Long Game 11: Twinborn Village

[vineyarddawg]

Yes, random voting is bad, spencer12347.

[The Honey Badger he/him]

The votes stand as such:     (these are not my votes, I made a list)

Clanky () Bort

Winter Cloud () Lev, Araris

Ostich () Feligon

Kwon ()twelfthrootoftwo

Lightsworn Panda () Spencer12347

spencer12347 () vineyarddawg 

 

As of now, Winter is getting lynched, but there are many other people that could easily also be killed,

I know that this is a very time intensive game and I think that voting for someone just because they don't have all the time in the world is a bad idea

There are many people who have said, "I'm pretty busy the next week, will you guys not kill me", and so far everyone has respected that

Overall, people having real lives is no reason for them to be lynched

 

Edit: Thanks to vineyarddawg, I would like to inform you that I have not yet voted, and that those are not my votes

Edit: Color, Sorry Clanky, if you would rescind your vote against me that would be great, as I don't want to be voted out either

Edited April 10, 2015 by The Honey Badger

[vineyarddawg]

You might want to change the color of your post, Honey Badger.  As it stands now, you're voting for Clanky, because his name is in red (and is the first name in red) in your post.  Unless that's what you were trying to do in a sneaky way...

[little wilson she/her]

Just saying, you aren't allowed to copy-paste PM messages (correct?). You have to paraphrase things because of individual writing styles and so forth that make it a lot harder to fake claiming that a message came from somebody.

 

This is correct. And normally we'd ask for it to be removed, but I'll let this one pass since it's been almost 12 hours, and the player in question is dead.

 

For future reference, copy/pasting any game PM (from other players or the GM) to the thread or other PMs with other players is against the rules. If players need to explain something that happened in a PM, paraphrase. Similarly, adding players to ongoing PMs is also against the rules (I'm not saying this happened, but I figured I'd mention it since it sort of fits). These rules can all be found in the General Rules. Thanks for being awesome, and please continue with your regularly scheduled killing.

[Alvron]

I voted for Winter because votes don't really mean much when there is only one on any given person. Also, quick succession and 2.5 hours aren't really the same thing. I don't think Scadrial has moles, but somebody is making an ashmount out of a molehill.

To be honest I didn't look at the time stamps of the posts.  I came on to post the headstones RP and noticed that there were three new posts, two of which were votes for Winter.  I tried to make my comment sound sarcastic but I guess I failed.

[dowanx]

I am going to vote for who is at the top of my suspect list.  Winter.  

 

There isn't a lot to base this suspicion on, but right now she is at the top and that is why I am voting for her.

[Clanky he/him]

Honey Badger.

I know that you already read vines post about this but as long as the names are in red they count as your vote even if you say they don't later in the post. Any red name is a vote no matter what! So if you don't change the colour of your post then it will count as a vote on me. I personally don't want to get lynched so I would like it if you went back and changed that. Thanks!

 

EDIT: Vote colour

Edited April 10, 2015 by Clanky

[Clanky he/him]

It seems odd that there are 3 votes on winter and so little reasoning. Dowanx you must have some sort of reason for winter being on top of your suspect list.

[Araris Valerian he/him]

Well, there hasn't been tons of activity to base our discussions off of. But Winter hasn't slept which is far more beneficial to the spiked than it is to the village, regardless of which team she is actually on. Confusion about votes lets the spiked slip emotimancy by us and hurts the margins of the lynch. In a normal game, having a margin of 3 or 4 would pretty much ensure the lynch to go through. But now, we probably need around 5, and the spiked could mess with the confidence level there by not sleeping and voting for the lynchee.

Edit: @Alvron I did miss that in your post, but my response was also supposed to be a bit sarcastic I guess we need to use more emoticons or something. Anyway, does anyone know a good parallel to molehills on Scadrial?

Edited April 10, 2015 by Araris Valerian

[ostrichofevil he/him]

Serious mode engaged.

