Acolytes game 2: Day 2

[Ants!]

The sky hasn't healed since the god stepped through.

The village is a flicker in the ruins — one stubborn flame where hope has not yet guttered out. Smoke still rises from the cities. The stars do not return. Most who survive now kneel or serve, their wills bent to the one who watches from beyond.

But not here.

Here, mages speak in hushed tones behind cellar doors. Old rituals are whispered through cracked lips. Scholars and holy men search ancient texts for a way to undo what was done — to send the god back into the dark.

And they are not alone.

The Acolytes have returned, hidden among the villagers. They smile. They listen. They whisper doubts and feed paranoia. Their task is simple: learn what the villagers know — and stop them before it's too late.

The villagers are not strong. They are not safe.
But they are not ready to give up.​

Acolytes Official Guidebook:
General Rules: Post #1
Roles: Post #2
Item List: Post #3
Night Phase Turn Order: Post #4
Past Game Results: Post #5
Potion Recipe Book: Post #6
Quests: Post #7

SHOP INVENTORY:
(2) Antidote: 5 gold
(3) Black power flask: 7 gold
(2) Bloodfang dagger: 15 gold
(2) Elixir of Compulsion: 15 gold
(1) Giants Potion 15 gold
(1) Holy Relic: 10 gold
(3) Holy Water: 20 gold
(1) Loud Voice Potion: 15 gold
(1) Mirror Shield: 50 gold
(2) Ouija Board: 15 gold
(1) Poulice 12 gold
(1) Sacred Sword 5 gold
(2) Soul stone: 15 gold
(2) Talisman: 20 gold
(1) Unholy Axe 5 gold


BULLETIN BOARD:

WANTED: SMACKTARD

Crime: Being incredibly sus

Reward: 10 gold (5 from Local Hero, 5 from Alu) — that's two whole people who want this done.

Assassin, make it look like an accident. Or don't. We're not picky.

The game began with 4 Acolytes, 1 violent solo, 1 non-violent solo, 1 clairvoyant on the village team, and 9 other villagers. There is no set amount of strong villagers, the limitation is there can not be more than 1 of each (for example, there can't be two Mages). So the number of strong villagers can be anywhere from 1 to 6.

Minimum to witch hunt is 1/2 of the living players, odd numbers are rounded down.

 

[Ants!]

The sun rises, but the village does not wake to birdsong. Only silence — and the knowledge that two among them will not rise again.


Shortkut is found first, crumpled in the grass behind the inn.
No signs of struggle. No footprints. Just his bow and arrows, neatly placed beside him.
The kill was clean. Quiet. Paid for.


The Assassin has struck. The Archer is dead.


A few streets over, they find Benzine slumped against the wall of the old granary.
A jagged blade buried in his back. Coins scattered at his feet, like a mockery of his trade.


The Acolytes walk among you still.
And the Merchant is no more.




@A Maybe Baker
@Ben
@canadaguy
@Christina
@dimmerwit
@Fool's Requiem
@Jawneh
@Jon
@Kat
@Local Hero
@Quagmire
@Smacktard
@Tommy Boy
@Zell 17

 

[Ants!]

At first, it's just sound.


A hammer. Striking iron. Steady. Measured. Familiar.


Some turn toward the old forge instinctively — a half-remembered comfort. But the rhythm is wrong. Off. The pauses too long, the tone too hollow. Each ring of metal on metal reverberates with something cold, something that does not breathe.


The Blacksmith is dead.


But the hammer is moving.


Smoke curls from the chimney, thick and dark, tinged with ash and blood. And soon…
his work returns to the world.


A Wight has taken up the forge.
And it remembers how to build.

 

[Fool's Requiem]

 

[Fool's Requiem]

why am I still alive? I totally spoiled my role.

 

[Local Hero]

Goodnight shortkut

 

[Jon]

Well I know that Zell is the assassin.

 

[Fool's Requiem]

Well I know that Zell is the assassin.

I can't kill an SK, so I'll just vote

 

[Local Hero]

Voting Zell

 

[Jawneh]

Okay, who the hell muted me the first day? Stupidly uncalled for and I'm 100% coming after you! Like what the hell!

 

[Jon]

Ok, I feel I should add some context because it wasn't technically my role that let me know how shortkut died, and I'm not sure we should actually kill Zell as the assassin because he could actually be useful against the acolytes. Thought he does start getting to kill the town if we don't put up a wanted poster today.

That said, I got lucky in my quest. I killed a snake in the necropolis and got a unique blood scroll. After randomly selecting Kut night one, I decided to continue targeting him with the blood scroll because 1) I thought it was funny, 2) he set himself up as a target and 3) it didn't actually do him or me harm.

It happened that he was killed last night and his killer was revealed to me. That being Zell.

So, I encourage the rest of the town to consider NOT taking Zell out. He can't be killed by acolytes, so he's eventually a threat to them, and we can use him to take out an extra acolyte or two. We know his identity, which is his biggest trump card against us (anonymity) gone.

