Werewolf Four and Thirty: Bloodbath in the Anduin Vale

[Thinlómien]

I guess I will be pretty much suspecting everyone toMorrow... That is a decision: I have to bring myself to suspect someone at least somewhat seriously.

Anyway, just in case I'm not here to say this toMorrow, please do the same and suspect everyone, (especially morm and Sixth ). Oh, and suspect everybody that slip under your radar too...

[The Saucepan Man]

OK, we're done here. Step away from the thread.

I am sure that you will all be awaiting the outcome of toDay's vote with eager anticipation. So, without further ado ...

... I'll go away and write it.

[The Saucepan Man]

Following the confession of the anarcho-syndicalism commune’s temporary executive officer, it did not take long for the delegates to decide who should be put to death this Day. It would have been quicker, but the delegate of INSTRAW demanded that the confession be transcribed, signed and sealed in triplicate by Mithalwen, ratified by a majority resolution of the general assembly and then witnessed by each delegate present. Five hours later, the documentation was finally complete and the dwindling group of delegates turned to confront Mithalwen.

“Your deluding yourselves if you think this is democracy,” said Mithalwen, as fur began to spread over her body. “What gives any of you the right to deal out death in judgement?”

“But Radagast told us this is what we had to do,” answered mormegil.

“Look, you can’t go round killing people, just because some dodgy geriatric image told you to,” replied Mithalwen, sprouting a fine set of whiskers.

“But you confessed,” pointed out Boromir88.

“No I didn’t,” said Mithalwen, her ears lengthening.

“Ooh, you liar, yes you did!” shrieked Nogrod. “She’s a Wolf! Burn her!”

“But my confession is riddled with procedural irregularities,” explained Mithalwen, dropping to all fours. “For a start, my tenure as executive officer expired earlier toDay and so I lacked authority to confess. Ratification will require a two-thirds majority of every man, woman and child in my commune.”

“Um … perhaps we could send some kind of a messenger to obtain it,” suggested Thinlómien.

“Rubbish!” declared Volo. “I may be from as far as it gets, but even I know that she made that confession in her capacity as a Werewolf, not as temporary executive officer of her commune.”

“He’s got a point,” observed mormegil.

“Aye, and so have I,” added Aganzir, hefting her axe.

“OK then,” said Mithalwen defiantly, as cruel red claws extended from her fingers and toes. “You can’t kill me because that would constitute persecution of an ethnic minority. It would be oppression by the majority.”

“You’re not an ethnic minority! You’re an evil, vicious Werewolf, with nasty, big, pointy teeth,” said The Sixth Wizard, bringing his fingers to his mouth to illustate the point.

“That’s as maybe,” replied Mithalwen, corroborating his observation by baring her nasty, big, pointy teeth. “But I’m still in the minority. And anyway, I’m a member of an endangered species.”

“In that case,” said Thinlómien, “perhaps you would care to show us your protected species order.”

“Shan’t” growled Mithalwen, readying to pounce.

“Oh, I’ve had enough of this,” muttered Volo. “Let’s just kill her.”

“Infamy! Infamy” They’ve all got it in fer me,” howled Mithalwen, as she sprang forwards to meet the mob in mortal combat. But they were prepared and set upon her with intent to dismember the honourable member for the anarcho-syndicalism commune.

“Help! Help! I’m being repressed,” cried Mithalwen, moments before her Wolfish head was forcefully liberated from her body.

"Ecky-ecky-ecky-ecky-pikang-zoop-boing-goodem-zoo-owli-zhiv!" it shrieked, as it flew through the air.

“What an eccentric performance,” observed Boromir88.

“…” agreed Gil-Galad.

The dead:

The Saucepan Man - Slaughtered and boiled up in a spicy ghoulash on Night zero.
xyzzy - Got bored of the role-based banter and hung himself quietly on Day 1 (Ordinary Innocent)
Meneltarmacil - Fatally wounded in sooth he was and crawled awaye to find ye deathe in ye woodes on Nighte 1 (Werewolfe)
Rune Son of Bjarne - Hunted and added to his own trophy collection on Night 1 (Ordinary Innocent)
Durelin - Spied on things which should not be seen and got hung for it on Night 1 (Thief)
Kath - Burned at the stake and spurned by her Lord on Day 2 (Priestess of Sauron)
Rikae - Tickled mercilessly and died with a smile on her face on Night 2 (Oridnary Innocent)
Legate of Amon Lanc - Underwent radical optical surgery and lost his life and his foresight on Night 2 (Druid)
Isabellkya - Mometarily caught off guard by a darting fox and set upon by the angry mob on Day 3 (Werewolf)
Shastanis Althreduin - Had the life squeezed from his Half human, half equine form on Night 3 (Oridnary Innocent)
the guy who be short - Consumed and reduced to nothing but bare bones on Night 3 (Ordinary Innocent)
Feanor of the Peredhil - Brutally attacked yet lived long enough to write her bloody epitaph on Night 3 (Ordinary Innocent).
Mithalwen - Went down fighting in a dubious pastiche of British classic comedy and was summarily dismembered by a unanimous motion of the general assembly on Day 4 (Werewolf).

