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Post by storyteller0910 on Mar 17, 2012 18:33:10 GMT -5
OK, here’s the deal. I am wiped out. Rather than delay the Dawn while I fumble through trying to write color, I’m just going to ask you to assume that there was awesome color here, and I’ll make it up to you later. For the moment, the key points are these:
Inner Stickler, ALEXEI ABRAMOVICI , who was Town (Alignment-Based), is dead.
So is Archangel, CALENDAR MAN, who was also Town (Vanilla)
Also, this morning, the poster known as SBrown arrived at today’s lynch site (the Gotham Pier, obviously) with a rusty, metal gas mask strapped to her face. Two tubes run from the mask to a pair of attached flasks: one orange and hissing, marked with a skull and cross bones, the other green and glowing, marked with a radiation symbol. The entire setup is attached to a small black box not unlike the one affixed to Pollux Oil’s device; the readout on this device says “-52.”
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Day Three begins here, and will end on Thursday, March 22, at 5:00PM EDT. Thanks, all!
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Post by Inner Stickler on Mar 17, 2012 18:35:17 GMT -5
Awww.
Spoilers? Or sub list? I can do either one.
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Post by ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies on Mar 17, 2012 18:35:23 GMT -5
Lovely. Grr.
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Post by texcat on Mar 17, 2012 18:39:51 GMT -5
Only 2 deaths Today? Unfortunately both townie. I targeted Archangel.
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Post by ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies on Mar 17, 2012 18:41:47 GMT -5
I don't blame you, non-participation sucks.
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Post by Nanook on Mar 17, 2012 18:44:55 GMT -5
I totally expected to be targeted last Night in an effort to stop that bit of info from coming out. Not gonna complain though.
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Post by peekercpa on Mar 17, 2012 19:13:57 GMT -5
well, i got the smell toDay. what was hal's smell again?
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Post by Mahaloth on Mar 17, 2012 19:25:27 GMT -5
I am now Town, having been recruited. I still have my power, too. Here are the relevant PM's.
Then, I wrote:
I just put it in blue for no real reason. I guess to appear positive.
And then, this Morning, I got:
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Post by Mahaloth on Mar 17, 2012 19:26:40 GMT -5
Oh, I posted this before reading and realizing Nanook has already told you all.
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Post by Pollux Oil on Mar 17, 2012 19:38:27 GMT -5
well, i got the smell toDay. what was hal's smell again? I don't think Hal ever said, just that he smelled funny in the morning. It seems SBrown has joined me in the corner of mad devices. We can be pals. Although a -52 is interesting. A higher number probably means a different trigger. Perhaps posts? I guess we'll find out soon enough. My guess is the devicer is a PFK as so far the devices seem to be random, but I thought Drain Bead was a PFK so maybe I'm just PFK-trigger-happy. Archangel coming up Town and Vanilla is an interesting data point. One, that means we know not everyone has a power role for sure now. Two, that means scum didn't have a vested interest in either Drain Bead or Archangel, unless they were trying to get Archangel lynched so they could try and recruit Drain Bead at Night. That's where the list I posted last Night will come into play. Basically, I'm going to be suspicious of people who were okay lynching Pleonast but changed their mind and weren't okay with lynching Drain Bead. I think if there were any scum on the Pleonast bandwagon, they'll most likely have switched tactics and tried to keep Drain Bead alive, since they knew they wouldn't lose anything with an Archangel lynch.
