth - Justice Seeker Thinker (2 uses)
2. @Aeternum - Justice Seeker Innocent
3. @TwinStorm as Kaladfin - Evildoer Mastermind (1 use)
4. @Doc12 as Inspector Javert - Justice Seeker Innocent
5. @KaladinsSenseOfHumorSpren as Starseeker - Evildoer Thief (3 uses)
6. @ThatOneWorldhopper as ? - Justice Seeker Protector (3 uses)
7. @Hoid Slayer as Wishikk Makar - Justice Seeker Innocent 
8. @IcedOutPenguin as Richard - Justice Seeker Innocent
9. @StrikerEZ as Var - Justice Seeker Innocent
10. @KelsierApologist as Mehlarin - Justice Seeker Leader (1 Use)
11. @Askthepizzaguy as Greebas Obdilaurd - Justice Seeker Innocent
12. @CoderDrag0n8 as CD - Justice Seeker Innocent
13. @Booknewt - Evildoer Liar (2 uses)

 

Links:

Dead Doc

Elim Doc

Master Spreadsheet

 

 

 

Edited August 10, 2025 by Aeoryi

[Aeternum]

GGs! Losing to inactivity filter kind of sucks but it is what it is.

Hope everyone had fun, and hopefully I'll see all of you in future games!

[CoderDrag0n8 He/They]

13 minutes ago, Aeoryi said:

QF76: Aftermath - Order within Chaos

Skybreaker Uranihran didn't like special cases. They were unfair, but not deemed unfair by the law. They were in a very peculiar spot that made them difficult to deal with.

This was a special case. Nine participants remained. Nine who hid. Several had bonded Spren. Kaladfin, who hid his Spren from wandering eyes. The Elsecaller, Starseeker, who had now accomplished his only purpose here. And of course, CD. The one who drove himself mad listening to the wretched utterings of the Cryptics.

The next day, the verdict would be decided. They would miss again, further proving themselves to be the Ten Fools incarnate. 

“Perhaps it is I who have failed them,” Uranihran said to himself. He stood at the shores of the Purelake, gazing into the perfectly clear water. “Perhaps I have misled them into my false interpretation of the law.”

“That isn't the case, Skybreaker.” Another voice. His Spren, 17676. “You have upheld your ideals. You have not broken any rules.”

It seemed strange for his Spren to appear now, at this time. Highspren did not care much for the emotions of those they bonded with. They too were scarred by the Recreance, perhaps just in a different way.

17676 continued with a melancholy tone. “We were broken by the Recreance. In the end, the order of the Skybreakers held, but that was not without sacrifice. The Knights Radiant were different then. Some Skybreakers chose to crumble under the pressure and abandoned their oaths. They simply could no longer trust the rules of the world.” 

“You are right. There are no rules that have been broken.” Uranihran squinted his eyes. He could almost see… “someone's running.”

He lashed himself upwards, then towards that direction. It was Mehlarin. He landed in front of the young man. 

“Running, are we?” Uranihran asked, summoning his Shardblade.

“I believed in your order. But this is just wrong. I can't continue playing your games, Skybreaker.” Mehlarin said.

“If you-” Uranihran started, but he was cut off by the irritated Veden. “No, you listen. This game you're playing is disgusting. You aren't following the law. You're just showing off how much you can get away with when you become a surgebinder.”

The Skybreaker took a step back. Mehlarin took a step forward. “You're running from both your duty and your responsibility. You aren't a Radiant, Uranihran. You are nothing compared to the actual Skybreakers we look up to.”

Storms. Uranihran sighed. “Go. You clearly do not have what it takes to become a Skybreaker. You are correct. It is a waste of time arguing with you any further.”

Mehlarin scrambled away. What a rat. But somewhere within Uranihran, there were thoughts. What if a man were not declared evil or good solely based on what the law says, but rather based on what he did within the law? And that… that would make Uranihran a terrible person. And that could not be true. 

 

~ 

 

The next day, Uranihran saw Richard's death. The blacksmith hadn't gone easily, but he too was claimed by justice.

And within the group of thirteen, seven remained. Two had run off, three had been removed under Uranihran’s orders, and one had been killed by the evildoers.

And then, Greebas suddenly fell. His eyes burned out, as a blade was pulled out of the back of his fallen corpse.

Kaladfin stood behind him, holding not a deadeye, but a radiant blade. “I think it's time we addressed the real lawbreakers here, Uranihran.”

The remaining participants moved to the sides, not wishing to be involved with a conflict. This was going to be a duel between Radiants. 

