If I may cut in again,
There's definitely merit to shortening phases/rounds/question times in forum events when one realizes they're running longer than they need to. From a limited non-player perspective, I think this was actually the right call. The trouble is, and this gets at what Waluigi...
Hi, watching from the sidelines here. There's a fun concept here, so I'm keeping an eye on the execution to think about what might be refined for the future.
That said, there's one question I want to ask now because it might help out today. Are you sure all of your contestants are available in...
I'll have to ask you pardon the double post, but I wanted this to stand apart from my epilogue rather than feeling tacked on. The game remains ongoing, so I won't offer any feedback on execution or mechanics or the like. I just want to give Ninja Squid a huge shout out for hosting, and to...
Four Years And Some Months Ago...
???: ...so... just what are, uh, ento... entisai... entosaiwe...? They're basically ghosts?
???: No and yes, curious one. Spirits of the departed, they are. That is the "yes". However, entosaiwe has particular connotation which is not captured by words such as...
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Hmm... As a phylliikrei surrounded in the midst of a den, no words am I able to offer to quell your misgivings, unwise though they are. It appears the Tribe of Rogue affords me trust no longer.
...though, to call this assembly the Tribe of Rogue is a faleshood, is it...
: Is this so? Crucial are votes, and in these, the Draconic One and I are equal. Never have I made accusation against an innocent where the Draconic One had not.
: I offer now to use the Oracle's power to make undisputed proclamations for the town. Yet the Draconic One would have it silenced...
: You contradict yourself already, Draconic One. You say I am skilled in deception, yet earlier claim I had committed a grave mistake. Can it be both at once?
: And it is this which shows my innocence, and your deception. Any could break the tie to gain favor with the town, and appear innocent...
: Wise questions you ask, Nose-y One. The answers you seek are simple.
: I have placed no target on myself which did not exist already. I have claimed my role many cycles ago. It is public knowledge already. It is also known to the whole of the Tribe of Rogue that I possess the power of the...
: With ease can any falsely claim innocence.
: My claims are easy to disprove, and none have stepped forward to do so. It would be a great risk to contend the Violet-Eyed One (Coco) Innocent when no others would.
: Of this I am quite certain. There are those who dwell among us able to disguise...
: Your trust remains scarce. It is no mystery as to why. You are wise ones, versed in the doctrine of this portdwelling. Yet truth bends not in the winds of skepticism.
: So easy would it be to reprove me, unmasking my claim were it untrue. A bold move it would be to claim such cowardice were...
The levels of Wario Land 4 are paintings in the Golden Pyramid, resting place of the Golden Diva. Portals take Wario into these paintings. Are these warps to real places? Are they worlds within the painting? Are they merely paintings, but based on real locations? Who knows!
But perhaps the...
: Draconic One, you believe I hide myself when light shelters us from conspirators. This is untrue; I hide only when darkness entombs us.
: To make my meaning understood with ease. I hide only at night.
: My presence substantiates the claims of the Greedy One (Flotzo) to innocence.
: Let these threads entangle their prey true - Vote: Cloudwalker.
: Granting assumptions of truth to the claims of the Violet-Eyed One (Coco) as well, two yet stand without the scrutiny of empowered eyes. Let us...
: Sooner would I test one whose attunement is not so obvious. There is more to be gleaned from such efforts, and now that the cat has emerged from its bag, I am able to say freely behind who I will hide, so the results shall be known immediately.
: However, Higher Dimensional One, the pleas of...
: Higher Dimensional One, I do not needlessly sacrifice myself for one almost certain to be treacherous. This blessing of discernment joined with the power of oracles is too valuable to dispense with recklessly.
: Hmm... Pestilent clouds of silence choke our efforts. So too is that trust is comes not easily to one such as I. I had prayed the Violet-Eyed One would speak on her own behalf, but it appears the task falls to Tasse.
: I shall restore my support. Support: Coco. Your questioning the claims of...
: Inclined I was - and remain - to believe your claim, but others harbor doubts. It would serve all well were you made to present any revelations from the night.
: Briefly I will Vote: Unsupport, and demand you speak @Hot Chocolate.
