Tol-in-Gaurhoth XVIII: The Play’s The Thing… - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

AbercrombieOfRohan · 03-03-2006, 04:38 PM

(The village center after a day of confusion and uncertainty.)

Saucepan Man: To lynch Aiwendil or Farael, that is the question.
Celuien: We should go with Farael...I think, perhaps. Or not.
Farael: Are you finally going to listen to me? I've been telling you since Day 1 that Aiwendil's a wolf.

(Village cautiously banters about who would make the better lynching candidate. Ad lib.)

Aiwendil: I swear to you I've been a faithful cook. I never once baked anyone in a pie or anything!
Nilpaurion Felagund: It comes to this, I must vote now and Aiwendil seems more likely. Good-bye, Aiwendil.
Village: (hesitatingly) ok...
Formendacil: Now how do we get rid of him?

(Gestures are made such as nail-biting and nervously twisting.)

Glirdan: Well, we could use the stake.

(Village captures Aiwendil and drags him to the woodpile where a stake is erected, for just such an emergency.)

(Aiwendil screams in protest. The village ignores him and continues with their deed.)

(Village stands back and someone drops a match onto the pyre. As it goes up in flames a terrible roar is heard.)

Saucepan Man: Can anyone smell that?
Farael: Yes! Yes, I can! It smells like burning wolf hair! Success!

The village had caught another wolf.

Living:
Saucepan Man
Farael
Glirdan
Formendacil
Nilpaurion Felagund
Celuien

Dead:
Shelob (Mod)--Killed by wolves on NIGHT 1
Abercrombie (Mod)--Killed while Yeti-Spotting on NIGHT 1
Gil-Galad (Ordinary)--Lynched at the close of DAY 1
Holbytlass (True Seer)--Gloucester-ized and welled on NIGHT 2
Lhunardawen (Ordinary)--Drown’d a muddy death upon DAY 2
Anguirel (Ordinary)--Killed quite safely during NIGHT 3
Littlemanpoet (Ordinary)--Vanished during DAY 3
Garin (Ordinary)--Lynched at the end of an eventful DAY 3
Dancing Spawn of Ungoliant (Ordinary)--Thus was the shepherd beaten from their side during NIGHT 4
Eomer of the Rohirrim (Werewolf)--Died without a friend, but plenty of fiends DAY 4.
Boromir88 (Ranger)--Like Corey, burried under the contents of a Quarry during NIGHT 5
Tar-Ancalime (Ordinary)--Made an Ex-ex-leper at the end of DAY 5
Kath (Ordinary)--Killed by the Hunter during NIGHT 6
Mormegil (Hunter)--Stabbed in the back by wolves during NIGHT 6
Aiwendil (Werewolf)--burned at the stake at the end of DAY 6

Shelob · 03-04-2006, 04:05 PM

(The villagers began their days, as they had not in the past week, by looking at their calendars, given the excitement this past week most of them had quite forgotten to change the calendars from the past month to the current one. Having noticed this some few of them switched their calendars now, though even fewer made any note of the months involved. Shortly thereafter they met again in the village square, where they’re met by a rather cut up and bloody corpse.)

Celuien: Formendacil!
Nilp: What did the wolves do to him? What could make such fine and tiny cuts?
Glirdan: (having picked up a bloodied piece of paper from the ground near Form) Perhaps they used this? It certainly gave someone a papercut or two.
Farael: (taking the paper from Glirdan) It looks like it’s from a calendar, wait…there’s something written here, scrawled really. It looks like “He said ‘beware the sides of March’, I didn’t think they were dangerous. I was wrong.”

(There’s a moment while all they absorb the implications of this.)

Saucepan Man: Well, it looks like there’s only one thing we can do.

