Quick Fix Game 13: Winter is Coming

[Mailliw73 he/him]

StrawMan. If his code says what I think it does, we don't want to kill him.

Anamaximder. You gonna show up today?

[Master Elodin]

He's confirmed the meaning of his code to me, and I no longer want to vote for Strawman . Holding my vote back for now.

[Curious Anamaximder he/him]

StrawMan. If his code says what I think it does, we don't want to kill him. Anamaximder. You gonna show up today?

Heck yes I am. Maill that was a bit fast.

[DeathClutch19 he/him]

StrawMan i guess i'll vote for no one, as I really have no other suspicions. 

[Mailliw73 he/him]

Heck yes I am. Maill that was a bit fast.

What was? I figured out what StrawMan is claiming and it's not worth it for us to to kill him and you tend not to show up till provoked. Thanks for coming.

Okay, I've rethought this now that I'm not tired and realized that StrawMan isn't as clear as I'd have liked. But I'm willing to move to PK

Edited February 25, 2016 by Mailliw73

[Curious Anamaximder he/him]

What was? I figured out what StrawMan is claiming and it's not worth it for us to to kill him and you tend not to show up till provoked. Thanks for coming.

Okay, I've rethought this now that I'm not tired and realized that StrawMan isn't as clear as I'd have liked. But I'm willing to move to PK

What has he done?

[Clanky he/him]

Deathclutch, I'm going to move my vote to Lopen. As I believe Sart posted earlier he has been active but really flying under the Radar, most of his posts have been about who is in line for a fatal wound from inactivity. Sure that's good stuff to know I guess but it doesn't really help much just to point it out. If a player is paying attention to the game to notice you put their name on a post they will probably realize they are in-line for inactivity death anyways. His only post that wasn't about that is just basically a rehashing, plus a few more thoughts, of what each role should do which is one of the things strawman was in trouble for. Plus he hasn't voted yet and the second cycle is almost done.

 

Also now that Strawman isn't really up for a lynch it would be nice if we could get an acolyte on healing him.

[Mailliw73 he/him]

What has he done?

We have two others already. Me, Orlok, and DC. 

 

1. You voted for a player on the first cycle, when he had barely posted.

2. You wanted a random vote. Why does a random vote help us?

3. You gave a plan to greenseers, assuming they'd die.

4. You placed a vote on Mark just cause it was random. 

5. Then you wanted to make sure he died.

6.  You asked PK to ensure the lynch on a random player. 

7. You said you asked PK to vote because he hadn't yet. But he had. On Lopen.

8. PK went along with it for no reason, which makes me sense collaboration.

9. You asked Mark to explain why you shouldn't kill him. What is he supposed to say?

10. You keep telling roles what to do.

 

 

Unless you're asking about PK, in which case, he ensured a lynch on Mark completely because StrawMan asked him to. There was no reason for it.

 

Being dead doesn't let me help you as much, as I prefer not to join them completely.

Edited February 25, 2016 by Mailliw73

[Paranoid King he/him]

Unless you're asking about PK, in which case, he ensured a lynch on Mark completely because StrawMan asked him to. There was no reason for it.

Actually, I ensured a lynch because that's what I usually do. Think about it. If I and Strawman were both eliminators, why would he draw a connection between the two of us by asking me to ensure the lynch in-thread rather than in the eliminator doc? I agree that one or the other of us might be an eliminator, but it just doesn't make sense for both of us to be eliminators.

[Mailliw73 he/him]

Actually, I ensured a lynch because that's what I usually do. Think about it. If I and Strawman were both eliminators, why would he draw a connection between the two of us by asking me to ensure the lynch in-thread rather than in the eliminator doc? I agree that one or the other of us might be an eliminator, but it just doesn't make sense for both of us to be eliminators.

I agree with you there. I don't think both of you are, but I do think killing one of you will inform us much more about the other players based on the lines they drew. I'm going back to StrawMan. PK

[LUNA]

Is Luna Arryn my character?? Because I would be SO down haha. She sounds S I C K

 

I might try RP'ing but I will put it in a colored text so y'all don't have to read it (if I end up doing it) 

 

((also, since there seems to be a good enough amount of votes, Imma just sit here and let it play out. If we get to a tie, I might vote. Maybe. Maybe not.))

