Arraenae

To be honest, before Wilson brought that up, I would have considered you a completely viable kill. Lack of strategic thinking sucks at times. Just make sure to post a message each cycle, before you end up like Sorry about that, the voice in my head was getting a bit loud there. Anyways, what was I saying? Oh yeah, I got my ears pierced recently! PM me if you want pictures.

I'm voting on Rae to prove I can still "interact with the material world," Magestar says. What material world could he be talking about? Everything here is digital. Nothing here is material, Magestar, except for whatever device you use to access this.

Minor quibble with @little wilson here. I'm still as village as ever. All that's changed is that I have a nice new earring now, and I'm been hearing voices telling me to kill things. Currently the voice is telling me to kill people, but I'm trying to ignore them. Why would I kill people? What have they ever done to me, besides accusing me of being Spiked? Unless... nah, pretty sure Wilson's not Spiked. She demonstrated her power, right?

@TheMightyLopen, congrats to you for outing yourself. I would've done that too, but it seemed like a good way to gain entrance to the Dead Doc. I also thought that I would avoid mayoring if nobody knew who I was. You probably should arrange protection for yourself, though, since you probably just earned a spot on the elims' hit list.

Alright, in response to the allegations from last Night: I'm not the Inquisitor, unless the Inquisitor has Uber-Tin that can post messages. Otherwise, I could have saved myself a whole lot of trouble by explaining that I'd just forgotten to post a message and that next Night I would do it. Really, do I seem like someone who would forget to post a tin message, create an implausible story about being the front for a Tineye, vote on myself, and forget that I had Pewter if I was the Inquisitor? I hope not. Also, Headshot, I'm wounded. I'm not really a witch, am I?

The issue isn't that I have no time for sleep, it's more of a lack of ability to fall asleep. :/ Free time via lynch would be nice.

Yeah. I was on break from school last week. This week, I have school. Seven hour block, plus homework and two "group" projects, and even more limited computer access. Note the difference. Oh, and if I remember right (I'm not sure I do, that's how bad it is), I got no sleep Monday night and only was asleep between sometime after 4:37 AM and 7:33 AM Tuesday night/Wednesday morning.

...storm I forgot I had Pewter.

Alright then. Rae. Might as well give myself more time to do homework this week.

Yeah, that's another weird thing. The only thing I can think of would be a site error, because I know I talked to Mark, mostly involving lots of questions about his life in India. The Shard got updated recently, so it must have messed with the timestamps or something.

... did you even read what I'd said? It's supposed to reference me. There's no point being a front for a Tineye if the messages don't point to me.

That was actually his idea. On the surface, it referred to me, but he could also use it to prove it was him, too. The original phrase would have been "rlnrnrssa", but that was one letter two long, so it got chopped.

Wilson suggested that I (well, the Tineye) put in some red herrings. Mark saw that some people thought Jondesu was the Tineye, so he put in that message. She can confirm.

Hah, no. There are loads of people here better than me at using ciphers. Most of the coders, I think. Bugsy did that in LG23 when he couldn't get access to his faction doc. Luckat was another player who suggested them, though she's gone now. I did suggest the use of a vignere cipher to Mark, though. (Seriously, it took around an hour just for that little phrase. That's why he never used them again.) The whole point of being Mark's front was that nobody else was supposed to know.Mark knows that he was the Tineye, but good luck getting him to admit it now.

Alright. Wilson, I wasn't actually the Tineye. (Surprise surprise, huh?) Mark was, and I was his front. I'm not sure how or why he chose me to basically act as his intermediary, but he did. (And no, he wasn't the pompous cremhole that we set the Tineye up as. He didn't want a repeat of MR13. Still paranoid, though.) His first message had the numbers 14 11 9 repeated twice, which became nki. It was a reference to Unknown, his character in AG2. The second one had a repeating pattern of rlrnrssa, which becomes immarkiv after vignere cipher. The key was jzfaankf, which you had to get from a transcript of the Death Note video. Those are the two big ones I helped him with. The calculator one was his idea, and so was the one after that. I was starting to feel really bad about constantly lying to you, Wilson, which is why I sent that apology. I would've stopped it earlier, but Mark refused. He has consistently sent messages to prove his innocence until now, so I'm pretty sure he got converted. Mark.

Is it possible that we had an inactive Rioter?

Probably won't be on tomorrow at all.

If this was part of a blog, I'd definitely read it. You might want to spell-check a fewthings, though. I'm pretty sure Serene should be spelled Sarene, and there's a part where you spell Pahn Kahl as Pahn Kell.

What pronouns do you use when you want to refer to a character in gender neutral/unknown terms? I usually use the pronoun "they", but it's kind of clunky, since it can also refer to groups.

