Gustav

smh Spartan trying to get rid of me already I'm still here for another couple hours or so but looks like my question has been answered.

Mayor is the one role that I am allowed to outright confirm. To clear up any confusion, yes, Caboose is the Mayor.

SUN RISING NOISES. It's the start of Day 2, and most things seem in order. Both purported Dirty Dans are still walking around, and @Mr_Hatter is stoned as always. This time, though, he's stoned in a different sense of the word--turned to stone last night by the MEDUSA. As such, his role and will have been lost. Whisper list time! BarzalGoat has whispered to Continentalcup036. Doomsday has whispered to Continentalcup036. Continentalcup036 has whispered to Devise. List of those alive (20): Votes needed today: 11 Time note: Expect this day phase to end a bit later as I'm out of work at 10. If things heat up later in the day I'd appreciate it if someone could track the votes so I don't have to dig through pages on end when I get home and can kick off the night phase more quickly.

Also, because I promised this earlier: Tomorrow I get to sleep in! Don't set your alarms for this, because I won't.

"I'm Dirty Dan!" says @ContinentalCup036. "No, I'm Dirty Dan!" says @Caboose30. That just about sums up the day's events, though. Nothing much happens outside of that, but it's still fairly active and spicy as far as first days go. Night 1 begins now! Go do your stuff. List of those alive:

spoopy paranoia noises But I will confirm that the Blackmailer is the only role that can read whispers https://town-of-salem.fandom.com/wiki/Blackmailer

Doctor Strange looks back on one of his alternate timelines. Thanos picks up the gauntlet, drops the last stone in, and dabs. Everyone undies, and it's time for the VHL's fifth game of Town of Salem! First of all: Rules are here The Town of Salem Wiki is here A picture of me when I realized that @McWolf didn't sign up--again!--may be found here What to say, what to say... This game, I'll be introducing whispers, in limited form! Details here: ...and here, have a copy-paste of the general guidelines from Game 4: -I'm going with my usual starting and ending times as a general guideline: WHENEVER THE HELL I WAKE UP marks the start of each day phase, and 9 PM EST marks the start of each night phase. Those will be the times that I'll aim for, but, officially, the start of one phase and the end of another comes whenever I make the announcement. You'll be pinged. I will do my best to give out expected announcement times, but I reserve the right to kick off any phase at any time. -No talking in this thread during night phases. That goes for everybody, regardless of role. I have no power to lock this thread at night, and there's no official penalty for talking in here at night, but if you see one of your fellow citizens doing so, please yell at them for me. -Do not edit posts. I've been relaxed about not yelling at people who have, but editing is a sneaky way to take out potentially incriminating information. If you say something stupid, too bad. Don't change it. -If you are reasonably able to be online at the start of the night phases, please make an effort to do so. The JAILOR is able to speak with you in their own Discord server at night, and that is when I will send an invite to whoever is jailed. If it is within your power to do so and doesn't present a huge inconvenience, please be online when the night phase starts and please join the server out of respect for the Jailor and their time. -DO NOT PM ANYBODY. All communication must happen in this thread, unless you have already received an invite to a Discord server where you may speak as well. If you haven't, keep everything here. Should you wish to contact someone directly, it MUST be done through a whisper (see above for whispering rules and guidelines) -STAY ACTIVE. If you do go two day and night phases in a row without speaking in public, speaking in a private Discord, or sending me a night action (or specifically telling me you do not want to take a night action), I will swing the Mighty Gustav Hammer of Death. You do not want the Mighty Gustav Hammer of Death, and neither does anybody on your side. -The game starts NOW, with an extended Day 1 phase lasting until (about) 9 PM EST tomorrow. Role List: 1x JAILOR 2x TOWN PROTECTIVE 2x TOWN SUPPORT 2x TOWN INVESTIGATIVE 1x TOWN KILLING 4x RANDOM TOWN 1x COVEN LEADER 4x RANDOM COVEN 1x NEUTRAL EVIL 2x RANDOM NEUTRAL 1x ANY List of players (21): @a_Ferk @Alex Bridges @BarzalGoat @Berocka @bigAL @Caboose30 @ContinentalCup036 @Devise @diacope @diamond_ace @DoktorFunk @Doomsday @jhatty8 @Mike @MMFLEX @Mr_Hatter @Nykonax @omgitshim @Proto @Ricer13 @Spartan

Sign-ups close NOW. Game starts tonight!

ARE YOU SIGNING UP MY GOOD SIR

BUMP. Expect the game to start in less than 24 hours--still time to sign up!

