Kasimir

JNV would definitely need one more pass but I've also promised them my pass for that game should they choose to run prior to getting a free slot. Currently there are no QF free slots and one more MR game must be run before the free slot becomes available again. KKC just burned the free slot for LGs so the four game countdown timer begins again. I'll note entirely pre-emptively that if it somehow passes all the way to me and Drake for the LG, we are absolutely not ready and will in fact refuse to run Secret Project #2 if we can't get our player minimum. From the current looks of it, that's a solid no. You technically have inactive priority slots for both an LG and a MR which, if activated, should put you ahead of pretty much anyone on either list right now.

Not sure you do, at least according to the spreadsheet, but it's possible you have games missing from the sheet. It's a joke that was spawned from Fifth's QF and the Time curse

Seven, excuse you @|TJ| added three neutrals to his - he maxes out at 19. @Fifth Scholar is somewhere on 17-18 before it shattered. Striker maxxed at 12. I maxxed at 20 if you count the security officer, and 19 if you don't, but 19 is sans neutrals. If you add faction games and neutral stints, Straw outpaces me at 21 (2 faction games and 1 neutral included.) If faction games don't count, then he doesn't have any comparable streaks. The real power here is TKN tbh. Time-cursed Stick both forward and backwards in time, reverberating from her demonic awakening to an Evil streak of true damnation.

There can only be one. As much as the mental image of Haigha!Drake was hilarious af, it was not to be

Smh what a crime

Check the spec doc after the game, you'll see

Clearly your @s were more terrifying for Villagers smhhhh The real seeker was inside u all this time!!

Signed on at the end of a day working from midnight to noon-ish to say that's one hell of a dapper new look you're rocking :eyes: Smh just tell people to enjoy the clown car sir

E!TJ has all the survival instincts of a moth drawn to the flame. I'd then have to be concerned about keeping that pain in the pula alive >>

I can't help with #1 as I'm unavailable/sporadically available for the next fortnight. For #2 specifically, I'll note that I've seen the current form of the ruleset, and am saying this here and now in case there's ??? about who is excluding and can see a blackout ruleset, in case I forget ._.

What part of Sorchae doesn't just seem outright terrifying to you sir Like Kalabel? Ngl I'd probably just go for something different. Sort of had a wild idea for an Alchemy druglord character who brews bootleg alcohol halfway through that I'm saving for next time.

From my understanding, less super-roleblock, more transitivity (but I could be wrong.) Some rulesets like, notoriously, Araris's LG90, and mine (drawing from Araris, e.g. in LG92) don't care about roleblock priority: we just flip for it as they're in the same tier of OoA. Some rulesets have them take place simultaneously. KKC is a bit different in how it regards i) A roleblocking B who roleblocks C, and ii) A and B roleblocking each other. I'd argue the attractiveness of the RNG approach is that our answer to i) and ii) is the same: RNGesus decides! For KKC, it's true that Fae Lore is a super roleblock in that it has priority, cares about alignment and roleblocks everything the way Medica Detainment does, but basically: in i), the answer is that C isn't roleblocked, because A's roleblock goes through, so B is stopped. (What happened, since Archer roleblocked you, and you roleblocked me.) However, in ii), A and B roleblock each other and all other actions they put in are cancelled. (If you and Archer had roleblocked each other.) It's just that my roleblocking you wouldn't have achieved anything helpful for me because my secondary R&L is still cancelled (ii), so it was Fae Lore or bust. We're the RPers, we should :eyes: Ahem. Placeholder, caretaker Master, happy to give the job up as soon as Bob gets back, but yes RIP Issal, add 'kayana Sithe assassin' and that's just way more terrifying.

I did, yes, just to be safe, but it didn't help - Archer's Fae Lore still took precedence. (That's what I clarified after the game because I was very confused about what had gone down.) You know... The thing was, I have already been called for election security duty, and that's like twelve-hour insane shifts so I was telling everyone, "k from next week onwards, sorry, you're on your own, I'll just become an Ash-and-TJ RB bot and trust y'all to figure out how to solve them." So...I feel you in that world Ngl an RP-off would've been hilarious though. We never did manage to have Kevan and Issal interact. (Even if it made sense given they don't exactly cross fields.)

