WWJ VI: Return to Midsomer Mawlin - Kill me again

[Boromir88]

Admittedly, this is very flimsy ground to base a vote on, but this is just DAY ONE I don't think anybody has strong ground to stand on.~Kuru

Unless someone comes out and says they're a wolf.

Fea looks not at all wolvish to me, and I do not like the likelihood of her getting lynched today.~Jenny

Perhaps playing with Fea you would understand. Now what morm and I spotted is pretty much circumstantial, but you see Fea is that type of player that will just come up and call herself a wolf and be one. And eventhough it may be very weak basis for a vote, other than Nogrod whose defense I think seems pretty innocent to me, that is the thing that stood out to me today, and so I voted for her.

Now if Fea turns out to be innocent, which probability and likelyhood tells us she most likely is then Nogrod will probably be lynched tomorrow anyway as his behaviour at the end looks extremely wolfish is Fea turns out to be innocent.

[Mithalwen]

Voting Confirmation

Feanor of the Peredhil: 4
Nogrod:3
Sleepy: 1
Gil Galad:1
Kuruharan:1
Jenny Hallu:1
Mormegil:1

Non Voter - Gil-Galad.

[Mithalwen]

In Midsomer Mawlin the day had been full of discussion, fanciful theory and changes of mind.

In his house beyond time,DEATH was uncertain until the last minute which hourglass should be placed into Binky's saddle bag and taken down to the small, English village to which he had been such a frequent visitor the year before. The task was made more difficult by the diverse origins of the residents - all this relocation played merry hell with the filing system. He had just found the hourglass of the Nordic but Francophone detective Nogrod and was looking at it in surprise when his assistant Albert brought the news. "INDEED" said Death, HIS TIME HAS NOT YET RUN OUT". This is not now my task...... send Quoth to inform the appropriate body.

Back in Midsomer Mawlin:

"Go, go gadget Gallows" Said someone sarcastically as having decided at last, they dragged Feanor to the village gibbet.

"I know I said I was a wolf - but you know me - it was a joke! I can't be a werewolf I am only a cartoon cyborg. You can't hang me!" She protested.

"Quite right "said someone else "- the duck pond would be a better option - she probably even weighs less than a duck. But if she doesn't the water will stop the mechanics and make her go soggy"

So they threw Feanor in to the pond and used Kitanna's cane to hold her down. They did not notice a small, miserable robot, robed in black and carrying a scythe.
It was Marvin, the DEATH of Borgs who stepped forward and severed the link between line and coulour, between flesh and circuits.

The villagers looked at the surface of the water carefully and released the cane. Nothing seemed to happen. Then suddenly a strange eddy appeared turning into a whirlwind of wet fur.

Oddwen with her cool, clinical mind, alone remained calm and with lethal precision
threw a silver scalpel which pierced the beast's heart. Another transformation and the cartoon Inspector was pinned to the grass.

Dead:

Mithalwen - moderator killed by werewolves on Night 1
Feanor of the Peredhil - werewolf not hanged but drowned, drawn and pinned on Day 1

Living:
AoW,B88,D18,Ff,G-g,JH,Kit,Kuru,Morm, Nog, Oddone,SR

Villagers 10 (inc Seer)
Wolves 2

Seer and surviving wolves PM me by 7.30 tomorrow at the latest. If I receive the decisons earlier, it would be a bonus for me but you are quite entitled to your full time. I apologise for the delay but it wasn't a death I was expecting!!

[Mithalwen]

It had been a long and trying day and though bouyed by their success in lynching one of the werewolves, the villagers returned to their homes knowing the remaining wolves would seek to avenge their lost comrade.

Though they all (all apart from the wolves of course) locked their doors and barred their windows , they feared it might not be enough. Sleep was in short supply, all the normal noise was magnified as if by hangover. Cats stomped across rooves, leaves clanged in the wind and the hooting of owls could have been used to direct shipping in fog. To a person whose reactions were honed to respond to the slightest stimulus it was sheer torture...lesser individuals would have the living daylights scared out of them.

