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SIGIL THREAD BROKEN NUMBER 2
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Thread broken use this one:
http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/150676/sigil-city-of-phalla-day-five-epic-revealed/p1
Sigil
Welcome to Sigil: City of Doors. Sigil's a ring-shaped city that's squatting on top of an infinitely tall spire in what some claim to be in the center of the Planes... of course, *how* it could be at the top of an infinitely tall spire, and how the city could even *be* at the center of the Planes raises some questions. Sigil's called the 'City of Doors,' mostly because there's a LOT of invisible doors that lead in and out of it - just about any arch, door frame, barrel hoop, book shelf, or open window might be a portal under the right conditions. It all depends on if you have the key to open it.
See, I guess the best way to explain it is - most portals are 'sleeping,' right? You could walk through them, by them, on top of them, and nothing would happen. Now, every portal has something that 'wakes it up.' That could be a tune you hum to yourself, a loaf of week-old Bytopian bread, remembering what your first kiss was like, and then - BAM - the portal gets its juices flowing, and you can jump through it, to whatever's on the other side. You might get taken a few blocks away, a thousand miles, or even to another plane of existence.
Being able to connect to everywhere from anywhere makes Sigil a very strategic city to hold. All kinds of military forces have tried to make Sigil their base. Of course, both sides of the Blood War would love to control Sigil. Up until recently, the Lady of Pain has prevented any of them from coming close.
Sigil is watched over by the Lady of Pain, a mysterious figure who never speaks, but has immense power. She only gets involved in extreme cases, but if she does get involved someone is going to die or disappear. She keeps the city safe from other powers and the Blood War.
No one is exactly sure what happened the day things changed. There was a bright flash of light, and suddenly one part of Sigil was sealed away by an invisible barrier. No one could enter and no one could leave. While people wandered around in confusion, several gates to the lower planes opened, and all sorts of horrible monstrosities lumbered out and began slaughtering eachother.
If they were keeping the violence to themselves, no one would mind too much, but they have been killing everything in their path, destroying buildings, and generally wrecking up the place.
The citizens of Sigil are no match for these fiends one on one, but if they gather together surely they’ll be able to overwhelm any target. At least, that’s the hope...
The Blood War
In the Lower Planes rages the Blood War. There is not another plane that is not touched by this conflict. Think of the most hideous war imaginable, magnify it a billion times in time and scope, and you have a fraction of the battlefield for which the Lower Planes are fought. It is a war of ideology, to define one of the most basic concepts of multiverse! It is fought between the tanar’ri (demons) and the baatezu (devils). Although both are pure evil, they both have different ways of expressing themselves. They aren’t very tolerant of deviation.
The tanar’ri fight for chaos and evil… evil through brute force and sudden flurries of whim and hate. Their ‘evil’ is the evil of the horde, a mob mentality of whirling evil. They kill and plunder.
The baatezu wish only strictly regimented evil, promoting the cause of evil in a precise, orderly fashion. The tanar’ri murder. The baatezu exploit. The two are determined to exterminate the other and the rest of the multi-verse is inclined to let them.
Now this lovely confrontation is taking place in Sigil! This should not be possible. How this is happening is not clear. The average citizen of Sigil left this question for the philosophers and ran like hell. The philosophers were killed during debate.
What *is* clear is that two armies of evil beings from the lower planes are here to bring carnage to eachother, and everyone else they come across.
What’s all this now?
This is a main phalla for 60 players based in the Planescape setting. Signups will run until we hit 60, or until Thursday or so. General rules of Phalla can be found here. New players are welcome as are old of course.
Thank you Edcrab for looking this over for me.
And now for the usual rules.
Laws of Sigil:
You must vote each day. Vote in bold red for whoever you think is likely to be a threat to you. The winner of the vote will be eliminated every night. Missing a vote will result in a warning, followed by replacement.
Vote close will be at 3 PM EST Orders and votes submitted before 3PM will count for that day, orders submitted at 3:00PM or later will not count for that day.
All the standard rules are in effect including:
Do not directly quote anything from PMs with me, or take screenshots of them. It is okay to paraphrase role PMs however.
Do not post in different languages and do not post in code.
Do not anonymously contact anyone.
Please don't make passionate personal attacks.
When you die you may make one ghost post which cannot contain any game information whatsoever. After that please do not discuss the game with anyone still alive.
Responsibilities of Citizenship in Sigil:
Everyone should make at least two other posts each day. Inactive players will be replaced if possible.
Ask for clarifications or any questions in Bold Orange. You can always PM me with clarification requests, or post them directly in the thread. If you have questions about your role you should probably use the PM method to avoid giving away info to the other players. They are *already* suspicious of you.
