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  1. Quintessential
    Random question: how many games do people typically play before they decide they might like to run one?
  2. Quintessential
    Oh, going back to the topic of inactivity: since I live on the east coast I probably won't be very active for long after rollover oof
  3. Quintessential
    If I try to make my first draft perfect, I end up being incapable of writing one at all. If I don't try I tend to end up with a perfect first draft so it works out anyway
  4. Quintessential
    I... wouldn't recommend it? I think that said more about the class itself than about the validity of submitting first drafts as final papers?
  5. Quintessential
    Nope! I even once turned in a first draft of an essay as my final paper for an English class and still got an A on it. Edit: This is the 69th post in this thread
  6. Quintessential
    OMG literally same! lol Edit: I just pretend I do to make all the mere mortals feel less inadequate
  7. Quintessential
    Nothing says "The holidays are upon us!" more bluntly than having to study for exams
  8. Quintessential
    lol yep actually the better pro tip would be: conveying sarcasm is basically mutually exclusive with using question marks, since when you ask a question sarcastically irl you tend to pitch your voice down towards the end of the sentence, rather than up as a question mark suggests. Edit: With some exceptions, obviously. Also that's at least how I convey sarcasm, and I suppose I can't speak for everyone. But in general, I'm pretty sure the point still stands.
  9. Quintessential
    Pro tip from someone who's devoted way too much time to learning how to convey sarcasm via text: If you want to convey "oh really" with sarcasm, don't use the question mark. Either ellipses or no punctuation at all work much better. Also, italicizing the "really" helps too. Like this: Oh really...
  10. Quintessential
    Yeah I was a bit confused about your super cryptic PM. I mean, I assume you realized you were going to die before the last two minutes of the cycle, so why didn't you write a more detailed explanation? It's not like you were bleeding out and whispered your last words into my ear or anything.
  11. Quintessential
    Welllll me trusting you isn't exactly surprising. Seeing as I spent a good five cycles trusting Gears...
  12. Quintessential
    Obviously I didn't put all my trust in Gears, since I RBd him. But yes, after he claimed TLR I trusted him for... quite a while... Anyway, final RP! Yay? Sedra collapsed to the ground, knife in her side, the murderous Inquisitor’s voice echoing in her ears. Say hello to Runern… They were the last words Sedra would ever hear. She died. Rinala, however, did not. She breathed in sharply, pulling the knife out of her side and watching as wisps of light drifted off her skin and sealed the wound. She was surprised her Light had kept this long, but it had. She got up and slipped away, leaving the knife behind. What use had she for a tool as unwieldy as that? She made it safely back to her hideout, collected her things, and set off to wait. She had to assume the hideout was compromised, so she found herself a new place of residence. And she watched. She watched as the Inquisitors became increasingly more brazen, accusing each other and then shifting suspicions abruptly. With eyes no longer clouded by proximity, she saw how they spun their webs of lies. She knew that she had failed. If she hadn’t been killed… but she couldn’t interfere; she wasn’t Sedra, and they wouldn’t recognize her if they saw her. They wouldn’t listen. She watched as the obligators turned on one of their own. She watched as the Inquisitors chose their final target. She did not stay to see the kill. She had to leave. The Ghostbloods likely assumed she was dead, so as along as she kept a low profile, she would be safe. She left the city. Left the mired politics and the suspicion and the accusations and the death behind. She didn’t look back. Unfortunately. It wasn’t until midday that she realized she’d been followed. By then it was too late; her recruiter, the one who’d welcomed her to the Ghostbloods, had caught up. “Glad to see you’re well,” he said in that oily, overly polite voice. “How did you find me?” She tried not to show nervousness. She wasn’t sure whether she succeeded. “Surprisingly easily, that’s how. Honestly, you seem to be under the impression that we’ve never dealt with one of your kind before. And before you ask how we knew, I should inform you that some of my compatriots are quite good with anagrams. There is no such person as Rinala Rades, but we did some research. We knew you must be someone, after all.” “So… What happens now? What will you do to me?” “Do to you?” “I failed. And then I ran. I… assumed there would be consequences?” She frowned. “To put it quite bluntly, you’re too useful to us to be discarded over such a small matter. Our more experienced members can clean this up easily enough--it was mostly a test to see whether you were ready for off-world missions. Since you obviously aren’t, I’ve put in a request to have you transferred back to Roshar. We have a new assignment for you.” “An… an assignment?” This was not what she had expected. “Yes… tell me, what do you know of the Honorblades?” Edit: Sorry it's so long... I got a little carried away lol
  13. Quintessential
    Awwwww you're welcome and thank you for being so awesome and for <redacted because it has to do with current SE game> (I hate not being able to talk about the games lol)
  14. Quintessential
    Yes! Of course I do lol (that was my favorite part of that season)
  15. Quintessential
    Yeah, that makes sense... I guess what I really mean is that it alarms me that you (and TJ) didn't originally present that evidence (I mean I guess you may have last cycle, I don't recall, but) it feels like you voted for Bearer because they seemed like an easy scapegoat for being supposedly inactive, and now you're going back and retrospectively justifying it. I should probably just let it go, though... I don't intend to vote for Bearer because I know next to nothing about them, but I can't really fault you for looking into their earlier posts and drawing conclusions from that.
