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Mafia Large Normal 231 | Etymologies

A game of hidden roles and social deduction.

Modded by

Mizzytastic

. Backup modded by

the worst

. Reviewed for normalcy and balance by

Flavor Leaf

and

Ircher

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In this game I will be sharing entries from one of my favourite sites etymonline.com, an etymology dictionary. Sometimes I will be sharing words related to the game of mafia (though obviously not relevant for determining what is going on in the game), sometimes I will go down rabbit holes of related words, sometimes I'll highlight words I know with interesting etymologies or relations and sometimes I'll just get curious about a word and post whatever I find.

game (n.)

c. 1200, from Old English

gamen

"joy, fun; game, amusement," common Germanic (cognates: Old Frisian

game

"joy, glee," Old Norse

gaman

"game, sport; pleasure, amusement," Old Saxon

gaman

, Old High German

gaman

"sport, merriment," Danish

gamen

, Swedish

gamman

"merriment"), said to be identical with Gothic

gaman

"participation, communion," from Proto-Germanic

*ga

- collective prefix +

*mann

"person," giving a sense of "people together."

The -

en

was lost perhaps through being mistaken for a suffix. Meaning "contest for success or superiority played according to rules" is first attested c. 1200 (of athletic contests, chess, backgammon). Especially "the sport of hunting, fishing, hawking, or fowling" (c. 1300), thus "wild animals caught for sport" (c. 1300), which is the

game

in

fair game

(see under

fair

(adj.)), also

gamey

. Meaning "number of points required to win a game" is from 1830.

Game plan

is 1941, from U.S. football;

game show

first attested 1961.

PLAYERS

1. Titus
   
2. Nero Cain
   
3. Vaxkiller
   
4. DrippingGoofball
   
5. Momrangal
   
6. quiet
   PrimeFighter
   
   
7. MathBlade
   MiniMegabyte
   
   
8. Bypasser Catcher
   NoPowerOverMe
   
   
9. Rannygazoo
   
10. Luca Blight
    
11. Binatog13
    
12. Norfolk Boy1
    
13. NorwegianboyEE
    
14. Gamma Emerald
    
15. BBMolla
    
16. chkflip
    
17. Not_Mafia
    CheekyTeeky
    samantha97
    
    
18. PlusJOYED
    Prods: 1
    
    
19. Hayker
    Prods: 2
    
    
20. Andresvmb

Spoiler: Alive on the last day...

1. Luca Blight
   
2. NorwegianboyEE
   
3. Andresvmb

Spoiler: Dead

1. Nero Cain,
   Vanilla Townie
   , eliminated day 1
   
2. MathBlade,
   Town Role Watcher
   , killed night 1
   
3. Norfolk Boy1,
   Vanilla Townie
   , eliminated day 2
   
4. Bypasser Catcher,
   Vanilla Townie
   , killed night 2
   
5. Not_Mafia,
   Mafia 1-Shot Strongman
   , eliminated day 3
   
6. Rannygazoo,
   Town Odd Nights Rolestopper
   , killed night 3
   
7. PlusJOYED,
   Vanilla Townie
   , eliminated day 4
   
8. quiet,
   Town Novice Combined Tracker Doctor
   , killed night 4
   
9. Titus,
   Vanilla Townie
   , eliminated day 5
   
10. DrippingGoofball,
    Town Lazy Roleblocker
    , killed night 5
    
11. chkflip,
    Mafia Rolecop
    , killed night 5
    
12. Vaxkiller,
    Mafia 1-Shot Ninja
    , eliminated day 6
    
13. Momrangal,
    Vanilla Townie
    , killed night 6
    
14. Binatog13,
    Town Universal Backup
    , killed night 6
    
15. Hayker,
    Mafia 1-Shot Bulletproof
    , eliminated day 7
    
16. Gamma Emerald,
    Macho Activated Innocent Child
    , killed night 7
    
17. BBMolla,
    Vanilla Townie
    , killed night 8

Spoiler: Replacements

Spoiler: Spectators

Important Events

Night 0

: Pregame samantha97 requested replacement

Day 1

: 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 CheekyTeeky replaces samantha97 1.4 and PrimeFighter is being replaced 1.5 quiet replaces PrimeFighter 1.6 1.7 1.8 NoPowerOverMe is being replaced Bypasser Catcher replaces NoPowerOverMe 1.9 Not_Mafia replaces CheekyTeeky 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 and MiniMegabyte is being replaced 1.17 1.18 1.19 1.20 1.END

Night 1

: MathBlade replaces MiniMegabyte

Day 2

: 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.END

Night 2

: ---

Day 3

: 3.0 3.1 3.END

Night 3

: ---

Day 4

: 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.END

Night 4

: ---

Day 5

: 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.END

Night 5

: ---

Day 6

: 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.END

Night 6

: ---

Day 7

: 7.0 7.END

Night 7

: ---

Day 8

: 8.0 8.END

Night 8

: ---

Day 9

: 9.0 9.END

[Mizzytastic]

I'm trying a new format for my rules posts and would appreciate feedback at any point during the game via PM. Evolution of my rules/formatting has been inspired by Korina and Plotinus, and feedback from xofelf.

Golden Rule

Golden Rule

: If I think it counts it counts. Don't play around with edge cases then plead you didn't mean it to be interpreted that way.

Content and Etiquette

Site Rules

: Follow all site rules. Common mistakes are talking about ongoing games and discussing replacements, and players not playing to achieve their win condition.

Keep it civil

: This is a game where we get to call each other scum and manipulate and lie to others. Beyond that please keep it civil, I don't ever want to reach the point where I don't want to read the game I'm running. If you feel like a player has gone too far but hasn't stopped after you ask them to please contact me.

Don't use "lynch"

: The site is in the process of moving away from using the words "lynch" and "hang". If you are unsure of an alternative I suggest elimination, elim, E-1, ELo, MELo etc.

Readibility

: Everyone should be able to read your posts. This is an English language site so use English. Avoid using text

smaller than 75

. Don't use BBCode features in a way that makes your posts difficult to read.

Concealed messages

: Cryptography is not permitted. Steganography (hidden text/messages) is not permitted other than breadcrumming.

Provable randomness

: You are not permitted to use a provably random or pseudo-random (most computer generated random numbers) results in the game. Saying you did without showing the evidence is not provable and so permitted.

Communications and Private Threads

Other threads

: You may talk in any game threads you have access to at any time, unless specified elsewhere (e.g. the

Game Setup

post or your Role PM).

Private Notes Thread

: You may request a private note thread. You may post in that thread at any time.

Quoting

: Quoting this thread in this thread is always ok. You may quote this thread in other game related threads you have access to. You may not quote any other game related threads in this one. You may draft a post in a private notes thread, but copy and paste the content without quote tags. You may not quote any mod communications. Paraphrasing any of these things is ok, creating a fake quote is not.

Claiming mafia

: Part of paraphrasing mod communications is claiming roles. Claiming to be part of an anti-town faction is ok. Many mods ban claiming your team mates, whether real or faked. If you do want to claim your team mates, real or fake, I ask you to strongly consider if it could be considered playing against your win con and check with me if you are unsure.

Redactions

: The

Dead and Spectators Thread

will be released at the end of the game. Any other threads will be released 48 hours after game end, or when all players in them have said it is ok to release them. You can use that 48 hours to redact posts or request the thread isn't released.

Communicating with the mod

: If you want to VOTE: XXXX or UNVOTE: XXXX use the appropriate tags, I skim looking for those tags when doing a vote count and may miss it otherwise. If you want to get my attention for some other reason

bold

it or PM me, otherwise I may miss it and not answer.

Mod Colour

:

#8000FF

is my prefered colour. You can use it but don't

bold

it, or use it to imitate me.

Deadlines, Activity and V/LA

Pre-game

: The game is locked during pre-game and confirmation. Once all Role PMs have been sent people have 48 hours to reply via PM or the

Mafia Private Thread

with their role and alignment. The game will start after 16/20 players have confirmed or the 48 hours have passed, after which unconfirmed players will be replaced.

Day-time

: Day 1 lasts for 12 days (288 hours). Later days last for 10 days (240 hours). Once 10 or fewer players are alive deadlines will be reduced to 8 days (192 hours).

Night-time

: Night lasts for 48 hours. The game thread is locked during night. See

Night Actions

in the next section for more info about how they work.

Quick night

: If all living players request a quick night, I will resolve the night phase as soon as possible.

Prods and replacements

: You will be prodded after not posting for 48 hours, or 72 hours over the weekend or when

V/LA

. You will have 24 hours to post or be replaced. If you are prodded 3 times you will be replaced. If you repeatedly post close to prod timer or respond to prods without game advancing content I reserve the right to give you stricter activity requirements.

V/LA

: You can go Vacation/Low Access by requesting in thread, by PM or the option in your User Control Panel. If you are V/LA for longer than 72 hours with no expectation of access request a replacement instead. I reserve the right to seek a replacement if a player is V/LA for a long period of time.

Game Actions and Death

Voting

: You can vote for a player or a no elimination with VOTE: XXXX vote tags. If a majority is reached that player (or no one) will be eliminated and the game will enter twilight. If the deadline for the day is reached without a majority no one is eliminated. (

bolded

votes will be counted but I am very likely to miss them so please don't)

Twilight

: Twilight is the time period between a majority vote or deadline and me locking the thread. The voted player is not currently dead and may talk normally. Votes are no longer counted.

Death

: You are dead once I have revealed your role and alignment. You will gain access to the

Dead and Spectators Thread

. You may still post in a Private Notes Thread but not in any other game threads, not even a contentless BAH post.

Night Actions

: Night actions can be submitted by PM or the

Mafia Private Thread

. You will be reminded of any pending night actions 24 hours before night ends - this is not a prod. Night actions submitted after the deadline but before I process the results are forfeited.

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Setup

Day talk

: If you are a member of a shared private thread you may talk there at any time, including the day, as long as you are alive, unless your Role PM says otherwise.

Action Resolution and Multitasking

: Actions are resolved according to Natural Action Resolution. If you have multiple night actions available you may only perform one unless your Role PM says otherwise.

Win Conditions

: Win conditions for

Town

and

Mafia

are as follows:

Town

: You win when all threats to the town are dead and at least 1 member of the town is alive.

Mafia

: You win when all players not aligned with you are dead and at least 1 member of your mafia family is alive, or nothing can prevent that from happening.

Sample Roles

: Below are an example role for a

Vanilla Townie

and a

Mafia Goon

. At least 2 players are a Vanilla Townie. 1 or more players might be a Mafia Goon.

Vanilla Townie

You are a

Vanilla Townie

Each day you may talk in the game thread and vote on who to eliminate.

You win when all threats to the town are dead and at least 1 member of the town is alive.

The game thread is here, please confirm your role and alignment via pm.

Mafia Goon

You are a

Mafia Goon

You form a

Mafia

family along with REDACTED.

Each day you may talk in the game thread and vote on who to eliminate.

Each night a member of your family may perform a factional kill. A member of your family will attempt to visit a player, and assuming no interference that player will die.

You win when all players not aligned with you are dead and at least 1 member of your mafia family is alive, or nothing can prevent that from happening.

The game thread is here and your Mafia private thread is REDACTED, please confirm your role and alignment via pm or your private thread.

[Mizzytastic]

Night 0 Checklist:

Setting up game threads

Sending role PMs

Confirmation

Game is beginning shortly. Unconfirmed players have until (expired on 2021-01-06 17:30:00) to confirm. Once the deadline is reached I'll start looking for replacements for anyone who hasn't confirmed.

16/20 confirmed

[Mizzytastic]

samantha97

has requested replacement

[Mizzytastic]

Day 1 | Game Begins

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begin (v.)

Old English

beginnan

"to attempt, undertake," a rare word beside the more usual form

onginnan

(class III strong verb; past tense

ongann

, past participle

ongunnen

); from

be-

+ West Germanic

*ginnan

, which is of obscure etymology and found only in compounds, perhaps "to open, open up" (compare Old High German

in-ginnan

"to cut open, open up," also "begin, undertake"), with sense evolution from "open" to "begin." Cognates elsewhere in Germanic include Old Frisian

biginna

"to begin," Middle Dutch

beghinnen

, Old High German

beginnan

, German

beginnen

, Old Frisian

bijenna

"to begin," Gothic

duginnan

.

From late 12c. as "originate, be the originator of;" from c. 1200 as "take the first step in, start to deal with." Intransitive sense "come into existence" is from mid-13c.

Official Votecount 1.0

Anyone (0): Nobody

Not Voting (20): Titus, Nero Cain, Vaxkiller, DrippingGoofball, Momrangal, PrimeFighter, MiniMegabyte, NoPowerOverMe, Rannygazoo, Luca Blight, Binatog13, Norfolk Boy1, NorwegianboyEE, Gamma Emerald, BBMolla, chkflip, samantha97, PlusJOYED, Hayker, Andresvmb

With 20 players alive, it takes 11 votes to achieve an eliminaton.

Day 1 will end in (expired on 2021-01-16 23:15:00).

Momrangal, PrimeFighter

and

chkflip

have until (expired on 2021-01-06 17:30:00) to confirm. Once the deadline is reached I'll start looking for replacements for anyone who hasn't confirmed.

[Mizzytastic]

vote (n.)

mid-15c., "formal expression of one's wish or choice with regard to a proposal, candidate, etc.," from Latin

votum

"a vow, wish, promise to a god, solemn pledge, dedication," noun use of neuter of

votus

, past participle of

vovere

"to promise, dedicate" (see

vow

(n.)). Meaning "totality of voters of a certain class or type" is from 1888.

