TIG CXVII: DEAD Thread: By the Waters of Tarn Aeluin

[Huinesoron]

Form & Greenie, thank you for the reasoned answers re Morsul. I feel like a lot of my worries over Lommy have been based on their interactions with the Ghost, but... it's a new role, we're all figuring out how to make use of it. Given that known innocents have repeatedly misunderstood how the Dead and the Ghost work in this game, I don't think I can hold it against Lommy for doing the same.

So I stand convinced on Morwolf. Given that the Wolves aren't going to give us anything useful, that sort of read is better than trying to play their games.

With Soriman's vote in place, Morsul is definitely on the block today, so we can vote to confirm if we want.

hS

[Boromir88]

So as of now, whoever Pitch votes for, Morsul will be the lynch.

If we don't vote here nothing changes. But with 2 wolves here, are you going to keep just taking an observatory role or try funny business to win it at the end to make us hastily change the outcome in the end? :p

[Galadriel55]

Oh no! The Deadline Chicken!

(And you are welcome, because it could have been that much worse if last to get votes sealed the deal)

(Also... why Chicken? Not that I mind, but I am just confused)

I am loving this :-D

Me too. ^.^ I am as excited for toDay's outcome as any of you.

Persuade the mods to let us lynch them both? :-/

Persuade a bit harder and it might work. :p

[A Little Green]

Okay, I really need sleep now. (Never mind future Greenie, present Greenie can't keep her eyes open anymore.) I'm afraid this will amount to a game of absurd Deadline Chicken whatever we do. As there's no way I could stay awake for another hour and 20 minutes, I'm going to stick to my original plan and abstain. Even without me, there should still be enough of us to out-Chicken the wolves - and me voting early for the wrong person is a potential disaster.

Hey, Soriman voted for Morsul. Come on PitchOh my God, he what?? Please Pitch, vote Morsul too and take it out of our hands!

But I know you aren't likely to just take my word for it, so if you are unsure, I think making a tie and letting the dead decide would be a very appropriate ending for this gameNO

[A Little Green]

PITCH!!! OH NO YOU DIDN'T

So it really is up to us now.

[Boromir88]

Do we have even numbers here? Let's just split our votes and lynch them both. Pitch and Soriman survive. Village wins. :p

(I think I'll have to be far more persuasive than this to get the mods on board)

[Galadriel55]

Do we have even numbers here? Let's just split our votes and lynch them both. Pitch and Soriman survive. Village wins. :p

(I think I'll have to be far more persuasive than this to get the mods on board)

Lol. :D While I would not formally break the rules of the game, I am looking for ideas for the narration, which I feel this once in the game should be prominently guided by the Dead rather than the Living thread events. And based on the sentiment so far, the Living are in for it, regardless of their actual roles. :D

[Boromir88]

Well it’s up to the dead y’all should probably just vote now

Gah! It's not that simple when you know there are 2 wolves around who are capable of planning some last minute funny business. We're not all as cavalier with our votes as you are Morsul! :rolleyes:

[A Little Green]

The Dead Thread is boiling now.Thanks. Really helpful. :rolleyes:

[Galadriel55]

Also, while I work on toDay's epic narration at DL, I think it is fair for all the Dead to go haunt the Living in Ghost-mode and tell them everything you think of them :p It won't change the game anymore and gives you something to do while waiting for the narration, if you feel like it. I'll tell the Living you are coming with the DL post. Please only post there after the DL post is up.

[Boromir88]

Lol. :D While I would not formally break the rules of the game, I am looking for ideas for the narration, which I feel this once in the game should be prominently guided by the Dead rather than the Living thread events. And based on the sentiment so far, the Living are in for it, regardless of their actual roles. :D

Hey I'm quite proud of the D&D campaign I joined where for my Goliath character I picked up the "disarm" ability because I thought you know getting an enemy to drop a weapon would be quite useful to have...only to find out the factions our group is up against are werewolves and vampires. So I successfully convinced the DM my character was strong enough to disarm vampires...as in literally just rip their arms off. But then vampires can still bite you, so the DM had his vampires go Black Knight to hop on over and attempt to bite me. :p

[A Little Green]

Gah! It's not that simple when you know there are 2 wolves around who are capable of planning some last minute funny business. We're not all as cavalier with our votes as you are Morsul! Although at least they can't plan anything privately - not even whether they're going to be around for Deadline Chicken or not - so their capacity for coordinating anything is limited. Which isn't to say they can't cause chaos anyway :rolleyes:

[Huinesoron]

(Also... why Chicken? Not that I mind, but I am just confused)

"Playing chicken" is... well, the classic movie version is where two people drive cars at each other and see who swerves. In context, we're all charging at the DL and whoever blinks first loses.


