Admin Thread for WWXLV: The Fellowship of Saruman

[Nogrod]

And don't blame yourself Rune, we all get it wrong every once in a while. In some games one can be just so wrong from the very beginning to the end. It has happened to me so I know what I'm talking about... And after all you were no hunter who went on to kill our seer in retribution!

[Groin Redbeard]

Congratulations to everyone, this is by far the best game I will ever play! Thank you again Legate for coming up with the idea!

Well done Nogrod, you really got onto me on the last day there. You really tackled those tough jobs to get me (my heart stopped when I saw your analysis on the last day).

Thinlomien, you played an excellent game. The only mistake that you made was trusting me too much. I really enjoyed all your analysis. I must admit I was scared that you might catch onto us in the beginning.

Hats off to Little Green, we never thought that you were a vigilanty. Even though it seemed that The Ka fooled everyone, you were smart enough to get him; it all went downhill for us from that point on.

Nerwen, you didn’t provide much incite at the beginning, but we (traitors) feared that you might catch on very soon. Congratulations for scaring us enough to kill you.

Gwathagor, I don’t know how you survived as long as you did. It seemed like everyone caught onto you right away. It seemed like every day that we might lose you. Very well done.

[McCaber]

Well, this was one game where I couldn't go for my usual "lynch Nerwen" strategy.

I would like to congratulate the traitors as well. Even when it all fell apart, you almost had it.

And I want to thank everyone for not lynching me when my time was stolen by college all of a sudden.

[Nogrod]

Thanks Groin but I must confess that from at least a Day before I kind of believed Sally was the seer and so her points helped me to narrow the chances down.

It was indeed during our morning (RL), like in the middle of this last Day (GT) when I was supervising an examination in a classroom and had an internet connection when I scrolled through the game thread and made some notes... just of you and Gwath... That's how sure I was.

Of course the doubt came back many times later the Day and I kind of made those "analysis" on Menel and Sally in all honesty trying to see whether I had been wrong but somehow they didn't convince me anymore.

But you played well indeed! It was a tough work - and a combination of other things as well - that finally made me confident of your guilt.

Now I need to go to sleep but I'll catch you all up later...

[Nogrod]

Just to amuse us...as there is no final narration yet.

So what do you think would have happened to a fellowship that left Lorien composed of Elrohir, Uglúk, Tom Bombadil, Galadriel and Théodred?

Could "we" have stood a chance?

[Groin Redbeard]

Originally Posted by Nogrod

Just to amuse us...as there is no final narration yet.

So what do you think would have happened to a fellowship that left Lorien composed of Elrohir, Uglúk, Tom Bombadil, Galadriel and Théodred?

Could "we" have stood a chance?

No chance, Ugluk would have betrayed you as you got close to Mordor and you would have lost the Ring anyway. Even if you gave it to someone else they would have gotten corrupted.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

No way, folks - by the way, the narration is up (for about half an hour now), just so that everyone knows. So you may check my version (idealized, but whatever). Apologies to Nogrod, but I don't think Tom would have wanted to leave Lórien to the barren lands to the East after all. <= yes, that was it.

In any case, I must say I was very surprised by the Traitors and the Seer and the Hunter (the Ranger unfortunately did not have enough time to show his quality), because they turned to be far above my expectations - all of them. In other words, it's good that the Gifted were as good as they were, because the Traitors were too. "Black horses", indeed! In any case, I really enjoyed reading this game, as it was exciting to follow it, and the more for the roleplaying, which was also done brilliantly from you. I am going to definitely keep this game in my memory as one I did not play in, but enjoyed it in a very strong way.

[Nogrod]

Originally Posted by Legate of Amon Lanc

Apologies to Nogrod, but I don't think Tom would have wanted to leave Lórien to the barren lands to the East after all. <= yes, that was it.

Nothing to apologise for it was most fitting and what I kind of hoped for.

Quite interestingly the Days when I had the most time to play and thence to try and make the rhymes & stuff were the Days in the game when we were outdoors. So that kind of served Tom's character pretty well - no jolly singing in Moria but the self-doubt whether he was the old Tom anymore...

Lommy's and Aganzir's writing has been praised already and they deserve the praise. But so do The Ka and Groin as well. I mean The Ka's Radagast was just so "edgeless", ageless and calm as I think of him - and you couldn't find him being rash or accusatory against anyone. Great cover you had there and well built. Also Groin's Daín felt so like a bit tense and action-oriented dwarf-king that it was jst too real. Also Rune managed to make his Galadriel at times to be exactly the lady of the galadhrim. And all the rest of you were great as well.

I'm all for trying this kind of compulsory in-character game again one fine day. Sadly so many people seem to fear or dislike the idea. They clearly don't know what they are missing!

And last but not least. Sometimes a game feels like it's all up to who has the best or toughest luck, whom the stars seem to favour. But sometimes - like this time - you feel that thinking things over and analysing what people do really make a difference! In the end it was the combined actions and talk of people with which one could start limiting the number of candidates and finally end up with just one. And ditto! In times to come I will refer to this game when people say there's no point in analysing things as it's all just lucky guessing...

Thank's everyone for a good game!