Ashbringer

You should be able to check the timestamp in your PM. Araris okayed that as an info seeking thing.

Kas - I can't see E-Kas letting the Elims win with a whimper instead of a bang, and he's right there's not much he could do about Orlok besides tag them. Then again, idk how much Kas could do about it anyway. (Take care Kas!) TUN - was viewing the thread somewhat and hasn't said anything. Sused early by Striker. Normally I'm pretty good at finding E!TUN, though... Okay with exeing. Archer - needs a specific team. Striker was pushing them quite hard D1. Would rather not exe, on retrospect. Ash - Hi that's me. Maill - Seems to be the only one left suspicious of me, and their readslist doesn't seem to have changed in general. @Mailliw73, why didn't you vote me C2? Okay with exeing Illwei - @Illwei, when and why did you vote Thaid C2? Orlok - Very low activty, nearly fell to filter same with TUN, and has just... been on several exes without too much reason. @Orlok Tsubodai, why'd you pick Striker to vote on C1 over Archer? Preferred exe Both Maill and Orlok were not present in-thread before Striker made his RP analysis post. Idk where to go from here

Byron dashed down the hall. Well, dashed wasn't the right word, seeing as he was walking like he'd had a few too many meads for his 16-year-old body. He could at least see fine, but his legs weren't... listening to him. Too used to trying to counter for every passerby, every curve in the walls, every smidgen of motion that crossed his cadmium bubble. But while the Leecher nurse was willing to give him a cane - or at least just let him take it - they seemed a bit too hesitant to give him a prescription for toxic heavy metals when he'd just woken up from what amounted to an invested coma. He had a bit more cadmium, but this was a rare experience for Byron - walking around without the bubble, but also without any cadmium in his system threatening to melt his insides. And rusts, he could see. His limbs may betray him without the metal, but his eyes and his brain were processing information at a wild speed. He didn't actually know enough to draw much, but he could gather an... energy to the halls. The Spiritual Ward, that's what a sign said. He couldn't tell if the slight tension was just something about a hospital that he hadn't seen enough, or just people in general outside a bubble. But that didn't seem like what it was. It seemed... off. Byron kept moving. A few people were looking at him strangely. A lab coat would be nice, but at least he wasn't wearing a hospital gown. That was the other thing. An inebriated kid... usually that drew attention. It wasn't. There. Something was moving along the corner of the wall. A dark line of ink. It was hard to see, but it shouldn't have gotten that far past that many people. It was going slowly, about walking pace, but it was clearly staying hidden and moving in one direction. Okay... why would a line of ink be heading one way. That was weird. Wait... No. Wait, why was he here? He'd been running... either chasing something or running from something. Maybe a bit of both. But... it wasn't something like this. It was something different. But still. Byron was about to let it be when he turned and saw the second tendril. And then a third. All staying in the edges of the hallways, all heading the same direction. Okay, that was weird. Very weird. He leaned on his cane and started following. Not as fast as he'd like, but faster than he could with cadmium. This was strange enough.

Too Wolf to be a Wolf (or is playing too suspiciously to actually be an Elim trying to hide). I'm personally not a fan of the idea due to... various aspects of my playstyles, but it's one Illwei uses a decent amount.

Is anyone else getting this? Because it sure hasn't seemed like it... Okay you know what. Can everyone just pick their three most suspected players? Forget what everyone else is saying, for now, just pick three you're willing to kill right now. Not two, not four, three. (And Illwei, no messing it up with three most trusted this time )

So I noticed something. Kasimir, you were willing to let inactive Orlok die? Well, if he’d stayed inactive and was Village, we’d probably have lost. Doubt it makes a difference in how much I trust you, but it’s a thought.

Did Archer have a reason for not voting C1?

Cycle 1: Cycle 2: Cycle 3: Okay hang on. The only players not dead who bothered to vote C2 are Kas, Ash, Illwei, Archer. Is there world where the Elims just decide not to vote C2? As Ash the Villager I know there's not an Elim in any danger that pile, but... still. Wow.