For me it was more of a "what's done is done" mentality. I was asked if I wanted it voided and decided that I didn't really care enough or know enough about what had happened to Davos before I took over. Probably should have taken a close look at everything and made an informed decision one way or another but I was new and inexperienced and didn't want to be that guy to come in and tell Peace "yeah, you know what, never mind about that." I do remember thinking Toronto won the deal when I first saw it and having someone explain to me that Davos got a lot out of it too; I don't know why the lesson about "lotto picks are super important" didn't stick with me when I traded that S71 TOR 1st away...

For the week ending 5/31: 1. We've gotten off to a hot start! Do you think this is something we can keep up? 2. What are your thoughts on your individual production so far? 3. It's early, but we're right up with the top teams in the European Conference! Which European team do you think is our biggest threat? 4. wHaT's YoUR pReGaMe RiTUaL LmAo How do you feel about our press conference questions? What kind of questions do you want to answer--more league-related stuff, more related to real life, more specific, more general? Are things fine the way they are? 5. Early on last season, I asked how everyone was handling their own quarantine situations. I'm here to ask it again--are you doing OK in real life? What are you doing to pass the time? 6. One person in the league gives you their login information and tells you to make any one post you want. Who is it and what do you post? @Quik @Acydburn @DirtyDerek @ColeMrtz @Frank @Sonnet @McWolf @Alex Bridges @David O'Quinn @Ahma @Josh @Brrbisbrr @PadStack

Thanks for keeping this up @ColeMrtz! I can give you edit access to the spreadsheets I made if you like.

Good luck on your exams @Zyrok!

That's right, I just looked at the list of everyone who I had starting in a town role.

Oh, and target start date: Wednesday night! (Editing links to the rules and the wiki into this post as well because I don't want to double ping everyone up top) List of those signed up:

Welcome to the sign-up for our fifth game of Town of Salem! Sign up in this thread, and let's have us a good time. I'm changing a few things up for this game, so please read below. -The evil faction in this game will again be the COVEN, this time by executive order. Last game was kind of stupid for both town and evil factions (as well as me as a mod) because everyone had some getting-used-to to do. Because I feel like we'd never have the Coven again if I left every game after the last one up to a public vote, I'm putting them in again and hoping that everyone's generally a bit more informed and can have more fun with it (and hoping that I'll be less confused as well). -I am adding a (limited) version of whispering to this game. The EFL has incorporated whispers, with somewhat mixed results. In this game, I'll be doing a trial run of a different form of whispering which aims to preserve what helps while eliminating what doesn't, as far as a forum format is concerned. For details, see below: -The people who won the last game (those who received Town roles) may, as always, request a role via DM with me, if they'd like to do so. If a role is requested, you have a 30% chance to receive it--down from 50% in games previous. These people are listed below: -Still want a 50% chance? You can get there! Not on that list but want a chance? Anyone can do this, regardless of whether they won the last game or not. Introducing...TOWN OF SALEM TRIVIA! First of all, the link is here--and no, for once, that is not a rickroll. Each question you answer correctly will earn you an additional 5% chance at receiving a role that you request, for a maximum of 50% for winners of the last game and 20% for non-winners, should you get all four correct. If you do not want to request a role, but want to try trivia anyway, just specify that on the form. Here's a hint: take a look at the spreadsheets I posted at the end of the last game! I'll have them in their own thread soon, but for now, that's the most convenient place. That's all for now! Go sign up here if you're interested.

...and if anyone would like a link to the Dead server, here it is: https://discord.gg/ZKCn6Q

It's the start of the ninth day. The earth opens up and @Ricer13 rises from the grave, brought back by the RETRIBUTIONIST. "I do hope nobody died last night," says @jhatty8. "I wonder who the Juggernaut is," says @Mike "WHO THE HELL TOOK MY HAT AGAIN?" demands @Mr_Hatter Amidst all the commotion, almost nobody takes notice of someone yelling "TALLY HO LADS" from the town's jail, but they all stop and take a walk over upon hearing the Jailor's favorite grapeshot cannon go off. The body of @DoktorFunk is thrown out the door--he was the JUGGERNAUT. CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR WINNERS, THE TOWN! Sign-up for our next game should come pretty soon, so keep an eye out for that. For now, I leave you with this--remember at the beginning of the game when I said I was doing some spreadsheet stuff and then rickrolled you? Well, I actually have been doing some spreadsheet stuff, and here are the actual spreadsheets, for all you nerds. I'll get this game's results in for everyone soon: Overall: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1InNsyziXAcU3EcHd05rRs-iItl7D69UWra0CV7SXWgk/edit#gid=0 By member: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17Brizw8AXQef_3_z1hZBUoNwCD3vCQrL8l6MzKbTM_A/edit#gid=296556224 By role: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16ousTnbiXAcTYr4H05rOjntwl9v-86iNpl5BDG2U_Exo/edit#gid=0 See you in Game 5! @a_Ferk @Alex Bridges @BarzalGoat @Berocka @bigAL @ContinentalCup036 @Devise @DoktorFunk @Doomsday @fonziGG @jhatty8 @Mike @Mr_Hatter @Nykonax @omgitshim @Ricer13 @Spartan