  16. Quintessential
    I actually checked and every single person in the game was on the site at some point during last cycle. My point isn't necessarily that we shouldn't suspect Bearer. I just am not thrilled with the idea that the first two people who voted for them did so because of "inactivity" when that is neither true nor enough of a reason to vote anyone off right now.
  17. Quintessential
    I don't see why you and Danex are voting for Bearer as an inactive. They weren't inactive. In fact, they've been pretty consistently posting at least once per cycle, and last cycle was no exception. The only people who didn't post last cycle were Chasm, Whysper, Fadran, and Aman. If you want to target someone for inactivity, they're the ones to look at. Now, if you want to look through Bearer's posts for reasoning I guess that's fine, but voting them off because of "inactivity" just doesn't make any sense.
  18. Quintessential
    Okay, so. Important thing: TLR scanned Fadran and found them to be village. Also, before you protest that TLR can't scan two turns in a row, they actually can. It isn't "one successful scan every other turn", it's "one successful scan every two turns" (edit: to clarify, a successful scan is one that isn't RBd and whose target doesn't die that same turn). So, TLR aligned village C1 and then: C2: Scanned Ash (village) C3: No scan allowed C4: Scanned Ventyl (village, but died so it doesn't count) C5: Scanned AnonObligator C6: Scanned Fadran (village) C7: sadly, this time TLR won't be able to scan.
  19. Quintessential
    Huh. That's odd. I just realized something: at least one of the other elims must be somewhat active. I RBd Gears C4 and C5, during which cycles Ventyl and Connie were killed, respectively. I don't know about Ventyl, but Connie, at least, was no accident--whoever decided to kill her either wished to break off our channel of communication with AnonRBer or actually knew that Connie was AnonRBer. That would have taken either PMs or paying quite a bit of attention to what was going on, which is not something that you can do and also be inactive. So now I'm really confused why the elims didn't submit a kill. I mean, at least one of them must have been online at some point during the cycle. I think everyone's been participating or at least looking at the thread except possibly for Aman, but since I doubt there's only one elim, that doesn't explain anything really. Edit: Unless the others have only barely been active this whole game, and Gears was the one directing everything. But you'd think they'd realize once they lost one of their own that they'd have to step up their game, not slow it down. Edit (again): Okay, so I looked into everyone who was active last cycle and @Danex Bearer actually was on, so I'd say suspend suspicion of them for the moment. Here's what I found (these were recorded ~8:30pm EST): Chasm - inactive last turn Bearer - last posted 22 hrs ago Whysper - inactive last turn Somebody - last posted 19 hrs ago Fadran - inactive last turn Kings - last posted 7 hrs ago Danex - last posted 22 hrs ago TJ - last posted 15 hrs ago Jester - last posted 17 hrs ago Sart - last posted 4 hrs ago Vapor - last posted Mon. 5:11pm EST Aman - inactive last turn
  20. Quintessential
    I'll play as Rinala Rades
  21. Quintessential
    So... Uh... Why didn't the elims submit a kill? Did they all just forget? I'm so confused... Edit: I'm now remembering that Gears mentioned to me that he wished the other elims were more active (we had gotten to a point during the last cycle when he was alive where he had admitted to me that he was an elim). At the time I wasn't sure whether he meant it or whether he was trying to throw me off with false info, but this makes it seem more like he was telling the truth... unless all the remaining elims have abilities and decided to use them rather than submit a kill?
  22. Quintessential
    Okay look, in all fairness I did read Gears as very village, and have throughout this whole game. That being said, I still voted him, since there was basically no way he wasn't an elim. I just have a hard time believing that Ghander didn't catch that... So I'm keeping my vote where it is. Edit: @Somebody from Sel Thank you? I think? That sort of sounded like an insult, but at the same time you've concluded I'm village, so I won't complain
  23. Quintessential
    Okay, so I've been debating this in my head but I think voting Ghander makes sense, so I'll join you. She was the only one who not only voted me over Gears, but also did it without providing any reasoning at all.
  24. Quintessential
    I don't think it's TJ... Remember how Gears claimed TLR and told us that he'd scanned TJ and TJ was village? Well, at that point Gears already knew he was going to be lynched. Given that he was aware that his alignment would be revealed a couple of turns from then, I doubt he would say that a fellow elim was village--in fact, he'd probably try to distance himself from the other elims as much as possible by either not mentioning them in his posts at all or by outright suspecting them. Also, TJ was the strongest advocate that we lynch Gears, which makes him seem less like an elim to me...
  25. Quintessential
    Well that's a relief I suppose... The person who claimed TLR to me scanned last turn, but I'm not sure who yet or what they found. I'll let you know once they do respond--hopefully they caught an elim... Edit: The person they scanned was an obligator. I asked that person whether I could reveal their identity on the thread, and they said they would rather I didn't, since then the elims might target them.
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