Because Striker managed to drill into my mind that Archer's flip gives great insight into my alignment, and vice versa. Who are we sure we don't want to kill? Kas and Bort are the only ones I can really think of as definite not-kill, at least now. (And [Insert-self-here], of course, but that's boring.) @The Unknown Novel, why did you want to make a giant defense wallpost? @Kasimir, @Orlok Tsubodai, you guys around? TBH, I have not gotten many pings off of Exp at all. I'd be okay with TUN, Maill, or Archer.

I can try and engage, but my ideas on Archer are... slightly tainted by Striker. Edit: hi Striker

This would likely be a next-era character instead of something that I bring in now. It’s just with the mecha-Cassie change all of my current characters are extremely vulnerable to Leechers, and I’d like one who isn’t. Plus is just less Invested in general. Duralumin Gnat in particular is interesting, because they’d be really strong with most spikes… but also has a much stronger chance of just becoming a duralumin spike for someone more used to their abilities. Sort of leaning towards A-Copper now anyway, with maybe a Surge Spike or fabrial or something. But someone more skilled than invested.

I... slept through rollover.

Yeah, ash can bring… things. So hypothetical question: how would a character and/or person get recruited into the DA? And if they tried to get recruited, what’s the over/under on them ending up a thouroughly spiked corpse? I want to make a Duralumin Gnat character for some reason.

Hers was life-threatening... Cassie wasn't entirely sure how true that was, or how true it was compared to NullBlade's. Aluminum was a... strange metal. If he really was constantly burning it, constantly blocking any Investiture from his soul... well, Cassie knew enough about Hemalurgy to know a soul and Investiture weren't so different. One soul threatening to turn to bronze, one threatening to cut itself off from all reality. Weren't they a pair. But that level of damage wouldn't arise quickly, and he'd know his own symptoms better than she would. "I can go first. Just don't run off on me," she said. The exam room was largely bare, with a small counter with a few normal-enough looking instruments, a chair with arm and neck supports, a shaded window. All in all, it looked like a doctor's room, with a few mundane items switched for Invested ones. So Cassie simply took a seat in the exam chair. It creaked. Well, wasn't that excellent. "I've used a Soulcaster for... upwards of a decade now. Mainly to sell metals, sometimes on larger projects, but it's been in heavy use for most of that time. I'm not sure how much it's affected me, but it's definitely fairly far along," she said. Then she reached and pulled off the glove on her left hand. If someone told Cassie that she was looking at a cast-bronze arm for a new sculpture, she would have believed it. Even looking closer, the first thing she noticed was that the arm wasn't bronze, but instead some interesting alloy that looked like bronze. Some of the details were still there, the places veins popped out slightly, the slight signs of her wearing some sort of glove for most of her adult life, even the small hairs. But they were all metal, shiny and solid. She turned the arm. It responded to her motion, slowly, the metal seeming to bend as if under a great strain before neatly reforming to the new shape. Cassie didn't know exactly what that meant, if it was only metal on the surface or it was some organic, functional one. The few Soulcaster savants she'd known still managed to function with limbs of stone and glass, but she really had no idea. "Well, that's what it looks like. My left side is largely the same way, possibly some internal systems. It doesn't hurt, just makes me feel... sluggish, slow. And apparently heavy. I don't know if there's a point where it'll actually hurt... I really don't know much about it at all. Just a cost of doing business. And I'd like to keep doing business." She looked up. "Does that make se-" Cassie recoiled. The room was different. At least part of it. There was a massive crack... no, a rift on the side of the wall, moving over to the window. But the window was just missing the glass, the wall was a different color. Dark grey, with stains on the walls. She knew what those were. But the nurse... he didn't seem to give any mind. He was looking at her arm, with a vaguely concerned expression on his face. "There isn't much we can do to reset Soulcasting damage, either from savant progression or a targeted application. We could attempt to Soulcast it back to flesh and blood, but that's a very risky procedure. Otherwise mundane supports like walking canes can help. But we don't really have anything that can treat the underlying condition, especially if you want to keep using the fabrial." The rift in the wall widened, edges blurring slightly. The nurse rubbed their head. "I can try and... see if there is internal damage. Basically a small biopsy on your upper shoulder, except we're trying to see whether the needle stops before it should. Should at least give us an idea if you need to be booked in the Spiritual Ward for some form of... some form of treatment. Sorry, I've got a bit of a headache." The rift stretched an end over the countertop, over what looked like an eye scanner. The countertop became dark, with a sticky red on the surface. The scanner became something else. At first Cassie thought it was a spike, but no, it was just a scalpel. That didn't exactly make it less unnerving. The nurse didn't notice. Instead he walked over, nearly sticking his hand in the rift in the air, instead grabbing a small needle. "This should only hurt a bit," he said. But Cassie could see the small furrow in his brow. And the way he held the needle far too tightly. What the rusts? @mathiau @Fatebreaker

