Elenion

Retracting is done in orange.

Did you mean to cheer for me against Dankness, or did you mean to cheer for Dankness against me?

I suspect a bandwidth problem. If your hotel has only one router, or if it has multiple routers but also very many users using them, traffic through the router will seem laggy because the router has too many packet send/receive requests coming to it in a second than it can do in a second. Think of it like lines at a theme park; if more people are coming to a ride than it can send through, the line gets longer, and people have to wait. A bandwidth problem would cause the YouTube issue because YouTube sends the audio and the video of the videos you watch separately. Because there isn't communication at every step of the way, lag in the middle can cause the video to stop loading after the audio has already loaded. The video and the audio don't communicate as well as they could, so the audio thinks that the video is ready to play, and so it plays. TL;DR: Other users are slowing the network, causing YouTube to act strangely. You have not been hacked.

Hurt Hoid to prey on the weak, heal Vasher 1. Hoid - 2 2. Khriss - 7 3. Nazh - 6 4. Galladon - 4 5. Demoux - 5 6. Baon - 5 7. Vasher - 6 8. Nightblood - 5 9. Mraize - 4 10. Iyatil - 6 11. Felt - 5 12. The Ire - 5 13. "WalDo" (the mystery Kandra worldhopper) - 5 14. The Nalthis Terriswoman - 5

Okay, right now I've got cheers from Sheep, Mage, and Assassin, against my own self (manipped by DA) and Dankness. That's only 5 people in the duel out of 14 total. If we hope to get a lynch that can't be influenced by manip or teammates of DA's, we need more than this. @Jondesu @I_am_a_Stick You've both expressed distrust of DA. Can you help cement the vote? @TheMightyLopen @Burnt Spaghetti I'd like your analysis of what happened last night to confirm my suspicions of DA. @The Young Bard Now that the Dankness v Dankness duel is dead, can you cast your vote in the existing duel? Everyone else and those above, please read up on what's happened and analyze the results. We need to kill the remaining Forsworn before we take another hit like last night's. Speaking of that, does anyone have any info as to where any of those those kills came from? I'm thinking there's either a lurking SK, one or more vigilante villagers, or the elims had many Blades stockpiled; but I don't have much evidence for any of those theories other than Rae's blade, but she claimed to use it on Wonko. Finally, on the off chance that Telemanuses do exist, it would be much appreciated if one could protect me from any of DA's teammates who might want to seek revenge.

If I ever get a cremling problem, I'm calling Adolin the Exterminator!

*Facepalms* @STINK Is DA one of your trainees? @Amanuensis, how would you go about canceling a duel with yourself?

So in my duel with me and Dankness, the duel starts at Dankness 1, Len 0?

Didn't DA manip Sanis into cheering El, though?

@Amanuensis How would a duel between Dankness and himself work? And how do we tell the gag votes apart from the real ones? XD Edit: my profile pic is looking pretty accurate for the situation. XD

I get the feeling that discussion this cycle might end up somewhat lacking...

I think @Dankness Ascendant posted without reading the post right above his...

Are there any fellow Clash Royale players among our Sharders? If you play, post here so we can find each other! If there's interest I might make a clan just for Sharders.

That obscure history reference, though. Upvote!

As the Thread Necromancer spoke the final line of his invocation, the crumbling, dry ruins of a thread long-dead returned to life once more. [Usually we don't revive threads that have been dead for over about 3 months]

Adolin for his absolutely awesome performance in the arena. Heart was pounding like nothing else. Fellow Adolin voters, have upvotes!

As with all Sanderson books, I think you'll find the ending more than satisfying.

Gravitation, because illusions are intangible while Gravitation would let you do some pretty sweet things. Would you rather be turned into a Lifeless or a Koloss?

Seeing as how Roshar won, it seems only fair to do Roshar Characters next. I want to see who will win out of Kaladin/Shallan.

