Epistemology 4: Zenon Does a Tea Party

Epistemology
iˌpistəˈmäləjē
noun - The theory of knowledge, especially with regard to its methods, validity, and scope.

The King is dead. Long live the Queen. It has been quite some time since KoD had to die. The residents of the land of Dominaria worried that old habits might return but the Queen remained steadfast in her resolve to be of the people. The worst thing they can say about the Queen's reign is that she has taken to the traveling tea merchant Zenon, but a spot of tea never hurt anybody. Now the court has resumed, but the games are not nearly so high stake. Instead of life and death it's a matter of tea or no tea. This will be a 12 player minimum game. There will be at least 3 factions. There will be no eliminations day 1. The rest is up to you to find out.

Rules

• Players may talk outside the thread during the night, but must include the mod in all discussions.
• Players may not use meta information gathered directly from other players (screenshots, bcc, etc). I'm going to ask that you not add people to ongoing convos with a saved history but this will be strictly honor system.
• Players may not lie to each other in methods that present as meta information simply because of the restriction of meta information.
• Players are free to lie to each other in other methods.
• The game will end when only two factions remain. The winners will be the players who have achieved entry to Zenon's Tea Party.
• Zenon and myself are not of factions in this game. We are, however, players of this game. Unless directly stated to be player to player communication, all OOT interactions with Queenie will be assumed Mod interactions.
• The game will progress as a standard mafia game would: during the day you will vote to exile a player, ensuring they cannot attend the Party. During the night you will use any abilities at your disposal and chatter.
• In the event of a tie, votes will be randomly removed until there isn't one.
• Days and Nights will both last 48 hours.
• Standard mafia etiquette that isn't contradicted by the above still applies.
• Mod Discord: Numbers#9534

Players

• Queenie
• Tevish - exiled day 12, killed night 14
• Skychoco - killed night 11
• Dark - exiled day 13
• Ragamuffin
• Rubik
• HW - killed night 14, killed day 16
• KoD - Exiled Day 11, died some other night
• Fireball - killed night 12
• Dusky - Killed Night 8
• DrWilgy - killed night 15
• Fred - exiled day 16
• Porscha - killed night 12
• Shadow Amber
• Minish
• Ex
• Aaarrrgh - killed Night 4
• Vro
• Zaze - Killed Night 7

Time remaining in phase.

Confirm, given my role I'm fairly certain I'm part of the biggest faction.

confirm

Confirm!

confirming!

watch me get shot it'll be funny

confirm

confirm

here weeeee goooooooooooooooo

Confirmed

https://discord.gg/Ma3APj247q

I'm going to drop this here. Its a server where I'll organize all of my private chats. Feel free to join ahead of time if you're interested in talking with me tonight. You won't be able to see any channels when you join. I'll add you to one before night starts so that we'll be able to talk during the night.

If anyone wants to communicate with me at night but not through discord I am open to communicating via any method people are comfortable with.

I confirm I am here and understand this game and my role is super fun. I also confirm my trademarked No Lie Policy will be in full effect.

I can also confirm that my tea has spiders in it.

Please come and join me for some private spider tea shenanigans at your leisure. JD, your attendance is mandatory.
https://discord.gg/YQXtnkePPu

So is zenon also a mod?

I'll join people's servers but I prob won't set anything up myself. Am I just supposed to confirm that I have read my role? Cause I did do that.

I think I should put in the effort to get a pfp on here.

Now I have a cute pika pfp :)

(and if people see me on discord, I am zapi on there)

people post confirm to signify that they have read their role and are aware the game has started. (though any post should accomplish the later barring very unusual circumstances)

Confirming, love my role.

What is "meta information"?

90% of it is not posting screenshots of private correspondance with the mod or other players. for the other 10% you're probably best asking numbers for clarification on whether it counts or not.

broadly speaking its a rule with the intent of banning anything which would provide "proof" of private information, although what constitutes proof is going to be somewhat subjective.

Zenon is not a mod so I would recommend against asking her rules questions or sending in actions to her.

that probably woulda been really awkward and I probably woulda just directly dmed them without you thinking they were a mod as well.