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  1. Araris Valerian
    Experience. I just did a reread of the thread, and I’d definitely rather lynch Connie over Gears. I’m really not a fan of the multiple instances of village claims. Those are entirely pointless. I don’t really have anything elim on Gears (not anything village either), but I agree with the sentiment that he dies too early too often. I was suspicious of Quinn for being unwilling to suspect people, but that is largely gone now with the vote on Connie. I do also still suspect Experience. I know TJ expressed similar suspicion. I would be happy to switch back, but I’d prefer my vote to have some meaning, which it wasn’t.
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    The best part about being an elim is definitely killing people.
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    I would say that using role speculation as the primary reason for a vote is generally bad, since we have a bunch of trolls for GMs. But otherwise I would say that it can be helpful when trying to solve the game. On the topic of the D1 lynch, I’d like to point out that it isn’t necessary that we actually kill anyone. It’s just necessary that people feel threatened. That’s when we get information.
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    I think this is because there have been a lot of players with lower activity, a reluctance to vote, and less of a penchant for doing analysis.
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    It does hurt us to kill them though. The Shaman becomes vulnerable to a Night kill if the Truthless dies. A wasted lynch is also a pretty significant cost. Barring a situation such as knowing all the elim identities prior to LyLo (we have a lynch to spare), I don't think we should consider lynching the Truthless. Also, as I mentioned above, I doubt we will have the chance. If the Truthless reveals, the elims would probably Night Kill them, and that's game over.
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    Since the Truthless specifically needs to be lynched (as opposed to Night Killed) to win, I don't think they would do this. I'm also going to vote for Experience/@Ookla the Shadowed since I don't like your post. Seems vaguely like a thing a villager would say without actually saying anything. Edit: Gears was elim in the MR. That is the context of the comment in his first post.
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    I've got all the time in the world now, so I'll sign up for this one. My character will be Max. Powers: Extreme jumping and can control fire. Weakness: Bad fantasy books negate his powers. No prime invincibility.
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    I’ve never actually run a game (although I co-GMed my first time this year). So it definitely varies dramatically based on what you are comfortable with.
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    For better or for worse, there will both be an important issue at hand and much pressing done in this game .
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    I'll sign up as Hadrian-son-Penrod, generic lynch fodder.
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    By the way, why did you think this?
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    I never claimed hemalurgist because I thought people would pick me as the most suspicious one. I was H4, and did an awful job of identifying everyone. Of course, I’d only played with TJ and Devotary before, and never really had long conversations with them. I’m curious, you seemed to be playing very conservatively this game, and I was wondering why. A lot of the posts you made were agreeing with things already said, and I don’t think you really pushed for a lynch that wasn’t already backed by other people. But I got the impression that you also very much knew what you were doing. I mentioned the above behavior to Burnt as a reason I was suspicious of you, and of the known Hemalurgists, I would have tried to get you lynched over Condensation or myself if it came to it.
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    Before this thread gets too long, I'd like to make my obligatory comment about activity. I could write several paragraphs on the topic, but basically, if you find yourself only posting to dodge the filter, then you aren't really playing the game, and you are upsetting the balance for other players. Life gets busy sometimes (and I think lots of people have finals around now), but this game ran for a month, and generally life isn't busy for 30+ days straight. So please try and do better in the future, and reach out to players that seem like they know what they are doing if you feel stuck. I saw that in the dead doc and laughed out loud, because I totally did. I bussed Ash, and the put the other 3 elims in a list of my top 4 suspects. I'm kind of surprised that nobody went after me for not actually trying to lynch anyone on that list except lotus. Missing that Night Kill did provide a convenient opportunity to pivot my suspicions. I think I made many suboptimal decisions this game which caused at least a few people to assume that I wasn't on the elim team. Well, I play just about every LG, so you'll have plenty of opportunities for revenge. I look forward to the honor of being slain by you in the future. On a related note, I was pretty awful at identifying Hemalurgists I guess, and you weren't the only person to die as a result. Sorry to @Amanuensis and @Devotary of Spontaneity for your premature deaths. I take full responsibility, and wish I had instead killed you for something more substantial . Don't bother. I've been saying that for ~5 years and nobody listens .
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    Good game everyone! Thanks especially to @Straw for GMing and @Matrim's Dice for co-GMing. I will post more thoughts on the game later, but I want to say now that @Burnt Spaghetti was awesome about getting up to speed so quickly. I definitely have more fun in these games when players put in that kind of effort .
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    Okay, so in order from most to least suspicious (excluding myself): Mist Wind Silber Books Vapor Burnt Supreme Condensation Whysper Danex Vapor is a bit lower on the list because if she is elim, the elims took something of a risk with the lynch last cycle. They could have gambled on TJ using his vote manip, or just been planning to let her go, but it slightly lowers my suspicion on her. Burnt is lower because she was super active in PMs, but Elkana's inactivity still fits pretty well with the elim team profile I've been considering. I'm curious to hear what she has come up with after being in this game for just a day.
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    I'd like a link to the spec doc. This game is running at a pretty bad time for me, school wise.
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    My favorite board/card games are Eclipse: New Dawn for the Galaxy, Terraforming Mars, Spirit Island, and Race for the Galaxy. Of course, there are plenty of others I enjoy.
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    Our goal was always to find/lynch the elims. Villagers are going to die no matter what (and you can't really "find" a villager), and we don't really have a way to protect Hemalurgists to begin with, aside from just not lynching them.
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    But that can only happen if all village Hemalurgists die first, which will almost certainly not happen before the game ends. It's still technically possible, but unless Mist isn't the HI, it's not something worth worrying about anymore.
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    Nobody has claimed Hemalurgist since you have.
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    Hemalurgist is a bit dangerous, since you would probably need to prove your role using the doc. If you didn't have access, that would be pretty easy to discover.
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    Yeah, and I just mentioned that in an edit to my post above as well.
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    There was an underlying assumption with this statement that the only scenario in which Mist is village is if she actually is a Voidbringer. Hence the claim wouldn't be fake. Silber and Condensation were actually active during the Night. So if the issue is that the elims were inactive, we can probably focus on the other three, at least for now.
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    The thing here is we don’t know that Danex is actually Mistborn. Given 2 village Mistborn, I would not at all be surprised if there is an elim Voidbringer. Which is actually a point in favor of lynching Mist. If Mist actually is the HI, we waste a lynch, but that would sort of balance out the lost elim kill, so it doesn’t put us closer to LyLo, and also means that there is no worry of lynching the HI in the future. I’m going to stick to my guns for now, but I’d like to hear suspicions and/or votes from all of @Vapor, @Mist, and @Danex.
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    I disagree with several points here, but it’s 1AM for me right now, so I’ll address them sometime tomorrow. I meant to edit this into my last post, whoops.
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