It was the sunny tunnel and then being like let’s get finn next! that did it for me I was like “oh yeah a wolf wouldn’t tunnel his own that hard”
But then I went back and reread everything when I went to Cornwall to talk to Dina about it and was like oh.... he tried to talk me out of finn..... oh no.
Hahaha, Bob you keep playing and you’re definitely going to learn I’m not that good. But after Robin Hood/ the sheriff when you mentioned Moriarty and DubZ had told me she was Sherlock I went full on PANICK
Imagine how hard of a rage it had to be when I was already frustrated from work
I LOVEEEEEEEE PMS. I haven’t had a game yet where I didn’t have one.
My role PM is even 7 pages from when I was silenced screaming at pippy.
Fun fact guy I think I next time there’s a PM mechanism if pippy is a wolf she’s wayyy looking forward to pocketing me.
They’re the best AM. THE BEST
That was the best. It was night 1, I had like 4-5 lines of communication open and pippy on thread was like “get your night actions in early”
And I tried to be a good player. I got them in early to DubZ lol. You role revealed too fast and it made too much sense (it was pretty damn early) and I was like alright. Then you got my berating you for an 8 page chat.
im probably wayy to open in PMs. Alissa was like “I want a mutual level of trust. I’m a Royal. Have a 1x death avoidance”. (It also helped they both opened PMs with me and alley claimed the same thing as a Royal) She told me she died in the Tower of London and I knew who she was. And I was like oh ok cool lol I’m a watcher nice to meet you
You had the diminishing night kill protection because you were elected Prime Minister
She seered kill ability/no kill ability and got a little something extra if people had a death avoidance. Royals would have seered keystone species, Henry VIII would have seered apex predator.
And she would have had trouble seering genny, Cyndia, and Sporty. They aren't from around here.
You had the diminishing night kill protection because you were elected Prime Minister
She seered kill ability/no kill ability and got a little something extra if people had a death avoidance. Royals would have seered keystone species, Henry VIII would have seered apex predator.
And she would have had trouble seering genny, Cyndia, and Sporty. They aren't from around here.
So as was pointed out, the seering was not straightforward, and it would have been possible to mistake a villager for a wolf because they would have seered for having a kill ability.
It was after they already tried once, I could see it going one of 2 ways
1. They leave me alone.
2. They try again the next night when it’s still 75% chance, hopefully I live and then they leave me alone.
I saw it as a win win
I had a role that was pure elegance. And apparently *literally* nothing else.
Apparently other royals knew they had kill resistance? I had no idea this was even a think I missed out on until my death write up said I was a vulnerable royal and my first thought was "wait.... Royals have kill resistance?"
That reminds me... My biggest regret in this game was that I couldn't work in a druid cult mechanic with either Morgaine, Viviane, or Merlin from the Mists of Avalon at its center.
Worked on it for days and then just scrapped it because it was getting too complicated to balance.
Also, while researching, I was reminded that "Merlin's" name in that book was Kevin.
KEVIN.
What is it with epic fantasy writers and the name Kevin?
Ross Poldark is a book+TV character who owns a mine in the 1780s in Cornwall called Wheal Leisure.
In the TV show there are some pretty incredible shots of the actor (or double, although I think the actor also does do some of the riding) galloping home across the Cornwall coast. Dartmoor & Exmoor National Parks are nearby (not in Cornwall exactly, but close) and they both have feral ponies. Ponies in general were used in mining operations back in the 1700s & 1800s.
So I combined a couple of things and gave one of Ross's fictional pit ponies a new job -- letting people gallop along the gorgeous Cornish coast.
Is this that TV show you told me to watch ages ago because the dude was really hot and the horses were pretty, and also I had been looking for something mindless and kinda terrible to watch in the background while I got things done?
That reminds me... My biggest regret in this game was that I couldn't work in a druid cult mechanic with either Morgaine, Viviane, or Merlin from the Mists of Avalon at its center.
Worked on it for days and then just scrapped it because it was getting too complicated to balance.
Also, while researching, I was reminded that "Merlin's" name in that book was Kevin.
