Herowannabe

Unfortunately I still feel miserable so this will not be the extensive post I wanted to make today. I'm just not up to it. Sorry. Herwynbe staggered out of a side room, looking dirty and bedraggled and in need of a shave. He offered no explanation for his appearance, or what he had been up to the past few days, but instead pushed his way through the group and climbed up on top of a table. "Excuse me! Everyone, lend me your attention. I have decided that it is time for me to expose myself!" People gasped in shock as the Terrisman reached up to his robe with both hands, but they relaxed when he merely reached inside his robe and pulled out a small vial of metals. "I am a village lurcher!" He announced, then swallowed the contents of the vial. He reached out his hand and silverware leaped up from the table and he caught it. "Last night, the Inquisitor and its minions tried to assassinate me, but through deft use of my powers I was able to elude them. I do not know who it was that attacked me, but I have reason to believe it may have been Kipper or Aonar, or perhaps Wilson. "To whoever among us is the Inquisitor, allow me to say, I have no need to issue any challenges to you, as did Aman and our esteemed Tineye. I have proven that you cannot kill me, and I do not have it within my powers to kill you, so any sort of contest between us will inevitably end in a draw. Rather, we will let our honored companions choose for themselves which of us is to survive and which is to be laid to rest in the crypt below. "Now, I realize that some of you may be wondering if this is all some sort of clever ruse on my part, if perhaps I am actually the Inquisitor or one of his minions performing what was known in ancient times as a 'Wounded Gazelle Gambit.' I can assure you that nothing could be further from the truth. And to prove my claims, I will now disrobe and display my naked body openly for your thorough inspection, and you will see that my body remains un-pierced by metal of any sort." Herwynbe began pulling his arms out of his sleeves as people recoiled in shock and disgust. People began crying out, their voices overlapping one another. "Stop him!" "Somebody do something!" "Grab him!" "No way, you grab him!" "Excuse me! Master Terrisman!" The last was from Garshin. Herwynbe paused in his undressing, and Garshin hastened to continue. "Uh, we spoke earlier about your area of expertise. Mundanity, right? Well how about I show you some of my mundane practices?" "Right now? I'm kind of in the mid-" "Yes, right now. Definitely right now." Garshin said. Herwynbe shrugged, then hopped off the table, one arm bare and the other still sleeved in his robe, and the sash fortunately still tied tightly around his waist. "Very well," he said graciously. "Lead the way." So yeah. Long story short, when an unnamed player was attacked and survived last night, I PMed Orlok and asked about it. After checking with STINK, he responded this morning and confirmed that the attack was prevented by my lurching. I debated all day what to do about it, but in the end I said to myself, "Screw it, the spiked already know my power, more or less, I might as well let everyone else know, too, and get my suspicions out in the open." @Kipper, @Aonar Faileas, and @little wilson have all had one on one PMs with me, which is why I suspect them the most (along with those people who didn't vote last cycle, but I haven't had a chance- or the brainpower- to go back and examine all the results). Mostly I suspect Kipper because he contacted me claiming that someone told him I was claiming to be a seeker- which is false, I haven't made any role claims to anyone before this post. I led him on for a PM or two, but then eventually denied it and called him out for role-fishing. He denied that, claiming that someone really did make that claim to him, but he refused to say who. I told him to have the other person PM me, and that was the end of the conversation. That was a couple days ago. Kipper and I both talked to Aonar and Wilson separately about it, so they were aware of the conversation any my response. I think that one of the above is spiked and they and their fellow eliminators decided to kill me on the off chance I was bluffing. (I suppose it is possible that a rogue coinshot/mistborn with steel decided to attack me and the Spiked attacked Meta last cycle, but neither attack makes any sense so that seems pretty unlikely). And once again, I can assure you that this is not a WGG. If it were, it would be the stupidest WGG in all of SE history, because any trust I might potentially gain out of it goes right out the window the next time the Inquisitor converts somebody. In fact, I urge you to NOT trust me (or at least, no longer than for a cycle or two, until the next conversion happens). I can protect myself from getting killed but I can't protect myself from being converted, and if I did gain any sort of trust following I would be a prime target for conversion. I would encourage seekers to scan me, but now that I've put myself out there I am also a prime target for offensive smoking, so that does no good. However, if someone wants to sooth me this cycle, that would at least prove that I'm not being smoked right now.

