Anniversary Game 3: The Curse of the Koloss

[Arraenae]

I think Lopen's theory about Kipper is a little too convoluted. Yeah, maybe they thought Kipper was a seeker, but maybe they wanted to go for someone with a smaller chance of being protected. Or maybe they wanted someone with no strong positions on anything.

[Elenion he/him]

I for one am of the (admittedly unpopular) opinion that Dalinar is innocent. Put yourself in your elim shoes: if a teammate of yours is going to get wiped out by a Coinshot in the dead of night, do you disclose that you have a Lurcher on your team? Elim!Len would cut his losses and lose Dalinar, thus keeping the Lurcher undetected. What I think happened is this: an alignment-undetermined Coinshot attacked Village Dalinar, who was saved by an Elim Coinshot. The elims have not done any work other than an anonymous Lurching, and they get the village to waste a lynch, a player, and their role.

That said, if Dalinar is an elim, feel free to suspect me. I admit that I have changed my stance on Dalinar around in light of what happened. But this whole bandwagon just feels wrong.

I'm going to contest the Dalinar lynch by voting Stick. A hard-cleared brother of mine obviously had some reason to suspect her, and although I don't know what it is (he didn't even have a PM with me) I'm inclined to trust his judgment.

[TheMightyLopen he/him]

37 minutes ago, little wilson said:

I would suggest we refrain from giving any action suggestions to rolled in the thread. If they do have a Lurcher (I'm leaning strongly towards yes, right now), and they've used that Lurcher to save me and Dalinar (assuming Dalinar is Village), they are clearly not opposed to using their roles offensively, to let villagers gather suspicion. So what happens if they have a smoker? In AG 1, the Spiked has two smokers and they used them offensively, smoking villagers. They smoked me every cycle until they killed me, making sure that no one would be able to confirm my alignment. This isn't a tactic used frequently, but it does happen, and therefore, we cannot risk giving them public information for how we're using any of our roles. That just makes it all the easier for them to thwart in any way.

As for Dalinar, I'm not convinced of his guilt. I'm also not convinced of his innocence either, but I'm leaning towards a villager being set up. As has already been said, the longer discussion stays focused on one topic, the more time the Spiked have to kill more villagers. I'm with Stink: let's not let this day get fixated on one person.

Right now, I'm inclined to agree with Wyrm and Mage about Hero. The way he started the night vote for the Coinshot could easily have been that of a spiked wanting to direct a potential villager Coinshot onto a target so they could protect that same target.  And therefore focus discussion. His quick vote and insistence that Dalinar is almost certainly evil also makes me wary.

Lopen is another one I'm mildly suspicious of, though that's because I was in a PM with Wyrm last cycle, and Wyrm was asking me questions about WGG's and stuff, claiming it was for Lopen. If Lopen wanted to know that, why didn't he just ask me directly? Why not start a PM with me to talk with me and decide for himself if I'm evil? Why use a proxy? It doesn't even make sense, unless he didn't need to vet me out because he already knows. And now his convoluted theory with Kipper and Gamma also strikes me as an attempt to get a villager lynched or vig killed.

I have a few people I'm leaning good on: Jondesu, El, Orlok, and Joe, though I'll admit that the latter three were contingent on my attack coming from a team that wanted me dead, and if they used their own Lurcher to save me, that analysis is moot. I was hoping PMs would be around for longer so I could get a better read, but oh well. It is what it is.

I didn't ask Wyrm to ask you about anything. I did discuss the attack/save on you with him, but the conclusion we agreed on was that we needed more information before we could come up with any conclusions for whether it was a WGG or not, because at that point, it's an endless cycle of IKYK's, which are pointless. As for why I didn't PM you, idk, I guess I figured you wouldn't roleclaim trade with me and I didn't really have any questions for you, plus I have a really difficult time getting a read on you so I thought I'd PM others first. I'm not particularly suspicious of you at this point. I'll admit that I had a bit of a bad read on you D1(which I said to Rae in PM), but I think that was mostly paranoia from the attack on you, plus I've got a village read on Stick(who you voted on D1, but for a fair reason I'll admit).

