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  1. Amanuensis
    For a Pokemon game, this sure got dark, quick. ‘Shoulders’ rolled his shoulders once, twice, then one time once more, struggling to relieve himself of the tension building up in his back. All throughout the day, he had tried a variety of torture techniques on his former boss, yet no matter what he did, the man refused to speak a word. Normally ‘Shoulders’ would be glad for the silence, but based on the video footage he was watching, their little “beta test” would soon be coming to a close, and once done, an after action report would need to be drafted and routed up through ‘Head’s’ chain of command. It was frustrating, to say the least. For someone who loved the sound of his voice so much that he never stopped talking, ‘Head’ sure seemed determined to keep his mouth shut. Irritated to the point of insanity himself, ‘Shoulders’ dressed ‘Head’ up in an old, leather onesie and locked him in a closet filled to the brim with dirty laundry, the song “Friday” by Rebecca Black blasting on repeat through speakers hidden within the ceiling; visible, but just far enough that he could not reach them. If that didn’t break him, then it was likely nothing would, and ‘Shoulders’ was resolved to just kill the man. Reclining in his couch, ‘Shoulders’ began flipping through the CCTV, curious to see what the last of the surviving players were up to. When he finally found them, they were sitting on the ground in a circle facing each other, passing around a revolver and taking turns putting it in their mouth and pulling the trigger. Blanche’s face leaked of sweat when he took the weapon from the crossdresser, RippleGylf, and eyed the barrel nervously. Slowly, he brought it towards his face, closer... closer... until he caught a sudden glint in the chamber and made a last minute snap decision to swing the pistol towards IDK and pull the trigger. Before anyone could react to stop him, the amnesiac was sprawled out lifelessly in a pool of his own blood. Ecthelion III failed the coin toss! He had a Metapod. Turn Ten will end in less than 24 hours. Please stand by for your GM PMs. The Surviving The Only Joe as RippleGylf TheYoungBard as The Bard Bugsy6912 as Blanche The Defeated Eolhondras as Eol - Bulbasaur Elbereth as Elthena - Charmander zas678 as Nobody - Squirtle Straw as Straw - Bulbasaur AliasSheep as Ash - Charmander TheSilverDragon as Somebody - Bulbasaur cloudjumper as Cole - Charmander Elenion as Nonel - Arbok TheMightyLopen as Scott - Squirtle Kipper as Kipper - Charmander Sart as Footsteps - Squirtle Nyali as Nya - Kadabra jaimeleecee as Jaime - Bulbasaur Metacognition as TBD - Fearow RippleGylf as Myself - Bulbasaur Conquestor as Lorien - Charmander Emerald101 as Red - Dragonair Magestar as Tebeh Dee - Arbok Master Elodin as Bulbasaur - Squirtle Alvron as Poke Ranger Joe - Butterfree OrlokTsubodai as Locke - Pidgeotto Ecthelion III as IDK - Metapod Turn Nine Tally (2) Ecthelion III: The Young Bard, Bugsy6912, (2) The Young Bard: Ecthelion III, The Only Joe,
  2. Amanuensis
    Turn is over. Write up and PMs coming shortly.
