Werewolf CXI - The Black Breath Ward

[Kuruharan]

I'm very interested to hear Lommy's perspective on things if she is around and reading.

[Loslote]

Originally Posted by Kuruharan

I'm very interested to hear Lommy's perspective on things if she is around and reading.

Agreed - and Boro's, preferably. I thought Lalaith's summary of the situation:

Originally Posted by Lalaith

Anyway this is all feeling very claustrophobic, half the village aren't even here and it's nearly voting time and certainly v close to my RL bedtime.
++Loslote but please look outside the box...

felt very genuine and more like an innocent than a wolf, which makes me feel better about her (and, therefore, makes me question Boro and Lommy a little bit more).

[Kuruharan]

Originally Posted by Loslote

and Boro's, preferably.

Yes, I would like to see Boro weigh in.

Unfortunately, I think his post earlier today strongly implied that he wouldn't be back. I hope he comes back, though.

Kind of makes him a bit of a convenient target, no?

[Kuruharan]

I figure I may as well post this now since the DAY is wrapping up.

I think Lottie is right on the money when she says that the wolves decided that they had to make a big push and try to tear down the likely innocents. Legate's tactic of non-lynching, even though we had to leave it, definitely put them in a bind. And note (as Lottie did) that the target yesterDAY, seemed to be Legate. Quite possibly because they were operating off of Shasta's belief that the Herbalist only had one heal in total, had used it, and that I was doomed.

That didn't work for them. I was saved and here I am.

This, and the things that have happened today, make me feel more confident than I had felt before that Inzil was, in fact, guilty. The numbers tell me that the wolves wouldn't have felt the need to launch themselves at me so strongly toDAY if there were three of them.

I still feel quite strongly that Lalaith is guilty as she was one of the attempted underminers of Legate yesterDAY and is one of them of me toDAY. However, I will admit that she hasn't been so strong on it.

[Kuruharan]

And by "strong on it," since my words are being parsed to utter pieces, I mean she hasn't seemed to be attempting to undermine me toDAY as strong as she was trying to undermine Legate yesterDAY.

[Thinlómien]

Well, I don't have a perspective really.

The whole Shasta-Kuru spat is leaving a bad taste in my mouth, like I'd rather focus on something else entirely toDay. I'm well aware I don't probably have that luxury. Besides, maybe it's exactly what one or both of them wanted - have such a prolonged fight that wears out the other villagers, I think we've all seen those before.

Anyway, I'm still 80-90% sure Kuru is innocent.

Shasta? Could be either way, but leaning guilty. Like Lottie said, he seems to be playing an entirely different game than the rest of us which either means 1) he is a wolf or 2) he isn't a wolf because no one else seems to be sharing his bizarre perspective and if it was just a wolvish perspective maybe there would be more support for it (unless his fellows were McCaber and Inzil, which ould explain the borderline desperation).

Others? I'm still worried and frustrated by Boro and I'm just saying that if he wins this game as a wolf it's plain unfair. It would make sense to wait for him to appear and contribute, but I'm not sure he's going to (be able to) do that.

Lalaith and Legate still look pretty innocent to me, but I'm aware there's a fairly high probability at least one of them is a wolf. If Lottie is a wolf, hats off for an insane bold strategy that I'm unable to decipher.

For lynch, I would support either Shasta or Boro.


edit: xed with the three Kurus

[Kuruharan]

Originally Posted by Thinlómien

edit: xed with the three Kurus

Sorry.

[Lalaith]

Is it just me being tired or did Boro's post say some really quite strange things just now?
Well I'm going to sleep and don't really know who to defintively suggest for lynching.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Okay okay, so after this... well. I guess super-meta-rethinking probably does not make sense at this point.

I think it does not make sense to lynch Boro in the light of what he just said, if we look at it from the general perspective.

I would, therefore, be probably okay with lynching Shasta toDay. What just worries me is that there seems to be such a nice consensus (meaning also Lommy now). In other words, yes, I would be much happier if the only people who agreed on it were the "known innocents", because everything else might mean a Wolf merrily contributing to lynching somebody else. But who knows.

EDIT: x-ed with Lommy, Kuru and Lalaith

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Okay, last post of Lal's also further strenghtens my belief that her generally noncommital attitude (neither making a strong case for anyone, yet repeatedly chiming in with "...oh, and btw this person looks suspicious, too") seems Wolfy.

But, for now anyway:

++Loslote for Rep

And I think I would be for lynching either Shasta or Lalaith. Truth be told, I started thinking differently about Shasta mostly in light of his exchange with Kuru, plus giving a bit more credit to the possibility that he might have been together with theoretical Zilwolf. I am just hoping we are on the right track here.

EDIT: x-ed with Shasta

[satansaloser2005]

Deep in the night, Shasta awoke from his troubled sleep. His nightmares had been terrible, but likely no worse than anyone else in the Ward. Tonight, however, he could not rest, haunted by the memory of his lost friends, with one fellow patient in particular.

Throwing on his coat and shoes, he set out into the streets, letting his feet take him wherever they happened to go. Some time later, he found himself standing in front of the morgue. It was unsurprisingly dark, and he looked around, finding the surrounding area to be unoccupied. He drew a thin piece of metal from his pocket and jammed it into the gate lock. His feet padded along the entry walkway and toward the door, making no sound neither with the gate latch nor the front door of the morgue."I was hoping this would come in handy, but not like this."

