Elenion
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Well, I really don't have much to say to defend myself. So far I've instigated a massive bandwagon on Ecth and helped lynch Alv, both of whom were good. But I can tell you that in lynching me, you are playing right into the elims' hands. They probably killed Kas to both silence him and to frame me, and in lynching me you're just doing their dirty work for them and saving them a kill. Can I get the wine and cheese?
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Boris' mouth gaped. "Stub Tail wasn't an assassin? But . . . how?" He took a swig of wine to steady his nerves. "I don't even know where to go from here." Well, that was embarrassing, and now I'm no longer confident in my gut reads. But since fewer votes are better for the elims, I'm going back to the old vote on Stink[\color]. There are a few players who I want to hear from: @JUQ I'm still quite suspicious of you. What are your thoughts on last lynch's results? Also, Burnt, Joe, and Rae, (sorry, my tags keep breaking) we need the more experienced players to take the wheel if we want to avert a catastrophe. Whom do you suspect most right now?
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I don't even see what makes me so suspicious to everyone. I've articulated a very good reason why Alv is evil, but suddenly a bandwagon has started on me without evidence but instead a couple of gut reads and some bandwagoning (looking at you, Mage). I smell a rat, and it's not Kas' mouse. And Alv, I'm 75% sure you're evil. If it's a thunderdome you want, it's a thunderdome you'll get. First to die gets the other's wine from the loot crate?
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@Kasimir Sorry for the delay! We got walloped by a snowstorm and lost power for two hours, so no internet on my computer, and my tablet doesn't get data, only WiFi. Boris walked in from a balcony, snow encrusting his hat. "I didn't even know it snowed here! "Now onto business: I think you missed the points of what I said. "First up, you point out that I have taken a complete reversal of tactics since we killed Innocent. You are exactly right. As I mentioned, we need a new strategy. I tried the don't-let-the-suspicious-ones-off strategy, and it failed. So now I've switched gears and are trying a new approach because we were 'getting nowhere' as I put it. "Second, my strategy switch doesn't entail leaving my suspicions of JUQ, Kynedath, and Arinian behind. What I suggested is that we put them on the back burner as pretty suspicious until we find someone else whom the assassins didn't think we'd be on to. Now here's what I implied, but I guess I didn't specify it clearly enough: after we find a new target and confirm them by lynch, we'll then have info that will allow us to analyze the lynchee's days 1 and 2 voting habits, and should allow us to see whom the assassins were trying to defend. We then kill the assassin out of the suspicious trio, without killing the other two (I find it most likely that only one of them is an assassin)." Boris paused to catch his breath, "But I do like what's happened since I stepped outside. We're looking at more people now. And of them, I find Alvron the most suspicious (STINK, although I still have my eye on him). Why? Because the criminals I've hunted [elims I've played against] always need an 'out' if something goes wrong. The problem with Alv's arguments is that they give him a built-in 'out': chance. He could rig every vote to kill an innocent, and then justify it just by blaming bad luck. That's dangerous. Add in his claim that he's trying something new [new playstyle], and you get the perfect cover. I'm not convinced."
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Would you like them in your brain?
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Boris sauntered into the room, walking just slightly off-kilter. "I smell a rodent. Right now, we're milling around in packs like wild dogs, and we're getting nowhere. We need a new approach. We've rehashed the same names over and over again: JUQ, Kynedath, Arinian. And while I'm fairly sure that one of those three is an Assassin, we have little proof to tell the safe from the sinister, although I do lean towards JUQ being the Assassin. I suggest that we find new suspects: players who have acted suspiciously but about whom discussion has died. These, in my experience, tend to be eliminators." He stopped for long enough to take a sip of wine. "Whatever happened to that suspicion on STINK? That whole business about Alv feeling that this game was like Hael's previous? And STINK contributing to the chatter a lot more than some of us would expect?"
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I would like that money, please. Analysis to come.
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Boris came back from whatever he was doing (now that you mention it, that wine bottle was looking a little lower than it was before) and chimed in, "The thing with criminals is that they're usually not the brazen type. They stay alive by subterfuge and manipulation. Both Arinian and Kynedath sound to me like they're not assassins, just because I don't think an assassin would have been as high-profile as each was yesterday. But while I'm not going to help you guys kill one of them, I'm not going to try to stop you, either. But if any of you have the same feelings that I do, then please inspect [vote on] JUQ with me." [OOC: I'm not reading village on either Kynedath or Arinian, but they wouldn't be my first lynch choices either. I think both just made slips since they're relatively new players.]
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I'm here now; I was in classes and didn't have time to post this morning. I also have work in just a few, so I'll try to do something more substantial after that. But until then, JUQ. His voting last cycle seems off to me, like he had thought of what he wanted to do first and then tried to justify it, but the justification didn't quite fit. I'll post more in about 75 to 90 minutes.
