Ecthelion III

“Sometimes I wonder if I am the only real thing in a false world.” The voice echoed across a curious landscape. It was an island of sorts, surrounded by swirling mists. The ground was dark, smoky stone—that was how man perceived it, at least. “And other times I wonder if the world is rigid and true and I am what is changing, ever false, ever contradicting.” The speaker looked up at the sky, which was encompassed in a writhing mass of crimson tendrils pierced only by a too-small dot of light. “Identity has always puzzled me. Scholars throughout the æons have searched for a way to define who oneself is. Yet it is just who I am…” The island was covered in short scrubby plants except for a small area around a blazing green fire. A group of spirits stood in the cleared-out space with a cloaked figure at the center beside the fire. When he spoke next, it was with greater intensity. “…who we are. Is Identity how we were created, or how we choose to create ourselves? Do we bear our own souls, or are we ourselves carried along?” The cloaked man threw a pinch of dust in the fire, which flared up, illuminating the faces of the spirits. He looked into each one’s eyes. “Time flows like a river, and the day of proving approaches quickly. When sunset falls, chaos will be upon us. You will need to be prepared.” He took an ornate wooden box out of his pack. It was clearly aged; the wood was bent and covered in holes which emitted a faint glow. He opened the box, revealing rows of small brightly glowing objects, circular or hexagonal in shape and a couple inches in diameter. Each had a unique and intricate pattern carved into its face. “It is time to decide who you will be. Who you will fight for, and who you will fight against.” Above the hooded man, the sky rippled, tendrils casting faint shadows across the stone. One of the spirits stepped forward, reaching into the box and taking a single glowing piece. The others followed. “Who are you, little ones?” Lightning crashed, illuminating the red sky. “You are what the world needs to you to become.” Rules Ah, yes, right, businessy stuff, that’s my cue. [clears throat] Yes, well, my name is Phil! I’m the voice in your head who’s here to do all the businessy stuff related to this quest. Don’t worry about how I’m talking in your head or whose voice I stole or any of that stuff—I’m just a plot device here to repeatedly infodump you. We cool? So, the rules. Er, about that… well, you see, Mr. Hooded Cloak over there says I’m technically not supposed to tell you anything. But I’ve always been one to—shall we say bend the rules a little bit (excuse the pun). I mean, you guys have to have some kind of groundwork to go off of, right? So, to start out with, the game is divided into Day and Night turns which alternate as always. Day turns are 47 hours long with a 1 hour break afterward, and Night turns are 23 hours long, again with a 1 hour break afterward. If you want to be all technical about things, turns will end at 4 AM UTC and the next turn will begin at 5 AM UTC. You can normally take 2 actions each cycle (Day and Night). You can take both during the Day, both during the Night, or one of each, but no more than 2 actions each cycle, and you can’t use the same action more than once in the same cycle unless otherwise stated. If an ability lets you use more than 2 actions per cycle, there is an absolute maximum of 2 actions in the Day and 2 actions in the Night. Clear as mud, eh? Boom, order of actions. You’re welcome. There might be more stuff not on here because Mr. Hooded Cloak is so uptight about everything. You’ll get a notebook to record stuff in too, it’s only a page though so not much of a notebook. It gets shown to everyone once you die. Mr. Hooded Cloak keeps trying to get me to call it a Will but he’s really kind of a morbid guy. Trust me, you don’t want to get to know that git. Speaking of which, there’s a bunch of random stuff he wanted me to tell you. After you die you’ll return here for a couple cycles before “passing on” (see, morbid guy, right?) during which you’ll be “judged for your actions” and you might potentially change your outlook on life. That one’ll be important if you ever get brought back from the dead. He also told me "tie lynches are random" and “scans aren’t infallible” or something weird like that. And, oddly, he also wanted me to make sure to tell you that Wills aren’t carved in metal. I should also talk to you for a couple secs about greed and the universal language: gold. You can get 2 pieces of gold each cycle, one for posting some discussion related to the game and another for posting at least 200 words of in-character text. Here’s a piece of paper that Mr. Hooded Cloak left me listing a few “universal actions” which any of you guys can take: And that’s about it! Good guys win if they kill the bad guys, bad guys win if there are more of them than the good guys. I’ll let you know later on if I forgot to tell you anything. So, with all of this businessy stuff done, I wish you luck and bid you adieu. Have fun storming the castle! [CoGMs are Elenion and Jondesu. IM is Wilson.] Quick Links:

THIS STATEMENT IS FALSE And yay Sareth is back Ceol says hi XD

Why do you say villain? I would think the stormforms would be more the villains.

