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Why is this aftermath not merged with the rest of the game?

Well, after lynching an innocent, but also getting cleared from a scan, I think this song is appropriate. I know several people have expressed suspicion of Vapor. However, I'm drawn to Elandera's last post. While confirmed good does not equal confirmed right, I wonder if the Elims specifically targeted Elandera in order to get the Vapor lynch to go through this cycle. I'm not sure what to make of Lotus's self vote. I've seen several villagers do it in the Long Games, but I haven't seen Elims doing it recently. Obviously, it only takes one Elim voting on themselves for the pattern to be ruined, but for right now, I'm inclined to trust them. I'm going to put a vote on Pyro. They've been active in the thread, but all they've posted is one sentence at a time. It seems like they're lurking.

There's no vote minimum, and ties are decided by fate, so there's a 1 in 3 chance I'm going to die. I need to bring energy into the thread, and there's only one song capable of that. Everybody get up, it's to time to slam down. We got a real jam going now. Welcome to the vote jam. Here's your chance, state your plans at the vote jam. Alright. Come on and slam, and then we'll end the jam. Come on and slam, if you want a plan. Hey Mist, what you gonna do? Hey you, what you gonna do? All these people in the thread won't vote. So I'll start now alright let's go. You asked 'bout rules but then you zipped. And now I will unseal those lips. And vote. Accuse you of hate. Attack you until you engage. Making sure you're in the room, but never make a big kaboom. Just vote already, vote already, make sure you attack somebody. State your case and we'll be fine, take this thread into overdrive. Hey fellas, turn it up. Spread the votes and burn it up. Control your fate, and start the game, so hey let's go.

Well, there's only one appropriate song for this. With 15 players, we should expect 3-4 Traitors among us. Of the three tables, I think Politicking is the most potent, but I think that is open to discussion. In fact, that should probably be our first avenue of discussion. Which table are you going to use most this game? I'm not asking what Table you are going to use, but rather which one fits your play style the best.

I've been holding off on playing this game, because I've been burning out on playing these silly games. To remedy this, I will embark on a silly gimmick that I surely will not regret. I will post a song to accompany every post I make this game. For example: With that said, I will sign up as Sart the Bard. EDIT: The probabilities for Table 1 are off. Based on the official rules, Empathy should have a 20% chance, while Teamwork should have a 10% chance. However, in the d20 table, Empathy has 2 numbers assigned, while Teamwork has 4.

I got a bit burnt out from playing so many games that I checked out of this one. Even worse, my read on the Day 1 vote was completely off. Still, dying to the inactivity filter is no way to end a game. I'm going to make a suspicion list, from most to least trusted. Sorana: A new player who made the right call on Vapor. They are definitely Village. Araris: This is obvious. Annoying that he tied the lynch Day 1, but he was trying to lynch an Elim, so he's absolved. Silberfarben: They have a policy of not voting, which drives me crazy. However, that's their typical Village play style, so I trust them some. Sart: Hi, it's me. I haven't been the most active, and I tunneled on Gears. Whoops. Xinoehp: Another player who is going inactive. Thought he was breaking the tie by voting for Gears, but miscounted a vote. A Joe in the Bush: Voted early on in the cycle for Gears. Some of his tone seems off though, and I don't know what to make of it. STINK: Broke the tie for Vapor by voting on Gears. His argument seems fairly play style based. Okay, so I'm voting for STINK. I think the bottom 3, Xinoehp, STINK, and Joe are the most likely to be Elims. It's probably some combination of those 3. I also don't think Xino and STINK are on the same team. The miscount from Xino shouldn't have happened if STINK was talking in a doc. STINK is my worst read at the moment, but I can't shake my suspicion of Joe.

Hmm... I'm trying to figure out if this was a village on village scenario, or if this was an elim team saving a teammate. I still think the best course of action is to lynch Gears. The vote on Vapor was flimsy at best, and seemed designed solely to get Gears off the hook. If we take the assumption that Gears is evil, we have a much narrower suspect list. If we take the approach that Gears is innocent, I lean towards a Village on Village lynch. That still gives us some suspects, but it divides our attention. All the votes right now are scattered all over creation. By throwing suspicion on everyone, the elims can blend in, and form bandwagons of their choosing. I think we need to do an information lynch here.

@Straw Is there any way to gain additional charges of your metal? I didn't see it anywhere in the ruleset, but I just wanted to be clear. Gears. It's sometimes a tell if a player vocally complains that they are a villager after a streak of being a villager.

I have a policy of only playing one game at a time. Luckily, I just died in the Long Game, so I'm free to sign up for this one.

