Tol-in-Gaurhoth XXI: Dueling Wizards Werewolf - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

littlemanpoet · 05-26-2006, 03:48 PM

Glirdan was in mourning. Kath was gone, killed by werewolves. His father Sleepy was gone, lynched! Caranlondien and Lommy had been taken by werewolves. And his mother, Roa, was dead, but only because the good wizard head killed her so she could not create any more werewolves. He wondered if she had turned him into one and he didn't know it. He looked at his fingers, imagining claws, his arms, imagining them covered in fur. No, he didn't think so.

The wind blew off the salty sea, sending clean and scoured air his way. He was glad of it, for the Cursed village was becoming no place he wanted to live. He imagined that they would be voting for the next person to lynch. Let them vote! He would have none of it. He walked on. As the sun set he considered going back to town, and least to find out who had been lynched. He had no stomach for it. He kept on walking.

As darkness descended, all that could be told was the thundering waves crashing against the rocks strewen across the shore like bits of meat not consumed by the maw of the sea when it had eaten Numenor and the westmost shores of Luin in a gulp. Glirdan swallowed hard. He did not like thinking about great maws, huge gulps, and ravenous appetites. He turned his mind back to Kath and dreamed of her walking down the street, of her playing her lyre, her sweet voice, her-

He turned. Had he heard growling? A black shadow seemed to loom behind that rock. Suddenly snarls and claws and pain. He screamed.

***********

As dawn arrived, the villagers made their reluctant trek to the Watcher Rock. There lay Glirdan's body, or rather the largely skeletal remains of him. Only his head and feet and hands had been left unravaged; so they could identify him. They had no need to wonder if they had taken his heart; there was nothing left but a ribcage messy with scraps the werewolves were too indelicate to clean off. When they tried lift the body it fell into many bones, and not a few of them lost their last night's suppers. Nevertheless, they buried the bones in the graveyard, next to the one of Oddwen, already carefully decorated with a flower garden by Lalaith.

************

~ The Tally ~ (3)

Three werewolves
Five innocents

~ The Dead ~ (19)

Elempi, father of Diamond of the Battledore, killed on Night One
Loki the leech collector, lynched on Day One: innocent
The Saucepan Man the barkeep, killed on Night Two: innocent
Nogrod the retired jester, lynched on Day Two: werewolf
the phantom the loud, unpredictable, adventurer: hunter
Naria the servant who empties and cleans chamber pots: werewolf
Celuien the Healer and Cupper, lynched on Day Three: innocent
Lhunardawen the jeweler, committed suicide on Day Three: innocent
Cailín the match maker, mauled by werewolves on Night Four: innocent
Valier the gardener, planted and stoned in her garden on Day Four: werewolf
Firefoot the artist, frenziedly eaten on Night Five: innocent
Nilpaurion the ne'er do well hubby of Dancing Spawn, head almost ripped off by werewolves: innocent
Alcarillo the old retired sea captain, drowned on his boat on Day Five: werewolf
Lommy the little girl who steals other children's candy, broken and consumed on Night Six: innocent
Caranlondien the Sled-Team Driver, skewered and kabobed on Night Six: ranger
Roa Aoife the weaver, burned by fire on Day Six: the evil wizard
Gurthang the stable-hand, contorted by evil magic on Day Six: the good wizard
Sleepy Ranger the former wanderer, lynched on Day Six: innocent
Dancing Spawn of Ungoliant the Baker, flayed through the back on Night Seven: hunter
Kath the minstrel: flayed where she lay on Night Seven: seer
mormegil the retired mariner and current mayor: virtually beheaded by the Hunter on Night Seven: werewolf
Oddwen the filthy, insane street urchin, lynched in a game of tag on Day Seven: innocent
Glirdan with the giant crush on Kath, killed and eaten by the seashore on Night Eight: innocent

~ The Living ~ (8)

Diamond of the Battledore
Kitanna the beloved of Eomer
Feanor the shepherdess with a love of alliteration
Zali the seamstress and beloved of the phantom
Jenny Hallu the unmarried maiden & aunt
Lalaith the frivolous aunt and guardian of Oddwen
Eonwe the freeloading husband of Lhunardawen
Eomer the adventurer & lover of Kitanna

Lalaith · 05-26-2006, 04:11 PM

Right. Enough is enough. Can we *please* lynch The Wolf of the Rohirrim now.
Look at him yesterday. Gloating about Glirdan and Zali being away.
And this.

