DrakeMarshall

"The Superiority Will No" That sounded vaguely menacing. Quoth-Yithuquoth was unsure exactly what it meant, but it was all in a day's work of scrubbing and scouring. Whatever paints the renegades had used were serious business. Thankfully, nobody had gotten seriously hurt, and the peace was ultimately kept. There were rumors about a rampaging human, but Quoth-Yithuquoth didn't personally place much stock in them. He was pretty sure the area wasn't populated enough to sustain an apex predator like a human, so it must just be fearmongering. He boarded a tram to go home, and noticed a questionaire waiting in his inbox. It was flagged important. Apparently, the Superiority wanted its citizens to report on any unusual sightings. Quoth-Yithuquoth shrugged, and began typing up his report. Dear Superiority Intelligence Agent, 00:01 - Funny shaped cloud. Looks a little bit like a bow tie if you squint. I thought it was pretty. 00:13 - Dispute between Myst and Qian, quickly defused. Diagnosis still uncertain. May be a slight positive. 13:49 - Several individuals spontaneously drew laser swords, yelled something about the senate, and began dueling in the streets. However, it turned out to be LARP. Note - Really not a lot has happened so far. The lack of anything happening is probably more noteworthy than anything in particular that happened. 14:53 - Wahr uses probabilistic divination to infer rebellious actors. Mildly negative, in my opinion (not so much the act of using randomness but drawing attention to it in that way), but also not the sort of thing you call a crusade over so shrug. 16:17 - Myst resumes hostilities with Qian. I actually kind of read this positively? I don't actually suspect Qian though, I just like the commitment I guess. Addendum - Currently looks like a lot of ties and multiple people consulting randomness for decision making. This is not very productive course for democracy to take and I would personally recommend consolidation. However, the Superiority must know best. Yours truly, Quoth-Yithuquoth ...see, this is why I like pinch-hitting. Don't gotta deal with D1s I'm glad I'm not the only one who was thinking of this excuse you I've actually never done anything sneaky ever that's fair, but... I'm afraid accidentally exing villagers is a largely unavoidable part of the game imo the alternative is not exing at all but that's not exactly a winning strategy now is it you miss 100% of the shots you don't take and all that like I get not wanting to make mistakes me too but my advice is we should still try to exe an evil every day despite that well, those are indeed all the options PSA that we should probably practice some amount of infosec here and not be too loose with hinting our roles in public too much, although it's not quite as mission critical in a high power game

...next you're gonna try to tell me that the Superiority uniforms have got little pictures of skulls on them

"Everything is under control." Quoth-Yithuqoth chewed these words carefully, turning them over in his mind, contemplating their meaning. It did not seem like everything was under control, he thought. By now, the graffiti in the public square read only "The Superiority Will Not Pro." He felt some lingering satisfaction at that - he and his cleanup crew had been hard at work scrubbing away the offending letters. The supervisor had specifically complimented his efforts before giving him permission to take his lunch break. But the evidence was still there, so the thoughts stayed with him as he went about his day, like a pebble that refused to be dislodged from one's boot. It wasn't just the message in the square, either. People were on edge. His head-tendrils danced in dissatisfaction. "Everything is under control." But why would the Administrator lie? That would be counterproductive. Quoth-Yithuquoth was of lesser intelligence, and even he could see that. Everything must be under control, then. Whatever unrest was transpiring, the Superiority must have intended it all along. Quoth-Yithuqoth did not understand how that made any sense, but surely it did. Somehow. (Maybe it was all a test? No, again, even he could tell that would be foolish, and the Superiority was not foolish.) Quoth-Yithuquoth thought that was enough thinking for now. This was all too far above his paygrade. His lunch break was almost over, and it was almost time to get back to cleaning up the Superiority's messes.

Touche …so anyways I’d like to sign up

can’t a man post in a signups thread without signing up

you’ve heard of I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream now get ready for I Have No Eyebrows But I Must

note to self: if I'm saying I'm probably tunneled, I probably am I shoulda kept on casing e!TJ, even though everyone told me it was a bad idea I noticed from the dead doc, I just didn't want to believe I really thought village TJ was just having an off day to me Verdant looked pretty village but I didn't really feel confident enough at that point to push my reads onto everyone in a way I was correct to be not confident, something was off with the situation, but Verdant wasn't the twist villain gg wp elims

I wish you wouldn't say things like that if I've given the impression that I'm confident about this game, that is sadly not the case. I think it's like a coin toss that we're going to flip a villager today. To summarize, to the best of my knowledge of the game mechanics, 1 of (Ink, TJ, Verdant) must be evil* TL;DR I'm voting Ink -3, and avoiding casting negative votes against the other 2 options. The rest probably isn't that important, and I don't rly expect my gut reads to be fungible to other people. *TJ carried a message from the dead Doc which said Doc tried to self-Protego but still died. This should only be possible if Doc was Obliviated. The elims don't get access to Obliviate by default, so it must have been an elim Prefect. The only surviving Prefects are (Ink, TJ, Verdant).

good point u have plenty of access to that already 2 can play that game sir I dunno that it helps the thread much though we’ll talk after the elim Prefect is expelled, assuming no untimely demise interrupts

entirely fair I'm not confident about it either but like, it's the least bad option afaik you're doing this on purpose smh I have no read on Aet either positive or negative so if you want to pressure Aet tomorrow that sounds fine with me not that you asked for my opinion

well as far as anybody knows there still has to be an elim in the group of Prefects that's you, Ink, and TJ I assume you're not going to self-vote, so probably pick either Ink or TJ?