22 minutes ago, Arraenae said:

I think Lopen's theory about Kipper is a little too convoluted. Yeah, maybe they thought Kipper was a seeker, but maybe they wanted to go for someone with a smaller chance of being protected. Or maybe they wanted someone with no strong positions on anything.

In response to Gamma, Wilson, and Rae about this, yes, it is slightly convoluted.  If you didn't know, I come up with a ton of theories similar to that throughout games. I don't usually mention them because even I realize they're convoluted, but I thought this one had more of a chance to be true than most of my theories(not a high chance, but I thought I'd post it to get others' thoughts at least, I'm not looking to get Gamma lynched or vig killed because of this).

And since Len just voted on Stick, I'll give my reasoning for my village read on her. 1. Just had a village tone/gut read on her D1 posts. 2. Drake asked a Coinshot to attack her and the Spiked Lurcher protected Dalinar, not Stick. May be a bit tenuous, but that's why I'm leaning village for her right now.

[Arraenae]

Lopen. You know for sure that the Spiked lurcher protected Dalinar and not Stick? I wonder how you learned that. Perhaps from the Spiked doc?

Edited January 15, 2017 by Arraenae
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[TheMightyLopen he/him]

12 minutes ago, Arraenae said:

Lopen. You know for sure that the Spiked lurcher protected Dalinar and not Stick? I wonder how you learned that. Perhaps from the Spiked doc?

Do I really have to put a disclaimer there? I feel like it's a safe assumption to make.

[Hemalurgic Headshot he/him]

Do not take this as a vote. I have not finished my analysis. 

However, there are two things we can learn from Dalinar's death if he is Spiked.

1. The Lurcher is Spiked, as I expect.

2. The Rioter is Spiked.

A little note and such.

[Elenion he/him]

8 hours ago, Arraenae said:

Lopen. You know for sure that the Spiked lurcher protected Dalinar and not Stick? I wonder how you learned that. Perhaps from the Spiked doc?

8 hours ago, TheMightyLopen said:

Do I really have to put a disclaimer there? I feel like it's a safe assumption to make.

Another thing, Lopen, since when is it "the" Spiked Lurcher versus "a" Coinshot? We don't know for sure that a Spiked Lurcher exists (although I definitely theorize it), and as far as we know the Spiked might have multiple. Now I know that this is mostly a semantics thing, so I'm going to hold my vote on Stick, but I want to point your wording out to everyone.

[Madagascar]

*Matilda's eyes glaze over with pure white as if she is looking at the past* *starts talking in a strange monotone*

 

Shky bugs in a village, eck-shpanding
A man'sh death, town wash demanding.
The bugs recruited him that night
To make them think they were right
And only a cat wash left shtanding...

EDITOR'S NOTE: Matilda's statement is false. No cats survived that episode.

The godsh can be tricked by shweet tonguesh
Arguing who by the neck should be shtrung.
Bamboozled by liesh
They forgot who should die
And that'sh why they're no longer young.

Huh that was weird. I thought Dalinar wash a shpiked bashed on a theory which hash been pointed out to be a falshe narrative. If it wash a shpiked lurtscher what shaved him that looksh bad, though I do remember readin' shum shtory about a doomed town where the bugsh converted shum dude what they knew wash gonna be asshasshinated jusht to messh wif everyone, sho a shetup doeshn't sheem crazy. Dalinar fer now, shinshe we'll know the troof o' the matter pretty shoon, an' I'm shtill not convinshed either way, and vote for Straw. A lot of arguments are about what Dalinar is, sho I can't figure'em out until we learn who Dalinar ish, but I could shee Shtraw bein' evil either way. An' I'm drunk and belligerent.

 

[Straw he/him]

Hi! I was absent for two days do to RL and I come back to find a random vote on me. Please, tell me why I am suspicious.

[TheMightyLopen he/him]

7 hours ago, Elenion said:

Another thing, Lopen, since when is it "the" Spiked Lurcher versus "a" Coinshot? We don't know for sure that a Spiked Lurcher exists (although I definitely theorize it), and as far as we know the Spiked might have multiple. Now I know that this is mostly a semantics thing, so I'm going to hold my vote on Stick, but I want to point your wording out to everyone.

