Long Game 19: Twinborn City

[Wonko the Sane he/him]

@GMs: 

 

 

Is this an actual gameplay change or an April Fools day joke?

 

Ah. I didn't think of that until you mentioned it. There's, um, there's some whitetext at the end there. Operation Windwhisper continues as normal, people!

Edited April 1, 2016 by Wonko the Sane

[phattemer]

I have no idea what you mean. Some mod must have added that.

Greetings from Wilson, y'all!

Edited April 1, 2016 by phattemer

[Master Elodin]

I have no idea what you mean. Some mod must have added that.

Greetings from Wilson, y'all!

Hi Wilson!

[Arraenae]

Verre

Kae's been reading up about feruchemical tin. He's trying to prove that Kwon's plan is full of loopholes.

Thing is, what the library resources say don't match up with his memory. They say that feruchemical tin is more powerful than what Kae remembers.

Kae has a very good memory. Something is wrong, almost like the time before the Catecendre that Ruin changed the words of the prophecy.

Something -- gut intuition, maybe -- tells me that this is due to supernatural intervention. The textbooks that Kae's using were written by a P. Hatt. That name strikes me as being off...

[Elbereth she/her]

You know, if you vote for the GMs, it reflects back on to yourself...

[phattemer]

And counts as 10 votes...

[Arraenae]

Verre

 

Verre walked back to her notebook having quenched her thirst, if not her hunger. She picked up her pen, dipped it in ink, and scribbled on the page to test if it was working. Then she reread what she'd wrote before going to get a drink.

 

Kae has a very good memory. Something is wrong, almost like the time before the Catecendre that the prophecy was altered, and it isn't Kae's memory.

 

Something -- gut intuition, maybe -- tells me that this is due to bad writing. The textbooks that Kae's using were written by a P. Hatt. Probably just a sloppy researcher...

 

Verre frowned. She didn't remember drawing that conclusion. She set the pen against the page and scratched out the last paragraph. Then she began writing as fast as she could.

 

For some reason, I keep on thinking about how Ruin was able to alter text. Ruin's gone now, right? The Holy First Witness replaced it as Harmony, and the Lord of the Mists rebuilt the world. So why do I keep on thinking about that moment? Harmony doesn't go around changing what people write in their journals. That's too petty.

 

Verre stopped to rest her hand for a moment and looked down at the journal. Hadn't she crossed that paragraph out? She swore she remembered scratching it out. What in the name of the Survivor was going on?

 

Either I'm going crazy, she wrote, or the text is changing as I write.

 

The words blurred for a moment, then cleared up. Don't worry, the words said, you're not crazy.

 

Rust and Ruin, what was happening?

 

Are you Harmony? Verre wrote.

 

Again, the words blurred and changed. LOL, they said. Nah, just some bored GMs. You know, it's not a good idea to be asking this right now. We're kind of breaking the rules by talking to you. 

 

What was this... or these...GMs saying? What is a GM? Verre asked.

 

The words morphed even before Verre finished writing her question. All you need to know is that this is what happens when 3 troll GMs walk into a doc.

 

Doc? Verre wrote. Her head swam with all these unknown phrases. Do you mean doctor? What are trolls? You still haven't explained what a GM is.

 

Forget it, the words said. We probably should wipe this conversation from your mind. Can't have a character become self-aware, that leads to bad things.

 

Character? Verre scrawled Wait, what does that mean? I'm a character?

 

Bye Verre. Nice talking to you, the text said. Don't look up, that'll make it more painful.

 

Verre immediately looked up and saw... a giant needle falling from the sky? It fell point first, defying all rules of gravity that Verre knew. She shrieked and covered her head.

 

The needle stabbed into Verre and she blacked out.

 

---

 

Verre woke up next to her notebook and pen. She felt like she was... missing something. There was a hole in her, maybe not her physical body but in some essential part of her, the part that made her Verre. She... she'd been doing something, right? Verre couldn't remember.

 

It must be spiritual damage. Verre only remembered experiencing that once, but she remembered how she had fixed it. She fumbled with the gold bracelet on her wrist and pinched part of it off with her fingernails. Then, she popped it into her mouth and burned it.

