[Path-Shaper]

At lynch time, it was...

It is Day 1. There were 2 hours 42 minutes remaining.


There are 14 Players left alive: Anomandaris, Aranatha, Bendal Home, Denesmet, Eldat Pressen, Ghennan, Iparth Erule, Kessobahn, Merrid, Prazec Goul, Ryadd Eleis, Skintick, Tennes, Ultama

8 votes for lynch, 7 votes for night.

2 votes Ghennan: Anomandaris, Skintick
8 votes Denesmet: Prazec Goul, Kessobahn, Tennes, Ghennan, Ryadd Eleis, Eldat Pressen, Merrid, Iparth Erule


Players not voted: Aranatha, Bendal Home, Denesmet, Iparth Erule, Merrid, Ultama


In a desperate bid to calm the increasingly irate citizens of Capua and to increase attendance in the arena, Batiatus had his gladiator slaves fighting more fiercely than ever before. The slaves were forced to practice new, complex maneuvers all morning under the scorching sun. By noon, Ariaramnes - one of the youngest and smallest fighters - could take no more. he/she collapsed upon the blistering sands. Onomaeus, the trainer, shouted at Ariaramnes to get back up, but he/she didn't budge. Seeing resentment spreading throughout the other gladiators, Batiatus signalled to Onomaeus to make an example of him/her. Onomaeus gave Ariaramnes one last chance to rise, but the gladiator only pleaded weakly for medical attention.

"You want medical attention?!" cried Onomaeus. "Very well..."

He paused, and put on a pair of sunglasses.

"...the Doctore will see you now!"





Denesmet is dead. She was Ariaramnes the Laquerarius, and D'rek

[Path-Shaper]

Tonight was to be a great night of battle in Capua's arena, but as the city's governor was taking his place in the seat of honor, an arrow flew from the crowds, missing his head by mere inches, knicking his ear on its way by. The governor's guards immediately surrounded him and took him from the stands.

Tonight's arena fight has been cancelled, but will take place Night 2.

The crowd looks forward to seeing either Skintick or Kessobahn's blood feed the sands of the arena.

It is now Day 2. 36 hours remaining.

There are 13 Players left alive: Anomandaris, Aranatha, Bendal Home, Eldat Pressen, Ghennan, Iparth Erule, Kessobahn, Merrid, Prazec Goul, Ryadd Eleis, Skintick, Tennes, Ultama

7 votes to lynch. 7 votes for night.



Players not voted: Anomandaris, Aranatha, Bendal Home, Eldat Pressen, Ghennan, Iparth Erule, Kessobahn, Merrid, Prazec Goul, Ryadd Eleis, Skintick, Tennes, Ultama

[Skintick]

That one is on your head Ghennan. Stupid fucking c**t. And the rest of you idjuts. Signalling? SIGNALLING????

IF there was any signalling going on:

Ghennan, on 28 July 2014 - 03:41 PM, said:

Bendal Home, on 28 July 2014 - 03:29 PM, said:

Great Gladiators of house Batiatus! A new day dawns, and our glory and fortune rise with the sun. Only by shedding blood, sweat and tears will the Gods split the heavens and bless us with fucking rain!

Who among you desire glory? Better yet, who among you desire women and wine? In these wall, all is within your grasp. Train hard and have your name -- and that of Batiatus -- rise to the heights of legend!.

All I ask is obedience. Defy the gods if you must, but do not fuck with me.

Tch, one full post and you haven't even started with the insults to our mothers or suggesting we are sexually inadequate or deviant. No overt taunts or insults or egging people on and revelling in your immunity.

GET IT TOGETHER MAN! Step it up!

If you don't make us all want to kill you every time we see you post you aren't being NEARLY megalomaniacal enough.

how much fucking plainer would it need to be??

Ghennan you ignorant fucktard you really need to come up with a good reason why you lasered in on me and couldn't be bothered to look at anything else besides your stupid fucking theory. That was lazy well beyond day one standards.

Of course Bended Head was going to pick townies on day one. Because there's always reliable people like you who want to look busy and not actually do anything. That's the reason they're called scum.

