Night 2
 

Remaining
Sally, soprano
Lariren , soprano, Ithilien
Feanor of the Peredhil, Belfalas (mezzo-)soprano
Ilya, mezzo-soprano, vales of Anduin.
Brinniel, mezzo-soprano, Harad
Kath contralto
Aganzir, Minas Tirith contralto
Gwathagor (Gwathagorio), lyric tenor/spinto Sindar of Eriador
Shastanis Althreduin (tenor leggierio / lyric tenor)
The Phantom (typically versatile and with great range)
Strongbow, Bowissimo of Lossarnach
Macalaure (Barney Broadbottle), a Bree-lander from Staddle, Baritone
Gollum the Great - bass-baritone
TGWBS - bass, woodwose,
Boromir 88 basso profundo, Rohan
Cailineomer, trouser role, Forodwaith

You're not singing anymore:

Meneltarmacil - baritone err Nazgul from Minal Morgul ORDO
Nogrod - lyric tenor in the end, Old Forest ORDO

Critics will now receive Walter's intelligence and can start plotting.

Soulmates stop talking.

Singer-seer, Critics and Plinge picks ASAP - I would like to get this back on track if poss for a 6pm start tomorrow.

Music of the Night (reprise).
 

After the solemn departure of Menel and Nogrod the other singers retired to their dressing rooms, most to sleep -(one perchance to dream!), one went aspying and three went a plotting. The cloaked and masked Critics at last decided who their victim should be this night and went to their victim's dressing room.

It's occupant was not sleeping but sang a plangent and appropriate aria:

Pastorello d'un povero armento,
pur dorme contento,
sotto l'ombra d'un faggio o d'alloro.
Io, d'un teatro monarca fastoso,
non trovo riposo,
sotto l'ombra di porpora e d'oro.


The beauty of his voice did not stop the critics from making their barbed attacks but to their suprise their jibes did not have the desired effect. The door opened to reveal the Phantom.

"Fools, do you think you can hurt me? Do you think you can make me leave here?"

"What do you mean" demanded the Critics as they pursued him down the stairs and passages of the opera house while making futile and snide comments about his tessitura. He did not respond until he reached the banks of the underground river - a grotto really created by the sea in a chasm of the rock on which Dol Amroth was built. He stepped in to a small boat and cast off.

"Do you mean you are the divo?" , cried the critics.

"You need to ask? You knew I was the Phantom of the Opera! Yes I was a divo but I am not THE Divo. I am the Opera Ghost ."

"Err what does that mean exactly" asked one of the confused critics.

"It means you can't get rid of me, only disenfranchise me" he replied " I won't be able to vote but I am not going anywhere".

Awwww.... did someone want to get rid of me?

Heh heh heh.

Day two begins.
 

Remaining
Sally, soprano
Lariren , soprano, Ithilien
Feanor of the Peredhil, Belfalas (mezzo-)soprano
Ilya, mezzo-soprano, vales of Anduin.
Brinniel, mezzo-soprano, Harad
Kath contralto
Aganzir, Minas Tirith contralto
Gwathagor (Gwathagorio), lyric tenor/spinto Sindar of Eriador
Shastanis Althreduin (tenor leggierio / lyric tenor)
Strongbow, Bowissimo of Lossarnach
Macalaure (Barney Broadbottle), a Bree-lander from Staddle, Baritone
Gollum the Great - bass-baritone
TGWBS - bass, woodwose,
Boromir 88 basso profundo, Rohan
Cailineomer, trouser role, Forodwaith

You're not singing anymore:

Meneltarmacil - baritone err Nazgul from Minal Morgul ORDO
Nogrod - lyric tenor in the end, Old Forest ORDO

You're not voting anymore.

The Phantom (Opera Ghost) Err that was the suprise I mentioned. Oh come on you knew I wouldn't want to be parted...

Soulmates may now PM
Critics stop talking.


Deadline ....well I am late again so I will give you till 6.15 by Downs time tomorrow.

Note Phantom may not vote and does not count in the ordo v critic tally. We just have the pleasure of his company.

That's got to be the best thing I've seen happen ever haha

Expect the best when Mith is the Queen.

Ho-Ho-Ho! Wild Man have Deep Laugh!

Although one less innocent, still we can hear theory from phantom! This good, for phantom wise. Like have extra diva/o, singer for all to rally around!

This good new make up for last night double-lynch, think Wild Man.

Does that usually happen? Not that I'm complaining because the phantom is fun to play with(so I've heard and enjoyed for one day) but has this happened before? Its awesome though. Extra help and such.

