Azure Mouse

V nodded to the woman with the metal arm, appreciating her help. Answering Bailey's question: "I do actually," he said, bringing out his flashlight. It had been useful with what he'd been doing on Kasheron. "It's small, but it'll work just fine. Got batteries for a couple hours, I think." V heard Bailey's second question as well, the one asking for people's names. V didn't like telling people his name, which was why he chose his pseudonym in day to day interactions. The funny thing was, V was a part of his name. With context over the rest of his name, it actually meant '5', but since V preferred the rest of his name anonymous, most people just called V 'V', which was just fine with him. "You can call me V," he said to Bailey. It felt good helping the ship out, even if everyone was out to kill each other. "I really really really hope we don't die down there." He said quietly to Bailey.

V raised his hand to the person he'd heard was Bailey, accepting one of the unsealed cadmium-minds. V wasn't a Ferring, but he'd still had experience with them. "Okay, where's the storage room again?" He asked Bailey, who seemed to be the most relaxed person on this whole hauler.

That would definitely be funny, like a little game of their own happening within the backdrop of our game.

Thank you. This along with Indigo's compliment on my RPs and Analyses have made my day.

Ok. Thanks! Thanks! Ok. Pretty good, why? V didn't doubt it.

"Gods?" That got V's attention. He knew stuff happened as you got further into space, but gods? "There are other beings as powerful as Harmony? I've always stuck to Scadrial my whole life - or at least its system...I had no idea." There were other gods?! More people for V to hate, he guessed.

---RP--- After eating his breakfast (which consisted of half a slice of bread), V worked his way up to the same lady he'd talked to the night before. She was staring out of a window. V didn't find what was outside of the ship too interesting, especially after what they had done to one of their own just last night. In fact, V almost felt hateful towards space, which he knew was a stupid emotion to feel against something as vast as the cosmos but he still felt it, for it was because of space that made men develop rockets and shuttles and ships and it was space that caused Kasheron Station to exist which meant that by extension it was space's fault that V was stuck here. He reached the window, and saw what the lady was staring at. Woah. It seemed the ship had passed a certain star cluster, and it was a sight to behold. Times like these were when V wished that space could be beautiful and not haunting at the same time. "Interesting, isn't it?" V said to the woman. Liseran, he thought. "Harmony made space so beautiful yet if we go outside the ship to see it for ourselves we die. He made it so marvelous that we had to build vessel's like these to explore it, vessel's that end up in times like these." V's tone was slowly transitioning form awe to hate again. "He made the stars so bright that looking at them too long will get us blinded, and he galaxies so vast that no matter how much exploring we'll do we'll never discover everything." V sat down. "I hate Harmony." He said, quietly.

