Elenion he/him Posted August 25, 2017 Posted August 25, 2017 Boris watched as a group of Epics began to fight, throwing lightning, fire, drugs, and who knows what else. It was interesting sport, but not altogether safe: Boris was just a merchant caught in the middle of the recent turmoil. He had no epic powers of his own. If one of them decided to come after him, he was toast. Then, suddenly, Boris' lights went out. Nobody had knocked his lights out; he just suddenly couldn't see anything but black. And for a merchant like Boris, that was very bad for business.
DrakeMarshall he/him Posted August 25, 2017 Posted August 25, 2017 Well, thought I'd drop by real quick. I don't have much time so my RP may not be up to crack, but yeah. 2 hours ago, BrightnessRadiant said: Scotty turned to look at Robin running towards her, the glow of her force field reflecting off of the tears in her eyes, making them appear to glow as well. "I'm sorry.", she whispered. Forming a large sphere around the area of misty wall, she cut a large portion of the wall with the force field and threw it to the side. She charged through the hole, the epic rage beginning to flow through her as she unleashed her powers on the approaching figures. Large glowing orbs flew towards the attackers, causing them to leap to either side. "If you work for Balelight, you can tell her I'm NOT interested!" Scotty whirled on the epic to her right, who was regaining her footing. "I don't want to fight you! Don't make me do this!" She formed a large force field around the girl, trapping her inside. It was hard to form the orbs, when she'd not used her powers in years, but even harder to control the rage that was stealing away her former self. Noticing movement from her left, she turned and saw the other epic coming at her. She formed a second field around this epic, grimacing at the effort it took to hold both orbs in place. She stood, trying to think of what to do next. She couldn't hold both fields around the epics forever. "Please! Just....listen....to me!" She struggled to push through the strained effort of holding such a large force and form the words. "I can't....join Balelight! I won't! Please.....just let me leave!" Tears flowed down her cheeks, mingling with the sweat and rain. Fight the rage Scotty! Push through the pain! You can't give in and become what every epic does eventually, a monster. Oddly, she heard the words in her head as Robin's voice. Robin. If anyone could help her now....it was him. I'm very sorry, but you're going to have to do more than that to get through to Aaliyah in her current state. On the bright side, know that Aaliyah will certainly recover, given enough time, and so long as neither of us is dead, then you could always try to be her friend at that point. Well, you can either take that route, or give in to the rage. Calamity-induced evil has a way of perpetuating itself, and you're bound to recover from it eventually. Join the dark side. You know you want to. Why did you guys make it rain... Aaliyah is normally a pretty decent person, I swear. And not nearly this powerful normally. But in these conditions, with raindrops rebounding off every surface, her scrying could temporarily be reclassified as a full invulnerability prime ability, where normally it's only about as effective as the Aviar danger sense. "If... If I work for Balelight?? How dare you!!!!!" Aaliyah dodged and wove around the pair, avoiding crushing walls of energy. Those forcefields may be enough to catch a normal person, no problem, but her opponent could only manipulate those fields in real time. And time was a strange beast, wasn't it? Aaliyah feinted to one side, as the forcefields closed in where she had been moments before, and hurled her knife at the epic. It spun once around as it arced through the air, it's point seeking out the forcefield epic.
Eternum he/him Posted August 25, 2017 Posted August 25, 2017 (edited) As Aaliyah's knife spun through the air, Sol stepped forward into the fighters' lines of sight, seemingly uncaring of the danger, his black hair plastered to his head by the rain. Then, as the knife flew past him, time stopped. Raindrops froze in mid-air, Aaliyah's knife stopped tumbling end over end, and Sol was the only person still moving, turning his head to look at both sides of the fight. Except everyone saw time stopping, knew it was happening. Their brains still worked. Time was a strange beast, wasn't it? "I think this has gone on long enough. Don't you? I don't like pointless fights, and the direction this is going, it'll also be a waste of life and potential. I would rather not waste either of those. Can't you all just... I'unno, talk about your problems like normal people?" He sighed. "Powers are at play in this city, and you all wanna be really far away from ground zero when the conflict is resolved, if you catch my drift.." Sol shrugged. "I'd suggest making better decisions this time around." He took a deep breath, and as he exhaled, time lurched backwards, like putting a tape on rewind, back to the point when Aaliyah drew her arm back to throw the knife. Amidst the chaos and disorientation, Sol's voice rang hollowly. "Oh, I forgot to introduce myself. The name's Sol, but for all intents and purposes... Call me Tachyon." Edited August 25, 2017 by Eternum 3
Eternum he/him Posted August 25, 2017 Posted August 25, 2017 Well, Winter, I'd vote and offer analysis and stuff... But we literally have nothing to go on. We don't even know which faction the elims are, for Pete's sake. (By that, I mean I'm not sure yet.)