Official Votecount 1.1

Binatog13 (2): MiniMegabyte, Vaxkiller

[E-9]

DrippingGoofball (1): Hayker
MiniMegabyte (1): Binatog13
Rannygazoo (1): DrippingGoofball
Norfolk Boy1 (1): Titus
Gamma Emerald (1): Andresvmb
samantha97 (1): BBMolla
Andresvmb (1): NoPowerOverMe

Not Voting (11): Nero Cain, Momrangal, PrimeFighter, Rannygazoo, Luca Blight, Norfolk Boy1, NorwegianboyEE, Gamma Emerald, chkflip, samantha97, PlusJOYED

With 20 players alive, it takes 11 votes to achieve an eliminaton.

Day 1 will end in (expired on 2021-01-16 23:15:00).

I'm heading to bed soon. I've asked

the worst

to check the thread and post vote counts if necessary when I'm away because I know large games can go very quickly if there are a few people active at the same time.

[Mizzytastic]

Doing something a bit different, this VC and the next one I do will have two words that share a common ancestor.

guest (n.)

Old English

gæst

,

giest

(Anglian

gest

) "an accidental guest, a chance comer, a stranger," from Proto-Germanic

*gastiz

(source also of Old Frisian

jest

, Dutch

gast

, German

Gast

, Gothic

gasts

"guest," originally "stranger"), from PIE root

*ghos-ti-

"stranger, guest, host" (source also of Latin

hostis

, in earlier use "a stranger," in classical use "an enemy"); the root sense, according to Watkins, probably is "someone with whom one has reciprocal duties of hospitality."

Spelling evolution influenced by Old Norse cognate

gestr

(the usual sound changes from the Old English word would have yielded Modern English

*yest

). Meaning "person entertained for pay" (at an inn, etc.) is from late 13c. Old English also had

cuma

"stranger, guest," literally "a comer." Phrase

be my guest

in the sense of "go right ahead" first recorded 1955.

Official Votecount 1.3

MiniMegabyte (5): Binatog13, Nero Cain, chkflip, BBMolla, NorwegianboyEE

[E-6]

Andresvmb (3): NoPowerOverMe, Rannygazoo, Vaxkiller
DrippingGoofball (2): Hayker, Momrangal
Rannygazoo (1): DrippingGoofball
Binatog13 (1): MiniMegabyte
Gamma Emerald (1): Andresvmb
Hayker (1): Titus

Not Voting (6): PrimeFighter, Luca Blight, Norfolk Boy1, Gamma Emerald, samantha97, PlusJOYED

With 20 players alive, it takes 11 votes to achieve an elimination.

Day 1 will end in (expired on 2021-01-16 23:15:00).

Currently I'm waiting on a confirmation for a replacement for samantha97. Other than that the only player still unconfirmed is PrimeFighter.

[Mizzytastic]

CheekyTeeky

replaces

samantha97

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host (n.1)

"person who receives guests," especially for pay, late 13c., from Old French

oste

,

hoste

"guest, host, hostess, landlord" (12c., Modern French

hôte

), from Latin

hospitem

(nominative

hospes

) "guest, stranger, sojourner, visitor (hence also 'foreigner')," also "host; one bound by ties of hospitality."

This appears to be from PIE

*ghos-pot-

, a compound meaning "guest-master" (compare Old Church Slavonic

gospodi

"lord, master," literally "lord of strangers"), from the roots

*ghos-ti-

"stranger, guest, host" and

*poti-

"powerful; lord." The etymological notion is of someone "with whom one has reciprocal duties of hospitality" [Watkins]. The biological sense of "animal or plant having a parasite" is from 1857.

Official Votecount 1.4

MiniMegabyte (6): Binatog13, Nero Cain, chkflip, BBMolla, DrippingGoofball, CheekyTeeky

[E-5]

DrippingGoofball (3): Hayker, Momrangal, Gamma Emerald
Rannygazoo (2): Norfolk Boy1, NorwegianboyEE
Gamma Emerald (2): Andresvmb, Rannygazoo
Binatog13 (1): MiniMegabyte,
CheekyTeeky (1): Vaxkiller
Hayker (1): Titus
Andresvmb (1): NoPowerOverMe

Not Voting (3): PrimeFighter, Luca Blight, PlusJOYED

With 20 players alive, it takes 11 votes to achieve an elimination.

Day 1 will end in (expired on 2021-01-16 23:15:00).

PrimeFighter

has failed to pick up their Role PM and is being replaced. If they show up before I can find a replacement they can keep the slot.

[Mizzytastic]

quiet

has replaced

PrimeFighter.

[Mizzytastic]

count (v.)

late 14c., "to enumerate, assign numerals to successively and in order; repeat the numerals in order," also "to reckon among, include," from Old French

conter

"to count, add up," also "tell a story," from Latin

computare

"to count, sum up, reckon together," from

com

"with, together" (see

com-

) +

putare

"to reckon," originally "to prune," from PIE root

*pau-

(2) "to cut, strike, stamp."

Intransitive sense "be of value or worth" is from 1857. Related:

Counted

;

counting

. Modern French differentiates

compter

"to count" and

conter

"to tell," but they are cognates. To

count on

"rely or depend upon" is from 1640s. To

count against

(transitive) "to be to the disadvantage of" is by 1888. To

count (someone) in

"consider (someone) a participant or supporter" is from 1857;

count (someone) out

in the opposite sense "leave out of consideration" is from 1854.

Official Votecount 1.6

DrippingGoofball (3): Momrangal, NorwegianboyEE, MiniMegabyte

[E-8]

MiniMegabyte (3): Binatog13, Nero Cain, chkflip

[E-8]

PlusJOYED (3): Luca Blight, DrippingGoofball, Titus

[E-8]

CheekyTeeky (2): Vaxkiller, Gamma Emerald
Titus (1): PlusJOYED
NoPowerOverMe (1): CheekyTeeky
Rannygazoo (1): Norfolk Boy1
Binatog13 (1): BBMolla
Norfolk Boy1 (1): Rannygazoo
Gamma Emerald (1): Andresvmb
BBMolla (1): NoPowerOverMe

Not Voting (2): quiet, Hayker

With 20 players alive, it takes 11 votes to achieve an elimination.

Day 1 will end in (expired on 2021-01-16 23:15:00).

This is your friendly reminder that using bold instead of vote or unvote tags makes me more likely to miss your vote.

[Mizzytastic]

band (n.2)

"an organized group," originally especially of armed men, late 15c., from French

bande

, which is traceable to the Proto-Germanic root of

band

(n.1), perhaps via a band of cloth worn as a mark of identification by a group of soldiers or others (compare Gothic

bandwa

"a sign"). But perhaps from Middle English

band, bond

in the sense "force that unites, bond, tie" (late 14c.). Also compare Old Norse

band

"cord that binds; act of binding," also "confederacy."

The extension to "group of musicians" is c. 1660, originally musicians attached to a regiment of the army and playing instruments which may be used while marching. To

beat the band

(1897) is to make enough noise to drown it out, hence to exceed everything.

One-man band

is by 1931 as "man who plays several musical instruments simultaneously;" figurative extension is by 1938.

Official Votecount 1.7

PlusJOYED (4): Luca Blight, DrippingGoofball, Titus, quiet

[E-7]

DrippingGoofball (3): Momrangal, NorwegianboyEE, MiniMegabyte
CheekyTeeky (3): Vaxkiller, Gamma Emerald, NoPowerOverMe
MiniMegabyte (2): Nero Cain, BBMolla
NoPowerOverMe (2): CheekyTeeky, chkflip
Titus (1): PlusJOYED
Rannygazoo (1): Norfolk Boy1
Norfolk Boy1 (1): Rannygazoo
Gamma Emerald (1): Andresvmb

Not Voting (2): Hayker, Binatog13

With 20 players alive, it takes 11 votes to achieve an elimination.

Day 1 will end in (expired on 2021-01-16 23:15:00).

@Hayker:

I am unsure if 541 was meant to be a vote so I haven't counted it. Please could you try to use vote and unvote tags

E.g. you get "VOTE: Name or UNVOTE: Name" with:

Code: Select all

[v]Name[/v] or [uv]Name[/uv]

[Mizzytastic]

sorry for inactivity been a tough week irl, what with news and weaning antidepressants and work and medical bills and other personal stuff. Gonna be vla until Sunday.

@Mod I’m VLA until tonight, just as an FYI.

I thought I would get back to this yesterday but just haven’t had the time. I’ll put some effort like I always do, just need to read carefully is all.

Received.

[Mizzytastic]

wagon (n.)

"four-wheeled vehicle to carry heavy loads," late 15c., from Middle Dutch

wagen

,

waghen

, from Proto-Germanic

*wagna-

(source also of Old English

wægn

, Modern English

wain

, Old Saxon and Old High German

wagan

, Old Norse

vagn

, Old Frisian

wein

, German

Wagen

), from PIE

*wogh-no-

, suffixed form of root

*wegh-

"to go, move, transport in a vehicle" (source also of Latin

vehiculum

). It is thus related to

way

.

In Dutch and German, it is the general word for "a wheel vehicle;" its use in English is a result of contact through Flemish immigration, Dutch trade, or the Continental wars. It has largely displaced the native cognate,

wain

. Spelling preference varied randomly between

-g-

and

-gg-

from mid-18c., until American English settled on the etymological

wagon

, while

waggon

remained common in Great Britain.

Wagon-train

is attested from 1810. Phrase

on the wagon

"abstaining from alcohol" is attested by 1904, originally

on the water cart

.

Official Votecount 1.8

CheekyTeeky (5): Gamma Emerald, NoPowerOverMe, NorwegianboyEE, quiet, Nero Cain

[E-6]

PlusJOYED (3): Luca Blight, DrippingGoofball, Titus
DrippingGoofball (2): Momrangal, MiniMegabyte
MiniMegabyte (2): BBMolla, Vaxkiller
NoPowerOverMe (2): CheekyTeeky, chkflip
Titus (1): PlusJOYED
Rannygazoo (1): Norfolk Boy1
Norfolk Boy1 (1): Rannygazoo
Gamma Emerald (1): Andresvmb

Not Voting (2): Hayker, Binatog13

With 20 players alive, it takes 11 votes to achieve an elimination.

Day 1 will end in (expired on 2021-01-16 23:15:00).

Hayker may be voting BBMolla, waiting on confirmation that is what they meant.

[Mizzytastic]

NoPowerOverMe

is being replaced.

[Mizzytastic]

Bypasser Catcher

replaces

NoPowerOverMe.

[Mizzytastic]

Busy with family stuff today

Vc and checking prod timers in ~2 hours

New page occurred, find the vote count here

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bandwagon (n.)

also

band-wagon

, 1849, American English, from

band

(n.2) +

wagon

, originally a large wagon used to carry the band in a circus procession; as these also figured in celebrations of successful political campaigns, being

on the bandwagon

came to represent "attaching oneself to anything that looks likely to succeed," a usage first attested 1899 in writings of Theodore Roosevelt.

Official Votecount 1.9

CheekyTeeky (5): Gamma Emerald, NorwegianboyEE, quiet, Nero Cain, Norfolk Boy1

[E-6]

PlusJOYED (4): Luca Blight, DrippingGoofball, Titus, Andresvmb
DrippingGoofball (2): Momrangal, MiniMegabyte
MiniMegabyte (2): BBMolla, Vaxkiller
Bypasser Catcher (2): CheekyTeeky, chkflip
Titus (1): PlusJOYED
Norfolk Boy1 (1): Rannygazoo
NorwegianBoyEE (1): Bypasser Catcher

Not Voting (2): Hayker*, Binatog13

*

Hayker may be voting BBMolla, waiting on confirmation that is what they meant.

With 20 players alive, it takes 11 votes to achieve an elimination.

Day 1 will end in (expired on 2021-01-16 23:15:00).

CheekyTeeky

has been prodded.

[Mizzytastic]

CheekyTeeky

has requested replacement.

Not_Mafia

has asked to enter the replacement queue.

Not_Mafia

replaces

CheekyTeeky

[Mizzytastic]

re-

word-forming element meaning "back to the original place; again, anew, once more," also with a sense of "undoing," c. 1200, from Old French and directly from Latin

re-

"again, back, anew, against," "Latin combining form conceivably from Indo-European

*wret-

, metathetical variant of

*wert-

"to turn" [Watkins]. Often merely intensive, and in many of the older borrowings from French and Latin the precise sense of

re-

is lost in secondary senses or weakened beyond recognition. OED writes that it is "impossible to attempt a complete record of all the forms resulting from its use," and adds that "The number of these is practically infinite ...." The Latin prefix became

red-

before vowels and

h-

, as in

redact

,

redeem

,

redolent

,

redundant

.

Official Votecount 1.10

Not_Mafia (6): Gamma Emerald, NorwegianboyEE, quiet, Nero Cain, Norfolk Boy1, Rannygazoo

[E-5]

PlusJOYED (5): Luca Blight, DrippingGoofball, Titus, Andresvmb, Bypasser Catcher
MiniMegabyte (2): BBMolla, Vaxkiller
Titus (1): PlusJOYED
DrippingGoofball (1): MiniMegabyte
NorwegianboyEE (1): Not_Mafia
Andresvmb (1): Momrangal

Not Voting (3): Hayker*, Binatog13, chkflip

*

Hayker may be voting BBMolla, waiting on confirmation that is what they meant.

With 20 players alive, it takes 11 votes to achieve an elimination.

Day 1 will end in (expired on 2021-01-16 23:15:00).

[Mizzytastic]

The below can cause serious readability issues depending on how people are using the site. Please refrain from it in future. Those posts will be deleted.

Spoiler: Please no

[Mizzytastic]

place (n.)

c. 1200, "space, dimensional extent, room, area," from Old French

place

"place, spot" (12c.) and directly from Medieval Latin

placea

"place, spot," from Latin

platea

"courtyard, open space; broad way, avenue," from Greek

plateia (hodos)

"broad (way)," fem. of

platys

"broad," from PIE root

*plat-

"to spread."

