Kadabra

Arasmyth's eyes jolted open as he sat up as fast as if he were spring loaded. He sharply inhaled a deep breath of air as he surveyed his surroundings. "Where am I?" he muttered to himself, looking around. He appeared to be sitting atop a cloud, with blue skies and more fluffy white masses of water vapor as far as the eye could see. "You're dead, of course," came a distinctly feminine voice. "Who-" "Me. I said that. My name's Sera." Looking across the clouds, Arasmyth noticed a woman sitting on one of them holding a halberd. She had an unnervingly cheerful smile, and perhaps more strikingly, a pair of white, feathered wings sprouting from her back. Slightly taken aback, Arasmyth began to introduce himself. "I'm-" "Arasmyth RuGard, elven aeromancer extraordinaire? I know who you are." "Then you have me at a disadvantage, because I have no idea what's going on right now. The last thing I remember was being knocked out by the Akkaban Archivist." "Ouch. That wasn't a KO, he got you. Kicked your bucket, so to speak. You're deader than dead. This is the entrance to the afterlife, pearly gates that-a-way." "Well that sucks cockatrice balls. Are you supposed to show me in?" Arasmyth asked, a trace of bitterness in his voice. "Oh, no. I'm your "guardian angel", so to speak. I guide and protect you under jurisdiction of Ethereth, God of Magic. Did you really think your destiny was to go down fighting a nerd with a needlessly large rod? Nay, there are great things out there just waiting for you to accomplish them. Your true part in the grand scheme of things is larger than you could have imagined. I'm going to send you back to Olegaia to give you a second chance at fulfilling it. Of course, I'm not going to tell you what it is. That'd be too easy, huh? " "Well, this is great news! I shall swoop down from the heavens like the winds I control, wreaking vengeance upon Akkaba's followers." "Oh, no. It's been like a year since you died, your party already avenged you." "What the hell. How has it already been a year?" "Time passes differently for dead people." "Ugh. Whatever. Just send me back, OK?" Arasmyth held up his hand and snapped his fingers, hoping tocloak his hand in roiling wind magic. Instead, it glowed with a faint blue light, then sputtered out. "What the-? My magic's not working!" He cried, trying again and again failing. "What's going on?" "Ooh. That's not good." "Not good? Understatement of the year. How can I continue my Heroican career with no magic?" "Well, you're an elf, aren't you? Can't you use a bow?" "I don't appreciate your gross stereotyping of my race." "Sorry. But I can't do anything for you, you're going to have to figure out the magic on your own... but if you do get into a tough spot, you could always try summoning me. As an Angel of Wrath, I can control divine lightning. Just offer a quick prayer and I'll come down and help you in battle. Now, time to get you back into the living world." "And how will you do-" "Teehee." "Fu-" Sera flew over to Arasmyth, grabbed his arm, and yanked him off the cloud he was on, sending him plummeting earthward. After what seemed like forever, he landed with a thud in front of the massive oaken doors to Heroica Hall. Standing up and dusting himself off, he prepared to enter. Arasmyth RuGard (played by Kadabra) 214 Year Old Elven Evoker Level 15.5 Power: 23 Defense: 3 Health: 22/22 Ether: 20/20 Gold: 432 Equipment: Sapphire Staff (WP:6, Wind Elemental), Robe of the Elven Warlock (SP:3) Inventory: Topaz (x2), Scroll of Sealing, Scroll of Blindness, Potion, Smoke Bomb, Water Bomb, Trickster's Mask of the Gender Swap Summon: Sera, Angel of Wrath (Lightning elemental)

Finally updated Aras' stats with his post-death trades. After an unplanned almost-year-long hiatus, I'm more inclined to revive (reincarnate would actually be a better word) him than roll up a new character, as it'd be easier to catch up on the major plot events (from what I can gather: Jun Ji Pei, thought dead, is being held hostage by a rebel group in Xu. Reno Bonaparte is dead, Nemo is losing confidence in his leadership abilities, Attina is likely to become Admiral soon. The Shadeaux/Hinckwell engagement was broken off after Baba planted hypnotic seeds of mistrust in the two families. Bluetooth is now a full grown man, Mabel still desperately wishes for his rescue. The three Wolfgang generals are dead. Anything I miss?) with an established char rather than trying to work in a new one's backstory. I'm going to have fun with Aras, though. Poor guy won't be catching a break when I bring him back, I've already got plans in mind as for what to do with him. Planning on doing some small builds and a redesign of the Minifig (you'll see why ) to commemorate his resurrection, so in the meantime enjoy a theme song about how after his death, nothing remains for him and he'll have to start again with only his possessions that weren't looted by Arthur and Ad-Hoh and most of his relationships destroyed by a year of him being dead. Looking forward to hopping back in.

I thought it was WBD, but he might have just said it would cheapen the victory, not that it was a rule violation.

