Long Game 66: A Struggle for Power

[The Young Pyromancer he/him]

Hah! Two posts in 21 minutes? Pathetic!

[Ookla-son-son-Ventyl]

Alright, I could get more, but it would require me to double post . I don’t think anyone wants that though.

[Ashbringer he/him]

Faleast covered his ears, pulling his widebrimmed hat from below his chair and sticking it on his head. Somewhere, he couldn’t quite tell, two people were bickering quite loudly. They didn’t even seem to be arguing over who was a Loyalist; it seemed that they were just trying to one-up each other for how many words they could spew out of their mouths at one time. Each trying to be the one to close the conversation. There was a third voice, acting as a commentator, or perhaps a secret third competitor.

Ah well. Faleast leaned back again, drawing some strange looks from those around him. He glanced at them. “What?” he asked, pulling his duster back from his eyes and tightening his coat. “We’re going to be here a long time. Might as well get comfortable.”

At least no one was pointing fingers at him anymore. He’d stricken up conversation with a few of his accusers, but they had seemed to take interest in other parties’ affiliations. They all seemed like nice people just trying to find a way out of a bad situation. Faleast kept his eyes open and uncovered - he’d try to rest, but if anyone else wanted to find or talk at him, he’d be right here waiting.

Edit: And we have a new page again with new context! Although none really necessary for my post.

Edited June 5, 2020 by Ashbringer

[Shard of Reading he/him]

Roleplay time!

Reading lounged by the food. He loved food. But the food would have to last a while so he would have to ration himself. If he wanted more food he would have to get out of this (Likely to be) deathtrap. Sighing to himself he walked away from the table begrudgingly. When he got back to the main room he saw that minimal things had changed. Pyro and Shard had gotten into a loud, rather senseless argument over who was louder. People seemed to be fascinated by that instead of finding the loyalists. Reading chuckled. He turned away looking for real conversation finding almost nothing. People were riveted on the conversation/debate over who could spew the most senseless, yet still important crap at once. He walked up to a random person and struck up a conversation. It died almost immediately as small talk seemed inconsequential in the light of what was happening. He knew that some incredibly skilled people could likely find the Loyalist through small talk but he was not one of them. He sighed and turned away. The argument between Pyro and Shard had grown to a crescendo. Sighing, he walked over to see if he could get people back on topic so they could get out of there faster. So he could find something to eat besides c-rations.

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Pyro and Experience I understand trying to get post counts but please it might actual just be easier if you just said stuff that actually related to finding elims. As I said before I want to eat.

[Ookla-son-son-Ventyl]

After being dragged out of the kitchen and thrown into his room, Lafay plotted his escape. Now he wasn’t trying to escape the warehouse, just his musky old poor excuse of a bedroom. This room really isn’t fit for Harmony’s chosen one, He thought, angered about his poor treatment at this warehouse. What kind of place doesn’t have whiskey? They probably only have cheap rum. After he played with those thoughts for the next half hour, he finally remembered what he set out to do.

Escape from his bedroom. This turned out to not be that hard as the old of the old silver door handle wasn’t even locked. Wow, even I could detain someone better than this place, no wonder Loyalist were able to sneak in! He scoffed to himself as he walked out into the dusty hallway. He was immediately bombarded by the sounds of to men screaming at each other. Considering he was drunk out of his mind, he thought’d it’d be a storming good idea to observe, and possibly join in.

The little girl, who still had the meat pies atop her head, and the man mysteriously named Shard were, by what they were saying, seeing who could scream the most. I wonder if that man, Shard, has any relations to another shard besides Harmony? A fellow worldhopper maybe? Etteax thought before hearing that there was money involved in those two’s shouting. Still extremely drunk, hearing money involved, he was immediately interested and hurried over.

He started off quietly making comments during breaks between their shouts, but as it went on further he got more aggressive. One thing was still distracting him though. Why did the girl still have meat pies on her head? Well, I might as well help her get them off her head, He thought and reached over to her. He grabbed the bottom one, this soon proved to be a mistake and he realized why she left them on her head. They were heavy. Very heavy.

”Rust and Ruin Girl! How in Preservations name did you keep these on your head! I can barely hold these things!” He exclaimed. After a few seconds of trying to balance them, he failed. In a glorious explosion, the meat pies covered the hallway. “Huh, well... sorry little girl...”

EDIT:

Ninja’d by Shard of Reading

Edited June 5, 2020 by Ventyl

[StrikerEZ he/him]

Hey, so sadly Lord Silberfarben has realized that they do not have the time to join us in this game anymore. Welcome @Elandera to the game! Please give her some time to catch up on the thread and rules.

Also, in the future, make sure that you do not double post at all. It's against the rules. From here on out, double posts will not count towards post count for the most posts in a turn.

[Ashbringer he/him]

Welp. Silberfarben was the only one here I’ve interacted with on the Alleyverse.

I’m not sure if that’s good or bad for me.

[Elandera she/her]

Hello everyone! Eleven pages is a lot of content to read through, so I'm not sure how helpful I'll be right away. I will hopefully have time tonight to read through things (barring craziness at work) and make some relevant posts for boxings. 

