WWJ XII: "Oh the tangled web we weave..." - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Rikae · 10-12-2006, 08:35 PM

Well, on the one hand, I don't feel good about this vote. I hate to vote for someone who isn't here, and I have an ominous feeling we may be lynching our best asset, but on the other hand, he seems to be the logical choice.

++Nogrod

Kitanna · 10-12-2006, 08:52 PM

++ Naria

I still find Naria more suspicious than I do Nogrod. I have suspicions of Nogrod, but not enough to vote for him. But if you all turn out to be right about him and I'm wrong, then so be it. I'm still more convinced of Naria than Nogrod.

Naria · 10-12-2006, 09:17 PM

Looks like my vote will go to

++ Nogrod

there have been some interesting talk about him, albeit a little confusing in parts for me, and my doubt over his innocence has risen above others I am worried about.

Valier · 10-12-2006, 10:01 PM

The village was almost quiet and subdued for most of the day, but almost everyone was sure who should die. "Nogrod it is then...and where is he?" Everyone looked around and Nogrod was no where to be seen. The mob of villagers moved in on his house. "We know you are in there! Come out now with your hands up!!" The door to Nogrods house opened slowly and a cough came from inside. "Don't you know I am sick!! I am not going outside!" The villagers looked none to happy. They all took up their swords and advanced towards the door. "Come out now and we swear we won't hurt you." Someone sneered from the back. " Well if I must I must, but what is this all about?" Nogrod put on his robe and went out to meet the crowd. "We believe that you indeed are a Thing!!" "Oh really?" sneered Nogrod in return "and what makes you think that?" Everyone shuffled their feet, but no one answered.

The villagers had had enough. They raised their swords in unison and charged at the robed Nogrod. They fell upon him with such a fury, but one villager stood behind. Glirdan watched and was mesmerized. The rising and the falling of the sword blades, reminded him slightly of a game his sister used to play....The rope went up, the rope went down...Glirdan began to adulate back and forth, waiting for the right moment. As one of the bloodied blades rose in the air, Glirdan charged and gave a jump, his head being sliced off in the process.

The villagers began to wind down from their fury. There on the ground lay two decapitated bodies. That of Nogrod and Glirdan, their heads had met and now rested together peacefully. Someone cried out in horror. "What have we done?!!!" "Shhh just wait.....Watch" someone whispered. All fell silent except for the heavy breathing of the spent villagers. A few minutes had gone by...nothing..."Well then we are all just horrible!!" But just as that was uttered, the body of Nogrod began to move. Something was trying to escape from the hole where Nogrod's head use to sit. A villager stepped forward and raised their foot high. As the worm like creature slithered out of the gaping wound, down came the foot and squished the Thing into the cold snowy ground." One down, and two more to go" someone commented.

Dead villagers

Valier- Milkmaid- Killed by Thing- Mod Night1
Thinlomien-Blind gardener maid-Pulled apart by horses on Day1- Innocent
Folwren-Jack the blacksmith-face mangled on night2-Innocent
Glirdan-Town musician-Killed himself on Day2 (due to RL busyness)-Innocent
Nogrod-Goatherder-Decapitated on Day2-Thing

Live villagers

Gil-Galad- Friendly neighborhood window cleaner
JennyHallu- Prophetess
Volo- Village loony/Poet
Kitanna- Hermit
Naria- Herbalist
Briseis- Seamstress
Rikae- Cheesemaker
Macalaure- Village Doomsayer
Rune son of Bjarne- Weaver (not the actual one)
Meneltarmacil- Former pirate
Eonwe- Miller

Night3 has begun. You have 24 hours.
Things pm me your #'s and your choice. Seer and Weaver, you know the drill.

Valier · 10-13-2006, 10:11 PM

The sun arose on the third day, since the first killing. The villagers had barely slept, if they slept at all, but the lynching of one of the creatures had filled their minds with hope. They all dreaded leaving their homes. Would someone else be gone? One by one people started to emerge from their homes...one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine.....nine? There seemed to be two people missing.

