StrikerEZ

I'm glad you enjoyed it! I'd love to see you stick around and play even more games! And you can always talk even more in future games. I know from my own experiences that it's often hard to talk a lot when you're first starting.

I'd decided that I would bid absurdly high in the event of a kill item showing up, but didn't plan ahead my bids for anything else. I probably would've bid higher for non-kill items if I'd been a villager, but I didn't even really need to as I kept bidding 2 and got all the items I wanted.

I think I used all my items as I got them? Don't think I get to keep any.

For what it's worth, I almost certainly would've gone at least that high if there was a kill item.

So, now that some people have had time to give their thoughts and I've had time to sleep, I think I should give some GM thoughts. First off, I am really glad that so many of you really enjoyed playing this game. I am really sorry that I couldn't keep up with the writeups. My life kind of exploded into business as soon as this game was about to start. I'm still finding it hard to make myself even want to go back and write them because I feel bad about having left them undone. If I'd known how busy I was going to be during the runtime of this game, I probably wouldn't have ran it. But the stress didn't come from the game itself, just the combination of the game and real life. And there were plenty of times where this game brought me a lot of happiness just from watching the elims strategize or reading the absurd amount of Kas PMs or seeing something crazy go down in the thread. I have some thoughts about the overall balance of this game. I think letting players use as many actions as they possibly can was a fun idea that I really should have just scrapped. I think no more than 2 actions per turn would've been ideal. I did the as many actions as possible thing because I felt super limited by the actions economy in LG73 (which this game is inspired by), but I think I went way too far in the other direction. I'm not sure how I feel about the elim stockpile of steel thing. On the one hand, it was a fun idea to let the elims stockpile up their kills and even boost them a couple of times. On the other hand, it could've left them super vulnerable to being leeched. Which I guess isn't too terrible, but it just felt a lot more unstable than I was expecting it to. I also should have decided how exactly the elims would get their hands on the steel vials before the game started. It just completely slipped my mind. And then I said one thing that I hadn't completely originally intended and had to stick with it. In a rerun of this game (whether by me or someone else), I'd want the elims to have to grab a steel vial from their stockpile. Or just give them a normal kill. Another thing I think I would change is how open PMs are. I do think it's always fun to have PMs open, but I've started to gain a different view of PMs from the GM side as I've GM'd more games. I think that having PMs being unlimited and always open really detracts from the health of a thread. Those last few turns had only one page of posts in them because everyone was either talking in the PMs or in the thread. In a rerun of this game, I'd probably limit PMs to items and a PM creator role (not like Prudence level though ). I do think that the existence of freely open PMs in this game mostly hurt the elims, even if they managed to pull out a win with the help of TJ PM spidering with Kas. They also super lucked out with Araris being the one that Mat/Kas went to to tell about Bort being scanned. And that brings me to my final point. I think this game has finally convinced me that I don't like alignment scanners. In a rerun, I'd get rid of the Investigator and replace it with that PM creator role I mentioned earlier. I think that having someone that can easily just find out who an elim is without having to put in any of the work is not that fun. And it seriously hurts the elims' chances by a lot. The elims this game managed to play it to their advantage, but they were seriously helped by the fact that Archer started off with the Hrovell and decided to use it on JNV. If Archer or Karn had been the one to be scanned by JNV, things would've been much worse for them. Oh, also, one last thing, I think I might want to try and nerf bendalloy somehow. It basically became like...the most useful metal in the game. I'd also want to get the OoA sorted out much better, because there was a lot of confusion there. Overall, I am pretty satisfied with how this game went, just wish I'd noticed some of these problems beforehand. Once again, thank you so much everyone who played. You guys always make this so fun for me.

I'm like 99% sure that Experience is taking the next LG. He's talking about getting the OoA/spreadsheet for it done in our DMs.