-----
Living:
Saucepan Man
Farael
Glirdan
Nilpaurion Felagund
Celuien

Dead:
Shelob (Mod)--Killed by wolves on NIGHT 1
Abercrombie (Mod)--Killed while Yeti-Spotting on NIGHT 1
Gil-Galad (Ordinary)--Lynched at the close of DAY 1
Holbytlass (True Seer)--Gloucester-ized and welled on NIGHT 2
Lhunardawen (Ordinary)--Drown’d a muddy death upon DAY 2
Anguirel (Ordinary)--Killed quite safely during NIGHT 3
Littlemanpoet (Ordinary)--Vanished during DAY 3
Garin (Ordinary)--Lynched at the end of an eventful DAY 3
Dancing Spawn of Ungoliant (Ordinary)--Thus was the shepherd beaten from their side during NIGHT 4
Eomer of the Rohirrim (Werewolf)--Died without a friend, but plenty of fiends DAY 4.
Boromir88 (Ranger)--Like Corey, burried under the contents of a Quarry during NIGHT 5
Tar-Ancalime (Ordinary)--Made an Ex-ex-leper at the end of DAY 5
Kath (Ordinary)--Killed by the Hunter during NIGHT 6
Mormegil (Hunter)-- )--Stabbed in the back by wolves during NIGHT 6
Aiwendil (Werewolf)--Burned at the stake at the end of DAY 6
Formendacil (False Seer/Fool)--Done to death by numerous papercuts during NIGHT 7

You know the drill, have at it.

Celuien · 03-04-2006, 04:23 PM

I'm glad I didn't go with my subjective suspicions yesterday. My apologies to you Farael, both for suspecting you yesterday, and for not listening to your identification of Aiwendil eariler.

Aiwendil's guilt confirms both SPM's and Nilp's innocence for me.

So does anyone see a reason not to vote for Glirdan now?

Farael · 03-04-2006, 06:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Celuien

So does anyone see a reason not to vote for Glirdan now?

How about the fact that you were suspiciously associated with Aiwolfdil, voting the same as him to save your buddy Eomer... and for most of yesterDay, went after me?

If it wasnt' for your voting record, I'd think you mostly innocent as I can see why you'd suspect me but... voting record does not exactly shed a good light on you and... why so hasty to vote for Glirdan? trying to make up our collective minds before the silent one gets to talk?

Oh, and SPM... don't worry about implying that Aiwendil is smarter than me... I can see where you went wrong

after all, I'm still alive and you all have to admit that I was right... I should start printing t-shirts saying "Farael Was Right" (see Simpsons, episode of the martian/Mr. Burns)

Anyway, I actually see Celuien pretty suspicious today... right now, we can actually afford to meassure our time, let's go through the people who are still alive.

Living:
Saucepan Man: Aiwendil is a wolf. If he hadn't been, I would have been congratulating Saucepan Wolf over a well played game (And not expecting anyone to believe me) but I can put those crazy suspicions to rest now, given that he is most likely innocent... heck, he IS innocent.
Farael: That's me
Glirdan: Has been very silent, let's give the guy a chance to talk.
Nilpaurion Felagund: Timezones might affect him, but he's on the same boat as SPM... if Aiwendil was innocent then I would have gone after SPM and Nilp, but right now it doesn't seem the case.
Celuien: Voting record looks pretty bad, her mistake with Eomer looks suspicious at least for me. On her favour I should note that she was the second to vote for Aiwolfdil... on a day that the first person to reach three votes would have been lynched barring a Glirdan comeback. Hmmm now I'm hesitating.

Anyway, I hope I'm not commiting the cardinal sin of assuming too much, but I'd think that we have three 'known' innocent right now, SPM, Nilp and myself. That leaves Celuien and Glirdan as the most likely to be wolvish... I'm going to look back and into Celuien's words yesterDay while waiting for Glirdan to show up... I think a no-show by Glirdan should be reason enough to take him to the gallows.... but if not, I'd say Celuien is my prime suspect for now. Yet I'm not as convinced as I'd like to be

Glirdan · 03-04-2006, 07:19 PM

RL Comment - While all of you were busy talking about my scilence, my band is advancing to the nationals. Now you see that I had perfectly good reason to not be here.

