Herowannabe

I've had a few people ask me about these promo cards- fear not, I haven't forgotten about them or about you! I have spoken with the guys at @Crafty Games about my plans for distributing the extra Hoid promos, and they are on board, but we're going to wait until the launch of the custom card creator before we can announce anything. They said that they're currently focused on getting the Siege of Luthadel expansion developed (yay!) but they're scheduled to look at the custom card creator around the end of April. So there won't be any news until at least that time.

Well I have to admit that I was quite surprised to learn that Drake was evil I just reread the second half of cycle 1, focusing specifically on the discussion on Drake, and I am still not picking up any evil vibes from him or from his "I'm neutral" post- at least, no more evil vibes than I get from anyone else and far less than some. So @Orlok Tsubodai, bravo for calling him out and rallying enough of the village to get him lynched last minute like that! I'm astounded! Have a complimentary Chouta, on me. *I'm going to have to give what you say a bit more credence from now on. However, seeing as I'm probably your #1 suspect after Drake... I suppose I should probably address that. Okay, so to explain a bit more specifically my behavior and actions during the first cycle: Quite simply, and honestly, I signed up for this game to have fun, and cycle 1 that's what I was doing: having fun. Hence all the RP and the majority of my reasoning for not wanting to support a lynch Eternum or Madagascar- they were both having fun and playing along with my RP. I would have extended the same support (or at least lack of accusation) to anyone else who bought chouta from me. I figured the odds of lynching anyone useful cycle 1 was pretty low (boy was I proven wrong!) so my goal- such as it was- was to keep the people I enjoyed playing with alive (which is also the primary reason why I voted on an active. Speaking of which, @The_Lady_of_Chaos and @Ecthelion III, I'd still like to hear from you two), and at the same time watch people for anything I found suspicious, to be acted upon in later cycles. If you need any more explanation about anything I did or didn't do during cycle 1, I'm happy to provide it, though that pretty much sums it up. So, that brings us to this cycle and who I'm suspicious of because of their behavior thus far. There are several, but one person stands out to me far more than anyone else: Livinglegend. Livinglegend tried to cast a last minute vote on Droughtbringer, with no explanation, but was beat out by Elenion closing the cycle by seconds. That was the only non-Drake vote made after the point when Orlok called Drake out for claiming neutral and started the bandwagon against him (technically Steeldancer cast a vote for Lady of Chaos, but changed it a few minutes later because of Orlok's persuasiveness). That stands out as being mighty suspicious to me. A last second vote on someone other than Drake, who we were minutes away from finding out was an elim, and providing no explanation for that vote whatsoever? That rings of an eliminator trying a last ditch attempt to save a teammate to me. Plus, Livinglegend never bought any of my chouta. So, @livinglegend, what do you have to say for yourself? EDIT: ninja'd by Kynedath and Orlok, but nothing in their posts changes anything about mine. Obviously, I disagree with Kynedath about Livinglegend's last minute vote being suspicious. I also have gone through and looked at everything LL posted and everything posted about LL in cycle 1, and nothing really changes my mind. Most of the discussion revolves around LL's claim to "not have an elim win condition," which he himself admits is a blatant IKYK.

Don't have enough time to roleplay *sigh* but in short, my reasons for voting for Eternum and retracting that vote are exactly what I said they were. I'm not hiding anything there. As for Madagascar, her character is storming amusing and I'd like to keep her around for at least a few cycles longer. I don't trust her- not by a long shot- but I'm willing to extend her life for a bit if it means more pig humor. As for my vote on Lady of Chaos, see my signature for all the explanation you need there.