The owner of Moonraker cottage was now certain there was someone, something ... in the house, he took his Walther PPK from his bedside table and crept down to his study.

The desk chair swivelled to reveal a were-wolf with a white toy cat on its lap. In it's paw was a dry vodka martini, shaken not stirred.

"Mr Ranger, we have been expecting you"

The second wolf, which had lurked behind the door relieved him of his gun and pointed it at it's owner's head.

"Do you expect me to talk?"

"No, Mr Ranger, we expect you to die"

His fellow villagers found his corpse the next morning. It was lying on his desk covered with gold paint.


Dead:

Mithalwen - moderator killed by werewolves on Night 1
Feanor of the Peredhil - werewolf not hanged but drowned, drawn and pinned on Day 1
Sleepy Ranger - ordinary Villager, suffocated by gold paint (so tacky) on Night 2

Living:
AoW,B88,D18,Ff,G-g,JH,Kit,Kuru,Morm, Nog, Oddone,
Villagers 9 (inc Seer)
Wolves 2


Day Two has begun

Villagers you have til 7.30 tomorrow unless a clear majority (6 votes) is reached sooner.

Wolves stop PM ing.

[mormegil]

I have a quick minute and prepared this...sorry I can't format right now maybe I will return with time to do that.



Wow this is rather difficult with retractable votes.

Fea voted Kuru and retracted Kuru
Morm voted Nogrod (Nog-1)
Azaelia voted Nogrod (Nog-2)
Sleepy voted Fea (Nog-2, Fea-1)
Firefoot voted Gil (Nog-2, Fea-1, Gil-1)
Oddwen voted Sleepy (Nog-2, Fea-1, Gil-1, Sleepy-1)
Jenny voted sleepy retracted sleepy and voted Gil (Nog-2, Fea-1, Gil-2, Sleepy-1)
Nogrod voted Morm (Nog-2, Fea-1, Gil-2, Sleepy-1, Morm-1)
Jenny retracted Gil and voted Nogrod (Nog-3, Fea-1, Gil-1, Sleepy-1, Morm-1)
Kuru voted Nogrod (Nog-4, Fea-1, Gil-1, Sleepy-1, Morm-1)
Kitanna voted Kuru (Nog-4, Fea-1, Gil-1, Sleepy-1, Morm-1, Kuru-1)
Fea voted Morm (Nog-4, Fea-1, Gil-1, Sleepy-1, Morm-2, Kuru-1)
Nogrod retracted Morm and voted Gil (Nog-4, Fea-1, Gil-2 Sleepy-1, Morm-1, Kuru-1)
Diamond voted Nogrod (Nog-5, Fea-1, Gil-2 Sleepy-1, Morm-1, Kuru-1)
Boromir voted Fea (Nog-5, Fea-2, Gil-2 Sleepy-1, Morm-1, Kuru-1)
Kuru retracted Nog and voted Jenny (Nog-4, Fea-2, Gil-2 Sleepy-1, Morm-1, Kuru-1, Jenny-1)
Morm retracted Nog and voted Fea (Nog-3, Fea-3, Gil-2 Sleepy-1, Morm-1, Kuru-1, Jenny-1)
Nogrod retracted Gil and voted Fea (Nog-3, Fea-4, Gil-1 Sleepy-1, Morm-1, Kuru-1, Jenny-1)

Jenny looks very suspicious for this and other activities. She seemed to want to go with any bandwagon but the Fea train. Also, she mentioned near the end that she didn’t find Fea suspicious at all and became extremely defensive when Kuru and I expressed suspicion of her. I generally don’t like the over defensive posts and this one rubbed me the wrong way.

I would also call into question Sleepy’s vote. He specified that he didn’t think Fea would be lynched. Is it a wolf-on-wolf vote? It could be and Fea would strategize just that way too.