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Post by gnarlycharlie on Mar 17, 2012 20:33:10 GMT -5
i had to look up who Alexei Abramovici was. there two Abramoicis, who were conjoined twins. Alexei might be mod-created as their names are Mr. and Capt. Abramovici. one became Joker's goon and the other, the Penguin's, after they were separated. they eventually make up. so depending on the time of the setting of this game, that would make Total (she was the one with the soft mason claim, right) either on the same side or opposite side of Inner. or based on our game, one is town and the other 3rd party (PFK?). well, i got the smell toDay. what was hal's smell again? I don't think Hal ever said, just that he smelled funny in the morning. It seems SBrown has joined me in the corner of mad devices. We can be pals. Although a -52 is interesting. A higher number probably means a different trigger. Perhaps posts? I guess we'll find out soon enough. My guess is the devicer is a PFK as so far the devices seem to be random, but I thought Drain Bead was a PFK so maybe I'm just PFK-trigger-happy. Archangel coming up Town and Vanilla is an interesting data point. One, that means we know not everyone has a power role for sure now. Two, that means scum didn't have a vested interest in either Drain Bead or Archangel, unless they were trying to get Archangel lynched so they could try and recruit Drain Bead at Night. That's where the list I posted last Night will come into play. Basically, I'm going to be suspicious of people who were okay lynching Pleonast but changed their mind and weren't okay with lynching Drain Bead. I think if there were any scum on the Pleonast bandwagon, they'll most likely have switched tactics and tried to keep Drain Bead alive, since they knew they wouldn't lose anything with an Archangel lynch. i'm still at a loss at what the smell is. the -52 though might be a post meter. it's large (absolute-value-wise) compared to the vote counter.
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Post by gnarlycharlie on Mar 17, 2012 20:34:49 GMT -5
NETA: the device on SBrown seems to be like Bane's. so could it give her powers?
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Post by texcat on Mar 17, 2012 20:52:37 GMT -5
What does (Alignment-Based) next to Inner mean?
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Post by ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies on Mar 17, 2012 21:02:37 GMT -5
I think it means that their power is to confer/confirm alignment, as Inner's death has now confirmed Total as Town (or at least that she originally started the game as Town and was still Town at the time of Inner's death, allowing for some recruitment hijinks that I don't think would apply to masons) in their little masonry.
I don't really see recruitable Masons as a role that would work so Total is pretty much confirmed as a Townie at this point for me. I suppose it is possible that she could be recruitable now that her fellow mason is dead, but I really don't think that is likely.
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Post by Pollux Oil on Mar 17, 2012 21:45:11 GMT -5
What does (Alignment-Based) next to Inner mean? From the rules: The Abramovici Twins make sense as a Mason group to me, so I'd assume Total is the other twin and also town. I wish her and Inner had given us some more clarification on that instead of the quasi-soft claim they did give, though.
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Post by peekercpa on Mar 17, 2012 21:47:47 GMT -5
hal care to share what you smelled. mine is pretty specific but i don't know if it means dick or not.
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Post by Pollux Oil on Mar 17, 2012 21:51:53 GMT -5
hal care to share what you smelled. mine is pretty specific but i don't know if it means dick or not. If you smelt dick I'd definitely be questioning the motives of who visited you at night.
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Post by Hal Briston on Mar 17, 2012 21:52:21 GMT -5
well, i got the smell toDay. what was hal's smell again? Not to be overly paranoid, but...you first. What did you smell? And for fairness sake, I'll put mine out there in an easily explainable (after the fact) code: P25u39
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Post by Gadarene on Mar 17, 2012 21:53:00 GMT -5
I got roleblocked last night.
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Post by peekercpa on Mar 17, 2012 22:18:23 GMT -5
well, i got the smell toDay. what was hal's smell again? Not to be overly paranoid, but...you first. What did you smell? And for fairness sake, I'll put mine out there in an easily explainable (after the fact) code: P25u39what the heck. kerosene.
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Post by peekercpa on Mar 17, 2012 22:20:18 GMT -5
hal care to share what you smelled. mine is pretty specific but i don't know if it means dick or not. If you smelt dick I'd definitely be questioning the motives of who visited you at night. ok, this is genuinely funny.
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Post by Meeko on Mar 17, 2012 22:56:50 GMT -5
A question I asked our mod, still unanswered, I believe :
How, exactly, are you defining "neturalized" ?
That is, do mean this an a euphamism for "kill" or something not too far off from recruitment*?
*That is, if a neutral third party could recruit a Scum of PFK to the neutral third party "side", would they not be "" neutralized "" in a certain sense?
