Long Game 2: The Devil's Den

[Kurkistan he/him]

Kukri, hearing the words of his Lord Mistborn, began sharpening his knives and looking in Eddy's direction.

 

"PRAISE the MISTBORN!"

[Herowannabe he/him]

"My vote shall be cast for Master Eddy, as well."

[Shivertongue he/him]

Shiv cocked the eyebrow above his patch, then gestured his head toward Eddy. "Hasing the has of the doubting, notting as claim the nodding. Hasing the has of the claiming as giving to why?"

 

"I'm not convinced, not without evidence of some kind. Do you have a reason you'd like to share with the class?"

[Kurkistan he/him]

"How dare you question the Mistborn! PRAISE the Mistborn!"

[Shivertongue he/him]

Snorting, Shiv rolls his eye as he idly balances a knife on the tip of his finger. Flipping it up into the air, he snatches it by the hilt, bringing it to the patch. Slipping the tip beneath, he flips it upward, revealing the empty hole and jagged scar running through it. "Wanting the knowing for having the not?" he asked, smirking, although the expression held no trace of humor. "Wasing to friend with trusting and trading. Wasing give half to the brighting, hasing took half to the breathing."

 

"You know how I lost this?"

 

"It was a trade with an old trusted friend. He took half my sight, I took half his windpipe."

 

The knife flew through the air, pinning the cloth the bartender was using to try and clean the killer's latest message off the wall. "Sliding the sound to the sharp?" Shiv asked, sweeping his eye across the room. "Always the notting of suspecting of this. Giving right to the turning to the taking from left. Notting the hasing of right without road to the ride, wasing the toll of want."

 

"Get the point?"

 

"I don't trust blindly. Trust is a two-way street. I don't give it without someone earning it."

 

He looked down into his drink for a moment, then pushed it aside. Lifting his eye, he scanned it across the room again until he saw the supposed-Mistborn - he really had to learn these people's names at some point - and locked on him. "Wasing the want of direct? Always the walking with working the well?" He snorted, shaking his head. "Hasing the second, wanting the give of the why."

 

"You want us to follow your lead? 'Cause you have such a great track record so far?"

 

"Again, give me a reason."

[Robot Aztec]

I still think theat si it herwybne whosi to blame it makes sense and that is why i vote for hima nd i will sit in corner while you kjill someon else and drink my nwe cocktails

[Quiver he/him]

Roban, this is the second time you've voted for hero. I don't necessarily disagree, but I would be curious to know if you have some specific reason for thinking it's him over any other of the significant seven.

[bartbug he/him]

As my master demands, I obey. I live to serve my lord Mistborn.

Barty feels a strange compulsion fall upon him. Unwillingly, he draws a knife from its sheathe and begins to sharpen it. Barty is horrified.

 

Barty has never held a knife in his life.

 

"But Beetle has," he whispers, a sneer belonging to another crawling across his face. Inside of himself, Barty breaks down helplessly, weeping.

Eddy.

[Alvron]

Once again our beloved Mistborn points his finger saying someone needs to die and once again he fails to give a reason why.  Until he gives a valid reason I cannot, in good conscience vote along with him.  Since a deadlock is out of the question, I shall hold my vote until I hear Pengs reason for ordering Eddy's death, even if its by PM.

[PorridgeBrick he/him]

I also request clarification from Peng. If he is truly sure, with good evidence behind him, then I'll join him. Otherwise, I think I'll probably vote for someone else from Wilson's list.

[Aonar he/him]

Aonar saw the crowd of people gathered around the inn and sighed. 

 

Another crewmember dead.

 

He walked into the bar, listening to the crowd's whispers. 

 

Another misting dead. And a Seeker on top of that. 

 

Things just seemed to be going from bad to worse; crewmembers were dying left and right, and it looked like another was going to be dead by the day's end. From the conversations around the bar, it sounded like people were beginning to suspect that the Inquisitor had some way of knowing everything that they said.

 

Just one more thing to worry about.

