Werewolf XXXI: The Unknown Enemies

[Meneltarmacil]

Well, since all the votes seem to be in, I really see no need to delay any longer.

The villagers gathered once again, hauling xyzzy with them.

"Seriously, I'm innocent!" the merchant shouted. "Are you sure you don't want to buy some exotic spices?"

"Be quiet!" Macalaure answered.

"Alright! I've had enough of you villagers! Prepare to die!" said xyzzy. He grew larger and sprouted dark fur. He let out a howl at the rising moon, bared his fangs, and rushed at the villagers, who started running in terror.

Rikae, however, stood her ground. The Ranger drew her sword and leaped upon the charging beast. Xyzzy tried to throw her off, but she held on tightly as she plunged the sword into the wolf, who died shortly thereafter.

The village was safe. All the wolves were finally gone.

Alive:
Macalaure (Seer)
Mithalwen (Ordinary Villager)
Nogrod (Ordinary Villager)
Rikae (Ranger)
The Sixth Wizard (Ordinary Villager)

Dead:
Meneltarmacil (Moderator): Devoured by Wolves on Night 1
Glirdan (Werewolf): Stoned to death by Villagers on Day 1
the guy who be short (Cobbler): Became the guy who be hung by Villagers on Day 2
Brinniel (Ordinary Villager): Crushed under anvil by Wolves on Night 3
Gil-Galad (Ordinary Villager): Didn't need no stinkin' lynching, but got one from Villagers on Day 3
Thinlómien (Werewolf): Slain by Hunter on Night 4
Roa_Aoife (Hunter): Wounded and devoured by Wolves on Night 4
Legate of Amon Lanc (Ordinary Villager): Pitchforked by villagers on Day 4
xyzzy (Werewolf): Almost lynched by Villagers but then slain by Ranger on Day 5

Villagers win!

Post-game discussion may now begin.

[xyzzy]

Congrats, innocents.

How long does it take for new games to start around here? I swear, I won't be beaten so easily next time.

[Rikae]

So, wolves, did you think Roa was the ranger? Did you ever suspect I was bluffing about protecting Mac? Why did you kill Brinniel? Why the missed kill? Come one, enlighten us!

[Macalaure]

Well, this was a truly paranoid game. It's a pity you didn't get your desired number of player, Menel. The game would have been completely insane.
There was a time during the game where I was afraid that I might be a False Seer and was leading the village astray unwittingly.

Excellent rangering, Rikae!

Lommy, I'm almost sorry I caught you. It was much more luck than cunning. You played very well: Legate was the only one of all to suspect you without help or evil intent.

I still don't entirely believe that Nogrod was innocent. Surely Menel made a fault there.

[The Sixth Wizard]

Thanks to everywere involved in my first Werewolf game. I have certainly learned a lot from you and . . . and . . . it's benefited me by . . . well I will probably be much better at lying to people thanks to you!

As to the game itself I was in manacles half the time. Lommy played me like puppet on strings, and it was extraordinarily well-done, fueled by my blasted self satisfaction and arrogance! My hat comes off to you!

(it was the only smiley with a hat)

It's a bit of a relief to see there weren't too many complicated roles, because that means not too many other people were manipulating me. I hope though, the next time I play, it won't be the 'Unknown Enemies' again because that was quite confusing at times.

Was Rikae's rangering excellent because she didn't let up too much, lasting all the way to the end? Could people tell us of the strategies they used during the middle point of the game? a.k.a Mac, Rikae, Roa, TGWBS, Werewolves.

[Nogrod]

Yay!

Good game everyone!

Originally Posted by Mac

Well, this was a truly paranoid game. It's a pity you didn't get your desired number of player, Menel. The game would have been completely insane.

To the point. But it also showed that even a small game with enough insecurity concerning the basic information can be a real treat. I enjoyed this to the fullest - and it was nice to last to the end and win for a change...

I still don't entirely believe that Nogrod was innocent. Surely Menel made a fault there.

It's easy to say when you have the information the ordo lacks...

But really, a special thanks to our gifteds, all of you! Even if you were badly mistaken with the role of one innocent villager you played the game coolly to the end, and reasonably. Roa and Rikae played together beautifully and Mac had good instincts with his dreams - and the revealment even though it looked a bit premature at the time (one of the reasons I was suspicious of it to begin with) turned out to be the winning move!

Sorry that I needed to wait until The Sixth came on with his confession of being the ordo he was. But as I said, I've been fooled before at the last moments and will never wish to let that happen again.

And yes, if my conspiracy-theories would have been true, this would have been even more remarkable game. So Mac and Rikae, take this as a compliment if you wish, but I actually thought you would be cabable to pull the trick and thence needed the comfirmation of the Sixth.

The Sixth and Xyzzy: I hope to see you soon in a game of werewolf again. I think you got the basics now. Just reserve some time to it and play actively. It's a lots of fun.

I loved this, again. Thanks to you people.

[Gil-Galad]

You know what i have noticied out of every werewolf game... my hunches on who the wolves are are usually 3-out-of-4 or 2-out-of-3 (depending on game) so you people should pay more attention to me now... now if i was the seer, oh how i could root out the wolves...

[Thinlómien]

That was a very nice game, although I'm still slightly unhappy about having such bad luck with getting online. Well played everyone, special hats off to Menel, the gifteds and Nogrod and his awesome conspiracy theories...

Oh, and I'm sure you wish to hear my thoughts about the Days and Nights - and even if you don't, I've got to explain them to somebody!

