Steeldancer

Well, I only have a single breath, and I’m not a fan of that. So, Elandera. I’m not sure how I feel about turquoise bellied alligators, but I feel I should start the voting now so I can get some more breath to screw around with.

yay talk about convenience! My game finished just in time for me to give my full attention to this game! Very nice, very nice indeed. I will note I still have to deal with work and other things like that, so I won't be perfectly active, but I'll be much more so than I would have been if I were still running my game.

Ok, rules. There were some issues with the rules, and in a rerun, what would I fix? First thing I would fix is the whole making system. I would throw it out, and just place in the various items, and cut the most powerful items entirely. Just items that replicate other abilities, and magnify a few abilities. The surges and spren abilities would need to be tweaked to accommodate this. But that was the single greatest problem with this game. Second thing I would change would be the percentages for the bonding chances. I would lower it severely so the stormfather's ability actually matters, or I would do the following idea. My further idea was to expand the bonding mechanic to require continued activity. Essentially, you start off unbonded. By being active, you get the chance to be bonded. By being active in the same way again, you can then advance to second oath. Then to third oath. All the way to fifth oath. This would probably be on a turn by turn basis, and there would be more activity requirements. The first bonding would grant you the first surge, the 1 stormlight ability. The second oath would grant you the second surge, the 1 stormlight ability. The third oath would grant the first surge, the 3 stormlight ability. The 4th oath would grant the 2nd surge, the 3 stormlight ability. The 5th oath would allow for you to use a 5 stormlight ability on either surge, where it would do... something. I'm thinking something more open ended. Not sure. But you'd have to be extremely active, and a bit lucky, in order to get that open ended ability. The stormfather's lives would then also be able to advance an already bonded spren up a bond level. It would be a cool way to continue to encourage activity. I would also get rid of the suicide thing. It was fine in this game, but... at the same time... I feel it removes some responsibility from Sja-Anat. Lumgol pointed out Sja-Anat is basically the only one without abilities, and so is kind of useless after using up all their lives. I feel like that should be altered? Some sort of ability that can be unlocked when Sja-Anat reaches a single life, like the Stormfather unlocks his stormlight filling ability. Not sure what it would be, though. I also feel like I should have been more consistent with what the items did. Having the items just have abilities similar to existing abilities in the game would just make things a lot easier. I think... I think that's more or less everything I wanted to say. If I remember something, I'll post about it. Other than that, I appreciate everyone signing up for this game. I also appreciate Joe picking up the game with basically no warning on my part. I really hope this gets rerun in some form, and please, future GMs, listen to this rule advice. And make sure you have a good spreadsheet that you know how to use. I kept breaking mine as soon as Mailliw wasn't helping lol. I will be running one more game before I leave SE for 2 years. It will be a Skyward game, featuring one of my favorite things: a serial killer. Maybe. Or maybe not. (but you know I'll stick it in anyway so yeah). It'll be an MR that'll probably run after this QF... hopefully... I've gotta finish up those rules. So, I'll see you then.

Oh, the lord ruler. Lol not Taln then.

there would be an announcement of their death. But their alignment and role would not be revealed.

