lonelyahavaCall me Ahava ~~She/Her~~Move to New ZealandRegistered Userregular
edited October 2011
Day One
It was a slow day, with nobody really sure exactly how to get from one point to the next. Bad blood runs deep in Europe, and deeper still within the Holy City. These Cardinals, some of whom know each other only by name, have come together for a most austere purpose and in doing so, risk the chance of not advancing themselves any further.
It is no secret that Pope Daniel did not hold any love for Italy, He being from the frozen north of Germanic territory himself, he found the whole of the peninsula to wet, too humid, and he had made her inhabitants suffer for his misery. But This should all be in the past, long history forgotten, however, it seemed that some of the cardinals present could not stand the thought of another German Pope, lest this one be as curmudgeonly as the last. And so with a loud voice, and a soft whimper and a shake of the fist, two of the German delegation were removed from the Conclave, their names stricken from the parchments, to be inelligible for the Pointiest of Hats in the world.
Alas, though losing those two seemed to be tragic enough for the home of Pope Daniel, there was one more tragedy to unfold. In the dark corner of the room, far from the others, the body of another Cardinal was found, his face was bruised and beaten, his eye the left one, hanging from the nerve endings and sticking to his cheek, the right eye was long gone, and not a single Cardinal in the room could find it, though truthfully not many looked.
And yet, the screams of anger were not silenced by this, no, the French too had their moment of tragedy, when the body of two beloved sons of France were found crumpled in the corner, each had been garrotted with their rosary beads, their faces purple and soon to begin decaying. Though one had left France years before for Rome, deep within his robes, he still wore a Fleur de Lis.
A note was found in the center of the table, the handwriting rich and well practiced, and thought out, the words were clear, concise, and hopeful.
Give heed to the cause of the holy Roman Church, mother of all churches and teacher of the faith, whom you by the order of God, have consecrated by your blood. Against the Roman Church, you warned, lying teachers are rising, introducing ruinous sects, and drawing upon themselves speedy doom. Their tongues are fire, a restless evil, full of deadly poison. They have bitter zeal, contention in their hearts, and boast and lie against the truth.
No consensus has yet been made for the most holy of chairs. My hope is that a decision may come soon. Or we shall see what holy men these truly are.
The Dead
Stever777French Cardinal-Papal Archivist- Killed by Lutherans Gumpy-French Cardinal- Killed by Lutherans Cayrus- German Archivist- Killed by the Inquisition
Spoit- German Cardinal- Exiled from conclave
Vagrant_Winds- German Cardinal- Exiled from Conclave
Screw you all. I just got back from seeing the best band ever Blink-182 (and a lesser band called MCR). I don't even care you killed me.
Besides, you're all a bunch of paranoid nationalists for killing so many Germans when the Nazi's don't even exist yet. We'll remember and pay you back in WWII. Mark our words.
EDIT: I don't know where you're getting the vote trickle idea from, That Dave Fella, considering Cayrus didn't get any votes yesterday. My bet is on the Inquisition being a vigilante kill; Spoit and vagrant_winds were the ones that received the vote on Day 1.
Purple is the colour of the Papal Household mentioned in the OP, so yes, he was probably special. Considering he revealed as a seer I'm suprised he got stabbed though. Did the mafia get a lucky roleblock or are the Papal guards dropping the ball?
What's so special about me? Well, the main thing is that I can win with any country (or religion). While I have an ethnicity, it is irrelevant to my VC. My goal is to see as little bloodshed as possible. All this killing is ruining my God sensors, or something. I guess legitimately religious people don't like to see others die over a power struggle? Seems silly. Anyway, this is going to be impossible with you guys running around like chickens with your heads cut off.
What I'm offering:
I'm willing to organize people into their country factions. As you may have guessed, getting organized on a proboard confers a bonus to your country. Since this bonus happens to be protective (I don't know specifically what it is, so don't bother asking), it's better for me to see you all organized ASAP.
