Long Game 11: Twinborn Village

[Mailliw73 he/him]

Hey guys, I'm back now. I just read through the thread and I think I have the basic idea of what happened during the past couple cycles. I'm glad we caught Winter. Since I had a substanially large PM with her, I think I'll have a better idea of who to lynch next cycle.

[Araris Valerian he/him]

Sounds great. Does it look like Team Odium will be able to hold together or does it look as if one of us has deserted to serve a lesser shard?

[Alvron]

No one attended the funeral of Cleo.  Her coffin placed in the grave and the carriers quickly leaving, heading to 'The Taproom' to toast the death of a Spiked.

Rolan and Jain placed the headstone at the head of the still open grave.
 

Here lies Cleo, covered in snow.
Winter came but now must go.
She died at a public gathering when the platform gave way.

[Mailliw73 he/him]

Sounds great. Does it look like Team Odium will be able to hold together or does it look as if one of us has deserted to serve a lesser shard?

You'll have to ask the others. I have my opinions, but that's it. No real evidence. Let me get back into the swing of things and then we'll see.

[spencer12347 he/him]

Do you think anyone could put up a list of who is dead or not? I wasn't really active at the very beginning of the game and i'm somewhat confused.

[twelfthrootoftwo]

 

Do you think anyone could put up a list of who is dead or not? I wasn't really active at the very beginning of the game and i'm somewhat confused.

1. Temai Nimiad (Nicroburst)

2. Karlin (Surgebound Rainspren)

3. Bortington-Smythe (Bort)

4. Cleo (Winter Cloud) Allomantic gold/Feruchemical aluminium

5. Honerius Bager (The Honey Badger)

6. Hadrian Penrod (Araris Valerian)

7. Axies (phattemer) Allomantic bronze/Feruchemical nicrosil

8. Walin (spencer12347)

9. Faliu Faliu (Feligon)

10. D'wag (vineyarddawg)

11. Rolan (Alvron)

12. Lord Ostrich Malescei Tekiel II (ostrichofevil) 

13. Millie (Mailliw73)

14. Quaqua Qua (Splinter)

15. Jain (Lightsworn Panda)

16. Pifferluke III (Lord Pifferdoo)

17. Cylkan (Clanky)

18. Sheol (Eolhondras) Allomantic chromium/Feruchemical atium

19. Lutir (Tulir)

20. Levant Nebben (lev)

21. Kwon (Wonko the Sane)

22. Dow (dowanx)

23. neo (neodymium)

24. Lord Mattias Mountford (Lord Mattias Mountford) Allomantic brass/Feruchemical bendalloy

25. Acer Tuy (a smart guy)

26. Malrick A'Lees (Metacognition)

27. Jaelre (Jaelre)

28. Kirrah Dotze (twelfthrootoftwo)

29. Jode (The Only Joe) Allomantic cadmium/Feruchemical pewter

30. Llurch (Kandra Skrull)

31. Ella (luckat)

 

 

[RP coming in a bit]

Edit:

 

Cleo's hanging had been surprising. Not the fact that she was actually Spiked - killing people on suspicion of being hemalurgists generally came with the assumption that you'd eventually be right. No, what was surprising was Mayor Gund. Sure, his reluctance to carry out the hanging could just be laziness, but Kirrah couldn't shake the feeling that he had known about Cleo. He'd known she was Spiked, and hadn't wanted to kill her. Gund was in the middle of whatever was going on in Twinborn Village, and evidently that included the Spiked. Surely he hadn't brought them here purely to secure his position as Mayor, but then what was their purpose? There had been other blotted letters in Gund’s garbage, and one of them had mentioned “lots of spikes”. Perhaps it wasn’t the Spiked, but the spikes themselves that were needed.

 

She’d found other clues as well. One sheet had indents where something had been traced over with heavy strokes. Careful inking had revealed fragments of the symbol from her dream. There had been a reference to “the new Aon” – a machine of some sort, perhaps? And more than one mention of Pulsers and cadmium – that was important somehow.

 

For now, she had to figure out if Cleo’s spikes were important. She’d watched the “funeral” from a safe distance, and they hadn’t even bothered to fill the grave. Someone clearly wanted to get in, and had bribed – or ordered – the carriers not to complete their job. Stifling a yawn, Kirrah looked over the graveyard again. Still no movement. But they’d be here sooner or later. She just had to keep her eyes open. No, she wouldn’t fall asleep. She had to hold the line of thought. This was crucial. She would figure out who was involved, and then she could – could…

 

It had been a long day. As Cylkan was just beginning his rounds, Kirrah’s eyes were already closed.

