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A fact to which the laws of the universe agreed with, sparingly.

*Breathes sigh of relief* The only problem is.... now what? You would think to go for BR, but I scanned them last cycle- they are a Gossip. Not an extortionist. Now I don’t know what to do. I am open to suggestions. Joe, there are 6 awake players, the same as yesterday, so keeping 24 hour turns seems okay.

Pretty sure we're all thinking one is village and one is elim based on how contradictory they are to each other, though they both just as easily could be confused villagers. Signing off for the night.

Hi, welcome back! I do remember seeing your tremendous post count and bright pink octopus around, in the month I've been on the Shard. I completely agree... multiple times I have wished it was an ordinary texting emoji both in normal phone messaging and on the platform my school uses for homework. Same! Windrunner 75% Edgedancer 74%

And as such Forty-Eleven Fish was still living, if only barely, inside the shark's digestive system Also, here is a Hemalurgic Headshot quote from page 1 of the thread, just over 2 years ago *laughs in 1043 pages*

Elim vote manip is a possibility! Consider that (also I am not planning on impersonating or smuggling a vote- so whatever the elims do, whether that be nothing or something, happens.) Edit: Ninja'd by Xino- I hope so too.

Really? I thought it was fine. The higher the score, the more 'Alley cat' that order is. Windrunner on the bottom makes sense as they are the protect order- guard dog- and Lightweaver at the top makes sense as well for the most alley cat of them all. I think the rest of the orders fit as well, with edgedancer and stoneward protecting, we can see from Lift's oaths that this makes sense, and Dustbringer and Willshaper make sense to be the Alley cats.

Let's all keep in mind this cycle ends in 6 hours instead of 18

True …But do you mean half a cycle as in 'that's a lot of time still' or 'that's barely anything'?

I could see a situation where elim!Karnage is trying to protect elim!Ash. But this whole thing is kinda weird, don't you agree?

Well, the elims would have vote manip via impersonator but if that's Zillah they are inactive right now As for Joe being troll, I can definitely see that in the whole 'bleeder also a gambling tycoon' thing....

That's what I mean. Me and Ventyl are in whisper. Ventyl offered alliance to SHOUTY-SHOUT. Now I am siding with Ash over Ventyl, and Ash is in SOUTY-SHOUT

Yeah, Ash is just referring to Ventyl offering an alliance between the groups and then now I put out some potentially outing info on Ventyl.

Well I'm not framing anybody but I'm pointing out some information that seemed useful. whispery whisper was never my idea to begin with, so I honestly don't care about it as much as I do of finding elims.

So I feel like I can say this now that we're all spilling Ventyl's secrets. Ventyl has the whispery whisper inc. or whatever, and basically it's focus is to... out Ash as an elim. I honestly don't see it and it mostly made me more suspicious of Ventyl. This increases that in that the whole thing is just really weird.

Here I am with analysis on Bugsy's theory that the elims have one of each role. There are 10 roles, and supposedly 8 elims. I'm assuming the elims don't have a bartender or a gambling tycoon. So far, the elim record has been this: Straw- Renowned Fura- Gossip Pyro- Stalker Reading- Smuggler Silber- Escort This means, according to Bugsy, that there is an impersonator, a bodyguard, and an extortionist left. Impersonator: Zillah. Already suspected. Bodyguard: Experience. Already confirmed thanks to Kyne, the question lies in the faction Extortionist: This is where things get tricky. At first it would seem that it can't be BR from inactivity, but with a quick profile check @BrightnessRadiant is proven to not be inactive on the Forums. Last visited: Yesterday at 8:36 AM. So I am proposing that BR has been submitting actions the entire game. This also explains why Joe has said nothing about a pinch-hitter even though he replied fairly quickly about Hammond and Dot.

