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    You've figured out a lot, Lopen, but there are still some things you have very, very wrong... Seonid.
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    "Trouble?" Emma asked, laughing. "Don't worry about me. Vondra knows he needs me, no matter what Arsey or Reading Rainbow say. Deathwish, Scribbler, and I are the main offensive Epics in town. We are the frontline soldiers. And if Commander Vondra—“ Suddenly, something flared in the back of Ethan’s awareness, distracting him from whatever Emma was saying. He focused and it leapt into brilliant relief in his mind’s eye. Bogey, coming in fast. His eyes widened. Flight Epic, and strong. Even as he started to turn, trying to warn Emma, the figure overtook them, throwing them violently off course. …Sparks. Frostfire threw their momentum to the side, towards a nearby building. Emma attempted to do the same, and while the gesture was appreciated, it did more harm than good, briefly confusing his senses. With the sharp change in direction, he lost hold of her hand, tumbling towards the rooftop. He managed to drop his speed to a crawl before connecting, but he still connected hard; for some reason his power had difficulty affecting things like rotation. A steady ache built throughout his body as he started to push himself up, making it hard to think clearly. The fall itself had done little, but holding on to the energy of it was already taking its toll. As the flight Epic passed, he shoved Frostfire with his foot, making his balance waver. Anger flared, sharpening his mind, and he pulled as much heat as he could from the cement beneath him. Frostfire was a little dazed, but he knew a High Epic when he saw one. He needed as much firepower as he could get. Standing, he became aware of the conversation between the two of them; blinking in confusion as Emma easily incapacitated the newcomer with barely any resistance. "Hawk, you ready to do your real job?" Job? Job!? This slontze is working with us? He sure has one hell of a way of showing it. Relaying that thought to Emma, Ethan took a moment to study their new “partner.” Leather jacket, skinny jeans, dark, slicked back hair and pale skin; he looked like someone in their late thirties going through a mid-life crisis and trying to pretend they were still a ‘cool’ teenager. Something about the expression on his face seemed so sleazy that it made you want to take a shower just for making eye contact with him. Frostfire hated him on general principle.
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    So long as after the gameplay changes I still have enough income to maintain my city and do what I want to do, then I'll be happy. (Seeing how, at this particular moment, I'm kinda barely scraping by. ) In terms of RP: I'll try? I don't know how it is with most people, but I've got a fair chunk of RP that I've written, and just never posted, because I didn't turn out well. Unless there's a particular scene I have in mind, based on my actions, (you have no idea how often I've had a great idea for RP, only for me to realize that I might not want to make the actions involved public ) or current events or whatever, I find it really hard to create a decent character and give them a story in just four weeks. Maybe you could work in some sort of incentive to writing (and actually posting, even if it isn't greatest quality) RP? Something like a small Rep/Respect boost, depending on the content?
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    Maybe it's just me, but I thought Rey's incredible aptitude worked, for the most part. Because really, she did have training. Everything she did, she learned from Kylo, frequently within moments of his demonstration. The first things she figures out is how to shield her mind, and affect the minds of others; in this case, she was quite literally in a do-or-die scenario, as Kylo was trying to take information from her about the map BB-8 had. She's clearly not very good at it, but her sheer power makes up the difference; beating back Kylo and surprising him enough to get a glimpse inside his head. From there, I imagine the thought process going something like, "Well, I just did that. Not really sure how, but can I do it again?" And after a couple failed attempts, she manages to convince a Stormtrooper to free her, presumably working off the same principles she discovered when she briefly looked in Kylo's mind. With the lightsaber, she'd just had two demonstrations of the Force being used to effect the physical world (one of which was rather up close and personal). Being extremely sensitive to the Force, and having figured out how to really use her power consciously, (I'd be willing to bet she'd been using it unknowingly for ages, between her salvage operations and her ridiculous piloting skills) it's not too much of a stretch for her to see what Kylo was doing, and just copy him; again, winning out in the end due to raw strength, rather than skill. At no point is Rey just getting skills from nowhere; instead she's observing, and intelligently applying what she learns. Sure, even given that, she learns things a little quick, but that's what suspension of disbelief is for right?
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    Happy New Year!

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    Gladly. Hopefully there's no protective roles on the Diagrammist team, but we'll see what happens. (Interesting to me that Ripple claimed GB Surgeon, did she not...? Are there any Assassins left to check, in the event Adavantos survives?) Adavantos.
