Tol-in-Gaurhoth XV-The Villagers Strike Back! - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

dancing spawn of ungoliant · 12-20-2005, 07:03 AM

I got back only now.

I'll go reading toNight's posts before I say anything.

Eomer of the Rohirrim · 12-20-2005, 07:35 AM

I am so tempted to vote for Wayne for that ridiculous list of his. Maybe it was just meant to be a joke?

Sorry I haven't been around much tonight, but I have read everything and it does seem as if there's not too much info to go on. Not to worry; remember it is rather a large island.

I'll vote for someone who 'feels' wrong to me. I know her better than most of you wolves. She is fiendishly clever and knows strategy inside out. If she is one of the tricky Elves, then she is doing a wonderful job of hiding it.

++KITANNA

More than anything though, it's a reminder to all of you not to get bogged down in voting for just one or two. Spread the votes, and gauge reaction.

Oh, and to anyone critical of me for voting by 'feeling' as opposed to rational deconstruction of the arguments, remember that Elves can construct coherent arguments too. I posit that my method is just as valid; but if you want to dispute this then, by all means, go ahead.

Eomer of the Rohirrim · 12-20-2005, 07:38 AM

Had another look and Wayne's list becomes clearer: a list in order of suspicion rather than a list of suspects.

Sorry.

Mithalwen · 12-20-2005, 07:42 AM

Eomer, I think I will follow your example. Formen -could a hero be so stupid..... ? I want to smack him and that is clouding my judgement. But Menel is creeping me out and I don't know why.

++Menetamacil

mormegil · 12-20-2005, 07:53 AM

I wanted to vote for Gurthang as something is not sitting right with him as I explained earlier but Kitanna is not sitting right also and now she has a vote. I'm unsure about Spawn being a hero and therefore I will vote my secondary suspect.

++Kitanna

I'm sure that this vote will be view as suspicious and that is fine perhaps it will help me live through the night so I can help save this pathetic population.

mormegil · 12-20-2005, 07:56 AM

Votes
Rune
Mithalwen
Spawn 2
Oddwen
Farael 2
Formendacil
Nonnacedak
Kitanna 2
Menentarmacil

I hope I didn't miss anybody and it seems as though our votes are spread out.

Kath · 12-20-2005, 07:59 AM

++RUNE

I'm two minutes off the deadline so if you want an explanation you'll get it tomorrow!

Oddwen · 12-20-2005, 08:38 AM

Oh, dear...I try to make sense sometimes, I really do.

And oh shoot...deadline? Yipe!

I am a follower not a leader, and I can agree and sympathize with anyone, which does not help me here.

As a few have pointed out Formendacil is slightly off.

And I really can't put my finger on it, but B88 and spawn don't sit right.

And anyone who says "I trust this or that person" creeps me out. Ergo Rune seems to me suspicious.

And since I don't know Wayne, he seems to me doubly so. And then I read your posts saying "Wayne is Wayne", and it feels like you're trying to allay my fears, so should I pay attention...?

Dang, a vote, dang-double-dang.

Who has not voted? D-spawn and myself? Three-way-tie? No, a four-way! Kath's vote for Rune set that. Is D-spawn stalling, because she's a hero and there are one or more heroes in the tie? *gnaws wrists* Will I be suspected of this too?

One more medicated peaceful moment...

mormegil · 12-20-2005, 08:58 AM

Just for public knowledge I want to let all know that I currently suspect

Gurthang
Kitanna
Boromir
Formendacil

In that order and if I do die tonight somebody please look closely into each and everyone.

Rune Son of Bjarne · 12-20-2005, 09:04 AM

I will delete this if the deadline has passed. . .

Quote:

Originally Posted by Oddwen

And anyone who says "I trust this or that person" creeps me out. Ergo Rune seems to me suspicious.

I dont trust Lhuna I just dont suspect her because she seems to have the same view on things that I do. Specially the fact that she just say what I have been thinking and not convinces me to think something make me belive in her wolfishness.

