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Root Host: ☆ Princess Abigail ☆ Other Hosts: Wintermoot

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The screen cuts to a title card for "The Bestest Friend." The camera zooms in on one individual in front of 16 others, as well as another more professionally dressed man.  A table stands behind the individual and professionally dressed man, and 15 elegant looking blue and purple tulips lay there.

Host: Alright Marin, it's time to choose who will get their tulips, and who should leave the mansion.

Marin sighs, collecting themselves.

Marin: Arek, please step forward.

Arek does so.

Marin: Arek, I had a wonderful time with you.  Your penchant for poetry, though not all of it yours, is lovely to say the least.  Though I do have to wonder about some of the passages, since some of it seemed pretty odd.  And the fact that you started off our time with unoriginal stuff that you claimed was yours was definitely a bit offputting...but I'm interested to see how far our friendship will go.  Will you accept this tulip of friendship?

Arek nods and takes the tulip gratefully, heading out of the room.

Marin: Aesil, please step forward.

Aesil does so.

Marin: Aesil, things were a bit touch and go for a bit.  We seemed to have some communication problems, and I know that must have been hard.  But I'm willing to try to make our friendship work, because I believe in you.  And I think our time spent at the arcade was a lot of fun, to say the least.  Will you accept this tulip of friendship?

Aesil nods and takes the tulip gratefully, heading out of the room.

Marin: Eastwick, please step forward.

Eastwick does so

Marin: Eastwick, I've literally never met anyone with your name, and it fascinates me.  However, that's really all I know about you aside from some bits and pieces I've heard from the other contestants.  When we were out playing mini golf, we barely talked to each other, and I don't know how to feel about that in all honesty.  However, I'm willing to accept that you may be a bit shy, and I'm hoping that we can overcome that since I think there's potential for us to be great friends.  Will you accept this tulip of friendship?

Eastwick nods and takes the tulip gratefully, heading out of the room.

Marin: Thomas, please step forward.

Thomas, confused at first, does so.

Marin: Thomas, you seem very lost to be here, and that's understandable given that you're so young.  When you first appeared on this show, I'll admit that I was worried that you had stepped into the wrong game since you seemed like you felt so out of place.  When we were at the park throwing rocks at old folks, you for some reason started throwing them at yourself, and I admittedly was concerned.  But despite your awkwardness that I just can't get a read on, I'm intrigued and want to see what happens next.  Will you accept this tulip of friendship?

Thomas nods and takes the tulip, at first attempting to eat it before he heads out of the room.

Marin: Gerwin, please step forward.

Gerwin does so.

Marin: Gerwin, you seem like a nice guy, but like Thomas it's just hard to get a read on you.  You seem like you want to be friends, yet you just kind of check out at the most random moments.  When we were spraypainting the town, you just kind of stood there for a moment, and I was admittedly worried for you until there was that sudden snap back to reality, and you went back to spraypainting like nothing happened.  While I'm worried for you, I'd like to offer you this tulip of friendship and see where our friendship goes.  Do you accept?

Gerwin nods and takes the tulip gratefully, remaining stationary for moments as he suddenly snaps back into reality and leaves the room.

Marin: Xavier, please step forward.

Xavier does so.

Marin: Xavier, I had a great time laughing at stupid movies with you while throwing popcorn at people in the theaters before we were kicked out.  While you're a bit more upfront than I'm normally used to, I genuinely appreciate the honesty for the most part, even if it's in situations where you seem somewhat confused.  I feel like there's a part of me that may be skeptical, but I'm willing to put that aside for now and see where things go.  Do you accept this tulip of friendship?

Xavier nods and takes the tulip gratefully, leaving the room.

Marin: Marzia, please step forward.

Marzia does so.

Marin: Marzia I had such a blast playing laser tag throughout the city while the cops were chasing us.  It was such a thrilling experience, and it's definitely a night I'll never forget.  The way you talk sometimes confuses me a bit, but I'm willing to work with that since I think there's potential for us to be great friends.  Do you accept this tulip of friendship?

Marzia nods and takes the tulip gratefully, leaving the room.

Marin: Anukin, please step forward.

Anukin does so.

Marin: I won't lie, when I heard your name for the first time, my mind immediately went to Star Wars...and the fact that you seemed very into Sci-Fi to where we held up a bank wearing costumes from, amusingly enough, Star Trek pretty much didn't help things either.  Like Aesil there seemed to be some genuine confusion between us, but I'm willing to believe right now that I was simply just a misunderstanding of sorts.  Will you accept this tulip of friendship?

Anukin nods and takes the tulip gratefully, giving the "live long and prosper" sign before leaving the room.

Marin: Dominic, please step forward.

Dominic does so.

