WW XXXIX - Do Werebalrogs have wings?

[Mithalwen]

I changed my m ind even as I posted ... or the coin did

[Thinlómien]

The day passed in heated debates and accusations were flying around like lime-coloured rectangular flying saucers. In the end, the miners found it really difficult to choose whether to lynch Brinniel or Sally. They obviously couldn't settle the matter by voting as there were precisely as many for lynching Brinn and for lynching Sally. ”What shall we do?” Gil-Galad voiced the popular thought.

”I know!” Mith said, ”Let's toss a coin!”
”A coin?” Nerwen asked sceptically.
”But of course! Not a real coin, but we make a coin of them!” Kath said, ”Brinniel, which one you'd prefer to be, heads or tails?”
”Heads...”, she said, wondering what kind of trap she was walking into.
”I'll have tails then”, Sally said.

So the miners took a rope and tied Brinn and Sally back against back.
”Now, we should just somehow toss them and see which one lands on the top”, Nogrod observed.
”Let's take them to that high rock over there and throw upwards”, Shasta suggested.
No one except Sally and Brinn disagreed so they brought the two young ladies to the rock.

”One”, said Naria,
”Two”, said Mith,
”THREE!” said Kath and the miners thusted Brinniel and Sally in the air. The young women screamed while the other miners applauded wildly.

THUMP. Brinniel and Sally hit the ground. Sadly for Sally, Brinniel landed on the top. Even though Brinniel was not heavy, her weight, the considerable height and the speed had performed their task. Sally was no longer among the living.
Laying in a pool of blood and broken bones, Brinniel passed out.

”Now I wonder what we have done by this”, Legate muttered.

~*~

Dead
Thinlómien (mod) - killed by a wingless balrog on Night1
Rikae (ordo) - ate too many cobblers on Day1
Volo (Maeglin the Cobbler Lover) - dropped by a winged balrog on Night2
Lhunardawen (ordo) - committed suicide by smashing her own head on Day2
Macalaure (The Balrog with Swing) - left after being insulted by his low-class fans on Day2
The Might (Eärendil the Seer) - became the miners' shining star on Night3
satansaloser2005 (ordo) - landed face down on Day3

Living
Brinniel
Gil-Galad
Kath
Legate of Amon Lanc
Mithalwen
Naria
Nerwen
Nogrod
Shastanis Althreduin

Night4 has begun. Lovers and balrogs may discuss. Balrogs and remaining gifteds may send me their picks.

[Thinlómien]

The two balrogs crept closer to the place where Gil-Galad was sleeping. ”Time to die, dude”, the Balrog with Bling whispered evilly. The balrogs raised their fiery weapons to finish the miner, but their deadly whips were tangled around an unsheathed sword. ”Not yet”, Gil-Galad said softly, his eyes burning with ardent anger. He swung his sword in a mighty arch and both balrogs lost grip of their weapons.

”I am Glorfindel of the Golden Flower, a High Noldorin Lord! You won't slaughter me like a maggot like you have slaughtered my people. Deal with my blade!” Gil-Galad shouted. Furious because of the loss of their weapons and being confronted, the balrogs attacked the elf. He parried their attacks easily, and managed to get between the two balrogs. He raised his sword and charged towards the Balrog with Bling, chanting: ”Ei múmitaloa lucita yócsi, hei múmí! Cun hamara hípú yo tahtien vyócsi, hei múmí...! Nyt carceloi cansa ya cunnailla soi, cas múmeilta elamá opia voi... hei múmí!”

Screaming, the Balrog with Bling ran. She ran to the balrogs' secret exit and up to the mountain slope. Behind her, Gil-Galad ran, swinging his gleaming sword and after him, the Balrog who Sings, uncharacteristically silent.

The Balrog with Bling realised she was in a dead end. She could not escape anymore. The High Elf was right behind her and her fellow balrog was still too far away to be of any assistance. Screaming hideously, she turned to attack Gil-Galad. Their eyes locked.

