Long Game 110? [Sign Ups]: Termina Abandoned (A Majora's Mask Mafia Adventure)

[Myst He/Him]

17 minutes ago, Araris Valerian said:

I disagree pretty strongly. This game uniquely allows us to exe active folks without permanently losing access to their thoughts, and we should take full advantage of that fact, especially now, when they will just miss a night turn, and thus can just tell us their thoughts at the start of L2 anyway.

What do folks think about my suggestion to focus on people who voted Wahr D2? Is anyone opposed to my suggestion that at least one elim is among those 5 players, and if not, do you have a reason to vote outside a 5-person list with at least one elim?

I have no problem with that, I’d be fine voting someone who voted Wahr. If wahr is elim, I doubt the other Elims would’ve just stood by and let it happen without trying to gain some village cred.

That said, depending on who you want to vote, I’d need some reasoning. As for my reasons, yes there’s at least one Elim out of the five(probably), but that also means potentially 2 or 3 elims out of the other 10

[Araris Valerian he/him]

9 minutes ago, Mistfallen Soldier said:

I have no problem with that, I’d be fine voting someone who voted Wahr. If wahr is elim, I doubt the other Elims would’ve just stood by and let it happen without trying to gain some village cred.

That said, depending on who you want to vote, I’d need some reasoning. As for my reasons, yes there’s at least one Elim out of the five(probably), but that also means potentially 2 or 3 elims out of the other 10

I just think it’s easier to do elimination from a group of 5 than from a group of 10. Which of those 5 do you find most suspicious and why? 

[Myst He/Him]

4 minutes ago, Araris Valerian said:

I just think it’s easier to do elimination from a group of 5 than from a group of 10. Which of those 5 do you find most suspicious and why? 

Well, out of those five, Dive, Me, TJ, Coco, and you, probably TJ. I have to go though so I can’t give reasons right now

[|TJ| he/him]

18 hours ago, Divergent said:

- On Wahr, going back, I don't find him as suspicious on an individual level. I think Archer put it well, that his behavior makes sense from a player focused on personal success and it more looked like he was a villager trying to do anything to ensure that he would live. I still maintain the associative with Archer though, in that if Wahr is elim, then Archer is elim too, especially with the odd attempt to self-pres on Mistfallen rather than on Archer

Strong disagree here, I think Wahr was under equal suspicion in the last game and they behaved quite a ways differently here when compared to the last game. 

18 hours ago, Divergent said:

- On TJ, I found it iffy how his reads that day were just anchored on agreeing/disagreeing with Archer's reads and it came across as oddly convenient that his vote ended up on the leading wagon. I'd like to see more independent reads that are more explained

Ehhh, I had arrived on my reads independently and found that tagging Archer's post was indeed convenient for me to throw off ideas from, either agreeing, disagreeing or adding more to his points. I do believe that there is enough independent thoughts/reads in it and I was using Archer's post as a shooting-off points. I was not aware of the exact vote count when I voted for Wahr, though I knew he had at least a couple of votes on him. 

17 hours ago, coco.pudding said:

TJ I’m a bit less sure about. There’s less to go off of than with the others for them since they’ve been considerably less active, but I also think some of their moves have been rather odd. Popping in for pretty much their first post with any substance to park a vote on someone and then leaving for the rest of the cycle seems like an odd move.

I joined late to the game due to IRL reasons and then I found it hard to get into it (still am). I really wanted to get some thoughts out so I could get a start but I could not be there longer as rollovers are at 03:00am for me. I just had to get that post off to get started. 

Divergent The vibes are off my friend... I will try to pin-point what exactly it is but can't really say for sure now. 

[coco.pudding she/they]

12 minutes ago, |TJ| said:

I joined late to the game due to IRL reasons and then I found it hard to get into it (still am). I really wanted to get some thoughts out so I could get a start but I could not be there longer as rollovers are at 03:00am for me. I just had to get that post off to get started. 

Ah okay. I figured that could be the reason. 3 am is rough for rollover.

@Araris Valerian Would you mind answering my question earlier about why you kept your vote on Wahr? You are probably the most suspicious out of that train to me and it’s because of that. 