I see that the suspicions of me will not let up. Frankly I am quite annoyed with the fact that I said that I will not be able to post as much as I normally do, and you still get suspicous of it! You know what, if you want proof that I'm innocent, lynch me! I was actually going to start participating more but from the looks of things, a lot of people would rather I just be dead. Fine, do it! But I'm going to say that it would be a complete waste of a day. If you need me, I'll be practicing for my other competitions.

Farael · 03-04-2006, 07:43 PM

Oh boy, wrong move... it's the third time someone says lynch me so far

Anyway, given that I said it I can't really turn Glirdan's last comment so that it'll look suspicious without being a hipocrite.... master Glirdan, I'd recomend you think twice and come back... I think we would all like to hear from you, and you have to remember, we were grasping at straws yesterDay...

Celuien · 03-04-2006, 07:54 PM

Well, if you really feel the need to suspect me, be my guest. I wouldn't expect you to do anything else, really, given my strong suspicions of you yesterday and my dismal record of picking wolves.

Anyway, I'm convinced that the last wolf is Glirdan by process of elimination, since I know it's not me and I'm pretty confident that it's not SPM, Nilp, or Farael after yesterday's events.

I won't vote yet though. Just want to see what everyone has to say first.

Glirdan · 03-04-2006, 08:10 PM

Oh, I'm not going anywhere. And another thing I'm telling you, I shall be looking at all the post for TODAY. Not yesterDay or the Day before that, TODAY. Reason being that I do not have time to go back and see what's been going on (RL problems[need to get caught up in homework]).

Quote:

So does anyone see a reason not to vote for Glirdan now

And here comes a rant and venting on all of you.

Like I said, you want to lynch me, be my guest. I'm over this. All of you (who are alive) with the exception of SpM are after me due to my scilence. Is it my fault that I'm a professional musician and that I get called out of town wether it be on short term notice or pre-arranged?? Is it?? How many times have I specifically said that I will be away for the last three days??? Yet you still suspect me!! I'm over trying to explain myself!!

Ok, rant over.

Now, I have to disagree with what you just said Farael:

Quote:

If it wasnt' for your voting record, I'd think you mostly innocent as I can see why you'd suspect me but... voting record does not exactly shed a good light on you and... why so hasty to vote for Glirdan? trying to make up our collective minds before the silent one gets to talk?

If she were the last Wolf, she'd be smart enough to keep me around to keep the suspicions on me. That's what I've noticed. The only reason I'm still around is because SpM and a few others have spoken in my defense and the Wolves have realised that if I'm still around, I'd get all the suspicions. And I must say that so far, it's come true.

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Glirdan: Has been very silent, let's give the guy a chance to talk

I'm thankful you said that, but it doesn't take off the anger.

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I think a no-show by Glirdan should be reason enough to take him to the gallows

But now you kind of contradict yourself. You say I should be given the chance to talk yet if I don't show, lynch me (which I should have done by the looks of things).

Nilpaurion Felagund · 03-05-2006, 02:29 AM

(to Aiwendil) And that was for the Shepherdess!

This last Wolf's head will be for my sister the Princess. Speaking of . . . hey, shrillboy Glirdan

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RL Comment - While all of you were busy talking about my scilence, my band is advancing to the nationals. Now you see that I had perfectly good reason to not be here.

