Acolytes game 2: Day 3

[Ants!]

This could mean witch then. I'm just scanning roles now.

If it's the witch, it's possible Local is telling the truth.

It's an item that can appear anywhere, it can randomly generate in the shop or be won on a quest. Doesn't necessarily have to be crafted by a witch or alchemist.

 

[A Vaguely Ambiguous Username]

Poisonous miasma is an item lol from the looks of it. Cost 35 gold.

 

[Jon]

It's an item that can appear anywhere, it can randomly generate in the shop or be won on a quest. Doesn't necessarily have to be crafted by a witch or alchemist.

Either way I'm taking it to mean it wasn't the acolyte kill, but Ben killing Local confirmed Local's claim, so... lol

 

[Fool's Requiem]

and local bought the Lantern...

 

[Ants!]

and local bought the Lantern...

Too bad it only works on night attacks.

 

[Fool's Requiem]

Too bad it only works on night attacks.

I know, but there was only one in the shop and I was considering buying it just in case.

 

[A Vaguely Ambiguous Username]

Hey Ben why the hell did you do that and how did you get a spear?

It's a blacksmith item that wasn't in the shop. Did the weight from yesterday accomplish finishing one before the end of the day and you only pretended to be muted?

 

[Jon]

We're definitely in trouble.

Alu - Town
Ben - Acolyte
CG - ?
FR - Town
Jawneh - Likely Acolyte
Jon - Town (thought again I don't have a way to prove it)
Kat - ?
Tommy - ?
Zell - Solo Killer

 

[Jon]

Local is haunting the shit out of me. Good thing I work with dead bodies and it doesn't bother me.

We'll catch dinner later, Local.

 

[Ben]

As the village seethes with suspicion and silence, Ben steps forward, his eyes fixed on Local Hero, who stands tall in dented armor, the ever-steady Knight among them.


Ben doesn't speak.
He doesn't plead.
He hurls a spear with sudden, brutal precision.


The weapon sails through the morning air — a silver arc of accusation made steel — and strikes Local Hero square in the chest. His shield barely rises in time. The blow knocks him back, staggering.


For a moment, it seems he might endure it.


But the crack in his armor was already there. The wound beneath, already deepened. The Knight drops to his knees, a look of stunned betrayal frozen on his face.


He falls.
And this time, there is no one left to guard him.


Local Hero, the Knight, is dead.

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I was pretty confident on that one... Dude seemed too eager to give up gold to Tommy.

I don't think there is an acolyte role that masks role on death though, so that one's on me.

 

[Ben]

We're definitely in trouble.

Alu - Town
Ben - Acolyte
CG - ?
FR - Town
Jawneh - Likely Acolyte
Jon - Town (thought again I don't have a way to prove it)
Kat - ?
Tommy - ?
Zell - Solo Killer

I'm the Friar. I just picked the wrong one of the two I suspected to target.

 

[A Vaguely Ambiguous Username]

I was pretty confident on that one... Dude seemed too eager to give up gold to Tommy.

I don't think there is an acolyte role that masks role on death though, so that one's on me.

Benzine also gave gold out on day 1 and he was village.

 

[Ben]

Benzine also gave gold out on day 1 and he was village.

But he was the merchant and incentivized to make people spend. Also pretty sure he asked for gold too.

But I admit, I made a bad call after stewing in silence for a day.

 

[Ants!]

As the last breath leaves Local Hero's body, his broken form still and bloodied on the stones, a second figure lets out a strangled gasp.


Kat — who all this time had stood tall and silent in armor nearly identical to the Knight's — suddenly seizes, her limbs locking, her eyes rolling back. The resemblance had been uncanny… too uncanny.


Then her body convulses, and with a sickening crack, the illusion collapses.


The polished armor twists and peels away like shedding skin. Her face warps, losing the noble lines of the Knight's visage, unraveling into something hollow, faceless, and wrong — a mask that never truly belonged.


Beneath the borrowed identity lies a thing of sinew and shadow — a mimic born to echo and deceive.
And now, untethered from its host, it can no longer survive.


Kat, the Mimic, dies with a shuddering hiss.
The truth dies with her — but not before everyone sees it.

 

[A Vaguely Ambiguous Username]

So we have FR kill himself on a confirmed villager target.

