Long Game 109: The Lords of Luthadel

[IcedOutPenguin He/Him]

10 minutes ago, Booknewt said:

Seems to be coming out swinging

Well. I always do this. Just wait until C3, then I'll be throwing out all the accusations, and some of them might even be right

6 minutes ago, Booknewt said:

Iced stop ninja-ing my posts and making them invalid /j

Nah

[Hoid Slayer He/Him]

13 minutes ago, Sart said:

Speaking in thread that you'll be busy would be a positive change. Obviously, don't lie about real life stuff, but that is helpful. I've much more often seen it in elim docs though, which is what I thought you were referencing.

... Are you serious? No, I am very old. LG4 was my first game. I'm mostly retired, but there was a last minute call for signups, so I decided to join for old times sake.

Dang

I’m really sorry

I’ve never played with you, and so I assumed you must be new. That was a grave mistake on my part

13 minutes ago, IcedOutPenguin said:

That is a better clarification, thank you.

Edit:

Does someone have a vote count?

Pretty sure VC stands at:

Booknewt (3): Me, Iced, Akimiko

Akimiko (2): Sart, Booknewt

13 minutes ago, Booknewt said:

Read on Iced: Seems to be coming out swinging. From my memory of the purelake game, he was suspicious of CD for a while before voting, and didn't really pokevote at all to my recollection. So mild elim read there just bc of difference in playstyle

Actually, I think he seems pretty subdued, but I don’t have a great read on his play style

[IcedOutPenguin He/Him]

Just now, Hoid Slayer said:

Booknewt (3): Me, Iced, Akimiko

Akimiko (2): Sart, Booknewt

Oh, my poke vote turned into a train?

1 minute ago, Hoid Slayer said:

I don’t have a great read on his play style

Yay! My play style works!

[Sart he/him]

Not sure what to make of the train. It's a poke vote from Iced, an Araris-style stab vote from Slayer, and a panic vote from a new player. Definitely feels like Day 1.

[IcedOutPenguin He/Him]

1 minute ago, Sart said:

Not sure what to make of the train. It's a poke vote from Iced, an Araris-style stab vote from Slayer, and a panic vote from a new player. Definitely feels like Day 1.

I don't really like trains on D1...

[KaladinsSenseOfHumourSpren He/Him]

6 hours ago, Hoid Slayer said:

@KaladinsSenseOfHumorSpren haven't heard anything from you either

5 hours ago, Hoid Slayer said:

Not loving @CoderDrag0n8 and KSauce's lack of poke votes; I feel like they'd be the people to send them in, and they're both also quite active elsewhere in the Shard

I did a tiny bit of RP before

I just don't really have much time to sit down and think right now

Other places on the Shard don't require so some brain capacity

I don't think I'll be quite active until nightfall

EDIT:

5 hours ago, Booknewt said:

Do I count? /j

My reads:
Akimo - Elim leaning, bc randomly picking someone to vote tends to be a reaction from an new elim placed in the hot seat in my experience (my experience - being elim my first game and randomly picking a ton of people). 

HoidSlayer seems to be reducing fog of war, so tempted to lean village for him, but he's experienced enough that his messages shouldn't be too different as an elim. Is starting a spy network, can't tell if that's just out of excitement for having time to play a ton (which is what i'm getting) or elim. Doc did start a massive spy network as elim last game, and found Hoid through it unless I'm mistaken, but that was a very different situation

Sart - Seems to be trying to make us rethink our tactics. Either an elim trying to spread chaos / divert attention away from other elims, or a villager worried we'll lose. If the first: Not much we can draw from that other than elim. If the second: well what I would draw from that if I weren't me is that they were trying to start a rival train from something, but there's no trains that they'd be trying to start from other than mine and I can eliminate that possiblity. So either elim trying to spread chaos or villager trying to genuinely solve. Has anyone played any games with Sart who knows their elim style?

