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  1. Young Bard
    ... And Silverblade's already done it. Plus it's kind of a farewell present for Maill, seeing as he's leaving the Shard on hiatus in just a few days for 2 years.
  2. Young Bard
    Uhhh... You do realize you're not supposed to let them know we're eliminators, right? :-P All right then, Eol. @Silverblade5, welcome to Sanderson Elimination. Have a poke vote. Any reason you didn't say anything when you were on? You were online after rollover...
  3. Young Bard
    Really? I haven't got any yet I'll go send out some now. You don't mind one more, do you?
  4. Young Bard
    Yep, just logged on a minute a go. @Eolhondras, you're online, so you should see this. Unless you're too busy checking your doc...
  5. Young Bard
    Thanks!
  6. Young Bard
    The action order is when the player is actually arrested (because you need to know whether certain actions will be allowed through to/from that player), I believe. It's passive because you don't have to activate the ability other than contacting Joe in the day turn.
  7. Young Bard
    An update on this: I eventually found that apparently my e-mail on the Coppermind was unconfirmed (which I thought I had confirmed, but maybe I forgot when I first registered...) So, I try to confirm my e-mail, and apparently I don't have the authority to confirm my own e-mail. Which makes no sense whatsoever.
  8. Young Bard
    Isn't there an option to hide posts? There was on the old forum, which I used to delete accidental duplicates a couple times. EDIT: Yep, I can definitely hide my posts. There's a button under options to do that.
  9. Young Bard
    I thought that might be the case, because of the Chouta reference in your title, but I couldn't find the name history on the new site to prove it.
  10. Young Bard
    @DeathClutch19 If you want a co-GM because of your internet troubles, I'd be willing to help. (You'd need to add me to the relevant PM's/Docs first.) I've read the thread as a spectator. EDIT: @DeathClutch19... Or I can take over from Maill as well if your internet troubles are all over.
  11. Young Bard
    Omniscience is the state of being all-knowing. Both that and science are derived from the Latin word 'scire', meaning to know, apparently.
  12. Young Bard
    The Bard didn't see the difference between reality and games. He didn't want to. Because if a game gets real enough, solid enough that you can immerse yourself in it, where you build yourself an identity, where you can feel all the emotions roaring through you, more than you do in real life, then does it matter? In a way, life was just one giant game which you didn't sign up for, in which you endlessly grind away to build and make your little impact, only for it to be for nothing when you die anyway. The Bard didn't wanted any part of it. So when he saw an advertisement for the beta testing of Pokemon Go, he didn't think twice. 2 days later, he was there. He unpacked all of his gear: His Game Boy, his Playstation, his XBox, as well as a number of the classic consoles that were barely remembered, and several portable powerpoint batteries so he could use them. He made his way to the middle of the arena, and set up camp in the middle of the arena, surrounded by a house of consoles of one variety or another. He saw someone approaching him, but he didn't want to talk to them at the minute. Better to keep real life interactions to a minimum. He didn't want them getting the wrong idea. Quickly, he shuffled a stack of vintage PC's over into the doorway, shutting himself in. Good. This is going to be fun. (I deliberately made a lighthearted character for this, because it looks like my LG character might have quite a dark storyline.) Also, I think me signing up makes 11 as well. Clarifications: Are there items? (Potions would really come in handy...) Is there a way to evolve your Pokemon, to make it stronger and more resistant to attack?
  13. Young Bard
    Hmmm... You command me to gain omniscience. I'll put it on my to do list right after "put the bins out" and "grow a pair of wings"...
