Acolytes game 2: Day 4

[Tommy Boy]

@Jon
@Fool's Requiem

We ain't dead, don't worry.

You guys can be a little dead from the ruby star talisman. Come on, it looks pretty legit.

 

[Ben]

I mean there was no shot at this point, we started skipping and stuff lol. Had to pull out a purple crowned fairy wren.

Again, fair. You had me mortified for like 10 seconds.

 

[Fool's Requiem]

I was going to wait until Jawneh posted, but I feel better about lynching Tommy here.

Sorry, Tommy.

Skip.

 

[Tommy Boy]

Again, fair. You had me mortified for like 10 seconds.

Literally all I wanted

 

[Ants!]

So that's 4 skips.

 

[Ben]

So that's 4 skips.

4 skin

 

[Ants!]

Zell returns to the town without an injury.

 

[Ben]

Oh look, I found the other corner of the stone tablet under Local's body and completed it.

 

[Zell 17]

Also Ill throw my stone piece into the mix of whatever is going on here

 

[Tommy Boy]

Oh look, I found the other corner of the stone tablet under Local's body and completed it.

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HOW THE ACTUAL FUCK

Bruh. I made those ruby puzzle pieces on ChatGPT. Took so many fucking tries. I didn't even want a star talisman, but it kept making star shaped pieces no matter the prompt. And I don't have ChatGPT+ or whatever, so I got 5 tries before I had to try again in a few hours lol. I just fuckin gave up at a certain point.

The initial intention was to make fake stone pieces to show that I "stole" each night, but I could not copy Ant's pieces to a believable degree. Not even close. So rather than trying to be believable, I just resigned to having it be a gimmick if the chance came up lol. The ruby pieces were the only ones that ended up working - barely. Meanwhile you somehow get the exact text and everything. Holy shit.

Also Ill throw my stone piece into the mix of whatever is going on here

Show us please, I have an (almost) fully assembled photo for the dead thread waiting

 

[Tommy Boy]

Oh the dead thread already probably has the full thing

 

[Tommy Boy]

I was really hoping a fully assembled stone tablet would like immolate the team that completed it, but I am also just needing to know the lore at this point lol

 

[Ben]

HOW THE ACTUAL FUCK

Bruh. I made those ruby puzzle pieces on ChatGPT. Took so many fucking tries. I didn't even want a star talisman, but it kept making star shaped pieces no matter the prompt. And I don't have ChatGPT+ or whatever, so I got 5 tries before I had to try again in a few hours lol. I just fuckin gave up at a certain point.

The initial intention was to make fake stone pieces to show that I "stole" each night, but I could not copy Ant's pieces to a believable degree. Not even close. So rather than trying to be believable, I just resigned to having it be a gimmick if the chance came up lol. The ruby pieces were the only ones that ended up working - barely. Meanwhile you somehow get the exact text and everything. Holy shit.

I used ChatGPT too. I just uploaded the corner I was given as an attachment, then gave it the prompt "create an image of a stone tablet that looks like a completed version of this image, where the runic text seems to spell 'Everyone Skips'"

Very first result it gave was spot on, so I just went with that.

 

[Tommy Boy]

I used ChatGPT too. I just uploaded the corner I was given as an attachment, then gave it the prompt "create an image of a stone tablet that looks like a completed version of this image, where the runic text seems to spell 'Everyone Skips'"

Very first result it gave was spot on, so I just went with that.

I think I am really bad at prompts

 

[Ben]

Wait, I mean... I didn't forge shit, that was the real tablet...

 

[Fool's Requiem]

 

[Ben]

I think I am really bad at prompts

 

[Jawneh]

Well, having Tommy go on a meltdown makes today easier. I don't think i need to read today anymore then?

I can if yall want me to. I got thoughts to on which between Ben and Jon is the last acolyte. Otherwise we can skip and work that out tomorrow.

 

[Fool's Requiem]

Need Ben to not be the last Acolyte...

 

[Jawneh]

If we're lucky, Jon is the last one and Zell finishes him off. If not, last one left is Ben.

 

[Jawneh]

Let's skip. Most if not all the rest have already.

 

[Ants!]