You have a point there. I guess because last game I was the single Spiked Lurcher that's what I was thinking this time. And it's not very often an eliminator team has more than 1 protect, but this is Meta and we started with a bunch of players, so I don't think it's impossible. It doesn't change my read on Stick, but it's a good point.

Another reason I didn't add the disclaimer of "if" the Lurcher who saved Dalinar was Spiked because I thought I'd already posted about how I was assuming the Lurcher who saved Dalinar was Spiked. I made 2 pretty long posts yesterday that I completely scrapped because I didn't like them, and in them I talked about all of that stuff(I didn't like them because I didn't sleep much the night before so it was hard to focus and it felt like I was just babbling ).

[Wyrmhero he/him]

Say what you will about Terrismen, they certainly weren't as meek as they appeared at first. Maybe it offended Herwynbe on a deep level, to have people suspicious of him. But I wasn't so convinced. My issue was never that he voted for Reginald, but rather that it happened so quickly after the attack was discovered. The first vote on him I thought was also a bit strange, considering the mad woman Matilda had changed votes to save Reginald the previous day. But a single vote immediately afterwards is just reactionary, there's no real thought behind it. The second, however? That looks more considered, more deliberate. The ones afterwards though? That was more follow-the-leader. Let's face it, we skaa aren't known for being great thinkers. I was curious to know why he felt it was justified so early on to second Reginald for the chop.

 

My concern was that we would be in a whole mess of trouble if we didn't take time to consider other options. Hell, I didn't even know why people were suggesting Reginald, but maybe those arguing for it were doing it more as a cover for something. Preventing us from thinking about it by showing us an easy target. The most dangerous thing we had on our hands was a lack of time. The more we waited, the more of us would die during the night to our enemies' assassins. This was our time to try and figure things out, and anyone who even slightly prevented that from happening was a bit odd in my eyes. Enough to warrant a few eyes on them, making sure they weren't doing anything malicious.

 

But then there was the fact that people were just voting again for Reginald, not really discussing it. Discussion was what we would live or die by, and it seemed strange to have so many people just throw his name in without saying why. Hell, even if it was the same reason as yesterday, it'd be nice to know that was it. Otherwise, it seemed odd that so many people had it in for Reginald without any reasoning being said. What suspicions did they have? A vote without reasoning to me at least seemed like suspicious behaviour. You don't have to justify it if no-one asks, after all. Seemed like a good place for a traitorous person to hide in.

 

Was going to TL;DR this as per Hero's request in the Q&A thread, but a) that would've broken the 'all in RP' constraint I placed on myself for this game, and 2) it ended up being longer than the RP itself >>.

What I am going to say though, because I want to emphasise it even if it's within the RP above - If you vote for someone, say why. Even if it's the same vote as the previous day, say why again. Discussion is our weapon, and it hurts me to see people vote without saying anything. Note, I'm not saying don't lynch Dalinar, I've really got no problem with that, as it will generate quite a bit of information for us. I am just saying that it is really good to have more discussion, and going into a bit of depth for your reasoning for your vote will generate discussion.

[Stick. she/her]

19 hours ago, Elenion said:

I'm going to contest the Dalinar lynch by voting Stick. A hard-cleared brother of mine obviously had some reason to suspect her, and although I don't know what it is (he didn't even have a PM with me) I'm inclined to trust his judgment.

I don't even know how to react to this...I mean, Ecth told me to keep and eye out for other people if he dies, when he simultaneously tells that same bunch of people   people to kill me. He had also told me that other people know that he has contacted me, along with a warning of not acting on this information unless it becomes necessary. And without further ado...Herowannabe

Why? 1) He's on the list of people I should apparently be suspicious of   2) There seems to be other evidence on him is gathered as well (by Wrym and Wilson, I think?)