Persuade a bit harder and it might work. :p

I mean, they've just abdicated responsibility for their fate to a bunch of corpses. I don't know that anyone deserves to survive this. :p

Which would be nice and canonical too! Clearly the dead Beren is actually just sleeping and/or wearing a bed sheet and going "woooOOOOoooo".

Uggggh, about a billion cross posts.

hS

[Galadriel55]

If there’s something strange
In your suspect list
Who you gonna call?
Ghost!Formy!

Someone’s acting weird
Their votes don’t look good
Who you gonna call?
Ghost!Hui!

I ain’t ‘fraid of no ghost!
I ain’t ‘fraid of no ghost!

If you’re seeing wolves
Messing with your head
Who can you call?
Ghost!Lottie!

An additional hint
Coming from the dead
Ow, who you gonna call?
Ghost haunters!

I ain’t ‘fraid of no ghost!
I ain’t ‘fraid of no ghost!

- Ghosthaunters

“Guiding the Living is like herding cats, so that's a bonus not the meat of the matter” --One Ghost to Another

[Formendacil]

Ugh... Still leaning Morsul. The whole tie thing feels like a cunning plot. But I am very conflicted.

[A Little Green]

I guess someone has to go first. If I'm doing something dramatically wrong here, it can go down in history as my revenge for getting lynched on Day 1. :p

++Morsul

If there's a better argument for lynching Lommy instead, please do so! I'm really going to sleep now. :(

[Huinesoron]

Also, while I work on toDay's epic narration at DL, I think it is fair for all the Dead to go haunt the Living in Ghost-mode and tell them everything you think of them :p It won't change the game anymore and gives you something to do while waiting for the narration, if you feel like it. I'll tell the Living you are coming with the DL post. Please only post there after the DL post is up.

I assume you mean full-blown quotes-only Ghosts? How many quotes have "fool" in them?

I see black banners on the heights
I see black banners on the heights!
Your reckless words have lost the battle!

Although at least they can't plan anything privately - not even whether they're going to be around for Deadline Chicken or not - so their capacity for coordinating anything is limited. Which isn't to say they can't cause chaos anyway :rolleyes:

They're not even flippin' posting! We're doing it all to ourselves.

Look, should we just vote Morsul and be done with it? I almost did back on Day One, so for me personally it would be very fitting.

Fakeedit: oh, you did. :D Sleep well, Greenie.

hS

[Galadriel55]

"Playing chicken" is... well, the classic movie version is where two people drive cars at each other and see who swerves. In context, we're all charging at the DL and whoever blinks first loses.

For some reason I had an image in my head of a Hot Potato Pass It On type of game, except instead of a hot potato you have a chicken, and also that chicken is alive and flailing and thrashing and shrieking its head off. No one wants to hold the chicken, but you can't let it run loose either, or it will peck everyone's eyes out. (Sounds familiar, everyone who tried to shirk endgame voting responsibility? :rolleyes:)

[Boromir88]

Goodnight Greenie!

I'll take the plunge too and go for the person who I think is acting more suspiciously than Morsul. Morsul's a wild card but I've felt like he's basically said whatever he's thinking the entire game, as backwards and as much as I might disagree with it. Last few days in particular Lommy just seems like she's holding something back and I go back to the comment from a few days ago about how she was suspicious about Morsul but didn't want to explain why.

++Lommy

[Galadriel55]

I believe the tally is 2:2 on the Living thread, and 1:1 on the DT. If I am wrong please correct my count.

[Huinesoron]

. (Sounds familiar, everyone who tried to shirk endgame voting responsibility? :rolleyes:)

-_- Nobody told me being dead came with responsibilities.

So now we're at one vote each way too... this game, I swear.

hS

[Formendacil]

Well done breaking the impasse, Greenie--right or wrong, it had to be done.

Now... do we all like on or wait?

EDIT: xposted with Boro. I swear...

[Boromir88]

EDIT: xposted with Boro. I swear...