Good point, though it took me a minute to figure out your reasoning. Makes sense now. Thanks.

I am currently so stuffed up I can barely breath or think, I'm doped up on NyQuil, I'm on mobile, and it's late and I'm tired. So this is going to be brief. @Yitzi2- sorry about the gender mix-up. Won't happen again. And I'll try to get Herwynbe's response posted sometime tomorrow. @Everyone else: right now my biggest suspicions are all the people who posted last cycle, but that didn't cast a vote. Following them I am suspicious of everyone who didn't post or vote last cycle but who aren't completely inactive. Also I'm willing to give Ecth and those people who were soothed last round a soft clear- at least until the Inquisitor makes another convert. We we have a good thing going with this plan of using soothers/rioters to find people who are being smoked, and then ferret out the Spiked players. It puts them in an awkward position, because they either have to leave their copperclouds off and risk getting Seeked, or turn them on and risk getting caught by a Soother/rioter. But the plan only works if everybody participates. That means Everybody needs to vote. If you don't know who to vote for, pick someone at random. It doesn't really matter who you vote for as long as you're actually voting and can be tested for copperclouds. It also means that if you're a village smoker you will want to keep your coppercloud off. Anyway, that's all for now. Hopefully I'll have the time and means and wellbeing to go through and make a bit more substantial post tomorrow, as well as figure out who exactly I want to vote for. EDIT: also, to those who are saying we should scan AND sooth Ecth- what exactly is the point of doing both? If we scan him then we get all the info we need, no soothing required. The Inquisitor gave up ubercopper so we can trust the results of any scans we do now.

True, but not as insensitive as the people who actually voted for you and tried to kill you, so I don't feel too bad. But as others have said, your claim to have snapped into being a thug is a pretty good argument for your innocence, since it can easily be called into question by somebody else claiming to have snapped the same night. So I'm willing to give you a soft-clear, for now. After all, if everyone starts trusting that you're a villager then you become a prime target for conversion.

Interesting. Obviously Ecth is going to claim thug. If he is the Inquisitor it's not like he's going to come out and admit it. The question is, do we call on our Coinshot(s) to finish Ecth off for us? If Ecth is a thug, the Inquisitor will probably leave him alive so we'll be forced to deal with him, but maybe not if the Inquisitor wants a guaranteed misting to make a spike out of. Anyway, Wilson PMed me a couple hours ago and said she would be soothing Arinian. I haven't been following the thread closely enough to remember who he voted for, but unless he withdrew his vote and I missed it then the soothing worked on him. Also, it looks like @Yitzi2's vote on me was soothed, or she's a rioter. We're there any other vote manipulations? and Yitzi, forgive my illness-addled brain, what was the question posed to me? I promise I'll answer.

I should note that I didn't come up with the plan, someone else did (I'm on mobile and still sick so I'm not going to go searching for who). I just reemphasized and clarified it a bit.

Well as someone pointed out up above, if we spread votes around somewhat evenly it can force the Spiked to play their hand by using any vote manipulation powers they may have to prevent themselves from getting lynched. Also if everyone votes then it let's out soothers and rioters check for players being smoked, giving us a good chance of locating the eliminators. Also, along those lines, it would be a great idea for copperclouds to NOT smoke themselves or anyone else.

Just popping in long enough to let you know that I'm as sick as a dog and my brain is mush, so I won't be posting much for a day or two at least. I'll still do my best to follow the thread and put my vote wherever I think it belongs. For now let's do a Contribution Crusade vote- not on @Iamspartacus, but on our other glaringly inactive player, Metacognition . @Metacognition, where are you???

Fascinating. Why would the Inquisitor give up its kill action this early in the game? Or, even more importantly, what other powers does the Inquisitor have that are better than that!?