Marin: Dominic, you're an interesting one to say the least.  You've got an interesting way of speaking, and at times I just feel like you and I are just connected in a way that I'm not with any of the others here.  It's really hard to explain, but when we were out dressed in full royal costume yelling at everyone for being peasants and throwing fruits at people, I just felt this really strong bond of sorts...though admittedly I kind of got the vibe that it was a one way feeling.  Nonetheless, I think there's great potential that we could be bestest friends.  Do you accept this tulip of friendship?

Dominic nods and takes the tulip gratefully, leaving the room.

Marin: Vrorick, please step forward.

Vrorick does so.

Marin: Vrorick, I really don't know what you say.  You only seem to open up with pictures to communicate, and while it's unique, I'm just not sure how to feel about it.  But I will honestly never forget skydiving into the white house yard before we were dragged off and questioned by the Secret Service.  While I admit I'm a little unsure of how to take you on your way of communicating, I'm curious to see how things go.  Will you accept this tulip of friendship?

Vrorick nods and takes the tulip gratefully before flying out of the room with a hoot.

Marin: Wistin, please step forward.

Wisten does so.

Marin: Wistin, I really haven't gotten to know you at all, so I'm really unsure of how to feel.  Like Gerwin, I felt you just checked out a lot during our time together, only for you it was literally the fact that you would disappear for long periods of time.  I would have had a lot of fun having a paintball tournament against the Army, but you disappeared at one point and I was having to fight them off myself.  I won, but I had just wondered where my partner in crime went as I was being hauled off to military jail for interrupting a military operation.  That being said though, I'm willing to give you the benefit of the doubt and see how things go.  Do you accept this tulip of friendship?

Wistin nods and takes the tulip gratefully, leaving the room.

Marin: Melania, please step forward.

Melania does so.

Marin: Melania, I had so much fun dropping bricks from the tallest building in the city with you on the criminals that were chasing us.  I think on occasion you can have some great insight, and I'm curious to see where things go.  Do you accept this tulip of friendship?

Melania nods and takes the tulip gratefully, leaving the room.

Marin: Cerian, please step forward.

Cerian does so

Marin: Cerian, you seem like a quirky and unique person, and I always respect that.  I was very intrigued by your collection of paintings that you did on the walls of the living rooms of people's houses that you broke into.  I thought the style and subject matter of horror mixed with bad puns was quite fascinating, to say the least.  Do you accept this tulip of friendship?

Cerian nods and takes the tulip gratefully, leaving the room.

Marin: Two tulips left, and 3 potential best friends left.  Lau Tsing, Rugenheim, Dolbert, please step forward.

The three step foward.

Marin: Lau Tsing, I had a lot of fun freeing the animals of the zoo and bringing them into battle with the wild animals in the woods while we had spectators watching and recording on their phones.  However, I was offput by this idea that you wanted to be some kind of Noah, screaming about rain and why people should get on your Ark.  It was confusing to say the least since we were at a funeral during this outburst and and someone just happened to accidentally spill their bottle of water.

Marin turns to Rugenheim.

Marin: Rugenheim, I had a lot of fun playing box wars with you and creating a colossal box pyramid with all sorts of boxy passages.  However, your way of speaking was very confusing to me since you only seemed to speak in poems.  But not just any poems, but ones that were a little heavy handed on the introspection to where at many points I felt like you were putting on an act.  I'm just honestly unsure of how to feel about that.

Marin turns to Dolbert

Marin: And Dolbert, I had a great time flying a plane across the town and dropping excessive amounts of glitter on everyone.  However, when a bird went by you suddenly went off on it to an almost violent degree and claimed it was conspiring against you.  I've also noticed you've had an on/off feud with Lau Tsing that I don't quite understand, especially since it's seemed to be a bit more one sided with you against him...though you've currently subsided for now.  Though it does make me worry about whether I'd potentially end up setting you off at some point.

Marin looks to each of them.

Marin: All of you have potential, and all of you have your flaws that are hard to ignore, so I have to choose only two of you to continue.

Marin thinks hard, the music grows suspenseful.

Marin: Lau Tsing.

Lau Tsing sighs with relief and steps forward soley.

Marin: do you accept this tulip of friendship?

Lau Tsing nods and takes the tulip gratefully, leaving the room.

Marin: Rugenheim.

Rugenheim makes sounds of delight and hovers forward slightly.

Marin: do you accept this tulip of friendship?

Rugenheim nods and takes the tulip gratefully, clutching it in their mouth as they fly out of the room.

Host: I'm sorry Dolbert, but you'll be leaving the mansion.

Dolbert, disappointed, thanks the two for the opportunity and opens the door, leaving the mansion.  The camera fades to black, and cuts to commercial.

Vote: Dolby

The camera cuts in on the Shlock News desk as Tucker Talker is completely drunk at this point.

