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littlemanpoet · 11-14-2005, 08:55 PM

Well, I'm going to throw an extra wrinkle into this.

We may have what I would call the "bait and switch" bluff. It goes like this. Glirdan has spent the entire time accusing and suspecting Lalaith, and pretty much nobody followed his lead. Finally, I started taking him seriously, and now he goes and switches to tar-ancalime, just when there's a real possibility of a consensus developing around Lalaith. Could it be that Glirdan doesn't want Lalaith's status known for sure?

Now, the same thing could be said of me, having been after Glirdan the whole time, then suddenly switching away from him to Lalaith. But nobody else was following me after Glirdan at any point, so if I had been doing a bait and switch, I failed to wait until somebody took the bait. Hence, it doesn't obtain in my case.

And something Firefoot said made me think: gifteds often look guilty. Lalaith looks guilty to me, and there's only one gifted left. Does that combination make sense? Has the remaining werewolf picked up on this and left Lalaith alive for fear of a demise should it attack her at night? I don't know, that's pure speculation.

But that gives me another thought. Since there's only one werewolf left, three known innocents, and one gifted, would it be better for the Hunter to stay hidden, or reveal?

Let's say the Hunter is NOT one of the three known innocents. It's not me, by the way. If the Hunter reveals toDay, what are the choices facing the werewolf? Any ideas?

11-14-2005, 08:55 PM	#328
littlemanpoet Itinerant Songster Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: The Edge of Faerie Posts: 7,066	Well, I'm going to throw an extra wrinkle into this. We may have what I would call the "bait and switch" bluff. It goes like this. Glirdan has spent the entire time accusing and suspecting Lalaith, and pretty much nobody followed his lead. Finally, I started taking him seriously, and now he goes and switches to tar-ancalime, just when there's a real possibility of a consensus developing around Lalaith. Could it be that Glirdan doesn't want Lalaith's status known for sure? Now, the same thing could be said of me, having been after Glirdan the whole time, then suddenly switching away from him to Lalaith. But nobody else was following me after Glirdan at any point, so if I had been doing a bait and switch, I failed to wait until somebody took the bait. Hence, it doesn't obtain in my case. And something Firefoot said made me think: gifteds often look guilty. Lalaith looks guilty to me, and there's only one gifted left. Does that combination make sense? Has the remaining werewolf picked up on this and left Lalaith alive for fear of a demise should it attack her at night? I don't know, that's pure speculation. But that gives me another thought. Since there's only one werewolf left, three known innocents, and one gifted, would it be better for the Hunter to stay hidden, or reveal? Let's say the Hunter is NOT one of the three known innocents. It's not me, by the way. If the Hunter reveals toDay, what are the choices facing the werewolf? Any ideas?