TOL-IN-GAURHOTH XII, Erbar Telamarth

[Estelyn Telcontar]

Definitely only hypothetical, Fea!

How about Enca? Do you think her vote really was a mistake, and why? I don't understand her reaction, unless it really is that of a wolf cornered and desperate. A wolf alone could react just like that, seemingly giving up and hoping for a wonder...

[Estelyn Telcontar]

OK, I'm willing to go with a Shorty/B88 double if that's what we all agree on. As you've said, if Enca really is the wolf, we can get her on the next day - I hope...

At any rate, I will have to make my decision within the next half hour, as the RL part of my day starts then.

[Mister Underhill]

Alright, I'm on board. morm, do you agree? If so, how do we orchestrate it?

[mormegil]

I can't say I want Encai to survive, I can't tell you how much time and effort I put into this day and to have it ruined was frustrating. Okay we have one vote for TGWBS and 2 for Boromir. Esty vote for TGWBS and Fea vote the same.

Mister Underhill please vote Boromir and I will then vote for Encai as protest. Also before the end of the day I will post some closing thoughts because I feel that I will die.

[Estelyn Telcontar]

Here's my suggestion - we need one vote away from the two main targets. I can vote for Enca, which would genuinely reflect my long-standing suspicion of her, leaving the three of you to vote, one for Boro, two for tgwbs.

edit - morm, why are you changing back to Enca?

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Originally Posted by Estelyn Telcontar

At any rate, I will have to make my decision within the next half hour, as the RL part of my day starts then.

I know the feeling. I'm looking at my clock thinking "I've got a class in 7 1/2 hours and I'd like to finish a drawing before I go to bed."

Are we set on B and TGWBS tonight? If so, we next decide who votes for whom.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Okay. TGWBS it is. I'll vote shortly. And morm, I eagerly await your "last words" if they end up being them.

[mormegil]

Esty I was voting for Encai because I need to vote for somebody and the way outlined would make it so both TG and Boro have 3 votes each.

[Estelyn Telcontar]

OK, morm, it doesn't matter who votes for which, the important thing is to do it. Then go ahead with your vote for Enca, I will vote as necessary to make the double lynching work.

[Estelyn Telcontar]

My suggested voting list:

morm votes for Enca as he plans

I will vote for Boro, as he's top on my list

Underhill and Fea vote for tgwbs

Result - double lynching, all have voted.

Agreed?

[Mister Underhill]

The posts have been flying fast and furious. morm's plan is:

Esty - tgwbs
Fea - tgwbs
Me - Boro (creating the tie)
morm - Enca (symbolic)

Let's see those votes, people.

[mormegil]

Originally Posted by Mister Underhill

The posts have been flying fast and furious. morm's plan is:

Esty - tgwbs
Fea - tgwbs
Me - Boro (creating the tie)
morm - Enca (symbolic)

Let's see those votes, people.

Let's just stick with this okay.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Undé, may I be the one to vote for Boro?

Can I ask why it matters?

[Estelyn Telcontar]

Cross-posting is the only thing that can mess us up now. We need to have a quick agreement for the double-lynching to work. If by my vote for Enca , for Boro, or for tgwbs I can save our village, I will. You have my scissors!

Let's not vote before we have agreed on a list!

[the phantom]

"So, we have one wolf left," said Mister Underhill. "How do we go about catching it?"

"I say that we thoroughly analyze every single villager," suggested Mormegil.

"Except me, of course," put in Boromir. "I am quite obviously innocent."

"Shut up, Boromir!" snapped Fea, who was hating Boro more than usual today. "I say forget analysis- let's kill Boro!"

"You'll die if you do! And who cares if you're innocent- you'll deserve to die," countered Boromir.

"I'm getting really sick of you, Boromir!"

"Ah, go drown yourself in Teiglin, knuckle-head!"

"Knock it off, you two!" scolded Esty. "Let's focus on the job at hand."

"Yeah, let's get to work," agreed Enca, as she accidentally spilled her drink on the table.

"This is dumb- I'm killing myself!" declared the guy who be short, as he drew a knife and attempted to stab himself. Luckily, he was drunk and missed entirely and instead pinned his jacket to the wall.

"Someone keep an eye on him and make sure he doesn't kill himself," said Morm.

"I'll watch him," volunteered Enca, who rose out of her chair and, on her way over to him, accidentally knocked over four chairs.

[the phantom]

The amount of information that was brought forth and analyzed on Day 4 was astounding. Day 4 compared to the other days the way an essay would compare to a burrahobbit post.