  14. Young Bard
    Just so you don't lynch me for acting differently, I'll let you know now that I'm trying to get a lot more RP done in this game. As in, everything that's not 2 minutes before rollover or before I'm leaving a WiFi zone will have RP elements. Joe, if there's a conversion role this game, would we know if/when they convert someone? (I'd guess there is, mainly because every LG I've played so far has, and it's been strongly implied that there are 2 non-regular alignments.) EDIT: That probably means I should create my RP character, shouldn't it... Idom and Areo stared at the figure before them. Areo looked down. "Come, see reason. We only need a little information. You can tell us." The figure, a man, hunched over nearly to the ground and backed into a corner, shook his head determinedly. "Come now. You must know the answer. We can help each other here. There's no need to let this carry... further." As he said it, his eyes drifted slowly over to his brother, calmly shaving his nails with a carving knife. "My brother doesn't have the same... sensitivity that I do when it comes to these matters." He looked back down. "It's ironic really. Idom here is named after mercy and compassion, and yet has none. And yet his brother, Areo, named after retribution, is always the one to attempt to help people." He crouched down, next to the ground. "You don't want him to go near you. This can all end now. Just tell us what we need to know, and we never have to meet again." The man nearly broke down, but shook his head. Areo sighed. "Idom, try not to get too much blood over your costume this time. We don't want the neighbours to fret." With a sigh, he stood and walked out of the room. The man looked up, and saw a large, bulky silhouette slide over him, carving knife in hand. And then he saw the teeth, gleaming as the man beamed down on him. A few minutes later, Idom walked back out. "Nothing. The man was too frail to get any information out of." Areo sighed. "You could have been a bit softer on him. He was our strongest lead." Idom looked at him. "We tried playing soft. It didn't work. He died. Slowly, they walked down the pathway. As they passed a rose bush, Idom discreetly opened his palm and let a handful of teeth slide out into the soil. "We will find it." Slowly, the main raised his hand. He tried moving his fingers. His index finger worked. Good. So did his middle finger. something appeared to be wrong with his ring finger - but that was probably overrated anyway. He didn't need it for his research. Slowly, he dragged himself towards the door. One laborious slide after another, each sending a thousand bursts of pain up through his nerves. He just had to get outside. He just had to get outside. He just had to... He just... get... outside. After what seemed like an eternity, he reached the door. He grabbed the hat rack, and began to propel himself up, ever so slowly, to reach the knob. One hand after the other, he rose up to the knob, before grabbing it and turning it, releasing the catch. He tried to clamber down slowly, but slipped and landed on the ground. Lifting his hand up, he opened the door the rest of the way, and moved out the door and onto the street. He began to turn, but energy defeated him at this point, as he collapsed on the roadside. Through fuzzy vision, he just managed to see someone hurry up to him. With the last of his strength, he lifted his head up. "...Help..." After that, he fell into blissful unconsciousness, as the man began to lift him up to carry him to help and safety. Huh. My RP is really cliche past midnight. Also, it ended up a lot darker than I was planning. Weird how that happens.
  15. Young Bard
    Twi's advice is really good, but if she doesn't really want to hang out or interact, don't force the issue. At the end of the day, you don't really know what's going on in their life. And everybody's different - what worked for Twi might not work for someone else. There was one kid at my school who kept on asking me whether I was OK. Really, after the first few times when I'd said 'yes' almost automatically, it became more annoying than anything else, even though it was well-intentioned. Regarding telling and adult v. not telling an adult, it's really up to you. One of the big questions you have to ask yourself is whether there's a chance that she might take it a step further in the immediate future. If the answer's yes, tell an adult you think can handle the situation discreetly and calmly (school councilors, if your school has one, are trained to deal with that sort of thing). Yes, it might not help her make friends in the immediate future, but at that point it's more important to prevent anything irreversible from happening.
  16. Young Bard
    I find it ironic that Straw basically chose to commit suicide by lynch in LG23 because he didn't have time to play LG23 and this, and then this ends... No offence Straw. Join LG24...
  17. Young Bard
    I thought that was to do with the posts per page going from 20 to 25. So we've made 2500 posts instead of 2000 to finish it off. Also, I just discovered I can not only sleepwalk, but sleep-"yes, dear" people. Apparently, I got up, saw my parents, listened to something they had to say, said "OK", and went back to bed. I have no memory of this. I'm not sure what that says about me...
  18. Young Bard
    That's odd. I'm sure there's a WoB that says Dragonsteel and White Sand are the first two canonically. At a guess, I'd say Peter made a mistake.
  19. Young Bard
    Actually Gamma, do you mind running through what happened... D2, I think it was? (The night Nyali accused me of being detained?) So, Nyali was initially told I'd performed no scan, then that her action had failed. Why was that? (For anyone interested, I never did submit an action that night. I had no idea who to put a weave on.)
  20. Young Bard
    Oh yeah. I thought I'd edited that in. Straw.
  21. Young Bard
    @Amanuensis: Now this has been revealed as a misunderstanding, are you willing to rejoin? I really am sorry about what happened.
  22. Young Bard
    Well done everyone. That really got down to the wire at the end there. And thanks to Gamma Fiend. Great game. (To think I had a plan that if both my Warders died, I would reveal all (of not very much), only to die the same night as my second Warder.) And Elodin, you really played well the second half of the game. Just a question about last night: I'm guessing you didn't make a kill last night because you Dreamwalked to avoid Bugsy's kill?
