StrikerEZ

1 minute ago, Kasimir said:

Ah, but that's what Witness me would say to Elim you, isn't it?  

Or perhaps what Witness!me would say to village!you? Or pehaps elim!you? Not 100% sure yet still.

10 minutes ago, Kasimir said:

Clearly you need to make voting on you part of the wincon for a game you are GMing then watch as the Village loses C1 because Shield of the Lynch powers  

Don't give me more game ideas. I already have too many.

10 minutes ago, Kasimir said:

To be fair, your Methods and Evidence were pretty much Confirmed Village from C1  

Hey, just because my methods/evidence were very likely not the assassin's stuff, doesn't mean that I wasn't elim

Just now, Kasimir said:

I feel like something is fundamentally broken about your Shield of the Lynch powers then :eyes:

Legitimately though, I don't remember ever being voted on as a GM. If someone else happens to remember it and wants to point it out to me, I'd greatly appreciate that.

1 minute ago, Kasimir said:

Wait. We even managed to not accuse you first this time!

Only because I made like 2 posts total throughout both games. I'm sure if I had managed a bit more activity, I would have been accused of something.

43 minutes ago, Kasimir said:

I feel like the GM's rite of passage is how they deal with getting accused or voted out by their players for the first time

I've been voted out so many times as a player...but have I ever been voted out as a GM? :thonk:

Also, damn, once again missed all the fun. I was working on an application, decided to finish it tomorrow, came here to get caught up and throw out an accusation, just to find out Stick beat me to the punch. I hadn't even had the chance to decide which evidence and murder weapon to accuse Ash of yet....

Okay, I’m gonna do something a little different this time. Gonna make a list of what combo of clues work best for each player. Also I apologize for the formatting, as I’m doing this on mobile.

TKN: Shardblade + White Clothing

Aman: Dagger + Cremlings

Kas: Meekers + Artifact

Alpha: Steelrunning + Crab legs/Cigar case

Fifth: Acid + Pet Monkey

JNV: Soulcasting + Hog

Life came up so I had to stop early. Hopefully will be able to get the rest of my guesses in either this cycle or next.

Okay, let’s do this again. So ready to start making those little charts again now that I have a bit more time.

I’ll be back in as Adodin, obviously not an attempt to mimic the well known Alethi highprince Adolin Kholin. 

Well. Damn. That’s not the thought process I was going down at all. I was all ready to come in here and guess Aman, based on the vibes I was getting from him. Hadn’t decided on which of his clues to guess yet, but I was pretty sure he was an elim.

With that done, I am very curious to see who the Witness is. Even as an Investigator, I hope it wasn’t one of the complete inactivates. Just for the elims’ sakes.

17 hours ago, Matrim's Dice said:

@StrikerEZ what made you cross-reference worship with evidence over any other combination?

I figured everyone else was doing the murder weapons, so I’d do evidence. And the religious worship clue was the only clue I could see on my screen on mobile while also looking at the evidences.

Posting this now so I don’t lose it before going to page 2

Here’s my thoughts on the pieces of evidence as they relate to the clue “Religious Worship.” I’ve only marked off the ones I think absolutely don’t work. Everything else is fair game, though some are more obviously religious worship than others.

Just putting out a wild first guess: it’s Archer.

32 minutes ago, Kasimir said:

@StrikerEZ - Technically next but I take it from the fact he's asking that he's passing/willing to pass

I’m asking because I’m supposed to do my first IM-ing gig for the next LG.

47 minutes ago, The Known Novel said:

I could run an MR after yours, sign-ups might need to run a little long, but as long as it starts after the Sunday after next I'll be fine.

Probably will send a pre-approval PM for at least one of my ideas in a little bit since I'll be running one soon regardless.

5 minutes ago, Matrim's Dice said:

I think it’d be an LG but I might be wrong there.

If not, I could whip up a really light sort of game that I could do rollover in a couple minutes with.

Yeah, we’re looking for someone to run the next LG. Ideally signups would go up soon after Araris’s QF starts.

We haven’t heard from @Random Bystander, and Ash and TKN have said they would prefer not to run their game. @Matrim's Dice would you be willing to run the next LG?

3 hours ago, Matrim's Dice said:

I’ll nominate StrikerEZ @StrikerEZ

Scary mention indeed. I’ll accept though. If I can get mid-May or early-June, I’ll be golden. 

