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This happened to me. Give it a week or two, and it will let you stay logged in.

Goodbye in several different languages, curse you, a word that does not translate well but indicates a wish to die before someone so that you won't have to live without them. I accept your apology, and hopefully the village will not.

You have failed to maintain your self-confidence and convictions. Honest suspicions are perfectly fine. Going against one's own opinions to follow someone else's is unacceptable. Thou art cursed for your foolishness, for your self-doubt, for your failings.

Farewell. Auf Wiedersehen. 再見. Slán. Mar sin leat. До свидания! さようなら. Au revoir. הֱיה שלום. Do widzenia. Adios. وداعا. Vaarwel. Hyvästi. @TJ Shade, mallachd ort, verfluche dich, проклинаю тебя يقبرني .

In the interests of self-preservation, I shall vote Devotary. Augusta Christine was incredibly disappointed to realise that her fellow guests were listening to flawed and shoddy reasoning. Now, she was a potential candidate for death, along with another guest that she hadn't paid much attention to. This debate and kill philosophy would make an excellent plot point. Of course, it didn't seem like she would survive to write that story. 50/50 odds that she would die today. Truly a shame. She left her notepad in an unoccupied corner. If she survived, she would come back for it. If not, a servant would hopefully find it and notice that it belonged to the famous author. She'd had a good life. She was rich, famous, and wildly popular. She'd be remembered for a long time. Even better, she'd die as part of a murder mystery. All in all, this was fine.

I would indeed be willing to vote Lahlit Matrim. Please note that I would prefer to lynch someone more active [as discussed last turn], but in the interest of self-preservation, I will concede this point. I thank you for your insightful analysis, but I fear your efforts are for naught. General populace, I upgrade Mint to a mild village read. My final thoughts concerning the players: Matrim is pushing so hard for my lynch that I'm inclined to read them as village. TJ is also probably village. Lahlit is a possible lynch target, along with Matrim and TJ [I know I said they were probably village, but they have still been suspicious]. Inspect Mage and Mint before trusting them. Au revoir, fellow players. I eagerly await your reactions to my flip.

I'm not saying the elims can't be newer. I'm simply saying that there is no reason to assume that this behavior is indicative of new-ness.

I think that it should be all of them at once, but each individual can only see one grouping. If you think the rooms are based on location, time, family line, etc., they will be grouped that way. This could force each traveller to go to the crypt alone.

Well, TJ should trust himself. I never said the general populace should trust him.

After I get lynched, you are going to be really upset with yourself. As a wise theorist once said, "You have to use your instincts to deny your instincts to deny your instincts." Trust yourself, TJ. You know more about yourself than you do about anyone else. You or Matrim should be lynched next cycle. Araris should be considered. Investigate Mage before you trust them. Watch the inactives.

Given the vast quantity of inactives, odds are that at least 1 elim is inactive.

I currently mildly trust Mage for some reason unbeknownst to me. After my lynch, prioritise TJ over Matrim. Keep Araris in mind. Pay attention to inactives.

The plot point of June not knowing humans exist mildly detracts from the realism of that moment. David knew about Epics, he admired Epics, and then the Epic betrayed his admiration. It felt a lot more personal. Here, June learns that humans exist, they killed her mother, so she goes on a quest to kill them. It's bland and boring and meaningless. She also feels too childish to be doing these things. If you could solidify her character into something that doesn't feel like a six-year-old, it would probably make more sense. It would also help if we knew more about June's mother. Right now, she's just a blank slate labelled "Mother". June loved her, but we know absolutely nothing about her. During the tantrum scene, you could add some memories of June's mother. You have to take into account how the world would be changed by the existence of monsters. Fictional movies about them probably wouldn't exist. Sidenote: How are humans the dominant species when the monsters have magic? In Artemis Fowl, the fairy made a note of the fact that humans progenated offspring faster than fairies. There has to be a reason for things. There is no need to have this a secret. The identity part, sure, but you don't need to hide that she's the one who puts the glamours on the kids. You could just have the kids not realise that it takes so much power or something like that. That would probably help. You could maybe have an absent or deceased father and a mother succumbing to her depression after the father left/died. It would feel a bit more realistic. Keep in mind that having your protagonists go through trauma to make them developed characters is a common and slightly boring trope. You could make June older, have her know about humans, and just keep the mother's death a secret. Make her an older teen or something. Also, have some build-up chapters. A prologue to introduce the human-fairy conflict. A few chapters to characterise everyone. Don't just jump straight into the conflict. That contributes to the rushed feeling. Worldbuilding: It feels like you've made this story fantasy for the sake of being fantasy. What is added by this story's fantasy that wouldn't be there otherwise? You could just have individuals with powers that are oppressed by the regular people. Why is your setting this way? All of these races feel human. Distinguish them somehow. Add some culture and history. Fairies hate werewolves. Why? Add some strange inhuman instincts to your non-humans. Have your centaur sleep standing up, etc. Mention other cultures that exist off-screen. Maybe there's a war going on with the goblin nation. Maybe the humans and the vampires have a peaceful trading relationship. Things like that can make a world feel more real.

