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Old 10-07-2008, 11:33 AM   #46
Legate of Amon Lanc
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All right, a reaction to the few posts that happened to appear meanwhile (I hope not too many appear while I am posting this).

Samwise immediately fled high on my suspicion list.

First, he keeps being nice to people, while at the same time accusing-ish at the same time.
Second, vote for Brinniel is definitely "safe". I know he wasn't playing probably for a long time, so it may be a habit which used to be more common in his times, but still, these grounds for voting somebody are actually even more "safe" than Brinn's non-vote itself. Do you get what I mean?

Besides that, he mentions several times that "we should abandon the prophecy and focus on our main problem", right this is, but the way he keeps repeating it just asks for questioning it (hm, an interesting formulation). First I wanted to quote only his remark on me:
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Originally Posted by SamwiseGamgee View Post
Legate: my inclination is to think that, whilst unwise, the 'thinking out loud' approach is fairly innocent. Although there's a lot of stuff to sieve through, I can say that I have been helped by some of his thoughts relating to the prophecy. However, the fact that he's dwelling so much on the prophecy makes me a little bit uncomfortable- I really think we should be getting down to the job we innocents have of rooting out the taint of evil in our midst.
With a mere comment of "I always ask people who say this, what would they post in my place which would be so wonderfully 'getting down to the job'". But then, when he mentioned this "let's get to the job" also further, and not just with me, I kind of started to think about it more - is he repeating that all over again out of honest concern, or because he "shields himself" this way? Somehow, it's harder to imagine for me that it is a honest concern.

(Besides that, what I quoted is a good example of what I said about being nice to people and yet accusing-ish at the same time: and he's like that with more or less everyone; a good wolfy attitude, to have open door for nice friendship with the person but at the same time have grounds prepared for sending that person to lynch if the general opinion turns against that person.)

This is also a nice example of something that alarms me:
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Gwath: agrees with me in her second post, but has misunderstood what I said. I tend to think this probably makes her innocent, as it would seem to indicate a genuine will to solve the prophecy, rather than just stroke my ego.
Again, nice, yet... just, so easy to make "her" innocent

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Kit: has her reservations about me, which is fine- so do I!- but seems keen to move us on from the prophecy. I agree on that point, and because I do and I know I'm an innocent I think she probably is too.
And this the same, the reasoning "we share opinons so we are in the same camp" is one of the fishiest I've ever seen. Although of course, it may be the view of a naive innocent... but for some reason, I don't think SW that naive. (Although I don't know anything about his experiences in WW, he made the impact on me that he already must have something behind himself. So why so naive?)

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Originally Posted by Kitanna View Post
Lommy's list may mean absolutely nothing since it was obviously getting the ball rolling, but then again I see no reason to discount that it could come in handy later on in the game. Of course it could be forgotten later as nothing more than jargon from Day 1.
Okay, I think I got that now and I think I understand you. In that case, it's a mere comment and no need to bother with it anymore. Okay. Dismissed.

EDIT: x-ed with two Miths
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