I'll move my vote off him for now, but other thoughts are nice.

 

[canadaguy]

Oh no wonder day 1 felt so nice

 

[Jawneh]

Other than that, it did kind of work out for me as I got a plan now. I'm going to be heading off to quest in the most suicidal way possible in hopes of dying and being useful. Sadly that didn't help me yesterday. I killed the dude I found. Maybe today I'll get injured and die tomorrow?

Also @Jon how do know about Zell?

 

[canadaguy]

@Ants! Quest me baby to the lost temple

 

[Ants!]

Yall feel free to ask for quests, just a heads up that I'm going to bed now and I'll get to them in the morning

 

[Ants!]

Also: the shop has been stocked overnight.

 

[canadaguy]

You just gonna blue ball me like that

 

[Jon]

Other than that, it did kind of work out for me as I got a plan now. I'm going to be heading off to quest in the most suicidal way possible in hopes of dying and being useful. Sadly that didn't help me yesterday. I killed the dude I found. Maybe today I'll get injured and die tomorrow?

Also @Jon how do know about Zell?

Two posts above yours explains it.

 

[Jawneh]

Ok, I feel I should add some context because it wasn't technically my role that let me know how shortkut died, and I'm not sure we should actually kill Zell as the assassin because he could actually be useful against the acolytes. Thought he does start getting to kill the town if we don't put up a wanted poster today.

That said, I got lucky in my quest. I killed a snake in the necropolis and got a unique blood scroll. After randomly selecting Kut night one, I decided to continue targeting him with the blood scroll because 1) I thought it was funny, 2) he set himself up as a target and 3) it didn't actually do him or me harm.

It happened that he was killed last night and his killer was revealed to me. That being Zell.

So, I encourage the rest of the town to consider NOT taking Zell out. He can't be killed by acolytes, so he's eventually a threat to them, and we can use him to take out an extra acolyte or two. We know his identity, which is his biggest trump card against us (anonymity) gone.

I'll move my vote off him for now, but other thoughts are nice.

If all that is true then we can at least wait one day to kill Zell. He shouldn't be able to assassinate anyone tonight as long as none put up a bounty on anyone.

The only other alternative to that would be that you're the assassin and unless someone has proof of either your or Zell or kills either one of you, it's a stalemate of sorts? That all sounds weird, so I'll ignore it.

At worst, Jon could very well be an acolyte who found out the assassin early. And now he doesn't want the assassin to be killed yet so that they chew through a little bit of the town first. That's also possible.

Or he's town and what he said is what he said. Sounds plausible enough. Welp.

 

[canadaguy]

So he could be anything and/or everything. That clears things up

 

[Jawneh]

Glad to be of service.

In the meanwhile, I'm off to quest at the Fire Mountain again! Hopefully I slip and fall and burn to death.

 

[Jawneh]

Oh also also also, since I couldn't say anything yesterday, I got one of those puzzle pieces too! And I wanna collect them all. I can trade a sacred sword for one if anyone is willing.

 

[Jon]

If all that is true then we can at least wait one day to kill Zell. He shouldn't be able to assassinate anyone tonight as long as none put up a bounty on anyone.

I stopped getting notifications for yesterday's thread and got busy at work and forgot about the thread till it was closed. I didn't see who put up the bounty on Kut. Can someone fill me in on where it was? Because otherwise, I'm not sure how the assassin would have even been able to kill him.

At worst, Jon could very well be an acolyte who found out the assassin early. And now he doesn't want the assassin to be killed yet so that they chew through a little bit of the town first. That's also possible.

I dropped a few fairly direct, I feel, hints as to my role early in yesterdays thread while joking with Kut. But sure, it's possible. Though unlikely since I'd have no reason to out him this early. I'd be smarter to let him do his thing without me indicating I know who he is (until he's killed more anyway).

 

[Jon]

Also, I'm going to bed and in case work is busy again, @Ants! I shall return to the necropolis on a quest since it served me so well yesterday.

 

[Jawneh]

I stopped getting notifications for yesterday's thread and got busy at work and forgot about the thread till it was closed. I didn't see who put up the bounty on Kut. Can someone fill me in on where it was? Because otherwise, I'm not sure how the assassin would have even been able to kill him.

I didn't notice it either. I'll look for one tomorrow unless someone looks for it first. Maybe there's an item that also does it privately?

I dropped a few fairly direct, I feel, hints as to my role early in yesterdays thread while joking with Kut. But sure, it's possible. Though unlikely since I'd have no reason to out him this early. I'd be smarter to let him do his thing without me indicating I know who he is (until he's killed more anyway).

Went over my head then. I'm usually one that just has a bit going and tend to view other peoples quirks as bits if it isn't quite normal for them.

... which should actually make it easier for me to pick up on those posts and figure shit out, but that's clearly not how my brain wants to work. Ah well. Sleep sounds good to me too.