King Cole he/him Posted August 25, 2017 Posted August 25, 2017 I'm scared that if vote I'll get targeted by one of the sides
Lemonelon Posted August 25, 2017 Posted August 25, 2017 Is it bad etiquette to vote in the last minutes of the cycle?
Elbereth she/her Posted August 25, 2017 Posted August 25, 2017 (edited) MR24: Cycle 4 - In Which Balelight Suffocates Someone The sky was dark above Balelight’s city. Above the clouds, though, the sky was bright and blue. Balelight allowed herself a rare smile. On a whim, she cast her gaze downward, burning a hole through the clouds and anything that happened to be beneath them. Lasers pierced the clouds and struck the ground beneath, which Balelight recognised as near the hospital. She descended slowly through the clouds in the shaft of sunlight she’d created, like a goddess from the heavens. Her eyes were met with chaos. Indistinctly, through the rain, she could see fighting and the glow of what looked like a forcefield, although most of it was obscured by mist. “What is this,” she said, voice amplified by the air around her. She began to gesture a wave of air to push away the rain obscuring her way, but was stopped by a voice. “Balelight! Balelight,” gasped Stormwarden. “I didn’t do this, it isn’t my fault, I don’t know what’s going on, I came and found you as soon as I could-” She tried to continue talking, but no sound came out. Balelight brought down the fist she’d made, holding the air in Annabelle’s lungs. “Hush,” she said, entirely unnecessarily. “Blathering irritates me. And as far as I can tell, the enemies to my rule have still not been found,” she said, amplifying her voice again. “Let this be a lesson to you all. Every time that you do not bring me a suspect or kill them yourselves, someone in this city will die. Perhaps many people. Do not test me.” Stormwarden fell to the ground. Balelight ignored her, stalking toward the commotion that had occurred earlier and pushing away the rain in an expanding wave as she did so. “Now, would anyone care to tell me what, exactly, is going on here?” Hissss. This is the sound of water superheating. Plop. This is the sound of a girl falling into a puddle of lava. Aieeeeeee. This is the sound of Altea Meza’s scream as she burns to death in said puddle. Lemonelon was killed by Balelight’s wrath! She was the Epic Stormwarden, with powers of Chain Lightning and Windform, and part of the Epic Cabal! Crimsn has died! Vote Count: No one voted on anyone. Cycle 4 has begun. You have 47 hours to vote and send in actions. Player List: [REDACTED] - Paranoid King, person who specializes in collecting relics. Starshatter and Birdrider - Winter Devotion, star crossed Australian runaways. Jon - Jondesu, amazing with computers but absolutely useless when it comes to talking to peopleReckoners Demolitions Expert Mark - Mark IV Biff - Elenion, a street salesman in the wrong place at the wrong time Sandra Kensington - Sami, weapons manufacturer with dark secret Rashers - Majestic, a bacon-summoning Epic Hydroplane Impulse - The Flash Shockwave - King Cole, Epic with a terrible singing voice Matt - Shqueeves, orphan who never knew anything better Anonymous - Alvron, The Collective will ensure you never know anything about him Silver Feather - Roadwalker Malcontent Tammy - Rebecca, the accidental daughter of Obliteration () Amy Scott - Brightness Radiant, out of place punster Nameless Character I - Drake Marshall Annabelle - Lemonelon, an "engineer" Epic Stormwarden Sol - Eternum Lightwood - RippleGylf Outblack - Hemalurgic_Headshot Falchion - Elithanathile Cranium - Frozen Mint Annoan - Megasif Nameless Character II - Ecthelion III Pickle - asterion137, a small - time thief Altea Meza - Crimsn_Wolf, a petite young drifter Fess - Arinian Edited August 26, 2017 by Elbereth 9
Elenion he/him Posted August 25, 2017 Posted August 25, 2017 Ok, so now there's an Epic Cabal. A cabal is a secret political faction/alliance, so it looks like this game is more than just Reckoners v Epics or Malcontents v Loyal Citizens. I'd guess that the Reckoners, the Cabal, and Malcontents all sound like they want Balelight dead, but may or may not need to target the others as well.
Hemalurgic Headshot he/him Posted August 25, 2017 Posted August 25, 2017 Wait a second... is Balelight a role? That would kind of make sense, seeing that lots of people might want to kill her?
Seonid he/him Posted August 25, 2017 Author Posted August 25, 2017 Clarification, because I've been asked: There were no votes last cycle, so there was a random lynch. Lemonelon was the random lynch target.
Elithanathile he/him Posted August 25, 2017 Posted August 25, 2017 I will confess I laughed when I read the write-up for Crimsn's death. I'm not sorry. 5
Alvron Posted August 25, 2017 Posted August 25, 2017 Hmm, so we don't get to learn Crimsn's role? Does that mean we have a Bodysnatcher/Janitor type role out there as well? Interesting.
