little wilson

dude bleeders gonna off karnage if karnage isnt bleeder and if karnage is bleeder him surviving more than two cycles without getting attacked and saved by a bodyguard will just mean that we lynch him later. lets not make it too obvious to bleeder (if karnage isnt bleeder) that this is actually flogs by lynching him again and him surviving again. you look sooooo sus right now pyro and if I werent voting on straw, id totes be stabbing you. js edit: oh noes my phone put a capital i in how dare it! gaaaahhhh. this is why me shouldnt post on phone. but me cant backspace so the capital stays :((((((((

sigh. just gonna say right now that joe is a troll and you probs shouldnt have roleclaimed cuz I wouldnt be surprised if theres only one bodyguard to prevent exactly what you are suggesting. things like that have happened in previous games joes run soooo thats fun. regardless i said straw was off. what say all you peeps who were like nooooooo straw be a good one! dont kill him!

i should hope people can roleclaim cuz if they cant that certainly makes my gossip claim awwwwwkkwwwwaaaaard.

yeah no. aint no way imma helpin someone who could be evil stay alive. if you recall I dont gots the best feeling about karnage and while his survival here doesnt really make that worse it certainly dont make it better. gambling tycoon can be either good or evil and until there be a scan on karnage im not coordinating or advocating coordinating through anyone else for protection of karnage. highly doubt hes flogs. js also why am i awake right now. i want to sleep. but my sleep is the restless sleep of the....... something that has restless sleep. brain is not awaaaaake yet ugh. why is araris dead. this saddens me. it saddens me even more to see he was a gossip cuz id thought about pming him since he hates pms just to see if hed respond and he couldve. many times! well not many but 4 which is many for this game. sigh. why didnt i do that. :((((

joeeeee dost thou have an officially count of the stabby stabs?

tbf ive been at work and dont really want to post from my phone cuz my phone is dummm (or is it smart?) and changes my lowercase i to uppercase and puts air commas (aka apostrophes) into my words without my permission. dumm phone. stop doing that. however im posting from my phone now so you special straw. :))) i cant elaborate because its a gut read. i would elaborate if i could but the whole point of gut reads imo is that you just feel something is off. if you could explain it it wouldnt be gut. make sense? that said i dont feel terribly strongly about your lynch since my gut read is only mild bad - you know like when you just have a bit of indigestion but you can live with it yeah? - and as others have said youve been contributing a lot so killing a very active player for info when there are other options might not be the best choice. i shall think on this and when im off work ill take a quick looksee through the thread to decide if i will change my vote/who i will change it to. not a fan of karnage's stuff against araris there. vote might go there. we see. in a few hours.

i briefly thought about making this my one post in this game where i adhere to traditional capitalization and punctuation but no. if i lighten up once ill do it more and i dont want that. to answer your question - i did say i was going to do this during signups. i said i would be super casual probably a cross between stink and burnt and this is a fair approximation of their style of casual. not an impersonation but im not trying to impersonate. ive never been one to intentionally obfuscate others reads based on my playstyle. there are players whove done that (fura comes to mind but i know there are others) but playing in a way to make it hard to read me no matter my alignment to make it easier to hide when im evil just isnt a thing i care to do. its actually usually more fun for evil me if i play as genuine as i can when good because then evil me has to replicate that and thats fun. this is purely for me to have fun. the last bunch of games i played were rarely if ever fun for me - its a large part of why i swore off playing (one part was because i was dying early before there was ever a chance for me to see if i could still have fun and the other part was because i wasn't having fun and hadn't had fun playing in years). i took the games way too seriously. and i knew that i did. but i kept trying to find a way to play that would be fun - id create a fun character to rp and then id stop rping a couple turns into the game and would drop back into full analysis. i think the reason for that was because my writing was always the same - long paragraphs, proper writing - so my mindset was the same. but this is working. im actually having fun with every post (excluding this one) because its so different from my normal but its also so easy to stick to and the broken up paragraphs mean that it doesnt look the same so its easier to separate the mindsets. this is important. so no - im not trying to confuse everyone. im trying to find a way for me to play that means that i can continue playing these games. if i cant have fun whats the point of playing? i am sorry if its confusing. thats not my intention. but im not gonna change it. (please note that the whole lowercase, no apostrophe stuff is just a this-game thing. if this playstyle works, i'll go back to capitalizing words that should be capitalized and using apostrophes and stuff. but for this game, imma stick with this)

