Tol-in-Gaurhoth XVII: The Saga Continues to Continue quite Continuously

[Garin]

Good job guys and gals!! After I had died I was root'n for the village!

How could you Naria?
Maybe your sympathies for the village existed before your death. You should have stuck with your fellow lycanthropes.
I mourned your death.

[Naria]

How could you Naria?
Maybe your sympathies for the village existed before your death. You should have stuck with your fellow lycanthropes.
I mourned your death

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Come, come Garin. If you had been put in the spotlight by one of your own kind over and over again like I was and died as a result you wouldn't be rooting for the other side? I know everyone has there own opinion but at that time in the game I was just being talked about because of my quiteness and was getting ready to redeem myself in some way and TGWBS hung me out too dry. Sorry Shorty. But it's true. I made a terrible wolf, maybe it was because it was my first time being one. However I am surprised that you lasted for as long as you did, good job!

People please don't turn this into something that it's not, I'm not bitter(anymore at least)and had fun playing with all of you.

It's repping time!!

[Valier]

Aha!!! I knew you were a wolf Garin!! Sorry but I guess I will always suspect you....We should call a truse (sp.?) So was it you who got me killed? ...just curious.

[Shelob]

Good Game All. And I knew you were a wolf Garin, I just knew it...not that it did me any good mind you, but I knew it.

[Meneltarmacil]

Um, I kind of wound up deleting most of Glirdan's requests from previous Nights in order to make room for new wolf kills, seer dreams, and such after the new Day had begun, so I really don't remember them either.

However, I do remember one occasion on which Cailin tried to protect The Saucepan Man on the very same Night that Glirdaga* tried to hunt him.

*Okay, it's official. "Daga" is part of the average BDer's vocabulary now.

[malkatoj]

You fools! You killed Kath! I dreamt of her the night I died and all day I was sitting there saying 'Don't kill Kath Don't kill Kath Don't kill Kath' over and over. And you did anyway.

'twas a fun game! I quite like being a seer.

[Kath]

Well done guys! Sorry I had to miss so much but wow this was a fast game!

Menel, any chance of information regarding who chose what each Night?

[mormegil]

Cobbler was a wonderful role and while I didn't come through from my wolves I felt like I helped some. I was really hoping that the village would kill me this last day. That would have evened up the numbers a bit and given Garin the chance. I knew it was him for the last couple of days.

I attempted to leave a very subtle hint or two hoping that the wolves would pick up on them but seemingly only SpM picked up on them. It was rather fun flushing out Cailin as I fully knew she was gifted. I was hoping and hoping that they would kill Malka the night they killed Marcolie. This role really made me think differently and I think better than I have in the past.

Thanks to Formendacil for providing good cover for the first couple of days.

Great game all...and Sauce how does it feel to actually survive until the end? It very rare that you and I do that

[The Saucepan Man]

Phew!

I don't have to eat my pans or spend the next five weeks kicking myself after all ...

Well, that was - er - stressful. I'm wondering whether it might be better to go back to consistently being killed within the first two days.

But great fun, too.

I cannot believe that I survived for so long, even with my initial ineptitude.

Commiserations to the Wolves, but congratulations too. You did a great job. Without malka's astute dreaming, it's likely that you would have won. Speaking of which ...

... massive kudos to malka. You targetted your dreams extremely well. Not only did you pin down a Wolf whom we probably would not otherwise have got, but you managed to declare a significant proportion of the village innocent (if not free from possible Cobblerishness), which was a great help. Though I was almost certain that you and Glirdan were going to get me lynched the day before you dreamed of me. I am so glad that you dreamed of me when you did.

As usual, I spent most of the first half of the game suspecting all the wrong people and generally helping to get innocents lynched. Sorry about that. Abercrombie and Shelob I don't feel too bad about, as a vote for an innocent is fairly likely on the first two days. But I bitterly rued my part in Cailin's death. I did actually independently reach the same conclusion stated by mormegil, but it was a self-centred view (looking at who might have orchestrated the murmurings against me) and I unforgiveably allowed myself to be swayed by mormegil's confirmation of my thoughts. You played your role very well there, morm.

However, at the risk of appearing immodest, I feel rather proud of having spotted Naria. It was little to do with TGWBS having targetted you and voted for you, Naria, but a direct result of the theory that I posted. You know, the one that analysed the percentages of votes for known innocents. You stood out to me as the only person who had not voted for a known (to me) innocent. Hmm, I must bear that theory in mind for the future.

Mind you, on the other hand, it also led me to believe (at first, at least) that Garin's overly suspicious behaviour and voting pattern indicated that he was innocent. I could not believe that a Wolf could be so closely implicated in the deaths of so many known innocents. Whether intentional or not, it was a good tactic to have two Wolves with entirely different voting patterns.

As for TGWBS, well what can I say? Fiendishly cunning play, my friend and well done to you. I really did trust you right up to the end of the day before you died. I was concerned over your targetting of morm, though, who I also trusted at that stage. And that, if anything, is what really done for you as it prompted malka to dream of you that night. Had it not been for her, we might well never have spotted you.

A few other thoughts.

Nilp I knew was innocent from our exchange of acrostics (the first letters in each line of two of our posts). You could have been bluffing, Nilp, but instinctively I felt that you were not, and was glad to see that you felt the same way about my response.

It was clear (to me at least) from Cailin's death that Glirdan was the Hunter. There was an outside chance that it was TGWBS (because of his defence of her). But with malka's declaration, there really was no other candidate. Sorry for outing you, old chap, but I felt that it was the best thing to do at the time. We really needed as many known innocents as possible, especially with the Cobbler probably still lurking among the other declared innocents. And, hey, it was probably what kept you alive until the end.

Formendacil, what were you playing at? Still, you helped clarify in my mind mormegil's likely Cobblerishness. Once we got down to the double lynching discussions it became clear to me that morm was the Cobbler. An innocent morm would have been taking control, putting forward plans and generally being much more vocal.

And why do I always suspect you dancing spawn, even when you have come across as nothing but innocent all game? It must be a habit, I suppose. But it did nearly lead us to lynch both you and Kath on the penultimate day, which would probably have proved disastrous. I am so glad that I had the time to go back and review everything and finally work out that Garin's suspicious behaviour meant that he actually was most likely guilty.

Oh, and sorry Gil. I am no gambler and really didn't want to take the risk of the game going into a further day there.

Ah well, great game. Thanks to everyone involved. I really enjoyed it. And thanks especially to Modeltarmacil for a wonderfully modded game. Just one little quibble - why'd I have to be an ordinary villager AGAIN??!!

Oh look. Another interminably lengthy post from me. What a surprise! You were so right, Form, when you pointed out that I really know no other way of playing ...