Oddwen · 12-20-2005, 09:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Eom

If so then the other voters might have time to drop by. Kitanna and Oddwen, I think.

Quote:

Originally Posted by me

Who has not voted? D-spawn and myself? Three-way-tie? No, a four-way! Kath's vote for Rune set that. Is D-spawn stalling, because she's a hero and there are one or more heroes in the tie? *gnaws wrists* Will I be suspected of this too?

Nevermind. Time changes stuff, I guess.

It now stands:

Kitanna 3
Rune 2
Spawn 2
Farael 2
Oddwen
Formendacil
Nonnacedak
Menentarmacil
Mithalwen

I don't even really suspect Kitanna. Though, she could be hanging about, like I accused Spawn of in my last post.

Dang. If I vote for someone with two votes, it'll be a double-lynch, or Kitanna could vote for another two-voter and take a chance on not being chosen. If I vote for someone with one vote or no votes, Kitanna could take someone with her. If I vote for Kitanna, then she dies. Dang. And if she's not a hero, then we've lost another Wolf.

++RUNE
I shall go with my chosen bloodthirsty role. He I suspect more than anyone toNIGHT. It'll come back and bite me in the hindquarters, I know, but I've got to do something.

Crossposted w/ morm & Rune.

Kitanna · 12-20-2005, 09:52 AM

I don't know what I did to get on everyone's lists, but if that's the way you all feel then throw your votes away.

++MORM

He hasn't been sitting right with me all day. He's a clever one, probably the most clever one we have left. It's hard to tell when he's telling us the truth or just trying to cast any suspcions off himself onto someone else.

Anguirel · 12-20-2005, 10:08 AM

The Beta Wolf was silenced by the ominous, and somewhat familiar, darkened whirlwind roaring out of the Anfauglith.

More devouring, it hissed. That has to be...entertaining...

Voting closed. Night 2 ending soon.

Anguirel · 12-20-2005, 10:56 AM

Since the misguided slaying of Huan by those he was trying to help, a confident-even complacent-spirit was abroad within the dark hearts of Tol-in-Gaurhoth's denizens.

"Let's kill two scum today," the bloody-minded Oddwen suggested, saliva pouring from her blood-streaked jaws. "If our luck continues, we'll surely slay two of these so-called Heroes and leave the last to be hunted down without mercy!"

"And if our luck doesn't continue," Meneltarmacil agreed, "we'll have twice as much meat as usual. Even Glirdan's supplies are starting to thin...we need more flesh."

"Aye," Nonnacedak joined in cautiously, "as long as it isn't mine." He had not forgotten his close shave of the Night before.

"I say we should still eat that pathetic little jackal!" Boromir88 growled. "Truly it is aid that the blood of parasites imbues the faithful with holy strength. Besides, he's doubtless got more corpses hidden away."

"Garn!" Kath spat. "If we slay Rune, every one of his sheep will be ours for the taking!"

The wolf o' nine tails, dancing spawn, simply stared at Kitanna, so much smaller than she, a glint of greed in her dark eyes, and the gaze of other wolves began to be drawn to the hapless Beta Wolf too.

At length it was decided that Rune would be devoured for his flock's sweet, fat, meat, and Kitanna because she wouldn't be able to fight back. Ostracised from the pack, the pair were herded into the courtyard of the Tower's prison complex.

"Don't worry, Kitanna," Rune growled. "Neither of us will die this day. I can keep them back."

"You?" Kitanna sneered. "Look, you may be larger than me, but that ain't saying much."

"Size," Rune said, "isn't everything. BARUK KHAZAD, KHAZAD AIMENU!"

The Hero cast the manky wolf-hide which had disguised his true Dwarven nature to one side, and his sheep too began to lose their form; coalescing around him into a suit of mithril armour and a vast double-handed axe.

Kitanna seemed as surprised as the rest, but seeing that in the Dwarf lay her only chance of survival, she lurked behind him thankfully. The werewolves, their foe revealed, made several abortive charges, but each time the swing of the Dwarf Lord's axe repelled them, for they did not wish to die tonight. Rune was conducting a fighting retreat, and he and Kitanna were now out of the courtyard and the Tower.