But night was fast approaching, and a decision was necessary.

"I think we have enough analysis," said Underhill.

"All right then, what are we going to do?" asked Esty.

"Let's double lynch," said morm.

"Let's not," agreed Boro.

"Let's do both," added Enca, helpfully.

"Or perhaps we should do neither," assented Fea.

"See why I want to die?" mumbled tgwbs, while trying, quite unsuccessfully, to hang himself on a cobweb.

"Well," said Fea, "Boro has been right every time and has provided us with lots of entertainment. Let's kill him."

"Um, I'm not quite following your logic," objected morm.

"I'm with Fea," said Enca, as she accidentally fell off of her chair.

"I'm just going to do whatever morm says," said Underhill and Esty in chorus.

"Would someone take that knife away from tgwbs?" pleaded morm, noticing that the dwarf had managed to pry his long knife out of the wall.

"Hey!" objected tgwbs as Boromir snatched his knife.

"Thanks Boro," said morm.

"No problem," said Boro as he stabbed himself with tgwbs's knife.

"Are villages always like this?" asked Esty.

"Yes," answered Enca, who then knocked over a candle and set her table on fire.

"Sheesh, Enca, can you please stop screwing up?" cried a frustrated Mister Underhill.

"Put it out! Put it out!" yelled Fea and Esty as they frantically ran circles around the flaming table.

Over in the corner, tgwbs had his hands around his own neck and was attempting to strangle himself.

"Someone put the crazy cook out of his misery!" hollered morm.

But there was no need. tgwbs stumbled forward and fell on top of Boromir. The long knife Boromir had stabbed himself with was sticking out of his back, and tgwbs's throat came down right on it.

Finally, the fire was put out and order restored.

"Um, they're both dead," said morm.

"Yeah- and neither of them are wolves," said Esty.

"Oops," said Underhill, Fea, and Enca.

But Boromir was not quite dead. Even with the dwarf on top of him, he raised himself up painfully and looked each of the villagers in the eye.

"You're all a bunch of knuckle heads!" he rasped, and after giving them all the bird, he slumped back to the floor, dead.

Living-

• mormegil (messenger)
• Encaitare (jewel smith)
• Feanor of the Peredhil (tavern wench)
• Estelyn Telcontar (seamstress)
• Mister Underhill (itinerant drúadan watch-stone maker)

Dead-

• the phantom (Moderator- captured by Sauron and slain by wolves on Night 1)
• Anguirel (Ordinary- beaten to death by villagers on Day 1)
• Eomer of the Rohirrim (Hunter- died bravely battling Werewolves on Night 2)
• Cailin (Werewolf- slain by Hunter on Night 2)
• Shelob (Ordinary- beheaded on Day 2)
• littlemanpoet (Ranger- ambushed by Werewolves on Night 3)
• Lhunardawen (Ordinary- killed by Werewolf on Day 3)
• Formendacil (Werewolf- taken down by villagers on Day 3)
• Firefoot (Seer- slashed, beaten, stabbed, and snapped in half by Werewolf on Night 4)
• Boromir88 (Ordinary- couldn't stand knuckle-headed villagers any longer and commited suicide on Day 4)
• the guy who be short (Ordinary- got fed up with accusations and defenses and commited suicide on Day 4)

Score: Villagers- 4, Werewolves- 1

It is now NIGHT 5. Anyone posting before the next day begins will be smacked with Phantom's Stick of Slaying.

Wolf- I need your pick by 12:30 AM EST

[the phantom]

"So, Master, is it true that the wolf has made a kill tonight, and that tomorrow will be the end?" asked Mortakh.

"Yes," answered Sauron. "Doom will fall tomorrow. If my wolf is lynched, then the villagers win. If my wolf is not lynched, we win."

"What do you think will happen, Lord Sauron?"

"If there is one thing I have learned these past few days, Mortakh, it is that Erbar Telamarth is always full of surprises. I will not venture a guess at its fate. I will simply wait, and watch..."

[the phantom]

Estelyn walked into the tavern. Feanor of the Peredhil was already there, seated at the bar.

They waited in silence.

Encaitare entered and sat at a table.

A short while later, Mister Underhill came through the doorway.

"Seen Mormegil?" asked Fea.

Underhill shook his head. "I took a quick walk down towards his home- the door was torn off... and there was blood on the lawn. I didn't go inside, or follow the blood trail. I've seen enough death."

"Well, at least he knew he was going to die, and so was probably prepared to meet his fate," said Esty. The others nodded in agreement.