Night1
I sent one longish PM to Glirdy and xyzzy, but neither replied - it seems they missed the beginning of the game. So we did not plot anything on Night1. (Except that I recommended to xyzzy, that he maybe shouldn't be familiar with the nickname Lommy - I signed the PM as Lommy - since it is not 100% obvious it comes from Thinlómien: I actually said he shouldn't use that nickname before someone else does. Xyzzy however did far more than that, pretending he had never even heard that name - and it worked miraculously well on one Day! Kudos to xyzzy for that!)

Day1
Disclaimer: I did not intentionally disencourage anyone to vote Glirdy! That never was part of my tactics. That "maybe too suspicious to be guilty" argument was brought because I thought I shouldn't look too sure so early - that's something that sometimes gives out wolf-on-wolf -votes... And even though Mith hinted I might be revenging my fenrisity to the world, that was not the case either... As quite many people said, it was the only reasonable vote to make at that phase - and I must confess that even though I had a feeling that Glirdy might be lynched I didn't feel too bad about that vote.

Night2
That was an "ouch". I sent a PM to xyzzy quite early, giving a list of who I would like to see dead (including Brinn, Legate and Mith at least, if I recall correctly) and asked him to make the final decision and send it to Menel. When I returned to the 'downs the next day, I had a PM from xyzzy that said "I'm so confused, you play this game here so differently from what I've seen" and discovered that no wolf kill had been submitted. So, you see, missing the kill was plain confusion and bad timetables from our part.

Day2
Well, I had some problems in trying to sound genuine: this was the day when I realised how hard work it is to be a wolf when you have to fabricate all your thoughts and be consistent. I almost voted Mac. I maybe should have...

Night3
I had an sms from Nogrod that the Day3 was to begin late Monday night our time, not late Tuesday night as we (or I at least) had assumed. I had a problem. I have no net access home and all libraries were closed because it was Easter Monday. I wasn't sure if I could trust xyzzy to be around and send a kill, because he had been so absent at times. I called my friend, who is also a member called Aganzir here. I asked her some questions about what had happened on Day2 (I hadn't even read it through since I had been without a net access since voting that day), decided to kill Brinn, and asked Aganzir to send the kill to Menel. She sent it and explained my situation, and obviously Menel accepted the kill (which came in a quite extraordinary way). And I did not kill Brinn because she had said she'd take a better look at me - I was not even aware she had said that. I thought she was trusted and might even be gifted. I also thought that killing her would not take any important potential ally from me nor point at me or xyzzy. But actually I had received a PM from xyzzy that Night "are you there? If you're not responding soon, I will be sending in the name of Legate of Amon Lanc". I wonder what happened to that kill, since Brinn was obviously the one who died...

Day3
The misfortunes of that day have been explained on the admin thread...

Night3
Now this was something really funny. Again, I sent xyzzy a list of people I thought we should kill and asked him to make the final choice. I fell for Roa's trap and assumed she was the ranger. However - to my honour I must say the following - I didn't interpret Roa's words "don't worry Mac, the ranger will protect you at night" the most obvious way. I thought Roa was the ranger meaning she was not going to protect Mac during the Night. (I must admit it never crossed my mind why on earth would a ranger say something like this....) So I wrote to xyzzy, that I'd prefer killing Mac, because I thought the ranger wouldn't be protecting him that Night. I said that if he didn't want to take a risk he could make us kill Roa, who is a known innocent and might even be a ranger or then the Sixth Wizard to remove someone thought innocent and to create confusion. (I didn't want us to kill Mith or Nog because I hought they might be my potential allies the next day in case I was going to make some crazy bluff and contest Mac's claim.) I wrote this PM at school. Then I went to spend the night with friend, and forgot about ww for hours. However, going home, a realisation hit me. I was 95% sure Roa was the hunter. It was still a few hours 'til the deadline. If I had had a computer with a net home, I would probably have contacted xyzzy or Menel and tried to prevent the Roa-kill (since I was fairly sure xyzzy wanted to kill her). But as I didn't have, I let the thing be (even though I might have asked Aganzir to help me again, but I didn't consider it that important). I thought that Roa's such a gambler that she might well hunt someone else than me. I was wrong. But isn't it quite ironic that we attacked someone I knew was the hunter and guessed that might be after me?

Seems it got quite long... ...

[Brinniel]

(I'm copying and pasting this from the admin thread)

So, apparently I'm really really bad at werewolf. I even attempted to do a deeper analysis than I did for my first game, and still I was way off. Oh well...sorry guys. *bangs head against desk for stupidity*

The main problem is I think I spent a lot of time searching for some sort of conspiracy. I felt so certain there would be some sort role like Lovers that would be difficult to seek out. Even when I was just watching the game, I thought there could easily be false gifteds...the idea seemed so tricksy (plus it would've been rather entertaining to watch). When I look back at it, the clues to finding the wolves were laid out quite plainly (though that was partly due to meta-reasons). I guess I just didn't think it would be that easy...

Kudos to Lommy though, who had me completely fooled. Though, I would still like to know why I was chosen for a kill. Here I was, defending a wolf and accusing two innocents. I think it would've been so easy to get me lynched if you really wanted to...

Originally Posted by Roa

*imagines Brinniel screaming at her screen because everyone is dismissing her death as uninformative*

Hehe...I admit that made me laugh. But hey...I can't be mad because it's true. My death was basically an uninformative one. Heh...oh well. Sorry again...

I think the only time I was actually screaming at the computer was when everyone decided to lynch Legate. I just couldn't believe he was a wolf...

Okay, where's the admin thread for the next game already? I may be bad at werewolf, but sadly enough, after only two games I am very addicted. I have no self-discipline...