Make sure you invite me to any proboards you might form.
There is no default villager role, so it will not be posted.
All roles have a listed life total. This can be reduced or increased by various abilities, having your life total drop to 0 causes elimination.
There are both physical and magical attacks present, magical attacks tend to be harder to avoid.
The Vote will come first in order.
Tie votes indicate that two people are equally guilty, and will kill both people involved. Be careful.
Signup in bold lime to move to Sigil. Housing is very affordable in the demonic battleground. *Very* affordable.
Q & A
Order of Actions:
Vote>Priority Actions>Actions
Conversions and Thralls?
Clarification Denied.
Can we Trust you:
I am reliable.
http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/150676/sigil-city-of-phalla-day-five-epic-revealed/p1
Welcome to Sigil: City of Doors. Sigil's a ring-shaped city that's squatting on top of an infinitely tall spire in what some claim to be in the center of the Planes... of course, *how* it could be at the top of an infinitely tall spire, and how the city could even *be* at the center of the Planes raises some questions. Sigil's called the 'City of Doors,' mostly because there's a LOT of invisible doors that lead in and out of it - just about any arch, door frame, barrel hoop, book shelf, or open window might be a portal under the right conditions. It all depends on if you have the key to open it.
See, I guess the best way to explain it is - most portals are 'sleeping,' right? You could walk through them, by them, on top of them, and nothing would happen. Now, every portal has something that 'wakes it up.' That could be a tune you hum to yourself, a loaf of week-old Bytopian bread, remembering what your first kiss was like, and then - BAM - the portal gets its juices flowing, and you can jump through it, to whatever's on the other side. You might get taken a few blocks away, a thousand miles, or even to another plane of existence.
Being able to connect to everywhere from anywhere makes Sigil a very strategic city to hold. All kinds of military forces have tried to make Sigil their base. Of course, both sides of the Blood War would love to control Sigil. Up until recently, the Lady of Pain has prevented any of them from coming close.
Sigil is watched over by the Lady of Pain, a mysterious figure who never speaks, but has immense power. She only gets involved in extreme cases, but if she does get involved someone is going to die or disappear. She keeps the city safe from other powers and the Blood War.
No one is exactly sure what happened the day things changed. There was a bright flash of light, and suddenly one part of Sigil was sealed away by an invisible barrier. No one could enter and no one could leave. While people wandered around in confusion, several gates to the lower planes opened, and all sorts of horrible monstrosities lumbered out and began slaughtering eachother.
If they were keeping the violence to themselves, no one would mind too much, but they have been killing everything in their path, destroying buildings, and generally wrecking up the place.
The citizens of Sigil are no match for these fiends one on one, but if they gather together surely they’ll be able to overwhelm any target. At least, that’s the hope...
The Blood War
In the Lower Planes rages the Blood War. There is not another plane that is not touched by this conflict. Think of the most hideous war imaginable, magnify it a billion times in time and scope, and you have a fraction of the battlefield for which the Lower Planes are fought. It is a war of ideology, to define one of the most basic concepts of multiverse! It is fought between the tanar’ri (demons) and the baatezu (devils). Although both are pure evil, they both have different ways of expressing themselves. They aren’t very tolerant of deviation.
The tanar’ri fight for chaos and evil… evil through brute force and sudden flurries of whim and hate. Their ‘evil’ is the evil of the horde, a mob mentality of whirling evil. They kill and plunder.
The baatezu wish only strictly regimented evil, promoting the cause of evil in a precise, orderly fashion. The tanar’ri murder. The baatezu exploit. The two are determined to exterminate the other and the rest of the multi-verse is inclined to let them.
Now this lovely confrontation is taking place in Sigil! This should not be possible. How this is happening is not clear. The average citizen of Sigil left this question for the philosophers and ran like hell. The philosophers were killed during debate.
What *is* clear is that two armies of evil beings from the lower planes are here to bring carnage to eachother, and everyone else they come across.
What’s all this now?
This is a main phalla for 60 players based in the Planescape setting. Signups will run until we hit 60, or until Thursday or so. General rules of Phalla can be found here. New players are welcome as are old of course.
Thank you Edcrab for looking this over for me.
And now for the usual rules.
Laws of Sigil:
You must vote each day. Vote in bold red for whoever you think is likely to be a threat to you. The winner of the vote will be eliminated every night. Missing a vote will result in a warning, followed by replacement.
Vote close will be at 3 PM EST Orders and votes submitted before 3PM will count for that day, orders submitted at 3:00PM or later will not count for that day.
