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Phattemer, where were you able to see Shallan's statistical work? I find myself quite interested in seeing the work that was attributed to me. That and I just have an appreciation for well done math.
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Just a point of clarification. I didn't post any numbers. I wasn't in the buffet car last round. It was a nice compliment, though, and I'm sure that the person who actually did the analysis appreciates it. So peng. A new player (looking back, this is his second game) votes for meta, and so you, disliking bandwagons as you do, bandwagoned on him? Not adding up to me. EDIT: Spelling
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That looks right to me, Bridge Boy. Correct formatting and all that. For my vote, something seems off about Adamir's pre-emptive defense of himself, but I'm not on the mood to start a bandwagon today. That and I believe that it could just be being new showing through. I'm going to actually call out peng. What was with your last minute retraction of your vote for meta? You said it was because you didn't like bandwagoning, but in response, you place it on a player who already had one vote on them, bringing them within one vote of being considered for a lynch.
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Oh. I had forgotten. But if we are counting vote sheet the prior one hasn't been greened out, then Meta's still at 4, even with my vote. Ren, what about Leif's vote? Is it valid, considering that he asked a moderator to fix the color for him?
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Well, in that case, I think that I'm going to tie up the vote. Orlok. Araris All Meta has done so far is roleplay. There's not enough reason for a lynch yet. This should tie up the vote at 3 each.
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Adamir, Meta is currently at 4 votes, enough to be lynched even without your vote. If you really want to tie it up, either Araris or yourself would be your only bet.
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You're missing a vote on Meta, I think, Jain. Leif Erikeller put one on Meta before Peng did. It's not in red (probably because he's on a mobile or something), but he asked a moderator to fix it. I think that, in the past, we've counted those. Ren would have to make the final call, obviously, but it's worth noting, especially if he comes back and fixes it. It's actually dangerously close to becoming a bandwagon. Analysis time, perhaps. Meta has been basically role-playing so far. There are substantive points hidden in the RP, but he hasn't actually come out and given arguments. I honestly can't see why there are so many votes on him? Aanwolf I understand. Leif just says he doesn't trust him without posting reasoning. Peng was just after the money. EDIT: It looks like Peng was before Leif
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Good enough for me, Orlok. I hope you don't mind that I'm leaving my vote on you because I want my coin. If you come up for the lynch, I'll move my vote somewhere else unless there good reason. On the points made by Aanwolf. Those are valid. Wholely and completely. Personally, I am against many first round lynches because there's almost never enough information to make a reasonable guess. It's mostly just sorting in the dark. On the other hand, the lynch is one of the most important sources of information in the game, and removing that information source the first round is not good for the village's prospects. Not to mention that people have no reason to respond if they know we're not going to lynch them. A solution (one I advocate fully for this game especially, where there are no roles and the lynch and it's surrounding discussion are our only points of information) is to have what phattemer called "discussion with intent to lynch." We are not going to take lynching off the table. Our discussion is oriented towards finding a target for the lynch. The pressure is real and present. However, we aren't married to the idea of a round 1 lynch. If our discussion doesn't produce a good target, then we don't lynch. We had a good discussion of the related themes in the Anniversary Game. I would recommend reading it if you'd like to see arguments out our in far more cogent detail than I am providing here. It's also worth mentioning that Meta tends to use inactive players as ablative targets. Woe into you if you're inactive in a game where Meta's got a Coinshot role. As far as I can make out, his theory is that if your not talking, you're not helping and if your not helping, it's worth lynching/village killing you for that alone. I don't go so far, but it is a valid viewpoint. Inactive players provide a place for Eliminators to hide, as well as reducing the amount of players available to vote down the Eliminators, which effectively means that they need to kill less people to win.
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Hmmm...right now lynching would be a shot in the dark. We have no information to base it off of, and there isn't even a Night action to start us off. But on the other hand, the only way to get information at this point is to get people talking, and if lynching them isn't really on the table, then there's no incentive to do so. So count me in on the discussion with intent to lynch for now, with the understanding that that could change by the end of the cycle if I feel that no good candidates are up. I'll call out Orlok, to start with. Hasn't been active yet (but the game's young still), and I'd like to hear from him. As a general note, inactivity in a game like this may well be a capital crime. I intend to treat it as such, and I fully expect reciprocity if I go inactive. (I do make an exception to those who have already announced pending periods of inactivity, especially if they did so before role PM's went out.)