 

Faliu crept around the houses of the fancy people to try to get a good look at the amazing hammer of awesomeness.  Someone had to have found it.  Was it him?  Or him?  Or her?  Someone was hiding a legendary war hammer underneath their cloak.  Probably with great difficulty.

 

The twinborn of the village were not fighting like the title of "war" suggested.  They were slinking around, talking in groups with hushed voices or strutting about with knives or coins in their hands.  Some war, huh?

 

Faliu quietly sneaked around a building, they had actual buildings in the fancy part of town,  and searched the crowd that had gathered.  All of them had been trying to find the hammer.  One of them did.  Many of them had only simple cloaks, but Faliu was way more prepared for the upcoming apocalypse.  He had his hat.  A priceless family heirloom he just found in a dumpster.

 

Now Faliu was just wondering where was that ostich?

Faliu.  Just because I refused to join your alliance, you voted for me.  Why should my refusal come as a surprise?  You have no reason to trust me, and I have no reason to trust you.

Edited April 10, 2015 by ostrichofevil

[Feligon he/him]

Unpoke ostrich.  

 

I just wanted to hear more from you.  If everyone is telling everyone else what they know, then the spiked won't be able to completely get rid of any information we have without killing everyone, which is very hard to do.

[spencer12347 he/him]

Changing my vote to vineyarddwag. 

[Lord Pifferdoo he/him]

Can we all take a moment to appreciate the tags?

 

(clapping) 

 

Bravo. 

[Clanky he/him]

Changing my vote to vineyarddwag. 

 

It is easier for the GMs to find votes if you go back to your old vote and colour it green.

[vineyarddawg]

Changing my vote to vineyarddwag. 

 

Spencer, the point was to get you not to vote for random people.  I'll even take the first step and take my vote off of you.  Spencer12347.

 

EDIT: Sorry if that seemed a little heavy-handed, but I'm strongly opposed to random voting.

Edited April 10, 2015 by vineyarddawg

[spencer12347 he/him]

I'm taking my vote off you  vineyarddwag. Trust me I learned my lesson

[The Honey Badger he/him]

It seems odd that there are 3 votes on winter and so little reasoning. Dowanx you must have some sort of reason for winter being on top of your suspect list.

 

I agree with Clanky, so Dowanx, the reason we didn't have any lynches the first couple days is because we had no evidence, what changed from then to now, we still have little evidence

[twelfthrootoftwo]

It would seem that I was attacked simply because my powers lined up with the metal of his spike.

This is the point I contest. Allomantic bronze gave Phatt the means to make an informed decision on who to spike. And based on what I've seen of his play in previous games, he probably would have done so. On the other hand, he wasn't going after you, at least in thread, and that PM comes off as rather apologetic...I'm not certain, but not satisfied, either. My vote stands for now.

 

But Winter hasn't slept which is far more beneficial to the spiked than it is to the village, regardless of which team she is actually on.

It's only confusing when we can't be sure if a vote will count or not, and her lack of a vote was one of the first things Winter said. By your logic, the ones who are suspicious are those who don't sleep and vote normally anyway. There are reasons for the Spiked to sleep (vote control beyond manipulation of unreliable village votes) and not sleep (use of roles), and similarly for the village. Overall, the Spiked might have more incentive not to sleep, but that's more because they have better means of using their roles.

[spencer12347 he/him]

I'm going for winter cloud. 

[luckat she/her]

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.

 

Throughout this process, I felt that Winter was acting odd, and Spencer seemed sincere. While I could be wrong, I think Winter is the one who was lying. (And also, it is a bit late to change the lynch.) I'll vote for her now. If she turns out to not be spiked, Spencer definitely is. If Winter is spiked and she's not the spiked seeker, there is still a spiked seeker out there, so any claims to Allomantic bronze should be looked at with suspicion.
 
Votes
Winter (5) Lev, Araris, Dow, Spencer, luckat
Dow (2): Clanky, Badger
Clanky (1): Bort
Wonko (1): Twei
Fel (1): ostrich
 

Axies confirmed to me that it was him who attempted to spike. He thought that he was attacking a spiked because allomantic bronze can't distinguish between spiked hemalurgy and kandra blessings.