@Drake Marshall: I'm not going to re(re(re))hash everything that's already been said about you, but a couple points: re: Value of a day 1 lynch: You are partially right. Mathematically, the odds of a successful day 1 lynch were the same in this game as in any other game (actually they're a bit better, because a successful day 1 lynch of the inquisitor basically means a village win right there, or possibly having to hunt down 1 other converted eliminator). But a failed day 1 lynch in this game would have been mathematically much worse than in any other game. A failed day 1 lynch in which we hit a misting would have been handing the inquisitor its first convert on the first cycle. But anyway, that's neither here nor there now. re: Actually, right now the odds only need to be better than 1/26 for it to be a worthwhile lynch. And I would say there's definitely better than a 1/26 chance that you're up to no good. Also, a question for you: A few days ago you said: So basically... yeah. We're calling your bluff. Your stance seems to have shifted since you said that. The other day you cared more about being proven right than you did about whether or not you survive. Now you're fighting the lynch with all you've got. I can't and don't blame you for the latter, but now it's making your dare start to look like a true eliminator-bluff that is backfiring on you. Care to comment?

Laid out like this you make a very convincing argument. You have me persuaded. Drake

@randuir Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the conversion count as an action, meaning that the Inquisitor can't convert and kill in the same night? If so, then a Coinshot must have killed Dalinar. @Darkness Ascendant nice analysis, but technically the way you've colored it indicates that you're trying to vote for several different people at the same time. You should go edit it and pick a different color to indicate your suspicions. Thats all I have time to post right now

Herwynbe stirred, slowly climbing to his feet. He had laid in the crypt alongside Elosa's casket for an entire day. Some people had tried to speak to him during that time, but of course he didn't respond, out of respect for the deceased. It helped that he had spent the entire time in a sort of trance, filling his bromzemind. Working the kinks out of his joints, he made his way upstairs to find out what had happened in the meantime. Whew! The last time I had a chance to get was only yesterday afternoon, but in the time between the vote took a massive swing, Drought was lynched, the night cycle started and ended, and now we're already several hours into the next day cycle. Alright, let me respond to a few things. Particularly this, from @randuir Well for starters, I've looked over this Herowannabe fellow thoroughly and I'm quite convinced he's villager, at least for now. Re: my suspicions: I still think it likely that the Inquisitor participated in the day 1 votes in some way, likely by casting one of the votes, hence the basis for most of my suspicion I had/have for Aman, Drought, and Mark. Re: my vote on Mark: honestly I meant to come back and change it before the end of the cycle, but didn't get the chance. Re: my comments about 'the challenge': no attempts to manipulate or persuade anyone here, I was simply stating the truth- I would have taken Aman up on his challenge. Also, I stated my reasons for suspecting Drought earlier- I think the inquisitor participated in the vote, and Drought voted on Sart day 1. Re: anything else you may have found suspicious: suffice it to say that I have not (and probably will not) stated ALL of the reasons for all of my actions, and I have my reasons for not stating them (which I also will not state at this time).

Why aren't more people signing up for this!? I think this is one of the most fascinating rule-sets I've seen in an SE game in ages. I'd sign up in a heartbeat if I wasn't already struggling to keep up with the game I'm currently signed up for along with trying to prepare to GM one or possibly two games of my own soon here.