  3. Amanuensis
    Ooh, look. Aman RP'd for once. None of the Survivors had seen ‘Head’ or ‘Shoulders’ for over a day, and yet despite the lack of their constant prodding, they never once considered quitting the game. Each was crazed with the fervent desire for victory, determined to walk away from this death trap of a reality augmentation facility with the greatest prize imaginable: the one and only Mewtwo in existence. Unbeknownst to them, there was no Mewtwo. From the beginning Niantic, Inc. had lied to them about the intentions of their little game. After all, ‘Head’ wasn’t just the head of a software development company. He was the head of the Pacific American Cell of the Illuminati. In truth, Pokemon Go was no more than a tool for him and his fellow Overseers to shepherd humanity like animals and take absolute control of the world, and this beta test was truly just an experiment to see how much they could manipulate the average man with it. Somewhere along the line, however, ‘Head’ had lost his head. Perhaps he never really was sane to begin with, but as his plans came closer to completion, his grip on reality slipped more and more. Worst, the cursed crazyman was taking all of ‘Shoulders’ credit! While ‘Head’ might have come up with the original concept, it was ‘Shoulders’ who did all the real work, and he was fed up with receiving none of the credit that he deserved. When the pressure got too much, instead of buckling like his predecessor, ‘Knees’, he snapped. It was time now for him to become the boss. In a dark pit in the middle of the facility, ‘Shoulders’ shot up from a squat, swung an oversized mallet over his shoulder, and kept his arms rigid as he slammed it upon his target: a watermelon that laid next to ‘Head’s’ Head with HEAD written over it in black, permanent marker. The sudden thump and subsequent explosion of bloody pulp that covered ‘Head’s’ head caused him to flinch, though his restraints were far too tight to allow him much room for movement. “Just give me the codes already!” ‘Shoulder’s’ demanded, hefting the mallet back over his shoulder so that it rested in the crook of his neck. Head attempted to shake his head, but when the bindings tugged on his hair, he just began to laugh maniacally instead. Meanwhile, the Survivors had finally come to a decision. Between the reclusive Bard and the elusive Locke, the majority decided to team up and take on the latter for the second time in a row. They were amazed by his sudden flight the day before, when the Englishman escaped by flapping his arms wildly as if they were wings. Of course he couldn’t fly forever, and after a day spent watching him circle the sky, they finally caught him when he landed among the women’s quarters, where the man called RippleGylf now claimed as his domain. Dangling from a wall by a rope tied around one of his ankles, a youth cosplaying as Blanche walked up to him and slit his throat. OrlokTsubodai was ganged up on! He had a Pidgeotto. Turn Nine will end in less than 24 hours. Please stand by for your GM PMs. The Surviving Ecthelion III as IDK The Only Joe as RippleGylf TheYoungBard as The Bard Bugsy6912 as Blanche The Defeated Eolhondras as Eol - Bulbasaur Elbereth as Elthena - Charmander zas678 as Nobody - Squirtle Straw as Straw - Bulbasaur AliasSheep as Ash - Charmander TheSilverDragon as Somebody - Bulbasaur cloudjumper as Cole - Charmander Elenion as Nonel - Arbok TheMightyLopen as Scott - Squirtle Kipper as Kipper - Charmander Sart as Footsteps - Squirtle Nyali as Nya - Kadabra jaimeleecee as Jaime - Bulbasaur Metacognition as TBD - Fearow RippleGylf as Myself - Bulbasaur Conquestor as Lorien - Charmander Emerald101 as Red - Dragonair Magestar as Tebeh Dee - Arbok Master Elodin as Bulbasaur - Squirtle Alvron as Poke Ranger Joe - Butterfree OrlokTsubodai as Locke - Pidgeotto Turn Eight Tally (3) OrlokTsubodai: The Young Bard, The Only Joe, Bugsy6912, (2) The Young Bard: Ecthelion III, OrlokTsubodai,
  4. Amanuensis
    Turn is now over. Next one will be post shortly.
  5. Amanuensis
    Getting turn over for QF17 ready now, so I'll have to post after, but I will say this. I followed through with scanning Lopen and it turns out he's not an eliminator. Sorry, bud. I just get really defensive when people start saying I'm evil when I'm not. I didn't want to believe you'd make that mistake as a villager yourself.
  6. Amanuensis
    One hour remaining.
  7. Amanuensis
    Well if you're telling the truth Lopen then it looks like I'm dead. Aside from Rae, I don't know anyone capable of protecting me. If it turns out Lopen is telling the truth and I die, I would recommend everyone lynch Aonar tomorrow. Wilson was confident enough about him that she ranked him as one of her most suspected eliminators for a reason. I think Sart might be good now, though. His post about trying to get me and Lopen to stop butting heads felt extremely villagery. Unless, of course, they're evil together and he doesn't want me to scan his teammate / him be proven a liar if he really isn't a ChayShan. But that won't be certain until the next write up is posted, and I'm starting to doubt I'll be alive anymore. I think there's a good chance Kipper is Neutral-Evil or Evil, given the fact that aside from trying to lynch Elenion in the beginning of the game and helping lynch Mailliw on D2, he's pretty much been staying out of all of the discussion unless it directly has to do with him. Personally that feels like a pretty evil thing to do, like he doesn't want to add to the discussion and give people more reads on him, but he will speak up to defend himself if it looks like things are turning unfavorably towards him. As for the other to Jeskeri... I don't know. Rae, maybe, since she's now trying to avoid protecting me despite asking if I wanted her to before the turn ended. If Lopen's good, Burnt might be a possible eliminator as well. I would really have to do more thorough analysis on players to add any more significant thoughts, and I'm way too tired to stay up and do that now, plus I'm pretty sure I don't have enough time to get it all down anyway. Last turn I dumped all of the information I had to Stink, with the condition that he reveal it if / when I die. That way maybe the villagers will have a good chance at figuring out who the eliminators are. Goodnight everyone, and good luck.
