[the phantom]

All right. Even though not everyone has spoken, enough people have spoken to strengthen my resolve on a few ideas I had, and that will have to be enough for today.

1) I believe Shelob has a spiderling now
2) I believe Shelob attacked Sam
3) Possible Shelobs are Lhuna, Nog, Shasta, Inzil
5) Possible Spiderlings are Boro, Fea, Nerwen

If my hunches are correct, Phantom, Wilwa, Lottie, and Bom would be our worst choices for a lynch.

Fea, Nerwen, and Inzil aren't particularly great choices either, as they have been included more on the grounds that I felt I could not rule them out.

Shasta and Nog I was hoping to see more from in hopes that I could remove them from the list, but they haven't had opportunity to post much. So the jury is still out on them until such time as I get to talk with them a bit today.

Lhuna is, to my mind, playing oddly (not how I remember her in times past). I don't believe her to be a Spiderling, but she could well be a Shelob knowing that if she dies her gift would transfer anyway. I'm still tempted to lynch her on Day 3.

Now Boro could very well be our not-so-friendly neighborhood Spiderman (Spiderling). You'll see that yesterday I pointed out that his opening post indicated he was potentially sick (had been stung), and if Sam did indeed attempt to cure Lhuna but Boro was the bite victim, he is now a fully fledged Spiderling and has switched sides on us.

Also, to address the possibility that Sam was attacked and thus Shelob knows who Sam is.... Rather than attack Sam immediately, Shelob could very well opt to spend the first day attempting to off anyone that looks likely to support Sam (try to lynch a supporter and then try and sting a supporter) and then go after Sam, but in a way that gets her hands less dirty (e.g. send orders to her Spiderling to try and get a certain individual lynched). We ought to keep an eye out for that as well.