Saffron Iguana

Meerkat has not been active since AG 5, so we're lynching them in the hopes that the 14 bodies that didn't start with poltergeists also have items, which is a reasonable assumption. While I personally feel it's more fun to have close lynches such as on day 1 where only a few people are eligible to receive items rather than the lottery system we seem to be settling into the last 2 days, both are acceptable ways to complete the universal goal of killing bodies and taking their stuff. While there do seem to be mechanics that are still secret and separate from our 16 original bodies, information is not the primary purpose of these lynches.

{Redacted}, you may want to make that vote with your anonymous account. Ivory Dragonfly has been online and was thus inhabited, but hasn't signed in this cycle. Has their body been abandoned? Is their player inactive? Will they provide free loot upon their death? Let's find out! Edit by Alv: Please do not quote or @ accounts that aren't either the GM or IM. Thank you.

Taupe Gecko (1): Coral SwanAmethyst Scorpion (2): Violet Axolotl, Magenta AlbatrossQuartz Zebra (1): Saffron IguanaAzure Mouse (2): Oxblood Beagle, Turquoise GorillaCream Tuatara (2): Charcoal Hyena, Melon Dingo Amethyst Scorpion Azure Mouse

Taupe Gecko (1): Coral SwanAmethyst Scorpion (3): Violet Axolotl, Magenta Albatross, Saffron IguanaQuartz Zebra (1): Saffron IguanaAzure Mouse (2): Oxblood Beagle, Turquoise GorillaCream Tuatara (2): Charcoal Hyena, Melon Dingo Quartz Zebra Amethyst Scorpion

And now it's time for some exciting vote manipulation! Which team is prepared to hammer someone randomly? Here are the reports from our local diviner: 4, 2, 1, 5, 4. Hmm, we may need to find a new diviner.

Posted: Ostrich, Hyena, Swan, Kangaroo, Axolotl, Iguana, Dingo, Beagle, Vulture, Crocodile, Gorilla Around, but not yet posted: Weasel, Dragonfly, Albatross, Heron, Lion, Chameleon, Rhinoceros, Mouse, Gecko* Haven't been used since the last AN: Penguin, Zebra, Flamingo, Tuatara, Elephant, Meerkat, Toucan, Octopus, Scorpion, Falcon *Gecko, was signed into well after the AN, but before signups for this game ended. I'm not sure why that is. I plan to make my final vote for someone in the latter two categories, probably the last one. Since Zebra hasn't logged into their account yet, I'm keeping my vote where it is. The interesting thing is that there should be fourteen unoccupied accounts, but this list shows only ten, or eleven with Gecko. Have Steel and Drought been signing in to anonymous accounts? Nobody wiped Iguana's PMs from the last AN, so I don't think they signed into the Iguana account.

I think the ideal lynch is an unoccupied body. If a player is lynched, there's a good chance they'll be able to pass their items to a teammate before their body dies, which is no help to anyone. Killing a random bystander should ensure that somebody gets an item. If we happen to hit an inactive, so much the better. Let's see if (rolls die) Quartz Zebra is active. Vote for Ruby Bison when you get on, Zebra

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My faction is not planning on winning, and therefore have a few expendable actions.

The only thing with that is Ostrich only just moved to Silverlight.

One very small animal raises their hand paw (or whatever they have) and asks, "why isn't it called Lizardtopia?"

Zebra, the faction being mostly targeted is Hail Joe. As much as I was doing speculating in the Scadrial doc, I have nothing against your faction... [edit]I suppose I just need to stop trusting players in this game, as every time it is apparently a lie. If you are telling the truth, Joe is lying, UC has no reason to lie, so it is one of you.[/edit] I know that UC isn't about to win, and HG obviously. So that leaves Hail Joe and GlaDOS. While GlaDOS's wincon I believe requires some luck on their part at the moment, I am mostly concerned about Hail Joe.

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It won't be 6. I am fairly confident "5" is the magic number this game. (5 potential wincons, 5 factions, 5 players per faction, 5 neutrals, etc.) @Magenta Albatross reread D6.

I dont think Dingo knows their own faction. Seriously, Dingo is one of the few players I dont know the faction of. I would be interested to learn this. Edit Arent they both chasing each other now? : P

Purely because mouse is kind of encouraging this: Stewards. Ninjad ok. Heron claimed mouse as a Steward in thread.

Mouse, you said you wanted to see what happens? What is the circumstance you wanted to see the result of? As this is the last cycle, perhaps you are willing to share?

I honestly am no longer convinced Odium is Tuatara. If I were in their place, I probably would have passed it to Mauve as that is the person in that faction who would seem to be on best terms as they have appeared to be the most Cooperative. I also don't think Mauve is Preservation, and therefore is one of the players likely to receive a Shard if one is passed. However, Tuatara

I believe you have a member of your faction in a PM with me. I also believe I have a 1 on 1 PM with Dominion's faction, though I dont have confirmation on that yet. It is possible that if we did this all in the PMs, all three factions involved could avoid most of the risks.

Your right, I must have misunderstood you. What is your plan for Shattering Odium?