[Amanuensis he/him]

Is Luna Arryn my character?? Because I would be SO down haha. She sounds S I C K

 

Yes, Mailliw told me you wanted in but didn't provide a name or anything, so I went with Arryn for a surname since their sigil includes a moon, and since you hadn't posted until the very end last cycle I had that part of the write up written where Oswin and you dealt fatal wounds to each other (obviously had to change it since you showed up ). Glad you don't mind :]

[LUNA]

Yes, Mailliw told me you wanted in but didn't provide a name or anything, so I went with Arryn for a surname since their sigil includes a moon, and since you hadn't posted until the very end last cycle I had that part of the write up written where Oswin and you dealt fatal wounds to each other (obviously had to change it since you showed up ). Glad you don't mind :]

 

DUDE IT IS SO SICK THANKS YASSSSSSS  

[Amanuensis he/him]

An hour remains. Get your orders in and cast your votes if you intend to.

[Straw he/him]

Ummm.... Could someone heal me before I die from greyscale?

Voting for Mailliw because he seems to be switching votes extremely fast.

Edited February 25, 2016 by ThatTinyStrawMan

[Mailliw73 he/him]

Ummm.... Could someone heal me before I die from greyscale?

Voting for Mailliw because he seems to be switching votes extremely fast.

I switched back to you, since I think your death gives us the most information. And, you know, I did fulfill your requirements. I got three others and 10 reasons. Time for you to hold up your end of the deal.

[Straw he/him]

Three OTHERS not counting you.

[Amanuensis he/him]

Chapter Two is now closed! Chapter Three will be posted and PMs sent out shortly, the write up to be edited in soon after.

[Mailliw73 he/him]

Three OTHERS not counting you.

Jerle did.

 

And If anyone would like to save me in the last minute, that'd be good for every villager here.

[Straw he/him]

He's confirmed the meaning of his code to me, and I no longer want to vote for Strawman . Holding my vote back for now.

Creating a super hard code!

Edited February 25, 2016 by ThatTinyStrawMan

[Amanuensis he/him]

Chapter 3 will end on Friday, February 26th at 5PM EST

 

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Chapter Three: Fire and Blood

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Maester Lyam looked away from Reek’s corpse with mild disgust, his nose pinched with a clothespin to keep him from choking on the stench and a pair of sterilized gloves taut against his hands as he excavated the hole where his heart should be.

As the old wolf poked and prodded at the wound, a young boy - no older than thirteen -  entered from an open door across the room. “Seven hells, what’s that smell?” he mumbled through the fold of his elbow. The Maester laughed a nasally laugh.

“Glad to have you back so soon, Elrit. I trust you learned something of use?” the boy nodded. “Good. To answer your question, that smell is Reek. Turns out death only doubled the potency of his namesake. Quickly, fetch a clothespin for your nose and write something down for me.” Saying no more to keep himself from inhaling more of the stench, the boy complied.

“Lord Bolton,” Maester Lyam began. “Maxicos the Cutter and Gaera Skor’Gaera’s corpses bore no unusual aspects, however, Reek’s wound is unlike anything I have ever seen. It seems that whatever pierced him corrupted the surrounding flesh, causing it to blacken and decay at an alarming rate. It almost reminds me of those ancient horror stories of Asshai, of the Dark Death and the monstrous abominations born from it.

“There’s something else. Honestly I’m amazed we never knew this before. Reek was a Stoneman - or, at least, had a Stonehand. Somehow, though the disease never claimed any flesh beyond his forearm, the infection still thrived. A curious development, and concerning to say the least.”

Maester Lyam paused, then glanced at his steward. "Elrit, what did you learn from visiting the victims chambers?"

“Well, Maester, Maxicos seemed to be planning to join the Night’s Watch,” he said, frowning. “A couple of the Rangers sent on missions with him to the north had taken a liking to him and was teaching him their ways. His chamber was filled with scribblings of our oaths, as if he were trying to memorize them. He even owned a pair of blacks, though not handmedowns. They were unworn and well cared for.”

“Interesting... and as for Gaera?”

“For the most part his room was empty; clean. I did find a silken, golden cloak folded neatly and sealed within a wooden box stamped with the insignia of capital city’s watch, however. That is all.”

“And Reek?”