”I knew it was you”, the elf said, ”nice to meet you in your true form, Brinniel.”
”You know nothing, dude”, she said, ”we are da werebalrogs and you're gonna lose!”
”I don't think so”, Gil-Galad said, aiming a mighty blow towards the balrog.
Brinniel parried the blow with her arm and it was lopped away. ”Just a flesh wound”, she hissed, ready to retaliate. But she never got the chance. Gil-Galad cast her to the gorge. She fell, but she managed to swing her big golden bling chain around his feet and dragged him with her to the abyss.

Even when he died, Gil-Galad was laughing. ”Fly, you fool”, he told Brinn, ”if you can.” But because the Moddess Goddess had decreed balrogs don't have wings, Brinniel could do nothing to help her situation, only to curse her cruel fate and the cruel Mod.

~*~

Dead
Thinlómien (mod) - killed by a wingless balrog on Night1
Rikae (ordo) - ate too many cobblers on Day1
Volo (Maeglin the Cobbler Lover) - dropped by a winged balrog on Night2
Lhunardawen (ordo) - committed suicide by smashing her own head on Day2
Macalaure (The Balrog with Swing) - left after being insulted by his low-class fans on Day2
The Might (Eärendil the Seer) - became the miners' shining star on Night3
satansaloser2005 (ordo) - landed face down on Day3
Gil-Galad (Glorfindel the Hunter) – died in a duel on Night4
Brinniel (The Balrog with Bling) – died in a duel on Night4


Living
Kath
Legate of Amon Lanc
Mithalwen
Naria
Nerwen
Nogrod
Shastanis Althreduin

Day 4 has started. You may start chatting.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Very nice. Gil, if you hear us where you are now, know you did a great job. Now I guess our situation is far, far better and also far, far clearer.

First, now that Brinn is dead, we can make conclusions depending on her attitude towards people and other people's towards her, and on yesterday's voting. What strikes me immediately is that we can say Mith is not probably a balrog - unless she read my vote before she posted, which I find very, very, very unlikely.

My favourite suspect's, Nerwen's, vote also looks quite innocentish at the moment, which makes me think that I probably indeed got carried off with her case Of course, unless she wanted to seal the fate of her companion, knowing that it's either her or Brinn. So it's not 100%, but I'm ceasing my ongoing suspicious analysis on her, at least for the moment.

If we hold to the thing that TM dreamt of Nogrod and saw him innocent, then we can leave Nog also out of our suspects.

Now that would leave us with Kath, Naria and Shasta. I will do some post analyses.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

I start with Naria who has posted the less of all. Only three posts.

Day 2

#105
Says Nog "seems to be off on his usual ranting about useless individuals and so on" and does not see why he is never content, mentioning TM and Nerwen seem that they are trying and their posts make sense.
Then, elaborates on being incontent with classifying which posts are "good ones" and which are "bad ones".

#140
Saying that seeing Mac is gathering votes (he had 3), she is not finding him too suspicious. Votes for Nerwen, saying she does not like her offensive post (meaning probably #127).

#186
Says that confused by me and Nog, decided "to give her take on things". Presents her opinion on TM's dreams (but is wrong in the count of the nights). Says this helped her clear her mind on me.

That's really very little. Let's wait if she appears toDay (generally she does around 5-7 AM GMT). If she does not and/or does not vote, she may be ModKilled. If she's a balrog, this would be nice. Otherwise, her posts are really too few to make something out of them. The only thing that could be thought about is her unwillingness to vote for Mac on Day 2, creating a co-bandwaggon (there was no other candidate than Mac at that time). But, hmph, let's see what's to be found at the others...

[Shastanis Althreduin]

*applauds* Nice work, Gil!

This leaves the Balrog who Sings left, correct? That could point to me, I suppose: I happen to love to sing.

Hm. Now that we know that Brinniel was bad, I'm inclined to trust Nerwen more, and wonder about Legate... although he seems less Balrog-ish to me than he did yesterday.

If we go by Legate's list, then my suspicions are firmly on Kath for the moment, as I know I'm innocent, and I'm not sure Naria has been active enough (pot calling kettle, anyone? ) for baddieship. I think I'll go back and look at her, if Legate hasn't already done so while I've been typing this.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Kath

DAY 1

#32
Her only post that Day. Makes some short comment on everyone. I quote just what she says about the balrogs:

Originally Posted by Kath

Brinn ~ I'm liking her posts. Straightforward and not worrying a point to death.
Mac ~ Well, I have some support for my suspicion of Noggie at least. His points seem pretty well made.

