Ookla-son-son-Ventyl

what is even happening? Striker

Shimamura Hougetsu had still not become used to Adachi—No, Sakura’s absence. It’d been three years since she’d departed for the American Isles to undergo Rithmatic training at one of their prestigious academies. Three years Hougetsu had spent by her lonesome, with the only traces of her spirited lover being the trinkets they’d gathered from years spent together and the young girl they had adopted two years before she’d left.

The large home they’d worked so hard to come by felt empty. Hougetsu’s footsteps and humming echoed off its walls and corners. She kept the small garden out front ornately manicured, hiding the ugly interior—herself. She felt empty. She’d grown so used to Sakura always being by her side, that with her no longer here, her life had grown bland and colorless.

Against her best wishes, Hougetsu often found herself jumping in excitement at any knock on the front door. Her heart would begin to beat faster, praying that against all odds, her wife would return home. Her heart was often disappointed.

Nevertheless, as she cleaned every corner of the solemn house, she still hoped.

—o—

Shimamura Yuu drew a Line of Vigor, aimed directly at the weak spot in her opponent's defense. How sloppy. She thought, laughing at her opponents sad attempt at an Eskridge Defense. Compared to her own Shoaff, it was like a hound at her heels. 

Yuu hoped that when she was finally able to follow her mother to America, she’d find better opponents. Surely she would, the Isles were known for their amazing Rithmatic schools, boasting eight large schools. Her home country, Japan, had two.

Nevertheless, her opponent's Line of Warding was breached. 

This would be her fourth consecutive victory at the tournament held in Kyoto every year. Yuu was considered a prodigy, just like her mother was. She had a natural talent for Rithmatics, but that could only take her so far. Her professor often told her, “In America, things will be different. You won’t be the only prodigy.”

Yuu hoped that was true, because fighting the same half-wit Rithmatist every year was getting repetitive. And so was her other mom’s constant complaints. 

Shimamura Hougetsu did not approve of Yuu’senthusiasm for Rithmatics. Her actions spoke louder than her words, however, as she still paid for the train fee from Tokyo to Kyoto every year. 

“Where’s your mother, Yuu?” Professor Takagachi asked, adjusting his glasses and grey bangs as he watched the girl walk away from her crying opponent. 

“Not here,” She replied matter-of-factly. Despite paying to bring Yuu here, her mother had stopped coming to her matches years ago. When it’d become apparent that regardless of whom she dueled, Yuu would win. “You know how she is, professor. Always saying, ‘You don’t need to follow after your mother!’”

He grumbled in something that could almost be called agreement and began to walk alongside her. Here we go again, she grimaced. Time for another one of his critic sessions. 

“Your nine-point was off,” He started, glancing at her. “The space between ellipses six and seven was too wide. If your opponent had been able to see it, you’d have been in his position in a matter of minutes.”

“It’s hard to take the criticism seriously,” She sighed, turning away and giving an off handed wave. “When none of my enemies ever take advantage of the things you point out. Are you sure you can’t convince my mother to let me go to America?”

The sounds of onlookers and paper-writers, hoping to get a peek at the sixteen-year old Rithmatic prodigy, covered up the annoyed grunt the professor gave in response. The man had long tried to persuade Shimamura to let her daughter attend one of the American universities, and each time he was given the same answer: ‘no.’

When the teacher and student broke out of the excited mass and into the fresh spring air, they hurried down the steps of the arena. It was always best to get away quickly from these events, or else Yuu would be bogged down with the reporters questions. And it wasn’t until she piled herself into the back seat of the professor’s car that he answered her with more than a grumble and a wave.

“You know I’ve tried, kid,” He said, starting the car—brought over from the American Isles. “But she has her reasons for not letting you go, you know. You’re mother doesn’t want you to leave, especially not when Sakura has yet to return.”

It’d been seven years since her second mother left for America. Seven years since Yuu had become fascinated with the one thing the woman she’d barely known left her. Rithmatics. Yuu had since spent five of those years dedicating her life to the Rithmatic arts, in a false hope that if she became good enough, she’d be able to travel east and prove her worth. And here she was, the best Rithmatist in Japan and no closer to leaving for America.