"Quick," the Beta Wolf snarled, "onto my back, Dwarf. I'll carry you out. Thankyou for saving me. We'll escape together, and perhaps I shall be cured of my disease."

"Perhaps," the Dwarf agreed taciturnly, clambering onto the Wolf. They sped off in the direction of the Sirion. But at this point, instead of leaping over the fast-flowing water, she reared up, knocking the Dwarf in. He sunk rapidly, cursing her and all wolves as he drowned.

"Kitanna!" Eomer gasped. "Truly you are an Alpha Wolf! You defeated a Hero! And a Dwarf at that!"

"It was nothing," she shrugged modestly; but at that point a vengefully hurled Dwarf throwing axe surged through the grey water and sliced off her head.

"Ah well," Lobo remarked, "shame about Kitanna, the bold Dwarfsbane, and all that, but it looks like we'll have something to eat for supper after all..."

Dead

Anguirel (Werewolf)-throat cut as he slept on Day 1
Glirdan (Werewolf)-devoured on Night 1
The Saucepan Man (Huan)-murdered by mischance on Day 2
Rune Son Of Bjarne (Dwarven Hero)-drowned in the Sirion through Kitanna's treachery on Night 2
Kitanna (Werewolf)-beheaded in Rune's last act of vengeance on Night 2

Living

Mormegil-Crabby Old Wolf
Gurthang-Gil-Gurth
Formendacil-Lobo
Farael-Werewolf In Denial
Lhuna-Girl-Who-Cried-Wolf
Eomer-Black Warg of Rhun
Boromir-Exorcist Specialising in Heroes
Spawn-Wolf O' Nine Tails
Oddwen-Bloodthirsty Whelp
Kath-Runt of the Litter
Mithalwen-Alpha Female
Meneltarmacil-Lone Wolf
Wayne-Fairy Hunter
Nonnacedak-Scavenger

Day 3 now begins. Remaining Heroes, Sauron, Draugluin and Carcharoth, send your choices to, I stress, both me and Cailin.

Night 3 ought to begin at 2:00pm GMT tomorrow. If something goes pear-shaped, I'll try to get prior warning out. As a last resort, there's the valiant Cailin brigade.

12-20-2005, 07:03 AM	#1
dancing spawn of ungoliant Mischievous Candle Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: So near to Russia, so far from Japan, quite a long way from Cairo, lots of miles from Vietnam. Posts: 1,234	I got back only now. I'll go reading toNight's posts before I say anything. __________________ Fenris Wolf

12-20-2005, 07:35 AM	#2
Eomer of the Rohirrim Auspicious Wraith Join Date: May 2002 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 4,859	I am so tempted to vote for Wayne for that ridiculous list of his. Maybe it was just meant to be a joke? Sorry I haven't been around much tonight, but I have read everything and it does seem as if there's not too much info to go on. Not to worry; remember it is rather a large island. I'll vote for someone who 'feels' wrong to me. I know her better than most of you wolves. She is fiendishly clever and knows strategy inside out. If she is one of the tricky Elves, then she is doing a wonderful job of hiding it. ++KITANNA More than anything though, it's a reminder to all of you not to get bogged down in voting for just one or two. Spread the votes, and gauge reaction. Oh, and to anyone critical of me for voting by 'feeling' as opposed to rational deconstruction of the arguments, remember that Elves can construct coherent arguments too. I posit that my method is just as valid; but if you want to dispute this then, by all means, go ahead. __________________ Los Ingobernables de Harlond

12-20-2005, 07:38 AM	#3
Eomer of the Rohirrim Auspicious Wraith Join Date: May 2002 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 4,859	Had another look and Wayne's list becomes clearer: a list in order of suspicion rather than a list of suspects. Sorry. __________________ Los Ingobernables de Harlond

12-20-2005, 07:42 AM	#4
Mithalwen Pilgrim Soul Join Date: May 2004 Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle... Posts: 9,461	Eomer, I think I will follow your example. Formen -could a hero be so stupid..... ? I want to smack him and that is clouding my judgement. But Menel is creeping me out and I don't know why. ++Menetamacil __________________ “But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.” Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace

