Ashbringer

I'll take a spec doc!

I’m… mark me as busy until July, I will maybe be free enough to play but not to run. (Plus summertime I’ll have time to Shard Game possibly)

Cindra didn't even help Makazi bake anything This is called "Ash realized he could do something with about 2 hours remaining in the turn" I realized the test would need to be D3 but too late to change it. Mostly it was checking who had Keaton, assuming that there was no way both Burnt and Doc would be Elim. But also it was supposed to rob a redirect. Also, had I not gotten NKed, Circus Mask would help extra check, but I was... well... ... turns out you can insert GIFs into google docs Behold! The entire L1 dead doc! Oh you guys figured that out before we did. It's a little ironic the thing that convinced Wahr I was telling the truth was the PM I'd sent to E!Doc though I got... very invested. Partially because I wanted to fix my micro-disaster of my mayoral campaign. Partially because at that point my IRL mental was stuck (end of semester experiments go brrr) Also people didn't keep pinging Wonko after he died

I'm pretty sure I get it. I'd figured out that if I bought either silver-rupee Masks I'd just get NKed before I could use either of them. Which meant my options for a D1D (heh) were either 1) try Mayoring everything out before my death, 2) preventing my death, or 3) just going Dingo and seeing what everyone else would do. Mayoring would suck, especially because my loop N1C Mayoring went so well, but also because I knew to some degree what to do differently - force people to buy masks in D1 to identify who was getting which, and that's... lame. Also because it would involve keeping Burnt alive until Final Day so we weren't stuck on a 50/50 then, which would also suck to try and accomplish and for Burnt. Oh, also I'd be dead again, and... well, if you read the loop 3 dead doc you can see how much trying to wrangle a village through Hael's translations and the wild tinfoil theories of suspicious villagers and deflecty elims sucks. (Seriously, why is believing there was a secret ghost Captain Elim in the L1 Dead Doc easier than maybe Ashbringer is actually doing something ) Preventing my death would suck, because I would need to grab Stone, and if I were doing things optimally probably also grab the other defensive Masks (Romani) to know for sure that we wouldn't get blindsided by an Elim that just didn't die D3, and then I've just made myself immortal, which means I'm stuck Mayoring whether I like it or not. Also I still don't get the fun 100-Rupee Masks. Then option 3 is just dropping a vote on Mist and just RPing the entire time I was alive (ie going Dingo, which I'm realizing many people weren't here for). Which despite knowing the village was winning, I still went for, because... man I'm tired and I spent half the game in a dead doc But this day working how it did is kinda an example of why Loop 4 would be broken - the Village has everything it needed to figure out the Elim team, minus Coco/Twin and without my help. Played normally it would just be this over 10 days while the Elims juggle control masks and the Village juggle protective masks and neither side can really control the outcome of those, and with many decisions they could make premade for them. (Except Stone Mask. Hence why Stone Mask is really the only mech problem I have with the game - that thing is too dang strong lol)

I got a sliver! Sort of! Through AraRaash thievery and asking Aman nicely!

This is why we don't elect Ashbringer the Lategamer as Mayor I don't think I managed to say one correct thing in that entire post and yet it still worked kind of almost But also I didn't particularly trust any of you. I trusted you most, but also you had the most capacity of Doc/Burnt/Mist to be thread-control-running. Which you almost did. I'm sure we'll get more into that per Aftermathy things but whoo boy

... welp

Well then, only one choice left to make - ... Twinstorm.

It had been a long time since Rashe had well and truly stolen something. Well, he hadn't exactly stolen it. He'd paid for the Great Fairy Mask, leaving his blood-earned Rupees behind in the vault the Happy Mask Salesman had hidden. The Mask Salesman didn't look exactly Happy with this bargain, but Rashe supposed that this would be the first time he'd heard about it. But Coliver. She looked at him, trying to process what a human or Zora mind should not. "How did you... why did you... you..." Rashe looked down at the Mask. It was such a simple thing, really. Where he came from Masks had symbolic value, but not particularly powers. But the power to bring back the dead... that was a power that was hard to come by. In fact, he'd only truly held it once.... Once. Long ago, before his strife. So, so long ago. He could use it. It wouldn't fix things, but it would be one step in the staircase that he knew had an ending somewhere in that great infinity. Or he could bring Cindra back, the one he'd killed. Thistle, the one who'd died. Maybe, perhaps, Majora... though why he'd make that choice he'd have to find out when it happened. That was the problem with bad choices. They usually seemed like a good idea at the time. Then an idea came to him. This was his first time around, he'd already gotten what he'd come to find... and he'd found someone who knew a bit more about him than he thought he'd tell in a very long time. "Coliver. I want to show you something. Something else," he whispered, really whispered, this time. A whisper that only Coliver could hear. A whisper that carried the sound of ringing tin, and the faintest music from Ap's ocarina, and the echo of the eye. "What?" Coliver said, clearly beyond the point of... caring. Well, maybe this would change that. "What it looks like to lose," Rashe said simply. And then, for a moment, they were on another world. Then the moment passed, as all moments do. Coliver said nothing, at first. Rashe did the same. "... what did I say?" she finally asked. "I don't know," Rashe said, truthfully. "That's my curse. The curse of the multiverse, the curse of decisions... you chose to die, to save them. You chose to let the world stay as it was, to end your story. You refused all choices and ran for the fire. That one's probably going to happen a lot, to be honest." Coliver was shaking. "I... I... I don't understand." "That's the nice thing about choices," Rashe said, standing, placing the Mask above his head. "You don't need to understand. You just have to make one. I'll see you, Coliver." Rashe activated the Great Fairy Mask. Power flowed into him... into the him who was AraRaash... and into his body... And he smiled.