Other votes of interest are Oddwen’s, Kitanna’s and those who voted for Nogrod later and didn’t retract such as Diamond and Jenny again. Azaelia is worthy of mention because of how quickly she jumped on the Nogrod train I formed. Now this last bit is contingent upon Nogrod being innocent, of which I am not fully convinced but strongly leaning in that direction.

[JennyHallu]

Well, I can conclusively discount the possibility of a wolf-on-wolf vote from Sleepy.

I wonder if they were looking for a seer by going for Sleepy? All others who voted for Fea gave somewhat more conclusive reasons.

I was absolutely positive that Fea was innocent. And in my defense, I can only quote Ambrose Bierce:

To be positive: To be mistaken at the top of one's voice

My stance on her was mistaken, but honest. I am glad wiser heads prevailed, but I will not apologize for my voting.

Honestly, I did not change my vote from Gil to Nogrod to jump on a bandwaggon. I jumped because Nogrod's tone in his post against you, morm, annoyed me greatly. A petty reason, but the best I had at the time. And when changing my vote once pulled criticism from Kuruharan, (and out of all the vote-changing, why pick mine?) I was reluctant to do so again, in order to jump on a bandwagon for someone I thought innocent.

EDIT: X-posted with Diamond

[Boromir88]

Well based on yesterday I feel pretty confident that these following people are innocent, and if they aren't they deserve to win for doing a nice job in being convincing:

Jenny
Mormegil
Nogrod
Sleepy (who's now dead)

Jenny, because she expressed dissapointment in the decision to lynch Fea. Jenny should be embarrassed for calling us out and showing her dissapointment in the lynching of Fea, but I don't think it would be a wolfish move. Why would a wolf who knows one of their comrades be lynched cry out and get upset at the village in their decision to lynch a wolf? Just doesn't make sense, so Jenny seems innocent.

mormegil because of his vote for Fea. He spotted what I did and acted on it and luckily we made the right decision and we found the right thing as we spotted a wolf.

Nogrod, now it's possible that he is a wolf and so that two wolves aren't lynched he voted for Fea. However, I severely doubt this and think now he is innocent, and I think his innocence I can show a bit later on with who I think our wolves are.

I would also call into question Sleepy’s vote. He specified that he didn’t think Fea would be lynched. Is it a wolf-on-wolf vote? It could be and Fea would strategize just that way too.~mormegil

Umm...mr. detective morm, sleepy is dead. It's obvious wiht his first vote for Fea the wolves thought he was the Seer. I don't think we can find anything else in his posts as he basically just talked about Fea and why he voted for her, and his vote was just random. It's highly likely that they believed he was the Seer and had dreamt of Fea that night.

So who are our wolves. I almost feel bad for them because I don't think Fea expected to be lynched. I didn't expect her to be lynched until the last 10 minutes, and now I'm glad the village was able to make the right decision. But, I think Fea has hurt the wolves more than she helped, because she didn't anticipate being lynched and I think she left us good clues to who her comrades are.

Firefoot: Accuses Boro, votes Gil. Hopes Kitanna isn't a wolf so that she can remain in comparison to one of the Greats. Firefoot is, whether on your side or not, good to have around. Her posts, especially as the game goes on, are full of substance, logical, insightful. If she's a wolf, we'll kill her later, but whether she is or not, her detail-oriented posts are helpful.

She comes out and defends Firefoot. Now, without knowing Fea's identity this doesn't seem to strike too much suspicion, but now knowing she was a wolf, and not anticipating herself to be lynched she very well could have been defending a buddy.

The other one she defended was Kitanna

Kitanna: Accuses Firefoot, Fea, Nogrod. Later defends Nogrod. I can't make up my mind whether I trust or distrust her. Basically, in my mind, if I think you're guilty, I don't worry, and if I think you're innocent, I dont' worry. I've got you placed. It's when I'm unsure that I look closer. I'm unsure of Kitanna.