  8. Amanuensis
    He revealed it in thread last turn, actually
  9. Amanuensis
    That's fine. Just know that if I die because of you, I'm haunting you day and night for the rest of your life
  10. Amanuensis
    No torches are necessary For the love of Domi, what the Braize happened this game. I miss it when people stopped questioning my alignment all the time and just trusted me. It's making this so much harder than it needs to be.
  11. Amanuensis
    He Arrested me to prove his role to Wilson and I (since he claimed to us as well as a few other people at that point).
  12. Amanuensis
    One option we never considered is having Lopen attack Orlok. Orlok has been Arresting himself every night since C2. He'll be able to verify whether or not he was attacked.
  13. Amanuensis
    Personally I would rather the ChayShan not act without more certainty. So far we've lynched 4 villagers and over twice as many have died to night kills. I don't think killing more people is the answer at this point. Not when we have me to scan people to make sure they're good or evil. This is a huge issue with kill roles in general. Just because someone has the power to kill someone doesn't mean it should be used every night. Most of the time, early kill attempts end with more village casualties than not, *glares meaningfully at anonymous ChayShan*.
  14. Amanuensis
    Maybe you are a ChayShan. I don't know. I'm not a role scanner. I haven't seen you claim any kill that is undeniably proven yours. When I see it, I will believe it. I did not think you were suspicious until you kept trying to cast doubt on me. I tried to do something honestly good for this game and generate discussion by proposing a scan vote, and you attempted to shut it down and make it look like if I did scan Aonar and found out he was a Jeskeri, it would just be a ploy to make me gain more trust, which I shouldn't even need to do right now because there's no evidence to suggest I'm evil. It's got to the point where people are using "maybe the eliminators had a redirect role and controlled Wilson to defend Aman!" to try to kill me, and I think that is absolutely absurd. Yes, Joe basically told us anything is possible when it comes to eliminators. But until I see solid proof of something like that (not a single person has claimed to be redirected) I'm not going to assume it or anything like it, nor advocate that anyone does, especially if it means me dying and the eliminators getting closer to victory. I do recognize that, Lopen. I really don't understand why you would do that. The only thing that might make sense is if you're a evil Beggar with a plan of snagging up ChayShan as soon as someone died. If that's the case, then you'd have to get it tonight, which might be a part of the reason why you asked the other ChayShan to target me. If they don't, you can say you attacked me and it failed because of a Bodyguard. If they do, you can say that I must have been protected by two. I honestly don't know. I proposed Aonar for the scan mostly because Wilson found him suspicious, and there's a few notes I've taken about him that make me think he might be evil too. I just can't get why your opinion of me would shift 180 degrees so suddenly, and that you would take his side over mine, unless you were working against the village.
  15. Amanuensis
    No... seriously. Nothing happened. Turn Eight will end in less than 24 hours. Please stand by for your GM PMs. The Surviving Ecthelion III as IDK The Only Joe as RippleGylf TheYoungBard as The Bard OrlokTsubodai as Locke Bugsy6912 as Blanche The Defeated Eolhondras as Eol - Bulbasaur Elbereth as Elthena - Charmander zas678 as Nobody - Squirtle Straw as Straw - Bulbasaur AliasSheep as Ash - Charmander TheSilverDragon as Somebody - Bulbasaur cloudjumper as Cole - Charmander Elenion as Nonel - Arbok TheMightyLopen as Scott - Squirtle Kipper as Kipper - Charmander Sart as Footsteps - Squirtle Nyali as Nya - Kadabra jaimeleecee as Jaime - Bulbasaur Metacognition as TBD - Fearow RippleGylf as Myself - Bulbasaur Conquestor as Lorien - Charmander Emerald101 as Red - Dragonair Magestar as Tebeh Dee - Arbok Master Elodin as Bulbasaur - Squirtle Alvron as Poke Ranger Joe - Butterfree Turn Seven Tally (4) OrlokTsubodai: Bugsy6912, Ecthelion III, The Only Joe, The Young Bard (1) Bugsy6912: OrlokTsubodai,
  16. Amanuensis
    Curry.
