Literary UPICK || Prologue - Chapter 6

Umm. I'm not sure if anyone else noticed but some of the letters in the day end rollover are colored gray!

There's a g and a b, I think?

well shizzly nuttlebottoms, you're right

but what does this mean e - e

Mr. G  B
      e  e
      r  a
         r

oH SHIIIIIIIIT

ILLUMINATI CONFIIIIRMED

i knew there could only be one

so, guys, the intermission changed again. I'm putting it under a spoiler here for posterity.

INTERMISSION, as of N1:

edit: here's the Intermission as it looked like on D1

A-Apparently this is going to be a phasely thing. I've been partly expecting that because, from the moment the game started and that intermission was published, it felt... odd... that the hosrs would post dummy intermission text (they had, like, a whole thread in the WIP forum to do that, right?). For now, I'm ok with assuming that this is a town-aligned, even though my reasons are cheap. I DO have a few... ideas... of who might be behind them though... ?

@ alca, thank you for catching that omg... Given that last phase was a day phase, I believe the Intermission-editor was one of the few, if not the only role that would be allowed to act. This means that g and/or b may be hints to that role.

Insert random picture of Zura here.
I have to watch my niece and nephews tonight. I brought my tablet but I'm never sure how well that will work.

i'm 1000% sure the original word was p*nis

Also I feel like the intermission's lines are familiar, through I don't know from where. I'm pretty surish I know some people's books, through I don't know if that helps a lot.

very perceptive blaire!!!

thanks i've been told i have a knack for sensing burned body parts literal or otherwise u v u

I nodded at T3tsuya. "Yes. That was my initial thought there, too. Though why someone would be hinted at for a time when no apparent actions too place is the true mystery. If we're looking at this the right way at all, of course." I gave him my best smile. "Good work," I said, even as I knew that, of anyone here, I would have to watch my back around him the most.¹

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1. The antagonistic relationship between T3tsuya and Tiki The Troll is a well documented feud. For further information on the subject, please refer to Roles From a Hat, The Masquerade, Welcome to the B&B (my personal favorite, one where they were both actually Mafia, and the one where the both failed the most spectacularly), and Gakuen Mafia (which documents them both failing on the same side, just as dramatically as in B&B, but not half as amusing).
   

5 stars 10/10 would experience again

I'm unoccupied and caught up. Guess I'll offer some input.

Since it's a recent development, the ever-changing intermission that Lucas has re-posted is intriguing... I wonder if it's meant to be treated like a sort of glossary, index, or passage in a book, and it keeps getting modified throughout the game as the player in question interacts with their role. Obviously, it is changing... but what I mean is that this suggests to me that one of the selections might fit the keyword of "time" from the list of grey keywords included earlier in the game. Maybe we have a sort of... time traveler, so to speak?

I'm actually not too, too worried about the random gibberish action in the N0->D1 rollover. Reason being that I believe if some town had their action obscured, barring it being potentially detrimental to do so, they'd probably comment on it. If not them, then if this continues to occur town's bound to clue-in on the nature of the gibberish eventually. So to this end, I'm just not going to think about it until we have more examples of it.

The other reason I'm not too worried is that if it were a mafia action, I think it benefits mafia more to just not make the action appear at all. Town at least knows something happened, now, even if we don't know what that something might have been.

The edge cases might be if it were an otherwise hidden action--like a protect--and mafia intercepted it, turned it into gibberish, and the sender has no way of knowing it was their action. Regardless, time will probably reveal more. It's also been hinted by the host that we have some information gathering roles which are counter-balanced by the misleading and otherwise obfuscated results and rollovers. Could this be counter-balance as in mafia having access to tools, or the game being structured as such? I'm leaning towards the latter, given the very flavor and nature of how the rollover has been structured. I'm not hedging any bets on this theory.

One point against Lucas' theory of it being his Monkey Paw* role or similar, however, is that if we follow the claim of eleni redirecting a kill from Tet onto herself last night... that seems like an action mafia would be more inclined to prevent, modify, and/or obscure.

I'm intrigued by various other statements, particularly Tet's with regards to needing to write a story and the implications of the role acting on him, and also eleni's apparent role. I wouldn't mind more information on the latter so we can be 100% clear on what happened N0 for the sake of reads, but I stick to my previous statement in that I believe the likelihood of Tet being the initial target, and I also don't want eleni to speak up if it would help the mafia counteract her ability. There may have been other role-related claims and suggestions, but tbh I'd need to re-read a bit to double-check.

I guess I'll also mention I don't find the number of stuns or jails unusual. I actually find it unusual when there aren't so many in such a large game. I tend to prefer lots of disrupting actions on both sides since it makes the game a lot more fun and exciting.

tl;dr: I don't think the gibberish was mafia deleting, modifying, or otherwise erasing actions from the rollover. I'm intrigued by the nature of various claims, but do not want to arm mafia with information, so to that end I will operate under the belief that Tet was actually the N0 NK target.

* I actually knew of your Monkey Paw role, Lucas, because uh... I stole it from you with my role as town because I didn't believe your claim, and the theft killed you, I think. It was a pretty cool role.

reminds everyone that rollover is in three hours and to get your actions in if you have not already done so