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  1. Quintessential
    Yes, the elims have the advantage of being able to talk to each other, but unless they end up with one of the Blades that has Transformation on it, they would need PMs to figure out what other people actually can or can't do. Also, yes, I know that Progression can be useful, but for the moment there's no point in using because we have no idea who the elims are targeting, who's an elim, or anything else. Since you can't use it to protect from a lynch, the odds are that at this point in the game, using it will simply be wasting a Stormlight. What we need right now is information, and for that PMs are far more useful.
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    Apparently? New players bring it up, and it gets discussed, or something like that.
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    Also, neither QF48 nor MR46 was her first game, if I recall correctly, so she could have made the argument then as well, and I don't recall her doing that. Also, again, in MR46 we almost did catch an elim, and if more of us had voted we very well might have. So... I mean... I suppose you could be right, Matrim, but I'm still keeping my vote where it is, based on your reasoning as well as mine.
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    Huh. Actually, Matrim makes a good point. I think... I think I'll vote Condensation/Ookla the Grammatical, on the reasoning that I know she's already seen the arguments for a C1/D1 lynch because we spent a good portion of MR46 C1 discussing them. Edit: It may have been QF48, actually, but she was in both so either way she's seen the discussion before.
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    C1 is cycle 1. D1 means "Day 1" (I guess I should be using D1 since you can only lynch during the day), as opposed to N1 (night 1)
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    The counterpoint to this is that in MR46, if there had been just one more vote on Aman, we would have lynched an elim C1. The C1 lynch can be right, and even if it's not it can give us information.
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    Okay, for the record, I did think you had one excellent piece of advice: that whoever has Chanarach's Honorblade open PMs N1, and whoever has Vedel's open PMs N2, and then that they alternate from there, regardless of who has them. That way, we can always have PMs open, but both people are free to do other actions some of the time (well, once every six cycles, but still). Obviously we can't force the two of you to follow that plan, but it would probably benefit just about everyone for us to reliably have PMs, so... Yeah. Those are my two cents on that particular point. Edit: No, @Ooklil' the Wei you were responding to me.
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    Right, I guess I phrased that poorly, sorry... I'm inclined to believe he's village because I like to think the best of people (*cough*Gears*cough*), but I have no solid reasoning for that, or even much of a hunch based on phrasing or tone of his posts. If that makes sense?
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    I don't know whether anyone else has looked into this or not, but I decided to try to get a fuller picture of what actions can be done during the Day vs. during the Night, and I also composed a list of what the special roles (Kaladin, Szeth, and the Honorblade Bearers) can do each turn. I don't know whether it's really worth typing out the whole list, but there are some things I noticed: Each of the Honorblades has an action that can be performed either during the Day or during the Night; for five of them, the second surge is a Night surge, and for two of them it's a Day surge. Additionally, the two blades with Abrasion on them, Chanarach's and Vedel's, are two of the ones with Night only actions. Since Abrasion is more powerful/useful at night, that means that those two blades and their Bearers are most powerful at night. Kaladin, by contrast, has a Day action and a Night action. So, in a given turn there's only one action Kaladin can perform. And Szeth has two Night actions: Gravitation (which he shares with Kaladin) and his Nightblood kill. I'm not entirely sure yet how useful Gravitation will be to the elims (or to anyone tbh) because it's kind of meta. I would guess that early on in the game, Szeth will save up their Stormlight (after three cycles, in the absence of Tension, they will have enough to Nightblood-kill). Kaladin will likely focus on using Adhesion, or will at least always keep a Stormlight on hand in case it's needed. Anyway, I'm not sure how useful this analysis of stuff actually is, but... well... yeah, nobody directly said any of this before, so I figured I would put it out there. Edit: to add on slightly, I would note that Szeth doesn't have any actions that they can perform during the day, since elim-kills only occur at night. Furthermore, except during cycles when Szeth submits a Nightblood kill, they may end up being the one to submit the elim-kill, since they'll be saving up Stormlight and the other elims would theoretically, at some point, have Honorblades to use. Obviously all of this changes if Kaladin or Szeth also has an Honorblade, but still.