[Divergent He/Him]

1 hour ago, Araris Valerian said:

I disagree pretty strongly. This game uniquely allows us to exe active folks without permanently losing access to their thoughts, and we should take full advantage of that fact, especially now, when they will just miss a night turn, and thus can just tell us their thoughts at the start of L2 anyway.

What do folks think about my suggestion to focus on people who voted Wahr D2? Is anyone opposed to my suggestion that at least one elim is among those 5 players, and if not, do you have a reason to vote outside a 5-person list with at least one elim?

I think the reason you mentioned for wanting to exe active players is fine, but a counterpoint to that is, it will reduce the number of players that could actually be able to reach the rupees needed for the Mask of Truth, especially that not everyone is earning 10 per cycle

If we had to vote for someone on the Wahr wagon, I would vote for you/TJ, as I have explained in my previous post. I was thinking it over earlier and I thought, why does there have to be an elim in that wagon? You mentioned earlier that you're operating under the assumption that Wahr is village. But if we work from that perspective, there doesn't necessarily have to be an elim there. Especially if you would assume Archer is also village, then the elims could just stay out of the way and let the village go after each other. It'd also be important to note that only 7 voted off-wagon while 4 didn't vote at all, so it could be that they're trying to move away from the spotlight

21 minutes ago, |TJ| said:

Strong disagree here, I think Wahr was under equal suspicion in the last game and they behaved quite a ways differently here when compared to the last game. 

Ehhh, I had arrived on my reads independently and found that tagging Archer's post was indeed convenient for me to throw off ideas from, either agreeing, disagreeing or adding more to his points. I do believe that there is enough independent thoughts/reads in it and I was using Archer's post as a shooting-off points. I was not aware of the exact vote count when I voted for Wahr, though I knew he had at least a couple of votes on him. 

I joined late to the game due to IRL reasons and then I found it hard to get into it (still am). I really wanted to get some thoughts out so I could get a start but I could not be there longer as rollovers are at 03:00am for me. I just had to get that post off to get started. 

Divergent The vibes are off my friend... I will try to pin-point what exactly it is but can't really say for sure now. 

What was the difference in behavior?

I don't believe he mentioned everyone in his reads, so what did you think of the other people who weren't there

And I can't really defend a vote that's based on vibes, but I also think that I'm very findable as village, so if you had any questions to ask me, that could help you find me (if you're village also), then I would appreciate it

[Araris Valerian he/him]

37 minutes ago, Divergent said:

You mentioned earlier that you're operating under the assumption that Wahr is village.

I don't recall saying that anywhere. If I did, I recant. I don't have a strong take on Wahr's alignment.

44 minutes ago, coco.pudding said:

@Araris Valerian Would you mind answering my question earlier about why you kept your vote on Wahr? You are probably the most suspicious out of that train to me and it’s because of that. 

Wahr hadn't done anything that looked village from my perspective. For the first exe, that's really all I need to be okay with voting on someone.

39 minutes ago, Divergent said:

I think the reason you mentioned for wanting to exe active players is fine, but a counterpoint to that is, it will reduce the number of players that could actually be able to reach the rupees needed for the Mask of Truth, especially that not everyone is earning 10 per cycle

Except that if a villager is about to get the Mask of Truth then the elims can just NK them. We can't be scared of exeing folks because of the economy. In fact, if we exe active players then the elims will be less likely to kill them in future cycles because multiple deaths increases the amount of money folks start the following loop with. Beyond that, the Mask of Truth isn't going to win the game for us, assuming a villager is the one that ultimately gets ahold of it.

[Divergent He/Him]

34 minutes ago, Araris Valerian said:

I don't recall saying that anywhere. If I did, I recant. I don't have a strong take on Wahr's alignment.

Wahr hadn't done anything that looked village from my perspective. For the first exe, that's really all I need to be okay with voting on someone.

Except that if a villager is about to get the Mask of Truth then the elims can just NK them. We can't be scared of exeing folks because of the economy. In fact, if we exe active players then the elims will be less likely to kill them in future cycles because multiple deaths increases the amount of money folks start the following loop with. Beyond that, the Mask of Truth isn't going to win the game for us, assuming a villager is the one that ultimately gets ahold of it.