All the standard rules are in effect including:
Do not directly quote anything from PMs with me, or take screenshots of them. It is okay to paraphrase role PMs however.
Do not post in different languages and do not post in code.
Do not anonymously contact anyone.
Please don't make passionate personal attacks.
When you die you may make one ghost post which cannot contain any game information whatsoever. After that please do not discuss the game with anyone still alive.
Responsibilities of Citizenship in Sigil:
Everyone should make at least two other posts each day. Inactive players will be replaced if possible.
Ask for clarifications or any questions in Bold Orange. You can always PM me with clarification requests, or post them directly in the thread. If you have questions about your role you should probably use the PM method to avoid giving away info to the other players. They are *already* suspicious of you.
Make sure you invite me to any proboards you might form.
There is no default villager role, so it will not be posted.
All roles have a listed life total. This can be reduced or increased by various abilities, having your life total drop to 0 causes elimination.
There are both physical and magical attacks present, magical attacks tend to be harder to avoid.
The Vote will come first in order.
Tie votes indicate that two people are equally guilty, and will kill both people involved. Be careful.
Signup in bold lime to move to Sigil. Housing is very affordable in the demonic battleground. *Very* affordable.
Q & A
kime wrote:Order of actions (besides just "vote comes first," which is in the OP)?
Conversions?
Thralls?
Can we trust you?
Order of Actions:
Vote>Priority Actions>Actions
Conversions and Thralls?
Clarification Denied.
Can we Trust you:
I am reliable.
2 Days In a row, or three total missed days.MrTLicious wrote:How many days of inactivus are necessary before death?
The Narration is reporting the events it saw and heard as an observer. Make of it what you will.Langly wrote:oh hey you are right
can we trust narrations' description of events?
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Player List:
1 SLyM
2 KetBra - A Minor Priest - Torn to shreds.
3 Spoit - A hedge wizard - Torn to shreds.
4 LoserForHireX
5 kime - Barbazu - Executed by the people.
6 Bedlam
7 I needed a name to post.
8 jdarksun - Mane - Mob Justice.
9 stever777
10 Tmoiy
11 Capfalcon
12 Infidel - Dabus - Killed by disease/Needs better medical insurance.
13 Flarne
14 Drez
15 Cayrus
16 corvidae - Barbazu - Executed by the people.
17 warban
18 Arivia - Kocrachon - Pummeled and beaten.
19 jackisreal - Lemure - Incinerated.
20 The Anonymous
21 Langly
22 Wildcat - A small group of cranium rats - Torn to shreds.
23 Peccavi - A small group of aware cranium rats - Splattered.
24 SeGaTai - Trias, the Betrayer - Executed by the people.
25 Celebrim
26 Matev
27 simulacrum
28 MrTLicious
29 Retaba
30 The Cow King lonelyahava
31 Redasaur - Hedge Wizard - Justice was served.
32 cj iwakura ecco the dolphin
33 Void Slayer
34 Virgil_Leads_You
35 precisionk
36 immortal squish
37 Alegis - Godsman Guard - Torn to shreds and partially digested.
38 Baidol
39 vagrant_winds
40 Egos
41 JaysonFour - Jumble Murdersense, Xaositect Factor - Some people just don’t get it.
42 Malkor - Bulezau - Justice was served
43 HollowerFollower
44 Shiny New Toys
45 anomalousvandal
46 Jordan_ht
47 piL - An advocate of Sigil - Eviscerated
48 Zandracon
49 REG Rysk
50 Greeper - Lemure - Executed by the people.
51 Darian
52 Cythraul
53 Mr. Defecation
54 romanqwerty
55 Taya
56 Rawkking Goodguy
57 GrimmyTOA
Reserves:
1
2
Narration Links
Day Zero
Day One
Day Two
Day Three
Day Four
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Day Zero
Amidst the chaos, a drab man stood in a narrow street speaking calmly to any who would listen. ” This life is but a shadow, and the days have finally come when we meet True Death. Cease your panic, you misery, and caring. Accept your death and finally break the cycle. Panicking will just force you through another round. Accept-”
“-When the Lady speaks!”
A gang of thugs suddenly appeared from an ally behind the man, shoving him to the floor as they up the street. The man picked himself up and dusted himself off only to feel a brief moment of panic as his body was penetrated by several swords. His last moments were unfortunately filled with panic, misery, and care.
A marilith withdrew several exotic swords from the dustie, and licked the blades clean one by one. As she worked, a silent horde of gelatinous flesh gathered itself up and swallowed her up, clawing and biting and suffering horrible losses. The flow did not let up, and the marilith did not reappear.
