Micro 1091 - Bar Review (Dead/Spec PT)

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After a visit to the Dean...

"Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son." The words echo through the hall as you scurry out of the Dean's office.

Well this sucks. The Dean's right as ever, but you studied so hard, or at least you thought, only to come up short. Some of you never even showed up for the final at all out of anxious shame.

You can't help but feel winding up here is a reflection of your moral worth, even though you know that's not true. Well, maybe doing terribly at law school is a virtue.

Either way, now's a good time to reevaluate. Let's figure out how to get you back on track. Maybe you just need to try a few more practice exams...or to just drop out and go learn Python instead. Maybe some knitting will take the stress off your mind.

...Ooooooor you could just go to the weekly Bar Review at Isis's Riverside Pub!

Studying Hard with Professor Isis

1. Isis
2. fferyllt
3. Prism
4. skitter30
5. Random Nurse
6. fireisredsir
7. Datisi
8. Ydrasse
9. Bell
10. RH9
11. Alisae
12. Lukewarm

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Well I've still got to make a VC/flavor template and the like, but I'm exhausted. Exciting to finally mod again, and thank you to sister Isis for having us in her lovely riverside pub.

Who's got the backgammon set?

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IT IS PAGE 1 AND WE HAVE TWO MILLER CLAIMS

EXCITEMENT GUARANTEED

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This game is already off to the races. It's beautiful.

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Somehow I actually haven't seen it

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sweater weak knees are heavy

vomit on his arms already

datisi's spaghetti

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y'all are my feedback on the votecount flavor by the way

i'm going to try to do a mix of "vaguely interesting real law" cases and "actual wild factpatterns wtf am i reading" absurd fun cases

let me know if it gets too dry/boring i'm a huge nerd who won't notice

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me when i am excited to sign up for a game and am curious for the first hour and immediately shut off after
I do not like this sensation

Datisi: first time?

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Hum. How am I supposed to respect your interest in being understood if you’re going to be difficult out of a sense of playfulness and teasing. Or power.

This is the most seen Ydrasse has ever felt in her life and she hates it.

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Nope!

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simply cut the injury in half

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I'm not saying Isis is immortal but

if

she is

there is a 100% chance she was King Solomon before deciding Pokemon TCG was more fun than running civilization

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I've got some quotes that are always relevant for this dilemma

An atavistic urge has awakened in my veins. The blood is pumping violently, a burning sensation spreads up the arms, a paroxysmal wave crashes through this mortal body and I write in the forces of violent malice.

It calls me to vote Cakez out, to pound the ground with my bare knuckles around the fire and watch his blood down the stake a verdant green before evaporating in the flames, the same color it always is. It calls me to bear witness just as my ancestors before me did so many years ago.

There is limbait and there is Cakez. The man radiates scum pheromones, it's uncontrollable and it's overpowering.

Players like Gamma Emerald, Not_Mafia, and Enchant are limbait. None of these players are worthy of the tier Cakez resides on, it is another plane of existence completely.

It's like some freak genetic accident, where instead of naturally giving off townvibes or a mix the man inherited some long-locked away recessive gene that just draws every town member in a 100 mile radius to vote him, even ones from other games hop over and join in.

He's a legitimate case study, it's like he just wakes up and bathes in pure scumjuice then walks out onto a street lined with fans without drying off. Then he does it two or three more times a day.

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See skitter, Datisi?

This is what it's like to BE BRAVE AND SHARE YOUR OPINIONS YOU COWARDS

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I'd really like to offer up a prize for anyone that can get two mafia in a pool of 4 players, but I don't know what a good prize is. I don't post enough outside of modding to make controlling my icon that appealing

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If reading the game were a prerequisite to forceful advocacy and stonewall conviction on scumreads we'd have to ban three quarters of the website including half of this playerlist

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Who could have possibly contributed to or created this wild meta where players refuse to treat setups like solvable puzzles or even suggest the mechanics have to make a modicum of sense?

Who could it have been...if they're still out there...we must find this culprit without delay...

