Tol-in-Gaurhoth LVII - Chess Game for Middle Earth: Game Thread
 

The night was cold, and dark. Clouds covered the night sky, and even the pearly light given off by the moon reached not the earth.

No creatures of the earth, sea, or sky dared move tonight. For tonight...

The fate of Middle Earth would be decided.

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In the fiery crater of Mount Doom;

A chessboard floated in the air. On one side; Gandalf the White. On the other; Sauron, playing black. The two had agreed to settle their differences over rulership of the land via a chess game, each confident that they were better than the other. Each had previously ensouled each of their major pieces with power, though the other knew it not.

The game will be played out by you.

Choose wisely.

Pieces:
Mirandir
Durelin
Feanor of the Peredhil
Isabellkya
Nerwen
Eomer of the Rohirrim
the phantom
Brinniel
satansaloser2005
Gwathagor
Lariren Shadow
wilwarin538
Rikae
Eonwe
Nogrod
Mnemosyne
Kath
Hansy

It is now Night 1. Roles are now being sent out. You may not post.

Night 1

The first moves of the game have been made. Gandalf made a crucial error in his initial setup, and Sauron quickly swooped in, taking the piece with the soul of Shasta with no repercussions.

What will happen next?

It is now Day 1. You may post and discuss.

Pieces:
Mirandir
Durelin
Feanor of the Peredhil
Isabellkya
Nerwen
Eomer of the Rohirrim
the phantom
Brinniel
satansaloser2005
Gwathagor
Lariren Shadow
wilwarin538
Rikae
Eonwe
Nogrod
Mnemosyne
Kath
Hansy

Taken:
Shasta - KxC4, Night 1 (Moderator)

If you need a refresher on the rules, they're in the Admin thread. :)

FIRST POST!

...Oh, wait, this is a civilized game...

Bloody wench.

Oh well, it's okay. Everyone knows that the first post always belongs to a wolf, or baddie of some sort. Thus Mnemo must be evil. :merisu:



P.S. Or is that the second post that is always made by a baddie? Meh, whatever. ;)

I believe you'll find it is the first, second, AND third post.

:eek:

This is chess; no blood nor guts involved here.

Though apparently there's a fiery mountain below us... *looks down with shifty eyes*

Come to think of it, how are we not melting or at least experiencing some sort of physical distress with all this heat? Except for those of us who were bred and born here... *glares suspiciously at all those who are not experiencing heat exhaustion*

Very true. My apologies for the egregious oversight on my part, dear packmates.


Obviously you've never played wizard's chess. ;)

Personally, I can't believe Gandalf agreed to this. You know good and well that Sauron won't keep his word. He's got the biggest armies and such. He's just trying to get the war over with. If he loses this game, he'll just attack.

Surely Gandalf knows this. Perhaps he's just stalling for time? Hmmm....

Not to mention: since when has Gandalf cared about ruling lands? He weren't called the Grey Pilgrim for nuttin'.

Whatever. You know good and well we're not packmates. Only one of us is a Werewolf. Then one of us is the Werebear, and the final member is the Black Pawn.

Should we forge an alliance?

And then stab each other in the back somewhere around Day 3?

Rock on!

...can we do it IRL?

Brilliant. We'll do lunch to discuss the details. I suggest the Chinese restaurant in Lincoln. They do the MOST fabulous duck soup I've ever tasted. You'll love it.

Lincoln? How am I supposed to get to Lincoln?

Fly, of course.

Or in a takeout box. Oh wait, that's on the way back. My mistake. So sorry.

Who is this person and why does she want to eat me? :eek:

BAD WOLF! BAD WOLF!

Hun, no wolves in this game. Perhaps you're using your newbie status to make people think you're too innocent to be a cold blooded killer? It's not working.

Gandalf was always a manipulative goody-goody (at least, good is his façade) egotist. It is hardly surprising that he treat many of us as pawns just as quickly and without remorse as Sauron would.

There will most certainly be blood and guts (I certainly hope so, anyway). My only advice to everyone at this point: let the wookie win.

