Mat

I'm unable to edit any aspect of my profile (I wanted to change my Member Title, and then tried to edit my About Me to test if it would work). Both things sent me to an error page with a "try again" message. I'm on a laptop, in microsoft edge because I'm too lazy to transfer everything to chrome lol I'm also on school WiFi atm, which I don't think has anything to do with it as it's never blocked the shard before and I'm able to post, but idk.

It’s alright, because the other investiture I had lined up was JNV and they didn’t give it to me either :P. When I said that I had four, uh, that was a lie :P. :P. :P. I also lied about self protecting, I actually protected you. Obviously :P. Brilliant from me >> Not that it would have mattered.

You underestimate how many people are inactive Anniversary games run around New Year’s.

I’m trying to suppress that tell, it’s not supposed to be helpful >> But yeah, I think it was worse because I didn’t really have anywhere else concrete to go :P. I mean, we did exe TKN, it just didn’t do anything. If we had figured out how to kill him I at the very least would have village read you which would have been useful and we might have been able to PoE our way down to JNV.

My library system is spectacular

I wish I could say I had a good experience this game. Truth is I didn’t, but I guess they all can’t be fun. I have a lot I could say about the game design, but I’ll choose not to and trust that Szeth / the IMs know what I would say. GGs to JNV for pocketing me, but I can’t say I approve of TKN’s elim play there. I don’t believe the inactivity was completely unintentional and I think that’s overly scummy, but what can you do. Sorry to Araris again— if it’d been a normal game, I would have v read you cause TKN would have died, so maybe that’s consolation? Glad I correctly read Archer, Aeoryi, and Frustration, at least by the end. So it wasn’t a complete me failure. I just didn’t have enough to work with. Also, shoutout to the new site version having a billion more emotes lol For a second I thought the old ones were gone but the code still works. Too bad I don’t remember all of those.

Okay wow the new forum on mobile is actually crazy um okay In other news, I can’t think of what else would fit :P.

Ah so I was right about that being the Dawnshard clue

We got a new band director last year and he's AMAZING. Our program has like exponentially grown in community recognition and skill level within just the last year. We only do marching in the spring for parades, but we play pep at every home football and basketball games and do two concerts a year + whatever else we're asked to do just by places around my county. It's pretty cool to see. A couple of weeks ago, just in the time we did warm-ups, our band director got two separate calls both asking the band to come play for a thing. But yeah, that's sad for you Still fun though, I'm sure

I play piano for jazz band, euphonium for concert band, and trumpet for pep/marching band. I'm also on a quest to learn as many instruments as possible before I graduate so I also can play trombone, with alto sax and french horn on my next-to-learn list. Our band is really small (1A school moment) but we're actually really good for the size; we've played some grade 5 stuff (with 7 being the highest, college-level music).

I wonder why. Maybe because no one is voting. Or posting. Wonder what we could do about that (Please don’t read that as passive aggressive, it’s not meant to be, but the irony here is funny to me) That’s why I keep begging for you three to pick it up. I can’t make reads when there’s nothing to read, and the game becomes unwinnable because I need to vote somewhere, and I start seeing shadows in situations like Araris.

I just mean that you’re the only other player being active and making reads. Thanks :P.

The frustrating thing for me is that you are the only elim I’d be cool with describing that way. Everyone else is just too inactive. A good elim doesn’t flake, a good elim is active and trusted. There’s a difference there imo edit: Oh also Aeoryi I’d definitely say that too but I just think they’re village lol

Funny that you say this and still say you suspect me tbh

irony alert lolllololol honestly don’t care anymore though, feeling disheartened about my play because it appears I cannot village anymore I mean I never was great at it but I feel like I used to be able to read with any accuracy at all. Also there’s just no way the RPing is a real thing like absolutely no chance that’s affecting anything

I don’t think anyone RPd the previous nights. Haven’t checked though.

Sighhhhhh sorry @Araris Valerian, I hope my case made sense at least, but I guess I'm just not actually good at this game >> laugh all you want tbh On my way home it occurred to me that e!Araris wouldn't have been exed with that little resistance today (whereas D3.2 I could have seen it) but the resignation and silence today should have been a clue ig. Idk smh. By then it was too late. I will say that if the three elims are TKN/Frustration/Stink I might quit, like that would be so absolutely uncool I can't even Hopefully that's not what's happening. The only one of these that's possible for changing it imo is 1, because 2 is too arbitrary, 3 isn't measurable, and Szeth didn't even know about 4 beforehand. But I think it's much more likely that 3 D3s was a predetermined thing that had nothing to do with anything we did in thread. That's a quite shortsighted way to think about it. You gotta look at my entire play, and you can't ignore the work I've tried to do around this game. I still think my case was good, even if it was wrong. At least I made one. At least I'm trying ;-; I have never played a game where the writeup has hidden info about the gamestate. That's just not a thing. I think part of the problem here is that we play past each other because we have such different views on how this game should be played lol

Why am I first for you? Your vote seemed to be a joke to me.

Engagement activity: Everyone write an ordered list of who'd you kill, top is kill first, bottom is kill last, not including yourself or Szeth. I'll go first. Araris TKN Stink Frustration Mark JNV Aeoryi

Yeah, I don’t think the complaints on Szeth did anything. imo voting Szeth is equivalent to not voting at all

And? I pinged you based on a whole game of very low activity. It's been going for almost two weeks. I'm sorry if I'm coming across as rude, I don't mean to, but I think it's important to understand the general expectation of mafia games. These games simply aren't winnable with the kind of activity we're seeing, not without a whole lot of luck. My only two real reads are on Aeoryi and Araris. It's not a coincidence those are the two other active people. I would say my secondary reads are Mark/JNV-- the former who is decently active, the second who has been active in PMs. If all those people die and the game isn't over, it's literal RNG between you, Stink, and TKN because you guys haven't posted enough content for me to get reads on you. I will say though, I think this exchange has been helpful because I don't think e!you responds to me that way, at least not e!you with a remotely active teammate. We all inherently have one complaint to use over the course of two cycles. All we know is that complaints "remove" a player (theoretically what happened to DeTess) and we think they're maybe why D3 keeps happening. But we don't really know.

You think I don't? :P. I have sooo much outside of it. And I put that first. But I also recognize that by signing up to play, I'm committing to making reads, playing for my wincon, and posting so that others can get reads on me. I don't think that's too much to ask. SE isn't like other RPs-- signing up and then flaking actively hurts the experience for everyone else. I think so, but Araris' vote was a joke that I doubt will stick.

Normally it'd be RNGd among everyone, since it's technically a tie. Dunno if this game specified that. But there's no reason not to vote. We have the same info as we had D3.1 and D3.2, and we need more for this game to actually progress. I don't think there's any world where no one dies to the exe, provided the turn actually ends properly. And I'd much rather have a say in who dies-- I made my Araris case, and think it's solid.

Can you stop voting me You know I'm village