Werewolf IIX - Tra la la lally, here down in the Saga, ha ha!

[SamwiseGamgee]

Guys, I am an innocent villager. Of this you may all be sure- I give you leave to do that!

So, as I cast my vote in accordance with the wisdom of our glorious hunter-leader, Saucepan Man, I can't help but wonder if Gurthang would've been the right guy to lynch on day 1. Or maybe Menel or dancing spawn are just resigned to their fate! As my vote-winner said, c'est la vie!

++ dancing spawn of ungoliant

p.s.- this is pretty hit or miss, but I think dancing spawn's the bear- the "c'est la vie" has convinced me.

[The Saucepan Man]

Where is Gurthang, I wonder? There may be good reason for his delay, but it seems suspicious to me.

As matters stand, Menel and I will survive. If Menel is the Bear then, if it stays like that, he will prevail. But Gurthang will surely wish to prevent that if he is innocent. On the other hand, if Gurthang is the Bear, he will die in any event if matters stay as they are.

If Gurthang has not voted for Menel by shortly before the end of the Day, then I shall be forced to do so. I shall give advanced warning to avoid any danger of cross-posting.

[SamwiseGamgee]

Oh dear, this isn't looking too good. Best of luck to you, SpM, I hope you time it right. *bites fingernails*

[The Saucepan Man]

I hereby give notice that I shall vote for Meneltarmacil 10 minutes from now.

Gurthang - if you are innocent, do not vote for Meneltarmacil unless you have already done so by the time you read this message.

Fellow innocent Villagers - if Gurthang votes for Meneltarmacil having had opportunity to heed this warning, he is the Bear. No doubt, he hoped to cross-vote with me, survive one more Day and try to pass it off as an innocent mistake.

[The Saucepan Man]

On second thoughts, if I vote for Menel and Gurthang is the Bear, he will vote for me, thus ensuring a total bloodbath.

I have no option. Let’s finish this now!

++ GURTHANG

If I am wrong in this, I will no doubt die to-Night and you will have to choose wisely to-Morrow.

If I am right, then all but the Bear will survive.

Oo-er!

[Gurthang]

Originally posted by SamwiseGamgee
this is pretty hit or miss, but I think dancing spawn's the bear

Originally posted by The Saucepan Man
I agree that Menel and Samwise Gamgee are the likeliest candidates.

Originally posted by Boromir88
Gurthang- Not too worried about him, as he did bring up the double-lynching idea.

Hidden 'til the end; little good it did me though.

Allow me to explain myself. So that in your dying breathes you may know why this has befallen you all.

I was able to hide my hideous secret for a very long time. Long before I lived in this village, I've been cursed to walk the night as a bear. I tried to do no harm to anyone, and always thought of it as a curse. Yet I watched you constantly harass and even kill harmless creatures, who I felt were my sole duty to protect. But there were too many of you, and many of my little friends died. I was almost to the end of my rope, but then the last straw came. The wolves caused you to push me over the edge.

On that fateful night, when those ferocious wolves came into our peaceful village, it was all too clear what I had to do. I was revealed for not watching my step(I still feel bad about that chicken), and I knew that I was in grave danger, as well as the wolves I felt I should be defending. So I suggested trying to end the situation peacefully, and you almost lynched me for it! That is when I decided to eradicate this village. It became my new responsibility to insure that none of you could ever harm animals again. So I took my 'curse' and used it against you. Aided by those bumbling wolves, I intended to finish off this cursed little town.

Yet above all, I curse you Saucepan Man. You mercilous, malevelant, murderous Hunter! It brings me great regret that I will not see your death before this all has ended. I should have killed you at the beginning, yet I felt compelled to keep you around to defend me. Even as of yesterday, I had hope to acheive my objective, yet your choice of not Hunting bereft me of that last possibility. In the end it has meant my death.

++Samwise Gamgee

And so it comes down to this. With this vote, I will have accomplished my goal except three. And to those of you who survive, I say go and spread the word. Wherever creatures are persecuted, wherever they are unloved, wherever they are killed, remember: WereBears walk the night!

So now I say come at me. I will take one of you to death with me. Let's end this!

[The Saucepan Man]

Foul words from a foul beast of the Night.

Yet I salute you. You offered fine sport.

I am sorry Samwise that you must die too as we once and for all lay this wretched creature to rest.

[Oddwen]

Two villagers would die today. SamGam and Gurth had attracted two votes each.

"Wait a minute," they wondered. "Why do we have to kill Sam if Gurthang has already confessed?"

"The Votes have to be upheld, otherwise people could go lynched and unlynched willy-nilly," explained SpM.

"Gosh, you seem to be awfully gleeful."

"Enough!" roared Gurthang. "I can't stand it anymore!" And with another roar, he changed shape! He became larger than any bear they had ever heard tell of, and also a tad hairier than they were sure was usual.

He ripped the head off of SamGam, and then turned towards The Hunter Man.

"You!" he boomed, and then charged.

SpM waited until he was almost too close for comfort, and then shot one arrow through the bear's eye.