Herwynbe started in surprise at being interrupted, but his mood immediately shifted when asked to help conduct the funeral procession. He immediately humbled himself and became very somber, softly reciting a long-forgotten prayer over Elosa's body as they carried it to the crypt and laid it to rest. The small group formed a semi circle around the casket as they nailed it shut, and Herwynbe finished the prayer. At the conclusion, Herwynbe spoke in a clear, solemn voice. "My friends, today we have laid to rest one of our own. Though most of us barely knew her, she will still be missed. And now, according to the ancient traditions of Renaud family line, let us lay down beside her, to indicate that with her death, a part of us has died, too." Herwynbe laid down in the dirt, and gestured for everyone else to do likewise. "Come, lie down," Herwynbe encouraged. "Lay as if you too were dead. It is a sacred and honored tradition for the Renaud family. Close family members of the deceased would often lay for up to three days without moving, though fear not, we did not know Elosa well, so we are not expected to remain that long. A day, or maybe two, will suffice." "Uh... I need to go use the privy..." someone in the back said. "By the Forgotten Gods, no!" Herwynbe snapped. "Leaving now would be utterly disrespectful to lady Elosa's memory! You may as well spit on her corpse as to leave now. No, we must remain until our respects have been properly, and fully, paid." Herwynbe leaned his head back and closed his eyes, as if he were dead. The crypt fell into a long, awkward silence. Popping in for a couple things, aside from the RP. @Kipper and @Drake Marshall, you are forgetting another reason why the inquisitor might have decided to kill Aman: to Troll him. There are a number of players who would happily throw Aman's challenge back in his face like that and thank him for the free conversion. I even had one person say that he would do as much in a PM, though I don't suspect him of being the inquisitor. Personally, I would have taken Aman up on the challenge. It seems that whenever we play together he always ends up suspicious of me (sometimes rightly so), and I would love taking him on and trying to outwit him. For a few cycles at least. There are a few tricks that make copying and pasting PMs easier that Meta didn't know about when he did LG 2. I had to do a fair bit of PM C&P for QF6- my Legion game, so I did some experimenting and found some tricks to make it quicker. Of course this was before the site upgrade last year, but they should still work. Plus, Orlok and STINK are co-GMing, with STINK handling the write-ups. Maybe so Orlok has enough time to handle the PM copy/pasting? It's possible. Anyway, the point is, don't discount the possibility of Uber-Tin. Don't underestimate the Inquisitor. Part of the reason the village lost LG2 is because we repeatedly underestimated the Inquisitor. That is a mistake I won't be making this game. I'm playing as if the inquisitor is reading my every PM, and as if everyone I talk to will be converted at some point, and as if every misting power we have available will fail against the inquisitor. I suggest everyone else do the same. The one good thing we can count on is that any mistborn we have can't be converted. And we have our lynch. Anyway, moving on. I actually am pretty suspicious of Drought, too, but he did say that he was coming down sick the other day so I'm cutting him some slack. At least long enough for him to get well and to have a chance to participate a bit more. Also, you mentioned Meta. I've been wondering about him, too. @Metacognition where are you?

Herwynbe stood, brushing his hands together, and looked down at the shallow depression he had dug. It was a couple feet long and only about 2 or 3 inches deep. "There! Finished! Granted, it's not much of a latrine, but then, I didn't have a shovel to work with, nor am I one of the famous "Cesspit Renauds. Speaking of which, where did lady Renaud get off to?" He found her a minute later, surrounded by a small crowd as they stood muttering over her bloody corpse. "Aha!" Herwynbe exclaimed. "Marvelous! It seems the Inquisitor took her up on her challenge. Too bad she was no match for the creature, but then, nobody really expected that, did they?" Herwynbe turned, noticing the message scratched on the wall. "Ahh, and I see that a Tineye has been at work, and in the style of the great Quintessial Tineye himself I see! He was my namesake, you know. Contemporary historians note that his wisdom and intelligence was unparalleled, rivaled only by his rugged handsomeness. They say that he single-handedly kept an entire crew baffled for days with his riddles. His writings are still considered masterworks to this day, and Obligators and Keepers alike still study his riddles, trying to unlock the deep mysteries hidden within. Master Termalon of the 8th century Post Ascension said that..." Herwynbe droned on, though he stood by himself now. It seemed that the Terrisman could dispel a crowd even faster than a corpse could draw it. Going to go ahead and cast a vote for Mark IV for the reasons I listed last night.

"Ahh, I see." Herwynbe leaned in conspiratorially. "My specialty is mundanity." Garshin blinked. "Yes, Mundanity," Herwynbe went on. "You see, all the flashy subjects like Religion and World leaders and military conflicts and the like had already been studied in depth by the other keepers, so I chose to study the mundane. What did the regular people do during their time when they weren't doing anything important? What were their daily habits? Their mealtime rituals? How did they dress and act? And so on." Herwynbe shifted to examine the unconscious woman who had just collided with him. "It really is quite fascinating. For example, did you know that the Tsubodai people never washed their hands? It wasn't religious or cultural or anything, they were just lazy and never saw the point. It's a practice that I adopted several years ago, and let me tell you! It is so refreshing to not have to bother with things like personal hygiene! Sure I've had Gastroenteritis 14 separate times now, but the benefits of mental peace of mind far outweigh the physical hardships." Garshin eyed the Terrisman's ministrations. Perhaps it would be best if the Terrisman didn't handle the unconscious girl...