Could Araris have chosen a successor without killing themselves? @StrikerEZ

Flying paper makes a duck

Matrim sat in the corner of the room, hat over his eyes, thinking and drinking. He had studied the last few hours of the night, the ones bleeding into morning, with everything he had. He saw the kills happen, and saw them now again flashing before his eyes. He saw Lord Penrod, an old friend, be slaughtered. He saw Locke Tekiel who had advised him on multiple occasions fall dead before him. And he saw his dear friend, who went under the name of Lord Karn, his faithful bodyguard, be ruthlessly murdered by a crazed assassin that, thankfully, had now been dealt with. It was unfortunate they had turned out to be impersonating Lord Laborn, of all the people Matrim knew that seemed like a personal insult. He stood, brushing the dust that had settled off his trousers. No more would he hide his identity. It was time for the party to know. Matrim cleared his throat. “Attention.” he said, raising a hand. The group that was more than half the size it was nine hours ago stopped and turned. “I have an announcement to make. We have won a great victory this past hour, dealing with the assassin that threatened me and my brother’s government.” Whispers broke out, as far as any of the other guests knew, Matrim was just another lucky low-class Lord fortunate enough to have received an invitation. Matrim smiled, looking out from under the brim of his hat. “I see no reason not to share with all you my secret.” He stood tall, relishing the confused looks on the partygoers faces. “I would like to formally thank you for participating in my auction, though it did perhaps get a bit bloody. Now that the assassin has at last been vanquished, I believe we have some work to do regarding some hidden constables among the crowd. Shall we?” Good Morning everybody! Hour Nine is upon us and the village has – finally- secured this win. I am most certainly glad about this. (Thanks, BTW, to everyone for clearing my suspicions on Sart awhile back [especially Kyne]). Lord Winsting Innate at your service! So, Sart said that he thought Winsting was one of the inactives. Go figure. You know, when Pyro said in C5 that he has a whole speech planned if he dies, I laughed out loud. This has been written/changed since C4. If there are inaccuracies (hint: there will be inaccuracies) that’s because this speech has existed for 6+ cycles and A LOT has happened in those 12+ days. The tone of this will be off, that’s why. I see no reason not to claim, and I hope this isn’t too controversial. It allows me to get general information out to everybody aside from PMing, and since I claimed earlier five cycles ago to Pyro the elims already know who I am. This will only benefit the village. It also will help me not get mislynched, even though really the only person who has been suspicious of me is HH, and he’s long dead. (Though DeTess has recently, a little bit. They died as well. ) Now that Bleeder is out of the picture, even though some part of me feels bad for Bugsy, the game is now solely on dispersing the party once the elims are rooted out. Of the 11 remaining people, I think I have a pretty good list compiled made with my own instincts and easter egg slips from Pyro. Thanks, by the way. In replying to the claim PM I sent Pyro C4, he said that the elim’s top Bleeder suspects were Sart, TGK, Coda, and HH. As Bugsy turned out to be correct, not even one of those choices, all four must not be elims themselves unless there is some crazy trolling going on. So TGK and Coda are clear with HH and Sart being dead. That only leaves 8 people to be elims, when you exclude me. BR is read elim widely around everything. I doubt Megasif is elim, they have been trying really hard to help the village and generally being agreeable, as well as being a Gambling Tycoon. Also, though I don’t really think this matters all that much, the person Mega replaced had 1 post, total. So I doubt they’re an elim. Looking at our elim possibilities left, we have Experience, Zillah, Archivist, Mist, Xino and Emi. I had it in my head of a Striker/Emi team but Striker was village. Mist has been mostly NAI to me throughout the game so I’ll stick them in the village pile for the sake of numbers and gut reads. Experience and Zillah have been not that active so it is hard to get a read on them. Orlok read Experience as evil and I’ll lean on trusting that, as he was a village scanner in addition to being really really good at this game, also Experience read trust on me for seemingly no reason- maybe they knew my identity from the elim doc. Also worth noting is that they never voted on Bleeder, as the elims liked having Bleeder as a weapon. Archivist I’ve gut-read village, Xino as well, I figured if he wasn’t Bleeder he wasn’t elim. Finally, Zillah has been suspected before. Really I have no other reason. My best guess on the complete elim team, in decreasing order of suspicion, is as follows (though you’ve all already seen it (the old version), dang it, I was saving it for this dramatic reveal): Straw, Fura, Pyro, Reading, Silber, BR, Experience and Zillah, making a total of 8 elims (5 confirmed and dead) with 3 more to get rid of. If this list is accurate Experience is the only awake elim. Let’s go, guys. I hope this shed some light on some things. In the hopefully unoccuring event that someone doubts my claim, I invite the real Winsting to step forward. As I have pointed out there is no reason to hide now. No one? Exactly. It’s me, and believe me no one is as surprised as I am. Let’s keep in mind I have access to all the abilities. I was given the impersonator role in my original GM PM and used it only to test the water. C1 I attempted to move Reading’s vote to see if anyone noticed but was blocked by an escort. C2 I moved Coda’s vote from Straw to Pyro again just to see if anyone noticed, and Devotary/wilson/TJ did. C3 I didn’t do anything. C4... well by then I was Winsting. I extortionized Sart and made him Bleeder-kill himself, trusting the hunch. Bus someone escorted me again. Whichever villager this was (it might have been Silber, actually) kinda screwed things up for me, even though Sart is village. C5 I extortionized Sil, directing a kill to Bugsy on request from Devotary but even though that came back in my GM PM as a success it didn’t happen in the writeup. C6 I extortionally self-Bleeder-killed Xino, that had no effect. C7 I exorted Bugsy to Bleeder-kill Devotary (I’ll explain this choice during aftermath) but thankfully was escorted again- but it didn’t matter. C8 I impersonated a vote to get the tie. Any ideas on who I should scan this cycle? PM me! I’ve got ideas but we’ll see. I invite any village bodyguards- if there are any left- to protect me. Me having all the abilities along with PM’s from Pyro to search through makes me pretty valuable to the village team. Village bodyguard(s) feel free to PM me and I will PM whoever it to protect me that cycle, or something like that, using only one each. In this way my scanner roles can be preserved as long as possible. In the words of the late Pyro, spoken C4, long ago when the game was almost normal, “Let the best faction win.” It’s game on, folks. I think we have a good chance to pull this one off. -Matrim’s_Dice, Lord Winsting Innate PS: wilson hereby is gifted my latest masterpiece, the Woman in Ash painting, as compensation for her lost leatherbounds. PPS: Experience

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Wait, so you’re suspecting Kandra!me because of something I did before Araris died? That doesn’t make any sense. Edit: Oh, apparently Araris chose who the next Kandra is. I don’t understand their mechanics, I guess.

A Storm is coming. Give me an hour. Edit, after the storm post below: I was feeling dramatic

How the heck would the Kandra win? If the elims reach majority they win. The village wins if the elims are dead. Does the Kandra need to be dead for the village to win @StrikerEZ? I don't see any other way the Kandra could be the last player standing. Turning in for the night, more stuff coming tomorrow, RP and analysis and the like.

WAIT A MINUTE hold up people that was quick. One of each alignment killed in one night? Wow. Lemme read the posts and the Kandra rules and everything before I say any analysis.