LyLo is an abbreviation, apologies I try not to use too many of those mostly it's referring to a particular phase of the game it's short for 'lynch-and-lose' or something like that, and it basically means 'the endgame' during LyLo, the village loses if it makes a single mistake edit: to elaborate, it's typically when there's only 1 more villager than there are elims like if there's 3 elims and 4 villagers, so the village only barely outnumbers the elims

Incidentally, I have no idea what the optimal LyLo voting strategy for this game is

I'm personally hoping Ink flips today If Ink flips evil, I think Wahr and TUM should duel to the death tomorrow If Ink flips village, it's probably LyLo tomorrow, TJ and Verdant should duel to the death, and we should all rethink our lives

Did not know elims got a free spell serves me right for not reading the rules carefully however, from the rules: ”Once during the game, one elim without a spell prepared may immediately learn a non-Obliviate spell.“ So I think Prefects are on the menu.

Wow a Slytherin is evil? Shocker The reasoning makes sense though. I doubt the elims would just Obliviate a random player, so they probably knew Doc was a Prefect. They may have been able to guess from Doc’s posts. Then again, the Slytherin chat had enough players that it probably wasn’t clean. TJ is still villagery unless I’m way off about his elim playstyle so it’s really down to Verdant or Ink. I don’t especially trust either at this point, but Verdant still got Obliviated. We are quite sure there has to be an elim Prefect, right?

Yeah, by killing them. I'll pass. We aren't doing well enough in this game for me to make that trade. Okay looking at the votes, this theory is probably not true.

Oh. Well that's nice. All the more reason not to spread votes between multiple Prefects today, then. I'm quite sure that Coco really did Obliviate Verdant. Coco was using the Obliviate on Verdance in her reasoning for who to vote for yesterday. I kinda think you don't hold back on information relevant to the current vote, not just to mislead the elims about the status of a mildly useful 1-shot ability. ...also, she messaged me today, remember? I kinda think she'd have mentioned if that was a fib, because there's no use in keeping up such a deception post-mortem. Well, if the elims wanted to continue with their previous kill doctrine, it would probably land on TJ. Not surprised that didn't happen. Either TJ is evil, or he's village and his flip would substantially narrow the suspect pool. Plus we were already talking about maybe suspecting Extra Credit recipients who didn't die yesterday. Kind of asking for mindgames honestly. I wonder if the elims hitting the Extra Credit people twice in a row wasn't just lucky on their part. Maybe they deliberately +voted for their kill targets. Honestly not a bad strategy.

Ink, followed by TUM. Let's not overthink things. Coco flipped village, so we know Coco didn't lie about Obliviating Verdant. There's a 50% chance Verdant wouldn't have been able to Docblock, so Verdant is less probable as a suspect. Of course it's still possible that Verdant is the elim Prefect, but we can only really go with the most probable option based on the available information, and Verdant is kind of objectively not that. Unless someone has a pretty strong reason to suspect Verdant that outweighs the evidence. I don't. That leaves TJ and Ink. TJ has still been consensus read as village for most of the game. TJ still provided us with this suspect pool in the first place. I really don't think it's inconceivable that evil TJ would do this, especially if he were the only evil Prefect in the game and confident we would execute multiple village Prefects before him. It's still not the most intuitive elim play. Last we talked, Ink was significantly more chill with my chaos play in our Gryffindor PM, so the shift in tone in public feels kinda disingenuous. But maybe I'm biased. Even if I am biased, from Ink's POV, if Ink is village, there's definitely an elim in <TJ, Verdant>. I know I can be a very scary fairy, but spending most of your breath on little old me is still a choice I think. Perhaps I assume too much, but my expectation is that village Prefects would be doubling down even harder on killing the other Prefects. TUM was doing much the same thing, and I still think he's evil. Perhaps I'm tunneling, it's quite possible. If anyone actually village reads TUM, please let me know! I kinda feel that he was defending TJ just to perpetrate wifom nonsense which is part of why I'm simply refusing to overthink now Just to clear things up: Both of these posts were not sincere in the slightest. They are full of some pretty buck wild views, many of which directly contradict things I've said before and after. I included white text in the first. I made the second post to be a bit more direct, both by amping up the absurdity of my claims and by attaching a spoiler saying "april fools" and laying out my actual views and my actual vote. Which, again, directly contradicts the message above the spoiler in the same post. I thought what I was up to would be more apparent at least in the second post. Or that anyone who took serious exception might take a closer look. Maybe that's on me. It would be one thing if I were being needlessly confusing without making an effort to lay down breadcrumbs or make my true meaning readable. I don't rly believe that's the case here though tbqh. Fie on me for subverting my own color-coding convention though I suppose ...I still kinda think opening a spoiler tab before you launch a crusade isn't a huge ask If you're still unhappy about being confused, that's your prerogative. Or if you have a different reason to think I'm evil I'm all ears. I am evil, of course. Just not in that way So long as we all agree that a Prefect should be expelled today, you can think what you like. I think I've talked enough about this. Vote Tally: (3) Ink: Drake(3) (2) TUM: Drake(2) (1-3) Drake: Wahr (1-3) (1-3) Grass: Wahr (1-3) (1-3) TJ: Wahr (1-3) I will note that we probably don't want any suspect to amass too many positive points right now (if I understand correctly, it makes it harder to execute them later, which could actually seriously mess with our endgame). This is mainly relevant for TJ. That said, I don't really believe everyone casting multiple votes at once on different Prefects is the most ideal. In my view, this just makes it too convenient for the elims to swing the vote onto the wrong Prefect, since they will all have lots of negative votes. I would rather try to accumulate negative votes on specifically the most suspicious Prefect, as much as possible. Obviously we will not all agree on who the most suspicious is, but at least we can try. Or to be more forward about it, today's vote is probably just about deciding between which of the Prefects to expel. We can physically only execute one of them today though. So spreading your votes between multiple Prefects kinda feels like throwing them away. If I vote Ink -3 and Grass -2, then in cases where Ink and Grass are closely tied, I've only given Ink 1 more vote than Grass. But if Ink is the only Prefect I voted today, then my vote will have much greater impact on which one gets expelled if it ends up being close.