An hour or so later, the professor dropped her off at the station. It didn’t take Yuu long to find her mother. The women stood out everywhere she went, her hair a light brown against a sea of black. When she’d asked why her mother kept it dyed, the only response she received was; ‘She liked it this way.’

Yuu found it silly. Then again who was she to talk?

“How did it go?” The woman asked, bending down to grab her suitcase—similar to the one Yuu herself rolled behind her.

“Another win!” The girl replied, raising her fist anti-climatically. Her fake enthusiasm brought a slight grin to her mother’s face. She might not have approved of her endeavor in Rithmatics, but she did approve in comedy. “Though, is that really a surprise?”

“No… I suppose it’s not.” She mumbled.

—o—

When they finally got back to Tokyo, Yuu caught sight of a man hurriedly walking away from the front door of her home. She sprinted the last leg to her house, but by the time she got there, the man was too far gone. Shaking her head at the oddity, she walked past the small garden, the red, blue, and white flowers overshadowed by the now blooming sakura tree. 

She climbed up the last step and saw a letter resting on the doormat. It was addressed to her mother, the one in Japan at least. Yuu picked it up and slid open the door. Setting the letter down on the table in the awning, she hurried up to her room and began to settle back in. 

It wouldn’t be long before she’d have to start preparing for the next tournament, she wasn’t going to miss out on a chance to relax. Even for a moment.

—o—

Hougetsu sent down the letter with her name written on it in elaborately drawn kanji. She knew the handwriting as if it was her own, regardless that the last time she’d seen it was almost four years ago. When she’d last received a letter from her wife. 

That letter had detailed that Sakura had finally been able to head to Nebrask. That she’d won a tournament they called The Melee in America. It’d also said that she didn’t know when she was going to return, that she most likely wouldn’t be able to write letters every month anymore. It had turned out she hadn’t been able to write any at all. 

Yet, here this letter was. Hougetsu broke the wax seal, the same one they’d used to officiate their marriage, and opened the envelope.

As she read, tears began to flow, staining the dark ink.

—o—

Dear my beloved Hougetsu,

If you’re reading this, I am dead. Accused of a crime I did not commit, the soldiers I’ve fought alongside with for the past three years have executed me. Whether by lawful means or not, I do not know. They, however, are not to blame. No, my death is the work of the Forgotten. A group that infiltrated this camp in Nebrask. In our search to root them out, I committed grave sins. I sealed the fate of death to an innocent man, I failed to keep another from the same fate, and I stood by while a third was convicted wrongly. These missteps are what led to my orderly demise. At least these men have hopefully given me the mercy to deliver this letter. For that, I am grateful. 

I ask you one thing, dear: do not come for my body. You will not find it. It will most likely be buried deep in the forests of this cursed island, most likely overrun by the wild chalking which roam here. If, however, you do come. I ask that you do not hate these men. They are guilty of the same sins as I, and if you were to hate them, it’d be the same as hating me. I would regret that.

Just as I regret that I will leave you alone. That I will not see our daughter grow up. That I will not die in your arms, but to the threads of a noose. That I will not be able to hold you and tell you “I love you” when you look like you need to be told so. I regret that I will plague your memories when you should be looking towards the future with hope.

Though I regret these things, I do not regret leaving Japan for the American Isles, to fight in this war with hope to alleviate the suffering of this nation. I do not regret learning to be a Rithmatist, to create life with white dust scratched onto the earth. I do not regret meeting you, to fall in love with a girl who kept everyone at arm's length. 

And so, I ask you not to regret them either.

With love,
Your wife, Adachi Shimamura Sakura

10 minutes ago, Ashbringer said:

Faleast had a brief chuckle at the thought of anyone "allowing" AraRaash to do something. There were only... what, five people that he actually listened to. One was dead, one was missing, two were Shards, and one was... something more than that.

Why is this the most interesting part for me? Even though I’m not quite getting all of these references...