Replaced Old English

stow

and

stede

. From mid-13c. as "particular part of space, extent, definite location, spot, site;" from early 14c. as "position or place occupied by custom, etc.; precedence, priority in rank or dignity; social status, position on some social scale;" from late 14c. as "inhabited place, town, country," also "place on the surface of something, portion of something, part." Meaning "a situation, appointment, or employment" is by 1550s. Meaning "group of houses in a town" is from 1580s.

Also from the same Latin source are Italian

piazza

, Catalan

plassa

, Spanish

plaza

, Middle Dutch

plaetse

, Dutch

plaats

, German

Platz

, Danish

plads

, Norwegian

plass

. The word appears via the Bible in Old English (Old Northumbrian

plaece, plaetse

"an open place in a city"), but the modern word is a reborrowing.

Sense of "a mansion with its adjoining grounds" is from mid-14c.; that of "building or part of a building set apart for some purpose is by late 15c. (in

place of worship

). Meaning "a broad way, square, or open space in a city or town," often having some particular use or character (

Park Place, Waverly Place,Rillington Place

) is by 1690s, from a sense in French. Its wide application in English covers meanings that in French require three words:

place, lieu

, and

endroit

. Cognate Italian

piazza

and Spanish

plaza

retain more of the etymological sense.

To

take place

"happen, come to pass, be accomplished" (mid-15c., earlier

have place

, late 14c.), translates French

avoir lieu

. To

know (one's) place

"know how to behave in a manner befitting one's rank, situation, etc." is from c. 1600, from the "social status" sense; hence the figurative expression

put (someone) in his or her place

(1855). In i

n the first place

, etc., it has the sense of "point or degree in order of proceeding" (1630s).

Out of place

"not properly adjusted or placed in relation to other things" is by 1520s.

All over the place

"in disorder" is attested from 1923.

Official Votecount 1.11

Not_Mafia (8): Gamma Emerald, NorwegianboyEE, quiet, Nero Cain, Norfolk Boy1, Rannygazoo, chkflip, DrippingGoofball

[E-3]

PlusJOYED (4): Luca Blight, Titus, Andresvmb, Bypasser Catcher
MiniMegabyte (2): BBMolla, Vaxkiller
Titus (1): PlusJOYED
DrippingGoofball (1): MiniMegabyte
NorwegianboyEE (1): Not_Mafia
Andresvmb (1): Momrangal

Not Voting (2): Hayker*, Binatog13

*

Hayker may be voting BBMolla, waiting on confirmation that is what they meant.

With 20 players alive, it takes 11 votes to achieve an elimination.

Day 1 will end in (expired on 2021-01-16 23:15:00).

@Not_Mafia

Was 'Gastric Bypass' intended to be a serious vote on someone or not?

[Mizzytastic]

Not_Mafia is currently voting NorwegianboyEE. They are capable of making an unambiguous vote if they want me to count it.

[Mizzytastic]

-ment

common suffix of Latin origin forming nouns, originally from French and representing Latin

-mentum

, which was added to verb stems to make nouns indicating the result or product of the action of the verb or the means or instrument of the action. In Vulgar Latin and Old French it came to be used as a formative in nouns of action. French inserts an

-e-

between the verbal root and the suffix (as in

commenc-e-ment

from

commenc-er

; with verbs in

ir

,

-i-

is inserted instead (as in

sent-i-ment

from

sentir

).

Used with English verb stems from 16c. (for example

amazement

,

betterment

,

merriment

, the last of which also illustrates the habit of turning

-y

to

-i-

before this suffix).

The stems to which

-ment

is normally appended are those of verbs; freaks like

oddment

&

funniment

should not be made a precedent of; they are themselves due to misconception of

merriment

, which is not from the adjective, but from an obsolete verb

merry

to rejoice. [Fowler]

Official Votecount 1.12

Not_Mafia (7): Gamma Emerald, NorwegianboyEE, Nero Cain, Norfolk Boy1, Rannygazoo, chkflip, DrippingGoofball

[E-4]

MiniMegabyte (2): BBMolla, Vaxkiller
PlusJOYED (2): Titus, Luca Blight
Hayker (2): Andresvmb, quiet
Titus (1): PlusJOYED
quiet (1): Bypasser Catcher
DrippingGoofball (1): MiniMegabyte
NorwegianboyEE (1): Not_Mafia
Andresvmb (1): Momrangal

Not Voting (2): Binatog13, Hayker

With 20 players alive, it takes 11 votes to achieve an elimination.

Day 1 will end in (expired on 2021-01-16 23:15:00).

[Mizzytastic]

replacement (n.)

"act or fact of being replaced," 1790, from

replace

(v.) +

-ment

. Meaning "something that replaces another" is attested from 1894.

Official Votecount 1.13

Hayker (4): quiet, Gamma Emerald, NorwegianboyEE, Rannygazoo

[E-7]

Not_Mafia (3): Nero Cain, Norfolk Boy1, DrippingGoofball
MiniMegabyte (2): BBMolla, Vaxkiller
Rannygazoo (2): chkflip, Andresvmb
PlusJOYED (2): Titus, Luca Blight
Titus (1): PlusJOYED
DrippingGoofball (1): MiniMegabyte
quiet (1): Bypasser Catcher
NorwegianboyEE (1): Not_Mafia
Andresvmb (1): Momrangal

Not Voting (2): Binatog13, Hayker

With 20 players alive, it takes 11 votes to achieve an elimination.

Day 1 will end in (expired on 2021-01-16 23:15:00).

[Mizzytastic]

twenty (adj., n.)

"1 more than nineteen, twice ten; the number which is one more than nineteen; a symbol representing this number;" Old English

twentig

"group of twenty," from

twegen

"two" (from PIE root

*dwo-

"two") +

-tig

"group of ten" (see

-ty

(1)). Cognate with Old Saxon

twentig

, Old Frisian

twintich

, Dutch

twintig

, Old High German

zweinzug

, German

zwanzig

. Gothic

twai tigjus

is even more transparent: literally "two tens."

The card game

twenty-one

(1790) is from French

vingt-et-un

(1781).

Twenty-twenty hindsight

is first recorded 1962, a figurative use of the Snellen fraction for normal visual acuity, expressed in feet. The guessing game of

twenty questions

is recorded from 1786 (a late 19c. parlor variation on it was called

clumps

).

Official Votecount 1.14

Hayker (6): quiet, NorwegianboyEE, Rannygazoo, Andresvmb, BBMolla, Bypasser Catcher

[E-5]

Not_Mafia (5): Nero Cain, Norfolk Boy1, MiniMegabyte, Binatog13, DrippingGoofball
PlusJOYED (2): Titus, Luca Blight
Titus (1): PlusJOYE
MiniMegabyte (1): Vaxkiller
Bypasser Catcher (1): Gamma Emerald
Rannygazoo (1): chkflip
NorwegianboyEE (1): Not_Mafia
Andresvmb (1): Momrangal

Not Voting (1): Hayker

With 20 players alive, it takes 11 votes to achieve an elimination.

Day 1 will end in (expired on 2021-01-16 23:15:00).

[Mizzytastic]

compete (v.)

1610s, " to enter or be put in rivalry with," from French

compéter

"be in rivalry with" (14c.), or directly from Late Latin

competere

"strive in common, strive after something in company with or together," in classical Latin "to meet or come together; agree or coincide; to be qualified," from

com

"with, together" (see

com-

) +

petere

"to strive, seek, fall upon, rush at, attack" (from PIE root

*pet-

"to rush, to fly").

According to OED, rare 17c., revived from late 18c. in sense "to strive (alongside another) for the attainment of something" and regarded early 19c. in Britain as a Scottish or American word. Market sense is from 1840s (perhaps a back-formation from

competition

); athletics sense attested by 1857. Intransitive use is by 1974. Related:

Competed; competing

.

Official Votecount 1.15

Hayker (7): quiet, NorwegianboyEE, Rannygazoo, Andresvmb, BBMolla, Bypasser Catcher, Gamma Emerald

[E-4]

Not_Mafia (5): Nero Cain, Norfolk Boy1, MiniMegabyte, Binatog13, DrippingGoofball
PlusJOYED (3): Titus, Luca Blight, chkflip
Titus (1): PlusJOYED
MiniMegabyte (1): Vaxkiller
NorwegianboyEE (1): Not_Mafia
Andresvmb (1): Momrangal

Not Voting (1): Hayker

With 20 players alive, it takes 11 votes to achieve an elimination.

Day 1 will end in (expired on 2021-01-16 23:15:00).

[Mizzytastic]

awake (v.)

"cease to sleep, come out of sleep," a merger of two Middle English verbs: 1.

awaken

, from Old English

awæcnan

(earlier

onwæcnan

; strong, past tense

awoc

, past participle

awacen

) "to awake, arise, originate," from a

"on" + wacan

"to arise, become awake;" and 2.

awakien

, from Old English

awacian

(weak, past participle

awacode

) "to awaken, revive; arise; originate, spring from," from a

"on" + wacian

"to be awake, remain awake, watch." For the first element, see

a

(1); the second element in both is common Proto-Germanic, from PIE root

*weg-

"to be strong, be lively."

Both originally were intransitive only; the transitive sense "arouse from sleep" generally being expressed by Middle English

awecchen

(from Old English

aweccan

) until later Middle English. In Modern English, the tendency has been to restrict the strong past tense and past participle (

awoke, awoken

) to the original intransitive sense and the weak inflection

(awaked

) to the transitive, but this never has been complete. For distinctions of usage, see

wake

(v.); also compare

awaken

.

Official Votecount 1.16

Not_Mafia (5): Nero Cain, Norfolk Boy1, MiniMegabyte, Binatog13, DrippingGoofball

[E-6]

Hayker (5): Rannygazoo, Andresvmb, BBMolla, Bypasser Catcher, Titus

[E-6]

Nero Cain (4): NorwegianboyEE, Gamma Emerald, chkflip, quiet
PlusJOYED (1): Luca Blight
Titus (1): PlusJOYED
MiniMegabyte (1): Vaxkiller
NorwegianboyEE (1): Not_Mafia
Andresvmb (1): Momrangal

Not Voting (1): Hayker

With 20 players alive, it takes 11 votes to achieve an elimination.

Day 1 will end in (expired on 2021-01-16 23:15:00).

MiniMegabyte

has requested replacement.

[Mizzytastic]

page (n.1)

"sheet of paper, one side of a printed or written leaf of a book or pamphlet," 1580s, from French

page

, from Old French

pagene

"page, text" (12c.), from Latin

pagina

"page, leaf of paper, strip of papyrus fastened to others," related to

pagella

"small page," from

pangere

"to fasten" (from PIE root

*pag-

"to fasten").

Earlier

pagine

(c. 1200), directly from Old French or Latin. The word is usually said to be from the notion of individual sheets of paper "fastened" into a book. Ayto and Watkins offer an alternative theory: vines fastened by stakes and formed into a trellis, which led to sense of "columns of writing on a scroll." When books replaced scrolls, the word continued to be used. Related:

Paginal

.

Page-turner

"book that one can't put down" is from 1974; earlier (by 1959) an apparatus or person who turns the pages of an open book, as for a performing musician.

Official Votecount 1.17

Nero Cain (7): NorwegianboyEE, Gamma Emerald, chkflip, quiet, Bypasser Catcher, Nero Cain, Luca Blight

[E-4]

Hayker (4): Rannygazoo, BBMolla, Titus, Norfolk Boy1
Not_Mafia (3): MiniMegabyte, Binatog13, DrippingGoofball
Titus (1): PlusJOYED
MiniMegabyte (1): Vaxkiller
Luca Blight (1): Andresvmb
NorwegianboyEE (1): Not_Mafia
Andresvmb (1): Momrangal

Not Voting (1): Hayker

With 20 players alive, it takes 11 votes to achieve an elimination.

Day 1 will end in (expired on 2021-01-16 23:15:00).

[Mizzytastic]

Going for a short walk to destress then I'll be posting an updated VC and dealing with prod timers

[Mizzytastic]

top (n.1)

"highest point," Old English

top

"summit, crest, tuft," from Proto-Germanic

*toppa-

(source also of Old Norse

toppr

"tuft of hair," Old Frisian

top

"tuft," Old Dutch

topp

, Dutch

top

, Old High German

zopf

"end, tip, tuft of hair," German

Zopf

"tuft of hair"); no certain connections outside Germanic except a few Romanic words probably borrowed from Germanic.

Few Indo-European languages have a word so generic, which can be used of the upper part or surface of just about anything. More typical is German, which has

Spitze

for sharp peaks (mountains),

oberfläche

for the upper surface of flat things (such as a table). Meaning "highest position" is from 1620s; meaning "best part" is from 1660s. To go

over the top

is World War I slang for "start an attack," in reference to the top of the trenches; as "beyond reasonable limits, too far" it is recorded from 1968.

Top of the world

as "position of greatest eminence" is from 1670s.

Top-of-the-line

(adj.) is by 1950.

Official Votecount 1.18

Nero Cain (7): NorwegianboyEE, Gamma Emerald, chkflip, quiet, Bypasser Catcher, Luca Blight, Momrangal

[E-4]

Hayker (6): Rannygazoo, BBMolla, Titus, Norfolk Boy1, Andresvmb, Nero Cain
Not_Mafia (3): MiniMegabyte, Binatog13, DrippingGoofball
Titus (1): PlusJOYED
MiniMegabyte (1): Vaxkiller
NorwegianboyEE (1): Not_Mafia

Not Voting (1): Hayker

With 20 players alive, it takes 11 votes to achieve an elimination.

Day 1 will end in (expired on 2021-01-16 23:15:00).

Hayker

has been prodded

[Mizzytastic]

Going for a short walk to destress then I'll be posting an updated VC and dealing with prod timers

Did it work?

Well I feel a

bit

more human at least

[Mizzytastic]

walk (v.)