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So...confession to make as your new king: I actually didn't protect anyone tonight. By the time I got on to put in my action, the cycle was over. Not that it would have mattered much - I would have protected Meta, not Wilson, because he'd asked for it, and I didn't have time to think things through. The cultists gambled that the Warriors would protect Meta that round, because his pendant had been used, and successfully got Wilson killed. If I'd have had more time, I might have come to that conclusion, or I might have protected Twei, thinking that they were going to try to sneak a kill through on the Warriors. An even bet either way. Setting my misdeeds aside for now, this was an amazingly fun game! (Also, isn't it weird that I end up with protection roles every single game that has them? Just a side note...) Props to Tulir and Hero, and thanks to all of you for making it so much fun to play with!
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Ignore me, my mobile acting up
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To answer your question, Araris, my original vote was a quick, gut reaction vote to the fear that the Cultists may now have an Elantrian. I'm willing to remove it now, Clanky, with the revelation that you're holding a vial of poison. When Meta could have been sent to Elantris, saving Luckat? Not seemingly a Cultist thing to do. I also realized that Clanky is the only unconfirmed Elantrian. If he does anything suspicious tonight, we'll know. EDIT: Storming autocorrect!
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That's actually an excellent idea. Fireball Luckat. I'm voting Clanky
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Food into my worldbuilding? That is a good question. Recently, I've been working on the ecology of one of my settings (actually, the one I was referring to above, with the sentient non humanoids), and one of the most difficult parts was putting together a food web. The setting itself is a massive, contingent sized desert in the center of a super continent. Near the eastern edge is a rather large range of mountains, with spurs that jut out to nearly enclose a large basin. The mountains catch what meager rainfall is available in the arid center of the super continent, allowing human cities to eke out a precarious existence on the edge of the desert. While their food habits can be highly interesting, the really fascinating food related exhibit is the food chain out in the deep desert. Many areas of the desert are dominated by dune seas, vast stretches of sand that can go on for miles, and in places can reach thousands of feet deep. There are aquifers under the sand, some fossil - not being replenished by rainfall in other areas - others whose tendrils reach out to the mountains and are recharged there. Into both kinds of aquifers in various places erupt volcanic vents, sources of heat and chemicals for bacteria and other micro-life. These support an array of filter feeders, moving through the waterlogged sand like earthworms do through more rich soil. These, turn ate preyed on by other strange creatures. The ecosystems vary, of course, from aquifer to aquifer, and from place to place within the aquifers. Where the sand is not too deep, the inhabitants can grow quite large. Where the sand is deepest, nothing but micro life can live, because of the extreme pressure of the sand above. All of this is, however a diversion from the main attraction, which is the near-surface life. In the places where the sand is shallow (less than several hundred feet) there grow from the deep water to the upper reaches vast plant-like creatures, who absorb the heat from the surface (although they don't break the surface, as the water loss due to the arid climate would outweigh the energy available) and take up water and other nutrients from the deep, mineral rich aquifers below. This water transport mechanism supports a wide variety of life just barely beneath the surface of the desert. The most common variety is a worm-like creature, about the size of a weevil, that has a photosynthetic exoskeleton and derives its miniscule water needs from these plants spoken of. It is the food source of several surface filter feeders of various kinds. Most things in the deserts don't live on the surface, but they have to go there to find the sand weevils. These mid sized filter feeders are fed on, in turn, by the rest of the food chain, including humans. Actually, those humans who choose to live on the desert in this setting eat both the weevils as well as the filter feeders, grinding up the weevils into a four and making a sort of dough out of it. And that's one instance of how I integrate foods onto my worldbuilding.
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But, more to the point, Twi, it's probably because you haven't gone back and read enough about Edassa. Light-heated banter aside, I'm more than willing to answer any questions on religion, my favorite authors, my worldbuilding, Utah, physics, history, my worldbuilding, food, politics my worldbuilding, astronomy, science fiction, the relationship between science and religion, my worldbuilding, how to build a spaceship, etcetera. Well, maybe that was a bad job of putting light-hearted banter aside, but the point still stands.