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Legend has it that one day a hero will appear to save MafiaScum in its darkest hour, a beacon of light to vanquish the darkness.

The paragon of paragons, we shall know them by their greatest triumph. They will always be able to read SirCakez.

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Aight 1 week's choice of my icon if you get 2 scum in 4 names before any flip

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Still feels like there's probably a scum between Luke and GL but it's not something that needs immediate resolution in my opinion.

Why do you have the two of us grouped together in this thought?

My feeling is you're pushing him and he's been pushing your slot, I don't strongly townread either of you, it just feels like dynamic where there's a scum usually. Either he caught elle and you saw pushing back as the only viable angle or he was going at you in bad faith and you saw through it. It

doesn't

feel like a town vs. town dynamic, at least to me.

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Mens rea requirements are normally set by the legislature in the statute

Some minor criminal violations have no mens rea requirements, like those for selling alcohol to minors, and some have lower requirements, e.g. recklessness standard for manslaughter

Obligatory I am not currently a lawyer barred in any state, do not take legal advice from me

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Dunn is obvious scum

I believe in my cat

my cat uses too many words so i must use my editor priviledge to delete the unimportant ones.

"my cat"

EXCUSE ME?

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this pub is in international waters, right

Datisi is my favorite American

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That video honestly gets better every single year

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Dunn is obvious scum

I believe in my cat

my cat uses too many words so i must use my editor priviledge to delete the unimportant ones.

"my cat"

EXCUSE ME?

I thought Morph was his cat. Two-timer.

That is

my

pet NEET and nobody else can have him

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classic catboi

this is how u kno he's town

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I'm out ATM so it's okay, bless u

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It's so dangerous to assume this but given the way votes against me have formed it feels like scum have decided to go all-in on pushing me out and that lends things a weight of inevitability - it's really incredibly hard to figure out anyone's alignment from this spot for me because they all start to look the same in terms of being unreasonable, it's at least 4 people all saying the same thing.

So yeah, probably just burn my wagon down. Your job to sort who's most likely.

I am HOWLING this is the most stereotypical catboi post I've ever seen in my life

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No but he's doomed to die and obviously scum are behind it they're all on his wagon

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I'll say there is at least one town catboi in this game

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we got the full catboi arc, the game might as well be over on day 1

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Don't look at skitter's sig

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I really hope Ydrasse gets to claim today. Her true flavor can go either way, I didn't even need to draw up a fakeclaim.

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YEETDRASSE IS ON THE MENU BOYZ

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You sure about that one, champ?

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All Cakez has to do is not post and he lives today, or just hammer

Instead he's parading himself out there in front of the crowd, trotting around proudly, letting those pheromones catch air one last time to tempt the mob without a worry in the world

It's like a man slathered up with beef and pork brine strolling carefree into a room of Dobermans

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catboi sucks at this game so bad

even when he replaced out he gets voted out day 1 lmaoooo

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Humans can resist cake. It's tempting but it's possible.

Scumhunters that run into Cakez revert to a primal state, driven entirely by passion and instinct.

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Mafia team is reading so much into the mechanical fakeclaim I gave them and trying to discern other roles from it

I thought of the flavor and then worked backwards mechanically. The actual fake role meant zero lol

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Welcome

catboi

, err, Ydrasse!

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and now bell, rip

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2town2strong

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you and everyone else

just ask the dat man

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"i am having fun playing mafia" is probably not something datisi has ever said past day 2

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I just realized I made a critical and game-compromising error.

I still had "Hotel California" linked if you clicked the OP image since I copy/pasted from Redux. It has now been replaced with music more befitting Isis's Riverside Pub.

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Guess the mafia before mechanics start kicking into gear, Bell?

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cat gifs for catboi!!!

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This is why your death is a gamewide tragedy

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I cannot currently elaborate but I am EXTREMELY confused right now

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???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

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My confusion has tripled. This is no longer my game. I am living in a simulation. I don't know what is happening anymore.

The playerlist are the moderators, I'm the player, this is some uno card reverse simulation hoax.