til - its caszh. whod a thunk? so the correct description of how imma playing this game is super caszh. yepp. :))) according to burnt you hit enter after almost every sentence and according to stink you never hit backspace. these are good tips. i like.

i hate to jump to straws defense here but i believe straw is using the player list in joes post this turn - it has the player list in alphabetical order, so araris is at the top. also joe - why am i at the bottom but rae is at the top???? edit: darn, ninjad for my question :((((

not sure what you mean by interesting tone - i said id be super casual this game. - also, heres a question for anyone - you know the shortened word for casual the one that's almost like cash? how do you spell that cuz i don't think it's cash, but i can't think of what else it would be? caj? that makes no sense but i really want to say super cash/caj/whatever it is cuz thats even more casual but i dont know how to spell it. its a problem. anyway. maybe your tone is interesting. im just being me. and i dont know! i just do! its a gut read for a reason. how do you explain a gut read - if you could explain it it would have basis in logic and therefore wouldnt be gut read ya know? tsk tsk straw. asking for explanations when there are none. le sigh. heh. imo you could say the same thing a bit about yourself

watching watching watching watching watching bang! a body fell and mad watcher dropped almost as fast (tho not quite as fast because she had a drink in her hand and it was reeeeaaalllly good and she didnt want to spill any of it). she crawled to a table and watched. but hiding watching. not out in the open watching like before. she wasnt completely stupid after all. bodies dropping and blood flying. this was not precisely how shed thought this night would go. she supposed she shouldve known better. but really who would shoot up a lovely little auction bribing away the loyalties of the governors brother? wouldnt it be better to just buy those loyalties yourself rather than kill everyone? crazy people. - beep boop. testing testing can you hear me? joe made my gm pm all lowercase and it made me happy to see. im not even sad now that im not evil - id been planning on talking in the doc like this cuz it wouldve been hilllllarrrious and now i dont get to but its fine cuz im a gossip and therefore i get to talk in my pms like this its so wonderful. thats a roleclam btw. roleclam? whered the i go? fingers whyd you miss the i. i gots a tiny bad feeling in a place that starts with g and rhymes with wut about straw and karnage. so straw. get rekt. beep boop.