"travel on foot," c. 1200, a merger of two verbs, 1. Old English

wealcan

"to toss, roll, move round" (past tense

weolc

, past participle

wealcen

), and 2.

wealcian

"to roll up, curl," from Proto-Germanic

*welk-

(source also of Old Norse

valka

"to drag about," Danish

valke

"to full" (cloth), Middle Dutch

walken

"to knead, press, full" (cloth), Old High German

walchan

"to knead," German

walken

"to full"), perhaps ultimately from PIE root

*wel-

(3) "to turn, revolve."

The shift in sense is perhaps from a colloquial use of the Old English word or via the sense of "to full cloth" (by treading on it), though this sense does not appear until after the change in meaning. In 13c. it is used of snakes and the passage of time, and in 15c. of wheeled carts. "Rarely is there so specific a word as NE

walk

, clearly distinguished from both

go

and

run

" [Buck]. Meaning "to go away" is recorded from mid-15c. Transitive meaning "to exercise a dog (or horse)" is from late 15c.; meaning "to escort (someone) in a walk" is from 1620s. Meaning "move (a heavy object) by turning and shoving it in a manner suggesting walking" is by 1890. To

walk it off

, of an injury, etc., is from 1741. Related:

Walked;

walking

.

Official Votecount 1.19

Nero Cain (8): NorwegianboyEE, Gamma Emerald, chkflip, quiet, Bypasser Catcher, Luca Blight, Momrangal, Norfolk Boy1

[E-3]

Hayker (5): Rannygazoo, BBMolla, Titus, Andresvmb, Nero Cain
Not_Mafia (3): MiniMegabyte, Binatog13, DrippingGoofball
Titus (1): PlusJOYED
MiniMegabyte (1): Vaxkiller
NorwegianboyEE (1): Not_Mafia

Not Voting (1): Hayker

With 20 players alive, it takes 11 votes to achieve an elimination.

Day 1 will end in (expired on 2021-01-16 23:15:00).

[Mizzytastic]

frustrate (v.)

mid-15c., from Latin

frustratus

, past participle of

frustrari

"to deceive, disappoint, make vain," from

frustra

(adv.) "in vain, in error," which is related to

fraus

"injury, harm," a word of uncertain origin (see

fraud

). Related:

Frustrated

; frustrating

.

Official Votecount 1.20

Nero Cain (9): NorwegianboyEE, chkflip, quiet, Bypasser Catcher, Luca Blight, Momrangal, Norfolk Boy1, Binatog13, Nero Cain

[E-2]

Hayker (5): Rannygazoo, BBMolla, Titus, Andresvmb, Gamma Emerald
Not_Mafia (2): MiniMegabyte, DrippingGoofball
Titus (1): PlusJOYED
MiniMegabyte (1): Vaxkiller
NorwegianboyEE (1): Not_Mafia

Not Voting (1): Hayker

With 20 players alive, it takes 11 votes to achieve an elimination.

Day 1 will end in (expired on 2021-01-16 23:15:00).

[Mizzytastic]

death (n.)

Old English

deaþ

"total cessation of life, act or fact of dying, state of being dead; cause of death," in plural, "ghosts," from Proto-Germanic

*dauthuz

(source also of Old Saxon

doth

, Old Frisian

dath

, Dutch

dood

, Old High German

tod

, German

Tod

, Old Norse

dauði

, Danish

død

, Swedish

död

, Gothic

dauus

"death"), from verbal stem

*dau-

, which is perhaps from PIE root

*dheu-

(3) "to die" (see

die

(v.)). With Proto-Germanic

*-thuz

suffix indicating "act, process, condition."

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him meerly seise me, and onely declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwrack, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotencie might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming. [John Donne, letter to Sir Henry Goodere, Sept. 1608]

Of inanimate things, "cessation, end," late 14c. From late 12c. as "death personified, a skeleton as the figure of mortality." As "a plague, a great mortality," late 14c. (in reference to the first outbreak of bubonic plague; compare

Black Death

).

Death's-head

, a symbol of mortality, is from 1590s.

Death's door

"the near approach of death" is from 1540s.

As a verbal intensifier "to death, mortally" (as in

hate (something) to death

) 1610s; earlier

to dead

(early 14c.). Slang

be death on

"be very good at" is from 1839. To

be the death

of "be the cause or occasion of death" is in Shakespeare (1596). Expression

a fate worse than death

is from 1810 though the idea is ancient.

Death row

"part of a prison exclusively for those condemned to capital execution" is by 1912.

Death knell

is attested from 1814;

death penalty

"capital punishment" is from 1844;

death rate

from 1859.

Death-throes

"struggle which in some cases accompanies death" is from c. 1300.

Official Votecount 1.END

Nero Cain (11): NorwegianboyEE, chkflip, quiet, Bypasser Catcher, Luca Blight, Momrangal, Norfolk Boy1, Binatog13, Nero Cain, BBMolla, Not_Mafia

[E-0]

Hayker (5): Rannygazoo, Titus, Andresvmb, Gamma Emerald
Not_Mafia (2): MiniMegabyte, DrippingGoofball
Titus (1): PlusJOYED
MiniMegabyte (1): Vaxkiller

Not Voting (1): Hayker

With 20 players alive, an elimination has been achieved.

[Mizzytastic]

Nero Cain

has been eliminated. He was a

Vanilla Townie.

Nero Cain - Vanilla Townie

You are a

Vanilla Townie

Each day you may talk in the game thread and vote on who to eliminate.

You win when all threats to the town are dead and at least 1 member of the town is alive.

The game thread is here, please confirm your role and alignment via pm.

Night 1

It is now the night time. Game clock is suspended until I can find a replacement. Once I have a replacement the clock will start and you will have 48 hours to submit night actions.

If all living players (including any replacements) request a quick night by PM I will resolve it ASAP.

(3/19 players)

[Mizzytastic]

MathBlade

replaces

MiniMegabyte.

Night 1 will end in (expired on 2021-01-15 03:00:00).

Due to time zones I may not be awake when the timer ends. This is a reminder that any night actions will be calculated based on when the timer expires, not when I get to starting Day 2.

[Mizzytastic]

MathBlade

has been found dead. He was a

Town Role Watcher.

MathBlade - Town Role Watcher

You are a

Town Role Watcher

Each day you may talk in the game thread and vote on who to eliminate.

Each night you may attempt to visit a player to watch them. You will learn the roles (but not alignments) of all other players who visit them. At the end of the night you will be informed "TARGETNAME was visited by

ROLENAME(s)

", "TARGETNAME was visited by

no one

", or "You got

no result

from watching TARGETNAME".

You win when all threats to the town are dead and at least 1 member of the town is alive.

The game thread is here, please confirm your role and alignment via pm.

[Mizzytastic]

Day 2

morning (n.)

"first part of the day" (technically from midnight to noon), late 14c., a contraction of mid-13c.

morwenynge

,

moregeninge

, from

morn

,

morewen

(see

morn

) + suffix

-ing

, on pattern of

evening

. Originally the time just before sunrise.

As an adjective from 1530s; as a greeting by 1895, short for

good morning

.

Morning after

in reference to a hangover is from 1884; in reference to a type of contraception, attested by 1967.

Morning sickness

as a symptom of pregnancy is from 1793 (Old English had

morgenwlætung

).

Morning glory

, the twining plant, is from 1814, so called because the colorful trumpet-shaped flowers open only in the early morning.

Morning star

"Venus in the east before sunrise" is from 1530s (Old English had

morgensteorra

"morn-star").

Official Votecount 2.0

Anyone (0): Nobody

Not Voting (18): Titus, Vaxkiller, DrippingGoofball, Momrangal, quiet, Bypasser Catcher, Rannygazoo, Luca Blight, Binatog13, Norfolk Boy1, NorwegianboyEE, Gamma Emerald, BBMolla, chkflip, Not_Mafia, PlusJOYED, Hayker, Andresvmb

With 18 players alive, it takes 10 votes to achieve an elimination.

Day 2 will end in (expired on 2021-01-25 03:05:00).

Hayker

has (expired on 2021-01-16 03:05:00) to post before I seek a replacement.

DrippingGoofball

and

PlusJOYED

have (expired on 2021-01-16 03:05:00) to post before receiving a prod.

[Mizzytastic]

*looks at time*

I'm totally gonna go to sleep after this I promise...

bed (n.)

Old English

bedd

"bed, couch, resting place; garden plot," from Proto-Germanic

*badja-

"sleeping place dug in the ground" (source also of Old Frisian, Old Saxon

bed

, Middle Dutch

bedde

, Old Norse

beðr

, Old High German

betti

, German

Bett

, Gothic

badi

"bed"), sometimes said to be from PIE root

*bhedh-

"to dig, pierce" (source also of Hittite

beda-

"to pierce, prick," Greek

bothyros

"pit," Latin

fossa

"ditch," Lithuanian

bedu, besti

"to dig," Breton

bez

"grave"). But Boutkan doubts this and writes, "there is little reason to assume that the Gmc. peoples (still) lived under such primitive circumstances that they dug out their places to sleep."

Both the sleeping and gardening senses are found in Old English; the specific application to planting is found also in Middle High German and is the only sense of Danish

bed

. Meaning "bottom of a lake, sea, or watercourse" is from 1580s. Geological sense of "a thick layer, stratum" is from 1680s.

Bed and board

"in bed and at the table" (early 13c.) was a term in old law applied to conjugal duties of man and wife; it also could mean "meals and lodging, room and board" (mid-15c.).

Bed-and-breakfast

in reference to overnight accommodations is from 1838; as a noun, in reference to a place offering such, by 1967.

Official Votecount 2.1

Norfolk Boy1 (3): Not_Mafia, DrippingGoofball, Titus

[E-7]

Titus (2): chkflip, Bypasser Catcher
quiet (1): Andresvmb

Not Voting (12): Vaxkiller, Momrangal, quiet, Rannygazoo, Luca Blight, Binatog13, Norfolk Boy1, NorwegianboyEE, Gamma Emerald, BBMolla, PlusJOYED, Hayker

With 18 players alive, it takes 10 votes to achieve an elimination.

Day 2 will end in (expired on 2021-01-25 03:05:00).

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hammer (n.)

Old English

hamor

"hammer," from Proto-Germanic

*hamaraz

(source also of Old Saxon

hamur

, Middle Dutch, Dutch

hamer

, Old High German

hamar

,

German Hammer

). The Old Norse cognate

hamarr

meant "stone, crag" (it's common in English place names), and suggests an original sense of the Germanic words as "tool with a stone head," which would describe the first hammers. The Germanic words thus could be from a PIE

*ka-mer-

, with reversal of initial sounds, from PIE

*akmen

"stone, sharp stone used as a tool" (source also of Old Church Slavonic

kamy

, Russian

kameni

"stone"), from root

*ak-

"be sharp, rise (out) to a point, pierce."

As a part of a firearm, 1580s; as a part of a piano, 1774; as a small bone of the ear, 1610s. Figurative use of "aggressive and destructive foe" is late 14c., from similar use of French

martel

, Latin

malleus

. To go at it

hammer and tongs

"with great violence and vigor" (1708) is an image from blacksmithing (the tongs hold the metal and the hammer beats it).

Hammer and sickle

as an emblem of Soviet communism attested from 1921, symbolizing industrial and agricultural labor.

Official Votecount 2.2

Norfolk Boy1 (8): Not_Mafia, DrippingGoofball, Titus, chkflip, Andresvmb, Rannygazoo, Momrangal, quiet

[E-2]

Titus (1): Bypasser Catcher
Luca Blight (1): Norfolk Boy1
chkflip (1): BBMolla

Not Voting (7): Vaxkiller, Luca Blight, Binatog13, NorwegianboyEE, Gamma Emerald, PlusJOYED, Hayker

With 18 players alive, it takes 10 votes to achieve an elimination.

Day 2 will end in (expired on 2021-01-25 03:05:00).

@Mod I’m VLA until Sunday

Got it

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time (n.)

Old English

tima

"limited space of time," from Proto-Germanic

*timon-

"time" (source also of Old Norse

timi

"time, proper time," Swedish

timme

"an hour"), from PIE

*di-mon-

, suffixed form of root

*da-

"to divide."

Abstract sense of "time as an indefinite continuous duration" is recorded from late 14c. Personified at least since 1509 as an aged bald man (but with a forelock) carrying a scythe and an hour-glass. In English, a single word encompasses time as "extent" and "point" (French

temps/fois

, German

zeit/mal

) as well as "hour" (as in "what time is it?" compare French

heure

, German

Uhr

). Extended senses such as "occasion," "the right time," "leisure," or

times (v.)

"multiplied by" developed in Old and Middle English, probably as a natural outgrowth of such phrases as "He commends her a hundred times to God" (Old French

La comande a Deu cent foiz

).

to have a good time

( = a time of enjoyment) was common in Eng. from c 1520 to c 1688; it was app. retained in America, whence readopted in Britain in 19th c. [OED]

Time of day

(now mainly preserved in negation, i.e. what someone won't give you if he doesn't like you) was a popular 17c. salutation (as in "Good time of day vnto your Royall Grace," "Richard III," I.iii.18), hence

to give (one) the time of day

"greet socially" (1590s); earlier was

give good day

(mid-14c.).

The times "

the current age" is from 1590s.

Behind the times

"old-fashioned" is recorded from 1831.

Times

as the name of a newspaper dates from 1788.

Time warp

first attested 1954;

time-traveling

in the science fiction sense first recorded 1895 in H.G. Wells' "The Time Machine."

Time capsule

first recorded 1938, in reference to the one "deemed capable of resisting the effects of time for five thousand years preserving an account of universal achievements embedded in the grounds of the New York World's fair."

Jones [archaeologist of A.D. 5139] potters about for a while in the region which we have come to regard as New York, finds countless ruins, but little of interest to the historian except a calcified direction sheet to something called a "Time Capsule." Jones finds the capsule but cannot open it, and decides, after considerable prying at the lid, that it is merely evidence of an archaic tribal ceremony called a "publicity gag" of which he has already found many examples. [Princeton Alumni Weekly, April 14, 1939]

To do time

"serve a prison sentence" is from 1865.