On paper, we were. That was the point of the lie to Mat about the double-boosted scan: I respected TKN's read enough to feel that Archer's identity as the Archivist should be need-to-know only. The idea was we had layers of security, sort of. I'd be the public face to draw the kill as I was at the H&F and had a gram, so could take a few hits. I would act as though Mat (lol) was the scanner or one of them and shield Mat (but not protect him.) Players more in the know like Sart (the RB on TKN ironically gave Archer strong V!Sart credences I agreed with) and Mat knew of the fact there was an Archives scan available, but we lied to them as well. Sart knew Archer was an Archivist, Mat only knew one existed. To both of them, we lied that the mass scan (this much was true) was a Special Thing that needed two Archivists and Wonko to line up Naming to boost it because ritual. The idea was to make Wonko a target as well, even to people in on that layer, to draw kills away from Archer. Wonko was very confused about my lying spree. Ah right. We were working off the Daybreak clarification and believed that JNV and Wonko didn't contribute to the Village numbers as they'd already been sabotaged, hence Wonko's yelling out who'd bought him a bodyguard. Turns out Daybreak escapees and regular escapees worked differently, RIP. It would probably have slightly changed my evaluation of the Village's predicament had I known - I still believe you guys bone-tarring the H&F or expelling Archer that cycle we nearly paranoia-voted him would've been effective losscons for us. Glad you caught the hammer play though I was trying not to say the S word in the thread in the hopes you wouldn't tenaculum me to stop it - I'd the wrong idea of how mutual RBs worked so didn't think I could stop you from RBing me and trying to hammer, but still sent in the Soothe religiously anyway.

So directly: no, it isn't ty just happy that I actually hit 50k, it's been a writing drought for years now and I was beginning to worry I'd lost the capacity to do so. Also haven't had very RPful games in a long while.

Misread the rules - my thought at that time was it's either EP or an item, so naturally the fact TJ elevated T1M1 was prima facie evidence he didn't start with an item. I did realise after that, as I noted in one of the study group PMs. I just didn't bother correcting myself because I wanted to see how TJ responded to being immediately and confidently called out. Huh. I'd assumed it was a sabotage in case Szeth bought anything, but was surprised Araris and Mat didn't get hit, which made me ? about Mat, hence did not loop him into last cycle planning. Araris's TJ shot still seemed intuitively Village to me. Yep. Cf. Wonko's Extreme Turtle plan (thank you, @Wonko the Sane, you had some pretty kayana but amazing schemes.) 1. I had a nice, chill, RPful game until I hit 50k, thank you SDs, thank you @little wilson 2. She called me Aonar sarcastically, my job is done here Edited to add: Worth noting that Drake and I have considered a Banned Books/Omen Recognition swap - Omen Recognition goes to El'the, and Banned Books goes down to E'lir and scales, or swaps with School Records (Wilson mentioned this) so we have E'lir School Records -> Re'lar Banned Books -> Omen Recognition -> Fae Lore which is a bit more reasonable. Edited to add 2: Oh, yeah for the Elims - less a retaliatory Archer vote, more the sense that if Szeth was Village, then we go back to the missing kill. It either implicates the other Noble who could've been recalled, or suggests that Archer was pulling an E!Seeker scam. I didn't articulate my thoughts but that was what pushed me to the Archer vote when Szeth flipped.

I hit my 50k goal and never want to do that again, I'm happy enough Prefer my admission essay not be shown as there should be some mysteries left in this world >:P Curious that y'all felt the need to hit JNV/Wonko @Ashbringer et al, as Wilson clarified they'd've lost one ability (i.e. de facto no Name) and also no longer count to the Elim wincon, as they've already been insane even on escaping the Crockery. @|TJ| "Kas totally went into Artificery" Me, having literally RPed every single elevation of mine publicly... -.- I don't really think pushing me on E!Archer changed much as the plan whether it was E!Ash or E!Archer was the same, with the exception that I could've sat on both Ash and Archer in Wonko's Extreme Turtle plan and just trusted Village Imre assets to do what was necessary. I did exaggerate my nahlrout rampage as the whole reason for my being in Imre during the TKN exe cycle was to buy myself a gram, at which point I didn't mind being risky. Other than that: really liked writing Kevan's arc, enough that it was a character headspace I enjoyed getting into. I hard-method-acted at the start, meaning all my elevations were largely driven by Kevan's priorities. Since Kevan was anti-Arcanum, I refused to do any Arcanum subjects, which made things interesting. My writing got steadily worse after 50k because that was the point I engaged solving mode and also had to switch off the 50k to actual "I am just writing this for negative tuition and $ to buy assassins" mode. Not sure I'm really happy about that. Also, nice work from the Elims, y'all FUDed me really hard >> I'd say Village MVPs are some combination of: <Archer/Sart/TKN/Araris> - @Araris Valerian for his insane luck which allowed: TKN to win a 50% roll for Wind to succeed, Archer to keep shutting down Ash with Fae Lore, Archer and TKN to not be recalled, and Archer's shutting down TJ's attempted nahlrout on Araris. Not to mention beating Ash's 50% survival chance. Everytime there's a luck cascade like this, it's Araris. P.S. Made Wilson laugh when Araris was expelled and I said he was Village and Wilson was like "What why" and I said "There's no way in hell E!Araris is this unlucky." @Sart for those clutch blocks right when we needed them. TKN block was bad luck, but helped us clear Sart so that worked fine. Getting lashed and putting in the Naming EP as a back-up, thank you so much. @The Known Novel for the Wind @Archer for all the clutch scanning and Fae Lore, right on target. And thanks Drakebro and Wonko, fun plotting with you >:P

