Turtle

Butt Venture stared at the hoard of rats, hamsters, and hammers coming his way. Main character indeed.

On 6/16/2023 at 4:49 AM, Kasimir said:

Edited to add 4: @Turtle - What did you do on D2?

um ngl im struggling to understand my gm pm but it was either nothing or swipe investiture

my internet connection is a bit unreliable right now

On 6/13/2023 at 9:39 AM, Kasimir said:

because I have read Dostoevsky

how hard is the original russian to read for a russian learner? like what level would it be at

i inherited Братья Карамазовы and have been debating giving reading it a go.

hi quoting is not working imagine this is after the next quote

i dont rlly want szeth to die rn

feel like elims could get by easy by being quiet

who hath been quiet someone tell me i am sleep soon

school is finally over i am free

On 6/13/2023 at 9:45 AM, Kasimir said:

нет. Is why I immediately ruled out Scadrial as an option and figured it had to be Vessel Shield (perm/temp) or Honor.

ok im back the end of school has been very hectic

will be rereading rn

ok so who here plays an instrument im looking at you :eyes:

feel like more people should be voting ik im guilty of this too but we didnt even have half the possible people voting

43 minutes ago, The Bald Brandon said:

It's very annoying when autocorrect does this, like, I don't want to kill slim people, I want to kill elim people.

im??? reading this in brandons voice????

wish i had time to reread fifth's posts rn

edit: also archer what rules do i not understand? would love to know how to follow the slim rules.

ill say that as a point to my being village, if i were elim i would have expected someone to at least try to tie it by now. i dont really want to self pres for the sake of self pres and my brain is fried but like ???

also i feel like a tie would be less helpful than a flip so

7 minutes ago, DrakeMarshall said:

have u considered self-pressing

9/10 doctors recommend killing rather than being killed

and the last 1 doctor just got knifed by the other 9 therefore i am not sure their opinion actually matters

have considered but not sure who i would self pres on

also im sure that study went super well. peak science.

17 minutes ago, Ashbringer said:

Vote Count:

• Turtle (2): Fifth Scholar, Archer
• Fifth Scholar (1): Kasimir
• Matrim's Dice (1): |TJ|
• xinoeph512 (1): Elandera

If I'm missing a vote let me know! Rollover in ~8 hours

oof

ngl id rather not die

i am but a researcher who wants the whimsy shard

oh wait actually if/when i die someone should make me returned that would be fun

the 1am rollover hurts

now i understand how yall GMT+8/+10 peole feel

1 minute ago, DrakeMarshall said:

i think the most likely explanation so far is Sart was killed by Ruin? we can't know for sure though, because it could have been Odium Investiture Charges (requires either Sart spent his charges or was double- or triple-tapped, which is why I say its less likely but still possible)

i assumed that whoever got ruin would still be vil aligned, because you need to use the special power a number of times? maybe they just sussed sart tho

10 minutes ago, |TJ| said:

not sure why im getting gut evil read on fellas voting on turtle. have no opinion on turtle themselves. 

im getting gut evil vibes from people voting me, too

pretty sure its just cos i dont wanna die

21 minutes ago, The Bald Brandon said:

Metaspection is quite profound, I find.

i think prologuepection and preludespection are poetic.

fifth idk if u didnt know or something but your vote on me doesnt widen the voting pool bc archer was voting me, at least with my definition of voting pool.

im struggling to e read anyone i want to belive everyone is a nice happy researcher

tbb is giving funky vibes but that might just be the fact that im reading all of his posts in brandon's voice and i hate it

was the sart death an elim kill? do we know? i feel like there must be some kill meta there but idk what it is.

1 hour ago, Kasimir said:

I suppose the other thought at the back of my head is especially Autonomy's SD wincon because I agree with Turtle that it's genuinely concerning. If we overfocus on Shards and Shardic powers, we can easily be overwhelmed in mid to late game when Autonomy has the full six Avatars and can produce six charges per cycle, which is quite likely to outpace our ability to dump them, especially if we don't watch how many Charges we are carrying.

wait ngl i didnt realize this is how autonomy's avatars work. that majorly sucks.

i got that homework done! school is basically over now, so i'll hopefully be much more active.

we have what, five elims right now w converts? i need to reread the rules

5 minutes ago, The Wandering Wizard said:

Already forgot about the end of LG 89 and Stick's last minute ties dooming the village and saving her team. 

10 minutes ago, The Last Fæ said:

Probably should say something. Sart. 

its a night cycle, so we cant vote right now

45 minutes ago, Kasimir said:

•  
• Extremely unfond of how Sart has slipped under the radar. Sart should not be getting away with this little public thought into the game - I remember he was a very lethal overlooked Hoid in QF4 (no one @ me I know I'm decrepit). Not seeing anything at all indicative of Hoid's V meta.

are we

is this not night

also wait im sorry im not trying to @ u but QF4?? kjlafhwlksjdhcdksdjhfd

i genuinely need to do homework more now everything is due 12pm tonight so i have 3 hours wish me luck

16 minutes ago, Archer said:

-What does VOCALS and the location Roshar tell us? Anything? 

does the name matter at all or is it just flavor? Roshar=random investiture, so im wondering if it might have something to do with the autonomous sudden death wincon?