12-20-2005, 07:53 AM	#5
mormegil Maundering Mage Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Texas Posts: 4,651	I wanted to vote for Gurthang as something is not sitting right with him as I explained earlier but Kitanna is not sitting right also and now she has a vote. I'm unsure about Spawn being a hero and therefore I will vote my secondary suspect. ++Kitanna I'm sure that this vote will be view as suspicious and that is fine perhaps it will help me live through the night so I can help save this pathetic population. __________________ “I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

12-20-2005, 07:56 AM	#6
mormegil Maundering Mage Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Texas Posts: 4,651	Votes Rune Mithalwen Spawn 2 Oddwen Farael 2 Formendacil Nonnacedak Kitanna 2 Menentarmacil I hope I didn't miss anybody and it seems as though our votes are spread out. __________________ “I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

12-20-2005, 07:59 AM	#7
Kath Everlasting Whiteness Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Perusing the laminated book of dreams Posts: 4,533	++RUNE I'm two minutes off the deadline so if you want an explanation you'll get it tomorrow! __________________ “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

12-20-2005, 08:38 AM	#8
Oddwen Drummer in the Deep Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Next Sunday A.D. Posts: 2,145	Oh, dear...I try to make sense sometimes, I really do. And oh shoot...deadline? Yipe! I am a follower not a leader, and I can agree and sympathize with anyone, which does not help me here. As a few have pointed out Formendacil is slightly off. And I really can't put my finger on it, but B88 and spawn don't sit right. And anyone who says "I trust this or that person" creeps me out. Ergo Rune seems to me suspicious. And since I don't know Wayne, he seems to me doubly so. And then I read your posts saying "Wayne is Wayne", and it feels like you're trying to allay my fears, so should I pay attention...? Dang, a vote, dang-double-dang. Who has not voted? D-spawn and myself? Three-way-tie? No, a four-way! Kath's vote for Rune set that. Is D-spawn stalling, because she's a hero and there are one or more heroes in the tie? gnaws wrists Will I be suspected of this too? One more medicated peaceful moment... __________________ But all the while I sit and think of times there were before I listen for returning feet and voices at the door

12-20-2005, 08:58 AM	#9
mormegil Maundering Mage Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Texas Posts: 4,651	Just for public knowledge I want to let all know that I currently suspect Gurthang Kitanna Boromir Formendacil In that order and if I do die tonight somebody please look closely into each and everyone. __________________ “I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

12-20-2005, 09:52 AM	#12
Kitanna Child of the West Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Watching President Fillmore ride a unicorn Posts: 2,132	I don't know what I did to get on everyone's lists, but if that's the way you all feel then throw your votes away. ++MORM He hasn't been sitting right with me all day. He's a clever one, probably the most clever one we have left. It's hard to tell when he's telling us the truth or just trying to cast any suspcions off himself onto someone else. __________________ "Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry." - Mark Twain

12-20-2005, 10:08 AM	#13
Anguirel Byronic Brand Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: The 1590s Posts: 2,778	The Beta Wolf was silenced by the ominous, and somewhat familiar, darkened whirlwind roaring out of the Anfauglith. More devouring, it hissed. That has to be...entertaining... Voting closed. Night 2 ending soon. __________________ Among the friendly dead, being bad at games did not seem to matter -Il Lupo Fenriso