Herwynbe smiled and said, much too loudly, "Indeed I am! My whole life I have collected knowledge of the past waiting for the day when I can share that knowledge with those who have lived so long with out it, and now, with the passing of the Lord Ruler, I have that opportunity. "So what lost knowledge may I impart to you?" Herwynbe's face lit up, and he went on without waiting for an answer. "Oh! Would you like to learn how to dig a latrine? I was just about to show Lady Elosa... now where did she go? Never the matter, she'll be along shortly I'm sure. Come on! It seems we don't have any shovels, so we'll have to use our bare hands." Herwynbe knelt down on the dirt floor and began digging at it with his hands, making next to no progress in the hard packed dirt

When Lady Elosa Renaud finished calling out a public challenge to the Inquisitor, Herwynbe applauded loudly. And for much too long. Nobody else joined in the applause. Lady Elosa gave him a strange look as he approached her, still applauding. "Bravo!" He said as he stopped applauding, finally, and clapped her on the back. "Way to get into the spirit of the ceremonies! With a challenge like that, I'm sure you'll be dead within a day or two." He said it while grinning and with genuine enthusiasm in his voice. "However, you are from house Renaud, yes? You'll be fascinated to know that your ancestors, far from being outspoken and challenging, actually had quite the reputation for being simpering cowards. Indeed, it was well known among the nobility at the time that you needed to only make the barest suggestion of a threat and house Renaud would bend over backwards offering anything in exchange for mercy. "Now surely, you will want to carry on the grand traditions of your forebearers, will you not? I can show you how. No? Well fear not, there are other traditions that house Renaud historically excelled at. For example, did you know that under your great great great great great great great grandfather, Lord Darl, House Renaud had quite the reputation for digging latrines? Yes, the finest latrines in the Central Dominance, it was said. "I believe I saw some earthen floors in one of the side rooms, now if we can just find a shovel I can teach you the time-honored art of latrine-digging. Your ancestors will be so proud!" Lady Elosa slipped away unnoticed as the Terrisman began searching for a shovel. Obviously, all of the above is purely role play. In truth, @Amanuensis I think your call out is awesome. That is good to know... In that light, the Inquisitor probably didn't do the rioting or soothing, UNLESS it's Uber-zinc/brass let's it riot/sooth without using an action somehow. Don't underestimate the Inquisitor. I learned that from LG2, it WILL be capable of more that you expect. It is probably the case that the Inquisitor didn't vote manip because of action limitations, but until we know what powers the Inquisitor has we can't be sure. I thought I made it clear, but apparently not. Regardless of what the village wanted for day 1, the Inquisitor certainly wanted a lynch. The Inquisitor gains nothing from a no-lynch situation Day 1. So whether it vote-manipped or simply cast a vote, it probably would have wanted to do something to help ensure that a lynch went through. Maybe it was amanuensis or Drought and cast a vote on Sart to help see it through. Maybe it has some sort of uber-Brass that automatically soothes whoever it votes for, and it was @Mark IV voting on Ecthelion to sooth his vote away from him and make it more likely one of the other lynch candidates would die. Or maybe the Inquisitor sat back and did nothing, and gambled on the lynch going through on someone. I'm not discounting that possibility. But my gut says it was one of the voters.

