The Unknown Medallion

Calming

Mid-Range Game 63: The Outcasts of Tyrian Falls Tin Capone was not a cruel man. He had never been known to let a man suffer. Why torture someone when Soother or Rioter could just make him want to reveal the information? Because it was fun, of course. But still, he never let his underlings torture a man for information. He idly flipped a boxing. Silver Snakes should be in soon. That would be good. Tin Capone had plans for him. A knock came from the door. "Who is it?" Tin Capone called. It was Silver Snakes of course, no one else would be coming around today. He walked through the door. No manners, none of these modern skaa had any. And he wore that silly little hat that was popular out here. Gah. They must catch ash like a bucket. Firmly in the door, he answered. "S'me, Silver Snakes, boss." "Well, I gathered that much you rusting idiot. Now why're you here?" "I got the stuff, boss." Tin Capone allowed himself a smile. A nice, broad, perfectly normal smile. "Leave it on the doorstep and get out of here." "Alright, boss, but what about my boxings?" "What boxings?" "Iron Acey said you had some steel for me." "Is that a fact. How much do I owe you?" Not a bent boxing. Iron Acey was dead as his mind, and any of his debts were gone. "Iron Acey said ten percent." "Too bad Iron Acey ain't in charge no more." Silver Snakes' eyes narrowed. "What do you mean?" His smile, which had momentarily dropped, came back into its full, terrifying bloom. "He's upstairs, counting boxings." Hard to manage, when they were in his skull, but Tin Capone was sure he could manage it. "He'll send you a Tineye message when he gets done." Or at least one to Silver Snakes' family, informing them that he too, was counting coins. Then Tin Capone decided on the direct approach. "Hey, Silver Snakes, I'll tell you what I'll give you. I'll give you to the count of sixteen to get your ugly, yellow, no good corpse off my property." He stepped back, slowed by his stupidity. "Did you say… corpse?" "One, two," the man scrambled back, tripping over his own feet out the door, "sixteen!" Boxings flew forward, ripping through the man. Tin Capone laughed, oh he laughed, and his smile was so wide, a koloss would run from it. "Keep the change, you ashy animal." A junior member of the Mobborn walked into the room, his eyes looking at his own feet, which saved him from seeing Tin Capone's smile. "You want me to clean this up, boss?" "Yes, yes I would." Tin Capone peered deep into the boy, his smile momentarily forgotten. "Tell me boy, what's your name?" "I'm called Copper Copper, on account of my pa getting killed by, well, a copper." Tin Capone was sure the doubling of his name had nothing to do with the boy's eyes constantly looking cross eyed. "Do you want a job, Copper Copper? A real job, not cleaning up blood and ash stains." "Uh, yeah boss, I'd like that." Like he had a choice. But Tin Capone nodded as if he did. "Good, good, now, I want you to take a squad of boys to a growing little metal route town. Tyrian Falls, you heard of it?" The kid, who was actually more of a fully grown adult, gasped slightly, his eyes widening. Was he scared of that little town? Maybe he wasn't the right person for the job. But it was too late now. "Yeah, boss, I have." "Good, good, I want you to start me a new branch of the Mobborn over there, you got it?" "Sure, boss, but I heard the Ministry's been taking an interest down there. They probably sent some informers down there." "So? What's the saying, 'suffer not an Informer to live?'" "I don't thi—" "Don't correct me. Just get down, and get me a bit of that metal route they got going on down there. Aight?" "Alright boss." And the kid left without even being told. He had potential. Now Tin Capone just had to find out what had the boy so scared of Tyrian Falls. *** Welcome to Mid-Range Game 63: The Outcasts of Tyrian Falls. I will be your GM, and your illustrious IM will be @Devotary of Spontaneity. I am also looking for a Co-GM! PM me if you are interested. Writeups will be minimal or nonexistent unless my Co-GM takes an interest. Sign ups will close on Monday the 17th at 9:30 PM, Mountain Time, Cycle One will be posted shortly after, and all future rollovers will take place at that time. If you would like the rules in a doc, you can find them here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FHjcSnyL8yBw4PAU14BhuA04xNlyKcoQ8lItNCbSUSc/edit?usp=drivesdk And if you would like the rules in forum form, you may find them below. Participants: Quick Links:

I guess those Hordelings are better at impersonation than we thought. Congratulations to the winners, and thanks to @Matrim's Dice for the great game and @StrikerEZ for the excellent impartialing.

@Channelknight Fadran

In the kindle version it's this (sorry, it's forced on to two different pages):

I think so, but I also suspect that I'll enjoy them much more when I get the physical book.

That's a footnote for the previous footnote. It is properly asterisked.