Dplos - Leaning village, can't tell if that's bias though bc I want them to be village. I ran a game recently where they were village and this feels like v!Dplos, but I've never seen e!Dplos so I don't really know. (Can't give any justification here unfortunately - just vibes)

Iced, Worldhopper, Coder, Ksauce - don't have enough information, say stuff please (Iced, Worldhopper, Coder, I know you've said stuff, but say more pls)

Going to vote Akimo for now, bc I don't have a better lead

edit: Whelp, got ninja'd by Iced's post.

Read on Iced: Seems to be coming out swinging. From my memory of the purelake game, he was suspicious of CD for a while before voting, and didn't really pokevote at all to my recollection. So mild elim read there just bc of difference in playstyle

Sart was an elim in LG107. I looked through some of the D1 posts and he wasn't quite like he is now at all, so either he's village or and elim trying to mix things up.

Edited November 13, 2025 by KaladinsSenseOfHumorSpren

[Through the Living Hopper He/Him]

I can't be on for a little while and I feel like I'm going to pass out, but here are my reads:

Sart: I'm a little bit biased with this one, so I'm going to avoid reading him until later.

IcedOutPengugin: is actually doing long posts! That's nice, but the only other game with them that's happened was *shudder*QF76. 

Um, yeah, I started this post thinking I had a lot more reads than I did. I'm going to vote Penguin, something feels *heheh* fishy.

________

R2D2 rolled out onto the walkway, then turned to face who was following.

"I've got a bad feeling about this," his companion said. 

R2D2 beeped in response.

[IcedOutPenguin He/Him]

7 minutes ago, ThatOneWorldhopper said:

Um, yeah, I started this post thinking I had a lot more reads than I did. I'm going to vote Penguin, something feels *heheh* fishy.

 

Not again! You always think I'm an Elim, when was I? Once. When were you an Elim? Twice. I'm not going to actively oppose you this time, though.

11 minutes ago, ThatOneWorldhopper said:

is actually doing long posts!

This is just not true.

[CoderDrag0n8 He/They]

18 hours ago, dplostthegame said:

hello bro

feels nice that the 500-post-long "haha let's mess around for half of d1" tradition is staying strong in other forums

not gonna pokevote anyone yet because funni and i want to make some reads before actually doing stuff

seems weird that activity or eagerness is more NAI than townlean here but valid point

i uh

am not gonna rp for now

because i still cant understand anything abt the flavortext(in reality i was just too lazy to read the writeup lol)

for the funnies and also for the mods to either laugh at or praise me, i'm gonna make some godreads off zero basis so take this with a grain of salt

town: hoidslayer, TOWH(thatoneworldhopper), coder, KSOHS

scum: dp(trust), sart

 

laugh at me for the next 10 posts idc lol

*proceeds to laugh*

*realizes is v!read*

*claps nervously*

No one saw that i laughed, right?

12 hours ago, Sart said:

I feel that is placing too much emphasis on posts being meaningful. We have seen a lot of turnover from people desperately trying to make meaningful posts, only to get killed, and view the effort as not worth it. We have a burnout crisis, and putting too high of standards on ourselves contributes to it. Simple one sentence posts are "low effort" but keep the conversations going and advance the game. Your conversation with Lady Cricket was a good example, and I want to see more stuff like it. Admittedly, this is an extremely poor rule set to this out on, but I think my point stands.

Also, citing your teammates, could be an elim slip. Not voting it, but noting it.

True, there's usually a mixture of both, but that shouldn't stop us from trying it. If we ignore one subset of people, we incentivize that behavior. Personally, I want to incentivize activity from good and evil. That's more fun to me. I should also point out, that the two players I pointed out logged onto the Shard, but had posted nowhere else. That to me is different from being active on other parts of the Shard.

Speaking of, Lady Cricket has graced us with her presence. Thank you for sharing your opinion. I move to my other suspect. Ruler Of The Mists. @ruler of the mists The game has started. Join in the discussion.

Sometimes, when you are on the shard, you only have enough time to lurk. Especially with SE, things can easily overtake your attention.

