The Volo-waggon.
Nine minutes before DL, our ill-fated ranger had no votes whatever. (Then-vote count:
Eomer, Agan, EW, wilwa and
Form at one each.)
At 9:52 GMT,
Wilwa votes
Volo:
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Originally Posted by Wilwa
I definitely want to go for a quieter person, and he seems like one of those loud quiet people, ya know the ones that say a lot without actually saying much, and what he does say doesn't make a lot of sense.
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9:54.
Aganzir follows suit (Volo 2):
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Originally Posted by Agan
As opposed to Nog & sally, there seems to be a chance to lynch him. I feel semi-bad doing this because he hasn't played in a long time, but if he's innocent, he can only blame himself for being so weird.
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9:55.
Pitchwife votes
Eomer (Eomer 2):
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Originally Posted by Pitch
He hasn't come back and delivered the more reasoned vote he promised us, and it looks like he's not going to, and he could well be a quiet wolf or Wight, and I'd rather be able to stop wondering what the heck he's up to.
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(Next three posts have the same time stamp, but I give them in order.)
9:57.
Inziladun votes
Volo (Volo 3). No explanation given with this vote; earlier he had mentioned
Volo "pinged his radar".
9:57.
Volo reveals as the Ranger.
9:57.
Shasta votes
Volo (Volo 4).
Quote:
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Originally Posted by Shasta
Got to be...
++Volo, then.
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Note: Had previously said little about Volo, other than that he "could vote for him". Vote-post is not marked as having crossed with
Volo's reveal. An oversight? [EDIT: Yes, he did cross. Sorry.]
9:58.
Nogrod (known innocent) votes
Volo (Volo 5):
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Originally Posted by Nog
Eomer makes more sense than Volo...
++ Volo
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Uh... so why did he vote
Volo, then?
Vote crossed with reveal and previous two votes.
In the remaining two minutes, all five
Volo-voters expressed dismay,
Shasta (9:58) and
Agan (10:10) suggesting the remaining players (
Volo, Greenie, Eomer and
Sally) all vote for
Eomer. However, only
Volo himself did so.
So quite a peculiar last-minute bandwaggon there. I don't say it was completely out of the blue–
Volo had been talked about quite a bit on Days One and Two– but other than the initial vote (
Wilwa's) all the votes on
Volo look quite nastily opportunistic.
I say "all" advisedly, however– the fact that one vote came from a known innocent is a useful reality check. Nonetheless, I think it likely that one or more villains had been waiting around until the last minute– it would make sense in a situation when no player had had more than one vote, so they couldn't even guess how the lynch would go. The wolves would of course have the most reason for doing this, especially if one of their own was among the earlier candidates.
EDIT:X'd with
EW and
Lottie.