[Dalinar Kholin]

I believe the tally has me at five votes at the moment? *sigh* I didn't want to do this b/c it means even if I escape the lynch I'm dead, but I'm a mistborn. Last night I drew copper, this night I drew pewter...Even if you lynch me I won't die. So just don't be surprised.

My main four thoughts are Hero, Lopen, and Stick, and The Only Joe.

Hero: has been very persistent in getting me killed (of course, this logic may be biased), but it seems very much like tunneling and a way to keep the village distracted.

Lopen: Sorta just been bandwagony all game (I expressed my concerns last day about him).

Stick: Last day he was pretty insistent about Wilson being evil. Then we got a confirmed warning that if Ecthileon dies we should kill stick. That seems like a reasonably powerful and certifiable logic to follow. He's probably my second choice.

The Only Joe: Switching the vote last minute from HH to me in the last twenty minutes changed the entire course of the lynch. Yes he may have had a legitimate reason to do it, but it's still really suspicious. Thus for the moment, The Only Joe. Also we haven't heard from you today.

I'm fine with being lynched today, but just understand it won't accomplish anything.

[Madagascar]

The catsh had done written a thing jusht before the night ended about why they'd become convinshed Reg wash evil. I've alsho shtated how I realished the mishundershtandin' betwixt me'n Reg. Now I'm back ter not knowin' about him, shame ash wif da resht of yoush. Shtraw, I thrown catsh at you caush I'd heard shum rumor you wash shpiked. Rumorsh that exishted only in me head. I found you shushpishious caush it sheemed you wash lyin' low and not shayin' anything particular either way, which sheemed like shumethin' a shpiked would do. All I know fer shure shpikesh ish in thish town an' if I didn't throw catsh at shumeone I'll never throw catsh at any shpiked at all!

More importantly, half the village sheemsh to have dishappeared completely which got to me gut. Meta done told ush all havin' fun ish more important than winnin' an' lurkin sheemsh antithetical ter both. Vomit, you have done nuffin' to make me trusht you but at leasht yer here. More than can be said of Senn Conrad, Jack Tormander, Mr. Hoid, Ryth, Rin, Aralis, Drought, Felicksh, Shart, Locke Tekiel, Wonkersh, an' El... I don't think anyone hash expresshed mutsch shushpishin of them, yet are we really to believe they're all innoshent?

(All the purty non-red colorsh are the catsh votin'. Jusht caush you fellowsh shay they can't vote don't mean they don't have their opinions!)

[Arinian]

12 minutes ago, Dalinar Kholin said:

I believe the tally has me at five votes at the moment? *sigh* I didn't want to do this b/c it means even if I escape the lynch I'm dead, but I'm a mistborn. Last night I drew copper, this night I drew pewter...Even if you lynch me I won't die. So just don't be surprised.

My main four thoughts are Hero, Lopen, and Stick, and The Only Joe.

Hero: has been very persistent in getting me killed (of course, this logic may be biased), but it seems very much like tunneling and a way to keep the village distracted.

Lopen: Sorta just been bandwagony all game (I expressed my concerns last day about him).

Stick: Last day he was pretty insistent about Wilson being evil. Then we got a confirmed warning that if Ecthileon dies we should kill stick. That seems like a reasonably powerful and certifiable logic to follow. He's probably my second choice.

The Only Joe: Switching the vote last minute from HH to me in the last twenty minutes changed the entire course of the lynch. Yes he may have had a legitimate reason to do it, but it's still really suspicious. Thus for the moment, The Only Joe. Also we haven't heard from you today.

I'm fine with being lynched today, but just understand it won't accomplish anything.

So you want to say that there 2 Mistborns? I getting feeling that Meta troling us.

[Hemalurgic Headshot he/him]

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Seonid is found guilty by the unflinching arm of procrastination.

[Jondesu he/him]

Remart took a break from walking to rest his aching legs (well, one and a half, since his peg couldn't ache), and pondered what he'd learned.  The koloss threat, if it was real, was suddenly seeming less of a danger in the immediate than the other occupants of this little town.  It wasn't a cozy vacation for him at all, now, but a fight for his life.  So be it.