I want to analyze the votes before I revealed my scan, because, while that post was necessary, it really skewed the thread. Vote Count: Ashbringer (0): StrikerEZ Devotary (4): Kasimir, TJ Shade, Sart, StrikerEZ Matrim (1): Araris Straw (0): Ashbringer Lotus (3): Straw, Illwei, Matrim I highly doubt there was a bus on Devotary, so I'm going to trust Kasimir, TJ, and Striker. On the other hand, the lynch on Lotus seriously gave me red flags. That means I suspect Straw, Illwei, and Matrim. I also suspect Araris for trying to get a different lynch started. Trust List (From most to least trusted): Sart: I trust myself, obviously. Kasimir: Led the lynch on Devotary, enough said. TJ Shade: Also voted on Devotary after Kasimir, and put some serious pressure on him. StrikerEZ: The other vote on Devotary. The vote was made after my first post, so there's a chance he's an Elim who guessed that I'm an action scanner, but I doubt it. Lotus: Their post tonight is too evil to be actually evil. Putting TJ Shade and Striker on your Elim reads is way too out of left field. Add to that them becoming the alternative vote target on Day 3, and we have someone I trust Lahlit: A newer player, but their poke vote Day 1 on Devotary makes me trust them. Frozen Mint: I like that they're still RP'ing. I originally suspected them for being less active, but my gut is now saying otherwise. Vapor: I still can't get a good read on them, but they're a newer player, so I'll give them the benfit of the doubt. Ashbringer: Devotary voted on them Cycle 1. However, we know Devotary vote manipulation removed their vote in thread, so it could have been a bluff. It would be helpful if we could pin down the vote manipulation on Day 1 to see if Devotary actually used their powers. Elandera: They mentioned that they sided with Devotary over Kasimir. That makes me mildly distrust them. Araris: I don't know where to put Araris, so he's going here. Matrim. Ashbringer and Matrim definitely aren't on the same team. He shares the same role as TJ and I, supposedly. Devotary really wanted us to lynch a role blocker, so that's evidence to his innocence. Illwei: My only stumbling block is role distribution related. He claims to have vote manipulation, and it would be odd if the Elim team had two people with that power. However, there's a chance that he took credit for Devotary's actions. Straw: He's been staying under the radar lately, and I don't like it. Add to that the vote on Lotus, and it's very suspicious.

Was watching Devotary. I saw that they used the Elim Kill. Technically speaking, I didn't see who they visited. I only saw the action they took.

Eh. It's about time I revealed my trump card anyways. My research finally bore fruit, and I gained access to an action scan. I used that instead of my roleblock. And guess who I saw kill poor Dr. Gears? One @Devotary of Spontaneity.

Right then. Devotary of Spontaneity. Kasimir makes the perfect case for your guilt, and I see every reason to suspect you. The Freudian slip of saying "target pool" rather than "suspect pool" is particularly damning for me. @Devotary of Spontaneity who do you suspect currently? I see plenty of rule speculation, but no actually player analysis. Who are you planning on voting on?

Ugh, fine, sorry for not confirming it. TJ PM'd me saying he roleblocked me. Once he spoke up, i considered the matter closed. Frankly, I didn't want to remind people that I had an action. I considered sending you a PM, but I have the same disease as TJ and Ashbringer. I have lesions that prevent me from PM'ing, in exchange for a roleblock. I was trying to decide which of the two were more suspicious, but I ended up getting distracted with other concerns.

Vote Count: Mint (1): Sart Pyro (2): Kas, Gears Gears (1): Striker I'm not too concerned about minimizing disease vectors. We've seen two diseases that have very minor, if any downsides. A kill that kills yourself is less than ideal, but not actively harmful. Removing diseases removes any restrictions, although it may remove powers as well. We've also had people claim an inability to PM as a side effect of their disease. That's annoying, but not all that bad. All told, I'm down with the sickness. We should be focusing on placing down votes. Several people have stated that they have a vote target in mind, but are holding off for some reason. There's no certainty in a game of mafia, so why not place the vote now? If you want to change it, that's perfectly fine. If you become more convinced of that person's guilt, you can elaborate by quoting more of their posts. It's a win/win.

I think the biggest problem is a lack of voting. It's hard to discuss suspicions when no one is willing to put theirs out there.

I didn't get a lick of sleep last night. Someone, I'm not sure who, kept waking me up with loud music. (OOC: I was roleblocked) Seriously, who does that? Now I'm even more cranky than usual, and that's not the worst of it. Son-Son-Son-Son-Whatever is dead, and we don't have any leads. I know he came up with a strategy for scanning players, so maybe the saboteurs thought that he was a scanner. He was certainly more talkative than he normally is. Or was, I guess. And it turns out Tara, that goody-two-shoes, wasn't actually a traitor. That's my bad. i hope it doesn't show up on my monthly report. Hell, I'll be lucky if I even see another monthly report. Right, okay, the only way out of this is through. We need some leads, and I'm suspicious of Mint for what she said last night. i disagree that analyzing vote changes are a waste of time. We learned about Illwei's role that way, didn't we? Plus, it's important to know what we're dealing with. We're scientists, so we need to analyze our surroundings in order to better formulate our hypotheses. We can only make guesses at this point, and saying we shouldn't worry about something makes me worry about it even more. I'm going to go get some sleep, but I'm worried about you.

I didn't mean for this to happen, but this RP is really mean spirited. Please don't take it too personally. I hate this stupid little planet. It only took me a week to get all of my stupid work done, and what did the head honchos do? Did they throw me a big party, or give me a promotion? No, they just gave me more work. So, next week, I decided to keep my mouth shut, and let those stupid idiots think I'm still working on a sample. Of course, the work's already done, so they'll give me a big congratulations when I turn it on the deadline. Big whoop. But now that I have all this free time, there's nothing to bloody do with it. Storms, I didn't realize a planet could be this backwards. All of their powers are so crappy that they have to get sick to access them. Who does that? Honestly, why did I even bother coming here? I could do the head honchos job no problem, but no, I don't have experience. This is so dumb, and now there's idiots stealing samples from this place. Who in their right mind would even bother doing that? It's probably Tara (Mist). She'd been kissing up to the superiors ever since she got here. Now she's giving helpful little corrections all over the place, but she's not actually voicing her own opinion. I bet she's being nice now to smuggle the samples later. I'd like to see something actually relevant, rather than asking "Hey, where's T. A. Hill?" They're here, move on.

Okay, if I'm reading this correctly. Striker is the last JP.

@Elbereth If all Jeskeri Practitioners and Korathi die on the same cycle, do the Korathi still win?

You're the Korathi Cultist, I presume?

@Elbereth Hael, Matrim and Kasimir are all dead.

Let's spin the wheel. Lord Silberfarben turns into Elkanah

Signing up as Thomas, an intern who accidentally automated himself out of a job.