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  1. Elbereth
    If half the people in the game have clarificatory questions, that's 12 PMs right there. If Aman's getting notifications and each individual message shows up, given that Stink's been responding... let's say minimum 24, but probably more like 50. I don't envy you, Aman. In other news... I have no idea how to handle a free for all. My first instinct was to just do RP and not much strategizing, but there's the little fact of me knowing nothing about Pokemon whatsoever, in any format. So that's not really an option. So, yep. I'll try to post more substantially tonight (which will be next cycle, I think, because QFs are fast), but that's my general opinion at moment.
  2. Elbereth
    I don't think I'll ever regret calling you the Storm. This is why. Right here. Maill. I'll miss you.
  3. Elbereth
    I'm back! I've been reading through. It's not as hard as I thought it would be (because it's 50% fluff...), so I'm currently as of this writing about here. I picked that as a stopping place because it's also an interesting point regarding today: I see no reason we couldn't engineer a tie so that someone else died alongside Maill. If someone does move votes, it'd be illuminating (because it'd be onto Maill, obviously. I hope. If he didn't die because of some stupid vote manipulation, that would be very sad.), and if not we have a secondary lynch. Not sure whether that's actually a good idea or not, but I thought I'd put it out there. Other than that, I have a lot of comments that I haven't written out yet, but essentially: strong gut evil read on Emerald. We don't know how to strategize for this game but we can certainly try things (i.e. act as if this is a normal non-conversion one evil team game and who's suspicious in that circumstance? What if it's conversion? etc. I know it'd be kind of tedious to think that way but it's better than anything else I can think of.). While immediate reactions are useful, they're definitely not unforgeable (as I know from personal experience ). I tend to believe Stink's claim. That's about it for now, until I find the time to actually write out everything I want to say. I seriously doubt I'll be able to finish reading the thread before the end of today (since I see it's going to be 24 hours and I have cousins and a rather busy day at my internship during those 24 hours), but I'll do as much as I can manage. I'll definitely be caught up by the end of D3. And back to reading... (and PMing. I'm making some PMs for those people I have specific things to say to. If I don't PM you tonight, I'd welcome a PM from you! Saves me the work of making it later. )
  4. Elbereth
    So here's the thing. I found out last night that I technically have wifi here. However, I'm deliberately choosing to turn it off for the duration of this trip anyway because 1) it's too ridiculously slow to actually do anything, and 2) this is the only time of year I see a lot of my cousins, so I want to spend time with them. And 3) I'm camping! Who goes on their computer while they're camping? Only reason I'm on right now is because my cousin just finished the Well of Ascension for the first time and is desperate for the next book, so I'm downloading it. (Which is the other reason I'm not going to be on. I don't think she'll let me use this once she starts reading. ) And while that's happening, I just have time to check my role/alignment and post this RP that I didn't manage to finish before the game. Sorry if this contradicts the writeup; haven't had time to read it yet. I have not checked my PMs for those who have sent them to me, nor will I until I get back. I will note that I definitely will not be able to read twelve pages (seriously?) before D2 ends when I get back, so if anyone could summarize what happened and PM it to me that would be greatly appreciated. I'll log on once more, during the night, in case I have to send in actions (not sure yet since I haven't yet checked my PM). Hope the game is going well! And I'll see you in a couple days. In the early hours of the morning, before the sun rose, a girl sat in a graveyard and contemplated death. It was a common pastime for Liadan. One couldn't help but think about death when one lived in a cemetery. She sat on a comfortable gravestone, looking east through the gravestones. This particular stone marked the tomb of a particularly rich nobleman's wife. A statue of the lady reclined on a kind of couch, but there was just enough room beside her for a small girl to squeeze in. Liadan liked sitting there every morning to watch the sunrise. She let her gaze drift across the gravestones. Large and small, rich and poor, delicately inscribed or completely unmarked, they stood side by side. It didn't really matter to the dead, of course, but Liadan always liked the rich peoples' tombs. They were much more interesting to explore for a child: so many nooks and crannies to play hide-and-seek and pretend in. She liked to pretend that the lady she was curled beside was her mother, sometimes. She looked so noble and angelic and kind. Liadan imagined her coming to the graveyard's caretaker just before she died and giving him a baby, Liadan, because her husband was too cruel to let him raise her child. She liked to think that, at least, when she thought about her parents at all. She didn't, mostly. The caretaker was enough of a parent most of the time. As she watched, the sky brightened and reddened, until eventually the sun rose above the dark walls of Elantris. Liadan grinned and hopped off the bench beside the mother-statue. "Red sky in the morning, sailors take warning," she recited happily. A storm was coming. She passed a few open graves waiting for inhabitants, frowning distractedly at them. They would need more soon. She hummed to herself, skipping towards the front of the graveyard. Death was coming to Arelon. Soon she would have lots of new statues to play pretend with. And a storm was coming!
