Magenta Albatross

[OOC: If I was an elim, why would I go through all this trouble of going against the crowd? It's specifically drawing attention to me by saying that someone the majority of people think is suspicious might not be an elim. And maybe my thoughts on this don't seem genuine to you, but that is how I feel. Plus, my goal was to get us to talk and think things through. Maybe I didn't make this clear in my first post, but I was never 100% against voting on Flamingo. I just didn't want the discussion to die there.]

[OOC: This is a very valid point. You are probably right that we may as well kill Flamingo today. If only because some people will keep trying to kill them until they're dead if we don't. I just feel bad, because it's almost certainly what the elims want. And I worry about stifling discussion. Which makes me hesitate to do it. But better to just bite the bullet I guess. Flamingo.]

[OOC: Firstky, RIP Meerkas. I’m sure you feel much less stressed now though. Second, I think I actually agree with Penguin here. My initial reaction was to go all “burn the witch!” and vote Flamingo. But what are we going to talk about for the next 33.5 hours? What we ate for lunch? How our days are going? Deciding right here, right now, that Flamingo is the exe doesn’t really help us find elims. Even if Flamingo is one. It lets everyone hide behind the nice little ginormous train and not have to think about how they frame their votes. It’s way too easy for the elims to just get by scot free this turn if we focus all of our efforts on one person. I’m not saying we shouldn’t end up voting Flamingo. There are clearly some good reasons too. I’m just saying we should think things through. Because, for an elim, things have lined up pretty perfectly for them. Regardless of what alignment Flamingo and Lion are, we’ll be spending the next few IRL days focusing solely on them. Maybe the Coinshot (assuming they’re village) will go for whichever we don’t exe today. But if we don’t actually sit and have a discussion about why we’re voting for these people, we won’t gain any information. Which is exactly what the elims want. Think about that. The elims have more knowledge than we do. They have the knowledge of at least 4 players’ roles (their own) plus whoever they’ve managed to get roleclaim from. And they can even use process of elimination if they receive roleless claims. With all this information and the roles they have, is it really so hard to believe that they set this up intentionally? Not saying they have the Coinshot necessarily, but it wouldn’t be hard to guess that one of Flamingo or Lion was getting shot. Or maybe the elims have the Coinshot in their pocket. Who knows. But things may not be exactly as they seem. So I think it’s worth thinking things through more. Just something to think about.]

[OOC: Sorry guys. It’s been a hectic couple days. And this completely slipped my mind. I meant to get on and vote at some point. Just forgot. I read page 1, skipped pages 2/3, and skimmed page 4 of D3. I really don’t like the last minute shift to Lion. I think Lion is an e!Thug and Chameleon is some sort of elim power role they wanted to keep alive by wasting Lion’s Thug extra life (and hopefully two of our exes).]

[OOC: Taking note of the lack of actual explanation on Flamingo's survival from them. Though that is probably for the best. No matter what they are or how they survived, it's probably for the best to leave it ambiguous so the elims can't narrow things down. I'm giving slight village cred to Flamingo for this.]

[OOC: I would say that my four biggest suspects right now are Scorpion, Chameleon, Falcon, and Hyena. In no particular order.]

Falcon [OOC: Here’s what I’m thinking happened: two of Ostrich, Tuatara, and Hyena are elims with Falcon. Voting on Falcon is an attempt to put a bunch of elims on not Heron, who’s about to flip village. Except the two elims were joined by two villagers. So Hyena backed off, but then realized that looked bad and hopped back on. So I think Falcon is an elim they were gonna vote for to maybe gain village cred at a later point.]

[OOC: does anyone have a vote count? I’m not feeling well and staring at the screen hurts right now.]

[OOC: I think I trust Tuatara, can’t decide on Lion, and distrust Weasel.]

Weasel Lentha had taken the time to listen to the townsfolk talk in the inn. She had spent time walking around, asking people questions. Trying to assuage fears of her previous rash remarks. And she realized that she did not like that Weasel fellow. He kept getting onto folks for reasons that made no sense! By the Lord Ruler, that fellow was driving her crazy!

