DrakeMarshall

Maybe! I still await Stick's choice before the suspensful and heartpounding conclusion of this battle can unfurl. But to anyone else you can make your choice as well there's plenty of poison to go around! Place your bets, pick a cup, and when the time is ripe the truth will be revealed for all!

Is this the part where I fall victim to one of the classic blunders?

I am now suitably distracted

That's certainly something you could decide to try. Splendid! Let's start with something very simple. The classics are classics for a reason. Two glasses! One on my side of the table, on one your side of the table. One of them poisoned. I've decided in advance which. The answer is spoilered below: Take your time, think out loud, ask questions of me... Or just flip a coin up to you. Whatever your method, choose a glass to drink from. The prize for participating in this game is... The next game

Anyone? Battle of wits?

Well, 1 of those predictions is right. So. Care for a battle of wits? Very good question. I believe, some clarifications I've gotten indicate that this isn't so much a problem, fortunately. The game can't end partways through the OOA. In fact, if a win state occurs momentarily in the OOA but is made no longer true by the end of the OOA, it doesn't count as a the game ending or a win for that team. Our lovely GMs could confirm or deny, but I'm pretty sure how it works basically is that "check for win cons and declare game over" is last in the OOA, if you want to think of it like that. (As an aside, y'know, somebody somewhere and somewhen missed the trolling opportunity to name it order-of-operations with the acronym OOO ) What is a bit of a logistical complication is that if Autonomy hits outnumber today the village cannot win, because the Village can only win by either all Autonomous people dying (including converted ones) or by me specifically dying + all Shards being in containment. And all Shards being in containment takes longer than today can accomodate. Also, if we put all shards in containment, then Intent Converting is something that has to happen before doing that in the order of operations, so it probably can't be timed to end the game. So I believe the solution to this is a bit complicated. There's also one more problem. Well, kind of.

Well, well. That's an interesting outcome. Would anyone care to volunteer a guess what it means?

.......Oh huh Araris was very village Well anyways moving on the important thing is Scadrial blows up tonight! I guess you could call it... Death Metal

Smh everyone's roasting Araris I mean yes he's the last Hoidite I think if y'all want to execute him then go ahead. I do not in fact have a Vessel Shield, it's true. This is why I wanted Survival

Bingo, yes. What if I wasn't and I was just bluffing about that that would be pretty funny. But no I actually am on Silverlight Anyways can we tie me instead of JNV smh. If the plan is nobody is dying today then I'll front the risk.

Not for long you couldn't

I don't think I could get behind a JNV vote, to be quite honest. I know they wouldn't die but still. Quokka is friend.

Yeah, I think TJ makes a good point honestly.

Oh huh I didn't think about that. Yeah ok so actually a joint win happens D10 at the soonest, unless RNG smiles on us. I am not e!Aman!!! >:P Because I'm not Aman. I am indubitably e

An unsurprising night. Anyways, in my Totally Unbiased Opinion you shouldn't execute me today ...No but really Thing is, there's no possible way for me to get Odium somewhere safe before the execution takes effect in the OOA. I don't believe it's worth gambling on the shard going to somebody who would responsibly put it back into containment. If the new shard vessel doesn't play nice, the village Sudden Death looks a lot less doable and the village's sudden death looks rather more likely, heh. Probably a lot safer to execute me D9 after the shard has been safely disposed of, if you're willing to trust me for that long. I also don't believe it's a good plan to execute the last Hoidite, since that makes the logistics of a joint victory rather more tricky. It means that somebody would have to convert to Autonomous before I died in order for the game to not end prematurely, and currently that conversion would likely result in Autonomy outnumbering y'all. So yeah kind of messy. So in other words, um. My assessment is that the best thing to do today for a joint victory is actually to intentionally execute a villager (well or to have no exe but that's not really feasible is it?). Which, is a little awkward But I do believe it's the truth of the situation, if we're going for a joint win. Honestly, been around the block before with the whole sacrifice somebody innocent to the exe to further factional win con gerrymandering, not the biggest fan This is why I wanted to just be Evil smh, much more clean-cut. Instead of going through weird acrobatics to try to secure a joint win. Still, what can you do ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Unless someone can come up with a compelling reason to do things differently? I'm all ears, really.