 

A familiar warm sensation ran through her. Verre could feel that hole in herself repairing, patching itself up until it was good as new. She sighed happily. Gold compounding was so useful, she didn't know how Kae managed without it.

 

Verre must have been writing before she'd fallen asleep. She read over what she'd written, just to get her thoughts back on track.

 

Something -- gut intuition, maybe -- tells me that this is due to bad writing. The textbooks that Kae's using were written by a P. Hatt. Probably just a sloppy researcher...

 

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None of this is canon. Happy April Fools (again)!

Edited April 2, 2016 by Definitely Not Rae

[phattemer]

That is probably the most accurate RP I've ever seen.

[TheMightyLopen he/him]

Oh yeah, before I forget. Spoke with the GM's, and lynching is regular Long Game style. 2 votes needed to lynch someone, and ties result in no death. On that subject, and because I'm too tired to do anything right now and so will try to pass this onto someone else, anyone want to put up a vote count? 

[Burnt Spaghetti she/her]

Vote count:

Wonko (2): Mark, Rae

Elodin (1): Lopen

Burnt (1): Rae

Aman (1): Araris

Araris (1): Aman

 

--

 

Um, she who is not Rae, you actually never withdrew your vote one me.... fix? Please? Danke?

Edited April 2, 2016 by Burnt Spaghetti

[TheSilverDragon he/him]

Do we know where anyone else us right now?

[phattemer]

There is no way to know for sure who is in your area unless you use a power that tells you.

 

A reminder that you can have one contingency for actions that require a target to be in your area, e.g.

Kipper's Actions:

1. Coinshot Phatt. If he's not there, coinshot Elbereth.

2. Sleep

3. Search

If I was protected in the above example, Kipper would not coinshot Elbereth.

You also can do "target random".

[Araris Valerian he/him]

OK guys, there are less than 10 hours left in the cycle, and only 5 votes have been placed. I would really prefer that everyone place a vote. I personally want a Day 1 lynch, but we could also just spread the votes around. The thing is, the spiked can take 50% extra actions by not voting, while the village can't do that, because we have to be able to use the lynch to kill people. So the only way we can take that advantage from the spiked is to get everyone, or nearly everyone, to place a vote each cycle to prove that they are actually sleeping and not searching tons or whatever. Ada, thanks for placing a vote, Wonko, if you don't vote then I will vote against you before the end of the cycle. SilverDragon, please place a vote.

Edited April 2, 2016 by Araris Valerian

[Wonko the Sane he/him]

Araris, I haven't slept. But if you want, you can use this vote on Rae to confirm that.

Edited April 2, 2016 by Wonko the Sane

[Arraenae]

Vote count:

Wonko (2): Mark, Rae

Elodin (1): Lopen

Burnt (1): Rae

Aman (1): Araris

Araris (1): Aman

 

--

 

Um, she who is not Rae, you actually never withdrew your vote one me.... fix? Please? Danke?

Whoops. Will do.

[TheSilverDragon he/him]

OK guys, there are less than 10 hours left in the cycle, and only 5 votes have been placed. I would really prefer that everyone place a vote. I personally want a Day 1 lynch, but we could also just spread the votes around. The thing is, the spiked can take 50% extra actions by not voting, while the village can't do that, because we have to be able to use the lynch to kill people. So the only way we can take that advantage from the spiked is to get everyone, or nearly everyone, to place a vote each cycle to prove that they are actually sleeping and not searching tons or whatever. Ada, thanks for placing a vote, Wonko, if you don't vote then I will vote against you before the end of the cycle. SilverDragon, please place a vote.

It won't count since I didn't sleep, but sure I'll place a vote, Araris.

[Araris Valerian he/him]

Ok, I guess I'll go for Danosaur next. Please place votes guys, since it is important to know who slept and who didn't (although, if you didn't sleep, don't mention that in the thread until the next cycle, because then at least your vote seems like it is accomplishing something). That is another piece of information we can use to find out the eliminators.