Other than you, none particularly strong at the moment. I do think I'll look more into Aster's past posts.

Well prime situation is we get all the elims before he comes back right? Then if we haven't won but there's no night kill, we can lynch cloudjumper. It's more important that we kill those who are actually murdering us.

Well, even if he's evil, if he's not putting in kills then he's not exactly hurting us, is he?

Welcome back @Daniyah and @Hemalurgic_Headshot!! (I'm not signing up because my game is coming up soon but I just wanted to say hi )

Ask and ye shall receive

That's right, I meant to but forgot...[ STINK ]

@_Stick_ Sorry, I'm bad with terminology and abbreviations etc... what is CFD? Google says it's Computational Fluid Dynamics but I'm pretty sure that's not it unless you woke up to a lot of homework

@little wilson Do you have anything to add? Or just agree with the already stated reasoning?

Elenion are you trying to kill all discussion by killing Stick? She's about the most focused and prolific player at this point. Yes, I honestly don't think Brightness Radiant is evil because it would have seemed too obvious if she had switched her vote at the last minute to save teammate!Yitzi on purpose. You do make an interesting point about Stick. Flash, you said "I've seen [Cloudjumper] lurking previously but not saying anything, which is different than how he played in the last game." I don't necessarily agree with this; the last few games I've played with him that's exactly how he's been. Same with Elenion, that's usually how he is until he wallposts about this time every game. Also, if you are village, we would learn more from killing you than someone who has been very lurky like Cloudjumper.

@_Stick_ I thought many others' votes on Stink were about what Aman said, but mostly my vote was for my reasons. I'm not going to say no to a bunch of people voting on the person I wanted to lynch the last cycle. Len hasn't seemed too evil to me but I don't particularly have a better candidate. @Elenion care to present one?

@_Stick_ Yep I was. I had actually voted on him the day before the bandwagon as well. Maybe it's just my Town of Salem background that gives me an inherent distrust of people who claim neutral. I thought/think that he was generally not acting very helpful to the village, advocating Strawagon for no reason, providing little reasoning, and in my posted example basing reasoning just on private PM information. Basically what Aman and later Straw said.

Must have missed the proven part in the 52 pages of thread. Remind me?

Just because Stink claims neutral doesn't mean he's automatically cleared from all suspicion. @Elenion I'm a little confused, why did you choose Rae specifically to ask about Orlok?

Reading through the thread, I would like to bring all of your attention to the following exchange on page 20. (Sorry for the dangling participle, all you grammarians) Stink: ... Then you come in a wagon, get pocketed [by Brightness Radianto] and I can't wait for Yitzi to be village. Which he clearly is. Aman: How is Yitzi clearly village? Stink: Have you actually PMd him Aman: Nah too lazy. Tell me in ours if it's sensitive? Stink: It ain't sensitive. Yitzi is just more paranoid than like other paranoid people. No fun allowed, no disarming tactics. He's my most towny player. Aman: Okay, thanks. ... ... Stink: Well I'm still way up for lynching Straw, so that'd be nice. Aman: Seems like an obvious mislynch to me /shrug Stink: Well so did Yitzi /shrug Aman: A bit hard to be obvious when the whole reason you think he's town is confined to a PM only you and the GMs can see /shrug Stink: Oh isn't life a pain /shrug (later on in the conversation...) Stink: I ain't suspicious of anyone, tyvm Also Stink: Seriously vote Straw I'm off to an exam now ttyl Aman turned out village, Straw turned out village, Yitzi turned out elim. Where does that leave you Stink?

I shall pile on the stinky bandwagon. I also voted him yesterday (or day before?)

That's an honorary vote

Cluny, why are you accusing Asterion of "giving reasonably lame reasons of voting on me in order to get people suspicious of me"? Do you remember your vote on PK from earlier in the game? Seems like you shouldn't really care if someone gives reasonably lame reasons to vote on someone. Even if you don't like this bandwagon, though, after scanning and re-scanning the thread, I think I will vote on Cluny, just because I'm suspicious of him.

@TheMightyLopen You're right, I haven't been contributing as much as I should. Partly because I have to finalize my [rather convoluted] LG36 before signups go up in not too long and partly because of RL stuff. I do have rather strong suspicions on one of those people you named but I'd rather not say anything until I have a strong argument. I have been getting village vibes from Jon, for what it's worth.

@STINK Well since it's so obvious you should tell the whole thread my role. It's not even a good one anyway.

I don't care what alignment we think STINK is, it looks to me like he is trying to intentionally sow chaos (hmmm, this sounds vaguely deja vu) and that reads "definitely not village" to me.

@BrightnessRadiant Don't kill me if I come over, k?

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