Edited April 13, 2015 by twelfthrootoftwo

[Metacognition he/him]

Malrick wiped his brow, as he put the final touches on his latest addition to the traps laid about the Alehouse (called such because, evidently, his ancestors hadn't been very creative and the fact that it was the only one within the underground building). It had taken him days of hard work and a lot of tinkering, but now it was finished and he could add it to the journal that his family passed down each generation with all the various traps laid out and described in it. 

 

As he sat down at the bar, quill in hand, he flipped through the journal as he went. 

 

There was Mesist's, his families originator and Founder, trap called, "The Turtle," which dropped huge chunks of the ceiling in front of the doors and windows; effectively keeping everyone outside out... or whomever was trapped inside in. 

 

A few pages later, he came across "The Moat." It was a spike-ladened trap door that followed the entire length of the bar. The Archers was a series of crossbows latched and ready to all fire together hidden behind the tinted glass behind the bar. The Guillotine would run a sharpened metal blade from wall to wall at about neck height. The Fisherman's Surprise, the Tumbler, the Jack in the Box. Page after page of devious traps, all hidden in the walls, ceiling, and floor of his home. It was his family's tradition. 

 

And now he could add his own entry to the list. He smiled as he finally turned to a blank page, dipped the quill and wrote the title for his addition:

 

The Spiked Club. 

 

It wasn't a trap that just anyone could use, but he could and that's what mattered. 

 

"Let's see those Spiked come for me now," he thought.

 

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I'm finally back up and running! I'm glad to see that we're finally past all the, "no! lynching's bad!" phase. If you notice, the first few days, when everyone said that they didn't want to lynch, we also didn't have much discussion. That's because the two go hand in hand. You don't get good discussion without the lynch, so let's not go back to that, please! Hopefully by now, most people have spread out a bit. Please, let's not all bunch together in the same rooms! There's a very good chance that that's exactly what got Phatt killed. They didn't need to know who would go after the item in B1, they just knew that people would flock to that room! 

Speaking of rooms, we should be able to start narrowing things down if we know who had the opportunity to be in the rooms that kills took place in. For example, Phatt was killed in B1. As such, anyone in A3 or C3 wouldn't have enough action phases to get there. There's also looking at where people were and where they ended up. If someone was in C/A 1 and they ended their night in B2, they wouldn't have been able to move that far and make a kill. Sure, this doesn't eliminate those people from not being Spiked, but it will help us narrow the possibilities of who all is Spiked! As such, we really need to start coordinating these things. If someone appears somewhere they said that they weren't going to be, then we can use that. I'm not saying that we should announce in thread where we're each going, but with Phatt dead (assuming we don't have another Bronze Allomancer), we have to rely more on our tineyes being able to follow everyone's movements.

 

These are just my thoughts since I got back. I need to go back through everything again so I can hopefully see the bigger picture, but I feel like we've been too quiet when it comes to hunting the Spiked. This could also be due to me not knowing what's going on behind the scenes, so bare with me while I get caught up!  

[Aonar he/him]

Day Four: A Brief Respite

 

Lord Ostrich Malescei Tekiel the Second needed a break. He'd seen plenty of things in his time, but this search for the spiked was taking it's toll. It's taken them nearly four days just to find one, and they'd been luck to manage even that. This could drag on for near a month if something didn't change. He needed to get some real work done.

 

So he found himself in his shop, working the bellows of his forge. It was hard work, but necessary to ensure the glass formed properly. The dull roar of forge, however, also provided a perfect cover for his attacker.

 

They crept into his shop, knife clutched tight in hand. All the way up behind their prey, about to strike as Ostrich turned suddenly from the bellows, reaching for the iron rod used to mix the glass. The knife nicked his arm and Ostrich staggered back, warding the hemalurgist off with the hot iron.

 

"I don't suppose you'd just put that down, would you?" The stranger asked, circling warily. 

 

"Doesn't strike me as the brightest idea, I'm afraid." Ostrich took the chance to strike out, swinging the bar at his attacker's head.

 

The hemalurgist ducked and came back up quickly, trapping Ostrich's impromptu weapon against the wall. "Maybe not, but I had to ask." Lunging forwards, they drove the knife towards Ostrich's chest. Grabbing the nearest thing that came to hand, he brought it up in front of the blade.

 

It stuck into a wooden stool, sending splinters flying. Seeing an opportunity, Ostrich spoke a hurried Command, "Bind things!" The grain of the wood changed almost imperceptibly, locking the knife into the stool.

 

The hemalurgist heaved against the knife without success. "Rust." They turned and fled, leaving the weapon behind.

 

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Ostrich was attacked, but survived!

Five pretty cool items were found, and one awesome item! Rooms A2 and B2 now hold Awesome items! Room C3 now holds an Uncanny item!

 

Day Four has begun! Action PMs will be sent out as soon as possible. The day will end at 10:00 PM CDT Tuesday.

