Straw

The cycle is over!

This time you were a little more productive! When you were done, three new bodies were on the ground. Unfortunately, none of them were Skaa. - [Death RP by Gears, go upvote them!] Malcolm Anerchis was an ordinary fellow. He swallowed metals and “burned” them, he killed people for fun, and he was really looking forward to being spiked. However, his class of soon-to-be Obligators was infested with skaa. He personally had nothing against the skaa, but they were preventing him from being spiked. Inciting a revolution would be fun though… Too bad he wasn’t skaa. Maybe he could pretend to be skaa and incite the revolution anyways! In hindsight, that was probably a bad idea. Bantering with his would-be killers was also a bad idea. They genuinely thought he was skaa now. While being a jazz musician sounded pretty sweet, he didn’t know how to play an instrument despite his best efforts, and dying for being a musician peasant when he wasn’t a musician peasant wasn’t his idea of enjoyment. At least he had swallowed his steel. One of his attackers would be brought down as they slaughtered him. They grabbed him and held him down as they tried to kill him, but before the light left his eyes, he tossed a coin into the air and pushed it into someone’s skull. He tried to confirm the kill, but his body went limp before he managed it. They kept pummelling his lifeless body for a few minutes, but he wasn’t skaa. Stealing a few saxaphones didn’t make him a musician. Starting a few revolutions didn’t make him a downtrodden individual, trapped by the caste system. The Cognitive Realm was empty of all but mist and a half-dead god. Then a Coinshot stumbled out of the aether and waved to the god. “I heard about this part!” he said jubilantly. “You’re Preservation, right?” “Yes,” the god said. “Though you weren’t supposed to be here. My futuresight is limited, but you left this world soon and lived on for many years, doing what you loved.” Malcolm laughed as his form stretched towards the realm of light. “Gods can be wrong, Pres. Remember that.” And then he was gone. Gears has died! They were a Steel Ministry Coinshot! Illwei has died! They were a Steel Ministry Lurcher! Matrim's Dice has died! They were a Steel Ministry Thug! Vote Count: Gears (5): A Joe in the Bush, Sart, Sorana, STINK, Vapor Illwei (2): Gears, Matrim's Dice Araris Valerian (1): xinoehp512 Elkanah (1): Araris Valerian GM Notes: -The cycle will end on August 21st, at 1:00 PM EST. Player List:

The cycle is over!

Yeah, cycles are 48 hours, so the cycle ends around one day from now.

Personally, I felt that you were a decent D1 death, but that you'd be harder to get rid of later. Also, at that point, I thought that I was going to die due to my disease, and was trying to make it so my death would cast suspicion on Mist/Ash later on.

You were supposed to root out the Skaa, but that didn't end up happening. You all got in a big fight and nothing happened. Someone did suddenly die, so maybe that'll give you something to discuss. Elandera has died! They were a Steel Ministry Thug! Vote Count: Gears (6): A Joe in the Bush, Illwei, Sart, STINK, Vapor, xinoehp512 Vapor (6): Araris Valerian, Elandera, Elkanah, Gears, Matrim's Dice, Sorana GM Notes: -The cycle will end on August 19th, at 1:00 PM EST. Player List:

The cycle is over!

Is this automatic immunity, or do they have to pick the round? Can you clarify what this is trying to say? How exactly does this work?

Correct. There is no way to gain additional charges.

Today is your first day at the Steel Ministry! Unfortunately, there are Skaa among you. Your first job at the Steel Ministry is to root them out. Good luck! GM Notes: -The cycle will end on August 17th, at 1:00 PM EST. -Four things to remember: + There are no PMs in this game. + There is a two cycle inactivity filter in this game. + There is a two vote minimum and ties result in no death. + There is no night, so get your actions in during this turn. -If you need a vote count, just @mention me and I'll give you one ASAP! -If you did not receive a GM PM, let me know ASAP! -If you're not playing, let me know if you want spec chat access. Player List:

Pinging in case people haven't been keeping up with the thread: @Elandera, @Elkanah, @Gears, @Illwei, @Lord_Silberfarben, @Sart, @Sorana, @Vapor, @xinoehp512 And with that, signups are closed. The game will start at 1:00 PM EST tomorrow!

We just need one more player now, if anyone wants to join or move from spectating to playing. The game will start at 1:00 PM EST tomorrow.

If you could, that would be very welcome.

If it's obvious there aren't going to be more people signing up, or delaying would mess with the schedules of too many players, I might just run this as a very low player count (7-13 players) game with whoever is around then.

