Open 840 - Guardians of the Fortress [Game Over]

[Tanner]

it is happening very soon, yeah, before i go sleep today. my irl has gotten unexpectedly more busy and anxiety-inducing for the next week, and i don't have the energy to be kept up by this game until 4 am every night.

i'm just. looking for that last piece of evidence to let me be able to hammer. i don't know what it is.

[RH9]

it is happening very soon, yeah, before i go sleep today. my irl has gotten unexpectedly more busy and anxiety-inducing for the next week, and i don't have the energy to be kept up by this game until 4 am every night.

i'm just. looking for that last piece of evidence to let me be able to hammer. i don't know what it is.

May the best of luck be with you!

[VP Baltar]

looking for that last piece of evidence to let me be able to hammer. i don't know what it is.

Absolutely demented but I still <3 you.

[RH9]

I hope that Tanner finds the last piece of evidence.

[VP Baltar]

I hope that Tanner finds the last piece of evidence.

This is called enabling behavior.

[RH9]

I hope that Tanner finds the last piece of evidence.

This is called enabling behavior.

What does 'enabling behaviour' mean?

[RH9]

I hope that Tanner finds the last piece of evidence.

This is called enabling behavior.

What does 'enabling behaviour' mean?

Oh. Nevermind. I found out on Google.

[VP Baltar]

I'm joking. "Enabling" is a common term for people who do things that prolong a person's detrimental behavior, such as never disciplining your child when they misbehave.

I'm saying you're encouraging Tanner to continue with his indecision, even though he has read the game many times. He just needs to make a decision.

[Tanner]

i wonder if this would be easier if i hadn't gotten burned in literally every single yelo i have ever hammered. i have no clue how some people actually enjoy this.

[VP Baltar]

i wonder if this would be easier if i hadn't gotten burned in literally every single yelo i have ever hammered. i have no clue how some people actually enjoy this.

I'm certain this has caused a psychological wound. Hammering imaginality is the salve.

[Tanner]

the amount of ate you've spewed in the last ~72 hours is pure evil. and i'm not even prefacing it with "if you're scum"

[VP Baltar]

the amount of ate you've spewed in the last ~72 hours is pure evil. and i'm not even prefacing it with "if you're scum"

In an attempt to get you to make a choice, I have turned to annoyance as a strategy.

[Tanner]

both vp's reads and emotional responses check out with what i know of town!him. if he's scum, i'm nothing but impressed.

imaginality didn't play bad as either alignment. what i called out about his reading of pav slot is very unlucky if he's town, but it just fits the scum mindset of sending pav on the keep to die.

VOTE: imaginality

[imaginality]

Tanner, I'm at peace with whatever you do. VP has played well and definitely buddied you well today. The most pro town thing he could point to himself doing (the allocations) is nai and Ari's case on him was good til I made an ambiguous enough post to send her off track.
I also feel he's used AtE and dismissiveness to try to drown out the other points I've made.

All that said though,he's played well and made it hard for me to prove he's scum. If my points and play haven't persuaded you, that sucks but I won't blame you if you mislim me.

at least not unless we lose Wall too

[Prism]

Flip to come. I will add time to deadline to compensate for the length of the lock.

[Prism]

My apologies for the delay but I am currently out; it will be a few hours.

[Prism]

Fortress Status Report 1.8

The Keep is held by the Guardians.

Gate	Guardian Votes
VP Baltar (1)	imaginality (534)
imaginality (2)	VP Baltar (866), Tanner (2062)
Not voting (0)

The Gate has been resolved! Stand by for the announcement of the result and the updated scoreboard.

Wall	Guardian Votes
RH9 (0)
numberQ (0)
implosion (0)
Not voting (3)	numberQ, implosion, RH9 (1911)

The score is 1-0 in favor of the Guardians. The Day 2 deadline is in (expired on 2022-01-07 06:25:00).

[Prism]

Aristeia, safe at the top of the Keep, waves and calls down below.

"All secure up here, Tanner!~ What a shame about Lukewarm and Pavowski, though. I never expected them to take such a rough tumble."