I see that the suspicions of me will not let up. Frankly I am quite annoyed with the fact that I said that I will not be able to post as much as I normally do, and you still get suspicous of it! You know what, if you want proof that I'm innocent, lynch me! I was actually going to start participating more but from the looks of things, a lot of people would rather I just be dead. Fine, do it! But I'm going to say that it would be a complete waste of a day. If you need me, I'll be practicing for my other competitions. (Glirdan)

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Like I said, you want to lynch me, be my guest. I'm over this. All of you (who are alive) with the exception of SpM are after me due to my scilence. (Glirdan)

I'm suspicious of you only because there is no-one else to be suspicious of. I'm innocent. I think Farael is, because during DAY 5 Aiwendil's vote for him put him in the lead with six more voters left--an unnecessary risk for a Werewolf. I think Sauce is innocent because of his DAY 4/DAY 6 voting trend. I think Celuien is innocent because she was the second one to vote for Aiwendil.

That leaves you.

Farael · 03-05-2006, 02:56 AM

Glirdan, you remind me of a comment that SPM made about me

You seem to want to argue your way up into my suspicion list (or something along those lines)

To begin with, let's face it... Celuien is accusing you because she can't accuse anyone else. She could go after me I guess as my innocence is not as established, but given yesterday's happenings and the fact that you are more suspicious, you are an easy choice.

Now, I wonder, why would you react like you did? we all know that those who are silent are most likely to be suspected... you were silent, even if you had proper excuses, and so you are suspected. We had nothing to go on with, barely any voting record, no talk on both of the days we lynched a wolf. Don't you think that we AT LEAST have grounds to feel uneasy about you?

And about my 'apparent' contradiction, I said both that we should give you a chance to talk... and that if you didn't show up we should get rid of you. I Think we are all aware that you were coming back toDay and thus if you were still away it might have been a smart wolvish move to let us wonder about you without giving us anything to work with. Where's the contradiction?

Now that we have given you a (short so far) chance to talk, I must say I think you should have stayed silent, then perhaps we would have had second-thoughts on that matter.

And you know, something that had somehow slipped my mind until Nilp brought it up... Celuien was the second one to vote for Aiwolfdil.... which meant that one more vote would have meant Aiwen's lynching.... and I was yet to cast my vote. A wolvish Celuien should have known that I was innocent and thus all but certain to vote for Aiwendil.

If you can explain all that, I might consider not voting for you. If you go on another rant, accuse us all of not having a life outside werewolf and storm out to practice for your band... well, good luck with your band!

03-03-2006, 04:38 PM	#1
AbercrombieOfRohan Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 311	The Dreadful Story of Aiwendil and the Matches (The village center after a day of confusion and uncertainty.) Saucepan Man: To lynch Aiwendil or Farael, that is the question. Celuien: We should go with Farael...I think, perhaps. Or not. Farael: Are you finally going to listen to me? I've been telling you since Day 1 that Aiwendil's a wolf. (Village cautiously banters about who would make the better lynching candidate. Ad lib.) Aiwendil: I swear to you I've been a faithful cook. I never once baked anyone in a pie or anything! Nilpaurion Felagund: It comes to this, I must vote now and Aiwendil seems more likely. Good-bye, Aiwendil. Village: (hesitatingly) ok... Formendacil: Now how do we get rid of him? (Gestures are made such as nail-biting and nervously twisting.) Glirdan: Well, we could use the stake. (Village captures Aiwendil and drags him to the woodpile where a stake is erected, for just such an emergency.) (Aiwendil screams in protest. The village ignores him and continues with their deed.) (Village stands back and someone drops a match onto the pyre. As it goes up in flames a terrible roar is heard.) Saucepan Man: Can anyone smell that? Farael: Yes! Yes, I can! It smells like burning wolf hair! Success! The village had caught another wolf. Living: Saucepan Man Farael Glirdan Formendacil Nilpaurion Felagund Celuien Dead: Shelob (Mod)--Killed by wolves on NIGHT 1 Abercrombie (Mod)--Killed while Yeti-Spotting on NIGHT 1 Gil-Galad (Ordinary)--Lynched at the close of DAY 1 Holbytlass (True Seer)--Gloucester-ized and welled on NIGHT 2 Lhunardawen (Ordinary)--Drown’d a muddy death upon DAY 2 Anguirel (Ordinary)--Killed quite safely during NIGHT 3 Littlemanpoet (Ordinary)--Vanished during DAY 3 Garin (Ordinary)--Lynched at the end of an eventful DAY 3 Dancing Spawn of Ungoliant (Ordinary)--Thus was the shepherd beaten from their side during NIGHT 4 Eomer of the Rohirrim (Werewolf)--Died without a friend, but plenty of fiends DAY 4. Boromir88 (Ranger)--Like Corey, burried under the contents of a Quarry during NIGHT 5 Tar-Ancalime (Ordinary)--Made an Ex-ex-leper at the end of DAY 5 Kath (Ordinary)--Killed by the Hunter during NIGHT 6 Mormegil (Hunter)--Stabbed in the back by wolves during NIGHT 6 Aiwendil (Werewolf)--burned at the stake at the end of DAY 6

