Mini 2284: The Thing Anonymous [The End?]

[Childs~]

Dear god, is that^^ what happens when you get taken over by a Thing?

No. This is what happens when you becone a weeb.

Journal Entry#1

November 3rd 2022: McMurdo Station, Antarctica

It was cold. So cold. so very cold. the kind of cold that comes in the night and creeps into your bones and leaves you shaking while wrapped in your blankets because the light of the world has faded.

It had begun. The last planeload of evacuees left in the morning leaving just thirteen souls behind.

The last survivors of the horror that had unfolded over the last week forcing the evacuation of the largest research station on the continent.

Some of us were already

dead

their bodies turned into meatsacks for monsters to hide in.

If I had my way we would all take a collective bath in a pool of kerosene and then light it up - end it all. Better to insure the safety of humanity than to die screaming in the dark but I was outvoted.

Now we had to play

the game

. Outwit the monsters within our ranks and kill them all with extreme prejudice. They could be any of us and become any of us.

Disgusting - the very thought made my skin crawl inside - the idea that

it

could eat me at night and walk around wearing my skin like a hideous caricature pretending to be me. slaughtering my friends in their sleep.

I wrote down a keycode in my journal:

Today I am human. My keycode today is itwapofmhaocotbtdwqdasdotnidttaasssttlhoimaaosac.

it stands for :

Inside the Waystone a pair of men huddled at one corner of the bar. They drank with quiet determination, avoiding serious discussions of troubling news. In doing this they added a small, sullen silence to the larger, hollow one. It made an alloy of sorts, a counterpoint.

A line from one of my favorite books on my bookshelf. I know those

things

cannot read - they know only how to destroy.

My keycode tomorrow will be: hsialsrbbeftcaglutrcbostfotsatdadayasacsfttgrtrtmfttsptbiwtlaitwdalutfctootfhtwb

if I cannot explain what it stands for, you will know I am no longer with you and you should incinerate me immediately with no mercy for I am now one of them.

I like Palmer for town - if Clark flips mafia I would think Garry, Lars and MacReady are town as well.

I'll vote here with you for now.

makes my hair stand up on end

VOTE: Clark This is the fourth vote for Clark[E-3]

Hey hey man is this allowed? Cuz if it is...

I want in, codes are totally my thing.

Ah, we're getting serious?

I like Lars' and MacReady's intros, probably for bad reasons. And I think Copper's is slightly more likely to come from a Thing.

I have a confession to make, I have never seen the thing movie. I just wanted to play an anon game.

Me too TBH.
VOTE: Bennings

This? What sticks out to you as Thing-like?

Yeah, that. It's a vibe. The TBH seems self-conscious, the post itself is short and seems to be made for the sake of making it and fitting in, and the vote on a person that hasn't posted yet vibes like he doesn't want to start ruffling feathers yet.

1. I use TBHs a lot in my writing style.
2. I found myself to really relate to that post.
3. I voted that person because they were the first in the VC and I always do my RVS votes on arbitrary factors like that.

I also don't like this, seems overly defensive/survavilistic for page 2

I'm thinking Cooper or Clark are good votes but I want to SEE where this is going

VOTE: Clark

[petapan]

A reminder to all players:

The following is a list of outlawed shenanigans:

Using invisible text, codes, cryptography, etc.

Codes are explicitly forbidden in the rules, don't go attempting to use them. This will be the only time I warn people, further instances will get you booted from the game.

[Clark~]

1) MacReady is the platonic ideal of a husband.

2) I dislike 28 because I don’t think it says much of anything for calling tbh “interesting”. I don’t get the sense Clark cared much for the question he asked.

VOTE: Clark

I very explicitly did not "call tbh interesting" in that post, not sure how that was your takeaway when I talked about Palmer's case having a basis in the site meta.

Ah, we're getting serious?

I like Lars' and MacReady's intros, probably for bad reasons. And I think Copper's is slightly more likely to come from a Thing.

I have a confession to make, I have never seen the thing movie. I just wanted to play an anon game.

Me too TBH.
VOTE: Bennings

This? What sticks out to you as Thing-like?

Yeah, that. It's a vibe. The TBH seems self-conscious, the post itself is short and seems to be made for the sake of making it and fitting in, and the vote on a person that hasn't posted yet vibes like he doesn't want to start ruffling feathers yet.

I see. Something I've noticed recently is that people seem to find "tbh" as scummy, with one reason being that it comes off as soft and half-hearted agreement in order to avoid conflict. At least, that's one reason that's stuck out to me.

It's interesting that you see Copper's post as a whole that way, rather than just the "tbh" part.

VOTE: Copper

I'll vote here with you for now.

PE:

Abbreviations are something of a mild verbal (textual?) tic for me.

Understandable, I suppose, I have tics of my own. What do you think of Palmer's vote and reason for voting you? Thoughts on mine are welcome as well.

This is what I am referring to.

You're...bolding the part that says that I find Palmer's case having a link to site meta interesting. I specifically find it interesting that the case

wasn't

just a "tbh" tell.

[Clark~]

Is this a serious wagon or are y'all trying to get an early claim here?

[Garry~]

I’m going to be frank, the issue is more specific to you calling something interesting than it is the subject itself and I made that apparent, I believe, in my post. What’s interesting about it and more importantly does it have any bearing on alignment? Without including the latter the post rings hollow and disinterested, like you’re going through the motions.

