Tol-in-Gaurhoth XIII: Enter Shamville

[dancing spawn of ungoliant]

Glirdan was the one to gather the most votes that day, and the villagers didn't bother to hide their content as they cracked their knuckles and surrounded him. But the villagers' cheerfulness dropped away soon, when they faced a knotty problem: how do you kill an undead, especially one with Michael Jackson's nose? Was it possible to kill an undead with physical pain? "And my goal in life is to give to the world what I was lucky to receive: the ecstasy of divine union through my music and my dance", Glirdan smiled blissfully. "But then again, I'm already dead", he muttered.

"Let's taunt him to death!"

This easy (and clean) way received instant approval and Glirdan was trussed up with a rope and placed in the middle of the Village Square. "Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation", Glirdan philosophized, but the villagers didn't listen. Horrible curses started echoing in the twilight.

"You... you blockhead!"

"Scoundrel!"

"Ni!"

Glirdan rolled his eyes (clearly in horrible agony).

"You dried neat's-tongue!"

"Thou unmuzzled milk-livered hugger-mugger!"

All of the sudden, Glirdan's body fell limp on the ground. The affronts had finally worked! Or maybe the credit should have gone to a throwing axe that had cracked the back of his head, when some frustrated villager had decided to speed things up. In any case, the dead body that laid in front of the lot was a body of an innocent for it had not transformed.



Living:
Anguirel - jester
Eonwe - militiaman
Firefoot - traveller who has a dog
Lalaith - goosegirl
littlemanpoet - village undertaker
tar-ancalime - charlatan

Dead:
dancing spawn of ungoliant(mod) - mangled, tangled and strangled in fishing nets on Night 1
Bergil(ord) - hanged to death with profitable consequences on Day 1
Kuruharan(ord) - half devoured and prepared to be turned into haggis on Night 2
Meneltarmacil(ord) - sat on, roasted, minced and boiled by three passing by trolls on Day 2
Kath(ord) - chopped up and organized alphabetically on Night 3
WaynetheGoblin(wolf) - burned to death on Day 3
Celuien(ranger) - mauled with musical instruments on Night 4
Kitanna(wolf) - stoned, battered and decapitated on Day 4
Wilwarin538(seer) - eyes plucked out and made into a scarecrow on Night 5
Glirdan(ord) - taunted to death on Day 5

Score:
Villagers: 6
Wolves: 1

It is now night 6. You know what to do. The Night ends in 24 hours at 9:00 pm. GMT.

[dancing spawn of ungoliant]

"And now the end is near and so I face the final curtain
my friend, I'll say it clear
I'll state my case, of which I'm certain
I've lived a life that's full, I've travelled each and ev'ry highway
and more, much more than this
I did it my way"

As usual the villagers met on the square in order to update Shamville's population. The count had declined with two that morning. Firefoot and her dog were missing.

The villagers trod to the traveller's humble shanty which she had built where the forest began. The first thing to catch the group's eye was Firefoot's skinned mutt, whose pelt was hung up to a limb of a spruce. Taking a deep breath, the villagers yanked the hut's door open and stepped in.

Lo and behold! There they saw Firefoot sleeping firmly under her blanket. But once everybody was convinced that it was hardly probable that Firefoot's dog would have just jumped out of his skin by himself, the villagers agreed that everything wasn't quite right after all. Carefully they lifted Firefoot's cover but seeing in what condition her body was, they put the blanket back pretty quickly. In some other occasion, it might have been interesting to discover, how purple, bruised and twisted one human body can be, but considering that the person concerned was one of their friends, it was understandable that they didn't stay examining her corpse very long.



Living:
Anguirel - jester
Eonwe - militiaman
Lalaith - goosegirl
littlemanpoet - village undertaker
tar-ancalime - charlatan

Dead:
dancing spawn of ungoliant(mod) - mangled, tangled and strangled in fishing nets on Night 1
Bergil(ord) - hanged to death with profitable consequences on Day 1
Kuruharan(ord) - half devoured and prepared to be turned into haggis on Night 2
Meneltarmacil(ord) - sat on, roasted, minced and boiled by three passing by trolls on Day 2
Kath(ord) - chopped up and organized alphabetically on Night 3
WaynetheGoblin(wolf) - burned to death on Day 3
Celuien(ranger) - mauled with musical instruments on Night 4
Kitanna(wolf) - stoned, battered and decapitated on Day 4
Wilwarin538(seer) - eyes plucked out and made into a scarecrow on Night 5
Glirdan(ord) - taunted to death on Day 5
Firefoot(ord) - mutilated and deformed on Night 6

Score:
Villagers: 5
Wolves: 1

It is now Day 6. It will last 24 hours unless it is fine with everybody that we speed things up. Have a nice Day!

[littlemanpoet]

Most sorry at your passing, Firefoot. I think the werewolf has given up, or she might have attempted Lalaith. That which is below I wrote before hand:

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The bulk of this post is being written during the Night phase.