Quick note after breezing through the rules (and I'm sure someone's already said this), but if we are certain of someone being an elim, there needs to be a strong vote majority and people should not store any feruchemical abilities. We also can't inherently trust any votes on someone who flips elim, even early ones, because of how easy it is to subtly cancel your own vote.

[The Young Pyromancer he/him]

Just now, Elandera said:

uick note after breezing through the rules (and I'm sure someone's already said this), but if we are certain of someone being an elim, there needs to be a strong vote majority and people should not store any feruchemical abilities. We also can't inherently trust any votes on someone who flips elim, even early ones, because of how easy it is to subtly cancel your own vote.

Nope! That's new! Good job!

[Mat he/him]

Quick question: What happens to Lahilt's vote? It was on Silber.

Edited June 5, 2020 by Matrim's_Dice

[Elandera she/her]

13 minutes ago, Matrim's_Dice said:

Quick question: What happens to Lahilt's vote? It was on Silber.

Since I am taking over fully for Silber, it would be on me. 

[Experience he/him]

Wow, I'm gone for an hour and Pyro pulls ahead by a mile. Please do lynch pyro, that way I won't have any competition. 

1 hour ago, Araris Valerian said:

We could just lynch Pyro, very nicely ask the elims to kill Experience, and hope that everyone else takes the hint .

How about just the first part of that?  

[The Young Pyromancer he/him]

6 minutes ago, Experience said:

Wow, I'm gone for an hour and Pyro pulls ahead by a mile. Please do lynch pyro, that way I won't have any competition. 

How about just the first part of that?  

It's THREE BOXINGS.

If you want it, I'll give you a medallion later or something.

[Mat he/him]

Was this a joke?:

2 hours ago, The Young Pyromancer said:

Hah! Steelrunner confirmed!

And now some RP, before I go to bed (Pyro might be interested in this one):

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Lord Cauthon still sat there, on that cold stone floor, and while the majority of the group stood gorging on the food he leaned back against the wall, idlily rubbing his arms and deciding that eating the scraps of whatever was left would be better then fighting against the race for the day's meal. Whoever decided to lock twenty men and women, all with fairly dangerous reputations, in a room together was mad. He would be surprised if half of them got out alive.

He scanned the crowd, looking for familiar faces. Lord Cauthon regrettably acknowledged that a familiar face did not mean a trustworthy face- in these times, who knew how many Loyalists hid among them in the crowd- and saw few. He figured whoever set this up did their best to keep everyone in the dark, and that meant unfamiliar with the neighbors as well. The crowd, while it wasn't large, was filled with notable variety. Men, some much older and much younger then Lord Cauthon, women, even children- He saw a young girl run slink across the room. Who knew what she was doing here. He made a mental note to speak to her later this week, figure out her backstory. Surely she wasn't here alone. Children would always spill something, and if she was here, some knowledge could be gained from the encounter. Lord Cauthon smiled. He had thought he would distance himself from everyone else, eating later, not speaking to anyone, hiding in the shadows- but here he was, plotting to skillfully extract information from a helpless- well, probably not entirely helpless, seeing as she was here- young girl. What a fool he was. Snorting, Lord Cauthon went back to the deepness and calm of his thoughts.

Edited June 5, 2020 by Matrim's_Dice

[Experience he/him]

14 minutes ago, The Young Pyromancer said:

It's THREE BOXINGS.

If you want it, I'll give you a medallion later or something.

Nah it's fine. I was mostly just joking about that  

[The Young Pyromancer he/him]

Cool. 

In other news, anything interesting happening in PMs not involving me? I know there's information circulating about the Twinborn population.

[Emi she/her]

Well, hi. Sorry for not responding. I had a lot of things to do in school and I didn’t wanted to write such a long messages. Now we have less to do, there is only one presentation and smaller homework’s. I will try to be more active now

[Experience he/him]

1 minute ago, The Young Pyromancer said:

Cool. 

In other news, anything interesting happening in PMs not involving me? I know there's information circulating about the Twinborn population.

Not really with me. Your one of my only PM's. 

I guess I should probably stop quoting you because that just alerts you to the fact that I'm responding.  

[|TJ| he/him]

How are you guys getting reads out of people when everyone is just yelling "Do not worry about the kandra!"? 

The only thing I can think of is @Ashbringer and his kandra analysis. They started with a solid kandra-could-impersonate statement, but then recanted it saying they didn't want else to worry, and then they recanted their recantation. I would say it's suspicious but I understand a new player's eagerness. 

Araris and @Magestar are likely to be on opposite teams seeing as they are the most experienced players. They could both be eliminators but I don't see them both being villagers. I know it's not an analysis based on "read", but it's the best I can come up with right now. In the spirit of maintaining the tie, Magestar.

[Experience he/him]

I really hope someone posts something by the time I finish this so I don't have to edit in to my post.

RP Time! Might as well make more money!

