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Wisest of the Noldor
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"How much longer, Nerwen?" The speaker, a mesh of light woven into human form, stared anxiously down the long corridor.
Her companion was working at a panel set into the wall; under her fingers glowing arrays of numbers shifted into new configurations. "Nearly there… I think… just got to give them their activation codes…" Mostly, the two flickering, light-traced figures resembled women, one tall, one shorter, but sometimes they dissolved altogether into points like swarms of fireflies, re-forming into other shapes: a female Elf; a Sphinx. Before and behind them, lines of light formed a grid of interlocking paths, stretching into the far distance. Not that there was any real distance here. Not that anything was real here at all. "…And we're done. Three AIs, re-programmed to help our friends." "Will this work? "Should. Though I'd have liked more time to de-bug H.U.N.T.E.R; still, can't be helped. Now for the main course. You've got Cop and Lommy's data, Agan?" "Here," Aganzir passed her a disc, which, like everything else in this non-place was formed of lines and specks of light. "I'm sure they got closer to the Interface than anyone yet, before that… that *thing* got them." "The Adult Friend Finder," said Nerwen with a shudder, as she pressed the disc to the panel, which seemed to absorb it. "What a way to go. Let's hope it wasn't in vai–" She gasped, as the screen changed again, showing a maze, a single, twisting line of red highlighting a pathway. "Agan! Look! It's the way out!" "Wait. Did you hear that?" "What?" Then Nerwen heard it too: a low droning and clicking, rapidly approaching from both directions. The two Downers stared at each other. They had no words. The things that came into sight from the nearest side-passages were something like spiders; spiders as they might be conceived by an infinitely mad, infinitely vicious machine. In this place where all was made of light, they were darkness, absence, except for the evil glow of the clustered eyes they turned on their prey. For a long moment, hunters and quarry stared at each other, unmoving. Then the creatures scuttled forward, belching out clouds of what looked like black smoke. When this reached Nerwen and Aganzir their digital forms had an instant to contort in agony before they dissolved into meaningless flecks of electronic noise. Then there was nothing. 101010101010101010101010101010101010 In the real world, in intensive-care wards thousands of miles apart, the jagged lines tracing the vital signs of two women in unexplained comas suddenly went flat. 101010101010101010101010101010101010 Living: Inziladun Galadriel55 Sally Legate Rune Kitanna Boromir88 Blind Guardian Loslote Morsul the Dark Shasta Dead Coppermirror, Lommy– seized by Adult Friend Finder. Nerwen, Aganzir– poisoned by webcrawlers. Night One has begun. Rôles will be sent out during the Night. If you don’t get one, you’re an ordo.
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Wisest of the Noldor
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The spider-like programs met at the place where their victims had stood. Their jaws opened and closed, as if they were frustrated to find nothing substantial to bite.
“humans tricky," said one, red eye-lights smouldering. "try to leave. tom angry." "Dammit, I'm mad!" This one's eyes shone a baleful electric blue. "Never odd or even!" Something, they agreed, must be done, for the sake of their glorious cyber-paradise. Or, as the blue-eyed spider-bot put it, "Are we not drawn onward, we few, drawn onward to new era?” 101010101010101010101010101010101010 When not occupied in amusing their spambot masters, the captured Downers were kept in digital holding cells. Discouraged, helpless, those unlucky enough to be singled out had no defence when the spider-droids burst into their cells and sunk their fangs into their virtual forms. As before, the human shapes disintegrated– but this time, their glow remained, spreading into the fangs of their attackers, and from there over their entire arachnoidal bodies, as though the spiderbots were sucking up the very life-force of their victims. In a sense this was true. A moment later the vast many-legged shapes wavered, collapsed and re-assembled themselves into the images of the Downers whose essential data they had absorbed. 101010101010101010101010101010101010 As the slaves filed out of their cells for their first "day" of electronic toil, most failed to notice anything odd about their companions. They were, after all, both fearful and disoriented– not to mention depressed to find even more of their friends had been captured than they had realised. At least, many people had an idea there were two or three extra faces in their group. But that was too upsetting to think about very much. Only the Hacker took note of the rather curious exchange between the slaves marching behind him. "extra slaves not slaves. extra slaves bots. bad bots. bad bots help humans. tom not like bad bots." "Tom! Speak like a human, or you won't fool them for a microcycle! You've got the programming for it now. Do you hear me talking in palindromes any more?" "Sorry, Lucy, tom do best– er, I mean, I'll do my best…" "Well, well!" said the Hacker to himself. He glanced over his shoulder, but the speakers had already turned into another passage. “Now, they sound like my kind of "people". If only I could let them know…" 101010101010101010101010101010101010 Day One has begun. You may post. Living: Inziladun Galadriel55 Sally Legate Rune Kitanna Boromir88 Blind Guardian Loslote Morsul the Dark Shasta Dead Coppermirror, Lommy– seized by Adult Friend Finder. Nerwen, Aganzir– poisoned by webcrawlers.
