The Emperor's Soul [D5]

[S~V~S]

[VOTE: Seanzie] aubergine

Spicy vote.

Syn and LC are both voting him and two of my stronger townreads, yes I'm voting another townread. This is a weird game and I'm not confident in many vote options so I'm going here.

I'm stuck in urgent care getting a minor finger injury looked at so can't stick around or wait to vote.

Glgl

(Also need to make sure LC doesn't accidentally die)

Oh your poor finger

Very weird game, I’m voting with my top wolf read lol

I need to clear up my day and commute day will be over when I get home.

@Thunal33 Marmot voted Sean. I would rather follow LC than vote a low poster.

[S~V~S]

Also l leave work in 10 minutes if we still aren’t sure I’ll likely vote Sean.

It’s gonna be hard to hammer anyone else with Sean at 3 votes.

[Thunal33]

Town:
LC
Nutella
Dyslexicon
Scotty

Townlean:
SVS
Syn
Marmot

PoE:
Seanzie
Epi
Falcon
Rico

[Thunal33]

[VOTE: Seanzie] aubergine

Spicy vote.

Syn and LC are both voting him and two of my stronger townreads, yes I'm voting another townread. This is a weird game and I'm not confident in many vote options so I'm going here.

I'm stuck in urgent care getting a minor finger injury looked at so can't stick around or wait to vote.

Glgl

(Also need to make sure LC doesn't accidentally die)

Oh your poor finger

Very weird game, I’m voting with my top wolf read lol

I need to clear up my day and commute day will be over when I get home.

@Thunal33 Marmot voted Sean. I would rather follow LC than vote a low poster.

I'm fine with you voting Sean. I think he's less likely town than most of the list and I don't think Rico will actually go over.

[S~V~S]

Alrighty then,

[VOTE: Seanzie] aubergine

[Syn]

THANK YOU MARMOT I'M GOING TO KISS YOU ON THE MOUTH AND ALSO ON YOUR BELEAGURED FINGER

post capped thanks bye

this is infinitely better than chopping a no-info slot

bombastic side-eye to all y'all

[Thunal33]

In fact, it might be -EV if we did vote Rico at this point. If mafia are in the non-voters, dueling wagons could give them control of the elim.

[S~V~S]

Suburban life off to the Long Island Expressway

[nutella]

I wouldn't have chosen the Seanzie elim but I find myself at peace with it. Go with god. Byyyeeeeee

[Ricochet]

sorry for not posting, but I think I know who I’m voting and that’s marmot. it seems marmot was trying to get there way then when everyone found that out marmot tried to say that they were just saying what they thought. That’s why I’m voting [VOTE: marmot. ] aubergine

[S~V~S]

[Thunal33]

In case there's any contention, I'd rather Seanzie die than Marmot. Let's hope this is right.

[VOTE: Seanzie] aubergine

[Dyslexicon]

sorry for not posting, but I think I know who I’m voting and that’s marmot. it seems marmot was trying to get there way then when everyone found that out marmot tried to say that they were just saying what they thought. That’s why I’m voting [VOTE: marmot. ] aubergine

Ah.

Yes.

[Dyslexicon]

Town:
LC
Nutella
Dyslexicon
Scotty

Townlean:
SVS
Syn
Marmot

PoE:
Seanzie
Epi
Falcon
Rico

Probably decent

[Dyslexicon]

Anyway, Sean is getting chopped. So we'll see.

I'll try to dig myself out of despondent next day, cause it's not the vibe for anyone

But you're all cute anyway

[Seanzie]

Well, it looks like enough votes are locked that I am dead.

Rico/Dizzy. Maybe Thun. Maybe Syn.

Good luck everyone.

[Dyslexicon]

Well, it looks like enough votes are locked that I am dead.

Rico/Dizzy. Maybe Thun. Maybe Syn.

Good luck everyone.

Can you have a better solve?

[Dyslexicon]

Well, it looks like enough votes are locked that I am dead.

Rico/Dizzy. Maybe Thun. Maybe Syn.

Good luck everyone.

Can you have a better solve?

Actually, never mind.

