Game thread - Werewolf C - The Father Christmas Murders

[Loslote]

Suzy Snowflake hurried down the street, clutching her lace white shawl to her against the sudden flurry of wind and snow. She was nearly home, and she'd be so glad to sleep in her own bed after so long abroad.

"Well, well, well," she heard echoing around the walls of the quiet buildings along the quiet street. She paused.

"Hello?" she called timidly.

"I think we've figured out who's causing this little blizzard of ours," chuckled a second voice.

"We can't have Christmas without a little snow," said the first.

"Good," said the second.

Suzy was beginning to back away nervously when the two stepped out of the fog towards her. She instantly relaxed. "Oh, it's just you two!" she said with a laugh. "I must have been away for too long - I've gotten paranoid!"

"Too long, yes, you have," murmured the one on the left. "We've been waiting for you."

"Oh, is there going to be a Christmastown party?" Suzy asked brightly.

"You could say that."

"Oh, how lovely! Will there be presents?" Suzy clapped her hands in delight.

"Left on everyone's doorstep."

Suzy beamed. "And decorations?"

"Of course."

"And punch and eggnog?"

"Well, drinks, at any rate."

Suzy blinked. "No eggnog?"

"I'm not a fan."

"But where's your Christmas spirit?" Suzy asked in dismay. "You have to have eggnog at Christmas! It's a tradition!"

"I'm a modern man, myself," the quieter of the two announced. "I make my own traditions."

With that, the two stepped forward and threw electric blankets over her head. Suzy shrieked, but the sound was too muffled to attract attention. The two swaddled her up in more electric blankets until she couldn't move an inch, then left her lying in the street.

"And they swaddled her in cloth and laid her in the street, because there was no room for her in their plans," chortled the first.

"New traditions, indeed," murmured the second.

As Suzy Snowflake's trademark snow fell on her, the electric blankets quickly melted it into a pool of water...which soon rose high enough to short out the carefully exposed wires that warmed the blanket. Suzy's muffled screams echoed the electric shocks until she screamed no more.

That morning, as the sun rose and pierced the fog, the inhabitants of Christmastown didn’t take long to discover the body. The smoke and steam acted like a beacon, leading directly to Suzy’s blanket-entombed body.

“What happened?” Olive asked. “Things like this never happened back home! Or, at least, not since we trapped the postman at the zoo.”

“I can’t imagine it was an accident,” The Grinch said.

“I foretold you so,” the Ghost of Christmas Present wailed mournfully.

Jack Frost slammed his fists into a nearby wall. “How could this happen?” he snarled.

“Suzy never hurt a soul,” the Sugar Plum Fairy said sadly. “All the children loved her.”

“Whoever did this, if they could kill Suzy, they could kill anyone,” Valkotukka said.

“We’ve got to find who did this,” Santa said.

“Before they kill again,” Paksu agreed.

“Oh, sure,” Tiny Tim said, “and how are we going to find the murderers? Look for fingerprints on the electricity burns?”

“And besides, they’re probably standing here among us,” Rudolph said. “How can we trust anyone?”

“We can’t,” Frosty said. “We’d better go by majority vote, or we’ll never know for sure.”

“And then what do we do with them, once we’ve found them?” Little Cindy Lou Who asked.

“Kill them,” Jack Frost growled. “Kill them, like they killed Suzy.”

A silence fell over the group as they realized what they were about to do. Then, as the sun finally crested the mountains, the group nodded solemnly, one by one.

Living

Sally - Little Cindy Lou Who
Shasta - Jack Frost
G55 - Rudolph
Coppermirror - The Ghost of Christmas Present
Steve - Valkotukka
Morsul - The Grinch
Nerwen - The Sugar Plum Fairy
Zil - Frosty
Boro - Olive the Other Reindeer
McCaber - Tiny Tim
Lommy - Paksu
Legate - Santa Claus

Dead

Lottie - Suzy the Snowflake - Moddess

Day 1 has begun. Wolves, stop talking to each other. Village, good luck!

[Galadriel55]

Shoty first post.


Just realized that I'm actually barely going to be home tomorrow, but hopefully enough to post meaningful stuff. I'll vote, but I can't guarantee 100% participation.

[Galadriel55]

PS: We should make a monument of snow in Suzy's honour. Make a giant snowflake snowman!...

[Boromir88]

okokclak onk owk clik ockockwonk

(Hopefully someone here knows how to translate reindeer speech )

[Morsul the Dark]

What a Fright and nasty Shock!
Time's shrt mind the ticking ticking Clock
We can not stop for meals
until we settle these ordeals
So take away the platter Sam
Take away the Green Eggs and Ham
To stop this nasty snow? That's just Fine!
But to kill? That crosses a line!
A pair of nasties we need stop
cut out their gizzard and off their heads with a chop
I don't like it all It's all too mean
And that's coming from someone who is Green
Trully the three wrds that best describe these beast are as follows and I quote: Stink Stank Stunk!
We must hunt them down I say get out f this terrible funk.
End their plans ploys
silence their noise noise noise!