Also, I’m gonna nominate Araris Valerian. Has he done this yet? @Araris Valerian

@Araris Valerian Hey is this starting on the 16th or the 23rd? The 23rd is what it says in the signup post. 

1 hour ago, Matrim's Dice said:

I would recommend to anyone who is confused to read through the original run of this game. I just did, and everything makes a lot more sense now  

Alternatively, you could do what works best for me with any absurdly complex games: skim the rules and figure out what’s going on through context clues!

I kid, I did give my approval for this game. So I definitely understood it at one point in time. Just still having trouble completely grasping it. But I’ll get there. 

7 minutes ago, Ashbringer said:

That one may break the pattern to keep the pattern, we'll see.

I did just read The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde for a class so it's on the mind 

I mean, how would it be breaking the pattern? Mat just signed up as Jatrim. And Jariel is just a play on my common RP character, Variel. There’s precedent to just use a normal name but with a J instead

16 minutes ago, Ashbringer said:

Can I make this?

… barely, I get back Thursday. Might be quiet that day but the rest I’m free.

Signing up as… Jekyll 

Would you perhaps have an alter called Jyde?

I'll be in as Jariel.

9 minutes ago, Araris Valerian said:

I mean, I would do a coin toss .

As far as what actually should be done, that's a harder question, and one I'd like to hear other people's thoughts on. The "official" outcome doesn't really matter that much, because everyone's done what they can do; there's no more game left to play, at least in terms of the mechanics. I think as a community we aren't so fixated on who wins for it to be a big deal either way.

With that in mind, whatever is done should reflect the spirit of SE in another way. Perhaps, pending agreement by the living players, some sort of RP duel, to be judged by the GM/IM/impartial spectators, might be fun. Or some other random contest.

I say we should make it be a rock-paper-scissors duel. They submit their choice to the GM, and the GM reveals who beat who. And if there’s a tie, then the game ends in a draw.

1 hour ago, Araris Valerian said:

Yeah, I kinda take issue with that win-con in that the village would win this game 50% of the time with an outnumber win con. And also the presence of so many ways to deal with the NK means that parity could break in favor of the village.

I think having it like it is prevents a whole bunch of cycles where there is just a die roll to determine who dies, but there should be more nuance with this rule set.

Not to take away from the elim win here. They structured their play around the defined rules (and I killed them over the clarified rules ) and we all knew what we were signing up for. This is just some feedback for a potential rerun.

Yeah, the wincon was weird. But it was designed to make it so that the outcome of the game didn’t come down to essentially a coin toss, you know? Which would’ve happened with you and Aman if the rules hadn’t been phrased that way, so my worries were at least valid. I do think it’s not the most ideal way to do it, but I’m unsure how else to handle it. What would you do?

44 minutes ago, Araris Valerian said:

Good game everyone! I'm glad we had the chance to play out the last cycle, even if it was a lost cause .

I guess technically this counts as a survival? Though I request death in the final writeup.

Technically, there was a slim chance the village could’ve pulled a victory out of this. If the votes came down to 1-1 for TJ and Aman and Aman got exed, TJ would snap. And if TJ got vote manip, the game would have gone on.

I’ll take note of that

1 minute ago, Biplet said:

Haha! We did it!

Bro why didn't you shoutout wiz in the final paragraph. He put in the WORK

I just realized I forgot to shoutout Wiz as winning with the team. I just fixed it. I am so sorry Wiz. My brain is fried right now.

Writeup to come once I go have time to go back and add one in for Cycle Six and this Aftermath. Today was much busier, crazier, and just generally more hectic than I thought it would be. Currently exhausted and brain dead.

|TJ| has been killed! They were a Village Unsnapped!
Amanuensis was sentenced for removal, but survived!

The game is over! The Spiked have won! Congrats to Biplet, The Wandering Wizard (Kasimir), and Amanuensis for winning! Also, huge thank you to @Devotary of Spontaneity for IMing this game! Thank you so much to everyone who played! It was such a blast, as always, to run this game for y'all. I really do appreciate you guys so much. I hope you had as much fun as I did throughout the game! I'm excited to hear everyone's thoughts about how it went, and will probably have plenty to share at some point myself as well. There's already some thoughts from me scattered in the spec doc.

Oh, also, big shout out to @The Wandering Wizard for subbing in for @Kasimir when he needed it. We both really appreciated it

Anyway, enough of that, time for the stuff y'all actually care about.

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