QF79 Cycle 2 - It's Treason, then!

[coco.pudding she/they]

16 minutes ago, The Unknown Medallion said:

I think its the opposite actually, probably a villager reaction testing. That would be a bizarre play for an elim to make

Oh I guess that could make sense. Well in that case they’ve definitely gotten some reactions, just maybe not the ones they were expecting

[Myst He/Him]

Alright, going over C1, I think Coco

she was already on my suspect list normally, and Drake is right about their probably being an Elim on Qian. I keep getting reminded of LG 110, and how she’s mostly agreeing but not actually giving her own opinions.

[Through the living Wahr He/Him]

I agree that there is probably one elim in the Qian train, since its not unlikely that there was a single vote on an elim, so they probably wanted to consolidate votes to avoid a random elim exe, and ___/mippo was the first to consolidate votes on Qian but didnt really gave a good reason.

 

 

[IcedOutPenguin He/Him]

I'm going to continue to vote Myst. a) They were on the Qian train, b) I voted for them last cycle, so consistency matters

[Verdance he/him]

I’m not taking the Iced accu seriously, and not particularly suspicious of anyone so far. 

[Verdance he/him]

Mippo (1): Wahr

Wahr (1): Drake

Star (1): Coco

Coco (1): Myst

Myst (1): Iced

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so this is basically chaos and everyone is voting for someone different afaik
 

[Through The Living Star She/Her]

10 hours ago, coco.pudding said:

Hm. I’m gonna throw out a poke on Star @Through The Living Star I feel like I didn’t see you much yesterday, what are you thinking about?

Yeah, sorry, I was at a competition all day yesterday. I added what I could, but I didn't have much time to do anything. Today is going to be much of the same, though for different reasons. 

I feel like the call out to IcedOutPenguin was faked- probably a reaction test. I don't know of any ability that could prove that someone is an elim, especially in the second cycle. 

I just don't know enough about anyone at this point, so I'm gonna wait to vote, though I will vote today (most likely)- I'm just waiting to see what people say. 

[Verdance he/him]

3 minutes ago, Through The Living Star said:

Yeah, sorry, I was at a competition all day yesterday. I added what I could, but I didn't have much time to do anything. Today is going to be much of the same, though for different reasons. 

I feel like the call out to IcedOutPenguin was faked- probably a reaction test. I don't know of any ability that could prove that someone is an elim, especially in the second cycle. 

I just don't know enough about anyone at this point, so I'm gonna wait to vote, though I will vote today (most likely)- I'm just waiting to see what people say. 

Star you should vote for drake so that we have a perfect chain of random people voting for other random people with no clear outcome

Am I compensating with excess chaos gremlin energy because i dont have cytonic powers? Maybe. Should you do it anyway even though its illogical? Yes, absolutely.

Edited May 10 by Verdance

[___ He/Him]

15 hours ago, Doc12 said:

“Report,” said the Administrator, rubbing their temples. Two datapads lay on their desk. Before them was a large golden Tenasi in crimson tactical armor – Winnifred, the grizzled chief of the Diplomacy Security Force. Aire was present as well, from the strong smell of mint.

“I’ve prepared a list of suspects,” Aire said, “it’s been sent to your datapad. I didn’t get a good look at the intruder in the control booth, but it was a large biped, which rules several species out.”

“I have my own list,” Winnifred rumbled, gesturing to the second datapad. “There are several overlaps with Spymaster Aire’s, but I have focused on the perpetrators of the vandalization, which do not rule out non-biped species.”

“Your thoroughness is always appreciated, Chief,” said Aire. “May I ask about your progress on the human front?”

“We believe the human was not responsible for the terrorism, Spymaster Aire. Until we receive reports of attacks, they are relegated to a lower priority.”

“I appreciate your help, Chief Winnifred, but terrorism falls under my purview, yours is catching feral animals -”

The Administrator tuned them out. They held up both datapads, consolidated them into a single list. They raised an eyebrow and waved the datapad, cutting off his and Aire’s escalating argument.  “This list contains two taynix.” A suppressed snort came from Aire’s direction.

Winnifred did not smile. “Slugs are sentient, therefore capable of dissidence.”

The Administrator rubbed their forehead harder. “Aire?”

Aire took over smoothly. “Combining our lists, we have 12 suspects. For who could have attacked me: Azren, Varvax; Rane, Dione; Qian and Penguin, both Heklo; Nail, Burl. On suspicion of vandalism: Naux and Cryax, Kitsen; Quoth-Yithuquoth, Solquis; Kitar, UrDail; Zrraii, Resonant; …Smartslug and Goolius, Taynix.” She paused. “Chief Winnifred has already seen fit to detain all twelve. Yes, even the Taynix.”