We have three known innocents left "toDay". Who they are depends upon how things went down last Night:
tar went after either Lal or Firefoot. If Firefoot is dead, may she rest in peace knowing that the innocents have won. As Eonwe said, all you have to do is lynch either tar or me toDay; if this horror is not yet over, it means you will have lynched another innocent (me), and tar will take out another innocent tomorrow; just for kicks, let's say Anguirel. That leaves Lal & Eonwe as our innocents, and tar as our werewolf, and the two known innocents finally lynch the werewolf, terror eliminated. Take your pick, because it really doesn't matter.

The other possibility is that tar took a huge risk and banked on Lal being more suspicious of me than of her, and killed Lal last Night. If that's the case, we have three known innocents left, and the results are the same as in the above scenario, innocents have won, terror eliminated.

I'll tell you right now the same thing that tar is probably saying:

I'm an ordinary innocent.

Early on I offered a plan that got the discussion going. I made moves that would be too bold for a werewolf to make. I said things and did things that have all the earmarks of an innocent who doesn't have to watch his words really carefully because he has nothing to hide. On Day two, I pointed out tar's suspiciousness for all to see, and Firefoot caught on. So did Wilwa. But tar is canny enough and I'm trusting (or something) enough that she was able to pull the wool back over my eyes. 20/20 hindsight, I wish Wilwa had dreamed of her instead of Eonwe. Ah well.

I don't envy you guys your task of choosing between us toDay. You are quite right in thinking that either of us would probably play a very cunning werewolf. Just one problem. I'm a mercurial individual, as Anguirel & Lal can no doubt attest from these last few Days. I'm not the kind who can consistently pull off a lie that long, especially posting a lot. The best I can do, which I would have done (and did once in another 'life'), was tell the truth as much as I could, and say as little by way of fib as possible. That's how I would have been a werewolf. That's not what you saw from me over these last few Days. You saw someone who came out and said what was on his mind often, and was often wrong, even a little inconsistent at times, but always doing his best to aid the cause.

tar made an audacious move by initiating the move against her fellow werewolf Kitanna, by which she excused herself in my eyes. Very cunning. I can imagine that Kitanna informed her during the previous Night that her schedule was looking pretty busy and that she was sorry that she needed to really take a back seat and even vote against herself. tar decided to use that to her advantage and make herself look innocent. Just one problem: she voted to lynch the Hunter yesterDay. It may be that she did that before Lal revealed, though; if Lal had not, I would have voted for her lynching yesterDay too. Ah well. So you guys are still in a pickle. Nevertheless, notice that, as I pointed out in my "notes on tar" post, that tar tried to play Lal, Glirdan, and me off against each other, setting up that I would have to be guilty if Glirdan was innocent; however, her scheme backfired when I decided from all Glirdan's posts up until that Day that he had been too consistently against Lal to be a werewolf .... until he became suspicious in terms of the bait and switch. Circles and circles! Argh! Anyway, all this mental turmoil still comes down to the village wins toDay or toMorrow - - take your pick.

So if you want this village to survive with more than just two innocent villagers left, put your vote to

++ tar-ancalime

toDay, like I just did.

I shall come out from my undertaking duties periodically toDay to answer any questions you have to put to me. Otherwise, you can expect silence from me. May you do the right thing.

[Anguirel]

A quick Quip Modest ere I sleep-

I think the undertaker is probably quite right, and I am likely quite wrong, considering my past record. However, for the sake of tradition, I intend to do my utmost to get him hanged.

It's a political statement, apart from anything else. A final, desperate outburst of levity. And then there's the fact that the village is guaranteed victory in any case, and it would be so much nicer if we could be saved by the guidance of someone other than the astute but frightfully self-important littlemanpoet...

[littlemanpoet]

Originally Posted by Anguirel

... it would be so much nicer if we could be saved by the guidance of someone other than the astute but frightfully self-important littlemanpoet...

Gobtwiddle, of course, my dear jester.

[Lalaith]

LMP, why would the wolf go for me? His/her only chance is to find the cursed villager, and I can't be both hunter and cursed....anyway, I'm off to bed too, I'll talk more in the morning...

[tar-ancalime]

Just one problem: she voted to lynch the Hunter yesterDay. It may be that she did that before Lal revealed, though; if Lal had not, I would have voted for her lynching yesterDay too.

I don't understand why everyone takes Lalaith at her word that she's the Hunter.

She revealed herself yesterDAY with two votes already against her (no chance of cross-posting; plenty of time between those posts)--to me it looked like a desperate ploy to save herself from being lynched by "proving" herself innocent.

lmp, I'm curious as to why you in particular believe her--you said yourself (quoted above) that you were ready to vote for her, and that it was her admission that she's the Hunter that saved her from your keystrokes.