Time frame

is attested by 1964;

time-limit

is from 1880.

About time

, ironically for "long past due time," is recorded from 1920. To

be on time

is by 1854 in railroading.

Official Votecount 2.END

Norfolk Boy1 (10): Not_Mafia, DrippingGoofball, Titus, chkflip, Andresvmb, Rannygazoo, Momrangal, quiet, BBMolla, Luca Blight

[E-0]

Titus (1): Bypasser Catcher
Luca Blight (1): Norfolk Boy1

Not Voting (6): Vaxkiller, Binatog13, NorwegianboyEE, Gamma Emerald, PlusJOYED, Hayker

With 18 players alive, an elimination has been achieved.

Day 2 will end in (expired on 2021-01-25 03:05:00).

[Mizzytastic]

Norfolk Boy1

has been eliminated. He was a

Vanilla Townie.

Norfolk Boy1 - Vanilla Townie

You are a

Vanilla Townie

Each day you may talk in the game thread and vote on who to eliminate.

You win when all threats to the town are dead and at least 1 member of the town is alive.

The game thread is here, please confirm your role and alignment via pm.

Night 2

It is now the night time. You have (expired on 2021-01-17 16:05:00) to submit any night actions.

If all living players request a quick night by PM I will resolve it ASAP.

(3/17 players)

[Mizzytastic]

Bypasser Catcher

has been found dead. They were a

Vanilla Townie

Bypasser Catcher - Vanilla Townie

You are a

Vanilla Townie

Each day you may talk in the game thread and vote on who to eliminate.

You win when all threats to the town are dead and at least 1 member of the town is alive.

The game thread is here, please confirm your role and alignment via pm.

[Mizzytastic]

Day 3

sun (n.)

Old English

sunne

"the sun," from Proto-Germanic

*sunno

(source also of Old Norse, Old Saxon, Old High German

sunna

, Middle Dutch

sonne

, Dutch

zon

, German

Sonne

, Gothic

sunno

"the sun"), from PIE

*s(u)wen-

, alternative form of root

*sawel-

"the sun."

Old English

sunne

was feminine (as generally in Germanic), and the fem. pronoun was used in English until 16c.; since then masc. has prevailed. The empire

on which the sun never sets

(1630) originally was the Spanish, later the British. To

have one's place in the sun

(1680s) is from Pascal's "

Pensées

"; the German imperial foreign policy sense (1897) is from a speech by von Bülow.

Official Votecount 3.0

Anyone (0): Nobody

Not Voting (16): Titus, Vaxkiller, DrippingGoofball, Momrangal, quiet, Rannygazoo, Luca Blight, Binatog13, NorwegianboyEE, Gamma Emerald, BBMolla, chkflip, Not_Mafia, PlusJOYED, Hayker, Andresvmb

With 16 players alive, it takes 9 votes to achieve an elimination.

Day 3 will end in (expired on 2021-01-27 16:20:00).

PlusJOYED

has (expired on 2021-01-18 16:20:00) to post before receiving a prod.

[Mizzytastic]

@Mod I’m probably going to be away until tomorrow morning btw.

Unfortunately folks, I have some things to take care of. I don’t think I’m going to miss out on much, but we’ll see.

@Andres Titus NM please answer my questions and I’ll post my thoughts when I can.

@mod V/LA until Tuesday

Got it

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rise (v.)

Old English

risan

"to rise, rise from sleep, get out of bed; stand up, rise to one's feet; get up from table; rise together; be fit, be proper" (usually

arisan

; a class I strong verb; past tense

ras

, past participle

risen

), from Proto-Germanic

*us-rīsanan

"to go up" (source also of Old Norse

risa

, Old Saxon

risan

, Gothic

urreisan

"to rise," Old High German

risan

"to rise, flow," German

reisen

"to travel," originally "to rise for a journey").

It is attested from c. 1200 in the senses of "move from a lower to a higher position, move upward; increase in number or amount; rise in fortune, prosper; become prominent;" also "rise from the dead." The meaning "come into existence, originate; result (from)" is by mid-13c. From early 14c. as "rebel, revolt;" also "occur, happen, come to pass; take place." Related to

raise

(v.). Related:

Rose

;

risen

.

Official Votecount 3.1

Not_Mafia (6): Andresvmb, DrippingGoofball, Hayker, BBMolla, chkflip, Momrangal
NorwegianboyEE (1): Not_Mafia

Not Voting (9): Titus, Vaxkiller, quiet, Rannygazoo, Luca Blight, Binatog13, NorwegianboyEE, Gamma Emerald, PlusJOYED

With 16 players alive, it takes 9 votes to achieve an elimination.

Day 3 will end in (expired on 2021-01-27 16:20:00).

[Mizzytastic]

So, what's up, guys?

Anybody diving into the cess pool that is N_M's ISO because it breaks on my phone halfway through the song from Shrek. I can still barely load the page that post is on.

I guess I'll start VCA'ing without Titus.

I didn't realise that was enough to break phones. I'm busy right now but I'll go back and put spoilers on it.

@Not_Mafia

: This is a second warning about posts that impact the readability of the game.

-- edited for modding error on my part, I'm sorry --

[Mizzytastic]

I messed up. I'm hoping it won't impact the game too much. Some player posts discussing it were deleted with their permission. Please try not to talk about it more.

Again, I'm sorry

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set (v.)

Old English

settan

(transitive) "cause to sit, put in some place, fix firmly; build, found; appoint, assign," from Proto-Germanic

*(bi)satejanan

"to cause to sit, set" (source also of Old Norse

setja

, Swedish

sätta

, Old Saxon

settian

, Old Frisian

setta

, Dutch

zetten

, German

setzen

, Gothic

satjan

), causative form of PIE

*sod-

, a variant of root

*sed-

(1) "to sit." Also see

set

(n.2).

The intransitive sense from c. 1200, "be seated." The word was used in many disparate senses by Middle English; sense of "make or cause to do, act, or be; start" and that of "mount a gemstone" attested by mid-13c. Confused with

sit

since early 14c. Of the sun, moon, etc., "to go down," recorded from c. 1300, perhaps from similar use of the cognates in Scandinavian languages. To

set (something) on

"incite to attack" (c. 1300) originally was in reference to hounds and game.

Official Votecount 3.END

Not_Mafia (9): Andresvmb, DrippingGoofball, Hayker, BBMolla, chkflip, Momrangal, NorwegianboyEE, quiet, Not_Mafia

[E-0]

Not Voting (7): Titus, Vaxkiller, Rannygazoo, Luca Blight, Binatog13, Gamma Emerald, PlusJOYED

With 16 players alive, an elimination has been achieved.

[Mizzytastic]

Not_Mafia

has been eliminated. He was a

Mafia 1-Shot Strongman

Not_Mafia - Mafia 1-Shot Strongman

You are a

Mafia 1-Shot Strongman

You form a

Mafia

family along with REDACTED. You share a private thread which you can talk in at any time, including the day.

Each day you may talk in the game thread and vote on who to eliminate.

One night during the game you may act as a Strongman. A kill you perform that night cannot be protected against or blocked. Roles that prevent targeting (in a Normal game a Commuter or a Hider), still prevent you from killing them.

Each night a member of your family may attempt to perform a factional kill. A member of your family will visit a player, and assuming no interference that player will die.

You win when all players not aligned with you are dead and at least 1 member of your mafia family is alive, or nothing can prevent that from happening.

The game thread is here and your Mafia private thread is REDACTED, please confirm your role and alignment via pm or your private thread.

Night 3

It is now the night time. You have (expired on 2021-01-20 01:45:00) to submit any night actions.

If all living players request a quick night by PM I will resolve it ASAP.

(1/15 players)

[Mizzytastic]

Gamma Emerald

is V/LA for one week.

[Mizzytastic]

Rannygazoo

has been found dead. He was a

Town Odd Nights Rolestopper

Rannygazoo - Town Odd Nights Rolestopper

You are a

Town Odd Nights Rolestopper

Each day you may talk in the game thread and vote on who to eliminate.

Each odd night (night 1, night 3, night 5, etc), you may attempt to visit a player to protect them. All other actions targeting that player will be blocked.

You win when all threats to the town are dead and at least 1 member of the town is alive.

The game thread is here, please confirm your role and alignment via pm.

[Mizzytastic]

Day 4

town (n.)

Old English

tun

"enclosure, garden, field, yard; farm, manor; homestead, dwelling house, mansion;" later "group of houses, village, farm," from Proto-Germanic

*tunaz

,

*tunan

"fortified place" (source also of Old Saxon, Old Norse, Old Frisian

tun

"fence, hedge," Middle Dutch

tuun

"fence," Dutch

tuin

"garden," Old High German

zun

, German

Zaun

"fence, hedge"), an early borrowing from Celtic

*dunon

"hill, hill-fort" (source also of Old Irish dun, Welsh din "fortress, fortified place, camp," dinas "city," Gaulish-Latin

-dunum

in place names), from PIE

*dhu-no-

"enclosed, fortified place, hill-fort," from root

*dheue-

"to close, finish, come full circle" (see

down

(n.2)).

Meaning "inhabited place larger than a village" (mid-12c.) arose after the Norman conquest from the use of this word to correspond to French

ville

. The modern word is partially a generic term, applicable to cities of great size as well as places intermediate between a city and a village; such use is unusual, the only parallel is perhaps Latin

oppidium

, which occasionally was applied even to Rome or Athens (each of which was more properly an

urbs

).

First record of

town hall

is from late 15c.

Town ball

, version of baseball, is recorded from 1852.

Town car

(1907) originally was a motor car with an enclosed passenger compartment and open driver's seat.

On the town

"living the high life" is from 1712.

Go to town

"do (something) energetically" is first recorded 1933.

Man about town

"one constantly seen at public and private functions" is attested from 1734.

Official Votecount 4.0

Anyone (0): Nobody

Not Voting (14): Titus, Vaxkiller, DrippingGoofball, Momrangal, quiet, Luca Blight, Binatog13, NorwegianboyEE, Gamma Emerald, BBMolla, chkflip, PlusJOYED, Hayker, Andresvmb

With 14 players alive, it takes 8 votes to achieve an elimination.

Day 4 will end in (expired on 2021-01-30 01:50:00).

PlusJOYED

has (expired on 2021-01-21 01:50:00) to post before receiving a prod.

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dawn (v.)

c. 1200,

dauen

, "to become day, grow light in the morning," shortened or back-formed from

dauinge

,

dauing

"period between darkness and sunrise," (c. 1200), from Old English

dagung

, from

dagian

"to become day," from Proto-Germanic

*dagaz

"day" (source also of German

tagen

"to dawn"), from PIE root

*agh-

"a day." Probably influenced by Scandinavian cognates (Danish

dagning

, Old Norse

dagan

"a dawning"). Related:

Dawned

;

dawning

.

Figurative sense "begin to develop" is from 1717. Of ideas, etc., "begin to become apparent or evident to the mind," by 1852.

Official Votecount 4.1

Luca Blight (1): Andresvmb

[E-7]

NorwegianboyEE (1): Momrangal

[E-7]

BBMolla (1): Luca Blight

[E-7]

chkflip (1): quiet

[E-7]

PlusJOYED (1): BBMolla

[E-7]

Not Voting (9): Titus, Vaxkiller, DrippingGoofball, Binatog13, NorwegianboyEE, Gamma Emerald, chkflip, PlusJOYED, Hayker

With 14 players alive, it takes 8 votes to achieve an elimination.

Day 4 will end in (expired on 2021-01-30 01:50:00).

VLA today

I haven't done VCA. I have been swamped with work and overgamed. I know I look bad. Just please give me a few days to properly do it. If you want to help, coloring the VCs would be great.

Got it

[Mizzytastic]

I don't know how many of you saw it but please don't use quiet's link if you got it. It counts as outside communication.

[Mizzytastic]

scissors (n.)

late 14c., sisoures, from Old French

cisoires

(plural) "shears," from Vulgar Latin

*cisoria

(plural) "cutting instrument," from

*cisus

(in compounds such as Latin

excisus

, past participle of

excidere

"to cut out"), ultimately from Latin

caedere

"to cut" (from PIE root

*kae-id-

"to strike").

The spelling was highly uncertain before 20c. The forms with

sc-

are from 16c., from influence of Medieval Latin

scissor

"tailor," in classical Latin "carver, cutter," from past participle stem of

scindere

"to split."

Usually with

pair of

(attested from c. 1400) when indication of just one is required, but a singular form without the

-s

occasionally was used (

cysowre

, mid-15c.). In Scotland,

shears

answers for all sizes, according to OED; but in England generally that word is used only for those too large to be worked by one hand. Sense in wrestling is from 1904.

Oh scissors!

was a 19c. exclamation of impatience or disgust (1843). In reference to a type of swimming kick, from 1902 (the image itself is from 1880s).

Official Votecount 4.2

BBMolla (3): Luca Blight, Gamma Emerald, DrippingGoofball

[E-5]

Hayker (2): Titus, BBMolla
Titus (1): NorwegianboyEE
Luca Blight (1): Andresvmb
NorwegianboyEE (1): Momrangal
Gamma Emerald (1): chkflip
chkflip (1): quiet

Not Voting (4): Vaxkiller, Binatog13, PlusJOYED, Hayker

With 14 players alive, it takes 8 votes to achieve an elimination.

Day 4 will end in (expired on 2021-01-30 01:50:00).

--- snip ---

Also, consider me

V/la: for two days

I'm sick of mafia atm

Got it

[Mizzytastic]

coffee (n.)

"drink made from the ground and roasted seeds of a tree originally native to Arabia and Abyssinia," c. 1600, from Dutch

koffie

, from Turkish

kahveh

, from Arabic

qahwah

"coffee," which Arab etymologists connected with a word meaning "wine," but it is perhaps rather from the

Kaffa

region of Ethiopia, a home of the plant (coffee in Kaffa is called

būno

, which itself was borrowed into Arabic as

bunn

"raw coffee").

