Werewolf IX: the Saga Owns You and You Know It

[Folwren]

Okay, folks, I've re-written everything. It's a lot of stuff. Hope I don't bore you to tears like I'm expecting to.

By Kath:
As I recall very few people have been suspicious of Folwren so it seems odd for her to give a defence just out of the blue like that. To be honest I am not sure that she is guilty, she could just be a little confused or freaked out by all the accusing going on, but I'd like to hear some explanations from her quite soon.

I’m going off instinct. In my mind, I can see my self suspectable because of my campaigning (so to speak) against Alcarillo and in favor of his death, which came about and ended up proving him innocent. Because I rallied so mercilessly against him and because he ended up lynched, people may believe that I killed an innocent on purpose. I’m trying to tell you I didn’t. And I also tell you, nt only did I truly believe him to be a werecreature, but I myself am completely innocent. (But any one will say that.)

I find this all very difficult. In an actual game where you’re playing with people personally it’s easy to tell at some point in time if they’re being true or false. A red face, a shifty eye, too loud a voice...you can use it all. But here...with the inability to see each other, it’s tripping me up, and I am indeed confused and panicky. Anyone who could see me would know that I was speaking truthfully when I say ‘I am innocent’, but nothing can be certain over a computer. That’s why I’m hasty to step out before anyone accuses me. If you ask me, I’ll tell you - yes, I do have a guilty conscious. I feel horrible now that Alcarillo’s been killed and found innocent. But I am not a werecreature.

By SpM:
Really folks, you might as well not contribute if you're not going to try to provide some kind of insight into our dilemma.

Look, I told you before I wrote my suspects that I didn't have time to tell you why. But now I’ll do my best to give some reason of why I suspect those names that I put down.

Glirdan I began to doubt yesterday with all his wishy-washy changing ideas, but this morning’s post really made me see a red flag go up for his name. People have excused him so far on account of his newness to the game, but I’m new and although I have my faults (indeed I’m very, very lacking in the skills needed in this game, apparently) I haven’t changed my opinion on people until (as in the case of Alcarillo) I am proved irrevocably wrong

Azaelia - I don’t think she’s said anything today thus far, but after everyone else’s death she seemed very sorry about it (like Glirdan this morning). Sorry, but not serious. An ordinary villager is less likely to say ‘Oh poor Short Guy! He got killed.’ and more likely to say more on ‘Why was he killed? Who killed him? Who will be next?’ She’s too light for a villager who is part of a village being torn apart by werewolves and a ravenous Bear.

My explanation for my suspicion of Kath is more difficult to analyze. All your defenses, Kath, and your rebukes, Sauce Man, have confused and partially angered and hurt me. However, looking at it with as cool a head I can manage, I come up with this -

Before she told Morm that she seriously suspected him, I found her posts things to be wary of. To me, she appears to speak carefully and kept to the shadows as much as she could, though at the same time, she tried to sound lighthearte, untroubled by the scheming thoughts that a werecreature might have, and she also tried to sound as though she really was a regular villager. But it all seemed like a false mask (to me).

When Morm made his suggestion that the Phantom and SpM might be both bad, it occurred to me that Morm might possibly himself be bad (though I doubted it) and he might want to throw a shadow of doubt on those two. It also struck me as somewhat dangerous for him. What if those two were doubted and eventually killed because of it? What if the villagers then turned on Morm for first suggesting it when they turned out to be good? That’s what I said what I said.

However, when Kath leapt on Morm not because of what he said, but because of a personal dislike, my suspicions hardened and took shape in a post I later wrote.

Last night’s killing threw me off. Kather wouldn’t have killed Morm after saying what she had. IT would be too dangerous for her, and there was no real reason.

So it is that I come to the conclusion that Kath is not guilty for Morm’s death, but she may have helped in the Phantom’s. My point is, my suspicion since yesterday has not been strengthened by his death, nor has it been weakened by it. I have begun to waver on it with how both Saucepan Man and Kath have attacked me on it and I’m beginning to rethink these, but you asked for my reasons for putting her name down and those are all the reasons I can come up with.

As for Menel, well, you’ll be happy to know I have less to say concerning him. I only suspect him because he accused me of doing something he himself did, he seems to misread people’s posts and makes them look terrible on account of it, and, as I said before, I don’t like him because he’s pointed at me more than once and I know that I for one am innocent. This is my weakest accusation...the one I least believe in, so I won’t stick to it.

His voting for Azaelia also helps prove me wrong, so he may be a happy, innocent villager himself.