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    I'm going to have to go back and read through Orlok's posts, but from your descriptions of them, it sounds like he contradicts himself from time to time in his complaints of you. Trying to sow mistrust in the person doing probably most of the talking? Also, can we please find out who was scanned? I want to know if we can definitely trust Ada. Edit: With regards to Kaid, would he have known if he was roleblocked that night? I don't think he would have. He would have just died, with maybe a comment about him being blocked in his death note from Wyrm. The question I would take away from this is, who else knew Kaid's role? Who knew to role block him? Edit 2: Has this Mistborn of yours been confirmed good? I know it is unlikely that the Traitors have a Mistborn, but if there are (or were) 8 of them, it is possible. If they are not confirmed, it is possible they shared their target with the Traitors (either willingly or unknowingly).
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    So, just watched this week's Flash and...
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    I agree that you should be scanned because like it or not, you are playing a fairly important part this game. But I don't think you are taking the fun out of the game.
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    My talent is bimbling. Bimbling is the ability to constantly be late through being distracted by talking to random people about random stuff. It also extends to making other people late by doing the same thing to them. As a slight extension to bimbling, I am also very forgetful (this counts as bimbling because it is always the important stuff that is forgotten, until about two minutes too late).
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    The smell of fish drifted through the trading outpost as a young man climbed from a carriage. It didn't take him long to set up a stall, selling freshly caught fish. Borter Clams, returning from the grave for another jaunt through Jeskeri territory.
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    Is that someone saying you can't be a girl because you are a geek, or you can't be a geek because you are a girl? Most of the geek girls I know would be quite willing to break noses of people who approached them and said this.
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    That doesn't look at all suspicious, Ada But, given that you seem to be some kind of contact hub for this game, it wouldn't surprise me if you found out his role. I think that makes me less suspicious, not more, especially since I was the one that put forward Creccio's name for the lynch. Far too high profile for most Eliminators. You may also note that I was voting for BB on Day one until I read Shallan's post. I don't have any real suspicions, but I do have a niggling thought bouncing around my skull about that day one vote. It's a little audacious, but I could see the players involved try to pull it off to build trust with the Loyalists. BB was a Traitor, we know that now, and so was Wilson. Wilson started the voting on Shallan to offer an alternative to lynching BB. Kipper very quickly jumped onto that vote using the same reasoning as Wilson (so did I, but I know I'm a Loyalist - up to you if you believe me or not). What if Kipper is a Traitor too? I know, all the arguments would say that isn't possible. No two players so experienced would team up like that on day one to save one of their own. But what if it is all a colossus manipulation on their part? That is something I could see Wilson and Kipper trying to pull off, all using the argument "But I can't be an Eliminator. No Eliminators would be stupid enough to team up like that to save another Eliminator." Kipper could even have the defense of "But I started the lynch train on Wilson," which is true (although with no visible reasoning beyond 'She's the ultimate evil'), but by then Wilson had already been discovered, which they may have already known if the Kandra (or someone they are connected to) had mentioned it in a PM (which we know they did as multiple people have come forward and said they knew). Given my current track record, I'm probably way off base here, but all of this looks too neat to me, almost designed to foster trust in Kipper. So, Kipper, you're it until you're dead or I find someone better. PS. "Only a Sith deals in absolutes," Obi Wan said, absolutely.
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    Fixed that for you Kipper.
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    I will smile, and nod, and pretend this makes sense to me
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    Just to make it official... Adavantos. Also, my Mistborn comment was not a vote. I'm not going to vote on who the Mistborn should take out, since that's up to the Mistborn. Instead, I'm just offering up my opinion. Edited the quote above to reflect. Edit: Updating numbers in the tallies.
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    And I thought this thread was about Cosmere characters taking drugs. Part of me is slightly disappointed now.
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    Hey guys, sorry for my absence over the weekend. I tend to let myself get distracted by stuff. This weekend it was Netflix, Stargate SG-1, and Fallout New Vegas achievement hunting. Good job on getting Wilson For the people to be scanned, I think Ada needs to be. For all his claims that he doesn't want to be a leader this game, he seems to have ended up in the role regardless, so we should probably be sure. Ada, personally I believe you are innocent, and I think you are doing a pretty good job keeping people talking. Of course, given my track record so far this game, that probably means you are a Traitor. For a Mistborn kill, I'd send them after Dowanx. He hasn't said a thing in the thread (that I've noticed at least, it's possible I've missed a post), but it has been said that he is active in PMs. Not only does that kinda defeat the point of the game (discussing things to try to find the Traitors doesn't work so well when you don't talk publicly), but it also makes him look dodgy, like he has something to hide. Edit: I just noticed this line in the post before this one, and would like to say, of course people don't take you at your word in Sanderson Elimination. That is because people are expected to lie to cover their backs and protect themselves. As they say... "doveryai no proveryai".