Or at least she slightly defended him, saying she was unsure about her, and could be another wolf connection.

But the one that I am now almost completely sure one of her accomplices is Kuruharan. I remarked on his behaviour yesterday and disregarded it as being day 1. However, Kuru and Fea seemed to be rather in a joking mood yesterday. Fea comes out and her first post she votes for Kuru, and of course it was more in a joking manner. I didn't make much of it at first, but now knowing Fea is a wolf, and thinking that she wouldn't anticipate being lynched I think she left us with a big hint as to who one of her buddies was. (Of course it was probably unintentional, but it's something I won't pass up on).

Kuruharan you have a lot of answering to do.

[Nogrod]

Je nous tout acclame! Hourra! Quel fait! Et dans la quelle manière il était fait accomplit!

So: WOW! We got a wolf!
And in what a way was it carried!

Surely the most heart-pumping WW –playing I’ve ever experienced! Great sport & fun!

But it was also the most weird one I’ve witnessed...

Just to clear it to myself what happened, and to help others also to wonder the last night’s amazing action, here’s a brief summary of the last moments.


About 6.45 PM GMT, roughly 45 minutes before the closing time, we were at the following situation...

Current votes:
Nogrod: 5 (morm, Azaelia, Jenny,Kuruharan, Diamond)
Feanor of the Peredhil:1 (sleepy)
Gil-Galad:2 (Firefoot, Nogrod)
Sleepy Ranger:1 (Oddwen)
Mormegil:1 (Feanor)
Kuruharan:1 (Kitanna)

Then the “miracles” started to happen.

1) 6.52 Boromir voting for Feanor, on a hunch of some kind, later (after Morm’s comment) telling it to have been based on Fea’s one sentence: “Fea’s a wolf”. Not much to go by, but a safe vote for either a villager or a wolf – would not kill Fea, because the situation seemed clear enough after this anyway:

Nogrod 5
Fea 2

2) 7.10 Kuruharan draws out a vote for me and goes on with a vote to Jenny, believing her a bit more suspicious than me. So it’s now:

Nogrod 4
Fea 2

3) 7.11 (= basically a x-post?) Mormegil changes his vote for me to a one on Feanor, thinking me innocent enough. That way he actually gives the real killing blow to Fea! It was almost sealed right there (someone could still change a vote, but it seemed, that of others, only Jenny was around, and she already had a vote on me...).

Nogrod 3
Feanor 3

4) 7.17 After waiting for a moment for any more surprises, I do the only reasonable thing I can do, and change my vote from Gil to Fea, and it’s there:

Nogrod 3 (Azaelia, Jenny, Diamond)
Feanor 4 (Sleepy, Boromir, Mormegil, Nogrod)

5) 7.30 The end of the day. “Feanor the wolf” killed...

So the wolf is dead + an innocent life saved! In 45 minutes, from just nothing (5-1 situation...)!

Some kind of guidance, or then some really tricksy stuff going on? Or just incredible luck? Believe, what you will...

Even though,
a) It’s great, we got a wolf on the first day: no better start imaginable!
b) I’m really happy to see another day myself!
But still, this is a fishy thing. It’s kind of like in the best detective stories. The result is right, the way it became about is quite unnerving. Now for using those little gray cells, all of us...

[Nogrod]

And a quick comment on Morm.

You seem to be building a case against Jenny. I have tried to do it in my last two games: both of them. At the first time I was wrong, at the later right. She played the same way in both of them - as she plays now. Jenny needs to be seen, but isn't outright a wolf by her style. Well I should know that, being accused because of my style every time... and which style after all is not so far from yours?
(I tried reading your posts as written by me, and I was amazed: they were fun and just the way normal... not the random execution orders some people, including me, may have interpreted them)

EDIT: X-posted with a lots of stuff that requires thinking again...

[Diamond18]

I’m actually writing this up while it’s still “Night”, so I cannot post it of course, but I thought I ought to get my thoughts together while there isn’t a flurry of posting going on. So, all thoughts and ruminations stem from the events of the first day, the first execution, and no further.

