Five of you left!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is exciting.
It’s the last day for wine and influence.
Vote for:
daneekasghost
nibbish
yickit
We’ll do a 10:30 if this one flies, and I think it will. We’ll talk about a third one if we get there.
I have jury duty today…maybe. I had to call last night to find out if I was summoned today, which is super convenient. The call said my group wasn’t called, but was required to call at 10:15 to learn if we’re needed at 12:30. Unf*&^ingbelievable. Anyway, hopefully it won’t mess us up any.
Cutthroat Junction 
inkarnit and I will vote for yickit
Obviously this goes.
DG AND I VOTE NIBBISH
I challenge this.
Well seems like its up to Beau.
Beau if you are around I suggest if this comes down to two for me and two for Nibbish, you can vote DG and be safe. As I understand the tiebreak rules: if you don’t break the tie, I certainly would. Which puts DG and I at risk for the next vote.
Inkarnit, will you vote yickit with me in the next day?
Inkarnit, will you vote DG in the next day? 🙂
Do not listen to this man, under any circumstances.
Ouch again.
Man I’m too late to this party this morning lol. Next day I can actually vote how I want! Exciting! Umm, so yeah what will I vote? I guess it depends on who’s up. Likely scenario is that Beau votes DG, putting it to a tie. Beau will abstain, giving yickit the tie breaker where he’ll kill nibbish. So tomorrow will me DG or yickit. I’ve been loyal to you both to this point. I’ll need to deliberate.
Yep, all five of us have been loyal to all five of us to this point.
That alliance ended up being something else, didn’t it.
Ugh. Good game, beau.
I was so going to give the wine to somebody. Didn’t get here in time. Guess I’ll drink it.
Beau cannot vote for himself.
I’m in a meeting. I’ll try to make my decision before 10:30
If inkarnit votes for me next round, Beau wins.
Yeah, there’s really only one (pair of) scenario(s, which are so close as to almost be identical) in which beau doesn’t win. Influence ends up being a funny thing toward the end of the game, especially if you’re able to avoid votes.
Also, inkarnit will essentially decide which of the remaining players he wants to win.
Can I pick me?
What scenario has Inkarnit winning?
Kelly, can you gchat me when Beau’s made his decision? I have a couple of things to focus on for a bit.
It makes the most strategic sense for inkarnit to vote yickit next round, because it will do a couple of things.
1) Make Beau vulnerable, if it comes to Beau’s vote as 2 votes for yickit and 1 vote for DG, Beau has to be in the majority no matter where he votes. That’s been a hard thing to do late in this game once Beau had the high card and the wine.
2) It could even keep inkarnit invulnerable in the round of 3 (if inkarnit and I vote yickit and yickit and Beau vote me, then inkarnit gets to pick which one he goes to the final two with)
IF inkarnit votes for dg, then Beau can get off the hook by voting for yickit and passing on the tiebreak. Then Beau is in the final 2 and choosing his opponent.
In this scenario, if I agree to vote out yickit, would you be willing to go to the final 2 with me and vote out inkarnit together in the round of 3?
Then you have to go up against Beau with a jury? That doesn’t seem prudent.
it’s either that or finish in 4th, right?
I would be the most willing of any of those left.
If I commit to that here, Colin loses incentive to work with me and we never get that chance.
So I don’t commit to anything except that I will consider all options if I’m around at 3.
Unless I too pass the tiebreak. Just saying that could be an option for some hilarity.
Also, What happens if we all pass the tiebreak?
I’ve been asked that a lot, but it’ll never happen because someone in the tie will break the tie. I think I wrote something written in the rules that it would befall the scribe (who wouldn’t have to be in power if he wasn’t already) just for completeness’s sake.
Remind me again, are you the scribe?
Yes, so in this case I suppose I’d do it randomly.
…but it will never happen.
Just an FYI I’m going into a doctors appointment in 30 minutes but I’ll be as active as I can while there and certainly after… Until I get to work anyway where I have an important business meeting to decide the details of my future!
Will you do as Brooks suggests above? And what would be your decision?
I need to run the scenarios myself. Obviously I want to win. So I need an opponent that the jury won’t pick over me. I need to think on it.