Ok, first, before anybody jumps down my throat, here are the actual document links dead doc elim doc Master Spreadsheet And now, the roasting. GAH YOU GUYS. GAHHHHHHHHHHHH You failed on just about every count. You guys focused on essences WAY too much. Most of the essence items just replicated abilities other spren had, it was way more efficient to focus on the abilities you had and use them rather than messing around with essence items. Speaking of which, I have no idea what a homunculus would have done. I didn't really want to allow the creation of that at all. Anyway, some of the most important village abilities- that being the truthwatcher scan and the stormfather bonding mechanic- were used little or not at all. I largely balance the game around spren abilities, but then no one actually used them until cycle 3 or so. Meanwhile Lumgol happily dodged the lynch every single day, and EVERYONE CLAIMED IN PMs. Seriously. Guys. This was a conversion game. You all knew perfectly well that there was a decent chance the Fifth was either already converted, or would be converted soon. And yet to a man, almost everyone claimed their true role to Fifth. And then when you killed Fifth, he passed the rest of role claims to the person who had already been converted, and had already collected a couple key role claims from willing villagers. In other words, you narrowed down exactly who was the Stormfather, and failed to practice PM safety at all. So, in the future, may this be a lesson to you: if you're in a conversion game, don't freaking claim. Not unless you want to be converted. It made it very simple for Lumgol to convert Fura and Xinoehp, who allowed the elims to pull off what they did at the end there. Converting the two roles I only stuck one of in the game because they were more powerful, because everyone claimed, is kind of a problem. And not only that. On that last day, you had the opportunity to lynch an elim. they were before you. And yet, not enough villagers bothered to show up and vote. And so the elims had an extremely easy time of hammering, with hardly even any effort. Like HONESTLY. I get being fooled, but at least storming vote. sigh look in the end I'm kind of frustrated because I spent a lot of time working on these surge mechanics. A lot. I kind of made up the essences on the fly. And yet no one even tried the surge I was most looking forward to, Lightweaving. I really wanted to see what totally new surge mechanics would do to a game. But I think the essences just overshadowed it too much, and that makes me a bit frustrated. That being said, I did still have fun running this game. It was nuts, frustrating, and also supremely entertaining. I didn't really care about the lynches, but it was just pure gold watching Lum avoid lynch after lynch. That wasn't mechanics, that was just you guys failing to take Fifth's advice and lynch Lumgol already. And as much as I feel the eliminator win was due to some really dumb decisions on the village part, I have to give it up for the eliminators. Lumgol, Devotary, and Fura were shining stars. They did a great job. Levitaph and Xinoehp were around too, and played some important parts as well, but weren't as active due to IRL stuff I believe. Lumgol made excellent decisions in her conversions, and Devotary did a fantastic job of fooling basically everyone. A lesser team would have stumbled over the opportunities the village gave them, but this team took every opportunity to utterly crush the village. Lol. I'm proud of you guys for being active and really participating. Now, on that topic, @Levitaph and @Dr. Dapper. You guys are both new to SE, but I'll be honest, you guys played fantastic first games. I really hope we get to see more of you in the future. I need to post this before my mother turns off the wifi, I'll discuss rules and whatnot in a later post.

There, I think that's enough distance from the top to give people plenty of room to stumble into my traps. First, before I roast the village in this game, Essences. What was the secret? What was the answer? Well it was actually kind of simple. The best essence items were made by sticking 5 of a single type of essence together. They made extremely powerful items that aren't just consumed by using them once. Here they are: 5x Wind= Winds of Swiftness, which grants an additional 2 actions each cycle. 5x Smoke= Smoke of Obstruction, which can be used once a cycle on an action of any player to prevent the results of that action from being observable in any way. Including the writeup. 5x Fire= Funeral Pyre, which grants, once a cycle, an unblockable kill. It will eat through any protection or block except additional permanent lives. 5x Crystal= Crystal of Truth, which grants, once a cycle, an unblockable alignment scan. It will see through any lightweaving. 5x Plant= Seeds of light, which grant the ability to once per cycle, target a player. All players who have been targeted with this ability previously give the holder of Seeds of Light .5 stormlight at the end of the night turn. 5x Water= River of Theft. Once per cycle, you can target a player and steal all of their items and essences. 5x Oil= Fish Oil grants the holder the ability to submit an action for a single player, once per cycle. They choose a single player that they will use this with, and the submitted actions will only work if they match with the type of spren they are. 5x Metal= Aluminum. Aluminum can be used to shield oneself from all stormlight actions, or prevent another player from using any stormlight actions for a cycle. 5x Stone= Gemstone. You may increase your total stormlight holding abilities by one. 5x Flesh= New Body. Grants a new, permanent life. I see some other people have posted, so I'll dump this and let people chew on this and work on my other things in a bit.

what are you talking about? Clearly those are links to the documents right up there!

