Werewolf LXXXIII: The Nightmare on the East Road

[Inziladun]

*note to self: if Agan's not coming after me, she's probably evil*.

Nice job, wolves and Ferny! Looking over things after I was taken out, I started second-guessing Agan a bit, but Greenie mostly looked good except for her vote for TEW. I was totally blindsided by Wilwa's cobblerism. I had Pitch down as the likely Ferny.

Oh, well. At least I only killed one of the Gifteds, and I wasn't fooled by Shasta. Being an annoyance to the wolves and forcing them to Night-kill you is a great honor for an ordo.

My last Day alive, I'd thought to try and counter what Shasta was saying about wanting to give the BW a hint about Tom. I thought if I challenged Shasta on that, maybe I could fool the wolves, and more importantly, the BW, into thinking I was Tom, leaving the real one able to take out the BW.
It made no difference in the end, but I was pleased to see Tom alive at the end of my last Night.

Great game concept and execution from Boro, and Fea's efforts on the narrations were highly original.

[Lhunardawen]

It was fun browsing quickly through this game every chance I get. Fea and Boro, great job on the modding, and I thought the concept of the game is interesting. Congrats, wolvsies!

Originally Posted by Alpha Female Scar

Pitch, if you're a wolf, I'm going to kill you after the game!

Agan, you are sooo evil.

[Eomer of the Rohirrim]

*throws rocks at Agan*

[Aganzir]

Originally Posted by Lhunardawen

Agan, you are sooo evil.

I know! I was sorry I had to maintain an innocent facade all through the last day, but I couldn't afford to look wolfish just in case Form was the cobbler or we made a major fail and killed them in the night!

Originally Posted by Eomer of the Rohirrim

*throws rocks at Agan*

Aww! Eomer, I think you're twisted (and I might have said as much to my fellows on night 1 when we talked about who we'd like to kill/leave alive) - you also look always pretty darn suspicious yourself, whatever your role. I'm convinced you have a wolf's frame of mind.
And I had no idea Eomer was Tom. I didn't want to lynch him because I was worried it would point at me in (the unlikely) case he was Ferny. I thought it was Lottie.

[satansaloser2005]

Originally Posted by Inziladun

*note to self: if Agan's not coming after me, she's probably evil.*.

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[A Little Green]

Hehe. In all fairness, though, I don't think it would even have been possible to lose with this pack. We did have our share of bad luck too, with the two no-kill Nights and the Seer dreaming one of us - but luckily the village killed off all the Gifted to balance things!

[wilwarin538]

Originally Posted by Aganzir

Guess what was my code for "I think X is the cobbler"? The person whose name I've bolded last before saying I want tea! Wilwa you're a psychic.

Haha, that is fantastic!

[A Little Green]

So many thanks to our lovely mods, the brave village, the sweet Canadian Cobblers, and most of all my gorgeous packmates. Also, I find it amusing that the last post in the actual game was a wolf quoting another and saying "Great minds think alike".

[Boromir88]

Thank you everyone for playing and sticking it through after the first few days of confusion from the Barrow-wight role. I think it worked out in the end and there's probably some things about the role that could have been better. Certainly I knew I put sally in a very difficult situation to win, but thought she'd have fun with it. You were doing very well dear until that weasle Shasta decided to give you up as he was going down. However, that was a master play by the wolves since you'd been giving them fits early.

I loved the back and forth posting between the wolves in this, it was hilarious being behind the scenes and seeing them work.

NIGHT 1:

Seer- Lottie

NIGHT 2:

BW- Eomer (hehe she stunned ole Tom the first night )
Ferney- Nogrod
Seer- Volo
Ranger- I wrote down the choices, but somehow can't find the paper, but I want to say it was either Nog or wilwa
Wolves- sally (and they find the wight!)

NIGHT 3:

BW- Agan
(This was a funny night and excellent choice by sally. The previous night Agan sent me wolf ramblings that she wanted to kill Volo, but would go with either Greenie's preference of sally or Shasta's for Nogrod. So she went with Sally Night 2, as I giggled at thinking, Volo would have been the best choice. Then she wanted to tell her pack that she thought Nogrod was Butterbur. However being stunned all night she couldn't, and Greenie was I believe gone for most of the day. So, poor Shasta had to make the choice himself and he went with Butterbur! )
Ferney- Shasta (Wilwa discovered Shasta same night the seer did, which what then is Ferney supposed to do!?)
Seer- Shasta
Wolves- Nogrod
Bombadil- I want to say either Nerwen or Nogrod.