You mentioned it earlier here:

21 hours ago, Araris Valerian said:

I’m going to drop a vote on Mistfallen for now. I’m still a bit behind on my reads but I’m currently operating on the assumption that the elims are trying to win the loop, and thus that they are exerting some level of thread control.

Unless I'm mistaken about the mechanics, if you're operating under the assumption that the elims are trying to win the loop, then Wahr has to be village from your perspective because for this first loop, only 1 elim needs to die for the village to win.

Hmm fair, I guess with more active players though, that allows for some cover on who actually has said mask like let's say there's 5 players who are alive at that point who have potentially accrued the 100 rupees, then it'd make it more difficult for them to identify who has it. But yeah, we can never really guarantee that the person who gets it is village. However, I think it is valuable enough, especially with investigating someone who we feel is difficult to read their alignment

 

[Araris Valerian he/him]

23 minutes ago, Divergent said:

Unless I'm mistaken about the mechanics, if you're operating under the assumption that the elims are trying to win the loop, then Wahr has to be village from your perspective because for this first loop, only 1 elim needs to die for the village to win.

I guess I'm assuming Wahr is village in the sense of wanting to consider the worst-case scenario, and that we should still be trying to exe an elim today. But I'm not factoring that into any of my reads, because I don't have a village read on Wahr. Besides that, I was really referring to D1-N2 activity levels, before Wahr's exe, when I made the comment about activity levels. 

 

27 minutes ago, Divergent said:

Hmm fair, I guess with more active players though, that allows for some cover on who actually has said mask like let's say there's 5 players who are alive at that point who have potentially accrued the 100 rupees, then it'd make it more difficult for them to identify who has it. But yeah, we can never really guarantee that the person who gets it is village. However, I think it is valuable enough, especially with investigating someone who we feel is difficult to read their alignment

I'm very confident that exeing an active villager is not going to significantly hinder the village's ability to obtain the Mask of Truth, and beyond that, said Mask is not even really relevant until L3 at the earliest but more likely L4. If we lose the game because someone came out 1 rupee short in L4 and we really needed that alignment scan then y'all can blame me.

[coco.pudding she/they]

14 minutes ago, Araris Valerian said:

I'm very confident that exeing an active villager is not going to significantly hinder the village's ability to obtain the Mask of Truth, and beyond that, said Mask is not even really relevant until L3 at the earliest but more likely L4. If we lose the game because someone came out 1 rupee short in L4 and we really needed that alignment scan then y'all can blame me.

I disagree. I’d have to actually do the math to check this, but I’m fairly sure there’s like 4 or 5 people max who actually have enough to have a chance at a silver in loop 4 (with the obvious exception of someone who dies every loop) and those people have to get full rupees every cycle and (here’s the part where I’m not sure and would have to do the math) have to never die and likely never buy another mask. I will be doing the math on this and getting back to you, but I’m pretty sure that’s the case. So yeah I don’t think we should be exeing one of the very few people who have a chance at that one.

[Amanuensis he/him]

Might be a little late turnover tonight. Lot of... not considerate last minute customers. Will be stuck closing for a half hour past my usually time free.

Edited February 27 by Amanuensis

[Hoid Slayer He/Him]

Hi guys I’m sorry for not being active

Can we but red masks now?

[Doc12]

Apologies again for the lack of posting, I'm really tired and brains finding it hard to actually analyze anything. Today's been quiet for a day cycle, huh? It's really starting to hit for me that this is going to be a game of stamina, with 2-3 more 9 day loops  I am very very sleepy so you're getting a stream of consciousness post from me right now. 

I see that the vote seems to be on Hael, but I don't know if I share the same suspicions. I do agree that mech advice is NAI and could be easily used by elims to contribute. I think it was just this post from Hael that made me think - this guy really has not been paying attention to the game:

13 hours ago, Haelbarde said:

Huh. I expected the elims to just go for no-info and make no kills this loop to make our two executions actually useless. 

But in world where they decided no kill was boring, this was the night I'd have pulled a WGG if I were an elim. So provided this loop ends in a village win, I'll almost certainly be pushing for Ashbringer to be executed next loop unless there are compelling alternatives.

( @Wonko the Sane, this was the actual outcome of my looking into the mechanics. I didn't see that village actions mattered much to the outcome of this loop, that it's entirely up to elims which of the 3 ending categories we arrive at.)