12 hours ago, Hoid Slayer said:

Appreciate your presence

Sorry about the train, but this thread is quiet and I'm willing to apply the pressure necessary to change that

Not just for you; anyone who thinks the murder of Booknewt is unjust better start speaking up

Right now I really don't have more to produce reads off of than vibes (which is what I'm trying to change), but @ThatOneWorldhopper and @Sart are striking me as kinda weird - although Sart's actually leading with someone, which I'll take it

Not loving @CoderDrag0n8 and KSauce's lack of poke votes; I feel like they'd be the people to send them in, and they're both also quite active elsewhere in the Shard

Lots of new players somewhat skew everything, of course. It scares me that the only person here who I believe has more experience than me is @ThatOneWorldhopper, and I've only been doing this since like May

Yesterday was... A lot. Stress, tests, after school hang-ups.

And more Shard activity than usual, i still have 42 notifs to go through.

I dont love poke votes (I have seen a lot of reasons to dislike them) but I do have to agree that it starts discussion.

Hmm.... Who haven't I seen here?

@ruler of the mists Ruler of the Mists would you like to join the discussion?

[Akimikoisthecutest]

12 hours ago, Booknewt said:

Akimo - Elim leaning, bc randomly picking someone to vote tends to be a reaction from an new elim placed in the hot seat in my experience (my experience - being elim my first game and randomly picking a ton of people). 

I think that you're just mad that I picked you. This is my first Sanderson Elimination, but I have played other forum mafia games.

[ruler of the mists He/His/the survivor of the pit]

Sorry i was sick yesterday

[Akimikoisthecutest]

2 minutes ago, ruler of the mists said:

Sorry i was sick yesterday

If you were sick, that gives you ample time to be on the shard...

[ruler of the mists He/His/the survivor of the pit]

The timezone difference makes it a bit awkward cus you guys were messaging me around 4 am in the morning.

 

Edited November 13, 2025 by ruler of the mists

[Akimikoisthecutest]

8 minutes ago, ruler of the mists said:

The timezone difference makes it a bit awkward cus you guys were messaging me around 4 am in the morning.

Ok that's fair

13 hours ago, Sart said:

Speaking of, Lady Cricket has graced us with her presence.

"Good, I'm finally getting the recognition that I deserve"

Edited November 13, 2025 by Akimikoisthecutest

[ruler of the mists He/His/the survivor of the pit]

My characters name is Lord Kelion is a devout follower of Survivorism, a leader of the Church, and is guided by the hand of the Survivor.

 

 

 

[IcedOutPenguin He/Him]

8 minutes ago, ruler of the mists said:

The timezone difference makes it a bit awkward cus you guys were messaging me around 4 am in the morning.

 

If there's a good reason, that's definitely it.

[ruler of the mists He/His/the survivor of the pit]

Is should be a Shard Standard Time.

[IcedOutPenguin He/Him]

3 minutes ago, ruler of the mists said:

Is should be a Shard Standard Time.

MT is Shard Standard Time. You know why?

[ruler of the mists He/His/the survivor of the pit]

Why

?

 

And what is MT?

[Ookla the Newt she/her]

A ton of sharders are in Utah. Prob more there then any other state / country

[IcedOutPenguin He/Him]

1 minute ago, ruler of the mists said:

Why

 

Because Brandon Sanderson lives in Utah

2 minutes ago, ruler of the mists said:

And what is MT?

Mountain time

[ruler of the mists He/His/the survivor of the pit]

Oh okay

And ass Kelion closed his eyes looking as if he was deep in thought, and as Elend was saying something about the prices in the city he suddenly shouted "The Survivor has spoken! The lord Penguin is working with other Lords to bring back the tyranny of the Lord Ruler!"

 

Poke voting it is.

Edited November 13, 2025 by ruler of the mists

[IcedOutPenguin He/Him]

2 minutes ago, ruler of the mists said:

As Kelion closed his eyes looking as if he was deep in thought, and as Elend was saying something about the prices in the city he suddenly shouted "The Survivor has spoken! The lord Penguin is working with other Lords to bring back the tyranny of the Lord Ruler!"

 

A little late for a poke vote, don't you think?

[ruler of the mists He/His/the survivor of the pit]

Nope

[Akimikoisthecutest]

12 minutes ago, ruler of the mists said:

Is should be a Shard Standard Time.

There should!