WWJ VIII ~ Things That Go "Quack" In The Night

[The Saucepan Man]

Originally Posted by The Diamoddess Goddess

“You can’t take two of us!” exclaimed Not-Cailín, and turned to Saucepan Orc for support. To his horror, he saw not Saucepan Orc, but a large, smug looking Goose.

“Honk,” said Saucepan Goose.

Perfect!

They dined on villagers, and slices of quince
Which they ate with a rucible spoon;
And wing in wing, on the edge of the pond
They danced by the light of the moon
The moon
The moon,
They danced by the light of the moon!

Aw, shucks. How sweet. But we shall have be divorced before the next game, as I have promised myself to Celuien.

A great ending, Diamond, to top all the wonderful Day/Night interludes that you wrote. Really, great credit to you. Not only did you mod wonderfully, but your rules made for an exceptionally exciting, paranoia-inducing, roller-coasting, at times very stressful, but ultimately fantastically enjoyable game.

Originally Posted by Kath

Sauce you are an absolute gem!

You are most welcome, my Lady Duck. And you were cool as a cucumber under some pretty heavy pressure there.

Originally Posted by Formy

Excellent job, by the way, Saucy- a much better showing than as a Cobbler in Anguirel's game.

Schtoopid Heroes! At least the Ducks had the good sense not to kill me.

Which brings a point to mind. What would have happened had the Ducks targeted me, or one of the Gifteds, on Night 2, Di?

Originally Posted by Jenny

Saucie, I have got to believe you thought me innocent, since you got me killed. But...I forgive you, because this is the first time being on the evil side has been a winning situation for me.

Yeah, sorry about that. I had to pick some suspects and thought the best cases that I could make were against you and morm. I really was rather surprised and annoyed when you turned out to be a Duck. I didn’t vote for you though, as I was more certain of morm’s innocence.

My tactics were quite straightforward. Try to look innocent and stay alive as long as possible until I might be of some use to the Ducks. Had an opportunity presented itself to declare as a Gifted, I had it in mind. The Goosey strategy morm outlined had already occurred to me as a possibility, in the right circumstances. I was incredibly lucky though, being declared innocent and then it looking like the Goose had been killed. Although towards the end I was rather happy that I wasn’t a complete “known” innocent as it kept alive the opportunity for me to sacrifice myself, should circumstances require. My final day tactic was to lay into Nogrod in an attempt either to make myself look like the Duck and provoke a vote for me (hence my deliberate mistake about the odds) or to get him lynched. I could not be sure he was not the Duck, so voting for him was a risk, but he sounded so genuine throughout. And it was a better bet than voting for myself, because I suspected that Nogrod might be the Nightingale.

Originally Posted by morm

Sauce were you poking serious holes in my cases or were they contrived? I thought I had some decent evidence but you kept shooting everything down that I did and I guess the village decided to listen to you.

Well, they were certainly contrived. But (at times, bitter) experience has taught me that you can generally make a case against anyone if you try hard enough. Perfectly innocent comments or slips can be made to look sinister (sorry, Mith ) and voting records can be painted as just too Duckish to be Duckish, if you get my meaning. With you and Noggy, I thought your votes for spawn and Jenny could be quite credibly be viewed as Duck-on-Duck votes. And I am afraid that your request to Mith not to dream of you was a bit of a gift.

It would have been interesting to see how things would have gone had no one left the game. I suspect that Kath and I might have been hard pushed to stave you all off for what would have been another Day at least. Although the voting would probably have gone completely differently, and there would have been more people to (possibly) make cases against, so who can tell?