WW LXXX: It's About Time!

[Inziladun]

DL Stop. I'm sorry it's late, but my computer picked an inconvenient time to do an anti-virus update.

[satansaloser2005]

Originally Posted by Inziladun

DL Stop. I'm sorry it's late, but my computer picked an inconvenient time to do an anti-virus update.

*huggles you and your computer* S'all right, oh modly one. We love you!


*waits with baited breath....yes, baited*


ETA: You can't break tradition!

[Inziladun]

As the dwindling group spent their fourth day in the desolate house, their discussions became more heated.

The decision this day was that Eomer would be the next to go.

He surveyed his accusers silently, seeming to size them up. Then he shrugged his shoulders and walked into the chamber.

"Well, what's the year"? asked skip.

"Let's send him someplace interesting," said Sally. "How about the fourteenth century? Great Plague, wars, he'll find something to do."

"Ok by me", said Lottie.

Nerwen set the year for 1325, then pushed the center button.

"Nooo! I'm innocent!" Came Eomer's voice from inside the chamber. Then silence.

The party slowly made their way to the window in the chamber. Hardly daring to breathe, they peeked inside. Suddenly Eomer's face leaped out at them as he pressed against the glass. One eye had revolved into his head to show the white, and smoke poured from his mouth and ears.

"AUUGHTTRRRR!" the malfunctioning robot screamed. It reached a trembling hand toward them in frustration, then abruptly collapsed.

The Living
Nerwen
Pitch
Sally
Lottie
skip
Agan

The Dead
Professor Inzil (mod) Head full of knowledge cracked open Night 1
The Elf-warrior (Robot Killer) (wolf)- Fried like foil in a microwave Day 1
Shasta (ordo)- Made into a Shastacicle Night 2
Wilwa (ordo)- Found her big chance to get away from it all Day 2.
Boro (Ranger)- Learned to stop worrying and love the brick Night 3
Greenie (ordo)- Off to have fun with the Normans Day 3
Fea (ordo)- A victim of her own fashion sense (and some murderous robots) Night 4
Eomer (Robot Killer) (wolf)- Done to a turn Day 4

IT IS NIGHT 5. Remaining wolf and Seer send your picks.

[Inziladun]

With a start skip woke up suddenly. Where was he? The large room was dark, lit only by flashing control panel lights from a machine in the center of the room. Then it came to him: he was in the old dining room of a house in the English countryside standing near a time machine.

What, was I sleepwalking? He thought. It had been a long time since he'd done that. And now coming back to him was the dream he'd just had, a dream of one of the people in this house being a soulless killer.

The last one! he said to himself. How would he go about telling the others? All they had to do was get rid of this one and they'd be free to await the opening of the door to the outside in peace.

"What are you doing?" said a voice behind him. Turning, he beheld a shadowy form by the door leading to the stairs. He knew who it was: the very one he'd just dreamed of.

"You." said skip flatly "I know what you are."

"What am I?" asked the newcomer.

"You're the last of those robots. I've had dreams while I've been here; dreams about the people in this house. I know they've been true."

"That doesn't matter now," it said. "I'm afraid your dreaming days are over." It slowly, but implacably began walking toward him.

"What are you going to do?" asked skip. "Put me in the freezer? Kill me with footwear?"

"Oh, no. I don't want to get repetitive".

"What do you mean by that?" said skip. trying to keep the thing talking.

"That's right, you don't know. You see, my companions and I were originally sent here to see what that looney "professor" was up to now and put a stop to it. But then we got thinking: all this here would make a great movie on its own. We've been recording everything that's happened here. And when I get back, it all gets downloaded, and there's your next summer blockbuster. Maybe Brad Pitt will play you!" It laughed.

On one side of the room was a long-disused fireplace, with the associated tools still waiting in a rusty stand. The robot, as it passed the fireplace, picked up a poker and began to slap it against its palm thoughtfully.

Though skip had been looking around himself for weapons, he saw nothing he could reach before the thing got to him.

"You're a fan of Lord of the Rings, aren't you skip?" it asked. "Remember what happened to Frodo in the Mines of Moria?"

Before skip had a chance to say anything, the fiend, in the blink of an eye, hurled the poker at his chest like a spear.

Slowly, skip fell to his knees. He tried, with rapidly ebbing strength, to remove the poker embedded in his sternum, but succeeded not at all.

"Forgot your mithril coat, I see," it chuckled. "What a shame."

As skip's vision began to darken, he thought only of his housemates, and hoped he'd been able to help them enough to get them through this.

