Kasimir

Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. Edit: Perhaps the Archives are incomplete. (Pyro, 2020: 1035692)

[OOC-OOC] Okay, not successfully doing this while I'm tired (100% on me) and distracted by work so: Agreed that the vote manipulator may want to come forth. I was agreeing in broad strokes with Mint actually. SE used to have a super strong meta where Village vote changers were expected to do nothing but there was push back. And some Village vote changers did things anyway. So this discourse is of course not new. (I grant I can only speak of earlier games because my experience is limited. Mea culpa.) But the more we don't know, the more likely it is that the vote changer is hostile. I'd agree about post analysis but that's honestly thin gruel rn. But point about blt overfocusing taken. Edit: not, not blt

I think I'm having déjà vu. The light, the forest. As if all of this has happened before.

Or is this here, our meeting, you and your gun, only part of a game you still don't know how to play?

[OOC-OOC] This is what I get for forgetting to bold :/

Excuse me, but ...do we know each other? I'm here because I have to tell you something. I'm sorry. What are you sorry about? Everything. Yes.

We all face the same end. Someone was dead and it wasn't Maris's fault. He glared at the email from the PIs. His supervisor had forwarded it to him, which made it twice that Maris had to read that Ruler-damned notification. Not like it had done him anything wrong, but still. Tara Night was dead. Which was unnerving. He'd volunteered himself as a candidate for suspicion because he was a sarkastic rulo (he liked that term; his supervisor hailed from Sel and threw that term as if it was ashfall) and had felt that he wasn't interested in dignifying a performative expression of suspicion from Grace Cett (Lord Ruler, were there Cetts even in Silverlight?) - among other reasons. Namely that he'd wanted to kick the hornet's nest by seeing if anyone really wanted Illwei dead, and just the sort of what-would-happen if there was a tie in the voting. Not everyone liked ties, after all. Information was information. And his supervisor would go on and on about how the task of adding to knowledge was by proceeding a little at a time. Step by incremental step. (And all Maris was keenly aware of was how much he didn't know: how whatever they would glean, even from the Ashyn project, would be a mere drop in an ocean of ignorance.) 'Other reasons.' Most of which boiled down to the fact he was a contrary, sarkastic rulo. Said in Kadrim's voice, dryly, as the old watchmaker fixed yet another Heron timepiece that some noble had botched and tossed back to them. Past and present bled together. By the mists, he needed more sleep. Unpaid intern work didn't really lend itself to the best work-life balance, but the things they did in pursuit of knowledge... Which boiled down to: "Academia is a toxic trash-heap," as his predecessor had said, two days before she gave notice. Which Maris was beginning to appreciate, even though he saw it as just another step into a much bigger world than Scadrial. He hadn't even known that his own world was Scadrial, until he'd left. What would've become of him in that watchmaker's workshop? And now it seemed that sabotage on the Ashyn project was rapidly escalating to "people getting killed" and Maris absolutely felt out of his depth. By the Lord Ruler, he had expected the jockeying, the politicking, the way the PIs played favourites, and the supervisors dispensed scut work to the lowest of the interns. What he had not expected was for there to be anything worth killing over. He thought of tendering. But if he did, that was it. Any route into the university needed experience. The Ashyn project was Maris's last and best hope, Lord Ruler curse it all. He sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose with his fingers. Right. He just had to make sense of how by the mistwraiths Tara Night had ended up being there on that fateful night. There were two votes on him, he was certain of it. Three on Tara. What had happened to the missing vote? Faleast muttered about it like Maris would've had any Deepness-cursed idea about what went down. Maris racked his brains but he was pretty certain he didn't know, and chalked it down to foul play. He disagreed with Kondrea that it was entirely Illwei though. Perhaps it was Illwei. Or perhaps it was to pin the blame on himself or Grace Cett. After all, wasn't there that scurrilous rumour a couple weeks ago that Grace Cett and the lamentably belated Tara Night were half-siblings or something of that sort? (Maris hadn't paid close attention. It sounded like the work of one of those half-boxing drama-soaked romances that Lord Ashlen Findelaire had so often read at their gatherings, back in the day. One of his supervisor's words sufficed to describe Ashlen: kayana.) Well. Maris had no idea what was going on, and in the Lord Ruler's name, he was determined to find out, to do well on the Ashyn project, and to impress the PIs enough to gain their support for his university application in Silverlight. (Preferably with full funding, thank you.) Edit: Edited out 'damnation' because I forgot the word I had meant to use was verboten according to 17S's filter. A more family friendly word 'curse' has been edited in.