The Administrator held up a finger. “The Taynix have names?”

“Apparently they named themselves.” Aire said, smelling of iron.

“Sentience, and therefore capacity for evil,” said the Chief smugly. 

Aire began to say something, then cut herself off, “How did you detain a Resonant?”

The Chief smiled. “We asked it politely to grow some crystals into the Station.” 

“...Strong initiative, Chief,” murmured the Administrator, “Although such hasty action may be construed as aggressive.”

“We have reports that the detainees have already started throwing accusations around and may become aggressive,” Aire said. “My recommendation is that they be released but put under surveillance.”

The Chief snorted. “And allow the hidden dissidents to commit further crimes?” 

“The citizens have rights, lest you forget, Chief Primary Intelligence, the remaining citizens are already in outrage - and what about the human-”

“Stop.” The Administrator rose. “Chief Winnifred, you have authority to detain them for a single night without charge. They must be released after.” 

The Chief saluted. Aire made a sound of protest.

“Aire,” the Administrator said, “I want you at the Station monitoring everything they say or do.”

Aire sighed. “...Yes, Administrator.”

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Qian the Heklo loved democracy. He loved the Superiority. But a guy can't deny that sometimes, to the outside observer, the Superiority could look like a 'xenophobic, (eventually) genocidal interstellar alien empire'! Not that Qian believed that, the Superiority was great! It was just a perception issue! And the great thing about the Superiority is that one could give voice to all kinds of opinions, right?

Right guys?

"It's Treason, then!" Yelled Penguin, another Heklo.

Chaos erupted.

Qian the Heklo had to be removed from the Security Station due to excessive threats of violence from the other suspects. Quite against his wishes, he was placed on a shuttle headed for a place where he would be safe, and could do no harm to anyone anymore. 

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Rane missed weather. Being on the Diplomacy was great and all, but they half-wished they were on Monrome with its wild and whirling storms. That was probably rightparent. Leftparent had stayed indoors their entire life. The air was so still here. 

Well, no, inside the shared room in the Security Station, the air did crackle like a storm. Guards had already come to remove Qian, but the tension hadn't left the room. How did they get themselves into this situation? They supposed this was it for this draft... Getting sent to the Diplomacy had seemed exciting and grand to both parents, but now they were under suspicion of terrorism, of all things. 

A figure settled next to them, a little too close for Rane's comfort. "Apologies, friend, but I like my spa-"

A knife thrust towards their ribs-

Rane screamed -

- and they were somewhere else. Their home on the Diplomacy, outside of the Security Station.

Safe! They were safe! They rejoiced! Also they apparently had some cytonic ability after all! That boded well for them as a draft!

Then realized they had now committed a jailbreak, which was an actual crime. That boded much less well. 

Oh stars. 

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You have all received a non-cytonic message!

Citezens of the Superiority! I would like to say a few words. We are stronger as a group than as individuals. These dissidents will fail if we stay united! To the dissidents, watch yourselves, you will be discovered and captured. As I am sure many of you are aware we working on finding the solution to our problems and we belive to have a starting point. The Citezen IcedOutPenguin is a Dissident and is not to be trusted.

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Qianweilian has been removed! They were a Loyal Citizen with cytonic sensing!

Twinstorm was attacked but survived!

Vote Count

Qianwellian (3): Myst, ___ (Mippo), Coco
DrakeMarshall (2): TwinStorm, Qianweilian
Myst (1): IcedOutPenguin
Verdance (1): Through the living Wahr
Wahr (1): DrakeMarshall

Player List:

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• @Myst - Naux, a dark red Kitsen. Probably an engineer.
• @Verdance - Goolius, a hyperslug.
• @coco.pudding - Azren, the Varvax HR IR employee.
• @TwinStorm - Rane, who seeks to be falling all the time.
• @___ - Cryax, a stellar Kitsen fighter pilot.
• @Through The Living Star - Kitar, a young UrDail medic with a disposition towards oversharing. 
• @Fizz9 - Nail, smashy guy.
• @Through the living Wahr - Zrraii, a Resonant monitoring life support.
• @Qianweilian - A Heklo with a name no one can pronounce. Loyal Citizen
• @DrakeMarshall
• @IcedOutPenguin
• @The Unknown Medallion - Smartslug, a smart slug.

There will be a vote for removal during this Cycle. There is no vote minimum, and a tied vote will result in a random choice between all tied players. In addition, there is a possibility for kill from the Dissidents to occur this Cycle. 