Yay! Congrats to all on a good game! Too bad I didn’t get to live to see it’s end

Anyways, prepare yourselves for a tear jerking 1000+ RP soon. I’ll post it as soon as I finish it, so get ready!

3 minutes ago, Matrim's Dice said:

And with that, this game equals the AG in players only two days into signups.

This is gonna be awesome  

I mean, it’s a classic game run by Kas. What did you expect?

I watched the ashes fall.

It was beautiful in it’s own unique way. The way the black snowflakes stepped down from the skies was a mesmerizing sight; one I always found myself fascinated with. The other boys in Fallion’s Tears had always called me weird, but I hadn’t cared.

Hours, days, maybe even weeks of my life had been spent towards admiring the thin flakes of dust, spewed from the belly of the nearest ash mount. Studying the ash had been an escape from the criticisms of my schoolmates. While they dreamt of flying through the skies like coinshots, I dreamt of falling to the ground with the ash.

When they investigators had burned old man Bartholomew’s corpse, I’d gone to look at his ashes.

Sneaking into the dead man’s home hadn’t been that hard, his widow left the door unlocked in her grief, I assumed. Nevertheless, I tip-toed as stealthy as I could mange through the couples small home—one that just barely managed to claim it wasn’t a skaa hut. The floor creaked regardless of my dexterity, it seemed so loud compared to the sound of falling ash I’d grown accustomed to; everything did.

”Lord Ruler!” An older women shouted, her voicing cracking in fear. “Who’s there?”

It seemed the floorboards had betrayed me, giving away my presence to their haggard mistress. I no longer found any point in trying to hide myself. Leaving the shadows of the dark hallway that lead to the stairs, I said quietly, “It’s me, miss.”

”Oh, Niru,” She said, letting out a sigh filled with tension like the canals filled with ash. “I thought for a moment that they’d co— ah, never mind. What is it you want?”

“I was wondering if I could see them,” I said honestly. It’d be best to get out with it quickly. “His ashes, I mean.”

A few different emotions crossed the kind hag’s face. Surprise, given away by the widening of her brown eyes and the raising of the sagging skin in the area that could be where her eyebrows were. Anger, shown through how her the tightening spreading from her brow all the way to the corners of her eyes and chapped lips. Grief, letting itself be known by her eyes looking straight to the ground, almost as if she wanted to get a peek into hell to look for her dead husband. 

“Ah, that’s right,” She started, respectful contempt blatantly marring her expression. “You like to study ash, don’t you Niru.”

I nodded my head silently, hoping that if I acted diminutively she wouldn’t say no to my stranger request. It worked and the old women led me further into the house. The creaking of the floorboards no longer seemed so loud as I walked mutedly behind her. Sometime along the way she’d grabbed a candle and lit it—illuminating the worn down house with flickering light—allowing me to see relics of a dead man.

Eventually, we reached the main room and the widow plucked a small black vase off of the centerpiece. It seemed ironic that the remains of old man Bartholomew, who’d towered over many of the villages men, fit it such a small container. The soft clang the vase let out as it was set on the table made my anticipation begin to run wild. I waited for only a moment after the women left— not paying attention to whatever she’d said on her way out—and greedily torn the lid off the dark container. What I found lurking in that treasure trove was something I couldn’t fathom. 

Stark against the familiar color of black, were the ashes of a murdered man. 

And they were grey.

——————————————————————

I’ll sign up as Niru. A young man fascinated with the ash. I’ll call my cosmetic role, “Ash Watcher”

3 hours ago, Flyingbooks said:

Ventyl says that he's planning to take the Shadowblaze from me. Could somebody roleblock him so that I can give it to somebody who I actually trust?

?

Who ever took the Lantern should use it. Only the minimum number of people should draw Lines of Warding, because we can determine whether Flyingbooks is elim or village with the Shadowblaze.

Sakura looked at man who was so kind to her when she first arrived in the Isles. He had welcomed her wholeheartedly. He had done his best to make her feel comfortable in a nation so starkly contrasting to her home. And now, he was dead. 

