It shows up in the fucking votecount! Something from the flavor environment shows up in the votecount. This is unprecedented in a Meph game and especially in a bastard Meph game.
Why aren't any of you more interested in seeing what happens? Do any of you have any reason not to vote for it that isn't just speculation? Anyone? Anyone?
Yeah, it's cool, and unprecedented. But what are the next steps, in your mind? Keeping a vote or two on it is unlikely to have any additional effect (or if you think otherwise, say so). Keeping several more votes so it has majority will have the effect Meph already described: the second-most voted will be forced to activate the orb anyway (i.e., be lynched). While this second option does seem interesting, I think the price is too high: too many people voting skeleton instead of scumpicks means the lynch vote is not representative of who is scummiest. Do you think we should? Why?
Can you think of any other useful stuff to do with the skeleton other than voting it? Or that voting it without it achieving majority will reveal something new? Can anyone think of other things beside the skeleton that could be vote targets or otherwise find a new venue for flavour exploration?
I don't know what the next step is because I don't know what voting the fucking skeleton is going to do.
If it does nothing, whatever.
If it does something, cool, ask me the question again.
If the skeleton stands up and does a jig and pulls a 6-pack out of his rib cage, even better.
But I don't know what's going to happen until the skeleton gets fucking lynched.
Mephansteras never said for certain that the person second highest in votes would be the one to help the skeleton activate the Orb,
he merely presented it as one option, so I think it's ultimately up to us how we decide who helps the skeleton along. I say Tiruin do it,
because he already volunteered. And I think he's scum, so if the Orb fries him, I get everything I want out of Day 1.
And no, I can't think of any other venues for flavor exploration, but why bother with anything else when the skeleton's the only thing that did anything.
Since it bears repeating, the skeleton is the only flavor exploration that actually did anything. I don't know why so many of you are shitting on the only thing that showed any results.
Jim: I'm not interested in voting the skeleton at the moment because I want a baseline Judgment. Also, I think that the votes are moot, since the lynchee can effectively determine whether or not they use the skeleton to Activate independent of any votes. I get less sure of the second point the more I think about it though; since it's possible that touching the Orbs has nothing to do with activating them. We don't know what the activation mechanism is, though I guess we'll find out either when the statue responds or at lynch time.
Do you know how an Orb gets activated? Do you?
No, you don't. You can't make any assumptions about how who we select activates it so there's no way you can say that the lynchee can just touch bone finger to Orb as the first thing he does.
If you want to find out what the Orbs do, what's stopping us from learning how they work by using the skeleton? It's a perfect test dummy.
Jim, Shakerag: One question, why not try to save the Skeleton for tomorrow? The current standing obstacle are four orbs. Four days with the use of one orb each day. I don't think Meph said that the same orb can be used twice or something.
Why not today?
Why do you want to stall using the skeleton?
What do you know that you're not telling anyone else, scumbucket?
@Jim: Tiruin is stupid post. Part of the question asked (@ZU) was standard RVS, part joke-type. Know that this is practically my first Bastard game which I can comprehend fully and one where the puzzle stimulates much thought. Now, you've a vote on that skeleton because...it can be voted? Hmm. Well, since you're the pioneer of skeleton-voting, why aren't you pressing your target for information, or the secondary target [statue//Mod-related] for answers? Seemed like you were just goading me there for...giving off questions.
I was giving you shit for asking completely useless questions. You have not satisfactorily answered my concerns.
Man, I want you dead so badly. Almost enough to make me want to switch my vote from your precious fucking skeleton.
When? When do we see what happens? When enough people vote it? When someone votes it for long enough? When it's lynched? Meph has said somebody will need to touch it to the orb if it's lynched anyway, and I believe he's said that whoever's lynched can choose to touch it with the skelly as well, so it seems unlikely that it'll do anything except lynch the toucher. Do you have any reason to vote it that isn't speculation?
IT SHOWS UP IN THE FUCKING VOTE COUNTNOT
SPECULATION
God damn, it's like you're opposing it because you have to, and you somehow think the best way to go about that is to parrot me to my face and say "we dont no wat wil happpen so we bettter not try"
Also, isn't flavor working at all unprecedented? I didn't notice any in the last bastard Para. Why not focus on conjuring shoes for ourselves or examining the environment more?
Try it all you want. There hasn't been any reason to think yet that RPing actually does anything useful and the mod's word on the matter makes it almost certain that it won't.
No one's stopping you from trying your RP. Not in the same way you're trying to stop me.