[DrWilgy]

locked

[DrWilgy]

POLL

Spoiler: show

Who's the Master Forger?
Poll ended at Tue Aug 08, 2023 3:00 pm


Dyslexicon
0
No votes
Voters: None
Epignosis
0
No votes
Voters: None
Falcon
0
No votes
Voters: None
Kate
2
14%
Voters: nutella, falcon45ca
Marmot
2
14%
Voters: Scotty, Ricochet
Nutella
0
No votes
Voters: None
Rico
0
No votes
Voters: None
Scotty
0
No votes
Voters: None
Seanzie
5
36%
Voters: S~V~S, Thunal33, Marmot, Lime Coke, Syn
SVS
0
No votes
Voters: None
Syn
0
No votes
Voters: None
Thunal
1
7%
Voters: Epignosis
Non-Player (host/mod/spec)
4
29%
Voters: JaggedJimmyJay, DrWilgy, Kate, Justplayingitcool
Total votes: 14

POST COUNT

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User NamePosts
nutella70
Scotty70
Syn70
Lime Coke69
Marmot69
Thunal3369
Seanzie67
Dyslexicon55
S~V~S49
falcon45ca40
Epignosis27
DrWilgy13
Ricochet2
Justplayingitcool1

[DrWilgy]

Seanzie was on guard duty, making the normal rounds within the imperial palace. Nothing spectacular would ever happen while he was on his shift. Passersby in the halls were all recognizable officials, servants, and the occasional foreign ambassador.
I could take a nap, he thought, but Captain Zu would have my hide... So Seanzie continued through the monotony of palace work, for all of five minutes.

Seanzie awoke to Captain Zu jabbing his side with the pommel of his sword. "You're relieved," Zu said, "Pack up your things. You're lucky that the Arbiters are merciful."

When the only interesting things in a job were the occasional eavesdropping, the Fool thought, it really makes sense that anyone would fall asleep in his situation.
Without looking up, the Fool walked past Captain Zu and Seanzie to take a peek at the imperial gallery.

Seanzie has been yeeted. Seanzie was a vanilla civilian!

You have 23 hours for night actions. Actions will be locked an hour before End of Night.

[DrWilgy]

I just sat on a work call for an extra 30 min not realizing what time it was. My bad. EoN coming soon.

[DrWilgy]

Lime Coke is nowhere to be found! Lime Coke was the Bloodsealer's Skeletal!

Dizzy also never appeared the following morning. Dizzy was the Bloodsealer!

You have 48 hours to deliberate and find who did this! End of Day will be an hour later than normal because of my own awareness issues. Poll should be good to go now. Remember votes are locked and hammer is at 5. I will only count the first vote in the thread, but please have your vote in the poll match.

[nutella]

[Syn]

of course

[S~V~S]

@Ricochet wtf was that about? Your timing with that vote, like you waited to make sure YOU weren’t the yeet then you came in and voted.

That sucks that the two power roles are gone, but it’s not like it wasn’t predictable.

Gonna reread Dizzy.

[nutella]

Y'all should have voted Epi. Perhaps we should do that today in honor of Dizzy.

[Syn]

Y'all should have voted Epi. Perhaps we should do that today in honor of Dizzy.

sorry, it looked like it was going to be a push on a no-posting slot and I went with the most viable alternative

[Syn]

i think thunal is a wolf

[S~V~S]

Fuck. I need to go. Will follow on phone as best as I can.

Lime is town.
I do think Nut's reaction to that whole thing is more towny than not.
I think SVS is town for a few reasons, especially I buy her thoughts on me.
I'm on Marmot town now. The reaction to Scotty voting them felt natural. And also the general confusion about the game state and where he's at.
Falcon's takes are bad imo, not sure if wolfy. I don't know how to read Falcon tbh, but I don't really feel it.
Epig's only real take is that I'm wolf because I'm not how he's used to. I guess it makes sense that I'm not how he's used to, but why that is wolf, I don't get. Neutral on Epig otherwise.
Rico hasn't done anything
Scotty ...doesn't look wolfy to me.
Sean ...probably more in town meta, but maybe I'm giving him too little respect.
Thunal ...I actually think the musings and not many hard stances is more town for Thunal
Syn ...is reasonable, but I don't know if that is enough to be town.

