Academy of Elemental Magic [Concluded]

[Askthepizzaguy]

I note that the instant we stopped playing the My College Is Better Than Yours game, and began acting like a town again, a scumbag died.

Cue heartwarming music from the end of a Very Special episode of mafia, where we learned the meaning of cooperation.

D'awwwwww.

[TinCow]

I note that the instant we stopped playing the My College Is Better Than Yours game, and began acting like a town again, a scumbag died.

I'm still surprised that he refused a college invitation. I thought the whole setup of the game was that recruits should be the subject of paranoia because they'd be infested with scum which were hard to root out internally. Maybe there's some other mechanism at work that makes it advantageous for them not to join under certain circumstances.

[Askthepizzaguy]

I'm still surprised that he refused a college invitation. I thought the whole setup of the game was that recruits should be the subject of paranoia because they'd be infested with scum which were hard to root out internally. Maybe there's some other mechanism at work that makes it advantageous for them not to join under certain circumstances.

At this point, given that we've cleared the Aeromancer team as being scum-free, it would be pretty advantageous for people to join colleges if they haven't already.

Our team at this point is nearly masonic given that status. Although members can become corrupt, they are presently not.

My guess is that, due to the fact that we can request our members attack certain targets, tying them up for the night, that prevents them from doing scum-related behaviors. And also, outs them as having much larger AVs than they otherwise should have. If you're vastly powerful with air, then asking you to do air attacks reveals that.

Hence, the Air-using scumbag cannot be in the college of Air. And since all our membership was visible elsewhere during the other scum attacks, there's strong evidence that we cannot be those.

Folks who do not join colleges at this point must be viewed with extreme scrutiny. The masons were able to freely join with no ill effect. There's no excuse.

[Chaotix]

At this point, given that we've cleared the Aeromancer team as being scum-free, it would be pretty advantageous for people to join colleges if they haven't already.

Our team at this point is nearly masonic given that status. Although members can become corrupt, they are presently not.

My guess is that, due to the fact that we can request our members attack certain targets, tying them up for the night, that prevents them from doing scum-related behaviors. And also, outs them as having much larger AVs than they otherwise should have. If you're vastly powerful with air, then asking you to do air attacks reveals that.

Hence, the Air-using scumbag cannot be in the college of Air. And since all our membership was visible elsewhere during the other scum attacks, there's strong evidence that we cannot be those.

Folks who do not join colleges at this point must be viewed with extreme scrutiny. The masons were able to freely join with no ill effect. There's no excuse.

Not necessarily true. You need to be more careful about that... if your college members are getting a discount for their Air AV, that's where a lot of their XP will go. So high and even mid-ranking members will have unusually high air attack in general. And it goes the other way too - a scum in your college (at the beginning) might have strong AV in other elements but a weak AV in Air at the start. For a scum to have stellar attack values in all elements seems a bit overpowered.

[TinCow]

We also don't know quite how corruption factors into it. The rules state that the scum can use corruption-based attacks, which is also consistent with the fact that Arjos had the "Dagger of Corruption" on him when he died. That certainly doesn't sound like a nice thing to me. However, all attacks so far show up as elemental attacks of some kind. Or, at least, if there's been a corruption-based attack visible in the write-up I've overlooked it. So, that might mean that corruption just empowers the element chosen for the attack. If so, it's possible that scum could launch a strong attack with any element of their choosing.