This is something that iirc Aman already corrected last cycle, so my conclusion is less than elim trying to fake activity and someone genuinely not paying too close attention. 

Not that I can blame him, this is a lot. I should be asking people more questions. 

I see people raising that we should focus on people not paired with Wahr, and that sounds logical to me. Who do we have? Araris, Mistfallen, coco, TJ, Dive. I think something that also confuses me is Archer inviting me to vote on Hoid, but then voting on me today for taking him up on the offer. I wouldn't discount Archer from being on Wahr train. 

Just from those 5 though, I'd probably want to vote TJ. Mistfallen is in his own category because he's been so active and pushy, and I don't know if i fully trust him but I also am very curious to see what he has to share next loop. Dive, Coco, and Araris occupy the same space in my mind of active, asking questions, pushing people. I do see that Araris voted Wahr yesterday on a misunderstanding, asked Wahr questions, and kept their vote on Wahr anyways, which is funny. But it's also Araris trying to draw our focus on these five and himself, so if he was elim why would he do that? So of the people in that 5, TJ. 

Goodnight guys

[Araris Valerian he/him]

25 minutes ago, coco.pudding said:

I disagree. I’d have to actually do the math to check this, but I’m fairly sure there’s like 4 or 5 people max who actually have enough to have a chance at a silver in loop 4 (with the obvious exception of someone who dies every loop) and those people have to get full rupees every cycle and (here’s the part where I’m not sure and would have to do the math) have to never die and likely never buy another mask. I will be doing the math on this and getting back to you, but I’m pretty sure that’s the case. So yeah I don’t think we should be exeing one of the very few people who have a chance at that one.

And the elims get 6 more NKs before we make it that far. So if they want to stop us, there's not a whole lot we can do. Not to mention that if any of those 4-5 folks are elims themselves, us tiptoeing around them is going to make it a lot harder to win.

[coco.pudding she/they]

7 minutes ago, Araris Valerian said:

And the elims get 6 more NKs before we make it that far. So if they want to stop us, there's not a whole lot we can do. Not to mention that if any of those 4-5 folks are elims themselves, us tiptoeing around them is going to make it a lot harder to win.

Yeah, I guess that is true. Idk, I think some of those people likely will die later, but who knows, maybe someone will make it through? And hopefully if one of them is an elim we can figure that out and exe them, thus stopping them from getting enough. I can definitely see the logic in exeing higher activity players later but I think for now we should let them be since ultimately more of those people will be village than elim and more rupees for village benefits us. 
Also pertaining to specifically Mistfallen, I want them to be able to use their mask tonight to hopefully gather more information they can tell us at the start of loop 2, which they can’t do if they’re dead.

Edit: current vote count

Hael: 2 (Divergent, Stick)

Doc: 1 (Wonko)

Coco: 1 (Araris)

TUM: 3 (Archer, Mistfallen, coco)

Divergent: 1 (TJ)

TJ: 1 (Doc)

We good with TUM getting exed here?

Edited February 27 by coco.pudding

[Hoid Slayer He/Him]

14 minutes ago, coco.pudding said:

Yeah, I guess that is true. Idk, I think some of those people likely will die later, but who knows, maybe someone will make it through? And hopefully if one of them is an elim we can figure that out and exe them, thus stopping them from getting enough. I can definitely see the logic in exeing higher activity players later but I think for now we should let them be since ultimately more of those people will be village than elim and more rupees for village benefits us. 
Also pertaining to specifically Mistfallen, I want them to be able to use their mask tonight to hopefully gather more information they can tell us at the start of loop 2, which they can’t do if they’re dead.

Edit: current vote count

Hael: 2 (Divergent, Stick)

Doc: 1 (Wonko)

Coco: 1 (Araris)

TUM: 3 (Archer, Mistfallen, coco)

Divergent: 1 (TJ)

TJ: 1 (Doc)

We good with TUM getting exed here?