KEVIN.
What is it with epic fantasy writers and the name Kevin?
Is this that TV show you told me to watch ages ago because the dude was really hot and the horses were pretty, and also I had been looking for something mindless and kinda terrible to watch in the background while I got things done?
also I just want to say that we know there are wolves still in this game, but we don't know if this so called 3P royal killer exists, so there's no reason we should play the game like they exist
It's just as likely that the last wolf has an ability to kill royals as a 3P would
..... I haz a sad that DocE died in a car accident. At least I was tangentially involved by chasing him, but I really, really deep down was hoping to cut him down with the sword.
I’m Oliver Twist. Originally from an orphanage in London. At night, I get to ask God about a player. And god either answers or doesn’t. But it tells me something random if at all.
what if i stuff another player into my bag of unusual capacity to bring them to parts unknown?
or
what if i cast Crinus muto on myself, so that I look like the PM, and get to take their place at the swearing-in ceremony and steal their mayoral powers?
obviously sciphertestudo would be a separate night. the question is the spell + turtle delivery - 2 nights or one? I don't think i can waste 3 nights on this ridiculousness.
No I have to get the teapot. Then I have to turn it into a turtle. So that's 2 nights at least. And now the turtle's going be delayed by London traffic?
I totes stole your sword. I was going to try to get the teapot, and then turn it into a turtle, and then send it back to SAR, but SAR died. So Excalibur was plan B. Or C or D or something.
I mean, I have mentioned the IC Weiner thing, and I'm totally still going to say "Time to get naked!" on thread tomorrow morning to reveal if I'm still alive.
In Raptures fallen glory a pact was created.
Nostalgia may prove me a rube.
Cornwall's beauty leaves wanderlust unabated To London!
Mind the Gap on the tube
Curse upon the wayward mynd, that seeks to take my life.
To cast aside byauty's verse ys to ynvite muche strife
For whom nary a nyght doth pass without muche friction .
To talk like mayo? What a merciful affliction.
Cray's English Lit Homework is due tomorrow.
Cray must post in rhyming couplets (or alternate rhyme if she's feeling bold)
I tinfoiled out to my boyfriend and he just ended with “no **** it’s a wolf it’s literally a wolf in the cartoons” and I just stared at him flabbergasted.
Pippy I gotta type all this out here and I realize you’re going to give me nothing but I have to spew it because I don’t have a safe space.
so your locations are intentional.
you put me in the north. Pembrooke estate is speculated to be in the north. Intentional.
Know where the Sherwood Forest is?
IN THE NORTH
I think that the person who stole the teapot is also in the north.
*hyperventilating*
I see you trying to sweep in likes from my memes 👀 👀 👀
Did my White Witch sonnet ever make it into sporty's death write up? I never went back to look
ETA: also I am very glad this was a posthumous ability. You had more clairvoyance about my longevity with these roles than I anticipated and I'm glad it wasn't another Soap Opera where I was all ready to spend 90% of my time writing poetry and not gamesolving at all only to get shot right away lol
Alas, monarchy falls when wolves abound
Long slender teeth want not for greens nor tortes
When hunger strikes it's village they surround
And queens cannot rule lands with empty courts
What do you think about this part of the write-up?
It makes me think royals might be less likely to be wolves. That first line - that monarchy falls when wolves abound - that seems like a bad outcome for monarchy. I don't know if I think the second line is fluff or more along the same line (royalty would be eating fancy things like tortes, maybe, and wolves don't want that?).
The third line makes me think that wolves are more likely to go for villagers than royals, and that would be detrimental to the monarchy because they can't rule with no subjects. Hence the falling of the monarchy mentioned in the first line.
The first line in that poem part of the write up is an early line in Romeo and Juliet, and I'm trying to decide what the significance of that might be.
the last line. suggests to me that wolves don't have to kill the queen to have the monarchy fall, just get rid of the subjects. but i'm probably reading too much into it, and pippy is giggling at me.
I mean, I'm over here googling every line of the poem and then trying to make sense of the ones that give me any sort of result, so... I also am probably reading too much into things, I just don't know what classes exist beyond royal and commoner (if there are other classes).