GM Thoughts I’d been dreading this game, even with the improved spreadsheet. I’d been on paid furlough for 5 weeks, though, and when El (I think jokingly) suggested we run this, I was like “Oh sure why not, I don’t have anything better to do.” And then signups went up and I was like “What have I just done.” But I had lots of time, and we worked on the spreadsheet and everything was going to be fine. And then the worst thing happened: my boss called me up on the second to last day of signups to say that I could come back into the office and start working again. So there I was, heading back into work, with this game about to start, knowing that rollovers are massive, I don’t get out of work until 6:30 PM, and the writeups are supposed to be posted at 9, and the spreadsheet crashes on my phone almost the second I enter so I can’t help with rollover until I’m off work and….oh dear goodness what have I done??? And then Elkanah went to Imre and practiced at The Eolian. He sent a PM to us, thinking about his inevitable performance and said something like “The stage fright is so real. The immersion aspect of this game is nothing short of spectacular.” And I couldn’t stop grinning. That’s why I built this game - to immerse players in the world of KKC and the University. To make it feel like you were really there. And even if only a couple people feel that way each game, I’ll keep running it regardless of how much of a time commitment it is. I love watching people interact with this ruleset and just have fun with all the possibilities. And you know what? I’m pretty happy with the way this game turned out. It’s still broken, but I think it’s less broken. Let’s start with my thoughts about Imre. Contracts This is the first time the contracts have really been used. We copied over two of the contracts from LG33, and the rest was history - almost everyone who went to Imre either added at least one contract or accepted one. Or both. I loved seeing both the mechanical contracts and the RP contracts - though, like Devotary, I’m sad no one picked up the Chandrian essay contract. I was so hoping to see an essay denouncing Tehlu and promoting the Chandrian. (I showed it to Aonar, and I think if he’d been playing, he would’ve accepted it and written that essay. Maybe next time.) The one issue with the contracts (outside of the lack of automation importing them into the Imre tab from Player Input and the spreadsheets and the lack of text input boxes in the player spreadsheets) was the contract tuition reductions. No one placed a contract for more than 3 talents. In fact, most talents had rewards for less than a talent. This was something I hadn’t anticipated. We definitely need to change up the tuition reduction tiers to have more in the less-than-a-talent range, since every single contract placed in this entire game fell into the first tier of reductions. Devi’s Not much to say here, since she only got used once. People are rightfully worried about going to her, but….I’m wondering if it might be possible to introduce a less problematic moneylender on top of the gaelet. So people who want big rewards now can go to Devi, and people who just want a little bit extra can go to someone who won’t completely extort them. Maybe if you want less than 2 talents, you can go to the moneylenders for an interest rate of 15-20%, and then Devi is still 4 talents or more, with the 30% interest rate. And if you want to put up collateral, you can only do that with Devi? Basically, I know a few people were interested in the moneylender aspect of the game, but either couldn’t do the 4 talents (because they were Ruh) or didn’t want to deal with the astronomical 30% interest rate. And I can’t really blame them for that. I wouldn’t want to deal with that either, but I would like to see the moneylenders be used more. It’s another interesting aspect of the game. Also, mild comment here - Devotary was one who went to Devi’s, and partly used the money borrowed to hire a bodyguard. That bodyguard was the only reason she survived the game. The Eolian I liked adding in the practicing feature. I think that’s a good feature. I also liked the changes made to the musical base stats, particularly for the Ruh. Most of the Ruh couldn’t have failed their performance roll - Striker, Hael, CadCom, and Elkanah were all guaranteed, and Fura would’ve had a hard time losing. Kynedath was 50/50 but he pulled it off. It wasn’t just the Ruh that had chances of getting the Pipes either - Burnt succeeded (she submitted something and then rolled high naturally, so her stat was comparable to Kynedath’s, who didn’t submit anything and rolled mediocre) and Karnage would’ve if he’d gone to The Eolian the turn he went to Imre - he wasn’t able to buy an assassin like he’d been planning to and didn’t up doing anything there, but I rolled just to see what he would’ve gotten and he rolled high enough. Walin, Rover, HH, and Lum were all within decent striking distance, and then a few more could’ve succeeded with stellar performances. All-in-all, I feel like the Eolian mechanic is just about perfect. The Loaded Dice Only a few people tried their hand at gambling, but I think in general, this worked well. Burnt ended up winning twice, and Devotary lucked out. Some others got really close - there was one turn where the number I rolled for one person was one of the numbers another had bet and vice versa (I briefly thought about fudging those rolls and swapping them so both players would win). It was sad seeing people lose, but that’s the risk of gambling. Not everyone can be a winner, sadly. Even if I’d like everyone to be a winner. And now. Onto the University. Tuition/DP/Horns We’ll need to adjust the Master DP so it’s more dependent on starting player count. 5 DP works when there’s over 20 players, but if there’d been less than 20, having 45 DP to spread out among only a few voted on players would’ve been problematic. Also need to adjust certain tuition reductions - I already mentioned contracts, but nahlrout is another one. The nahlrout reduction is a little higher than it should be, I think. Plum Bobs Devotary and Bard are both right about this. The particular use we saw in this game I think was fine. However, that’s because Devotary only had a single elevation in alchemy, so there was a 30% chance Bard would fly into a rage after the first question, a 40% chance he’d fly into a rage after the second, and so on. This might need to be adjusted so it’s over 50% for the second question on the first upgrade. And the higher upgrades will also need to be tweaked. I shudder to think what would’ve happened if Devotary had been an El’the with 3 elevations in Alchemy when she’d used that on Bard. >> So yeah. Plum bobs are broken, but they didn’t really break this game. But they could’ve. Badly. That will be fixed. Lodging I really like the addition of The Windy Tower, but everyone and their dog used it. This is not surprising. However, it indicates that it should be more expensive. Possibly switch The Golden Pony and The Windy Tower so The Golden Pony drops to 6 talents and The Windy Tower jumps to 9? Would The Golden Pony be more attractive if it subtracted a full DP rather than just one vote? I’d really like to get the lodgings on more equal footing, and I think we’re close-ish right now. Sympathy I like the changes to sympathy and think the field as a whole rivals the others now. However, I feel like there are some OP problems with Malfeasance Protection, particularly at the 3rd and 4th levels. We didn’t get to see the 4th level used, but just what I saw at the 3rd level has me a little concerned. For example, Bard used malfeasance protection on Lopen that last turn. Lopen got hit with Fae Loe, the Horse and Four’s explosion, and Araris’ nuclear naming. If Araris hadn’t specifically stated that he was subverting protection items and actions, that malfeasance protection would’ve saved Lopen, despite everything that hit him. A part of me wonders if instead of downgrading all negative effects of all actions, maybe it should only downgrade the worst? @Young