She felt guilty. She’d stolen from him in the night on false suspicions, when he’d been so kind to her in the past. Sakura had repaid his past kindness with a chalk dust to the eyes. She’d let the fear of Forgotten drive her to distrust even a man whom she should’ve trusted, but then again, Frederick had fallen victim to the enemies mind games too. However, that did not make her feel any less guilty.

So, yet again, Sakura dug a third grave. It would probably not be the last.

She had refrained herself from the grueling work of burying bodies for the past two nights. Her body had needed rest. Now though, she had work to do. Sakura needed to cover her hands in something other than blood, and the dirt would do just fine.

Sakura beat the shovel against the earth. The grain of its handle pressed deep into her palms every time she stabbed it into the ground, bringing a sense of surreal clarity. She realized in her days of rest, she’d let herself grow lax. The hunt for these Forgotten put on the afterburner behind recovering from nights spent digging graves. Sakura had not payed enough attention to what was happening in the camp and her carelessness had cost the life of a man she considered a brother.

She did not forgive her sloth even after digging Frederick’s grave—deeper than the previous two. The rain that began to drain from the heavens as she returned to the camp did not wash away her sins. When Sakura slipped on the now slick ground just outside of her tent, falling to the ground faster than the raindrops, she did not cry. For she’d already ran out of tears in that grave, so the droplets of water rolling down her face would have to do.

Sakura feel asleep that night covered in grime and with a wish for tears.

7 minutes ago, Kasimir said:

[OOC: All rise, all rise!]

So why did you vote on her. I don’t want to scroll through the thread

Just now, Ashbringer said:

Ventyl, why Gears?

I trust them. 

Just now, Kasimir said:

[OOC: Huh. Funny that. If only I needed reasoning to grinch Connie,

Did you vote on Connie? I can’t remember...

5 minutes ago, Kasimir said:

[OOC: Would you prefer I vote for you? 'Cause I can do that too, actually  ]

No, but I don’t see any reasoning in your post... 

6 minutes ago, Shard of Reading said:

Now for some actual game related stuff instead of me saying I'm bad at this game. Now, I think, that Gears is just acting like Gears, so I relatively trust him. I think that Ventyl is weird, because he took the clock, and then kept insisting he would use it despite the fact we already had the defense of the camp covered. @Random Bystander I know you are new, but as you can see from what's happening with me, staying quiet isn't going to get you read as village. Hmm... I don't think @Lotus is saying much.

Yes, at first I was going to use it. Then when it was said that camp defense was covered, I changed my action to pass it Gears. You’re completely ignoring the fact that I listened when I was told I didn’t need to use the clock. It feels like you’re pushing for a mis-exe that’s essentially already been cleared up. Sart has resolved the issue, @Devotary of Spontaneity, scan Gears and you’ll see that he has the Clock now. Anyways, I’ll put my vote on Reading. 

11 hours ago, Kasimir said:

[OOC: Here's my issue with that: if they were teammates together, why not just have Books stay silent (rather than PM-claiming to TJ) and have TUO claim they Warded the camp, which is anyway consistent with TUO's D3 stance that Warding is more important than item use? For that matter, why not just have TUO Ward and Books put in the kill, since Books is/was unlikely to get hit by a scan at that point in time? I'd bet the Forgotten are extremely worried about crab and Making and Making+ scans, which is obviously something Village doesn't need to think/care about (except maybe crab, I suppose, if we're trying to hide important items.)

The main way I could see this working out is if Team Evil decided to bus TUO rather than have TUO use the Map N3, but that seems a bit of an overreaction given they just lost Connie, and that TUO was under some suspicion but that's hardly impossible to survive either, especially if TUO would just use the Map, or claim Warding again.

Then again, maybe here's another alternative - TUO Warded, in case of a Making scan, since he was drawing attention anyway, and Books put in the kill, but claimed the Ward to TJ for trust. A bit too many moving parts for my liking through, since the probability that TUO or Books gets scanned is higher than the probability just one of them does. It's not impossible, but it just seems odd to me.

