Jondesu

Ok, right now I think my biggest suspicion is actually Bugsy. I assume he's a Thug, or else has an item that works basically the same way and let him survive, and it appears several someones may have tried to tie up the lynch, but miscalculated and it didn't work out. If he's Elim, that would be a doubly-valuable form of the wounded gazelle gambit, since I would have died and Bugsy would have survived but seemed innocent by virtue of the fact that votes were manipulated as if to try to kill him. Bugsy, anything you'd like to say to try to refute that?

Remart hung his head. The ale was starting to weigh heavy on him, and the guilt. "Ach, I sthink I've been part a' *hic* too many rusting lynches that turned to shame. Ma head mustch not be schrewed on justh right. El Stinko, buddy, no hard feelingsh. I'll let ya alone for a while." He swallowed another gulp and scratched at his metal leg (ineffectually, but he didn't seem to realize that). "Perhapsh I'll follow your lead for onsche. Still looking to run Mishter Hoid out of town?"

From "A Bugs Life".

"I am a beautiful butterfly!"

It's currently 4AM. I woke up at 1AM after going to bed about 9PM, and can't get back to sleep. This sucks.

Go figure, I survive and it looks suspicious. No idea who rioted and moved votes onto Bugsy, but I did already I was the one that soothed the vote on me. If you kill me, though, I'll just know I wasn't supposed to play 3 games at once. :-P

I will be at the beach with minimal internet access until Sunday, so may not be able to post. Edit: @STINK, I role-claimed a while back as a Thug with my extra life already used now, so I'm basically a normal villager. And no, I'm not Spiked.

I will be at the beach with minimal internet access until Sunday, so may not be able to post.

I will be at the beach with minimal internet access until Sunday, so may not be able to post.

Actually, that was self-preservation. I wouldn't role-claim this early normally, but I suspect the Elims did want to create a tie, but I threw them off by soothing phattemer's vote on me. Edit: yes, I know his vote is still there. Either a secret role messed it up or somehow it got moved back, but I recieved confirmation that I did successfully sooth phatt's vote. Edit 2: looks like the vote count has been corrected, so you can see clearly that one of the votes on me was soothed as I claimed.

@STINK, that was all I had to say right then, yeah. Now? I'm finding all my analysis has been incorrect all along, as I said last cycle, and I'm honestly just not sure who to suspect or trust. I think I distrust you and Sart above all still, and since Sart already has two votes I'll go for him this round. Edit: the big analysis posts of his are my main reason, since I not only disagreed, but he was going up against Seonid's analysis which I was much more in favor of.

Wow, Aman, thanks for making Kintas so prominent, and well, awesome! I'll make a full post once I'm supposed to be awake (it's only 5AM here), but that's was incredible, polished or not.

Yep, though since trees don't have blood, that's basically a dealbreaker for Hemalurgy.

Considering I have no suspicions I think are worth acting on yet, I'm going to also vote to imprison the inactive quiver.

@Doc12, I suppose you missed the large chunk of my first post that was discussion, and then my second post that was discussion only including a vote? I'd appreciate not being called out for only doing RP when it's not true.

Well, Rusts, I was wrong about Elbereth, that's for sure.

I'm gonna write up an awesome save in a bit. @randuir, mind if I have Ranatar slay a Voidbringer and get rescued from the water? Edit: NM, got too eager to wait. I can adjust if you'd like. If anyone doesn't want to have been rescued this way, just do your own thing, I tried not to force it on anyone the way I wrote it. Kintas took the spear from Ranatar calmly, belying his pounding nerves. He knew he couldn't take the Voidbringer on his own, but the other man was right, they were running out of time as well as Stormlight. He heard shouts of alarm behind him, but didn't have the attention to spare to make out what they were saying. Nodding to Ranatar, Kintas dove from cover, drawing a bolt of lightning from each of the remaining Parshendi, which were attracted instead to the sword laying in a puddle of water he'd seen and placed to his right. He spun his spear in what he hoped was a menacing fashion, and crouched into a combat stance. Which gave Ranatar plenty of distraction time. He bounded over the rock and came spinning down into the warpair, his sword leaving twin heads bouncing to the rocks at their owners feet. The stunned Voidbringers barely had time to register a permanent look of surprise on their faces first. Turning and breathing a sigh, Kintas felt the breath go out of him again suddenly as he realized what was happening. The storm the Parshendi were generating was no highstorm; they hadn't had long enough to do that. But it was more than enough to send a fifteen foot high flood crashing through the canyon with nearly the force of a stormwall, and nowhere to go except through them. He didn't have much time, but he could help those closest. He pulled a long rope from his waist pouch, a heavy weight attached to one end along with a short stout piece of cloth. "Ranatar, Jonly, Raalani, Hithon, everyone who can, grab onto the rope! Leave some space between you, but hold tight!" Turning, he spied an outcropping of rock anchored by vines, which he had to hope would hold. He reclaimed the Breaths in the sash around his waist, which was already touching his skin to make them easy to access, and then touched the cloth attached to the weight. "Hold when thrown." He heaved the weight towards the rock with Stormlight-enhanced strength, almost missing it, but the cloth snapped out and held tightly to it. He gave it a quick tug, but the water was nearly on them. He shifted his hand up the rope itself. "Hold, then lift." The green drained entirely from his tunic to fuel this Awakening, even though it was as simple as he could picture it. The rope wound itself around each person's arm, looking like muscles and fingers grasping at them, then bent like a giant arm. All of them were lifted into the air, as high as the rope could achieve based on its anchor point, and suspended there. Kintas watched the flood waters rushing at them and hoped they were high enough.

