Tol-in-Gaurhoth XXXVI Game Thread

[Shastanis Althreduin]

Er, Boro is.... one of the hosts. o.O

Aaanyway, this is exactly what happened in my last game, and the game before that, and the game before that, because I didn't see someone's explanation of their actions. Honestly, it's getting irritating.

I'll be on for a bit, so I'll hold my vote. Still probably going to vote Kath though.

[Shastanis Althreduin]

Uhm. Gone past five in the morning, and no one's posted since my last post... I'm going to bed. When I wake up, the deadline will be past, probably.

++Kath

[Lalwendë]

Hmmm, I think I still stand by what I was beginning to think last night.

Although Captain has got me thinking with the suspicion over what Shasta said. That was odd, very odd indeed.

[Lalwendë]

On the other hand, why would a non-voter be a wolf? There'd be nothing quite so obviously fishy after all as not voting, and of course the wolves would be more determined than anyone to get votes in and get innocents lynched...Who's picking up on this non-voting being fishy? It would be very opportunist of them.

I'm going to stick with my suspicions and make a bold choice. If anything, it might give me an idea of how he reacts as I have not played with him before.

++Phantom

[The Saucepan Man]

My goodness, it’s quiet around here. Which is to be expected, to a degree, in such a small village. But what concerns me more is not the relatively few number of posts, but the alarming lack of serious analysis.

The phantom, too, bemoans the quietness, but seems to be doing little to rectify the situation himself, Indeed, as far as I can see, he has done little himself to further the village’s cause. Although, to be fair, he has provided us with a list of people who he thinks might or might not be guilty, but who he will not vote for toDay. I am not ready to vote for him yet, as he is too valuable if innocent, but he is doing nothing to allay my concerns over him.

While I am still highly suspicious of Kath’s ‘safe’ vote yesterDay, I am not going to vote for her toDay, as she has not been around, so there is nothing more to go on. I will not vote for Holby toDay, for the same reason.

Gil’s vote for one of the Mods is an eye-opener, and no mistake. It’s the sort of thing an innocent but disengaged Gil might do. But I would not put it past a Wolfish Gil to do it as a diversionary tactic, knowing that people will probably put it down to Gil just being Gil. It might even have been something that was planned overNight. Other than that and the no-vote, there’s not a lot to go on with him, but that’s pretty much the norm with Gil, and it’s a perennial problem. Although perhaps his unprovoked show of aggression against the almighty Mods, will earn him a blast of Modfire from above.

This little spat between Shasta and CoD has me thinking. I can understand CoD’s grievance, since Shasta does seem to be applying different standards to him and to Lal, and he doesn’t explain it. CoD himself is still suspicious for his no-vote yesterDay, but I can see some basis for a Shasta/Lal alliance here.

Which brings me to Lal. Having looked back over her contributions to our discussions, it does strike me that she has been very careful in what she has said. Her opening posts yesterDay were the type that look helpful on first appearance, but actually say very little. And throughout, she has given very little away about her thoughts and been alarmingly cagy about her suspicions. Her vote for the phantom came practically out of nowhere and, while I do have concerns about him myself, I don’t see nearly enough to warrant a vote.

The way that I am currently thinking, I am likely to vote for either Shasta or Lal toDay.

[The Saucepan Man]

On the subject of Lal, this caught my interest:

Originally Posted by Lalwendë

I wasn't going to vote for anyone on that pack anyway - however I can't honestly say that had I managed to get back to my desk on time that I wouldn't have changed my mind seeing a triple lynch coming up. There you go - it's up to you if you choose to punish me for it. I personally don't think you should.

So she is effectively saying that, had she voted, she wouldn’t have broken the triple-tie anyway. On the face of it, this could be taken as an indication of innocence. After all, what Wolf would be so foolish as to say such an incriminating thing? But Lal’s not shtoopid. It’s quite possible that she said this precisely to give that effect.

Then there’s this:

Originally Posted by Lalwendë

But then the point at which Sauce jumps in and votes would be more suspicious than the point at which Mith does it.

I don’t understand this at all. Mith and I voted at almost exactly the same time, so how can my vote be more suspicious than hers? Taken with Shasta’s ridiculous point about ‘pessimistic-Peter’, it makes me wonder whether there might be some subtle combined attempt to sow some seeds of suspicion against me here.

I don’t like this either:

Originally Posted by 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.

Lal is very careful to make ckear that she doesn’t want to say outright who she thinks the Seer might be, yet seems to be giving clues as to what she is talking about. Possibly a coded message to her fellow Wolves as to her thinking?

I am becoming increasingly concerned that Shasta and Lal are aligned in Wolfishness. Currently, I am veering more towards Lal as she looks the more suspicious to me. Like the phantom, I didn’t really want to vote for her unless I had to, as I have never played with her before. But we could really do with bagging a Wolf toDay, so I might just have to put sentiment aside here.

[The Saucepan Man]

Mithalwen: Holby (Holby 1)
Gil: Boromir88! (Holby 1)
CaptainofDespair: Shasta (Holby 1, Shasta 1)
Shasta: Kath (Holby 1, Shasta 1, Kath 1)
Lal: phantom (Holby 1, Shasta 1, Kath 1, phantom 1)

Yet to vote: Kath, Holby, SpM, phantom

With Kath and Holby unlikely to vote toDay, that just leaves the phantom and me. Phantom, are you around? It would be helpful to have an indication as to how you are thinking so that we can avoid another voting fiasco.