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CK: Vector posted the first thing today, and it was a poem. The same thing happened on the first day, with Nirur Torir. It may be some variety of conspiricy, random happenstance, or who knows... but it happened.

Hold on to your haberdashery: what is there to explain? I'm in no way leading a lynch on Meph... I'm defending myself against a lynch he's trying to lead on me. There is a difference. A big one.

My argument for lynching someone other than Toony was based on an assessment of his dangerousness to the town. I didn't agree with the bandwagon against him, and lo and behold I was right. But lets lynch the person who's trying to lynch the scum instead of the town, eh? I did not approve of the ToonyMan bandwagon, and I don't approve of bandwagoning now.

Also, to Vector's killer, please let me know if you recovered it or not.

Not to mention he would have become a Survivor!

His role stated that he inherited powers, not alignment.

One of the primary reasons I enjoyed this was in comming up with a challenging location, that might present contestants with a scenario they've not tried before. The combination of Evil Marsh critters, multiple aquifers, an open magma pipe, and so on seemed like a good blend of challenges and opportunities. I'm glad people liked it.

Anywho, the sooner judges get their scores in, the sooner the next round can get under way. Keep them comming, folks.

What's this? The time shenanigans are getting to a point where my brain is nearly melted from trying to process it all... gah!

Fact: The pages in which Die goes to the universe in which Spades Slick is dead is noted as  "a desert amidst the ruins of a dead civilization."

Fact: Scurrilous Straggler is wearing tattered robes that are like a sun-bleached version of Jack Noir's Jester Uniform, complete with the same logo.

My gut says that "the ruins of a dead civilization" refers to the Dark Kingdom. Jack Noir became/becomes Scurrilous Straggler after the fall of the Dark Kingdom, presumably at the hands of the Homestuck Kids. Subsequently, he assumes the identity of "Spades Slick", creates the Midnight Crew (in the image of something brought to them by the Homestuck Kids?), and makes "this town" ...however exactly that happens.

Also, the scar on the eye of the Emperor is obviously due to the Kernelsprite's prototyping by the maimed harlequin. Remember, a "Dark" sprite descended below, while a "Light" sprite ascended above. Methinks there will be "Light Kingdom" counterparts to the Archagents, as well as the Emperor. There may even be "Light Kingdom" counterparts to the Midnight Crew, which for the sake of wild speculation, are the main characters of Problem Sleuth, (perhaps -1)

On that speculative note: though noted as female, Peregrin Mendicant, DOES remind me of Pickle Inspector.

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If you weren't so preoccupied, Clover could tell you that you could use Crowbar's help to pry anything out of a time loop, stable or otherwise.

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Even further out there, what if he literally "Made" the town, using something similar to SBURB? What if the whole thing is older than anything?

Though it could be viewed differently in a fantasy elven context (being weak, like a plant without water), one could certainly take it as a euphemism for, ermmm... something else.

At any rate, a fantastic yarn as always. This process of creating an engaging story within a universe, and then extracting elements that would allow this to be procedurally generated in a game is a creative process like I've never seen before. It has, and continues to yield fantastic promise!

Oooh, I like her.

Judging by the Pool analogy that's been going on, I suspect Snowman is untouchable because the rest of the Felt are still alive. Much like in pool, if you sink the 8 ball before you've taken care of all the other ones, you lose. Wild guess says it's tied to all the crazy space-time stuff going on, and how Lord English's suit connects it... maybe that green glow she had signifies that she's still protected... but who knows.

I am also excited to see if and how he ties this in to the rest of the story.

<.< You make a damned fine argument against yourself, Toony. The Defense would like a chance to withdraw from further questioning, as our case has been turned on its head.

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On a Metagame level, Toony's supposed role does seem like the sort of role a Serial Killer would have, to empower them as they kill townies. Kinda like an inverse Highlander, where you inherit the suckage of everyone you kill along with their power.

Even so, his overt game has been pro-town, in that he has dissuaded me from "defending" him (and thus being jointly incriminated), as well as making a logical argument against himself, rather than seeking to go along with defense of him. It seems as though he is trying to save me from being brought down with him (though perhaps I'm reading too much into this) which seems pro-town to me, and looking more toward the survival of the group than the survival of the individual.

My Scumdar is reading him as Non-Scum, granted that this does not guarantee Town either. It's a peculiar gambit either way.

I'm not defending you; I'm being entirely logical here. We kill you today, we waste a lynch, and the Scum kill someone else. We kill someone else, and the Scum kill you tonight because you're verifiable.

I have to disagree with you there, Solifuge.
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At best, with that role, he's a Survivor and a distraction from lynching scum when we need to the most.

I say lynch him today and get it over with.

You kinda contradicted yourself there, Meph. ToonyMan is a distraction from voting Scum, which is exactly why we shouldn't bother killing him today.

I must second the motion that we should go for suspected Scum, not Survivors. To propose that we start off killing Survivors does nothing but hurt the town.