Jo and the Bush

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Night 5: Votes: Pearl(8): Ambition, Azure, Charcoal, Cream, Ivory, Mauve, Onyx, Violet Axolotl (12): Chartreuse, Emerald, Indigo, Magenta, Melon, Mint, Pearl, Plum, Quartz, Saffron, Sapphire, Taupe Violet Axolotl was Slain! They were Hoid of the Ancients! The were the Vessel of Odium! Hoid’s Win con and abilities will only be revealed if he makes his way to the Spiritual Realm. Player List: 1. Amethyst Scorpion Worldhopper, Researcher. 2. Azure Mouse 3. Amber Vulture Vessel, Autonomy 4. Charcoal Hyena 5. Chartreuse Penguin Worldhopper, Truthwatcher, Returned! 6. Coral Swan 7. Cream Tuatara 8. Emerald Falcon 9. Fuschia Ostrich 10. Indigo Weasel 11. Ivory Dragonfly 12. Magenta Albatross 13. Mauve Crocodile 14. Melon Dingo 15. Mint Heron 16. Onyx Flamingo 17. Opal Lion Vessel, Odium 18. Oxblood Beagle 19. Pearl Chameleon 20. Plum Rhinoceros 21. Quartz Zebra 22. Saffron Iguana 23. Sage Kangaroo 24. Salmon Meerkat Khriss, Khriss 25. Sapphire Elephant 26. Scarlet Octopus Worldhopper, Mastrell 27. Sunburst Toucan 28. Taupe Gecko 29. Turquoise Gorilla 30. Violet Axolotl Hoid, Odium Shardworld Tracker: Yolen: 2/8 charges First of the Sun: 1/6 charges The night will last until Monday, January 29th, 12:00 AM, Mountain Time

TIME IS UP! Please stand by as I confirm actions and prepare the Final Writeup 5th Night

They lose their Shade role. They can receive the Shade role as many times as Ambition wants to give it to them. Rollover is in 1 hour from this post. Votes and actions after an hour from now will not be counted. Please get your actions in earlier rather than later.

It would go to anyone who previously held the shard. If all players who have held a shard, shared an alignment with a shard, or been targeted in anyway by the shard are dead, then the shard would be given to a random faction.

Well she isn't a Vessel, and she's more than just a Worldhopper, so she is Khriss. and at the time of death, her role was Khriss.

The Fifth Day: Innerlight A meerkat peeked its head above the savannahs of Scadrial. It was lonely, most of its family group dead in a brush fire last month. The few that remained were frightened and huddled together in a communal burrow. The world was a dangerous place this year, with more hawks and snakes than there had been before. Today was different, though. A new creature sat on the savannah, watching the animals as their chaotic patterns swirled over hours and days and weeks. The meerkat watched as it sat there, wondering what it was doing. Then the sky was all purple and red and golden, and the meerkat fled back into its burrow. When it came back out again, the strange creature was gone. Salmon Meerkat was Slain! They were Khriss of the Silverlight Research Labs! The Winconditions and abilities of a faction will only be revealed if all members of the faction make their way to the Spiritual Realm. Player List: 1. Amethyst Scorpion Worldhopper, Researcher. 2. Azure Mouse 3. Amber Vulture Vessel, Autonomy 4. Charcoal Hyena 5. Chartreuse Penguin Worldhopper, Truthwatcher, Returned! 6. Coral Swan 7. Cream Tuatara 8. Emerald Falcon 9. Fuschia Ostrich 10. Indigo Weasel 11. Ivory Dragonfly 12. Magenta Albatross 13. Mauve Crocodile 14. Melon Dingo 15. Mint Heron 16. Onyx Flamingo 17. Opal Lion Vessel, Odium 18. Oxblood Beagle 19. Pearl Chameleon 20. Plum Rhinoceros 21. Quartz Zebra 22. Saffron Iguana 23. Sage Kangaroo 24. Salmon Meerkat Khriss, Khriss 25. Sapphire Elephant 26. Scarlet Octopus Worldhopper, Mastrell 27. Sunburst Toucan 28. Taupe Gecko 29. Turquoise Gorilla 30. Violet Axolotl Shardworld Tracker: Yolen: 2/8 charges First of the Sun: 1/6 charges The day will last until Sunday, January 28th, 12:00 AM, Mountain Time

The turn is over. (Is the game? Wait and see.)

I think all PM's have been sent. If you are missing something, please PM me, though I am going to bed in 1/2 hour, so please hurry.

