Masks at Midnight - Night 3

[Meeko]

Originally Posted by LightFoot

agreed no real co-ordination unless the mind reading skills were perfectly honed

Or you know, someone should happen to send you 42 bottles of wine an 17 corks.



Was there a "real" use for the private messages, then? Co-ordination sure... But high barrier to entry.

[LightFoot]

Originally Posted by Meeko

Or you know, someone should happen to send you 42 bottles of wine an 17 corks.



Was there a "real" use for the private messages, then? Co-ordination sure... But high barrier to entry.

I did not get even a sip from that exchange
Is there a primer?

[Meeko]

Originally Posted by LightFoot

I did not get even a sip from that exchange
Is there a primer?

I went extra curricular with my two sent messages.

Originally Posted by Meeko

I had grand designs on the post I wanted write on this. In my head, the draft evolved, a lot. I even debated going into using Mendie's style of heading for the post. There is something there, and I like the regimen and discipline of heading my longer posts, but, at the moment, I'm not feeling it.

But, in honesty, I probably do need some better form of discipline in my games.

Can Fun Move Into Functional?

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This is my first PM to send the "Wine" message to Pleonast.




Is it possible to handshake, with the bare minimum possible?


Can I go in for a handshake, with someone, and upon them seeing the shake, meet it with equal "energy" bearing and heading? The fact that they even act at all, to begin the hand shake, can that ever qualify as "enough" of a handshake?

Would scum respond with the full text of the PM, in the game? Would they bother to comment at all?

OR

Would scum simply ignore the post and think nothing of it? Would they want my ... mod forwarded message out in the public? Especially if it was crryptic? Does it behoove scum to share the messages?

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Can I do it again?

Ok, don't be silly Meeko, you can't do this again, to say the least, you would totally be "Wasting" both of your message slots. True, but, I am vanilla now, I had my power come in, and my power go. I have nothing to lose. I hinted, .... breadcrumbed? ...... this in my Shoulda Coulda Woulda post, where I said, in so many words, that I am willing to take more risks now.

But, if I were to do it, again, I would need to be even more clever, right?

I would need to pick a better target. If we all town read a given player a certain way, already, it would be far better to as much, per se, confirm them, with this gambit, than to get someone we have less of a town read on, and have my last message be a complete waste, right?


I had to be clever, in both my composition, and my message receiver.

What goes with "Wine" ? What can I send, in the same manner, that would immediately both create and finish what was in honesty, a one off, into a hopefully valid gambit?

Wine was sent. Wine was in a manner of speaking, shared with everyone.

Cork stops wine.

Right?

That would make for an obvious continuation.

But, It has to be _different_

How much wine did we "drink" ? About half of the bottles? Yeah, but, that's too easy.

But it also can't be an even number, or a number guessed at.

Like, a prime number would help.

Thankfully, Guiri responded with the correct number of 17.

I think that to be fair, and to give this an honest shot, I had one chance to ask for the number of corks, and in that instance, the next answer had to be taken as "final answer" . This could only just work, and thankfully, it did only just work.

Scum, using the same logic above for 42 bottles of wine, would just as easily have said 15 or 20. IF they said anything at all.

No. 17 was a deliberate number. I mean, 42 was deliberate, too, but with no real game meaning. 17 had to be "17", or a number that looked like it. [

[Ok, I will grant you, that one is perhaps too Yogi Berra, even for Meeko. I'm simply trying to state that I needed a sufficient amount of " Odd " here. ]]


TL : DR

I don't think A scum Pleonast or a scum Guiri would have responded and or shared my PMs anywhere close to as verbatim as they had. Thus I must conclude that they are town.

I could be off on this completely, but again, I am vanilla now, and I felt I had at aleast a viable way to use my messages.

Please argue against this. It means we will have something to talk about.