Game thread - Werewolf C - The Father Christmas Murders

[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!

[Thinlómien]

Sally - Little Cindy Lou Who
Little Cindy Lou Who exactly. Hasn't been around.

Shasta - Jack Frost
Has probably frozen so can't type.

G55 - Rudolph
Already making apologies and excuses. How furry! Oh, I guess reindeer have furs... or do you call them pelts? Hides?

Coppermirror - The Ghost of Christmas Present
Never played with him/her before. Only saw Bêthberry asking on Facebook who admits playing werewolf under the name Coppermirror on the 'downs. I assume this means I have to be wary.

Steve - Valkotukka
If we had a werebear in the village, I know where I'd be pointing at.

Morsul - The Grinch
I remember why he always instantly makes my alarm bells ring. Trying to ignore it as well as I can...

Nerwen - The Sugar Plum Fairy
Her PT doesn't really match with her words.

Zil - Frosty
A pity it's holiday season so he's not playing ww on his work time. Other than that, nothing to say.

Boro - Olive the Other Reindeer
Sending fishy coded messages in reindeer speech - lynch him!

McCaber - Tiny Tim
Didn't see him yet, did we?

Lommy - Paksu
Has a fitting name, that's all.

Legate - Santa Claus
Still laughing at this casting. I liked his asking the clarifying questions, but it of course doesn't prove anything.

[Boromir88]

Is it sad I watched 3 different videos of reindeer calls to try and get the sounds as accurately as possible? It was like a cross between a pig and a wookie.

[Inziladun]

Originally Posted by Boromir88

Is it sad I watched 3 different videos of reindeer calls to try and get the sounds as accurately as possible? It was like a cross between a pig and a wookie.

Be careful. That sound has likely been patented.

[Morsul the Dark]

Originally Posted by Boromir88

Is it sad I watched 3 different videos of reindeer calls to try and get the sounds as accurately as possible? It was like a cross between a pig and a wookie.

Is it sad after reading this, I watched any videos I could find with reindeer sounds to see if there was a certain call being imitated, to be interpretted?

I think this will be a silly game. And thank you for your kind words of my rambling Seussosity.

[Coppermirror]

I'm unsure what tactic we ought to take. I'm adoring the fun banter on this Day, but that won't help us to catch the villains. Then again, setting up some sort of scheme that would soon be discarded might be a waste of time too, unless someone has a really good suggestion and it can be implemented quickly.

I know! We must let the joy of Christmas fill our hearts. The fiends we are facing have tightly wound hearts which hate Christmas, like that miser Scrooge. When they speak of their love of the season, they may betray themselves inadvertently.

Originally Posted by Thinlómien

Coppermirror - The Ghost of Christmas Present
Never played with him/her before. Only saw Bêthberry asking on Facebook who admits playing werewolf under the name Coppermirror on the 'downs. I assume this means I have to be wary.

I'm but a harmless Ghost who likes to spread good cheer.

This is my third game. I'd read a lot of old games (starting from the oldest games, in order) as a hobby of mine before signing up for my first game, so I sounded a lot better informed than the average newbie Werewolf player, and a few people got suspicious about whether I could be someone who'd played before under a new name or somebody who had experience with the game elsewhere. But, that really was my first game of Werewolf or anything like it. I made plenty of newbie mistakes in my first game, but they just weren't the type of newbie mistakes people were most used to. Being informed about theory doesn''t make up for lack of experience.

[Shastanis Althreduin]

I'm around, relatively, but there just hasn't really been anything that's caught my eye enough to mention. I'm going to go eat, then have another read - it's all been pretty quiet, thus far. Legate seems to be the only person really discussing much.

[Inziladun]

Originally Posted by Shastanis Althreduin

Apologies. I was dealing with the weather; it will snow upon Suzy's grave forever more. And no, I'm not telling you what I had to promise the North Wind for that little favor.

Sounds like a guilty conscience to me.

Originally Posted by Morsul the Dark

Not sure why... but read this in a dixie southern woman's voice and it was Hilarious

Well, I could speak it that way quite convincingly...the Dixie part, that is.

Originally Posted by Galadriel55

Not much beyond this. Except for the Reindeer talk translations. I was trying to piece it together for a while, what would it mean if Lommy/Nerwen/Boro had certain roles, but then gave up on it because it's semi-banter and while it could be a message it could just be banter and it's useless to go in this endless cycle. Message! Banter! Message! Banter!...

I've looked into the matter. However, I don't think speculation of any real meaning would be useful at this point, and it could be damaging, at least to those in the Christmas spirit...

x/d with Shasta

[Morsul the Dark]

Originally Posted by 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.



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

Not sure why... but read this in a dixie southern woman's voice and it was Hilarious anyway catching up on what little is here...

[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.