Cibil Katopodes

*This article is about the human woman Cibil Katopodes. For the program written to imitate her, view CIB-1L.*

**Cibil Katopodes** is a participant in Weighted Mortality: Ludomania and general cosmic enigma.

### Aliases

Cib
The Medium

### Relatives

Jaenice Katopodes
Silas Katopodes

## Record

### Crimes

[2005]
Double Homicide
[2006]
Major Theft
Identity Theft
Monopolizing an Industry
Tax Fraud
Illegal Gambling
[2008]
Bribing Politicians
Hiring a Hitman
Bribed the Police
[2009]
Pyramid Scheme
Rigged the Lottery
Hired a Hitman
[2010]
Arson
[2012]
Armed Robbery
[2013]
Opening Another Monopoly
Homicide
[2015]
Lobbying Russia
Evades Taxes
[2017]
Illegal testing of Nuclear Warheads
Violating the Geneva Conventions
Russia Expansion War
Breach of UN Treaties
[2018]
Air Strikes on Yemen
[2019]
Russia Conquers Ukraine and Poland
[2020]
Double Homicide
[2021]
Russia Expands Through All of Western Europe
Cibil Fakes Her Death

## Timelines

Cibil Katopodes is a statistical anomaly in the sense that she, in every timeline where she exists, dies before the age of seven. There is only one exception to this, in timeline 392912, where she survives until nineteen before being taken to participate in Weighted Mortality: Ludomania.

## Appearance

Cibil Katopodes takes the appearance of a young woman with very pale skin and thin hands and fingers. She is slightly short, standing at 5'2 and her white hair runs to the center of her back. Her hair is unkept and messy, being unwashed properly even before Weighted Mortality: Ludomania begins. Cibil dawns glasses and a multi-purpose hair clip with a small and retractable blade. This hair clip ends up in Lilith Blair's possession by the end of the game. During the story of Weighted Mortality: Ludomania, Cibil wears a purple rose in her hair for a short period of time. A gift from Lilith Blair to represent their friendship. A symbol Cibil eventually tosses at Lilith's feet, her version of a declaration of war.

## Backstory

Cibil Katapodes was born on February 23rd, 2002 in Maine. Cibil was an average child until one day in September of 2003, Cibil stumbled upon a deck of playing cards buried in her backyard. These cards were dubbed Cibil's Cards and looked identical to the real world counterpart, Ludomania Cards. As a child, Cibil would make up stories about the "characters" on the cards. She had quite the love for the face of the 9 cards, naming the character after herself, Cibil. This later turned out to be the true prophecy foretold by the cards themself. Cibil began to be obsessed with the cards, creating her own version of a tarot reading and assigning meanings to each of the cards.

Cibil was quite an intelligent child but had trouble making decisions so she would rely on the cards to guide her. Eventually, the cards seemingly developed an alternative agenda, giving Cibil readings of violence. After several months of these readings, Cibil acts. On July 31st, 2005, at the age of just over 3 years old, Cibil Katapodes kills both her parents, Silas Katopodes and Jaenice Katopodes by tampering with the breaks in their car, causing an accident after the breaks fail. Cibil is able to fully recall this event later in Weighted Mortality: Ludomania due to her rare condition, Hyperthymesia. Cibil continues to lead a rampant life of crime for the next 16 years, manipulating entire nations from the safety of a computer screen. Cibil takes on the alias Myra Novikoff and becomes the acting dictator of Russia in 2015. During her time as Russia's Acting Dictator, dubbed "Russia's Finest", Cibil manages to single-handedly fight and win a Russian Expansion War, expanding Russia throughout all of Eastern Europe.

Cibil eventually loses this several year long conflict and is threatened with charges of countless war crimes from the UN. When this news gets to her, Cibil fakes her death on October 9th, 2019. Cibil remains in hiding for two years until she is taken from her timeline to participate in Weighted Mortality: Ludomania.
Later during the course of Weighted Mortality: Ludomania it is established that Cibil is a statistical anomaly, seeing as the Cibil is every other timeline died before the age of seven. During this reveal, it is also established that Cibil's Cards are nothing more than a figment of her imagination, something she made up to justify her abhorrent actions.

## In WM4

During the course of Weighted Mortality: Ludomania, Cibil was an instrumental player in the story of the game itself, finding herself in the epicenter of almost every event that took place.

### Before Main Game 1

Before the first Main Game, Cibil awoke later than all the others. She awoke on the second day the game began rather than the first. This caused her arrival to be much more of an event than it would've been otherwise. Konton was present during this time and while Cibil went on a tour, his Godly Language was revealed for the first time. Cibil, having glasses that can decode and decipher encoded messages without her even realizing, can easily read this language correctly as the Stand-In. Cibil herself is still not sure how or why her glasses act that way. When Konton's language is revealed, he lashed out and kills Cibil.