As a reminder, PMs can only be opened if you have access to Cytonic Communications. If you do, please submit the request in your GM PM and one of us will open the PM for you as soon as we see it. 

If you have any moderation concerns, do not hesitate to ask @Araris Valerian for help!

This Cycle will end at 7 PM CDT/ 8 PM EST on Sunday, May 10th.

Ugh well I was wrong about Qian 

15 hours ago, Myst said:

And waste a fail-safe? That single ability changes Lylo and therefore the game

Edit: did anyone get anything useful from their cytonics? 

I used sensing, I know Twin was inhibited 

14 hours ago, coco.pudding said:

Ah I see.

Anyway you got thoughts on Penguin?

I don't think it's credible, I remember in my first game I was a tineye and the messages didn't really mean anything. 

14 hours ago, StrikerEZ said:

Everyone say thank you to @Doc12 for dealing with the insanity that is these rules while I was frantically driving over an hour back home to be online for rollover. We got everything done and sent out in like 45 minutes despite me getting online a minute before rollover. And there was only one minor little oopsie. Go us!

Awesome job!

13 hours ago, The Unknown Medallion said:

You get used to it

I had a long run of them, but they tend to balance out in the end

I wouldn't hard clear Twin, but definitely a non-Newtonian fluid clear

If an elim team actually WGGed d1, immense respect

Wgg?

11 hours ago, DrakeMarshall said:

final tally yesterday:

Qianwellian (3): Myst, ___ (Mippo), Coco
DrakeMarshall (2): TwinStorm, Qianweilian
Myst (1): IcedOutPenguin
Verdance (1): Through the living Wahr
Wahr (1): DrakeMarshall
Not Voting: Verdance, Star, Fizz, TUM

My personal credence is the elims wouldn't bunch up in one place. When there's no elims in danger, which I think there definitely wasn't yesterday, the default elim behavior is often to just distance, and voting in clear blocs is generally the opposite of that. Therefore, I predict probably not more than 1 elim on Qian, probably not more than 1 elim not voting. Side trains are a little more likely to contain elims because they don't interrupt the wagon on a villager while generally looking a little more helpful than abstaining from the vote entirely. If my train of thought is correct here that slightly points to (Penguin, Wahr)

That does make sense

6 hours ago, Through the living Wahr said:

I agree that there is probably one elim in the Qian train, since its not unlikely that there was a single vote on an elim, so they probably wanted to consolidate votes to avoid a random elim exe, and ___/mippo was the first to consolidate votes on Qian but didnt really gave a good reason.

 

 

True, but also it was C1 and I would rather vote on someone who gives me elim vibes than someone random.

[Through the living Wahr He/Him]

18 minutes ago, ___ said:

Wgg?

Wounded Gazele Gambit

The Elims NK one of their own who they know will survive the attack (in this case through Hyperjump) so that the target appears more likely to be village

Realistically I dont think that will work anymore because in my (limited) experience, as soon as someone survives an attack someone suggests a Wounded Gazele Gambit

[___ He/Him]

4 minutes ago, Through the living Wahr said:

Wounded Gazele Gambit

The Elims NK one of their own who they know will survive the attack (in this case through Hyperjump) so that the target appears more likely to be village

Realistically I dont think that will work anymore because in my (limited) experience, as soon as someone survives an attack someone suggests a Wounded Gazele Gambit

Ah interesting 

That seems kinda dangerous 

[StrikerEZ he/him]

@Myst @Verdance @coco.pudding @TwinStorm @___ @Through The Living Star @Fizz9 @Through the living Wahr @DrakeMarshall @IcedOutPenguin @The Unknown Medallion There's about 7 hours and 20 minutes left in the cycle. Make sure to get any actions and votes in before the cycle ends!

Current VC:

Myst (1): IcedOutPenguin
coco.pudding (1): Myst
___ (Mippo) (1): Through the living Wahr
Through the Living Star (1): coco.pudding
Through the living Wahr (1): DrakeMarshall

Please let me know if anything looks inaccurate.

Edited May 10 by StrikerEZ

[coco.pudding she/they]

2 hours ago, Through The Living Star said:

Yeah, sorry, I was at a competition all day yesterday. I added what I could, but I didn't have much time to do anything. Today is going to be much of the same, though for different reasons. 

I feel like the call out to IcedOutPenguin was faked- probably a reaction test. I don't know of any ability that could prove that someone is an elim, especially in the second cycle. 

I just don't know enough about anyone at this point, so I'm gonna wait to vote, though I will vote today (most likely)- I'm just waiting to see what people say. 

