Mid-Range Game 46: A Broken Imperium

[Quintessential she/her]

8 minutes ago, Condensation said:

Ooh, college? I don't know why, but I didn't get the impression that you were that age. Huh.

Why, did you think I was older or younger? lol I'm curious how I sound on here

[Condensation she/her]

3 minutes ago, Quinn0928 said:

Why, did you think I was older or younger? lol I'm curious how I sound on here

I thought you were younger because of the way you talk, honestly. I associate grammar and spelling/being able to express yourself with words with adulthood, so the less you do that the younger I tend to think of you.

[Quintessential she/her]

Just now, Condensation said:

I thought you were younger because of the way you talk, honestly. I associate grammar and spelling/being able to express yourself with words with adulthood, so the less you do that the younger I tend to think of you.

lol I'm perfectly capable of speaking and writing with good grammar. It's a style choice.

[Condensation she/her]

1 minute ago, Quinn0928 said:

lol I'm perfectly capable of speaking and writing with good grammar. It's a style choice.

It's all right, it's just the way I think. We definitely have different ways of speaking.

[Quintessential she/her]

4 minutes ago, Condensation said:

It's all right, it's just the way I think. We definitely have different ways of speaking.

Actually I'm usually a grammar and spelling nazi, but for these posts I'm usually typing very fast and coming up with what I'm saying as I write it, so it's never very organized... oof anyway yes I am applying to colleges. Hopefully I sound a bit more mature in my essays...

[Condensation she/her]

17 minutes ago, Quinn0928 said:

Actually I'm usually a grammar and spelling nazi, but for these posts I'm usually typing very fast and coming up with what I'm saying as I write it, so it's never very organized... oof anyway yes I am applying to colleges. Hopefully I sound a bit more mature in my essays...

I'm sure you will. If you hadn't noticed, I'm a Grammar and Spelling Nazi.

@Flyingbooks42, I haven't noticed you commenting but you're on right now. What are your thoughts?

EDIT: I'm stupid pay no attention to me.

Edited November 20, 2020 by Condensation

[Quintessential she/her]

5 minutes ago, Condensation said:

I'm sure you will. If you hadn't noticed, I'm a Grammar and Spelling Nazi.

@Flyingbooks42, I haven't noticed you commenting but you're on right now. What are your thoughts?

Books died C2, remember?

[Condensation she/her]

2 minutes ago, Quinn0928 said:

Books died C2, remember?

*sighs* Nope. I can't remember anything. I'm just glad I didn't summon eltruT like I was going to do. Thanks.

[Quintessential she/her]

np lol

Hmmm @Experience, though, you've been quiet. What do you think?

Edit: Wait don't tell me, XP is a spectator, aren't they...

Edit edit: yes they are I'm so smart... 

[Condensation she/her]

Just now, Quinn0928 said:

Hmmm @Experience, though, you've been quiet. What do you think?

Edit: Wait don't tell me, XP is a spectator, aren't they...

I don't know for sure. You might want to check.

[Quintessential she/her]

Just now, Condensation said:

I don't know for sure. You might want to check.

I remember because someone tried to vote for them C1 and got called out for it.

[Condensation she/her]

2 minutes ago, Quinn0928 said:

I remember because someone tried to vote for them C1 and got called out for it.

Okay. My gosh, we are a pair, aren't we. *face palm*

[Quintessential she/her]

Just now, Condensation said:

Okay. My gosh, we are a pair, aren't we. *face palm*

Yes, as a matter of fact, I think it's reasonable to say that we are. oof also we should probably go back to discussing game things, or we should move to PMs.

[Condensation she/her]

Just now, Quinn0928 said:

Yes, as a matter of fact, I think it's reasonable to say that we are. oof also we should probably go back to discussing game things, or we should move to PMs.

Yes. Game things. So, do you think that there are more than two RBers?

[Quintessential she/her]

4 minutes ago, Condensation said:

Yes. Game things. So, do you think that there are more than two RBers?

I think that if there is a third, that person is either super inactive or an elim. The latter doesn't seem very likely, of course, though it's possible. And as with everything else in this game, I don't know whether there even are three RBers.

Honestly, I think I'm leaning back towards Gears being elim at this point... seeing that other people who voted him before took their votes off when he said he was TLR sort of reassured me that I wasn't blindly letting myself be pocketed by his claim (or at least that I wasn't the only one), but idk...

Edit: Generally speaking, the simplest explanation is usually the correct one. For all that I can rationalize ways that Gears could be TLR or even village, the simplest explanation remains that he's the elim that targeted Reading C1, and that my guess that he was elim payed off when I RBd him.

Edited November 20, 2020 by Quinn0928

[Condensation she/her]

2 minutes ago, Quinn0928 said:

I think that if there is a third, that person is either super inactive or an elim. The latter doesn't seem very likely, of course, though it's possible. And as with everything else in this game, I don't know whether there even are three RBers.

Honestly, I think I'm leaning back towards Gears being elim at this point... seeing that other people who voted him before took their votes off when he said he was TLR sort of reassured me that I wasn't blindly letting myself be pocketed by his claim (or at least that I wasn't the only one), but idk...