I'm pretty sure Randuir is an elim. As Wilson said, Last Saturday he PMed me and requested that if I was part of the Tineye trust group, I should ask for Wilson get Seeked. I denied being part of the Tineye trust group, and he said that he'd asked one or two other players the same thing. Looking back, it seems like an elim trying to cast suspicion on her. Last cycle, I told Rand that I actually was part of the Tineye trust group and that I'd ask for the Tineye to ask the Seeker to scan him. I'm confident that's why Randuir was Smoked last cycle. Obviously, he couldn't exactly let a Seeker scan him, so he got smoked and Wilson's (lack of) vote manipulation caught him instead.

That message was sent Saturday at 1:45 AM PDT, though I'm not sure if the Shard does Daylight Savings Time. My reply was Saturday 11:36 AM PDT.

It had been six days. Six days since this madness had began. Five days since people had started dying. Now there were murmurs of Inquisitors among them. Inquisitors! Remart, the corpse next to Rhea, had been working with them. Rhea paced aimlessly, staring at Remart's dead body. He looked like everyone else here, dirty and disheveled and with bags under his eyes. The only difference was the knife stuck in his throat, and the fact that he was -- was -- dead. Willie had ordered him killed! And for what? For being a Smoker? For having the ill luck to have been kidnapped here just like everyone else? They had turned on him just as quickly as they had turned on Gaetan, Serray, and oh, Lord Ruler, Rhea could still see their faces turning blue and gasping like fish with bulging eyes and oh Lord Ruler Lord Ruler Lord Ruler the Terrisman had even -- he had -- he had even brought in a gallows! Rhea flinched at the thought. She -- her hands -- they were still clean. For now. But they kept pressuring her to pick someone to kill, to point and name someone to die and -- Deep breaths. She couldn't get hysterical. She couldn't. She couldn't get hysterical and panic and do something to set these people of and die and turn blue and gasp for breath like Gaetan and Serray -- She had to get to Uncle Dayton, he'd be worried sick by now -- Rhea was supposed to have sent him a letter the moment he'd arrived in Fadrex. And oh, Lord Tekiel! Lord Tekiel must have given up on waiting to talk to her about whatever he had wanted, but some here said that Lord Tekiel had brought them here for some sick, sadistic game -- no, no, that couldn't be true, Rhea wouldn't believe it why would someone ever do that? House Aurette had-- had been dirt poor ever since Lady Nicole had gone mad and run off to who-knew-where and vanished as if she had never existed -- Deep breaths. She had to focus on something. There, that knife in Remart's neck still gleaming silver with dried crusted blood. No, not that, something else. The walls, the blank brown solid walls. Focus. Breathe. She still needed to escape. Rhea couldn't let them kill her, she wouldn't let them kill her. Door. There was a door to this room. The Terrisman had brought the gallows through there. Maybe -- maybe he'd found a way out. Rhea turned towards the door. It was better than nothing. Better than staring at Remart's dead body and walking aimlessly all over the place. Maybe she could escape. This would be an excellent opportunity for Rhea to meet someone. Perhaps someone who had enthusiastically clamored for a lynch? Bugsy, for what I've gotten from his posts. Placeholder vote for now. I might not come on before rollover.