Well, first, it’s all very confusing and I hardly know what to think. So I’m in danger of writing a really sloppy “I don’t know” fest, but it apparently may be lethal to observe quietly, so on to the festival:

The Fea-Wolf, hmmmm.... I didn’t really suspect her but then I didn’t really suspect anyone. Maybe reading over the thread two or three times, with the bonus knowledge of Fea’s wolfishness, will shed some light on what felt like a rather murky day.

Thoughts on people in mostly random order:

Nogrod

I think I may have ticked him off with my go-with-the-flow vote (who knew that voting to kill someone could annoy that person?) so I’m feeling slightly worried about having landed myself in the “quiet and useless” crowd. So now I’m scared of Nogrod. But, does he seem like a wolf to me, more like a villager frustrated with the tide rising against him. Hmmm. Well, if he’s both a wolf and ticked off with me, I might die during this night. Though he did say wolves wouldn’t waste their time with quiet people. Which might mean nothing if he’s a wolf. If I do get et I won’t be posting this post, will I? So maybe if I am alive and posting when I post this, it’ll mean Nogrod’s just a villager. Or not. My life could mean zip. I could be overestimating how much he cared that I voted for him. It likely more important to note that he voted for Morm before changing his mind and voting for Fea purely to save himself. Hmmm, maybe he didn’t want to see fellow wolf Fea go, but better her than him in the bitter end?

Jenny

Said:

I'm so upset at Mith's death!

Hmmm. Overly showy emotion for the moderator. Fishy. Or she could just be having fun with the role-play.

Also said:

Fea looks not at all wolvish to me, and I do not like the likelihood of her getting lynched today.

This when the Fea movement had pretty much condemned her. Maybe an ill-timed effort to save a fellow wolf? Or was she earnest and just wrong about Fea? Toss up. Fea is pretty convincing. I especially liked her ambiguous description of me when she knew darn well that I’m innocent. So trusting in Fea’s outward innocence isn’t hard to do, therefore to defend her isn’t necessarily suspicious.

Kuru

His first post made me think he was supposed to be Barney Fife, as it seemed a fairly good Don Knotts impersonation. But that’s neither here nor there, and anyway, I don’t think Dep. Fife was ex-CID. As far as werewolfishness goes, well, Fea did jump on him right away. That’s pretty suspicious, considering her true identity. She retracted it soon after, but the whole cheeky “I heart you Kuruharan” -- hiiiighly suspicious. Though everyone keeps saying she plays the game the same way whether wolf or no, so why am I even bothering trying to figure anything out that way....

Morm

Well, he began the Nogrod-lynch-mob. This could mean something or nothing.

Boro

Started that whole math thing. I think. Maybe it’s a fun WW pastime in all villages. At any rate, I don’t want to be Female Stereotype Barbie but I’m terrible at math and so I’ll just steer clear of opining on that. Boro seems to be satisfied with my innocence right now, which either means my post really did provisionally convince him of that, or he knows something the rest of us (besides me and the wolves) don’t, mainly that I am in fact an ordinary girl. Interestingly enough, it was Boro who started the Fea movement in earnest, even though Sleepy was technically the first to vote for her.

Firefoot

Early on defended Nogrod. This could mean Firefoot, Fea and Nogrod are wolves! Eh, too simple. Seemed to me like she was just commenting on Morm and Azaelea’s quick votes for Nogrod.

Sleepy

Off the bat voted for Fea. Could be werewolf smokescreen. Could be taken at face value. Sleepy is mysterious to me. (Oh wait, everyone is mysterious to me).

POST SLEEPY DEATH EDIT: Ooooh... wolves got him. Hmm. Probably they didn’t like his first vote for Fea, suspected him of being the Seer perhaps?