[Garry~]

Is this a serious wagon or are y'all trying to get an early claim here?

Why wouldn’t it be serious.

[Childs~]

Is this a serious wagon or are y'all trying to get an early claim here?

Translation: "why me dude?"

[MacReady~]

Eh not sure I love Childs' vote either, but like the serious wagon

I do think Gary is somewhat townie

[Clark~]

Do I really need to say that I think complex reads are townie...?

PE: An E-2 wagon on page 3 is usually a meme. I'm baffled that people could misinterpret my post that badly.

[Garry~]

Do I really need to say that I think complex reads are townie...?

PE: An E-2 wagon on page 3 is usually a meme. I'm baffled that people could misinterpret my post that badly.

You didn’t communicate any of the first sentence in your post. I also don’t think it was a complex read either, but that’s more subjective. So yes, you do need to make your thoughts apparent.

And again, you’re baffled. But what do you actually think of the people engaging with it. You feel... cautious, I suppose, of saying much about it.

[Clark~]

Is this a serious wagon or are y'all trying to get an early claim here?

Translation: "why me dude?"

Typically I'd prefer if people just ask me to clarify my thoughts, some stuff is just going to seem obvious to me.

I'll have thoughts on players when they have content. Sorry but I'm not going to have five reads just like that.

[Clark~]

Don't know why 56 is there but that was in response to 59

[Garry~]

Is this a serious wagon or are y'all trying to get an early claim here?

Translation: "why me dude?"

Typically I'd prefer if people just ask me to clarify my thoughts, some stuff is just going to seem obvious to me.

I'll have thoughts on players when they have content. Sorry but I'm not going to have five reads just like that.

Can you clarify your thoughts on anyone voting you right now?

[Childs~]

Eh not sure I love Childs' vote either, but like the serious wagon

I do think Gary is somewhat townie

What did You find off about Blair?

Pedit:
@Clark is not like there's not content to talk about

[Clark~]

Is this a serious wagon or are y'all trying to get an early claim here?

Translation: "why me dude?"

Typically I'd prefer if people just ask me to clarify my thoughts, some stuff is just going to seem obvious to me.

I'll have thoughts on players when they have content. Sorry but I'm not going to have five reads just like that.

Can you clarify your thoughts on anyone voting you right now?

Maybe in the morning.

[Clark~]

Eh not sure I love Childs' vote either, but like the serious wagon

I do think Gary is somewhat townie

What did You find off about Blair?

Pedit:
@Clark is not like there's not content to talk about

...Which I am talking about. This isn't the gotcha you think it is.

[Garry~]

Doubtful I am that my vote will move in the meantime.

[MacReady~]

Do I really need to say that I think complex reads are townie...?

PE: An E-2 wagon on page 3 is usually a meme. I'm baffled that people could misinterpret my post that badly.

Ok, any thoughts on my interpretation of your post?
And hey, would rather a serious wagon on page 3 than a meme one

[Childs~]

Eh not sure I love Childs' vote either, but like the serious wagon

I do think Gary is somewhat townie

What did You find off about Blair?

Pedit:
@Clark is not like there's not content to talk about

...Which I am talking about. This isn't the gotcha you think it is.

Eh... You are still talking about you sir

[MacReady~]

Eh not sure I love Childs' vote either, but like the serious wagon

I do think Gary is somewhat townie

What did You find off about Blair?

Pedit:
@Clark is not like there's not content to talk about

Oh i just realized this was at me
I thought the first few votes on the wagon were fairly organic, Blair's (and Childs') are, for better or for worse, more bandwagon-y and are, in my mind, less inherently likely to be 'pure' - there's more of a chance that irregardless of Clark's alignment, they're just taking advantage of an already existing wagon

[Childs~]

Eh not sure I love Childs' vote either, but like the serious wagon

I do think Gary is somewhat townie

What did You find off about Blair?

Pedit:
@Clark is not like there's not content to talk about

Oh i just realized this was at me
I thought the first few votes on the wagon were fairly organic, Blair's (and Childs') are, for better or for worse, more bandwagon-y and are, in my mind, less inherently likely to be 'pure' - there's more of a chance that irregardless of Clark's alignment, they're just taking advantage of an already existing wagon

Mmhm I see, idk why i thought you would say something about the diary which for good measure I think it's nai

I was thinking about going for a Cooper vote but decided to pressure Clark, so far it doesn't seem like he is willing to put something on the table

[Copper~]

Defensive much?

I was just explaining myself.

[Blair~]

I think Clark & Childs could both be scum and Childs might actually have more scum equity atp - would not be opposed to moving votes there instead.

I like MacReady's 69 think this slot is currently town.

[Copper~]

Abbreviations are something of a mild verbal (textual?) tic for me.

Understandable, I suppose, I have tics of my own. What do you think of Palmer's vote and reason for voting you? Thoughts on mine are welcome as well.

In a vacuum I'd call it a shitpush but we were still basically in RVS so I'm not scumreading him for it. Also if that's the hot new scumtell then it's understandable, I wasn't aware of that.

[Childs~]

I think Clark & Childs could both be scum and Childs might actually have more scum equity atp - would not be opposed to moving votes there instead.

I like MacReady's 69 think this slot is currently town.

Oh ya i would just bus my partner on page 2

Haha 69.