[Nogrod]

Nogrod opened his eyes after a while.

“I and I ‘ve been thinkin about this Valesse-ent too. She doesn’t look very convincing either.

Her first post. Boro has pointed out the fact that her insistence of the foolishness of that deed from a fellow wolf is at least questionable. But what bothers me too, is the way she talked about Menel in it.

Shaking herself back into focus Valesse went on: "This Valier and Naria are suspect, and another this Menel perhaps, too?

"Menel, on the other branch, is some what bold, a little hasty... though not entirely brash. I do not believe that dice are a means to catching werewolves, but seeing as she has not cast a vote, it could have only been a sick joke in order to get others talking." Frowning even more, Valesse narrowed her giant eyes "And if this was the case, I should hope that your sense of humor improves."

One should note, that there was considerably clear case on Menel already that time – and still saying about Menel “perhaps suspected” as to play it down?

Funny, that later (#237) she even accepts that Menel was in trouble at the time...

"Yes, true, it was mid day, but he was really the only villager with a -real- case against him, and on the first day, amid the random votes and hunches, surely you can come to figure that it would be a detrimental.

And in the end (of the first piece) trying to carefully explain for Menel? Not too openly but enough as to either actually help him or then just to be able to use this “I wouldn’t be so stupid as to defend a fellow lycanthrope” –argument.

Also her last defences are quite odd...

"My experiances with werewolves is very limited and none of my ancestors have been one of their kind. To purposely play such a lycanthrope trick would be rather ambitious of me, then, I'd say. Brrhhmm! Now if your next arguement is that 'my fellow wolves instructed me' the first night, then I must mention that there is no way to prove such a thing. Just as there is no way to disprove it, other than arguing the unpredicatablity of positions on the first day."

First is kinda out of boundaries anyhow and the second somewhat nonsensical: there is always the possibility of a bluff and a double bluff, so there are very few things that can be proved in WW but posthumously.”

Nogrod pulled a little pill from his pocket and swallowed it with some beer he still had in his pint. "So, so... what my lorebooks tell me, is that almost anyone can be made to look bad when one concentrates - even the most innocent may be made to look bad assuming s/he is bluffing, double-bluffing, triple-bluffing...

Nevertheless I see these two ladies most suspicious of those I have really looked at right now and could think of voting either of them. But before, I'll have to do some more thinking. I've a bad feeling that I've not seen all the things I should have seen. You know that nasty nagging feeling that says to you that something is not quite right? If there is a wolf totally outside our search, as Maca kind of suggested it might be, then we might be in trouble unless the Seer has a nose to look at places we others do not."

X-talked with Volo