 

The crewmembers were beginning to throw around accusations like steel-burners threw coins; some people were even suspecting him for some reason. Aonar was pretty sure he hadn't been overly suspicious, but then again, other people could be confusing, and a lot of the time they came to strange conclusions. He'd take breaking into a good and well guarded keep or picking a locked door over trying to understand someone's motivations any day.

 

Sitting down beside a dejected looking Herwynbe, Aonar tried to figure out how he was supposed to get out of this mess alive.

 

 

If Uber-Tin is a real thing then that's probably the scariest power I can think of; the Inquisitor being able to read even one person's PM's would be game changing. Now I'd like to know who most strongly advocated for people to send Peng their roles. If there is an Uber-Tin, then wanting people to PM Peng their roles seems rather suspicious, no?

 

I'm going to wait a little before actually casting my vote, (I'd really like to be able to see some of Peng's reasoning for Eddy) but for now I would be willing to go with Eddy, if it comes to that.

Edited February 7, 2014 by AonarFaileas

[Quiver he/him]

You know what?

You guys are right. I'm retracting my vote for Eddy. If Peng can give a good reason behind the votes, I'll put mine back in, but I need a better reason than follow the leader.

[Peng the Just he/him]

There are a few points in my logic that I cannot share, as it would hurt is a lot if the inquisitor were to hear them, but the core of it is this: the most suspicious people are those who voted for shimble. Of those, several have, for a variety of reasons, been cleared of suspicion. Eddy has not.

Note: when I say " suspicion" I mean suspicion of being the inquisitor. Pretty much anybody could be spiked

[Mailliw73 he/him]

Roban's fierce attacks on Hero seem quite suspicious to me. I'm voting Roban. I don't know if I'll be able to get on again before the days over, but I hope this works out. I have to follow my own suspicions.

[Edgedancer he/him]

This time it was worse than just not having any drinking companions, a small group was openly accusing him. Looks like Brandy didn´t work out in my favor. I´m gonna give ya one more chance. "Zo, how about we all shar a biz of Brandy and balm down? Vause Whiskey seys Ima innoscent but ma drunky mind iz kinda not capable of figuren out who the spikeboys are zo to not make anybing wörse I´ll just sit down in a corner for a last drinking pertey, if any of ya join meh.

 

Anoar under normal circumstances Uber-Tin would not be that scary. It only is when there is a clear reason for everyone to send someone their roles, which, if it is true, would mean that Pengs plan misfired greatly.

[Shivertongue he/him]

Just want to say, that Uber-Tin, as described, is not possible. You cannot look into another member's private messages without admin-level access (and possibly mod-level access, but I'm less certain on that) unless you have been added to the conversation. While we made Meta a moderator for this subforum, I do not think he has that ability.

[Gamma Fiend he/him]

Just want to say, that Uber-Tin, as described, is not possible. You cannot look into another member's private messages without admin-level access (and possibly mod-level access, but I'm less certain on that) unless you have been added to the conversation. While we made Meta a moderator for this subforum, I do not think he has that ability.

couldn't Meta just copy & paste from the PM's and add them to whatever Google Doc he has set up for the Inquisitors? He asked to be part of any PMs for this round between players (just to make sure we followed rules. In the first game a group of us were PM'ing and came across a possible infraction of the rules unknowingly, so Meta may just be wanting to be around to make sure that doesn't happen again)

((Then again, that could just be a cover for more menacing reasons! BUM BUM BUM!))

(((And if Meta is sharing our Game PM's, or at least info from them, I'm sure it's all game related anyway, and I trust Meta would have good enough discretion to not share anything sensitive/not game related)))

Edit: [in brackets, cause 4 parentheses are too much]

[[Now that I've posted this, this sounds suspiciously like info the Inquisitors would be privy too, knowing if/how something like this would work. I would like to assert, this is just my assumptions based off of if something like 'Uber-Tin' existed.]]

 

Edited February 7, 2014 by Gamma Fiend

[Alvron]

While I disagree with Pengs suspicious seven theory, he has nonetheless shown that he is working from some intel instead of the ever popular 'blind stab in the dark and see who yelps' theory.  Therefore as Peng has given a semi-valid reason as requested, I shall vote for Eddy.