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    I hate being new... I never know these things lol Anyway, yes, I'm inclined to read STINK as village as well, in that case. Or at least, not inclined to read him as elim. Also, reasoning on the SfS village read would be nice, Matrim... claiming elim is not really indicative of whether you are village or not at this point, since we've had enough villagers do it that elims can feel safe doing it as well. That being said, since SfS has said literally nothing else I don't have a read on them either.
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    Hopefully if the elims do have that honorblade, they'll decide PMs are important for them as well... I mean, you can use them to gain info no matter what your alignment is. Edit: It just occurred to me: imagine if the elims get ahold of one of the blades that has Tension... the person with that blade could use up their two Stormlight to grant 4 Stormlight to Szeth, at which point Szeth would have enough Light to Nightblood kill.... that would be bad
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    I agree with most of that plan except for voting Gears off lol There isn't a reason to, and while obviously there's no reason not to (that we know of) that's equally true of everyone else (except for me, because obviously I'm not gonna vote myself off).
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    Okay, well I guess we know where things stand with you then. Anyway, do you have any thoughts at this point? I know you said you don't like this kind of D1 discussion but you're the only one who appears to be on at the moment so...
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    lol STINK have you ever played a game with Gears before? His whole thing is to create a long post analyzing the rules and giving advice to both the elims and the village, and somewhere in that post he always subtly claims elim (well, up until now).
  15. Quintessential
    Hehe... PMs likely will open at some point, probably soon, since according to Ash Honorblade Bearers start the game with two Stormlight. So it's likely PM safety will be a real issue. Also, @Ookla Fell From The Sky I don't remember who it was, but somebody said they thought that the Honorblades could start off in the hands of an elim. Is that the case?
  16. Quintessential
    Just a bit, yeah lol The point still stands, though. The elims definitely want to take out the Stone Shaman, so as soon as the Truthless dies, a Stone Shaman who has claimed is done for. Also, If the Stone Shaman claims, Szeth can immediately kamikaze them anyway (also @Ookla Fell From The Sky who would Nightblood pass to in that case?). Edit: I wonder if one of the secret roles has the win-con of being killed by Nightblood...
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    Okay, so having read this, I'm revising my statement: I agree with almost all of what Gears said, except that I think the Stone Shaman shouldn't claim openly, ever, since their only fail-safe is going to be actively trying to commit death. So, Stone Shaman, find someone you trust through the PMs that (hopefully) will be opened at some point, and claim to them? Or just do your own thing I guess. Edit: @Ookla the Shadowed I normally like paradoxes and contradictions but that is making my brain hurt.
  18. Quintessential
    Lin-daughter-Lanari was bored. This whole Council thing was boring. All she'd had to do was temporarily incapacitate one of the members and wear her face. The Ghostbloods had given her enough information for her to feel comfortable in the position. And comfortable was boring. As of yet she hadn't seen anything of note, anything related to her mission... no Honorblades, and certainly no Alethi invaders. She missed Alethkar... the only think she liked about Shinover was the food--she would never get tired of eating chicken. Sorry, I don't have much in the way of RP lol I don't know much of anything about Shinovar so.... anyway, I'd say for the most part I agree with Gears' assessment of stuff. Edit: though maybe Bearer of Nightblood should like... hold off on going all kamikaze until they're really sure about who they should kill? And by then they might have enough Stormlight anyway.
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    And Rinala will be using the alias Lin-daughter-Lanari
  20. Quintessential
    Wasn't "that one Epic whose weakness was Kool Aid" one of the main characters? lol
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    Wearing... socks... Well, I guess mine's not exactly normal either
  22. Quintessential
    Playing as Emily Stern, a.k.a. Starstrike; can fly and shoot small fireworks. Weakness: for some inexplicable reason, her powers diminish when she hears someone speaking German.
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    Yeah, well switching seems to work pretty well for me (I switched from Mist to Gears C1, so....)
  24. Quintessential
    I was planning to RB you in a cycle when you couldn't scan, just in case you were an elim and lying to me. It was back before I learned how exactly your powers work, so I didn't realize that you could scan that turn too... Also I sort of did this thing where I submitted roleblocks I wasn't sure about, and then went back and changed them later. Helped me think.
  25. Quintessential
    Well, I mean how many games do people typically play before they actually run one (sorry, unclear phrasing there)
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