Aftermath- The Dawn of Enlightenment The Stormfather rumbled above Celebrant. His children had gone quiet in despair, instead of choosing to fight against the children of Sja-Anat. More than anything, the Stormfather was angry. Angry at Sja-Anat for taking his children, even going so far as to corrupt one of the Honorspren he had made with his own hands. And so the Stormfather summoned his power. The spren in Celebrant heard something they had never heard before. Thunder. And as thunder rolled, a highstorm, which would never normally form in Shadesmar, began to form above the city. A stationary highstorm, smaller than those that raged over the physical realm, but still more than the city ever really needed to deal with. Both Enlightened and normal spren were at risk. Lightning struck the city, burning structures, and many spren began fleeing on boats. And the Stormfather continued to rage, for he wanted Sja-Anat to appear and protect her children. Sja-Anat would be doing no such thing. She was away, resting after her enormous exhaustion of her power. And the enlightened spren weren't going to be getting any help. However, the enlightened spren also held a secret. A secret only they, and other children of Sja-Anat knew. They no longer wanted to work for Odium. No, they wanted to live their lives. And as a result, they had mostly bonded humans. The two leaders of the Enlightened spren shepherded the other two, more fragile spren around. A cryptic with a Lightweaver attacked them with illusions, and the Dustbringer along with Fyrul struck him with a blast of Division. The Lightweaver was sent reeling. The enlightened inkspren, Meladian, led her radiant down into the prison, where all the hurt and imprisoned spren were. They looked at the enlightened spren in shock, anger, and desperation. The city was being destroyed by the Stormfather, and they had no escape. The Dustbringer unleashed another blast of division, destroying the cells. "Come on, we have to leave now if we aren't going to be destroyed!" shouted the Truthspren. He and his truthwatcher were recent converts, but understood that if the stormfather killed these spren, it would be a serious problem. "Oh no you won't be doing anything of the sort." A stern voice said. Ji. He had dodged their previous attempt to get him out of the picture. His radiant cast seeds on the ground, and vines seized the enlightened spren. Above, a voice could be heard. You will be destroyed for what you have done to my children. "GRAB ON!" shouted the Elsecaller to the injured spren, recently freed from their cells. They did so, and the Elsecaller glowed. The Edgedancer lunged at them. A pillar of light. A bolt of lightning. KRAKA-KABOOM. It took some time for the dust to clear from the building. The edgedancer was badly injured. Half of the city of Celebrant was either on fire or badly damaged by the intense winds of the storm, which was also blowing around beads like nothing else. Finally, the storm began to fade. The Enlightened spren were gone. In the physical realm, somewhere in the expanses of Jah Keved, a pillar of light appeared. 3 Radiants appeared, joined by a small host of spren, like ones the physical realm had never seen before. They would find Sja-Anat. They had survived, and won in the end. The city of Celebrant was all but ruined, and most of the population had fled under the Stormfather's wrath. And apparently, there was another, the first son of Sja-Anat, in Urithiru. If they could find him, they could find refuge. Maybe. Or perhaps they could live their own life, and find their own Radiants in the physical realm. The unenlightened spren left almost immediately, off to find whatever they could here in this realm of harsh storms and stone. But back in Celebrant, a single spren remained. The Stormfather had left already. He was Nightshade. He and his Stoneward looked over the city, and vowed retribution. The enlightened spren had caused this destruction. They had abducted the injured spren. And they would pay. They would have no home, not if he and his radiant had anything to say about it. Stormlight in hand, Stoneward and Stonespren found a single remaining boat, and headed for Cultivation's perpendicularity. ________ Dr. Dapper was killed! Rath attempted to roleblock the kill on Snipexe, but the roleblock was redirected to Dr. Dapper, and so Snipexe has perished as well. The game is over, and the Enlightened Spren have won in a landslide victory! I have some... strong opinions about how this game went. I voice some of them in the spectator document. I'll do a full game thoughts post a bit later. Here is the full role distribution as it stands at the end of the game. 1. Furamirionind Enlightened Dustbringer Ashspren2. Lumgol (Hjalar the Lightspren) Sja-Anat3. Elandera Lightweaver Cryptic4. Randuir (Alabaster the Inkspren) Cultivationspren5. Xinoehp Enlightened Truthwatcher Truthspren6. Rathmaskal Bondsmith Stormfather7. Snipexe Lightweaver Cryptic8. Ark1002 (Nightshade) Stoneward Stonespren9. Devotary of Spontaneity (Meladian the Lightspren) Enlightened Elsecaller Inkspren10. Levitaph Enlightened Honorspren11. A Joe in the Bush Willshaper Lightspren12. Fifth Scholar (Rysca) Windrunner Honorspren13. Coop772 Lightspren14. TheMightyLopen (Lymelis) Stoneward Stonespren15. Cadmium Compounder Skybreaker Highspren16. Dr. Dapper (Ji) Edgedancer Cultivationspren17. Sart (Sartras) Inkspren And here are the documents Master Spreadsheet Eliminator Document Spectator/Dead Document The Rules And great thanks to Mailliw! He went dark since coming to NY, but his help with the spreadsheet was invaluable for keeping track of all the nonsense going on in this game. He deserves lots of upvotes.

