Long Game 2: The Devil's Den

[Herowannabe he/him]

A pile of colorful, but dirty, rags shifted in the corner of the room. The rags- Terris robes actually- unfolded to reveal a haggard looking Herwynbe.

"What is the reason for all this shouting?" He mumbled, holding his head. He normally wasn't one to drink- he knew he didn't hold his alcohol well- but being forced to watch as Lady Cessie reveled and cavorted with those scoundrels. And then the singing! If Cessie's father ever learned about the the words that had been coming out of his daughter's mouth, or about the partying, or well- needless to say Herwynbe would be short one job, and maybe one head, too.

That's when he had asked the bartender for a drink, something strong. The alcohol didn't last long enough, so he'd asked for another. Had he asked for a third? He couldn't remember. The night was a hazy blur. He seemed to vaguely remember dancing on a table... With Gamon? While Cessie and Shiv danced on another table? Herwynbe pushed the thought down, praying to the forgotten gods that it had been a nightmare and not a memory.

Gradually the gist of the conversation seeped through the haze over his mind. Three people killed? A message? Looking up he found the message, and squinting, he was able to make it out. His face paled as he read the words.

"Bartender, I think I need another one of whatever you gave me last night."

I don't think that everyone PMing their roles to Peng is a good idea. I believe him, and 2 or 3 people (depending on whether Kukri or bartbug is also the tineye) have confirmed his Coinshot target for last night, but I'm nervous about what the inquisitor can/can't do. It would really suck if it could peek at other people's PMs.

However, if you feel comfortable revealing your role to Peng, go ahead. And we DO really need the seeker(s) to talk to Peng (assuming he did show up as Mistborn when seeked) and start building a coalition.

EDIT: That being said, I just PMed my role to him. @Peng- be careful about disclosing people's roles to anyone else. The inquisitor's best tactic now is to PM you a fake roll (like "plain villager") and/or try to spike someone in your circle of trust.

Edited January 31, 2014 by Herowannabe

[PorridgeBrick he/him]

Sending my role in now.

[bartbug he/him]

Also guys: If you PM Ping your role, then you also have to show how you used it each night. Ping can organize stuff. Like smokers: Tell Ping who you're going to smoke. And then Ping can tell the Seekers who to seek. Depending on the numbers, then Ping can have the seekers seek various individuals.

Something critical: Ping does not tell the Seeker who the Seeked is, or if he is smoked. That's the test. We don't need Ping to seek everyone, if we do this. We only need him to seek everyone who has no swag (isn't a misting).

Guys... baldface is screwed.

[Swimmingly he/him]

Also, if Peng can reach out to all the Mistings, he can tell us if we're about to lynch someone important. Except we probably should go ahead anyway, cause the Inquisitor can Spike people. So yeah.

[Awesomeness Summoned he/him]

He listened quietly to the discussion circling the room. Three deaths in one night? They needed to start making some decisions or their numbers were going to dwindle pretty fast. Every person lost made the odds he would be next on the list that much higher.

 

Speaking in large groups wasn't one of his strong suits so he didn't plan on offering up many grand theories just yet. Fortunately, there seemed to be some pretty clever heads in this groups and they weren't afraid to voice their thoughts.

 

From what he could gather, Peng's boast of being a mistborn were true and he was more or less eye spikeless verified. It was the first good thing he'd heard since Modeft bit it. Having a mistborn on our side definitely gives us an advantage. Maybe now they could start taking the offensive. Wes planned getting a minute with Peng next chance he had to see what he could do to help

 

Edit: Spelling correction... apparently i've been reading Aether's posts so much I spell listened as listed now.

Edited January 31, 2014 by aWESomeness summoned

[Mailliw73 he/him]

Um, Aether? What's up with voting for yourself on the poll?

[little wilson she/her]

"Um." Wilson steps up hesitantly and points to the wall where the message lay.

 

“Mistress DEATH lurks

                   Here among us

Thy WANTS now are

                   Naught but distrust

It has behooved  

                   Peng the Mistborn

To find poor Lam

                   And leave him torn

VENGEANCE is sought

                   For blood we thirst

May we find her

                  'Fore we die FIRST”

 

"I don't want to speak out about something ridiculous, and maybe this is just me, but...it seems like there might be some hidden messages in here. I know a thing or two about messages you see, and sometimes people get clever with their codes.

"The reason I bring this up is because I noticed the capitalized words form a separate, coherent thought. Death wants vengeance first," she says, pointing to each of the words separately. Turning back to the group, she continues, "But what if that's just to clue us into looking deeper?" She stops and bites her lip, looking around the room to see what the rest of the crew thinks.

Or maybe I'm thinking about that WAY too hard.