The living:

Mormegil
Aganzir - the Dwarf delegate of a Woodsmen village
Gil-Galad
Volo - the very hairy delegate from as far as it gets
Nogrod - the moody delegate from the Witch-burners' village who is ready and willing to form a theory to suit his feelings whatever the facts ...
Boromir88 - the filibuster delegate from Laketown, whose geography is not that good
The Sixth Wizard
Thinlómien - the Delegate of INSTRAW

That’s Day 4 done. Night 4 beckons for those that have things to do.

[The Saucepan Man]

The delegates awoke on Day 5 to find that there had been only one death overnight. There in the village square lay a great white Wolf with red claws and sky blue eyes, battered, bruised and bloody. She had already drawn her last breath and as the remaining delegates watched, she transformed back into human form.

Aganzir, the dwarf delegate from a Woodsmen village had been a Werewolf!

The dead:

The Saucepan Man - Slaughtered and boiled up in a spicy ghoulash on Night zero.
xyzzy - Got bored of the role-based banter and hung himself quietly on Day 1 (Ordinary Innocent)
Meneltarmacil - Fatally wounded in sooth he was and crawled awaye to find ye deathe in ye woodes on Nighte 1 (Werewolfe)
Rune Son of Bjarne - Hunted and added to his own trophy collection on Night 1 (Ordinary Innocent)
Durelin - Spied on things which should not be seen and got hung for it on Night 1 (Thief)
Kath - Burned at the stake and spurned by her Lord on Day 2 (Priestess of Sauron)
Rikae - Tickled mercilessly and died with a smile on her face on Night 2 (Oridnary Innocent)
Legate of Amon Lanc - Underwent radical optical surgery and lost his life and his foresight on Night 2 (Druid)
Isabellkya - Mometarily caught off guard by a darting fox and set upon by the angry mob on Day 3 (Werewolf)
Shastanis Althreduin - Had the life squeezed from his Half human, half equine form on Night 3 (Oridnary Innocent)
the guy who be short - Consumed and reduced to nothing but bare bones on Night 3 (Ordinary Innocent)
Feanor of the Peredhil - Brutally attacked yet lived long enough to write her bloody epitaph on Night 3 (Ordinary Innocent).
Mithalwen - Went down fighting in a dubious pastiche of British classic comedy and was summarily dismembered by a unanimous motion of the general assembly on Day 4 (Werewolf).
Aganzir - Battered, bruised and bloodied and left to die on Night 4 (Werewolf)

The living:

Mormegil
Gil-Galad
Volo - the very hairy delegate from as far as it gets
Nogrod - the moody delegate from the Witch-burners' village who is ready and willing to form a theory to suit his feelings whatever the facts ...
Boromir88 - the filibuster delegate from Laketown, whose geography is not that good
The Sixth Wizard
Thinlómien - the Delegate of INSTRAW

Day 5 has started. Do your mooting thing.

[Thinlómien]

Just one person dead and she was a wolf....

There is just one way I can interpret this. There are no wolves left, that's why there was no other kill last Night.

There is a bad/independent bear, not a good one, since even though a wolf died the game's not over.

Boromir, it was clever of you to claim to be half a ranger and on the good people's side. I'm sorry to say that it works no more.

Unless someone presents me with any even slightly as credible a theory, I will not consider voting anyone else but Boro toDay.

[The Sixth Wizard]

Thy shame is seen Boromir.

Does this mean that the game will be over after Boro is dead?

[Boromir88]

Thinlomien, I'm sorry you are completely wrong.

I did lie yesterday, but my purpose for revealing worked perfectly. See I didn't tell the complete truth, and trust me it worked out only to the village benefit, it would be best if you put your crazy talk to rest.