Then he had to leap out of the way, because even a dead bear once in motion doesn't stop until it hits a solid object, which in this case turned out to be the mountain face.

The Villagers started to rejoice, but then paused. What was that rumbling?

Then a crack appeared in the mountain. With screams of terror, they threw themselves down the slope of the valley, fairly flying over the snow-encrusted fields in their fury.

Wonder of wonders, they outflew an avalanche. But Hamlet was lost forever.

"Ah well!" they said. "There will be other Villages!"

VILLAGERS WIN!

(Oddwen finally gets it right!)

[Gurthang]

Well, I must say I played that rather poorly. Mainly my descision to leave Saucepan and Boromir alive so long. Saucepan, I must say that was a fantastice game you just played.

See I had it all worked out; there were three possibilities right there at the end.

1) Sauce votes me- I expected him to notice that Menel had voted with the set plan where I had yet to do, thus pointing him out as innocent. Knowing this, I was still planning on getting up very early in a vain hope to tie.

2) Sauce votes Menel- I was very happy when I saw that this is what Saucepan said he would do. It meant I could vote him and at least get a stalemate. (That is why I had to edit the ending. I was waiting with my 'stalemate' one ready to go, and I just posted it as soon as I saw that he had voted. I apologize, especially to Oddwen. Sorry. )

3)Sauce doesn't vote- This one, I didn't see happening really. I still had an ending prepared. I would have voted Saucepan and at least seen him die before the end. (I'm kinda mad that SamwiseGamgee didn't die in that finale! Maybe he will, I think Oddy's writing.) That would still leave Menel for a villager victory.

But alas, our beloved Sauce realized the possibilities nigh to the end, and saved the village. Congratulations to all on a great game! I've really enjoyed my first, and being the first Werebear at that!

[Oddwen]

Congratulations, all, to a game well-played! Especially to Gurth and SpM, sorry Gurth, I really wanted to see you win.

(Apologies for that last post...I read "Saucepan Man" instead of "Samwise Gamgee" and it escalated from there)

Hmm, one thing I would change in the future would be the Cobbler. This role shouldn't be allowed to outlive the Wolves.

[The Saucepan Man]

Maybe he will, I think Oddy's writing.

Oh I do hope so. I have been looking forward to the grand finale ...

EDIT: 'Tis done. Thanks Oddie, and thank you also for a great job of moderating. Apologies for my interminably lengthy discourses on who I should Hunt.

Originally Posted by Gurthang

Saucepan, I must say that was a fantastice game you just played.

Kind words, but rather over-stating the case, I fear. Were it not for me, CaptainofDespair and Nonnacedak might well have survived being lynched. I think that Durelin got it just about right:

Originally Posted by Durelin

SaucepanMan says too much, and really has no idea what he's doing.

And now, at last, I can use it in my sig, as I have been wanting to do so for the past week or so.

Originally Posted by Gurthang

But alas, our beloved Sauce realized the possibilities nigh to the end ...

That was a very close run thing. I ran through all the possibilities and options in my head last Night, in case you did not show up to vote until the end. But that one eluded me until the very last moment ...

I am glad that it did not come down to a mass lynching in the end. I am not a fan of the tactic. But I am very competitive, and so could not turn up what was in this game a valid stratagem.

More thoughts later.

[Gurthang]

Originally posted by Oddwen
Hmm, one thing I would change in the future would be the Cobbler. This role shouldn't be allowed to outlive the Wolves.

Or perhaps you should say that the Cobbler is for the wolves, but also against the village, so that they can still be on the Bear's team if it comes down to that. I have to admit, Durelin's coming into the open spawned a chain of confession that really sealed my fate.

Originally posted by Durelin
SaucepanMan says too much, and really has no idea what he's doing

Maybe, but you know who did have it right? Firefoot, way back on Day 2!

Originally posted by Firefoot (post #182)
Slightly random aside - I just started thinking again about why a bear would kill Alcarillo. Alcarillo only ever really indicated two other people besides Mithalwen to be suspicious - Gurthang and LMP (who he thinks is suspicious just for the early vote). His posts #48 and #60 are of note. Post #48 he decides Gurthang is pretty suspicious, then in #60 he changes his mind. Perhaps Gurthang is the were-bear? I'm not particularly convinced, but it's food for thought.

She deserves a lot of credit for figuring that out so early.(Well, at least saying she figured it out. ) I knew I couldn't kill her or it would be obvious, but I didn't have to worry, the wolves did it for me! Lucky!

By the way, does anyone else find it ironic that this game lasted almost three weeks and then came down to a single descision in the last five minutes!

[dancing spawn of ungoliant]

Hooray! I was already prepared to die but surviving is just much more fun. For a moment I thought that we were all doomed but all's well that ends well or something like that.

Originally Posted by Saucy

I am glad that it did not come down to a mass lynching in the end. I am not a fan of the tactic.

Yeah, me neither.

Now, let's build a bar and go celebrating!

Thanks everyone, this was a really enjoyable game!