Hael let’s have some fun

[Amanuensis he/him]

About 8 minutes remain in the Day to submit votes, PMs, or any relevant actions

• (3) Haelbarde: Divergent, Stick, Hoid Slayer, 
• (3) TUM: Archer, Mistfallen, coco, 
• (1) Doc: Wonko, 
• (1) coco: Araris, 
• (1) Divergent: TJ, 

Edited February 27 by Amanuensis

[Myst He/Him]

1 minute ago, Amanuensis said:

About 8 minutes remain in the Day to submit votes, PMs, or any relevant actions

• (3) Haelbarde: Divergent, Stick, Hoid Slayer, 
• (3) TUM: Archer, Mistfallen, coco, 
• (1) Doc: Wonko, 
• (1) coco: Araris, 
• (1) Divergent: TJ, 

What about not relevant actions? Can I submit an action to drop a fish on Doc? Pretty sure that’s not relevant(if it is I have questions)

[Amanuensis he/him]

You can submit an invalid action if you want, just at your own peril

Edited February 27 by Amanuensis

[Myst He/Him]

Just now, Amanuensis said:

You can submit an invalid action you want, but at your own peril

I’ll wait till loop 4 then(or 3 if I think one side will win by then)

[Amanuensis he/him]

Day 3-A is now over.

Night 3-A will take me longer as I've not yet started the write-up, so don't wait up if you're sleppy.

[Amanuensis he/him]

LG110, Night 3-A: Odolwa Awakened

Night 3-A will end on Friday, February 27th @ 10:00 PM EST.

---

Commander Ishala

Link the Goron cleared his throat.

It was not a small sound. The chamber absorbed it the way stone absorbs things — fully, with a slight echo. Every head turned. The Goron looked at his feet.

"I could help with getting close to the Dinolfos," he said. "Not much an arrow is going to do if it hits me while I'm balled up. I can pick up speed on the way in. Roll around inside. Hard to aim at something you can't see coming." A pause. He shuffled his feet. "Probably won't knock it over. But it'd keep it distracted. Could let some of you others get close enough to do something about it." He looked up. "Just a thought. If it helped."

Amora turned from the Dinolfos to look at him. "That could work. A distraction, at least." She studied him. "Could you be aimed? If there was a way to direct the angle—"

"We don't need to aim him," Ishala said. She had been listening from the edge of the group with the expression of someone sorting through plans and discarding them. "We need to launch him." She looked at the Goron. "Straight at it. Hard as we can get you moving. Your exterior will take whatever arrows it fires on reflex. It'll dodge — something that size always dodges — and when it does, it'll expose its back." She was already moving toward the platform's edge. "I'll be underneath, coming up from behind. The moment it commits to a direction, I have it."

Link the Goron looked at the Dinolfos. The Dinolfos looked back, still and patient, the bow loose in its hands.

"Right," he said. "Give me a run-up."

They launched him.

It was not graceful. It was effective. Link hit the platform in a rolling thunder of stone-on-stone that sent the Dinolfos backpedaling, its footing uncertain, the bow swinging wide as it tried to track something that fast and that round and that completely indifferent to being shot at. It fired twice. Both arrows rang off curved rock and clattered into the water below. The Goron careened between the platform's walls in great arcing loops and the Dinolfos kept moving, kept tracking, kept not finding an angle that wasn't stone.

Ishala was already underneath the platform, crouched low, moving with the flat-footed speed of a soldier who had learned to cross open ground by staying under sight lines.

The Dinolfos found its angle. It leapt — straight up, a coiling vertical launch — and came down with the bow raised, aimed at the top of Ishala's head.

"CLOSE YOUR EYES."

Kashika's voice cut through the chamber half a second before the Deku Nut went off.

The flash was total. White and absolute and occupying every reflective surface in the stone room simultaneously. The Dinolfos shrieked — a high shriek that had nothing composed about it — and hit the platform not where it had intended but sideways, the aimed shot gone wild, the bow swinging loose. Ishala had her eyes shut and was already turning toward the sound.

From an angle no one had been watching, Kieran landed on the Dinolfos's back.

He had moved sometime in the preceding minute without anyone noticing, working his way around the chamber's far edge while the Goron held the creature's attention, and his strike came from the side and slightly above and connected with the specific violence of something that had been planned rather than improvised. The Dinolfos went down. The bow skittered across the platform stone.

The Dinolfos reached for it.

Ishala's blade came down through its hand.

The screech this time was different — sharper, more immediate, the sound of something that has just encountered a consequence it hadn't calculated. It pulled the hand back. Ishala reversed her grip. The next stroke was clean and final, and then the chamber was quiet except for the Goron crashing against the far wall.