The interior was cold and somewhat damp, and it smelled of dust and decay. Following the hallways, he reached the room where the Breath victims were kept. The door was locked, as expected. He swore as his pick broke off inside the hole, but at least it had done its job: the door creaked open to reveal an empty foyer and a stairway descending to the lower floor.

Regretting his present course of action with every step, he approached one of the bodies. Lifting the sheet from the corpse's face revealed it to be someone he didn't know, likely one of the first to be admitted to the Ward. With time and a strong stomach, he came across the familiar face he longed to see one more time.

"You should have listened," he told Nerwen's lifeless body. "We should have left the city before this started. I didn't think you would- I didn't want this to happen."

Overcome by emotion and the ever-present urge to burst into song, he choked back tears, grasping Nerwen's cold hand in his own.

There's a world, there's a world I know
A place we can go where the pain will go away
There's a world where the sun shines each day
There's a world, there's a world out there
I'll show you just where
And in time I know you'll see
There's a world where we can be free-

"Come with me," interjected a deep voice.

Shasta whirled around just in time to be assaulted by two guards. He tried to protest, but he was bound, blindfolded, and gagged in seconds. The last thing he saw was the hand of his queen hanging limply from the table on which he left her.

~~~~~~~~

The next morning, the Ward discovered Shasta's house empty, the only remaining possessions a wilting rose and a small book of poetry.

"It still smells sweet," Lottie noted softly, stroking the petals. "What will happen to it now?"

"I'm not sure," Sally admitted with a shrug, but then her shoulders slumped. "More importantly, we still have one more day. What will happen to us?"

The only response Sally received was an eery chorus of, "I don't know."



It is now Day 5.


Patients
Kuru
Lottie
Lalaith
Lommy
Legate
Boro

The Morgue
Phantom (for posterity)
McCaber
Nerwen
Dun
Shasta

[Thinlómien]

Originally Posted by Legate of Amon Lanc

I would, therefore, be probably okay with lynching Shasta toDay. What just worries me is that there seems to be such a nice consensus (meaning also Lommy now). In other words, yes, I would be much happier if the only people who agreed on it were the "known innocents", because everything else might mean a Wolf merrily contributing to lynching somebody else. But who knows.

That's the thing that bugs me too. It seems almost too easy.

Then again, most other things seem too complicated.

Gah. I'd almost be up for lynching Boro toDay, but I suppose I'm in the minority.


edit: xed with Legatolas

[Kuruharan]

Originally Posted by Thinlómien

That's the thing that bugs me too. It seems almost too easy.

Then again, most other things seem too complicated.

My theory is that the wolves felt pressed and decided they had to put themselves out there toDAY and make an open effort for victory.

[Loslote]

Adieu, all - I think the Herbalist has nary an herb left, and the light grows dim in my eyes...but I will take one last wolf with me ere I go!

(Hopefully, anyway. Good hunting. )

[Thinlómien]

Originally Posted by Kuruharan

My theory is that the wolves felt pressed and decided they had to put themselves out there toDAY and make an open effort for victory.

What do you mean? How does that explain nobody defending Shasta?

Anyway, I have to wake up in 6h (oopsie), so for the record, my preferred lynch would be

Boro > Shasta > Lalaith > Legate > Kuru > Lottie

I'm feeling quite okay toDay, whoever we end up lynching. Maybe it's false optimism, but I'm thinking we bagged a wolf yesterDay when we lynched Inzil, and we've still had very few Black Breath kills and I'm optimistic our gifted can still avert another kill or two.


edit: xed with Lottie and THE MODDESS

IT'S DEADLINE NOW ALREADY??? So sorry mods bods, I will delete my post if you ask! I was 99% sure the DL was 3 not 2 am Finnish time. Did it move?

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Originally Posted by Loslote

Agreed - and Boro's, preferably.

I am pretty much convinced he's not coming back.

Anyway. I am sorta looking forward to see Lommy post (I would expect her to do so in a few minutes), then also based on that, I think I will just vote and then go to sleep.

EDIT: look at that. I was wrong. (x-ed with Boro and Lommy)

[Thinlómien]

++Lottie for rep

I'm glad Boro's back, but his apologetic manner really rubs me the wrong way. I mean, missing most of the game is reason enough for an apology but the tone just felt off to me.

I'll be off for a sec and then back for a teeny bit before I go to sleep.


edit: xed with Kuru who shouldn't apologise for actually talking in a quieter than usual village

[Kuruharan]

++Lottie for Rep

My vote is ++Shasta.

Frankly, I'm convinced that either Shasta or Lalaith will work as I think they are both wolves. And no that is not waffling.

Please do not lynch Boro toNIGHT because the probabilities on him being a wolf are not as strong. I fear the tide will turn strongly against the Ward if we lynch incorrectly toNIGHT so we need to go with the highest probabilities.

EDIT: I keep on forgetting to put pluses on my votes for rep for some reason.

[Shastanis Althreduin]

For what good it may do me at this point, I still think Inzil was innocent. My views on Kuru and Boro haven't changed, either - I'll point out that someone can be inactive as a wolf as much as they can be inactive as an innocent, whether or not that inactivity was a choice (sorry, Boro).

I think Lalaith and Legate are innocent. Lottie obviously so. Makes the last wolf Lommy by process of elimination. It'll be cool to see if I'm right at the end regardless of Lottie's choice today.

Good night.