WW CVII: Restless Nights in Sleepy Hollow - Game Thread

[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.

[Kitanna]

The next morning the villagers met again in the tavern to discuss their misfortune some more. With the death of their Ranger the villager descended into bickering arguing about who killed who.

“It was Greenie!” Wilwa screamed, pointing a finger at her.

“I mean obviously!” Mac agreed. “Just look at her, all...green and what not.”

“Hardly,” Rikae said. “Inzil, it had to be him. He managing to escape yesterday, but I just know he’s hiding something.”

Sally walked around with a picket sign that read “Dun to be Done”.

Three hands went up at once demanding Mac be removed from the village by the most violent means possible.

Nerwen bit her lip, unsure what to do. “Honestly, it looks like Greenie is a fanged and furred villian, but it looks like it won’t have much effect if I vote for her.” She shuffled from foot to foot. “Let’s find out about Mac’s lycanthropic tendencies first I guess.”

Mac put his hands up and backed into a corner. “Me? No! I never hurt anyone! I’m just trying to live my life! It’s Greenie! Or maybe it’s Shasta! Or Nerwen! Or McCaber! It could be anyone, but it’s not me!”

“There’s only one way to find out,” Greenie said.

McCaber jumped for Mac. Mac dodged McCaber’s tackle only to be blindsided by Greenie, who had armed herself with a chair. She swung and hit his knee. Mac dropped, clutching his wounded leg. Rikae grabbed a torch from the wall and put it to Mac’s clothes as he lay begging for mercy.

The smell of burning fabric, hair, and flesh filled the tavern. Mac screamed and writhed on the floor. He rolled around trying to put the fire out. Flames jumped off him, landing on the floor, eating up the wood.

“Someone get a bucket of water,” Sally instructed, “So we don’t accidently burn this place down.”

Inzil took up the task. He ran out to the well and upon his return he found Mac had stopped moving, but the flames continued to burn what was left. Inzil threw the water on the burning corpse. The floor where Mac had rolled was damaged beyond repair and his charred body was a smoking, smelly mess. And much to the chagrin of the village he hadn’t changed into a wolf form. Mac was as innocent as he claimed to be.

The Living
Inziladun
satansaloser2005
McCaber
Rikae
Nerwen
wilwarin538
Shastanis Althreduin
A Little Green

The Dead
Kitanna – ripped apart Night 1 - Moddess
Legate of Amon Lanc - Brained on Day 1 - Ranger
Aganzir - Scalped on Night 2 - Ordo
Macalaure - Set on fire Day 2 - Ordo

Night 3 has begun

[Kitanna]

The wind outside howled or maybe it was those nefarious wolves, McCaber wasn’t sure. He sat in his study looking over some texts on the subject, trying hard not to jump at every little sound.

There had to be a way to stop these beasts before anyone else died. Unfortunately nothing turned up that would ensure all would die at once, rather than one by one. Frustrated and sleepy he put his head down, resting it on his arms.

McCaber woke with a start to find his candle burned out and three shadowy figures blocking out the moonlight. “I should have known.”

“Grab him,” one ordered.

The other two grabbed McCaber, not giving a thought to his comfort in the matter. McCaber didn’t fight, from his research he knew there was no way out. Instead he began to sing “The Song that Never Ends” to annoy them while they tied him to his chair. His voice got louder and louder.

“We need to shut him up.” One of the wolves who had tied him down shoved a funnel in his mouth. While another poured the contents of a pot into his mouth.

McCaber gagged at the raw, meaty slop being forced into his mouth. A shard of something moved down the funnel and lodged itself in his throat. His gagging turned to wheezing and then all air was cut off. McCaber flailed as best he could in his position. He tried to free his himself so he could perform the heimlich.


“What’s wrong? Does Agan not sit well in your stomach?”

Eventually his flailing stopped and his head fell limping forward. The wolves proceeded to poke around his study. One came across a rather interesting mirror tucked under some books.

“A scrying mirror. Ha! I bet he didn’t see that coming!” The wolf laughed and put the mirror down.

~*~*~

In the morning the village found McCaber covered in body and pureed guts, though his skin was blue underneath. There were many dismayed cries as they realized the wolves had killed their seer.

The Living
Inziladun
satansaloser2005
Rikae
Nerwen
wilwarin538
Shastanis Althreduin
A Little Green

The Dead
Kitanna – ripped apart Night 1 - Moddess
Legate of Amon Lanc - Brained on Day 1 - Ranger
Aganzir - Scalped on Night 2 - Ordo
Macalaure - Set on fire Day 2 - Ordo
McCaber - Choked on bits of Agan Night 3 - Seer

Day 3 has begun