Tol-in-Gaurhoth XXVI - Úcenite Valto

[the phantom]

I'm back.

I'm not sure what to think here. I thought for sure that Ang would respond to those last three posts I made before I left. I even thought it likely that he would tack on his vote to Kath, but he didn't. Is he gone, or is he biding his time?

And SPM and Di, I didn't expect to see you. It's nice to see some other faces around.

Meh- not so much Di, seeing as she voted for me. But I suppose I had it coming from her after I about killed her on Day 1.

(ooh, I just refreshed my window and saw that you changed your vote, thanks thanks)

SPM, I'm relieved that you changed your vote. I kept saying to myself "Surely he doesn't truly honestly think I am the WW", but since you spoke of not returning I was afraid that you really meant what you said.

Your case against Ang is compelling. I told Nogrod earlier that his was as well. And when I asked Ang a bit ago in what other village he acted like he is acting now, he said to check WW X. It seemed like too convenient of an answer to me. He was a Ranger in that village. Surely he wasn't blind to the fact that he also acted off the wall in WW I when he was a WW. Why didn't he mention that one?

Originally Posted by SPM

As Kath has pointed out, he has indulged in the classic Wolfish ploy of putting forward theories which self-confessedly implicate himself (something, it should be noted, that Eomer did).

I guess I haven't been reading carefully enough. I missed this.

Originally Posted by SPM

But most of all, he has seemed continually to be testing the water to see whether there might be any prospect of lynching the phantom. Several times during the course of the game, he has indicated that he might consider voting for the phantom (at times jokingly, but this jocular approach might well merely be serving as cover). You see, I think that a Wolfish Anguirel wants to rid himself of his self-confessed nemesis, the phantom, and yet would not stoop so low as to kill him at Night. He wants to see this particular enemy laid low in a fair fight - by getting him lynched. That, in my experience, would be Anguirel all-over.

I do agree with that point. And I would say that is also speaks to his guilt that he hasn't come after me full bore, but has rather been "testing the waters" as you said. Since I've been placing him on my very very innocent list up till today, I don't think he saw it as being worth the risk of going after me completely, and certainly not worth it to kill me in the night. Why put yourself at risk to kill someone who is going along with you? Just keep me around and keep pointing a finger or two at me and be prepared to lynch me if the occasion arises. I can see that.

But at the same time, I'm not as confident about lynching Ang as I was about lynching Eomer.

This might sound stupid, but I'm trying to figure out if my desire to keep Ang alive is based on logic, or partially on emotion because of his rotten luck with me over the years. It's like I feel that I owe it to him, to save him for once rather than kill him.

Maybe I should want him to be lynched just to be rid of the complication and clear my head? *sigh* I suppose he is one of my suspects and is not one of the individuals on my innocent list, so I guess my refusal to lynch him doesn't make much sense.

Ah, but as I count up the votes I see that the matter is pretty well settled.

I suppose I should tack on my Ang vote and make it final.

Bleh. I agree logically with everything that's been said about him, but I'll just feel so terrible if we're wrong and I kill him yet again.