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Acolytes game 2: Day 3
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Sorry, I missed this earlier. Just a sec.
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Fair.
I have no info on Jon, just my meta feels that he's generally an honest soul and wouldn't be playing that kind of a con.
But I'm also wanting to use Zell to kill someone I suspect, so I can't fault him for similar logic.
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Oh, to answer this, they're in there. I assumed you'd asked Mark to add those but not the others.
I'll PM you the list of who is in there now so you can confirm.
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The village gathers as Alu steps forward, holding the Holy Relic aloft. Its surface glows with divine heat, a heartbeat of light pulsing through the air.
Alu whispers the invocation.
The relic erupts in radiant gold.
"Let the dead be driven into the light."
The energy ripples through the square — pure, searing, undeniable.
But nothing happens.
No unholy shriek. No smoldering corpse revealed. The glow fades. The relic darkens. Its power… spent.
And though the townsfolk stand unharmed, there is no relief — only a growing unease.
Because the relic did reach something.
Far away, beyond the borders of the village, something stirs in the dark.
Its body is cold. Its eyes are empty.
It remembers the light.
But it is no longer here.
It lies in wait, silent and patient — ready to kill the next traveler who wanders too close.
Alu whispers the invocation.
The relic erupts in radiant gold.
"Let the dead be driven into the light."
The energy ripples through the square — pure, searing, undeniable.
But nothing happens.
No unholy shriek. No smoldering corpse revealed. The glow fades. The relic darkens. Its power… spent.
And though the townsfolk stand unharmed, there is no relief — only a growing unease.
Because the relic did reach something.
Far away, beyond the borders of the village, something stirs in the dark.
Its body is cold. Its eyes are empty.
It remembers the light.
But it is no longer here.
It lies in wait, silent and patient — ready to kill the next traveler who wanders too close.
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In response to all of the confused reacts: the Wight was ordered to leave the town after Local's transaction caused its abilities to activate which outed it, and sent to a questing area to wait in ambush.
Doing so means attacking it in the town won't work because it's not here, but it also can't be called back to use it's money abilities again.
Doing so means attacking it in the town won't work because it's not here, but it also can't be called back to use it's money abilities again.
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...but why wasn't the wight announced before that? The wight was announced yesterday.
I'm confused as to how this all happens.
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there are a lot of moving parts, it seems. there are going to be bugs in the system.
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Yesterday's wight was announce immediately because it started making a spear before the day opened. This time its abilities weren't used until Local bought the lantern.
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You're like the inappropriate Blippi.Always blue shirt with orange flowers for some reason
(Though if you knew about Blippi's past, Ants would look pretty mild.)
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I know about his past. It's a bit much even for me, and you know how gross I am...
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Be careful, they're cursed.
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There are 8 people remaining, 3 are acolytes, and 1 is the assassin. As far as we know, the assassin will kill Jon tonight if he's really not an acolyte. If we kill Zell, the acolytes will kill one of us tonight and win.
If we kill an acolyte, both the acolytes and Zell will kill someone and we'll be outnumbered 3 evils to 2 non evils tomorrow.
We've basically lost this game already.
If we kill an acolyte, both the acolytes and Zell will kill someone and we'll be outnumbered 3 evils to 2 non evils tomorrow.
We've basically lost this game already.
I took a quick read through the day so far.
First of all, holy fuck that's a lot of bodies.
Second of all, maybe I missed something crucial, but Ben speared Local and thus I'm a likely acolyte according to him? What's the reasoning here?
Third of all, I'm off to quest at the cursed ruins.
Fourth of all, anyone want to give me their stone fragments yet? I wanna see what happens.
First of all, holy fuck that's a lot of bodies.
Second of all, maybe I missed something crucial, but Ben speared Local and thus I'm a likely acolyte according to him? What's the reasoning here?
Third of all, I'm off to quest at the cursed ruins.