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    I can't say I'm really clear on what's gone down the last couple cycles, (Apparently Adavantos is an outed Digrammist? Providing information out of the goodness of his heart? That feels wrong. Unless a not insignificant amount of the active players are evil, that seems strategically unsound, and generally foolish. However, if most of the active players are evil, then that says very bad things about our chances of winning this game...) but I've skimmed through most of it, and have a couple little comments on current events. Primarily, my concerns are on voting for inactives. Generally, the point behind it is to encourage someone to activity, ferreting out lurkers who might be contributing to the evil team whilst keeping a low profile in the thread. Regardless of whether or not Adavantos' earlier refusal to attack Polking was a red herring or not, a lynch on Polking tells us literally nothing. According to his profile, he hasn't even been on the Shard for the last five cycles. If he's a Diagammist, all that tells us is that Adavantos is one (something I think we already know) and that one of their members hasn't contributed to anything they've done for the last ten days. While this would be somewhat comforting news, it's also utterly unimportant. Assuming that Polking remains inactive, he is no threat to anything, and the lack of information gained would be a wasted lynch. As such, I'm just a little suspicious of people who have voted Polking right now; I didn't trust PK earlier, and I still don't now, despite the Scholar reveal, and while Kynedath and Elbereth have generally come off as being good they're both players I've never played with before, and I don't really have a good read on them yet. Elbereth in particular I'm unsure of. The lynch on Tony I do not have the same problem with; while he hasn't been terribly active, and we won't learn much from his eventual scan, he has been around, and potentially contributing to the Diagrammists. However, I would maintain that lynching someone who has been active enough to at least tell us something would be infinitely preferable to killing someone purely inactive. I'm initially tempted to throw a vote on Elbereth or Kynedath; they both voted on Polking, and Elbereth is someone I haven't really been able to get a decent read on. (Additionally, Kynedath's call for Zas to be revealed by Adavantos feels strange; PK apparently scanned him as a Ghostblood Cook, same as he claimed in-thread. As such, if Adavantos' intel matches, we've wasted a quasi-scan, and if it differs, then we've basically done the same thing just with additional confusion, as we can't really trust either of them.) However, I am also interested to hear Lopen's reasoning for being suspicious of Ripple; from my skimming, I didn't get much of a feel either way, but she has done some questionable things, and has been active enough we might learn something. (Another, unrelated point: Does anyone really trust anything Adavantos is saying? I mean, honestly. Information given freely by an enemy, no matter their claimed intentions, should never be trusted. Why are we keeping him around?)
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    Speaking of terribly OP Epics, this is an idea I had earlier today:
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    Not to get too far off topic but actually this is anything but a normal year; we've had one of the strongest El Nino effects ever recorded this year, (I think the strongest, but I'm not 100% sure off the top of my head) likely due at least in part to climate change and it's breaking temperature records all over the place. (And the corresponding La Nina next year will likely do the same.) [/randommeteorologydiscussion]
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    Sorry I haven't responded, guys; I'd been travelling all yesterday, and just got the wi-fi password for my sister's house about an hour ago. As for Scholar requests... well, there's a bit of a problem, there. One of our many trigger-happy cooks killed him yesterday. >> Kipper was a higher ranking Son of Honour, as well as a Scholar (I'd be interested to learn exactly how Elkanah found this out) and he contacted me to reveal his scan results to the public. So we'll need to find a new one, if we wish to continue double checking PK's results.
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    It couldn’t have been more than a few minutes later when the uncomfortable silence of their walk was interrupted by Emma’s appearance. Before anyone had a chance to respond, she’d grabbed Ethan by the hand a pulled him up into the air. Well. That was unexpected. "Sorry to grab you like that, but I didn't want to go on my own," she said, shouting over the wind. Go where? He reflexively started shifting her kinetic energy, keeping her from pulling her arm out of joint. "There are renegade Epics in a school bus on Liberty Street. We're supposed to neutralize them." That answers that, then. Something still felt a little odd. It was nice to know he hadn't completely screwed things up last night, and he could definitely be useful in something like this, but after the welcome he'd received yesterday, this didn't seem quite right. Unless the threat was way bigger than Emma was suggesting, it didn't strike him like the sort of thing that would get intervention from an unknown Epic sanctioned. Usually, he wouldn't give a spark about the whims of an authority figure, especially not when spending time with a pretty girl was involved. But it was one thing for him to piss of a dictator, and a whole different one for said pretty girl to do it on his behalf. He was about as near bulletproof as one could be without actually being so. She wasn't. “Are you sure this is a good idea?” He yelled back, straining to be heard over the wind. “Maybe it’s just my impression, but the higher-ups in this town don’t seem like the sort of people who’d authorize this. Not that being rescued from spending more time with Reader is objectionable, but I don’t want to get you in trouble.”
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    In other news, my Scholar has finally gotten in contact with me, and apparently the scan result was that Mace Windu was a Ghostblood Bondsmith. Make of this what you will. Now I really need to sleep.
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    Then, to be honest, I'm not going to bother responding to your accusations. If you aren't even willing to formulate a logical argument supporting your position, then I'm not going to bother trying to refute it. Quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur. To be even more honest, I'm having trouble getting in to this game. Nothing against the GMs, or the other players, but I've yet to get a really solid handle on what's going on, and I'm having trouble staying really interested in events. I'll be sure to report my Scholar's results once they're told to me, and I'll try to gather my thoughts to get coherent suspicions down relatively soon, but don't expect too much.
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    Nope. My Scholar's been online since the day's start. but they haven't yet informed me of anything. Hopefully they don't take too long to get around to it.