“Well his stench still lingered, of course, but aside from that his was the most informative. Within his braizer I found a piece of parchment, singed around the edges but still readable. On it were orders for him to infect prominent members of the Night’s Watch with Greyscale, up to and including the Lord Commander, Maester. He also owned more gold than any Sworn Brother should have reason to possess.”

“I see. Write this all down for Lord Bolton and deliver it to him directly, along with an apology for my remaining behind. Studying these corpses has taken up much of my time, and there are many important matters left for me to attend to.”

“As you wish it,” Elrit said with a bow, finishing his letter to the Lord Commander and departing soon after, door slammed shut in a rush behind him.



“So,” Lord Bolton began, measuring the two men standing before him “which one of you two will it be?”

Solemn, Maddox looked and pointed and Stick. Behind him a pair of men - one bearing the sigil of House Locke over his heart, the other a handsome, golden-haired Lannister - stood with arms crossed, showing their support.

Smiling, Stick looked at Maddox and bellowed “I am a Stick!” A trio of men nodded approvingly behind him. Among them was Oswin Snow, whom seemed to look as good as new, Baldo Buggins, a short Free Man with hairy, bare feet, and Maximum Starkness, a boy renowned for his silence.

Numbers aside, it wouldn’t have been a difficult decision to make. Cursed Lannisters, he thought fiercely. “Maddox, you helped Maxicos to the pyre yesterday, didn’t you?” the Sworn Brother nodded. “Good. Then you already know where to go. Unless you plan on resisting your Lord Commander?”

For a moment Lord Bolton thought the man would rebel but, much to his surprise, Maddox simply held his head high and turned to his companions. “Locke, Lannister, mind helping me with my bonds?”

“You sure, Magguns?” Locke answered. Lannister just eyed the Sworn Brother curiously.

“I am. A little fire won’t be the death of me. I swear it on the gods, old and new, I will survive this.”

Skeptical, the two men agreed and followed the man to the executioner's chair; a great, oak throne, logs soaked in some alchemical concoction that made it slick and sticky at the same time. Once seated, the Locke and Lannister tied ropes around the condemned man's wrists, ankles, torso and brow and secured them all with a tight knot to keep him from thrashing.

“I hope you won’t hate me for this, Maddox,” Lord Bolton spoke regretfully as he lit his torch on a nearby brazier and tossed it into the pile of dry brush beneath the pyre. In a bloom of heat, bright blue flames manifested across the surface of the oaken throne, consuming the Sworn Brother’s body and obscuring his face as he loosed a primal, throaty scream. All the while the Lord Commander’s gaze never left the dark, blazing shadow within the azure inferno.

Finally, when the screaming stopped, Lord Bolton ordered the stable boy Stick to put the pyre out, the wooden seat a smoldering mess but the fire resistant ropes - and surprisingly, Maddox’s corpse - mostly in tact. Though his blacks had all turned to ash, his skin was only raw and furiously red, as if the man had just been lying out in the sun naked for several hours too long.

It was at that moment that his eyes snapped open and his chest heaved, lungs desperately flexing for air. “I told you," he paused to take a long, deep, euphoric breath, "that I'd survive."
 

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Dissatisfied with Maddox’s survival, Stick retreated to the stables to tend to his chores. Caring for the horses of the Night’s Watch was his one, true passion, though he was fond of the occasional bonfire, especially the ones with men flailing and wailing inside them.

Men were cruel, but horses… they were kind. Men hurt Stick, sometimes with words, other times stones or blunted steel, while the horses would listen to his woes and even lick his tears away when he cried! Oh how he hated men and loved horses. Sometimes he wished he were a horse himself, though not when he remembered their sole purpose in life was to serve and be ridden by men.

“I am a stick,” he told the young gelding, Chorus, as he pet its mane. In his head he said “One day we will be free of these monsters.” Chorus neighed softly as if he could somehow understand. Smiling, Stick reached into his satchel and retrieved a sugar cube for the gelding, then kissed it on the forehead before wandering off to finish the rest of his work.

Hours passed as he undressed and cleaned the horses that had been taken out by Rangers on a mission earlier that day, filled the horse’s troughs with dinner, let them all loose into the fenced yard to frolic in the fresh air, and mucked out their beds of filth. By the time the sun had set and the stars flickered into existence, he lead them all back into their pens and took residence in the bed of hay that was his own.