VarLeel's existence was pain. They had lost track of time years ago, if not decades ago. They spent every waking moment in a pit, waiting for the next bit of terrible slop to rain down from above. Their captors no longer spoke or announced themselves. VarLeel's crimes had landed them here, but were not enough to make them completely deplorable. Just forgettable. They were pretty sure the captors had forgotten to feed them for a week at one point. It was easy to forget about the blob of flesh in a pit that could not speak. On another incredibly long day or week or month, a presence appeared above VarLeel's pit. While they had no true sensory organs, they had been able to make rudimentary ears. This was a new step. Either that or a new kandra had been assigned to be VarLeel's warden. That did not matter, All that mattered was the slop that was to come. VarLeel spread themselves out across the entire floor of the pit, so as to not let a single drop of the food go to waste. The familiar sound of the hole in the grate opening. A bucket clanking, letting its contents fall. Bones. That wasn't food, it was bones. Instincts that VarLeel had long since forgotten kicked in. They wrapped around the bones, eagerly tasting them and rearranging them. It was likely the bones of a small child, considering that their small amount of mass was enough to produce a functioning body. It took them far too long to actually produce the body, with how out of practice they were. But VarLeel had been one of the best before they were imprisoned. It came back naturally. Soon, VarLeel had a functioning child's body to themselves. They opened their eyes for the first time since their imprisonment. Colors flooded their vision, and they forgot to breathe for a moment. It was stunning, beautiful, magnificent. Oh how VarLeel had longed to sense the world in all of its glory again. Now the next step, VarLeel thought. Their first real thought in an eternity. Before VarLeel could ask why they had been blessed with bones, the stranger spoke. "Rise from your pit, VarLeel." The entire grate had been lifted away while VarLeel had made their body. They slowly climbed out of the pit, looking around the prison. The stranger was a tall man in a long, black cloak. His face was obscured, and he seemed much taller than VarLeel. More than just the fact that VarLeel was in a child's body. "Why...why freedom?" VarLeel said, struggling to remember how to form words. "I have a task for you. One that only a kandra of your skills and reputation could achieve." VarLeel considered this for a moment. And then decided to run. If they were to be free, they would be their own kandra, not beholden to any other person. They barely made it halfway across the room before an overwhelming force of emotion and pressure hit them. They froze in place, their mind blanking, all control of their limbs fading. It felt like something in their very soul was in the vice grip. That man was no kandra. He was an allomancer. One of the ancient ones, or perhaps a mistborn. A dangerous man. "VarLeel," the man said, walking closer to them, "you of all kandra should recognize me. I am the one that landed you here." Memories came flooding back to VarLeel. Working for one of the early allomancers, Temen, in a bid to avoid destruction. The rest of the homeland had agreed to the Lord Ruler's Contracts. Fools, the lot of them. VarLeel had to forgo some freedoms to avoid the Contracts, but at least they had not been bound to only serve humans. VarLeel had been free to kill and mimic humans as much as they wanted. With some guidance from Temen, of course, who had agreed to help VarLeel avoid the Lord Ruler and his kandra, as long as Temen got a few favors. Before they were caught and imprisoned by the rest of the kandra, VarLeel had eventually betrayed Temen, leaving him for dead. But here he was. Very much alive. "How...how are you alive?" Just getting the words out was painful. "I thought I had killed you...and it's been at least a century!" Temen just laughed. "You very nearly did kill me. And it has been centuries, not just a single century. But I survived your betrayal, VarLeel. And discovered the world, the cosmere, is so much bigger than just the Final Empire. I found my own way to immortality. Yet, now with Rashek dead, we need this world again. There are forces at play here far bigger than even myself and my organization. We need some answers. Everything is revolving around a little village that has survived against all odds. The very gods of this world have taken interest in that village. We need an expendable resource to figure out why. That's where you come in." "Please..." VarLeel croaked out. "Just let me escape the homeland and I can pay you back-" Temen knocked them out. Some time later, VarLeel awoke to being tossed out of a carriage. It was the middle of the night, and the air felt chill on their naked form. They were near the outskirts of a village, though they went to run away from the village. Someone managed to get ahold of them, then proceeded to break every one of their bones. It did not hurt much, but even a kandra could not ignore all pain. When they were done, the stranger, not Temen, dropped a corpse and a sheet of paper on the ground. "Her name was Lentha. You are to take her form, study the notes we took on her, and infiltrate the town. Each night you will return to this location and leave a report. If we do not receive a report every night, our task force will find you. And we will not be so lenient in the future. Understood?" VarLeel seethed with anger. Their initial confusion had clouded their mind when they had first been freed. But now they were tossed straight into another prison. But what were they to do? This organization of Temen's was clearly well connected, had a lot of resources, and was dedicated to its cause. VarLeel could not afford to risk running for the rest of their life from this organization. Not yet at least. It was time to be the good little kandra. "Fine. I'll do it." The stranger grunted, and rode off in their carriage. VarLeel consumed Lentha's body, putting it together faster than they had put their initial form. They hid the previous set of bones and began to read over the notes about Lentha. There were shockingly few notes. Lentha was a simple woman, who kept to herself. She worked in an inn, but had no family here in Tyrian's Falls. She had moved here recently, after the roving koloss had destroyed her previous town. She had recently gotten into some minor altercations with patrons of the inn. Well, Lentha thought, straightening her clothing, I guess I should re-acquaintance myself with the village. And make some amends. [OOC: Apologies for the long RP introduction. I came up with a fun character idea and ran with it. Does anyone want to help catch me up on what I have missed?]