“Ah, Kaladfin.” Uranihran said, “I always knew you were one of them. A Lightweaver, if I recall?” 

CD notably paled at the word Lightweaver. 

Kaladfin circled Uranihran like a shark. Although the man had his Shardblade out, Uranihran did not. He had considered this situation. 

“Vigilante justice, is that what you make of the Skybreakers, Kaladfin?” Uranihran asked him. He just needed to stall out for time…

“Sometimes, actions are necessary, Skybreaker. But this is twisted, and you can't continue this.”

“Wise words for someone who plotted an entire assassination of the King in Kholinar, Kaladfin.” Uranihran said. “And I suppose, out of all of us, you would be the one most familiar with the law?”

“I am no more as guilty of my crimes as you are, Uranihran.” Kaladfin said. His figure was almost too perfect. The way it spoke, the way it…

The Skybreaker realized the trick only a moment too late. A blade was rammed through his chest. Storming Lightweavers. He drew in his stormlight, feeling it rage against the echoes of death. He shoved Kaladfin away, and then summoned his blade. He could only hope that 17676 reached Nale in time. 

He lashed himself upwards, to reduce his weight, and then ran towards the Lightweaver. He swung his blade through an illusion, and then turned and blocked a blow from the actual Lightweaver. Storms. 

Another swipe caused another Lightweaving to disappear. He wasn't gaining any ground. He needed to fly, he needed to get off the ground. He breathed in Stormlight, preparing to lash himself upwards, when he was once again gutted through by a Shardblade. 

“End of the road, Uranihran.” Kaladfin said.

Uranihran drew in more Stormlight to mend his ever increasing wounds. This was it. He was going to die. No Radiant could live forever. He had been outsmarted in his own game.

Suddenly, a male Skybreaker dropped from above. Nale? No. It couldn't be him. 

It was a different Skybreaker. The man forced Kaladfin to step away, who dismissed his blade in the process.

Uranihran pushed himself back up, clutching onto the last few ounces of Stormlight he had left. The strange Skybreaker tossed him a sphere. Uranihran breathed in the light, feeling it start to heal his wounds. 

“Kaladfin. I should've known.” The Skybreaker said. That voice, it was familiar. It was the inspector.

“Is Nale coming?” He asked his highspren. 

“I'm not sure,” 17676 said, “But I also happened to find another Skybreaker. Inspector Javert.”

Right. The other one who left. 

“Javert.” The Lightweaver said. “They told me you were dead.”

“At least Uranihran got that part right.”

“You don't need to fight me, Inspector.” Kaladfin said in a soothing voice. “You and I both know that the real problem here is Uranihran and his twisted games.”

“There's no need to pretend to be the hero, Lightweaver.” Uranihran said. “You are a criminal. I am not.”

“I don't approve of what either of you two have done, but I do know one thing. You, Kaladfin, shouldn't be alive.” Inspector Javert said, pointing his ordinary sword at the Lightweaver. That's not where he is. Lightweavers aren't that simple.

Just before the blade hit the back of Uranihran’s throat, the Skybreaker turned around and blocked it with his shardblade. “Too predictable,” the Skybreaker hissed.

“Kaladfin,” Inspector Javert said, unfaltered by the Lightweaver’s attempted assassination, “You can try to appeal to my sympathy as much as you want, but if there's a lesson you need to learn, it's that the law teaches us where to set aside our emotions.”

The inspector drew his ordinary blade and pointed it at Kaladfin, who had backed off from Uranihran. Now faced with two Skybreakers against him, Kaladfin took a step back, just in time to see a third Skybreaker enter from the sky. The Herald of Justice himself, Nale.

The voice of the Herald was cold and empty. “Enough of these games. Uranihran, I was told of your Surgebinders. I see one. Where are the other two?”

“There and there.” Uranihran pointed to Starseeker, and then to CD… who wasn't there. Smart man. Escaped while no one was watching. 

Nale strode forward. While the Lightweaver might have stood a chance against one Skybreaker, he couldn't take on three Skybreakers.

Kaladfin turned and ran. He ran, and Starseeker did too. But they were fools for thinking they could outrun a Herald. They were fools for thinking they could outrun justice itself.

Judgement had arrived at the shores of the Purelake.

 

~

 

Sometimes you can outrun Skybreakers, Heralds, or even justice, as it turned out. Uranihran guessed that Starseeker probably managed to escape to Shadesmar, but there was no confirmation of anything. All they knew now was that the Lightweaver and the Elsecaller had escaped.