....sorry had way to much fun with that ended up longer than I meant

Pretty basic:
two baddies
one Cobbler
one ranger
one seer

Lets us hunt quickly and ring in the new year with a Village Victory Huzzah!

[Morsul the Dark]

Originally Posted by Boromir88

okokclak onk owk clik ockockwonk

(Hopefully someone here knows how to translate reindeer speech )

Well I never!

[Nerwen]

Originally Posted by Olive the Other Reindeer

okokclak onk owk clik ockockwonk

(Hopefully someone here knows how to translate reindeer speech )

*pirouettes in, scattering sugarplums*

Ah! Allow me!

Consulting Reindeer for Beginners, I find that

"okokclak onk owk clik ockockwonk"

translates to

"I am a werewolf disguised as a terrier disguised as a reindeer. Please lynch me before I die of confusion."

Well, well!

[Thinlómien]

Originally Posted by Nerwen

*pirouettes in, scattering sugarplums*

Ah! Allow me!

Consulting Reindeer for Beginners, I find that

"okokclak onk owk clik ockockwonk"

translates to

"I am a werewolf disguised as a terrier disguised as a reindeer. Please lynch me before I die of confusion."

Well, well!

Oh, really? My book gives:

"I am a cobbler disguised as an ordo disguised as a reindeer. Wolves please not my future use of reindeer language."

[Inziladun]

Oh dear me. Poor Suzy! I start to melt just thinking about it!
Please do me a favor, and keep an eye out for the sun. It and I don't get along so well.

Originally Posted by Galadriel55

PS: We should make a monument of snow in Suzy's honour. Make a giant snowflake snowman!...

All right, but that snowman will have to have a hat of their own. This one's taken!

[Eönwë]

Ok, my thoughts so far:

Sally - Well, she's said about as much as I have until now. Which is not good. Especially because she's potentially been around since then and hasn't said anything.

Shasta - Said very little. But he has a list coming, so I'll wait for that.

G55 - Seems to be trying to bring in some real talk as well as banter. Looks good so far. Seems to only have suspicion by gut-feeling so far, though.

Coppermirror - Seems to be mostly totally in-character banter so far. I don't like the first paragraph of this post. It seems like just posting something for the sake of it. The list seems slightly better, but the points against G55 and Zil seem pretty weak.

Morsul - Seems like normal Morsul so far. I'm inclined to believe innocent.

Nerwen - Well, she only has one post so far, so I'm not sure what to make of her.

Zil - I don't know. Something about him doesn't sit right with me. He's definitely far more banterous than usual, but that's not what makes me uneasy. I'll need to look at him in more detail.

Boro - Pretty funny so far, but he hasn't given much. So far it looks like he's tried to do a phantom (i.e. force a discussion that he wants) twice, which I don't like out of principle. Of course, that suggest innocence or guilt, but he doesn't feel like the innocent Boro I'm used to.

McCaber - Unless he's serious with his first sentence here (and I don't like that post because it seems full of false substance), this is the serious game talk he's had. It could be something that either side would suggest, but I'm going to need to address that later.

Lommy - I'm not really keen on her first list because it mixes banter and seriousness too much. Could be an easy way for a wolf to make a light non-committal accusation to go back to later when it becomes useful. And in her second list, she does indeed refer to what she previously said about G55. She then says it's 85% jokey, which makes it seem worse, because now she has license to go back to it probably one more time. Her vote seems ok, though.

Legate - Asks the moddess useful questions, but of course, this doesn't speak for his innocence or guilt, since the answers benefit every role. I was going to say that this makes him least likely to be a cobbler, but then I realised that this would probably be a really good early-game tactic for a cobbler.


People I'd rather not for just yet:
Legate
Morsul
G55

People I need to see more of before I begin to make any sort of judgement:
Shasta
Sally
Nerwen


edit: x-ed with Nerwen's #60

[Eönwë]

Clarifications and other thoughts while catching up:

- I don't particularly suspect Coppermirror of being a Cobbler. While that suspicion has been brought up based on at least two posts, I don't think a Cobbler would lean so heavily on such an obviously Cobbler-favouring IC role. That said, it doesn't mean that I find CM innocent at the moment.

-Legate. I'm not really finding him that innocent now that I look over him, but I'm not inclined to single him out for the lynch toDay because he's generating some good discussion at least.

-I'm not particularly keen on a Zil lynch toDay.