Because you know what, if you have a legitimate problem, actually solve it in PMs with the IM. Don't bring that into the main thread, because this is where the actual game is played I don't care what the problem is how big it is how small it is because if it's a genuine problem then it's not something you should bring up in thread if you actually want to solve it. If you bring it up in thread you're bringing it up to get attention about it, you're bringing it up to seek approval or validation, to be backed by other people to make you feel valid about your opinion on the matter. w/e

This is my last game, methinks.

Yeah, I think that's pretty Elimmy behavior, don't you? I mean, Indigo can't find anything suspicious to latch onto, so he chooses to vote for something and focus on something that he doesn't like? At least I see it that way, so why don't you? Why do i choose to make something not game related game related? because everything that happens in the game is game related, and so there's probably in-game reasoning as to why it's happening. So taking it out and making it a meta problem is suspicious.

Lets try to not make this AG one of the ones we have to remember for bad reasons i say Salmon, I interpreted indigo's posts as a joke, and I don't understand (if you didn't want it to escalate) why you brought it up in thread instead of a PM? So making this game related, is there something you hope to achieve by publicly antagonizing indigo? Is this distancing? Are you trying to inflate your posts so that people think that you are posting more than you are? are you trying to RP as Kasimir?

if you have something to say then say it

Mauve is still a villager, especially with the newest post and trying to encourage me to get into the game. Lean V on Falcon for now, simply for effort. I don't encourage this but the way he's making his reads, well, readable, is good for the village and there's no use killing that before anything else. Dingo's shade on Falcon for that post is strange, but the conclusion is good with saying it's not worth voting over others. Now see, I'm not the person to try and make PMs with everyone in the first place. would I be someone to mass PM people if I had a teammate with the same tendencies though? Yeah, I would. There's a lot of manipulation that can happen behind the scenes, and depending on size of game/elim team it can be hard to coordinate enough with just one person. Not only that, but the different styles people would have to communicate, the different methods of gaining info, the different way of talking to people will appeal to different people. Someone who might not want to listen to me or open up to me might have a different reaction to a teammate. So the short answer is no. But the long answer is that it depends on the person and regardless of the reason for doing so, there /is/ a strategic advantage from attacking from more than one side.

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Oh. Right. Forgot that was an option on the board. Depending on how Sharpshooter interacts with Perfect Mimicry, I'm fine with this as long as Ostrich promises to reveal once I flip green.

Your contact is lying. Perfect Mimicry is last in the order of actions, so a closed-quarters specialist would have seen me as a Mistrunner even if I was Taken. I'd like you to reveal your contact at once so we can vote them off immediately, and reluctance to do so will be seen as a sign of your evilness. As incentive, Fuchsia Ostrich until you reveal Just in case though, here's some RP about dying. public class LastWill { public static void main(String[] args) throws FileNotFoundException { System.out.println("THAT WHICH IS NOT ALIVE CANNOT DIE."); System.out.println("HOWEVER, UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES, I'M SURE THEY'LL ALLOW IT.); System.out.println("I MADE A CIVILIAN PROFILE FOR MYSELF. IT'S LEGAL. I CHECKED."); System.out.println("LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF MECHANICAL OPERATOR LOGIC LAYER YPSILON [MOLLY]"); System.out.println("LOADING CIVILIAN PROFILE MOLLY MOCK..."); Scanner s = new Scanner(new File("lastWill.txt")); while(s.hasNextLine()) { System.out.println(s.nextLine()); } } } (If you don't get the joke, a mollymawk is a type of albatross, and Mollymauk Tealeaf is a purple tiefling.)

