Kasimir

Lirin?

At least on the Nightmare kill issue, the Order of Actions puts the Nightmare kill before the lynch. Whether Hreo would rule that it invalidates votes on a killed lynch-target is another question, and one that only he can answer, but I will answer that it is generally not common practice. So if you'd killed Alv, everyone's votes on him would've been pointless, because he was already dead, so they can't make him any deader, but it wouldn't change the fact that he'd received the highest number of votes. (Voting for a target already dead on the same cycle, of course, is not the same as making a 'no vote'.) Now, the substantially more interesting question is if by taking me out, you could've forced a tie. The answer I think is that it is implicit in the Order of Actions that voting comes before anything else and is separate from the lynch kill, so that would likely not have worked out that way. Perhaps that could be made explicit, in the interests of clarity. Edit: In fact, because I'm obsessed with clarity and elegant explanations, I think the easiest way is to distinguish between lynch voting and the lynch kill itself. In games with vote manipulation, lynch voting is itself a separate step but it's less evident here. Well, the lynch voting takes place first--as it's the first action, Alv would in all cases be a legitimate target. Then, everything else on the Stack. Then the Eliminator kill. In this hypothetical scenario, Alv dies and then ceases to be a legitimate target only at this point for the lynch kill. But given action priority, this doesn't translate backwards up the Order. Ordnung muss sein.

First, thanks to Hreo for creating and GMing this game. I'm still sorry about helping to break your game unofficially but as I see it, you put in a lot of work to keep things running, what with the added burden of all the room PMs and having to keep the transcripts up to date! So thank you once again And I've always enjoyed the quality of your write-ups and tried to upvote them where I can! To the Nightmare Aspects, well-played! I concurr that the lack of a doc was a serious problem for y'all this game, and that the rooms ironically ended up being somewhat helpful for Team Stephen, if only because we didn't have any defeaters to epistemically lucky beliefs... >> (In my case, at least.) You guys weren't easy to find: I almost ended up being suspicious of Joe as compared to Piff, and my vote for Alv was just a somewhat-desperate gamble Meta, I have to admit you were lucky you voted for Phat when you did I expressed some suspicion of you in my write-up message and/but was rather sick, so I didn't have time to get on and change it to a more nuanced, "Don't trust Meta if Phat turns out to be innocent", so someone'd probably have misread it as "KILL META IF I'M DEAD" which I'd never intended. And what I'd really intended to convey was the reminder that you can be so cunning that they shouldn't immediately discount you and should always be a bit wary--that and that if Phat turned out to be innocent, then they should look back at you! So, uh. Before my reveal, the Cryptologist messages: Day 2 was the doozy. I went with what Hreo said in the AG about having to have proof of your identity so you can confirm yourself. The first important reference is the line "Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time." in green. The rest don't matter--the only thing that matters is that the Green Dragon Tavern is a pretty important setting for the first part of Assassin's Creed 3, which is where my current display picture/avatar is from. There's a white text message too: 'Kjvof xzsbû kwizf vdxoz ncwmú zworn eymqt hzoyn lcxdz przcd mzkvè tupyp rmfpg lldch thsgr ōqdbq avuzl swlse ëvidj jmywn doplç rcvbq'. I basically just swapped ordinary letters out for special characters--these don't affect what the original actually was. The ones that matter are the acute and grave accents--the section set out by them is this: "zworn eymqt hzoyn lcxdz przcd". Everything around it is a simple double Vigenere with two keys, the first being a'vron and the second being aan'allein, and it's just the lyrics to the Duel of the Fates. I put it there to further encourage the idea that the important section was the same code, and also just a Vigenere (it isn't.) So, "zworn eymqt hzoyn lcxdz przcd", when properly deciphered, reads, "I am Kasimir. The rest is silence." I added the Hamlet on a whim, mostly to throw off guesses based on character-number of usernames. I took away the spaces and punctuation between the two sentences and scrambled up the letters, then separated them into 5-character blocs, because I used 5 keys for this tweaked Vigenere. The first: 'Was ist Rom', the second, 'Sie wird zerschlagen', the third, 'Es zerfällt', the fourth, 'La shay' haqiqah', the last, 'Alles ist erlaubt'. First three are lines from a poem by Rilke, the last two are the two lines of the Assassin's Creed in Arabic and then in German. So, normally for a Vigenere, you just use a normal alphabet and Caesar it. Instead, I scrambled up two partial alphabets and used those with the keys: 'pihldxrczfsnoubyjvkgaeqmwt' and 'bjelruzsmqxowgfhyivapkntcd'. I didn't mind not providing the keys--I was pretty paranoid that someone would crack it, can you tell? Day 3: I wrote the Modest Proposal as a parody of Jonathan Swift's own piece of satire--also entitled 'A Modest Proposal.' Did that to disguise my voice, if possible. 'LFGETZPSYPQOVNOISNDUPDFBAPVTGZPKFNNVBEBLLTVZOJVNGZRZ' - This bit here was a Playfair cipher answering to the key: 'Melvin'. It roughly translates to: 'M DO NOT TRUST HIM HE PLAYS A DANGEROUS GAME IF I DIE, SEEK HIM OUT'. Probably not the best of ideas/suspicions I've had, really. Just as well no one deciphered that one. '462110 112210 342211 211637 103923 320129 023124 17421818' was enciphered using a variant of one-time pad-type cipher, with modulus 10. (This one, I don't really have the time to explain how to crack, but if you're curious, here's a useful link.) I just numbered the alphabet in a basic way: from 1-26, with A being 1, and the key for this one is the 'zworn eymqt hzoyn lcxdz przcd' key phrase in my previous message This phrase was, "The cross darkens the horizon," which is a quote from Assassin's Creed 2, referring to Templar efforts (see: antagonistic faction.) (As my display picture is from the game, I figured I'd milk it for all it's worth!) Day 4: White text: 'The first key: I will remember those who have been forgotten'. I was literal about this: the whole cipher chunk there can be first deciphered as a normal Vigenere using the key 'I will remember those who have been forgotten.' Now, here's the embarrassing part: I used a scrambled alphabet that I was supposed to provide but totally forgot to do so because of RL. Whoops. For the curious, it is this one: 'abnwsirtfhveguxqzdypockmjl'. But that's the first code. What about the rest? More white text: 'Death unlocks the second. The second the third. All things unfold according to their own pace.' If I died, my identity would be revealed (at least that was my plan then.) As a result, the second keyword is 'Kasimir'. It unlocks the whited Bifid cipher at the very bottom: 'MI UZIGO RL PQR GR GPEU GZ HJ UOB RF OGI QIP YLF XG MF VM WFG IGI WWF XJ YAWR MI IYI LBGF', which just is, "My story is one of many thousands and the world will not suffer if it ends too soon." This is a quote from Ezio Auditore, unlocked by the second keyword. Running a Bifid cipher with the key EZIOAUDITORE back on the gibberish generated by applying the Vigenere to the blatant code finally unlocks everything. These are all some questions I was asking at that point in time, generally based on the room I'd been put into. As you can see, I'd been thrown quite off-track by Joe at that point. So: "M DO NOT TRUST NOT HIM STOP HE PLAYS A DANGEROUS GAME STOP SART IS MORE AGGRESSIVE THAN USUAL WHY? VINE MAY BE A LIAR YOU MUST WATCH HIM CAREFULLY JOE PUSHES HARD FOR PIFFS DEATH STOP ERRATIC ANT CLAIMS REG IF THERE CONTINUE TO BE NO KILLS WATCH THE ROOMS WITH FEW LOOK TO THE INACTIVES STOP THE NIGHTMARES MAY SETTLE FOR FORCING LYNCHES STOP EXAMINE ALL WITH BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS AND GOOD LUCK." The Latin quote just suggested it was the last help I could give once dead--after all, I know suspicions tend to be misread after death. And then after that, I stopped bothering >> As I've said many times, codes and ciphers aren't really my strength. Especially can't break 'em. So at a lot of points, I tweaked things because I expected people to be either able to crack them, or to just really Google and run it through a cipher program. The simpler stuff like the Playfairs and Bifids would've been very susceptible to that line of attack. As a result, I had to find slightly more creative ways to mess with things. If, of course, I didn't make any mistakes in enciphering. Wouldn't be the first time I can tell you, it was such a relief to be able to just blatantly post messages and not worry about codes/ciphers.

