Tol-in-Gaurhoth XLVII: Dueling Wizards Werewolf II

[Diamond18]

Originally Posted by Lal

Sorry phantom - I was useless, banging on about Lommy and so on. I'm glad you didn't listen to me.

You and me both. I was advocating Lommy or morm. Or Shasta. Or Roa. Or anyone besides Nilp, really.

[Isabellkya]

Yay!

It was truely an awesome game. The plots were wonderful to read.
My werewolf radar is definately malfunctioning.

I dare say that it was quite frustrating at times, I'm such a slow poster; have to make sure tags are right and read through it a few times to make sure it says what I mean to say. I'd get caught up, and ready to post - then there would be one or two new pages to read through - making my post obsolete. Though it was definately entertaining.

Thanks for hosting Nog, and great job everyone!

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

I can't believe nobody remembered Diamond sealing Mac the Ranger's fate on DAY 2.

THIS IS WHY WE KEEP POSTING AND REPOSTING THE VOTES.

Well, we tried our best. Kudos to the good guys. Most of my accolades, however, go to the phantom, who, it seems, read the Evil Team's mind uncannily. A truly bonjwa* performance.

Rikae, mistress, may I ask why you chose us? I don't recall Cailín or I having ever played with you, so . . . why? In any case, it was fun serving under you, even though sometimes I don't obey you.


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*bonjwa - Korean slang for 'the best'. Used in StarCraft progaming circles for describing the best player of a generation. I don't, of course, mean that. Well, not exactly that . . .

[A Little Green]

*hats off* (oh crap, that one still has his hat on... Hats off, I say!)

This was the first game in which I actually survived till the end! Yay! Awesomely played, everyone.

Lal, you were wonderful. I suppose I should have started suspecting you when I realised that you were the only one I didn't suspect... A very neat performance.

Also, great job wizards, both of you. (And I just started to think that the EWs, the old and the new, happened to play sisters...) And wolves and gifteds of course as well. I really was quite out of track in this game, but at least I didn't suspect any gifteds (but unfortunately no wolves either...). And thanks to the mod as well. The narrations were great, but the Swedish-speaking soldiers in the last narration were a bit too much..

[Macalaure]

38 pages of game... wow!

A mad game, especially with GW and EW almost neutralising each other. It was a little disappointing that the ordos had nothing to do but follow the GW's lead for quite a while, but in the end it was them who won the game (right, Roa was the ranger, but what she contributed had nothing to do with being gifted...)

Lal already stated that phantom did well in not listening to his gifteds. When we got to know the EW's identity, I made a list of how likely each player was to be turned into a wolf by Rikae, thinking I knew her, but apart from Aganzir I was completely wrong. On top of that, after I was forced to reveal, I also tried to convince tp that Kath was a wolf...

Btw, I almost protected Volo the first night (not thinking he was the seer, just that it was likely there were some out there who would love to get rid of him) - but he ended up being my second choice after Lommy.

An afterthought:
Looking at how this game affected tp's sleep and work, and being in the position to witness first hand just how emotionally taxing and depressing it was to Rikae, is it possible that some of us take Werewolf too seriously? I mean, it's a game, and while it's most fun when everybody plays their best, like it is with all games, it's really just a game and no competition. There are no titles, medals, rankings or whatever, and I think a player who is fun to play with will receive more reps in the end than the player who brought home the victory.

[Aganzir]

Wow.

Thanks for the game & narrations, Nogrod! Both were enjoyable.

Congratulations to phantom & his team. You played awesomely. Though I still think that the seer shouldn't get a dream the night he's killed...

But most of all thanks to Rikae and our lovely team. If I had had to name one person I thought to be the EW after day 1, I would have said you. Was it intentional that you were referring to the wolves' night 1 discussion in your first post? Though what made me think so more was that you didn't suspect me considerably.
And little as it lasted, it was nice to plot with you, Nilp and Cailín. I was so frustrated when Lommy said I played like a wolf who didn't know her fellows since I knew them from the very beginning!

I don't think I have ever played so badly as a wolf as I played on day 1. I was unbelievably tired and didn't have the energy to post anything proper so my posts ended up being mostly short responses to quotes, which someone (Brinn I think) noticed. Oh well.
It must have been funny for Nog to read my PM's to the others on night 2 - they were pretty desperate. I was sure Lommy was a gifted; I couldn't understand how she had spotted me based only on that one IC post! Well, at least I won't have a chance to become too proud. :-D

Rikae told us to get Lommy killed, either by lynching or in the night, so that's why my case against her.

Volo was our pack's kill while Durelin killed Kitanna. I think it was Nilp who originally brought up the idea of killing him, and I agreed since I thought it would reduce the pressure on me and might help to frame Legate. Our other option was either Mac or Rikae (). Eventually we sent in the names of Volo and Rikae since we thought killing Mac might look a bit too much like framing Legate. Boy, would it have been nice to get two gifteds killed on the first night!

[Lalaith]

So why did you kill me rather than Roa?

Gwath - it was complicated. I sent Nogrod my deliberations at the time.

Firstly, I could not be sure exactly who the Ranger was protecting, and this was one thing I could not get wrong - with the odds so against me, I couldn't afford to lose a single night kill. I mean, one assumes that Durelin was protected the night she was turned, but what if there had been a bluff? I reckoned the Ranger would protect Durelin on alternate nights, but I couldn't be sure which nights they were. Who else would the Ranger protect? Well, I drew up a list of choices I might protect, if I were Ranger, and Roa would be one of them, if I thought her innocent, and the Ranger, for all I knew, might think just that. I really never thought Roa would actually be the Ranger herself. During my second day as lone wolf (the day I died) I became convinced that Morm was the Ranger. Morm, you would have died that night.

Secondly, I thought you (Gwath) might have been a choice for phantom as Ranger, and I really, really wanted to kill the Ranger so that I could do what I liked at night.

Thirdly, you had said you did not suspect me. So there was no trail back to me.

Oh and I have a lot of repping to do, I've run out of reps now so please wait! (Roa, btw, if your button doesn't work, then right-click for a new window)