My delay was one time only activated just by being picked. No good to anyone anymore. And all you lot followed the golden voice down the fairy path. The ONLY fucking reason I'm not voting for your retarded ass right off the bat is because that hammer was even scummier than you.

[Skintick]

Yes, I do feel better now. Thank you so much for asking.

[Bendal Home]

So much anger Skintick. Such rage may fool others, but it is clear you've gone mad with lust.

FOR THE NEXT TWO HOURS, SKINTICK, YOU MUST SPEAK AS YOU WOULD TO LOVERS, AS IF YOU WISH TO MAKE SWEET LOVE TO ALL THE GREASED UP MANMEAT YOU TUSSLE WITH IN THE YARD.

This post has been edited by Bendal Home: 30 July 2014 - 01:46 AM

[Kessobahn]

Meh.

::picks teeth::

[Kessobahn]

Interesting about the name choice (not relevant to the game, but still thought I'd share):


Ariaramnes (Old Persian: 𐎠𐎼𐎡𐎹𐎠𐎼𐎶𐎴[1] Ariyāramna,[2] "He who brings peace to the Aryans (i.e. Iranians)"[3]) was a great uncle of Cyrus the Great and the great-grandfather of Darius I, and perhaps the king of Parsa, the ancient core kingdom of Persia.



Laquearius
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The laquearius, laquerarius, or laqueator (plural laquearii, laquerarii, and laqueatores; literally, "snarer") was a class of Roman gladiator that fought with a lasso or noose (laqueus) in one hand and a poniard or sword in the other.[1][2] The laquearius appeared late in the history of the Roman games.[2] They may have made up a full-fledged gladiator class that fought actual bouts in the arena. If this was the case, the snarer likely followed the same tactics as the retiarius, a gladiator who wielded a throwing net and trident.[3] Such combat-oriented laquearii fought by attempting to snare their adversaries with the lasso to allow for a follow-up strike from the blade.[1] The snarer's armour was probably similar to that of the retiarius; it consisted mainly of a galerus armguard worn over the left shoulder.[4] Another possibility is that the laquearius was a kind of paegniarius, or clown. These men fought mock battles in the arena as comic relief between real matches.[3]

Most gladiator types were based on real-world antecedents.[5] Because the Romans did not use lassos on the battlefield, it is unlikely that the laquearius was based on a Roman model. Instead, it may have been based on a barbarian tribe known to the Romans to use lassos in combat, such as the Sagartians. Another possibility is that the noose gladiator was meant to represent an executioner. However, the fact that his backup weapon was sword makes this seem unlikely.[2]

[Skintick]

Bendal Home, on 30 July 2014 - 01:45 AM, said:

So much anger Skintick. Such rage may fool others, but it is clear you've gone mad with lust.

FOR THE NEXT TWO HOURS, SKINTICK, YOU MUST SPEAK AS YOU WOULD TO LOVERS, AS IF YOU WISH TO MAKE SWEET LOVE TO ALL THE GREASED UP MANMEAT YOU TUSSLE WITH IN THE YARD.

Oh that is easy. I'll simply say those words you've heard so often: I'm off to bed. Alone.

[Kessobahn]

Skintick, on 28 July 2014 - 11:17 PM, said:

Bendal Home, on 28 July 2014 - 08:12 PM, said:

Gladiators gather. This Ludus housed many champions in its time, and yet none greater stand before me on this day. I have secured position in the coming games! Two men to face each other in deadly contest. No quarter given, no mercy shown.SKINTICK AND DENESMET! TWO LEGENDS TO APPEASE CAPUA AND THE GODS. MAY GLORIOUS DEATH BRING RAIN.

You had a chat with the ladies huh? I rather enjoyed Lucretia and her mother. I can't claim credit for Messalina though. She's rather, uh, active shall we say? Kinky as well but then so are the other two.

References to these Roman woman are... disturbing.

