Round 69: Chaos Rising

Tael wrote:[vote zyq] (not day)

Not day yet, waiting on the DAAAAAAAARKNEEESSSSSSSSS.

Zyquux wrote:

Tael wrote:[vote zyq] (not day)

Not day yet, waiting on the DAAAAAAAARKNEEESSSSSSSSS.

Nocturne? Is that you?

Vote no lynch please.
On phone, formatting is too hard. ;P

Using the bot isn't that hard on the phone. Also, we're still waiting on the Mafia to attack someone before we can vote.

[vote no lynch]

might as well throw that down while waiting on the bot and other players.

Seems there's a little confusion. Voting is closed until the evil team chooses an initial attack. I'll hard cap that at 9PM EST (~7 hours from now). If the evil team hasn't gotten back to me by then, the game will continue without an initial attack.

HATER wrote:

Zyquux wrote:

Tael wrote:[vote zyq] (not day)

Not day yet, waiting on the DAAAAAAAARKNEEESSSSSSSSS.

Nocturne? Is that you?

Twist: The LoL game didn't actually end and Nocturne is the last mafia.

So... the mafia get a free nightkill before we even get a chance to lynch anyone?

Cael did you read the first post?
It's not a nightkill, more like a roleblock.

Book One: Shadows
Chapter One: Shadows


It was all Celestia could do to raise the sun this morning. Such trivially easy tasks seemed so hopelessly difficult now. Pointless, even. What hope was there when the darkness only fed on their feeble attempts to overthrow it? I'm losing track of myself, she thought to herself. Celestia noticed Luna for the first time then. How long her sister had been there, quietly waiting for her sister to accept her comfort, Celestia didn't know. Celestia accepted the gesture of kindness and nestled closer to her sister in the early morning sun. She wouldn't let herself give in, not after all the battles that had been fought in the name of harmony and order. Not after three of her friends had been lost in the pursuit of this one goal.

See, the voice relentlessly continued, she accepts her sister's comfort but not yours. She sees you as a monster, unworthy of comforting her despite your love for her.

Discord was bewildered. He'd wrestled with his emotions and thoughts long into the night. Unaware of the true extent of the battle within, Discord was slowly losing himself. The battle raged and he found himself less and less able to do anything but ponder Celestia's apparent rejection of his love these last days. The pain of this new realization seared through his mind. He felt forced to accept his thoughts as true; every time Celestia glanced his way he saw nothing but anger in her eyes. Anger at him. It couldn't be, yet the voice in his head told him it must. Discord embraced the darkness then. Not consciously, but a part of him died that day.

As the battle raged just beneath Discords consciousness, his love for Celestia slowly faded into resentment and bitterness. He saw her for what she really was: manipulative and ultimately heartless. A facade of Kindness concealing a heart of cold stone. He couldn't believe he'd fallen for it, couldn't believe the pain he felt even now. How had he let himself grow so attached to her? Even now her cruel spell wreaked havoc in his heart, and he hated himself for the pain he felt.

Celestia stirred after a refreshing night's sleep. Luna had recently left to start lowering her moon, and Celestia started to raise the sun in its place. Celestia felt much better today; she was prepared to fight the nightmare wherever it might rear its ugly head.


"No," the tall one said, holding his companion back.
"But they're hurting," the winged one protested, "we have to help them!"
"If you help these two now, everything will be lost. Soon," the tall one whispered, "very soon."
The winged one softly squealed with anticipation.


Link has been attacked and injured.
7 votes are required for an instalynch.

[story Book One: Shadows, Chapter One: Shadows]
[injure Link]
[dawn]

[vote no lynch].

We really haven't had a round of voting yet, so I'm hesitant to throw accusations.

obligatory [vote stalin] for ruses

ARE YOU THERE FRENCH?
[Vote French]

I had a gut feeling that would happen. I guess I'll be back tomorrow. Here's hoping we get Darkness quickly.

Link Lab wrote:I had a gut feeling that would happen. I guess I'll be back tomorrow. Here's hoping we  get Darkness quickly.

inb4 Link is mafia, and they targeted him as an elaborate ruse

Sadly I'm with Zyq on this one. It sounds like a ruse worthy of Link. That said, it's R1, which means that I'll be going with my standard [vote nolynch].

As much as I detest Both No lynching and voting day 1
this set up means that if I don't it'll probably take a damn while.

[Vote Nolynch]

6 votes are now required for instalynch. This number will go down by one each day at 10PM EST.

[vote shadi]

Fuck sheeping on a nolynch - it gives us zero information as to voting alignments if everyone votes for it.

HATER wrote:[vote shadi]

Fuck sheeping on a nolynch - it gives us zero information as to voting alignments if everyone votes for it.

despite the fact that the vote is on me i agree with the rest of this post xD

Oh yeah, day only ends on insta-lynch. [vote Cloak]

Are PMs allowed? I couldn't find anything about them. If they are, it might be an idea to PM the 5 who haven't voted yet. I'm on my phone right now soI can't do it.

Also, it hurts me that people think I would go for such an obvious ruse.

HATER wrote:[vote shadi]

Fuck sheeping on a nolynch - it gives us zero information as to voting alignments if everyone votes for it.

It gives the power roles longer to do their job before we hit lynch-or-die. The people our investigator looks at are also more likely to stay alive, and thus build up a larger number of confirmed players (with only one of them possibly being the godfather, and the possibility of these being a miller).

I normally play SC2 mafia, where not lynching is as common as lynching is. And the town win rates are a lot higher when the power roles are allowed to do their job without worrying about role claiming due to constant random lynches. I'm not saying this will always be the case, but saying one no-lynch can only hurt the town is just wrong.

While I do agree with Gamage that R1 no-lynches aren't unfavourable for the town, I'll be removing my no-lynch vote on the grounds that the lynch is different this game. The different voting rules allow Mafia to snipe down a villager of their choice, therefore I'd rather if the town forced a lynch on someone. I'll nominate [vote Cloak].