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Post by Meeko on Mar 17, 2012 22:59:41 GMT -5
i'm still at a loss at what the smell is. the -52 though might be a post meter. it's large (absolute-value-wise) compared to the vote counter. I was thinking this might be the number of times we can say this person's name, quote them. Would Hours be too "" broken "" for this? That is, can we resonably expect they who must not be named to poof in 52 hours [Real Time] And what of the negative?
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Post by SBrOwn on Mar 17, 2012 23:59:00 GMT -5
Oh... poo. I have a lovely vacation, I even manage to put mafia out my mind the whole time, and I come back, catch up on Night 2... and then I read Day 3. I don't wanna die! Why ME? Sigh. Time to suck it up though, if Pollux can set a good example, maybe I Can try to figure this out too. But if the bomb is going to be triggered to something like my vote counts I better make each of them count! It seems SBrown has joined me in the corner of mad devices. We can be pals. Although a -52 is interesting. A higher number probably means a different trigger. Perhaps posts? I guess we'll find out soon enough. Though, I'm curious- Pollux had orange font and all announcing his device. Pollux Oil has a device attached to him Is my not the same thing? Or does mine not exist? Storyteller, Is my device intentionally not meant to be in orange font like Pollux- or was that part of your being late. IE: Do I really have a device on me similar to Pollux?
the -52 though might be a post meter. it's large (absolute-value-wise) compared to the vote counter.
I dunno, 52 posts seems really small compared to the rest of you guys. There were 6 players day 1 who had 52 or greater posts, and 4 on day 2. And two players who had specifically 52 posts on Day 1 (if that means anything: Dirx 52 & Meeko 52).
I believe I have made a current total of 67 posts so far. But that's only in 2 days and 1 night. So if it's a post counter- well we'll know soon enough with this post , and i guess that'd put me at about ~2-3 days if I continue my posting trends (though I increased it on Day 2, so not a good sign. I don't think I'll try to post less, but still- i dunno if i can do the whole stoic townie thing here like Pollux. Then again, me posting to complain about it would probably just make it count down faster. So none of that. Verbal cursing it shall have to be.
-->If we look at the DC universe, 52 is a "significant" number- playing a role in a lot of things. It's the number of weekly comic books in a year, and it's the number of a famous Comic book storyline (52 )- which basically is about the real-time (weekly) events after the Infinite Crisis, and leads into the Final Crisis storyline. [plot of infinite crisis- a superboy goes evil, everyone bands together to stop him, heros and villians, and then at the end Superman/Batman and wonderwoman each collectively "take a year off (52)", also of note- Joker kills Alex Luthor (son of lex luthor) for not letting him team up with the other super villians.]
But also, 52 tends to be the number of multiverses in the DC universe- it's sort of a powerful # they tend to use for associations with things. Like a 52 issue countdown to final crisis, or a 52 issue "aftermath of infinite crisis" or etc. But at some point all the worlds were destroyed or compressed to make one big universe rather than 52 separate ones...
But this is just a lot of random thoughts and doesn't seem really productive right now. Just things I immediately thought of with the 52 association.
-->The thing that gets me though. Why Negative?. Pollux's device is counting down with the votes it seems he makes. -Does my device count up? -Does it count down (and thus spirals into negative numbers- is the trigger not 0?)
NETA: the device on SBrown seems to be like Bane's. so could it give her powers?
Since you mentioned Bane- Bane's device is usually a tube that runs into the back of his head. It's a liquid toxic compound called "Venom". He doesn't tend to have the gas-mask part of the device. --> My mind actually immediately thought of scarecrow as he's been shown with a gas mask (not trying to accuse ya Silver Jan... yet. Just my first thought). -On reading a lil' about the Venom Toxin- major players involved in it have been The Joker(video games), and Poison Ivy (film). I can't think of Scarecrow though involved in Venom usage.... I dunno. :Shrug: again a lot of this is just out loud thinking about shit.
Green glowing radiation though? - My first thought- Kryptonite? Orange and hissing with skull and crossbones?- dunno anything specific, the crossbones aren't reassuring though.