Prazec Goul, on 29 July 2014 - 07:05 AM, said:

Aranatha, on 28 July 2014 - 10:19 PM, said:

Ghennan, on 28 July 2014 - 08:50 PM, said:

Skintick, on 28 July 2014 - 04:55 PM, said:

Bendal Home, on 28 July 2014 - 03:53 PM, said:

Prazec Goul, on 28 July 2014 - 03:50 PM, said:

Shhhh Ghennan don't use too big a word. You have confused the big dumb troll.

Do not fucking test me! You are slaves to be used and discarded on my order. Fucking slaves -- ungrateful c**ts!

Silly Batiatus. All this time spent watching your slaves and trying to drum up business. Keeps you up late doesn't it? Worry does that to a man especially a slaver.I bet you're so busy you haven't even noticed that your wife and both daughters are preggers.

Bendal Home, on 28 July 2014 - 08:12 PM, said:

Gladiators gather. This Ludus housed many champions in its time, and yet none greater stand before me on this day. I have secured position in the coming games! Two men to face each other in deadly contest. No quarter given, no mercy shown.SKINTICK AND DENESMET! TWO LEGENDS TO APPEASE CAPUA AND THE GODS. MAY GLORIOUS DEATH BRING RAIN.

After I mention that Skin may have been buddying up to bendal, bendal chooses to force skin to fight, but since the scum are generally better than town at combat he might be hoping for an early PI by having skin fight on day 1. This is also beneficial for them because today is the day, through sheer numbers, with the best chance of matching his scum up against one of the weaker town, who may not have received a scum combat boost role.I am very interested in how this battle comes out.(Yes I did spend a lot of time before the game thinking about what I would do if I got the tyrant role myself. Fuck you bendal!)Edit: Changed ) to (

We all should be interested in this. As for your thoughts on how the tyrant role might think, you might be right. He could also wait and hope to see if we get unlucky with the lynches first. However, I have to agree and think Batiatus might place one of his shields in the first fight as strategy.

Yes, I think this too, because they are less likely to be lynched during the day. I think lynching one of the fighters may be the best shot at getting one of his guards. I am assuming they are guards because we have to get them before getting him. I was going to say buddies but guards seem fitting.If we lynch one of the fighters, it will also answer what happens at night if one of the fighters is lynched.One thing I did want to say, is that we MUST lynch because if we don't we will run out of time to get Bendal.An idea that just occurred to me and want to put it out there, what if Bendal has yet to choose his guards? What if the winner of a fight gets that position? Ludicrous to think of maybe, was just a passing thought.

Why MUST we lynch. This caught my eye. Also, we didn't give Skin a chance to use his ability, but killing a competitor seemed to stall the games. Interesting strategy.

Skintick, on 29 July 2014 - 08:13 PM, said:

Tennes, on 28 July 2014 - 08:32 PM, said:

Bendal Home, on 28 July 2014 - 08:12 PM, said:

Gladiators gather. This Ludus housed many champions in its time, and yet none greater stand before me on this day. I have secured position in the coming games! Two men to face each other in deadly contest. No quarter given, no mercy shown.SKINTICK AND DENESMET! TWO LEGENDS TO APPEASE CAPUA AND THE GODS. MAY GLORIOUS DEATH BRING RAIN.

Whoever you are, you watch way too much Spartacus.

I was thinking Thunderdome.Still way too derivative Bendal Home.

Merrid, on 29 July 2014 - 07:29 PM, said:

Bendal Home, on 28 July 2014 - 11:29 PM, said:

Skintick, on 28 July 2014 - 11:17 PM, said:

You had a chat with the ladies huh? I rather enjoyed Lucretia and her mother. I can't claim credit for Messalina though. She's rather, uh, active shall we say? Kinky as well but then so are the other two.

Your words spill from mouth as shit from ass. SKINTICK MUST SPEAK IN RHYMES FOR THE REST OF THE DAYThe rest of you shit eating worms better watch your tongue, lest I have it ripped from fucking craw.

Someone more familiar with Spartacus can let us know who he is trying to claim to be here having screwed BH's wife and daughter and if that tallies with the ability to delay fights?