"It's Briseis!! " Someone shouted." She must have been one of those creatures!!" "No wait...Rune is gone as well." someone realized.
The villagers all looked around in confusion. Snapping out of their stupor, they advanced towards the home of Briseis. Upon entry, they found her peacefully sitting in a large chair in her kitchen, as if she were asleep. There was no mistaking, the blood though. Her wrists were slash and there on the table before her was a note, that said only.."I can not take this anymore...goodbye."
Someone threw up and another screamed. "So that leaves us only with Rune...shall we?"

The villagers made quickly for the home of Rune the Weaver. There he lay sprawled on his back in front of his house, with a look of terror on his face. His chest had been ripped open and his heart lay exposed.

" That means the Thing is in someone...... here, right now....." Everyone looked around in fear.

Dead villagers

Valier- Milkmaid- Killed by Thing- Mod Night1
Thinlomien-Blind gardener maid-Pulled apart by horses on Day1- Innocent
Folwren-Jack the blacksmith-face mangled on night2-Innocent
Glirdan-Town musician-Killed himself on Day2 (due to RL busyness)-Innocent
Nogrod-Goatherder-Decapitated on Day2-Thing
Rune- Weaver (not real one)- Chest ripped open on night3- innocent
Briseis- Seamstress- Slashed her own wrists on night3 (by choice)-Innocent

Live villagers

Gil-Galad- Friendly neighborhood window cleaner
JennyHallu- Prophetess
Volo- Village loony/Poet
Kitanna- Hermit
Naria- Herbalist
Rikae- Cheesemaker
Macalaure- Village Doomsayer
Meneltarmacil- Former pirate
Eonwe- Miller

Day3 has now begun. Things stop pming. You have 24 hours.
You may start posting.

Gil-Galad · 10-14-2006, 02:00 AM

Oh my, we must review and decide from the past day!

though i would hate to do this, but i decided to look more closely at Kitanna, though she may be more innocent, but she could also be the thing because a good thing won't try to make a futile attempt on voting...much paradox's here...

Macalaure · 10-14-2006, 02:35 AM

Rune was a thing? I didn't expect that.

Let's have a look.

Day 1

#17+#21
Defends Rikae from me
Announces to look at Lommy
Jokes

#38
Says he'll focus on me and Lommy
Doesn't know what to do with Volo and Jenny
Thinks Rikae innocent
Says Gil is un-Galadish
Won't pay attention to Glirdan yet

#45
Wonders whether we should make up new tactics

#51+#87
There and back again

#90
Criticises Nogrod and will maybe vote for him

#95
Says he has detected a change in Nogrod
Still suspicious of me and Jenny, less so of Volo and Lommy
Votes Nogrod at a time when the votes were still quite spread

Day 2

#131
Doesn't want us to only go for Nogrod, wants us to look at others too
Feels good about Kitanna and her approach, still doesn't know what to make of her cases

#157
Likes the points about the silent people
Tries to decently backpedal with his Nogrod-suspicion

#161
Sees no alternative and votes Nogrod

Difficult to tell whether he already was a thing on Day 1.
His vote for Nogrod isn't safe enough to be a thing-on-thing vote (I'm convinced Nogrod was a thing from the beginning, as I don't think he was the ranger).
He doesn't go for the silent people unlike Nogrod and Folwren.
If Rune only became a thing on Night 2, it would mean he was the ranger, and it would ease my suspicion about Jenny.

Having reread his yesterday's posts, he did put on quite a few signs. The 'I like her approach but don't know what to make with her cases' about Kitanna without any closer examination (this makes me want to have a closer look at them), his telling us to look at others but Nogrod without doing so himself.

Rune was very careful about not putting up signs that point to the other thing. It's possible that Kitanna was right with her suspicion about Menel or Naria, though.

10-14-2006, 02:00 AM	#6
Gil-Galad Psyche of Prince Immortal Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Above a Parapet Obvious exits are: North, South, and Dennis Posts: 4,734	Oh my, we must review and decide from the past day! though i would hate to do this, but i decided to look more closely at Kitanna, though she may be more innocent, but she could also be the thing because a good thing won't try to make a futile attempt on voting...much paradox's here... __________________ Love doesn't blow up and get killed.