@Orlok Tsubodai "Hey! It's nice to see you actually talkin' now insteada just stompin' about accusin' folks without any explanation. Course you still seem kinda cranky, and intent on directin' some of that crankiness my way. Perhaps if you'd just try some chouta...?" Nabbers hold out a steaming wrap of chouta. ... After a few seconds, when Brightlord Tekiel declines to take it, Nabbers shrugs and starts eating the chouta himself. "I aim'f beemf juff chalkimf 'bouf Eftermumf," Nabbers paused to swallow. "I've commented on other people, too. I don't have time to comment on everybody here, I still got to make chouta, yes I do, but I still have talked about some people. Most notably, you! I'da thought you would have remembered that." Nabbers takes another bite. "I aim'f goff muffimf cha hide. I faid whaf I faid fah fe reaffomf I faid I dif." *swallows* Ah... those were good times. "Thanke kindly! Come again 'soon as yer hungry, alright?" Nabbers turns back to address Lord Tekiel and the rest of the crowd. "Alright, I've been thinking' about it, and I've figured it out. I've got a plan, and if'n we follow it, we'll be sure to find the murderers." *Nabbers stuffs what is left of the chouta- over half of it- into his mouth before continuing.* "Mmf amf pffmp fh hmmfy. Amf frumf hff uff ifmmeffmpfumf whmff. Hrrfy wimf mffmf flmfa chu frmf shlumfflfy mafmfmiff pigff amf ffromf ffmf offh shoffa! FFMF, we wff frffmy wimf!" *Swallows* "Alright? got it? good." As for this cycle, I gotta be honest, I don't like any of the options up for lynch. I have some mild suspicions, but given the choice I'd rather see more one-armed herdazian jokes and crazy pig-antics in the game, not less, so I'd rather not lynch @Eternum or @Madagascar. (EDIT: And I see @Droughtbringer is in the running, too. I haven't commented on it yet, but I always found it odd that a small lynch train built up on Drought off of a joke comment from STINK of all people- no offense. But I have yet to see any reason to actually suspect Drought more than anybody else) So instead... These two still haven't posted anything. @The_Lady_of_Chaos logged in yesterday though. So, if it's up to me, I'd rather lynch someone who is around but not playing than lynch someone who is around and is playing. Anyone with me in swinging to a last minute lynch on The_Lady_of_Chaos? ditto

Hey, can I get one of those pigs, too? Purely for friendship reasons, of course! *Nabbers eyes a fat pig greedily*

Oh wait what am I doing, I can’t vote for Eternum! Not because of anything he said in his defense (none of which did anything to sway my opinion), but rather because he knows some fantastic one-armed Herdazian jokes! Anyone who can joke about one-armed Herdazians is alright in my books. Here @Eternum, have some chouta, on me.

Nabbers blinks once at Lo-Kag, then says, “Ah mate, you’re not even trying! All you gotta do is say, ‘Lo-Kag happily buys a half dozen Choutas from Nabbers, and remembers to tip extra, then turns back to the crowd and says, “blah blah blah...”’ See? Easy. Although you should probably avoid throwing so many quotes inside of quotes like I did. It makes people’s heads hurt.” “Oh sure, of course! Who doesn’t love chouta? What’s a ‘bunnies?’” “Coming right up!” Nabbers loads some flatbread up with meat and gravy, then begins searching around on the ground, muttering to himself, “I know I saw one around here somewhere... Aha!” He spots a cremling on the ground and chases after it. The cremling, seeming to sense what was coming, skitters off into an alleyway, followed by Nabber. A minute later Nabbers emerges from the alley, triumphantly holding out the chouta, which now has several cremling legs sticking out of it. Some of them are still twitching. “Here you go! One cremling chouta. That will be 3 clear chips on account of the extra toppings, please.” As for the current discussion surrounding @Eternum, I could be persuaded to throw my vote on him. Not for the reasons that @Amanuensis or @Kynedath have said, but rather, how quick he was to get Village reads on other players. One of the easiest ways to gain a little trust as an eliminator is to get “Village reads” on players, because as an eliminator you already know who is Village and who isn’t. Now all three of us could be reading a lot into nothing, in fact we probably are, but well, that’s first cycle lynching for ya. *shrug* Orlok Tsubodai Eternum