Ahhhh, so many pages! I'm really hungry right now though, so let me eat some breakfast while I think over the IKYK I've just read. I'll try to get some analysis and some RP done later. ~~~~~~~~~~~MEGA EDIT:~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sorry for the long wait. It seems that the main reason for Emerald to be lynched is that he said that his role would possibly put him as a target for elims or villagers, which is making people think that he may be aligned against the villagers. Personally, I agree with a lot of Ivory's post above. Emerald has become a bit suspicious in my eyes, especially since he clarified he wasn't neutral, which implies a third faction to me (even if he's the only one in it). He says he would be a target for either village or elim, which makes me think he could be a help/problem for either, but doesn't know which one. My theory is that Emerald's role is reliant on another role, one he doesn't know the alignment of. This is just speculation on my part, but I think it makes sense. Emerald may be part of a faction that wants to kill or protect a certain role. It may seem odd, but I think it makes sense if you see how it relates. Imagine that Emerald is part of a faction that wants to kill the Kandra. He doesn't know whether the Kandra is village or elim, so depending on which it is he could be a target for the village or the elim. Makes sense? I think it does, though it doesn't necessarily have to be killing the Kandra. It could be protecting the Kandra, or killing another role, or protecting another role. What I'm saying is, it could be possible that his (or his faction's) win-con could be reliant on another role, but since he doesn't know the alignment of that other role, he doesn't know whether it would get him killed by the village or the elim. Imagine: If his faction was called the Kanda-Hunters (just making up a name), and the elims had a Kandra, that would make him a target for the elims and not for the village. But if the village had a Kandra, that would make him a village target and not an elim one. Obviously, it doesn't have to be reliant on the Kandra, but any role, since we don't know the alignment of any of them, and (supposedly) neither would Emerald. I hope this makes sense, and it's my current theory, and proves why Emerald doesn't consider himself neutral (he could be in any faction, it depends on the role he's reliant on's faction, which he doesn't know), and why he won't reveal it. @Emerald Falcon, could you confirm? A confirmation wouldn't be dangerous to you, if my theory is correct. Regardless, I don't think I'll vote yet until Emerald answers. Anyway, RP time: AHHHHHHH "Throw him out the airlock!" "I'm Innocent, I swear." "Close the hatch." "PLEASE!" "Kill him!" AHHHHHH V woke up with a start. Another nightmare, he thought bleakly. They were getting worse. He watched as everyone crowded around a sleeping person, but as V got closer, he realized the person wasn't sleeping. They were dead. Two deaths. One caused by V and one caused by whatever monster V had failed to kill. In fact, the continued presence of a monster only confirmed V's creeping suspicion that he'd lynched the wrong target. V was a murderer, and screams of that poor person still echoed in his mind. They'd begged not to be killed, they'd cried, they'd screamed they were innocent. They pointed fingers, they said they weren't evil to their last breath as they were ejected out of the ship. And V had been at the head of it. Pride of Terris lost two good crewmembers that night. V felt different this morning. He felt terrible. The guilt of that person's murder was crushing him, the fear of another man dead crippling him, the stress of surviving paralyzing him. V was dealing with so much. So much. So much. He just wanted to live! Was that too much?! Was wanting to get back to your own rusting planet too much to ask for!? he felt like screaming at Harmony for letting this happen, to scream at Him for even giving him the tiniest of suspicions that His angels were going to kill him. V felt like screaming at Kelsier, the Survivor, for setting such an impossible mandate. None could survive. Everyone died. He just wanted to live. But then again, the man V had helped kill had also wanted to live. And look what happened to him.

Ahhh, Damnation. Edit: Since there are no PMs, maybe the Informant is a Doc spy?

I mean, just a suggestion, if you're really stuck, flip a coin. You'll know what you want as the coin is in the air, and if you don't, just follow what the coin says!

RP V listened to the woman, the one some were voting against. She said she had just wanted to help. V could relate to that feeling, but his empathy was not was needed right now. It was his bravery, his ability to do his duty even when the odds forbade it. Unfortunately, V had no such bravery. He just survived. Religions. V was a Survivorist himself, though he was specifically an Alternative Survivorist. One who believed Kelsier was holy and had died for hope, but also didn't believe he was still alive. In V's life, the Survivor was important. But nobody lived forever. Not even gods. The woman V was talking to asked how he managed to avoid attention. He replied that he always observed more than he talked, that keeping a keen eye was what led V to avoid too much unwanted attention. It was all true, but V had excluded the real reason. He had been trained all his life not to attract too much attention. V had been raised by his grandfather, the only successful man in his line, and wouldn't let anyone forget it. V's father must have been sick of it, because he left to who-knows-where and left V to be raised by his grandfather. His grandfather, being a perfectionist, didn't want anyone to know that while he'd succeeded in business he'd failed in raising a son, and so he pretended he never had any, which meant pretending V didn't exist either. He'd always been taught not to get too much attention. And when V had gotten a job he let his grandfather too. He was interrupted in his train of thought as a familiar figure strode down the hall. It was the lady with the bionic arm, and in worry she pointed it at the two of them, it's tip now sharpened. The lady proposed to make an alliance, said that with some more people the crew had a fighting chance to live. V stood up, masking his face of any emotion. He was about to say something when the woman he was talking to took the other lady's hand, signalling their alliance. They both looked at V expectantly, who just stood there, silently, calculating the pros and cons, whether giving his trust to two strangers was a smart move or a stupid impulse by his emotions. Finally, after what seemed like a long time, V silently nodded in agreement. The three of them were allianced. He just hoped none of them were the Kandra he got nightmares of each time he slept...