Something is wrong up there. I just know it. Okay. I'll request the search warrant. @The_God_King / @Elkanah - What's that supposed to mean? *inhales* *upset traumatised voice* Was soll das heißen???? / What's that supposed to mean???? [OOC-OOC] I never thought I'd get to use the most 'iconic' line of Dark, much less twice. Thank you RNGesus for making me use Dark quotes this cycle.

Hmmm. Straw, your metal rules make reference to the Night though you mention it will be all in one cycle. Does this refer to banding of actions or...? I'm interested, especially since I had to bow out of MR9, but I don't know if I can commit. I will think about it.

Thanks for running the game, El! I had fun I agree about the difficulty with the Korathi informational situation, in a nutshell, with regard to identifying cultists or Jeskeri. But I think I've said enough about it Thanks to Pyro and Illwei (sorry) for winning this for us. I always like it when someone else does the hard work in a game @Matrim's Dice Indeed, nothing like putting aside divisive suspicion and banding together just so they could strike us down But I'm still glad we corrected our reads of each other in the end. Really enjoyed reading all the strategising in the Jeskeri and Cultist docs. Y'all be scary Sorry @Elkanah for obsessively fixating on you after C1 but I appreciate getting killed. I think the pace of the game wasn't really doing me any favours. And I enjoyed reading your strategising I think I'm moderately happy with how I fared this game. I used to have a major problem with getting perspective and with making sense of seemingly non-rational Village behavior. I still had issues reading Sart, but overall I'm glad I worked out TJ and Mat and revised my views on Pyro. Thanks for calling me on it, Meta and Hael, back when See you folks in another game sometime

[OOC OOC] Sigh. I'm going to unbend just enough from my playstyle rn to say: 17S is a family-friendly forum, IIRC I am not really supposed to advocate non-family friendly things, but Dark is a freaking great show. Uh. Let me put it this way: some sexual content, momentary full chest nudity, warning for suicide, warning for some level of violence/gore/blood, warning if you are sensitive about eyes, warning if you hate physics, warning if you hate philosophy why would you hate philosophy what's wrong with you and warning for uh, Game of Thrones Targaryen type stuff. That should cover everything, I think. But it's my favourite TV show of 2020. Highly recommend Since I'm already OOCing-OOCing so hard, just noting Jain did that It was interesting because the first time he legit got Elim and he did that, everyone else was like "uh huh, sure", but the pinch-hitter who came in absolutely did not buy it. That's how we got Jain in the end. (LG12(?), the one that involved the Fire of Elantris.) Edit: Oh, warning if - as Bong Joon-ho says, you have issues with the inch-high barrier of subtitles, wenn du kein Deutsch kannst

He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore. There is no such thing as magic, just illusion. Things only change when we change them. But you have to do it skillfully, in secret. Then it seems like magic. Edited to add: Yes. He Is Evil A Satanist? Led By An Unknown Hand. We belong to the light. Illwei? Vapor?? Gears TJ Shade Frozen Mint Mist? Matrim Silberfarben – Araris? Lahilt Devotary Straw Ash Pyro Sart

I’m hoping that by tomorrow, it’ll already be different from today.

What is life after graduation even...

God doesn’t have a plan. There is no plan at all. There’s nothing but chaos out there. Pain… and chaos! People are bad. Malicious, evil. Life is nothing but a spiral of pain. And the world is doomed to be destroyed.