Edited to add: To be more explicit, I feel like a lot of the flak TUO attracted on D4 boils down to a combination of: his previous reluctance to use the Map (can't be helped), forgetting an action, and that opportunistic vote after Striker's. And Illwei definitely forgot to put in any actions at all C1, so while it's suspicious, it's not impossible either...

Edited to add #2 because I keep getting distracted by the sunbird - the point being that both the opportunistic vote (talked to death) and the claim of forgetting were avoidable. Books being TUO's teammate seems like it would've allowed them to avoid one suspicion indicator on TUO. Strange they did not take it, if so.

Edit #3: I'm gonna regret this, aren't I? Araris Random Bystander ( @Sart, ICYMI) ]

Why are you voting for Araris?

He did capitalize Thief in the PM so...

24 minutes ago, Devotary of Spontaneity said:

You did mention Connie and Quinn as your second and third suspicions behind Mat D1 before saying that Mat was your only real suspicion 30 minutes later. That brings Connie up but doesn't really put her in danger. Voting alongside elim you would have been more about protecting you than sheeping you, but Order wasn't at all protective of Connie so that would be a change. Order hadn't voted at all in previous rounds so mostly I think that makes Gears more village without proving anything about you.

The vote was 5-3 Order-Gears when Reading voted, which isn't quite doomed, but it was clear the vote was heading towards Order. I think elim!Reading gains more by stating that Gears and Striker are likely v/v if one of them is evil, since an elim would want to leave open the possibility of voting for one of them next cycle if they were both village. Books doesn't seem to be putting a lot of thought into votes. No reason given for voting Matrim D1, voting Matrim again D2 seemingly just for the tie, and then a foregone vote for Order as a slightly better option than Striker or Gears. No vote at all the turn Connie died, though looks like lack of time from their blue text, and probably hasn't had a lot of time to think about any of their votes. Elim Ash would likely be using that revocation specialisation to disappear inconvenient items. I don't know of anything important being taken, although I doubt Ventyl would have been informed of the difference between losing the clock to the thief vs a LoR+. 

I did scan Ventyl, no clock.

I believe the only revocation specialists are Ash and Ventyl, unless Archer's handed it out or multiple people started with revocation. There's a decent chance the elims couldn't have stolen from Ventyl. I don't know why he would claim to have given it to Gears, especially since Gears says that's not true. There were no bribes available, so Stink would have stolen from someone. If nobody else was stolen from, the clock was presumably stolen instead of given to Stink.

I submitted the action to give it to Gears, but after rollover, my PM said I’d given it to the thief. So I guess Stink stole it from me... I didn’t think that would come higher than passing in the OOA.

I would like to say, I passed the clock to Gears. Then, in my PM @Sart said I passed it to the thief. But that obviously isn’t right since STINK just won as thief.

3 hours ago, Archer said:

Time for whatever this is:

  Reveal hidden contents

 

Day One:

Vote Count:
Dannex (6): Ashbringer, Burnt Spaghetti, Illwei, Matrim's Dice, Quinn0928, Ventyl
Matrim's Dice (4): FlyingBooks, StrikerEZ, TJ Shade, Devotary of Spontaneity
Gears (3): Araris Valerian, Kasimir, STINK
Illwei (1): Archer
Random Bystander (1): Mist

(last vote cast) Ventyl: I have been thoroughly persuaded. Matrim’s Dice Danex Edit; Would rather lynch an inactive than some one who I’ve been flip-flopping on.

Day Two:

Pre-Non-Reveal:

Illwei (4): Ashbringer, Striker, Archer, Ventyl 

Archer (6): Matrim, Random Bystander, Kas, TJ, Araris, STINK, Quinn

Flyingbooks(1): Mist

Post reveal, Illwei switched to Ventyl briefly. Must have been a fright.

Vote Count Final:
Matrim's Dice (6): Quinn0928, Flyingbooks, Araris Valerian, TJ Shade, Devotary of Spontaneity, Kasimir
Illwei (6): Ashbringer, Ventyl, StrikerEZ, Random Bystander, Condensation, Matrim's Dice
Archer (2): Lotus, STINK
Flyingbooks (1): Mist
Ventyl (1): Alvron

Ventyl cancelled a vote on Matrim. TJ bribed mine to Mat. Illwei cancelled my vote.