  17. Amanuensis
    Sorry, was getting dinner. Everything will be out shortly.
  18. Amanuensis
    Ah, yeah. Thing is I'm not exactly claiming Lopen is a Jeskeri. I won't know for sure until I scan him. I'm accusing him mostly because he's being so insistent that I'm evil when I'm not and trying to get other people to kill me for him. He keeps twisting everything I'm saying to make it seem worse than it is, and that just screams eliminator to me because I know it's all chulldung. Could he just be a villager who's unnecessarily paranoid and tunneling on me? Yes. It's happened before. But there's nothing I can do at this point to refute it, just like there was nothing Kipper could to prevent Hellscythe from doing the same thing in MR9. Right now I'm just praying that I'm right about him lying, that the other ChayShan doesn't listen to him, and that the player who said they became a Bodyguard (who's not Aonar) protects me, because if I am wrong and Lopen is a villager I am going to be extremely upset if I'm killed by friendly fire.
  19. Amanuensis
    The point here is that Lopen has claimed a role that he has yet to prove. Both of the kills he said he did were carried out by multiple players. That is the point I'm trying to make. I know my alignment, and I cannot possibly fathom why a village!Lopen would be tunneling on me right now other than the fact that he's lying.
  20. Amanuensis
    Every kill the Philosopher makes is discernible from a ChayShans. If you had the Philosopher attack me it would be the same thing as you proving to everyone that you're not a ChayShan. I'm sorry that I didn't clarify something that was glaringly obvious earlier.
  21. Amanuensis
    It's not a storming slip up. Joe said it plainly in the write up. Emphasis mine.
  22. Amanuensis
    Elodin and I don't exactly have a good repertoire going, and given what he pulled the last night turn, there's no way we can apply logic or strategy to anything he's done so far this game. Either way, it doesn't really matter that much. If you're not lying we'll know in a few hours, either because you killed the second / last Dula in the game or because a Bodyguard blocked the kill and announces it in thread. Otherwise I'll survive without any attempt being made on me and I'll have a scan to reveal if you're an eliminator or not. To the other ChayShan, I recommend you don't attack anyone tonight. The Philosopher is going to attack someone and they're likely going to die. That will likely leave us with 10 villagers, 4 Jeskeri and 1 SK who's working with them, if the kill on Elbereth is any indicator. It's about to be the fifth cycle and there's not a single Jeskeri dead. We cannot afford to be anything else but careful at this point, or the Jeskeri might soon overwhelm us, and as the only surviving Dula I'm the best chance we have at finding them without risking the lives of any more villagers. This game is getting way too close for us to take blind risks like that.
  23. Amanuensis
    Soooo, since I'm pretty busy with work today, I'm going to go ahead and extend this turn by 2 hours. The new turn over time will be 8PM EST / 5PM PST / 2AM CET / 10 AM ACT. Sorry for the inconvenience, everyone.