Finally solved the problem of the leaking PENBBS pen for good. Turns out it wasn't just cracked - the o-ring was dysfunctional. I unscrewed the nib unit to see if there was anything weird about the placement and noticed the o-ring was riding pretty low on the nib unit and went "hey that's weird, I'd put it right beneath the lip of the housing." Redid it, unscrewed again, welp, o-ring slipped again. I replaced it with a new o-ring and suddenly zero leaks. Pretty sure that's grounds enough to just consider it an o-ring failure issue!

[TAG: RP, 365 words] Guess the only way the SDs will know is to go to Imre and have a look! Sir u r in the wrong game >:( c. sabbatical “I’ve been thinking,” said Master Bob, “About going on sabbatical.” There was the first terrible thought that Kevan had, which was what was going to happen to all the El’the and Re’lar and E’lir that Master Bob was sponsoring. That a Master couldn’t just up and leave like that, but of course, Masters did. They went on sabbatical. It happened. Gillers did that too, but people kicked less of a fuss about that because fewer people, fewer things depended on a giller. “Oh,” he managed. He tried very hard to be supportive. Tried not to think about the consequences trickling downstream if Master Bob left. Tried not to ask what would become of him, of the rest of them. (Master Anders would take him. He knew that. But Rhetoric and Logic wasn’t Physicking and not for the first time, he felt stranded between the two fields.) He wasn’t sure he was entirely successful. “Where would you be going to?” “Gibea,” Master Bob said. “The Duke’s experiments?” Master Bob stiffened. “Good God, no!” he exclaimed. “Those were foul experiments, Kevan, make no mistake about that. Little good that can come out of such disregard for human life and suffering and good physicking principles and scientific practice.” Some of the students had defended the Duke’s practices, Kevan knew. It was in fashion again after Kvothe’s half-apology in the Chronicles. It always seemed to come back to Kvothe, and the tellings of the Chronicles. What need for skindancers, when set against the dreadful, inhuman shadow of a Duke long dead? For the first time, Kevan saw a glimmering of how Rhetoric and Logic and Physicking could come together, two strands of a single path into the future. “I’ve a former student in Gibea, running a practice,” Master Bob was saying. “She’s tried some fascinating techniques in her work and I was thinking of looking into how her small Medica operates. Don’t worry, I’m still figuring out who will replace me while I’m gone. I’m looking for someone reliable. Someone who is deeply interested in doing what is right by my Medica.” Kevan nodded slowly. “You’ll be back then?” “After my sabbatical,” Master Bob said, firmly. “But of course!”

Me, but with my Platinum coarse nib... Oh, nice! KonMarieing for the ones you really like and beaters is good IMO. Heard that orange-red inks are really prone to this. Diamine Ancient Copper, I'm looking right at you... >>