  5. Elbereth
    Well, I'm off for the next five days! Wish I'd been able to post that RP, but relatives around make it surprisingly hard to RP. Try not to murder me heartlessly until after I get back, mmkay?
  6. Elbereth
    I'll join as Elthena, please. This should be fun. Also, you can't really have something at 4 MST and 7 EST. That's not how timezones work.
  7. Elbereth
    Well, I wasn't going to RP this game. But I may just have to. I'll get at least one post off before I leave tomorrow morning. I'll be back midway through D2, if things go as planned. Joe, I will note that I'm on your list twice...
  8. Elbereth
    Of course. That logic fell apart when I had the thought that you might legitimately think I was Derethi and still be an eliminator, but it did make me trust you more for a while.
  9. Elbereth
    Oh. That... makes more sense. Actually, one of the things that made me think you were innocent was how much you seemed to be tunneling on me, by the way.
  10. Elbereth
    I'm not. I mean, I arranged myself to be scanned and I didn't know the scan would come back to me, so that's a point in my favor, but no one has scanned me or cleared me in other ways.
  11. Elbereth
    The spreadsheet's not wrong. (Shame for even conceiving of such a thing. Blasphemy. The spreadsheet is not wrong.) You've survived 13 times. You're just missing LG15a. Excellent game, everyone! Thanks to Gamma for running this. I enjoyed it. I had more comments, but I scattered them in the dead doc. So all I have left to say is that this was a great game.
  12. Elbereth
    Well, Alv settled most of that question, but I'll address Bard's plan such as it is anyway: Okay. So my view on this: If Bard's plan is the case (which, I suppose, is possible), we will know by tomorrow because Aman will have targeted Bard or someone else on the Senate. At that point I see no reason we won't just lynch him tomorrow, so... that plan doesn't really work out as far as I can tell. Aman is almost certainly Jeskeri (and if he's Derethi I'd say he deserves to win - but even if he is we'll notice eventually when everyone's been scanned, and given that there's almost certainly only one Derethi left it's not like he can ever outnumber us before we lynch him), and we need to kill the Derethi to win. We have a chance of doing that this cycle through scan or lynch, and even if we lynch Aman next cycle through scan again. Plus Aman's kill, potentially. That's four that we can go through right there, maybe five if we don't lynch him until the following day (which could be okay as he can't kill on odd nights), which is a significant portion of the remaining uncleared. I suggest we use that, and if Aman's double-crossing us (which he is not; he knows where that will go and it will not end well for him) we lynch him tomorrow. So my lynch vote stays where it is. I could move my scan vote to Sart, if that's wished. I have no preference. Thank you, Alv. Glad that headache was cleared up before I had to engage with it. >>
  13. Elbereth
    Wait. But you knew Bard was a Duelist. For a fact. Why did you attack him? Why not try to recall him and kill Elenion, or recall me, or literally anything else? As for lynching Aman or not... I'm indecisive. On the one hand, Aman is right that as long as we keep him off the Senate (and if we make sure everyone votes for Straw that's definitely not a problem until tomorrow and we can just lynch him tomorrow if necessary) he's not the most strategic kill. On the other hand, Orlok is right that we should really really kill him...
  14. Elbereth
    Sadness. Okay. Then I'll be gone for the entirety of C1, but should be back for C2 onwards.
  15. Elbereth
    Well done, Aman. My instincts told me you were evil, but even though I know how good you are, I eventually confused myself enough not to suspect you nearly as much anymore. And heh. You get to be an outed eliminator for the third time. That's just hilarious.