Tucker: Alright, what stupid git replaced my real report?  Oh wait, it was probably me, haha.  Anyways, apparently there's reports that the stupid morons running The Bestest Friend screwed up, and now the Network Executives are pissed because they didn't follow the rules or whatever.  Well I say who cares what the %$^& they think, right?  Apparently they liked Dolbert and were furious to see him kicked off the show, and they decided to reshoot that episode with him being allowed to stay on.  They had their sites apparently on Xavier, claiming he's too %$^&ing boring and some other pointless stuff, so they ran a second taping of the show with this change.  So sucks to be you Xavier fans and Dolby haters!

Tucker passes out as the camera cuts out.

Vote: ExLight

eh

I'm not convinced that maf!you didn't just kill and janitor Mac and claim that there's an SK while planning on finding new ways to explain why there's only one kill every night

I also find the prospect of SK kills being janitored odd in and of itself

not sold

But weren't you the one who pushed the janitored kill theory?

I think that the kill was jantitored and that the kill being janitored increases the odds that the kill was bye mafia a lot

Michi having town reads is great but I don’t know who Dominic is supposed to be

Post restriction related to Lau?

I was also very tempted to legit lynch Lau out of the gate because Laurentus? Taking the pacifist route? In a game of WW? That's SUS.

But then I remembered the post restriction, and I totally buy post restriction = pacifism line of logic.

Oh well. One day, one game, we'll be able to play with each other, no holds barred, but not today, and not in this game. XD

There is no logic line in the bolded. How does this connect? At all?

I see it as feasible that a role requires a player to do something in a game like this, e.g. try to get people to no-lynch (for whatever reason). I assume this is what Melehan meant about "post restriction = pacifist line of logic".

Dolby on Lau's alignment

I'm fine with a no-lynch, because Lau is strongly implying that he (or we) will learn something through it.

If Lau fakes this as wolf, it's a one-way street to death since we'd find by D2, probably.

Alternatively Lau is a 3p that wins if he gets town to no-lynch or something similar.

Arenado and Michi are the only ones who seem to have restricted or changed posting abilities thus far, or?

yeah here's the thing

Lau claiming there's a serial killer and only 1 kill last night is whack

and wed find out much later

i personally think that Lau is a 3P who wins if town uses all 3 of their no yeets

or he's a wolf

I agree with the third line and as you've noticed I've re-assessed Lau, seeing as I, in fact, didn't follow his no-lynch voting wagon at the end of day. However, I still believe in a Laurentus = town over Laurentus = scum world currently.

Dolby calling the same post sus for the second time

Aersoldorf: Y'all can lynch me because I won't be that active
Also Aersoldorf: is the second highest poster

Not sure how I feel about this. Seems a bit scummy.

sus posting bruh

and laurentus agreeing with Aers is also sus posting bruh

I also don't agree with Lau's meta read or even that it's real given how he didn't really pressure Aers last game to my recollection

Why did you feel the need to call the same post suspicious twice?

Dolby agreeing with ExLight's tunnel on me

I'm fine with a no-lynch, because Lau is strongly implying that he (or we) will learn something through it.

If Lau fakes this as wolf, it's a one-way street to death since we'd find by D2, probably.

Alternatively Lau is a 3p that wins if he gets town to no-lynch or something similar.

Arenado and Michi are the only ones who seem to have restricted or changed posting abilities thus far, or?

How did you even get to these absurd conclusions?

Extremely scummy posts, pushes the idea of a No Lynch D1 which is CONSTANTLY disapproved by veteran, doesn't put his money where his mouth is at, put all responsibility on Lau, and even throws shade at them possibly being 3p. If you're even CONSIDERING the possibility of them not being town why in heavens would you suggest following them?

Also the post restrictions are probably memes. We have ESL players here and restrictions like these would just be brutal/unfair unless roles were handpicked as opposed to randomized.

I actually disagree with the "considering the possibility" bit bc turtle clearly isn't scumreading Lau but yeah I vibe with the idea that the conclusions are whack and just generally like the energy of this post

Aersoldorf: Y'all can lynch me because I won't be that active
Also Aersoldorf: is the second highest poster

Not sure how I feel about this. Seems a bit scummy.

this comes off as an extremely opportunistic read
Aersol is likely an erratic post as both alignments; as someone who was in the mafia team with him last game I can vouch that he seemed extremely hyperactive and thus him being unable of posting is NAI.

Really disliking the ENE content so far, I'll prolly leave my vote here for now:
Vote: Eastern New England

Yeah I agree with this

I felt that given others reactions to him that he could fake his town play as scum to

and it's really just an opportunistic read

Exlight is a townread

What type of read were you expecting from me on my third post of today if not opportunistic? Also what is my town play?