Firefoot

Said:

Diamond went pretty far into a defense of herself because of the accusation based on her name. I'm not sure it means anything, but I have noticed that newcomer wolves are sometimes overly defensive. I'm not sure this applies here since she sounded fairly even-minded through all of it.

Think of me as vain rather than defensive. He mentioned me so naturally I responded, since people who mention me are always more interesting to me.

Actually, I just didn’t feel like accusing anyone or stating suspicions, and that left the option to lay out my defense.

Anyway, Firefoot said not to lynch Nogrod and nominated Gil-Galad for death. She gave a perfectly good reason, though, so I’m hesitant to try reading anything into it.

Oddwen

Quiet, infrequent poster. Cast her first vote for Sleepy and didn’t really say why, just that she didn’t want to vote for Nogrod. Interesting.

Kitanna

Umm... not much to say here. She seemed fly pretty low under the radar... could be an inconsequential factoid or could be werewolfish. Beats me, it does.

Gil-Galad

Erratic, didn’t contribute much. Nothing much to go on.

Azaelea

Was here early and had to leave, voted for Nogrod. Mean much? Can’t say.

And that’s my poorly constructed breakdown of the players. Before I get a chance to post this, one will die. But I’ll post the whole thing anyway, seeing as I had no time for a player play-by-play before the deadline.

[Kuruharan]

A) Fea's dead
B) Fea was a wolf

A) alone is enough to cause relief. Combine that with B) and I'm positively euphoric!

At the moment, I'm now more inclined to think that JennyHallu is innocent. I think it is probable that there would be only one wild and unpredicatable character among the wolves. At least that is my thought for the moment. (Of course, on the other hand, in post 81 she expressed her opinion that lynching Fea was a mistake. Something to keep in mind, although it would be easy to make too much of this.)

Now, this next bit may seem a bit strange...

...but I've gone back to being a bit suspicious of Nogrod again. Admittedly, everything he did there at the end could be something that an innocent person would do. However, I've heard of wolves doing similar things in the past (i.e. pouncing on each other to save their ownselves). Something about that sequence just rubbed me the wrong way. I still believe Nogrod bears watching.

[Mithalwen]

I appreciate this is "in character "but in the spirit of open communication:

Posts: 385 Je nous tout acclame! Hourra! Quel fait! Et dans la quelle manière il était fait accomplit!

Translates roughty as "I congratulate us all! Hooray! What a deed! And what a manner it was accomplished in!"

[JennyHallu]

I stand with Boromir's suspicion of Kuruharan. And not because he voted for me, I can be petty, but not THAT petty.

Because of WHY he voted for me.

++ JennyHallu

Am I the only one who has noticed that she's been running around here all crazy and stirring things up and generally causing confusion (how many times has she changed her vote)? I think excessive boisteriousness is an indication of werewolfishness because werewolves tend to be a bit excited by their status and they just can't help stirring the pot.

I admit I have a bad habit of posting a lot, and I did change my vote once. But so did many other people, especially towards the end of the Day. Admittedly that killed us a wolf, but Kuru expressed suspicion of me for changing my vote to the same person that he was voting for. (The change from Gil to Nogrod was my only vote change, and it was still fairly early in the day)

I am inclined, at this point, to think Noggie innocent. I have re-read his posts, and have no reason not to think him so after comparison to his previous games. His phrasing sometimes irritates me, and it's difficult to keep up with his rapid-fire posting while at work, but he's always loud and brash, as far as I can tell.

[Nogrod]

Originally Posted by Mithalwen

I appreciate this is "in character "but in the spirit of open communication:
Posts: 385 Je nous tout acclame! Hourra! Quel fait! Et dans la quelle manière il était fait accomplit!
Translates roughty as "I congratulate us all! Hooray! What a deed! And what a manner it was accomplished in!"

Well, I kind of tried to come with a roughly similar version in English in the following sentences:

So: WOW! We got a wolf!
And in what a way was it carried!

But sorry!

I will note it clearer, when I try to "translate" my characters possible french bursts the next time... :