Quote:

I too would vote for me if I was in your shoes

It's more than flesh and blood can stand.

The other wolves, I strongly suspect, are two out of Kitanna, Jenny and Diamond.

[Btw I will not be around very much for this Day. As I am sure the wolves will be delighted to hear.]

++EOMER

Lalaith · 05-26-2006, 04:15 PM

PS I very much fear that Eonwe is not going to be around for the rest of the game. And I very much fear he is not a wolf. So all the voting innocents need to vote the same way to get rid of these lupines.
There's been some very wolvish-looking bandwaggoning going on the last couple of days, getting rid of innocents Sleepy and Oddwen. If another innocent goes today, we lose.

Eomer of the Rohirrim · 05-26-2006, 04:47 PM

I find it sad that you refuse to even entertain the notion that I might be innocent, Lalaith; no doubt, my thoughts today will horrify and anger you.

I have given this much thought today (so much so that I probably got a much poorer mark in my exam than I should have) and I have come to the conclusion that Lalaith (!) is a wolf.

I guessed on the very first day (even before the game started, actually) that she would be among the prime picks for wolvery. No-one ever wants to lynch her because she appears so sensible and so helpful and so sweet and innocent. It's an act: we've seen it before. I'm amazed that I have lasted this long; but I don't think anyone is amazed that Lalaith is still here. I'll ask again: Why on earth would the EW pick me to be a wolf? Everyone sees bluffs for what they are, at least now that we've played about a million Werewolf games. That's why I'm very confident Fea is also innocent. Neither of us last 'til anywhere near the end.

Lalaith came into her own yesterday, after her Mayor buddy Mormegil was taken out. Until then, Mormegil had actually been acting as a Mayor proper, conducting the village. Yesterday, Lalaith was doing it. Chastising us about not fully taking into account when the wolves were turned. Apparently you didn't notice that this strategy tells us very little as any combination of villagers could have been turned at any time. All this 'theory' was supposed to was gain the upper-hand in the politics of the village.

I should never have let my instinct go unheeded.

As to your argument in voting for me (not including the Caran-factor which I explained yesterday, however unlikely it might have seemed — sorry, but the wolves did guess right and left innocent me alone while they got the gifteds).

Gloating about Zali and Glirdan not being here? That doesn't make any sense and you know it. You're scaremongering, Lalaith.

And because I don't think many of you will buy into this I fully expect to be lynched today; and so we will all perish. That's the thing Lalaith: not enough people suspect you. And I fear that your fellows are too far behind me in the suspicion stakes.

This is not a revenge vote, I really do think you are a wolf. A vote on the first post, I mean really! Well, I can meet you in that respect.

++LALAITH

I'll be back tomorrow, at some point.

Diamond18 · 05-26-2006, 07:00 PM

*bangs head against desk repeatedly*

Why do I suddenly get the feeling that both Lal and Eomer are wovles? Lal because I've thought so for a long time and Eomer because, well, these back to back votes are just tooooooo convenient. One dies as a wolf and the other looks really good? Also the points Eomer made against Lal are very similar to my earlier ones -- like, he uses some of the exact same words. Trying to jump on my wagon, are you? Bah. I'm going to have to read over yesterDay... and the Day before... and.... *sigh*

I don't know what to do, really, but I'm not going to jump to vote just yet.

Azaelia of Willowbottom · 05-26-2006, 07:24 PM

Apologies for my absence yesterDay, all.

To business. As one of an (ever-shrinking) number of voting innocents, I am not going to make my previous mistake and vote with my first post.

Going back a bit: I was planning on calling Morm out when I got on. But the rest of you took care of that yesterday. I must admit I was a little smug when I read that he turned out to be a baddie, just because I was about to snap because of being constanty discredited. Sure, I haven't been doing my best, but I'm not sure I deserved what I got from him.