 

I also have a minor problem with Pengs rioter trial.  Allowing him/her to riot someone as prove of unspikeness has very little chance of working as the inquisitor may be able to do the rioting for them.

 

As for 'uber-tin', I don't think they would have that ability as it would require Meta to directly interfere with the game, which I seriously doubt he would do as it could compromise any future games he held.  After all if you can't trust the GM, who can you trust. 

Edited February 7, 2014 by Alvron

[PorridgeBrick he/him]

Since Peng evidently has good reason for his suspicions, even if we can't know them, then I'll join the vote too. Kill Eddy.

 

[little wilson she/her]

Since it's pretty clear who's going to die, and I don't actually think Eddy is the Inquisitor, I am going to abstain from voting. Please note that my vote is not in red, making it official. This is simply so the rioter can't change it, making me kill someone I don't want to. It's all essentially the same thing anyway.

Wilson, seeing the group gang up agInst Eddy, watches him turn to one last drinking party. She heads to the bar to get own drink, and sits down next to him. "Let's make this last meal....er....drink.....a good one."

[Peng the Just he/him]

peng slips every last boxing of his money to dyring, buying an obscene amount of alcohol, then sets it all on the table where wilson and eddy were sitting. "If he dies, let's at least let him die slobbering drunk." Then he sits down to join the drinking party.

[Quiver he/him]

Lord Ollivier sat in his office in the Canton, a window overlooking the city. A long finger was stretched down his cheek, the other shifting pages around his desk, but though his eyes crossed the words, he wasn't reading it. They were notes, messages and the likes, to be delivered to Lord Ventures army. He considered them unimportant.

 

What was important, was the state of the city. His city. Straff would conquer Luthadel quickly- Ollivier had met his son on a few occassions, and remembered a weak-chinned, colourless chit of a man. He'd place himself there as the centre of power, to emulate the Lord Ruler, which meant Urteau would be in need of a new master.

 

Ollivier was going to be that master. He just had to take care of some rodents first.

 

Though that was the problem, wasn't it? The Skaa. They couldn't simply be exterminated. In the old days- a year ago? Strange to call that old- in the old days, they knew their place, at the bottom of the gutter. This Survivor of theirs had caused a surprising number of problems for a dead man. Once Urteau was secured, Ollivier would turn his mind towards rooting out that particularly problem.

 

Urteau was going to be a city of scholarship. A city dedicated to study. A place for the nobility to be educated, for the Obligators to receive training in their responsibilities. That was Ollivier's ambition, his dream for the city. There would still be a need for skaa, of course, but it would be... lessened. In that regard,  the Inquisitor was doing him a great service.

 

Even so, he was looking forward to mounting it's head on his office wall.

 

Some Roleplay, since... I haven't gone into Ollivier much. I'm still holding off my vote until this evening; for the record, I'm kind of leaning towards Eddy, Hero or Roban, so if anyone wants to try and vote that up... let me know. Eddy is mostly because of following the mistborn, Hero, I believe, is part of the significant seven, and Roban... to be honest, the focus he has on Hero seems a little suspicious to me. 

[Edgedancer he/him]

Eddy was happy about getting at least some company and they where bringing the money for the drinks with them. "Zank ya guyz. Zo, Wilson think ya can bake some kinda list stuff for mah tunnelbill if dis goes bed? And Pengpeng for zomeone that wanna get me killed ya are pretty rice to, ya know?"

[dyring]

"I find both Vron and Aonar suspicious based on their above posts btw. Hope their up for getting seeked/targeted tomorrow if their not somehow cleared.

 

Aonars "certain he havent been acting suspicious" sounds to me like someone making sure that despite guilty, he isnt acting it.

 

And Vron´s not wanting to kill when the majority is not voting for ed, and switching ones its becoming more of them doing so so it remains among the majority.

 

I am also wondering about Kukri´s silence - but there its suspicion about convert status.

 

Herwynbe too, but there is nothing new increasing the suspicion, just same old."

Edited February 7, 2014 by dyring

[Kurkistan he/him]

On my silence: Honestly, there's little for me to say. I've made my case for why we should trust Peng and follow his lead on voting and, by and large, we are now all trusting Peng and following his lead on voting. Mission accomplished.