You mean forge the alliance, or stab each other in the back?

Both would be fun, but seeing as jail would be the reward for the second one, I'd rather stick with option one.

I'd be happy to let the wookie win. I just don't know who the wookie is.

And I'd also like Lando to survive.

And Wedge!

Here's what we know so far-

Sally- Black Rook
Durelin- White Knight
Mnem- WereDuck
phantom- Sauron

Yes.

Look, stating what everyone already knows just so that you can sound helpful looks hiiiiiiighly suspicious.

Nay, nay, a Jedi Knight of Many Colours!

Okay. That's enough nonsense from me for now. I had to get the excitement out of my system. I've been looking forward to this. :)

I'm going to get ready for bed, but I shall be around a good deal tomorrow.

Hopefully what ever is supporting this board holds.
Would not be nice to find it faltered.. so we all go sliding into a fiery death.

All right, I'm checking in for the eventide and possibly a lot of the morningtide as well.

Since it's only Day 1 about the best we can do at the moment is some very general strategy discussion (especially regarding the evil gifted dynamics); I'll try to come up with something intelligent, original, and/or helpful to the village after I've rested.

Take it from here, Europeans!

Good grief, there's a lot of chatter around here. After all, aren't we all chess pieces here? And as far as I know, chess pieces don't talk...



[insert awkward silence here]








Or do they? :eek:

On a more serious note, I think it's going to be even more important than ever to find a baddie early in the game. With a werebear, there'll be a possible two kills per Night. Not to mention, our wolves aren't just wolves but gifteds as well. I have a feeling our numbers are going to dwindle fairly quickly. Though with all of these special roles, I must say this chess game's gonna be rather interesting....which could be either good or bad for us.

Anyway, I should have something more substantial to say, but I don't. It's past 3am and my brain's too tired to function, so I must sleep. So I'm afraid this is all you'll hear from me.

For now at least.

EDIT: Triple post. I guess everyone else has already gone to bed..

Usual flippancy betrays its tactic, a plea for survival even now. Prioritised over the person's object, or the object itself?

Is fhearr fheuchainn na bhith san duil.

Anyone around?

I see there's been virtually nothing but banter yet. I know, it can be hard to find something to talk about on Day 1... but still, all these new twists... (on the other hand, though, if Brinniel starts psychoanalysing the Black Pawn, I'll know what to think). As always, one starts to wonder about motives. Is it possible, for instance, that a were-tp or were-sally was making a "sarcastic confession" up there?

Hey all I'm sorry to do this but my weekend got very busy and the deadline was much earlier than I'd thought! This means that right now is the only chance I have to post toDay.

Therefore I'm going to randomly vote right now because I've read through what there is on the thread and, well, it's hardly helpful in making a decision!

++NERWEN

Because she was the last person to post before me.

Hmm, but I suppose I should add some thoughts in even though there's nothing to go on, otherwise I'll be leaving myself very open for a Night 1 death.

Mnemo - ducks have been proven to be evil in the past, I'll go with that!
Sally - oh definitely evil.
phantom - clearly a pawn trying to get to the other side of the board by making himself look important. :p
Izzy - erm, fiery depths? Not keen!
Brinn - I think innocent, therefore guilty.
Eomer - definitely innocent, at least for as long as it takes to see what this new persona is about.
Nerwen - thoughtful.

Apologies for that! I will be around tomorrow. :D

Erm. Hello. Nice to know you all, besides those I knew already. [Sally doesn't know me. But I know her... well, her name.]
I'm taking hours writing this post. This is so wrong.

*deep breath*

I can start by introducing myself. You can call me Hansy... it's not that long so it doesn't need to be shortened. Reminds me of what you did to poor Beregond last game. I read the books some time ago. They were fun, but too long to be true. So I don't remember most of it. I liked Aragorn and Legolas (yay I'm so creative!). And I like kittens. You probably figured that out after seeing my avatar.