I wish I'd been able to finish, but I am proud of my co-win with Zakura. (Also, finally got my revenge on Tammo for Jedi Temple. we're even now. )I am so glad to have Internet again after that terrible week (mum's Alzheimer's is worsening ) and I'm glad that esurient and mostlytechnic were able to pull off the win for me. WBD, too, even though I was suspicious of him to begin with. I'd love to play in (and finish ) a Series 2 game.

True on Brittney, not Paris. I was suspicious of her from my very first post on D2, with a witty (in my opinion ) quip. It was the first sentence I said that day, in fact. That was obviously before both voting and he cop result.

Why claim?

I'm admitting that I need to be more active. I personally don't feel my vote on Brittney was 'forced', and I know for a fact my vote on Paris wasn't bussing.

I'm also the only one who remebered the cop had a second confidant. Not exactly a one sentence "we're doing great post", but I can see where you're coming from. Excuse me while I go back to check previous days, but if I recall correctly this is the first time you've actually done anything proactive yourself?

I'd say four or five since a 3:1 ratio is pretty standard. I have to agree on Benvolio, the fact that he was so unwilling to vote Paris even while denouncing her as probable scum puts me on edge.

This is freaking amazing. Alicia mentioned she wasn't the only person the cop claimed to. Could the other person reveal his/her results from last night?

It may be flawed, but it's the best we have to go on for now. Vote: Paris Shawty (Tamamono) If you flip scum we have an investigator we can trust. If you flip town, we can lynch the investigator or think about framers.

I'm for testing the claim. Why are you any less expendable than any other player, Paris?

He said you're trying to attract attention because you're the Godfather, then goes on to compare you to me. I was going for an under-the-radar strategy during SC, though, so I'm not really sure where he's coming from. The point about being careful with you is good, though. You're devious.

Most of the time strong players don't get killed is 'cause they're scum. Anyway, for being so vocal you haven't actually said a lot, dahling. Who are your top suspicions right now? We've had a day and a night to go on, so how 'bout you start with the analyzing you we're preaching yesterday? Anyway, add me to the 'contacted by Laurence' crowd. He did actually elaborate on his suspicion of Paris to me. He told me that he was acting a lot like a certain dashing, snake-oil salesman did in a town named for some sort of precious metal. Gold Town? And to be careful with the bloke.

Did you literally say "don't look at me?" Girl, you dumb. Then you OMGUS vote while blatantly lying that it's not an OMGUS vote, justifying it with a statement that isn't even true. And then you're being sarcastic and whatnot. This is so defensive it hurts. This is what I like to call 'realizing I'm dumb and trying desperately to backtrack'. The Unvote is just the cherry on top. And here you're just being agreeable for the sake of being agreeable. Someone mentioned pandering before, here's a prime example. "You're voting for me, but instead of defending myself I'll just roll over and let you walk on me." Passive aggressive~ I would like to know exactly what pinged you about it? If you're saying I think we shouldn't analyze, you'd be daft. I said that overthinking things like 'too much roleplaying', 'lurking', 'fluff posting', etc., is a good way to lynch Town D1. Analyzing and overthinking are almost opposites. With that said, I will proceed to Vote: Brittney Alfredo (Piratedave84) for the reasons I presented in my analysis above.

Personally, I'm more worried about over thinking and then piling on someone who makes a D1 mistake (like over-fluff-posting) than under thinking, because in my past experience the former is the standard. We need to keep an eye out for scum, but we also need to realize that most townie will be 'scum-telling' on ?d1 until things really start to get going.

Hey. I prefer punching to analysis, but I'd bet that I'm the best analyzer there is. Just give me something to analyze, other than Rosie's overdone hair. But while we wait, who wants to have a barbecue? I've for some sausages around here somewhere...

Hey all. I like punching things, kicking puppies, and home cooking. Anybody want a cookie? They're freshly baked.

1. Computer Nerd, for sure. It's me. 2. Totes. I don't actually have a life. 3. Eeyup. 4. Bedtime Story, Jedi Temple, Harriet Slutter, Mafia Mafia, Silver City 5. Simple is nice.

Thank you so much for the feedback! I like to think I'm I proving and I'm glad that I could help the scum team (although, coming up with the role cop gambit is about the only thing I did that was really important! I'll have to be more proactive next time!). I look forward to continuing to get better, 4-1 isn't exactly a great ratio, but just having the one is a massive self-confidence boost. Even when my teammates did most of the work.

Naw, you pretty much are addicted to overly convoluted schemes involving as much claiming as possible.

First win on the record, yes! Thank you so much, Tammo, for hosting this, and good game Town! And you scummy scumbuddies of mine know you rock.

We need you like we need the Coyotes. . Helena said she was the only chance we had, too, and look ow that turned out.

Take my vote OFF the confessed killer (who we need to lynch in order to win, anyway?) Hahahano. Let's not turn this into another Harriet Slutter where we let the SK go and it ends up screwing us over, OK?