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The Deadrunners were swift in the night. If they controlled the spore supplies, then they controlled the shift. However, the noble sprouter, Sarkan, tried to fend them off. A fight broke out, scattering spores left and right. Not daring to get them wet, the mutineers choked poor Sarkan, shedding not a drop of blood. However, the fight had made too much noise, and they had to flee. The rest of the crew woke up to pandemonium. One of their own was dead, a wealth of spores was there for the taking, and no one was there to regulate it. It would be an all out free for all, as they quickly squabbled over the scraps. Sarkan has died! He was a Sprouter who was part of the Loyal Crew. Spore Supply: Player List:

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And that's finally 12 players. I'll be getting the thread up in 30 minutes.

After mentioning the name Adonalsium to Dalinar Kholin, the King's Wit, aka Hoid, quickly plays it off, claiming he's speaking gibberish. He drops this quote. Interestingly, while he does use two 'real' nonsense words of Nonsense and Balderdash, the term Figgldygrak was apparently a wholly Brandon invention. It was an amusing word, nothing more. Then, a user by the name of Natans had an interesting idea. Balderdash could be anagramed into the word Shardblade. Perhaps, the same could be done to Figgldygrak, in turn revealing some deep truth about the Cosmere. You can find the thread here: Surprisingly, Peter Ahlstrom himself weighed in, calling the people in that thread "Very special people" Clearly, we were reading way too much into this. The theory was basically abandoned, and we moved on. However, the word reappeared in Rhythm of War, this time in Navani's inner dialogue. Specifically, it was used in the context of writing ciphers that meant absolutely nothing. It was literally meant to be a waste of time. I was surprised to see it reappear, but laughed it off as Brandon lightly poking fun at his fans reading too much into his words. Then the secret projects happened. In Tress of the Emerald Sea, Hoid once again uses the word in his narration. It was another callback to the same forgotten joke. It's clearly used as a synonym for mystical nonsense in all of its appearances, but it kept cropping up. Why keep the joke going? The word then reappears a fourth time in Yumi and the Nightmare Painter. At this point, I'm starting to get paranoid. While it does not show up in SP4, this nonsensical word has appeared in four separate places, uttered by three different characters. Some of you might guess that this is a word that Hoid has invented. However, this is tenuous at best. While he was the first to speak it, we have to consider that both Navani and Tojin used it in everyday speech. You could maybe stretch that perhaps Navani overheard Hoid make up the word, but that doesn't explain Tojin. Hoid is a statue for most of that book, and Design wasn't bonded to Hoid when he said that line. It's at least two degrees of separation. Even more interestingly, Hoid claims he doesn't make up words. Again, from Yumi, Admittedly, this is spoken with the indignation of someone who probably makes up words, but the point still stands. Hoid denies that he makes up words. Where, then, does the word figgldygrak come from in the Cosmere? Let's consider that three different characters of wildly different origins and planets have used this word. Therefore, I propose a theory. The word figgldygrak is Yolish in origin. It's the only root language all of these human characters would share. Is this wahoopli and figgldygrak? Probably. Is it fun to speculate about? Absolutely. Leave your own takes on this mysterious word down in the comments.

I still need two more players, plus I don't love forcing Kasimir to play. Therefore, I am delaying the start of this game to Friday, March 8th at 9 PM EST.

Unfortunately, I was aiming for at least 12 players. With Araris pulling out, we're 4 players short.

Yes, absolutely. I'll put you on the sign up list. Make sure you check out our general rules. I'll be happy to answer any questions you may have.

Let me tell you a story. A story about those rogues who sail the spore seas. Yes, that's right. I'm talking about pirates. Once upon a time, on a quiet night in the lower decks of the Crooked Moon, a villainous plan was hatched. A group of ruffians, seeking easy plunder and riches, decided to do what no honest sea crew would do. They decided to become deadrunners, and stage a mutiny against the captain. If they could take over the ship, by whittling down the loyal sailors, they could make a killing. Their first step was simple. It was time to raid the Spore supplies. Rules: Quicklinks: Player List: Assuming we have enough players signed up by then, the game will start at 9 PM EST on March 5th.

Yeah. That definitely felt off. Switched my kill vote last second, but still. I played pretty terribly, and yet we somehow still won.

Well, that's a claim and a half. Archer. Stick.

My vote was on you, Stick. The train wasn't going anywhere, so I switched off to protect myself. My gut is still leaning good on Archer, so I went to the only other person with votes Faerie. Considering they flipped red, I'm proud of that. Still have you as my highest suspicion. Like this post is just bad. You vote on JNV, but then immediately backpedal it. I don't understand this.