You've neglected to take into account the possibility of Windrunner being harmful to the elims. Perhaps they got an item and were foolish enough to claim. In addition, your theory about new players being more likely to kill new players is flawed. You've assumed that new players would be willing to kill new players on the basis that old players aren't. I would argue that new players are less likely to kill a new player as they would empathise with the other new player and understand that the other new player knows just as little as they do, and thus would be harmless. Your suspicion of me appears to be based off of your theory and the fact that I didn't vote on someone that everyone else voted for. This reasoning seems flimsy at best. Because I am a new player that didn't vote for someone that was lynched, I am suspicious. Do you understand how this reasoning is odd? I am mildly suspicious of Lahlit for consistently adding to the bandwagon at the last minute and of TJ for neglecting to account for the possibility that Windrunner was genuinely dangerous to the elims and was killed for it. I am going to the Kitchen

I have not lost because I have no idea what you are talking about.

Your story is great, but I have some criticisms. 1. The colours are distracting. Just make it all black. I understand that you want to differentiate the viewpoints, but a normal book doesn't have rainbows for text. 2. June is both a child who is not mature enough to know that humans are real and a person trained with a weapon and ready to kill people. This is very dissonant. If your mother was murdered and you were a kid, would your first thought be murder? 3. Some sentences feel like they're meant for the audience's understanding instead of being thoughts from the point-of-view character. "No, not like Sulley and Mike Wazowski, but creatures that you might have read about in fairytales. Fairies, elves, centaurs, imps, mermaids, trolls, and pixies are just a few examples." Sulley and Mike Wazowski don't exist in this universe, so why would Matthias be thinking about them? You have to decide between third person limited and third person omniscient. Right now, it feels like you're trying to force feed the audience information. 4. Some sentences are from other character's point of view in the middle of someone else's chapter. In Cami's chapter, Preston thinks, "Trying not to expect too much, but extremely curious as to why this beautiful pixie was in this dark forest at this time, the white-haired boy couldn’t contain his curiosity any longer." This is Cami's chapter, not Preston's. How would Cami know that Preston is curious and thinks she is beautiful? 4. Why do the races have magical camouflage powers? If I was writing this, I would have there be a few races with camouflage powers and all the other races buy glamours from them. This would cause a distinct divide between the rich and the poor. Centaurs being able to just magically turn human seems strange. I can understand pixies, since they have magic in folklore, but centaurs? 5. Gracie's trauma seems overdone. You can make her a traumatised character without having her witness her mother's suicide. The abusive home is probably enough. Overall, your story is good, but could be better. With a little more experience in characterisation and writing third-person limited, you'll be an amazing writer.

There was not multiple killers in the eponymous books, though there were in some of the others. The cycle names are titles of Agatha Christie novels/short stories. A brief summary of the Blue Geranium in the spoiler box.

Vestigial suspicion from earlier cycles. My lack of suspects. I don't know. Matrim is a definite suspicion, Araris is suspicious because he's pushing for my lynch [though I do think he's probably a villager that came to the wrong conclusion], I'm vaguely paranoid concerning TJ. Ignore TJ for now, and if you have no better suspects, come back to him. Matrim and Araris are more important, though if you do run out of suspicions, I would recommend eliminating TJ before the next highstorm.

If I am not lynched, I will be surprised. Suspicions [in order from most to least]: Matrim, TJ, Araris [because they are pushing for my lynch, though I understand that I have been suspicious]. Alternatives include the people that Araris mentioned [Devotary, Pyro, Truthwatcher]. However, my suspicion radar is extremely awful, so I recommend you formulate your own suspicions as well.

I have expressed suspicions. They have simply been vastly outnumbered by my conditional lynches. I have proposed your lynch a fair number of times, I have mentioned a suspicion of Matrim for not being killed, I have mentioned Elbereth's lynch, etc. The conditional lynches I have outlined have not led to anything as you and I yet live. Conditional lynches, detrimental though they might be, are a functional method of determining alignment [though the conditional lynches have evidently gone anywhere as you and I yet live].

This mislynch onto you is probably just my paranoia. You are extrapolating from a sample size of one. Given that Elbereth is inactive [which I did not notice somehow, thank you TJ], I will change my vote to Matrim to effectively express my paranoia and suspicion. If I die, I request that you lynch Matrim and TJ.

I understand your point, but if you had been killed, they could have started a mislynch on me and then killed Joe. Given that you are a confirmed squire, I would have expected you to be very high on the kill list.

The fact that the elims did not kill Matrim confuses me. As a confirmed squire, they should have been a prime target, especially considering that they would be getting Stormlight today. The elims could have feared Progression, or Matrim is an elim. I still want to lynch Elbereth first but I would prioritize a Matrim lynch over other lynch candidates.

So we have confirmed a lack of participation after death?

Participation after death? Truly? This is fascinating. Possibilities: The dead can roleblock someone, the dead can kill someone [unlikely], the dead can give people items. General populace, theorize more possibilities!