Aftermath Kavar Aral found himself waiting. He had a mission to complete, and he knew it was almost over. They all knew. He could see it in their faces as they walked through the halls of the ship. There were much less of them than before. Those that were left hardly strayed from their rooms. Command had holed themselves up in the bridge. Who even knew what was going on in there. But Kavar had been successful. He'd managed to find many of the traitors' storage caches and confiscate their contraband. The fact he hadn't been caught and killed yet was surprising. Part of him almost wished he had been caught, but then he thought of Mira. Of Ailys. Of seeing the people he loved again. One of the things that had kept him sane throughout all of this had been working with Kranvar. The man had...perhaps not the best record before coming here. But he had been resourceful. And very helpful. And he had got his hands on steel. Kavar was anxiously pacing his room, waiting for Kranvar to show up. He was supposed to be back by now. Killing Edeis shouldn't have taken him this long. Haar'chak, Kavar thought, I'm going after him. Arval could not stand being stuck in the bridge. He had been stuck in here with the captain and his crew for days now. It was supposed to be to keep everyone vital to the mission as safe as possible. But Arval could not help but feel like he was doing nothing while his men, his crew, were dying out there. Captain Kellian was pacing around the controls of his ship as Somah gave directions to Byndweth and the other navigators. "How close are we to Roshar?" Kellian asked. "By my estimations," Byndweth said, looking down at the instruments in front of her, "we're a couple days out." Kellian sighed. "Is there really no way you can make this thing go any faster?" He said, looking at Denno, the lead engineer. Denno just shrugged. "We're going as fast as we can in the Physical Realm, sir. If we had a functioning cognitive drive, we could go faster, but...." He didn't need to finish his sentence. They weren't going to have one. "At this rate," Arval cut in, "We're all going to be dead or held captive by the time we get there. I say we go out there, gather anyone we think is loyal to our cause, and root out these traitors as soon as possible before there's a ship wide mutiny. I'm sure there are plenty of people would side with the traitors if it meant they got to live. We need to stop this before that happens and we're too late." Kellian began to nod, as did a couple of the staff members in the bridge. Arval made his way to the door, hoping that if he left at least a few of them would gain the courage to leave with him too. "Stop." Denno said, firing a blast at the ceiling. Arval quickly turned around, pulling out his own gun, but found several of the staff pointing guns at him. Somah, the assistant captain, had Kellian in a chokehold. And Denno and another man had their guns pointed at Arval. "I don't think you're going anywhere," Denno said. "Within the hour, the others will have taken the rest of the ship. We can't have you trying to gather a foolish resistance that will waste lives on both sides." Denno gestured to a seat, and Arval cautiously made his way to it, his heart hammering. "Just take a seat, and we can discuss the terms of your imprisonment like reasonable men." Arval nodded, sitting down. When Denno turned for a moment to talk to another traitor, Arval jumped out of his seat and reached for Denno's gun. Arval did not make it. He took a blast to the chest and fell to the ground, dead. Kavar ran through the halls of the ship. He could hear the sounds of battle echoing through the ship. Men and women were dying on this ship. And he was running to save a single friend. Better one than none, Kavar thought to himself, gritting his teeth. At Edeis's quarters, he came skidding to a halt, breathless. Kranvar and Kavar had agreed that the immortal was most likely working for the Rosharans. They had done some digging and she had shown up in previous aliases on their side in the past. It was a wonder that the Confederation had not linked her to those previous identities. Edeis's door was open. Kranvar slowly pulled out his knife before he began moving towards the room. He quickly stepped into the room, knife forward, ready to thrown or stab with it as needed. Kranvar was just standing there, quietly. There was blood on his hands. "You did it?" Kavar asked, his shoulders relaxing. "Let's get out of here." "It's a bit more complicated than that," Kranvar said. "Take a seat, Kavar. I have some explaining to do." Edeis stalked through the halls, Karn and the traitor who called himself Arval at her side. The rest of their group were making coordinated strikes at parts of the ship, trying to take them from any loyalists that were left. She hadn't known just how many of them the Rosharan forces had managed to sneak into this ship. It was amusing to her that so many of them were secretly traitors all along. But her group had an important mission. They had to kill Sart. He'd been a thorn in their side for