Tol-in-Gaurhoth XXXVI Game Thread

[The Saucepan Man]

On the subject of Lal, this caught my interest:

Originally Posted by Lalwendë

I wasn't going to vote for anyone on that pack anyway - however I can't honestly say that had I managed to get back to my desk on time that I wouldn't have changed my mind seeing a triple lynch coming up. There you go - it's up to you if you choose to punish me for it. I personally don't think you should.

So she is effectively saying that, had she voted, she wouldn’t have broken the triple-tie anyway. On the face of it, this could be taken as an indication of innocence. After all, what Wolf would be so foolish as to say such an incriminating thing? But Lal’s not shtoopid. It’s quite possible that she said this precisely to give that effect.

Then there’s this:

Originally Posted by Lalwendë

But then the point at which Sauce jumps in and votes would be more suspicious than the point at which Mith does it.

I don’t understand this at all. Mith and I voted at almost exactly the same time, so how can my vote be more suspicious than hers? Taken with Shasta’s ridiculous point about ‘pessimistic-Peter’, it makes me wonder whether there might be some subtle combined attempt to sow some seeds of suspicion against me here.

I don’t like this either:

Originally Posted by Lalwendë

I have a suspicion about who the Seer might be but I don't think I ought to say this outright in case the wolves pick them up. But they have brought something up which makes me think one of the non-voters is indeed a Wolf.

Lal is very careful to make ckear that she doesn’t want to say outright who she thinks the Seer might be, yet seems to be giving clues as to what she is talking about. Possibly a coded message to her fellow Wolves as to her thinking?

I am becoming increasingly concerned that Shasta and Lal are aligned in Wolfishness. Currently, I am veering more towards Lal as she looks the more suspicious to me. Like the phantom, I didn’t really want to vote for her unless I had to, as I have never played with her before. But we could really do with bagging a Wolf toDay, so I might just have to put sentiment aside here.