y’all aren’t very big on fine print are you

I don't know, but all the members of this PoE are all gung-ho about killing the others, so "the elims are not okay with existing in a PoE" doesn't seem as true anymore edit: TUM, sorry if I’m pressing too hard, but who do you think the evil Prefect is? You’re spending a lot of words talking about adjacent issues, but you don’t feel that interested in solving the problem that actually matters.

you read bad tonally smh Um? what? elim TJ implies that Doc probably never used protego on himself and TJ just made that up. Or maybe TJ really did obliviate Doc. Either way none of that has anything to do with Doc lying. I don't think Doc is lying and I don't think anybody else does either.

honestly quite confused by this well I'm 0 for 2 when it comes to reading Coco rip anyways I'd say the elims mixing up their kill doctrine is surprising but it's not really anyways, I bear messages from the dead Mippo's message reads like a legacy of reads. Mippo says only Wahr, Ink, and Verdant were drawing any attention to them. Reading between the lines, I assume this is implying one of those people might've killed them, though Mippo states they think Verdant seems more trustworthy. Mippo also village reads TJ. Mippo also wanted you all to know that Drake is incredibly handsome and also wise. Coco would like to inform us that she was not an elim She also thinks we should continue executing in the prefect pool, which I agree with. She thinks Ink should be voted out next, which I mostly agree with. She also thinks my jokes about the identity of the Gryffindor Prefect were extremely tasteful and funny. That's everything the dead have to say, relayed completely truthfully and honestly. I want to expel another Prefect suspect today. Someone in <Ink, TJ, Verdant> must be evil. Ink seems like the obvious choice but at this point I feel shaken enough that I'm also willing to consider evil TJ I also lowkey still think TUM is evil, bro has that sorta energy rn edit: actually, the odds of hitting an elim in the Prefect suspect pool are barely better than the odds of hitting an elim just from voting any random player at this point, if we assume 4 elims. So maybe it isn't as imperative to expel Prefects. I still want to resolve this, though.

"Ow! Wow, rude. Come back here you!" The Drake Fairy took to the air, imitating the way everyone else was riding. Finally. This was proper flying. She laughed as the wind streamed through her hair. She did a barrel roll just because. She wasn't sure what the goal of this game was, but apparently smacking people was allowed. That seemed like a good start. She would Get Even with her Nemesis. She might also smack other members of the opposing side, if there was time. She inferred there were teams, based on the colors of different people's robes. Someone threw a red ball at her. She caught it instinctively. "Watch where you're throwing things!" she complained, then hurled it at Sox as hard as she could. It missed, flying through a nearby hoop instead. She cursed her poor aim. The audience must've respected the effort, though, because they still applauded. Very nice of them.

You can do that? Well, jolly good Everything is my fault disappointment well, I'm still going to RP. you can't stop me. The Drake Fairy stared at the broomsticks, eyes wide. She marched up to Team Captain. “These devices. Are these the implements by which flight is achieved? I want to try.” “Have you ever flown on a broom before?” “Broom,” the fairy sounded out slowly. “Well, no, but actually yes.” She’d lost her wings, but this body still knew how to fly… “Sounds perfect, you’re on the team,” the Gryffindor captain said absentmindedly, hurriedly pressing a broomstick into her hands. “Don't get hit by a bludger. Don’t break any bones in front of the inspector. The match starts in a few hours.” "What's a bludger...?" she wondered aloud, but the captain had already hurried away.