Starling, on 27 June 2013 - 09:16 PM, said:
Holy crap, Khell's play is incredible. I don't think many people would be able to pull this off.
Also D'rek is having a great game, first getting into an argument with the Vord Queen alt, and now suspicious of Tiam. If only she could get other people to agree with her...
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Nimander Golit, on 27 June 2013 - 05:02 PM, said:
Not only does this Alera reveal make zero sense in relation to the books, this whole situation is stupid to begin with. Why would Alera only show up on day 2? Why would we have to vote to PS at the word of Alera with no confirmation from the mods of it being a mechanic at all? If Alera is completely neutral and affects all players equally, what is the point of someone even playing the Alera role at all, instead of it just being a built-in mechanic?
Conversely, if a Vord player were able to create a new alt and wanted to have it fake reveal as something very innocent-sounding but with almost no chance of it being the same role as an existing player, Alera is pretty much the best choice for a role that you can find on wikiepdia/codexAleraPedia, sounds like a loyalist/first aleran and no one else will probably be.
Consider, this: we know there were 2 extra alts at the start of the game. Shuar went up by 5 infestation counts at the start of the game, but only went up 3 this morning. I think the extra two alts were generic Vord, being controlled by one player who started with 3 Vord alts, and every night another Vord can be hatched, which creates a new alt. I think Tiam and either 2 or 3 other alts are generic Vord creatures/armies, and they automatically add 1 infestation counter every day. This is how the infestation counts scale up, because if they only added 3 every cycle our fortifications would easily stop them. We can easily attack the new Vord alt every day, but at some point they will either start producing faster (maybe every fully infested tile generates a new one each dawn?) or else other non-generic vord roles will attack and kill us off slowly, forcing us to try and take out the stronger Vord roles at the expense of letting the generic ones build up.
Tiam is, IMO, likely a Vord. Not even a strong one. But to prove it, I want to lynch Tiam today.
Drek basically lays out the Vord mechanic almost exactly how it works. It's wild how intuitive she is!
Only someone with this much power could make this many frittatas without breaking any eggs.