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This game isn't real, it never was, I need to start working on Roko's Basilisk before it's too late oh god

Maybe it already is too late, this is the punishment, what is HAPPENING

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I am living in a simulation, the last like ~3 pages just aren't real, they just can't be, the odds so infinitesimally small

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It is more likely I am living a solipsistic existence in a simulation than it is that the last 3 pages are somehow written by real independent agents who do not exist solely to mess with me

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Bell I'm sorry you're not real. I like you anyway.

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You don't know the half of it.

Soon.

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One thing that I can say about me losing my mind is that no one has pointed out that this is a Normal game, which I emphasized in 4 different places, and Beholder is a non-Normal role.

This is only 2% of my overall confusion but contextually it makes the other 98% so much worse.

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Meuh’s entrance hits on my paranoia about spontaneity and intentionality. There’s a clear difference to their approach now and yesterday. I’m waiting to see how Dunn musters a defense, I’m not sure if it’s just unique to me because I’m annoying but he always seems to respond to accusations quickly.

I thought her entrance was one of the most traditionally scummy set of posts I've seen in recent memory

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I'm trying to read evidence law but instead I'm distracted. I have "Scatman" stuck in my head and at some point my brain changed it to "Dat[isi] man"

I just want to study. Why am I like this?

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I am suffering from this disease and now you will too.

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Welcome, RH9! Remember: no spoilers!

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isis rep in????

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RH9 your alignment is the only spoiler you had to give LMAO

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is this better or worse than when i set up the "free not_mafia" protest tent in the spec PT

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All my usual suspects for replacements are in this thread

Bunch of lazy couch potatoes smh

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there is some magical aura surrounding rh9 that makes luke specifically want to bend over backwards to find ways to townread his posts

how does it feel

how does it feel knowing Luke was RIGHT

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Anytime, Bell. These dead/spec PTs exist to advance the causes of violence, exclusion, degradation, and public humiliation.

None are safe.

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We are not all put here to coexist in harmony, in unity, but to drive wedges between each other, create arbitrary boundaries, and advance social dysfunction to please and entertain the contemptuous eyes of the Goddess Isis watching from above.

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Slow game is slow

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this is all skitter's fault

catboi would have never replaced out if she played

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please raise your hand if you think two millers in a setup where the only possible investigatives are tracker+rb makes any degree of sense

raise em high

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I really don't know because millers in a game with only possible PRs of Tracker/RB/doc sounds exactly like something you would do, I'd be shocked if you stopped at two

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It looks like you think both of them are lying despite my confidence in 203

The inner mechinations of his mind are an enigma

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(1) you're mom
(2) you're face

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Welcome, Alisae!

Thanks for taking over the slot, RIP that self-vote. My academic prospects are looking very dim right about now.

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This game in a nutshell.

Spoiler: Major Alignment spoilers

It says a lot that Datisi hasn't even read the game and is 2/2 purely off of asking "Does this make any sense if the mod is not sadistic?" Unfortunately, Datisi is in the dead PT and not the game.

Designing this game, with this playerlist, was supposed to be a performance art invitational, framed as a delightful dinner over a carefully cooked and curated meal.

Instead it's a bunch of children running around unsupervised with forks finding outlets in the dining room that I never even knew existed and raiding my Elmer's stash. Don't get me started on the random retconning claims the mafia PT was shooting around earlier that had me losing my mind.

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Someone just isn't going to be able to resist voting Cakez in 5 way, 100% guaranteed. It's been a grand old effort for the town resisting so far but every mortal has their limits.

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Unfortunately this is in fact my fault.

Spoiler:

This all happened because one of the starting fakeclaims was a miller one, which cued them off to the fact that there was no miller. They figured there HAD to be a cop and were skeptical of Luke's claim as a result, but it literally doesn't even matter.

Let no good deed go unpunished. Never give the scumteam mechanical fakeclaims preemptively.

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Welcome, Lukewarm, and thank you for replacing in!

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GL is the way to go today I think though, now that we know that Ali/rh9 was town

Surely one of the VT claims is scum. Why don't we just go through them one by one?

