Brief discussion of night actions perhaps. I don't think we want to each specify what we're doing, but I do think generally top targets if Lift flips scum would be, in some order:

JMich
Leonard
QA (not me, obvs)

Slightly lower I'd put (though others can disagree):
Hijack
Wyrm

I don't think there's anything to be gained from dedo other than alignment, and i think everyone and their mom has already been to my house. If Lift flips scum CSP will as well so I don't know what would be gained.

If Lift flips town then, frankly, you're not going to take my advice anyway. ;)

I know exactly how you feel (if you are telling the truth that is). But please, keep it in your pocket, if you make a mistake now we are all lost.

If he is town he should sit on it. He makes a mistake, we are pretty much done for.

Prepost reload: Well it's all a moot point anyway, it is all over for Lifthrasil. What will we awaken to on the morrow I wonder.

Then what was your plan for the game ahead?

Did you just bus you buddy, mate?


Anyway, the die is cast. Let's see what happens. Good luck to everyone!

Huh. Surprising. I'm still quite confident but admit to some butterflies since I've made it at least a decent chunk my fault if this is wrong.

Well, Yog's not online, and may need time to write something up. I guess if Lift has anything else to add now's the time.

Ah well, either way I guess I can go do RL work. My boss might appreciate that.

pre-post reload: I feel pretty confident that if (when, hopefully) Lift flips scum it will be down to deciding either:

CSP + ____

or

CSP, plus a second ____/QA team.

FWIW, I was right on D3 last time that it was either Flub SK + Yog scum, or scum CSP + Trent, I just totally miscalculated which combo and how to attack it. But Trent was right that I let cockiness get the best of me that game. Trying to avoid that here and keep going one step at a time.

But in case you wake without me, I think the focus is filling in that one blank, and if you can't do it D4, then the fallback is lynching CSP. Beyond that it's just one step at a time. CSP can't do the NK without it being apparent he didn't use his power, so he's seemingly at least somewhat contained.

Of course, all that's useless if Lift doesn't flip scum. So I'm more worried about Dusk than Dawn, myself.

Last game Yog was allowed to both NK and use his abilities, so we can't take that for granted.

Oh futch, was offline for a couple hours, and that was hammer.

Uh.

(rips up massive no-lynch flavor post)

brb.

:P

Part 1


At last, the Grand Wizard stood. “We can delay no longer. Who is your choice?”

The party pushed forward Lifthrasil. yogsloth looked him over quickly. “Good enough.” Quickly conjuring some rope, he bound Lift’s hands behind his back, tying a cord around his neck and cinching it tight to prevent escape.

Lifthrasil merely gazed at the wizard, bemused. “Wizard,” he said softly.

yogsloth glanced at him. “Hmmm? What was that… What was your name again? Bob? Bill? Curly Joe? I can’t seem to recall what you told me earlier… Ah, doesn’t matter. Your name is Spiderfood now.”

Lifhrasil, despite his impending doom, chuckled.

Giving him a surprised glance, the wizard finished his bindings, and with a tug jerked him forward. “It appears you might not have quite understood the gravity of the situation.” He then led the party into the terrifying chamber.

“Wizard. You are making a mistake. A terrible, terrible mistake,” assured Lifthrasil calmly.

“Quiet, Spiderfood. The grownups need to talk now,” retorted the wizard.

Stopping a few feet into the chamber, the wizard called: “Unguent! Unguent! You have felt us coming. We must gain passage into the tunnels beyond. You will stand aside. We command you!”

A soft, sinister chuckle rolled outward from the darkness. “You… command me…” The voice was one of deepest putridity and decay. “Indeed.”

Silence reigned.

Then, at last, the chamber itself moved. Which is to say, what the party has mistaken for the far edge of the chamber uncurled itself, and with thundering speed, scuttled forward. Unguent the Lubricated, primal Evil, servant to the neo-Demon himself, stood before them, forty feet high, dripping in slime, stinking of damnation.

“Holy crap! LOOK at that CGI! It’s amazing! It looks like it’s really he…” started CSPVG, before a quick punch to the ribs from HijacK silenced him.

