Gears

Endless Sand slipping through alabaster fingers. A haphazard attempt at painting. Blind eyes reading from a book no one else will ever read. A neverending hunger for all you cannot have. Eyes of green and speckled blue. A cruel mirror that lies and lies and lies. The sound of her wings.

Oh. I must have missed that. Sorry.

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No.

This turn, bottom of page 1.

Ventyl claimed Edgedancer, so the probable Surge set is just Abrasion and Progression.

If you think lynching me would be beneficial, you have my consent to do so. However, I still think that the Ventyl lynch is more beneficial.

Banach-Tarski

My alignment has no bearing on TJ's and Ventyl's. The converse is completely false because I have adamantly defended TJ and vilified Ventyl. As such, Ventyl and TJ should be lynched before myself. If Ventyl is a villager, we will lynch TJ. If TJ is a villager, we will lynch me. I don't know what you're planning to do if I flip village.

Assume Ventyl is a mislynch. Ashbringer, TJ and I are implicated as fervent defenders of TJ. Assume TJ is also a mislynch. Ashbringer and I are implicated further. Assume your suspicions are mislynches. You are implicated as a fervent defender of this course of action. Knowledge concerning 3 people and near certainty concerning 2 people or knowledge concerning 1 person.

Then we learn that my suspicions were wrong and I give you permission to act upon your suspicions.

You said that Straw told you it takes your charges. While this might all be a terrible misunderstanding, the risk caused by letting you live is too high.

We are not lynching El because we can learn much more from a Ventyl lynch. If Ventyl flips elim, TJ is more cleared. If Ventyl flips village, we're lynching TJ. It also has ramifications for my alignment as well as Ash's. El's lynch reveals nothing other than El's alignment. I wasn't going to lynch you until you lied about squiring or Stormlight.

Reads list. Ventyl: Mild elim because of all the confusing behaviors. Alignment mutually exclusive with TJ's. Primary lynch target. TJ: Mild village because he could have used 1 charge instead of 2 to ensure survival if he was an elim. Alignment mutually exclusive with Ventyl's. Ashbringer: Very slight village because I agree with many of their opinions and they haven't been suspicious. Everyone else gets a null read until I can go reread the thread because I can't remember anything they've said. Special mention to Devotary, whose hypothesized elim team made me laugh.

I trust TJ more than Ventyl for precisely this reason.

As such, Ventyl either did not squire and used actions instead, or is simply lying about not having Stormlight for some nefarious purpose.

@Straw, does squiring take up one's charges?

Squiring does not take Stormlight, which only makes me more suspicious of Ventyl.

I am going to place my vote on Ventyl for now, as they've been suspicious for a while. Would anyone would like to propose an alternate lynch target?

Will do. I think lynching Ventyl is a higher priority than lynching TJ at the moment.

What? If your squiring fails, nothing happens. You just don't squire someone.

You are correct, however TJ is temporarily declawed until D4, so he is a low-priority lynch. If we don't find any more urgent suspicions [the only suspicion is Ventyl at the moment], we can lynch him.

No.

As it stands, TJ is out of Stormlight, so he is harmless until the next highstorm [D4]. As such I think we can hold off on killing him until we have run out of other suspects. Do we have any other suspects?

If I was an elim, wouldn't I keep my vote on Striker to gain some credit in the eyes of the village? My retraction to maintain the tie has brought suspicion upon me, and thus if I was an elim, retracting Striker was a strictly sub-optimal play, especially since TJ claimed Bondsmith well before the end of the turn.