little wilson

Sorry, Lopen. That was probably my fault for saying that Rae's comment felt like they were trying to put protection on a role that was pointless. They probably guessed you would be open from that. And I'd actually considered that, but decided surely Kipper or Figberts would be better to attack, given their roles and also less likely possibility of being protected.... I guess we'll know if the spike takes this time though. Not much more obvious than if all of a sudden PMs are back. Anyway, I still think Hero is the convert. His post last day cycle made me rethink my suspicion of him for a bit and wonder if the convert was the other Lurcher, but....converting Hero makes too much sense. And his busy schedule in RL means that he has less time to plan and strategize but he still feels like he should be doing stuff to help his new team, like pulling village protection off of people or attempting to make one doubt their suspicion of the Inquisitor if they're certain they're right. He said that he stopped requesting double protection two nights ago, but the other Lurcher said that Hero asked for it, and that was many hours after I'd talked to Hero about it and he'd admitted that I was right. Additionally, he insisted that the Inquisitor could easily be a brand new, first time player to get me doubting OmeGaster, even though giving a brand new, first time player a role like that is incredibly risky since you don't know their activity. Brand new players have been given important roles in the past and then gone completely inactive. What if Spartacus had been the Inquisitor? We wouldn't even have a game. No, I rather think I was right about HH, but he wanted to make me add more suspects to the pool. So Hero. (Also, if you're wondering how to get the standard red on desktop, select "More Colors" at the bottom of the drop down color menu. A color palette will appear and you can just select the exact color you want on that).

You can actually get to those standard colors, if you're using the drop down menu and are therefore on a computer. Here's how: And there you have it. A vast array of colors all ready for you to use whenever. And for the standard red, green (I think; close enough, if not), and blue: I happen to like this better. It's not that hard to do the coding on mobile, and the coding gets it right, and on the computer, this is only a couple extra clicks, and there are a ton more color options available.

The first game only ended up with 3 PC Masters by the end because most of the players were pursuing the same fields. I expect that will happen to some degree again (even though all of the fields are powerful in their own right for the Master of it), but I guess we'll see. But yeah, PC Masters get to choose which abilities go to those they elevate, but NPC is random.

The Crusade isn't just about lynching inactives. It's about trying to bring inactives back into activity. If there are no suspicions, then an inactive could be lynched, but that hasn't been the case in this game, since there have been plenty of suspicions. Also, I rather think that anyone pushing for Crusade lynches in the mid-to-late game are probably eliminators, since if the villagers have been paying attention, they'll have suspicions. While they'll be frustrated with a high percentage of inactives, they won't usually wish to waste time lynching those inactives, since even if the inactives are eliminators, active eliminators are far more of a problem. But eliminators will totally try to waste the village's time lynching inactives, since that keeps discussion focused on inactivity and not on them, so they can continue killing and then win the game. If you're Crusade-lynching in the mid-to-late game, the village is probably going to lose.

I informed Lopen. He can confirm.

I soothed Mage's vote to prove that I could still soothe, since Rae and Hero both tried to cast suspicion on me (even though my being evil would require the spiked to have converted me while attacking me, having no clue that I would be protected because they weren't arranging the protection that saved me...I feel that's a little too much, even for the most paranoid of people).

My character's name shall be Sloan Walker. That's a female Sloan. Yes, yes, I know it sounds male, but just look at the name I usually answer to.

Kiireon watched the door shut behind Ratel and Jonly. She closed her eyes, taking a breath to settle her emotions. This was it. The moment of truth. She could only hope it would work. She looked up at Edaan, who glared back at her, betrayal evident in his gaze. She shook her head. “No. I’m doing this for you.” His expression didn’t change so she moved on. The ritual. She brought her hand up into the air between them, and traced her finger in a line. Light flowed through the finger, leaving a streak of pure white energy in the shape she’d drawn. She continued drawing. She remembered candlelit rooms, whispers in darkened hallways, the field outside Elantris, Seon Sao, and so much more. She remembered each time, each emotion, and she poured them all into the aon she drew. She drew the last line remembering Swift bringing him to her. As she finished, she sagged a little, and it took her a few moments to steady herself enough to look up. Aon Omi scorched the air between them, lighting the whole room with its radiant light. And Edaan stared at her, unmoved. He wasn’t glaring, but she could tell it hadn’t quite been enough. She wasn’t enough. She turned her head so he wouldn’t see a few tears run down her cheeks. Brushing them away hurriedly, she motioned Sloan forward. There was still one more chance to save him. If this didn’t work, nothing would. She took the bundle from Sloan’s arms and turned to Edaan, pulling back the blanket so he could see the baby in her arms. “This is your daughter—our daughter. And she needs her father.”