  23. Young Bard
    It shouldn't matter. Sart is the last Derethi (well, a Derethi at least). I got the scans just then. A "Derethi Convert Regular", apparently. Aman, can you kill him tonight, and end the game for us? (Sorry again about the confusion.)
  24. Young Bard
    That's all right, Aman. I'm really sorry about all the confusion. OK. That basically makes my entire argument chulldung, as Aman said, so I have no problem lynching Kipper. EDIT: And by the way, I'd never do something like that because of a persons rep. Actually, if you ever do catch me doing that, it's probably because I'm an eliminator trying to control the lynch (or else am a villager that's very certain that my target is an Eliminator, but this is SE, where you can't even be certain of the scans you see with your own eyes, so that won't happen often).
  25. Young Bard
    Aman, on the basis that voting for an actual Derethi could cost us the game this turn. Somehow, I don't believe Aman's claim of ignoring his faction goal to help the village. It just strikes me as off, somehow. I don't know why. *cough, cough*LG23*cough, cough* Luckily, I know of at least one lie that Aman told since becoming a revealed eliminator that everyone else may not. I'm not a Duelist. I'm a Merchant. (For verification, see El's post. His story on that front is internally flawed. Or ask anyone in the Korathi Doc where I claimed Merchant, and I had no reason to lie about that.) I tried to work out why he made that lie, and there's only one explanation I can think of. It requires a very specific set of circumstances, but if I'm right, the Jeskeri could win unless if we kill the Eliminator this Day Cycle. Bear in mind that Aman himself admitted that having only 4 Jeskeri to begin with is far too few to plausibly achieve a majority in the senate. I'm sure Mek must have realised this. First of all, the idea requires that there are 2 Jeskeri in the Senate tonight (which probably means that Mek deliberately engineered the numbers to start with three, or else El and Cloud are the eliminators on the Senate right now, but that doesn't actually matter if we do this right. Just bear with me.) Everyone in the thread except the Jeskeri and I will think I'm the Duelist, so whichever Monk/Duelist protected me won't bother to tonight. So, then I get killed by the Jeskeri, at the same time Straw gets instated, leaving the Senate numbers at 4. Meaning that only 2 Jeskeri, whoever they may be, need to be in there to win. Now, if the game continued to Night 7, they'd just instate someone else the following night to make up the 5th number, and losing the win con for the Jeskeri. The only way for them to not lose that is for the game to end the game with the lynch tomorrow. And the only way to guarantee that is to make sure the real Derethi is Scanned today. In this case, that's whichever of Sart/Kipper that isn't lynched. If it's kind of clunky, that's because it is. I'm fairly certain this is the back-up plan, as too much can go wrong. I think the Jeskeri don't know whether it's Sart or Kipper that's the Derethi. They're hoping to get it today (while they have their win con in the Senate), but if they don't, they can always fall back on this. It sounds implausible, but when you consider the context of having 2 Jeskeri in the Senate and one in the village with no chance of being reinstated (even before he claimed), it actually makes a kind of sense, in an I'm-desperate-but-this-is-the-only-thing-I-can-think-of sort of way. At worst, if I'm wrong, the game is delayed a cycle. Tonight, we add Straw to the Senate as a confirmed good, the Derethi and Jeskeri attacks are blocked by protection roles (which, each individually, they have an 80% chance of doing, before you even count the Merchants). Then we look at the scan of Kipper/Sart from today. If it's Eliminator, we lynch our scan target. If it's Villager, we lynch the other one of the two we didn't scan, and this whole thing ends tomorrow (assuming Aman's analysis is right). Whew! That was a lot that came out of a fake claim and Aman choosing to out himself. There's a chance I'm barking up the wrong tree, but we lose nothing if I'm wrong, and lose everything if I'm right. And if I am wrong, why did Aman claim I was a Duelist? TL;DR: My theory on the Jeskeri plan A and B are Kipper and Sart interchangeably, where one is a Villager and one is the Eliminator. Day 6: A lynched, B scanned. 2 Jeskeri out of 4 in the Senate. If A is the Eliminator, the game ends with a Jeskeri win. If not, B almost certainly would be (by Aman's analysis), so he gets scanned as an Eliminator Night 6: Village!? killed by Derethi, Village-Senator!Bard killed by Jeskeri, Straw raised to Senate. 2 Jeskeri out of 4 in Senate. Day 7: B lynched, Who-cares scanned. The game ends with a Jeskeri win. Aman, I'm guessing you'll want to respond to this - I'll see it in the morning. I've stayed up way too late to write this. @Straw, is that enough of an opinion for you?
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