BrightnessRadiant she/her Posted August 25, 2017 Posted August 25, 2017 Oh snap, Balelight's comin to the rp lol Aaaaaaand I told you, you should vote. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I think even I'll vote this cycle cuz I don't want to die randomly before I can meet my win con. I'll think about it a bit more. Someone asked last cycle if the no voting was normal, but it was never answered. No, this game is anything but normal lol. It's basically chock full of different factions apparently and individual win cons probably mixed with a few group win cons. It's also a blackout game so we don't know even half of what's going on. So, yeah everyone basically turned to rp. While the rp is great, fantastic even, I'm sure we can all agree that we should really try and do something at least. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Here's what I know: 1. There's been at least 4 factions mentioned as far as I can tell: (Reckoners, Neutrals, Malcontents, Epic Cabal) 2. If no one votes than someone random will die, and that's not in my best interest lol. 3. There's either an elim faction or multiple kill roles (or both) because last cycle 3 people were attacked that weren't lynch targets. (So I'm guessing there's probably a lot of protection roles to balance out the kills) 4. Someone is passing items around and stealing or trading. So we have a thief role of some kind I guess. I wonder if their win con is to steal or pass a certain number of items ¯\_(ツ)_/¯) 5. We have no idea when the game will end. (Could be the standard elim or village outnumbering or could be when someone kills Balelight or some other condition.) Can't think of anything else....my only conclusion from what I know about the game is that we should stop letting the vote be random now. Cuz, I want to meet my win con and don't want to die to a random lynch before I can. So, if anyone has a grudge against anyone now's the time to get a lynch going and I might help ya lol. 1
King Cole he/him Posted August 25, 2017 Posted August 25, 2017 @BrightnessRadiant I totally agree, but we don't really have anybody to suspect yet. 1
BrightnessRadiant she/her Posted August 25, 2017 Posted August 25, 2017 1 minute ago, King Cole said: @BrightnessRadiant I totally agree, but we don't really have anybody to suspect yet. Yes, I agree as a neutral lol....if I had a win con looking for village or elim to kill though I'd probably have a few guesses for who to vote on. If their is a standard village vs elim team or even just a win con that involves a lynch, they might as well use it heh. (I'm simply encouraging it so I won't die randomly) ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Sami she/her Posted August 25, 2017 Posted August 25, 2017 Oh great here comes Balelight. Everyone, run for your life!!! (anybody care to fight her with Sandra?) Right now as a Neutral, I don't really have any suspicions and I don't know what to be suspicious of..... So yeah if someone starts a lynch, maybe I'll jump on, maybe I won't.
BrightnessRadiant she/her Posted August 25, 2017 Posted August 25, 2017 32 minutes ago, Sami said: Oh great here comes Balelight. Everyone, run for your life!!! (anybody care to fight her with Sandra?) Heh might be time to join forces after all, eh? (but we probably should run...yeah xD) 1
Sami she/her Posted August 25, 2017 Posted August 25, 2017 Lol I have no idea how to RP this next bit 2
Rebecca she/her Posted August 25, 2017 Posted August 25, 2017 This is all so confusing! Maybe a blackout game was a bad idea for my first time playing SE....... Oh well, it's still super fun. Also, as a side note, I am also neutral (I know big surprise), and I may be persuaded to help anyone who needs it. 1
Seonid he/him Posted August 25, 2017 Author Posted August 25, 2017 1 hour ago, winter devotion said: @SeonidWhat happened to Crimsn? It didn't say confirm her role and alignment in the writeup. That was deliberate
Mint11 she/her Posted August 26, 2017 Posted August 26, 2017 I suspect that no one's really been voting for the lynch, because a lot of players are neutral and don't need anyone else dead, and the others don't want to out themselves by openly trying to kill someone. I personally don't want to make the wrong enemies which is why I'm also hesitant about choosing someone to vote on. We really need information. I have the ability to create PMs, so if anyone is interested in sharing information, please let me know. And do so if you are ready to give out information, not just if you want a PM. I can't make an infinite amount. This offer includes just exchanging some info. with me and also if you'd like me to share something with the thread. I'll probably also PM some people who haven't asked for a PM, because I don't want everyone to know who I'm PMing. For the record, I am neutral and not trying to kill anyone yet. 1
Alvron Posted August 26, 2017 Posted August 26, 2017 I'll take one of them there PMs iff'n you don't mind Minty. An information trade sounds most interesting.
King Cole he/him Posted August 26, 2017 Posted August 26, 2017 Anyone find it weird @Megasif hasn't commented the whole game?
Alvron Posted August 26, 2017 Posted August 26, 2017 1 hour ago, King Cole said: Anyone find it weird @Megasif hasn't commented the whole game? Given that Mega has posted every cycle, no, I don't find it weird at all. 1
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