[The Saucepan Man]

I am glad to see that this seems a fairly talkative village. Some musings follow on what has been said since I was last here.

Originally Posted by littlemanpoet

Also, some werewolves tend to explain their strategy by means of conjecturing how they "suppose" a werewolf might think. These aren't definites, but they help me lean toward suspicion, if you take my meaning.

Originally Posted by Anguirel

I disagree that trying to discover wolves by empathatic thought experiment is necessarily wolvish. It can simply be an effective way of exploiting what we know of character and likely strategy to our benefit.

I tend to agree with the Banker on this one. What is it they say? To catch a Wolf, one must try to think like one. And it can help in assessing innocence as well as guilt. Having said that, we should still take care over what we say in this regard. As tar-ancalime has suggested, we do not want to provide the Wolves with a ready-made guide on how to act to avoid suspicion …

Originally Posted by Boromir88

Mormegil comes out with his random accusations as usual.

Indeed. Though he has said that he prefers to use the power of his mind to his strength at arms, his accusations are made seemingly without any rational basis. Still, it is standard behaviour for Captain morm and, although I don’t hold much with random accusations, I will be interested to see what conclusions he has reached concerning the responses to them.

Originally Posted by Boromir88

Glirdan quickly votes as usual. And it always seems to be the most obvious target.

Well, it seems that he had good reason to vote early. But I agree that he has chosen an easy target. Legend tells of the quietness and confusing nature of Gil-Galad’s predecessors ( ). Nevertheless, it is risky behaviour for a Wolf to draw attention to himself by voting so early and for someone who had not at that stage spoken, and I somehow doubt that a Wolfish Glirdan would be so bold. Not at this stage, at least.

Originally Posted by tar-ancalime

It seems to me we've got to play as though we'd already lost the Seer (blind, if you catch me). We can dispense with the usual Seer-related flotsam of the first few days: people looking for hints that aren't there, declaring that they know who the Seer is, silly warnings to keep hidden, and the rest of that nonsense. We've just got to do the best we can and wait for later in the game, when we'll (if we're lucky) get a great gift from the true Seer.

I certainly agree with this. As I said earlier, we should trust the Gifteds to get on with doing their jobs as they think best. There has been far too much Seer talk already for my liking. In my view, it serves only to distract us from the job at hand.

Originally Posted by littlemanpoet

The only problem with this is that seer talk is one more piece of the village talk by which we may be able to snare a werewolf by means of his/her words.

I disagree. Too much Seer talk can only help the Wolves. How do you envisage that it might ensnare them? Surely it is better to focus our discussions on who might be the Wolves, rather than on how the Seers should be behaving.

I will be keeping an eye on those who seem to be encouraging this talk of Seers. *Glares at littlemanpoet and Aiwendil*

Originally Posted by Aiwendil

But I certainly did not mean to suggest that we adopt any such arbitrary number as an absolute standard. I merely suggest that we aim, rather approximately, for the 5 - 6 range.

Well then, I agree. But none should regard themselves as constrained by it. Still, we have three votes already for three different villagers, so it seems already that the votes are likely to be well spread.

Originally Posted by Lhunardawen

Before anything else, let it be known to the masses that I, your princess, am not, I repeat, NOT an ordinary villager.

I'm extraordinary.

Hmm, your imperious manner befits your station in life. And that would be a bold statement indeed for a Wolf. But your vote for Glirdan concerns me. I accept that you had good reason for voting when you did and it is fair to say that there is not yet much to go on. Yet, if Gil-Galad was an easy target, then so is Glirdan at this moment in time. Do you really think that a Wolf would have acted in the way that he did?

Originally Posted by Nilpaurion Felagund

Oh, The Saucepan Man from foreign lands, have you ever seen anything like my sign?

Aye, I have seen its like before. But not in these parts. And ‘tis a helpful contribution to our e-moot. Your quick and unreasoned vote for Farael does not speak in your favour, but I see that you were discharging an oath sworn before the village was beset by these unhappy circumstances. For now, your vote notwithstanding, I am inclined to view you as innocent.

As matters stand, I would like to hear from dancing spawn of ungoliant, Eomer of the Rohirrim and Garin none of whom have, I believe, joined our discussion as yet. Oh, and I would like to hear something more useful from Farael, Formendacil and Kath …