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• If the number of Charges of Autonomy’s Investiture exceeds the number of all other Shards’ total Charges of Investiture among all non-Autonomous players at the end of any turn, and there is a living Autonomous player, the Autonomous wins the game.

I suppose this only matters if there's a limited number of charges of investiture, which i'm pretty sure there arent. possibly they want to try and get lucky rnging autonomous investiture? i think i need to reread the rules of avatars some more before i continue to speculate on this.

edit: also the autonomous sudden death wincon is worrying to me, because we have no real metric of how many charges of investiture there are and who has them. i think using them immediatly might be the best way to go about dealing with it?

6 minutes ago, Kasimir said:

Opportunities, e.g. can you open forks? Can you force zugzwang? Can you set up an x-ray/pin/skewer?

WAIT THATS HOW YOU SPELL THAT??

you see, the only things i know about chess are from my brother. so yeah, i can set up a skewer or pin and do forks n stuff, but do i understand chess very well? nope! i know nothing at all abput theory except the first 6 moves of the french defense. i can beat someone random but my brothers the one who does tournaments and stuff. trade value i understand vaguely. ive got no idea what position play is. i do know my brother hates bishops with a burning passion.

im putting yalls game into stockfish one second

i should be doing homeworm but oh well

edit: oh its my favorite ducks!!! i actually saw that video before i saw the lotr movies

edit 2: ive come to the conclusion idk how to analyze chess games with stockfish.

wait i forgor to move to a dif planet lmao

1am rollover so mean to me

struggling to decode kas's not a reads list but ah well

going to be sorta inactive today bc its the last day to submit things in my math class and im nothing if not a procrastinator

29 minutes ago, Channelknight Fadran said:

there... aren't any traditional elims here, right? What metric have people been voting on?

yup, its a conversion game with factions sorta. when i vote, it will be based on 'who is giving not researcher vibes'.

also the urge to vote detess for the lols is strong, but there's no way a 3 way tie lasts till 1am my time. i hope.

11 minutes ago, Archer said:

Did you catch the white text in her post asking to be contacted by Ruin saying lol this is a joke? 

OH

33 minutes ago, The Bald Brandon said:

Secure Contain Protect, with a side order of everyone in an orange suit dies.

https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/

will edit my reads list im working on into this if i need to

edit: someone say something so i dont have to edit my reads list into this

edit 2: ok whatever here we go: reads!

The Known Novel - not particularly V vibes tbh. 

Kasimir - V. 

The Wandering Wizard - maybe this is because we’re only on d1, but really not that much of importance to the game. Most substantial post so far would be the rules analisis haiku.  null-

Fifth Scholar - gut is saying v but rereading the posts makes me feel null. Null w a very slight +, maybe?

Szeth_Pancakes - i cant getty a read on them

|TJ| - i need to get better lmao, again struggling to get any sort of read. Maybe a null+ because of the way they interact with the thread?

DeTess - would dislike them getting exed rn, their posts seem V. that being said i have no meta on them so that could def change my read.

Archer - I do think the ‘starting researcher’ thing was a rules misreading, but im still unsure of the fifth vote and hesitance around voting mat and drake. Im getting good vibes from certain posts anf not great vibes with others, but i dont want to exe archer today.

JNV - null+/mild V

-i just realized how many more of these i have to do, so expect shorter reads lol-

xinoehp512 - the two posts arent giving me the greatest vibes but neither of them are from d1 so i’ll hold off

The Last Fæ - true null bc of lack of contribution

DrakeMarshall - tentative v

Matrim's Dice - null+

Sart - null, the one post we have doesnt have bad vibes but its from n0 so

STINK - null+, not a lot to go off of but not pinging my evildar. Most recent post is giving me gut v

Elandera - tentative v

Araris Valerian - null due to lack of stuff i can read?

Drake Inferno - null due to lack of stuff. I cant newbie clear the mess up of posting in the wrong thread when i won my first game bc i asked questions in thread and such

TheAlpha929 - the ‘this game is terrifying me’ is a bit iffy but it could also be ‘oh no elims might kill me’ so idk. Null? Ok wait but then the claim. What. idek. null+

Channelknight Fadran - null

5 minutes ago, The Stick said:

Thaylen City 

Yes!

Just now, Lightweaver2 said:

Akinah

nope!

1. this place is surrounded

2. this place had a major battle take place in it

3. this place is known for having a bank in it.

Just now, stormform wert said:

the sunwith first of thesun and all that

nope!

2. this place had a major battle take place in it!