I'm hungry and no one wants my judgement to be influenced by getting hangry. So be done with it now and go get the food. :p

[Formendacil]

I'm hungry and no one wants my judgement to be influenced by getting hangry. So be done with it now and go get the food. :p

I mean if the outcome of this game ends up hinging on whether you've been fed and watered, that will be kind of perfect.

[Boromir88]

You know, this could be the first WW game on the Downs won by the Dead not the Living.

Or everyone else just vote for Pitch for this comment? Morsul's still lynched.

[Huinesoron]

Or everyone else just vote for Pitch for this comment? Morsul's still lynched.

TEMPTING.

Ugh, taking one last look at the early votes to see if anything pops.

hS

[Formendacil]

The utter silence of our dead Wolves is either great or... suspicious. If Kath is still around, we have room for a robust majority. Otherwise, it might be best if Hui and I agree, since we need to be first to the tie to win it.

[satansaloser2005]

Thank goodness I woke up in time.

[Kath]

I'm here! I have absolutely no clue which one it is. But I'm tempted to vote for Lommy because I kind of feel like if Morsul is the wolf he deserves to win it. :D

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Well, what a final Day would that be without all this, right.

[Huinesoron]

TEMPTING.

Ugh, taking one last look at the early votes to see if anything pops.

hS

Legate cross-posted with Lommy on my lynch, with 3 minutes between them. With the Preview button /right there/, I feel like he would have been able to avoid that if they were both wolves. If Lommy is innocent, an 'accidental cross-post' was a great way for Legate to avoid responsibility for killing me.

hS

[Huinesoron]

All three people who voted for me Day One are still alive. - _-

hS

[Formendacil]

Legate cross-posted with Lommy on my lynch, with 3 minutes between them. With the Preview button /right there/, I feel like he would have been able to avoid that if they were both wolves. If Lommy is innocent, an 'accidental cross-post' was a great way for Legate to avoid responsibility for killing me.

hS

I mean... I lean innocent-Lommy, so I can definitely be persuaded. But if Kath is going Morsul, should we both do likewise?

[Boromir88]

Sure casually talk about a fender bender while you leave it to us to decide. :mad:

[Huinesoron]

I mean... I lean innocent-Lommy, so I can definitely be persuaded. But if Kath is going Morsul, should we both do likewise?

Kath is considering voting Lommy, right?

hS

[Boromir88]

G55 can we quote ourselves from this thread to haunt the living while we await the narration? I mean I can search for Tolkien quotes but I kind of just want to quote what I've posted here. :p

[Formendacil]

Kath is considering voting Lommy, right?

hS

Yes, because of course our vote is split down the middle with two swing-voting Wolves in the wings.

[Kath]

I don't have convictions either way!

I'm now so deep in the rabbit hole I spent five minutes trying to work out if Lommy was trying to send a coded message using the first letters of each line in her latest post.

[Formendacil]

I don't have convictions either way!

I'm now so deep in the rabbit hole I spent five minutes trying to work out if Lommy was trying to send a coded message using the first letters of each line in her latest post.

It would really help if you found "COBBLER" inscribed.

[Huinesoron]

Lommy's latest looks like exactly the sort of thing I'd post as a despairing innocent on the block. As a wolf in this situation, I'd be more manic-carefree (like when I turned into a Dead Cobblewolf with Cobbler 55 back in the day). So based on the 'Everyone is hS' approach, Lommy is innocent and Morsul is guilty. :D

hS

[Formendacil]

Lommy's latest looks like exactly the sort of thing I'd post as a despairing innocent on the block. As a wolf in this situation, I'd be more manic-carefree (like when I turned into a Dead Cobblewolf with Cobbler 55 back in the day). So based on the 'Everyone is hS' approach, Lommy is innocent and Morsul is guilty. :D

hS

Fits my priors, so I'm in agreement

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

It is not easy to be a Dead with a vote, is it.

[satansaloser2005]

Legate! Oh, thank cupcakes, you're here. ❤️

[Formendacil]

It is not easy to be a Dead with a vote, is it.

It is distressingly similar to being Live with a vote, but after having suffered the infinity of dying!

I kind of miss being the Ghost!

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Legate! Oh, thank cupcakes, you're here. ❤️

I would not leave you to stand here alone!

[satansaloser2005]

I would not leave you to stand here alone!

Thank you, brother sestra. Hopefully we dine again soon.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

It is distressingly similar to being Live with a vote, but after having suffered the infinity of dying!

I kind of miss being the Ghost!