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@Haelbarde Can I get a GM-official list of the players who lost their free pass by not posting relevant info last cycle?
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What's your favorite.... ? (Forum game)
Elenion replied to Kestrel's topic in Forum Games & Random Stuff
Robotics club. What's your favorite Allomantic metal? -
Boris looked around sheepishly. Already, one person was blaming him for the fiasco. And to add insult to injury, he had to give one of his bottles of liquid life wine to @Alvron. To be fair, he had been partially at fault for what had happened. Innocent should have been guilty. But he wasn't, and now Boris was to blame for the death of an innocent. He had been in that position before, but he still wasn't comfortable with that feeling. So he quashed it by taking a swig from his remaining bottle of wine. [OOC: Yes, Stick, I led the bandwagon on Ecth.]
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I'm going to have to withdraw: my family is going to Hawaii over Christmas break, and I don't want to have to go inactive for an entire week.
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Boris remarked loudly, "Well, at least people are talking, even if they aren't agreeing with my deductions. Some murders, the suspects just clam up."
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I've actually got a second one, so you're on! (Even though that word of GM has me seriously doubting my reasoning). I'll keep my vote on, however, because even without the tenets, Ecth's tone still has me reading him as an elim, and I don't want to run the risk of letting him go. Edit: @Alvron I've only got 2 bottles, but I still took Lopen up on his bet.
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Done! So now you're admitting to be from the Brotherhood?
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Boris replied, "Because not just anyone runs around with a copy of the Five Tenets in their item stash. We all carry things that are important to us [reflect our characters]. I, for one, pack around these bottles of wine." *gestures to one in the chair and one in his coat* "Don't tell anyone about those. Now what would a member of the Brotherhood have on their person? A copy of the Five Tenets fits the bill. I would bet one of my wine bottles that you slipped up and disclosed what you had before you realized that it incriminated you." [If any player wants to take that bet of the wine, I'm up for that]
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I can confirm that my items seem almost exactly related to my backstory. My character has a drinking problem, and I started with two cheap bottles of wine. As for the lynch, I really am not liking this Arinian bandwagon. Based on my suspicion that Ecth is an elim, it seems like his teammates might be starting a counter-bandwagon to save him before the cycle is out.
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Boris kept hearing this Five Tenets stuff, but he really didn't know what in the blazes they were. So, he whipped out his trusty [Google] inspector's manual (which doubled as his ledger for number of wine bottles that he had left), and gave it a look. What he found shocked him. "Whoa, Innocent! Where did you hear about the Five Tenets? The only people who should care about them are the Dark Brotherhood, and . . . wait. Dark Brotherhood? That doesn't sound suspicious at all!" [Ecth, where did you hear about the Five Tenets?]
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Boris was one of the last to inspect the corpse. Why? He was too busy secreting a bottle of whiskey under a chair. It wasn't a full bottle--in fact it was mostly empty--but it was enough to soothe his fears that he wouldn't have any for later. Most of the bottle was in his stomach: it helped him sleep. The necessities attended to, he then walked over to the corpse. The first order of business when dealing with a corpse is always to check its pockets for loose change determine what made this a corpse and not a person. The knife sticking in its chest had to be a distraction, so he rolled the body over and checked for more wounds. Nothing. What a creative killer this one was! And... he had even left his handprint! "Hey! Does anyone here have a hand that matches this print?" The guests were surprisingly forthcoming: the accusations flying around had usually been met with quick responses, and so it wasn't long before everyone had compared their hands to the handprint. None matched. But what all of these accusations did do is establish a pattern . . . "I suspect that you, Innocent (Ecth III), are not so innocent. I've seen your kind before [you in previous games], and you're talking awfully much. My inspector's instinct [gut read] tells me that you're hiding something."
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Boris stood pensively, watching the drama unfold. He wasn't the type to intervene in that sort of dispute. What he was the type to do was watch, and so he did that; noting dress, appearance, and especially mannerisms. Anything that might give him an edge in case something bad happened, and around Boris things tended to do just that.
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I'll join as Mandos, or at least one of his emissaries. I'd like to start on Nalthis, since that's where I was in MR16.
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I use the built-in browser on my tablet, and it's got some issues. Those that I can think of off of the top of my head are that it won't let me add spaces at the end of lines, tagging doesn't work most of the time, if I quote someone than all text I type becomes un-editable, cursor dragging errors out and just sends me to the beginning of the edit box, and if I swap from tying to swiping it sometimes makes two spaces between words. Mobile editing is decent for basic posts like this one, but for anything more complicated it just isn't worth it.
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That comment about getting the girl honestly made me laugh. That last command would be awesome as long as a Sentient AA can take a command that long.
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I would be more than happy to assist anyone with turning game ideas and rules into rule-sets and posts.
