Tol-in-Gaurhoth XXXVI Game Thread

[Mithalwen]

OK I have little time lesft so I must decide soon. Right there are nine of us left 3 wolves one seer.

Brinniel was one of the higher posting players yesterday with 5 posts. Some were short but she maintained a good presence. I don't know if Fea actively picked the wolves but if this is classic ww should there not be Loud, quiet and flying under the radar wolf?

Of course there might be 3 quiet/inexperienced or three legends but ..... from my perspective (and I am innocent btw), there are TP, SpM and Kath who are legendary and tricksy in various ways. Holby who I have played with seldom but who has a fearsome reputation. Lal who was a wolf the only time we met and I am strugling to avoid prejudice based on this.

Shasta I have played with but not enough to read with any confidence, Gil who is always baffling but occasionally touched by genius and CoD an unknown quantity as far as WW goes but I know he can spin a fine yarn.

My guess is 1 wolf among hte last 3 and 2 from the others but of course this is one of those instinctive judgements that Sauce will probably find annoying

Kath has been quiet, I can't make head nor tail of Lal's first post and in her second she started a commentary on others behaviour without actually contributing which can be a wolf trick... or it could have been because there was little else to do. No vote was concerning.

Holby I find most suspicious at the moment. Her list could have just been a "fishing trip" but it could have been a way of mentioning folk in a way that might be discounted... . So have to go but I am sorry for picking an absentee - a cheap shot but my best for now. Good luck.

++ Holbytlass

[the phantom]

I've almost finished my look at everyone. Unfortunately, I have a little errand that will not wait.

I'll say this much right now- from what I've reread, there were other individuals who looked liked the Seer much much more than Brin did. But naturally I'm not going to discuss who my Seer suspects are.

I'll be back within two hours, this time to post actual information.

[CaptainofDespair]

Oh my...

Well, I do apologize for not voting. It might have actually done something (which is to say, it usually does nothing), like prevent a triple lynching. I was unable to vote when I could have, as Saucepan Man was the last person to post (which came right after my only one) and I thus had absolutely nothing to go on. Work then called (after a good sleep), leaving me occupied until 4pm EST the next day.

It would have been unwise to just throw a vote out there...

In any case, I will try to be more helpful today, if possible.

Brinniel's death does not provide any answers, or even a hint to those answers at the moment. It seems rather...random? She did not exhibit much that would lead her to be a target in my mind. And so it appears to be more of a shot in the dark, so to speak, than anything else.

And I cannot decipher any wolf-ish behavior out of what occurred during the time leading up to the triple lynching. Perhaps hindsight makes it seem more like human error than it is, but having not been present I cannot "feel" anything within the posts. Since this Day is a weekend, I am free and should be able to participate more to the extent that I can be in "the moment" and thus pick up on intangibles that are lost after the fact.

[the phantom]

All right, I'm back.

HOLBY
Vote choice and timing: not wolfish
Posts: 3, 20, 21
Feel: Post 20 makes me slightly uncomfortable, but the others are fine.

MITH
Vote choice and timing: slightly wolfish
Posts: 5, 6, 36, 37
Feel: Nothing in her posts sets off alarms. She's playing well.

GIL
Vote choice and timing: no vote
Posts: 7
Feel: There's not much to go on.

LAL
Vote choice and timing: no vote
Posts: 9, 30, 32, 35
Feel: Posts 9 and 30 rub me the wrong way, and I don't like her non-vote.

KATH
Vote choice and timing: slightly wolfish
Posts: 12, 33
Feel: I'm not getting a feel for her, and it bothers me.

CAP
Vote choice and timing: no vote
Posts: 14
Feel: He does not make me particularly suspicious. But we don't have much info.

SPM
Vote choice and timing: slightly wolfish
Posts: 15, 38, 39
Feel: He is not coming across as innocent or guilty to me. Hmm...

SHASTA
Vote choice and timing: slightly wolfish
Posts: 22, 29
Feel: His list reminds me of Boro, Ang, and me while Werewolfing.

TP
Vote choice and timing: slightly wolfish
Posts: 23, 24, 25
Feel: He was quiet yesterday, but then so was everyone else.

My leanings....

I won't vote for the phantom (duh!).

I don't want to vote for Mith, Kath, Gil, or Cap at this time.

[Shastanis Althreduin]

Hmm.

I'll put out there that at this time I'm most suspicious of Kath, who put in a throwaway vote for Mith when the Menel and Durelin bandwagons were already going strong. I'm also suspicious of all the non-voters... but, oddly enough, not so much Lal, as I understand where she's coming from. I myself have to go to work in... ten minutes. I'll be back before the deadline though, and cast my vote then.

Another oddity before I go...

Originally Posted by the plot

'Oh stop being such a pessimistic-Peter.' the wolf laughed at its own alliteration.

It's probably nothing, but I could construe that to mean Peter Jackson... aka Sauce.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Originally Posted by Shastanis Althreduin

It's probably nothing, but I could construe that to mean Peter Jackson... aka Sauce.

The narration of this game does not hold clues.

Would it be cruel and unnecessary manipulation to add 'at least nothing that transparent'?

[CaptainofDespair]

Originally Posted by Shastanis Althreduin

Hmm.

I'm also suspicious of all the non-voters... but, oddly enough, not so much Lal, as I understand where she's coming from. I myself have to go to work in... ten minutes. I'll be back before the deadline though, and cast my vote then.

It's probably nothing, but I could construe that to mean Peter Jackson... aka Sauce.

How can that be construed that way? Perhaps I'm missing some insider information. But it is not important, as any thing that needs to be twisted for something to be made of it is worthless.

Moving on.

Now, how can you be suspicious of me (another non-voter) and not Lal? My reasoning is quite similar, as I have to get up very early for work and cannot thus be counted on to vote if nothing is really going on when I leave the forums for the night.

I think you have a terrible double standard there, and you may have garnered some suspicion from me. In accepting Lal's explanation as reason to diminish or dismiss suspicion, and not my own, you have potentially set yourself up as a wolf cohort of Lal, should she be one.

However, I do not think Lal is a wolf, but you are certainly on my radar now, Shastanis. There could be other reasoning for your lack of Lal suspicion, but I have yet to see an explanation that will suffice.

[Boromir88]

Aye as Fea said there are no clues to be found in the narration...that was just me having fun with an inside joke. Instead of saying the popular 'debbie downer', a couple friends have used different ones...like 'pessimistic-Peter' 'negative-Nancy' and 'sadistic-Scotty' to name a few.

[the phantom]

Yeesh, this village is quiet. Painfully quiet. When people don't open their mouths much it's more difficult to get a read.

Unfortunately I can't generate much noise myself due to my schedule. Bah.

I'll be back before the deadline to make sure we don't cut our time down by two days again with a triple lynch.

[Lalwendë]

I have a suspicion about who the Seer might be but I don't think I ought to say this outright in case the wolves pick them up. But they have brought something up which makes me think one of the non-voters is indeed a Wolf.

Still not suspicious of Kath, in contrast to what Shasta says, I reckon why would a wolf go for such an obvious choice of a throwaway vote? I don't think that's Kath's wolfing style - but then I'll leave that thought with you more experienced folk and see what you guys think of her. Not suspicious of Mith either. Which also rules out Sauce for me right now. Much as I disagree with Shasta above, there's nowt fishy there either.

Which leaves me with Captain, Gil, Phantom and Holby. Two of those are of course non-voters - so I reckon we must have a combo of either Captain/Gil/Phantom or Holby or a combo of Captain or Gil/Phantom/Holby.