So you're saying I don't need to filibuster my vote in order to fit more RP in

Coliver watched from the ground. No one seemed to bother her. They knew she'd been killed by the Dreamers too many times to be one. But that they'd been there... all this time... all she could do was watch. Watch as Rashe himself cut Cindra down for the crime of having killed him the loop before. Watched Mee grabbed and pummeled. Watched Thistle - Thistle - create a bouquet of farewells and leave the room, and Amora drag her limp body back in tears. Watched now, as the screaming surrounded Mumbo. It wasn't screaming, per se. The Happy Mask Salesman had set an example. It was methodical, even by some means polite. Not much emotion reached the mouths of the participants, though some had tears running down their cheeks. Others had eyes of stone. The killers. Rashe. Kieran, perhaps. The Mask Salesman, no longer pretending to keep the first third of his namesake. If Mumbo died, it'd be over. No, it was already over. That was the point, right? That they'd won? Coliver wondered who they were, that had won. And suddenly Rashe wasn't standing with the others, hand on his sword. He'd moved, just as fast as that other time. Now he was crouched beside her, giving a smile. Not one of kindness, but one of understanding... or if Coliver tilted her head, one of having gotten away with something he should not have. "Hey. Hey, Coliver. Look what I found," he said, not bothering to whisper. In his hands was a Mask with the face of a Fairy.

Wait I still need to RP

Believe him

(Are the Wayward actually killing the people we’re exeing here? Or just menacing them into not releasing Majora? Rashe isn’t above just cutting someone down, but also he’s not going to just do that if that’s not the consensus)

Operation Siracha saves the day?

Rashe’s fingers rested lightly on the counter, then crawled over the flute, rolling and weighing the instrument with some care. ”I’ve read stories of the types of civilizations that use blowdarts. Effective if you can’t be seen, enough to get close. I’ve even heard of some who use simple winds to hold and shoot darts, then carry on their tune.” Rashe didn’t look at Cindra. He didn’t need to, not even for appearances. Even if part of him was stretching the depths of his memory, mimicking some long-lost conversation. Was the heft right? It was a true flute, which would make a difficult dartgun… but with a thin enough bolt, it was possible… But that wasn’t really what mattered, was it? Rashe turned to Cindra. Flute in one hand, sword in the other. Technically, he didn’t know what the Happy Mask Salesman intended with his former compatriots. But they’d tried to kill his daughter, and they’d succeeding in killing Rashe. Several times. People earned worse fates for better. And the old part of him, the part that was AraRaash at his beginning, was eager to deal out fate. But that wasn’t really what mattered, was it? ”I cannot fault trying to wake from a nightmare, but every choice you make can cause… damage. What choice were you making that night? Was that dart meant for Ap? For me? For someone else?” Rashe’s eyes flickered. Coliver hadn’t reacted to it. He wondered how much she knew. What he’d done, and why. And what he may still do. Too much. She knew, and it was too much. Hopefully she would handle what more she had to say. His eyes finally met Cindra’s, weighing the objects and their meanings. ”And what choice do you make now?”

The third button ("Page") on the left! I think its functionality changed at some point, it used to make a somewhat nonfunctional line as a page break, but now it does this, which is kinda handy... especially if you're me and have technically 5 RP characters at once Oi, Dingo here, RP is definitely more important than winning Elim Games And I was wondering if you got that part about Makazi! ... I was also wondering why you NKed me N1 and then pinged me randomly D2 anyway, speaking of Dingo

Coliver's knees were starting to buckle. It wasn't the revelation of the Dreamers. She'd put that together. If not motivations, that someone present here had arranged for the events of these past few three days. She'd put that together as soon as she'd come back to life from having her heart ripped from her chest the second time. No, something else was becoming apparent. She'd lived. She'd survived... and yet she wasn't sure she'd deserved it. Because Rashe died, and some last sliver of Coliver broke with it. She'd survived. Stood on the sidelines. When the Zora were in danger... her people... she stood back. It made sense. Heroically throwing herself into a swarm of ghosts that had just decapitated the Happy Mask Salesman who had led them here would have been stupid, right? That wouldn't leave her alive very long. But then again, neither would throwing herself in between Ap and a barrage of light arrows. It had been Rashe and the other spirits, somehow, who had stopped the pirates. He'd been looking at her. Why had he been looking at her? She hadn't died. She hadn't found something revolutionary, she hadn't saved Ap... and they'd won the Mask. Without her. Coliver didn't even think she'd heard the song that night; Makazi didn't seem to remember. Rashe told her to live. Coliver didn't think what she'd done was what he meant. She couldn't do this again. She couldn't. Rashe's knees did not buckle. It wasn't the death. He was used to that. Even dying and having what spirit he had act as a strange anti-Pirate defense mechanism wasn't... entirely unheard of. But this... this room, this accusation, this acquisition... That he knew. That he knew far too well. Rashe stretched out his hand, and his glowing sword faded into existence. "I do hope I won't need this. But," he paused. "It does seem the proper time?"

