DR5 - Mirrored Embers - Chapter Six - Finale [Surviving Participants + Jane win]

[Icibalus]

@Arctic, @eevee, @katze, @min, @Tangeld and @Apprentice successfully identified the Mastermind and escape victoriously!

@Jane successfully committed murder, and wins the game!

All dead players, including CRichard, have lost the game.

• CRich was killed in the lore due to threatening to break the rules, a modkillable offense, as well as unacceptable behaviour regarding Nightingale, their previous slot holder. We were unable to modkill him during the game due to him being in the PoE at the time, and this making the case against the Mastermind even worse. With that said:

@Trochilidae lost all their memories, and receives a draw as a result.

• There are two key reasons for this. Firstly, CRIch’s behaviour made the case against them unfairly potent due to him spewing himself as not the Mastermind using improper methods.
• Secondly, the damning evidence gained from the Theatre of Darkest Hours was a moderror. The version of the part discussing Matilda Martell’s backstory was a first draft that was not indended to be posted- the intention was to edit the section to make the evidence pointing towards them far more subtle than it was. This mistake on my part was severe enough that I feel it grounds to grant a no contest for them, since they lost due to a mod mistake rather than their own play (although that did play into the loss, since the mistake did not 100% damn them).

Thank you all for playing. You may discuss this game freely.

Rolecards will be posted shortly.

[Arctic]

truly bittersweet

[Nightingale]

((and also like
((the fact that hosting any DR in any capacity is a lot of work
((so serious thanks to all of you guys for hosting

[Nightingale]

next DR I wont get so emotionally invested
I’ll probably have a worse character for it but /shrug

[Surveillance_Camera]

(i am become fate, destroyer of WIM and sanity)

[Arete]

If you have any questions about lore/puzzles/random things around the castle now is a good time to ask

[eevee]

@Arete

“Hey, Alicia!” says one of them. “We’re you!”

“You are?” asks Alicia. “–Are 5955 and 6263 here?”

Two of them nod. “That’s us,” one of them says.

“What do you know about becoming the Ultimate Mage?” asks Alicia.

5955 grimaces. “Well, given some of the rumors going around about what happened to Tim, I’m not sure if it’s going to work. The two of us have been discussing other research projects, though, and you can join us if you want.”

@Arete

Epilogue: Alicia

Alicia reluctantly gives up her goal of becoming the Ultimate Mage after re-reading all of Timoleon’s research notes and concluding that it’s genuinely impossible, at least within a human lifespan. She and a group of other Alicias decide that if they can’t become the Ultimate Mage, they might as well try to find another way to surpass the limitations of normal humanity.

Using the knowledge they learned from the Reverse Biology Lab, and their own research, they develop more reliable rituals to fuse humans and animals. Alicia #7131 gives herself functional eagle wings and nine foxtails; the others come up with other combinations of features they like, ranging from ‘bat wings, a forked tail and horns’ to ‘Gallade’ to ‘three pairs of arms’ to ‘scales covering her entire body’ to ‘literally a centaur.’

Eventually, they have the procedure developed well enough to market it to other people. With that project out of the way, their research group sets their sights to finding a way to use their rituals to prevent aging, or even reverse it.

Based ending.

[Amelia]

I’m sad I had to replace out

I probably could’ve gotten away with my murder plan, but my WiM drop was too much.

[Surveillance_Camera]

(this final trial was hell)

[katze]

@Arete

The day after escaping, Suzannah decides to go for a walk outside of Project Jormungandr’s complex. She takes two steps into the road and is immediately run over by a drunk driver, dying instantly.

IM DYING

@Icibalus

@Trochilidae lost all their memories, and receives a draw as a result.

• There are two key reasons for this. Firstly, CRIch’s behaviour made the case against them unfairly potent due to him spewing himself as not the Mastermind using improper methods.
• Secondly, the damning evidence gained from the Theatre of Darkest Hours was a moderror. The version of the part discussing Matilda Martell’s backstory was a first draft that was not indended to be posted- the intention was to edit the section to make the evidence pointing towards them far more subtle than it was. This mistake on my part was severe enough that I feel it grounds to grant a no contest for them, since they lost due to a mod mistake rather than their own play (although that did play into the loss, since the mistake did not 100% damn them).

i think this is reasonable, even though i think both of these things personally didn’t effect my judgement much (hard to say, tbh), i know it effected others and noticed it

i think trochi played well and the theatre thing being considered “too blatant to actually be real but holy shit is actually real” to some is… unfortunate for them

[eevee]

@Arctic I can make a functional wings apparently now.

Want to get them?

[Geyde]

Fuck this was a dumb decision

Can I go back

[eevee]

@Arete

If you have any questions about lore/puzzles/random things around the castle now is a good time to ask

How do you kill someone by heavenly light?

[Arctic]

@Icibalus @Arete @Geyde

thank you guys so much for this game
it had its ups and downs (mostly ups!) and it’s undeniable how much effort you all put into designing and hosting this game

this game wasn’t perfect, but i certainly think it got closer to cracking the DR formula than any of its predecessors and was clearly a step in the right direction

you guys set a great example for how to make/host these games

[Surveillance_Camera]

(and such marks the end of Trochilidae)

[Amelia]

I’m still sad I never got to frame arctic smh

[Arete]

ask Geyde, he’s the one who created the Inverse Library

[Icibalus]

thank you, thank you
with that said
this game was hell to host and i’m not hosting another of these for at least a year

[Surveillance_Camera]

(and sorry beforehand with how snappy i got)

[Nightingale]

mfw the game was so good that now I cant imagine a DR without magic