: Hoho, is this a custom among overdwellers? Trust is not so scarce in the cavernous spaces below that we must supplicate to have it granted.
: The Dexterous One's obstinance rolled in at first as the mists of the morning. His reasoning enshrouded, it appeared as he had confused the loam for...
: So you have no word to raise in your defense. No power do you proclaim, and no imprecation will you offer. An obscurantist has no place among this dwellingport. Begone with you! Vote: Hint Toad
: Nectared One, as one may divine events to come from the scattering of fungal spores, Tasse finds meaning in imprecations. The Scholar of Manga was the first to move against the Sparking One. Do you not agree that, amidst such fog as there is early into an investigation, such a move would...
: So finally your evasion is dispelled. Very well. Vote: Unvote. New revelations have been made, some of great consequence. Having only now awoken from a nap most long, mists still hang over my judgment. Permit time that I may consider matters further.
: Hmm... It would appear that in your mind's eye dwells a bird when before you stands a moth! Hoho, we are not so impulsive or so avaricious as those beaked fiends!
: So you request that Tasse illuminates that which takes residence in the duff of this dwellingport. Just as well. So too has the...
: Higher Dimensional One, you speak often, but what is said amidst your buzzing? Evasive claims enshrouded by haze fall from you as the littered leaves of autumn.
: Where you have parted the mists, thus far ruin follows. You hold a claim against the Nose-y one while advocating peace before the...
We'll take a note down and pass it along to the Awards Committee when things get underway! Thank you for your suggestion.
Shmaluigi, Private Investigator is one of the most collaboration-heavy 'Shroom sections we have, and that it has offered plenty of inspiration for new characters and stories...
To be clear, rejections are rare for the Poll Committee. The vast, vast majority of users who apply are accepted without issue.
Still, once in a blue moon, there comes a user whose addition would be detrimental to a positive team atmosphere. I'd like to hear from Sparks and Remy how they would...
: Hoho, Nectared One, do you believe a moth reaches old age without the ability to discern a trap? In the breaking of the dawn, a net was illuminated. The Scholar of Manga placed a trap, and Tasse did not see fit to interfere. My musings held until the landsbreath stilled, the silence was broken...
BEHOLD! THE ENTOSAIWE ADDRESS YOU! HAVE COURTESY, AND LISTEN!
Eager youths consumed by tempestuous fears, you surge as the waters of the underneath when commences a tempest above! You leap with rusted blade at apparitions constructed from mere shade, ignoring the forewarning of an emissary made...
: Eager detective among our ranks, may the werbitlioe impart their blessing unto to you. You are undoubtedly to uncover truths most sacred to this town.
: I have proclaimed already the reasons for my returning to this portdwelling of gallows and hemestains. The great stonehollows rising in the...
: Hmm... The first cycle is not yet upon us. It does not yet disturb the peace to answer such a question. Very well, nose-y one. Tasse shall impart her tale.
: Daughter of the Kiksprekan - the Ancestral Speaker - long have I dwelt 'neath the earth, wandering through the caverns from which a...
: A presence suffuses this vessel. As if it awaits release, it buzzes and rattles with the urgency of a wabizier at hive's edge. One mustn't take lightly the possibility that a terrible darkness hides within.
: It is my opinion that we should prepar- Oh. You have opened it. Well, so long as the...
Well, folks, how does Galarian Corsola stack up to Cursola? Go and find out!
I'd like to give special thanks to @Shmalu Sniffer (Boo1268) for his guest comments in this edition. Fitting to have a ghost discuss a ghost!
Looking ahead to March, we'll officially be in Pokémon's 30th anniversary...
???: Ehh? Ehhh? What's that, a Goombird? Hmm, then this town's predicament is a vexatious one... Rogue chirurgeons grafting beaks to the landbound... The maodiwe prophecize of coming disaster as we dawdle here. There is but one course for salvation.
???: Lexi, you must pursue these rouges who...
Hurt Mega Froslass
Totally get it. It's hard to see any of the remaining five drop off, but four still have to go one way or another. Gotta just bite the bullet and pick our least favorites of the field.