How this should work:
Whoever wants can tell me their allegiance. I will then create a PM with everyone from the same country. I will not tell anyone who does not claim to be the same country as you your allegiance. Though it's based on just what people say, I think if I had the choice, I would answer this truthfully, because getting the bonus for your country is more important than finding out the members of one faction. This means the big question is, do you trust me to do this? That's up to you to decide.
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BaidolI will hold him offEscape while you canRegistered Userregular
jdarksun's plan is actually similar to what I was going to propose. Between the two vote kills, two Lutheran kills and the Inquisition vig, there's going to be a lot of death, which the Lutherans can actually control 4/5 kills. We need to rigidly control the vote. I hope the papal election comes first in the order of actions, or we're hosed.
The OP mentions that it's imperative to the success of your goal, but beyond that, nothing. If he is who he says it is he might've gotten extra information though.
Purple is the colour of the Papal Household mentioned in the OP, so yes, he was probably special. Considering he revealed as a seer I'm suprised he got stabbed though. Did the mafia get a lucky roleblock or are the Papal guards dropping the ball?
Clearly we were betrayed by the dirty Swiss! What grey deeds lurk in the heart of a neutral.
I'm willing to organize people into their country factions. As you may have guessed, getting organized on a proboard confers a bonus to your country. Since this bonus happens to be protective (I don't know specifically what it is, so don't bother asking), it's better for me to see you all organized ASAP.
This is the first I've heard of anything like that. Surely a bonus from getting organized with one's country would have been mentioned in the role PM or OP.
Surely it would have. Perhaps you are already organized, Jdarksun
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to give into it." - Oscar Wilde
"We believe in the people and their 'wisdom' as if there was some special secret entrance to knowledge that barred to anyone who had ever learned anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
I would hope that your vote for yourself is a joke MrT, for the truly faithful would be willing to step aside for the sake of the church.
Wildcat, that is a bit of a stretch isn't it?
He's a shy overambitious dog-catcher on the wrong side of the law. She's an orphaned psychic mercenary with the power to bend men's minds. They fight crime!
Quite a bit to think about, huh. jdarksun's plan is an interesting one, but with a pretty extreme downside. I'm not fully on board with it yet, we've got to be patient before implementing it. (Not that there's enough votes in the most powerful block to force the papal vote anyways.) I'm more of a fan of taking things traditionally and eliminating the mafia before thinking about the end condition.
To address Baidol's concern regarding action order, the opening post says the order of actions is "Everything --> Vote". So the Papal vote is probably the last thing that happens, with the elimination vote acting just before that. Not that it should matter, or at least I hope there wouldn't be a situation where that would matter.
As for MrTLicious, I feel a bit conflicted. Getting organized is certainly a good idea, and the upsides to trusting a single unknown party to organize groups seem to outweigh the potential downsides. But I don't know if I like group creation via proxy on a personal level, it's kind of holding me back a bit. I'll have to think on it a bit more.
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38thDoelets never be stupid againwait lets always be stupid foreverRegistered Userregular
Okay this might seem silly, might seem like signing up to die, but my soul is prepared. Assuming there are only two kills besides the vote, I am going to announce that I am French, and would like to have any remaining French contact me. If a person from each nation makes a similar call, there won't be enough kills to put everyone down.
I would hope that your vote for yourself is a joke MrT, for the truly faithful would be willing to step aside for the sake of the church.
Wildcat, that is a bit of a stretch isn't it?
My child, I would refer you to the ancient Papal doctrine of 'getting a temporary vote in early', along with 'de justibus de attempt to rattle the accused to see what his game is'.
How does it help, my brothers, when someone who has never done a single good act claims to have faith? Will that faith bring salvation?
If one of the brothers or one of the sisters is in need of clothes and has not enough food to live on,
and one of you says to them, 'I wish you well; keep yourself warm and eat plenty,' without giving them these bare necessities of life, then what good is that?