Spartacus schmartacus."Valeria Messalina,[1] sometimes spelled Messallina, (c. 17/20–48) was the third wife of the Roman Emperor Claudius.........With her accession to power, Messalina enters history with a reputation as ruthless, predatory and sexually insatiable"

What I said about Skintick's earlier quote. Just trying to dig through Roman history for clues.

[Ghennan]

Skintick, on 30 July 2014 - 01:18 AM, said:

That one is on your head Ghennan. Stupid fucking c**t. And the rest of you idjuts. Signalling? SIGNALLING????

IF there was any signalling going on:

Ghennan, on 28 July 2014 - 03:41 PM, said:

Bendal Home, on 28 July 2014 - 03:29 PM, said:

Great Gladiators of house Batiatus! A new day dawns, and our glory and fortune rise with the sun. Only by shedding blood, sweat and tears will the Gods split the heavens and bless us with fucking rain!

Who among you desire glory? Better yet, who among you desire women and wine? In these wall, all is within your grasp. Train hard and have your name -- and that of Batiatus -- rise to the heights of legend!.

All I ask is obedience. Defy the gods if you must, but do not fuck with me.

Tch, one full post and you haven't even started with the insults to our mothers or suggesting we are sexually inadequate or deviant. No overt taunts or insults or egging people on and revelling in your immunity.

GET IT TOGETHER MAN! Step it up!

If you don't make us all want to kill you every time we see you post you aren't being NEARLY megalomaniacal enough.

how much fucking plainer would it need to be??

Ghennan you ignorant fucktard you really need to come up with a good reason why you lasered in on me and couldn't be bothered to look at anything else besides your stupid fucking theory. That was lazy well beyond day one standards.

Of course Bended Head was going to pick townies on day one. Because there's always reliable people like you who want to look busy and not actually do anything. That's the reason they're called scum.

My delay was one time only activated just by being picked. No good to anyone anymore. And all you lot followed the golden voice down the fairy path. The ONLY fucking reason I'm not voting for your retarded ass right off the bat is because that hammer was even scummier than you.

Yeah it's on my head and I have no fucking problem with that.

You know why? Because lacking even the most basic of town roles we are left with relying ALMOST COMPLETELY on CFs and who bendal chooses to fight, you SERIOUSLY wanted us to lynch someone bendal did not choose on day one? someone WHO WE HAD ABSOLUTELY NO REASON TO VOTE FOR? And as to the "stupid fucking theory" most of the thread happened to agree with me, so I guess if you don't want stupid fucking theories to be tested you should provide better alternatives to stupid fucking theories, so people can see your giant brain at work and say "hey skintick is right that's a better idea!" but you didn't do that, you know how I know? Because that STUPID FUCKING THEORY was accepted as the best move for town.

[Prazec Goul]

Caught up. Iparth hammers and Ultama feels the need to add an extra vote. Don't see why. It was only 30 minutes later on the clock and he did notice that Iparth hammered.

[Prazec Goul]

So Skintick definitely had the ability, it was mentioned in the PS scenes, and actually is happening.

Now this could go one of two ways in my opinion, we could go after Kessobahn (My reasoning is now that Skintick is PI that Bendal will want him eliminated and that he would use his guard to do it. Banking on us not lynching a fighter for the second day in a row)

Or we could ignore Bendal's fight choices, lynch someone else and see a result of a fight for the first time.

[Prazec Goul]

We have to think how a guard would want to play this game, they are not going to want to stand out, they are going to want to stay off everyone's radar as much as possible. Easy to get into the later stages of the game by not making any waves, or venturing any strong opinions.

[Anomandaris]

Ghennan, on 29 July 2014 - 08:36 AM, said:

Anomandaris, on 29 July 2014 - 07:13 AM, said:

First, why do you think scum are better at combat than town?

Second, why do you think Batiatus knows his shields?

Blend, on 25 July 2014 - 04:05 PM, said:

D, on 25 July 2014 - 03:49 PM, said:

Is there also a lynch mechanic? Is there also a regular NK mechanic? Is the Tyrant a member of the scum?

The lynch will be the main way that town will be able to kill the Shields so that they can take down Batiatus.