Votes Nogrod (she suspects him earlier in the post).

DAY 2
#83
Says it's good that the cobbler is dead and lovers around are not good, but agrees with Nog that the balrogs are more important.

#100
Explains her suspicion of Noggins, mainly: posting a lot, calling for substance in posts while not doing that himself, "seeing balrogs everywhere". Wonders why Nog is jumpy about that when she only wants to clear up whether he's a balrog.

#111
In response to Nog, mentions Naria and Brinn saying the same things about him before. Says Rikae bandwagon was a mistake that could have been avoided. Mentions Nog's vote as suspicious and also Nerwen. Says that there is little to be gathered from Volo. Says also that Mith is jumpy and wants to see more from her.

#118
Continues debate with Nogrod, mainly suspecting him because of him willing to sacrifice Rikae to save his own skin even though he says he thought her innocent.

DAY 3

#162
Starts with thoughts about TM mentioning me, Mac and Nog as candidates for dreaming. Concludes that TM dreamt of me and Nog, thus, leaving her Nog-case. Explains to Brinn her on-going case with Nog, apologizing to her.

#169
Replies to Shasta about how much till DL.

#175
Again clears up the time for Shasta.

#214
Apologizes for not being around, sums the Day as arguing between me and Nerwen. Does not think either of us suspicious. On the Day's subjects, she does not find Nerwen suspicious and is not sure about Brinn. People remaining to vote for her are Brinn, Gil and Sally. Does not want to vote Gil because it seems he's trying, then chooses Sally over Brinn because of her comments around TM (it was Brinn 3, me 1, Sally 1 at that time).

That's all. Well, in general, I don't find at least her early posts suspicious. Her arguing with Nog is still arguing with only one subject, which is interesting and I don't know what to think of that. But what's innocent-seeming to me are her exchanges with Brinn - I don't think a balrog would discuss that openly with his comrade. Also, she mentions especially Brinn and Mac supporting her case against Nogrod on Day 2 - well that would be very dangerous thing to do, connect themselves in the eyes of the others. Only her last vote for Sally could have been an attempt to support the bandwaggon to save Brinn, but apart from that, there is nothing to support this idea.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Shasta
Note: I still can't remember that Shasta is HE; I corrected it in the PM after I wrote it, but if I missed it anywhere, please correct it in your minds when you read it. Sorry, Shasta.

DAY 1

#26
Finds Rikae's vote odd given the no-retraction rule and asks her to comment on that.

DAY 2

#103
Apologizes for not posting and explains - RL issues. Says that there's "something about TM that immediately sets him on edge".
He did not vote that day because he mixed up that DL, Lommy left him alive.

DAY 3

#168
Asks how long remains till DL.

#174
Says "phew, 21 hours".

#176
Says he likes my posts on Nerwen, but will rather go back and read for himself. Nog seems to him defensive of Nerwen.

#180
Says he's trying to be more active, and that he's not good in in-depth analysis.
Says it's clear TM dreamt of Nog on Night 2. I am a mystery to him, maybe word-twisty if Nerwen is to be believed.

#182
Says me and Brinn are the most suspicious to her now.

#185
Votes me because there were already two votes on Brinn and "there has been lamentation on earlier days about the one choice of lynching", so he goes out with his other suspicion and "let the others make the choice".

#188
Says to Brinn that he doesn't find Nerwen's behavior of defending against myself suspicious.

Yes, and his last post I believe everyone sees. It seems quite ok to me. Okay, now... Shasta overall seems relatively okay to me. And a balrog, I believe, would not vote me yesterDay just as simply.

I'm probably going asleep soon, but to finish these thoughts: the most suspicious of these three now to me seems Naria. Or, better said: the least less suspicious, if you know what I mean. Imagine that the balrogs would have had easier work when they did not have to mention her at all, as she did almost never show. The solution is easy. If she does not show up, she's modkilled. But if she does, I'd go for lynching her.