The first thing he'd learned after he set out was that Kip lay dead in his bed, though of course Remart wasn't morbid enough to want to go take a look.  Dagger through the heart, they said, though he'd looked dashing apart from the massive blood stain.  Technically that meant he was now "pierced by metal", which was what the messenger had said.  Remart figured the dead weren't a danger, though, so he figured it must have been a warning about those that would do that.

Chewing on a bit of jerky, he thought over the other attack he'd learned about. Reginald had been telling everyone about being attacked by an Allomancer, but then another one saving him.  Remart didn't know a lot about Allomancy, but he knew about Coinshots and Lurchers, which is what Reginald's tale sounded like.  He was inclined to believe him, especially after his conclusions from the night before, but he knew better than to really trust him.  After he'd learned that, he'd walked around town, listening and asking a few questions as he went.

The only curiosity to him, however, was from that Terrisman steward, Herwynbe.  He'd been very proper and polite, of course, but Remart felt he was hiding something.  He'd been prodding along the discussion and anger of the town subtly, and Remart was pretty sure he had been trying to get Reginald strung up, although he'd been far from the only voice.  His was the quiet one that pushed it over the edge from one crazy person having suspicions to a full-blown lynch mob trying to get him.  They'd even been calling for him to be slaughtered in the night by a vigilante, which Remart figured was exactly what someone tried to do.  The Terrisman was involved, Remart was sure.

Now, for some more ale, and maybe a few veggies to offset all the meat he'd been eating.  And some more meat, too.

Edited January 15, 2017 by Jondesu
Corrected Dalinar to Reginald to stay in character

[Herowannabe he/him]

3 hours ago, Wyrmhero said:

Say what you will about Terrismen, they certainly weren't as meek as they appeared at first. Maybe it offended Herwynbe on a deep level, to have people suspicious of him. But I wasn't so convinced. My issue was never that he voted for Reginald, but rather that it happened so quickly after the attack was discovered. The first vote on him I thought was also a bit strange, considering the mad woman Matilda had changed votes to save Reginald the previous day. But a single vote immediately afterwards is just reactionary, there's no real thought behind it. The second, however? That looks more considered, more deliberate. The ones afterwards though? That was more follow-the-leader. Let's face it, we skaa aren't known for being great thinkers. I was curious to know why he felt it was justified so early on to second Reginald for the chop.

 

My concern was that we would be in a whole mess of trouble if we didn't take time to consider other options. Hell, I didn't even know why people were suggesting Reginald, but maybe those arguing for it were doing it more as a cover for something. Preventing us from thinking about it by showing us an easy target. The most dangerous thing we had on our hands was a lack of time. The more we waited, the more of us would die during the night to our enemies' assassins. This was our time to try and figure things out, and anyone who even slightly prevented that from happening was a bit odd in my eyes. Enough to warrant a few eyes on them, making sure they weren't doing anything malicious.

 

But then there was the fact that people were just voting again for Reginald, not really discussing it. Discussion was what we would live or die by, and it seemed strange to have so many people just throw his name in without saying why. Hell, even if it was the same reason as yesterday, it'd be nice to know that was it. Otherwise, it seemed odd that so many people had it in for Reginald without any reasoning being said. What suspicions did they have? A vote without reasoning to me at least seemed like suspicious behaviour. You don't have to justify it if no-one asks, after all. Seemed like a good place for a traitorous person to hide in.

 

Was going to TL;DR this as per Hero's request in the Q&A thread, but a) that would've broken the 'all in RP' constraint I placed on myself for this game, and 2) it ended up being longer than the RP itself >>.

What I am going to say though, because I want to emphasise it even if it's within the RP above - If you vote for someone, say why. Even if it's the same vote as the previous day, say why again. Discussion is our weapon, and it hurts me to see people vote without saying anything. Note, I'm not saying don't lynch Dalinar, I've really got no problem with that, as it will generate quite a bit of information for us. I am just saying that it is really good to have more discussion, and going into a bit of depth for your reasoning for your vote will generate discussion.

Thanks for expressing your reasonings, though they still don't sit right with me. You seem to have latched on to me from the beginning, with even less evidence against me than we have against Dalinar. However...