Nabbers scratched his head in befuddlement. Not only had Brightlord Tekiel (@Orlok Tsubodai) admitted out loud that he was cranky enough to murder someone on a whim and without explanation, he hadn’t bought any chouta, either! In fact most people hadn’t yet tried any chouta. At this rate everyone in the square was going to start murdering each other before the day ended. If Nabbers didn’t do something to stop it, in a week or two there might not be anyone left still alive to buy his chouta! Taking a deep breath, Nabbers bellowed loud enough for everyone in the square to hear him, “CHOUTA! GET YOUR CHOUTA! You want fish chouta? I got some steaming hot and ready to eat! Pig chouta? I got your pig chouta! Rabbit chouta? Well... I ain’t ever heard of anything called a rabbit, but if’n you bring me a rabbit, I’ll make chouta outta it, too!” I’d just like to point out that most of the time, even if you’re leaning very heavily on someone being Village, if you reveal to them then the eliminators are going to find out about it. For proof, I'd like to cite pretty much all of the Anniversary Games (and most of the regular games, too). Also, just because someone “trusts” you enough to “reveal” their role to you, that doesn’t mean you should trust them or reveal to them in turn. They could easily be an eliminator in villagers clothing.

Nabbers surveyed the growing mob. People were starting to really get worked up. ‘Course, Nabbers couldn’t blame them, what with all the murdering going on lately. Everyone wanted to know who was doing it and why. Well, Nabbers knew why. Whoever was running around stabbin’ folks was obviously cranky, and nothing made a person crankier than an empty stomach. Therefore, it was only logical that the killer was someone who hadn’t yet partaken of Nabbers’ delicious chouta. “Chouta!” Nabbers called out to the crowd. “Get your Chouta! Only two clear chips! Nothing’ll give ya the strength to lynch a man like Chouta will- truth of the Heralds, that is! Come get your Chouta!” All the while he scanned the crowd for people who weren’t interested in his Chouta. He spied Nalter- good bloke he was. He had bought some Chouta from Nabbers last night. Nabbers spotted Mad Mapadonet, too. She had bought 50 Choutas from him. ‘Course, she hadn’t paid him yet, which was quite suspicious. But it wasn’t smart to try an kill someone that owed you spheres. Because if you did up an’ kill them, then how could they pay you back? Bad business, that was. His eye fell on Brightlord Locke Tekiel. Now there was someone who seemed cranky. He had strolled right past Nabbers’ cart and without a word had joined the group who were accusing Drought. Mighty suspicious that was. Yep, Nabbers resolved to keep an eye on Tekiel. Unless a’course he bought some chouta. Oh no mate. A roll ain’t any sort of proper meal. Sure it may fill your belly, but it ain’t got any substance to it. No flavor, either. Here, try some chouta. Much better than any old roll. Two clear chips, please. Indeed I do have a role! My role is to sit here and sell chouta. And if I win, everybody wins. Because if’n I win it’s because I got rich selling a bunch of chouta, and that means that everybody else has bellies full of chouta! See? Everybody wins!

Yay! I don't suppose you know whether or not the adopters were Sanderfans or anything?

"Oi! Hey you! Yeah you! Come 'ere!" Walin glanced around, confused for a second, before he realized that the little man with the Herdazian accent was, in fact, shouting at him. From across the street. Walin cautiously approached. The man was leaning on a strange hand cart with small wisps of steam rising up out of it. Did he have a heat fabrial in there? "You've got the look of a man with an empty belly itching to be filled with something hot and tasty, indeed you have. I should know, I can spot the look a mile away, I can. Lucky for you I have just the thing! Here, try this. Only 2 clear chips." He held out a bundle of food that consisted of something smothered in gravy and wrapped in a piece of flatbread. It smelled... well, Walin couldn't figure out exactly what it smelled like, but it smelled edible. Probably.