Ishala looked at what remained. "That was easy."

She picked up the bow and handed it to her partner.

---

Professor Kashika

The torch puzzle on the west walkway was practically solved the moment Kashika caught sight of it — three of the four torches had already been lit, and the fourth only required an arrow fired through flame. When the mechanism engaged, the water level in the central chamber began to rise in slow increments, stone grinding against stone somewhere deep in the temple's foundation.

"Upper floor," Kashika said, and they went.

The Gekskeleton was waiting for them.

Not the Gekko of the original accounts — not the living creature Link had faced and that had, apparently, reverted to a harmless frog afterward. This was what was left of it after something had reached back through thirty-three years and pulled it upright again. Bone and dried sinew and two pale lights burning in empty sockets, moving with the mechanical certainty of something that was following instructions rather than thinking. It occupied the upper chamber completely, a Snapper's desiccated shell rattling beneath it as it circled, and it watched them come through the door with those cold lifeless eyes.

They had fought the swamp wildlife on the road. They had fought Stalchildren in the palace courtyard. The Gekskeleton was larger than both, and it was faster than it looked, and it had three people down in the first two minutes — not dead, but hurt and moving slowly, which in a room with a circling enemy and a pit of poisoned water came to something close to the same problem.

Heroshi had been carrying the water skins.

This was what he'd done the whole march — carried things, fetched things, kept the scouts and the Wards and the fighters hydrated while they worked. Nobody had given him the job. He'd found it, the way some people find the job that needs doing and simply start doing it, without announcement or credit. He was not a fighter. He had said as much when Danna had asked for volunteers at the dock, and he'd meant it, and he'd come anyway.

The Gekskeleton's tail swept the chamber floor in a wide arc. Link the Goron was on the near side of it and moving too slow to clear it, still recovering from crashing into a wall during the Dinolfos fight, and the arc was low and fast and there was no time for anyone with the right position to do anything.

Heroshi put himself between them.

The impact carried him into the far wall. He hit it hard and slid, and the Goron caught him before he reached the floor, and for a moment they were both still, and Kashika was already crossing the chamber, and the pale lights in the Gekskeleton's sockets found the next target and moved on.

"Don't," Heroshi said, when she reached him. He said it clearly. He said it with the specific certainty of someone who has just assessed their own situation and arrived at an accurate conclusion. "Don't stop."

She looked at him. She stood up.

"Don't stop," she said to the room.

The plan she'd had since the upper floor had required the Gekskeleton to be still for four seconds. It had not been still for four seconds. The firebombs were placed — tucked between the exposed ribs and the joints of the Snapper's old shell, nestled in the gaps she'd identified from the chamber's entrance while everyone else was watching the fight — but the triggering device needed a clear line and a stationary target.

They needed four seconds.

Link the Goron stood up.

He didn't say anything. He just rolled.

He hit the Gekskeleton from behind and below and it lurched forward and the momentum was wrong for it and it overcorrected and the Goron kept rolling, kept pushing, a sustained churning drive that walked the Gekskeleton backward step by step despite everything it did to correct, and it was reaching down to deal with him when the Goron gave one final rotation and hit with everything he had and the Gekskeleton went backward into the chamber door and the door went in.

Kashika triggered the device.

The explosion moved through the skeleton from inside out — the ribs first, then the joints, then the Snapper's shell fragmenting outward in a cascade of burning old bone that peppered everything within fifteen feet and sent a wave of heat and pressure through the open door and into the chamber beyond. The Gekskeleton came apart in the air. There was very little of it left when the sound finished.

The Giant Key hung on the wall behind where the door had been, mounted as if placed there deliberately. Kashika took it.

Then she looked through the door.

---

Ap the Apprentice

The chamber beyond should have been dark.

It was not dark. It was lit from the center — from above the center, from the thing that turned slowly in the air above the circle of robed figures, catching what light existed and returning it changed. Odolwa's Mask, seemingly manifesting from thin air while the twelve Dreamers sitting cross-legged on the chamber floor with their fused Link-mask faces and their branded wrists were the ones building it, their humming a continuous low chord that resonated in the stone under her feet.