Interesting details though.
Again, though, i tend to want to focus on the counter itself rather than the device. The game seems to be about control. if i can control the device by figuring out how it works, then the device can't control me. And -52 does seem like i have some leeway to work with. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
ONWARDS FOR SCIENCE!
Test 1 -This is my first post of Day 1. To see if it is attached to Post Counting.
Test 2: :gulps:
Vote SBrown
Unvote SBrown
Test 3: -And I've said my own name now twice.
Test 4: And Just in case the device inventor is some kind of Gastard or something. Since it does not appear to be the same device as Pollux Oil's. So I'm wondering if it's a 2nd ability (pre-made), or if it's a different power- where maybe it's the same device (the black box), but the other stuff can vary?
That's why I'll try one more test... in case the Inventor specifically made this device to target me.
only 1 of them for now
[Yes, I'm checking if my Bunnies are going to affect the trigger- You Gastards!].
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Post by Meeko on Mar 18, 2012 1:09:12 GMT -5
So now we have players restricting themselves further than mods would do, in not gastard games. Interesting.
FWIW she who must not be named, I don't think the fact that I or Dirx made 52 posts means anything to your device. If it is related, then I would call your device too open ended to be balanced effectively into a game. That is to say, if this is the 52 in effect, it is too unpredictable.
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Post by Meeko on Mar 18, 2012 1:11:35 GMT -5
Maha : Welcome aboard. Do you care to comment on my thoughts per the end of Day 2? Do you have any reason to believe that you are leading a parade of will be converts our direction?
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Post by Meeko on Mar 18, 2012 1:13:52 GMT -5
hal care to share what you smelled. mine is pretty specific but i don't know if it means dick or not. If you smelt dick I'd definitely be questioning the motives of who visited you at night. Rhianna? If sex is in the air, you know she loves the smell of it.
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Post by Idle Thoughts on Mar 18, 2012 1:26:31 GMT -5
I'm happy to vote for Hal or Lightfoot again today (for the same reasons I voted for them yesterDay and Day One (well, Hal, Day One).
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Post by Idle Thoughts on Mar 18, 2012 1:34:32 GMT -5
And since it's been shown that this is NOT an "everyone is a power role of some sort" game:
I'm Poison Ivy. I have a 50 percent chance of poisoning (and killing) anyone who tries to kill me at Night. I think it only works once, though, from how the PM sounds. So with this info, I take it scum specify who they want to have kill a person each Night (if that wasn't already known/talked about).
No idea what that kind of role would be called.
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Post by SBrOwn on Mar 18, 2012 2:22:53 GMT -5
FWIW she who must not be named, I don't think the fact that I or Dirx made 52 posts means anything to your device. If it is related, then I would call your device too open ended to be balanced effectively into a game. That is to say, if this is the 52 in effect, it is too unpredictable. I agree, but I was just free thinking at that point everything that was coming to my mind. Also: FoS Idle Thoughts: Questions- 1. Why did you randomly decide to claim at the start of Day 3? Why not stay silent and hope that Scum target you? 2. Why is your Role PM the only one so far that doesn't start with a Quote by your person? 3. This line is Weird: --> I don't get the whole "the first time"- either you kill them or they'd kill you- there would never be a 2nd time. Why is there a mention of a first time? Just maybe each time you're targeted and survive is the only thing I can think of... 4. -The underlined part doesn't Jive with me either. It seems to imply that you've got custom designed plant allies to assist you. -->However, your only stated power is one that is caused by your own secretions. ERGO- where are your custom designed-plants to help you? Either that's just flavor, or it's the start of something deeper. I'm not inclined to just out and out vote for ya now. But I feel like maybe those are good questions to follow up on, Idle Thoughts? ~~~~~~~Science~~~~~~~~~ This is post #2 for me. Just doing this until I find a trigger (if any) for the device. ( SBrown- just so I can have it be 3 of those. Just in case only the counter goes down and so that way I have differentiating data points).
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