distortion [N0-N3]

Okay now you stop speculating. PMs going out now!

The era of murder mysteries is over.

The era of cat gifs has begun.

nautilus wrote:

Yeah, fight the system!

Ninfia wrote:@lucas, from what I can tell, it was a man's shoe, but She-ra and I did read a novel where a girl did wear that kinda shoe recently so the shoe itself was probably men's but who knows what gender the wear-er was.

from what I can tell based on the thread+messages I've gotten there's at least three starting locations? probably more.

ok but did it ever cross your mind that it might have actually been a woman's footprint instead of a men's before my comment? Or did the information you gathered lead u to automatically believe that those were a man's footprints?

alcasync wrote:Apparently there's a lady in white who vanquished a terrible evil in 1916, and we should try to find out as much about her as possible? I hear the number 1916 coming up a lot in thread!

holy shIT

i feel like none of what we're discussing is relevant to actually finding and lynching mafia bUT AT THE SMAE TIME IT FEELS LIKE WE'RE FINDING OUT RLY IMPORNTATN THINGS OKAY AND NOW ITS A DAY PHASE AND I DONT KNO WHO TO LYNCH BUT IM LIKE "HMM LOOK AT THIS MISTERIES"



i literally had this post written 20 minutes before rollover and waited until we were allowed to spec again to post it. i'll comment on actual rollover tomorrow :-)

(dang eleni died...)

... Eleni posted like... twice since the game started and one of them was just "no lynch". Interesting choice. UH...

I received three messages last night.

The first was from our resident mayoral campaign manager. I think I know who they are based on writing style and their suggested candidates, and don't really have much to say about them otherwise. They left me some useful information along with their propaganda.

The third was from the person I have been sending my messages to.

To the person who sent me the second message:

I don't know who you are (but I could narrow it down to maybe like 5 people), but I believe you're town based on the contents of your message and the fact that you came to me for advice. I think you should trust your own instincts rather than passing the responsibility off onto someone else. You don't know who is town and who is mafia, but you know you yourself are town.

I'll be honest, I'm getting the same vibes as you are, and I don't think it's a bad idea for you to go through with it, but I also don't want to be the one responsible if it backfires so... ya know, go with your gut. Maybe even wait it out for a little bit and see if anything new pops up to make you change your mind, but I don't think you should leave this up to someone else. U can do it anonymous little mafia player. I believe in u!!

First of all, use of suger and candy is scary as someone that works in a candy store.

I got a message last night saying something along the lines leave cans where they are.

I had a plan to search for information about a certain thing, but maybe I should change it for now. Should I go search for the info or go investagate this new murder?

OH yeah that's true, I wonder if we'll be able to go to the candy store now in our adventures. Maybe not in our scenarios, but players that have actual active abilities that investigate things (if there are even any of those roles in the game).

I haven't found any information at all. No footprints belonging to creepy children, men/women, or teenagers. No ghosts of a woman, and nothing to do with 1916. I'm just not looking in the right places maybe.

Drandahl is currently the only one that could not have killed Eleni at this current point in time, given the stun.

I am just as baffled by Eleni being targeted by the mafia to be killed. It feels like a rather random choice to me, given how little she spoke.

I did not receive any messages last night.

What if no one is mafia and that's why there's no ratio. Spoilers.

Question about claiming locations and stuff came up, so here's a more in-depth list of things you can/can't do.

You can:

• Mention information you found through scenarios as long as you don't say where you found it or how you found it.
  
• Say relative things like "I think I'm in the same place as [other player]"
  
• Describe things around you ("There is blood here" = okay)
  

Please don't:

• Fully describe your location ("I'm surrounded by squeaky toys and statues that look like dogs wearing hats and there are exactly six trees here and one of the trees has drawings of dogs carved into the trunk" etc. etc.)
  
• Give specific location names, or try to bypass this rule by saying things like "the place that rhymes with..." etc.
  
• List out the choices available to you
  
• Explain how to get from one location to another
  
• Hint at how to get specific items
  

To be honest, you're not going to break the game by claiming locations. Anything that breaks the game we have specific rules about, or is something preventable on our end when handling PMs. The current claiming rules are a little stricter than they need to be gameplay-wise to keep the exploration aspect of the game interesting, and as mentioned in a previous post, they keep everyone from gunning for the same items.

I didn't get a message this time :'(

Eleni being the nk does give credit to the idea that maf kills are location based. the maf are gonna kill whoever they have access to.

Why do you think that Tiny?

To piggyback on Kiyoko's post: if you're ever unsure of what exactly you can and can't claim, always feel free to ask either of us ahead of time to clear your messages!

Really, the main reason why the rules about locations are the way they are is to keep the game fun, and to prevent people from being able to game the locations in such a way that specific items can be stockpiled quickly. It's also a way to shift location speculation to messaging, and one of our goals as Kiyoko said is:

Kiyoko wrote:We want people to be able to work together to solve mysteries, with the tradeoff that they can only communicate in a limited fashion and may not know who they can trust.

e: Also yeah, please don't do things to circumvent the rules like

• rearranging host text into a different order while still retaining the same words and then including a solution key
  
• using codes or rhymes to express things you're not allowed to say