 

[Smacktard]

@Christina are you bad

 

[Quagmire]

 

[Quagmire]

So he could be anything and/or everything. That clears things up

He could even be a boat!

 

[Quagmire]

Okay, who the hell muted me the first day? Stupidly uncalled for and I'm 100% coming after you! Like what the hell!

I could 100% see you faking a mute, though you love to talk so much I dont think you would have the self control

 

[Christina]

@Christina are you bad

I am very much not. If you saw something last night that would make you think that, perhaps there is a MindBender. If not you are a liar.

 

[Aluse Cannon]

@Christina are you bad

Christina is good.

 

[Ants!]

Everyone earned 5 gold when the day opened, btw. Forgot to remind yall of that earlier.

The assassin thing might have been clearer if I'd said two nights in a row. Sorry. There were no bounties on night 1 or night 2.

 

[Ants!]

To be clear: you still post bounties during the day, but the assassin checks the board for bounties at night.

 

[Ants!]

If all that is true then we can at least wait one day to kill Zell. He shouldn't be able to assassinate anyone tonight as long as none put up a bounty on anyone.

Night 2 and night 3 would still be two nights in a row, so they still get to pick a random kill if nobody posts a bounty today.

 

[Smacktard]

I am very much not. If you saw something last night that would make you think that, perhaps there is a MindBender. If not you are a liar.

why would asking a question make me a liar

 

[canadaguy]

 

[Quagmire]

@Ants!

Gonna buy a crossbow and go questing to sky tower

 

[Christina]

why would asking a question make me a liar

You lost this. Here's it back.

 

[Ants!]

In the dead of night, the Summoner begins their work.


Dark candles flicker, and the air hums with tension as the ritual begins. The circle is drawn, the offering placed, the chant spoken word-for-word — but the void stirs wrong.


The Summoner rolls a 2.


The magic recoils.


A tearing sound echoes from nowhere and everywhere, as if the ritual has offended something ancient and final.

"A soul must still be claimed," the darkness whispers. "But it shall not rise again."

A second die is cast into the silence. It clatters. Settles.


Dimmerwit. The Warlock.


Far from the ritual's site, a bitter wind snuffs out every nearby flame. Dimmerwit lets out a choking gasp and falls without warning, his warlock's mark already fading from his flesh.


No curse. No transformation. No legacy.


Dimmerwit is dead — and the void leaves him behind.

 

[Zell 17]

Guys I literally can’t do anything to hurt the town unless I’m told to. Can only kill when someone posts a bill.

 

[Christina]

Guys I literally can’t do anything to hurt the town unless I’m told to. Can only kill when someone posts a bill.

How do you win?

 

[Jon]

How do you win?

Preferably not being outed on Day 2 by someone that got silly lucky.

 

[Aluse Cannon]

Guys I literally can’t do anything to hurt the town unless I’m told to. Can only kill when someone posts a bill.

Except that whole thing ants explained where if no one posts a bill and you have 2 nights without it you can kill freely, right?

Also the warlock is an acolyte, right?

 

[Aluse Cannon]

Lol yup the summoner killed his bro by being bad at dice.

 

[Aluse Cannon]

So if anyone has information on an acolyte, it should be posted on the bulletin board. Then we can choose to let Zell take him out for us if we want.

 

[Smacktard]

You lost this. Here's it back.

You already gave me a few of those with your reply

 

[Jon]

In the dead of night, the Summoner begins their work.


Dark candles flicker, and the air hums with tension as the ritual begins. The circle is drawn, the offering placed, the chant spoken word-for-word — but the void stirs wrong.


The Summoner rolls a 2.


The magic recoils.


A tearing sound echoes from nowhere and everywhere, as if the ritual has offended something ancient and final.




A second die is cast into the silence. It clatters. Settles.


Dimmerwit. The Warlock.


Far from the ritual's site, a bitter wind snuffs out every nearby flame. Dimmerwit lets out a choking gasp and falls without warning, his warlock's mark already fading from his flesh.


No curse. No transformation. No legacy.


Dimmerwit is dead — and the void leaves him behind.

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Killed technically on the day of his birthday. How horrible of you Mr. (or Mrs.) Summoner!

 

[Jon]

Okay, who the hell muted me the first day? Stupidly uncalled for and I'm 100% coming after you! Like what the hell!

Coming back to this, looks like the warlock is the silencing role and the summoner rolled so bad they killed the warlock, which was dimmerwit. So... your silencer is dead.

But you can at least ask him when you activate ritualist Jawneh tonight!

 

[Christina]

You already gave me a few of those with your reply

Why you call me bad today? You got info? Just poking to see what I do? I'm just over here trying to do stuff and things and find puzzle pieces.

Speaking of which. @Ants! I wish to quest! To the Forgotten Forest that shall here after be known as the Lost Woods as Zelda intended.

 

[Zell 17]

How do you win?

Last remaining.

Essentially I'm now a gun with one bullet that every single person in the town has just been given. First person to post a bill is who I will kill.