A rather tall door leading to a side room flung open, and Herwynbe strode out, pulling something large on a cart hidden under a makeshift tarp. "Behold, my friends! I present..." Herwynbe exclaimed, and yanked the tarp off of the cart, revealing a makeshift- but sturdily built- gallows. "... a gallows! You see, traditionally, these sorts of murder ceremonies center around a daily lynching, though of course other methods of homicide have been implem- Oh rats, you started without me." The Terrisman's face fell as he noticed Gaetan's bloody corpse. But seriously, sorry all, I meant to post more but real life ran away with my free time, and I'm used to having the cycle end around 10pm local time, and by the time I realized that the cycle would be ending earlier it was already over. I still haven't read the second half of the posts from Day 1, but the plus side is that now I get to do so knowing what the results of the lynch are. Since we (or well, enough of us) decided that it was worthwhile to have a day 1 lynch, we might as well learn what we can from it. I suspect that the Inquisitor has some sort of uberzinc or uberbrass (TBH I'm going to play it safe and assume that the Inquisitor has uber-EVERYTHING) and that at least some of the rioting/soothing we saw was the inquisitor's work, most likely the rioting on Lopen. The Inquisitor would not have gained anything by a mislynch on Day 1, and it seems likely s/he would want to use zinc/brass to encourage those lynch along. Stating this now in case I die tonight, I suspect the Inquisitor is one of the people who voted, and fair odds that it is one of the three who cast a vote on Sart (or well, one of the two. We know Sart isn't the Inquisitor). @Amanuensis and @DroughtBringer, care to defend yourselves?

Mostly it's about contacting people early enough in the cycle so that they have time to respond. Contacting inactives 3 hours before the cycle ends doesn't help much. Re: day 1 lynches: i don't have a lot of time to post right now, but for what it's worth I agree with Wilson. While it may be true that there is some information to be gained from a day 1 lynch, in this particular game it would help the inquisitor more than it would help the village. And by waiting until day 2 (or later) to lynch, we DO gain information. We find out who the inquisitor attacks and can start to make some guesses as to why the inquisitor might target that person and narrow down who the inquisitor might be. Also, a couple other pieces of general advice: As has been said, it's generally a really bad idea to reveal your role. Even if the inquisitor DOESN'T have uber-Tin (the ability to read other players' PMs), anyone you talk to might be Spiked later. To any Tineyes out there: you actually have a powerful ability with your anonymous night messages. I demonstrated this when I was the Tineye in LG2. Go read the last few pages of LG and find where I explained all my Tin-messages to see what I mean. You can hide clues to your identity in your Tin-messages and use them to prove to people that you haven't been Spiked (when a player gets Spiked they lose any powers they previously had). Make good use of that.

Herwynbe perked up. Somebody was listening! "Oh, it is a grand tradition that goes back hundreds of years, and will certainly continue on for generations to come. I would not be surprised to learn that these murder rituals take place in other cultures, or even on different worlds! "My metalminds have record of over 70 separate occurrences, though only 30 or so have been as large in scale as this one appears it will be. The others tended to be smaller and to span a shorter period of time. Some of them only lasted a handful of days before the killing stopped, leaving the majority of the participants dead. "No, we are quite lucky here, our deaths will be prolonged and spread out over the next several weeks and maybe even months. I'm quite certain tha- Hey, where are you going? I haven't even begun expounding the various iterations of these death cults. The earliest recorded incident was instigated by a bloodthirsty tyrant by the name of Metacognition and was centered around a small village by the name of Tyrian Falls..." Herwynbe droned on, not even noticing that his audience had grown bored and wandered off. And yes, Herwynbe is breaking the fourth wall here. Sort of. Not really breaking it I guess, just bending it a bit.

Thank you! This deserves and animated meme. Working on a rule set right now. If anyone feels particularly inclined to help me out, shoot me a PM and I'll invite you to the doc. Right now I'm trying to keep it fairly simple, since I think we'll have plenty going on with the cutie mark cosmetic roles, plus with the publicly known sub-roles for everyone I'm trying really hard not to throw the game out of balance. But I could still use some input, if nothing more than someone to bounce ideas off of and check for balance. To be clear, Metacognition said previously that any non-sanderson games that have already been signed up for are still approved. Nobody is going to be denied the chance to run a game they signed up to run. So technically I could have just run my original Star Wars game as planned, but since I had some other options (including a sanderson-game) bouncing around inside my head I chose to speak up and see if any of the CR winners were interested in any specific game of mine. Edit: okay, I've been working on it and I've got a rough draft rule set that I'm happy with. It still needs a fair bit of polish and a little tweaking here and there, as well as a thorough balance check, but feel free to take a look and let me know what you think.