You could always restart that one you sent me C1. Just sayin'... I think I have figured out who another Forsworn is: it's DA. This is why I suspect him: Reason #1: My calculation that the Forsworn have a vote-manip. As I mentioned last cycle, I calculated that based on my previous games and the fact that some roles from this game don't make sense on an elim team (Thorne, another Bellona, another Julii, Telemanus), there is an 80% chance that the Forsworn have a vote manip. Reason #2: The early role-claim. In DA's last game with me (the previous QF), DA did something similar to this game; he role-claimed in-thread very early on. It turned out that he was an elim, and he did the same in this game. That in itself is not incriminating (I role-claimed early in that game myself, albeit it was a half-truth), but I think he did it in this game to avoid getting scanned by a Lune. If you were a Lune, who would you have scanned last night? If I was a Lune, I would have scanned one of the biggest posters, like Doc or Rae, not a claimed vote-manip who so-far has been forthcoming with his actions. Reason #3: Doc's distrust of DA. This one isn't as scientific as the others, but I do think that Doc's distrust of DA should be taken into account. The write-up implies that Doc knew the identity of his killer. This could mean that it was someone on his distrust list: i.e. Mage or DA. I'm more suspicious of DA right now, but Mage does now seem more suspicious to me than he was before, and if DA turns out village Mage is my next suspect. Reason #4: Posting patterns. If you review DA's post from any of the cycles so far, you will see the same pattern: he posts quite a bit, but with few words per post. I personally think this is because he is farming for Merit. Again, while farming for Merit is not necessarily a Forsworn thing, combine this with my Reason #3 and you get an interesting correlation: DA's high Merit levels would make him very likely to receive an IonBlade if he was a Forsworn, and if he did receive an IonBlade last cycle and kill Doc then that would perfectly explain why Doc's write-up said what it said.

Okay... we had three village deaths last night. That wasn't good at all. What's worse is it looks like the elims orchestrated at least two of them. Wonko was lynched, and Dani wasn't given a write-up, but the two killers we do hear about both said things that only a Forsworn would say. So either the Forsworn killed Rae, Doc, and Dani, or Dani was killed by friendly fire. Or one of Rae, Doc, and Dani used a Fleshmask to dress up as another and got killed by chance, but that's less likely. Whatever happened, I'm almost positive that the elims offed Doc to silence him; he was coordinating enough players that they needed him gone fast, so they risked the Telemanus he asked for in-thread. Along that line of reasoning, I suspect that there are no Telemanuses in the game; that would account for Doc being killed despite his calls for protection. Another thing that I find strange is that it is explicitly noted that Rae's killer wore a FleshMask. Either this was a deliberate red-herring on Aman's part, or the kill was made for the benefit of us all: the elims suspected that Rae had a HoloCam online, so they masqueraded as someone else in order to direct the lynch the next day. I don't remember seeing a FleshMask being purchased in the shop, so if the elims did use a FleshMask it was one they started with or got off of the lynch. TL;DR: There were at least 2 (if not 3) elim kills last night There is a good chance there are no Telemanuses in the game The elims probably used a FleshMask that they started with I'll be signing off for about an hour, but will be back after that to do more analysis, particularly in regard to who would have killed Dani. It may be as little as 30 minutes, though.