The early forms of the word in English indicate a derivation from Arabic or Turkish:

chaoua

(1598),

cahve

,

kahui

, etc. French

café

, German

Kaffe

are via Italian

caffè

.

The first coffee-house in Mecca dates to the 1510s; the beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe c. 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink, but its use there declined 18c. with the introduction of cheaper tea. In the American colonies, however, the tax on tea kept coffee popular.

Meaning "a light meal at which coffee is served" is from 1774. As a shade or color resembling coffee, 1815.

Coffee-bean

is from 1680s.

Coffee-mill

is from 1690s;

coffee-spoon

is from 1703;

coffee-pot

is from 1705;

coffee-cup

is from 1762.

Coffee-shop

is from 1838.

Coffee-cake

is from 1850 as "cake in which coffee is an ingredient."

Coffee break

attested from 1952, at first often in glossy magazine advertisements by the Pan-American Coffee Bureau.

Did you drink a cup of coffee on company time this morning? Chances are that you did—for the midmorning coffee break is rapidly becoming a standard fixture in American offices and factories. [The Kiplinger Magazine, March 1952]

Official Votecount 4.3

BBMolla (3): Luca Blight, Gamma Emerald, DrippingGoofball

[E-5]

Luca Blight (2): Andresvmb, BBMolla
Titus (1): NorwegianboyEE
NorwegianboyEE (1): Momrangal
chkflip (1): quiet
PlusJOYED (1): chkflip
Hayker (1): Titus

Not Voting (4): Vaxkiller, Binatog13, PlusJOYED, Hayker

With 14 players alive, it takes 8 votes to achieve an elimination.

Day 4 will end in (expired on 2021-01-30 01:50:00).

[Mizzytastic]

Mod

[Mizzytastic]

seeking

[Mizzytastic]

pagetop

[Mizzytastic]

-ine (2)

word-forming element in chemistry, often interchangeable with

-in

(2), though modern use distinguishes them; early 19c., from French

-ine

, the suffix commonly used to form words for derived substances, hence its extended use in chemistry. It was applied unsystematically at first (as in

aniline

), but now has more restricted use.

The French suffix is from Latin

-ina

, fem. form of

-inus

, suffix used to form adjectives from nouns, and thus is identical with

-ine

(1).

Official Votecount 4.4

BBMolla (4): Gamma Emerald, DrippingGoofball, Hayker, Luca Blight

[E-4]

PlusJOYED (3): chkflip, Titus, NorwegianboyEE
Luca Blight (2): Andresvmb, BBMolla
Titus (1): Momrangal
chkflip (1): quiet

Not Voting (3): Vaxkiller, Binatog13, PlusJOYED

With 14 players alive, it takes 8 votes to achieve an elimination.

Day 4 will end in (expired on 2021-01-30 01:50:00).

[Mizzytastic]

Luca Blight (3): Andresvmb, BBMolla, NorwegianboyEE

Que?

Running on not enough sleep, fixed

[Mizzytastic]

quiet

is V/LA for 48 hours

[Mizzytastic]

caffeine (n.)

trimethyl-derivative of xanthine, 1830, from German

Kaffein

, coined by chemist F.F. Runge (1795-1867), apparently from German

Kaffee

"coffee" (see

coffee

) + chemical suffix

-ine

(2) (German

-in

). So called because the alkaloid was found in coffee beans; its presence accounts for the stimulating effect of coffee and tea. The form of the English word may be via French

caféine

. Related:

Caffeinic

.

Official Votecount 4.5

BBMolla (5): Gamma Emerald, DrippingGoofball, Hayker, Luca Blight, NorwegianboyEE

[E-3]

PlusJOYED (4): Titus, Momrangal, BBMolla, chkflip
Luca Blight (1): Andresvmb
chkflip (1): quiet

Not Voting (3): Vaxkiller, Binatog13, PlusJOYED

With 14 players alive, it takes 8 votes to achieve an elimination.

Day 4 will end in (expired on 2021-01-30 01:50:00).

[Mizzytastic]

PlusJOYED

has been prodded.

[Mizzytastic]

tea (n.)

1650s,

tay

, also in early spellings

thea

,

tey

,

tee

and at first pronounced so as to rhyme with

obey

; the modern pronunciation predominates from mid-18c. But earlier in English as

chaa

(1590s), also

cha

,

tcha

,

chia

,

cia

. The two forms of the word reflect two paths of transmission:

chaa

is from Portuguese

cha

, attested in Portuguese from 1550s, via Macao, from Mandarin (Chinese)

ch'a

(cf

chai

). The later form, which became Modern English

tea

, is via Dutch, from Malay

teh

and directly from Chinese (Amoy dialect)

t'e

, which corresponds to Mandarin ch'a.

The distribution of the different forms of the word in Europe reflects the spread of use of the beverage. The modern English form, along with French

thé

, Spanish

te

, German

Tee

, etc., derive via Dutch

thee

from the Amoy form, reflecting the role of the Dutch as the chief importers of the leaves (through the Dutch East India Company, from 1610). Meanwhile, Russian

chai

, Persian

cha

, Greek

tsai

, Arabic

shay

, and Turkish

çay

all came overland from the Mandarin form.

First known in Paris 1635, the practice of drinking tea was first introduced to England 1644. Meaning "afternoon meal at which tea is served" is from 1738. Slang meaning "marijuana" (which sometimes was brewed in hot water) is attested from 1935, felt as obsolete by late 1960s.

Tea ball

is from 1895.

Official Votecount 4.6

BBMolla (6): Gamma Emerald, DrippingGoofball, Hayker, Luca Blight, NorwegianboyEE, BBMolla

[E-2]

PlusJOYED (4): Titus, Momrangal, chkflip, Andresvmb
chkflip (1): quiet

Not Voting (3): Vaxkiller, Binatog13, PlusJOYED

With 14 players alive, it takes 8 votes to achieve an elimination.

Day 4 will end in (expired on 2021-01-30 01:50:00).

[Mizzytastic]

@mod: PlusJOYED has not posted in two days can you please prod and see if they still want to play this game

PlusJOYED

has been prodded.

I've also informed him that if he continues in this manner I'll tighten his prod timers/expect more content.

[Mizzytastic]

chocolate (n.)

c. 1600, from Mexican Spanish

chocolate

, from Nahuatl (Aztecan)

chocola-tl

,"chocolate," and/or

cacahua-tl

"chocolate, chocolate bean." With

a-tl

"water." In the first form, the first element might be related to

xocalia

"to make something bitter or sour" [Karttunen]. Made with cold water by the Aztecs, with hot water by the Conquistadors, and the European forms of the word might have been influenced by Mayan

chocol

"hot." Brought to Spain by 1520, from there it spread to the rest of Europe. Originally a drink made by dissolving chocolate in milk or water, it was very popular 17c.

To a Coffee-house, to drink jocolatte, very good [Pepys, diary, Nov. 24, 1664].

As a paste or cake made of ground, roasted, sweetened cacao seeds, 1640s. As "a piece of chocolate candy," 1880s. As a dark reddish-brown color from 1776. The adjective is from 1723 as "made of or flavored with chocolate;" 1771 as "having the color of chocolate."

Chocolate milk

is by 1845.

Chocolate-chip

is from 1940.

Official Votecount 4.7

PlusJOYED (6): Titus, Momrangal, chkflip, Andresvmb, BBMolla, DrippingGoofball

[E-2]

BBMolla (4): Gamma Emerald, Hayker, Luca Blight, NorwegianboyEE
chkflip (1): quiet

Not Voting (3): Vaxkiller, Binatog13, PlusJOYED

With 14 players alive, it takes 8 votes to achieve an elimination.

Day 4 will end in (expired on 2021-01-30 01:50:00).

[Mizzytastic]

twilight (n.)

"light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon at morning and evening," late 14c. (

twilighting

), a compound of

twi-

+

light

(n.) Cognate with Middle Flemish

twilicht

, Dutch

tweelicht

(16c.), Middle High German

twelicht

, German

zwielicht

. Exact connotation of

twi-

in this word is unclear, but it appears to refer to "half" light, rather than the fact that twilight occurs twice a day. Compare also Sanskrit

samdhya

"twilight," literally "a holding together, junction," Middle High German

zwischerliecht

, literally "tweenlight." Originally and most commonly in English with reference to evening twilight but occasionally used of morning twilight (a sense first attested mid-15c.). Figurative extension recorded from c. 1600.

Twilight zone

is from 1901 in a literal sense, a part of the sky lit by twilight; from 1909 in extended senses in references to topics or cases where authority or behavior is unclear. In the 1909 novel "In the Twilight Zone," the reference is to mulatto heritage. "She was in the twilight zone between the races where each might claim her ...." The U.S. TV series of that name is from 1959.

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PlusJOYED (8): Titus, Momrangal, chkflip, Andresvmb, BBMolla, DrippingGoofball, Vaxkiller, NorwegianboyEE

[E-0]

BBMolla (3): Gamma Emerald, Hayker, Luca Blight
chkflip (1): quiet

Not Voting (2): Binatog13, PlusJOYED

With 14 players alive, an elimination has been achieved.

[Mizzytastic]

PlusJOYED

has been eliminated. He was a

Vanilla Townie

PlusJOYED - Vanilla Townie

You are a

Vanilla Townie

Each day you may talk in the game thread and vote on who to eliminate.

You win when all threats to the town are dead and at least 1 member of the town is alive.

The game thread is here, please confirm your role and alignment via pm.

Night 4

It is now the night time. You have (expired on 2021-01-25 02:00:00) to submit any night actions.

If all living players request a quick night by PM I will resolve it ASAP.

(0/13 players)

[Mizzytastic]

I am in the process of fixing my sleep and I'll take the fact I fell asleep before the timer expired as a hint to try and go back to sleep.

I'll sort out day 5 when I wake up.

[Mizzytastic]

quiet

has been found dead. He was a

Town Novice Combined Tracker Doctor

quiet - Town Novice Combined Tracker Doctor

You are a

Town Novice Combined Tracker Doctor

Each day you may talk in the game thread and vote on who to eliminate.

Each night, except Night 1, you may attempt to visit a player to both protect and track them. One kill targeting that player will be prevented and you will learn all other players that your target visited. At the end of the night you will be informed "TARGETNAME visited

PLAYERNAME(s)

", "TARGETNAME visited

no one

" or "You got

no result

from tracking TARGETNAME."

You win when all threats to the town are dead and at least 1 member of the town is alive.

The game thread is here, please confirm your role and alignment via pm.

[Mizzytastic]

Day 5

combine (v.)

early 15c., "to associate, unite, join two or more things together" (transitive), from Old French

combiner

(14c.) and directly from Late Latin

combinare

"to unite, yoke together," from Latin

com

"with, together" (see

com-

) + bini "two by two," adverb from

bi-

"twice" (from PIE root

*dwo-

"two"). Intransitive sense "unite, coalesce, come together into one body" is from 1712. Related:

Combinative

;

combined

;

combining

.

Official Votecount 5.0

Anyone (0): Nobody

Not Voting (12): Titus, Vaxkiller, DrippingGoofball, Momrangal, Luca Blight, Binatog13, NorwegianboyEE, Gamma Emerald, BBMolla, chkflip, Hayker, Andresvmb

With 12 players alive, it takes 7 votes to achieve an elimination.

Day 5 will end in (expired on 2021-02-04 13:00:00).

[Mizzytastic]

divide (v.)

early 14c., "separate into parts or pieces," from Latin

dividere

"to force apart, cleave, distribute," from assimilated form of

dis-

"apart" (see

dis-

) +

-videre

"to separate," which, according to de Vaan, is from PIE

*(d)uid-

"to separate, distinguish" (source also of Sanskrit

avidhat

"allotted," Old Avestan

vida-

"to devote oneself to"). He writes: "The original PIE verb ... (which became thematic in Latin) meant 'to divide in two, separate'. It lost initial *d- through dissimilation in front of the next dental stop, and was reinforced by

dis-

in Latin ...." Also compare

devise

.

It is attested from late 14c. as "sever the union or connection with," also "disunite, cause to disagree in opinion." Intransitive sense of "become separated into parts" is from 1520s. Mathematical sense "perform the operation of division" is from early 15c.

Divide and rule

(c. 1600) translates Latin

divide et impera

, a maxim of Machiavelli. Related:

Divided

;

dividing

.

Official Votecount 5.1

Titus (4): Luca Blight, Binatog13, Andresvmb, NorwegianboyEE
chkflip (2): DrippingGoofball, Gamma Emerald

Not Voting (6): Titus, Vaxkiller, Momrangal, BBMolla, chkflip, Hayker

With 12 players alive, it takes 7 votes to achieve an elimination.

Day 5 will end in (expired on 2021-02-04 13:00:00).

[Mizzytastic]

birthday (n.)

late 14c., from Old English

byrddæg

, "anniversary or celebration of one's birth" (at first usually a king or saint); see

birth

(n.) +

day

. Meaning "day on which one is born" is from 1570s.

Birthnight

is attested from 1620s.

Official Votecount 5.2

Titus (4): Luca Blight, Binatog13, Andresvmb, NorwegianboyEE

[E-3]

chkflip (2): DrippingGoofball, Momrangal
DrippingGoofball (1): Titus

Not Voting (6): Vaxkiller, Gamma Emerald, BBMolla, chkflip, Hayker

With 12 players alive, it takes 7 votes to achieve an elimination.

Day 5 will end in (expired on 2021-02-04 13:00:00).

[Mizzytastic]

Hayker

has been prodded.