[Aether he/him]

Um, Aether? What's up with voting for yourself on the poll?

I've ended up staying up WAY too late, and in my tired and dim-witted mind, I found that to be absolutely hilarious.

[little wilson she/her]

I've ended up staying up WAY too late, and in my tired and dim-witted mind, I found that to be absolutely hilarious.

You're not the only one. I laughed pretty hard when I saw that the only vote thus far was you, for yourself. And it's not even 8 where I am. So I can't blame tiredness.

[bartbug he/him]

Also, if baldface converts a misting, then we will know who the new Spiked is after a turn because he will lose his power for a fifty percent chance of being a lurcher (because Weiry )

[Aether he/him]

Also, if baldface converts a misting, then we will know who the new Spiked is after a turn because he will lose his power for a fifty percent chance of being a lurcher (because Weiry )

I do not think the spiking of a friendly villager would make them lose their original ability (if they have any). From what I understood of the rules, the Inquisitor would only lose his own Hemalurgically granted power, not the original power of the now spiked Misting.

[Aether he/him]

"I don't want to speak out about something ridiculous, and maybe this is just me, but...it seems like there might be some hidden messages in here. I know a thing or two about messages you see, and sometimes people get clever with their codes.

"The reason I bring this up is because I noticed the capitalized words form a separate, coherent thought. Death wants vengeance first," she says, pointing to each of the words separately. Turning back to the group, she continues, "But what if that's just to clue us into looking deeper?" She stops and bites her lip, looking around the room to see what the rest of the crew thinks.

Just to provide some context from the last game, the message from the Spiked villagers (starting at "There is something rotten at the site of Seventeenth" right before the last paragraph) -  while chock full of hidden meanings and cultural references - was made mostly for fun without any real meaning at all. While there might be something more to this, I would not put much emphasize on it other than noting that it confirms Peng's target.

Edited January 31, 2014 by Aether

[bartbug he/him]

Aether, I believe that we have WoM (Word of Meta) that they do lose their power. It's not in the rules, though. If it was not late for me, I'd love to look it up, but I need to go to sleep so that I can wake up at an uncomfortably early time.  Good night.

Hey, Barty, tell them good night from me!

Oh, yeah, and me! I could tell them a good night story, and besides, I'm more interesting then Beetle, aren't I?

Hey, I bet I could make a list of which ones of us are the most interesting, right?

I'd be at the top. After all, I'm a mistborn.

 

Sorry about that. They get out of hand, sometimes.

[Peng the Just he/him]

just got home from work and had 10 new PMs. I'll have to sort though them in the morning.

[Aether he/him]

Aether, I believe that we have WoM (Word of Meta) that they do lose their power. It's not in the rules, though. If it was not late for me, I'd love to look it up.

Hopefully, Meta will just step in and clear this up as soon as he logs on again.

[Edgedancer he/him]

Eddy awoke slowly, a pleasant pounding in his head. He barely understood something about a hidden message. "So if deat ants vanganze, how woud te scribbler know abot needing to punish Peng or waz that a more genall message, ause only a Seker could tell if Peng is a Incuisibor. Also cherrs to Peng poving his innoyence by murder, wait what? I need a drink!"

 

He propted himself up and searchend for the rest of his bottles. After finding them empty he let himself fall on counter and talked to Dyring: "Ohy, Lord Booze, I need som bottle Brandy and Whisky, if ya coud please. Also sobby for the undidiness it waz a fun night, thoug we idn´t wash any hats.

[little wilson she/her]

Hopefully, Meta will just step in and clear this up as soon as he logs on again.

I believe that Word of Meta is right here. Pertinent piece of information:

 

Anyone converted by the Inquisitor loses their allomantic abilities in favor of the one they are being spiked with. This means that if they fail that roll and don't gain the ability, someone could go from being a Misting to being a regular Spiked villain.

[Peng the Just he/him]

cherrs to Peng poving his innoyence by murder, wait what? I need a drink!"

haha. well put

 

@wilson that's good to know. If someone loses their abilities, or if their abilities change, they've been spiked. Also, could i get PMs from those who haven't already?

[Aspren]

These deaths were wholly unnecessary. How come we avoided lynching anyone on the first day only for it to be decided that someone should be killed that very night? The whole purpose of not killing, was to avoid giving the Inquisitor more corpses to work with. The whole reason we avoided lynching anyone then was because we couldn't guess with any certainty who the Inquisitor was. What changed? What new information gave you the impression that Fnord or Lam were the inquisitor? Can we expect that more of us will be dying based on mere guesswork. I'm not having it. Doing it that way only promotes paranoia among the crew. At that rate half of us will be dead within five days. The only person who can possibly benefit from such a high death rate is the Inquisitor. If we're going to survive this we are going to at-least have some measure of trust, not much, just enough to trust that your fellow crew members aren't going to have you killed on a whim

 

Peng, I get the impression that the only reason you killed Lam was to make a point. I can understand why you would need to, but that doesn't justify your killing. 

