The Unknown Character

Tot-lly didn't think the cycle ended just now.

RBM.

I signed up to t-lk to people in the doc honestly.

U r dumb Does th-t work? Bec-use that t-kes -ll the fun out of it.

Expl-in further.

I don't think they'll ever figure out mine either.

They -re bl-meless.

I c-n't get it to for some re-son.

I guess the sizes I w-s using didn't work.

No, no, no, I h-ve the best te-mmates -nd we're going to win. Or do we h-ve the s-me te-mm-tes -nd -re both right? Hmmmm? Th-t's for us to know -nd the others to not find out.

Best we not find out.

... Didn't think about th-t. Guess I'm going to be exclusively conversing with Kidpen. You should -ll edit the -s out of your n-mes for fun. -r-ris is going to kill me for this if people listen to me on this.

You c-n't edit spoilers if you h-ven't opened them unfortun-tely. You'll find th-t it's gone now. We'll be lucky if this continues through c1. No, this is difficult enough, th-nk you. Who s-ys he's being obvious? Ideally, it kills ch-r-caters -ctu-lly. Sorry. -t le-st, like I s-id, it probably won't l-st p-st c1.

Why do you think he doesn't like his power being on? D-shes are difficult, so I have to restructure my sentences. -lso, we're here to murder e-ch other?

Wh-t -m I doing? (Note th-t my ch-r-cter m-nipul-tes sound, so his -s probably sound re-lly weird -nd sci-fi-y)

Wh-t's - gimmick?

Let's policy the gimmickers! TU- Good point. One moment. Notice to everyone -nd @Araris Valerianth-t I'm ch-nging my n-me to the Unknown Order.

No, it is -lmost cert-inly not.

Wh-t's gimmicking?

Oh no, I've been discovered. Wh-tever will I do.

Who s-ys we're town?

GM thoughts: So, let's talk about the mechanics. The most consistent thought people had about the weave complexity was that higher weaves weren't worth it. This is kinda true, but also disproven by their relatively common occurrence. I felt it was actually a good balance that would have been even better if I had given the stat distros any thought. As for weave difficulty, there's still some flaws, but their different and not as bad as last time so that's a win. As Kas demonstrated, having a low water sucks. The different elements still aren't quite balanced, but it's also better. Going forward I would probably get rid of water from Compulsion and maybe a few others, then create a few more low level options for other elements. As for roles, well, this game isn't really about them, but the village roles were overall fine. LoL had a lot of potential, but unfortunately he was burned into non-existence. The elim specific roles on the other hand, are a mess. I think that were much more doable than this game made them seem, but they still had several problems. They were much weaker than their village counterparts. The Forsaken and the Dragon had the same auto succeed ability, but the Forsaken had a nerf with tha ability, where as the Dragon had an extra life enhancing it. In the future, I'd make the Dragon always have a lower insanity chance that might even convert them, and the Forsaken just wouldn't have the nerf. I think I would give the Myrddraal a rb to make it even with the Blademaster and maybe a PM scan as well to counteract the LotTR. As for the PM action thing, it was pretty good. It was really underutilized unfortunately. I wonder if a way to help this is in the future would be to have the PM action allow you to PM anyone else who took a PM action, but not outside of that. I'd actually like to see that system used at some point. Now on to the distro. The elims had a hard time of it, mostly because Forsaken is the kind of role where you have to be good at confrontation, and Aet is not the player for that. Even swapping Aet and Aeo probably would have been a very very different game. Funnily enough, the RNG really wanted Kas to be an elim. Two out of four distros had Kas, and the other two had Aeo. Feel free to chip in if you have any extras thoughts or comments, but that's what I'm at right now.

Hey, double posting because everyone else spontaneously stopped reading. Did not end up reading Dune Messiah yet, I picked up the Martian first. It was absolutely brilliant. Amazing, loved it, convinced my father to watch the movie with me literally 30 minutes after I finished it. I think I'm going to read Artemis before Project Hail Mary, as much as I'm tempted otherwise. We'll see which hold I get first.

Also, Araris, I started Furies of Calderon, and I can only imagine Araris Valerian as a Pooh bear. This is your fault.

You're lucky I was busy, or I would have stolen it from you. For a name... Johan A. Samith, not to be confused with that a-less jerk John Smith. His epic power would be sound manipulation, with a side effect of echolocation. Hmmm, I should give him an Epic name too. I'm fond of Deafmute. Let's go with that.