[Mizzytastic]

birth (n.)

c. 1200, "fact of being born;" mid-13c., "act of giving birth, a bringing forth by the mother, childbirth," sometimes in Middle English also "conception;" also "that which is born, offspring, child;" from a Scandinavian source such as Old Norse

*byrðr

(replacing cognate Old English

gebyrd

"birth, descent, race; offspring; nature; fate"), from Proto-Germanic

*gaburthis

(source also of Old Frisian

berd

, Old Saxon

giburd

, Dutch

geboorte

, Old High German

giburt

, German

geburt

, Gothic

gabaurþs

), from PIE

*bhrto

past participle of root

*bher-

(1) "to carry; to bear children" (compare

bear

(v.)).

Suffix

-th

is for "process" (as in

bath

,

death

). Meaning "condition into which a person is born, lineage, descent" is from c. 1200 (also in the Old English word). In reference to non-living things, "any coming into existence" is from 1610s.

Birth control

is from 1914;

birth certificate

is from 1842.

Official Votecount 5.3

Titus (5): Luca Blight, Binatog13, Andresvmb, NorwegianboyEE, Momrangal

[E-2]

DrippingGoofball (1): Titus
Momrangal (1): Vaxkiller
chkflip (1): DrippingGoofball
Hayker (1): chkflip

Not Voting (3): Gamma Emerald, BBMolla, Hayker

With 12 players alive, it takes 7 votes to achieve an elimination.

Day 5 will end in (expired on 2021-02-04 13:00:00).

Happy birthday, moderator. <3

Thanks

[Mizzytastic]

Just woke up in the middle of the night. Will do the flip tomorrow morning

[Mizzytastic]

day (n.)

Old English

dæg

"period during which the sun is above the horizon," also "lifetime, definite time of existence," from Proto-Germanic

*dages-

"day" (source also of Old Saxon, Middle Dutch, Dutch

dag

, Old Frisian

di

,

dei

, Old High German

tag

, German

Tag

, Old Norse

dagr

, Gothic

dags

), according to Watkins, from PIE root

*agh-

"a day." He adds that the Germanic initial

d-

is "of obscure origin." But Boutkan says it is from PIE root

*dhegh-

"to burn" (see

fever

). Not considered to be related to Latin

dies

(which is from PIE root

*dyeu-

"to shine").

Meaning originally, in English, "the daylight hours;" it expanded to mean "the 24-hour period" in late Anglo-Saxon times. The day formerly began at sunset, hence Old English

Wodnesniht

was what we would call "Tuesday night." Names of the weekdays were not regularly capitalized in English until 17c.

From late 12c. as "a time period as distinguished from other time periods."

Day-by-day

"daily" is from late 14c.;

all day

"all the time" is from late 14c.

Day off

"day away from work" is attested from 1883;

day-tripper

first recorded 1897. The

days

in

nowadays

, etc. is a relic of the Old English and Middle English use of the adverbial genitive.

All in a day's work

"something unusual taken as routine" is by 1820. The nostalgic

those were the days

is attested by 1907.

That'll be the day

, expressing mild doubt following some boast or claim, is by 1941. To

call it a day

"stop working" is by 1919; earlier

call it a half-day

(1838).

One of these days

"at some day in the near future" is from late 15c.

One of those days

"a day of misfortune" is by 1936.

Official Votecount 5.END

Titus (7): Luca Blight, Binatog13, Andresvmb, NorwegianboyEE, Momrangal, Gamma Emerald, DrippingGoofball

[E-0]

Hayker (1): chkflip, Titus
Momrangal (1): Vaxkiller

Not Voting (3): BBMolla, Hayker

With 12 players alive, an elimination has been achieved.

[Mizzytastic]

Titus

has been eliminated. She was a

Vanilla Townie

Titus - Vanilla Townie

You are a

Vanilla Townie

Each day you may talk in the game thread and vote on who to eliminate.

You win when all threats to the town are dead and at least 1 member of the town is alive.

The game thread is here, please confirm your role and alignment via pm.

Night 5

It is now the night time. You have (expired on 2021-01-30 09:40:00) to submit any night actions.

If all living players request a quick night by PM I will resolve it ASAP.

(0/11 players)

[Mizzytastic]

DrippingGoofball

and

chkflip

have been found dead.

Dripping Goofball

was a

Town Lazy Roleblocker

DrippingGoofball - Town Lazy Roleblocker

You are a

Town Lazy Roleblocker

Each day you may talk in the game thread and vote on who to eliminate.

Each night you may attempt to visit a player to block them. Any actions they take will be blocked. Your action will fail if there is only one player left alive who is not a member of the town at the beginning of the night.

You win when all threats to the town are dead and at least 1 member of the town is alive.

The game thread is here, please confirm your role and alignment via pm.

chkflip

was a

Mafia Rolecop

chkflip - Mafia Rolecop

You are a

Mafia Rolecop

You form a

Mafia

family along with REDACTED. You share a private thread which you can talk in at any time, including the day.

Each day you may talk in the game thread and vote on who to eliminate.

Each night you may attempt to visit a player to learn their role (but not their alignment). At the end of the night you will be informed "TARGET name is a

ROLENAME

" or "You got no result from investigating

TARGETNAME

"

Each night a member of your family may perform a factional kill. A member of your family will attempt to visit a player, and assuming no interference that player will die. You may not investigate a player and kill a player on the same night.

You win when all players not aligned with you are dead and at least 1 member of your mafia family is alive, or nothing can prevent that from happening.

The game thread is here and your Mafia private thread is REDACTED, please confirm your role and alignment via pm or your private thread.

[Mizzytastic]

Day 6

double (adj.)

c. 1300, "twice as much or as large," also "repeated, occurring twice," also "of extra weight, thickness, size, or strength; of two layers," from Old French

doble

(10c.) "double, two-fold; two-faced, deceitful," from Latin

duplus

"twofold, twice as much," from

duo

"two" (from PIE root

*dwo-

"two") +

-plus

"more" (see

-plus

).

From early 14c. as "having a twofold character or relation," also "consisting of two in a set together; being a pair, coupled." From mid-14c. as "characterized by duplicity." The earliest recorded use in English is c. 1200, in

double-feast

"important Church festival."

Double-chinned

is from late 14c.;

double-jointed

, of persons, is by 1828. Military

double time

(1833) originally was 130 steps per minute;

double quick

(adj.) "very quick, hurried" (1822) originally was military, "performed at double time."

The photographic

double exposure

is by 1872. The cinematic

double feature

is by 1916.

Double figures

"numbers that must be represented numerically by two figures" is by 1833.

Double-vision

is by 1714.

Double indemnity

in insurance is by 1832;

double jeopardy

is by 1817. The baseball

double play

is by 1866.

Double trouble

"twice the trouble" is by 1520s; in 19c. America it was the name of a characteristic step of a rustic dance or breakdown, derived from slave dancing on plantations. A

double-dip

(n.) originally was an ice-cream cone made with two scoops (1936); the figurative sense is by 1940.

Double bed

"bed made to sleep two persons" is by 1779.

Double life

"a sustaining of two different characters in life" (typically one virtuous or respectable, the other not) is by 1888.

Official Votecount 6.0

Anyone (0): Nobody

Not Voting (9): Vaxkiller, Momrangal, Luca Blight, Binatog13, NorwegianboyEE, Gamma Emerald, BBMolla, Hayker, Andresvmb

With 9 players alive, it takes 5 votes to achieve an elimination.

Day 6 will end in (expired on 2021-02-07 09:50:00).

[Mizzytastic]

cook (n.)

"one whose occupation is the preparing and cooking of food," Old English

coc

, from Vulgar Latin

*cocus

"cook," from Latin

coquus

, from

coquere

"to cook, prepare food, ripen, digest, turn over in the mind" from PIE root

*pekw-

"to cook, ripen."

Germanic languages had no one native term for all types of cooking, and borrowed the Latin word (Old Saxon

kok

, Old High German

choh

, German

Koch

, Swedish

kock

).

There is the proverb, the more cooks the worse potage. [Gascoigne, 1575]

Official Votecount 6.1

Vaxkiller (3): Momrangal, Binatog13, NorwegianboyEE
NorwegianboyEE (1): Hayker
BBMolla (1): Andresvmb

Not Voting (4): Vaxkiller, Luca Blight, Gamma Emerald, BBMolla

With 9 players alive, it takes 5 votes to achieve an elimination.

Day 6 will end in (expired on 2021-02-07 09:50:00).

[Mizzytastic]

Gamma Emerald

is aligned with the

Town

[Mizzytastic]

Next

[Mizzytastic]

page

[Mizzytastic]

curry (n.)

kind of sauce or relish much used in Indian cookery, from the leaves of a southwest Asian plant related to the lemon, 1680s, from Tamil (Dravidian)

kari

"sauce, relish for rice," also "a bite, bit, morsel." As "meat or vegetable stew flavored with curry powder," 1747 in British English.

Official Votecount 6.2

Vaxkiller (3): Binatog13, NorwegianboyEE, Gamma Emerald

[E-2]

NorwegianboyEE (3): Hayker, BBMolla, Vaxkiller

[E-2]

Not Voting (3): Momrangal, Luca Blight, Andresvmb

With 9 players alive, it takes 5 votes to achieve an elimination.

Day 6 will end in (expired on 2021-02-07 09:50:00).

[Mizzytastic]

curry (v.)

late 13c., "to rub down a horse," from Anglo-French

curreier

"to curry-comb a horse," from Old French

correier

"put in order, prepare, curry," from

con-

, intensive prefix (see

com-

), + reier "arrange," from a Germanic source (see

ready

). Related:

Curried

;

currying

.

To

curry favor

"flatter, seek favor by officious show of courtesy or kindness" is an early 16c. folk-etymology alteration of

curry favel

(c. 1400) from Old French

correier fauvel

"to be false, hypocritical," literally "to curry the chestnut horse," chestnut horses in medieval French allegories being symbols of cunning and deceit. Compare German

den falben (hengst) streichen

"to flatter, cajole," literally "to stroke the dun-colored horse."

Old French

fauvel

(later

fauveau

) "fallow, dun," though the exact color intended in the early uses is vague, is a diminutive of

fauve

"fawn-colored horse, dark-colored thing, dull," for which see

Fauvist

. The secondary sense here is entangled with similar-sounding Old French

favele

"lying, deception," from Latin

fabella

, diminutive of

fabula

(see

fable

(n.)). In Middle English,

favel

was a common name for a horse, while the identical

favel

or

fauvel

(from Old French

favele

) meant "flattery, insincerity; duplicity, guile, intrigue," and was the name of a character in "Piers Plowman."

Official Votecount 6.END

Vaxkiller (5): Binatog13, NorwegianboyEE, Gamma Emerald, Luca Blight, Andresvmb

[E-0]

NorwegianboyEE (4): Hayker, BBMolla, Vaxkiller, Momrangal

Not Voting (0):

With 9 players alive, an elimination has been achieved.

Day 6 will end in (expired on 2021-02-07 09:50:00).

[Mizzytastic]

Vaxkiller

has been eliminated. They were a

Mafia 1-Shot Ninja

Vaxkiller - Mafia 1-Shot Ninja

You are a

Mafia 1-Shot Ninja

You form a

Mafia

family along with REDACTED. You share a private thread which you can talk in at any time, including the day.

Each day you may talk in the game thread and vote on who to eliminate.

One night during the game you may act as a Ninja. Action investigative roles (in a Normal game a Tracker, Follower, Watcher, Voyeur, Motion Detector or Role Watcher) will get results as if you performed no action that night.

Each night a member of your family may perform a factional kill. A member of your family will attempt to visit a player, and assuming no interference that player will die.

You win when all players not aligned with you are dead and at least 1 member of your mafia family is alive, or nothing can prevent that from happening.

The game thread is here and your Mafia private thread is REDACTED, please confirm your role and alignment via pm or your private thread.

Night 6

It is now the night time. You have (expired on 2021-02-03 10:00:00) to submit any night actions.

If all living players request a quick night by PM I will resolve it ASAP.

(1/8 players)

[Mizzytastic]

Momrangal

and

Binatog13

have been found dead.

Momrangal

was a

Vanilla Townie

Momrangal - Vanilla Townie

You are a

Vanilla Townie

Each day you may talk in the game thread and vote on who to eliminate.

You win when all threats to the town are dead and at least 1 member of the town is alive.

The game thread is here, please confirm your role and alignment via pm.

Binatog13

was a

Town Universal Backup

Binatog13 - Town Universal Backup

You are a

Town Universal Backup

Each day you may talk in the game thread and vote on who to eliminate.

The first time a non-vanilla player aligned with the town dies you will lose this ability and gain all abilities that player had as part of their role. You do not learn about their actions with the role, or reset the number of shots remaining on an X-shot ability.

Each night you may attempt to visit a player to watch them. You will learn the roles (but not alignments) of all other players who visit them. At the end of the night you will be informed "TARGETNAME was visited by

ROLENAME(s)

", "TARGETNAME was visited by

no one

", or "You got

no result

from watching TARGETNAME".

You win when all threats to the town are dead and at least 1 member of the town is alive.

The game thread is here, please confirm your role and alignment via pm.

[Mizzytastic]

Day 7

My last normal was themed around board games and I just got a copy of Wingspan so...

bird (n.1)

"feathered, warm-blooded vertebrate animal of the class Aves," Old English

bird

, rare collateral form of

bridd

, originally "young bird, nestling" (the usual Old English for "bird" being

fugol

, for which see

fowl

(n.)), which is of uncertain origin with no cognates in any other Germanic language. The suggestion that it is related by umlaut to

brood

and

breed

is rejected by OED as "quite inadmissible." Metathesis of -r- and -i- was complete 15c. (compare

wright

).

Despite its early attestation,

bridd

is not necessarily the oldest form of

bird

. It is usually assumed that

-ir-

from

-ri-

arose by metathesis, but here, too, the Middle English form may go back to an ancient period. [Liberman]

Still up to c. 1400 it was often used in the specific sense "the young of a bird, fledgling, nestling, chick," and of the young of other animals (bees, fish, snakes) and human children.