@Gears, @Mist, @xinoehp512, @Lord_Silberfarben, @Vapor, @Elandera, @Elkanah, @Illwei Due to lack of players, this will be delayed until there are 13 players signed up. When I have 13 players, I will @mention all players to let them know that signups are over.

Well, this is certainly something to wake up to. The thing I targeted Sart with was an anti-roleblock of sorts, same as Gravitation in LG13/LG67. It rendered him immune to all roleblocks/action manipulation last night, and would have also made him immune to vote manipulation today. The flavor for it was that I had a background in Mechanics. I gained access to this ability at the start of D3 (it did nothing beforehand).

Lotus. Devotary. It's 11:55 right now so thoughts about this development will come in the morning. I guess Sart would be basically confirmed good due to this? I'd still like to see pressure on Lotus and the other low posters, but it's kind of unfeasible to do that with voting at the moment, given there's no way we don't vote out Devotary.

I would be greatly reassured if @Devotary of Spontaneity would at least deign to give a few reads. Their reluctance to respond is odd. I will also note that I am concerned about the arrangement of votes so far this turn. As of now, we sit at: Devotary of Spontaneity (4): Kasimir, TJ Shade, Sart, StrikerEZ Matrim's Dice (1): Araris Valerian Lotus (1): Straw I don't quite feel like Devotary should be quite this far ahead at this point. Putting pressure on her is well and good, but it would be nice to put pressure on others. I've seen a distinct lack of content from many players this turn, and I think it'd be good to get more pressure on them.

I meant to bring this up earlier, but I really dislike this. Betting on the distribution is usually not a good idea, and I also dislike arguments that at least one person in a small pool is evil. It's a cheap way to make reads, and is often inaccurate. It's very easy for an elim to say something like that, sit back, and watch the village tear itself apart.

Sorry about my lack of thread activity. Reads at the moment: Village: TJ Shade - Strongest village read, can't see anything very suspicious. Generally helpful. Kasimir - Quote gimmick makes it more difficult to read their earlier posts. Seems to legitimately have village interests in mind with information openness. Has apparently been PMing. Not sure if I like that. I would prefer to have more openness in the thread. Matrim's Dice - Has regularly put out analysis that seems to be coming from a good mindset. Specifically hasn't been holding back on giving reads, which I like. They get additional points from me due to their willingness to claim. Null: Ashbringer - Lots of posts, very little I feel strongly about. Suspicions are very similar to mine, which is interesting. Gut village read, possibly due to the previous point. Devotary of Spontaneity - Very few analyzable posts. Not sure what's going on with them/Kas. Will have to reread. Frozen Mint - Very few analyzable posts. Teft/Elandera - No analyzable posts. Vapor - Very few analyzable posts. Sart - Not very many posts. Village points for vote encouragement, elim points for lack of interaction and jumping on Mint with reasoning I dislike. Lahilt - Very few analyzable posts. Still getting an off feel from them. I think their vote on Pyro was odd. Elim: StrikerEZ - As Matrim said, Striker gives me QF46 vibes in this game (lurking at edges). Otherwise, my read of him is just gut. Probably my weakest elim read. Araris Valerian - He's objected to Illwei suspicion in ways that I find quite odd (claimed votes on Illwei due to meta, said Illwei vote worse than rand, specifically picked out Illwei from Matrim's reads on D1). Interestingly, voted on Mint due to Illwei connection. Generally odd amount of Illwei connection. Illwei - I still think his posts are odd, and he has a kind of nervous energy around him that I very much dislike. I find their D2 reads particularly odd, as they listed no elim reads whatsoever. Lotus - Initially completely null reads. Not sure if deliberate null-ness or if they were legitimately feeling that. Lots of filler posts. Ash-Mat-TJ is something of a jump. The more I look through their posts, the more I feel like the filler is deliberate. Vote manipulation is strange as well.

Writing up analysis right now, please be patient. I've admittedly been less active than usual, largely since I'm currently on vacation and also feeling a bit more burned out than usual. Also would dispute your thing about me being "never a player to sit back and watch". I've been more active recently, but not always. Not sure about Gears/Illwei connection. I do have Illwei as an elim lean, but not due to Gears' suspicion. Confirmed good != confirmed right. Can't see an elim team trying that. Analysis to come very soon. Only have a few people left.

I feel like you're a bit overly wound up over the whole GM PM business. What kind of decision do you even think the mods would make? We know that you cannot quote from PMs, and you cannot confirm specific wording from GM PMs. What else are they supposed to make a ruling on?

Do quotes ping? I was also kind of confused at Devotary pinging Pyro. What question were they answering?

Yeah, it's past midnight and my mind is not the best ATM.

So, +1 to Sart and Lahilt, -1 to Pyro and Lotus.