So is the phantom now permanently alive?

Oh, I had another question...

Bah, I have to go to class. And I'm teaching it, so I legit have to go.

I'll be back ish5.

Brilliant. :D :D :D

And it only works because it's true.

To think just how quickly we would have lost your voice, I would suspect the Queen would have been quite cross - may have even mod fired the critic who sent in the choice.

Who would want to kill the phantom? I suspect this list will be quite long, but it will give us a good place to start.

Edit: Crossed with bunches

Nope Lariren, this is a twist we haven't seen before.

Now many question to ponder. Look at vote record. Look at why vote Nogrod. Look at why critic want kill phantom.

Before Wild Man ponder these question, Wild Man have some other.

Fea/Phantom. Please explain post 152 and onward discussion, now Noggie, alas, dead.

Shasta - Wild Man expect explanation for why vote him!

Permanently alive? I wouldn't phrase it like that.

I am permanently not a part of the singing competition. You have all intruded upon my world of music.

But that does not mean I cannot single out individuals and help them, or thwart them, depending on how honorable I feel their intentions are.

No he is the Opera Ghost.... see the note to the day start. He can talk and amuse himself but that is all. Really to amuse the moddess. And it is unorthodox but hey ....

I did say there would be a suprise and it has come early. He may effect the dynamics of the game but it won't effect the mechanics. In the head count the ordos are one down.

At his time, I wish to back the voices of TGWBS, Lari, Gollum, and Gwath. Do not eliminate them today.

The first has performed better than any thus far. The second is new to this world, and her interest should not be discouraged. The third voice is new to me, and I wish for time to evaluate it. The fourth is on a whim.

May I ask miss moddess, I remember a long long time ago, in one of Kuru's thread mentioning a "ghost" in WW. Please tell me that's where you got your inspiration? :p

Oh and Lariren, as far as my strange reference yesterday, it's a book/made into a movie thing. I think Fea caught it, but I'm not sure, the offer is still up for anyone. I would be really impressed if someone knew the book a/o movie.

Yes sir.

I believe Fea was asking if I had noticed that Nog had called himself a Divo. I did, and I tried to encourage the idea later ("He'll show you lot how to sing").

The rest of it, though Fea will have to confirm this, involved comments I made hinting I was one of the lovers. Or at least that is what I guessed.

And indeed, I was attempting to hint that I was a Lover. That was my primary attempt to aid you against the Critics- get them to flush a kill on me and spare the Seer and the true Lovers.

Vote Record
 

Caileom: Nog
Mac: Menel
Nog: sally
Gwath: Nog (Nog-2, Menel 1, sally 1)
Shasta: tgwbs
tgwbs: Fea
Lari: Ilya
Menel: Mac
Fea: Menel (Nog-2, Menel-2, sally-1, tgwbs-1, Fea-1, Ilya-1, Mac-1)
Brinn: Nog (Nog-3, Menel-2, sally-1, tgwbs-1, Fea-1, Ilya-1, Mac-1)
Kath: Ilya (Nog-3, Menel-2, sally-1, tgwbs-1, Fea-1, Ilya-2, Mac-1)
Sally: Nog (Nog-4, Menel-2, sally-1, tgwbs-1, Fea-1, Ilya-2, Mac-1)
Ilya: Strongbow (Nog-4, Menel-2, sally-1, tgwbs-1, Fea-1, Ilya-2, Mac-1 Strongbow 1)
Phantom: Menel (Nog-4, Menel-3, sally-1, tgwbs-1, Fea-1, Ilya-2, Mac-1, Strongbow 1)
Boro: -Mac, +Menel (Nog-4, Menel-4, sally-1, tgwbs-1, Fea-1, Ilya-2, Strongbow 1)
Aganzir: Nog (Nog-5, Menel-4, sally-1, tgwbs-1, Fea-1, Ilya-2, Strongbow 1)
TGWBS: -Fea, +Menel (Nog-5, Menel-5, sally-1, tgwbs-1, Ilya-2, Strongbow 1)

Not count
[Sally: -Nog, + Menel]

No vote
Strongbow, Gollum

It's been a while since of I've done one of these so, here goes.

Record Labeled
Menel - Mac
Nog - Sally
Opera Ghost - Menel

The Public Radio
Sally - First Nog, then Menel
Wild Man - First Fea, then Nog
Boro - First Mac, then Menel
Agan - Nog
Lariren - Ilya
Fea - Menel
Ilya - Bowie
Shasta - Wild Man
Brinn - Nog
Calieomer - Nog
Mac - Menel
Gwath - Nog
Kath - Ilya

Free On Itunes
Bowie (did not vote)
Gollum (did not vote)

EDIT: Aw, tgwbs beat me to it. And he has more numbers. Ah well.