Bard - I think you’ll have the best insight into this: do you think that would nerf Sympathy too much and make it less appealing, or would it be okay? Naming We got to see our first ever Master Namer! This was exciting. It was even more exciting to see the nuclear attack Araris came up with to end the game. Had Araris not died to the Horse and Four, he would’ve gone insane, having rolled a 10 on his insanity roll and then having the +9 from the names IP bonus and the using 4 names at once IP bonus. Ridiculous. As for my thoughts. I don’t really have much to add that hasn’t already been said by Araris, Hael, and some others. Naming is understandably attractive due to the creativity inherent with it. Not necessarily OP, at least not when it’s just a single name being used, but all three games have ended due to naming. That’s not really a problem, but it adds to the concerns the Skindancers have to deal with. Which brings me to: Skindancer Balance: The Seemingly Unfixable Problem On the one hand, I think they actually had a better chance this game than either of the others? On the other hand….I’m not sure that’s saying much. The Skindancers have a choice of two nigh-impossible win cons - either kill all the students (or get them expelled/insane before they can get any elevations) or destroy all the fields. The first is more manageable than the second, but compared to the Students win con of expelling the Skindancers, the Students definitely have an easier job. And how do you destroy all the fields when there are 9 fields and less than 9 Skindancers? Fixing the second win con is easy - they don’t have to destroy all the fields. Only the arcane ones. I think I’d include Physicking in this, just to push it over half. Rather than destroying 9 fields, they only have to destroy 5. That’s far more reasonable. Still hard, but not completely impossible. The first win con is a little harder. I’m not even sure it needs to be fixed. It’s possible that the Skindancers could’ve potentially pulled it off this game, though it’s difficult to say given that Stink, the Skindancer Namer, went inactive after Hael died. I’ll say that I’m glad the Skindancers ended up with 7 on the team. That wasn’t intentional. We initially rolled for 6, but we didn’t know Walin and Rover were twins living in the same house. In 1.2, Rover ended up seeing the Skindancer doc on Walin’s computer and we had a bit of a worry there - do we start the game over? Do we kill Rover? Do we kill Walin? Killing Rover didn’t seem right - it was one of his first games. Killing Walin also didn’t seem right - that would unfairly punish the rest of the Skindancers. So do we make Rover evil too? But Rover’s a Vint, and Lopen’s a Vint, and we can’t have two Vints on the team, especially not now that their Ruh is about to win his Pipes. In the end, we made Rover evil, but switched him from Vint to Aturan, and RNG’d a village noble from Aturan to Vint - Araris got that honor (we pretended we messed up something in the spreadsheet so he wouldn’t guess that we were mid-game balancing for something - we lied to Araris to cover up a lot of mid-game balancing now that I think about it). So the Skindancers had 2 nobles, 3 Yllish Commoners, a Cealdish Commoner, and a Ruh. A very good spread, while we were still figuring out if the classes were balanced properly (I think they very nearly are, so being a troll and having a team of predominantly nobles or Ruh or Cealdish is a very real possibility for next game ). And because we increased the prices of grams and bodyguards, that meant that protection was much less common this game, so the sabotages had a higher chance of going through, even in the late game. All of this worked in their favor toward that first win con. This is why it’s hard to say for sure how things would’ve played out if all the Skindancers had remained active. Even expelled, Stink could’ve worked together with Bard to make it so Bard could target attending students. The two of them could’ve stopped Araris, even if the team was worried about protection against a sabotage - they’d thought Araris had a bodyguard (he didn’t), so they never attacked him. I’m inclined to just keep the balancing on elim percentage and protection cost for next game just to see how the first win con looks, balance-wise. Particularly given the biggest changes that will be made to the game. The First of the Big Changes - Order of Actions We realized partway in that the Order of Actions was very problematic. With the current OoA, a PC Master who submits orders to elevate someone and file DP could go insane and their actions are then lost, because elevations and the Horns happen after offensive actions (if the PC Master cracks naturally, they could elevate a player, but still lose their filed DP since the Horns currently happens last). The turn Straw was sabotaged and Karnage took his place as Master Linguist, Straw had filed DP and was trying to elevate someone. He couldn’t do either with the sabotage. But Karnage hadn’t submitted anything for this, and we didn’t want to just leave the Master Linguist blank, so we ended up having an NPC Master fill in for Straw after Straw cracked and then Karnage took over after the Horns. That was a weird rollover. And then there’s the messiness of the last turn. Technically, Araris died in the Horse and Four while simultaneously doing the Massacre on the Horns. And Lopen, Karnage, and Experience were simultaneously escaping the Horse and Four’s explosion and dying in the Massacre. That’s….a problem. Regardless, by moving elevations to dead-last and bumping the Horns up earlier (before kills, sabotages, assassinations, and insanity), I think most of the problems can be fixed. And with this order of actions, a number of things would’ve been different this game: Lopen wouldn’t have become the Master Arithmetist when he did, since he would’ve lost some EP from being on the Horns. Burnt probably wouldn’t have been expelled, even with her roll of 98 (since not only would Rath have been alive to spread out the NPC Master’s DP, all the PC Masters filed DP against either Devotary or Elk). The Second of the Big Changes - A Semi-Proper University Application System Hael made this suggestion in the dead doc. We expand the pre-game submissions so they’re more like an actual, real-life university application process (though to a significantly less intense degree). Instead of just allowing musical submissions to increase a player’s character’s musical ability, we allow essays/RP to make it more likely you start with EP in a field of your choice (or even a starting elevation in that field!) and art submissions that would give players a starting item. Players would only be able to do one of these submissions, but it increases the interaction with the ruleset and expands one of the things I love about running this game: the pre-game submissions. Additionally, this could give the GM’s a rough idea of how people are sort of planning on playing before the game even starts, so we can balance accordingly - if we know these 7 players are all wanting to go into Naming, having all 7 be Skindancers probably isn’t the best distribution. This makes it so everyone can go into what they want to go into - which is one of the best things about this game, I think - but still keeps teams well-balanced. I think that’s basically all my thoughts. This game was a blast, and now that we have a spreadsheet that cuts rollovers down to 4-5 hours with 2 people as opposed to 12-18 and 3 people…? Well. Let’s just say that I’m far more interested in running this game again. And again. And again. Thank you everyone for playing. You were all great, whether you were RPing in the thread, RPing in your PM because you were insane (dear goodness, HH’s RP in his PM was some of the best in this game it was so very good), trying your best to drop your tuition to nothing, creating amazing contracts, or just asking questions about abilities or mechanics. It was all wonderful. Despite my initial dread, I’m really glad we ran this game right now. You’re all the best.