Hmm, I would not be necessarily opposed to it, but then what? Would you send us Ambition or Preservation?

Understandable. There were a lot of factors in the frustration other than just Odium getting stolen. I agree that would have been fitting, though I must also say that I dont particularly want that to happen. I also think Adonalsium reborn is possibly the coolest, yet least fun wincon to achieve. Response to edit: is that an admission to having Odium? (There is no threat there as Long as it gets sent back to my faction this turn) Edit: if you are telling the truth, we are still being played, so the info on who told you my wincon is important.

You are confusing me slightly, but this is enough for the moment to Tuatara. (Dont think I will hesitate to put it back though) Ok, Hoid (Axolotl) never contacted me. The only players I ever told my wincon to were Weasel and Toucan. However I told Toucan that I had to fuse 6 Shards, not 5. Both Toucan and I are in the Khriss doc, and they told me last turn that my wincon was to fuse 5, so info has gotten around somewhere. How did you learn my wincon? Again, Axolotl was asking Lion for their support, however quickly changed to lynching Lion without reason. Axolotl also was very anti-Hidden Garden in my group PM with him. There wasnt a big chance I was going to waste a turn PMing him again. I contacted you because my faction thought you might be in the Utility Company, and I wanted to offer to fuse Autonomy. Edit: Someone is playing all the factions. Perhaps Ax's wincon was never what you thought. Another edit: though I will choose to not lynch you, I still want Odium back if you have it.

Weasel and Chameleon are both GlaDOS.

Has your faction not figured out I am part of the Hidden Garden? Everyone should know that by now. And I dont know why I should answer this question. Iirc, you are Hail Joe, and the way I personally see it, I see no reason to work with you against a possible ally. I 100% disagree. Tuatara bacically confessed to knowing where Odium is. And whether or not this was them being truthful, I dont care. The amount of stress and frustration the Hail Joe faction has caused me and my factionmate is enough in my opinion, I have no problem lynching them. Here is how the game has gone from the Hidden Garden's perspective: C1: hey, look at all theae cool Wincons we have available! Wait, the kill everyone sounds a bit boring, and the second one seems unreasonably difficult. Lets go with the fun sounding one that encourages inter-faction diplomacy! C2: oh, we figured out who Autonomy is. They were dangerous last game, better safe than sorry. Hopefully they will contact us so we can fuse them back together. C3: nothing notable. C4: Lion started getting targetted for the lynch, and we were suspicious, and there seemed to be quite a push on him for seemingly no reason. While other people have complained about this game being "inquisitiony", I very much disagree. So far everything has had a reason, even if people don't know it. We were disappointed Odium was being revealed, but it wasnt so bad. We felt we were decently enough trusted that people wouldnt focus on us too hard. Towards the end of the day Axolotl called in our group PM for people to switch their votes from Mauve to Lion. This entire time Ax had been telling Lion on Roshar that they should work together. This sudden change in tone made us think something suspicious was going on. Sure enough, we were notified we lost Odium. Down 2 players and a Shard, our power level was now seriously cut, so we made it our top priority to find and recover the Shard. We were sure Axolotl was involved, so the question became, "what is his role?". By the end of the turn, we were certain he was Hoid, but we also were sure he would have a self protecting action (the self targeting one). Because of this, we enlisted a killing role to hit him that night. C5: Ax survived. After all of the work we had done, we had lost our chance of getting OUR Shard back. But we knew this would be the only cycle lynching Ax would be an option, so we went for it. And it was Confirmed that he did have it. Surely all the hard work we had put into recovering the Shard would go rewarded right? Wrong! Because Ax passed the Shard the same turn. What makes all this worse, is the only reason that Ax was able to pass the Shard (from my understanding), is because too many players had made plans built around that passing of a Shard. I had already tried to Culti PM Croc, and the PM went through, and we both sent a single message before it was realized that the PM shouldnt have been able to go through. Presumably because Mauve was targeted by Preservation. I don't blame the GMs, but objectively this is another case where my faction gets screwed. Hail Joe learns I am alligned with Culti, and I dont get to have the PM with them. C6: Gecko dies. Down to 2 players, and 1 shard. We genuinly thought it would be possible to recover Odium, but Apperantly we just wasted 5 turns of actions, as it was pretty much impossible from the moment we lost the Shard. TL;DR: I am really frustrated. As far as I am concerned, the cause of most of that frustration is the Hail Joe faction. Tuatara Would I refrain from lynching you if you passed Odium? Yes. Yes I would. Here is the thing. I dont trust you at all right now. At all. So here is the deal. If you dont pass the Shard to my faction, I will continue to push lynches on your factionmates until you do. I have every reason to think you killed Gecko as well. The alternative is you kill me. And honestly, I would be ok with that. The sooner the game ends, the sooner you can read my faction doc, and realize exactly how upset I am. (And why, because this post probably wasn't written well enough to communicate that) I have been trying really hard to keep this out of the thread, but bottling up emotions makes them worse, and that has been what has been happening to me. Just to clarify, other than the rules, and other factions screwing over my faction, this game has been very fun.