For some reason didn't lynch the assassin despite him getting a guaranteed kill that coming night, which led to a village kill based off a bad guess, who then avenge killed another who was outed as killed.

Ben killed someone based on faulty guesses. But that ended up killing the solo as well apparently?

 

[A Vaguely Ambiguous Username]

Also @shortkut is playing with his fisher price quest set in the dead thread.

 

[Jon]

But he was the merchant and incentivized to make people spend. Also pretty sure he asked for gold too.

But I admit, I made a bad call after stewing in silence for a day.

Say I believe you... that leaves CG, Jawneh, Kat and Tommy. 3 Acolytes in there.

 

[Jon]

As the last breath leaves Local Hero's body, his broken form still and bloodied on the stones, a second figure lets out a strangled gasp.


Kat — who all this time had stood tall and silent in armor nearly identical to the Knight's — suddenly seizes, her limbs locking, her eyes rolling back. The resemblance had been uncanny… too uncanny.


Then her body convulses, and with a sickening crack, the illusion collapses.


The polished armor twists and peels away like shedding skin. Her face warps, losing the noble lines of the Knight's visage, unraveling into something hollow, faceless, and wrong — a mask that never truly belonged.


Beneath the borrowed identity lies a thing of sinew and shadow — a mimic born to echo and deceive.
And now, untethered from its host, it can no longer survive.


Kat, the Mimic, dies with a shuddering hiss.
The truth dies with her — but not before everyone sees it.

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Say I believe you... that leaves CG, Jawneh, Kat and Tommy. 3 Acolytes in there.

Ok then.... If Ben is truthful, then CG, Jawneh and Tommy are the acolytes.

 

[Ants!]

Ben what prices are you offering in your bounty?

 

[Fool's Requiem]

@Ants! I would like to buy the Poulice.

So we have FR kill himself on a confirmed villager target.

 

[Ben]

Say I believe you... that leaves CG, Jawneh, Kat and Tommy. 3 Acolytes in there.

Well I Kat anymore, I guess. Still apologies to Local, but at least it helped something. I wasn't thinking there were multiple solo roles.

Tommy, Jawneh and CG sounds fairly good to me, but I'm now doubting my read on people.

 

[Ben]

Ben what prices are you offering in your bounty?

Uhhh... Fuck it, my whole 15g.

 

[Jon]

We need to vote out an acolyte and hope Zell kills Tommy and not me.

 

[A Vaguely Ambiguous Username]

@Ants! I would like to buy the Poulice.

I think he typoed the shop and it should be poultice. But while we're removing letters let's drop the u and buy the police.

 

[A Vaguely Ambiguous Username]

Well I Kat anymore, I guess. Still apologies to Local, but at least it helped something. I wasn't thinking there were multiple solo roles.

Tommy, Jawneh and CG sounds fairly good to me, but I'm now doubting my read on people.

Jawneh is claiming the same role Kelly was revealed to have. Not sure what CG and Tommy are claiming.

 

[Fool's Requiem]

I'd like to buy the police and have them arrest Ben and Zell for murder.

 

[Ben]

Jawneh is claiming the same role Kelly was revealed to have. Not sure what CG and Tommy are claiming.

Yeah, makes me more sus of Jawneh. Tommy claimed Thief. CG has just been saying he has no idea what's happening.

 

[Ben]

 

[Jon]

I've had good luck questing. Maybe I can find something good again...

@Ants! - send me back to the necropolis

 

[Ants!]

The morning mist clings to the village square like a second skin. The fire pit is cold. No one speaks. Not yet.


But then… the bulletin board creaks, though no wind stirs. A low hum — like a whisper you can't quite hear — ripples through the air.


Before the watching eyes of the town, a blank scrap of parchment peels into view, curling at the edges as if aged by time that never passed. Dark ink bleeds across it in slow, deliberate strokes.


JON.


The name burns itself into the board, etched with magic that reeks of judgment. No hand placed it. No voice claimed it.
But those who remember the Silent Procession — the footsteps in the night, the cold breath of the dead — know this was not an accident.


A bounty has been placed.


And it wasn't by the living.

 

[Ants!]

The bulletin board has been updated.

 

[Jon]

And maybe that'll help people believe I'm telling the truth

 

[Ben]

And maybe that'll help people believe I'm telling the truth

I made sure my bounty was tastier than the cursed one. Fingers crossed.

