Tol-in-Gaurhoth IV (The Saga, erm, Still Continues...)

[Celuien]

Great game, everyone! How about some applause for TGWBS?

LMP - I never would have suspected you.

My apologies for being a bit erratic for the past couple of days, especially on this last one. I had an 11 hour shift yesterday and was in the midst of writing a presentation (which I just gave about an hour ago) on very short notice, so I was a little out of sorts.

I notice that I was suspected of being the seer a couple of times. That was halfway my intention with some of the wording I placed around the villagers about whom I had the most certainty, since I was trying to keep the wolves from identifying the real seer before enough nights had passed to gain information. At the same time, I didn't want to actually impersonate the seer and end up confusing the village, causing a rush to execute one of my suspects, or becoming werewolf bait.

Victory for the villagers is sweet at last.

[Kath]

*applause for TGWBS*
Fantastic deaths - both werewolf and lynching.

To everyone else thanks for an incredibly amusing game. I followed it even after my sudden and (at least to me!) surprising death and Fea I have to say I'm surprised you weren't lynched simply for insulting everyone in the game!

But congratulations - the villagers won!

[littlemanpoet]

I almost put in a special request to TGWBS for Anguirel's death. Turns out I didn't have to. TGWBS did exactly what I had imagined wanting <ahem> to do; except for the "off with his head" part. Actually, the other thing I had imagined was hanging, drawing, and quartering, but that would have pointed right to the butcher, which was not such a good idea, eh? So the blood spattered walls and body parts all over the place was everything I could have hoped for.

[littlemanpoet]

NIGHT # 2

Originally Posted by Hookbill

The phantom voted for Esgallhugwen. I am suspicious of him being the seer. But I do not think he should die just yet. Lets see him out, if he starts voting continuously for us, then we should say bye-bye to him.

As for who dies now, I'm not sure. Any thoughts?

Originally Posted by LMP

the phantom made a random choice between Eswen and Anguirel because of lack of posting, which our mod cleared up, so the best strategy would be for Es to forgive him, or at least seem to, on erroneous information.

Hookbill, the way I see it, you almost got voted for yourself. I think it was Evisse who randomly picked a not completely quiet one, and thus it was Kath, but your name was the next one on her list as I recall. That said, I think you're doing an outstanding job of staying under the radar.

the phantom is drawing a lot of attention to himself. I wouldn't want to off him on merely "annoying" grounds, much as it might be fun to. If he's the Seer, isn't the Seer much more valuable toward the end of the game than at the beginning? There would be fewer players to choose to have a vision about, and the chance of dreaming about a werewolf increases as the game continues.... right?

Feanor and Eomer are also loudmouths, and I don't want to kill either of them off yet. Heck, Fea voted for Eomer. Let her continue to be suspicious of him.

As long as they don't know who we are and we stay alive, the advantage is ours. The thing to do is to "off" a strategic choice. Give me some time to think about this. I'm thinking that we want to off one of the less talkative ones, someone who has barely posted and not even drawn suspicion. By the way, Nilpaurion should be let be too, being a suspicious character.

So I'm thinking about the following (off the top of my head): Evisse, Celuien, Oddwen (although she did receive a vote), ... who else? I can't open up a second window on this stupid computer (at work). I'll get back to you....

Originally Posted by LMP

Hookbill, I guess it's up to you and me tonight.

Okay, the candidates for "offing", as far as I'm concerned, are:

Azaelia of Willowbottom
Celuien
dancing spawn of ungoliant
Firefoot
Lalaith
Oddwen
Saurreg

I'd like to keep Celuien, Oddwen, Saurreg, and dancing spawn around a little while longer, out of sheer interest to see how they play the game. That leaves:

Azaelia of Willowbottom
Firefoot
Lalaith

Firefoot got offed pretty early last time, so I'd like to giver her a chance to play some more. I'm interested in Lalaith more or less too, so my vote goes for ++Azaelia of Willowbottom. Not very scientific, except that it generally avoids suspicion. Who knows? Maybe she's the cursed or the hunter or the seer. What do you think?

Originally Posted by Esgal

It's not too late for me to have my say is it? I got off of work early. We were lucky that they killed off the Ranger, that ups our odds of not getting killed ourselves.

I was merely joking about offing the phantom, I know better than that, he was the only one that voted for me to off him would drive uneeded suspicion at break neck speed towards me. And we don't need that.

I was thinking about Azaelia as well. She hasn't said much, and we should keep the loudmouths around to argue with eachother, who knows they may sack a couple more of there own before they get to us.

Phantom might very well be the Seer, and if he knows, he might keep on pushing it with me ( but I really hope he's just an arrogant loudmouth who took a wild guess, why would he have chosen me to dream about?), the more he pushes with his accusations towards me the harder it will be to kill him, because doing so will be a powder keg of suspicion.

But let's leave him be, he's an eccentric chronic liar who's so egotistical that he's openly admitted that he's trying to trick us, and we do not yet know the truth between the lines.

My vote is for poor little ++Azaelia of Willowbottom as well. And I will try harder to post for the next day.

Originally Posted by LMP

Well, that's two for Azaelia. Hookbill?

Let's see what the phantom does with the next day. His vote for you, Eswen, appears to have been a 50/50 raondom shot at those who didn't post, and he was uninformed. My bet is he casts his glance elsewhere - - - unless he's the Seer.

If things go ill for us (one of us gets lynched), there are two strategies worth considering:

1) one of us accuse the other, thus "taking one for the team" while rendering the other with great credentials for innocence.

2) talk up the need to let the Seer live as long as possible because the longer the Seer is in the game, the better the Seer's chance to "off" the werewolves. This has the drawback of being true; it has the benefit of making whoever uses this piece of strategy look quite innocent.

Thoughts?

Originally Posted by LMP

This message is going to Eswen and Hookbill as well as our mod:

TGWBS, unless you hear differently by 11:30 p.m., our kill for tonight is ++ Azaelia of Willowbottom.

I haven't gotten a rubber stamp from Hookbill on this, but Eswen has agreed with me on it, so at worst it's a 2 out of 3.

Sorry I couldn't wait, Hookie, but bedtime arrives early for me; I'm up at 5 in the a.m.

Originally Posted by Hookbill

Hello,

Sorry I couldn't join the discussion. The time difference is annoying, plus I had to sleep early last night. We had a few power cuts yesterday also, which was annoying. I'm agreeing with you both on Azaelia.

[Firefoot]

It seems I escaped a mauling pretty narrowly there. I'm glad you decided to let me stick around.

[the phantom]

I'm done with my post game write up. As usual, it is on my Random Thoughts page.