[The Saucepan Man]

Hmm, I rather glad that I lost that argument with Mister Of the Rohirrim over the Cabin now.

What a strange choice of kill the Wolves made! What with Eomer attracting the second highest number of votes yesterday n'all. Then again, most of them were (seemingly) grudge votes.

A few possible reasons for his untimely death. Possibly one of those who held a grudge against him. Possibly they thought him a Gifted (and so what he said yesterday will bear examination). Possibly the Wolves just felt that they couldn't take the risk of leaving an innocent Eomer running about on board.

And now I am afraid that I shall have to get rather angry with you all, or at least those of you who voted for Nilp and Eomer. Bad Day 1 strategy, effectively reducing the voting to a two horse race. And, surprise surprise, they both turn out to be innocent. And one of them a Gifted too. And a valuable one at that. Made it nice n'easy for the Wolves, I'm sure. Tsk! Tsk!

Pure madness, it was! Grudge votes against Eomer (so it would seem) and senseless votes against Nilp, just because he was being Nilp. Of course he had to vote for himself in his situation. That's what he always does, and so doing anything else would have attracted undue attention from the Wolves. Didn't mean others had to go and follow suit. Other than his self-vote, there was nothing suspicious about him and, for Nilp, a self-vote doesn't qualify as a suspicious action. Good grief, folks! You can't all be Wolves, those of you who voted for the two of them. Yet anyone would think you wanted the Wolves to win! Arrgh!

OK, rant over. Here's yesterday's voting:

1. Morm-->Glirdan (Glirdan-1)
2. Lhuna-->Eomer (Glirdan-1, Eomer-1)
3. Rune-->Eomer (Glirdan-1, Eomer-2)
4. Glirdan-->Kath (Glirdan-1, Eomer-2, Kath-1)
5. Nilp-->Nilp (Glirdan-1, Eomer-2, Kath-1, Nilp-1)
6. Engels-->Eomer (Glirdan-1, Eomer-3, Kath-1, Nilp-1)
7. Durelin-->Nilp (Glirdan-1, Eomer-3, Kath-1, Nilp-2)
8. Diamond-->Eomer (Glirdan-1, Eomer-4, Kath-1, Nilp-2)
9. Anguirel-->Nilp (Glirdan-1, Eomer-4, Kath-1, Nilp-3)
10. Lalaith-->Form (Glirdan-1, Eomer-4, Kath-1, Nilp-3, Form-1)
11. Caranlondien-->Jenny (Glirdan-1, Eomer-4, Kath-1, Nilp-3, Form-1, Jenny-1)
12. Firefoot-->Nilp (Glirdan-1, Eomer-4, Kath-1, Nilp-4, Form-1, Jenny-1)
13. SpM-->Holby (Glirdan-1, Eomer-4, Kath-1, Nilp-4, Form-1, Jenny-1, Holby-1)
14. Holby-->Nilp (Glirdan-1, Eomer-4, Kath-1, Nilp-5, Form-1, Jenny-1, Holby-1)
15. JennyHallu-->Holbytlass (Glirdan-1, Eomer-4, Kath-1, Nilp-5, Form-1, Jenny-1, Holby-2)
16. Formendacil-->Lalaith (Glirdan-1, Eomer-4, Kath-1, Nilp-5, Form-1, Jenny-1, Holby-2, Lalaith-1)
17. Findeasea-->Lalaith (Glirdan-1, Eomer-4, Kath-1, Nilp-5, Form-1, Jenny-1, Holby-2, Lalaith-2)
18. Gurthang-->Diamond (Glirdan-1, Eomer-4, Kath-1, Nilp-5, Form-1, Jenny-1, Holby-2, Lalaith-2, Diamond-1)
19. Eomer-->Glirdan (Glirdan-2, Eomer-4, Kath-1, Nilp-5, Formendacil-1, JennyHallu-1, Holbytlass-2, Lalaith-2, Diamond-1)
20. Taliesin-->Eomer (Glirdan-2, Eomer-5, Kath-1, Nilp-5, Formendacil-1, JennyHallu-1, Holbytlass-2, Lalaith-2, Diamond-1)

No vote: Kath

Some suspicious looking votes there. I don't like any of the votes for Nilp (excepting his own and, possibly, that of Anguirel who appeared to have been trying to save Eomer). I am particularly wary of those cast by Firefoot and Holbytlass, both of whom effectively escalated it into a choice between Eomer and Nilp, two innocents. And Firefoot's reasoning - because we have to find out about Nilp - was poor. As I have said, he was just being Nilp. You should have let him be and see how he behaved on subsequent Days. And I still suspect Holby on the basis of my reasoning from yesterday.

And while Durelin does not look as suspicious as those two for her vote for Nilp, I am wary of the fact that she was so quick to arrive today and claim that she thought her vote a throwaway vote.

Of course, they can't all be Wolves. I doubt that more than one, or two at most, voted for Nilp yesterDay.

As for the Eomer voters, well I will be keeping an eye on all of them. Although, again, I doubt that more than one, or two at most, voted for him.

There is probably a Wolf, possibly two, in the later "throwaway" votes, after the voting had effectively become the two-horse race between Eomer and Nilp.

One further thought. While I agree with the sentiments expressed by Jenny in the closing stages of yesterday, in her frustration at all the votes for Eomer and Nilp, she does seem to have rather gone overboard with it. A Wolf would have known them both to be innocent and it was possibly a good opportunity to try to gain some credit by making it look like she was trying to save them. Perhaps that is part of the explanation as to why Eomer was killed. It doesn't place her at the top of my suspect list, but it's a thought.

EDIT: Good grief! Crossed with all the posts from Glirdan's at #106!