At this point I am completely willing to die so it can just be established that you are all making activity arguments when they don't work on me. This is a disingenuous argument here. My point against JNV and JNVs post alone was completely valid, as he was arguing that I was elim due to his theory that elims weren't under pressure, and I responded that I had been under pressure. It was completely relevant to the problem at hand. If we're playing the irrelevant game, then your post is irrelevant, any negative point against me is irrelevant. Why? Because. But I'm not going to be child, so here's a the concrete reasons why you're wrong. Here's your initial vote post from earlier this cycle: "I'm not a fan of his response on his elim tells" So? That's not actually a reason to suspect me or vote me. Said elim tells are, but you never actually mention those, except for your next part "Kas mentioned in our PM that he'd expect v!TKN to have had more of an impact by now." The latest Kas could have said that was n2. N2! I can understand Kas' argument that I start making a impact later on, in fact, I think he's right, but you can't backtrack that to the second cycle, through most of which I was very sick. I almost never come into play cycle two. Sometimes I get a correct hunch c1 and follow it, but normally I start coming in late c3 and c4. Also, I thought we were supposed to be doing this without Kas holding our hand? Not just following his reads until we die. Also, no reasoning? You put words that don't mean anything as your reasoning. You put an opinion that is irrelevant to my alignment, and something Kas said that has negative evidence behind it. Now let's look at my other votes and see just how dumb they are. JNV: Already argued it, I was under a not insignificant amount of pressure throughout d1, and his argument is predicated on elims not being under pressure. Also he has self-professed that he always reads me as elim. Alpha: Pure sheeping. While I don't blame him on account of him being new, I wouldn't doubt that he's been told to play up his newness by the elim doc and is reaping the rewards. Ash: Why Ash? Why are you "fine voting TKN here?" You can't just be agreeing with Araris' read, because their built on a faulty foundation. For all this, I think there's a decent chance that Araris is being an honest villager, but since there's also a good chance that he's making faulty arguments to go after the LHF that my train always is, and since he is my best chance, I'll put my vote on Araris.

I'm pretty sure if Ash is evil, the elims know who Cord is regardless, and Cord should claim so they can be protected.

As much as I want to die so you guys can remember how v!me works, I'll defend this as best as I can. I was actually two vote train for a good part of early d1, and had one vote until pretty near the end when Stick moved to Wiz, and several people expressed interest in joining Stick. So while I was only a train early on in the cycle, there was one vote (the ending tie was two votes!) on me most of the game.

On location 1346 of my kindle book, immediately after the 'Alright, why can't I have talking bananas' FAQ, it refers to the vikings as 'well-kempt.' I'm pretty sure this is supposed to be 'well-kept.'

My PM is once again for sale.

Your library is weird. As far as I know, there is just about nothing to make Discworld Scifi, since I don't think it ever gets past the industrial revolution.

I have a feeling I'm misunderstanding here, and I know you have other (decently valid, if incorrect) reasons that you suspect me, but since when do I ever vote more than two people in a cycle? I will note that quite a while ago, during a game that I was elim with Araris, he specifically mentioned wanting to not put in the elim kill because of this.

It's not saying not to ask what pur favorite book is (though that can be dangerous), just don't ask us to summarize, describe, or otherwise try to learn the contents of our favorite book without reading it. We can't answer you.

That post from Sart feels weird. Don't know what to think of it yet. I didn't say that they should not be AI, just that I didn't think they were very AI. Plus, you're basically saying the absence of AIness is what makes them AI, so whatever. Here's a list of my first two (ish) posts from the last couple of games: You can draw your own conclusions from that, but my argument is that I split what would normally be my first post into two separate posts this game, and if you take them together, they seem pretty similar to the other games.

Ah yes, the reasons that only came into existence after that list was made. I had only done two posts then, and neither were particularly AI.

Which I'm actually very curious about, @Kasimir, since I don't think that was just the other half of the plyer list. That's because I tend to ignore reads questions when I don't have reads/just early game in general. I was also going to go back and answer one of your questions, but I forget what it was. I'm not saying you were waiting for anybody, I was saying you were waiting for a significant number of people express a mild sus, which is very common for me d1.

I doubt I've personally said that, but someone might have noted that about me. I'll get back to why Stick, but what do you mean claim? My reasoning for Stick is thus. From what I noticed, her suspicion only started (or at least only got strong) after Kas voiced a similar opinion. She put a poke vote on me early on (a second vote btw), which is a really easy LHF, but there wasn't any read behind it. And then she moved her vote away, and once Kas showed a slight sus I got the impression that Stick was waiting to make sure some other players were willing to join the train, once she saw you, Kas, and I think Sart, Stick that it could be a successful mix, so she hopped on. Edit: Although I won't deny that there's a bit of OMGUS in there, Stick, that is by no means the majority or even that big of a part of my reasoning.

Stick.

That's one reason why he's sunk in alongside general passivity, yes. Several comments: 1. You cannot seriously be saying that c1 passivity is AI for me, later on, for sure, but not c1. 2. My village games have three purposes. Win, remember what it's like to be in the village mindset, and use some elim habits I've noticed to make it harder to ID me as elim in the later games. 3. So what I'm saying is, just because it was an elim tell previously, doesn't mean it is going forward. But still, draw your own conclusions, this is just me explaining nearly every single mix that has happened or will happen in the future.

Grog nice to u, y u no nice to Grog? Actually, I was going to give you my PM since I'm not going to use it, but now I'm selling it to the highest bidder. Who wants a free PM!?

So you don't like me? Y u no like me?

Why am I so deep in your "Ew, don't vote it, it has cooties" category? (I think that's what this is, but the scary Digimon is throwing me off)

I didn't realize there was one within five games. Who has passes? Or I suppose I could do my walmart brand Tyrian game.