Uranihran stood on the same rocky outcrop that he had first been watching from. He hated special cases, but this one had come crawling right to him. 

“Are you done with your games, Uranihran?” A voice asked from behind. Inspector Javert walked next to him.  

“The game is over, Javert.” Uranihran said without looking at the inspector. “Var and the others have been released. And since the hopefuls didn't manage to find a single evildoer, Booknewt is now free. It's over.”

“Perhaps that's for the best of us. You let them kill innocents in the name of justice, Uranihran.” 

“Those were lessons that needed reinforcement.” The Skybreaker stated. 

“Were they? Either way, I still do not approve of your methods.” Javert said.

“This was a special case.” Uranihran grunted. “It was meant to be different than normal.”

“A terrible special case,” The Inspector said, “Just because we can do something doesn't mean we should do it. You would be familiar with that, Uranihran?”

Uranihran didn't need to hear any more of the newly bonded Skybreaker’s talk. He lashed himself upwards and left.

 

~~~

 

IcedOutPenguin has been executed! He was an Innocent!

AskthePizzaGuy was killed by the evildoers! He was an Innocent!

KelsierApologist was killed by the inactivity Filter! He was an Innocent as well!

 

Quick Fix 76 is over! The Evildoers have escaped and won!

I have some GM thoughts I will share in a bit, but for now enjoy the writeup. Congratulations to the Elims, @TwinStorm, @KaladinsSenseOfHumorSpren, and @Booknewt and a really good effort by the village! Thank you to @Araris Valerianfor IMing this game, and thank you for playing QF76! 
 

 

Playerlist

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1. @The Unknown Order as Seth - Justice Seeker Thinker (2 uses)
2. @Aeternum - Justice Seeker Innocent
3. @TwinStorm as Kaladfin - Evildoer Mastermind (1 use)
4. @Doc12 as Inspector Javert - Justice Seeker Innocent
5. @KaladinsSenseOfHumorSpren as Starseeker - Evildoer Thief (3 uses)
6. @ThatOneWorldhopper as ? - Justice Seeker Protector (3 uses)
7. @Hoid Slayer as Wishikk Makar - Justice Seeker Innocent 
8. @IcedOutPenguin as Richard - Justice Seeker Innocent
9. @StrikerEZ as Var - Justice Seeker Innocent
10. @KelsierApologist as Mehlarin - Justice Seeker Leader (1 Use)
11. @Askthepizzaguy as Greebas Obdilaurd - Justice Seeker Innocent
12. @CoderDrag0n8 as CD - Justice Seeker Innocent
13. @Booknewt - Evildoer Liar (2 uses)

 

Links:

Dead Doc

Elim Doc

Master Spreadsheet

 

 

 

I will just add some more RP here

~~~

CD was astounded. How did it all go so wrong? His memories were finally coming back.

He knew what that strange ripple was.

Cryptics. Always his favorite.

He was an evildoer outside of this world, but in this one?

He was innocent. He could leave this world completed his mission. He had a Cryptic now.

[TwinStorm He/Him]

Congrats to my teammates, @Booknewt and @KaladinsSenseOfHumorSpren ya'll were great and really fun to hang with!

Good job @Doc12 and @Askthepizzaguy ya'll were fun to play with and pretty smar villagers

Thanks @Aeoryi for GMing, and letting Kaladfin fight the Skybreakers

[StrikerEZ he/him]

Dang. I should’ve stuck with my gut and stayed on Booknewt. Glad I was right about KSauce though. Completely blindsided by TwinStorm though. Good job man! Thank you Aeoryi for running this game! I had fun (even with my limited appearances)

[Askthepizzagal He/him]

This is what happens when innocents refuse to show up and play. Or vote the guilty.

Well played, wolves. It was nice to have met all of you, fellow players.

Edit- let the record show I did vote Booknewt.

13 hours ago, Askthepizzaguy said:

Booknewt

 

Edited August 10, 2025 by Askthepizzaguy
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[The Unknown Character he/him]

Congratulations elims. I understand that you had to kill me so I wouldn't catch you all, but couldn't you have waited a bit

Thanks for not making me need to read the rules though.

Thanks to @Aeoryi for running this game, which had a ruleset than past me thought was great. Current me agrees with him, he was a smart guy.

It was really fun hanging out in the doc with Doc :P, and I enjoyed your roleplay @Askthepizzaguy and solving. I hope you come back again soon. Especially for the AG, it seems right up your alley.