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    I want to play Fallout 4, but it's going to cost me hundreds of pounds (need to replace my PC first)
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    For someone reading Pratchett for the first time, the worst piece of advice you can offer is 'Start at the beginning'. Start with a book maybe half a dozen into the Discworld, Guards, Guards maybe. Or Reaper Man. Then, once you are hooked, go back to The Colour of Magic and read them through. Why? Simple. His early books are just not as good as the later ones. Don't get me wrong, they are still funny, but later books are just better. ScottLeft said something about the Discworld being a few different series of books under one title. This isn't exactly true. Pratchett does keep coming back to certain characters in his Discworld books - the witches, the wizards, the city watch, and Death, to name a few, but each book, read in chronological order instead adds more to the world. Reading, say, just the guards books will probably feel a bit jarring because of the world development in the books in between.
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    There's a Tang drink?
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    Playing Fallout New Vegas currently. I'm on a bit of a mission to unlock the last of the achievements I need for it. I only have about 7 left to go. I am not, however, looking forward to sitting through 30+ games of Caravan for that achievement. I played D&D Online when it first came out. Thought it was great, if a bit limited.
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    You can have my luck Kas, although you may not want it. I've had a really bad game so far. Edit: I feel I should also point out the obvious. If you come up with some kind of Unifying Theory, as you put it, and it's wrong, you're going to be next up for the lynch.
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    I, on the other hand, was all like
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    I'm just checking in. Not much new to add apart from I'm thinking about just not putting any new names forward for lynch targets. Shallan was an innocent, and it turned out Creccio was too.
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    Creccio, you don't love to instigate discussion though, you love to extract whatever information you can from a situation, without offering up any in return. Even this long post of yours defending yourself. It says nothing. Of course Maill was suspicious of you on day one. Everyone suspects everyone on day one. But, what made him suspicious enough of you to approach you in a PM? Your sole defense to that is 'But everyone is suspicious of everyone'. While true, Maw didn't contact me to tell me he was suspicious of me. Did anyone else receive a PM from Maw to tell you he was suspicious of you? You retracted your votes during the D1 cycle to test a theory. Fine. What theory? You've already said you would share the reasons behind it in a PM, and no-one has confirmed that they have heard those reasons from you (I asked in an earlier post this cycle - not what the reasons were, but if they had heard them - no-one came forward). I even asked you in a PM about it. You fobbed me off with a platitude, then went right on trying to extract intel from me, asking for an analysis of your posts no less. Were you looking for hints about what you need to improve on to remain hidden as an eliminator? And finally, again, you offer an explanation... In a PM. There is pretty much nothing in your posts that suggests you are trustworthy. Edit: Oh, right, forgot to mention... I don't fish for roles in PMs either. I did ask Lopen if he cared to share his role in our PM, but that was primarily a joke and I fully expected his answer of 'No'.
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    Braize you all, stop typing. I'm trying to finish writing a post
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    I'm pretty certain that between Kipper and Wilson, there is only one eliminator if any at all. Both are highly experienced players, so I doubt they would both go and post the same thing, at the same time, both voting for the same person. Or, at least, they wouldn't unless they had some kind of devastating plan.
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    Oh, I imagine they will have a strong pilot episode, and when I say they will use the crossover to launch it, I meant more the concept of it than the actual team. Vandal Savage turns up, does something terrible. Rip Hunter follows shortly afterwards trying to stop him. That's the Flash episode. The Arrow episode will be when Vandal Savage goes to meet Damien Darhk for tea and crumpets, and that's when Rip Hunter recruits the 'irregulars' for his Legends team. Sorry, my mistake, it wasn't a twit I had referenced, it was an interview. In an interview, Stephen Amell said this...
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    I'm fairly sure the crossover episodes will be the ones that introduce Rip Hunter and Vandal Savage, so I can see them using it as a platform to launch Legends of Tomorrow. in that kind of scenario, why wouldn't you have them all together?
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    Magician is a brilliant book, with lots of good world building (on two different worlds, as well). Book #2, Silverthorn, I thought less of. It was more like a write up of a D&D game than a real novel (which it probably was). Darkness at Sethanon, the third book, was another really good one. I thought the quality of his later books (the final half dozen or so) went considerably down hill, some containing simple continuity errors and mistakes. Others seemed to introduce plot points then do nothing with them. Then my final criticism of Feist was his need to introduce the various 'Elven races of the series', in which there seemed to be a new Elf subspecies every other book. Alternatively, I would also add my names to those recommending the Malazan Book of the Fallen, and also recommend an author called China Mieville. I've always been impressed with his world building. Try Perdido Street Station, or The Scar.
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