You're right about that: for the last two days I haven't been able to post as much as I've wished to. However, I have no classes today and so can up my posting back to its normal standards. In celebration for no classes, I'll start with a wall-post. One of the things that strikes me the most is how suddenly everyone is trusting Daniyah. This is one of the slightly-suspicious trusts, and on the previous page Lopen says basically the same thing. The problem is: I haven't seen much from Dani that gives me any read. She must be working in PMs, which has appeared to be more her style in the past. If Dani really was an elim working in the shadows, however, I doubt that she'd ask fellow elims to vouch for her in thread, so she does have that going for her. What I can say is this: Dani appears to have a very-high PM-to-post ratio. And while that doesn't an elim make in and of itself, I'd like to see her using that Shard time to post more where everybody can see instead of working behind the scenes where she could be doing anything. As for the Rae controversy, I personally lean towards Rae being village. However, both sides have raised some valid points. What I can deduce is this: I believe with 95% surety that Rae and her accusers are not all elims. Right now the Forsworn have lost one player and are about to lose another (unless Wonko somehow survives again), and so under the circumstances bussing a third would be less than wise. Either Rae is a Forsworn that is rightfully-suspected by the village, or Rae is a villager whom the Forsworn are eager to kill. or Rae and her accusers are both paranoid villagers. I'd put the chances of each of these about equal. I've also decided to look at a slightly-different approach to the situation; the same that I did in the last QF. For those who weren't there, I became suspicious of DA because I doubted that the village would have two Red-Oranges. I turned out to be right. Here's a list of all of the roles and my reads on whether or not there would be an elim with that role: Thorne: Vanilla. Since we know that the Forsworn had a Bellona, I doubt they'd have a Thorne, too. If they did that would be two players with no useful abilities other than gaining Merit or making kills, and I don't think Aman would do that to a team. Fabii: Vote-manip. I think there's a good chance that the Forsworn have a Fabii. Most games in the past with vote-manip have had at least one player with vote-manip on the elim team, and I doubt this game would be an exception. Rath: Defect. Now this would be an interesting one for a Forsworn to be. However, I could see it being a bit game-breaking if a Forsworn Rath chose to defect. I do have to increase the chances of there being a Forsworn Rath after Aman's rule-change for Raths at the beginning of C1, because that seems to apply especially to Forsworn Raths. Julii: Item-swap. Wonko has claimed to be one, and I doubt the Forsworn would have 2. But if Wonko isn't one, then there's a decent chance somebody else is. Telemanus: Sacrifice-protect. I don't think the elims would have any. One dead elim is as good as another, so one elim taking a blade for another would be little improvement. Lune: Scan. Useful as a way of getting trusted, so I'd say there's a good chance of there being a Forsworn one. Arcos: Unlynchable. Another wild card: an elim team with an Arcos would be much harder to kill than one without an Arcos, but having an Arcos would lose them a spot that they could use for a more useful ability for being trusted like Lune. However, a Forsworn Arcos does sound like something Aman would make, so I'll account for that. Bellona: Extra Merit. Bugsy was one, and putting another one in would almost be like them having a Thorne. Doubtful. Final probabilites: Thorne: 5% Fabii: 80% Rath: 60% Julii: 10% Telemanus: 15% Lune: 65-70% Arcos: 60% Bellona: 5% Assuming that the Forsworn have 4 more players after Bugsy and Wonko, I'd guess they're Fabii, Lune, Arcos, and Rath. Assuming 3 I'd guess Fabii, Lune, and either Arcos or Rath. "Oi, Khazad, are you going to come with me? We have a murder to catch!" Khazad nodded stiffly and walked out of the War-Room with Pierce, saying nothing because he was still processing what had happened. Although he had reacted well in the moment, his mind was as late as his body was, and so was still reconciling the day's events. Do you think they'll kill you next? A familiar disembodied voice spoke. "Why would they? They have better targets." All the better for a surprise attack. "Keep this up and I'm liable to crack for good." Oh, I can assure you that you did that long ago. That's how I got here. Khazad was tired of having this conversation with his sixth sense again, so he turned to Pierce, "Has Sanis been locked up yet?" "If I knew I wouldn't have asked you to catch him." Khazad mentally cursed himself, then replied, "What are we waiting for? I'd hate to be late to Sanis' funeral." He grinned sardonically.

Game stalled? Time to move it along! Hurt FotS, heal Roshar 3. First of the Sun--12 5. Roshar--43

In Soviet Roshar, Shardplate poop in you!

Judging by the original post, it looks like the user with the server has been removed from the Shard for some reason. I wouldn't bet on it still being up.