I have a plan to help at least a few people that can't make it to the Spire if needed, but I'll wait to see what others do. Kintas has a spear again, but remember, he's not that skilled, he just got lucky. He's not going to be able to go head to head with the Voidbringers.

That's a fair point I hadn't considered on the vote manips, but I also never expected that vote train would stand the entire time. It was just fun and a way to see who was participating, and I knew there would be plenty of people who eventually changed their votes. On the bandwagon, I'm thoroughly guilty. I'm not planning to try to do much analysis or to put a bunch of time into this game, just go with my gut instead, so you'll see more of that than I usually do. Comes from being in two other games that require a fair time commitment.

Yeah, I don't see how it's actually dangerous, and that sounds like trying to gain trust. Sorry, Bugsy, but you asked for this. Bartimaeus

Kintas heard Ranatar's shout about Voidbringers racing ahead, but he didn't have a weapon anymore. As he ran, though, he spotted a spear sticking out of an Alethi corpse on the floor of the chasm. He yanked it out as he darted past, feeling it's weight as he spun it. He hadn't trained with the spear at all, but it was basically just a staff with a pointy end, and he knew how to use one of those well enough. He'd back out of the way if more experienced fighters reached them, but he could help if he was one of the first to arrive. The Voidbringers Ranatar had pointed out became visible for a moment at the top of the chasm, and Kintas saw they would likely reach the Spire first, but they would have to reach the ground to block the entrance. There were still some soldiers at the top, so they likely wouldn't try to block that end, and would instead jump down into the chasm to cut off the Initiates. He sucked in more Stormlight than he'd held so far, his skin glowing and mist streaming from it as the Stormlight became too much to hold at once, and then he ran. He'd used a Returned body for a long time, and had gotten used to having more stamina and physical strength than most men, never truly becoming tired, but this was unlike anything he'd ever experienced. Instead of just not getting tired, he felt pushed to move faster and to keep running. He quickly outstripped many of the non-combatants he'd previously been running behind, and found himself reaching the bottom of the Spire as the Parshendi leapt off. Once they were airborne, they couldn't change their direction or pick a better landing spot, so Kintas had just a moment of the advantage, and he took it. He spotted where one of them would land, and vaulted over a rock to reach the landing point. Then he just planted the spear in the ground. It was a little like a game he'd played, throwing colored rings onto a post, only this time the spear was the post, and the Voidbringer's body was the ring. It didn't have a hole for the spear to go through already, of course, but in a moment there was a perfectly spear-shaped hole right through it, from abdomen to neck. Kintas flung the spear to the side, not bothering to try and remove it from the corpse, and flung himself behind a boulder as a bolt of lightning seared through the air near him. One down, three to go. @randuir, there's some help. :-)

Tineye's, please add me to some pm's you make.

Bartimaeus, it's your turn.

Ugh, this sucks. I was reasonably confident in my gut read of Mage, and I take no pleasure in being right, since it's one step closer to losing. I'm falling back on gut reads entirely here, and I'm going to say that I think the remaining Elims are Stink, Sart, and Elbereth. No specific reasoning, but I'm most suspicious of them out of everyone left alive now. Conquestor's tunneling on me clears him somewhat in my mind, as I said, and I'm reasonably swayed about Hero. Seonid and Stick I'm not convinced on, but they've acted less informed to me, more like villagers. Yep, I'm going on record with that prediction for the remainder of the Eliminator team.

Wow, everyone said troll mode Joe, but having me vote to kill someone before the game even began? That's impressive.