1 hour ago, Dalinar Kholin said:

I believe the tally has me at five votes at the moment? *sigh* I didn't want to do this b/c it means even if I escape the lynch I'm dead, but I'm a mistborn. Last night I drew copper, this night I drew pewter...Even if you lynch me I won't die. So just don't be surprised.

My main four thoughts are Hero, Lopen, and Stick, and The Only Joe.

Hero: has been very persistent in getting me killed (of course, this logic may be biased), but it seems very much like tunneling and a way to keep the village distracted.

Lopen: Sorta just been bandwagony all game (I expressed my concerns last day about him).

Stick: Last day he was pretty insistent about Wilson being evil. Then we got a confirmed warning that if Ecthileon dies we should kill stick. That seems like a reasonably powerful and certifiable logic to follow. He's probably my second choice.

The Only Joe: Switching the vote last minute from HH to me in the last twenty minutes changed the entire course of the lynch. Yes he may have had a legitimate reason to do it, but it's still really suspicious. Thus for the moment, The Only Joe. Also we haven't heard from you today.

I'm fine with being lynched today, but just understand it won't accomplish anything.

Hmm... Claiming to be a Mistborn with pewter today? Well... if you're being honest, then thanks. If not...  However there is a lot to work through and I don't have the time to do it right now I've got to leave my house in a few minutes here and I'm already running behind. But for the time being I'm still leaving my vote on Dalinar. If what he says is true, then by his own admission both a Rioter and a Lurcher went out of their way to save him. Yes it's possible it's some elaborate ploy or crazy coincidence, but it seems more likely that he's got teammates looking out for him. "The simplest explanation is most likely the right one" and all that. 

Anyway, I really gotta go. I'll come back and analyze more later. 

[Araris Valerian he/him]

A non-RP thought - Dalinar is almost certainly not a thug trying to continue delaying his lynch. Otherwise, he probably would have mentioned his thug powers last cycle. The mistborn claim seems reasonable, for all the information we have now. So we can revisit him tomorrow, after his extra life is gone.

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Aralis frowned. Of course people would try to kill Reginald, he was downright annoying. On a personal level, Aralis wouldn't mind being rid of the man himself. However, this was not a time for personal feuds to be dealt with. Actually, as he thought about it, the entire population had embraced the whole "koloss" situation with so much enthusiasm that he wasn't quite sure how he had put up with any of them for as many years as he had. Of all the foolishness he had heard today, however, the worst was from Nicki. Aralis had already given her the what-for when she twisted Nyah's insensible words into a plot, but now the woman was doing it again!

 

[Gamma Fiend he/him]

Huh, well when your head is up on the chopping block, guess there's no reason to hold anything back. >.> That would indeed mean a second mistborn, given he's telling the truth, so that's at least something to keep an eye on. I honestly don't know if we keep the lynch focused on Dalinar, or not, given the role-claim. As there's really only one way to actually test it 100% going forward, and even if he's telling the truth then we still don't learn that much. We can't rely on going into the Night Cycles to have (hopefully village seekers) start scanning him because we can't trust there's not a Spiked Smoker as well. So do we go ahead on a lynch that won't yield us too many results, or do we focus elsewhere for now and keep the question on Dalinar pending? I'm honestly not really sure right now. But I'll go ahead and put the vote on Dalinar for now in case I can't post again before the rollover, because a revealed Mistborn isn't really going to be that useful going forward for the village, and the role-claim is one rusting good way to try and survive the lynch if he is indeed a Spiked. Best to just rip this bandaid and get it over with. 

[Madagascar]

You're sho lucky, Dalinar! You might getsh people tryin' to kill you three daysh in a row. Mebbe four! No one ever done paid pooor Matilda sho mutsch attention. At leasht after I got old an' unattractive. Exshept the catsh! The catsh are alwaysh here fer me. The catsh...

*Matilda sits alone on the porch, muttering to herself*

We're either ridiculoushly lucky or ridiculoushly unlucky wif Dalinar. What doesh rollin' copper mean again?