Edited April 13, 2015 by Aonar Faileas

[Araris Valerian he/him]

Well, we can probably assume that Ostrich is a villager, since he got attacked by the hemalurgists. I'll start out the day with a vote on Clanky. You voted for Jain, yet your vote didn't count, and it is unlikely that you would have been soothed, which instead implies that you didn't sleep. I'm still holding to my opinion that sleeping benefits the village more than the spiked, so lets have a start to the discussion.

 

Edit: I would vote for Honey Badger as well, but I only have 1 available.

Edited April 13, 2015 by Araris Valerian

[lev]

I vote honey badger. He and I have been pming from the beginning, and he tried to convince me not to vote for winter last round when the vote was close. He also withheld the report of the results of a plan we had made to id the spiked on the second night. These two evidences, combined with some other evidence brought up by spencer have led me to believe he is spiked!

Down with the spiked, long live the Twinborn!

 

PS Araris: Clanky is clean. I will vouch for him. 

Edited April 13, 2015 by lev

[ostrichofevil he/him]

Good morning, fellow villagers.  I would like to vote for Vineyarddawg.  In a PM, he told me that he was in a confirmed villagers group.  He lured me into the town square to get "scanned", where I was attacked.  I find that just a little bit suspicious.

[Kandra Skrull]

I vote for Honey Badger as well. I can also vouch for Clanky. He's done nothing but encourage participation, and I don't find it suspicious at all that someone has chosen not to sleep, let alone a reason to lynch someone.

[Bort he/him]

I'm a villager, and I've not slept yet. I've been too busy.

 

I know some of Lev's and Kandra's reasonings behind voting for Honey Badger, and I have to admit, my vote would be going on the badger cull too (if I had slept and had a vote). That said, Ostrich also has an interesting point, and Vineyawddawg has been known for sneaky tactics in other games.

[vineyarddawg]

Bort is correct that I've been covert in past games, most notably in LG10, when I was an eliminator. (The role kinda calls for covert deception if you're an eliminator, right?) I was also trying to be covert in the MR5 game that just ended, because half of my team was knocked out in the early stages and Wilson was acting like she'd defected to "team Chaos," so I had little choice but to try to fly under the radar and take covert action.  In the only other game where I've been a villager so far, QF6, I was completely open with everyone else who was a villager, though I was careful about revealing information to people who weren't confirmed as villagers (as anyone should be).  I've been very open with everyone I've been communicating with in this game, which should be a sign that I'm not trying to play both sides of the coin here.

 

Other than that, though, I suppose I have no proper defense in this case, since any conclusive game-related information I could give could be detrimental to the actual, not-a-lie confirmed villagers group of which I'm a part, and I won't sell out information about my fellow villagers just to save my own skin. I only know that we had a colossal case of bad timing with Ostrich getting attacked.  We don't even know if the spiked were targeting Ostrich specifically... they could have been simply targeting a random person in that room.

 

If I had a vote, which I don't, I would be voting for Honey Badger. His behavior patterns are definitely suspicious and lead to the conclusion that he's either spiked or acting rather oddly for some other reason.

[Araris Valerian he/him]

Well, it seems that multiple people think Clanky is innocent, so Yeah. I'm not going to put in a replacement vote, but I would like to hear from Kandra Skrull why you think that not sleeping is suspicious. Already several people have been unable to vote, so instead of 5 different people with votes on them there are now 2.

[Tulir he/him]

Lutir crept out of the shadows, nervous.  He had been lucky and clever, hiding out in the cemetery from everyone.  Normally he would take advantage of the situation and try to con as much out of people as he could, but Lutir felt more comfort hiding, at least for now.  He hadn't interacted with anyone in a while, and wondered if they remembered who he was.

 

Well, I am back from my trip, and let me say, I am grateful for not being killed.  I will work on reading up the cycles that I missed, but could someone give me a quick summary and a list of dead/alive people?

[Clanky he/him]

So Ostrich, vine says brought you over to Village square to get scanned.  Have you been contacted about the result from their supposed scan? Also do you know what type of scan it was supposed to be?