In the same way faith, if good deeds do not go with it, is quite dead. But someone may say: So you have faith and I have good deeds? Show me this faith of yours without deeds, then! It is by my deeds that I will show you my faith.
You believe in the one God -- that is creditable enough, but even the demons have the same belief, and they tremble with fear.
Fool! Would you not like to know that faith without deeds is useless?
Was not Abraham our father justified by his deed, because he offered his son Isaac on the altar?
So you can see that his faith was working together with his deeds; his faith became perfect by what he did.
In this way the scripture was fulfilled: Abraham put his faith in God, and this was considered as making him upright; and he received the name 'friend of God'.
You see now that it is by deeds, and not only by believing, that someone is justified.
He's a shy overambitious dog-catcher on the wrong side of the law. She's an orphaned psychic mercenary with the power to bend men's minds. They fight crime!
The issue with organizing into our countries is that the Lutherans probably also have country affiliations, and even if they don't they can still lie about it and sneak in anyway. I feel like we should just admit that none of these proboards will be secure and just split us up at random if we do.
My friend is working on a roguelike game you can play if you want to. (It has free demo)
The issue with organizing into our countries is that the Lutherans probably also have country affiliations, and even if they don't they can still lie about it and sneak in anyway. I feel like we should just admit that none of these proboards will be secure and just split us up at random if we do.
The Lutherans most assuredly have country affiliations, as guaranteed by the Voice of God(tm). Basically, to put in the peasant's parlance, we are damned if we do and damned if we do not, so I do not mind damning them all and doing what's right by my countrymen.
"Go down, kick ass, and set yourselves up as gods, that's our Prime Directive!"
It is in everyone's interest to know who their country compatriots are. I think we are uncomfortable with the fact that this is really a 2-stage phalla, but that doesn't mean that knowledge is dangerous. I don't think the Lutherans particularly care what country you're from. They just want to see one of their own ascended. The boards just let you narrow down who you want to see in the papacy.
Actually, the heretics will want to whittle down the countries evenly so that no single alliance gains the needed votes, so by freely giving them our allegiances, they can more effectively target us
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Democrats Abroad! || Vote From Abroad
It was a slow day, with nobody really sure exactly how to get from one point to the next. Bad blood runs deep in Europe, and deeper still within the Holy City. These Cardinals, some of whom know each other only by name, have come together for a most austere purpose and in doing so, risk the chance of not advancing themselves any further.
It is no secret that Pope Daniel did not hold any love for Italy, He being from the frozen north of Germanic territory himself, he found the whole of the peninsula to wet, too humid, and he had made her inhabitants suffer for his misery. But This should all be in the past, long history forgotten, however, it seemed that some of the cardinals present could not stand the thought of another German Pope, lest this one be as curmudgeonly as the last. And so with a loud voice, and a soft whimper and a shake of the fist, two of the German delegation were removed from the Conclave, their names stricken from the parchments, to be inelligible for the Pointiest of Hats in the world.
Alas, though losing those two seemed to be tragic enough for the home of Pope Daniel, there was one more tragedy to unfold. In the dark corner of the room, far from the others, the body of another Cardinal was found, his face was bruised and beaten, his eye the left one, hanging from the nerve endings and sticking to his cheek, the right eye was long gone, and not a single Cardinal in the room could find it, though truthfully not many looked.
And yet, the screams of anger were not silenced by this, no, the French too had their moment of tragedy, when the body of two beloved sons of France were found crumpled in the corner, each had been garrotted with their rosary beads, their faces purple and soon to begin decaying. Though one had left France years before for Rome, deep within his robes, he still wore a Fleur de Lis.
A note was found in the center of the table, the handwriting rich and well practiced, and thought out, the words were clear, concise, and hopeful.
No consensus has yet been made for the most holy of chairs. My hope is that a decision may come soon. Or we shall see what holy men these truly are.
