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[Tiruin]

The Overgrown Nexus
A pentagonal chamber spreads out before you. Here there is a toppled pillar, a deep pool, a heap of vines in front of a passage to the northeast. A scuffed Statue of Nak Leth towers in front of the cracked brickwork of the north wall. A passage leads southeast to what looks like a Statue Hall. The room is illuminated by the opening back east.

The dead body of explorer NQT, strangled to death and turned at an unnatural angle.

The dead body of Zombie Urist lies here, strangled to death.

Carved into the floor at various points (randomly ordered):

book
Book
Items: 1 Elephant Gun (already loaded), 3 additional Bullets. Vote for someone to lynch tomorrow and I'll attempt to shoot them.
Miniature Toolkit for deactivating/activating traps.
Old bullwhip, stiff leather cord, makes a great sound.
knife
Broken unlit lantern
Matches (6), Whiskey (12)
Colt 45-70, loaded with six bullets. Deadly.

The following explorers (known by their nicknames) are here:
-Blackheartkabal
-Dustan Hache
-Fillipk
-TheBiggerFish
-Roo

You search the pillar. There's nothing of worth on it, but as you feel around it, the whole thing topples over. As it does, it sets another crack in the brick wall.

TheBiggerFish, come to the Statue Hall and heal me tonight. I'll stay here and look around a bit.

You planning to search anything specific or...? We've a sum potential of 40+ actions. Has everything been put under a search order? I've seen nothing in as far as I can reason out that planning searches to items is anything bad.

Ideally I'd move to the new room northeast of the Nexus, but unless I get healed this phase I'll die, and I'd prefer for that not to happen.

What room?
I'd like someone to work on the Brick wall there since I believe that's another way deeper in.

Judging the pentagon, I'm inclined to think the wall/sides are NE/East/SE/NE/West/SW
NQT: What passages can we obviously note lead or go from the Nexus?

[Tiruin]

Also inferring from the stuff:
> Someone should try the vines--as far as I see, nobody has posted about the vines.
> Deep pool also hasn't been given any public notice.
> What happened to the Nak Leth statue again? Maybe we can topple that on the brickwork! :V

[4maskwolf]

The deep pool was, in fact, searched, because I tried searching it but someone had already done so.

[Tiruin]

The deep pool was, in fact, searched, because I tried searching it but someone had already done so.

Anyone please make a summary of these notes? ._.
...Also why not give your details of it? I doubt something already searched = 'NQT telling you But this has already been searched!'.

[notquitethere]

NQT: Will people's items, if they die within a subphase, be seen automatically at the end-phase-report?

Ordinarily, no. Usually dead people's items have to be looted from their corpses.

Hmm, maybe a reword.
Presuming a dim room--do we automatically know if a body has items on it or anything? (Also for curiosity: Can we write on bodies akin to letter B. in 'writing messages'?). What if the room is lit?

No, but you'll know if a body had been searched as their room description will change. You can write on bodies or leave messages on them, sure.

A room being lit changes nothing in this regard, it just means people will be able to see you act.

The exits from the Nexus are listed in the room description. I'm not going to give you info for a room you're not currently in.

[Tiruin]

Or I'll do it since we've got an hour or so left and it's a timezone fish for most other folks :v

Spoiler: Room Descriptions (click to show/hide)

The Overgrown Nexus
A pentagonal chamber spreads out before you. Here there is a toppled pillar, a deep pool, a heap of vines in front of a passage to the northeast. A scuffed Statue of Nak Leth towers in front of the cracked brickwork of the north wall. A passage leads southeast to what looks like a Statue Hall. The room is illuminated by the opening back east.

The dead body of explorer NQT, strangled to death and turned at an unnatural angle.

The dead body of Zombie Urist lies here, strangled to death.

Carved into the floor at various points (randomly ordered):

