Legacy of the Ancients Mafia (That's All, Folks!)

[Trumpet of Doom]

Any particular reason why, or just because Seraphim vanished from the face of the Earth?

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I was hoping you'd be more specific, but you're probably town so... Here:

Role PM:

The higher-ups may be officially in charge of this station, but you're the guy that keeps it safe. You're the guy that knows how the security measures really work.

Of course, that means your head is DEFINITELY on the line should you fail here...

Welcome to Legacy of the Ancients Mafia,

Trumpet of Doom

. You are

The Security Officer

, the Ancient in charge of day-to-day security operations on this diplomatic station. Unfortunately, the sensitive nature of this situation means that you don't have your security staff to help you. Hopefully, your knowledge of the security systems and personal abilities will be enough to let this station survive.

Race:

Ancient

Faction:

Ancient

You are an

Ancient Observer

. You have the following special abilities:

Active Abilities:

Observe

- Each day, you may target a player. You will learn the name of any ability that player uses that day.

Ultimate:

Requiem of Nullification (Active)

- Once during the game, you may target a player. That player will be permanently roleblocked so long as you are alive. This ability is a Rapid Action - Roleblock

(it resolves immediately upon receipt)

.

Renumeration: Concentration

- You may make at most 20 posts each game day. Should you break the post restriction set in this Renumeration, you will be modkilled. This is your only warning.

Please remember that you can use only one active ability per day.

Win Condition (Ancient):

You win when all other factions have left the game, or nothing can prevent the same. Your faction counts as a faction when calculating the standard factional win condition.

(The Ancients have the standard factional win condition.)

.

Please confirm via return PM.

Seraphim's day choices:

On Day 0, Seraphim used Observe targeting forbiddanlight (now UncertainKitten) and received this result PM:

Another late night at the office for you.

It's not really anything new - station security has to be ready to work at all times, especially if you're a Sentinel system operator - but what you're doing here is. After all, this isn't exactly an official project.

You settle in, enter forbiddanlight's name into the Sentinel system, sit back, and watch to see if something happens.

As it turns out, you only have to wait about an hour to get results this time. The Sentinel records a major probability manipulation sourced from the intended target.

A brief analysis later, and the system prints out its results. You're off shift for a bit - time to get a bit of sleep while you can.

Target used ability:

Reflect

On Day 1, Seraphim used Observe targeting Kairyuu and received this result PM:

Meh. You have a bad feeling about all of this.

You fire up the Sentinel system and get to work. What's Kairyuu going to use tonight, anyways?

Ooh! Pretty! Is that an Ultimate you see?

And... did Kairyuu just die immediately after getting the ability off?

Target used:

Ultimate: Requiem of Passage

On Day 2, Seraphim failed to send in a choice and as such did nothing.

Seraphim had not sent in any choices for Day 3.

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Oh, and apparently my reading comprehension skills aren't fully working right now. I just saw post 1055, where Sajin mentions rolebased info that makes him want me to claim.

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zwet, a more-or-less-confirmed player is claiming what I suspect to be rolebased info of some sort about you. There is absolutely no reason for you not to claim.

UK, what does Reflect do, and why did you use it on Kairyuu N0?

Mae apparently can't read the role PM she posted in thread. What I see is that dramonic won't die if we lynch Mae, and unless she targets him again today, he won't die if she's NK'd. (Speaking of Mae's PM, I agree with Xyl about the typo.)

ani's probably one of the scummiest players in the game. The big things I can think of are his not-posting for the first 20+ pages, then not seeing anything particularly incriminating about DeathNote, and I'd be willing to bet there are other reasons I should have a scum read on him. The new bit on his claim is probably null, IMO.

People I would be willing to vote right now include, but are not necessarily limited to, Mae and ani. zwet and UK may fall into this category as well, depending on what they do or don't claim.

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Where I have I claimed no active abilities?

My active ability is double-voting. You said you tracked me. What are the chances that it showed that he visited me and not the other way around?

Yeah, okay, Starbuck needs to be lynched at some point. And it does need to be a lynch, because she controls half the High Council's votes, so they really can't investigate her.

1. Double-voting really seems like it ought to be a passive ability, not an active ability.

2.

You said you tracked me. What are the chances that it showed that he visited me and not the other way around?

By definition of "tracker"... approximately zero. And Sajin's claimed as much.

Vote: Starbuck.