From the memoirs of Ardenne Rathis, survivor of the Last Shardic War. "The most frightening thing about the lead up to the war was the way that interplanetary institutions were so quickly subverted to aid the aims of some faction or another. The Worldhopper's Tribunal was the most prominent example. The failed execution of the Weasel was only the first, and least egregious, of the subversion. Where Weasel had been accused (belatedly) of trying to start a pan-Cosmeric war, it's later actions seemed almost deliberately calculated to inflame tensions towards that exact end. The execution of the Opal Lion is an instructive example. Although at this point, the tribunal was still attempting to provide some semblance of justification for its rulings, the Opal trials were clearly based on flimsy evidence, and the votes were beginning to show signs of the factional alliance that would later be openly declared. Of course, the fact that Opal was found to be the holder of the Shard of Odium was retroactively declared to be justification enough, given Odium's fell reputation among the Shards. The fact that the Shard was not recovered from the body, though, was quickly spread among underground channels, and quickly became a point of question. Was the execution simply a matter of one faction trying to steal the power of Odium for themselves? Conspiracy theorists went wild with the news. That the shards had contingency plans that made it virtually impossible for them to be taken by force was an inconvenient notion, little mentioned in the wild furor that followed. Accusations of factional bias soon became the justification for other factions to follow suit." Vote Count: Indigo(1): Mint Opal(9): Mauve, Onyx, Charcoal, Cream, Melon, Violet, Turquoise, Sunburst, AMBITION Axolotl(1): Magenta Melon(1): Taupe Mauve(8): Indigo, Saffron, Ivory, Quartz, Azure, Emerald, Opal, Salmon The adorable Opal Lion was the Vessel of ODIUM in the Hidden Gardens Faction. Player List: 1. Amethyst Scorpion Worldhopper, Researcher. 2. Azure Mouse 3. Amber Vulture Vessel, Autonomy 4. Charcoal Hyena 5. Chartreuse Penguin Worldhopper, Truthwatcher 6. Coral Swan 7. Cream Tuatara 8. Emerald Falcon 9. Fuschia Ostrich 10. Indigo Weasel 11. Ivory Dragonfly 12. Magenta Albatross 13. Mauve Crocodile 14. Melon Dingo 15. Mint Heron 16. Onyx Flamingo 17. Opal Lion Vessel, Odium 18. Oxblood Beagle 19. Pearl Chameleon 20. Plum Rhinoceros 21. Quartz Zebra 22. Saffron Iguana 23. Sage Kangaroo 24. Salmon Meerkat 25. Sapphire Elephant 26. Scarlet Octopus Worldhopper, Mastrell 27. Sunburst Toucan 28. Taupe Gecko 29. Turquoise Gorilla 30. Violet Axolotl Shardworld Tracker: Yolen: 2/8 charges First of the Sun: 1/6 charges The day will last until Friday, January 26th, 12:00 AM, Mountain Time

THE ROUND IS OVER PLEASE. NO MORE VOTES OR ACTIONS AFTER THIS POST, EVEN IF I NINJA THEM, WILL BE ACCEPTED.

Colour is correct, and anyone who tells you otherwise is a colonial heathen.