 

I should have been more plain about this earlier on, I say that we play it safe. We should avoid killing eachother. No-one here wants to die.

[Gamma Fiend he/him]

While I agree with the idea we shouldn't randomly kill people, and at the risk of sounding like the Inquisitor... we're supposed to be killing people more or less at random right now.

That's the whole point of the game.

So while I want us to play it all safe and try and be smart about our decisions, at one point we're just going to have to start taking chances and move the game forward, and that unfortunately means picking more people to kill off (and making the Inquisitor stronger).

for every day we don't start voting, those are more opportunities we are losing on clues to finding the Spiked's Identity.

With that said, I have a feeling people will just start voting for me now, but eh. Whatevs. It's a risk we need to take.
(I still don't have any hardcore suspicions yet, so I'm not casting a vote as of yet, but I will by the end of the cycle)

[Peng the Just he/him]

I'm putting together an excel sheet with everyone's proclaimed roles, so hopefully I can cast my vote for someone who is more likely to be Mr. ironeyes

Edited January 31, 2014 by jasonpenguin

[Aonar he/him]

Wow, three deaths. At this rate, we'll all dead or converted before the fifth night is done.

 

I have to agree with Aspren. I can mostly understand Peng taking out Lam, but losing Fnord means we have at least one trigger-happy coinshot somewhere who isn't opposed to killing on pretty well the slightest suspicion. We were lucky neither Fnord or Lam were coinshots themselves, if they had been, the Inquisitor would have been able to take out even more people next round.

 

Right now, I'm still not sure we should kill anyone. I'm not voting yet, I'll wait and see how people react to Peng's vote, but after the next night we should have a much better idea of who's clean. Not only will there be at least one less suspicious person, but if the Inqusitor is smart, he'll have claimed to be a misting with one of the same powers he does, so knowing what power the Inquisitor doesn't have (assuming he converts someone) will let us narrow our focus considerably.

Edited January 31, 2014 by AonarFaileas

[Aspren]

While I agree with the idea we shouldn't randomly kill people, and at the risk of sounding like the Inquisitor... we're supposed to be killing people more or less at random right now.That's the whole point of the game.

 

So while I want us to play it all safe and try and be smart about our decisions, at one point we're just going to have to start taking chances and move the game forward, and that unfortunately means picking more people to kill off (and making the Inquisitor stronger).

 

for every day we don't start voting, those are more opportunities we are losing on clues to finding the Spiked's Identity.

 

Point taken. Though, while I agree that part of the point of the game is killing each other off, doing so at random is hardly any fun, except maybe for the killer. Though a lucky guess hardly speaks for much for their skill. We have so little to go on right now that it's hard to believe that anyone will kill anyone else other than at random. I do agree that soon we will have to take chances, but not now.

I suppose I too must seem suspicious for proposing that we play it safe. 

[luckat she/her]

Three people dead! Worry filled Lucy. These deaths weren't all the work of the Inquisitor, that much was clear. Some people were starting to take matters into their own hands. The problem was, no one else had any more clues than the rest of them. Trust was running thin. It was one thing to want to kill the Inquisitor, but knowing that you were as likely as not to receive a knife in the back from a friend as an enemy chilled Lucy's blood. They had to work together to kill the Inquisitor, otherwise they'd just end up doing its work for it.

 

Of course, the combination of the message on the wall and the death of Lam basically proved Peng's words from yesterday. His death hadn't been in vain, even though it was unfortunate. Lucy was feeling a tentative trust of Peng growing. She could tell that he wanted to kill the Inquisitor as much as she did, maybe even more. Maybe, maybe, they could work together somehow, even though she wasn't sure how much she could help. A MIstborn. That was nearly as powerful as an Inquisitor. Maybe they had a chance after all.

 

Lucy tried to watch the crowd to keep track of anything out of the ordinary. They needed more to go on before the entire crew was decimated by the Inquisitor and well-meaning vigilantes. She wanted the Inquisitor dead, but if she died in the crossfire while everyone was still bickering and making guesses without making any progress, she was going to haunt the fools from the grave.

[Herowannabe he/him]

"There is another reason why it became prudent to start the killing last night, I think. With the inquisitor among us, we knew that somebody would, unfortunately, be killed. Whether it has one corpse to work with, or three, it still can only convert one person per night. The primary reason we stalled yesterday was, hopefully, to take away the chance for the inquisitor to convert someone last night. Now that the killing has begun, there will be no stopping it, I fear."