Throughout the city, similar events were occurring. Would anyone survive? One thing was for sure: many would be penned in the dead book before their time in the coming days.
***
The Dead:
Phyphor - Dustmen Factor - True Death sought him.
***
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If you didn’t get a Role PM please let me know.
You may submit your orders by replying to your role PM. Please include the Day (Day 1 orders) or something similar in your PM.
Day One will end on Monday 10/24/2011 at 3:00PM EST.
There is no sun over Sigil, but there is a light that comes and goes to create a day and night cycle. As night was falling a crowd was assembling to combine their powers and single out someone for death. A strong wind began to blow through the city streets as a heavily cloaked and robed figure was brought before the group.
Suddenly, the figure threw his robe aside to reveal a tall scaled creature with fearsome claws and a thrashing tail. The creature grabbed the closest person next to him and attempted to drag him into range of his twisted, dangerous-looking beard. Before anyone was injured, the bearded devil was flung to the ground by guards.
Getting back up, corvidae scanned the crowd and met the gazes of several of his colleagues. Its eyes lit up with hope, than darkened with despair. None of them would stick their neck out. Dying would open up a vacuum in the rigid baatezu power structure that might help them advance. His thoughts were cut short as his head was neatly severed from his body by an executioner’s axe.
The crowd was excited at their success, but nervous of the coming darkness. After the execution everyone quickly dispersed. It was far too dangerous to stay so close together some said. Many people said they were going to take cover, others cited pressing business to attend to. The streets were briefly emptied, but people began to sneak out into the night soon after.
A small group of rats took to the streets after the bulk of the people had left. Although they appeared to be normal rats, an astute observer would notice that the rats had their brains exposed. The rats had some instinct that they were in danger, and turned hissing as several monstrous shapes appeared and struck out at them. Whatever it was that attacked them took care not to leave a single rat alive. The Wildcat rats were annihilated.
piL locked the door to his office and reflected on the day. He was so pleased with himself for thinking up the idea of banding together to defeat the invaders. Many had laughed at his theory of just voting them out one-by-one, but the proof was in the pudding as they say. As he settled down to read some paperwork, his door exploded into the room. Several hulking forms ducked to let themselves in, and started eviscerating piL as he stared in shock. Death came far too slow to him.
***
The Dead:
corvidae - Barbazu - Executed by the people.
Wildcat - A small group of cranium rats - Torn to shreds.
piL - An advocate of Sigil - Eviscerated.
***
PMs will begin going out now.
Everyone was talking about the new halo in the cage. Were the Devas really going to save the town? This one had exposed a formless blob of flesh for what it was. Hope began to make its way throughout the town. So it was an excited crowd that gathered to watch Greeper be executed.
The execution took several hours as the guards hacked and hacked. There was quite a difference of opinion on how to pen a formless blob of flesh.
As the crowd dispersed, some hard-heads held a rotund man for questioning. The man giggled evilly and started drumming his hands on his large belly.
“Sir, we’ve received word that you’ve been disturbing the peace.”
The man responded with a look of shock and surprise, which quickly gave way to rude gesture and a satisfied smile.
“Sir, you are going to have to come with us”
The man’s eye’s twinkled merrily as he made a complex gesture. The hard-heads opened their mouths to respond, but then suddenly realized that they had simultaneously lost bowel control. The man tittered, he was clearly *Quite * pleased with himself.
Unfortunately, humor is subjective, and an axe to the head
left JaysonFour quite dead.
***
After dark fell a second group of rats took to the streets. These rats also had exposed brains, but they seemed different somehow, more intelligent. Their eyes gleamed with an intelligence not normally found in lesser creatures. They were out for revenge. They saw their target and squeaked with fury. Then they saw another target and another until they realized they were surrounded.
A short time later, scores of small vermin sized blood stains coated the walls of the alley and the Peccavi group was no more.
“Nipped that one in the bud.”
“Could have been bad.”
***
People on the streets pointed as they noticed a loathsome flying shape. What looked like a giant man-sized beetle flew above them; its beady eyes visible even from a great distance staring out from beneath its enameled carapace. Three antennae waved wildly above its head, in what might be taken for a state of panic.
As the people recovered from the shock of the sight, they noticed that the creature was in bad shape. Five of its six limbs hung at odd, twisted angles, and its flight was ragged and drunken. An obscure dark shape intercepted it and with a shriek, Arivia fell from the sky and fixed the onlookers with what may have been a sympathetic, pleading look if it were coming from a less alien face.
After giving a final shudder, she was still.