NIGHT 4:

BW- Wilwa (So after stopping one of their kills, stunning one of them, sally proceeds to stun Ferney! She was just a wolf wrecking ball )
Wolves- No kill from Butterbur and this was probably one of the turning points, because with no kill Elfie would have had a free dream, but village lynches him instead. I was sitting back thinking it'd be great if Elfie revealed and then Wilwa, who also knew Shasta was a wolf would do some cobbler countering and create a bunch of havoc. And thought with a "free dream" in the night, Elfie probably could have revealed and been believed, however I didn't think either about the Wight still being around, and who knows what sally would have done with the known seer having a free dream since the wolves wouldn't be able to kill.
Bombadil- Greenie

NIGHT 5:
BW- Inzil
Ferney- Nerwen
Bombadil- sally (following the words of a dying confessed wolf)
Wolves- Inzil (I think the PM I got from Greenie was something like..."we want to make a delicious mess of him all the way to dawn)

Night 6:
Ferney- Greenie
Wolves- Lottie

Night 7:

Wolves- Kath

At this point even if the count was technically 2 wolves to 3 innocents. Ferney was one of the innocents, and wilwa had spied on Greenie the previous night, so with the wolves kill of an innocent. It was basically game set match, and Fea being the most awesome and understanding co-mod brought to my attention unless wilwa was completely incompentent in that situation it was game over and no point to drag it out for what essentially would be..."Hey I'm Ferney, I know Greenie's a wolf...who do we kill?"

I very much enjoyed watching this game, I think it went even better than my first game of d-list superheroes. So again thank you all, the characters and personalities made it great to watch. The wolves had gotten off to a few bumps and some minor setbacks. I thought eventually it was going to come back to bite 'em, but they avoided complete disaster.

As for some of the narrations with the "Alpha wolves," I usually took a few things from the wolves messages to use in the narrations, but avoided using anything that would possibly point to them. The wolves as I recall, were Alpha wolf Scar (Agan), Alpha wolf Simba (Greenie), and Alpha wolf Mufasa (Shasta). Or if they had any special requests on how to kill anyone, like making a tasty mess of Inzil.

Last and great thanks to Fea for doing the lynches and videos too! That is more than I could have asked for. Sadly, as you know I can't watch the finale duet until Monday but I'm sure it'll be the greatest ending in recent memory.

[Nogrod]

Congrats to the wolves!

I can only comfort myself with the following (I realised I had Boro's answer to my PM to him when I died in my PM storage - including my whole PM as a quote - so I can send a part of it here...).

Originally Posted by me on a PM to Boro

On D1 I was pretty happy with my seer impersonation - hoping to draw both the wolves and the seer to me, but it looked bad in the beginning of D2 as they went for the BW at Night - and I felt I was near the chopping block for D2. But alas, the wolves never really made the crusade I thought they would make (weell, Shasta tried...) - and which would have been easyish to see... I was at some stage thinking about revealing if it got to that, but I kind of disliked the idea as my powers would then have been gone - and it would have ended in me playing to the very end in a situation I had the confidence of the villagers to make a difference (a lot of work) and the pressure of real-life work conflicting each other... as a known Butterbur the wolves wouldn't like to kill me as that would kick back on them with a kill lost - so I'd live to the last Day.

But as I saw there was no lynching mob coming my way (even if Shasta-wolf tried it), I did relax and kept on not allowing to say I was wrong with Aganzir on D1 - even if I felt the pressure to think so (feeling ever more confident she was a wolf and not the cobbler - which suited nicely to the new landscape on D2). This nice thought of a seer saying X is a cobbler when he has dreamt her a wolf was just too good to throw away... So I had to keep up the seer-thing not to reveal to the wolves I was Butterbur willing them to attack me... even if I was losing confidence with the plan hour by hour.

But it worked in the end!

Heh, right off the bat... the wolves are Shasta, Aganzir and... one of Sally, Inzil, EW... or possibly Greenie or Pitch? Okay - that's like half the population...