This is why I stopped playing mafia tbh

I'd probably vote Rico or someone make a good case and convince me of someone.

This is what Dizzy said about Epi~ not a scathing indictment, lol.

Although I could consider getting with an Epi vote for that not knowing about the locked votes, but knowing about the post cap. I need to reread him.

Linki, yeah, me too tbh, re the Sean vote.

[S~V~S]

i think thunal is a wolf

I don't know that I see Thunal killing Dizzy Night One.

ALTHOUGH, looking at Dizzys role, definitely one the Mafia wants gone ASAP. She has that tentative feel she had as town in Sesame St, as opposed to the smoother, more confident delivery she had in Se7en.

Re read her too, I guess.

[nutella]

I wouldn't read into the kill socially at all, Lime knew Dizzy was the other PR and that would have been pretty easy for the mafia to read into from him in retrospect. Purely mechanically correct shot. Again a very unfortunate mechanical situation on multiple levels.

Regardless, Thunal is someone I'm open to looking at more closely today as well.

[Scotty]

Cool cool cool

Mafia is paying attention. Sounds like LC was the once a game soupkill and they happened to find the right name out of LC’s ‘donotkill’ list. I thought it would thunal.

I doubt rico would be so limp and absent if he were actually participating behind the scenes. That doesn’t seem correct to me. I don’t think Rico should go today. But he needs to participate.

Spoiler: show

Searching Soulstamp: You may target a player in the night. You will discover if they are or aren't a vanilla civilian.
Diminishing Soulstamp: You may target a player in the night. Their vote will not count during the next day phase. This will have no affect if it threatens vote parity.
Reacting Soulstamp: You may target a player in the night. If warded, their ward will ALWAYS alert.
Disabling Soulstamp: You may target a player in the night. Their ability use will be blocked.
Silencing Soulstamp: You may target a player in the night. During the next day, they will have a stricter posting limit.

Well, now that we’re all essentially VT, mafia has no need for most of those. Diminishing Soulstamp is probably the most powerful left, and I doubt it was used last night. It will probably be used tonite or tomorrow, depending, id expect.
Silencing soulstamp was probably used last night.

Just lol. After tomorrow night this is a straight vanilla game for everyone

[S~V~S]

Also Wilgy must be pissed that that super cool mechanic between those two roles was destroyed night one.

Super super pissed.

[Scotty]

i think thunal is a wolf

I don't know that I see Thunal killing Dizzy Night One.

ALTHOUGH, looking at Dizzys role, definitely one the Mafia wants gone ASAP. She has that tentative feel she had as town in Sesame St, as opposed to the smoother, more confident delivery she had in Se7en.

Re read her too, I guess.

lol well yeah, of course mafia wants the only other PR gone.

[Scotty]

Heads up that I will be gone gone starting tomorrow night until Saturday night backpacking with probably no service. So I’ll be here until I leave tomorrow morning, then not again til D3. Provided I’m still alive

[Scotty]

Going back to my previous thought- mafia is paying attention. I don’t think Epi is paying attention. He could be a mafia laying low while his partner pulls the strings, but he isn’t the ring leader here. The kill last night points to at least one mafia that has been active in thread

[S~V~S]

I wouldn't read into the kill socially at all, Lime knew Dizzy was the other PR and that would have been pretty easy for the mafia to read into from him in retrospect. Purely mechanically correct shot. Again a very unfortunate mechanical situation on multiple levels.

Regardless, Thunal is someone I'm open to looking at more closely today as well.

I’ll always consider a social element because decisions consist of many variables.

We’re people and this is a social game. If Tangy, for instance, signed up for this and I thought they had the town power role, I wouldn’t kill them night one.

But your point is well taken.