03-04-2006, 04:05 PM	#2
Shelob Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: At the abysmal Abyss Mall. Posts: 276	Honesty’s a fool and loses that it works for. (The villagers began their days, as they had not in the past week, by looking at their calendars, given the excitement this past week most of them had quite forgotten to change the calendars from the past month to the current one. Having noticed this some few of them switched their calendars now, though even fewer made any note of the months involved. Shortly thereafter they met again in the village square, where they’re met by a rather cut up and bloody corpse.) Celuien: Formendacil! Nilp: What did the wolves do to him? What could make such fine and tiny cuts? Glirdan: (having picked up a bloodied piece of paper from the ground near Form) Perhaps they used this? It certainly gave someone a papercut or two. Farael: (taking the paper from Glirdan) It looks like it’s from a calendar, wait…there’s something written here, scrawled really. It looks like “He said ‘beware the sides of March’, I didn’t think they were dangerous. I was wrong.” (There’s a moment while all they absorb the implications of this.) Saucepan Man: Well, it looks like there’s only one thing we can do. ----- Living: Saucepan Man Farael Glirdan Nilpaurion Felagund Celuien Dead: Shelob (Mod)--Killed by wolves on NIGHT 1 Abercrombie (Mod)--Killed while Yeti-Spotting on NIGHT 1 Gil-Galad (Ordinary)--Lynched at the close of DAY 1 Holbytlass (True Seer)--Gloucester-ized and welled on NIGHT 2 Lhunardawen (Ordinary)--Drown’d a muddy death upon DAY 2 Anguirel (Ordinary)--Killed quite safely during NIGHT 3 Littlemanpoet (Ordinary)--Vanished during DAY 3 Garin (Ordinary)--Lynched at the end of an eventful DAY 3 Dancing Spawn of Ungoliant (Ordinary)--Thus was the shepherd beaten from their side during NIGHT 4 Eomer of the Rohirrim (Werewolf)--Died without a friend, but plenty of fiends DAY 4. Boromir88 (Ranger)--Like Corey, burried under the contents of a Quarry during NIGHT 5 Tar-Ancalime (Ordinary)--Made an Ex-ex-leper at the end of DAY 5 Kath (Ordinary)--Killed by the Hunter during NIGHT 6 Mormegil (Hunter)-- )--Stabbed in the back by wolves during NIGHT 6 Aiwendil (Werewolf)--Burned at the stake at the end of DAY 6 Formendacil (False Seer/Fool)--Done to death by numerous papercuts during NIGHT 7 You know the drill, have at it. __________________ A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name ~Evan Esar. Pan for Everyone! Last edited by Shelob; 03-04-2006 at 05:06 PM. Reason: minor mistake in the list of the dead, there was a word missing.

03-04-2006, 04:23 PM	#3
Celuien Riveting Ribbiter Join Date: May 2005 Location: Assigned to Mordor Posts: 1,767	I'm glad I didn't go with my subjective suspicions yesterday. My apologies to you Farael, both for suspecting you yesterday, and for not listening to your identification of Aiwendil eariler. Aiwendil's guilt confirms both SPM's and Nilp's innocence for me. So does anyone see a reason not to vote for Glirdan now? __________________ People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect. But actually, from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey... stuff.