 

[A Vaguely Ambiguous Username]

And maybe that'll help people believe I'm telling the truth

Why didn't you want Zell lynched yesterday if you knew you'd be bountied today?

 

[Ben]

@Ants! I let Christina and Kat into the dead forum.

 

[Ants!]

What about poor local and smacktard and quagmire oh wow today was bloody

 

[A Vaguely Ambiguous Username]

@Ben how did you get the spear?

 

[Ants!]

The morning passes quietly in the shop. Dust hangs in the light like ash. A few items sit unsold on the shelves — nothing moves.


Then, without warning, two gold coins slide across the counter, slow and deliberate.


The shopkeeper stares, frozen. No one touched them. No customer entered.


Then — just as suddenly — the coins vanish. Gone. As if swallowed by the wood itself.


A heartbeat later, the Necromancer's hand burns cold, and a parchment curls into existence in their grasp. Faded ink scrawls a simple line:


"Sale completed. Commission: 2 gold."


There is only one name that comes to mind.


Benzine.
The Merchant.
Risen.


And though his body was buried…
his business never closed.

 

[A Vaguely Ambiguous Username]

Benzine is Wightzine?

Buy the relic and kill the wight.


Should have bought it before

 

[canadaguy]

Yo @Ants! I wanna check out the sky tower

 

[Ben]

@Ben how did you get the spear?

Quagmire.

 

[Ants!]

Shop has been updated.

 

[A Vaguely Ambiguous Username]

So, alternate theory time:

Jon and Ben are acolytes. Ben pretended to be muted yesterday. He found out Quagmire's role and decided to out him as village to gain trust. They then found out about Zell and argued to keep him around in order to get another villager killed, with the hopes that Zell would then be lynched today so Jon would be safe. Jon confirmed he was going to buy a bounty on smacktard so there wouldn't have been a risk of an acolyte death.

When killing Quagmire, they looted his corpse and got the spear he made as blacksmith. Then used it on Local while coming up with a flimsy story as to why he was so sure about it.


@Ants! if you kill someone with the poison miasma do you loot their corpse? That's pretty necessary for this theory.

 

[Ants!]

@Ants! if you kill someone with the poison miasma do you loot their corpse? That's pretty necessary for this theory.

If they had a stone fragment it would get transferred to whoever did the killing, regardless of who or how.

Otherwise, no.

 

[A Vaguely Ambiguous Username]

Jon being an acolyte hoping to get an extra free kill out of Zell before then getting him lynched today is the only reason I can think of for him to argue to not kill Zell yesterday knowing that he'd be added as a bounty today.

 

[A Vaguely Ambiguous Username]

If they had a stone fragment it would get transferred to whoever did the killing, regardless of who or how.

Otherwise, no.

Okay, so Quagmire had to willingly give the spear on over.

 

[Ben]

So, alternate theory time:

Jon and Ben are acolytes. Ben pretended to be muted yesterday. He found out Quagmire's role and decided to out him as village to gain trust. They then found out about Zell and argued to keep him around in order to get another villager killed, with the hopes that Zell would then be lynched today so Jon would be safe. Jon confirmed he was going to buy a bounty on smacktard so there wouldn't have been a risk of an acolyte death.

When killing Quagmire, they looted his corpse and got the spear he made as blacksmith. Then used it on Local while coming up with a flimsy story as to why he was so sure about it.


@Ants! if you kill someone with the poison miasma do you loot their corpse? That's pretty necessary for this theory.

Nope. Pretty sure the blacksmith can't hold onto their crafted stuff so it wouldn't be on their body.

Plus Ants just said nah.

 

[A Vaguely Ambiguous Username]

Nope. Pretty sure the blacksmith can't hold onto their crafted stuff so it wouldn't be on their body.

Plus Ants just said nah.

Yup, I acknowledged that JUST before your post.

Still not completely sold on Jon thanks to the argument for keeping Zell alive yesterday.

 

[Ben]

Okay, so Quagmire had to willingly give the spear on over.

He trusted me because I trusted him. I had hoped to avenge his death, but pooched that a bit.

 

[Ants!]

So I have Ben wanting to go to Cursed Ruins and canadaguy wanting to go to Sky Tower. Have I missed any other quests?