The proper designation of the feathered creation is in E.

fowl

, which in course of time was specially applied to the gallinaceous tribe as the most important kind of bird for domestic use, and it was perhaps this appropriation of the word which led to the adoption of the name of the young animal as the general designation of the race. [Hensleigh Wedgwood, "A Dictionary of English Etymology," 1859]

Figurative sense of "secret source of information" is from 1540s. Meaning "man, fellow, person" is from 1799.

Bird-watching

attested from 1897.

Bird's-eye view

"the view as seen from above, as if by a bird in flight," is from 1762.

For the birds

recorded from 1944, supposedly in allusion to birds eating from droppings of horses and cattle. The

bird-spider

(1800) of the American tropics is a large sort of tarantula that can capture and kill small birds.

A byrde yn honde ys better than three yn the wode. [c. 1530]

The form with

bush

is attested by 1630s.

Official Votecount 7.0

Anyone (0): Nobody

Not Voting (6): Luca Blight, NorwegianboyEE, Gamma Emerald, BBMolla, Hayker, Andresvmb

With 6 players alive, it takes 4 votes to achieve an elimination.

Day 7 will end in (expired on 2021-02-11 10:10:00).

[Mizzytastic]

night (n.)

late Old English

niht

(West Saxon

neaht

, Anglian

næht

,

neht

) "the dark part of a day; the night as a unit of time; darkness," also "absence of spiritual illumination, moral darkness, ignorance," from Proto-Germanic

*nahts

(source also of Old Saxon and Old High German

naht

, Old Frisian and Dutch

nacht

, German

Nacht

, Old Norse

natt

, Gothic

nahts

).

The Germanic words are from PIE

*nekwt-

"night" (source also of Greek

nyx

"a night," Latin

nox

, Old Irish

nochd

, Sanskrit

naktam

"at night," Lithuanian

naktis

"night," Old Church Slavonic

nosti

, Russian

noch'

, Welsh

henoid

"tonight"), according to Watkins, probably from a verbal root

*neg-

"to be dark, be night." For spelling with

-gh-

see

fight

. The vowel indicates that the modern English word derives from oblique cases (genitive

nihte

, dative

niht

).

The fact that the Aryans have a common name for night, but not for day (q.v.), is due to the fact that they reckoned by nights. [Weekley]

Thus in Old English combinations

night

was "the night before (a certain day or feast day);" compare German

Weihnachten

"Christmas," literally "holy night." In early times, the day was held to begin at sunset, so Old English

monanniht

"Monday night" was the night before Monday, or what we would call

Sunday night

. The Greeks, by contrast, counted their days by mornings.

To

work nights

preserves the Old English genitive of time.

Night soil

"excrement" (1770) is so called because it was removed (from cesspools, etc.) after dark.

Night train

is attested from 1838;

night-school

from 1520s;

night-life

"habitual nocturnal carousing" is attested from 1852.

Official Votecount 7.END

Hayker (4): NorwegianboyEE, BBMolla, Andresvmb, Luca Blight

Not Voting (2): Gamma Emerald, Hayker

With 6 players alive, an elimination has been achieved.

[Mizzytastic]

Hayker

has been eliminated. They were a

Mafia 1-Shot Bulletproof

Hayker - Mafia 1-Shot Bulletproof

You are a

Mafia 1-Shot Bulletproof

You form a

Mafia

family along with REDACTED. You share a private thread which you can talk in at any time, including the day.

Each day you may talk in the game thread and vote on who to eliminate.

The first time you would die at night, that death is prevented.

Each night a member of your family may perform a factional kill. A member of your family will attempt visit a player, and assuming no interference that player will die.

You win when all players not aligned with you are dead and at least 1 member of your mafia family is alive, or nothing can prevent that from happening.

The game thread is here and your Mafia private thread is REDACTED, please confirm your role and alignment via pm or your private thread.

Night 7

It is now the night time. You have (expired on 2021-02-05 21:15:00) to submit any night actions.

If all living players request a quick night by PM I will resolve it ASAP.

(4/5 players)

[Mizzytastic]

Just picked up the last vote for a fast night so stuff will be a few minutes early

[Mizzytastic]

Gamma Emerald

has been found dead. He was a

Macho Activated Innocent Child

Gamma Emerald - Macho Activated Innocent Child

You are a

Macho Activated Innocent Child

Each day you may talk in the game thread and vote on who to eliminate.

A

Doctor

or

Bodyguard

cannot prevent your death.

At any time you may PM me to make me post this message in the game thread.

Gamma Emerald is aligned with the

Town

.

You win when all threats to the town are dead and at least 1 member of the town is alive.

The game thread is here, please confirm your role and alignment via pm.

[Mizzytastic]

Day 8

four (adj., n.)

"1 more than three, twice two; the number which is one more than three; a symbol representing this number;" Old English

feower

"four; four times," from Proto-Germanic

*fedwores

(source also of Old Saxon

fiuwar

, Old Frisian

fiower

,

fiuwer

, Frankish

*fitter-

, Dutch

vier

, Old High German

fior

, German

vier

, Old Norse

fjorir

, Danish

fire

, Swedish

fyra

, Gothic

fidwor

"four"), from PIE root

*kwetwer-

"four." The phonetic evolution of the Germanic forms has not been fully explained; Watkins explains the

-f-

as being from the following number (Modern English five).

To be

on all fours

is from 1719; earlier

on all four

(14c.).

Four-letter word

as a euphemism for one of the short words generally regarded as offensive or objectionable is attested from 1923;

four-letter man

is recorded from 1920 (apparently as a euphemism for

a shit

). Compare Latin

homo trium litterarum

, literally "three-letter man," a euphemism for

fur

"a thief." A

four-in-hand

(1793) was a carriage drawn by four horses driven by one person; in the sense of "loosely tied necktie" it is attested from 1892. To study

The History of the Four Kings

(1760, compare French

Livres des Quatre Rois

) contains an old euphemistic slang phrase for "a pack of cards," from the time when card-playing was considered a wicked pastime for students. Slang

4-1-1

"essential information" (by 1993) is from the telephone number called to get customer information. The

four-color problem

so called from 1879. The

four-minute mile

was attained 1954.

Official Votecount 8.0

Anyone (0): Nobody

Not Voting (4): Luca Blight, NorwegianboyEE, BBMolla, Andresvmb

With 4 players alive, it takes 3 votes to achieve an elimination.

Day 8 will end in (expired on 2021-02-13 21:25:00).

[Mizzytastic]

@mod: after how many no lim/no kill cycles would you call the game?

4 cycles based on what I've seen used before. Sooner if everyone requests via pm once it's happened at least once.

[Mizzytastic]

alive (adj.)

c. 1200, "in life, living," contraction of Old English

on life

"in living, not dead," from

a-

(1) + dative of

lif

"life" (see

life

). The full form

on live

was still current 17c. Of abstract things (love, lawsuits, etc.) "in a state of operation, unextinguished," c. 1600. From 1709 as "active, lively;" 1732 as "attentive, open" (usually with to). Used emphatically, especially with

man

(n.); as in:

[A]bout a thousand gentlemen having bought his almanacks for this year, merely to find what he said against me, at every line they read they would lift up their eyes, and cry out betwixt rage and laughter, "they were sure no man alive ever writ such damned stuff as this." [Jonathan Swift, "Bickerstaff's Vindication," 1709]

Thus it was abstracted as an expletive,

man alive!

(1845).

Alive and kicking

"alert, vigorous," attested from 1823; Farmer says "The allusion is to a child in the womb after quickening," but

kicking

in the sense "lively and active" is recorded from 1550s (e.g. "the wanton or kicking flesh of yong maydes," "Lives of Women Saints," c. 1610).

Official Votecount 8.END

No Elimination (3): Andresvmb, BBMolla, Luca Blight
BBMolla (1): NorwegianboyEE

Not Voting (0):

With 4 players alive, a no elimination has been achieved.

[Mizzytastic]

Night 8

It is now the night time. You have (expired on 2021-02-08 19:15:00) to submit any night actions.

If all living players request a quick night by PM I will resolve it ASAP.

(3/4 players)

[Mizzytastic]

BBMolla

has been found dead. They were a

Vanilla Townie

BBMolla - Vanilla Townie

You are a

Vanilla Townie

Each day you may talk in the game thread and vote on who to eliminate.

You win when all threats to the town are dead and at least 1 member of the town is alive.

The game thread is here, please confirm your role and alignment via pm.

[Mizzytastic]

Day 9

vanilla (n.)

1660s, "pod of the vanilla plant," from Spanish

vainilla

"vanilla plant," literally "little pod," diminutive of

vaina

"sheath," from Latin

vagina

"sheath of an ear of grain, hull of a plant" (see

vagina

). So called from the shape of the pods. European discovery 1521 by Hernando Cortes' soldiers on reconnaissance in southeastern Mexico. Meaning "flavoring extracted from the vanilla bean" is attested by 1728.

Adjectival meaning "conventional, of ordinary sexual preferences" is by 1970s, probably from the notion of whiteness and the common choice of vanilla ice cream;

vanilla

as figurative of a plain and conventional choice (without reference to sex) seems to date to the late 19c. as a noun, by 1940s (often

plain vanilla

) as an adjective.

Official Votecount 9.0

Anyone (0): Nobody

Not Voting (3): Luca Blight, NorwegianboyEE, Andresvmb

With 3 players alive, it takes 2 votes to achieve an elimination.

Day 9 will end in (expired on 2021-02-16 19:35:00).

[Mizzytastic]

finish (v.)

late 14c., "to bring to an end;" mid-15c., "to come to an end" (intransitive), from Old French

finiss-

, present participle stem of

fenir

"stop, finish, come to an end; die" (13c.), from Latin

finire

"to limit, set bounds; put an end to; come to an end," from

finis

"that which divides, a boundary, border," figuratively "a limit, an end, close, conclusion; an extremity, highest point; greatest degree," which is of unknown origin, perhaps related to

figere

"to fasten, fix" (see

fix

(v.)). Meaning "to kill, terminate the existence of" is from 1755.

Official Votecount 9.END

NorwegianboyEE (2): Andresvmb, Luca Blight
Andresvmb (1): NorwegianboyEE

Not Voting (0):

With 3 players alive, an elimination has been achieved.

[Mizzytastic]

NorwegianboyEE

has been eliminated. He was a

Non-Consecutive Nights Commuter Serial Killer

NorwegianboyEE - Non-consecutive nights commuter serial killer

You are a

Non-Consecutive Nights Commuter Serial Killer

Each day you may talk in the game thread and vote on who to eliminate.

Each night, if you didn't do so on the previous night, you may commute. Other players actions cannot target you, even actions that would normally get through prevention effects.

Each night, you may attempt to visit a player. Assuming no interference that player will die. You may not commute and kill a player on the same night.

You win when all players other than you are dead, or nothing can prevent that from happening.

The game thread is here, please confirm your role and alignment via pm.

[Mizzytastic]

Luca Blight

,

Vanilla Townie

, and

Andresvmb

,

Vanilla Townie

, have won.

Titus, Nero Cain, DrippingGoofball, Momrangal, quiet, Mathblade, Bypasser Catcher, Rannygazoo, Luca Blight, Binatog13, Norfolk Boy1, Gamma Emerald, BBMolla and PlusJOYED

have won posthumously.

I'm busy right now, but I should get around to posting night actions and private thread links and stuff before the end of the day.

If you were a member of the mafia or had a private notes thread you have (expired on 2021-02-12 07:46:10) to make any redactions or ask for it not to be released. You can also tell me you are ok with it being realised for me to do it sooner.

[Mizzytastic]

Useful links

Mafia thread
Dead/spectator thread
Mod thread
Game review thread

Gamma Emerald's note thread
Momrangal's note thread
MathBlade's note thread

If it is in the mod thread but not above it's not getting released.

Night Actions

Night 1
Not_Mafia strongman kills Mathblade, succeeds
chkflip investigates Rannygazoo, they are a Odd Nights Rolestoper
DrippingGoofball roleblocks Gamma
Rannygazoo rolestops Andresvmb
NorwegianboyEE is stopped from killing Andresvmb
MathBlade is stopped from rolewatching Andresvmb, gets no result

Night 2
Not_Mafia kills Bypasser Catcher, succeeds
chkflip investigates Titus, she is Vanilla
quiet protects/investigates Gamma Emerald, sees him go nowhere
DrippingGoofball blocks NorwegianboyEE
NorwegianboyEE is stopped from killing Andresvmb
Binatog watches NorwegianboyEE, sees he is visited by a Lazy Roleblocker

Night 3 - begins - deadline 2021-01-20 01:45:00 0.00
chkflip investigates Momrangal, she is vanilla
Binatog13 rolewatches Momrangal, she is visited by a Rolecop
Hayker kills Rannygazoo
NorwegianboyEE commutes
Rannygazoo rolestops Andresvmb
DrippingGoofball blocks quiet
quiet targets chkflip but is blocked, gets no result

Night 4 - begins - deadline 2021-01-25 02:00:00 0.00
chkflip investigates DrippingGoofball, she is a Lazy Roleblocker
Hayker kills quiet
NorwegianboyEE does nothing
Binatog see's no one visit Gamma
quiet targets Binatog13, sees him visit Gamma
DrippingGoofball blocks Momrangal

Night 5here
Vaxkiller kills DrippingGoofball
NorwegianboyEE kills chkflip
chkflip investigates Andresvmb, sees he is vanilla, dies before he can share with mafia
DrippingGoofball blocks Hayker
Binatog13 watches Andresvmb, sees a Rolecop

Night 6
Hayker kills Binatog13
Binatog rolewatches Gamma Emerald, sees no on visit before death
NorwegianboyEE kills Momrangal

Night 7
NorwegianboyEE kills Gamma Emerald

Night 8
NorwegianboyEE kills BBMolla

I've got some thoughts about how this game played out but I'm still not sure how to put it into words.

[Mizzytastic]

I was just slow doing it

Talking of which, everything should be released and available now that is going to be