Herwynbe awoke coughing and spluttering, at least until he spat out whatever had been shoved into his mouth. He sat up, rubbing the back of his head where he had been struck. I really should get around to filling a goldmind one of these days. Or really, anything other than my coppermind. His eye fell on the wad of paper that had been shoved in his mouth. He picked it up and straightened it out. It was another letter. He quickly read through it. "Aha!" he exclaimed, causing heads to turn and look in his direction. "How delightful! We've been roped into a sort of twisted plot where we kill each other one at a time trying to discover who among us is a traitor to our common cause!" He looked around, grinning. By the looks on the other faces, they hadn't yet seen what an exciting opportunity this was. Fortunately, Herwynbe's copperminds were stocked full of situations like this; they had occurred with surprisingly regularity in the past. Well, Herwynbe had come here to educate the people of the forgotten knowledge of their ancestors, so that's what he would do. He stood up, and called for everyone's attention, then proceeded to lecture the people without waiting to see if anyone was actually listening. "This is indeed a rare and wonderful opportunity for us, my friends. Many of our ancestors participated in similar murder rituals, and some of those ancestors- well, the ones that survived the experience at any rate- even went on to describe the barbaric rituals as "fun" and "memorable" and "entertaining." Now we get the same opportunity that they had, to form plots and conspiracies and try to deceive and outwit and ultimately murder each other until one faction or the other is the only one left! "But, my memories of the past contain a warning. It is quite possible for our gruesome death ceremonies to lose their fun qualities, and even to become 'boring' or 'dull' or 'dismal.' Yes, it is the plague of inactivity of which I speak. You see, if instead of participating in these homicidal rites you choose to sit in the corner and do nothing, then the ceremonies will cease to be fun. Both for you, and for those who are actively engaged in massacring each other. "Fortunately, our ancestors developed an sacred organization meant to combat the curse of inactivity, and they called this organization 'the Contribution Crusade.' 'What is this contribution crusade?' you ask." Nobody had asked. In fact most people had started ignoring the Terrisman, instead trying to find a way out of their predicament. "Let me explain. We all chose to be here- or well, technically we were forcefully kidnapped and trapped here, but surely if we had been given the choice we would have gladly accepted- and so let us make a commitment to make the best of it- to contribute to the game, if you will. Whether you have a lot to say or not, speak up and share your thoughts! Whether you have an intriguing history or are engaged in a dynamic struggle against the forces that confront you or you are just an ordinary guy off of the street, share your story with us! Whether you have Allomantic powers or you have nothing more than your vote, use those gifts to aid your team! Whether you have managed to deduce who your opponents are and who your allies are or you are completely clueless and have no idea who to trust or suspect, cast a vote anyway. If nothing else, cast a vote for the annoying Terrisman who won't leave you alone. And if you have other concerns that occupy your thoughts and your time and you can only contribute a small bit of your time to the business of manslaughter, that is okay, spend a little bit of time each day doing what you can. "But above all, make the most of this experience. Have fun with it. Give what you can and participate as much as you are able, and I'm sure we will all have an enjoyable time! "Except for those of us that will undoubtedly be killed. They will, of course, be dead. But the survivors will surely have fun, right my friends? "Right? "Hello? Isn't anybody paying attention to me?" I wanted to get my traditional Contribution Crusade post in before the game actually began, but I didn't get the chance to. However, (and I'm putting this in blue text and giving you my word of honor so you can trust I'm not lying) I have not yet looked at my role PM, so you can trust that I am advocating the Contribution Crusade not as part of a scheme to favor one faction or the other, but because I genuinely believe in it. I outlined it pretty well above in the highlighted sections, but if you are curious about it, it basically boils down to this: Most importantly, participate and have fun, and encourage others to do the same. If you have no better suspicions, or don't like any of the candidates up for the lynch, considering voting for a player that has gone less active. It is (debatably, I admit) often better to lynch a player who is no longer playing the game than to lynch someone who is actively participating and helping their team. Let the players who are engaged in the game survive to play for another cycle or two, and weed out those that are inactive. You can also check out some of my previous posts in other games about the Contribution Crusade, such as this one or this one or this one. EDIT: Well I tried to @mention everyone who hasn't posted yet, but had formatting issues and when I edited the post it messed up the mentions, too, and now they're not working. I think the mentions went through the first time though, so I won't add them back in now. I'll do it again later in the cycle. Now its time to go read my role PM.