Tol-in-Gaurhoth XXXVI Game Thread

[the phantom]

Originally Posted by Lal

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 not understanding you.

What's wrong with being a bit fishy and not voting if it yields the deaths of three innocents. That's an excellent trade off if you ask me.

You said yesterday that Wolves would be "opportunist", and look who was very opportunist yesterday- you!

[the phantom]

Or we could just not vote at all and have a quadruple lynch. That would be record setting, right?

I'm all for making history.

[the phantom]

Heh heh... are you a WW Sauce, and one of your pals is in line to be lynched so you are looking to save them?

[the phantom]

Let's make this fun.

++Lal

Toodles, everyone.

[The Saucepan Man]

That ain't gonna happen.

Looks like I am going to have to vote for Shasta here to be safe.

[The Saucepan Man]

That was a reply to your previous post, by the way.

No, I am not a Werewolf, and I most certainly do not want a quadruple lynch.

++SHASTANIS ALTHREDUIN

[The Saucepan Man]

[the phantom]

:d

[Boromir88]

Here's the narration...I'll just stick it after tp's...umm face.

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'So who's it going to be?' asked Mithalwen. 'It seems like today has gone exactly like yesterday.'

'I say we lynch Boro' said Gil-galad.

'But Boro's dead.' replied Shasta.

'Don't forget the two people we're dealing with here.' said Gil. 'Anything is possible with those two.'

'How about we check the body make sure it's still there?' said Captain thoughtfully.

'It's probably a fake' grunted Gil. 'I say we lynch him again just to make sure.'

'But they said this was a straightforward village. No funny business this time.' said Lal.

'Do you really believe everything they tell you?'

'Ok, lets not start bickering about whether Fea and Boro were telling us the truth' chimed in Holby. 'We got to figure out who it's going to be so we don't lynch three people this time.'

'Well we failed to catch a wolf by sending three to the gibbet yesterday. So I'm going to vote for Lal and say we send five today. We'll have a better chance with five lynchees.' phantom said in what seemed to be witty sarcasm.

'Or not.' said Sauce. 'I say Shasta.'

The majority nodded their head in agreement that it would be Shasta who would go to the noose today.

'This isn't going to do you any good.' cried Shasta. 'I'm not a wolf, I tell you.'

'Ya, ya, tell it to the judge.' said Kath who walked Shasta up and put the rope around his neck.

Shasta fell through the trap door on the platform and his neck broke instantly. The villagers looked on, but no transformation took place. Shasta was innocent and there were still three who had a grin from ear-to-ear.

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Dead

Night One: Boromir88 (scholar) and Fea (wife)
Day One: Legate (innocent), Durelin (innocent), Menel (innocent)
Night Two: Brinniel (innocent)
Day Two: Shasta (innocent)

Alive

CaptainofDespair
Gil-Galad
Holbytlass
Kath
Lalwendë
Mithalwen
the phantom
The Saucepan Man

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Night three.

Seer dream. Wolves kill. Ords queit.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Dawn once more, and the first villager to the square is CaptainofDespair, always an early riser, and convenient in an alphebetical sort of way.

He sits with his back against the stone well, watching the front doors of each small house open, close, and disappear behind the nearing villagers who emerge from them.

Gil-Galad joins him first, muttering about Nazgul in the village graveyard. "Undead Riders, I tell you! Enslaved far into the afterlife by means of enchanted jewelry!"

"You're wrong." interrupts Holby gently. "The travellers we found were bound, but in a different way than rumors amongst Elves and Wizards tell of Nazgul:

"Two Rings to rule them both, two rings to find them. Two rings to haunt them beyond life and neatly bind them. In the land of Marriage, where heavy years do lie."

"So you think," asks Kath, "that they do not haunt us?"

"I think not." says Holby quietly. "I think they spend the afterlife quietly together, bound eternally by their love."

Mithalwen sips tea, pondering the bodies they had found so recently. "What do you think they wanted with our village?"

The phantom laughs. "Isn't it obvious? They were coming to worship me."

Saucie raises a single eyebrow. "I believe we're missing one of our fellows."

Indeed, Lalwendë has not joined their morning well-meeting. When they search her house, there is no sign of struggle. Her bed is neatly made with a cat curled up upon it. Her gardens are immaculate.

Suddenly Mithalwen turns away, dead white. The crows which Lal had so often complained of frolicking amongst her produce perch at bay upon the crest of her roof. A new scarecrow has been erected amongst her tomatoes, fertilizing them with dripping blood. Lalwendë has been found, and found innocent.

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Dead

Night One: Boromir88 (scholar) and Fea (wife)
Day One: Legate (innocent), Durelin (innocent), Menel (innocent)
Night Two: Brinniel (innocent)
Day Two: Shasta (innocent)
Night Two: Lalwendë (innocent)

Alive

CaptainofDespair
Gil-Galad
Holbytlass
Kath
Mithalwen
the phantom
The Saucepan Man

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Hey villagers, you're going to want to be right today...

[Boromir88]

Voting is closed Shasta is dead and an innocent. Narration will be up later today.

Seer dream. Wolves kill. Ordinary's quiet.