There are no other NKs besides the Arena Fight results.

The scum team will be Batiatus (the Tyrant) and his Shields (most likely 2 of them). Everyone else will be the Town team.

The Shields will be able to be sent into Arena Fights a small, finite amount of times. They will be powerful, however they will still be beatable - so it would be a risk for Batiatus to do so. This should give town more of a chance to figure out who the Shields are besides complete guess-work.

There are a couple of 'roled' town members, meaning that there are a couple of town members who will have abilities that can help them win Arena Fights, or delay them.

Oh gee, I dunno.

Shit like this should be in the OP of the thread, not the sign up thread.

Anyway, I still don't like how you were playing on day 1, but I agree that it seems that Bendal must know his shields.

I don't agree that he would submit them in a fight on night one, because there is no reason for town to PI anyone who survives a duel.

[Ghennan]

Kessobahn, on 30 July 2014 - 02:36 AM, said:

Why MUST we lynch. This caught my eye. Also, we didn't give Skin a chance to use his ability, but killing a competitor seemed to stall the games. Interesting strategy.

We did give skin the opportunity to use his "ability", if you aren't following along then here are the cliff notes.

Killing one of the candidates did not stall the game. PS confirmed that if one of the candidates is lynched bendal chooses a new combatant to replace them. Bendal called on kessobhan to replace denesmet. There was no fight last night between skin and kesso.

Looks like skin was telling the truth with his ability, if it was up to bendal home to have the people not fight, he probably would have been able to select new fighters instead of being forced to keep the same ones.



I really dislike this current situation. We have skin who is PI, who is being put up against kesso who we have no information on. So do we ask kesso to not fight to keep around skin? If we do that, bendal will just throw start throwing town after town at him and we will basically be knowingly killing off our own team members just to keep one PIed player around. It would take us an absurdly long time to be able to actually do anything with the data those suicides provide us, and would still be completely limited to GUESSING which of the remaining players who had not yet fought were the scum. As bendal will feed town after town to be sacrificed to keep around this 1 player who has said they have no more abilities, I think we should have them both try to actually win.

There are 13 Players left alive: Anomandaris, Aranatha, Bendal Home, Eldat Pressen, Ghennan, Iparth Erule, Kessobahn, Merrid, Prazec Goul, Ryadd Eleis, Skintick, Tennes, Ultama

So assuming we lynch every day and ask skins opponents to live

Day 2 - 13 remain, skin + kess chosen, 11 no data on. 10 town, 3 scum - random lynch from players not selected, 18.1%
Day 3 - 11 remain, skin + X town chosen, 9 no data on. 8 town, 3 scum - random lynch from players not selected, 22%
Day 4 - 9 remain, skin + X town chosen, 7 no data on. 6 town, 3 scum - random lynch from players no selected, 25%
Day 5 - 7 remain, skin + X town chosen, 5 no data on. 4 town, 3 scum - D-day. 5 players who have yet to have any mechanical interaction with bendal home 40% to lynch one through a RNG.

I do NOT like those odds. Mod specifically mentioned that we have to use the night fight mechanics and CFs to prevent us resorting to TOTAL GUESSWORK. I propose we try and actually put those mechanics to use.

[Anomandaris]

Prazec Goul, on 30 July 2014 - 08:06 AM, said:

Caught up. Iparth hammers and Ultama feels the need to add an extra vote. Don't see why. It was only 30 minutes later on the clock and he did notice that Iparth hammered.

I agree with this, that was very odd.

[Anomandaris]

Anyway, I agree with the Denesmet vote if you people think that Bendal was going to put up a guard in night one.

I would suggest Skintick is RI, and I don't think we should believe Ghennan's 'always vote for fighters because one of them is sure to eventually be a guard!' theory he has going on.