But I honestly don't know if I think that DocE is either (having said that, it's more difficult for me to evaluate him now since I have him on ignore. I see that his vote is on Bob at the moment). There's something from a write up that actually makes me inclined to believe that he's not - although it's not impossible, like it would have been with SAR - and I'll share that with you in a separate post from this one just for clarity.
So IF DocE is not a royal, his final vote in the PM election had to have 2 real votes or less (because samac and MsP both had 3). That would mean that of his wagon, only 1 out of Vissy, Cray, alissa, Cyndia, LIS, and sunny is also not a royal. It's possible, but I don't know how likely that is, it seems like a lot of royals on 1 vote.
If DocE is a royal, then I think he's less likely to be wolfing and here's the part of the write up that makes me think that. It's worth noting that when genny and I talked about this portion, we had different interpretations of it, but this is mine:
We had concluded from this stanza that SAR had to be royalty (and likely the queen), because if she was not, every single person on her wagon except 2 would have to be royalty, and one of those 2 had to be herself. Because samac was also on that wagon, and we know that samac isn't royalty because she ended up as PM, if even 1 person on that wagon was not royalty, SAR had to be. I'm not royalty, so that was that. This is why I mentioned this morning that I didn't think it was impossible that the queen was in play.
Here is the one that we really discussed heavily. I think that it's implying that wolves are not (or at least are less like to be) part of the monarchy because of the first and last lines in particular. Monarchy falls when wolves are around and queens can't rule lands without empty courts, to me, seems like the wolves are detrimental to the monarchy. Combine that with the third line, where it says that wolves are going for villagers, and I came out of it feeling like the royalty need village to survive because what's the point of the monarchy if they don't have anyone to rule over?
IF DocE is a royal, then, I think this makes him less likely to be wolfing.
genny's take on this was slightly different but we never really discussed it that closely because we got sidetracked by location details in our role PMs.
This doesn't really play into any of my analyses so far, but I'm including it because there's one part of it that I'm curious to see if it turns out to be correct, and the other part because it DID turn out to be correct, which is why I'm humoring the first part as a possibility despite my dislike of tinfoils.
Ode To Death is an orchestral piece written by British composer, Gustav Holst. I don't know the significance of this, but it makes me wonder if Gustav Holst is in the game. And the reason that I wonder that is because I had noted from the first line of the entire italicized section of this write up, and from this last stanza, that I was 99% sure that Shakespeare was in the game.
-In fair Verona where we lay our scene is part of the first line in Romeo & Juliet
-Upon the stage, here each our own Macbeth: when Macbeth says the line upon the stage, it's right after he'd learned of Lady Macbeth's death and goes on this kind of nihilistic soliloquy about life and what it all means and whatever.
Also Hamlet holds Yorick's skull. And then the in-game Shakespeare was holding a skull in the write up.
So I'm inclined to think that there are a fair amount of hinty hints in the write ups and hopefully I'm picking up on a good number of them.
Maybe only wolves can kill royals? Like maybe they can't die in votes? This might be too tinfoil-y. Or that wolves want to off monarchy
Long slender teeth want not for greens nor tortes
Not sure about this one
When hunger strikes it's village they surround
And queens cannot rule lands with empty courts
I guess I agree that it might be detrimental to royals if all the non-royals were to die which would negate my theory that wolves want to off royals first
Maybe wolves can win by reaching parity with villagers and not royals.
I might have also had a tab in my spreadsheet just for that.
I like write up analysis lol. But I think I discovered in this game that I like writing write ups even more than I like analyzing them.
Edit: I don't know why some of the quotes aren't showing up in their entirety - they do when I go to edit the post, but they don't when I try to view it 🙁
I might have also had a tab in my spreadsheet just for that.
I like write up analysis lol. But I think I discovered in this game that I like writing write ups even more than I like analyzing them.
Edit: I don't know why some of the quotes aren't showing up in their entirety - they do when I go to edit the post, but they don't when I try to view it 🙁