I agree, but if they were an elim they'd probably have claimed to me already. Nothing to lose from that, right? I think I would have automatically trusted anyone who claimed to me with fairly good evidence that they were an RBer then. I've thought things through a little more and I think I might be a little more suspicious if they claimed just now, but it's still a pretty easy pocket. I'm pretty easy to pocket. (*cough, Mat, cough*)

[Quintessential she/her]

Just now, Condensation said:

I agree, but if they were an elim they'd probably have claimed to me already. Nothing to lose from that, right? I think I would have automatically trusted anyone who claimed to me with fairly good evidence that they were an RBer then. I've thought things through a little more and I think I might be a little more suspicious if they claimed just now, but it's still a pretty easy pocket. I'm pretty easy to pocket. (*cough, Mat, cough*)

Yes, I remember that lol. And you're right, one of the elims could decide to try to back up Gears' story by saying they RBd a random villager. So, basically, we're likely to be very suspicious of anyone who claims to be an RBer now, but hadn't before.

[Guest Somebody from Scadrial]

Ok so... my old points say Gears  but my don't kill the very important person mindset says the opposite. Well I'm voting him.

[Quintessential she/her]

I... guess I've argued myself back into voting him as well. Gears.

[Vapor she/her]

I think by voting Gears, Quinn is trying to distance herself from him. Quinn.

[Quintessential she/her]

Just now, Vapor said:

I think by voting Gears, Quinn is trying to distance herself from him. Quinn.

Yes, that's what I'm doing. Of course, that's what I'd be doing whether I were a fellow elim or a villager who thought they'd been pocketed, and who didn't want to end up implicated next round if he is lynched and is an elim.

So I don't really get how that's suspicious.

[Vapor she/her]

People have had increasing suspicions on you and Gears, and you have been defending Gears for a while. Suddenly changing your opinion is not something most people would do, they would have increasing doubts and speak of them. In my opinion.

[Quintessential she/her]

22 minutes ago, Vapor said:

People have had increasing suspicions on you and Gears, and you have been defending Gears for a while. Suddenly changing your opinion is not something most people would do, they would have increasing doubts and speak of them. In my opinion.

I've had doubts this whole time, Vapor, and if I haven't voiced them on the main thread it was because there were too many of them to even begin. I roleclaimed to Ash before anyone else, and by C3 I was convinced he was an elim, only now it turns out he isn't. I roleclaimed to Reading as well, and had gone back and forth between believing that was a good decision and believing I made a terrible mistake. I ended up advocating that we vote him out, only to realize that he's actually village. I thought that turtle was elim, only I also somehow found myself believing what she said to me in PMs even before we voted her out and saw that she was an obligator. I'm still unsure whether Mist/Fadran is an elim, and I've gone back and forth on that one as well. And obviously, I RBd Gears, then thought he was an elim and anonymously accused him of it, then ended up roleclaiming to him once he told me he was TLR, then went back and forth all of last cycle thinking that he was or wasn't an elim, then started off this cycle voting him, then took my vote off when I realized that I wasn't the only one who found his claim of being TLR half-believable, and then put it back on because the simplest explanation for events thus far is that Gears is an elim.

I think the only person I haven't had doubts about at this point is Connie.

Edit: by which I mean I've been pretty sure this whole time that she's village.

Edited November 20, 2020 by Quinn0928

[Vapor she/her]

2 minutes ago, Quinn0928 said:

I've had doubts this whole time, Vapor, and if I haven't voiced them on the main thread it was because there were too many of them to even begin. I roleclaimed to Ash before anyone else, and by C3 I was convinced he was an elim, only now it turns out he isn't. I roleclaimed to Reading as well, and had gone back and forth between believing that was a good decision and believing I made a terrible mistake. I ended up advocating that we vote him out, only to realize that he's actually village. I thought that turtle was elim, only I also somehow found myself believing what she said to me in PMs even before we voted her out and saw that she was an obligator. I'm still unsure whether Mist/Fadran is an elim, and I've gone back and forth on that one as well. And obviously, I RBd Gears, then thought he was an elim and anonymously accused him of it, then ended up roleclaiming to him once he told me he was TLR, then went back and forth all of last cycle thinking that he was or wasn't an elim, then started off this cycle voting him, then took my vote off when I realized that I wasn't the only one who found his claim of being TLR half-believable, and then put it back on because the simplest explanation for events thus far is that Gears is an elim.

I think the only person I haven't had doubts about at this point is Connie.

Edit: by which I mean I've been pretty sure this whole time that she's village.

Yes, but seeming to switch so quickly might be the result of elim doc telling you to switch.

[Quintessential she/her]

7 minutes ago, Vapor said:

Yes, but seeming to switch so quickly might be the result of elim doc telling you to switch.

Do you actually think that any given group of elims is inexperienced enough to suggest that elim!me behave that erratically? Again, for about the twentieth time, this is my second game, and my first as a villager. Is it really that hard to imagine that I might be a bit... well, disoriented?

Edit: After all, if I were an elim I'd have other people to help me make sense of things and I wouldn't constantly doubt who I trust because I'd know what everyone is. 

Edited November 20, 2020 by Quinn0928