  24. Amanuensis
    As far as we know there are 3 ChayShan, yes, and all three of them claimed to attack Straw on D1. Lopen told me at the end of D2, a second ChayShan claimed to Wilson and said they failed the same turn, and Elodin also claimed to attack Straw (but did not clarify if he succeeded or not). If he had told me I would have asked if he actually killed him or just attacked him, but sadly the player who he claimed the attack to never asked the question themselves, so I can't say for sure. What I do know is that there has only been undeniable evidence of two ChayShan kills at once. The attack on Straw, the attack on Alv, and the attack on Me and Araris. Three ChayShan claimed to have attacked Straw. Only one (Wilson's) claimed to have attacked Alv. Elodin attacked me, which is what resulted in his death, so that means that Wilson's had to be the one who killed Araris. I for one know the identity of the ChayShan who attacked Alv, and at this point in time I trust them a lot more than I trust Lopen. Lopen claimed Bodyguard early on, supposedly to discourage him from being attacked. But when I brought up in thread the sheer number of Bodyguards in the game and that one of them was likely evil, he suddenly started to sing a different tune. I was not aware that Elodin was a ChayShan, or that he attacked Straw N1, until last turn. Since the player who he told could not tell me if they were successful or not, I assumed Lopen was telling the truth. But then he started making up all of these "paranoid theories" about me. Right now he's trying to get Wilson's ChayShan to attack me "in case of protection" when I really just think he wants someone else to kill me while he knows for sure I'm vulnerable, or otherwise waste their kill rather than remove him or another one of his teammates. In light of that. Aonar. Lopen. I believe he started trying to implicate me when he made that post about players pretending to be Arrested on N2 (his goal was to cast doubt on anyone who wasn't posting at night). At the time he had no ground to stand on to attempt a direct confrontation, so he attempted something less risky, to which Wilson shut down immediately. And then all of a sudden I'm attacked by the Jeskeri and multiple players die. I should have thought it suspicious that instead of posting in thread about it like Ren did, he went to players privately, likely to gauge how they felt about it and maybe persuade them to think I was somehow evil because I got attacked. But then he seemed to be willing to hear me out while Ren kept pushing it, so I favored the latter being evil. Then towards the end of the turn, he and Aonar attempt to reignite the lynch on me and almost succeed in making it a tie, which would have resulted in us losing two villagers, something we cannot afford right now. At the very least, I believe Aonar and Lopen are on a team together. And it's mainly because of this "theory" right here: If Aonar and I were on a team, why would I tell people he's evil and try to lynch him? That makes absolutely no sense. I would tell the thread he's innocent so that people continue to ignore him while we team up to take another villager down. I believe now that you know Aonar is evil because you're evil with him, and therefore know that I'm telling the truth about my role and that there's nothing you can do to stop me from scanning him short of killing me (which you can't actually do because you're not a ChayShan), hence you openly asking the other ChayShan to attack me. What I noticed, too, is that your sudden assurance of me being evil changed when I started telling people my actual role. You yourself said before I claimed that you figured out Elb was the Dula, too. I think someone on your team got in contact with the Philosopher and had him attack her the same night your Practitioner attacked me so that the only Dula in the game wouldn't be alive to find you. Obviously you didn't anticipate there being a second one, and now you're getting desperate when your entire plan is about to crumble because you can't kill me for another two cycles and I'm about to out your teammate. That way if I succeeded in getting him lynched you could still accuse me. Ultimately that depends on whether or not Joe let the RNG handle role selection or if he hand picked / tweaked the rolls. But there's a pretty big downside to being a vocal player, and it's that you're almost always a priority target for the eliminators. That's why I was so careful in the beginning. I knew that the Dula could only scan eliminators, not Neutral-Evils, so I didn't want to rely on the ability too much, and with there being so many players at the time, using it would be like trying to find a needle in a haystack, especially with very limited reads on people and no idea how the eliminator team would be balanced. My goal from the beginning was to survive until the late game when there was more content to analyze and less players to verify. Right now I've got a lot of good leads and a small enough pool to pick from that I'm confident I'll snag an eliminator soon. As for voting for the scan. The only way the eliminators can ruin it is if they were to kill whoever I verify (assuming that player isn't also evil), which they can't do unless they have a ChayShan. As for them leading the vote away from one of them, I think that any attempt to do so is extremely valuable information, just like the lynch votes during the day often tell us who is evil based on who they try to save. I also am against Stink being attacked. He finally told me yesterday the full extent of his win condition, and it's a lot more believable than "I just need to Survive until the end and I have no abilities to help me get there." Plus he helped save my life. If he was actually a Jeskeri I severely doubt he would have helped me when I asked. He would have probably told me "Sorry m8, I'm Neutral" and left it at that.
  25. Amanuensis
    I didn't claim you're an eliminator. I said probably. I also didn't claim the eliminations only have a kill every 3rd cycle. I reiterated what Joe said in the D4 write up. I also don't believe your claim of ChayShan because the only players you've said you've attacked are "Straw" and "Elodin", the first another ChayShan has since said they were responsible for and the second the write up said the Practitioner killed.
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