The Living
Nerwen
Pitch
Sally
Lottie
Agan

The Dead
Professor Inzil (mod) Head full of knowledge cracked open Night 1
The Elf-warrior (Robot Killer) (wolf)- Fried like foil in a microwave Day 1
Shasta (ordo)- Made into a Shastacicle Night 2
Wilwa (ordo)- Found her big chance to get away from it all Day 2.
Boro (Ranger)- Learned to stop worrying and love the brick Night 3
Greenie (ordo)- Off to have fun with the Normans Day 3
Fea (ordo)- A victim of her own fashion sense (and some murderous robots) Night 4
Eomer (Robot Killer) (wolf)- Done to a turn Day 4
skip (Seer)- "Skewered like a wild boar" Night 5

Day 5 HAS BEGUN

[satansaloser2005]

My darling Skip:

Humble apologies. I picked up on your seer hints AGES ago and, of course, only suspected you to keep the wolves from....well, doing what they just did. However, I obviously could have been a bit more forthcoming with a fake seer act or something before 10 minutes pre-DL yesterDay, because that just may have helped. I was hoping that I'd be able to let things play out and just hop onto Eomer (or whomever, for that matter, but he was of course my first choice) at the end of the Day, but that quickly became impossible, and I should have just come out at that point, but NO, I didn't. I know, I'm a bit of a thickhead, but I shall avenge you.

Yours truly and in innocence,

Sally

[Loslote]

Sally, if you've picked up on Seer hints, did you pick up on who he hinted? If not, I'll go look through his posts; hopefully he left something.

[satansaloser2005]

Originally Posted by Loslote

Sally, if you've picked up on Seer hints, did you pick up on who he hinted? If not, I'll go look through his posts; hopefully he left something.

I'll go look later on, but right now I have a major neck ache (and I have to be at work earlier than usual, so I may just go to bed in an hour or so). Sorry.

[Loslote]

I went through Skip's posts looking for Seer hints, and it looks like he might have dream of TEWie Night 1.

Originally Posted by skip spence

[*highlight]++Wilwa[/highlight]

This says that he did not dream of a wolf Night 2.

Originally Posted by skip spence

I'm pretty good about Boro, Lottie and Fea.

So he almost certainly dreamed of one of us three. I don't think he dreamed of Boro, because then they'd have been able to pm, and I didn't see any evidence for that. I don't think he dreamed of me because of later comments. Thus, I think he probably dreamed of Fea. Besides, dreaming of her would make sense.

The next Day he says:

Originally Posted by skip spence

but there's just something about the situation that makes me think that there were no wolves among the Wilwa-voters.

This speaks pretty strongly for Nerwen or Greenie as the next Night's dream.

Originally Posted by skip spence

Lottie voted for Eomer for pretty suspect reasons. It was mostly mine and his comments about her alterered playing-style that did it I think. She also made a fairly obvious gifted hint, as someone else pointed out, yet lived through the night. On the other hand, her decisive role in killing off Wolf-warrior speaks for her.

Fea didn't vote which isn't too reassuring, but I'm not overly worried about her at this point.

This, again, speaks for him dreaming Fea, not me.

The next Day:

Originally Posted by skip spence

And I tell you this much: I wouldn't lynch you.

This speaks very strongly for Nerwen's innocence. Combined with other indications that he'd dreamed her last Night, things are looking very good for Nerwen.

Originally Posted by skip spence

Any support going after Pitch?

This suggests that he didn't know about Eomer yet. Was his Seer-hinting towards Eomer a bluff? Or had he dreamed of Pitchie earlier and found him guilty? Or did he just suspect Pitchie? The fact that he backed off quickly when he read Pitchie's reasons for not being around yesterDay suggests that he just suspected him.

Originally Posted by skip spence

I'm not really into lynching Sally either at this point.

...

Don't think Agan is one either.

This speaks somewhat well for Sally and Agan, but I don't think he could have dreamed of both of them, so I think these statements rested purely on his own ideas, not on dreams.

Originally Posted by skip spence

Will have a look at Lottie and Eomer though...

Again, clearly he did not dream me.

Originally Posted by skip spence

One thing is clear: Lottie AND Eomer aren't both wolves. Unless I'm tripping...

Just pointing this out. It doesn't mean much to me, because I'm rather sure he didn't dream me, but this does indicate that he didn't dream me and find me guilty.

Originally Posted by skip spence

It's either he, Agan or Lottie (disregarding Pitch as I'd feel terrible lynching him)...

True, Eomer hasn't been caught with his pants down but be that as it may, I think he's our best bet to get a wolf at this point. Not an easy lynch mind you, but if you ask me, a necessary one.

So...was he bluffing or not? I don't think he was, but this doesn't look too certain. Also, that earlier bit says that he dreamed of Agan, me, or Pitchie last Night, because he wouldn't have dreamed of someone he didn't suspect. This all but clears Nerwen and Sally, since we know he dreamed of the last wolf. From what he said at the end of yesterDay, and from Agan's insistance that we lynch Skip, I'd guess that he dreamed of Agan, and that she's our last wolf.