Spoiler: Darth Pooky

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#2Millerz

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guys gals people and things

the game is easy

u vote the mafia

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skitter who is the mafia

dont look at spoilers u coward

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SO JUST SAY NAMES U COWARD

THE DAT MAN DID IT

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ARE YOU SO SCARED OF THE JUDGING EYES OF YOUR PEERS

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quick, everyone point and laugh at her

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sure scum might "win" the game but the town managed to yeetdrasse

the real victors are clear to all

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ARE YOU SO SCARED OF THE JUDGING EYES OF YOUR PEERS

she didn't want to give names of her own volition

but she did so, bending under the hammer and power of peer pressure

quick everyone make fun of skitter for having a manifestly weak personal will and backbone and caving to her expectant peers

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Yeah I'd put "Not having the time for a second/third/fourth read" way down the list of good reasons to replace out. Not having the time to read going forward is the bigger issue, but I wouldn't feel bad over not rereading. It's a luxury.

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(Part of the beauty and mess of forum mafia is that our minimum standards of play are insanely low, which means in practice they're set by your own taste, but regardless I wouldn't feel bad from a "duty to other players/mod" perspective. You put in more than enough effort to match the player list.)

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I suspect, and hope, the gambit house of cards comes crashing down here. Too late to get a GL pivot since Dunn moved first, aggression here is too early IMO

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So I

might

be wrong that it is Meuh/Pooky, and I might have forgotten who the scumteam is. I would never lie about it for fun, I promise.

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I don't know what any of you expected. You know me. You know my

nature

.

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Anyway, any revised scumteam guesses?

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they're slowrolling it's the double troll

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My admission came because Pooky has hammer on Dunnstral. Pooky/Dunnstral is now the only possible scumteam with Pooky in it. (Cakez/Dunnstral is also the only possible team with Cakez in it)

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One thing that I can say about me losing my mind is that no one has pointed out that this is a Normal game, which I emphasized in 4 different places, and Beholder is a non-Normal role.

This is only 2% of my overall confusion but contextually it makes the other 98% so much worse.

I'm pretty sure I can now say spoiler-free that a huge part of me losing my mind over this was that the mafia team asked for a Beholder fakeclaim overnight, which I dutifully drew up. Considering this was a non-Normal role, I was going apeshit

But then

RH9 actually speculated there was a Beholder during the dayphase.

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Oh uh

That wasn't true LMAO, there is in fact at least one miller

That whole fakeclaim explanation was just a selling point for the two miller troll

I promise 290 is true though, I was going ???????????? over the Beholder fakeclaim request and then my eyes practically popped out of my skull when RH9 actually suggested it

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have to wear a paper bag over my head or go into retirement like

my

cat

alright fine you can have him, he comes as-is

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Unfortunately this is in fact my fault.

Spoiler:

This all happened because one of the starting fakeclaims was a miller one, which cued them off to the fact that there was no miller. They figured there HAD to be a cop and were skeptical of Luke's claim as a result, but it literally doesn't even matter.

Let no good deed go unpunished. Never give the scumteam mechanical fakeclaims preemptively.

this post was a troll

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What? Was I too convincing for you?

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I'm still mad the scumteam from Invictus believed your gambit fakeclaim and that was over a year ago.

They had "You are the super special role!" written in one of their role PMs and not once did they think anything was amiss.

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Did I? I'm too lazy to look right now but I'd be shocked, I am extremely particular about night actions after I made an error in Invictus

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The second PM never made it to my inbox at all, assuming you're not trolling me. Very bizarre.

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Notification history confirms I only got one PM and didn't somehow accidentally delete the second. Might be worth bringing to Bork's attention if it displays in your sent box.

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That happens if you reply to a PM you sent, rather than to the original PM. You have to change the recipient by hand.

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i still believe in the pooky/meuh theory i don't care what anyone else says

Spoiler:

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The SUSPENSE

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I designed the setup first then slapped the theme on top

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I HAVE AN ASSIGNMENT OK

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[HAPPENING INTENSIFIES]

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Alright, that's it, closing time. Isis needs to sleep. Go on, get home now, shoo.