Tol-in-Gaurhoth XIII: Enter Shamville

[Lalaith]

I've been pondering what to do for the best - I had thought it would be quite cool to go to the pyre silently, and take someone with me. But on balance, I think Firefoot is right, time to unveil.

I am the Hunter.

Edit: cross post with Eonwe, who also agrees with what I've just done.

[Eonwe]

Originally Posted by tar-a

If I'm suspicious, why follow me and vote for Kitanna? If I'm a wolf, wouldn't I lead you down the garden path, so to speak?

the whole thing is a matter of timing (or so i believe). this is how i see it. after this wohle jazz about wayne's comment came out, you knew kitanna was shark's bait. i was going to vote kitanna whatever happened, cuz i thought she was a wolf. so waht would be the logical thing for teh fellow wolf to do? sell the torches, provide the pitchforks, and lead teh charge. milk the situation for wahtever there is left for you to gain.

edit: ooo, very nice lalaith. i do indeed agree.

[Lalaith]

For what it's worth, I would rather lynch LMP or Glirdan than tar-a. But then I completely failed to spot Kitanna's wolfishness, so what do I know?

[Anguirel]

Ah-ha. I suspected as much, Lalaith, from your interest in my Orome hints further back. I'm surprised you had the forbearance to see that the Hunter facade I was putting up was a benevolent plan, not a lupine scheme.

That leaves:

Glirdan
littlemanpoet
tar-ancalime

Well-despite everything-I must admit I don't really think LMP is a wolf after all!

My recurrent accusation was intended to get him on the defensive and protect Lalaith, who was in real danger before her revelation. I also saw we were ahead by a long stroke, knew that no mistakes could lead to my lynching as I am now proven innocent, and thought it would be nice to avenge a few old scores. Ah well. There's an end to that.

tar-ancalime has played a skilful game. But skill-as we've learnt, for example, in Firefoot's case-is no more damning than wit. Or, indeed, ineptitude. It's merely a characteristic like any other, a variable, to be matched to wolves if displayed, but not if not.

In this case, I believe that tar-ancalime when all is said and done is in fact too skilful to be guilty. We've had the good fortune to be attacked by wolves who fell into a Seer's lure; who contained no overarching loud voice to bewilder their foes by day and marshal them at night, no first among equals; an unreliable spurter of contentless one-liners, a substantial but subdued talker, and the last wolf, overly defensive, petrified, amazed that they slipped past the Seer's dying dream, because we didn't go for the obvious answer.

One of my first accusations. I hope it will also be my last.

Q: What's large and hurry with vicious teeth and fangs and howls at the moon?

A: ++GLIRDAN.

And that, my friends, is the Reproof Valiant. The Solution Obvious. The Wolf Were.

[Lalaith]

Actually, Sir Jester, you've been a source of great trouble to me this game. By pretending to be the Hunter, you made me think you were the Seer.

Hence my doubts of poor wilwa.

[Lalaith]

Oh, and as I'm not alone in my suspicions, I'll vote:

++GLIRDAN

[littlemanpoet]

This is the first Day I've given any serious consideration to the Hunter, and only after (I think) Firefoot mentioned the role, and that idea of gifteds looking guilty. Lalaith, thanks for being the Hunter so I don't feel like quite such a fool. With you removed from the suspect list, and me rather confident that tar-ancalime is innocent on the strength of helping to flush out Kitanna yesterday, knowing I'm innocent, my vote goes to ol' bait and switch himself:

++ GLIRDAN

If he's a werewolf, as I think he is, here's a healthy "I told you so" from the first few Days.

[Eonwe]

++Glirdan

sounds good to me. we have all the time in teh world, after all...