> "Your death is in vain and doesn't matter. Your death has no reason other than a petty fight. As you look up at the ceiling, it opens, and dark shadows. A bright strike of lightning descends and you are gone. Dead."
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> -Konton about Cibil's first death
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After being resurrected by the very same that killed her, Cibil receives The Medium role from Konton, granting her the ability to converse with the dead. Seeing as none had died at the time, she was left to talk to the Repressed Screams. Cibil is forbidden to speak of this role to anyone else.

### Main Game 1

During the first main game, Cibil received the Commoner from end. However, tragedy soon strikes when Cibil is force traded the Sacrifice by Oliver and Lilith Blair in their quest to eliminate the traitors. Upon receiving this role, Cibil calls upon the power of her Cards, a gift from Nothingness just days before. During this reading, Cibil draws the Seven of Diamonds, Devesh Devanshaj's card. Along with this card is a forced trade perk. With her knowledge of Devesh's card and the ability to force a trade, Cibil takes the Keymaster, foiling the Blair's flawed plan.

### Main Game 2

During the second main game, Cibil was invited to Armonia's ball, a game of Russian Roulette. Cibil was the first to pull the trigger. In the result of Hewitt Laidlaw's death, Cibil begs him for the name of his card in the afterlife using The Medium role. He answers with the Gravedigger card. Cibil received the Commoner. During the course of this game is when Cibil truly begins to realize the evil of her actions, offering to vote herself in place of anyone else. This marks a turning point in Cibil's character, now focusing on self-destruction.

> "In infinity, we can isolate every variable to a T, so why did the universe choose me?"
> -Cibil Katapodes to Lilith Blair
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### Main Game 3

During the third main game, Cibil receives the Sage and hatches a plan to trick Rose into giving her the Sacrifice, it succeeds and Cibil enters the Main Game as the Sacrifice. In the events of the third main game, Oliver Blair uses the God Killer Perk to kill Konton, saving Cibil's life and reviving all the formerly dead players, removing the voices from Cibil's head. Cibil vows to kill herself to end the torment she's places so many into, both in the game and in her timeline.

### Main Game 4

During the fourth main game, Cibil receives the Commoner, however this is no ordinary game. Every player is placed into a metal cage with no doors or windows, each equipped with their own set of spikes ready to empale the one within at any given moment. Cibil devises a plan among the players that allows them to successfully make it through the game without losing a single life, skewering the three empty boxes first. However, on the final vote, a different hint appeared to the players. They were unable to determine whether the hint was about End or Cibil, but Cibil petitioned for the selection of that box regardless. In the end, Cibil was outnumbered and End was killed in her place.

### Main Game 5

During the fifth main game, Cibil receives the Sage. In her current position, Cibil is outnumbered almost 10 to 1 in voting for a fellow player. With Lilith Blair leading the charge, the participants attempt to kill Konton and Armonia once and for all. However, Cibil had a different agenda, using her leverage as the Sage. Cibil made a promise, either the participants vote out the traitorous Lilith Blair, or Cibil's life is forfeit. The participants go through with Lilith's plan, with Cibil's life as collateral.

> "I sit in silence, awaiting my death. This is what I wanted. This is what I wanted. I wanted this long before. I wanted to die. Erase...myself. Gone. Cibil, gone. Russia, gone. Galina....gone. It no longer matters. Goodbye. Maybe the police records will be empty after all."
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> -Cibil to herself in her private notes
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## In WM5

In Weighted Mortality: Uncertain Death, Cibil Katopodes has been dead for 14 years, and exists only as a computer program called CIB-1L.

## Deaths

During the course of Weighted Mortality: Ludomania, Cibil has a total of two deaths.

#### Cibil's First Death

Cibil is struck by lightning by Konton after correctly transcribing his language in the first few days of Weighted Mortality: Ludomania.

#### Cibil's Second Death

After incorrectly pronouncing Konton the Sage during the Fifth Main Game, Cibil is executed. Her execution takes place as one of Armonia's experiments. Cibil is tasked with picking a card, numbered from one to three. After the selection is made, the card is sucked into a door and a shadowy figure reminiscent of Oliver Blair emerges from the door. The figure begins dragging Cibil through the door with it as she kicks and screams violently before stopping, just before the door closes, sealing her fate.

## Trivia

* Cibil originally didn't have a last name, Katapodes was added about halfway into Weighted Mortality: Ludomania's run.
* Cibil's Cards were not finalized until around a week after Weighted Mortality: Ludomania began, her original set of cards was a standard tarot deck.
* Cibil kept notes during the entire game in which she wrote about the events occuring, leading to Cibil describing Oliver's casino tour as "lame".
* Cibil's list of crimes totals 28 different items, ranging from petty theft to war and violations of the Geneva Conventions.