some time. Karn was going to be doing most of the killing, though. He had found a talent for that these past few days. Edeis was there to make sure none of them died. And none of them did. They tore their way through the ranks of soldiers they ran into, Arval and Karn ruthlessly pushing on armor and blasting through bodies. Edeis was there to soothe away everything but fear, to pull on any bullets that strayed too close to her companions. She was going to have quite the story to tell after this was over. Kavar's heart stopped. This can't be happening. "I like you, Kavar," Kranvar said, walking around him. Kavar noticed the dead body at that point. A man who went by the codename of Stink. Kavar had never learned his real name. But he would remember him. "I know that you've been confiscating our weapons. And you know that I know. And, as you have probably realized by now, that means my team knows." Kranvar paused, and Kavar felt like his whole world was falling apart. It was like every mission he had ever been on was happening again, the dying, the murders, everything. He pulled himself together. For Mira. He pushed past Kranvar, stabbing him in the leg, and ran away from the room. There was a pop and the world around him seemed to speed up, and he heard hundreds of blaster shots at once. He'd been stuck in a cadmium bubble. Kranvar knew him too well. The ship has probably been taken by now, Kavar thought, this was a distraction to keep me out of things. Kavar almost ran into the main hallways of the ship. He could go out there, try and mount one last resistance against the mutiny. But what would that do? What could he do? He could keep on living. Kavar ran the opposite direction of what everything in his soul was telling him to do. He rain straight for the escape pods. The traitors obviously had not felt the need to barricade those yet. They probably assumed any loyalists were either dead or captured. Well, Kavar would survive. And he would find a way to Mira and Ailys. However he could. He hopped in the escape pod, and ejected from the ship. As he entered in the coordinates to begin his long escape journey, he looked out the window towards The Survivor. Farewell, my friends. Sart has been killed! They were a Confederation Loyalist! STINK has been killed! They were a Confederation Loyalist! The game is over! Congratulations to the Traitors for winning! Good job Biplet, Araris, TJ, Karn, Archer, and Bort! Also a huge congratulations to Kasimir, who won as the Thief! Thank you so much to @Experience for helping me run this game. And a huge thanks to @Devotary of Spontaneity for being an awesome IM, helping out when we were both dying IRL and needed help, and for doing some awesome RP stuff throughout the game. I will definitely be using that to scaffold my writing when I go back through and add in all the old writeups. Keep an eye out for when I add those. Also thank you to @Szeth_Pancakes, @Dannnex, @Orlok Tsubodai, and @Fifth Scholar for playing, even if you couldn't stay with us the whole time. Thank you to everyone who pinch hit for me as well. It was really awesome how I managed to get so many pinch hitters. They just kept coming whenever I needed one. Thank you so much to everyone who played. It's always a blast running games for all of y'all and I appreciate you guys so much. I hope you enjoyed. I'll probably wait a bit before I start giving out GM thoughts, of which I have many. Player List: @Biplet - Edeis, a totally not immortal gossip Traitor Metallurgist @Ashbringer - Faleast, just a normal dude and definitely not a shapeshifter Confederation Loyalist @Sart Confederation Loyalist @Matrim's Dice - Dooku, a man whose name is unrelated to anything Confederation Loyalist Hazekiller @Araris Valerian - Arval, no the other one Traitor @Steeldancer - Leets, totally not the Flash Confederation Loyalist @Amanuensis - Genis, a little kid who’s too smart for his own good and his AI friend, G.E.N.I.U.S. Confederation Loyalist @JNV - Kali, another kid who managed to sneak on board the ship Confederation Loyalist Investigator @Archer - Ivory Tarvis, Head Carpenter of The Survivor Traitor @Kasimir - Kavar Aral, a seasoned operative who really should have retired ages ago Thief @The Unknown Aon - ExMach Inadeus, an extraordinarily lucky guy Confederation Loyalist @|TJ| - Kranvar, a wanted criminal who snuck on board somehow Traitor @DrakeMarshall - The meme guy Confederation Loyalist @xinoehp512 Confederation Loyalist Metallurgist @Thaidakar the Ghostblood - Levin Venture, totally not a Ghostblood Confederation Loyalist Hazekiller @Illwei - Kraval Aralis, who’s way too excited about potions Confederation Loyalist Hazekiller @Karnatheon Traitor Hazekiller @Haelbarde - Haen Plaid, he’s still here, I suppose Confederation Loyalist @_Stick_ - The Stick figure Confederation Loyalist @Sequence - Sfirm Kryt, they’re totally in the mission Confederation Loyalist @Bort Traitor @STINK Confederation Loyalist @Tani Confederation Loyalist @Walin Confederation Loyalist Docs: Master Spreadsheet Spectator/Dead Doc Elim Doc

