QF76: Aftermath - Order Within Chaos

[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

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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 Medallion 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.

[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.

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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. 

 

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?