Day 4: Fortune or Fate First of the Sun slept the sleep of death as it inscribed its endless circles around the Daystar. The fouled seas lapped against the shores of empty continents, covered with the sticks of dead trees and piles of corpses that had never rotted, for the bacteria that decomposed them were gone. Ash-filled winds covered once-great cities, and empty windows looked out on ruined skylines. Nothing moved. Nothing lived. The island that had once been called Patji was the emptiest of all, its entire surface scraped clean and leveled as if by some giant hand. Not even corpses marred that smooth stretch of sand, featureless and bare save for one small depression, in which pooled some glowing green liquid. Once, that might have looked vibrant and alive, in the centre of a great jungle, but now it festered like some recess of toxic sludge, fouled by some unholy mixture of radiation and chemical poisons. High above, the instruments of the Final Death floated, hanging motionless above the atmosphere. Pocked and pitted by age and micrometeorite impacts, the panels that brought their weird half-life into existence were cracked and broken, and the lights than had once animated them were still. The deadly beams that had ended a world so completely that not even the decomposers were left to clear the ground no longer streamed from the fearsome apertures, but their very presence left a chill around the dead world. This had been murder, premeditated and coldly executed. But far below the lifeless waves, something stirred. After so long, it was hard to believe that anything yet lived, but the sea floor was waking up. Power flowing through ancient lines woke vents in ocean rifts, while a sudden explosion of sea creatures began to take advantage of the unexpected bounty. And on Patji, the pooling liquid flared and sputtered, spreading out and growing and building a sanctuary around it. As it reached the end of its current circle, and started its new year, First of the Sun still slept. But it was not the sleep of death that it slept. It remained to be seen if it was a sleep that it would awake from, but it was no longer the sleep of death. * * * * * * * * * * The kandra stretched its new bones, sighing contentedly. It had been a long time since it had been out on a contract, but the worldhopper known as Scorpion had been an excellent target for his return to the family business. A good body, a fascinating role to imitate, and an endless wealth of information to sift through. Now to find out what had been going on in the past day or so. There was a faction involved, he was almost certain - he would not have been given a contract among the worldhoppers unless the kandra were curious about what the Shards were doing. He dug through his new pockets to find the journal that the worldhopper had kept, to see what information could be gleaned from it. He was still figuring out which pockets held what when a bolt of energy from the Great Enemy seared through him, ending his existence as neatly as he had assumed Scorpion's. In the brief instant before he passed to the cognitive realm, he almost even appreciated the irony. Amethyst was attacked and killed! Amethyst Scorpion was a Researcher in the ALL HAIL THE JOE CLOUD FACTION. Yes, that is really their name. Player List: 1. Amethyst Scorpion Worldhopper, Researcher. 2. Azure Mouse 3. Amber Vulture Vessel, Autonomy 4. Charcoal Hyena 5. Chartreuse Penguin Worldhopper, Truthwatcher 6. Coral Swan 7. Cream Tuatara 8. Emerald Falcon 9. Fuschia Ostrich 10. Indigo Weasel 11. Ivory Dragonfly 12. Magenta Albatross 13. Mauve Crocodile 14. Melon Dingo 15. Mint Heron 16. Onyx Flamingo 17. Opal Lion 18. Oxblood Beagle 19. Pearl Chameleon 20. Plum Rhinoceros 21. Quartz Zebra 22. Saffron Iguana 23. Sage Kangaroo 24. Salmon Meerkat 25. Sapphire Elephant 26. Scarlet Octopus Worldhopper, Mastrell 27. Sunburst Toucan 28. Taupe Gecko 29. Turquoise Gorilla 30. Violet Axolotl Shardworld Tracker: Yolen: 2/8 charges First of the Sun: 1/6 charges The day will last until Thursday, January 25th, 12:00 AM, Mountain Time

That is rollover. No more actions will be accepted.

Ooh, that is a good idea. PAFO

A second Kandra has entered the fray! We have quite the epidemic. And a Third!

Night 3 - Beyond All Hope Although surviving records from the time are often fragmentary, and make it difficult to recover a full timeline of the Final Shardic War, it is unanimously believed by scholars that the Weasel continued to play an outsized role in the deliberations of the Worldhopper's Tribunal, even after the effects of Devotion's intercession. Whether that was the result of the rather spectacular events of the previous convocation or not, it seems that Weasel remained under strong suspicion of...something. Whatever nameless charges were being levied against worldhoppers at this early stage were still not spelled out clearly. By the end of the deliberation cycle, however, it was a worldhopper called the Octopus who was arraigned before the council. For some reason, unclear to later writers of even a very early date, the tribunal called only a single worldhopper into question in any given cycle of deliberation, and the selection of Scarlet Octopus was sufficient to grant Weasel a reprieve. Upon examination, Octopus was found guilty - the records do not preserve the charge, although spying for some Shard or the other might be sufficient cause under the tribunal's regulations. This execution was far more pedestrian, and has occasioned only scattered footnotes in the histories. Weasel(4): Falcon, Gecko, Dingo, Zebra Octopus(5): Swan, Weasel, Axolotl, Mouse, Ivory Swan(1): Octopus Scarlet Octopus was Lynched! They were a Worldhopping Mastrell of the Utility Company! Player List: 1. Amethyst Scorpion 2. Azure Mouse 3. Amber Vulture Vessel, Autonomy 4. Charcoal Hyena 5. Chartreuse Penguin Worldhopper, Truthwatcher 6. Coral Swan 7. Cream Tuatara 8. Emerald Falcon 9. Fuschia Ostrich 10. Indigo Weasel 11. Ivory Dragonfly 12. Magenta Albatross 13. Mauve Crocodile 14. Melon Dingo 15. Mint Heron 16. Onyx Flamingo 17. Opal Lion 18. Oxblood Beagle 19. Pearl Chameleon 20. Plum Rhinoceros 21. Quartz Zebra 22. Saffron Iguana 23. Sage Kangaroo 24. Salmon Meerkat 25. Sapphire Elephant 26. Scarlet Octopus Worldhopper, Mastrell 27. Sunburst Toucan 28. Taupe Gecko 29. Turquoise Gorilla 30. Violet Axolotl Shardworld Tracker: Yolen: 2/8 charges First of the Sun: 1/6 charges The day will last until Tuesday, January 23th, 12:00 AM, Mountain Time Also, 1 Player has been replaced by a Kandra. We are looking for another currently.