Anyhow. I'm not going to be so bold as to proclaim anyone a wolf for sure just yet, but I think just from toDay's first couple posts, we can determine that at least one of Eomer and Lalaith is a wolf, if not both. I agree with Diamond that the set-up of the two votes is a little too convenient, but I'm not sure which one (if not both) is guilty yet.

More to come later (though I'm not sure how long, exactly, that will be).

JennyHallu · 05-26-2006, 09:47 PM

Diamond, I highly doubt they're both wolves. Why would they set themselves up that way when all they need is one innocent kill? One of them is, definitely, but not both.

And I'm considering the possibility that I may have to vote tonight.

Weekends are crazy busy when you work all week, and I have no way of knowing how much time I'll have or if I'll have time before the deadline tomorrow. Must think about this...no mistakes today.

But frankly, Lalaith is looking most suspicious to me, for several reasons:

First, I think there were probably wolves in both bandwaggons yesterday (Eomer and Oddwen). One in the former, and two in the latter. Looked at that way, the people who look most suspicious in my mind are Lalaith and Eomer, and I think that only one is a wolf.

Lalaith has been going SO gung-ho against Eomer for days now. When we are this close to the wire, we really need to think things out and discuss them. One wrong step today loses us the game...we need to think out our candidates and see multiple possibilities. She's been the first vote cast two days in a row, and we know she's no seer to have this kind of certainty. She's also been interpreting every little phrase of Eomer's using very emotionally charged words: gloating, etc. I also don't think her argument about the Hunter defending Eomer holds water: All Gurthang's gifteds were in his family, and with Morm as a wolf, I don't think it's at all unlikely that was noticed and acted upon.

I'm really seeing Lalaith as a more probable wolf. Eomer's posts have just felt more and more frustrated to me, which makes a lot of sense if someone is wildly and consistently accusing you, and then using your every defense to bolster their "case". He's just feeling more innocent each day.

I'm going to pause and think a bit, and vote at the latest tomorrow morning, depending on how what's left of tonight goes.

05-26-2006, 03:48 PM	#1
littlemanpoet Itinerant Songster Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: The Edge of Faerie Posts: 7,066	Day Eight Begins Glirdan was in mourning. Kath was gone, killed by werewolves. His father Sleepy was gone, lynched! Caranlondien and Lommy had been taken by werewolves. And his mother, Roa, was dead, but only because the good wizard head killed her so she could not create any more werewolves. He wondered if she had turned him into one and he didn't know it. He looked at his fingers, imagining claws, his arms, imagining them covered in fur. No, he didn't think so. The wind blew off the salty sea, sending clean and scoured air his way. He was glad of it, for the Cursed village was becoming no place he wanted to live. He imagined that they would be voting for the next person to lynch. Let them vote! He would have none of it. He walked on. As the sun set he considered going back to town, and least to find out who had been lynched. He had no stomach for it. He kept on walking. As darkness descended, all that could be told was the thundering waves crashing against the rocks strewen across the shore like bits of meat not consumed by the maw of the sea when it had eaten Numenor and the westmost shores of Luin in a gulp. Glirdan swallowed hard. He did not like thinking about great maws, huge gulps, and ravenous appetites. He turned his mind back to Kath and dreamed of her walking down the street, of her playing her lyre, her sweet voice, her- He turned. Had he heard growling? A black shadow seemed to loom behind that rock. Suddenly snarls and claws and pain. He screamed. ********* As dawn arrived, the villagers made their reluctant trek to the Watcher Rock. There lay Glirdan's body, or rather the largely skeletal remains of him. Only his head and feet and hands had been left unravaged; so they could identify him. They had no need to wonder if they had taken his heart; there was nothing left but a ribcage messy with scraps the werewolves were too indelicate to clean off. When they tried lift the body it fell into many bones, and not a few of them lost their last night's suppers. Nevertheless, they buried the bones in the graveyard, next to the one of Oddwen, already carefully decorated with a flower garden by Lalaith. ******** ~ The Tally ~ (3) Three werewolves Five innocents ~ The Dead ~ (19) Elempi, father of Diamond of the Battledore, killed on Night One Loki the leech collector, lynched on Day One: innocent The Saucepan Man the barkeep, killed on Night Two: innocent Nogrod the retired jester, lynched on Day Two: werewolf the phantom the loud, unpredictable, adventurer: hunter Naria the servant who empties and cleans chamber pots: werewolf Celuien the Healer and Cupper, lynched on Day Three: innocent Lhunardawen the jeweler, committed suicide on Day Three: innocent Cailín the match maker, mauled by werewolves on Night Four: innocent Valier the gardener, planted and stoned in her garden on Day Four: werewolf Firefoot the artist, frenziedly eaten on Night Five: innocent Nilpaurion the ne'er do well hubby of Dancing Spawn, head almost ripped off by werewolves: innocent Alcarillo the old retired sea captain, drowned on his boat on Day Five: werewolf Lommy the little girl who steals other children's candy, broken and consumed on Night Six: innocent Caranlondien the Sled-Team Driver, skewered and kabobed on Night Six: ranger Roa Aoife the weaver, burned by fire on Day Six: the evil wizard Gurthang the stable-hand, contorted by evil magic on Day Six: the good wizard Sleepy Ranger the former wanderer, lynched on Day Six: innocent Dancing Spawn of Ungoliant the Baker, flayed through the back on Night Seven: hunter Kath the minstrel: flayed where she lay on Night Seven: seer mormegil the retired mariner and current mayor: virtually beheaded by the Hunter on Night Seven: werewolf Oddwen the filthy, insane street urchin, lynched in a game of tag on Day Seven: innocent Glirdan with the giant crush on Kath, killed and eaten by the seashore on Night Eight: innocent ~ The Living ~** (8) Diamond of the Battledore Kitanna the beloved of Eomer Feanor the shepherdess with a love of alliteration Zali the seamstress and beloved of the phantom Jenny Hallu the unmarried maiden & aunt Lalaith the frivolous aunt and guardian of Oddwen Eonwe the freeloading husband of Lhunardawen Eomer the adventurer & lover of Kitanna