Haha, that's fine I guess. I kept imagining him without a mask but it doesn't really matter. V saw the woman and stepped out to greet her. He saw her twitch and hoped he didn't accidentally scare her. She greeted him first, not knowing whether it was evening or morning. V didn't know either. "Yeah, last I checked, I think the lights dim in a couple hours, so that would be evening." He smiled politely, before cocking his head and hearing someone shout from the front of the ship that they'd voted for the woman he was speaking to, who paled at hearing her name in the vote. "Huh," V said. "I guess you're not exactly the most popular person out there, are you?" He folded his coat over himself again. So cold. It would be even colder for whoever got thrown out if the airlock, though, so he felt grateful his name wasn't being called out. Times were tense, and when the lights dimmed, who would be taken?

Well, I'd hate to say it it but it appears our wants are at crossroads, Amber. Maybe our RP characters can chat about it sometime . V raised his hand, denying the offer of stew. "I had a slice of bread before," he said, getting back to the task at hand. A gruesome task, yes, but a necessary one. One that would effect some emotionally, yes, but one that needed to happen. The group was deciding which of them to shove out of the airlock. No one wanted to be the one others voted for. No one wanted to die. But resources were getting low, and so the bloodlust took over, each person giving their own reasons to vote for another. Accusations were being thrown, defences made and in the end, one had to die. No one had wanted to die initially, and so many had taken to voting a small person who was sleeping. When they woke, however, people searched for more worthy people to vote for. Word had spread that the murderer could've been one of the faceless Imortals. No one was certain, but many were confident. A Kandra. Harmony's own Angels. Of course, if there was a Kandra aboard, it wasn't a nice one, and so not only did resource scarcity play a role in voting, but also discussing who everyone throught the murderer, Kandra, or both were. V had raised suspion on one person, while others had decided to vote on others. Right now, however, the person V had voted for was in the lead, and V wished, with all his heart, that the man wasn't innocent, for if he was, V was a murderer as bad as the real one. It meant that he had condemned an innocent man to die. V hoped it wasn't so.

That person just got the oops award. Hope Seonid hides that post in time,

Ooooor, maybe it's because I figured out your elimness by myself, and others don't have much to say because most of it's already been said. You're right, I have made lengthy arguments about why you're an elim, so it makes sense that others wouldn't have other reasons, because most have been used by me to throw at you. I do agree that Cream's posts do seem a little suspicious, it seems like Cream is jumping onto a bandwagon here, but they're not my foremost suspicion. As for it being your normal playstyle, I've looked through other posts by you on different games. None them seem to be defending the supposed enemy, voting on players for no reason and then justifying it when you're caught out. You've helped the village before in other games. Your argument that everyone says it's NAI is also incorrect. Though some have said that, people were mainly not voting on you because they thought Indigo or another player was more suspicious. Also, you argue that if I was in a doc with Cream, that we put all our information into my posts. This seems pretty ludicrous, to be honest. Putting all of your teams information into one person's post means the other players who agree are considered suspicious. A better strategy would be to spread your information out, so each elim has a good reason for voting. If you look at what's happened now, Cream is in a suspious position because they seemed to have jumped on the bandwagon. Of voting on you was really an elim coordinated effort, it would have been dome better. Also, you seem to be forgetting Melon Dingo, who's also been giving valuable information from the start, and who's also voting on you. It seems each person voting (except cream who just agreed with me) has a pretty logically sound reason to do so. I've addressed your defences, I've made my own arguments, and I think you're an elim. Trust me, if you turn out to be a villager I'm not going to like it, but the last few posts I made have been me slowly getting more confident that you're an elim. PS. It seems highly suspicious that you remove your vote on Ivory as soon as you're called out on it and immediately shift your vote to the person who's busting you.

I mean, I thought that might be the reason, but I also thought that you could have moved to it to a bunch of other suspicious candidates, rather than leaving it on Ivory. Also, time to search up what a soft pocket and hard pocket are.