The Wall, currently secured by the trio of implosion, numberQ, and RH9, remains intact for now, though all doubt the impasse will last.

But now the moment of triumph or disaster has arrived at the Gate. Tanner has chosen its sole defender. The deaths of Lukewarm and Pavowski have hammered his spirits hard, and the other guardians have watched nervously as he seeks comfort in the bottle, rambling about his lack of sleep.

VP Baltar has furiously impressed upon his old friend the obvious value and loyalty of his service. Tanner's suggestions that he might soon find himself handcuffed to the wall well are met with only an indifferent smile and seemingly honest, open hands. Tanner turns his eyes to imaginality, a guardian of equally longstanding service but with less personal rapport between them. He turns his eyes back to VP Baltar.

"You know it's the right choice, Tanner! Stop playing around."

"I'll

hic

tell you what's the right choice-throwing you clear off the wall

hic

if you don't give me room to think."

"I'm here, Tanner" says imaginality.

"Yeah, yeah you are...Thanks."

Tanner looks at VP Baltar. He looks at imaginality.

"Just send me before you regret it you sloppy, drunken animal. You did enough last night, I'll take it from here"

"THAT'S IT, I'VE HAD IT FOR THE LAST TIME BALTAR!"

"...Get out of my sight and get to the Gate. imaginality, I think Aristeia wants to see you up at the Keep."

"Thanks Tanner, really. You won't regret it." says VP Baltar with a smile as he makes his way to the Gate.

A wave of horrified realization washes down imaginality's face.

.........And at the end of the night, what remained? With the Gate and Keep intact, the fortress lived to see the night. The guardians have held fast, and the opposing army arrives only to find it can make no progress. The machinists will replace the fortress's missing spare parts overnight, and you have more than enough supplies to last the season. The last casualty is RH9, who you find has followed his compatriots down the wall in his despair.

You bury Pavowski with highest honors and a statue to last the ages in the courtyard. The bodies of Lukewarm, imaginality and RH9 are left to be washed down the river of time, and eventually their names, too, are lost to oblivion.

The Guardians have secured for themselves a respite from the blistering, relentless sands of time. They have weathered the storm without fail and secured for themselves a continued place in human history.

[Prism]

Tanner was a

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Guardian

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VP Baltar was a

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Guardian

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imaginality was a

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Saboteur

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The Guardians have won the Gate. The score is 2-0 in favor of the Guardians, and a win condition has been achieved.

The Guardians have won Open 840 - Guardians of the Fortress!

[Prism]

numberQ was a

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Guardian

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implosion was a

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Guardian

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RH9 was a

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Saboteur

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.

[Prism]

PT Links to follow in this post, I will allow 48 hours for the Saboteurs to request any desired redactions in their PT before release.

Mod PT
Saboteur PT
Spectator/Dead PT
RH9 Notes PT

RH9 may release his notes PT if desired.

The game is now over, and you may post.

[RH9]

Good game.

[Prism]

Congratulations to the Guardians for securing the sweep!

I want to thank all of you for playing. This was one of the easiest playerlists I have ever seen, with very little intervention required and things very rarely if ever getting personal or overstepping. I had a blast moderating this, I love the idea behind this setup, and I was very pleased to see careful strategic play it inspired from both alignments.

I am very grateful to those of you who stayed with me the entire time, and of course to my two wonderful replacements in Pavowski and RH9.

I hope you all enjoyed this as much as I did!

[numberQ]

Wow my reads were terrible this game. Sorry for dropping out for a while there everyone, but yeah good game!

Thanks for modding Prism, the flavor was really nice.

[Lukewarm]

Good game all, sorry to the scum team for my vote.

I will say, that after we died, I learned that absolutely no one else was aware that Ari was actively building up to voting for Pav.

It turned into a conversation about why I would do it, since I was so close to winning the keep. But I really wasn't. Ari even said in the dead thread that if Tanner had told her/Pav to vote for me, she would have voted for Pav.