Long Game 14: To Shatter a Shard

[Mailliw73 he/him]

Don't you guys think there might be a reason I haven't been lynched by Cultivation, Hoid, and Co.?

[Paranoid King he/him]

Um, yeah. Cultivation, Hoid, and Co. Haven't formed a coalition. People seem really eager to prevent that sort of thing from happening again.

[dowanx]

So little voting going on ;/  

 

Alvom 

[little wilson she/her]

I will be abstaining from voting because I'm not in a position to cast a proper vote right now. With the vote as close as it is, I think it's important for votes to have a purpose and reasons, and I can barely think, let alone analyze and type up an in-depth post right now. I've got a tension headache that's been bothering me for the last 5 hours. I've never had a tension headache before and I can honestly say I never want one again. I'm inclined to sleep this thing off, even though it's not even 9 PM yet, so....yeah. That's what I'm about to do. I'll have more to say in the morning. Good luck and I apologize.

[Mailliw73 he/him]

You want to lynch me, fine. I'll expect a lot more discussion out of you afterwards. I'm much more convinced of Vom's guilt than anyone else's, though it isn't solid by a long shot. My proposition: Lynch Vom this cycle and we can discuss the results and if you aren't pleased, you can lynch me.

[Guest]

Maill, you don't have to give us permission to lynch you.

This is a public service announcement. Never let someone peer pressure you into eating half of a Carolina Reaper pepper (look it up) plain. Never. Even if it's to prove that you're a "manly man." DON'T DO IT!!!! I wish I could describe the agony to you. You know that feeling where you put something way too hot (stove hot, not spicy hot) into your mouth, and you play hot potato with your teeth and your gums to keep it from settling in one place too long? Then you swallow it finally and it burns all the way down? Your whole body tenses up? Yeah, that's the Carolina Reaper, except that feeling is all over your mouth and throat for eight plus minutes. Water only spreads the oil around. Your extremities start to feel like they are vibrating. Your nose runs. Uncontrollable hiccups. ALL IS FIR--I mean, I am a Stick! Just...don't do it.

[Mailliw73 he/him]

I'm actually proposing a counter-proposition, if you read the entire post.

[Guest]

Well, I realize that, but the assumption of your post is that we gain some information about you from the lynch of Alvom that will affect whether or not we decide to lynch you.

Every single statement in that post could have been said by an Eliminator. Or by a villager. That's the problem with analyzing ppsts like that. With many different types of statements, one can analyze what the motivation behind the statements is. Unfortunately, when it pertains to someone's death (especially one's own death), certain statements can be made that have the exact same motivation and intended reading, regardless of alignment.

So it would be normal for a villager to say something like what you said. Perfectly normal. People say stuff like that all the time. Eliminators can say the same things, because it is perfectly safe. A natural reaction to being on the chopping block. One simply cannot read anything out of your post, which is why I made the sarcastic comment I did.

[Mailliw73 he/him]

Any statement can be made by anyone. I must not be understanding your point, because I can, and I have(jokingly), claim to be Odium or I could claim Endowment. So could any OC or other villager. Analyzing posts to see if something could've been said by an Eliminator doesn't make sense to me. Sorry if I totally misunderstood your post, but I guess that's just not how I play these games.

[Amanuensis he/him]

Well, I won't try to argue against my death, because of both how poor the logic is against me and how it may benefit the greater good. I am a Lifeless Operator but will not attempt to save myself with it. I figure it'll be better off protecting someone far more important than me. I hope my death is not in vain and some good can come of it. Good luck, fellow villagers 

Edited September 9, 2015 by Alvom Halbin

[Mailliw73 he/him]

Lifeless don't protect from the lynch anyways, Vom... 

 

Edit: I have become more and more doubtful of this lynch by now, but at this point it's too late and I'm the only other candidate, so I have to leave my vote as is. Sorry.

Edited September 9, 2015 by Mailliw73

[Amanuensis he/him]

Is that confirmed, Joe?

 

EDIT FOR QUOTE FROM RULES:

 

LIFELESS OPERATOR: You have one lifeless. You can send this lifeless to protect anyone you want, at any time you want. It’s default state is protecting you. If your target is attacked, the lifeless dies instead.