What I'm not sure about, is if the Shields know each other. If they do, we can expect one to be out in front trying to guide people (cough, Ghennan, cough) and another lying low trying to cruise control (lowpost) to victory. Current lowposters are:

Merrid at 6

Aranatha at 6

Iparth Erule at 8

Kessobahn at 9

(me and tennes at 11)




I just did a read-up, and I don't remember anything about Merrid, and the only thing I remember about Aranatha was that he seemed to have not read the thread and was asking if anyone else thought Skin's reveal might be fake, after 2 pages of people arguing about it.

[Prazec Goul]

I also dislike the way Ultama went from 6 posts in almost 30 hours of the game, to 15 posts in a short space of time. Someone looking at their post count? It puts him right smack middle of the pack.

[Prazec Goul]

Anomandaris, on 30 July 2014 - 08:40 AM, said:

Anyway, I agree with the Denesmet vote if you people think that Bendal was going to put up a guard in night one.

I would suggest Skintick is RI, and I don't think we should believe Ghennan's 'always vote for fighters because one of them is sure to eventually be a guard!' theory he has going on.

What I'm not sure about, is if the Shields know each other. If they do, we can expect one to be out in front trying to guide people (cough, Ghennan, cough) and another lying low trying to cruise control (lowpost) to victory. Current lowposters are:

Merrid at 6

Aranatha at 6

Ultama at 6

Iparth Erule at 8

Kessobahn at 9

(me and tennes at 11)




I just did a read-up, and I don't remember anything about Merrid, and the only thing I remember about Aranatha was that he seemed to have not read the thread and was asking if anyone else thought Skin's reveal might be fake, after 2 pages of people arguing about it.

I just added Ultama to your list. He went from zero to hero in the later stages of the day. That is mightily suspicious combined with his need to add that extra vote.

[Prazec Goul]

Ghennan, on 30 July 2014 - 08:23 AM, said:

Kessobahn, on 30 July 2014 - 02:36 AM, said:

Why MUST we lynch. This caught my eye. Also, we didn't give Skin a chance to use his ability, but killing a competitor seemed to stall the games. Interesting strategy.

We did give skin the opportunity to use his "ability", if you aren't following along then here are the cliff notes.

Killing one of the candidates did not stall the game. PS confirmed that if one of the candidates is lynched bendal chooses a new combatant to replace them. Bendal called on kessobhan to replace denesmet. There was no fight last night between skin and kesso.

Looks like skin was telling the truth with his ability, if it was up to bendal home to have the people not fight, he probably would have been able to select new fighters instead of being forced to keep the same ones.



I really dislike this current situation. We have skin who is PI, who is being put up against kesso who we have no information on. So do we ask kesso to not fight to keep around skin? If we do that, bendal will just throw start throwing town after town at him and we will basically be knowingly killing off our own team members just to keep one PIed player around. It would take us an absurdly long time to be able to actually do anything with the data those suicides provide us, and would still be completely limited to GUESSING which of the remaining players who had not yet fought were the scum. As bendal will feed town after town to be sacrificed to keep around this 1 player who has said they have no more abilities, I think we should have them both try to actually win.

There are 13 Players left alive: Anomandaris, Aranatha, Bendal Home, Eldat Pressen, Ghennan, Iparth Erule, Kessobahn, Merrid, Prazec Goul, Ryadd Eleis, Skintick, Tennes, Ultama

So assuming we lynch every day and ask skins opponents to live

Day 2 - 13 remain, skin + kess chosen, 11 no data on. 10 town, 3 scum - random lynch from players not selected, 18.1%
Day 3 - 11 remain, skin + X town chosen, 9 no data on. 8 town, 3 scum - random lynch from players not selected, 22%
Day 4 - 9 remain, skin + X town chosen, 7 no data on. 6 town, 3 scum - random lynch from players no selected, 25%
Day 5 - 7 remain, skin + X town chosen, 5 no data on. 4 town, 3 scum - D-day. 5 players who have yet to have any mechanical interaction with bendal home 40% to lynch one through a RNG.

I do NOT like those odds. Mod specifically mentioned that we have to use the night fight mechanics and CFs to prevent us resorting to TOTAL GUESSWORK. I propose we try and actually put those mechanics to use.

We don't choose who goes into the Arena, Bendal does. Why would he keep putting Skintick in?