Extra-kudos to Boro and Fea for the fun game; nice concept and great videos!

Heh, we were quite bad, village. Let's pull our act together the next time... and for God's sake let's stop lynching our gifteds...

[Pitchwife]

Don't say It, Agan. Just don't, OK? Thanks.

And *facepalmheaddeskheaddeskheaddesk*
Can't believe I got sooo close to getting it right on the last Day - I realized that if Agan was a wolf, Greenie was her only possible packmate, and in this case wilwa the most likely cobbler (but I'd felt pretty good about her early on and somehow didn't get around to do an update check on her; not sure that would have told me much, though). Only that was a real big If, and both of you wolves put up such a convincing act. Still, after Agan's sort of careless vote for Form an hour before DL I came within a hair's breadth of voting either of you just to save him once more, but for a last minute Kierkegaardian leap of faith in the wrong direction. So much for being a gentleman.
Kudos to Shasta for that Day 2 frame attempt which everybody but TEW thought would be too risky for a wolf to try; revealing sallyWight was a clever move too, discrediting her accusation of Agan and making us look for the wrong reason behind it. (Yes, sally, I know, if only we'd listened to you... but then you'd probably have looked good enough to survive and kill us yourself in the endgame, right?)

My apologies to Zil, Eomer and Form. Zil I was completely wrong about, sorry. Between Eomer and Form, it wouldn't really have mattered on Day 5, as both were innocent... It's a small comfort that my feeling of some manipulation going on then was correct after all, but I got the manipulator and the manipulated all wrong. Form, you were on the right track all the time even though you had so little time to play, kudos!
(By the way, I'm not surprised so many people thought I was Ferny, I know I did quite a bit of unintentional cobblering this game, alas.)
Kath, that was a great recovery after the Seer lynch, voting for Greeniewolf on the last two Days!
Nerwen, a pity you couldn't make it for the last DL, as you too had the right nose; but if you thought Form was Ferny, I'm not sure it would have made a big difference.

Volo and TEW, too bad both of you got lynched so early - especially TEW, who got us the only wolf we lynched and left good hints to your dreams in those few posts; nice Seering there!
Nog, pity you got killed so soon and we didn't use the advantage of the following kill-less Night any better.

Boro, interesting game design, and I think it was over all well balanced - even with Harry Glirdyleaf lynched on Day 1, the village managed to lose it mainly on our own folly. Eombadil probably had it the hardest, not being able to reveal under any circumstances, but then I don't know if he'd have been believed anyway. Thanks for the modding, and thanks to Fea for the hilarious narrations (it's a bit sad though that TEWieSeer didn't get one, I think he deserved it *nudge*).

Fun game, everybody!

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Originally Posted by Boromir88

the most awesome and understanding co-mod brought to my attention unless wilwa was completely incompentent in that situation it was game over and no point to drag it out for what essentially would be..."Hey I'm Ferney, I know Greenie's a wolf...who do we kill?"

Haha yes. For the record, I did bring to B's attention that I was pretty sure Vanilwuffinazu was competent enough as cobbler to vote for the person her known wolf told her to vote for. You're welcome for my vote of confidence, Nilly.

Originally Posted by Pitchy

it's a bit sad though that TEWieSeer didn't get one, I think he deserved it *nudge*

Ahh, I know!!!!! I could... post my master's thesis? Since that's totally what I was working on when B forbade me from narrating. He rightly assumed I'd lose my focus and miss my deadline.

TEWie, do you have a narration preference? I take requests.

[wilwarin538]

Originally Posted by Feanor of the Peredhil

Haha yes. For the record, I did bring to B's attention that I was pretty sure Vanilwuffinazu was competent enough as cobbler to vote for the person her known wolf told her to vote for. You're welcome for my vote of confidence, Nilly.

Haha, thanks Timmy ! Though there is a small part of me that wanted to come on the next Day and be all like "Surprise! You all thought I was shiny, but I'm not, mwhahaha, now me and my wolfies will eat you!" cause that would have been cool, but coming on to find that we won while I was away was pretty awesome too!

(and I totally want to read your master's thesis if it's finished and if I'm permitted)

[The Elf-warrior]

Fea, I'd like a narration in picture.