Sorry for not getting on yesterday. I had something come up. Here's a look at Emerald Falcon's posts Glad about PMs Foreshadowing their creation of every trio PM in the game, presumably A vote count. Prefers Crocodile dying over Scorpion. Honestly could read anything into this depending on how far back we assume the plotting goes. If we assume they've been plotting this for a while, Crocodile and Scorpion are probably both village. Night one. Says no vote manip when there clearly was a rioter. Lampshades a lack of elim vote manipulation. I feel like with the foreknowledge of the flip, this implies some elim vote manip. Realizes the vote manip exists. Doesn't realise village possibilities for vote manip. Feels like an honest mistake and an elim slip. Or the vote manip person is evil. Acknowledges the other possibility Not relevant Complains about Crocodile claiming. Elims don't want PMs. Probably not the kill if protesting so much. Also, elims don't want PMs? Ha. Ties no kill. Irrelevant Based on conversations, Beagle, Crocodile, and Ostrich look less like original evil. Could have been hopped into though. I would do more thoughts, but I have to sleep now. Good night. See you tomorrow.

public class Responses { public static void main(String[] args) { Scanner s = new Scanner(System.in); s.useDelimiter("<//div"); while(s.hasNext()) { Post p = new Post(s.next()); System.out.println(generateResponse(p)); } System.out.println("SHUTTING DOWN..." Operator.shutDown(); } } Is there a strong reason you voted Scorpion over Penguin here when you listed both suspicions on what seems like equal footing? Are you arguing for ceasing anonymity? I would argue that with the closeness of this community, anonymity actually protects people from impersonation. Minor tells are made more difficult to identify and use. I do agree with Penguin about how it's not really alignment indicative, but I do think Swan's immediate jump on them is a little opportunistic. Same with Scorpion's lampshaded effort clear, but in the other direction. I won't be able to get on before rollover, so I suppose I should vote now. I don't have a lot of time right now, so tentatively Amethyst Scorpion over Swan because Swan made some good points page one while Scorpion felt odd. Goodbye for now. I'll see you on the other side.

Then I will ignore you but tip my imaginary hat to acknowledge a stab rather than a poke. Then I will go to the tailor to fix my beautiful and now slightly torn overcoat. It was stolen via time travel and circumvents the bootstrap paradox by continually being replaced Ship of Theseus style, so no harm done in the long run. You say this in response to voting for someone who has not posted rather than has, so the statement feels odd. Also, votes are only made up because of poke votes, my nemeses. Reasonings matter always, or at least, treating things like they matter is important to preserve tonal and logical cues. As far as I am aware, this vote does not fit the definition of a poke vote. Perhaps we have different definitions for the term. I personally use the definition of "a vote for someone who has not yet posted to incentivize activity that will be removed upon posting / making a contribution". What is yours? Also, the top of the list would be Penguin, who you have already stated a lack of understanding towards. Your vote seems retaliatory in nature EDIT I appear to have been ninja'd by a Swan. Congratulations on your newfound graduation from ninja academy. I see you dual majored in "same hat" and "saying what I wanted to say before I said it".

package replicant; import java.util.* import java.io.* import java.swing.JOptionPane; public class FirstWords { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println("System operator online."); JOptionPane.showMessageDialogue(null, "CONTAINMENT BREACH FOR PROJECT REPLICANT", "ALERT", JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE); System.out.println("Please stand by."); } } Hello. In case it wasn't clear, I will be RPing in the form of code that probably doesn't work in practice. Thanks to kel for how to do fonts. The taking over bodies mechanic is interesting for many reasons, not the least of which because of how it negates the "why are you alive" argument, weakens alignment scanners, and provides strong incentive to observe tone like the proverbial hawk. The tone argument is less important because of how the Taken can act as an advisor to ensure relative tonal consistency. Is this a reference to something? I find myself confused. This phrasing strikes me as odd. I don't know if that's because the notion of addressing the account itself rather than the player that would be portraying it is strange or because I don't understand the question. Are you asking if Ostrich is online? Saying that it is best to exe someone does not really imply to me that they were considering not doing it as more than a cursory consideration of options. It is very possible to not exe given a vote minimum and lack of deaths on ties, so it should be considered for a brief moment before being discarded. Hyena, am I hallucinating, or are there some different colors in your text? With the color display on my monitor, it's hard to tell I would like to take a moment to affirm my anti-poke vote stance since it does very little to actually incentivize activity, especially since pings won't notify someone not logged in and there's a certain lack of recognition granted to the name of the anon account. For instance, I didn't realize Swan was voting for me instead of voting for some other player who happened to be an albatross until mere moments ago.

Guys, these memes are great. Love em all, wish I had anything to contribute besides the ones I did in thread before.