Well I am a chouta vendor...

Well, I was debating about giving another SE game a go sometime soon, and when I saw that @Madagascar was signed up for this one that decided it for me. Sign me up as Nabbers, a Herdazian chouta street vendor.

I second what @Kurkistan said. The rules themselves aren’t too complicated, you should be fine. I believe there is a playthrough video or two floating around or there, you can watch those to get a handle on the gameplay before your first game.

Hey Lanny, unfortunately I didn't see this sooner. As the designers have said, the game looks more complicated on the surface than it really is. It's really pretty intuitive how everything works. There is a playthrough video on their kickstarter page so you can get a feel for it.

This song. I use the username virtually everywhere, and there has only been twice that someone has ever beaten me to it (Curse you Twitter scum!) so if you ever bump into a Herowannabe on another site, odds are it’s me.

You exclude Mistborn for being too powerful and then immediately claim what is arguably the most powerful power-combination in the Cosmere?

A friend and former roommate of mine is something like 90% deaf and gets fine just fine with hearing aids, but at night he takes him out and he can’t really hear anything. So many times when we were roommates our neighbors would be throwing a rock party or whatever in the middle of the night and I'd be laying there, wide awake, feeling so jealous of my roommate for being able to literally turn off his hearing and sleep like a baby. Allomantic iron would be nice to have just tape some tinfoil to everything around your house and you’d never have to get off the couch to get something. Although really I’d be drawn to any of the powers that allow (pseudo) flight, practical or not. It would just be so much fun!

So most of you have probably seen that there is a Kickstarter going on for a board game based on Brandon’s Reckoners series. If not, you should check it out. Many of you may not have seen that they are doing a contest to win a free Epic (all the bells and whistles) version of the game along with a signed set of the Reckoners books and copies of the two other games that Nauvoo Games has produced. Most of the things you can do to get entries aren’t too bad as far as these types of contests go- they’re mostly “visit this site” or “watch our livestream video” and there isn’t really an onus to share it with all your friends via social media (though of course you can if you want, like I’m doing right now). But currently if you do all the things in their list it gives you enough entries to have about a 2% chance at winning the grand prize, so hey, that’s not too shabby. And yes, I realize that this is blatant promotion and yes, if you use the link above to enter the contest it gives me 1 bonus entry too, but I figured that there would still be people who are interested who haven’t heard about it yet. I don’t really care about the contest so much as I care about making sure that other interested sharders out there find out about it.

@Arraenae Seriously, you had me fooled! I was totally convinced you were Wyrm/Kas. Bravo! You know, aside from Arranae, none of the other player reveals inspired that big of a reaction in me, other than “Huh. Okay.” In otherwords, I think the anonymous accounts were a resounding success! It didn’t matter who was who, I was able to just enjoy the game and take each player at face value and make judgements based on that. Thanks to @Orlok Tsubodai and @STINK and @Elbereth for running the game!

@hippiedogmom @Draginon Both of you, don’t worry about the destination, just enjoy the journey.

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned "airsick lowlanders" yet. I wish I could claim that was mine, but I probably use "storming" more than any of the others.

It’s confirmed: “the Biography of Lopen (the welsh corgie, not the one-armed herdazian)”

Thanks @luckat for finishing up the round. I’ve had a fever for the past 2 days and it finally broke this morning, but I’m still feeling pretty crappy. It was a really close game- I thought for sure the red team had it. We’ll start round 4 in a couple days when we have enough people signed up and two volunteers for Spymaster and when I don’t feel so miserable. What does everyone think of the eightball variant? Should we do it again? Personally I like eightball the best but I’m up for whatever so so right now I’m seeing the following players signed up: @Jondesu @Scion of the Mists and @recneps, are you officially signing up? also @luckat @xinoehp512 @Totally_Not_A_Worldhopper@Rebecca @Darkness_ Who wants to keep playing?