book
Book
Items: 1 Elephant Gun (already loaded), 3 additional Bullets. Vote for someone to lynch tomorrow and I'll attempt to shoot them.
Miniature Toolkit for deactivating/activating traps.
Old bullwhip, stiff leather cord, makes a great sound.
knife
Broken unlit lantern
Matches (6), Whiskey (12)
Colt 45-70, loaded with six bullets. Deadly.
~~~
The Statue Room
Three Statues of Eternal Warriors guarding the temple stand here in various states of disrepair. There's the Spearman, the Priest, and the Assassin. A delicate mural spreads across one wall. A depressed panel takes up the floor space near the passage leading Northwest back to the nexus.

((Taken from BHK || Substituted my desc))

Spoiler: TBF has the medkit. (click to show/hide)

Sorry I'm late, (thread) queueueueues and all.

I took an item and searched some other places.

I got 2 urgency.

Perseus, what's going on with this bleeding out thing?

Spoiler: Nak Leth's "scuffed" status may be due to having been written on (fillipk's search) (click to show/hide)

Searching the statue, you see the gaping eye sockets and elongated face of Nak Leth. Someone has scratched into the side: "The Vatican sends its best, yet I find myself unarmed and underprepared."

^ Second opinion confirmed by Dustan Hache

Spoiler: The strangle kill may be the Mafia teamkill--inferred that it is by item (click to show/hide)

I mean considering that if it is a teamkill power, it is best done by item since there's no way we can just 'you, act this!' unlike in vanilla games.

It appears that the strangle kill is the this game's version of the scum nightkill as that is how NQT was killed in the opening of the game.

Spoiler: Persus may have been the one to activate the panel (click to show/hide)

Revision of things:
NQT just sent me an update to the room description informing me that the panel was depressed when I entered and takes up floor space near the passage between the Nexus and Statue Hall.  So I'm guessing that Persus entered first and got nailed by some "on-entry" trap, which is why he's bleeding out.

Persus13: is this true?

Nope, I saw the panel sink when I walked in though. See my response to TDS for the bleeding out stuff.

Persus, did you enter as your first action? What happened to you? So Persus, what were your actions last night?

Entering the Statue hall was my last action, I was stabbed in the Nexus. Two of my actions were to search stuff and those failed, but I did find a path to the northeast from the Nexus.

I'm saying 'he did it' because of the tense of the verb he used. Outlined in orange.


Persus is bleeding out.
BHK has matches.
Fillipk and TBF has an unlit lantern. Fillipk requires his lantern to be fixed (unsure if he can fix his own lantern?)

ZU has been strangled--unknown if his items are looted.
NQT requires a burial or consecration or something. [This is me inferring things because statues and he noted a priestess in the flavor; unsure if it's useful but this is a list of notes. Not -that-hard-maybe- facts.]

Spoiler: General Action Plan (click to show/hide)

I plan to see what ZU had on him, anyone else going to try for that because I loot pretty fast.

I am of the belief that 'delicate mural' in the Statue room = something easily ripped Or it's just something delicate.
NQT: May we ask what the adjective pertains to in this context?
Also as an aside, is there a deadchat/spoilspecchat (which could also be a deadchat)?

Can items already have messages on them by default?

Persus: Can we have the description by which you saw this 'NE' passage from the Nexus? Why didn't you provide details to it :O

Do you know where it lead?

Northeast, because I went into the Statue Hall instead.

Everyone else: did anyone else notice this passage?

No. I did not.
Also GRR you using abbr tags :I I'm using Chrome (instead of my usual firefox!)

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[abbr=Helpful little bugger, aren't you, Persus... XD]*hiss* :I

Suggestion: Everyone's First Move could be to move to different rooms--I have spotted multiple instances of people remarking them being attacked after their first action (ie Persus). Also, in order to use an item on a person, their SPECIFIC name in that subaction slot must be selected. (I post-quoted it in my post back there a few)

Also just to poke: FoS BHK because of this (I think I posted about that subtlety as a remark since that's also softclaiming your 'ability' or in this game's context, your 'item', as an otherwise other reasonable idea). The FoS is less of 'I think you're scum' but more of 'What's with the softclaiming @_@ because it feels detrimental if you're explorer/town and strange if scum'.

...
NQT: (or addressed to others) Tomasque makes mention of asking for an item's flavortext. Is it possible to ask you the description of an item and get accurate results?

The discussion phase is pretty much the day game. This feels a ton lacking.

[Tiruin]

Also (was this mentioned in the first phase? >_< ): Tomasque, how do you know Dustan's items?

[notquitethere]

NQT: May we ask what the adjective pertains to in this context?

There's only one way to find out. Searching.

Also as an aside, is there a deadchat/spoilspecchat (which could also be a deadchat)?

Yes.

Can items already have messages on them by default?[/b]

There's nothing in the rules forbidding that from happening.

NQT: (or addressed to others) Tomasque makes mention of asking for an item's flavortext. Is it possible to ask you the description of an item and get accurate results?

It's possible but not guaranteed. I will always give you flavour text for something if you ask for it, but I may or may not give the same text as an existing item. Whatever I think will help players lie more 

[notquitethere]

The explorers scheme amongst themselves as to the best way forward, while trying to avoid the uncomfortable subject of the rising body count.



Puzzle Phase 2

Please send in your four actions to me in the next 24 hours, before Thursday 4.30PM BST (GMT+1).

Spoiler: Possible Actions (click to show/hide)

Search -  Search an object in an accessible room: any items, including messages hidden there, will be taken and you may also get a clue about the use of the object.

Take – Take an item from a location or an object.

Go (south, down etc.) – Travel in a direction to an adjacent room.

Use Item – Use the action of item on an object or person. An item's action can only be used once per puzzle phase. If an object has multiple actions, any or all of those actions can be used in a puzzle phase. Self-targeting is allowed.

Pass Message – Send a single message of any length to another player in the same location OR place the message (as a scrap of paper) in an object OR scrawl it permanently into an object or location. Players do not know the person whom they receive messages off. Dead bodies can be searched for messages.

Give/Drop Item – Anonymously gives a single item to a player of your choice in the same location OR leave an item in a room or object.

Wait – Do nothing for one action. If no action is submitted, or less than four actions are submitted, Wait will be chosen instead.

[notquitethere]

Discussion Phase 2

The explorers begin to co-ordinate once more, though some seem to be staying quiet...

You have received your room descriptions. This phase will end in 48 hours at about 5PM Saturday BST (GMT+1).

Three quarters into the puzzle phase, everyone heard a distant rumble coming from the northwest of temple.

[4maskwolf]

Well then

Persus13 and Teneb are dead.

I had two successful searches

You search the panel. It appears to be a spring-weighted pressure plate which probably activates some sort of mechanism elsewhere in the temple.

You pour over the mural. It shows Nak Leth in his full regalia: cloak, scarab ring, staff, flying above a village of screaming, burning people. As you run a hand over it, looking for hidden recesses, the mural fades, no longer readable in this dim light.

TBF: why didn't you save Persus?

[4maskwolf]

EBWOP due to NQT's ninja edit: who caused that on their third action?

[TheBiggerFish]

@4mask:I forgot to act, and I was asleep when NQT prodded me.  :u

Sorry...

[TheBiggerFish]

I'm attempting to ninja retcon.  But that's... Probably not going to happen.

[4maskwolf]

@4mask:I forgot to act, and I was asleep when NQT prodded me.  :u

Sorry...

You say, having posted seven minutes after discussion phase start...