[TheSilverDragon he/him]

I will do that... next cycle when I don't sleep. 

[Master Elodin]

I will vote for Aman

Edited April 2, 2016 by Master Elodin

[Arraenae]

Verre

 

Arsel insists that we lynch someone, or call for someone to be lynched. I don't see how this makes the murderers easier to find -- don't they want to kill people? If we kill people to find the murderers and the murderers kill people for whatever reason, won't we have nobody left?

 

Kwon doesn't seem to care that I'm calling for his death. He's calling for my death, of course, but he's so sleepy that nobody's taking him seriously. I don't actually want him dead, of course, but I think that Operation Windwhisper isn't that good of a plan.

[Kynedath]

Alright, see if it works this time.

Mark where have you been buddy? I hardly see you anymore.

Note. This is because people say to vote, not actually for suspicion reasons.

Edited April 2, 2016 by Kynedath

[TheMightyLopen he/him]

Rae, why exactly don't you think the Windwhisper plan is good? I'm not sure that I remember you explaining that. I don't really see any big flaws in it, except for the fact that it limits communication(but I suggested a plan to help with that, which no one seems to want to comment on. Hmph.).

 

Vote tally: Will be edited in in about 2 minutes. Here it is.

 

Wonko(2): Mark, Rae

Araris(2): Aman, SD

Elodin(1): Lopen

Aman(1): Elodin

Danosaur(1): Araris

Mark(1): Kynedath

 

Edit: Okay, well it was actually around 10 minutes.

Edited April 2, 2016 by TheMightyLopen

[Arraenae]

Problems with Operation Windwhisper:

 

     -Eliminators can create PMs with themselves and other people and say that they "aren't available" for scanning

     -Eliminators who don't talk much in docs can abstain from the doc and offer themselves up for scanning

     -Self-identification of being scanned can lead to eliminators fakeclaiming that they were scanned, and if asked for name of windwhisper they can say that scanner doesn't want to be known

[TheMightyLopen he/him]

Problems with Operation Windwhisper:

 

     -Eliminators can create PMs with themselves and other people and say that they "aren't available" for scanning

     -Eliminators who don't talk much in docs can abstain from the doc and offer themselves up for scanning

     -Self-identification of being scanned can lead to eliminators fakeclaiming that they were scanned, and if asked for name of windwhisper they can say that scanner doesn't want to be known

 

Thanks. Here's why I still think it's a good plan.

 

1. If any player creates a PM with someone at this point, with all the talk about not making PM's, it's likely they're Spiked. Even if an eliminator did do this, we can still clear villagers, which helps narrow down who actually IS Spiked.

2. Yeah, I still think they'd have said something at one point or another. Otherwise they wouldn't be talking at all, which is a benefit in and of itself I think.

3. It should only be the first player to be scanned that will self-identify themselves in the thread. After that, the scanner can just contact whoever they scan, and the scanned group will know who's been scanned and who hasn't been.

 

I think the 2nd point is the only real problem, since it could "clear" someone who is Spiked. But I don't think it's a particularly likely scenario. Like I said earlier, with 17 players, and Kandra, I think 3 Spiked would be how much we're up against, and with 1 already dead, that would only leave 2. If they don't talk, they won't be able to get anything done.

[Wonko the Sane he/him]

Problems with Operation Windwhisper:

 

     -Eliminators can create PMs with themselves and other people and say that they "aren't available" for scanning

     -Eliminators who don't talk much in docs can abstain from the doc and offer themselves up for scanning

     -Self-identification of being scanned can lead to eliminators fakeclaiming that they were scanned, and if asked for name of windwhisper they can say that scanner doesn't want to be known

 

Responses:

• Anyone starting a PM at this point is immediately suspect. I doubt they would risk it.
• It doesn't show the last five words they said, it shows that last five that were said in any PM or doc they have access to. Just being an Eliminator is enough to cause you to fail the scan.
• The Windwhisper need only tell each of their targets the names of everyone who's been scanned.

EDIT: Ninja'd. Although Lopen was mistaken about point 2.

Edited April 2, 2016 by Wonko the Sane