WW CVII: Restless Nights in Sleepy Hollow - Game Thread

[McCaber]

Well, I must to bed. So without further ado

++ Macalaure

[A Little Green]

If I'm right, the tally looks something like this:

wilwa – Greenie
Inzil – Nerwen
Mac – Greenie (2)
Shasta – Mac
Rikae – Inzil
Sally – Inzil (2)
Cab – Mac (2)

So - three-way tie with two people left to vote, and the first to gain the final number of votes dies, right? Which basically means that the one out of Nerwen and myself who votes first decides the lynch. Which makes it pretty straightforward, really - I know I'm not a wolf, and so even though I'd like to think this over a little longer, read through the posts of both gentlemen and then decide, I don't want to risk the village certainly losing an innocent as opposed to losing someone who at least could be a wolf. So, out of those two, I'm going to go with

++ Macalaure

[Nerwen]

Okay… I think this makes my vote non-effective, whatever I do.

[A Little Green]

So why Mac and not Inzil? Process of elimination, basically. I don't find Inzil particularly suspicious; stuff like yesterDay's suspecting Cab but voting for Mac to get a reaction doesn't strike me as something an Inzilwolf would necessarily do. While Mac might not have been top of my list either, he's at least been sketchier than Inzil. I still think he'd be more involved as a wolf; but his reaction to when I pointed this out was odd, and I'm not quite comfortable with his way of being "fluffy and agreeable" (his own words).


EDIT: x-ed with Nerwen

[Nerwen]

Tally

Wilwa —> Greenie
Inzil —> Nerwen
Mac —> Greenie (2)
Shasta —> Mac
Rikae —> Inzil
Sally —> Inzil (2)
McCaber —> Mac (2)
Greenie —> Mac (3)


So everyone else has voted, and Mac dies under the tie-breaker rule.

So, hoping for the best:
++Macalaure

For the record, I think Greenie looks rather worse, but there are points against Mac, and he was someone I was at least considering.

Unfortunately, I don’t think learning his role will tell us that much about Greenie’s. I mean, if he’s a wolf it’s not *likely* she’s his fellow, but hardly something we could count on either. A pity.

[A Little Green]

Originally Posted by Rikae

But what I wonder is: why would an innocent Greenie repeatedly bring up such inconsistencies without any intent to either cast, or to answer, suspicion?

Simple answer: Day 1. On a Day 1, I generally bring up anything and everything that catches my attention unless I have a good reason not to mention it.

Originally Posted by Rikae, underlining mine

As for my posts on Cab, I can't see how it would be unclear to any honest reader: I was surprised by Inzil & Legate's suspicion which seemed disproportionate, and then made a guess as to what they meant: something I had noticed but didn't consider particularly significant myself.

What would be the point of sneakily casting suspicion on someone who was, at that point, the most suspected anyway?

So you're basically implying that anyone who finds something you do suspicious is either stupid or dishonest? I'm sorry, but I find that a little excessive. If you're innocent - the rest of us don't know your role, and without that information, it shouldn't come as a surprise that we also produce interpretations that look obviously wrong from your perspective. If you're a wolf - well, that would explain the defensiveness, but even so I think rhetorics like that are a little out of proportion in this context.

As for your question - sneakily casting suspicion on McCaber would serve to increase a general atmosphere of "McCaber is suspicious". This was early on in Day 1, so even though Cab was the most suspected person at that point, he wasn't suspected very much, and subtly adding to the suspicion on him would serve to take it to a more serious level. Does it make sense now?

Originally Posted by Sally

Specifying that she won't be back until the next Day seems....well, how would she know she'd be around on the next Day? More importantly, why specify that she'll be back on Day 3, rather than saying she'll be gone for a couple of days? Could she be alerting her pack to an absence this coming Night? She does note that she hopes to have the time to do more, which could be taken as either a desire to participate in discussion or a desire to communicate with her pack. Perhaps just straws, but it's a distinct ping for me at this point. I believe Wilwa would be bold enough to make such a comment, being unable to communicate with her pack any other way at this point, and the specificity of her wording seems tricksy to me.

I agree with McCaber, I think this sounds a bit far-fetched. Makes me slightly wary of Sally, actually; this looks somewhat forced, like a wolf trying to come up with an original suspicion once realising that chasing Inzil twice in a row would come across too easy and bandwagony on its own.

Originally Posted by Sally

Meanwhile, my Nerwen radar is saying....nothing, which is distinctly unsettling. In my experience, my Nerwen radar always gives off the exact opposite impression, which is to say that I suspect her when she's innocent (especially when she's gifted) and ignore her when she's evil. I'd forgotten she was playing until I came across one of her posts, and I'll also note that she's not done nearly as much saccharine banter with Shasta as I would expect (though perhaps that's due to his own lack of participation?). I don't feel comfortable voting her toDay based solely on this, but it's something I must keep an eye on.

I agree with this bit, though - Nerwen manages to contribute a lot while remaining securely under my radar, which is a bit unnerving (sorry, bad pun). I don't think we should read too much into the absence of Nerwen-Shasta-banter, however, given that Shasta missed the entire Day 1 and thus the most optimal banter-time.

[Macalaure]

I was afraid this was going to happen when I went to bed, but then I thought I was just paranoid.

ToMorrow we will have a village of 7, with 3 wolves. At least there's a chance the seer will still make a difference, because you've just lynched an ordo.

And, wow, look at the reasoning behind those votes:

Shasta because I voted for him on Day 1.
McCaber for no reason at all.
Greenie to save herself, with no reason why she's preferring me over Inzil (at least nothing stated).
Nerwen because it didn't matter anymore.

Best of luck on Day 3, you'll need it.

[A Little Green]

Originally Posted by Mac

ToMorrow we will have a village of 7, with 3 wolves. At least there's a chance the seer will still make a difference, because you've just lynched an ordo.

And, wow, look at the reasoning behind those votes:

Shasta because I voted for him on Day 1.
McCaber for no reason at all.
Greenie to save herself, with no reason why she's preferring me over Inzil (at least nothing stated).
Nerwen because it didn't matter anymore.

Mac - if you're telling the truth (and I don't see why you wouldn't be, at this point), I'm sorry. If Inzil is a wolf I'll kick myself. As for the reasonings behind the votes - flashbacks to yesterDay, anyone? To be fair, though, Shasta did have something else against you as well, and I did give a reason as to why I chose you over Inzil.