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Old 04-29-2021, 03:50 PM   #1
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PITCH!!! OH NO YOU DIDN'T

So it really is up to us now.
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Old 04-29-2021, 03:52 PM   #2
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Do we have even numbers here? Let's just split our votes and lynch them both. Pitch and Soriman survive. Village wins.

(I think I'll have to be far more persuasive than this to get the mods on board)
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Old 04-29-2021, 03:54 PM   #3
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Do we have even numbers here? Let's just split our votes and lynch them both. Pitch and Soriman survive. Village wins.

(I think I'll have to be far more persuasive than this to get the mods on board)
Lol. While I would not formally break the rules of the game, I am looking for ideas for the narration, which I feel this once in the game should be prominently guided by the Dead rather than the Living thread events. And based on the sentiment so far, the Living are in for it, regardless of their actual roles.
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Old 04-29-2021, 03:58 PM   #4
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Also, while I work on toDay's epic narration at DL, I think it is fair for all the Dead to go haunt the Living in Ghost-mode and tell them everything you think of them It won't change the game anymore and gives you something to do while waiting for the narration, if you feel like it. I'll tell the Living you are coming with the DL post. Please only post there after the DL post is up.
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Lol. While I would not formally break the rules of the game, I am looking for ideas for the narration, which I feel this once in the game should be prominently guided by the Dead rather than the Living thread events. And based on the sentiment so far, the Living are in for it, regardless of their actual roles.
Hey I'm quite proud of the D&D campaign I joined where for my Goliath character I picked up the "disarm" ability because I thought you know getting an enemy to drop a weapon would be quite useful to have...only to find out the factions our group is up against are werewolves and vampires. So I successfully convinced the DM my character was strong enough to disarm vampires...as in literally just rip their arms off. But then vampires can still bite you, so the DM had his vampires go Black Knight to hop on over and attempt to bite me.
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Old 04-29-2021, 04:03 PM   #6
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A TRIBUTE TO THE GHOSTS, while you are voting

If there’s something strange
In your suspect list
Who you gonna call?
Ghost!Formy!

Someone’s acting weird
Their votes don’t look good
Who you gonna call?
Ghost!Hui!

I ain’t ‘fraid of no ghost!
I ain’t ‘fraid of no ghost!

If you’re seeing wolves
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Who can you call?
Ghost!Lottie!

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Coming from the dead
Ow, who you gonna call?
Ghost haunters!

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Old 04-29-2021, 04:04 PM   #7
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Ugh... Still leaning Morsul. The whole tie thing feels like a cunning plot. But I am very conflicted.
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Well it’s up to the dead y’all should probably just vote now
Gah! It's not that simple when you know there are 2 wolves around who are capable of planning some last minute funny business. We're not all as cavalier with our votes as you are Morsul!
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The Dead Thread is boiling now.
Thanks. Really helpful.
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Old 04-29-2021, 04:00 PM   #10
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Gah! It's not that simple when you know there are 2 wolves around who are capable of planning some last minute funny business. We're not all as cavalier with our votes as you are Morsul!
Although at least they can't plan anything privately - not even whether they're going to be around for Deadline Chicken or not - so their capacity for coordinating anything is limited. Which isn't to say they can't cause chaos anyway
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Old 04-29-2021, 04:05 PM   #11
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I guess someone has to go first. If I'm doing something dramatically wrong here, it can go down in history as my revenge for getting lynched on Day 1.

++Morsul

If there's a better argument for lynching Lommy instead, please do so! I'm really going to sleep now.
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Old 04-29-2021, 04:09 PM   #12
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Goodnight Greenie!

I'll take the plunge too and go for the person who I think is acting more suspiciously than Morsul. Morsul's a wild card but I've felt like he's basically said whatever he's thinking the entire game, as backwards and as much as I might disagree with it. Last few days in particular Lommy just seems like she's holding something back and I go back to the comment from a few days ago about how she was suspicious about Morsul but didn't want to explain why.

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Old 04-29-2021, 04:02 PM   #13
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(Also... why Chicken? Not that I mind, but I am just confused)
"Playing chicken" is... well, the classic movie version is where two people drive cars at each other and see who swerves. In context, we're all charging at the DL and whoever blinks first loses.

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Persuade a bit harder and it might work.
I mean, they've just abdicated responsibility for their fate to a bunch of corpses. I don't know that anyone deserves to survive this.

Which would be nice and canonical too! Clearly the dead Beren is actually just sleeping and/or wearing a bed sheet and going "woooOOOOoooo".

Uggggh, about a billion cross posts.

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Also, while I work on toDay's epic narration at DL, I think it is fair for all the Dead to go haunt the Living in Ghost-mode and tell them everything you think of them It won't change the game anymore and gives you something to do while waiting for the narration, if you feel like it. I'll tell the Living you are coming with the DL post. Please only post there after the DL post is up.
I assume you mean full-blown quotes-only Ghosts? How many quotes have "fool" in them?

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Although at least they can't plan anything privately - not even whether they're going to be around for Deadline Chicken or not - so their capacity for coordinating anything is limited. Which isn't to say they can't cause chaos anyway
They're not even flippin' posting! We're doing it all to ourselves.

Look, should we just vote Morsul and be done with it? I almost did back on Day One, so for me personally it would be very fitting.

Fakeedit: oh, you did. Sleep well, Greenie.

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"Playing chicken" is... well, the classic movie version is where two people drive cars at each other and see who swerves. In context, we're all charging at the DL and whoever blinks first loses.
For some reason I had an image in my head of a Hot Potato Pass It On type of game, except instead of a hot potato you have a chicken, and also that chicken is alive and flailing and thrashing and shrieking its head off. No one wants to hold the chicken, but you can't let it run loose either, or it will peck everyone's eyes out. (Sounds familiar, everyone who tried to shirk endgame voting responsibility? )
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. (Sounds familiar, everyone who tried to shirk endgame voting responsibility? )
-_- Nobody told me being dead came with responsibilities.

So now we're at one vote each way too... this game, I swear.

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Well done breaking the impasse, Greenie--right or wrong, it had to be done.

Now... do we all like on or wait?

EDIT: xposted with Boro. I swear...
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EDIT: xposted with Boro. I swear...
I'm hungry and no one wants my judgement to be influenced by getting hangry. So be done with it now and go get the food.
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I'm hungry and no one wants my judgement to be influenced by getting hangry. So be done with it now and go get the food.
I mean if the outcome of this game ends up hinging on whether you've been fed and watered, that will be kind of perfect.
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You know, this could be the first WW game on the Downs won by the Dead not the Living.
Or everyone else just vote for Pitch for this comment? Morsul's still lynched.
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Or everyone else just vote for Pitch for this comment? Morsul's still lynched.
TEMPTING.

Ugh, taking one last look at the early votes to see if anything pops.

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