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10-12-2006, 08:35 PM	#1
Rikae Mellifluous Maia Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: A glade open to the stars, deep in Nan Elmoth Posts: 3,489	Well, on the one hand, I don't feel good about this vote. I hate to vote for someone who isn't here, and I have an ominous feeling we may be lynching our best asset, but on the other hand, he seems to be the logical choice. ++Nogrod

10-12-2006, 08:52 PM	#2
Kitanna Child of the West Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Watching President Fillmore ride a unicorn Posts: 2,132	++ Naria I still find Naria more suspicious than I do Nogrod. I have suspicions of Nogrod, but not enough to vote for him. But if you all turn out to be right about him and I'm wrong, then so be it. I'm still more convinced of Naria than Nogrod. __________________ "Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry." - Mark Twain

10-12-2006, 09:17 PM	#3
Naria Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 500	Looks like my vote will go to ++ Nogrod there have been some interesting talk about him, albeit a little confusing in parts for me, and my doubt over his innocence has risen above others I am worried about. __________________ MONEY Anyone who says it doesn't buy happiness.....is probably broke.

10-12-2006, 10:01 PM	#4
Valier Twisted Taleswapper Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: somewhere between sanity and insanity Posts: 1,706	The village was almost quiet and subdued for most of the day, but almost everyone was sure who should die. "Nogrod it is then...and where is he?" Everyone looked around and Nogrod was no where to be seen. The mob of villagers moved in on his house. "We know you are in there! Come out now with your hands up!!" The door to Nogrods house opened slowly and a cough came from inside. "Don't you know I am sick!! I am not going outside!" The villagers looked none to happy. They all took up their swords and advanced towards the door. "Come out now and we swear we won't hurt you." Someone sneered from the back. " Well if I must I must, but what is this all about?" Nogrod put on his robe and went out to meet the crowd. "We believe that you indeed are a Thing!!" "Oh really?" sneered Nogrod in return "and what makes you think that?" Everyone shuffled their feet, but no one answered. The villagers had had enough. They raised their swords in unison and charged at the robed Nogrod. They fell upon him with such a fury, but one villager stood behind. Glirdan watched and was mesmerized. The rising and the falling of the sword blades, reminded him slightly of a game his sister used to play....The rope went up, the rope went down...Glirdan began to adulate back and forth, waiting for the right moment. As one of the bloodied blades rose in the air, Glirdan charged and gave a jump, his head being sliced off in the process. The villagers began to wind down from their fury. There on the ground lay two decapitated bodies. That of Nogrod and Glirdan, their heads had met and now rested together peacefully. Someone cried out in horror. "What have we done?!!!" "Shhh just wait.....Watch" someone whispered. All fell silent except for the heavy breathing of the spent villagers. A few minutes had gone by...nothing..."Well then we are all just horrible!!" But just as that was uttered, the body of Nogrod began to move. Something was trying to escape from the hole where Nogrod's head use to sit. A villager stepped forward and raised their foot high. As the worm like creature slithered out of the gaping wound, down came the foot and squished the Thing into the cold snowy ground." One down, and two more to go" someone commented. Dead villagers Valier- Milkmaid- Killed by Thing- Mod Night1 Thinlomien-Blind gardener maid-Pulled apart by horses on Day1- Innocent Folwren-Jack the blacksmith-face mangled on night2-Innocent Glirdan-Town musician-Killed himself on Day2 (due to RL busyness)-Innocent Nogrod-Goatherder-Decapitated on Day2-Thing Live villagers Gil-Galad- Friendly neighborhood window cleaner JennyHallu- Prophetess Volo- Village loony/Poet Kitanna- Hermit Naria- Herbalist Briseis- Seamstress Rikae- Cheesemaker Macalaure- Village Doomsayer Rune son of Bjarne- Weaver (not the actual one) Meneltarmacil- Former pirate Eonwe- Miller Night3 has begun. You have 24 hours. Things pm me your #'s and your choice. Seer and Weaver, you know the drill. __________________ grand return?........ Last edited by Valier; 10-12-2006 at 10:26 PM.