5 skips

 

[Ben]

Aight, so Tommy goes down today and we go into tonight with 3v1v1.

Zell can't do anything tonight since there are bounties out but he can't touch Jon, so no kill from him, and Jawneh can only take out one person so I guess we're going into tomorrow with 2v1v1.

As long as Jawneh doesn't manage to take my item and mess with the witch-hunt, I think we could eliminate him the following day going into the night with 2v0v1.

I guess it starts to get dicey there since I'm not seeing a way to deflect Zell taking Jon's bounty and prevent it becoming 1v0v1 the next day... So maybe it'd come down to a coin-toss... I'm not sure, but there's at least some chance that we'll win this. Better than feeling complete doom like last night.

 

[Fool's Requiem]

Does @Zell 17 intend to drag this out?

 

[Ants!]

Does @Zell 17 intend to drag this out?

I'm about to go to dinner with the fam anyway



Sorry guys.

 

[Jawneh]

Fool's, how confident are you about Jon and Ben? I know Zell can't kill Jon tonight, but we have the ability to put a hit on Ben if we think he's the last acolyte.

 

[Ben]

Fool's, how confident are you about Jon and Ben? I know Zell can't kill Jon tonight, but we have the ability to put a hit on Ben if we think he's the last acolyte.

Is eating sentient creatures an Acolyte thing, or just a Jawneh thing?

 

[Jawneh]

Is eating sentient creatures an Acolyte thing, or just a Jawneh thing?

Hey, what I do in my bedroom is private. Hush you.

 

[Fool's Requiem]

Fool's, how confident are you about Jon and Ben? I know Zell can't kill Jon tonight, but we have the ability to put a hit on Ben if we think he's the last acolyte.

Not confident at all.

Honestly, everyone is sus as fuck.

Ben killed Local with no due-process. It's fine to make that kind of mistake if you're a gunner or Priest/Paladine because at least you're confirmed good. But suddenly and randomly killing a townie with an ability that is not capable of clearing you is pretty suspect. Christina did it a long while back, if I recall and it was extremely sus and she turned out to be bad. In this round, is was quick to buy up that Talisman as soon as it was made available in the shop. The Talisman does pretty much what CG was supposed to do yesterday. It diverts a lynch to the second move vote getter. While it's a good move to buy it before the bad guys can get it, it's also a fantastic pick up for an Acolyte because you basically give yourself a free pass while killing whomever you choose to vote. Him killing a Mimic is neutral.

Jon killed a Wight. Which is not something an Acolyte would normally do, but like Ben stated, it could be an attempt to gain favor. Plus, Wights are kinda useless, IMO. He also gave me all of his materials to a townie, which wasn't much but was enough to be like "See now you can totally trust me." 20 gold is nice, but the store is super lacking in good stuff that is useful in the late game, and the Obsidian shield is pretty much useless. If he had a Talisman and like 50 gold or something ridiculous, it would be almost undeniable proof.

Tommy, when finding out he was the lead vote getter, went on a tyrant, and then later tried to pull a blatant last second attempt and/or joke post that is reminiscent of what I've seen other players when he's getting lynched as a baddy and has no way to convince the town otherwise. The Thief claim kinda falls through when you realize that no one has claimed to have been robbed and he can't rob dead people (that's the gravedigger).

You... well, sorry to say, you've been pretty unhelpful all around.

Another thing, Ben and Jon pitting themselves against each other to try to gain support is a solid bad guy tactic. One guy gets lynched and the other can ride on the "I always knew he was sus" train. Ben and Jon working together to clear Jon by having him give me his stuff is kinda weird. It makes sense, but it can't be ignored. They also coordinated to have Ben give Jon a Love Potion AFTER Jon kicked all of is stuff to him. Jon and Tommy are the only ones with bounties on their heads. Tommy is to get lynched here, that just leaves Jon as a Zell target. As town, with limited people, it make sense. Someone is going to die tonight. Better try to not make it two people. However, it's also a good Acolyte play, too. Protect one of the two remaining Acolytes, ESPECIALLY if Tommy isn't townie. Guarantee an Acolyte win.

Also, there has not been much pushback on who we're lynching. Neither you nor Tommy have done much to dissuade a Tommy lynch. Which is why I think it's too easy. But I understand that the two of you don't post nearly as much as me Jon and Ben, so I don't know what to think about that.