05-26-2006, 04:15 PM	#3
Lalaith Blithe Spirit Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 2,779	PS I very much fear that Eonwe is not going to be around for the rest of the game. And I very much fear he is not a wolf. So all the voting innocents need to vote the same way to get rid of these lupines. There's been some very wolvish-looking bandwaggoning going on the last couple of days, getting rid of innocents Sleepy and Oddwen. If another innocent goes today, we lose. __________________ Out went the candle, and we were left darkling

05-26-2006, 04:47 PM	#4
Eomer of the Rohirrim Auspicious Wraith Join Date: May 2002 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 4,859	I find it sad that you refuse to even entertain the notion that I might be innocent, Lalaith; no doubt, my thoughts today will horrify and anger you. I have given this much thought today (so much so that I probably got a much poorer mark in my exam than I should have) and I have come to the conclusion that Lalaith (!) is a wolf. I guessed on the very first day (even before the game started, actually) that she would be among the prime picks for wolvery. No-one ever wants to lynch her because she appears so sensible and so helpful and so sweet and innocent. It's an act: we've seen it before. I'm amazed that I have lasted this long; but I don't think anyone is amazed that Lalaith is still here. I'll ask again: Why on earth would the EW pick me to be a wolf? Everyone sees bluffs for what they are, at least now that we've played about a million Werewolf games. That's why I'm very confident Fea is also innocent. Neither of us last 'til anywhere near the end. Lalaith came into her own yesterday, after her Mayor buddy Mormegil was taken out. Until then, Mormegil had actually been acting as a Mayor proper, conducting the village. Yesterday, Lalaith was doing it. Chastising us about not fully taking into account when the wolves were turned. Apparently you didn't notice that this strategy tells us very little as any combination of villagers could have been turned at any time. All this 'theory' was supposed to was gain the upper-hand in the politics of the village. I should never have let my instinct go unheeded. As to your argument in voting for me (not including the Caran-factor which I explained yesterday, however unlikely it might have seemed — sorry, but the wolves did guess right and left innocent me alone while they got the gifteds). Gloating about Zali and Glirdan not being here? That doesn't make any sense and you know it. You're scaremongering, Lalaith. And because I don't think many of you will buy into this I fully expect to be lynched today; and so we will all perish. That's the thing Lalaith: not enough people suspect you. And I fear that your fellows are too far behind me in the suspicion stakes. This is not a revenge vote, I really do think you are a wolf. A vote on the first post, I mean really! Well, I can meet you in that respect. ++LALAITH I'll be back tomorrow, at some point. __________________ Los Ingobernables de Harlond Last edited by Eomer of the Rohirrim; 05-26-2006 at 04:49 PM. Reason: spelling