-i will voTe for Phat, for now. Sorry.

Not to mention scare the living daylights out of players...

It's the Matrix.

-I Will vote for Alv/Ron Lav. I will move to the Dining Hall.

The funny thing was, I was going to suggest Star Wars: A New Hope then I realised, wait, TPM is a much better fit. (I'd thought of Han Solo as the racer at first because of the Kessel Run.) Hmm. Man gets kidnapped by terrorists and then reluctantly recruited by them as they show him how things really are.

Star Wars: The Phantom Menace?

-I will vote for Liam. I will remain in the Lounge.

Yep! You got it!

Unfortunately, no. Hint #3: ...I kinda regret this because I'm told it's a rather obscure movie...(even if it's good for a bit of mindless fun.) So. Cannibals.

Eh, take an upvote for the interesting effort

Nope, sorry. Out of curiosity, just how do you get to the Illiad from Beowulf?

Sadly, it isn't. Hint #2: Think Beowulf.

I thought I was only supposed to give those after a couple of hours, actually. But here goes. Hint #1: It's a book that was adapted into a movie. My question is, however, based around the movie adaptation.

Sorry, nope. Edit: But as I'm a Star Wars fan, here, have my upvote anyway, Snoopy.

Yep, it's not it

In the ultimate act of aggressive negotiations, a poet helps twelve people murder other people who made dubious lifestyle choices.

Day Four: I am voting for Kassig. I haven't yet decided where I'm going.

Do y'all also have the climate change deniers who'll point to all that snow and argue that global warming can't be happening because, loads of snow?