WWLXII: Dead Men Do Tell Tales

[Nogrod]

I don't know why you guys keep on playing werewolf time after time. But I know why I am doing it.

It's a social thing of course and it's fun to meet you people in new games and just share the experience.

It's also a game of winning or losing therefore creating adrenaline and team-effort (even if as goodies it's hard to get that working - but when it does it's just splendid!). That is always fun as well (whatever the end-result is).

But I also do love the possibility of deducing things from what people have said and done. And when you suddenly realise: "Haa, X said this and formerly she said that - and because she voted for Y at that point but then tried to avoid Z being lynched... hmm... that must mean she's a wolf!", it's just soo great a feeling - especially if you get it right...

So I must say I also love the "intellectual-side" of this game. The power of reasoning, the possibility of catching the wolves and their schemes - or pulling out a scheme to outwit the villagers if being a wolf.

Why all this, then?

Well to my surprise I realised on the last few Days of this game that even in a game insane enough where nothing is told to us we can still make reasoned theories and build backed-up arguments! That was just great!

So sad if some of you thought I must be a baddie of some sort because I hung around to the wee hours with my computer, for it was only being excited about the possibility of actually being able to deduce something in a game like this!

Sadly as well, I was so wrong with my theory concerning Izzy vs. Gwath - even if I had also entertained quite seriously it the other way and even laid the reasons out why it could be the other way...


And even if I understand (or think I do) what Boro means and can sympathize with his view, I think I will side with Brinn on this one. You made good decisions in hard situations making this game an unforgettable one - no matter who won or lost. And that I think is in the last stance the most important thing - that we have fun.

If the game would have ended with Gwath being modfired and Mac giving up without his ranger-stunt - and missing the last Days altogether (when it actually started to be really interesting)... well it would have been a great victory for the village but much less interesting or mind-boggling game it turned out in the end.