03-04-2006, 07:19 PM	#5
Glirdan Energetic Essence Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Where Lark Nor Eagle Ever Flew Posts: 3,285	RL Comment - While all of you were busy talking about my scilence, my band is advancing to the nationals. Now you see that I had perfectly good reason to not be here. I see that the suspicions of me will not let up. Frankly I am quite annoyed with the fact that I said that I will not be able to post as much as I normally do, and you still get suspicous of it! You know what, if you want proof that I'm innocent, lynch me! I was actually going to start participating more but from the looks of things, a lot of people would rather I just be dead. Fine, do it! But I'm going to say that it would be a complete waste of a day. If you need me, I'll be practicing for my other competitions. __________________ *I'm going to buy you a kitty, I'm going to let you fall in love with the kitty, and one cold, winter night, I'm going to steal into your house and punch you in the face!* Fenris Wolf

03-04-2006, 07:43 PM	#6
Farael Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: In hospitals, call rooms and (rarely) my apartment. Posts: 1,538	Oh boy, wrong move... it's the third time someone says lynch me so far Anyway, given that I said it I can't really turn Glirdan's last comment so that it'll look suspicious without being a hipocrite.... master Glirdan, I'd recomend you think twice and come back... I think we would all like to hear from you, and you have to remember, we were grasping at straws yesterDay... __________________ I prepared Explosive Runes this morning.

03-04-2006, 07:54 PM	#7
Celuien Riveting Ribbiter Join Date: May 2005 Location: Assigned to Mordor Posts: 1,767	Well, if you really feel the need to suspect me, be my guest. I wouldn't expect you to do anything else, really, given my strong suspicions of you yesterday and my dismal record of picking wolves. Anyway, I'm convinced that the last wolf is Glirdan by process of elimination, since I know it's not me and I'm pretty confident that it's not SPM, Nilp, or Farael after yesterday's events. I won't vote yet though. Just want to see what everyone has to say first. __________________ People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect. But actually, from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey... stuff.

03-05-2006, 02:56 AM	#10
Farael Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: In hospitals, call rooms and (rarely) my apartment. Posts: 1,538	Glirdan, you remind me of a comment that SPM made about me You seem to want to argue your way up into my suspicion list (or something along those lines) To begin with, let's face it... Celuien is accusing you because she can't accuse anyone else. She could go after me I guess as my innocence is not as established, but given yesterday's happenings and the fact that you are more suspicious, you are an easy choice. Now, I wonder, why would you react like you did? we all know that those who are silent are most likely to be suspected... you were silent, even if you had proper excuses, and so you are suspected. We had nothing to go on with, barely any voting record, no talk on both of the days we lynched a wolf. Don't you think that we AT LEAST have grounds to feel uneasy about you? And about my 'apparent' contradiction, I said both that we should give you a chance to talk... and that if you didn't show up we should get rid of you. I Think we are all aware that you were coming back toDay and thus if you were still away it might have been a smart wolvish move to let us wonder about you without giving us anything to work with. Where's the contradiction? Now that we have given you a (short so far) chance to talk, I must say I think you should have stayed silent, then perhaps we would have had second-thoughts on that matter. And you know, something that had somehow slipped my mind until Nilp brought it up... Celuien was the second one to vote for Aiwolfdil.... which meant that one more vote would have meant Aiwen's lynching.... and I was yet to cast my vote. A wolvish Celuien should have known that I was innocent and thus all but certain to vote for Aiwendil. If you can explain all that, I might consider not voting for you. If you go on another rant, accuse us all of not having a life outside werewolf and storm out to practice for your band... well, good luck with your band! __________________ I prepared Explosive Runes this morning.

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