Crash. Kiireon started at the noise, her hand jerking, knocking over the ink jar next to her. The ink spilled over the papers, but Kiireon hardly noticed. The walls shook. Edaan was two floors above her but whatever he’d thrown at his wall had hit with enough force to shake the entire building. And then the yelling started. She couldn’t understand what he was saying, but she could guess. He wanted out. He hated being locked in his room. He hated not having his freedom. He hated what she’d given him. He hated hating. He hated her. Or at least, a part of him did. It was only a matter of time before all of him did. She’d hoped he’d get better being near her, and maybe for a short time he had. They’d had some good days. Great days. And then….she starting sensing a bit of resentment. He blamed her for what was happening, and he was right to. He was so very, very right to. It was her fault. He was changing, getting worse by the day, and it was all her fault. She’d tried everything she could think of—everything her counselors could think of. Nothing had fixed it. There was no removing Odium. At least, no method her people could find. So he spent his days locked in a room he hated, because everyone feared what he’d do if he left. Including her. She felt a kick and put a hand on her stomach. There wasn’t much time left. She had to find a way to fix this, to fix him, because she needed him. She needed his help. She couldn’t raise their child without him, nor would she want to even if she could. Taking a breath, she thought. Nothing had worked. Nothing they’d thought of had worked, she corrected herself. But there were others—others who knew of Shards and had held them, studied them, knew the effects. Granted, most of those had died over the years, mostly at the hands of the Collective— She paused. The Collective. No. They’d never help her or Edaan. They certainly knew enough, but...Alv would kill her (or he’d at least try) before he’d let her utter a single word. But...maybe one of the others. She knew enough to know that Alv didn’t have as tight a hold over them as he’d wished. If even one of them helped her, it might be enough to save Edaan. She owed it to him and their child to leave no stone unturned. She needed someone who would be intrigued enough to hear her out, someone who wouldn’t report her to Alv and had enough knowledge to do it mostly by themself. Someone who was motivated by a challenge. Someone who she almost certainly wouldn’t want to leave Odium with, but she’d figure that part out later. Right now, she needed Edaan back, and that meant finding someone like…. No. Not someone like. She knew who she needed, and even though he was perhaps one of the most terrifying of the Collective, she was nearly certain he’d help her. Or...help himself by helping her, anyway. Ratel. She needed Ratel.

You only have one kill per night. I could see using that on a Tineye if you thought you'd get another spike the same cycle so you could use the other spike to convert, but tin is pretty useless in terms of power and considering that the steel spike didn't take, you kind of need something a little better. Honestly, your comment reads more like an attempt to put village protection on a person you have no intention of trying to attack. Your banter with HH seems like the banter between two teammates sharing a joke rather than two people on opposite teams. I rather think HH is the Inquisitor. Oh, and for full disclosure, I'm 97.8% certain Hero was the steel spike convert. Shortly after that conversion happened, I had someone claim to have snapped into Lurcher that night, and Hero tried to pull all the village protection onto himself in the first part of last night, and then was inactive during the second part (I think he was supposed to send in the kill order but couldn't get back online or forgot). His reasoning was because he was worried about being double tapped, even though I told him that even if the steel spike took, it was clear they didn't care about killing him because they could've used Uber Iron on him back on the night after he claimed to tap him once and get it over with. Why wait until they have to double tap him because they no longer have Uber Iron? He acknowledged I was right, yet still insisted that the other Lurcher (there's another besides Hero and the now snapped) protect him. So yeah. I think Hero is evil. My vote is on Rae. She just tacitly confessed to having been a Tineye so clearly her excuse about Mark was a ruse to lynch another villager. She's spiked through and through. Not that I had any doubts about that but I should think her post above should assuage any fears others may have.