Fourth of all, anyone want to give me their stone fragments yet? I wanna see what happens.
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does take into account me reviving someone?
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I was trying to keep that a secret for the moment. But no it does not.
However, if you do revive someone, and the acolytes kill someone and zell kills someone, it will still be 3-3 with evils vs the village.
If we lynch Zell it'll be 4-3. Unless we 100% believe Zell will only possibly kill an acolyte tonight, we need to lynch him or there's no hope for a win. We absolutely should have lynched him yesterday.
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Because, as Ben did, my plan was to hope for an Acolyte killed via bounty, then use the gold I had to slap another hopeful acolyte onto the board to entice Zell. The only reason to kill me would be revenge. I don't think he gets gold for killing me. I took a calculated risk. He's also a kingmaker now.
That's not going to matter. I laid him to rest.My quest to kill Wightzine
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Ahh, I didn't check FR's role. That revive will be clutch.
Also, let me complete my quest and I may be able to proffer more information.
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Also, the argument of "it only benefits the acolytes" always made no sense. You find someone who can kill you should probably just vote them off rather than hoping they do something to help you.
But that's the past. The only play we have moving forward is getting rid of him now to give us a chance with numbers tomorrow....and that's only if the acolytes don't have enough money to buy out a bunch of loud voice potions and lynch prevention items.
But that's the past. The only play we have moving forward is getting rid of him now to give us a chance with numbers tomorrow....and that's only if the acolytes don't have enough money to buy out a bunch of loud voice potions and lynch prevention items.
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So you disagree with me saying my opinion is he should live?
I mean, I get it if so, but if I were an acolyte I probably push to have him lynched... because I can't kill him at night. How does me advocating for his life make more MORE likely to be an acolyte. Not sure I quite follow that?
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I didn't push as hard as I should have yesterday because you laid out the ground work that anyone who disagreed with you on whether he should be voted off would be an acolyte (by saying it only benefits them to get rid of him).
It benefited the acolytes to keep him around and post a bounty on a villager by reducing the numbers further. He can only kill players who have bounties posted, and if the acolytes kept posting the highest bounties on villagers, he'd just help lower the number all the way down until the acolytes could simply vote him off.
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That's also why I was including Ben in there in my previous post. Immediately posting a bounty without being sure that the target is actually an acolyte when none of us knew that you would have been guaranteed on the board? As far as all of us knew, if no bounty were posted, no assassin kill would happen. So we should have taken time to see if anyone had any news about who could be a target.
Immediately killing someone else off without any actual proof? What a nice twofer there.
Either it's all very unfortunate to happen together, or you and Ben are doing a great job following a plan for the acolytes.
But also CG and Tommy aren't really playing the game and potentially just trying to get by without drawing any attention. Jawneh is always Jawneh.
Immediately killing someone else off without any actual proof? What a nice twofer there.
Either it's all very unfortunate to happen together, or you and Ben are doing a great job following a plan for the acolytes.
But also CG and Tommy aren't really playing the game and potentially just trying to get by without drawing any attention. Jawneh is always Jawneh.
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I don't disagree. But I did follow the logic that we can only kill one acolyte at a time, and he offered a way around that. The issue because who had the bounty placed on them. They picked (I had nothing to do with this; you and Local, two confirmed townies, did) Kelly, who happened to be town and happened to be an avenger type that took out another town.
For what it's worth, Zell DID kill who we asked. And I didn't actually make it sound the way you're making it. I merely offered an opinion that we could use Zell, but I was willing to go with the town's opinions. So I did. I didn't exactly strongarm my position. I would only do that if I had a provable role.
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Shit dude, I WISH I was that clever...
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We've played enough together for you to know I am neither capable enough to come up with that nor execute that as flawlessly as is needed.
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That said, I'm back from the necropolis, which has been very kind to me this game.
Wightzine tried to kill me, but I killed him first.
Then I bumped into the kind folks that granted me immunity last night in exchange for a bounty on my head today.