:eek: Ha ha ha! Oh golly, that is too funny. The Phantom of the Opera - now I see why you were in character all day yesterDay, tp. :D

Random thought, I'm curious about the case against Nogrod, seemed to form out of mid-air, after questions were raised about sally. I don't know if this was an early attempt to save critic-sally, but there were lots of unjustified attached "suspicions" that grew around Nogrod.

I'm wondering how many caught Nog's Divo comment. And then his joking confirmation to Agan.

You'd think Ordos would be very concerned about gunning for him after that.

The people who would see it and gun for him anyway- the Critics, Walter, and the true Divo.

Oh, I forgot to ask.

TGWBS- when you cast your vote at the end, am I correct in thinking that you did not see Agan's vote until after you posted?

Yeah, Boro, I was confused about that as well.

When I was going back through the thread, the first one I noticed to mention Nog as guilty was Agan, who said: Then Lariren picked it up and said, I'm gonna keep running through the thread but this is what I got so far.

Phantom - cunning ploy! Well done.

Boro/Phantom - Wild Man agree. Must analyse Nogrod-vote. It suspicious to me. Wild Man perhaps will do after Wild Dinner.

Wild Man presume Nogrod jest when Nogrod say he divo. Presume other do also. However, Wild Man feel case against Nogrod was poor.

May I ask tp, if I have your plan right. I thought when you questioned about the "decision" on the Divo that you were up to something. At that time, I didn't know, and then your actions at the end and when you specifically asked me about my thoughts about Nogrod, and said you wanted to give Nog a chance of explaining, it became a little clearer. Long story short, did you know that if you were killed we'd lose you in the count, and thus you wanted to get targeted early, since earlier would be better than later in the show?

Edit: crossed with wild man who be short.

Quotes are serviceable substitute for wit.

Post 143 - Opera Ghost (I smile every time I type that): Post 144 - Shasta: Post 148 - Gwath: Post 152 - Fea: Post 155 - Fea: I assume the Fea/Opera Ghost exchange was about TP's Lovers ploy?

End Page 4.

Indeed. Wild Man think only Menel die.

However, Wild Man incline think this good overall. Not hurt village too much in early stage. Much more helpful when examine vote record. Also, face it, people find reason lynch Nogrod eventually whatever happen.

Overall, I wanted to be a target. Early or late. But I figured to ensure that I was made a target, I ought to try to be one right out of the gate. Since the whole point of being the Opera Ghost is to die and return, I thought it would be robbing Mith of her fun and me of my purpose if I played anything other than recklessly.

Oh, and the Lover ploy- I had no choice but to be slightly less bold than I wished. After I set out my bait (I said something like "Is anyone here named Christine?" or something like that), Sally was the one who bit on it, and thus became my pretend Lover.

But naturally I was aware that it was possible that Sally was a Critic. And so if I had treated her as if she was for certain my Lover, it would be obvious to the Critics that I was bluffing (if Sally was one of them, that is). So to take care of that possibility, I hinted to Fea that what she had spotted was at least half right. In other words, I was certainly a Lover, but Sally may not actually be my partner.

That way if Sally turned out to be a Critic, I would still possibly look like a Lover.

I did the same to Mac after he showed he had reason to trust me. I assumed he had spotted the Lover thing, but warned him that, though he was right about me, he may have something slightly wrong.

Start Page 5

Post 165 - Agan: Post 177 - Menel: Post 180 - Lariren: Post 190 - Brinn: Post 192 - Sally: Post 193 - Sally: Post 195 - Ilya: Post 196 - Opera Ghost: Post 197 - Kath: End Page 5.

I noticed it, but I really didn't give it a second thought. I assumed he was joking.

Really? I would never have guessed. :rolleyes:

I think that would fit the MO of critics who are familiar with the traps. I attempted to help you become one in that way, talking about "raining down greek fire" and tempting the critics by my wanting to see if they had the nerve to do what they couldn't last time, and that is get rid of you early. Are the critics than ones who are familiar with the ploys and this time did "pull the trigger" early so to say?

Because I'm trying to think of who would want to get rid of you this early - I mean you probably don't need me to tell you this - as much as we all complain of your annoyance and arrogance, we secretly love it. :p

Man, this stuff is making my eyes hurt. Begin Page 6.