Okay, Mayor Ashbringer it is. Or Thread Master Ashbringer. Or Captain Ashbringer. Although I couldn't grab the Captain's Hat again, so maybe Lieutenant Ashbringer, because we're going to war games. There are three (possibly four) Elims within the group of Coco, Hael, Doc, Burnt, Mist, and Hoid. There are zero to one Elims within the group of TJ, Stick, Wonko, Drake, Divergent, and Archer. Pretty obvious which group we should focus on, IMO, but worth noting that someone in that group is probably evil. There is one (possibly two) Elims within the group of Burnt and Mist who submitted or didn't submit the NK. There is also one Elim within the group of Burnt, Mist, and Doc who has the Stone Mask and cannot be Exed. And I'm pretty sure it's Mist. Meaning I'm pretty sure Burnt is Village, because I don't see a reason for the Elims to create that crossfire, and meaning I'm pretty sure Doc is Village because I think E!Doc would have said he'd gone for the Stone Mask rather than pretending that he would just let me have it. Also because E!Stone!Doc would absolutely suck to try and war game through, so I'm not doing it. So, Mist is Elim. Burnt is Village. Doc is Village. Or maybe I'm wrong, and Burnt is the Elim with the Stone Mask and Mist/Doc are Village (even though I think that'd be unlikely). Or maybe Doc is the Elim with the Stone Mask and Mist/Burnt are Village (even though I think that'd be... well, something would have to be majorly wrong, but something already is majorly wrong. So.) Does it matter? Either way, this pool has at least one Elim we can't possibly Execute, and also likely one-to-two Villagers we can't afford to execute. Especially since they're now also our best options for getting some of the Masks to fight back, something the Elim with the Stone Mask won't be able to do. So in my opinion, we leave that alone and don't touch it. We can try and use votes and PMs to track down who has the Stone Mask, which can help us for Loop 4, but we don't exe in that pool now. So! There is 1 Elim in Burnt/Mist/Doc, and we can't Exe them. Ignore them, instead. There are 2 (or 3) Elims within Coco, Hael, and Hoid. Coco's dead. Hoid has been a ghost for most of the game. I would exe Hael next. Hoid after, unless something changes with the Keaton Project. The alternative is to vote Mist up with Hael in second, so that if the exe bounces off E!Stone!Mist it at least lands on Hael, but the issue with that is if Mist is Village, then we just exe Village Mist with no real reward. The other issue is controlling who's in second place for the Exe while dodging vote manipulation, hammering, and missing players sounds about as fun as trying to math out a win with the Diety Mask. Side note, I fully expect to be stabbed by a poison dart tonight and then for half-to-none of this to get followed, in which case @The Unknown Medallion and @Wahrheitswächter, good luck! Don't let Doc run you over. You've received instructions. Also, if you're Village and think your info will help us win, send it to a Confirmed Villager Near You! (Also side note, I apologize if I've been snappy or outright rude this Night turn / past few turns, I've been trying to figure out why my mood has been so off and I'm not really sure why... too many reasons, most of them nothing to do with this. Also I'm not good at Mayoring or I would have thought of this earlier.)

Rashe watched the group fracturing. It was inevitable. Every world he visited, every place, every town... almost never a timeloop, but this was familiar. Trust compounding into belief, belief decaying into treachery. Right now it was just physical - they were splitting up, at a time when no one should be splitting up. But the other signs were there. Amora was gone, and Rashe somehow didn't think it was the Dreamers alone who had gotten to her. Not that he voiced his concerns, not yet. He had another task. Several, in fact. -

I'm grabbing Circus. And I'd rather have it myself, rather than someone yoink it from me again. That lets me check at least one person. Mist grabs Gibdo. Burnt+Doc grab Keaton. Partially because I want to avoid one specific scenario. Partially because I trust Mist the least and Gibdo is at least somewhat provable. Partially because of something you'll each hear about hopefully soon. (Partially because I forgot we don't see what masks are bought during the Night...)

If you get NKed by the Elim team after being put in a 50:50 Elim and a 30:30:30 Stone, I'll eat my hat. ... speaking of which, who has my hat? Someone's the Captain this time. (Don't answer that. Unless you want to PM me the answer, in which case I'll take it.)

Unfortunately, “not going to say which” isn’t a Purple I can prove you have. Keaton is, though. And conviniently gives you access to that redirect you’re worried about

Actually? Better idea. @Mistfallen Soldier, grab the Gibdo Mask please!

@Doc12, @Burnt Spaghetti, if you could go for the Keaton Mask, that would be appreciated.