Lotus voted on me post-claim.

Day Three:

Vote Count:
Condensation (6): Kasimir, TJ Shade, Illwei, Archer, Devotary of Spontaneity, StrikerEZ (correct order)
Gears (2): Araris Valerian, STINK
Illwei (1): Ventyl
Lotus (1): Shard of Reading

Ventyl voted when Connie had 2 votes on them.

Striker early voted on Ventyl, then moved to Connie very late. Both are elims.

Day Four:

Vote Count:
The Unknown Order (8): Kasimir, TJ Shade, Ashbringer, VENTYL PUT ONE HERE, LATER PULLED, Araris Valerian, Gears, Shard of Reading, Flyingbooks, Devotary of Spontaneity (order is correct)
Gears (3): Mist, The Unknown Order, StrikerEZ
Devotary of Spontaneity (1): Lotus
Ventyl (1): Archer
StrikerEZ (1): Ventyl

 

 

-If TJ or Kas flip elim, sus the other, because recently, they have been in lockstep. They were first and second on both elim exes. I think that clears them.

-If I tunnel on elim!Ventyl, their D1 vote was to prevent an info kill and make Mat look sus for the CW, D2/3 they voted village!Illwei, and D4 they vote Striker, notably instead of Connie or TUO.

-If Araris is an elim, Gears isn’t an elim because of how much they’ve focused on them.

-Devo’s playstyle makes their votes NAI unless they break a tie because they mostly add to wagons that will go through with or without them. I’m having a hard time reading them. Mist is RNGing.

-Show of hands, who thinks that zero elims voted on D1 besides Ventyl with ten minutes to go? No one? Cool. That means our suspect list is Ashbringer, Burnt, Flyingbooks, Striker, Devo, Araris, and Mist. Removing Mist and Devo since I can’t read them.  

-On D3, we’ve got a 4 villager pile-up on Connie, so they were a lost cause. Striker’s vote is NAI because they could be bussing. The elim CW option was Illwei, per Ventyl’s vote. Ashbringer, Burnt, Flyingbooks, and Mist didn’t weigh in, which I find more incriminating than Araris’ Gears vote. If Ventyl is an elim, I don’t understand why Striker voted on them. That’s why I’m hesitant to exe Striker.

-On D4, Ventyl’s vote marks the moment the elims start bussing. So Flyingbooks and Araris could have been bussing. Alternatively, the CW option was Gears, which had Striker on it.

-My gut says Ashbringer’s D4 vote was too early for an elim. Why bus when there’s two votes on them? Otherwise, they went after v!Illwei and then were silent on D3, which speaks volumes. But they led the Dannex CW which I don’t see an elim doing.

-Flyingbooks voted Matrim, then no one on D2 when no elim was up for exe until the Non reveal, then no one D3 when Connie was in trouble, and was in bus position D4. This record isn’t great, so I think they’re my best sus at the moment.

-Burnt doesn’t feel very engaged, so having trouble reading them too. My guess is if they were PM spidering for the elims we’d have had more chaos by now, and not being invested is a village thing.

-Sus list of who the D1 voting elim is: (most to least) Flyingbooks, Araris, Striker. I'll vote Ventyl tomorrow though first. 

 

And just to put it out there, if Ventyl is a lost cause to the elims, I believe they will submit the NK. No sense wasting someone else getting scanned doing it. Can we block that with a Line of Vigor or watch with a Line of Making?

Bold Mine. 

I’m giving the Clock away. If you block me, then I keep it...? Also, why are you planning on voting me first if Books is your most suspicious and I’m not even listed? Getting mad elim vibes from this. Reads a lot like an elim looking for an easy mis-CM in my opinion.