In other news, I missed where it was obvious that UK's a protective role. Don't bother spelling it out to me now, though... maybe at the end of the game.

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Actually, upon further reflection, I have an idea for what Sajin's results might mean that would be more or less consistent with Starbuck-town.

Question to council: If malthusis's council kill flavor was Torn Apart in Wrath, what is Starbuck's?

In the meantime,

Unvote; Vote: animorpherv1

for reasons previously stated.

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What I'm trying to get at is whether or not Starbuck killed Bogre, and if so, if it was on the Council's orders. The only virtue/sin that "Suffered a Heart Attack" might go with is gluttony, and even that's a bit of a stretch.

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UK: Ah, okay.

ani: So... you're thinking that there's a possibility worth considering that only 3 of the 8 council members would investigate as Ancient, only one of whom is still alive? I think not. You need to die if you're going to keep this up.

I'm torn between Starbuck and ani as to who today's lynch should be. Thoughts?

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All right, ani takes priority over Starbuck.

Second Ultimate? Absolutely not. If it's the Renumeration, as Vaya pointed out, it doesn't happen until after your Ultimate. Think of it as "if you're (lynched OR targeted) while in the graveyard..." if that makes it easier.

And even if you don't title your PMs with Day N Action, shouldn't you be able to see in what order you sent them? If you don't have as many action PMs as you should, check the timestamp.

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ani:

even if you don't title your PMs with Day N Action, shouldn't you be able to see in what order you sent them? If you don't have as many action PMs as you should,

check the timestamp.

The idea here is that you then compare the time of your action to when different days started or ended. Emphasized because it seems like you missed it.

S_B: Did you seriously just say you think Sajin is scum?

FoS: Snow_Bunny

for that. And while I'm at it,

FoS: Starbuck, Maemuki and zwetschenwasser

for previously stated reasons.

[Trumpet of Doom]

Well those FoSes are weird.

I am just curious if I can have more than one.

If I can, you should be able to.

I would rather lynch starbuck or zwett today.

I'd rather not lynch zwet today.

Trumpet would probably be 3rd choice actually. He is role confirmed but not alignment confirmed.

So how does that make me more likely to be scum?

Also vaya is likely an outsider.

/agree

[Trumpet of Doom]

If I'm alive tomorrow, I'll tell you then.

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4) zwetschenwasser = Supposedly not a good kill, ToD says

No, I said that I didn't want him to be yesterday's lynch. (There's a difference.) I wanted to see if he did anything, and if so what. Turns out he didn't; make of that what you will.

Starbuck, on the other hand... Here, let's see my results PM:

Hmm. Apparently you got too sleep deprived Day 1 and forgot to use the Sentinel system. That just won't do. The Sentinels can work on their own while you take a catnap, as long as you double-check the results.

You fire up the Sentinels, taking advantage of the time dilation field to get them to track both zwetschenwasser and Starbuck, then go to sleep for a bit.

When you check the results three hours later, it takes a bit to clear up the errors... but the picture is clear enough, at least for your first target. There's no point bothering to clear up the footage when it's clear he did absolutely nothing worth worrying about.

Starbuck... ooh, this second feed's more interesting. Let's see... he used some kind of strange weapon... used it to investigate? someone... used it to kill - wait, was that the holovision studios? You can't tell...

Now the feed tracks back to... not the usual quarters... somewhere... wait, now THIS is interesting... it looks like the guy on the feed is using some kind of strange ritual... something designed to cause heart attacks?... and he uses it twice...

This might be important.

Target used:

No Actions Used.

Target used:

Blade of Glory (implementing Investigate)

Target used:

Blade of Glory (implementing Condemn)

Target used:

Heart Stop

Target used:

Heart Stop

(Note: I'm treating target 1 as the action targeting zwetschenwasser and target 2 as the action targeting Starbuck.)

I'm guessing Blade of Glory is for Council-related activities (correct me if I'm wrong). This does not explain Heart Stop at all. I see only one logical course of action.

Vote: Starbuck.

UK, who did the Council condemn? (For that matter, who'd you investigate?)

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Nor did it have anything about blades. I just checked.

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I've just permablocked zwet, BTW.

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...uh... bah?

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Hooray! This time, when I get an investigative role, people actually listen to me!

So even if I hadn't been killed the day I used my Ultimate, it would have been essentially worthless (since I used it on zwet, who had no active abilities)? Oh well.

Starbuck, why me?