Finally...

Why the fuck is Alu dead and not me? Alu is useless. At least I still had an ability to use. Fuck, I could totally be lying about selecting revive and selected the protect option, and that isn't a one time usage.

SOMEONE thinks they can trick me more than they can trick Alu. They might be right.
As it stands, I have nowhere else to go here. We can't kill Zell. Town loses if that happens. We can't try to lynch Ben right now. The only other option would be you or Jon and I just don't see enough cause to swap votes.

I think we, as a town, have made our bed and we must sleep in it. Hopefully, Tommy is bad and we can figure out who that last Acoltye is. But until then, my only option is Tommy.

 

[Jawneh]

I guess the best I can say is that I bought and gave you the loud pot yesterday. If I was an Acolyte, keeping that and all just voting as a block to force either a lynch or a tie would been the way to a W.

 

[Fool's Requiem]

I guess the best I can say is that I bought and gave you the loud pot yesterday. If I was an Acolyte, keeping that and all just voting as a block to force either a lynch or a tie would been the way to a W.

that's a pretty solid alibi, if I don't say so myself.

 

[Fool's Requiem]

I try to keep up, but I miss out on stuff all the time

 

[Jawneh]

I try to keep up, but I miss out on stuff all the time

Oh yeah. Even on a less active day I miss shit all the time.

The last thing I asked earlier was that do you think we should give Zell the opportunity to kill Ben tonight or do we reconvene tomorrow?

 

[Zell 17]

Fine skipping

 

[Fool's Requiem]

@Ants! time to see if we are fucked

 

[Fool's Requiem]

The last thing I asked earlier was that do you think we should give Zell the opportunity to kill Ben tonight or do we reconvene tomorrow?

 

[Jawneh]

I got 10 gold. It's up to you.

 

[Fool's Requiem]

@Ben what do you say to gifting me that Tailsman.

 

[Fool's Requiem]

I got 10 gold. It's up to you.

Say you're Acolyte, what's stopping you from doing it anyway?

 

[Jawneh]

Say you're Acolyte, what's stopping you from doing it anyway?

If i was, probably nothing? I'd just put it up which then signals Zell to kill of a townie and I'd kill you tonight to make the kingmaker. Best case scenario unless they got some items to swing the game swing the kingmaker their way.

But I'm not sure of either Ben or Jon. Our hands are tied with Jon. But if Ben is the last acolyte, town wins. We just hunt Zell tomorrow.

 

[Fool's Requiem]

do it if you want

If Tommy is town, we're boned anyway.

 

[Jon]

Had to wait for the perfect moment.

@Ants! I'll use my ruby star talisman now. Since the stone puzzle is incomplete, that means anyone holding a stone fragment dies.

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Thank you for the reveal, chaps. GG.

Lmao, this man... this is the bird in Aussie Dingo all over again.

Literally all I wanted

Well fucking played sir, well played.

They also coordinated to have Ben give Jon a Love Potion AFTER Jon kicked all of is stuff to him.

Fwiw, we didn't coordinate that. I had NO idea Ben was going to do that.

Also, I didn't have much, but instead of buying something and giving to you, I felt you could pool whatever you had and buy something. That was it. Wasn't meant as a "now you have to believe me." I believe I even said that all I hoped was it bought me some good will. I don't have a provable role, so it's all up in the air other than you.

 

[Jon]

But I'm not sure of either Ben or Jon. Our hands are tied with Jon. But if Ben is the last acolyte, town wins. We just hunt Zell tomorrow.

Everyone always wants to kill me to prove my role

 

[Fool's Requiem]

Lmao, this man... this is the bird in Aussie Dingo all over again.


Well fucking played sir, well played.


Fwiw, we didn't coordinate that. I had NO idea Ben was going to do that.

Also, I didn't have much, but instead of buying something and giving to you, I felt you could pool whatever you had and buy something. That was it. Wasn't meant as a "now you have to believe me." I believe I even said that all I hoped was it bought me some good will. I don't have a provable role, so it's all up in the air other than you.

It's fine. I'm just trying to figure things out and hammer out all of the possibilities.

