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  1. Orlok Tsubodai
    Hi Lopen! I'm actually trying to work out why I'm still around - it's 03:30, and I should be asleep. I've always been an advocate of the day 1 lynch - which I think allows us to make a much more informed judgement about the night 1 eliminator kill, rather than having nothing of note to draw conclusions from. On roleclaiming in a conversion game, further than just being careful, how about just not doing it? Is the reward really worth the dramatically increased risk?
  2. Orlok Tsubodai
    Hellscythe. Let's not even risk killing Maill before one of the last Long Games he'll be able to play.
  3. Orlok Tsubodai
    On the basis that I would have been likely to follow the game regardless, and that it will provide a welcome respite from revision, I have decided to sign up as Locke - although I can say with a high degree of certainty that I will not be RPing at all.
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    I might be done with school, Aman, but all that means is that my exams are about to begin. Whilst I could sign up, and keep an eye on it during study leave, I can't promise a consistent level of activity. If 25 players really are needed, I'll play, but please do give me a degree of lenience with regards to activity. If people would rather I didn't play, don't hesitate to say so, and I'll withdraw.
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    Apologies for the delay - I had my last day of school ever yesterday, and have had quite a busy week. Action 3: Hold a festival in Fadrex, celebrating the longevity of the Empire and The Lord Ruler, and the birth of twins to House Tekiel
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    Action 1: Marry my daughter, Julia, to House Zerrung.
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    Much though it pains me - this is a game I have been looking forward to, I'm going to ask for a link to the spec doc, please - unfortunately, A-level exams are imminent.
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    Action 1: Try for an heir Male: Octavian, Female: Olivia
  9. Orlok Tsubodai
    Nyali, I must admit to being a little surprised by this. Last day cycle, you explained that your suspicion of me was due to my being the second vote on Strawman, and due to defending LUNA. I shall address each of these in turn. Having read through the game, the first seems incongruous with you statement on Day 1, where you voted on Strawman as the 5th vote (4th not counting Deathclutch's vote in spite of having made an heir), for exactly the same reasons as I set out to explain my having voted on Strawman, and the edit Strawman had made of his post. Now, given Strawman's edit was a misinterpretation of the rules, I don't think it should have been given any weight in terms of analysing his actions, which means that your vote was based on exactly the same information mine was - and if mine was unsound, so too must have been your own. Regarding defending LUNA, I shall reiterate my statements from the first day. I had (and have) little view on LUNA's alignment - but I did believe her to be more useful than Strawman from their limited interactions, and so decided to even the lynch to prevent it being led by a nominally dice decided vote - although one you later accurately point out was based on a roll of dice from players already with two votes, which made only LUNA eligible - a somewhat inconsistent argument from Strawman, and one which I felt should not be responsible for leading a lynch. Further, I think that basing my alignment on a view of LUNA's alignment, and my single interaction (if it can even be called that) with LUNA is a little tenuous. Regarding my inactivity. I'll apologise to everyone - I have been unwell these last few days, and struggling to keep up with work despite being ill. I'm feeling somewhat better today though, and the work is now once again very manageable. Whilst I will be out tomorrow evening, I can guarantee that I shall be fully active at the weekend - and so able to participate in the second half of Day 3 at the very least.
  10. Orlok Tsubodai
    Having been back through the thread, and not having made any material progress in determining thoughts, I'm going to call it a night and hope that I'm more functional tomorrow. Sorry about this.
  11. Orlok Tsubodai
    Ok, so apologies for the lack of posting these last 48 hours - I haven't been feeling great at all, which, in combinartion with an unexpected avalanche of work isn't the most conducive to a coherent post.. Nyali, as I believe (although am not certain) I said on day 1, I didn't think what LUNA had said before acquiring two votes amounted to justification for a lynch, so voted to even the votes, and then didn't believe anyone was a better candidate than Strawman, so kept my vote on him. I'm not going to vote right now, but will try to make sense of my thoughts before the cycle ends.
