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10-24-2005, 11:41 PM
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Beloved Shadow
Join Date: Jul 2002
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Day 4 Ends...
The amount of information that was brought forth and analyzed on Day 4 was astounding. Day 4 compared to the other days the way an essay would compare to a burrahobbit post.
But night was fast approaching, and a decision was necessary. "I think we have enough analysis," said Underhill. "All right then, what are we going to do?" asked Esty. "Let's double lynch," said morm. "Let's not," agreed Boro. "Let's do both," added Enca, helpfully. "Or perhaps we should do neither," assented Fea. "See why I want to die?" mumbled tgwbs, while trying, quite unsuccessfully, to hang himself on a cobweb. "Well," said Fea, "Boro has been right every time and has provided us with lots of entertainment. Let's kill him." "Um, I'm not quite following your logic," objected morm. "I'm with Fea," said Enca, as she accidentally fell off of her chair. "I'm just going to do whatever morm says," said Underhill and Esty in chorus. "Would someone take that knife away from tgwbs?" pleaded morm, noticing that the dwarf had managed to pry his long knife out of the wall. "Hey!" objected tgwbs as Boromir snatched his knife. "Thanks Boro," said morm. "No problem," said Boro as he stabbed himself with tgwbs's knife. "Are villages always like this?" asked Esty. "Yes," answered Enca, who then knocked over a candle and set her table on fire. "Sheesh, Enca, can you please stop screwing up?" cried a frustrated Mister Underhill. "Put it out! Put it out!" yelled Fea and Esty as they frantically ran circles around the flaming table. Over in the corner, tgwbs had his hands around his own neck and was attempting to strangle himself. "Someone put the crazy cook out of his misery!" hollered morm. But there was no need. tgwbs stumbled forward and fell on top of Boromir. The long knife Boromir had stabbed himself with was sticking out of his back, and tgwbs's throat came down right on it. Finally, the fire was put out and order restored. "Um, they're both dead," said morm. "Yeah- and neither of them are wolves," said Esty. "Oops," said Underhill, Fea, and Enca. But Boromir was not quite dead. Even with the dwarf on top of him, he raised himself up painfully and looked each of the villagers in the eye. "You're all a bunch of knuckle heads!" he rasped, and after giving them all the bird, he slumped back to the floor, dead. Living-
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Score: Villagers- 4, Werewolves- 1 It is now NIGHT 5. Anyone posting before the next day begins will be smacked with Phantom's Stick of Slaying. Wolf- I need your pick by 12:30 AM EST
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10-25-2005, 10:32 PM
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Beloved Shadow
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During Night 5...
"So, Master, is it true that the wolf has made a kill tonight, and that tomorrow will be the end?" asked Mortakh.
"Yes," answered Sauron. "Doom will fall tomorrow. If my wolf is lynched, then the villagers win. If my wolf is not lynched, we win." "What do you think will happen, Lord Sauron?" "If there is one thing I have learned these past few days, Mortakh, it is that Erbar Telamarth is always full of surprises. I will not venture a guess at its fate. I will simply wait, and watch..."
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10-25-2005, 11:13 PM
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Beloved Shadow
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Beginning of Day 5...
Estelyn walked into the tavern. Feanor of the Peredhil was already there, seated at the bar.
They waited in silence. Encaitare entered and sat at a table. A short while later, Mister Underhill came through the doorway. "Seen Mormegil?" asked Fea. Underhill shook his head. "I took a quick walk down towards his home- the door was torn off... and there was blood on the lawn. I didn't go inside, or follow the blood trail. I've seen enough death." "Well, at least he knew he was going to die, and so was probably prepared to meet his fate," said Esty. The others nodded in agreement. "Well, this is it," said Enca. "We've got to find the last wolf." "Indeed," agreed Mister Underhill. "Now is not the time to hold back. Everyone needs to let it all out." "Let's analyze like crazy!" said Fea. "And absolutely NO suicide today!" warned Esty. "Remember, every time you vote for yourself, a skwerl dies." And, with those final words of wisdom, the villagers launched into the final debate- the debate that would decide the doom of Erbar Telamarth. Living-
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Score: Villagers- 3, Werewolves- 1 The following villagers have informed me that their participation will be somewhat limited today- Encaitare will not be present to participate until around 4 PM EST.
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10-26-2005, 01:11 AM
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I'm sad that our choices had such a devastating outcome! Instead of the wolf, two innocents died, and now mormegil has been killed as well. I spent much of the past Night pondering our possibilities. Fortunately, it has not come to the worst, which would have been the transformation of a cursed villager into a werewolf.