Unfortunately, I've got my Pathfinder game in 15 minutes, so I'm not going to be here for rollover. In a naked attempt at self-preservation, I'm going to put a vote on Faerie Braids instead of Stick. I think my gut is leaning village on Archer, so I'm following his vote. Plus, Faerie is just barely active enough not to get hit by the filter, but not enough to actively contribute. @Faerie Braids I would love to hear more from you.

Drake feels village. His attacks are targeted and precise. His vote jumps around like crazy, but I think that's his normal play style. Raven is a new player, right? Obviously I don't love the vote on me. Slight elim lean, although I would prefer voting out someone more experienced first. Would love to hear more from them. Neil is rubbing me the wrong way, especially this cycle. I can't pinpoint why, but that's what my gut is saying. I won't vote on him today due to the whole dyslexia thing, but I'm leaning evil. Might as well do the rest of the players while I have time. RoyalBeeMage is Village, and I would die on this hill. With poking and prodding, they give good insights, but aren't very engaged, so I highly doubt they are in a doc. Amanuensis. I'm frantically doing war games in my head to see if your claim holds water. Null until I work that out. Stick. I'm still reading them as evil, and my vote is still on them. They're interactions with Bee felt like pocketing. Faerie Braids. Slipped under my radar, which gives me an evil lean on them until I hear more. JNV. Mr. Quiet is quite quiet. I only voted on them in the first place because Aeoryi started rocketing up. Considering they voted for Neil, the enemy of my enemy is my friend? Slight Village read.

I've flipped back and forth on them, but it kind of feels TWTBW at this point. I know you said to ignore other player's opinions on him, but that's what's really driving that for me. It seems like everyone and their mother has voted for him. Just reading his posts it's mostly null.

I need to address this. I was not trying to make fun of your disability. I thought this was some sort of gimmick, I didn't realize that this is something you have issues with. I apologize. We can take this Out of Game if necessary.

I'm back. And I'm being voted out. Great. My activity hasn't been great, but that's because I have to work during the day. The last game was on the weekend, so I had a lot more time to devote to it. Plus, that was entirely mech based, which is where I get really excited. Pointing fingers at people has never been my strong suit. I'm still feeling Stick is evil. I really don't like couching Archer as probably the Insider. It feels too much like Stick knows the result would be a Villager, so they're pre-emptively using the Insider excuse. It reads off to me. Can I please have a vote count?

My eyes twitch from your terrible grammar. I appreciate a good gimmick, but this hurts to read. I recognize this is play-style related, so it's not alignment indicative, but still. On this point we agree though. Distributions should be done fully randomly. I was going to point the finger at the people who rapidly shifted the vote to Archer, but with Aeoryi flipping Villager, I'm left at a bit of a loss. Stick Your last post on Day 1 felt more like posturing than anything.

Question. What does Jebiga mean? This game in particular feels way too flavored by some other mafia site.

And as I say that, the vote count completely shifts to Aeoryi, with several prolific posters now lurking. This feels off. Aeoryi sorry about that. JNV

Hmmm... Self preservation doesn't always indicate alignment, but the thread hasn't been active, so this reads as off to me. My vote on Archer isn't doing much. Aeoryi

Alright, we're back at it. I think I'm going to vote for Archer. His rules questioning post felt particularly performative to me. We had way too many of those discussions in the previous run of this, and rehashing it just feels stale.

I'm a genius! And now I'll play again and look like an idiot.

How so? Cycle 2, we kill Drake. Therefore, the Insider has possession of the kill. Cycle 3, we must kill the Insider, or the Insider kills the Contact, leading to game loss. It's lylo in Cycle 3. Cycle 2, we don't kill Drake, gambling that we won't hit the Contact. Cycle 3 we then kill Drake. We'd be at lylo on Cycle 4 in that scenario. Technically speaking, we might have already lost. Drake has a 1 in 8 chance of just randomly hitting the Contact, winning the game for himself. It's also possible that Neil was the Insider. Which would mean we would just win if we kill Drake. This sucks. I'm going to enjoy the delicious irony if it turns out Drake killed his own Insider. Drake

This does not spark joy. Well, we're in do or die territory now. Unless an extreme long con is happening, the informant is dead. We have two paths to victory. Option One: We kill Drake now. That leaves us one Cycle to find the Insider and kill them, before they kill the Contact. Option Two: We kill someone besides Drake. Of course, that leaves Drake open to submit the night kill, and potentially hit the Contact. Plus, we run the risk of hitting the Contact ourselves. However, that gives us better odds of hitting the Insider. Basically, it's a push your luck tactic. These options also suppose that Neil was not the Insider. If Neil was the Insider, then all we have to do is kill Drake. We know Neil was not the Contact, otherwise the game would be over.

The reason why I want to get this down to Drake vs Stick is simple. I don't want to guess when we've killed the Insider. I want to know for certain we've won. To catch the criminal infiltrating the police department, we must kill the entire police department. It's the only way to ensure we've done our job properly.