2 minutes ago, StrikerEZ said:

There is literally no reason for you to use it tonight. Lotus already used an acid last turn and the chalkling horde is at only 1 strength right now. Can someone please scan Ventyl with a crab to see if he still has it by the end of the night? I can't use mine tonight because I'm passing that bribe to Stink. If Ventyl doesn't have the crab anymore after tonight, then someone should come forward and say they got it. If not, I say we grinch Ventyl because he almost certainly used it or passed it to an elim.

Why would I pass to an elim? I don’t even know who the elims are...  unless Gears counts because he claimed elim.

Anyways, want me to pass it to Kas?

10 hours ago, StrikerEZ said:

Someone took the clock from me. We know it’s not Stink or Ash. @Ventyl care to explain why you used your Revocation Specialization to take the clock from me? This assumes neither of Devo or Araris or whoever ended up with Archer’s Specialization N3 got Revocation.

I took the clock from you because you’re suspicious. I plan on using it tonight.

2 hours ago, The Unknown Order said:

One time I drew a LoW, another (today) I completely forgot and didn't submit any action, I'm taking another map today, and I'm going to use both on consecutive nights. I don't have many suspicions, but I could maybe put together a list.

OH my... this is uhh, very suspicious. Okay, seeing this, I’d rather CM The Unknown Order in favor of Striker. Though, @StrikerEZ please give me a detailed explanation about the whole thief thing, cause you know I’m not good at figuring stuff like that out.

EDIT;

400th post! yay

2 hours ago, Archer said:

Okay, I misremembered what you did again. Checking my post, you actually tried to kill Illwei! Bad! Much sus! 

VC, just to have it, asterisks on people with no reasons:

Striker: Gears, Araris, Ventyl

Gears: Mist*, Striker, TUO*

TUO: Kas, TJ

Ventyl, did you say to Striker that Connie was a thief or the Thief? An Elim would be happy to let their teammate appear to be the neutral. 

I told Striker I thought Connie was the Thief due to some things they said in PMs. Striker said they weren’t. 

Also, why would elim!me point out that I’m suspicious because of my vote on Illwei?

edit:

Furthermore, why would my fellow elims do something that would implicate me in such a way?

14 hours ago, Archer said:

Counter proposal: if you got the clock, shoot me a PM and use it tonight. I'd hate for it to be hoarded then stolen. I'll confirm someone says they'll do it, then no one will need to draw lines. The advantage of this is it's unlikely they will be roleblocked. As a request though, please, no one deny you have the clock. Let's keep it ambiguous. 

Illwei was an interesting choice. I'd started calling them strong village in my reads, but it provides us more info than killing a random low poster would. Now I'm paranoid it was a setup to make Ventyl look good. If anyone re reading the thread sees someone shifted to supporting Illwei in the last two rounds, call it out. Striker comes to mind, if I'm remembering things right. 

I'll probably grab the acid. It's about time I helped defend the camp. The gun would be an unfortunate thing for converted!me to have in my possession. 

Last night I taught someone a specialization. 

Edit: I am suspicious of anyone who 'forgets to take an action'. It's a good cover for using chalk in nefarious ways. So save yourself the suspicion and taaaake your acccctions

How does Illwei’s removal make me look good?

Anyways, in a PM with Striker, he did try to defend Connie against my allegations of being a thief. Saying he knew they weren’t one. This seems rather suspicious in hindsight... I’m hesitant about killing him, but I think he’s a better option than Gears, who seems TWTBW in my opinion.

29 minutes ago, Illwei said:

 

[1] Man, why you focused on me here? I'm not the first one to say you look suspicious because of that. Ignoring the fact that we didn't see it before, why did you respond to me here in particular?

[2] Can i get

some

delicious reasoning

[1] I quoted you only because you were the last person to mention it when I made the post.

[2] I have said my reasoning before. And just like I don’t believe some of reasonings for the contradictions you made, you can not like my reason too.

I not think Gears is an elim, because unless I’ve missed something, they haven’t really done anything to be considered suspicious. All they’ve done is claim elim, which at this point is normal for them.

I’m still wary of Illwei, and would not be against killing them today. I really don’t see any better targets. Whether that’s because I haven’t been paying too much attention to this game lately or not, I don’t know.