What we need to do now is to plan a strategy that will give us the best chances of killing the last wolf. Here are the choices and their possible outcomes: 1. We lynch one person, it's the wolf, game over, three villagers survive, villagers win. 2. We lynch one person, it's an innocent, the wolf kills another in the coming Night, two survive, one of them is the wolf, wolves win. 3. We double lynch the two most suspicious villagers, thereby increasing our chances of getting the wolf; either we succeed and the villagers win, with two surviving, or we miss the wolf and lose. I think the last choice is the best. It gives us the best chance of lynching a wolf. Whatever we do, the game is over by Night at the latest, more likely toDay. I still think my list of suspects is valid; I had Enca pegged as the most suspicious and Fea as the next (50-50), with Underhill and myself as innocents. I know one of you young ladies is innocent, but it can't be helped - will you be willing to die for the best of the village? If not, you are definitely making yourself appear even more suspicious! I ask Fea and Enca not to vote for themselves - phantom got it right, I think the suicidal votes are stupid, and all of them have gone wrong in this game. But I ask each of you to vote for the other one, then Underhill and I can finish by tieing the votes for a double lynching. I know I'm coming out early with this suggestion, but as I consider it the very best possibility for the villagers to win, I offer it to you all. Unfortunately, I will be away for several hours this afternoon and evening, and I know Enca won't be able to defend herself until later, but I shall do my very best to make up for lost time before and after my absence. I'm not sure how much a lot of analysis will help us - we've done so much of that! But we can go back and at least honour Boromir, tgwbs, and mormegil by attempting to pick up clues from their contributions. If either Enca or Fea votes for Underhill or myself, she is most likely to be the wolf, and I would suggest concentrating all following votes on her! PS - I will definitely by voting late this very last Day of the game! As I did on the previous Day, I will be up early in my time zone to discuss the possibilities with the rest of you and to cast my crucial vote just before the deadline. PPS - I just reread morm's last post, in which he suggests this very same tactic. Since the dead are always right and always good  that means we should definitely do it!
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10-26-2005, 05:10 AM
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La Belle Dame sans Merci
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I'm willing to work together. I'd prefer not to die, but as long as Encai gets justly punished for messing with the votes yesterDay, I'm okay with it. Here's to hoping that Esty and Underhill are as innocent as the world thought. Once I'm back from my classes (this will be after 3:00 PM EST), I'll take a few glances about, see what's what, and decide what to do.
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10-26-2005, 05:22 AM
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Princess of Skwerlz
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I've been pondering the mistaken judgement we made concerning the two innocents lynched yesterDay. Could we have known their innocence and chosen more wisely to eliminate the wolf instead?
As to Boromir88, I think not. He deliberately set himself up to be thought the Seer; I was not the only one who noticed that. He explained that by saying that he did it to protect the real seer; I suspected him to be a wolf masquerading as seer and voting for a "known" wolf to protect his secret identity. Since we did not know whether to believe his word concerning his motives for that move, we were right in suspecting him. I never during the whole game seriously suspected tgwbs. That's the reason I didn't want to vote for him yesterDay. However, the irregularities in his voting did make him seem suspicious. My question is, who started the campaign against him? I'll go back to reread the posts later when I have time. That could give us an additional clue to the real ID of the wolf. Fortunately, the evening meeting I was to have has been cancelled! I'll have time to discuss when the rest of you are here. Cross-posted with Fea - thanks for your willingness to cooperate! That does speak for your innocence; however, I am unwilling to give up the only plan with some kind of certainty, so I do not suggest changing the double-lynching idea.
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10-26-2005, 05:57 AM
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La Belle Dame sans Merci
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I thought this funny enough to share: last night I had a dream that Encai convinced me that Underhill was guilty. Way to have a BD dream, no?
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10-26-2005, 08:06 AM
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La Belle Dame sans Merci
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Okay, I've had a spare minute (several actually, given that my tutorial ended on time for the first time ever, instead of running quite far over my half-hour limit) and here is my thought:
Let's inspect each living player, Encai, Underhill, Esty, and myself. I know that we've already gone over each other (except for Boromir not analyzing me), but let's do it from a biased point of view. With the thought "Let's just say _____ is a wolf. What has s/he said and done that would prove my point?" No writing from personal opinion such as "I think s/he is innocent, but _____". I think it would be a good idea to write an arguement, sophistic though it may be, against everybody, with the only intentional bias being "So-and-so is obviously guilty because ______". That way we can look as objectively as possible at what possibly damns the person. And I know that we can all write well, so no claiming that you can't write a good arguement.  Good idea? I rather think so... Here's how it would work (in trusty alphebetical order): Encai accuses Esty accuses Fea accuses Mister Underhill accuses Encai. That way everybody gets a good thorough looking into, actively searching for every possible negativity. Theoretically, once the four of us have been "proved" to be lupine, we'll look and decide on the two most convincing arguements (not based on quality of writing, though that's always nice, but based on the arguements themselves). Don't forget that you're allowed to conjecture a bit, such as saying "Esty is obviously a wolf because even though she didn't do anything, that's exactly what a quiet wolf would be doing: looking innocent." Even if everybody else thinks my plan is a waste of time, I plan to implement it anyhow, with or without group consent. I'll search for Underhill's guilt when I get back from my [wenching] duties mid-afternoon.
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