It is now the Climax Phase of Episode 1.
The deadline to submit Climax Actions and Ally choices is:
(expired on 2016-09-17 22:00:00)
SirCakez has been lynched.
However, due to an effect in this game, his role information will be kept private.
Because of this, his lynch will have no effect on the Stress.
The Current Stress is -1:
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By the next morning, Pearl had Peridot's escape pod wired up to several devices--numerous screens blinked back at Steven with information that he was lost on him. He approached Pearl, who had been diligently working through the night, "So, what's all this for? You making me a cool robot?"
Pearl scoffed, shaking her head, "Oh, no, Steven, that would be much too dangerous. I'm trying to discover where Peridot is--or, at least, what her plans were for this planet. There are several references to some sort of 'Cluster', but I can not extract exactly what it is. Confounding. Perhaps, if I..."
As Pearl rambled on with her explanations, Steven slowly wandered back to the Temple, satisfied enough with what she had already said. He was more interested in who--or what--had been bubbled the other night. As he turned to take a step towards the door, he bumped into Garnet, who looked down at him with an expectant smile. Plainly, she remarked, "You want to see the Ruby that I bubbled, don't you?"
Steven did a double-take, "You bubbled another Ruby? Wait--there are other Rubies? ...did I know that?
Garnet simply smiled at him and ruffled his hair, "Come on."
After opening the way to the inner sanctum of the Crystal Gem Temple, Garnet pulled down the bubble she had made the other night. Upon releasing the bubble, the gem inside formed its body of light and took the shape of a Ruby. It was not much taller than Steven, its gem set square in its chest. The Ruby glared at Garnet and Steven from behind her visor before immediately moving to attack Steven. As he dodged away, Garnet simply picked the Ruby up and held her firmly, stating, "You will not harm anyone else on this planet."
The Ruby scoffed, "I don't need to! I need to get out of here with Jasper before this whole planet is dust!"
The news was shocking to Steven, who gasped, "You know Jasper?"
The Ruby proudly smiled, "Of course I do--one of the finest quartz that's ever done battle. And you're infringing on my mission to retrieve her!"
Garnet formed her gauntlet in one hand as the Ruby struggled. As she made a fist, Steven protested, "Garnet--no! We still need to ask her more about Jasper and, and--the Cluster!"
Ruby managed to break free from Garnet's grasp and backed into a corner of the room, fists held up. "The Cluster's going to break out of this planet soon enough--you're all doomed! And you're not going to take me with you!!"
As Ruby charged at Steven, the light of her gem indicating that she was forming a weapon, Garnet immediately smashed her with a fist. Garnet picked up and bubbled her gem, sighing. "That's all we're going to get from her. I'm sorry you couldn't do more, Steven."
Steven sighed, "It's okay, Garnet. We need to investigate whatever the Cluster is. Let's go see if Pearl knows anything--"
Garnet was already headed for the door, calling back, "Pearl is in trouble. Come on, Steven!"
The pair rushed back to the temple entrance to find Amethyst and Pearl doing battle with some sort of hulking creature. Various gem shards stuck out of its chest, but it did not have anything resembling a face--just malformed limbs and body mass. Amethyst's whip was already tied around it, but it threw both her and Pearl across the room with ease. Pearl squealed, "Help us subdue this beast!"
With all four Crystal Gems teaming up, the creature was no match for their combat prowess. Steven deftly deflected its blows with his shield, giving Garnet and Pearl enough time to close distance and destroy it, causing it to lose its mass and drop to the floor as the various crystal shards that were embedded in it. As Pearl bubbled them, Garnet grimaced, "Forced fusion--who could do such a thing?"
To this, Pearl responded, "I believe that this creature has to do with the Cluster--the data that I retrieved indicated that the Cluster is a forced fusion like this on a much bigger scale, but something that large couldn't possibly be on Earth..."
Steven spoke up, the epiphany causing him to shiver at its implications, "It isn't on Earth--it's inside of it. Ruby said that it was going to destroy the planet--if it's like the guy we just beat, then when it forms, it's going to break out of the planet like hatching from an egg! We have to do something!"
Just as Steven said this, a scream could be heard in the distance. Similar creatures were attacking citizens of Beach City. The Gems sprung into action, saving who they could, defeating and bubbling monsters and injured victims as they went. As they fought back the creatures, they soon began to realize that these monsters seemed to be coming from a single location from out of town--the old Kindergarten, where Amethyst was made. The Crystal Gems made their way there with haste, making sure to stay vigilant should they sight any more crystal-shard monsters along the way.
During the Climax Phase, the Scum Factional Event, "Message Received" was triggered and resolved.
Due to this Event, the following has publicly occurred: It is now public knowledge that The Cluster may awaken and destroy Earth. From this point onward, players may forego taking Climax actions to add a point to a cumulative, hidden score. You must have an activated ability to choose not to use in order for it to count as points towards this effect. If both Players in an Alliance forego their Climax actions, they add 3 points to this score. If the score does not reach a high enough point by the upcoming Season Finale, there will be several deaths. 4 Stress has been added, moving the Stress Meter towards 'Tragic Destiny.'