[TAG: RP, 246 words] Before I forget: Ash, Ash Ash, I'm just gonna say this. In my view, and the others are free to dispute this: if you or TJ still want to insist you are Village, then quite frankly, we need a flip from either of you at this point. That's it. I hate saying this to a player as it feels very harsh, but you are unexpellable (or an expulsion would've worked fine), but one way or another, all insistences that Archer is framing you comes back to improbabilities stacked on improbabilities. If TJ is Village, he will give us his own flip, no ifs and buts about it, and then we will all shut Archer down and kill him. It's really that simple. Same deal here. Until then, it's simply a case of following the scans. There's a point at which I just have to play to the most probable world and proceed on that basis. If you are Village, we will basically come down on Archer like a load of bricks. xcix. pancakes The server came over with a platter of steaming hot pancakes, all a bright golden colour, and drizzled with honey. There was butter too, enough to make Master Bob go into a screaming fit about how this was extremely unhealthy but Kevan figured you sometimes had to make an exception for friends, and everyone knew Master Bob had a sweet tooth anyway and he wondered if you could bribe Master Bob with pancakes. (Jarvik was an entirely bad influence in some ways.) Everyone started forking over pancakes onto their plates, swiftly denuding the stack, and sharing the slathered butter around. (The butter never tasted quite right in Imre, Kevan thought. Nothing like the rich taste of butter that reminded him of home, but Yll was Yll, and he’d yet to find proper Yllish butter away from the island.) Fluffy, browned a little on the undersides, and thick, Kevan took one bite and decided that Soren wasn’t half wrong to want to drag everyone out to try the pancakes his classmates were raving on and on about. At this rate, this place was going to make an utter killing in business from the University. Looking around, half the place seemed stuffed with University students, and he figured more would be coming once the late-risers got up. Worse things to wake up for than pancakes, he figured. Sometimes you had to do things that you didn’t usually do. Even if it was eating fluffy pancakes with your friends.

[TAG: RP, 271 words] Shouldn't be an issue in certain worlds. I'll let others know to take under advisement but believe the plan as stands is solid depending on status. Thanks for sharing the pricing info though, it will change things somewhat. xcviii. group Apparently, they were all doing pancakes today, which was why the lot of them were squeezing into a small cafe in Imre, near the Gyre and Wade. For once, it hadn’t begun with Valerra: this one was entirely Soren’s fault. Something about having heard about the fluffy golden buttered pancakes with honey from the classmate of a classmate in the Fishery who was going off about the cafe and its pancakes having been Tehlu’s own gift to a fallen world, and then Soren’d decided, why the heck not, and then had roped in pretty much everyone he knew to go get pancakes. “The pancakes had better be good, Soren, or I swear to Tehlu I’ll murder you,” Owyn complained. “I haven’t been up this early since I was at least seven.” “You’re out of practice then,” Jarvik said, cheerfully. He, at least, had always been an early riser since their days in the Mews. It was too cramped for Owyn to do more than to growl a bleary imprecation and to afford him a withering stare that befitted a grumpy owl. Kevan slouched in his corner of the cafe and wondered if the pancakes were as good as they smelled. There was the rich scent of batter throughout the cafe, and Tehlu damnit, Soren was too close for comfort, he really should’ve picked just about anywhere else to sit, hadn’t been thinking, and God, you never did, not in the heat of the moment, did you? “It’s too early for you too, isn’t it?” Soren asked, looking over at him. “I’ll survive,” Kevan grumbled. “But they had better be good pancakes.”

[TAG: RP, 301 words] Jawohl. xcvii. force majeure “Kraem,” Kevan muttered, glaring at the text. As far as he could tell, he had no real idea of what ‘force majeure’ meant, other than the fact that he was not especially well-equipped to deal with Aturan legal texts, particularly ones this old. He was certain there was a good reason he was delving into contract law, he really was. It wasn’t his area, he didn’t particularly like the Archives, and he wasn’t especially interested in seeking work as a lawyer, even if he was certain it was a particular area of hell—alright, alright, he was certain lawyers did valuable work, it just wasn’t the sort of work Kevan was particularly interested in. He didn’t especially care about litigating whether a particular contract between an Aturan duke and a particular supplier was in fact something that could be upheld outside of a Tehlin court. He cared about—understanding, he supposed. Litigating debates about the fundamental nature of what would be known, about reality. He stared at the line in question until he was certain he was this close to going cross-eyed. “What’s force majeure?” Kevan asked aloud, not really expecting anyone to answer. Surprisingly or otherwise, Renlin knew the answer. On further reflection, Kevan should’ve expected it—Renlin was the son of a wealthy Aturan lawyer, after all. “Kraem happens,” Renlin said. “Yes, it does,” Jarvik drawled. “No, I mean it. Kraem happens. That’s force majeure in a nutshell.” Kevan blinked. “Come again?” “Listen. If a storm smites the roof off the Fishery, that’s force majeure. Kraem happens. Wrath of God, Tehlu, whatever. If it’s foreseeable, it’s not force majeure. If it’s unforeseeable, out of the scope of the contract, and makes it materially impossible to fulfil the contract, it’s force majeure.” “So basically kraem happens,” Kevan said, slowly. “Got it, thanks Renlin.”