I really don't like this (the wall) post. Maybe it's the fact that you're talking about me (and therefore I'm biased), but it doesn't feel genuine. You've made it clear that you're scum-reading me, agreeing with ExLight's posts on me and calling the same post scummy multiple times over, yet you don't want to vote me. To me this looks like you just want to see whether I'm a viable lynch option for today that you can always go back to if something goes wrong with the reasoning of "I've scum-read them this whole time!". You also make it seem like you're trying to pocket/buddy up with ExLight.

What’s your town play? Idk it’s been years since we’ve played. Also I’m reading through this and I’m pretty sure that what you think is me talking about your town play is me talking about Aers’s 

what do I expect from the third post of the game? Not a push on Aers who imo is just kinda a lamb this game

whyd I come back to the same post? The point of this is to come back, read through everything that happened, and see id I still feel the same way about it on a second read. I do sus you, however there are a lot of suspicious names, you just happen to be more a priority to me to solve bc you had a wagon on you that can be read for teammates

also Melehan, yeah I think that your posting improved as the game has gone on. I just don’t like that a lot of early posts could’ve not happened and the game would remain approximately the same and the posts look like they could have been constructed to appear like they were pushes lines when they werent

@Laurentus

Now that the 9999 votes have been retracted, how important is the NL?

Because I really want to vote Dolby at this point.

Idk if you’re getting here bc “Dolby was the one to push the janitor kill line in the first place” but in my experience janitors are normally a separate ability held by an individual which is mafia aligned, not automatically applied to the kill. Also I personally think that most of the time it doesn’t behoove serial killers to janitor their kills either, which leads me to think that a janitor means that the kill was performed by a faction Ed individual

TGN voting me and not being able to vote no yeet is interesting. Specifically that he doesn’t have the option to vote no yeet if he’s town might mean that someone does not want no yeet to occur (or the team is Lau/TGN :p)

or he didn’t vote yesterday and got prodded by the host and that’s what he means

Michi having town reads is great but I don’t know who Dominic is supposed to be

The camera zooms in on a confused guy.

Guy: Yo you don't know who the King is? That's messed up yo!

Lau, what do you think happened to the mafia's kill?

wondering why your kill didn't go through? lmao

if someone says they know for sure the mafia kill didnt go through there's only two things to assume: they are involved or have information OR they're mafia

asking why they think it didn't go through is blatant rolefishing because not only it serves no purpose (because given an explanation a -likely- full mafia team will be able to coordinate around whatever stopped them before) whoever made provided the affirmation that it wasn't the mafia kill will likely to not provide any explanation unless they are dumb enough to claim over a question thrown like this, which brings us to the point that :crab: this is scummy as fuck :crab:

PoS: Dolby

Also out of the players with supposed restrictions Vro prolly was the one that has the best content/words ratio, he even provided a semi-readslist with the chicken meme so I have no idea why we prioritizing the inconsistent ones (although we can forgive silver as a treat since someone cleared them for now)

Yeah Exlight I’ll be blunt

I think that Lau can be mafia

I also think that he can just be a 3P lying for  Reasons

I think that if he is lying that that kill is the mafia kill, and I see no obvious kills that were stopped. 

I want an explanation on why the mafia kill was supposedly stopped, why Bob was SK killed, and why the supposed SK kill was janitored

Also that reads list isn’t a reads list. It was a list of people who voted for no yeet at that point in time, following Laurentus and calling them wolves. Vro has been pretty inconsistent on if he likes the no yeet crowd or not, he then follows up by voting with them to no yeet

Also that reads list isn’t a reads list. It was a list of people who voted for no yeet at that point in time, following Laurentus and calling them wolves. Vro has been pretty inconsistent on if he likes the no yeet crowd or not, he then follows up by voting with them to no yeet

oh.

hmm maybe I should reiso vro

I don't see why Laurentus would attract this much attention to himself unless he's a sort of godfather though, the whole no lynch thing and the now claiming it wasn't the mafia kill is basically begging to get their alignment verified somehow

The camera cuts in on the Shlock News desk as Tucker Talker is completely drunk at this point.

Tucker: Alright, what stupid git replaced my real report?  Oh wait, it was probably me, haha.  Anyways, apparently there's reports that the stupid morons running The Bestest Friend screwed up, and now the Network Executives are pissed because they didn't follow the rules or whatever.  Well I say who cares what the %$^& they think, right?  Apparently they liked Dolbert and were furious to see him kicked off the show, and they decided to reshoot that episode with him being allowed to stay on.  They had their sites apparently on Xavier, claiming he's too %$^&ing boring and some other pointless stuff, so they ran a second taping of the show with this change.  So sucks to be you Xavier fans and Dolby haters!

Tucker passes out as the camera cuts out.

Vote: ExLight

care to explain or will you just keep going with this dumb fake restriction?

@Laurentus

Now that the 9999 votes have been retracted, how important is the NL?

Because I really want to vote Dolby at this point.

Very important. I think I'll just give my roadmap. If it succeeds today and the next day phase, we're good.