I chose to go with them again, so the bounty on me is now irrelevant today, but I will get it placed back on me tomorrow. The way it's worded is I cannot be targeted for anything. This at least guarantees I'm alive for the town tomorrow (provided I'm not gibbed during the day) and that Zell will have to kill Tommy or no one tonight.
I don't know if that changes anyone's mind or opinion, but if we're convinced Tommy is bad we could let Zell kill him tonight and we lynch him tomorrow before he can kill me. Or we can lynch Zell today and be done with him now. Or you can continue to question me, think I'm lying and hope he kills me tonight.
Wightzine tried to kill me, but I killed him first.
Then I bumped into the kind folks that granted me immunity last night in exchange for a bounty on my head today.
I chose to go with them again, so the bounty on me is now irrelevant today, but I will get it placed back on me tomorrow. The way it's worded is I cannot be targeted for anything. This at least guarantees I'm alive for the town tomorrow (provided I'm not gibbed during the day) and that Zell will have to kill Tommy or no one tonight.
I don't know if that changes anyone's mind or opinion, but if we're convinced Tommy is bad we could let Zell kill him tonight and we lynch him tomorrow before he can kill me. Or we can lynch Zell today and be done with him now. Or you can continue to question me, think I'm lying and hope he kills me tonight.
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I am pretty present this game, no? I haven't been here right at the start of the day phases but I've been here. And I've quested!
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Your posts are very quiet comparatively. Maybe try caps lock?
What are you claiming for a role again? I can't remember, and at this point we're basically dead in the water unless we figure it all out perfectly.
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I mean I guess, I am a thief so in this economy.. it makes sense to put up a bounty for me. But, I'm like the least guilty looking person so far, at least in my opinion. I risked questing and actually got hurt, probably not a move I would make as a wolf (especially because of shortkut peer pressure) but since there was less on the line, I went for it. Then, I thought by publicly showing my intentions about trading gold with Local Hero, and then announcing to everyone that I healed myself and was not injured anymore, that I was town aligned, wasn't going to try to steal from people who were confirmed good.
I thought I was getting baited by Jawneh to steal the sword from him, honestly, so I didn't take the bait. I was kind of nervous to quest today too, figuring someone has an item out there we're not expecting.
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I am definitely more confident in wolf because I'm fully familiar with the roles, but there is so much stuff going on in the background in this game that I'm just trying to be diligent, not so filled with memes and jumpy, but also enjoying the game and stuff.
Like the puzzle piece shit? The hell is that about?
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Guessing it's a picture of Ants giving shortkut the middle finger
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Hey everyone drop your shards on the floor if you got them so we can place them together. Ants said it's just about the story and doesn't actually become useful so we may as well do it. I hope we can just say "place shards in collective pile" so we don't need to out who has extras potentially from murders.
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I'll admit, my main suspicion was on Tommy for the whole asking for gold thing with Local enabling him, but I tossed a coin for who to spear. Certainly regret it, but at the same time I did unintentionally take out a Mimic, so it wasn't the worst outcome.
So my suspicion is still on Tommy, and Jawneh for playing the "avenger" role to try to avoid getting himself killed. It's not impossible to have multiples of the same role, we had 2 blacksmiths, but it just feels too Jawneh. I'm not really sure who I think the third Acolyte is, but I'm guessing canadaguy from his "I don't know what's going on" and otherwise general silence.
I don't think Zell wants the Acolytes to win any more than we do. Sure, I guess his win conditions are a long shot at this point since he's known, but if he lets them outnumber us then he's dead too. If he helps us keep our numbers above theirs while just banking coin, I assume he'll aim to get an item to score an extra kill, but I haven't done the math. It does smell a little Kingmakery, though.
I don't think we're doomed yet, but we certainly are better off starting to actually exterminate acolytes and not villagers (I say, acknowledging the blood on my hands.)
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