5 MINUTE WARNING! The Day has ended!

About 40ish minutes left in this turn. Please get in orders now, as I will not accept any votes or actions that are sent in past the end of the Hour. EDIT: Wow, 6,666 posts, and this is what I said? What a waste. @Ivory Dragonfly, PAFO, also, you could vote if you don't want to PAFO.

I actually just can't remember what Seonid and I decided, and he is asleep. So you might learn their roles in about 6 hours.

AG 5: Day 3 - Unseen Strike Steel walked in the home of the old Elantrian woman. "Spirit of Speed? No one has ever called me that before." The woman chuckled slightly, settling in a chair, silvery light coming off of her skin. "That's because no one looks at your spiritual aspect to see you, young one. I'm blind, you see. I use the Dor to instead view people spiritually. A handy trick, if you ask me. And your spirit web- it basically is the spiritual ideal of speed. I've never seen anything quite like it." "And you'll never see anything like it again." Steel's blood ran chill as he burnt f-steel to see the man who had spoken the words. He no longer wore a ridiculous yellow costume, but instead a simple brown tunic. And with a single motion, he was behind the elantrian and had snapped her neck. Steel had risen in an instant, but it was already too late. The man disappeared from the room, and Steel followed, spren close behind. Elantrians turned in hostility towards his enemy, but the man was so fast that no Elantrian would be able to draw an Aon in time to actually fight him. Only Steel had a chance to catch him. The villain stopped to face Steel, and Steel summoned his shardblade. He pointed it directly at the man's throat. "Tell me where my sister is. Or I'll cut out whatever spiritual aspect you DO have." "Thing is," the man said easily, "I don't need you anymore." His extended shardblade was knocked aside, and a vibrating hand was stuck into his heart, as Steel gazed in horror at his own chest. And so for the second time, Steel found himself dying, this time not from a blast from Odium, but from the enemy that perhaps only he could have beaten. In anger, he burnt allomantic steel, flaring it in a moment of death, sending his feruchemical metalminds in every which way- several of which hit his attacker, to his pleasure. His shardblade dissolved, and Phlo's crystalline face was the last thing he saw before he faded into the cognitive Realm. Not like Endowment would return him AGAIN, anyway. * * * * * * * * * * The Worldhopper who called themselves Vulture was nervous. It had only been a little slip, barely even enough to register, but paranoia dictated that it had probably been noticed. And since paranoia was an insatiable fiend, whose appetite only grew the more you fed it, it dictated that not only had the slip been noticed, but it had been noticed and would be taken advantage of by their most dangerous enemies. Of course, such an outcome would be highly unlikely. It was only a small slip in the facade of being a normal worldhopper. Just a little drip of Shardic power when it shouldn't have been possible. And nobody was there to notice. It was ironic, then, that Vulture's paranoia was perfectly accurate. Unfortunately, as the dust settled and Odium's power burned down to a low, seething glow, Vulture was no longer in a place where they could appreciate the irony. Chartreuse Penguin has been murdered! They were a Worldhopper of the Hidden Garden, with the Truthwatcher role. Amber Vulture has been murdered! They were a Vessel of the Utility Company, holding the Shard of Autonomy. The Shard of Autonomy has been Shattered! Player List: 1. Amethyst Scorpion 2. Azure Mouse 3. Amber Vulture Vessel, Autonomy 4. Charcoal Hyena 5. Chartreuse Penguin Worldhopper, Truthwatcher 6. Coral Swan 7. Cream Tuatara 8. Emerald Falcon 9. Fuschia Ostrich 10. Indigo Weasel 11. Ivory Dragonfly 12. Magenta Albatross 13. Mauve Crocodile 14. Melon Dingo 15. Mint Heron 16. Onyx Flamingo 17. Opal Lion 18. Oxblood Beagle 19. Pearl Chameleon 20. Plum Rhinoceros 21. Quartz Zebra 22. Saffron Iguana 23. Sage Kangaroo 24. Salmon Meerkat 25. Sapphire Elephant 26. Scarlet Octopus 27. Sunburst Toucan 28. Taupe Gecko 29. Turquoise Gorilla 30. Violet Axolotl Shardworld Tracker: Yolen: 2/8 charges The day will last until Tuesday, January 22nd, 12:00 AM, Mountain Time

Before. Worldhopping always* comes last. Also, sorry, just got home, writeup might be a tad late.

I figured that would be the case. GG Drought. @Fifth Scholar you bet Innerlight to Alvron?! Why would you do that!?

I believe that all Pm's have been sent, all docs have been updated, and all assumptions have been laughed at. If you are missing a PM, or cannot access a doc, please PM me. Preferably in the next 5 minutes because I want to sleep soon.