Certainly not. Pretty sure that award goes to PMing Araris and jumping straight into saying he's Namer as if you knew for sure he was. And then lying and saying you'd used School Records on him.

mad watcher watched. she was super good at watching. its how she got her name didntcha know? and auctions were great places to watch. especially the silent kind? so much watching trying to figure out who else was bidding on what you wanted and then ki - i mean. watch them. yep. just watch. mad watcher didn't do anything but watch. ever. its why she was mad at it - mad as in so good she was a mad watcher. you know? it certainly wasn't for anything else that word could mean. that would just be....well. mad. so.....i guess this is happening? given the sudden ending of lg65 and orlok signing up for this, there's a tiny part of me that kinda wants to play again, even after the travesty of that qf months ago. so here we go. fair warning - imma be super casual this game. im thinking maybe a mix of burnt and stink casual. if you couldnt tell by my utter lack of capitalization and proper punctuation. also, mild request here - can i ask maybe dont kill me in the first 2-3 cycles? its been a looooonnng while since ive played a game, and even longer since ive played one for any decent length of time and id kinda like to play? twould be nice to see if i can still have fun, which didn't happen during the qf that shall not be mentioned. that qf is like voldemort now. it that must not be named. you dont want this game to become that way too do you? i keep typing commas and apostrophes and have to go back and delete them. this could be interesting. but anywayz. mad watcher signing up. woot. mad watcher out.