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    The information I've received does corroborate Paranoid's theoretical scan results. (Those of Diagrammist Bondsmith.) I would agree that regardless of PK's trustworthiness, this seems an unlikely result; there's a very good chance that Alignment was changed, and the role certainly was. It is, however, a starting point. If Paranoid is a Diagrammist, and not in fact a Scholar (and there is no Scholar on the Diagrammist team) then we can lock down their Elsecaller by deciding in-thread who PK should scan. If there is a Scholar on the Diagrammist team, or PK is in fact innocent, then we will not be able to, but at the very least we'll have a slightly better idea of things going forwards.
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    Now that I finally have time to post today: I received information from a Scholar, and I have been told what Sart's role was. (Or at least, what he was scanned as.) However, they would prefer that PK reveal what he knows before I make known what they have told me.
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    Paranoid King. What made you think Adavantos wanted hard numbers? You pulled a meaningless statistic from nowhere, and Ada was really just asking you to back it up somehow. Which you couldn't. But rather than admit that the number was a complete guess based on basically nothing, you do some random math that appears to support your initial number while remaining meaningless, for reasons you've already stated. Why bother? It feels very much like you're trying to push the WGG idea without really being able to find evidence for it. And that, in my mind, feels very much like something a Diagrammist would do. Anyways, on the subject of the WGG as a whole, has anyone every heard of something by the name of Hanlon's Razor? No, it's not for shaving. It's a logical tool, and a corollary to Occam's Razor. It can be stated as: "Never attribute malice where mere ignorance will suffice." This, I believe, is a case where this may apply. While the events surrounding Venture's survival are a little strange, they can be more easily be explained by strategic error than intentional subversion. He, Maill and Stink were three of the most likely persons to be targeted by a Surgeon, and he had come under the least fire during the day, making him an appealing target. Obviously, the Surgeon thought the same way. Is it perfect reasoning? No. Does it have to be? Also no. Is it just as, if not more likely than the Eliminators wasting possibly their only kill this cycle to try (and very possibly not succeed) to get a Runner trusted, while also revealing that they had a protective role? Yes, certainly. (There is a third possibility I'm not considering, simply because it violates both Occam's and Hanlon's Razors. One in which the Eliminators purposefully wasted a kill against Venture, in order to make him suspicious, rather than trustworthy. This is doubtful, for what I hope are obvious reasons.)
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    Coming from one of said male teenagers,* my advice is; don't. We're just generally a bad idea. The legitimately nicer of us tend to be horribly awkward; those that aren't tend to be jerks, or just incapable to developing meaningful relationships with others. The idealized chick-flic boyfriend-guy does not exist (or if they do, I have yet to meet someone who fits the description). As a whole, we tend to be immature, insecure chull-holes, with no clue how to go about a relationship, and only the best of us have even the slightest basic idea of what it means to respect another human being. Wait for another two+ years (it can take well over a decade, for some of us), when we're getting near the end of high school, have actually started to figure out how to be decent human beings, and matured to something more like the level you're at now, then try again. *I realize that this likely makes me even less qualified to speak on the subject than most people, seeing how my relationship experience, aside from being very limited, is also from the perspective of the guy, rather than the girl, but I happen to know a lot of my fellow guys, and we kind of tend to be jerks. Edit: Ninja'd by Voidus.
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    Hi everybody. Just a quick post here to let people know that I am (somewhat) paying attention. I've spent all day so far procrastinating an essay, and attempting to calm down a friend (she has to go for an electromyograph tomorrow, and she's deathly afraid of needles ). So I haven't had a lot of time to gather my thoughts. Stink's role reveal strikes me as a little weird, and likely counter productive in the long run, but at the same time, I can't see a particularly logical reason for a Diagrammist to do that. So I'll probably wait until tomorrow to vote on things. As for Maill... I don't know what his game is yet. And as such, I will currently refrain from commenting. I would however, caution for players to take a very close read of his list before trusting him.*
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    Discovered 2Cellos today. One does not realize how much they need cello covers of rock songs until one is informed of their lack. :P

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    Before I forget: (This week's been really busy, sorry.) Action 1: Arrange a favourable marriage for Lucca with an NPC House.
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    Had the school Christmas concert today. Between part-timing as vice principal, and being treated for early stage skin-cancer, my music teacher's been out of the class about 70% of the time, leaving us (most of the time) with subs who had no clue what they were doing. Most of our rehearsals over the last couple weeks have sucked, we've had to throw out two pieces because we were simple incapable of doing them, nearly threw out a third, and our concert for the schoolboard administration yesterday failed. Majorly. We rocked it. The flutes screwed up pretty bad once, a couple of our alto saxes were a little squeaky, and I managed to bring the wrong version of one of my pieces (sight-reading a harmony part you've never even looked at before on the fly for the end of semester concert is fun, let me tell you ), but we actually did really good. Probably the best concert I've been a part of so far.
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    I don't have any notes on Frostfire's musical ability, but his powerset could be useful for a drummer....
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    Hmm.... I might just have enough time to keep up with this one. We'll see how it goes. Arran Faenel is signing up. RP forthcoming.
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