[Syn]

Going back to my previous thought- mafia is paying attention. I don’t think Epi is paying attention. He could be a mafia laying low while his partner pulls the strings, but he isn’t the ring leader here. The kill last night points to at least one mafia that has been active in thread

maybe

I overall agree with the sentiment here but it also takes less than five minutes to ISO LC for his town clears and seeing that Dizzy was the shining jewel above them all

he did try to muddy it a little by adding thunal and later SVS and me but not especially well IMO

[S~V~S]

i think thunal is a wolf

I don't know that I see Thunal killing Dizzy Night One.

ALTHOUGH, looking at Dizzys role, definitely one the Mafia wants gone ASAP. She has that tentative feel she had as town in Sesame St, as opposed to the smoother, more confident delivery she had in Se7en.

Re read her too, I guess.

lol well yeah, of course mafia wants the only other PR gone.

Especially since that role can pinpoint the other power roles.

Condescension ignored And have fun backpacking.

[Syn]

Cool cool cool

Mafia is paying attention. Sounds like LC was the once a game soupkill and they happened to find the right name out of LC’s ‘donotkill’ list. I thought it would thunal.

interestingly, this is scotty's take after LC's "do not chop these people" list

I'll focus on clearing as many people as I can and coming to a consensus vote pool.

Laughable that you could clear anyone

If LC wasn’t shielding you I would have voted you.

I still think you’re bad.

********

Marmot could be good. Their response is not terrible, but they’re also just a scumlean to me atm. I don’t regret voting for them.

*********

Dizzy is an enigma. Syn calling dizzy a top town read is laughable. Dizzy is rather despondent. Epi called him mean, which equates to, as dizzy describes, bluntness. But I see the opposite. He’s a bit aloof and isn’t ruffling any feathers. Blendy, not pushing the envelope. I support a dizzy vote if the rest of y’all with votes remaining choose to go there

[Scotty]

i think thunal is a wolf

I don't know that I see Thunal killing Dizzy Night One.

ALTHOUGH, looking at Dizzys role, definitely one the Mafia wants gone ASAP. She has that tentative feel she had as town in Sesame St, as opposed to the smoother, more confident delivery she had in Se7en.

Re read her too, I guess.

lol well yeah, of course mafia wants the only other PR gone.

Especially since that role can pinpoint the other power roles.

Condescension ignored And have fun backpacking.

Sorry about the condescension- I’m just kinda disappointed we just lost our PRs with no real trade off and dealing with the fact that there’s nothing to solve any more and I’ve now been tricked into playing a mountainous game. I hate mountainous

[Scotty]

Cool cool cool

Mafia is paying attention. Sounds like LC was the once a game soupkill and they happened to find the right name out of LC’s ‘donotkill’ list. I thought it would thunal.

interestingly, this is scotty's take after LC's "do not chop these people" list

I'll focus on clearing as many people as I can and coming to a consensus vote pool.

Laughable that you could clear anyone

If LC wasn’t shielding you I would have voted you.

I still think you’re bad.

********

Marmot could be good. Their response is not terrible, but they’re also just a scumlean to me atm. I don’t regret voting for them.

*********

Dizzy is an enigma. Syn calling dizzy a top town read is laughable. Dizzy is rather despondent. Epi called him mean, which equates to, as dizzy describes, bluntness. But I see the opposite. He’s a bit aloof and isn’t ruffling any feathers. Blendy, not pushing the envelope. I support a dizzy vote if the rest of y’all with votes remaining choose to go there

Interesting why?

I didn’t think dizzy was the one LC was protecting but then again I didn’t reread the thread to hunt for that.

Do you not believe me?

[Syn]

just find it interesting you wanted to string up both shielded people if you could have managed to convince people to grant you their votes

also don't believe you didn't know Dizzy was being shielded lol c'mon

[Scotty]

just find it interesting you wanted to string up both shielded people if you could have managed to convince people to grant you their votes

also don't believe you didn't know Dizzy was being shielded lol c'mon

I mean it didn’t really matter when it comes to my vote tbh, since I had already voted marmot at that point.

LC shielding Thunal was so left field that it really made me think thunal was the bloodsealer.

Now without LC to shield her I’m…I guess…even more tunneled on her being bad

[Scotty]

[VOTE: Seanzie] aubergine

I am tunneling Scotty tomorrow

btw you need a permit to build a tunnel through this mountain

[Marmot]

Lime Coke is nowhere to be found! Lime Coke was the Bloodsealer's Skeletal!