Posting in here to say that things will be a little delayed - turns out this isn't a rollover. It's the aftermath. o.O El's working on writing it, since as you can imagine, there's a lot that just happened - I wasn't kidding when I mentioned death (I just didn't know quite how true that would really be - so many people died! - and no, Araris, it wasn't all because of you (though most of it was)). So, yeah. We'll get the aftermath up, but it might not be tonight. El just went to dinner, and I'll probably be going to bed shortly after she returns. If it's not tonight, it'll go up tomorrow (or Saturday at the latest, but I really don't see it getting delayed that long).

The turn is now over! Tune back in in roughly 4 hours to discover if you still live! Dun dun dun.

Fura was elevated incorrectly. We weren't tracking the lashes effects on elevations like we should've been and Fura was elevated when he was still supposed to be roleblocked.

LG65: Term 6 Month 1 - Defying Gravity [writeup pending, but suffice it to say that Leo tried to fly. It didn't go well] Lyoan (Fura) went insane! Knighter Nune (Rover) went insane! Leo (Lopen) was attacked! Bryn Aria (Burnt Spaghetti) was brought on the Horns and charged with Undignified Mischief! Rath was brought on the Horns and charged with Conduct Unbecoming! He has been lashed! Athdara (Elandera) was brought on the Horns and charged with Conduct Unbecoming a Member of the Arcanum! She has been expelled! Arael Solon (Araris) is now a Master. No one was elevated. Term 6 Month 1 has now begun! We will get PMs out shortly!

Eesh. I just got home from work and had assumed El locked this up... So. The turn and term are now over! Uh. Considering I don't know where El is, we'll see when the new turn will be posted.

No.

It is not placed on Masters at all.