12-20-2005, 10:56 AM	#14
Anguirel Byronic Brand Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: The 1590s Posts: 2,778	Treachery and Revenge Since the misguided slaying of Huan by those he was trying to help, a confident-even complacent-spirit was abroad within the dark hearts of Tol-in-Gaurhoth's denizens. "Let's kill two scum today," the bloody-minded Oddwen suggested, saliva pouring from her blood-streaked jaws. "If our luck continues, we'll surely slay two of these so-called Heroes and leave the last to be hunted down without mercy!" "And if our luck doesn't continue," Meneltarmacil agreed, "we'll have twice as much meat as usual. Even Glirdan's supplies are starting to thin...we need more flesh." "Aye," Nonnacedak joined in cautiously, "as long as it isn't mine." He had not forgotten his close shave of the Night before. "I say we should still eat that pathetic little jackal!" Boromir88 growled. "Truly it is aid that the blood of parasites imbues the faithful with holy strength. Besides, he's doubtless got more corpses hidden away." "Garn!" Kath spat. "If we slay Rune, every one of his sheep will be ours for the taking!" The wolf o' nine tails, dancing spawn, simply stared at Kitanna, so much smaller than she, a glint of greed in her dark eyes, and the gaze of other wolves began to be drawn to the hapless Beta Wolf too. At length it was decided that Rune would be devoured for his flock's sweet, fat, meat, and Kitanna because she wouldn't be able to fight back. Ostracised from the pack, the pair were herded into the courtyard of the Tower's prison complex. "Don't worry, Kitanna," Rune growled. "Neither of us will die this day. I can keep them back." "You?" Kitanna sneered. "Look, you may be larger than me, but that ain't saying much." "Size," Rune said, "isn't everything. BARUK KHAZAD, KHAZAD AIMENU!" The Hero cast the manky wolf-hide which had disguised his true Dwarven nature to one side, and his sheep too began to lose their form; coalescing around him into a suit of mithril armour and a vast double-handed axe. Kitanna seemed as surprised as the rest, but seeing that in the Dwarf lay her only chance of survival, she lurked behind him thankfully. The werewolves, their foe revealed, made several abortive charges, but each time the swing of the Dwarf Lord's axe repelled them, for they did not wish to die tonight. Rune was conducting a fighting retreat, and he and Kitanna were now out of the courtyard and the Tower. "Quick," the Beta Wolf snarled, "onto my back, Dwarf. I'll carry you out. Thankyou for saving me. We'll escape together, and perhaps I shall be cured of my disease." "Perhaps," the Dwarf agreed taciturnly, clambering onto the Wolf. They sped off in the direction of the Sirion. But at this point, instead of leaping over the fast-flowing water, she reared up, knocking the Dwarf in. He sunk rapidly, cursing her and all wolves as he drowned. "Kitanna!" Eomer gasped. "Truly you are an Alpha Wolf! You defeated a Hero! And a Dwarf at that!" "It was nothing," she shrugged modestly; but at that point a vengefully hurled Dwarf throwing axe surged through the grey water and sliced off her head. "Ah well," Lobo remarked, "shame about Kitanna, the bold Dwarfsbane, and all that, but it looks like we'll have something to eat for supper after all..." Dead Anguirel (Werewolf)-throat cut as he slept on Day 1 Glirdan (Werewolf)-devoured on Night 1 The Saucepan Man (Huan)-murdered by mischance on Day 2 Rune Son Of Bjarne (Dwarven Hero)-drowned in the Sirion through Kitanna's treachery on Night 2 Kitanna (Werewolf)-beheaded in Rune's last act of vengeance on Night 2 Living Mormegil-Crabby Old Wolf Gurthang-Gil-Gurth Formendacil-Lobo Farael-Werewolf In Denial Lhuna-Girl-Who-Cried-Wolf Eomer-Black Warg of Rhun Boromir-Exorcist Specialising in Heroes Spawn-Wolf O' Nine Tails Oddwen-Bloodthirsty Whelp Kath-Runt of the Litter Mithalwen-Alpha Female Meneltarmacil-Lone Wolf Wayne-Fairy Hunter Nonnacedak-Scavenger Day 3 now begins. Remaining Heroes, Sauron, Draugluin and Carcharoth, send your choices to, I stress, both me and Cailin. Night 3 ought to begin at 2:00pm GMT tomorrow. If something goes pear-shaped, I'll try to get prior warning out. As a last resort, there's the valiant Cailin brigade. __________________ Among the friendly dead, being bad at games did not seem to matter -Il Lupo Fenriso Last edited by Anguirel; 12-20-2005 at 04:49 PM.