***
A hedge wizard returned to his small home after attempting a bit of vigilante action. If only he could memorize more spells. While he’d never minded his level of power before, he sorely regretted not having more staying power now. Still, he was doing a better job than most of the people in this mess. He started studying his spells, re-memorizing his destructive spells. A sudden crash caused him to look up from his desk.
“You! NO!”
There was a loud screaming from Spoit’s house that night, but no one wanted to check on him. In the morning there wasn’t much left.
***
The Dead:
Greeper - Lemure - Executed by the people.
JaysonFour - Jumble Murdersense, Xaositect Factor - Some people just don’t get it.
Peccavi - A small group of aware cranium rats - Splattered.
Arivia - Kocrachon - Pummeled and beaten.
Spoit - A hedge wizard - Torn to shreds.
***
Results PMs will be going out now.
A robed, hooded figure was led out into the square.
“Sir you stand accused of being evil”
kime threw off his disguise revealing another tall, fearsome bearded devil.
He snarled and said, “That’s quite the mental leap there. But that’s not what should concern you. You see we are the good guys. When the Tanar’ri take over this city in a few days, you’ll wish we were here to defend you. You puny things can’t stand up to them. I understand you are concerned about our attempt to take over here. I’m sure we can reach an agreement. Shall I draw up a contract?”
kime’s severed head flying across the square was answer enough.
***
Belief had power on the outer planes, I’ve seen belief move cities, make men stave off death, and turn an evil hag's heart half-circle.
***
A hulking shape was crouching over its victim when it heard a noise. An axe sliding out of a holster. A fearsome Bulezau reared up and snarled at the interruption. Just a puny mortal. Just another victim. A smug smile spread across its loathsome features.
Malkor was torn asunder as one titanic blow struck him, utterly obliterating him.
***
KetBra was quite happy as he returned from his appointment that evening. He had stretched his skills, and learned that he could do more than he thought. As he walked past a dark alley, several shapes separated from the darkness and followed him. His body froze when his arm was torn off.
His mind began racing. This is not a career-ending injury, but we need to get out of her and cast our new spells. GO!!! His body seemed to be paying more attention to its missing part, and shortly thereafter it had another part to look at, and another. His mind sighed and wondered how it got saddled with such a terrible body.
***
A dabus floated sullenly, wracked with a horrible wasting disease.
A priest approached the dabus, glance over and said,”Eh, I don’t want to touch that, I might get infected.”
A second priest came by looked at the dabus and said, “I am going to cure that, I really am. But first let me go take care of someone else. You aren’t going to die right now or anything.”
Infidel died, right then. In the morning the people gathered around the dead dabus and tried to lay the blame on everyone else. It would not due to have anyone think they murdered a dabus when the Lady came back. She was coming back wasn't she?
***
The Dead:
kime - Barbazu - Executed by the people.
KetBra - A Minor Priest - Torn to shreds.
Malkor - Bulezau - Justice was served
Infidel - Dabus - Killed by disease/Needs better medical insurance.
***
Results PMs will be going out now.
Darn it, Bedlam. =/
i told you about tempting the fates!
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edit: errr, 2nd to last.
never change.
Cayrus
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The Black Hole of Cygnus X-1
A man wanders the planes for many years
Telling many lies; they are egregious sins.
I now call for his head on a spear,
The Pile of Skulls, vagrant_winds
Why do you want to kill the merchant?
// Switch: SW-5306-0651-6424 //
That's like -50/10 right there.
// Switch: SW-5306-0651-6424 //
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so you like bugs do ya?
Also reporting in that i took damage(although telling this to the thread is always bad)
I could use a heal if you are kind of enough mr healers
Steam
I'm dead
oooOOOooo
going to the gym
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The Black Hole of Cygnus X-1
Confusion will be my epitaph
Confusion will be my epitaph
Henri Emmanuel Gratien St Pierre in Where No Man Has Gone Before
Lord Augustus Cumberbatch in Eclipse Phase
how about that.
Democrats Abroad! || Vote From Abroad
Henri Emmanuel Gratien St Pierre in Where No Man Has Gone Before
Lord Augustus Cumberbatch in Eclipse Phase
* Day 2 - Retaba claims/hints (?) to be in touch with a seer or something? <-- could someone expand on this, please?
* Day 3 narration - kime dies as a demon, as predicted by Infidel. Infidel claimed to have had a seer contact him to provide this information. Infidel dies as a (presumably) village aligned Dabus.
* Day 3 - Retaba and precisionk have had PMs, and they don't see eye to eye. Somehow, it's ended up that they both reveal information to the thread (more or less on this page). Information like:
* Discussions continue on why precisionk revealed, and how this affects Retaba
Would that be an accurate summary of what's going on?