In the center of the circle, beneath the mask, the Deku Queen sat with her eyes closed and her hands in her lap and her breathing so shallow that it took a moment to be sure it was there at all.

Nobody moved for a count of three.

Then Ishala burst into a sprint.

She went through the circle the way water goes through a gap — finding the line of least resistance and taking it at speed, and the speed was considerable. The first Dreamer fell before the others registered her presence. The second and third fell together. She was not precise. She was not trying to be precise. She was trying to stop something and she was three seconds too late to stop it any other way. She had no choice, so she kept going, and going, and going.

The humming fractured as the circle broke. The mask above them pulsed — once, twice, the light going wrong in a way that had texture to it, physical wrongness you could feel against the skin.

Kashika was already running toward the Queen.

The last Dreamer fell.

Ishala stood in the center of the broken circle with twelve robed figures around her on the floor, the Link masks staring at the ceiling, the brands on the wrists facing up. She was breathing hard. She looked at her hands. She looked at the mask above them, which was no longer turning slowly. It was expanding.

Kashika reached the Queen and crouched beside her and put a hand on her face, the way you check on someone you're not sure about, and the Queen's eyes opened.

They were very dark and very tired and they had the quality of someone who has been a long distance away and has just found the way back.

"I knew," the Queen said. Her voice was almost nothing. "I knew you'd come."

Smiling lightly, she exhaled her last breath.

Kashika stayed crouching for a moment after. Then she stood.

The temple shook. Not an earthquake — more deliberate than that. The walls, the floor, the ceiling all registering the weight of something descending from above. Stone dust fell in thin curtains. The torches along the walls guttered and went out one by one as something displaced the air.

From the shadows at the chamber's far end, where the wall met the ceiling and the ceiling was no longer quite where it had been, something very large opened its eyes.

Odolwa looked down at them.

He was not what the play had made of him — not the wooden giant with the blades and the songs, not the spectacle. He was older than that. He was the thing the play had been trying to represent with costumes and choreography and falling short of, the way a map falls short of the place it describes. He filled the chamber the way the moon filled the sky: too large for the context, indifferent to the frame.

The giant's sword rose.

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RP Quest: Defeat Odolwa, Masked Jungle Warrior, and claim the first Boss Mask

 

@The Unknown Medallion fell to the Gekskeleton and was removed from the Loop.

The Postman's Hat remains donned and Night PMs will be allowed to be delivered in the Day.

 

• (3) TUM: Archer, Mistfallen, coco, 
• (3) Haelbarde: Divergent, Stick, Hoid Slayer, 
• (1) Doc: Wonko, 
• (1) coco: Araris, 
• (1) Divergent: TJ,
• (1) TJ: Doc,

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Player List

0	Amanuensis	Ap the Apprentice
1	@The Unknown Order	Heroshi
2	@Araris Valerian	Arenta
3	@Wahrheitswächter	Wahi
4	@Ashbringer	Coliver
5	@coco.pudding	Amora
6	@|TJ|	Cosmetica
7	@Stick.	meeee
8	@Haelbarde	Link the Goron
9	@Wonko the Sane	Zymni
10	@Doc12	Thistle
11	@Burnt Spaghetti	Cindra
12	@CoderDrag0n8	Squircle
13	@Mistfallen Soldier	Kieran
14	@Divergent	Gor Elam the Goron
15	@Archer	Ouae the Zora
16	@Hoid Slayer	Avery

 

Edited February 28 by Amanuensis

[Haelbarde he/him]

Huh. I had expected that TUN would have posted more than I but apparently not. 

@Doc12 In this post:

What about what I had said already had been clarified by Aman?

 

[Amanuensis he/him]

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Huh. I expected the elims to just go for no-info and make no kills this loop to make our two executions actually useless. 

I know you asked Doc but I feel compelled to clarify the rules since there's a lot going on and it's my responsibility or w/e

Edited February 27 by Amanuensis

[Haelbarde he/him]

I saw that, but that doesn't seem relevant to what I was saying, or at least was already incorporated into the logic that lead to my position.

No Elim kills is a village win yes, but we wouldn't be able to tell 10:4, 11:3, or 12:2 apart from each other meaning that we learn absolutely nothing. The pool of Elim suspects would have remained at its greatest possible amount.