[Seonid he/him]

Senn Conrad woke blearily, his mind still filled with his dreams of the night before. Suddenly, he snapped awake. The Shards! Hoid and the 17th Shard had collected the scattered Shards of Adonalsium, and the once-shattered  God of the Cosmere was about to be reborn!

As his consciousness slowly focused on his surroundings, he frowned. Reasonably rich quarters, but not tastelessly opulent. Dark sky outside, with...was that an ashfall?

His mind slowly woke from his exhausted sleep of the night before. Dreams. Weird dreams. Dreams of places and things he had never heard before. In the light of day, he was almost certain that shards and gods and the Cosmere were the delusion of a frightened and tired mind.

If only those had been the only dreams.

His long sleep - what day was it, anyways? - had been broken by horrible dreams. Dreams about this town, and this exact moment.

He shuddered, remembering the horror of his past lives, and pushed them from his memory.

Upon his arrival downstairs, his servants brought the morning mail to him. To his great surprise, two commoners had sent him messages.

The first was from the crazy cat lady. Senn, of course, couldn't be bothered to remember the name of anyone that the Lord Ruler had created to be lesser, and in normal times, he wouldn't give any attention to their opinions, either.

But in this unsettled moment, even the opinion of a commoner could turn Tyrian Falls against him. Running from an angry mob would not be a pleasant experience, and it wouldn't do any good for him to flee the town just to run into the waiting arms of the koloss.

So, as annoying as he found it, he called a servant over. "Rolan, take a note, please."

To the crazy, drunk, cat lady:

My servants tell me that you are making wild accusations about me, to wit, that you charge me with a treasonous lack of activity in regards to the impending koloss threat, and the new murders in town. I must ask you to cease and desist. As will become clear, I am intimately involved in the search for the agents attempting to give our town over to Ruin. Continued accusations along these lines could have unpleasant ramifications.

It galled him to be polite to a skaa, but that was the new world. The slightly veiled threat would have been more than enough to silence one of the creatures before the Lord Ruler had been overthrown.

After cursory examination, he tossed the second skaa accusation aside. It appeared to be nothing more than random gibberish. Not even worth paying attention to.

All that was left now was to examine the other events that had occurred since he had fallen asleep.

After some reflection, he directed Rolan to post a flyer in the town square denouncing Reginald (Dalinar). The man had certainly drawn a great deal of attention, and the allegations of influencing the vote and his dramatic escape from an alleged assassin the night before hinted at secretive connections to a resourceful set of people. While it was certainly possible that such a group had the best interests of the town at heart, his personal experience as a servant of the dark god had taught him that shadows like that were the best place for such agents to hide. Best to drag everything into the light.

[Madagascar]

Got nuffin' particular againsht Sheonid exshept hish shilenshe an' tryin' ter kill the new guy hish firsht day. Unless there'sh shomething I forgot which ish probably. Mishter Hoid, the catsh accushe you of shtaying shilent in order to deflect shushpishun from your shecret shpikinessh, until the moment you show up at which point you'll be accushed of only showin' up purely for the purposhesh o' deflectin' shushpishun from you shilent shecret shpikinessh. I hear shumeone shaw you polishin' shpikesh in the garden lasht night... AN' you shaid catsh wash "shmelly". We can't have that.

Everyone wash too bushy bickerin' over Dalinar to remember the Contri-byoo-shin Crushade. Figuresh they left it to an ol' lady. Lazy jerksh. Matilda would show'em though. She would show them all...

[TheMightyLopen he/him]

2 hours ago, Dalinar Kholin said:

I believe the tally has me at five votes at the moment? *sigh* I didn't want to do this b/c it means even if I escape the lynch I'm dead, but I'm a mistborn. Last night I drew copper, this night I drew pewter...Even if you lynch me I won't die. So just don't be surprised.

My main four thoughts are Hero, Lopen, and Stick, and The Only Joe.

Hero: has been very persistent in getting me killed (of course, this logic may be biased), but it seems very much like tunneling and a way to keep the village distracted.

Lopen: Sorta just been bandwagony all game (I expressed my concerns last day about him).