And the game is now over. The aftermath will be up soon.

The... cycle will end in 12 minutes. Seriously, if you want to put in an action, do it now, or just... suffer.

There are 3 hours remaining. If you would like to submit actions, I would recommend you do so now.

Actually, you could have lynched her day 1. Just saying. She was on the lynch table every single day.

Night 5- The Dusk of Celebrant The remaining unenlightened spren had stood in shock after Sja-Anat left. While a few accusations were thrown around, none of them really went anywhere. Instead, the spren decided to simply stand around in shock. And so it was fairly easy for a few determined spren to simply jump over the spren, who were hardly doing anything at all, and grab the reawakened Joe, and throw him into the beads. His radiant dove in after him. All too easy. Honestly, what a way to go. As they say, Radiance Dies in Darkness. _____ A Joe in the Bush was lynched! He was a Willshaper Lightspren! Joe (3): Devotary, Fura Fura (2): Rath, Joe Devotary (1): Snipexe The turn will end at 8:00 PM EDT, 5/3/19. PMs are still open. The rules are here.

the day is over you nerds. The night will be up as soon as I get back to my laptop, cuz my phone is dying fast.

There’s less than half an hour remaining. Just in case you weren’t aware.

Well whoever you’re going to vote on you better do it in the next two hours

There are 13 hours remaining in the turn. In other words, how about you guys get around to voting and putting in actions?

Space time, my friend, space time. If you’re changing time, space will change along with it. It’s classic relativity, the fabric of space time and whatnot.

Day 5- The Children of Sja-Anat Sja-anat could only enlighten so many individual spren before needing some time to recover. So she brought back her avatar in the city of Celebrant, Hjalar, in order to bring one final spren to her side. Once she had done that task, she retreated from the city. Odium had instructed her to go to the human city of Kholinar, to spread her influence there. She likely wouldn't be able to change any more true spren for a long time. Changing so many had taken a lot out of her. But they would do her work in the city, and bring it to its knees. That, or all the spren in the city would bow to her, and not to that out-dated Stormfather. And so, Sja-anat disappeared into the beads of Shadesmar, moving away from the city. The spren watched Sja-anat leave, in some amount of shock. So that meant that the only ones left they had to eliminate were those who she had changed. The question was, who among them? Accusations began to fly, but Ji wasn't all that interested in figuring out who was corrupted. He was more interested in figuring out some human tech, and making it work in the cognitive realm. He was doing this when he was jumped by some strange looking spren, who wielded stormlight and looked awfully interested in taking him out. However, Ji had some moves of his own. Only a few minutes later, Ji walked away from the area, leaving several dazed spren behind him. Ji hummed to himself, looking at a blueprint for a fabrial. Other spren had issues with fabrials, but Ji would figure out how they worked. They could be key to fighting off the Fused. Not that that much mattered to him either. _________ Dr. Dapper was attacked, but was not killed. Lumgol has died! She was Sja-Anat! PMs remain open! Please include Mailliw and I in all PMs. The turn will end on 5/2/2019, at 8:00 PM EDT. Here are the rules.

The night is over. And no, the game is not over. I will be getting the day up as soon as I can, give me some time to figure out the stormlight shenanigans.

Half an hour until the turn is over.

The turn ends in less than 2 hours. SUBMIT ALL YOUR ACTIONS NOW.

He is teaming up with an old student to finish Alcatraz, I met her this semester when she subbed for Brandon in his creative writing class. I can’t remember her name off the top of my head, though, but he’s working with her to get Bastilles voice right.

Sorry, I've been putting out all sorts of fires in the writeup. I forgot loads of things lol.