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A Voice That Gainsayeth
Join Date: Nov 2006
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All right. It's been too long since the paths of Matrix, ee, I mean, you know, have brought me into such a, hmm, "electronic village", and despite the grave situation of the spambot invasion (though so far I haven't been redirected to the Adult Friend Finder from this thread, at least), I am happy to be here.
Introductions aside, looks like we have quite a bit of work on our hands. Just for clarification, maybe our dead Moddess program can confirm just for general knowledge that we really have all the roles that are mentioned on the admin thread? And also the number of the Spambots? In any case that leaves rather packed village (or, however it should be called... "server") in terms of most of the roles being special. I guess we can just expect a bloodbath. So, effectively - even though there isn't really much to start with at this point... well, I'm just looking forward to read everyone's posts. To finish the way I started, it's been too long...
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And yes, we do have all the roles. I am not going to tell you how many bots there are, however. So there. ![]()
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Adult Friend Finder, was there ever a more devilish foe? I doubt it, for aren't we all here in an attempt to find friends and likeminded people?
Anyways, we are not many left here, the number of casualties are worrying. We will need to be swift and efficient. So let me start of with the first raised eyebrow (it probably does not qualify as an acusation): Quote:
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Because Rune says "ooo Legate is suspicious (but not really suspicious) because I'm not throwing accusations around or anything, but rule clarification can be used as a smokescreen" Then Shasta says "I think because of the narration there's probably two bots" which looked to me like an interpretation and not trying to lull anyone into any sense of security. Because if we manage to take down two bots and the game is still on, well we just play as we have always played until we find the third. Shasta's statement didn't seem nefarious or lully to me at all. Quote:
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As for G55 I see her very much throwing some randomness out there which could be A) her trying to confuse the village B) her starting conversation so we have trails to follow Day 2. Quote:
DL falls at about 6 AM my time and unless my dog gets me out of bed at 5 I'll be sleeping through the DL. I have about 5 hours (6 maybe) and then I'll have to vote. And I get the feeling it will be a flimsy, illogical vote based on the discussion thus far because I hate the idea of abstaining from voting.
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
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This is an unfortunate event and I'm going to blame Sally, because I always blame Sally. ![]()
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So we're in cyberspace, huh? Well, at least it's not Pinterest.
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A spambot might consider openly questioning the number of its kind, certainly. So might the innocent, though. At any rate, it's rather vexing to not know what we're facing. I guess I'll go on the assumption that there are three 'bots. Since there are only 11 players, and there's a Hacker to assist them, that would seem reasonable.
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
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Not feeling well actually left work early, so day one will be slim for me. Rune already tossing up a slight suspicion on Legate, Can't say much about it since he didn't say "Legate is a bot" But setting someone up early for a lynch would be a pretty good strategy especially if done so subtly.
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Join Date: Nov 2007
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Blossom of Dwimordene
Join Date: Oct 2010
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As of now, impressions are...
Inziladun - for someone who was so active, he made very few actual statements. But then the same could probably be said of myself. No opinion as of now, but at the moment I'm for keeping him alive.
Galadriel55 - my lovely self. Sally - glad you made it despite the date confusion. Waiting for a few more posts with more substance before I form an opinion. Legate - nothing there to raise my hackles. Don't find his posts alarming. Rune - don't like some things he said, but then I never liked his playing style. Will wait till next morning RL. Kitanna - makes some good observations, but seems to comment from afar, if you know what I mean. Doesn't seem to get in the heat of things. Which is... I don't even know... antagonizing? Not the word. Whatever. But not significant enough to be alarming. Just a surface-level impression. Boromir88 - his only post isn't very telling. Blind Guardian - yoo hoo! Where aaaaare you? Loslote - her post is sound and I like her train of thought. Definitely keep her alive today. Morsul the Dark - well away from my suspect list. Keep alive. Shasta - too little to go on.
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Blossom of Dwimordene
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Back and reading.