Shivering, he buried himself deeper within his blanket of grain, remembering the screams that the wildling Maxicos and Sworn Brother Maddox made as they seized inside the flames. Like counting sheep, recalling the sweet tune of their suffering lulled the stable boy swiftly into sleep.

Stick dreamed that he was a horse. Not just any horse, mind you, but the King of Horses, with an army of stallions and destriers and silvers at his back. Together they stampeded all over Westeros - felling every city where men ruled in their wake - before galloping across the sea to conquer the great, ball of fire that slept beyond the horizon. As they approached the sun, Stink and his horses began to sweat until eventually they reached the golden sphere, drank from its heat like a watering hole, and became the very flames themselves.

It didn’t take long for the Night’s Watch to notice their stables burning and sound the alarm, though when the great blaze was finally extinguished it was far too late to salvage anything from within.
 

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Maxicos the Cutter was a Ranger!
Gaera Skor'Gaera was a Gold Cloak!
Reek was a Stoneman!
Maddox Magguns was burned on a pyre, but survived!
Stick was killed by the Turncloaks!
 

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[3] ThatTinyStrawMan: Mailliw73, OrlokTsubodai, DeathClutch93
[4] Mailliw73: Sart, Paranoid King, Curious Anamaximder, ThatTinyStrawMan
[1] TheMightyLopen: Clanky
 

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Chapter Three has begun! GM PMs should arrive very shortly. Please do not send any more messages in your PMs from last cycle (unless you want to renew it instead of contacting another player, in which case inform me in our GM PM first).

Edited November 5, 2016 by Alvron

[Mailliw73 he/him]

Acolytes, I ask you now, please do not let me die yet. Give me two more cycles. That's all I want and then, if everyone still wants, I will help you lynch me. 

 

And since Sart didn't die, an Acolyte must've taken pity on him and healed him. I'm a bit wary of that being an eliminator who didn't want a teammate dead so easily. But it's also possible that a village Acolyte just didn't want him to die so early for missing one day.

Edited February 25, 2016 by Mailliw73

[Paranoid King he/him]

Ooh, Stink was an eliminator.

 

On that note, based on Stink being a stoneman, I find it suspicious that Mailliw used that to try and condemn strawman.

 

However, given that Mailliw will likely die next cycle anyways, due to being giant-blooded, I'm going to vote on Lopen. He seems to have also been condemning strawman for little reason. Him, Sart, and Mailliw are my top 3 2 suspicions right now.

Edited February 25, 2016 by Paranoid King

[TheMightyLopen he/him]

So Stink(Reek) was killed by a Shadowbinder, and since Stink was a Stoneman, I'd say that all but clears whoever the Shadowbinder is. Nice work.

 

Clanky, sorry for not doing much last Cycle. I had a pretty busy day yesterday, and I've just caught a cold, so I've been in bed for the last half of last Cycle. I don't really have a great reason for not voting though. My top 2 suspicions were Strawman and Jerle, but they're both new players, and Strawman had 4 votes on him, so I didn't end up voting at all.

 

At this point, my top 2 suspicions are Jerle(for defending Strawman a little, and then voting on him and then removing that vote with not a lot of reasoning) and Kipper(gut). Other than the Shadowbinder(who I don't know who is), I don't think I trust anyone at all. I'll put my vote on Jerle for the reasons I mentioned above. I still don't understand your defense/vote/retracted vote stuff on Strawman. 

 

Edit: What PK? When did I condemn Strawman?

Edited February 25, 2016 by TheMightyLopen

[Mailliw73 he/him]

Ooh, Stink was an eliminator.

On that note, based on Stink being a stoneman, I find it suspicious that Mailliw used that to try and condemn strawman.

However, given that Mailliw will likely die next cycle anyways, due to being giant-blooded, I'm going to vote on Lopen. He seems to have also been condemning strawman for little reason. Him, Sart, and Mailliw are my top 3 suspicions right now.

Huh? That wasn't my basis for condemning StrawMan. That was just part of the reason I decided to go after him right then; he was already under the possibility of dying, and so, unless an Acolyte wanted to save him, he would be dying anyways. This way, I was hoping he could help us learn more. Then the evil team decided that they didn't want to wait for their greyscale to kick in and decided to waste a kill on him instead.

I currently suspect Sart the most. He didn't show up C1, but then came back and immediately started to suspect me. After he voted, he kept trying to sway others onto me.

Edited February 26, 2016 by Mailliw73