“Sssssoooo. You would pass?” Hissed the Spider, the sound seeming to come from everywhere and nowhere. “And what would you offer?”

yogsloth stood as straight as he could. “I lead this party of brave adventurers. As their leader, mentor, and life coach, I betray their trust and offer you a sacrifice.” He jerked Lifthrasil forward. “You may feast upon his fear and his flesh!” The wizard turned quickly back to the rest of the party and whispered fiercely under his breath: “Get ready to go!”

The Spider considered it, and leaned in to examine the sacrifice.

Lifthrasil turned to face yogsloth once more. “Last chance, wizard,” he began. “You have no idea what you are about to do. Better to feed your pathetic self to the monster.”

yogsloth looked at him, seeming to see Lifthrasil for the first time…

And then the Spider promptly turned around and lumbered with surprising speed to the chamber wall, climbing into the impenetrable darkness above.

“What the actual f***?” blurted yogsloth, the shock on his face impossible to fabricate. He turned, stunned, to face the party. Equally stunned (except for Lift, who only gave another chuckle), the party returned his slack-jawed stare. “I suggest,” he began, “We not look a gift spider in the mouth. RUN!!!”

And so they did. Though it took only moments, it seemed to the terrified party as if it were an hour’s dash across the monumental chamber. Far above them, the Spider sat, twittering, just beyond their eyes’ ability to perceive.

At last, they made it into the corridor beyond… and then far enough in that they felt safe from Unguent’s bulk.

Heaving and panting, they collapsed about the floor, confused and reeling…

TO BE CONTINUED shortly...

Bump?

Intense!

Lol - he's not going to mod-kill himself. Presumably.

But I agree with dedo - Totally intense.

I don't know whether to be giddy that Lift is so ominous, or scared that I've made a horrible mistake.

Whirling around, yogsloth approached Lifthrasil, his eyes wide and terrified. “I must… You can’t… I…”

Lift smirked.

Slowly, yogsloth drew the crystal from his robe. “I must know,” he whispered, touching it to Lifthrasil’s forehead.

This time, it was the crystal that screamed. A powerful, sizzling jolt of energy passed from Lifthrasil to the crystal and back again, arcing higher and higher, brighter and brighter, until the party was forced to turn away in horror lest their eyes be burned from their sockets.

And then it was over.

Lifthrasil crumpled to the ground, all life gone from his mortal shell.

In an unsteady, shaking voice, the crystal spoke:

Lifthrasil is dead, he was: the flimsy mortal skin covering Zarthax the Terrible, Embodiment of Evil (NEUTRAL VIGILANTE) STR 5 / AGI 5 / CHR 5 / INT 5

It then proceeded to berate the wizard for even trying such a stupid stunt, and that it couldn’t possibly hope to contain a soul such as that, and only had the barest taste before releasing the energy into the cosmos, and what the hell was the party thinking rolling around with Evil Incarnate in the first place, and so on and so on until yogsloth finally stuffed the damn thing back into his robe to shut it up.

“I… I… must go. I have some… research… some research to do…” he stammered softly. “You had best make camp here. You will be in close quarters… but… I am sure you are all very tired.”

And with that, he popped right on out into thin air.

The party was dumbfounded.

Then, just for good measure, the wizard popped right back in again and snapped, “And do try not to kill each other tonight?”

And then popped right out again.

IT IS NOW NIGHT.

Please stop posting, yadda yadda yadda, send in the night actions, etc.

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OFFICIAL “WELL THAT WAS A CLOSE ONE" VOTE COUNT

Lifthrasil – 5 (bler144, Leonard03, Bookwyrm627, HijacK, CSPVG)
CSPVG – 1 (Lifthrasil)
No-lynch – 1 (JMich)

Not voting – QuadrAlien, dedoporno

With 9 alive, it took 5 to lynch

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Ahhhh, I'm leaving now and I don't know what's happening!!!!!

Oh, and night will probably be a bit shorter. Call it 48 hours max, but I'd like to get it done in 24-36 if possible. You never quite know with weekends.