I think you’ll see that the other two have pretty much run the game, especially lately. I’d really think about your next move no matter what happens. Beau could put himself in jeopardy this turn as well and eliminate either nibbish or I. The one saved would owe him big time, and the scenarios would be slightly different with three people up for the next vote.
Yeah I don’t want to commit to anything until I’ve done that. I’m playing right now in the waiting room at the doctor so full evaluation isn’t possible right now heh
10:30 is starting to look like a pipe dream here.
I hopefully will have all day (jury duty permitting) so we can recalibrate if we have to. Though, it doesn’t particularly matter if this one is time sensitive since Influence can’t happen.
Rule tweak suggestion for Spooky:
Have non-voters be “in power” because their silence was actually agreement with the decision of the plurality.
I think with the game being run during business hours online shotgun style, that’s overly harsh. I think requiring everyone to vote might be a better option, or opening the post an hour before voting can commence or something like that.
I was thinking more on the lines of the early days, when the voting window was held open past the point of majority. It would require that for a long time, and definitely would have slowed down the game. It hasn’t mattered here at the end though, the last missed vote was when Novak was outed, day 6.
I feel you on that, though you’ll note that those who abstained were outside of things and almost all died early anyway. I get that you want to punish their silence, but really, it did them no good at all. I’ve played three live and now this one, and in all cases, fortune has favored the bold.
probably a minor issue then.
Just a brainstorm.
Excited to play the game with my in-laws next holiday.
If killing your in-laws is wrong, I don’t wanna be right.
Hellllllllllllllllllllll no. For one, I want silence to be an option. It’s a weak option, but an option. For two, this will have unintended consequences of greatly speeding up the game to race to get votes in. For three, I don’t want someone saying at the end “I was in peril all game long” when in reality they played like a bit of a bitch. There are enough ways to force movement from quiet players and enough reasons not to abstain already.
I like this better than anything I said.
I agree. People need to hold people accountable. Letting them come in and vote last every time is our fault. You guys have been so quick to vote the past few times that Beau hasn’t needed to take any risks. I don’t blame him for that. We allowed it to happen with fast votes.
This is a different issue. Beau has voted in every turn.
All that said, I do understand the concept that silence is essential agreement in politics.
See above. I imagined a “held-open” window. This isn’t werewolf, where a majority means a mob strings someone up.
Out for a bit.
If I save Nibbish by voting out yickit, I think we’d eventually be forced to vote out each other in the round of three and inkarnit would again get his choice. Nibbish, have you looked at this?
I hear a lot of scenarios where I’m getting a choice but they all sound like I get to choose who to lose to. I want option c.
I had, and came to the same conclusion.
I VOTE DANEEKA’S GHOST
Well duh heh… Tie break to you.
That’s a draw. Beau, make your vote/abstention. yickit, you’ll follow.
I abstain
I concur with your play. I would have to think yickit breaks the tie unless he wants to kill himself.
I said I’d break the tie. So I will. Although I must admit I’m tempted to abstain for no particular reason. Well that would put DG on point. Anyway:
BREAK THE TIE IN MY FAVOR PLEASE.
Sorry NIBBs, I would have voted along with you had you made a different move and not agreed to gun for me today. Oh well.
Yeah, I knew it was a gamble, but I was in the position where I needed a gamble and a couple of breaks to fall my way.
No doubt.
Your World Champion, Name That Tune monster and all around CJ Behemoth nibbish, #14 Agrippa, has died along with my other sibling’s card. How is 11:30? yickit’s good to go.
that’s fine
Okay just know my access will be limited… Typing this during an EKG…
Good news, my heart looks healthy enough for neck surgery!
Waiting on Brooks to see if 11:30 is a go.
DG is good, so I’ll schedule it. I’m not sure it’s important that this one has a hard scheduled time, but I’ve been doing this all game long and since I’m not playing, there may be early-vote benefits I don’t see.
Good point. I don’t think the timing is an issue here but… Who knows?
Go. I can’t be there immediately, but I vote Yickit.
Lol rule breaker! But I think that’s obvious.