Guys...nobody picked Apollo Hackett. But you know what? D - Erik Killinger @ROOKIE745

So I was going to try reviewing for my last couple bits of TPE this week, but then I got a couple sentences into one review and realized I was just going to end up writing a stupidly long amount of words for one TPE. So, here I am, doing the economical thing and writing a stupidly long amount of words for two TPE. "Gustav," you might say, "you've been making a lot of graphics lately. Are you out of the article business?" You also may not say this at all, because I'm fully aware that not everybody thinks about me all the time, despite what the occasional self-absorbed article of mine might suggest (earlier tonight I was encouraged to write part 3 of The Gustav Effect after Hounds alumni and former AGMs of mine made up at least seven of the last nineteen hires into management, which, shall I add, nudge the numbers even more in my favor, but I digress). My answer to that question, which you've probably forgotten about already after that monster of a sentence, is no, not at all. I'm actually making (slow) progress on the single longest article I've ever written, something I'm 4,000 words or so into and not even halfway done with. Rest assured that you'll see me write quite a bit in the future. But what's with me making graphics all of a sudden? I do graphics here fairly often these days, and I've even made a weekly graphic a thing of mine over in the EFL, where my activity has ramped up in recent weeks. I've hit 150 words already, but whatever. I've got nothing better to do. I first started making sigs with Gimp, something I'd recommend to anyone starting out as a free option. These things were invariably trash, not really because I was using Gimp (though Photoshop >), but because I had no idea what was going on and took way too long to do what I wanted. A not-so-fond memory of mine is not scaling down an absolutely huge Buff Beav pic before cutting it out and spending three hours (yes, three hours) cutting it out to perfection for something that ended up looking godawful. Suffice it to say, my early graphic days were not fun, and I only kept my desire to make new stuff up by the fact that I ran a VHLM team and wanted to make some (just as terrible) sigs for my players. Cue @Nykonax yelling at me that Gimp is trash and telling me I needed Photoshop. I tried an illegal download or two (Motza gave me a link which may or may not have led to me downloading something sketchy multiple times because I'm technologically incompetent) and eventually got one from Nyko that half-worked on Mac and also drained my battery to hell. I managed to crank out a terrible sig or two with it, and then one day I clicked "lighting effects" or something and the program proceeded to close the thing I was working on and delete itself. Well, that wasn't fun, and I thought Gimp was trash at that point, so I turned to Photopea and made (at the time) my best graphic, though, while I'd recommend trying Photopea, its quality was more due to knowledge than software. Here, for reasons unknown to me, I decide to go and buy Photoshop. Whatever it was at this point, something went off in my head that made me actually want to make stuff and be willing to work for it. So, I get a free trial and find it great (though, in retrospect, I'd learned a lot since my Gimp days at this point and was simply applying what I knew with something else). I don't regret it, though--it's a great piece of software and will get things done a good deal better than Gimp (and, let me tell you, the way erasing and masking works so intelligently on Photoshop makes me want to take the little eraser square in Gimp and throw it out the window). I start working with it and make a few terrible sigs, leaning super heavily on Lightroom for stuff like color correction (here's a before and after of one of my earlier Photoshop ones). As time went on, though, I stopped relying on Lightroom so much and eventually learned to just make things work myself (a before and after of a more recent one has the "before" looking better). I won't go into everything I've made, but here, have three. Someone more experienced would certainly say that I've got a lot more to learn, and that's absolutely true. But I've made 50-ish graphics so far, and I think I've learned a lot already, mostly by annoying our graphics higher-ups whenever I make anything (thanks a bunch, gorlab/hatty/eno/motza/nyko/whoever else has been there, I'm sure I missed someone). But why? I'm more than a media spot into a VHL.com article, and haven't answered that question yet. I just think it's interesting. I love writing (as you can probably tell), but graphics are just something different, something I can go and do if I'm out of article ideas and something that I'd love to be good at because there's nothing quite like looking at someone else's sig and saying, "oh look, I made that and they like it enough to show everyone." I think sig-making, while I don't want to make it my only thing, has increased my enjoyment of the league and taken away the stress of saying "well, I'm out of ideas, how can I fill up 500 words" by bringing in "well, I'm out of ideas, looks like [insert player of mine] doesn't have a sig." TL;DR: 10/10 would recommend; go download Gimp and annoy @gorlab a lot.