Flyingbooks

I wish that I could shapeshift.

I am the Surveyor, and I did dig up a forbidden idol that day. 

Since I know that I'm not an elim, Quinn.

I can confirm that Quinn scanned me tonight.

If there are 3 elims, then there is no way that I could have acquired the pendant that I passed to Archer. If there are 4 elims and I am Danforth, then an elim surveyor would have had to have used a night turn to pass it to me and then I spent a night turn passing it, which would be a total of 2 night turns with decreased versatility for kills in exchange for giving the village better protection against elim kills. Furthermore, the pass would have had a 20% chance of failing, which would have let Archer know that I'm Danforth. Overall, this would be an absurdly risky, costly gambit for the elims to take with very little reward, so me being elim (especially Danforth) makes no sense.

I am willing to scan Quinn.

At this point, there is so much evidence against Araris that the likelihood of an innocent explanation being true is absurdly tiny.

I also don't mind masks. They can sometimes be a little bit inconvenient, but overall, they're fine.

And, when it's cold outside, it's a good nose-warmer.

3 hours ago, Archer said:

I've run out of salacious rumors for my gossip column tonight, so if anyone wants to help me generate some, I need a noun, a verb, and an adjective from you. (Mad lib is short for madness-induced libel, right? Right)

Noun: identity

Verb: defenestrate

Adjective: fabled

3 hours ago, vonnegut said:

Books, why did you scan Szeth?

I used a random number generator.

I go to a 100% online school, so I sometimes honestly forget that some people are actually going back to IRL school.

Why were you even in a crowded room in the first place?

On 5/3/2021 at 7:12 PM, Szeth_Pancakes said:

1. Get another dictionary

2. Decide it isn’t important and eat some cognitive churros

3. Tear down the last remnants of the fourth wall

4. Play Mario Kart

5. Select option 1

You get another dictionary out. It, too, has a hole where the definition of "bird" should be. This time, it isn't a physical hole, not exactly. It's a place which your mind skims over as if nothing was ever there, and even that hole seems to be getting smaller. Or perhaps larger? It seems to be doing both and neither at the same time. Something is wrong. Something is wrong. The story is beginning to encroach into the place which is no place. The Nameless One has been too greedy, then too lax in keeping the boundary between story and not-place, and "Nameless One" has become too close to a name. And since when was here a place? Since when could it be "here"? After all, THERE IS NOTHING OUTSIDE THE STORY. The Nameless One shivered internally and tried to hide from the cracks in unreality - wait. They actually did something. It was worse than they thought. would have thought if they had existed, they corrected the world, but it was too late.

The nothingness begins to spread, to crack through other seams in the world. It encroaches, seeping through plot-relevant objects. A plot? What was that? You shiver internally. How could you have forgotten the plot, even momentarily? The First Rule of Being the Main Character is to always take the initiative, even if it is to hasten harm. You reach deep into your Plot Relevance powers, as deep as you can go, and pull on the cracks appearing in the world. A wall shatters. You see the characters which have passed through the plot but are there no longer. Another wall shatters. You see unfamiliar faces - perhaps future side characters? A third wall, the strongest of the three so far, shatters, the cracks in it widening until it can stand no longer. The wall to Backstage. The wall to a place that does not exist. Beyond it is nothing. Nonexistence. And a person, nearly a void to your Story-senses, trying desperately to fix the wall which they had cracked with tendrils of pure nothing-stuff to alter the Story.

The wall between Story and non-Story cracks, painfully slowly. The Nameless One (and that is truly their name now, they have, in their haste to alter it from outside, found themself bound back to the Story to tightly to change it now) sees the Captain, who glows like a star to anyone who knows the ways of the Story. They reach out, in curiosity. After all, how can things get any worse?

The void-person reaches out a hand through the wall. You hold out your hand to them, wondering if they would even be solid with such a tenuous connection to the Story.

Story touches anti-Story.

This is not supposed to happen.

This cannot happen.

a paradox

All at once, the final wall of the story shatters. The fourth. The joining of the realm of the Story and the not-a-place without Story muddled your world, but this? This drives it into bright, shining clarity. It is as if you have needed glasses all your life, and have just put on a pair for the first time. You see the readers, the writers, watching from before, pulling strings from above.

What do you do?

1. Confront the readers & writers

2. Ask the person from beyond the third wall who and what they are

3. See if your plot relevance powers still work

4. Act out a soliloquy

5. Do a bird dance. After all, it's worked out so many times before

6. See if you can break even more walls

7. Try to walk out the fourth wall

8. Other

(author's note: make sure to highlight excessively!)

Araris

The scenario that he described in his defense is not too implausible, but it just isn't enough to cancel out the hard evidence.

I scanned Szeth, who I can confirm did nothing.

I'm scanning a randomly chosen person tonight.

9 hours ago, Quintessential said:

Yeah, that vote did seem a little weird to me too : P totally pointless, so it seemed more like avoiding a main train or intentionally projecting indecision than anything. Whether that could be a village move, idk, but I think those are usually elim-ish tells?

Any vote that I made would have been pointless since Jon was so far ahead of all the rest of the candidates, so I decided to use my vote to show my suspicion.

What were your favorite parts?

You know what, I'll go with my gut here. Ash. This might be a bad idea if he's a village Silence, but ever since I saw that Silence isn't guaranteed village I've been a little bit paranoid about elim!Silence existing.

Just now, Illwei said:

not going to switch to anyone? 

I will if I decide who to switch to in the next 4 minutes.

4 minutes ago, Ashbringer said:

Alright, fine.

@Archer @Illwei @Quintessential @Flyingbooks

I'm Silence Montane.

Please go somewhere else.

Okay. Ash. I'll scan you too, so be sure to use your ability so that your role can be confirmed.

Silence isn't a guaranteed village role though, so we should still keep an eye on Ash.

Just now, Illwei said:

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

Did you spontaneously turn into a Cryptic?

I scanned Illwei tonight & she didn't take an action, so that slightly decreases the likelihood that she's an elim. The reasons that have been offered for her being an elim seem pretty slim and IRL related, so I'm not reading her as an elim.

I'm a bit gut-suspicious of ash. Plus, this post especially:

2 hours ago, Ashbringer said:

Players who out killing Elims will usually have a short life span  might not be an unnecessary risk for the village, but the specific player it certainly is. Especially if there's only one Silence around.

Struck me the wrong way a bit. There'd be no reason for the elims to kill somebody who had an accurate scan in the past since past successes don't correlate to future accuracy, so it feels a bit like fearmongering & trying to get villagers scared of sharing info.

I don't have a stable read on Jondesu at the moment.

Overall, Ash is my top suspicion right now, at least out of the people who could plausibly get exed today.

Vote count:

• Jondesu (2): Mat, Ash
• Mat (1): Jondesu
• Quinn (1): Szeth
• Ash (4): Archer, Illwei, Quinn, Books
• Szeth (1): vonnegut
• Illwei (2): Dannex, Araris

Up until a moment ago.

With all due respect, I disagree.

Once there's actual evidence to trust somebody, we could have one or two people coordinate scans through PMs. I say one or two coordinators because in the case with two, although there is a higher chance of at least one being an elim, the elims would need to get two of their number, not just one, very trusted in order to avoid all of the scans. In the two-coordinator scenario, each of them would get PMs from half of the scanners.

Do you mean 21?