Absolutely understood. Well, Lottie got that chance instead of you toDay. Which was nice from you towards her, again.

[Boromir88]

Anyway, kinda fun that the buzz is in the dead thread now. We're just chilling here, it's out of our hands. I kinda enjoy it

Would you like us to get you a cup of coffee too while you wait? Oh you would? *sneezes in cup*

[Formendacil]

Well, we're down to ten minutes... I'm going to vote Morsul. The psychology just seems to match today's moods (and respective authors) better.

[Huinesoron]

It is not easy to be a Dead with a vote, is it.

Very easy provided you don't use it.

Y'know what?

1) My lynch vote implies Lommy's innocence.

2) My own reactions to this situation line up with innocent Lommy and guilty Morsul.

3) The dead wolves are acting like they want to distract us, right when we're aiming towards Morsul.

4) I came within a breath of voting him Day One and want to get it out of my system.

++MORSUL

hS

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Thank you, brother sestra. Hopefully we dine again soon.

Nothing I else in my afterlife that I would be interested in!

[Formendacil]

++Morsul

And well-played game whomever the last Wolf is. Fiendishly close even.

[satansaloser2005]

I'm drooling with excitement and hunger.

X'd with Form

[Formendacil]

And if we're all wrong, it's an honour to have gone down together.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

*slow clap*

Well done, villagers. *bows* I give it to you, this was one ride of a game. Seriously. Everyone, Living and Dead.

[Huinesoron]

And if we're all wrong, it's an honour to have gone down together.

It is fitting that the former Ghosts made the call. :D

hS

[satansaloser2005]

I don't know about you innocents but I've been enjoying being quiet and watching you flail helplessly even without my input.

[Kath]

Alright then, let's make it a nearly clean sweep and either claim victory or go down in flames together.

++MORSUL

If we're wrong then this was one very fine play wolves.

[Formendacil]

ARE THOSE CONCESSION SPEECHES!? DID WE WIN!?!!!???

(ghost)

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Would Kath still like to vote too? For her own satisfaction that she could take part, before we learn the result?

EDIT: x-ed with said

[satansaloser2005]

Shall we tell them, brother?

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Sestra Wolfcake... I cannot wait to tell our... hm hmm, is it brother or sister now, hmm? still two minutes... about this.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Shall we tell them, brother?

I was wondering. Should we? If you wish, you can do the honours.

[Kath]

Don't tell! I want to see the narration! :cool:

[satansaloser2005]

Sestra Wolfcake... I cannot wait to tell our... hm hmm, is it brother or sister now, hmm? still two minutes... about this.

Yes, quite. They will be amazed.

[Kath]

If I'm staying up this late on a school night I want my money's worth out of it. :D

[satansaloser2005]

I was wondering. Should we? If you wish, you can do the honours.

I've wanted to do something all game, but I think I'll show some restraint.

++????

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Don't tell! I want to see the narration! :cool:

Very well! All wait for it! We're in the same ghostly boat now, I'm fine with that!

Great game everybody btw in any case!

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

++???

Indeed.

[Boromir88]

Agreed. I'm going to take G55 up on the offer and haunt the Living thread :p

[satansaloser2005]

It is time.

[Formendacil]

NO, I WILL NOT! HAUNTING THE LIVING MEANS THE GAME IS OVER BUT WE CAN'T SPOIL IT BUT I WANT ANSWERS!!!

(ghost)

:p

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

I may go and make a brief appearance on the Living Thread while we wait. But probably nothing much one can say before G55 posts the narration anyway.

[Galadriel55]

ToNight she’s gonna have herself a real good time,
She’s still alive
And the dead - she’ll turn them inside out, yeah
She’s gorging herself in ecstasy,
So don’t! lynch! her! now!
don’t! lynch! her!
‘Cause she’s having a good time, having a good time -

There’s a bright full moon shining in the sky
For the werewolves, defying the laws of sanity!
There’s Thuringwethil flying by
To bring news to Sauron.
They’re gonna kill, kill, kill -
Some things never sleep!

They’re howling to the sky, yeah!
One-eighty degrees, that’s why they call him Legate ‘f Amon Lanc!
And Sestra Sally has a bite!
I wanna take a moment to congratulate you! ^.^

- Don’t Lynch Us Now

“For reasons that I don't feel confident expressing in public” --Furry Penguin






Congratulations to the wolves! And with this celebratory parody, I want to close the Dead Thread, and direct all future celebrations to the Game Thread.