About the werewolf... well, this is quite a different experience. I took my time reading the previous game... [I skipped Sally's spam show] and I would always agree with Legate. The guy that apparently was wrong all the time. But I liked his reasoning :( I hope you'll forgive me, but I don't think I'll bold names... unless I start writing bigger-than-huge posts and it gets really hard to read. Which I don't think it's going to happen anytime soon.

Now let's talk about roles. Hi Nerwen. :)

[Random Comment 3: Well, at least this time people aren't roleplaying. I just can't do that.]
[Random Comment 4: The icons below the textbox strangely remind me of Zelda.]

Are you sure it isn't Saruman under the guise of Gandalf?






*melts from Mount Doom heat*

My my my, fiery-mountain-volcano-wizard chess, how wonderful.

So I come on all excited about the 33 replies and hope to do some wonderful analises, but it's all banter :p.

I see some confessions up there, though they appear to be shielded under sarcasm I'll bet that atleast one of them is a baddie. Or they're all bad and it was their plan to "sarcastically" confess right off the bat. Or they're all good just trying to make their ordinary status more interesting. So many possibilities...

Anyways, I'll be heading off to work soon, that gives me the next 6 hours to try and think up some intelligent theories regarding some of the roles. I'll be back as soon as I get home.

Play nicely! :p

On another note, it's interesting to see two new Downers in this game.

So, theres 18 players. 4 gifted. 3 gifted werewolves. 1 Werebear. 1 Cobbler. That leaves 9 ordos.

I think that in this game it is probably going to be more important than ever to kill the bad guys early. The Werewolves (Black Bishop, Black Knight, Black Rook) have an almost 1 in 3 chance of getting a gifted as does the Werebear (Black Queen), and every Night that they don't (unless they get the Cobbler(Black Pawn) or one of the opposing side) the odds of them killing one will increase. And this will be especially bad.

We have more gifteds than usual which is good, but it also means that they are more vulnerable to attack.


As for posts so far, what can I say. Everyone is either innocent, or maybe they know we'd think that and the first 3 really are wolves, or one of them really a wolf and was playing along with it to remove the suspicion from themselves. Or maybe they're all just ordos having fun.

Edit: x-ed- Hey, Wilwa stole my theory!

Just a quick thought before heading off to work
 

No, looks to me like you stole my theory! Though, to be honest, it's not that brilliant of a theory.

One thing I thought of was whether or not the werebear can kill a wolf at Night, or vice-versa?

And then there's this mystery White Queen, who is either going to be of great use to us or, to think a bit outside the box, is completly on her own team. If you think about her opposite the Black Queen, who is on her own team, not really allied with the other Black pieces, could it not be a possibility that the White Queen is similar, and isn't necessarily allied with us White Pawns? Or perhaps the White Queen doesn't even know that's what they are, it might be something only our Mod knows about.

Anyway, just some random thoughts, I find it quite intriguing that there is a mystery role, and can't stop thinking of the possibilities.:eek: But that isn't our focus toDay, I know.

So I will be back in about 5 hours!

So we have three self-proclaimed baddies around? How should we take it?

This situation calls for a citation and some listening to the wisdom of the two Queens speaking there.

"What do you mean by 'If you really are a Queen'? What right have you to call yourself so? You can't be a Queen, you know, till you passed the proper examination. And the sooner we begin, the better."

"I only said 'if'!" poor Alice pleaded in a piteous tone.

The two queens looked at each other, and the Red Queen remarked with a little shudder. "She says she only said 'if'..."

"But she said a great deal more than that!" the White Queen moaned, wringing her hands. "Oh, ever so much more than that!"

"So you did, you know." the Red Queen said to Alice. "Always speak the truth - think before you speak - and write it down afterwards."

"I'm sure I didn't mean..." Alice was beginning, but the Red Queen interrupted her impatiently.

"That's just what I complain of! You should have meant! What do you suppose is the use of a child without any meaning? Even a joke should have some meaning."

I couldn't put it better...

Kath
 

Throwing a die? No, it was a free choice. Nerwen stood before her, the one who had attempted to instigate actual discussion. Not the frivolous, not the as-yet-invisible, but the one piece of sense. See what follows.