05-26-2006, 07:00 PM	#5
Diamond18 Eidolon of a Took Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: my own private fantasy world Posts: 3,460	bangs head against desk repeatedly Why do I suddenly get the feeling that both Lal and Eomer are wovles? Lal because I've thought so for a long time and Eomer because, well, these back to back votes are just tooooooo convenient. One dies as a wolf and the other looks really good? Also the points Eomer made against Lal are very similar to my earlier ones -- like, he uses some of the exact same words. Trying to jump on my wagon, are you? Bah. I'm going to have to read over yesterDay... and the Day before... and.... sigh I don't know what to do, really, but I'm not going to jump to vote just yet. __________________ All shall be rather fond of me and suffer from mild depression. Last edited by Diamond18; 05-26-2006 at 07:03 PM.

05-26-2006, 07:24 PM	#6
Azaelia of Willowbottom Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: By the Sea Posts: 446	Apologies for my absence yesterDay, all. To business. As one of an (ever-shrinking) number of voting innocents, I am not going to make my previous mistake and vote with my first post. Going back a bit: I was planning on calling Morm out when I got on. But the rest of you took care of that yesterday. I must admit I was a little smug when I read that he turned out to be a baddie, just because I was about to snap because of being constanty discredited. Sure, I haven't been doing my best, but I'm not sure I deserved what I got from him. Anyhow. I'm not going to be so bold as to proclaim anyone a wolf for sure just yet, but I think just from toDay's first couple posts, we can determine that at least one of Eomer and Lalaith is a wolf, if not both. I agree with Diamond that the set-up of the two votes is a little too convenient, but I'm not sure which one (if not both) is guilty yet. More to come later (though I'm not sure how long, exactly, that will be). __________________ "Wherever I have been, I am back."

05-26-2006, 09:47 PM	#7
JennyHallu The Pearl, The Lily Maid Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: In my luxury Barrow, snuggled up in a pile of satin pillows, eating fresh fruit. Posts: 1,628	Diamond, I highly doubt they're both wolves. Why would they set themselves up that way when all they need is one innocent kill? One of them is, definitely, but not both. And I'm considering the possibility that I may have to vote tonight. Weekends are crazy busy when you work all week, and I have no way of knowing how much time I'll have or if I'll have time before the deadline tomorrow. Must think about this...no mistakes today. But frankly, Lalaith is looking most suspicious to me, for several reasons: First, I think there were probably wolves in both bandwaggons yesterday (Eomer and Oddwen). One in the former, and two in the latter. Looked at that way, the people who look most suspicious in my mind are Lalaith and Eomer, and I think that only one is a wolf. Lalaith has been going SO gung-ho against Eomer for days now. When we are this close to the wire, we really need to think things out and discuss them. One wrong step today loses us the game...we need to think out our candidates and see multiple possibilities. She's been the first vote cast two days in a row, and we know she's no seer to have this kind of certainty. She's also been interpreting every little phrase of Eomer's using very emotionally charged words: gloating, etc. I also don't think her argument about the Hunter defending Eomer holds water: All Gurthang's gifteds were in his family, and with Morm as a wolf, I don't think it's at all unlikely that was noticed and acted upon. I'm really seeing Lalaith as a more probable wolf. Eomer's posts have just felt more and more frustrated to me, which makes a lot of sense if someone is wildly and consistently accusing you, and then using your every defense to bolster their "case". He's just feeling more innocent each day. I'm going to pause and think a bit, and vote at the latest tomorrow morning, depending on how what's left of tonight goes. __________________ <=== Lookee, lookee, lots of IM handles!