I'm going to keep my vote on Magenta, for some other reasons. You voted for Ivory because you believed it was better to lynch an inactive player. Now that Ivory is active, you still haven't removed your vote? Why is that? The only reason you had for voting on Ivory is gone, and your vote remains. You're the only vote on Ivory, and for what reason? Forgive me if I don't understand IKYK completely, but if it's true you anticipated people to believe you were defending the Kandra, why would you even post like that? If you knew people would take it the wrong way, why didn't you clarify what you meant or rebut future arguments from the start? As for a close vote, I wouldn't be completely opposed to it, it would definitely help us gather some information on whether vote-manip exists, I do feel Magenta is an elim though. Can I ask how you came to this conclusion, Indigo? I think it's worth noting why your suspicious of me.

If anyone's wondering what the votes are: Coral Swan (1): Indigo Weasel Indigo Weasel (2): Coral Swan, Ivory Dragonfly Ivory Dragonfly (2): Amber Vulture, Magenta Albatross Magenta Albatross (2): Melon Dingo, Azure Mouse Note: @Indigo Weasel, you've voted twice, once for Amber Vulture, and the other for Coral Swan. I counted Coral Swan because it was your most recent vote, but I highly recommend you colour Amber's name green for the sake of the GM. Anyway, comments on this. It seems Indigo has gone on his little one man mission to get Coral, which I can't tell if it's a suspicious or non-suspicious thing to do. On one hand, he's not voting what everyone else is voting, and on the other, if he has an elim team, they definitely aren't backing him. Funny thing is, if everyone else keeps their votes (which I doubt), Indigo's the tiebreaker. Indigo Weasel also seems he's getting some suspicion thrown towards him, I don't think I've seen him defend himself yet, which is odd, but I might just be forgetting. Anyway, if you've read my last post I still find Magenta more suspicious so I thinking voting them would be better, but to each his own. I don't even know why people are voting on Ivory anymore, but maybe they're sleeping or something like that so I'll give them time to see that Ivory's active. When you do see Ivory is active, I hope these guys see my last vote. Last but not least, Magenta. I personally think this is who we should vote for, but I'll leave it up to you when you read this. All in all, it's a three-way tie, and since its Bliackout, we don't know whether the lynched is selected at random or all tied-parties die. Very worrying indeed.

Aye! Welcome aboard the Pride of Terris, Ivory Dragonfly. Hopefully you will be refreshed by some cold stew over there, next to the dead body . In all seriousness, welcome! I've taken my vote off of you, and not only have you shown you're active now, your also gave a quality post, which is always a good extra. About a secondary threat, I think someone said that the absense of blood in a body could mean a Hemalurgist taking it, which I think sounds reaosnably fine for now. If you're right about having an elim tea, it certainly wouldn't be out of the blue, having a Hemalurgist elim team. If one exists, it may be enough for me to suspect the Kandra as neutral (don't be found), since having two kills plus a lynch seems too much for 13 players. About RP, I agree on that front. Your own writing style is going to be hard to mimic unless the Kandra has really been studying your posts, which I guess I would consider flattering to be honest . Also, we need more RPers! Mauve and I arenthe only ones who've been doing it so far, and it would be cool for others to join in too. Hopefully the threat of a Kandra should be enough incentive. BIG EDIT: Magenta Albatross You get my vote for more resons than one, and now that I've looked through your posts again and Ivory has proven themselves active, you are pretty suspicious. Looking through your posts, it's clear that you've made efforts to appear active, though you actually haven't been helping the villagers at all, contrary to Weasel. Though he's still suspicious for other reasons, you haven't made a village helping post at all, while maintaining your guise of being active. Lets look at your posts, shall we? Your first post is immediately using the books to say that the Kandra might be good or neutral, though the books themselves speak of a Kandra going rogue. This looks like your trying to defend yourself or the Kandra Your second to fifth posts are all about how you accidentally switched accounts and about how you can't upvote. Still not helping the village here. Your sixth post is an immediate jump on the Ivory lynch without a reason, as well as saying your innocent out of the blue. Not helping the village, as well as jumping on a bandwagon. Your seventh post argues that lynches are good because they give us information, trying to justify why your voting on Ivory. I'm sure you won't think the same when the lynch is on you. Your eighth post is defensive, and your ninth and tenth posts are just short replys to Seonid. Still not helping the village. Your eleventh post is where you reply to my comment, still not helping the village. So, what have you done in your 11 posts? You have: Argued that the Kandra 'is probably' good or neutral, defending it, despite the source itself saying that an evil Kandra is possible. Normal conversation comments and short replies. Jumping on the Ivory bandwagon Arguing why a lynch is good. Defending yourself. Said that your innocent out of the blue with no backing. Notice how none of them are really helping the village? Sorry if I come out as a bit aggressive but it just strikes me that you've managed to have 11 posts and still haven't helped the village, while in Ivory's one post he's done more. And before people say I also voted for Ivory I did so by making my reason clear and stating I would take it off if he posted, which I did.