I had another power and that was the ability to protect myself. If the wolves came after me, I could protect myself and kill one of my attackers while still surviving. I also lied as I did not guard Morm on Night 2, but I protected myself then. I was trying to make it obvious that I killed Menel to get the wolves after me so I could take down another one. That didn't work. So, after a failed kill I decided I would reveal my identity to get the wolves to come after me. Yet, not be completely truthful and let them in on my other ability to protect myself, so instead of taking a chance and killing one, I wanted them to attack me at night. This time my trap worked brilliantly.

So, like I said sit down and go focus on lynching someone else.

[Nogrod]

I would be intertested to see what Boro has as his version of the matters. I mean there's a point in Lommy's interpretation of the Night's events... so why only one kill?

We have killed a host of wolves already: Menel, Isabellkya, Mith, Aganzir... and the baddie priestess Kath. There can't be an endless number of baddies around and as the kills suddenly went down to just one...

But I think we'd do well to construct this then.

Theory1)
So Mith and Isabellkya were a team and Mith tried to avoid
discussing her mate when she had made a fumble saving Menel who later turned out to be a wolf? It's no wonder Mith chose this issue of Menel-lynch as one she went after me as it was close to her heart.

Then it must be that Menel and Aganzir formed the other pair. Nicely played I say as at least at this moment I can't recall any exchanges between the two (and it's too late for me to go skimming through the whole thread right now).

Theory2)
Or then Isabell was in cahoots with Menel and actually tried to save her mate and was lynched for it.

Again, a nice play from Mith and Aganzir as I can't at the moment recall any open pointing at each other from either of them. And thinking of Mith she might have tried to duck the issue of a possible rivalling wolf (Isabell) just because she believes in fair play. That might also explain part of her frustration yesterDay...

Either way, these both theories look believable to me at least now even though I might say the first one is more believable..

So let's go a bit backwards then...

Last Night
dead: Aganzir
(remaining baddie: Boro?)

The Night before (Night3)
dead: Shasta, tgwbs, Fea
(remaining baddies: Mith-wolf, Aganzir-wolf, Boro-bear?)

Looks sensible to me without better theories to come forwards...

And earlier...

Night2
dead: Rikae, Legate (seer)
(baddies: Isabell & Mith - Aganzir - and Boro didn't he kill then?)

Night1
dead: Menel, Rune, Durelin (thief)
(baddies: Isabell & Mith - Menel & Aganzir - Boro)

Now there were only two kills on Night two. Boro said he involuntarily guarded morm that Night. I think that is one of the weak links in his story. Now why on earth this choice? (No offence morm but if you're earnest why would someone had picked you up as the one definitively innocent among the whole crowd?) Maybe he's a kind of baddie who can only kill every other Night? That would settle it - and not make the baddies too overwhelming in the first place. And looking at his spotting-capabilities this Night I would say he's a seer every other Night...

Or whatever.

Just waiting for a better explanation to come forwards.

EDIT: X'd with Sixth & Boro

[Boromir88]

Maybe he's a kind of baddie who can only kill every other Night? That would settle it - and not make the baddies too overwhelming in the first place. And looking at his spotting-capabilities this Night I would say he's a seer every other Night...~Nogrod

No seering ability. And I can kill as many nights in a row as I wish. I can't protect myself two straight nights and I can't guard the same person for two straight nights.

If you want something better than a 'theory' and that is the facts. I am a Bear with the powers of guarding somebody, protecting myself from attack, or killing someone. No seer, no thief, nothing else. Thats it. I win along with the village whether I'm dead or alive, so I could really care less if you lynch me today, but you won't win by doing it that I promise.

[Thinlómien]

Well, that sure provoked some reactions, like I wished.

Anyway, I think my theory makes sense. It might not be the truth, but it's the only sensible alternative I can come up with. There's just one weak link: why was there no wolf kill last Night? The answer is easy. Agan attacked Boro, but the real ranger (not some bluffing bear) fell for Boro's lies and protected him.

Boro, I'm sorry to say, but you fail to convince me. Your manner is not that of what you claim to be. It's that of a baddie's who is in a trap. (Your "calmness" feels wrong and you saying "it worked perfectly" just sounds too bad.) Secondly, your claim is unbelievable. What is that, a hunter+assasin that cannot die in the hands of wolves? Sounds a bit too invincible for any sensible game. (Even though, I'm not sure oif this is a sensible game but... )

Nogrod, there's a problem with your theory #2. According to my logic it can't be true, for if Menel and Isabell were one team, why would there have been three kills after they both had died...?

edit: xed with Boro