  16. Elbereth
    Sure thing. I did mean to let Ren do my actual death, but I got a little carried away. Ruin shall reign...
  17. Elbereth
    Are you trying to make Aman tunnel harder on me? ...Probably... As for your offer, I don't know... One, I don't think we can come to any kind of consensus on who is probably a Jeskeri. Two, we don't need to kill the Jeskeri. We just need to make sure they don't control the senate. Which we currently know pretty much for a fact. Aman posted saying mostly the same thing, but I might as well post this anyway.
  18. Elbereth
    Yes.
  19. Elbereth
    Well, let's get this started, I suppose. Seonid.
  20. Elbereth
    Orlok's not going to be on again. It's one in the morning for him. Which is why I was encouraging in the Senate doc that it happen immediately...
  21. Elbereth
    Sandhya and Thanata: The Rest of the Story, Pt. 7 So, the next day, when it came to trial, she talked. She lied, even. She hadn't taken down the Inquisitor. She still didn't know who had. But she did know that Tram hadn't. He was just lying to save his own skin. So she lied in turn. Whatever it takes. Thanata said he was a servant of Ruin, and the tablet confirmed it. So he had to die. Whatever the cost. And then he died, and he wasn't Spiked. How could he not be spiked? He must be, but he wasn't. And now they all suspected her, suspected her because of something she'd never done, something she would never do, these prying, suspicious faces surrounding her. She held her head high while they could see her - her upbringing permitted nothing less - but when she was out of sight, she ran. Ran, and ran, and ran, finally ending up back in her room. She had nowhere else to go, and it was at least a little safer than the streets at night. Though with everyone out to get her, she couldn't even be sure of that anymore. She sat down at her desk, looking at the calligraphies laid out in neat order. Thanata's (she had retrieved it when her body had come back), black and silver and edged in deep red. Ri's, in lighter colors - green and pink and lively, with only a few scars marring it in the same color of her lifeblood that Sandhya remembered so vividly from the balcony. A few other names, half-completed; others she had killed or who had died at the Inquisitor's hand. She cleared enough space, then put a fresh piece of paper in the center, arranging her pens and brushes automatically. Then she started working with the light of a candle and the mist outside, and she didn't stop until it was done. TRAM, it read. Bold, brave letters. Ambiguous gray (not like the mists; more solid). After a moment of staring at it, she outlined it in a very thin line of red. When it was done, she bowed her head over it for a moment. A tear started dripping from her eye, but she brushed it away before it could drip onto the still-wet calligraphy. She held the tears back a few minutes more while she washed her brushes and put them back neatly as always. Then she fell onto her bed and wept, wept as she could not weep for Thanata. It was irrational, part of her knew, but most of her did not care. The world was wrong somehow. She couldn't quite manage to form the thought yet, though. She simply needed to weep, and so she wept. No one came for her that night. Too busy fighting amongst themselves, probably. Sandhya didn't particularly care. Even Thanata didn't speak. She hadn't since they'd found the Inquisitor, that morning. Maybe she'd finally passed into wherever spirits were supposed to go. Maybe not. Sandhya couldn't bring herself to wonder. Eventually her weeping passed into sleep, and for the first time that week she did not dream.
  22. Elbereth
    Good thing I'm going to be gone during that time. I'm not sure I'd be able to stop myself from saying something.
  23. Elbereth
    The more suspicious between the two of you *in your opinion. Not in mine. But... gah. I have no idea. Gut says both of you are good (Elenion more strongly than you). Which is unlikely.
  24. Elbereth
    I believe Aman was referring to the circumstance where Ecthelion jumps to help you without you asking for help. But then again, I have a weak village read on you, so I don't really think either circumstance is the case.
  25. Elbereth
    No, because the Jeskeri can't kill tomorrow night. They can kill tonight. So you recall a non-Jeskeri senator and kill another, lynch Seonid, and you've already won the game. It could be (although deliberately voting your own teammate off the Senate when your win con is tied to as many people being on the Senate as possible? Very risky for not much reward, so 'brilliant' is questionable). But I'm about 90% certain that's not the case. Maybe 95.
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