LG65: Term 5 Month 2 - You Can’t Stop the Beets Sloan was feeling a high she’d rarely felt before. She’d killed two students in as many months. Would her good luck streak hold? The anticipation was becoming too much. It took over her dancing, to the point where people looked at her strangely. Or more strangely than usual. She was used to the sideeyes people would give her as she passed them, her feet moving to a beat they couldn’t hear. It barely bothered her at all anymore. But this was growing….flamboyant. Yet, she couldn’t help it. Her joy could not be contained. What was that smell? And where was it coming from? She whiffed the air and grimaced. It was a decidedly unpleasant stench, yet not the stench of body odor or rotting food. No, this was almost perfume-like. It smelled intentional. Who would make this smell intentionally? She walked up an alley, and stopped short as she saw a bright green candle burning on the cobblestones of the alley floor. A girl sat beside it, warming her hands over the flame and…. ….Merciful Tehlu, was she smelling it? People sometimes doubted Sloan’s grasp of reality, but in Sloan’s opinion, she was a prime example of sanity when compared to this girl. The girl heard her and turned. “Oh, do you like my beet candle?” Beet candle? “Not exactly,” Sloan replied. “You don’t have to love the smell. It grows on you! And they really have quite amazing medicinal benefits! I would hazard a guess that they would even almost beat the University’s Medica! Isn’t that incredible? The Physicking department is one-of-a-kind, but if I do one thing in my lifetime, it will be getting the Master Physicker to accept my candles as a proper remedy.” Despite the overpowering aroma of beets surrounding her, Sloan smiled. “So you’re a student there, are you?” “Oh, yes. It can be a little expensive, but even a Ruh like myself can’t help but want to brighten the world with knowledge. Don’t you agree?” Sloan studied the girl a little harder - she would’ve gotten closer but she wasn’t getting within ten feet of that candle. Sure enough, the girl was unmistakably a Ruh. It was so obvious, Sloan was surprised she’d not noticed earlier. Had to be the candle’s fault. “Where’s your troupe?” “They’re still traveling around. I’ll rejoin them when I finish my studies.” Right. The University. Sloan focused on that. It didn’t matter if the girl was Ruh. She’d betrayed her kind by coming into this nest of vipers. That much was obvious by these grotesque candles. Sloan slipped her hands into her pockets, and found her throwing knives. Two of them slid from their sheathes as the girl mentioned missing her family. Perhaps you shouldn’t have left them, Sloan thought, as she threw one, two into her chest. The girl never saw the knives coming. Her leg spasmed out in shock and she knocked the candle over. It rolled toward Sloan, who backed up hastily. It stopped in the middle of the alley and Sloan stared at it, making sure it was still. Then she looked up at the body of the girl and her own knives sticking out of her chest. She couldn’t go back and get them. She’d have to go past that candle. Not even her music would help her through that endeavor, she was sure. Sacrifices. Sometimes, you have to make sacrifices for the greater good. Traelynn Weeks (Kynedath) was murdered! She was a Student! Maern (Xino) died to his wounds! He was a Student! Straw Altiora (Straw) has gone insane! Knighter Nune (Rover) went on the Horns and was charged with Conduct Unbecoming a Member of the Arcanum. He was expelled! These students were elevated: Athdara (Elandera), Arael Solon (Araris), Knighter Nune (Rover). Leo (Lopen) and Lasko Veitch (Karnage) are now Masters! Term 5 Month 2 has begun! This turn will end May 19th at 4 PM PDT. Get your lodging orders in (unless you want to face the wrath of Sloan, which I personally wouldn't recommend). The formula removing Master DP if EP was filed in that field was not working properly. We have fixed it and the following changes have occurred: Rath was not expelled. He was instead charged with Conduct Unbecoming, and received lashes. The effect of these lashes will end one turn early (this turn) to make up for the fact that we incorrectly expelled him and therefore he has not been able to file EP for the last two turns. Fura was charged with Reckless Use of Sympathy last turn, rather than Conduct Unbecoming.

The month is over!

You haven't retracted your previous votes on Fura, just so you know.

Oops. And retracted that one vote. Fixed.