The Inquisitor is relatively pointless now anyway. Given the sacrifice of Uber Iron, I'd guess the only metal they have left is Uber Pewter, which means they only have one conversion left before they die. We might as well just wait out the Inquisitor until they kill themselves with the conversion and go after the converts. I would actually include HH in your list though. He fits too, I think.

And a wild poll appeareth....

So are we waiting until June to kick this off again?

Rae, there's a line when it comes to lying. Blaming things on site errors when you know it's not that is crossing that line.

I still haven't seen an adequate explanation for how Mark was able to post two Tineye messages without being online.... is he a wizard now?

I don't have access to a piano now like I used to (an old roommate had a baby grand), but, yes. I play. Almost 22 years now. Not sure I'd say 'wonderfully' but thank you. I am absolutely signing up for this and if I'm still alive in LG 32 when this starts, so be it. I will break my rule about two games at once because how can I not play this? Name will come later though.

Oh, I can confirm that I suggested Rae throw some red herrings into her messages. But that doesn't confirm her story even a little bit. Also, as for the proof that the Tineye was Mark that Rae suggested, I find that interesting. Because in her first PM to me in this game, she said that the "nki" was because her character's name is "Nicki" and the "rlrnrssa" is a reference to her LG30 characters, Ralanaar and Rissa. I feel like that's somewhat more plausible an explanation than the ones she's suggested for Mark, but that's just me.

He wasn't online during the last two nights the Tineye sent a message. Night 5 and Night 6 had Tineye messages and both were after he was last online. While I could maybe, possibly, see Stink/Orlok allowing an early Tineye message submission on the first night, if they were feeling kind, I cannot ever see them allowing him to submit messages for the next two nights.

I don't know about you, but to me, this sounds like the Seeker seeked Mark. Mark knew about this, and confirmed the role the Seeker found. Therefore, if Mark were the Tineye, I guarantee that at least the Seeker and Kipper knew his role other than Rae. I call bogus on Rae's story.

Rae. She was the Tineye, and there's no Tineye message. Since I was the only one who knew for a fact that she was the Tineye, she probably hoped to kill me and make it so even though everyone would know the Tineye had been converted, no one would know who it was. Also, she PMed me just at rollover to apologize. I'm 99.9% certain that the person who was attacked was me. Therefore, we wouldn't gain anything by withholding the info and discussing anyway.

Sorry for being less active the last couple days. I drove to my parents' on Friday and have been with family since, so I haven't been online hardly at all. I'm heading back tonight though, so I'll go back to my usual activity levels. Also, thanks to being out with my mom and my phone almost dying, I didn't get a soothe order placed. Given the recent conversion, I expect that will look suspicious, but I don't really care. I also don't think I would've found anything useful even if I had soothed, since they had to have known Rand would be lynched today, so he probably offensively smoked last night.

I can guarantee that Aonar tried to attack Rand. He believed (and I concur with this) that there was a 60% chance Rand was the Inquisitor, 30% chance he was the convert, and 10% that he was being offensively smoked. Since the odds of Rand being offensively smoked were so low, Aonar wasn't about to be convinced by any argument Rand made because the facts told a different story. I also was distinctly unswayed by anything Rand said. I'm 99.9% sure that Rand is evil, and I'm 80% sure that Rand is the Inquisitor. Rand.

Well, fortunately, the timing of that post versus the PM doesn't really matter. The point is that I never said I was cleared (before or after). Anyway. I disagree. See, with how we've been using emotional allomancy to check for copperclouds and encouraging as many people as possible to vote, an active player abstaining from voting right after a Spiked was caught because their vote wasn't soothed would draw a lot of attention. You've voted in most of the day cycles, if not all of them, so you abstaining from voting when you were certainly active and posting would be suspicious. Plus, Lopen had mentioned you among all the non-voters, requesting for all of you to vote. And you'd been online and posting after having been mentioned. No, I don't think you had a choice. You had to vote. It's either abstain and certainly draw attention to yourself or vote and possibly get caught. And really, with a wide pool of voters, the odds of you getting caught are pretty slim. Particularly if you vote alongside the public Soother. That's arguably the spot where you're least likely to be targeted.