@Ivory Dragonfly is actually on right now. Ivory, if you make a post right now, I'll take my vote off of you, and it says you're viewing this topic so I know you can see this. If you stay inactive, however, I'm going to keep my vote. ~~~RP~~~ V heard a faint scraping sound, and turned back to the see the woman who had spoken of making a council scraping a piece of metal against her bionic arm. He wondered how it felt to have something like that, an appendage which responded to your signals but in reality was just a machine. V wondered how it must have been when people first made guns. It must have been remarkable, he thought. A machine that turned a man into a coinshot. Technology had always been at odds with mysticism, but while Allomancy and Feruchemy stayed the same, technology improved, advanced. Going to space was not an allomantic power, but technology had made it possible. Nowadays, Allomancy could be mimicked by technology. Just as guns imitated coinshots, vismods (visual modifications) mimicked tineyes, and musmods (muscle modifications) mimicked pewterarms. Technology could enhance a man, and when you could be as smart as a sparker and as fast as a steelrunner, all without any powers whatsoever, that was what matched machines with magic. V wondered whether the time would come when technology surpassed Allomancy and Feruchemy, when the real gods would be made artificially rather than born. It was an interesting thought, and a scary one at the same time.

Sorry for the late response. Ivory already had two votes before the Magenta vote so he had it coming anyway, but about your other points, I agree, which is why Magenta is one of the players I'm keeping my eye on. As of now, however, I don't feel I've got enough to confidently vote on them, and I don't want to risk lynching someone who is not only a villager but also active, which is marginally better than an inactive villager. So, it's not an act of protecting or defending Magenta, in all likelihood I might vote for them next cycle if I don't get a better target by then and their posts remain dubious. I'll check on Indigo's posts now for your second suspicion.

Now it looks like I double posted.

You now have the Ooops award. I was already suspicious of you because your posts seemed odd. Flat out saying you weren't an elim is... An odd start to being a villager. I won't say I was already suspicious of you, more like your posts seemed odd, but it wasn't enough to constitute a vote.

Fixed.

Magenta, Mauve's reasoning is making me more and more suspicious of you, but I believe you're right, in that it's probably worth more getting information from someone who is inactive, so we don't take the chance that we accidentally boot an active villager out of the game, which will be bad for everyone. I will be keeping an eye out for your posts, however, since it's the only -albeit slightly- elim thing I've seen. Ivory Dragonfly. RP V felt uncomfortable in his clothes, but you would feel uncomfortable too if there was a monster hunting you down. He wore a nice blue coat, and a white vest underneath that. The coat was sprinkled with white markings of the sixteen allomantic metals. V's grandfather had been an Allomancer, but no one else in his line had displayed the power since then. But then again, they would first need to Snap, and while V didn't know what exactly constituted a 'Snap', he was sure it wouldn't feel good. Who knew, maybe V would Snap on this very ship. Or maybe he wasn't a mystical Allomancer at all. Regardless, he still wore his blue coat, which he'd always thought looked cool, despite feeling an odd sense of coldness. He was freezing. As he wrapped himself up in his coat, he tried placing the colour of it. Blue, obviously, but also slightly darker and more Royal. Azure. V nodded to himself in agreement as he covered himself in his azure coat.