Post 201 - Brinn: Post 202 - Gollum (to Nogrod): Post 203 - Menel: Post 206 - Boro: Post 213 - Opera Ghost: Post 218 - Sally: Post 219 - Wild Man: Post 220 - Boro: Post 221 - Agan: Post 223 - Ilya: Post 225 - Sally: Post 228 - Agan: Post 232 - Opera Ghost: Post 233 - Sally: End Page 6. End Day 1.

Goin' back to Page 3.

Post 94 - Mac: Post 107 - Brinn: Post 109 - Cailin: Post 113 - Wild Man: Post 116 - Fea: Post 119 - Nogrod: End Page 3.

Yeesh... once I have to vote early and believe that you auditioners are smart enough to not do something terribly foolish, and then that.

*shakes head*

The phantom is immortal now and we have to end...*ahem* be enriched by him til the end? Oh... joy... :p


I have to apologise to Menel. Had I had more time and would have read your later responses to my vote, I would have retracted. You sounded very innocent there. Sorry.


To business.

Could you explain what you mean by "easy way out"?


Yesterday's voting:

Cailineomer's vote for Nogrod, while somewhat suspicious taken by itself, is probably not a critical one. Why would a critic want to get into trouble with one of the more persuading singers when there was not even an indication then that said singer will be eliminated? It would have been a move that could easily have backfired.
Gwath's vote for Nogrod and Fea's vote for Menel don't smell nice. Both are pushing a bandwaggon.
Brinniel's vote for Nogrod I don't like either. She pushes the bandwaggon with very little reason. Then again, a critic would have known that a Day1-lynching of Nogrod would have attracted interest, so would a critic not rather not have positioned herself in such a spot in a bandwaggon? Hmm..
What to do with Sally's vote? Of course every critic would love to see Nogrod lynched so early, but so much that they would risk their own neck for it by putting a vote in such a prominent space? Hardly. Her retraction looks innocent.
Boro's retraction for Menel is to save Nogrod, of course, but considering that he voted me before mostly because I voted Menel, it's a bit eyebrow-raising. Since obviously he was not happy about either choice, why didn't he at least try to bring up a third option?
Aganzir's vote for Nogrod is consequent - she suspected him for a long time. Not suspicious, unless her suspicions before were fabricated.
Wild man's vote for Menel is not suspicious either. He stated he liked to save Nogrod before.
I'll have a look at the other votes later if I think it might enlighten something.

An analysis of the attempted killing of the phantom would be interesting, but I'm sure tp can do that better than I. I'll leave that burden to him.

Is it? While we still have tp's input, we are still down one in numbers and innocent votes. Painting situation better than situation is be suspicious behaviour, wild man.

It was something completely different. Some of your points on the roles seemed so off to me that I thought you were an innocent trying to confuse the critics. ;)

I, ah, might skip entirely recapping Page 1, at least for now. Data < Lunch. Begin Page 2.

Post 41 - Nogrod: Post 50 - Gwath: Post 51 - Nogrod: Post 55 - Gwath: End Page 2. Actually, that wasn't so bad. I'll go ahead and do the first page as well.

Begin Page 1

Post 18 - Nogrod: Post 20 - Agan: Post 21 - Nogrod: Post 24 - Fea: Post 31 - Opera Ghost: End Page 1. Will post my thoughts on all this in a bit, but right now there's a $5 Footlong calling to me.

Sorry guys. I thought I was helping to prevent a double lynch. However I'm not entirely displeased with what has happened thus far (at least the phantom thing was rather funny), besides I would probably have continued to suspect Nog today anyway. However I have a harder time trying to see why Menel was killed. Apparently to save Nog from the gallows yes, but why was he so suspicious in the first place?

Don't know about that. I think his points against sally were not good. What's the sense in accusing someone of something they always do, at least this early?

I did but it was a thing I didn't take very seriously. Divo-Nog could say it, innocent Nog could say it, critic-Nog could say it.

I've noticed Lari's eagerness to agree on suspicions but I wouldn't lynch her because of it (at least yet) because she's new.

I'm getting more scared of Mac every time he posts. There's something that reminds me awfully much of the Mac-wolf I've seen.
The above comment reminds me of his I-told-you attitude (as in Other Minds and Hands, erm, almost two years ago when Boro I think almost got lynched all of a sudden - I don't remember the details; or in Scouring of the Shire vol.2 when people lynched an innocent probably Menel or Might). I don't know if he's always like that and I've just usually ignored it but those are the things I immediately connected his comment to.

edit: xed with Ilya