My vote's on Mailliw, currently. Could be convinced to go JNV especially if the vote stays that close, but I'm fine staying on Maill. (3) JNV: Kasimir, Amanuensis, Experience, (2) Illwei: Amanuensis, Bort, (2) The Unknown Aon: Illwei, JNV, (2) Mailliw: Amanuensis, Ashbringer

I have no power today - can still be on mobile (like so) but I’ll be a bit out of it. Also if there’s no rollover in an hour and a half I’m going back to sleep.

Okay. Here goes. Striker's reads (ELIM, C1 EXE): Mat's reads (VILLAGE, C1 KILL): Thaid's reads (VILLAGE, C2 EXE): Devo's reads (VILLAGE, C2 KILL): Would you look at that, both NKs read me vaguely evil. Isn't that neat. Mat I'm fairly certain was an NK because of how strongly he pushed Striker late C1. Devotary doesn't have that - her main suspicions were me (who's theoretically Village) and JNV (who's on my not-cleared list but also wasn't in much danger at all C2). So why Devotary? Why not another player more trusted from the Striker exe, like Bort or Aman? As much as I'd like to think the Elims don't want to kill the returning players, Aman did suggest a kill on himself. Which means either 1) the Elims trust me more than Aman or 2) there's another reason. (Less so on Bort, just because he's returning a lot sooner, is potentially first Village game in... a while, and is less thread-solvey.) So who'd kill Devo over Aman? Who's calling the shots? The nagging, itching, LG74-pocket-remembering part of my brain says Maill. I could probably be convinced of JNV, seeing as they seem to know what they're doing (good Investigator run by the way), but my old kill analysis days keep me thinking that other players would make those decisions and I think JNV would also advocate Bort. There's also Kas, feeling the sting of guilt from killing Aman so quickly in the BT. Or, of course, Aman himself. But those two are increasingly less likely. ... who else is playing this game. Oh. Orlok. Similar situation as Maill. I'm on Spring Break (yay!) so I don't know when I'm going to wake up. I'll toss a vote on one of @Mailliw73 and @Orlok Tsubodai and ask you both why you think the Elims killed Devotary (not necessarily instead of Aman/Bort, just in general). If you all go bandwagony I'll probably move over to JNV. General gut reads have Illwei leaning Elim a bit. But that went so well for everyone last time that I'll hold off on that and try mechanics things.

Do we know what someone like Cassie would be seeing happening to the Alleyverse? Like would it be like parts of the world are disintegrating or just mismatched, or something else? I'm sort of debating having Byron run into one of the more aware groups vs having Cassie start to puzzle things together with NullBlade vs... both, I guess.

You'd probably know this better than I do - how much to Maill and Bort know about Devotary's playstyle? Because JNV's the only remaining player who I think hasn't played many games with Devotary. I'm going to try something. A bit busy today but tomorrow is the start of Spring Break which is... still really busy because of all the catchup I need to do, but I'll have somewhat more time.

Who gave me support? We largely changed over to Thaid with discussion between Kas, Aman, me. Devo is confirmed village. Only other Thaid voter who could be Ash-Support is Illwei, unless anyone just retracted a vote on me.

... interesting. Thaid. Countering a self pres feels a bit better to me.

Early game I did a little, including hedging Meerkat's Tineye gambit. But I sure didn't do much.

Uh... What can I say except you're welcome!

Is there a point value for something like a harmonium cube / raysium knife? Those are newer and rarer (and probably vary in power based on who's holding them) but they're also pretty cool.