Jondesu: I'm splitting this up into three sections: the time before anybody was converted, the time when Jondesu might have been Spiked, and the time that Jondesu had to have been Spiked for. Preconversion: Jondesu RPs about Remart from AG3. Also states suspicion of Len and votes on him. He apologizes for not reading the LG2 rules. Jondesu says that he's against a D1 lynch, but says that he definitely wants a D2 lynch. He retracts his vote from Len. He mentions people who haven't posted discussion and also places a vote on Mark. Jondesu says that what Mark suggested would hurt the village a lot, which I agree with, and voted on Mark. He also says that if he was the GM, he'd make a player like Mark the Inquisitor. Then Jondesu says that he thinks the D1 vote manips were done by villagers. Now we know that Wilson was one of the vote manipulators, so at least half of that was right. Jondesu RPs more and approves of Aman's challenge. He seems to assume that the Inquisitor killed Aman. After it's brought up that a Coinshot might have killed Aman instead, he says that he could see either a Coinshot or an Inquisitor killing Aman. He also asks Orlok if the writeup would have revealed if there were two attacks on Aman. He RPs more. Then Jondesu votes on Drought for lurking. He tells Headshot that openly discussing things can be very dangerous and that the real analysis will start after someone has been converted. This line in particular jumped out at me: Jondesu says that he's going to look for changes in tactics and posts. He also responds to Lopen's suspicion by saying that Lopen always suspects him, except maybe for the games that Jondesu was elim in. He defends himself from Lopen and Kipper. He responds to Randuir and says that hopefully a Misting wouldn't get lynched. He also says that it's likely that the Inquisitor isn't completely inactive. He doesn't want to lynch Spartacus, a complete inactive. He tells Manukos that it's not surprising that a villager got lynched again, and D2 was very informative. Possibly converted: He says that the person who was converted was a Smoker, so an Unsnapped became a Smoker to make up for that. Supposedly this was discussed N2, though if it was I don't remember it. I think it's fairly likely that Jondesu was a Smoker and got converted into a Smoker. Aonar says that it's in the LG2 rules, which Jondesu says he didn't check. He claims that he wasn't converted and didn't Snap. He says he'd be fine with a Coinshot attacking the fully inactives and would be okay with lynching them if nobody had any suspicions. He says that if he was the Inquisitor, he might consider converting an inactive, but not for the first conversion. Since Jondesu could have been a Spiked at that time, it could have been an IKYK for future conversions. Jondesu defends Drake by saying that sometimes he's inconsistent too, and he doesn't read Drake's posts as elim-like. He says he doesn't think an Inquisitor Meta would stay inactive and place orders in advance, but acknowledges that it's possible, so really he's remaining neutral on the subject of Meta. He votes on Bugsy for being hypocritical. Jondesu thinks that the Inquisitor had an action and a conversion, and defends Drake more. He lists the people who haven't voted and the people who voted D2 but not D1. He says this: N3, he said this: Jondesu keeps on denying that he's a convert. Later, he says that he has a neutral read on Len, thinks Lopen is village but a good target for conversion, Randuir is a good target for conversion, and Ecth is his top suspect. Definitely Converted: Comments on the Tineye message. Votes on Ecth, who he says is acting very Inquisitor-like (lurking, etc). He responds to Len and says that there are some occasions where Tineyes might not send a message. Jondesu denies being the Tineye and retracts his vote on Ecth. Jondesu says that Randuir has been attracting attention but not votes, which counts as flying under the radar. He says that Mark's vote on Kipper is very weak and votes on Ecth (again) for being hypocritical about bandwagons. After Ecth survives a lynch, Jondesu asks if he's a Thug. He says that anyone who Snaps is cleared until the next conversion, but he's unsure about whether Ecth's claim is real or not. He wants to know if Meta was killed by Coinshot or the Spiked, though he probably already knew, being Spiked himself. He promises to analyze people other than Ecth. He says that he'd be more suspicious if Meta came back, because that could signify conversion. Aonar says something about Smokers, which Jondesu says he didn't know. He does a big analysis post, which boils down to this: Aonar probably first convert, Rae not likely convert, Ecth probably village, unlikely to be converted, Lopen leaning Inquisitor, Randuir neutral read, maybe village, and Len probably village now but might be converted later on. That list has incredible IKYK potential. He votes on Aonar and half-defends Kipper. Jondesu says that he'll be suspicious of Kipper if Kipper doesn't respond to all of the votes on him. Jondesu asks for a vote tally. After Kipper is lynched and survives, Jondesu says that he's more suspicious of him. Phew, that took way too long to write.

Len, I'm pretty sure Wilson just found a Spiked with her allomancy and offed him. That seems rather village-like.

Aonar (continued): N1: Nothing. C2: Aonar says that it's obvious that the Inquisitor would kill Aman and lists the benefits of doing so. He also defends himself from Arinian and says the two games Arinian saw him in don't make a good sample. He also dares Arinian to lynch him. At this point, Aonar just sounds like a bored, mildly engaged, and trolly player. C3: Aonar explains that someone Snapping after someone else was Converted is part of the rules. He's familiar with the rules. I'd be suspicious of him if he suddenly seemed unsure of what the rules are. He also says that it's possible that Meta put an order in advance to convert someone, but he's surprised at how inactive Meta has been. He doesn't want to lynch an inactive. Also says he's suspicious of Kipper and Randuir. He also says that he has no motivation to vote because that would require an explanation in order to be useful, which he's to tired to live. Again, he feels like a bored player with little motivation. C4: Explains to Jondesu that Copper is always on for the person who has it, but including other people in it is a conscious option. Also says that the inquisitor likely has a Spiked Smoker, because they dropped Ubercopper. This is a rule that has been in place for lots of LGs and all of the AGs. Aonar's setting himself up as a bit of a rule expert here. If he's not careful, people will start asking him for rule clarifications instead of Orlok or Stink. He defends himself by saying that he's a lurker and only posts when he needs to or is being talked about. He rather trollishly refuses to share his suspicions inthread. He votes for Kipper and seems rather excited at the prospect of being lynched. It seems like Aonar gets more engaged when his life is in danger. Clearly, the solution to making him post more is to prod him with a few votes. When Wilson explains Aonar's trolliness, he says that she's no fun. He also mentions the non-voters to get them to vote. Overall, Aonar reads as a more consistent trolly player who was bored until he was the subject of lynch discussion. Very, very tentative trust, for now.