Mint, Kasimir

When you come back to a game after two or more cycles of being inactive, and the other players be all:

Dreams change. Other things become important. Well, thought Maris, as he swept at the floor. Things had gone...well. If by well, he meant mislabeled samples, disappearing research, and twitchy supervisors and extremely disgruntled PIs. The worst was the PIs: the two PIs leading the project had called them all together at an ungodly hour to tell them that some research had gone missing. As if Maris would know anything about it. Why would he? Being accepted as an intern on the Ashyn project seemed like a dream. Silverlight was the first time he'd gone off Scadrial, and somewhere that wasn't the world of ash and mists that he'd left behind seemed just the project to be on. With his supervisor conferring with someone else, the best place to be was visibly busy, and so Maris was sweeping out the floors, another cog in the chain of unpaid physical and emotional labour that seemed to form much of academic research in Silverlight. If it wasn't being asked to make a cup of tea, it was being asked to come back in at odd hours, or Lord Ruler forbid, on the weekend to check in on the samples, or to log records because of course his supervisor wouldn't do it. That was work for Maris Erikell, who had wondered not for the first time, if running away from a decent if boring apprenticeship to one of the Heron watchmakers in Tremredare was...really all that it was cracked up to be. Probably not. The PIs had said, rather ominously, Maris thought, that they would be required to weed out the saboteurs in their midst. Fine. Maris didn't like the idea much, but the Ashyn expedition had been interesting, and he'd already learned more than he would have expected to pick up from Kadrim's watchmaking workshop. So there was that. He sighed. Kadrim had always liked to set him to work cleaning up the workshop, throwing the sooty windows open to let in thick, gorgeous sheets of weak sunlight. The sun here...wasn't right. Or wasn't quite the same. Maris was still trying to wrap his mind around how the realms worked. Silverlight was strange. Kadrim had always said a clean workspace meant an uncluttered mind. Or was it that cleanliness was next to godliness? (What that said about the Lord Ruler, Maris did not know.) Perhaps Frozen Mint knew something about what was going on?

@Ashbringer We’re not free in what we do because we’re not free in what we want. We can’t overcome what’s deep within us.

Hmm. I'll sign up as Maris Erikell, an adventurous young nobleman. Maris is a bit of a jack-of-all-trades; he's just come off a stint as an apprentice watchmaker in Tremredare under the Herons, and an internship in Silverlight should...broaden his horizons, right? To curb my usual tendencies to overfocus on the game (I don't have a lot of time these days, and QF46 kind of was not good for my health ) 1. I am going to stick to minimum 1-2 posts per cycle. If you are blessed with more, know that Santa Kas has visited you this cycle 2. I am going to do what Straw did with his multiple personalities playstyle Which is to say, each cycle, I will only speak in quotes from a particular TV show or movie. This will be randomly determined: I promise you that I will select media with a decent selection of quotes so that trying to talk will be challenging, but not impossibly frustrating or detrimental. (So yeah. Maybe don't expect deep analysis now ) 3. If I RP, that's great, but I won't focus on conveying in-game things via RP. I need to get better at disengaging and asserting boundaries, I think

Ngl, by Season 2, you know the first episode opener? My friend called old Bartosz off the bat. I was surprised because I hadn't made that assumption by then, and she was like, "I now assume every character I'm seeing is someone else's older/younger self." Which is...not wrong, by that point Adam totally threw her off though. She expected him to be super old Mikkel. Indeed She still blames me for not nagging her more.

Oh, for sure. I definitely think that Stranger Things is a bad comparison — also, you're preaching to the choir because I love Dark more I definitely think it only went mainstream after S3—I wasn't noticing much chatter about it until now. I like the scale of Dark — it's Winden family drama scope with apocalyptic consequences and I like how there are basically no angels. Just flawed messy human beings, intricate timelines, well-planned, well-woven. And the themes and quotes Oh shucks lemme add "Spoilers" to the thread title...

Dude, I was actually asking if people liked/enjoyed the show, i.e. please flail here But hey, this works! The question is not how but when eh Uh, I don't remember how exactly but in November 2017, one of my German forums was getting super excited about this show coming up. They said, "Oh hey it looks like German Stranger Things." And I immediately said, "Okay, let's watch it," because the German media market these days is either comedies or crime shows As it turns out, I guess you could say Dark is technically both a crime show and a tragi-comedy so

Am in the middle of re-marathoning the German-language Netflix show, Dark, with a friend who has never seen it before. Where my Dark fans at? How do y'all find the show? My friend is getting me to do up the timelines with her now we're in Season 3 proper.

Rewatching Baran bo Odar's & Jantje Friese's 'Dark' with my friend. My second time, her first time. She's just insisted that we draw the timeline out, we're in Season 3 now I can't begin to talk about how great it is to have a friend who watches the show. I've been poking her about it since 2017 because I was so thrilled to be able to watch something in German that wasn't a comedy or a Krimi