10-13-2006, 10:11 PM	#5
Valier Twisted Taleswapper Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: somewhere between sanity and insanity Posts: 1,706	The sun arose on the third day, since the first killing. The villagers had barely slept, if they slept at all, but the lynching of one of the creatures had filled their minds with hope. They all dreaded leaving their homes. Would someone else be gone? One by one people started to emerge from their homes...one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine.....nine? There seemed to be two people missing. "It's Briseis!! " Someone shouted." She must have been one of those creatures!!" "No wait...Rune is gone as well." someone realized. The villagers all looked around in confusion. Snapping out of their stupor, they advanced towards the home of Briseis. Upon entry, they found her peacefully sitting in a large chair in her kitchen, as if she were asleep. There was no mistaking, the blood though. Her wrists were slash and there on the table before her was a note, that said only.."I can not take this anymore...goodbye." Someone threw up and another screamed. "So that leaves us only with Rune...shall we?" The villagers made quickly for the home of Rune the Weaver. There he lay sprawled on his back in front of his house, with a look of terror on his face. His chest had been ripped open and his heart lay exposed. " That means the Thing is in someone...... here, right now....." Everyone looked around in fear. Dead villagers Valier- Milkmaid- Killed by Thing- Mod Night1 Thinlomien-Blind gardener maid-Pulled apart by horses on Day1- Innocent Folwren-Jack the blacksmith-face mangled on night2-Innocent Glirdan-Town musician-Killed himself on Day2 (due to RL busyness)-Innocent Nogrod-Goatherder-Decapitated on Day2-Thing Rune- Weaver (not real one)- Chest ripped open on night3- innocent Briseis- Seamstress- Slashed her own wrists on night3 (by choice)-Innocent Live villagers Gil-Galad- Friendly neighborhood window cleaner JennyHallu- Prophetess Volo- Village loony/Poet Kitanna- Hermit Naria- Herbalist Rikae- Cheesemaker Macalaure- Village Doomsayer Meneltarmacil- Former pirate Eonwe- Miller Day3 has now begun. Things stop pming. You have 24 hours. You may start posting. __________________ grand return?........

10-14-2006, 02:35 AM	#7
Macalaure Fading Fëanorion Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: into the flood again Posts: 2,911	Rune was a thing? I didn't expect that. Let's have a look. Day 1 #17+#21 Defends Rikae from me Announces to look at Lommy Jokes #38 Says he'll focus on me and Lommy Doesn't know what to do with Volo and Jenny Thinks Rikae innocent Says Gil is un-Galadish Won't pay attention to Glirdan yet #45 Wonders whether we should make up new tactics #51+#87 There and back again #90 Criticises Nogrod and will maybe vote for him #95 Says he has detected a change in Nogrod Still suspicious of me and Jenny, less so of Volo and Lommy Votes Nogrod at a time when the votes were still quite spread Day 2 #131 Doesn't want us to only go for Nogrod, wants us to look at others too Feels good about Kitanna and her approach, still doesn't know what to make of her cases #157 Likes the points about the silent people Tries to decently backpedal with his Nogrod-suspicion #161 Sees no alternative and votes Nogrod Difficult to tell whether he already was a thing on Day 1. His vote for Nogrod isn't safe enough to be a thing-on-thing vote (I'm convinced Nogrod was a thing from the beginning, as I don't think he was the ranger). He doesn't go for the silent people unlike Nogrod and Folwren. If Rune only became a thing on Night 2, it would mean he was the ranger, and it would ease my suspicion about Jenny. Having reread his yesterday's posts, he did put on quite a few signs. The 'I like her approach but don't know what to make with her cases' about Kitanna without any closer examination (this makes me want to have a closer look at them), his telling us to look at others but Nogrod without doing so himself. Rune was very careful about not putting up signs that point to the other thing. It's possible that Kitanna was right with her suspicion about Menel or Naria, though.