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Blue in general. Specifically, I am torn between a deep, rich navy or a beautiful teal. (Which is more of a mix between blue and green, but enough blue to count ) It refers to a science-fiction setting in the future of the Edassa-verse. In short, the humans of Edassa find a set of ancient space stations orbiting their star, each capable of connecting a wormhole from that station to a practically identical station orbiting another star, allowing interstellar transit (after a few technological problems such as how not to get ripped apart by the massive tidal forces are solved) near-instantaneously. Fast forward a millennium or two. Various polities now vie among the network of connected stars. One of these, the Republic of Luxor, is one of the new political players on the scene, disrupting a balance of power. In the republic, the world of Sigil Prime is the headquarters of their starfleet. Because there is no FTL communication other than via the same wormholes that ships travel through, messages have to be routed through wormhole stations. The one at Sigil Prime handles most of the Fleet message traffic (including censoring sensitive material). Correspondence coming from Sigil Prime likely indicates that it is from a Fleet asset on active patrol. One of the classes of warships built by the Republic is the Lioness II-class heavy cruiser. (A direct successor to the Lioness-class.) The Majestic is a ship of that class. So the signature indicates that the post you are reading originated in the captain's office of the Majestic, and has traveled through Sigil Prime to be routed to your location where you receive it. I wish I could have set up an increasing number count to increase as I post, so that each post wouldn't look like the same message number, but the know-how to do that is beyond me. Only in the most vague of terms. I'm thinking of a race of sentient Oviraptor-like beings, coexisting with (transplanted) humans and a race of near-dragons. The setting in which these races coexist is far more fleshed out than the beings who inhabit it. That's how I always work, oddly enough. The setting comes first, and then as I explore it, the stories start to present themselves to me. It's almost as if, once I've got their world right (or at least good enough) the characters come to me and say "Good. Now tell my story!" Basically, however, it is a planet in the same universe as Edassa, governed by the same quasi-divine beings, but with no causal connection now or in the reasonably near future to the planet which contains Edassa. Who said that that wasn't a good question?
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I'll eat just about anything (although Rae onions are the name of my existence). Whatever it is, it has to be well made, though. I'm a little bit of a food snob, likely because my mother was and is an excellent cook. Most of the time, I do my own cooking. My favorite food is Asian. Of any kind, really. Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Vietnamese, that totally Americanized but still amazing stuff known as Mongolian BBQ. It's all amazing.
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Good luck. In the spirit of giving you and Kas as much information as we can to work with, and since the last reason for my secrecy died with our dearly departed but little lamented Gyorn, I was the one attacked on Night 6. Yes, the Cultists attacked me two nights in a row. And since they are well aware of my rule, and since it's an open secret in much of the thread, I may as well publicly claim it. I am a Jindo Warrior. After being attacked by the Cultists, I concocted an elaborate story about a non-existent Warrior contact and a supposed plan to draw the fire of the Cultists, in the hope that it would throw them off the trail. When they attacked me a second time, it became evident that they had seen through the deception. I maintained it, nevertheless, just in case the Gyorn had believed it, as a Warrior for an Odiv could have been quite a coup for his faction. Now that he's gone, I can publicly claim my role. So there you have it. EDIT: Autocorrect, it's stupid
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So, I saw this whole AMA thing, and I thought to myself: Gee, self, you should probably make one. Just so that the 3 Sharders who have embarrassingly personal questions about you can ask them there. It's all about them, of course. Nothing to do with you. But if you do have questions, embarrassingly personal or otherwise, this would be the place to ask them. -Seonid Keeper of the Edassan Tomes Lorekeeper of the Worldways He Who Stands and Watches Servant of the Light
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Jain. I doubt I need to give a reason. EDIT: Stupid autocorrect
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Welcome!
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I think I can handle a quick fix. Put Senn Conrad-Tekiel, a minor nobleman who is certainly not related to that dreadful Hemalurgist from Tyrian Falls.
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Jain seems like a good choice to scan. Since he's been accused of being the Gyorn, we can confirm that and either lynch or redirect targets tomorrow.
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Thanks, Jain
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Oooh. Now that's getting somewhere. I'm hesitant to jump on the Jain bandwagon because I haven't seen enough solid evidence for the accusation. But those points about Karlin, while far from conclusive, are certainly extremely suspicious. EDIT: spelling