And that's the turn! No more posting, PMing, or submitting actions/item requests!

@Biplet @Sart @Araris Valerian @Kasimir @|TJ| @xinoehp512 @Karnatheon @Sequence @STINK There's just about 4 hours left in the turn! Make sure to get any actions or item requests in before the turn is over!

Announcement: there was a Gold Vial added to the Stockpile by mistake. It is no longer there. Sorry about any confusion this may have caused.

Night Six *insert writeup here* Tani has been Interrogated! They were a Confederation Loyalist! Karnatheon (2): Sart, Kasimir, |TJ|, xinoexhp512, Sequence, STINK, Tani Tani (4): Biplet, Araris Valerian, Karnatheon PMs are still open. This is a reminder that you must include myself, Experience, and Devotary in any PMs you make. And they can only be one-on-one. You can still grab an item from the Stockpile during this Night turn. However, it will not be announced who grabbed what in the next Day turn. PMs should all be sent out. Let us know if we missed anything? Also, everyone please say whether you want the next Day turn to be 24 hours or 48 hours. With the smaller player count, if things go past tonight, it might be worth to shorten the Day turns. And just for that reason. Not like there's outed elims or anything, nope, not at all. Items Grabbed Stockpile Player List This turn will end at 8 pm CST on Sunday, March 6th.

And that's the turn! No more posting, PMing, or submitting actions/item requests until the next one is up!

@Biplet @Sart @Araris Valerian @Kasimir @|TJ| @xinoehp512 @Karnatheon @Sequence @STINK @Tani Sorry about this being late, but there's about half an hour left. Make sure to get any votes, action, or item requests in before the turn is over! Here's the VC: Karnatheon (7): Sart, Kasimir, |TJ|, xinoexhp512, Sequence, STINK, Tani Kasimir (1): Biplet Tani (1): Araris Valerian

I was thinking that it would make sense for who has extra votes to be shown at the start of each cycle. Though I guess that's the same thing as what you said because only players who actually get the items have the extra votes added on them. I definitely thought it was an anyone who bids gets the extra votes, even if they lose the bid. Yay! That's the first time people haven't been able to immediately guess me as an elim in a long time. This definitely counts for both of y'all's streaks, even if it was only like 4 hours Yeah, Kas, you did great. Maybe it was a combo of the format/tiredness (which I can relate to-about to go crash for a bit), but I felt you played a mean elim game. Thank you for being an awesome teammate as well! I think the three of us had a good dynamic. Even if we only had 4 hours to work together. It was fun working with y'all. Anyway, @Ashbringer just wanted to let you know we consider you an honorary elim for this game since you saved me. I'm conflicted on if BTs should have more or less players. I think if this had been a bigger playerbase, the same ratio of elims would've been more balanced overall. As it was, this game was a little small and we were a small group and didn't get too much pressure so could lay off a bit. >:) I'm just glad you had fun for your first elim game since whenever that last elim game of yours was.

Yeah, I think that would work pretty well I think.

Just wanna say that I am very glad I got to be an elim with Kas for his first elim game in who knows how long. Also I felt like the bidding thing was pretty fun. I was a little sad that no kill items showed up so I could do the highest possible bid on it.

Contribution Crusade. Referring to exing inscribed for the sake of being inactive and potentially an elim trying to hide.

Why do you v read Len?

@Kasimir I think you should vote Len. xino seems village to me with their switching to basically asking people to give their reasons for who he should vote. And Len is just giving me bad vibes. Not a fan of their reasonings so far. I had a more specific reason from C1 but I can’t remember it because it’s been a crazy 4 hours for me. Mostly insane IRL stuff on top of this game.

You’d be surprised how many times this exact scenario you’ve mentioned as not likely has been happening lately.

@Kasimir you didn’t actually post a reads list??

Ash took one for the team in both the exe and the kill. I’ll miss you Ash. O7 Elenion. I really want you dead.

The judge for my brother really loved their performances? Don’t vote me?

I am confusion. I got an item C1 but no extra votes C2?

I think I misunderstood the rules. Don’t we still get extra votes if we get the item? XD