There is no Event currently happening during the Exposition of Episode 2.
Firebringer has been removed from the game as a part of an effect. This will not cause the stress to change.
SirCakez's role has been revealed. He was
Doc, Leader of the Rubies
, aligned with
The Threats to Earth
.
Due to this information being made public, the Stress has been affected accordingly--Stress is lowered by 2, moving the meter towards 'Slice of Life'.
Doc's full role functions as follows:
Spoiler:
Doc, Leader of the Rubies
Focus, Rubies! This is an important mission from Yellow Diamond, so we can't mess it up.
You are aligned with the Scum Faction. You are a Gem.
We're here to retrieve the leader of the Earth mission!
Each Climax Phase, you may forgo any action (besides allying) in order to target a player to discover if they have the flavor of Jasper.
Once per game, during the Season Finale, you may allow all other members of your faction to perform this action.
I think we better double-check.
Each Climax Phase, you may target a player to learn your choice of one of the following:
-Who they targeted on any Climax phase of your choice.
-Who they chose to ally with during any Episode of your choice.
-Who targeted them on any Climax phase of your choice.
-Which action they took on any Climax phase of your choice (you may only do this if you have information on who they targeted).
Rubies, assemble!
If you ally, you both gain the following abilities:
You may not be killed by any normal killing actions.
You may chat during both Exposition and Climax Phase.
If all members of your alliance are voting the same target, an extra vote will be counted against the target--this can not hammer a player.
During a Season Finale, you may form an alliance of up to five total players in this way and extend these benefits to all of your alliance.
In order for players to join this five-player Alliance, you must submit each of their names and they must all submit your name for allying.
EVENT:
Full Disclosure
EPISODE EVENT: Exposition Only--Activate this ability during the Climax Phase.
PRIORITY: 3
REQUIREMENTS: Neutral or Positive Stress, must be after Episode 2.
Tied to the Flavor of the episodes "Full Disclosure," "We Need to Talk," and other similar flashback episodes.
Choose an earlier Episode in the game.
The following information will be publicly posted in the game thread:
Reduces Stress to zero (neutral).
Players may only use abilities that they used during that Episode.
Players are forced into the same alliances that they had during that Episode.
All players who died since that Episode may post in the game thread and even take actions at Climax Phase.
These players return to being dead after this Event is over.
The Exposition will not end in a lynch, players will simply vote to end the Exposition phase.
The Climax will include no kills.
We've been tricked? Again?!
You are aligned with
Threats to Earth
.
In order to win the game, your faction must equal or exceed the number of other surviving players left alive.
In order to win the game, at least one Threat to Earth player must be alive.
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"We need to track down Peridot. We found her pod. We know she's out there somewhere. She came to Earth with a job to do and odds are, she's still gonna try to do it."
Paraphrasing a role PM takes seconds, fabricating a good fakeclaim takes an eternity.
"Metadiving DGB is like playing Roblox" - T3
"She's sort of like a quantum computer, her reads exist in multiple states at once. u have to take into account the other dimensions." - Morning Tweet
First off, I think a wagon on RR is beneficial as it stands. For that, good job everyone! However, let's not rush ourselves please, there's much to discuss. There's quite a few game mechanics I want to go over to maximize their full utility.
Second, can someone do a VCA from tomorrow? I think it'll be very helpful.
Lots of bus'ing on this wagon I bet. Probably also the best townies.
The "best townies" categories exclude Yume, so Yume was probably bus'ing or maybe even trolling.
Paraphrasing a role PM takes seconds, fabricating a good fakeclaim takes an eternity.
"Metadiving DGB is like playing Roblox" - T3
"She's sort of like a quantum computer, her reads exist in multiple states at once. u have to take into account the other dimensions." - Morning Tweet
Whatever the chains placed upon me
Whatever the prison, my soul has the key
No money can buy, no power can still
No burden can break the unshakeable strength of my will
@KTS, I'll do a VCA tomorrow. I'm not batting 100% and I have a stack of work on my desk that's large. I'm not opposed to an RR wagon right now given their EoD. It's not my favorite though.
@All - We got a pizza last night.
Yume's flavor is confirmed and there is 99.9% chance they are town. Anyone else would say conftown.
@Farside/Almost, I do hope you stick around. I'm sorry that I wasn't clearer or that we didn't have effective communication yesterday. If you could give me feedback on how to get reasons from you to see where things went wrong, that'd be great. Same with you Almost. I respect you both and think you both are town.
Whatever the chains placed upon me
Whatever the prison, my soul has the key
No money can buy, no power can still
No burden can break the unshakeable strength of my will
I wouldn't put it above mastin to pull something like this as scum, however I will put them in our not-lynch pool for now, as we have bigger foods to bake
In post 3240, Yume wrote:I was waiting for you, Titus. What did you mean by your last two posts in the last day?
I meant that if you had a neighborhood spy ability, that you'd tell me by the first words in your post. It kinda doesn't matter now since I don't have a hood.
If DGB is town, scum fucked with the alliance meaning scum intend to kill me. That's the logical explanation. Otherwise, DGB is scum.
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It is now public knowledge that The Cluster may awaken and destroy Earth.
