Tol-in-Gaurhoth CIII: Big Magic in Middle Earth Arcane Encampment (Game Thread)

[Eönwë]

Well, I suppose I might as well:

++Eonwe

[Eönwë]

Well, good luck, village.

[Loslote]

++Steve

Good Night, village. Good Night.

[Shastanis Althreduin]

Alright, I've woken back up. Anyone feel like getting me up to speed?

[Thinlómien]

++Greenie

Just to make a point.

It will hardly make me feel any more stupid if I'm wrong, and it will make me look incredibly smart if I'm right. So here we go.

[satansaloser2005]

Please excuse the delay. I'm bereaved now that you've killed Steve. (Actually, I just have a terrible headache, but that too.)

Steve is, erm, excuse me, was an ordinary wizard.

Night 5 begins.

Casting:
Shasta
Kath
Nerwen
Cop
McCobbler
Lottie
Green
Lommy

Cast aside:
Sally (moddess)
Morsul (collateral damage)
Legate (wizard, lynched Day 1)
Dun (wizard, slain Night 2)
Holby (sorcerer, lynched Day 2)
Echo (wizard wizard, silenced Night 3)
Boro (wizard prince, lynched Day 3)
Steve (wizard, lynched Day 4)

[satansaloser2005]

After the day's events, no one could sleep. The wizards remained vigilant, staring up at the black sky as they waited, their ears searching for the slightest sound, the faintest hint that someone may be moving.

The sound they heard, however, was far from faint.

Everyone leapt to their feet, following the sound of two women screaming until they came upon Greenie and Copper . Unfortunately, they were too late.

As their friends approached, both lasses fell to the ground, their bodies limp, their hands empty. Part of Greenie's cloak had been burned away, its absence revealing a dark hand print. Copper lay beside her, her robes mussed and ripped from a struggle. She, too, bore an unnatural hand print on her body, but hers was around her neck.


Casting:
Shasta
Kath
Nerwen
McCobbler
Lottie
Lommy

Cast aside:
Sally (moddess)
Morsul (collateral damage)
Legate (wizard, lynched Day 1)
Dun (wizard, slain Night 2)
Holby (sorcerer, lynched Day 2)
Echo (wizard wizard, silenced Night 3)
Boro (wizard prince, lynched Day 3)
Steve (wizard, lynched Day 4)
Cop (killed Night 4)
Greenie (killed Night 4)

[Thinlómien]

I guess we don't really need Sally's clarification though.

Greetings to Cop who's certainly reading: have I ever told you you're freakin' awesome! That was very neat, I was thinking you're the ranger and apparently the wolves were along the same lines. Oopsie.

Okay I should maybe stop gloating but it's nice to 1) have a village victory because nowadays the wolves always seem to win, 2) be on the winning side and 3) be at least sometimes right about something.

Any last words, Shastiekins?

[Kath]

Well either way, Eonwe was innocent so Shasta is a wolf.

However, MODDESS - will the narration make clear whether there was a Saruman ... erm ... thing last Night? As in, are we actually in a position where we lynch Shasta and we've won, or not?

[Loslote]

Well done, Cop!

++Shasta

[Nerwen]

Originally Posted by Kath

Well either way, Eonwe was innocent so Shasta is a wolf.

However, MODDESS - will the narration make clear whether there was a Saruman ... erm ... thing last Night? As in, are we actually in a position where we lynch Shasta and we've won, or not?

It doesn’t actually say whether Saruman’s power becomes active in the case of the other wolf being taken down by the Hunter, but I think it’s implied:

Originally Posted by The Rules

Saruman has a one-shot power which allows him to add a new member to his order. He must do this when he is the only sorcerer remaining, and doing so must not cause him to automatically win the game. This person will join him at the beginning of the following phase of game play (e.g. if he selects a person during the Night, they will join him the next Dawn, whereas if he chooses them during the Day, they will join him at Dusk).

However, I also think Greenie was much more likely to have been Saruman.

[Coppermirror]

Ahaha, I only got to take out a wolf at a time when I knew for certain who they were.

Shasta and Greenie, why did you choose to night kill me then, knowing that I could be the Pact Mage and that I would definitely get one of you if I was?

[Loslote]

Good game, innocents!

I actually dreamed Cop last Night - I figured I might as well know which she was, plus, if she were turned, she could pretend she hadn't been Night-killed because the wolf was afraid she was the hunter.

[Shastanis Althreduin]

Originally Posted by Coppermirror

Ahaha, I only got to take out a wolf at a time when I knew for certain who they were.

Shasta and Greenie, why did you choose to night kill me then, knowing that I could be the Pact Mage and that I would definitely get one of you if I was?

You were protected on the night there wasn't a kill. By our reasoning, no Ranger would be stupid enough to protect someone they knew was the Hunter, so you were clearly a self-protecting Ranger.

[Coppermirror]

Originally Posted by Shastanis Althreduin

You were protected on the night there wasn't a kill. By our reasoning, no Ranger would be stupid enough to protect someone they knew was the Hunter, so you were clearly a self-protecting Ranger.

Ah, I see.

The night I was protected I was hunting Eönwë, although I did actually consider making a last minute switch to Shasta. It would have been bad for the village if I'd got killed at that point.

So, who do I have to thank for making the save? Come forward, o save-making Ranger!

[Boromir88]

I would not have let Greenie go after that completely evil vote she pulled. That was eeeevilll. But then you folks went along with it and all I could think about after witnessing my bandwagon lynching:



(Although I understand SeerLottie's reasoning and in the end...my gameplan as an ordo is to always die at somepoint if it means the gifteds are not dying). Go village. And woot sally (nearly forgot great-bad pun on Echo