"Well, this is it," said Enca. "We've got to find the last wolf."

"Indeed," agreed Mister Underhill. "Now is not the time to hold back. Everyone needs to let it all out."

"Let's analyze like crazy!" said Fea.

"And absolutely NO suicide today!" warned Esty. "Remember, every time you vote for yourself, a skwerl dies."

And, with those final words of wisdom, the villagers launched into the final debate- the debate that would decide the doom of Erbar Telamarth.

Living-

• Encaitare (jewel smith)
• Feanor of the Peredhil (tavern wench)
• Estelyn Telcontar (seamstress)
• Mister Underhill (itinerant drúadan watch-stone maker)

Dead-

• the phantom (Moderator- captured by Sauron and slain by wolves on Night 1)
• Anguirel (Ordinary- beaten to death by villagers on Day 1)
• Eomer of the Rohirrim (Hunter- died bravely battling Werewolves on Night 2)
• Cailin (Werewolf- slain by Hunter on Night 2)
• Shelob (Ordinary- beheaded on Day 2)
• littlemanpoet (Ranger- ambushed by Werewolves on Night 3)
• Lhunardawen (Ordinary- killed by Werewolf on Day 3)
• Formendacil (Werewolf- taken down by villagers on Day 3)
• Firefoot (Seer- slashed, beaten, stabbed, and snapped in half by Werewolf on Night 4)
• Boromir88 (Ordinary- couldn't stand knuckle-headed villagers any longer and commited suicide on Day 4)
• the guy who be short (Ordinary- got fed up with accusations and defenses and commited suicide on Day 4)
• mormegil (Ordinary- as he predicted he was mauled by a Werewolf on Night 5)

Score: Villagers- 3, Werewolves- 1

The following villagers have informed me that their participation will be somewhat limited today- Encaitare will not be present to participate until around 4 PM EST.

[Estelyn Telcontar]

I'm sad that our choices had such a devastating outcome! Instead of the wolf, two innocents died, and now mormegil has been killed as well. I spent much of the past Night pondering our possibilities. Fortunately, it has not come to the worst, which would have been the transformation of a cursed villager into a werewolf.

What we need to do now is to plan a strategy that will give us the best chances of killing the last wolf. Here are the choices and their possible outcomes:

1. We lynch one person, it's the wolf, game over, three villagers survive, villagers win.

2. We lynch one person, it's an innocent, the wolf kills another in the coming Night, two survive, one of them is the wolf, wolves win.

3. We double lynch the two most suspicious villagers, thereby increasing our chances of getting the wolf; either we succeed and the villagers win, with two surviving, or we miss the wolf and lose.

I think the last choice is the best. It gives us the best chance of lynching a wolf. Whatever we do, the game is over by Night at the latest, more likely toDay.

I still think my list of suspects is valid; I had Enca pegged as the most suspicious and Fea as the next (50-50), with Underhill and myself as innocents. I know one of you young ladies is innocent, but it can't be helped - will you be willing to die for the best of the village? If not, you are definitely making yourself appear even more suspicious!

I ask Fea and Enca not to vote for themselves - phantom got it right, I think the suicidal votes are stupid, and all of them have gone wrong in this game. But I ask each of you to vote for the other one, then Underhill and I can finish by tieing the votes for a double lynching.

I know I'm coming out early with this suggestion, but as I consider it the very best possibility for the villagers to win, I offer it to you all. Unfortunately, I will be away for several hours this afternoon and evening, and I know Enca won't be able to defend herself until later, but I shall do my very best to make up for lost time before and after my absence.

I'm not sure how much a lot of analysis will help us - we've done so much of that! But we can go back and at least honour Boromir, tgwbs, and mormegil by attempting to pick up clues from their contributions.

If either Enca or Fea votes for Underhill or myself, she is most likely to be the wolf, and I would suggest concentrating all following votes on her!


PS - I will definitely by voting late this very last Day of the game! As I did on the previous Day, I will be up early in my time zone to discuss the possibilities with the rest of you and to cast my crucial vote just before the deadline.


PPS - I just reread morm's last post, in which he suggests this very same tactic. Since the dead are always right and always good that means we should definitely do it!

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Originally Posted by Estelyn Telcontar

How about Enca? Do you think her vote really was a mistake, and why?

It might have been. I lean toward it, actually. Wolves aren't that sloppy. Sure, she might be feeling the pressure if she is a wolf, but still, I have confidence in her aplomb in situations like that. I wouldn't expect her to so openly screw up at all.

On the other hand... I know diddly squat for certain, so she could easily be lupine.