  12. Orlok Tsubodai
    My point was D-Day was hard enough when we were launching the armada from across the channel - it would have been impossible to launch it from the other side of the Atlantic. That they could have won? Before D-Day, the USSR had won the Battle of Kursk, ending any chance of Germany regaining momentum in the East, and had lifted the siege of Stalingrad. Regarding Nuclear Weapons. You might have forgotten that before the Manhattan Project existed, Britain and Canada were working on Tube Alloys' - our own weapons project, and one we transferred to the Tri-nation Manhattan project to avoid any chance of it falling into German hands should they have invaded. You also seem to have forgotten Bletchley Park and the 'Ultra' intelligence it produced.
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    I did - and quite deliberately - whilst it must be remembered that the United Kingdom and British Indian Army has 2 and a half million men in the Pacific theatre, the US can take the lions share of the credit. But I don't recall Japan ever posing all that much of a threat to our Queen?
  14. Orlok Tsubodai
    I'm sorry? America won the First World War? Germany was starved into submission. And guess what, it wasn't the US who did it. The US sent 5 battleships to participate in the blockade. After the British had beaten back the Germans at Jutland, and provided the vast majority of the blockade. Anyway, even before that, the British attack at the Somme allowed the French to hold Verdun, which prevented a French capitulation, and led to the Central Powers beginning peace overtures. The British Empire was almost solely responsible for the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in the East. It was the British Expeditionary Force, with the French, that launched the Hundred Days Offensive that forced the German Armistice - not remotely the Americans. Now, admittedly, the in the Second World War, despite turning up late again, you were a little more useful. Although without the British holding out, D-Day would have been completely impossible. The British defeated the Germans in Africa, and the USSR in the East - whilst certainly the materials you provided were crucial, they were hardly free - we nearly bankrupted the country paying for supplies under 'cash and carry' as the only country fighting Germany in 1940 - with our Commonwealth, of course. Had you not intervened, here, I would argue that the only difference would have been that the Iron Curtain would have fallen an awful lot further west - ultimately, it was the USSR that defeated the German War Machine in WWII, not the Americans.
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    Maill, I thought that I might introduce you to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which your country has both signed and ratified. The relevant parts: 'Realizing that the individual, having duties to other individuals and to the community to which he belongs, is under a responsibility to strive for the promotion and observance of the rights recognized in the present Covenant,' 'Article 17 1. No one shall be subjected to arbitrary or unlawful interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to unlawful attacks on his honour and reputation. 2. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.' Of particular note: 'attacks on his honour and repuation'. Welcome back, Joe! God save the Queen!
  16. Orlok Tsubodai
    Because I don't think Strawman's activity has been helpful - it seems ill thought through, and, as Joe quite rightly said, has taken too much attention from other players.
  17. Orlok Tsubodai
    Frankly, I'd rather Strawman gets lynched than LUNA, but will remove my vote if a sound alternative candidate is chosen.
  18. Orlok Tsubodai
    Strawman. Whilst I don't think that voting by RNG is enough to say you're guilty, it is enough to suggest that you're not being helpful - what do we gain if people vote by RNG? We can tell nothing about motivations for a vote - the result of which being a prime source of information gathering, and RNG voting really doesn't help in terms of lynching suspicious individuals. Mostly, though, I'm voting to tie off the lynch - before Maill had made his clarification, and in light of QF14, Joe is absolutely right in that voting once on the GM seemed eminently sensible - and hence I don't think LUNA ought to die for it.
  19. Orlok Tsubodai
    "The American way is an abomination that shouldn't exist" You're clearly being reformed and embracing your true British roots - for "if you were a true American, you'd spell all the words the American way, wouldn't you? " You never did give a definitive answer though - fake American, or only semi-American, Wilson?
  20. Orlok Tsubodai
    I shall sign up as Subadon - an Alethi officer on the verge of retirement.
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    25 wealth
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    15 wealth
  23. Orlok Tsubodai
    Kyn, did you see the post I made at the end of my last cycle? The whole system was designed to be a thinly veiled populist dictatorship (I am corrupt, remember ) nothing I'd actually advocate - although I must admit that defending it was incredibly fun! Joe, this was a really enjoyable game - thank you for GMing it, and Meta, thank you for all you did to help Joe!
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    35 wealth
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    20 wealth
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