Dizzy also never appeared the following morning. Dizzy was the Bloodsealer!

You have 48 hours to deliberate and find who did this! End of Day will be an hour later than normal because of my own awareness issues. Poll should be good to go now. Remember votes are locked and hammer is at 5. I will only count the first vote in the thread, but please have your vote in the poll match.

Tbh, I thought Scotty was the other PR based on his reaction to Lime Coke, but that theory was wrong.

Spoiler: show

I'm actually like 50/50 on Scotty but plenty of time to figure that one out there.

You’re acting like a hungry dude at a Costco cycling around the same free samples over and over

And your indecision makes me townread you. Congratulations.

I thought this post was Lime Coke trying to signal to Scotty that he knew what Scotty was, and Scotty's response was one coming from the The Bloodsealer acknowledging it.

But at least now I don't have to pretend like that's the case, now that this game is almost mountainous.

[Scotty]

I'll focus on clearing as many people as I can and coming to a consensus vote pool.

How’s that ‘clearing’ coming?

i am back to thunal/scotty

by the lord ruler the game is solved

Why did you suspect Scotty here?

One of thunal’s random questions. Syn answered but Thunal didn’t seem to do anything with his answer.

I'm not feeling Epi mafia anymore. I caught him from spec in that game where he was wolf with Delta and he felt different there. Here it feels like he's throwing out takes while there it felt like he had a clear agenda.

Hmmmm
******************
Yo, check this progression:

Hmmmm

Yeah never mind it isn't scotty


Why don't you think I believe my reads scotty?

Slightly good look for Marmot imo.

I don't have a scumread and it's frustrating. I feel like it would be a waste to just chop the 1 poster today. I definitely don't want to chop in Scotty, nutella, Syn, Seanzie, or SVS.

In case there's any contention, I'd rather Seanzie die than Marmot. Let's hope this is right.

[VOTE: Seanzie] aubergine

That’s the progression of someone that casts a wide net and doesn’t actually care who goes.
Marmot slightly good look > will not vote 5 names including Seanzie > voting Seanzie over marmot.

I think she forgot who she actually suspected.

[Marmot]

Going back to my previous thought- mafia is paying attention. I don’t think Epi is paying attention. He could be a mafia laying low while his partner pulls the strings, but he isn’t the ring leader here. The kill last night points to at least one mafia that has been active in thread

This really only eliminates a pairing of the following: Ricochet, Epignosis, falcon. As everyone else has been pretty active (even falcon to an extent).


As for Ricochet, I'd definitely consider him for a vote today. I don't think it's a stretch to say that his vote at the deadline was uninspiring. It's one thing to make an uninformed vote, or a hasty vote, but he seemed to try to force reasoning into it when he had none to give, which is kinda wolfy.

[Scotty]

Lime Coke is nowhere to be found! Lime Coke was the Bloodsealer's Skeletal!

Dizzy also never appeared the following morning. Dizzy was the Bloodsealer!

You have 48 hours to deliberate and find who did this! End of Day will be an hour later than normal because of my own awareness issues. Poll should be good to go now. Remember votes are locked and hammer is at 5. I will only count the first vote in the thread, but please have your vote in the poll match.

Tbh, I thought Scotty was the other PR based on his reaction to Lime Coke, but that theory was wrong.

Spoiler: show

I'm actually like 50/50 on Scotty but plenty of time to figure that one out there.

You’re acting like a hungry dude at a Costco cycling around the same free samples over and over

And your indecision makes me townread you. Congratulations.

I thought this post was Lime Coke trying to signal to Scotty that he knew what Scotty was, and Scotty's response was one coming from the The Bloodsealer acknowledging it.

But at least now I don't have to pretend like that's the case, now that this game is almost mountainous.

Actually, LC ruined everything because I was building up to softing that I was the skeleton dude and chose him as my townmark, hence me telling everyone not to vote him. But lolol

I appreciate that you are admitting your supposition that his mark was me. I think I believe you