The Dead
Stever777French Cardinal-Papal Archivist- Killed by Lutherans
Gumpy-French Cardinal- Killed by Lutherans
Cayrus- German Archivist- Killed by the Inquisition
Spoit- German Cardinal- Exiled from conclave
Vagrant_Winds- German Cardinal- Exiled from Conclave
Democrats Abroad! || Vote From Abroad
Wildcat is now playing.
Game on.
Democrats Abroad! || Vote From Abroad
Screw you all. I just got back from seeing the best band ever Blink-182 (and a lesser band called MCR). I don't even care you killed me.
Besides, you're all a bunch of paranoid nationalists for killing so many Germans when the Nazi's don't even exist yet. We'll remember and pay you back in WWII. Mark our words.
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Germany shall rise again!
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edit: And for whoever Day 1'ed me, grudge forever.
Henri Emmanuel Gratien St Pierre in Where No Man Has Gone Before
Lord Augustus Cumberbatch in Eclipse Phase
Start of Day 2 Spreadsheet (up to post 287)
EDIT: I don't know where you're getting the vote trickle idea from, That Dave Fella, considering Cayrus didn't get any votes yesterday. My bet is on the Inquisition being a vigilante kill; Spoit and vagrant_winds were the ones that received the vote on Day 1.
Look, all I did was pass him the sugar, all right?
Still no? OK. I'll just leave this here then while you guys get ready.
What's so special about me? Well, the main thing is that I can win with any country (or religion). While I have an ethnicity, it is irrelevant to my VC. My goal is to see as little bloodshed as possible. All this killing is ruining my God sensors, or something. I guess legitimately religious people don't like to see others die over a power struggle? Seems silly. Anyway, this is going to be impossible with you guys running around like chickens with your heads cut off.
What I'm offering:
I'm willing to organize people into their country factions. As you may have guessed, getting organized on a proboard confers a bonus to your country. Since this bonus happens to be protective (I don't know specifically what it is, so don't bother asking), it's better for me to see you all organized ASAP.
How this should work:
Whoever wants can tell me their allegiance. I will then create a PM with everyone from the same country. I will not tell anyone who does not claim to be the same country as you your allegiance. Though it's based on just what people say, I think if I had the choice, I would answer this truthfully, because getting the bonus for your country is more important than finding out the members of one faction. This means the big question is, do you trust me to do this? That's up to you to decide.
this sounds like an interesting story......
but wow.... tough day for germany...
Just this part Which doesn't quite have the same effect?
Oh wait, if you read the whispers from the all-mighty (hint hint) you'll see!
Clearly we were betrayed by the dirty Swiss! What grey deeds lurk in the heart of a neutral.
Surely it would have. Perhaps you are already organized, Jdarksun
MrT
May your hands ever be cold RoboPope.
"We believe in the people and their 'wisdom' as if there was some special secret entrance to knowledge that barred to anyone who had ever learned anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
Wildcat, that is a bit of a stretch isn't it?
To address Baidol's concern regarding action order, the opening post says the order of actions is "Everything --> Vote". So the Papal vote is probably the last thing that happens, with the elimination vote acting just before that. Not that it should matter, or at least I hope there wouldn't be a situation where that would matter.
As for MrTLicious, I feel a bit conflicted. Getting organized is certainly a good idea, and the upsides to trusting a single unknown party to organize groups seem to outweigh the potential downsides. But I don't know if I like group creation via proxy on a personal level, it's kind of holding me back a bit. I'll have to think on it a bit more.
My child, I would refer you to the ancient Papal doctrine of 'getting a temporary vote in early', along with 'de justibus de attempt to rattle the accused to see what his game is'.
This should have been done the 1st day, like noble 38thDoe, I am willing to die for my country. Italians, speak to me and we shall band together!
Where do you think of this passage MrT?
Mon Dieu!
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jdarksun
Any further thoughts as to the identities of these errant cardinals?
The Lutherans most assuredly have country affiliations, as guaranteed by the Voice of God(tm). Basically, to put in the peasant's parlance, we are damned if we do and damned if we do not, so I do not mind damning them all and doing what's right by my countrymen.