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Blossom of Dwimordene
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Not Wolves:
Galadriel55 Legate Morsul Unknown: Kitanna Boromir88 Blind Guardian Shasta Now, some explaining to do. I'm supposed to have 3 dreams, which is why I was surprised Kit assumed there would be 2 names. By the way, Kit, I really want to hear that explanation. I doubt you'd guess at the dream so accurately if you were a wolf, and at any rate why then not kill the dreamer? I think it was more of a coincidence that my third dream is dead the Night of dreaming. But still, why did you assume 2? Morsul, I must apologize for the cyber screaming. I just had a few plans in my head, but most involved a Ranger. Only one was left that would involve only you, but it required you to not be revealed. I should have somehow indicated that to you before. My dead dream was Inzil. He kept returning to the Seer idea after I tried to steer the conversation away, and some of the things he said gave me creepy overtones. Sounded like a wolf signalling to a cobbler, though potentially a cobbler signalling to a wolf. I needed to know if I'm barking up the wrong tree. He seriously freaked me out with those potential hints, but then turned out to be neither, so that was quite a fail on my part. Part of the reason I'm revealing now is that, although I'm more than half-convinced at this point that there are two bots, as I've said numerous times before, don't ignore that third one that will stab you in the back when you think he's not there. Also, because both my brain and my instincts are evidently not functioning properly this game, so I turn it over to the group effort. Hopefully with everyone involved we will be better able to weed out the wolves, cause, like, my brain alone is clearly not enough. Finally, going back to that quote I promised: Quote:
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
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possible bots
Kitanna Boromir88 presuming innocent Galadriel55 Morsul the Dark Shasta Legate Possible Hacker BG SO I'm thinking Boro, anyone else for that?
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Guardian of the Blind
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I don't know man. I agree that if we lynch someone everyone should vote for that person, but Boro hasn't posted enough to raise my suspicion.
Not to mention I still say you're a wolf/bot and I still don't know what G55 is. Okay Galadriel, who was your third then? Morsul, Inzil and... [So DL is like 5 or 6 AM my time and I don't even wake up until 10AM or so. So someone better vote by 12 or 1 my time because I don't really want to be the first. ![]() -X'ed with G55 |
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
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Legate is in her known not wolf list.
No one coutered either of our reveals... so I'm willing to believe her. Kitanna's getting bumped down to hacker and BG up to Bot.
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Guardian of the Blind
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What did Kit do?
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Forgot about a physics assignment I needed to finish, so here I still am much later than I thought.
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Posted the last one without reading to the end, so here are some other thoughts before I savour Boro's post.
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I think neither. "Hackers" is not meant as specific hackers, but rather a type of detectable material, if you know what I mean. Saying "I like apples" when I only have one apple doesn't make it a contradictory statement. Same here.
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Blossom of Dwimordene
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I'll change my list a little bit:
Known innocent (ie gifted) Galadriel55 Morsul Known Not Wolf (ordo/cobbler, either way not worth a lynch IMO) Legate Other: Kitanna Boromir88 Blind Guardian Shasta Of these, I either find all not that suspicious, or get paranoid about all 4. Kitanna - very sensible, but still very cold and distant. She strikes me innocent, but then I get paranoid and think that she might be a wolf keeping her paws dry and her head out of danger. A bit under the radar too. Boro - yesterDay my suspicions rose a notch. He posted in a way that sounded like he was diverting attention from a wolf (possibly himself) onto a cobbler. That could also be cobblery behaviour, though. Then there's Inzil's vote floating in the background, but then it could also be a frame done by the wolves. And he has posted so little that how am I even supposed to think anything of him? BG - does and says some not good-looking things, to say the least, but some of that I think is attributed to her lack of practice with WW. But then I don't know. Maybe they are intentional. Sometimes I feel that her neweness after her break from WW excuses that behaviour, and sometimes I just think it doesn't. Shasta - no read. At all. He is suspicious by default. However, I noticed before that he tends to vote for the wolves more often when he is a wolf himself than when he is an innocent. It's the craziest reason, but considering that he only voted for innocents makes him a bit less wolfish. But then knowing him even better than that, he's tricksy and wily and would just change it up a bit to avoid predictable patterns. Help me out here, guys. EDIT: xed with Morsul
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tally
Shasta - Boro
BG - G55 Morsul - Boro 2 Legate - Boro 3 Left to vote: Galadriel55, Kitanna, Boromir88
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Fools think they have it all figured out. Think they can scapegoat me as if it makes up for all the blunder. Think that a fake seer-hacker isn't having a twisted game with all of us. Beware. I see something grave!
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