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Shard hated control. That was, he hated it when others had control over him. It was totally fine when he could control others, or even if he didn't control anyone. The problem was when someone had control of him. There was nothing that he could do but sit and wait. He knew that he wasn't guilty, but he also knew that if he tried to leave he would immediately look guilty and probably get killed. 

Of course, it wasn't all bad. There was free food, and the people weren't half bad. Well, those that he had actually met. Which made up a grand total of one person. Shard knew that he didn't really know them very well anyway, but counted it as a victory. 

Shard decided that he would at least take advantage of the situation and get to know some more people. 

There was only one problem. Shard couldn't approach people. Yes, he could talk to someone but they had to start a conversation. Shard just never knew what to say, and he knew from multiple experiences that adults were even more likely to disregard what you are going to say when you're a fourteen year old boy, and none of these experiences had helped his growing fear of approaching people. 

So Shard waited for someone else to come to him. And was completely content doing so. 

~~

Thank's RJ for the post, now this one can count for that as well.  

[Elandera she/her]

1 minute ago, TJ Shade said:

How are you guys getting reads out of people when everyone is just yelling "Do not worry about the kandra!"? 

The only thing I can think of is @Ashbringer and his kandra analysis. They started with a solid kandra-could-impersonate statement, but then recanted it saying they didn't want else to worry, and then they recanted their recantation. I would say it's suspicious but I understand a new player's eagerness. 

Araris and @Magestar are likely to be on opposite teams seeing as they are the most experienced players. They could both be eliminators but I don't see them both being villagers. I know it's not an analysis based on "read", but it's the best I can come up with right now. In the spirit of maintaining the tie, Magestar.

There are plenty of experienced players in the game, so I disagree with your logic here. Araris and Mage could easily both be villagers if you take into account players like Devotary, Xino, Drake, Walin, Elkanah, and many others I haven't listed. Yes, there are a lot of new players, but there's always a danger in assuming the elim team was chosen based on experience. 

[Experience he/him]

Just now, Elandera said:

There are plenty of experienced players in the game, so I disagree with your logic here. Araris and Mage could easily both be villagers if you take into account players like Devotary, Xino, Drake, Walin, Elkanah, and many others I haven't listed. Yes, there are a lot of new players, but there's always a danger in assuming the elim team was chosen based on experience. 

Yes, this is true. I think it is safe to say that there is at least one more experienced player on the elim team though.

[|TJ| he/him]

10 minutes ago, Elandera said:

There are plenty of experienced players in the game, so I disagree with your logic here. Araris and Mage could easily both be villagers if you take into account players like Devotary, Xino, Drake, Walin, Elkanah, and many others I haven't listed. Yes, there are a lot of new players, but there's always a danger in assuming the elim team was chosen based on experience. 

Well, I did say it's the best I have at the moment. In my defense, they are the only two experienced players who have had some sort of opposing interaction. Though I do agree, hunches made based on experience would not be accurate. 

[Ashbringer he/him]

54 minutes ago, The Young Pyromancer said:

It's THREE BOXINGS.

If you want it, I'll give you a medallion later or something.

I get that this is mostly a joke, but I didn’t think we chose who the medallion went to. Otherwise 2-3 people could cycle it between themselves. And if it can’t go to someone who already has it, it could act as a scan function as to who had previously used the medallion.

According to the doc, it’s random. Although it just occured to me you may have meant handing off the thing without actually using it. In which case, disregard this post.

Speaking of which, how do buying medallions/charged spikes/lerasium beads work? I guess lerasium you get to pick which (allomantic) power you get, but are the spikes/medallions completely random? Or is it that x, y, and z are available, so pick one? If spikes are the same as medallions in that regard, a 10 boxing difference in the prices seems... quite low for the functionality difference. A one-time use then scrambled into the population versus a permanent ability for anytime use. Plus Feruchemy is much more straightforward.

26 minutes ago, TJ Shade said:

The only thing I can think of is @Ashbringer and his kandra analysis. They started with a solid kandra-could-impersonate statement, but then recanted it saying they didn't want else to worry, and then they recanted their recantation. I would say it's suspicious but I understand a new player's eagerness. 

I’m not sure if “recant” is what I was trying to do, but I see what you mean. My meaning was yes it’s a worry that there’s more than an SK in play, but not an act-now-with-no-evidence worry. I did think I had hit something with my theory, but I want to avoid the chaos of... similar SK hunts. Cough.

Plus multiple people getting suspicious about different things kind of threw me off. Pyro thought it suspicious that I specified that I was more worried about elims, which I tried to defend. Then Ventyl thought it was weird for me to write such a big post and then not advocate for searching for it, which is why I specified the elims in the first place.

TL:DR, I’m apprehensive about The-Role-That-Must-Not-Be-Named, but more worried about elims who I know have multiple threats. And am easily confused. 

Edited June 5, 2020 by Ashbringer
Realized I left a thought empty

[|TJ| he/him]

I agree, of course (that we should be worrying about elims). I don't know why focusing on the elims would be viewed as suspicious. We're bound to stumble onto some info about the kandra sooner or later.