Edited September 9, 2015 by Alvom Halbin

[Mailliw73 he/him]

That's what I think I remember hearing from somewhere, but I could be misremembering.

 

Edit: And that's time.

Edited September 9, 2015 by Mailliw73

[Jo and the Bush all/any]

The Turn is over.

[Jo and the Bush all/any]

Lifeless can protect from Daytime kills, but not lynches. (So really they just protect against poison. (Somehow))

[Jo and the Bush all/any]

Night Three: Neither Strife Nor Hatred Control You.

 

Alvom Halbin unlocked the door leading down to the basement, and let it’s weight swing it open. The sunlight illuminated the room, revealing the grey corpse standing at attention, waiting as always, for it’s orders.

 

It was time to give it some. He cleared his throat and spoke as clearly as possible. “Neither Strife Nor Hatred Control you.” The command given, the Lifeless broke its pose and approached the doorway, stopping before him.

 

“Obey no other order save the two I shall tell you now; Slay the one who attempts to give you a new command. And Defend the one I say, no matter the cost. Neither Strife Nor Hatred Control you.” He leaned in and whispered a name in its ear. It unsheathed its sword and prowled out of the room. He watched it leave the house, eventually disappearing down the street. Hopefully it would do more than he had been able to.

 

That done, he set about writing down everything he knew, leaving them where the few he trusted would find them. He knew he didn’t have much time before the Seventeenth Shard came for him. Despite all he had done, they didn’t believe him. Hopefully his death would let them see reason.

 

His messages finished and stashed, he sat down and waited. He didn’t have to wait long.

 

The door shattered under the foot of the Farmer. Maw was brandishing a burned Stick at him as he entered. “Alvom Halbin! I hereby charge you with Murder, Sabotage, conspiracy and Littering! The only sentence is death! to be carried out immediately!”

 

Alvom felt one of his eyebrows raise. “Litterling?”

 

“Well sure! Look at all these chunks of wood you left lying around! Who’s gonna pick them up huh?”

 

Alvom decided not to dignify that with a response.

 

“Well then, what do you say to that?” The farmer leaned it, poking him in the chest with the burned Stick.

 

“I say, Neither Strife Nor Hatred Control You. Defend me.”

 

Maw frowned at him in puzzlement, then yelped as a gray hand grabbed him by the shoulder and roughly tossed him aside. Alvom gazed upward at the Lifeless, then nodded and closed his eyes.

 

SOmething hit his neck, and Death came quickly.

 

Votes:

Clanky(1): Quiver

Mailliw(2): IrulelikeSTINK, Antillar Maximus

Alvom(3): Mailliw73, Kipper, Dowanx

Alvom was a Lifeless Operator!

[Mailliw73 he/him]

I'm sorry, Vom. There were a few of us convinced that you were evil.

[STINK he/him]

So that looks to be the second time now Maill has led a vote on lynching an inno, and his reason last time was to stop communications and now he has killed a lifeless operator, because a few people thought that Alvom was evil, implying that more than those who voted for Alvom thought he was evil, which is really bad as they didn't vote for him. 

 

Tomorrow, I know that my vote will go straight to Maill, and the day after that, Kipper.

[Quiver he/him]

Unrelated to anything.

I do find it kind of funny the votes ended up 1-2-3 sequence.

[STINK he/him]

Why did you vote for Clanky?

[Guest]

Let me clarify something here. I did not really think that Alvom was evil. I think that Paranoid King is evil, for one. When I placed my vote on him, Wilson basically said, "lynch Alvom instead." Like a good little boy, I followed orders. The reason I didn't respond to Alvom is because I had no response for his arguments.

I agree, though, that Mailliw is an excellent target for the morrow.

[STINK he/him]

Why is PK evil?

[Guest]

I explained my reasons in Day Two, and I'd rather not rehash them. Essentially, the way he was talking in a PM.

[Quiver he/him]

Why did you vote for Clanky?

I need to reread his messages -all this thread merging has me lost- but...

I dunno. Something about his posts just felt...off to me.

[STINK he/him]

So it seems we are now waiting for Maill to mount a defence for why he shouldn't be lynched, would anyone else like to raise issues before they could die?