my wiles

You've got the right idea but a few things to point out: JNV destroys Scadrial N8, it takes 2 cycles to destroy a planet A player doesn't become Autonomous until they use Autonomy's shardic action 3 times, same with other shards As Bavadin I am permanently Autonomous and immune to all forms of conversion Due to the fact that I used 2 actions yesterday, I only have enough actions tonight to pass one of my two shards, as per the ruling that you can only pass 1 shard/charge per action, a new rule that I spontaneously cuased on N0 when I asked Ash what prevented me from hoarding Autonomous Investiture to myself for the whole game and then passing it all to some poor shmuck in a single action to end the game Even if I could pass both shards, probably best not to give them both to the same person, because it takes both a day action and a night action to place a shard in containment, meaning somebody with both shards does not have enough actions to put both shards in containment in one cycle Creating an Avatar doesn't contribute towards Autonomous Intent Conversion since it isn't Autonomy's shardic ability technically it's Autonomy's investment ability Autonomy can only have 6 Avatars, I have 5 right now, so creating 2 additional Avatars is impossible. Putting a shard in containment takes both a day action and a night action to accomplish. Only splintered shards can be contained in 1 action. None of these are particularly insurmountable issues, though. Again, you have the right idea. Mostly the difference between my projection and yours is "the game ends N9 instead of N8."

You're welcome

Friends, sharders, and gentlepersons, lend me your ears! I'll give them right back later I swear (kas said this during D6 but I aint gonna @ him lol) Ta da!!! This is the part where I give you a reason! Shame on you all for needing Kas to point out to you that you needed one. Repeatedly. Dishonor. Dishonor on you, your family, your cow! I literally just truthfully claimed Serial Killer in front of everyone, acted like I owned the place and expected nobody to raise a finger, and you all went with it for most of a whole day until somebody told you to stop However I've had a reason not to kill me prepared all this time I just wasn't gonna give you one unless... Well, unless you were actually capable of voting for me enough that I'd have reason to. Which you didn't do for quite some time ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ but here we are now. Finally. I probably shouldn't start my Big Pitch by insulting you all, but clearly, if I were a wise person we wouldn't be here for a multitude of reasons And if you were wise people you wouldn't need insulting So now that it's firmly established we've all been equally silly let's get down to serious business. I'm Bavadin. I surrender, suckers. However, I'm playing pretty nice right now, aren't I? I've been playing pretty nice, haven't I? Zero (0) Autonomy Charges have been spread around. Call me out on it if that's not true. And I've been... Pretty forthright with everything Also, six (6) elims are dead. Only two (2) of those were killed by the village executing them. Not to put too fine a point on it, but I think you could really use me. I think there's a solid chance the village would have already lost without some of the shots I made. So... Here's the deal. As previously mentioned, I can win with the Village. And I'm now willing to consider doing so. Enough of you have showed up to vote that I no longer like my odds here, so -- you've passed Autonomy's trial I didn't originally think it was worth considering. And yet. Against my expectation, even this late into the game, the Village Sudden Death win is actually still very possible. A grand total of three (3) Shards are out of containment, and everyone knows where all of them are. I have 2 of them. JNV has 1. If we agree to make it happen, to get all the Shards in containment, then there's no reason it couldn't. We just need to kill Hoid. If the Village Sudden Death happens at the same time as Autonomy outnumbers everyone, we both win together (me and the Village, that is -- Hoid doesn't). My conditions are pretty simple: 1. JNV wins. This means letting them do their thing in peace and giving them enough time to destroy Scadrial, which will take 2 more nights. 2. I am allowed enough Avatars to meet my outnumber requirements when the time comes. Do those things, and I'll help the Village achieve their Sudden Death win. (Yes, that does mean I'm volunteering to die eventually, since that is a requirement of the Village Sudden Death win condition. But I will still win by my chosen replacement Vessel satisfying the outnumbering win condition.) Oh, also, if you do kill me today... You might not like mopping up the consequences very much. I'm on Silverlight, you see. The same planet that almost everyone else is on. If I die today, both Odium and Autonomy will pass to random people. If RNG puts them in Hoidite hands, well... I believe that would mean the Village just loses. Even if it does go to Village hands, good luck tracking who has it, if they decide to go rogue with Shardic Power. If the new Autonomy Vessel decides to carry on what I've started, I don't think you'll be able to repel them, not with your numbers. Sincerely, I don't think it would be very good for the village for me to die today. I don't intend this as a threat, but I do rather think you should be aware of the likely consequences here. If you think this is a reasonable offer, I motion that we execute Wizard here, because I believe Wizard is Hoid (as does Stick, if that matters). Conveniently, Wizard also hasn't been voting, so this exe won't put you guys at a numerical disadvantage against me, which should instill some confidence that I'm dealing in good faith here. If you decide to turn down my offer, well, that's your right.

You have no evidence

smh why can't you guys be a pacifist

what is it good for?

I will point out that technically everyone who is still alive can win together at this point but there is no future in which I play along with that For reasons that may or may not pertain to my RP character of this game, dying on the hill that "no we shouldn't all win together" is a forced move for me at this juncture