Stick: Last day he was pretty insistent about Wilson being evil. Then we got a confirmed warning that if Ecthileon dies we should kill stick. That seems like a reasonably powerful and certifiable logic to follow. He's probably my second choice.

The Only Joe: Switching the vote last minute from HH to me in the last twenty minutes changed the entire course of the lynch. Yes he may have had a legitimate reason to do it, but it's still really suspicious. Thus for the moment, The Only Joe. Also we haven't heard from you today.

I'm fine with being lynched today, but just understand it won't accomplish anything.

I've put the second vote on 2 players and today I was obviously gonna vote for you. I wouldn't exactly call that bandwagoning, but even if it was bandwagoning, like I've said before, I don't see that as a bad thing in this case.

For future reference, Stick is a she.

As for you being a Mistborn, that honestly makes me more suspicious because I think it makes that much more sense for the Spiked to reveal what they have to keep you alive.

4 minutes ago, Madagascar said:

You're sho lucky, Dalinar! You might getsh people tryin' to kill you three daysh in a row. Mebbe four! No one ever done paid pooor Matilda sho mutsch attention. At leasht after I got old an' unattractive. Exshept the catsh! The catsh are alwaysh here fer me. The catsh...

*Matilda sits alone on the porch, muttering to herself*

We're either ridiculoushly lucky or ridiculoushly unlucky wif Dalinar. What doesh rollin' copper mean again?

Copper is a Smokers power. Which is the ability to hide your alignment and role from Seekers and stop anyone from manipulating your vote, and also allows you to hide one other player.

Vote tally:

Dalinar(7): Madagascar, Hero, Lopen, Assassin, Arinian, Bugsy, Seonid, Gamma
Hero(3): Wyrm, Stick, Jondesu
Joe(2): Stink, Dalinar
Stick(1): Elenion
Lopen(1): Arraenae
Straw(0): Madagascar
Seonid(1): Madagascar, Hemalurgic
Arraenae(1): Araris
Conquestor(1): Madagascar(so many votes )

No votes(15): Joe, Manukos, Nyali, Conquestor, Silverblade, Magestar, Straw, Doc, Drought, Drake, Wilson, Sart, Orlok, Wonko, Elbereth.

Bolded are those who didn't end with a vote down last Cycle. That's about half of the players not voting. I don't think it's likely that there'll be vote manipulation due to the large gap, but I think we should still watch the votes carefully.

[Arraenae]

1 hour ago, Araris Valerian said:

A non-RP thought - Dalinar is almost certainly not a thug trying to continue delaying his lynch. Otherwise, he probably would have mentioned his thug powers last cycle. The mistborn claim seems reasonable, for all the information we have now. So we can revisit him tomorrow, after his extra life is gone.

 

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Aralis frowned. Of course people would try to kill Reginald, he was downright annoying. On a personal level, Aralis wouldn't mind being rid of the man himself. However, this was not a time for personal feuds to be dealt with. Actually, as he thought about it, the entire population had embraced the whole "koloss" situation with so much enthusiasm that he wasn't quite sure how he had put up with any of them for as many years as he had. Of all the foolishness he had heard today, however, the worst was from Nicki. Aralis had already given her the what-for when she twisted Nyah's insensible words into a plot, but now the woman was doing it again!

 

I was going to explain my reasoning for voting on Lopen more in depth yesterday, but I couldn't find the time. (Do you know how annoying it is to have a parent following you around and asking what you're typing as you desperately try to type a coherent thought on a phone? It's even worse than when that same parent is hovering over your computer at home, too.)

I've had a bad gut read on Lopen since D1, when he immediately echoed what I said about Dalinar and then voted for him. I've also gotten a slight good gut read from my D1 PM with Lopen, but I don't trust my PM reads as much. Lopen's surety about a Spiked lurcher protecting Dalinar was what tipped me into thinking that he's probably Spiked. I'm still not certain that Lopen is Spiked, but I thought that voting on Lopen was better than rehashing everything I said about Dalinar D1.

Will look at this thread more closely after lunch.