Did he actually tell you that his spiking was based on bronze results, or did you infer it? Everything I've seen indicates he just attacked Wonko for his power.

[dowanx]

I am in Vegas at the start of a bachelor's party so I am a little drunk and can't write a huge post but here are the main reasons for voting for winter.

Her forum activity is suspicious. Activate on QF7 game but not so much here.

When she said for everyone to say if they slept or not.

And there is something else but I am kinda drunk at and don't have my notes available.

If she doesn't die from a lynch tonight I will later post a more fleshed out post.

[Aonar he/him]

The day is over! Stay tuned for the write-up. (It might be a little late; I'm still not feeling my best. If I don't think I can get it done in a reasonable amount of time, the results at least will be posted fairly soon.)

[Clanky he/him]

 

Did he actually tell you that his spiking was based on bronze results, or did you infer it? Everything I've seen indicates he just attacked Wonko for his power.

 

He told me that he had found a target that was not a villager to use it on. So that means that it was either kandra or spiked which cannot be differentiated through bronze. So he didn't actually say that but he did say earlier that he was looking for someone that wasn't good to use the spike on.

[Aonar he/him]

Night Four: A Glimmer of Hope

 

For the first time since the mayor had made his announcement, it seemed the villagers had been able to get a good night's sleep. They debated vigorously, bringing up several suspects.

 

Cylkan, the lamplighter was one of the first. After all, who else had the know-how to plunge the whole village into darkness?

 

Then came Cleo. A newcomer. No one was really fond of newcomers. They tended to bring change, and danger. It didn't help that she seemed to hear voices in her head, either.

 

Kwon was brought up not long after. A metalsmith; he had all the resources to create the spikes used in the darker metallic arts.

 

Dow, of course, was an object of discussion as well. A man, thought dead, but somehow still alive. It seemed impossible, but who really knew what hemalurgy could do?

 

Finally, there was Failu. Seemingly plagued by bad luck, but why couldn't it be merely a cover, for other, more nefarious activities?

 

All these and more were called out, and although many voted for their deaths, few votes stuck. Eventually, however, they kept coming back to Cleo. She was an outsider, one who spoke of unimaginable things, and seemed just sane enough to stay out of an asylum.

 

Whispered conversations spread throughout the caverns. Everyone knew who they had decided upon, but no one wanted to cast the first proverbial stone. After some time, a small group confronted the mayor.

 

"Um... Mayor Gund, isn't this sort of thing supposed to be your job?"

 

With much sighing and complaining, the mayor began to organize a hanging.

 

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Protesting her innocence the whole way, Cleo was lead up to the makeshift platform. Shoved roughly up the stairs, something glinted faintly near the collar of her shirt. A crude gold spike, apparently driven straight through her collarbone.

 

She suddenly drew herself up straighter, her whole demeanor changing. Adjusting her shirt to conceal the spike again, Cleo calmly walked up to the noose on her own.

 

"This won't be anywhere near enough, you know. While I may die, my brethren will not rest until this whole town has been destroyed."

 

Mayor Gund gingerly fitted the rope around her neck, afraid that he would be attacked at any moment. Cleo just kept right on speaking. "You'll never find them all. This village won't even be a hole in the ground by the time they're done. No one will ever know that you even exis-"

 

Everyone flinched at the crack that cut off Cleo's threats.

 

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Cleo was a Spiked with Allomantic gold and Feruchemical aluminum!

 

Votes:

Cleo (4) Levant, Hadrian, Dow, Walin, Ella
Kwon (1) Kirrah
Dow (0)  Honerius
Failu (1) Ostrich

Jain (0) Cylkan,

 

Night Four has begun! You have twenty-four hours from now to get your actions in.

Edited April 12, 2015 by Aonar Faileas

[dowanx]

Sweet! One down and a few more to go. I knew something was off with winter.