 

[Jon]

It's fine. I'm just trying to figure things out and hammer out all of the possibilities.

It's all good man. Being the only proven townie trying to figure out which two people are lying to you is ALMOST as bad as being the kingmaker.

 

[Jawneh]

I think I'm gonna refrain from the wanted poster. Having two townies alive tomorrow is better than one. That's also an extra townie to go questing for hopefully something useful.

 

[Fool's Requiem]

why are all the "okay" gifs sarcastic or Lil Jon?

 

[Jawneh]

Probably since Andre 3000 cornered this market.

 

[Ben]

Took a while to respond to this. Wife time.

Ben killed Local with no due-process. It's fine to make that kind of mistake if you're a gunner or Priest/Paladine because at least you're confirmed good. But suddenly and randomly killing a townie with an ability that is not capable of clearing you is pretty suspect. Christina did it a long while back, if I recall and it was extremely sus and she turned out to be bad. In this round, is was quick to buy up that Talisman as soon as it was made available in the shop. The Talisman does pretty much what CG was supposed to do yesterday. It diverts a lynch to the second move vote getter. While it's a good move to buy it before the bad guys can get it, it's also a fantastic pick up for an Acolyte because you basically give yourself a free pass while killing whomever you choose to vote. Him killing a Mimic is neutral.

Another thing, Ben and Jon pitting themselves against each other to try to gain support is a solid bad guy tactic. One guy gets lynched and the other can ride on the "I always knew he was sus" train. Ben and Jon working together to clear Jon by having him give me his stuff is kinda weird. It makes sense, but it can't be ignored. They also coordinated to have Ben give Jon a Love Potion AFTER Jon kicked all of is stuff to him. Jon and Tommy are the only ones with bounties on their heads. Tommy is to get lynched here, that just leaves Jon as a Zell target. As town, with limited people, it make sense. Someone is going to die tonight. Better try to not make it two people. However, it's also a good Acolyte play, too. Protect one of the two remaining Acolytes, ESPECIALLY if Tommy isn't townie. Guarantee an Acolyte win.

I would say you overthink shit way too much, but I've been doing the same thing all game, so... Doubt is fair.

As I said, I was pissed over having been muted the prior day and couldn't take my revenge out on dimmerwit, so I lashed out at who I found suspicious for trading gold that early on. It was Tommy I was most suspicious of, but between a coin flip and me giving him the benefit of the doubt because he's my birthday bro, I stuck it in Local instead. I admit it was a poor choice, but it's not like everyone else has a great track record of aiming kill abilities well in these games.

I guess the best I can say is that I bought and gave you the loud pot yesterday. If I was an Acolyte, keeping that and all just voting as a block to force either a lynch or a tie would been the way to a W.

This was also in a weird situation where Acolytes were trying to fudge the vote numbers and probably ensure canadaguy was #1 to then have the witch-hunt fall on #2. I'm not sure what actually happened last night with canadaguy dying, but I can only assume after being outed, he didn't activate his power in order to not kill Tommy. It was definitely a move, and for a moment it made me question my suspicions, but at the end of the day you're Jawneh and make wild plays.

@Ben what do you say to gifting me that Tailsman.

I could, but I did have a reason for wanting to hold on to it for now. Besides, don't you think you're the most likely candidate for them to try to kill tonight, with them trying to stop your resurrect? What good does it do if you die with the Talisman? I assume Jawneh has no reason to try to kill me tonight, as it's the only way he can play the "Ben is suspicious!" card. Once I die and am proven as Friar, he can't hide anymore. He's not going to try to take the Talisman from my dead body.

Fwiw, we didn't coordinate that. I had NO idea Ben was going to do that.

Eh, as soon as I realized there was an item that could prevent him from targeting you, I had to go for it. You'd already given up all your gold so I knew I couldn't just tell you to buy it yourself, I had to do it for you. But he's right, it wasn't coordinated. That was a Ben whim.

 

[Ben]

As an aside; I have my oldest here for the weekend, and I just know all three of them are going to wake me up at the ass-crack of dawn, so I'm going to go to sleep and probably won't respond again before the day ends. You're just going to have to trust that there's method to my madness.