 

Also Tulir here is the Dead/Alive List twelfth posted last cycle:

1. Temai Nimiad (Nicroburst)
2. Karlin (Surgebound Rainspren)
3. Bortington-Smythe (Bort)
4. Cleo (Winter Cloud) Allomantic gold/Aluminium-SPIKED
5. Honerius Bager (The Honey Badger)
6. Hadrian Penrod (Araris Valerian)
7. Axies (phattemer) Allomantic bronze/Feruchemical nicrosil
8. Walin (spencer12347)
9. Faliu Faliu (Feligon)
10. D'wag (vineyarddawg)
11. Rolan (Alvron)
12. Lord Ostrich Malescei Tekiel II (ostrichofevil)
13. Millie (Mailliw73)
14. Quaqua Qua (Splinter)
15. Jain (Lightsworn Panda)
16. Pifferluke III (Lord Pifferdoo)
17. Cylkan (Clanky)
18. Sheol (Eolhondras) Allomantic chromium/Feruchemical atium
19. Lutir (Tulir)
20. Levant Nebben (lev)
21. Kwon (Wonko the Sane)
22. Dow (dowanx)
23. neo (neodymium)
24. Lord Mattias Mountford (Lord Mattias Mountford) Allomantic brass/Feruchemical bendalloy
25. Acer Tuy (a smart guy)
26. Malrick A'Lees (Metacognition)
27. Jaelre (Jaelre)
28. Kirrah Dotze (twelfthrootoftwo)
29. Jode (The Only Joe) Allomantic cadmium/Feruchemical pewter
30. Llurch (Kandra Skrull)
31. Ella (luckat)

 

EDIT: Colour

Edited April 13, 2015 by Clanky

[vineyarddawg]

So Ostrich, vine says brought you over to Village square to get scanned.  Have you been contacted about the result from their supposed scan? Also do you know what type of scan it was supposed to be?

 

 

The answer to both of those questions is yes, but you have no real reason to believe my word on the subject, so I'll let Ostrich answer for himself.

[Kandra Skrull]

Araris what I meant to say is that in a game with so many abilities, there are tons of reasons people may not have slept, and just because your vote didn't count the next day is no reason to lynch someone. That being said, I understand where you're coming from saying that sleeping helps the village more.

[Surgebound Rainspren he/him]

It would definitely be a service to the village to make sure to sleep every night.

As far as we can tell there are some where between three and five spiked left. This may not seem like much but if only a handful of people are sleeping each round then we could very easily lose a lynching to the spiked by one or two votes. 

 

this is multiplied by the number of players who are not contributing to the main threads (this will be much more of an issue one the new Qf game starts) 

[neodymium]

Can anyone vouch for HoneyBadger or Vine?  I would also be interested to see what HoneyBadger has to say about the allegations brought against him.  Ostrich, do you have any more info about the scan or your convo with vine?  Anyone feel free to PM me any info that might be pertinent to know before casting a vote.  

[spencer12347 he/him]

I am voting for honey badger. He has told me that he was in contact with winter cloud since day one and through pms he has constantly told me things then back tracks on these statements to cover his tracks. He defended winter cloud when she was voted on immediately, lev and I have just seen to many suspicious things when it comes to badger, i believe he is 100% spiked. 

[lev]

Luckat said this at the end of yesterdays day phase:

There's not much time left, but I have something to add. Phatt gave me his seeking results from the second night, and they included hemalurgic allomantic bronze. I asked my Kandra contact, and it wasn't due to a Kandra, so there must have been a spiked seeker.

 

Earlier in the game, Winter told me she was in contact with a seeker besides Phatt and that they had given her some results from the first night. I thought it was a little odd that they would trust her like that, especially when those results included that there had been both hemalurgic and nonhemalurgic versions of her feruchemical power active.

 

When I learned there was a spiked seeker who had been in the Town Square during the second night, I decided to ask Winter about the seeker she had been in contact with earlier. At first she didn't give me their name, but said she would tell them I wanted to contact them. After a while, I pushed harder and explained why I thought the seeker was spiked. She finally relented and said the seeker was Spencer.

 

I decided to contact Spencer myself, and he said he was not a seeker, had never claimed to be one, and had never been in contact with Winter. He also gave me some good evidence and a contact who confirmed what he said.

 

Badger is a bronze misting, and he, spencer, and I were in a fairly expansive pm since the beginning of the game, so it makes sense that he would work with winter to try to frame someone who 1) was a less experienced player and 2) he had a background with so that he could use true details to make the story more believable. Badger was also in the town square on the second night phase so that he could perform an enhanced bronze scan of the town square and the four connecting caverns. The results of the scan that he shared made little sense: they were only for the central cavern even though he was nicrosil enhanced at the time of the scan. This could have been explained if there had been allomantic copper in use, but that was not one of the reported allomantic metals. Lastly he tried to change the tide of votes against winter both on the main thread, and in the pm with spencer and I. I don't have absolute conformation that he is spiked, but I think there is enough evidence to prove guilt.

 

I led the vote against winter yesterday, so I am not a spiked trying to take down a villager. We need enough people to vote for badger that spiked emotional allomancers cannot change the vote to get one of the villagers lynched. 

Edited April 13, 2015 by lev

[neodymium]

I will vote for honey badger.

[ostrichofevil he/him]

According to Vine, I scanned as a villager.  I think that if Vine is not to blame for the attack then there may be a spy in his PM group.