I would argue that I am taking it easy. See, old Wilson used to take notes on every player and offer up analysis based on those notes. She'd spend hours and hours every day keeping up with the thread and her notes and writing super long posts going into detail about whatever. I'm not doing that (at least not to the degree and consistency that I used to). When I've done player analysis in this game, it's been predominantly light. The actual analysis I've been doing is based on actions, because that's the aspect of game analysis that really fascinates me. Using the information I have and piecing things together in a way that makes sense. I love that. I've only been skimming the thread for the most part, but if I notice or remember something that was said that matches up with my action analysis, I'll follow-up on it. To add to this, when I vote manipulated Jon, I wasn't suspicious of him. I actually chose to vote manipulate him when the votes were significantly closer because I didn't think he would be smoked and I wanted the manipulation to go through. When Kipper pulled way ahead, and I went to place my soothing order, I didn't see any reason to change that target. When the soothing failed, I went back and looked back at that misinterpretation of copperclouds that I vaguely remembered reading the night before. I'd read it initially on my way to my sister's after a concert (no, I wasn't driving), so I was fairly distracted and my initial reaction was "No, that's wrong, but I can see where you're coming from; let's correct that." Basically, I read it as innocent. Looking back on it with more information, I saw it for what it was: misdirection. When I said I wanted to take it easy, I wasn't saying that I wanted to sign up for a game and not play it. That useless. I like playing. I just don't like spending hours and hours doing nothing but the game. I rather like having a social life. It's the burden of being an extrovert. Not true. Jon tried to claim that I'd said that too. What I actually said was that I was cleared of being the first convert: Link Please read that last again. Also, I'd like to direct you to the post date. Saturday morning my time. Now, I don't know exactly when you made your request to have me seeked, but I'd wager my allomancy on it having been after this post. So you say you were requesting to have me seeked because I was telling everyone I was clear, when in fact, I was doing the exact opposite. Jon, however, tried to indicate that I was trying to clear myself completely: Emphasis mine Honestly, this makes me wonder if there was talk in the doc about twisting my words to make it seem like I was claiming I was cleared. Let me remind you again of that last line: There's actually only one person thus far who's tried to claim that they're completely clear, and that's Hero. Anyway. Moving on. If anyone is curious how I conclude that those vote manipulated couldn't be the first convert but the Inquisitor could've been, here:

I'm far less certain that you're a villager though. You've done a number of suspicious things. First, there's your reads being all neutral when there were only a couple evils, which means that the vast majority of players were village, and yet you had surprisingly few village leans and very little paranoia. I know you said that you're always this reasonable, but from what I've heard, this level of reason is rather similar to LG30. Next up, we have your request to Rae to see if she knew the Seeker and could have me seeked, which makes me wonder if you were offensively smoking me to make me look suspicious and get the village paranoid about me. Then there's your quick response after Jon's death about how you'd wondered what happened to the vote manip which seemed a little too concerned, almost like a "Dang it, I knew we should've asked what she'd done! Now we're down one!" Your follow-up to my comment about the Meta-kill being an act of desperation was also a little off. And I rather think you voted alongside me for Ecth hoping that I wouldn't try to soothe you, for why would I try to soothe someone who's going along with the lynch that I want? (Side note: that actually did make me back-pedal a bit because I'd been fairly convinced that you and Ecth were teammates, and it was your suspicious behavior that made me more convinced that Ecth was the Inquisitor, so sorry @Ecthelion III. That was my bad. I got too caught up in my theory (which I'm still a little sad was wrong)). I went for that soothe anyway. And now this most recent question about the Araris soothe....you again seem a little too concerned about it, and a villager doesn't really have any reason to be concerned. So, if you're a villager, I invite you to make your case. If it's convincing (Even when I'm 99.9% convinced someone is evil, I can still be persuaded to reconsider, and I have been persuaded to do so in the past), I'll request for the Coinshot to not go after you. Sound good?