Okay, this is a reasonable response. Star

[TwinStorm He/Him]

welp, thats what you get when you spend a cycle firing shots in the dark

still, its nice to be cleared

nice shot elims XD better luck next time

[Fizz9]

Alr I'm back.

13 hours ago, coco.pudding said:

@Fizz9 do you have any defense other than what you said earlier? You’re the only one taking this accusation seriously, but it’s pretty obvious it’s faked, so why?

I'm just trying to see what Penguin is going to do, I didn't send it.

 

Right now I'm kinda sus of both Myst and Penguin.

Heads. I'm going with Myst for now.

[Myst He/Him]

11 minutes ago, Fizz9 said:

Alr I'm back.

I'm just trying to see what Penguin is going to do, I didn't send it.

 

Right now I'm kinda sus of both Myst and Penguin.

Heads. I'm going with Myst for now.

Hmmm, random, yet you also happen to place me in the lead for votes…. Interesting 

Well, I don’t like the idea of dying, plus I want to see what happens so Im gonna have to ignore Coco for now and go with

Coco Star

edit: coco and Fizz E!team? Not sure what I think of it but this is a way to force me to take my vote off Coco

Edited May 10 by Myst

[coco.pudding she/they]

14 minutes ago, Fizz9 said:

Alr I'm back.

I'm just trying to see what Penguin is going to do, I didn't send it.

 

Right now I'm kinda sus of both Myst and Penguin.

Heads. I'm going with Myst for now.

Okay, but why are you taking it seriously when there’s no way it could be true?

Also, I don’t like that you’re “randomly” putting someone in the lead. Fizz

13 minutes ago, Myst said:

Hmmm, random, yet you also happen to place me in the lead for votes…. Interesting 

Well, I don’t like the idea of dying, plus I want to see what happens so Im gonna have to ignore Coco for now and go with

Coco Star

edit: coco and Fizz E!team? Not sure what I think of it but this is a way to force me to take my vote off Coco

Why are you voting Star if you’re trying to take pressure off yourself? There’s no votes on her since I took mine off after she responded. Especially if you think Fizz is elim. 

[Myst He/Him]

3 minutes ago, coco.pudding said:

Okay, but why are you taking it seriously when there’s no way it could be true?

Also, I don’t like that you’re “randomly” putting someone in the lead. Fizz

Why are you voting Star if you’re trying to take pressure off yourself? There’s no votes on her since I took mine off after she responded. Especially if you think Fizz is elim. 

I forgot, my bad. lol idk why considering it was literally 2 posts before.

my thought process was that I had to make a tie, and I was fine exeing star out of the options, I just completely forgot that you took you’re vote off.

thank you though, I’m gonna have to reconsider my opinion on you. This gives me better options to vote 

Star Fizz

edit: what am I doing today wow

Edited May 10 by Myst

[StrikerEZ he/him]

New VC: 

Myst (2): Fizz9, IcedOutPenguin
Fizz9 (2): Myst, coco.pudding
___ (Mippo) (1): Through the living Wahr
Through the living Wahr (1): DrakeMarshall

[coco.pudding she/they]

2 minutes ago, Myst said:

what am I doing today wow

It’s okay, it’s just that kinda day lol

The brain is not braining

[Fizz9]

1 hour ago, coco.pudding said:

Okay, but why are you taking it seriously when there’s no way it could be true?

I was reaction fishing more than taking it seriously. The way that Penguin responded was sus to me.

 

I also don't like Myst's posts very much, so I flipped a coin between the two.

Myst I guess. Didn't expect everyone to vote me for that.

 

[Myst He/Him]

29 minutes ago, Fizz9 said:

I was reaction fishing more than taking it seriously. The way that Penguin responded was sus to me.

 

I also don't like Myst's posts very much, so I flipped a coin between the two.

Myst I guess. Didn't expect everyone to vote me for that.

 

The problem is that you broke a tie.

anything in specific?

[Through the living Wahr He/Him]

59 minutes ago, Fizz9 said:

I was reaction fishing more than taking it seriously. The way that Penguin responded was sus to me.

 

I also don't like Myst's posts very much, so I flipped a coin between the two.

Myst I guess. Didn't expect everyone to vote me for that.

 

You know that rescinding your Vote got you solely on the choping block, right?

[Verdance he/him]

Is there some sort of glitch because the info bar that usually displays top posters and top posts and other stuff is not showing up for me 

[Myst He/Him]

1 minute ago, Verdance said:

Is there some sort of glitch because the info bar that usually displays top posters and top posts and other stuff is not showing up for me 

That usually doesn’t pop up till page 3

I can say that I’m definitely #1 post count