Tol-in-Gaurhoth XXII: Hic Monstrae Trucidant

[Caranlondien]

Dancing Spawn
Day One
Post #11: In-character Day 1 stuff
#49: Notes that people are acting more carelessly than usual, specifically Boromir, Formendacil, and perhaps Cailín. Thinks retractable votes make it more confusing because it's harder to keep track of who has what number of votes.
#96: Comments on skirmish between Sauce and Lommy. Not very suspicious of either of them, but wary of "clueless villager" act by SpM. Comments that TGWBS doesn't seem to be posting much of substance. Says Boro twisted Lommy's words.
#105: Votes Boro, who she says has "looked the fairest but felt the foulest".
Day Two
#159: Says she won't be able to participate much toDay, and if we want to vote for her, go ahead, because she's not in the mood for caring much about it right now. Says a wolvish Caran may have thought Form was the Seer and killed him overNight. Also thinks Caran is acting insecurely. Thinks Sauce is acting differently than usual, but says she'll have to look more closely. Wishes lmp had given a better reason for his vote for her. Says Lommy looks edgier than usual. Wary of TGWBS.
#167: Re-posts for Cailín what she said about TGWBS yesterDay. Analyzes his posts toDay and says she remains suspicious of him. Responds to lmp about his vote for her.

Post #159 comforts me somewhat about her, as she says she doesn't care much if she receives votes. Of course, it would be just as easy for a wolf to say that, but she sounds genuine enough. She's another careful one, though, who I'll be watching.

So, I'm leaning towards Fea right now as my main suspect.

[Caranlondien]

Originally Posted by Mithalwen

No disrespect but judging Fea against what seems the "sensible" course is probably not helpful. I have never known a careful Fea. She is not a percentage player, especially if she is a wolf, she is a high roller and takes spectacular risks. As a result she tends to veer between breathtaking brilliance and disaster. If I find your assessment of her actions accurate, it would incline me more to think her innocent....

Sorry, I'm not sure if I follow you. If you find my assessment of her actions accurate, you'll be more inclined to think her innocent? My analysis found her to be very careful, and you say you've never known a careful Fea. This tends to make me more suspicious of her. I do, however, see your point that theorizing about what she would do as a wolf is less accurate than actual experience with how she acts as a wolf. My lorebooks say nothing about a wolvish Fea...

EDIT: cross-posted with Fea

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Of this entire village, she with the most experience of a wolvish Fea is Mithalwen. Just thought I'd put that out there.

[Mithalwen]

To clarify, if I agree that she is being careful it would be so unlike her play as a wolf that I would be more inclined to think her innocent at least.

My alter ego modded 2 games with Fea as a wolf.... one was a bravura performance of breathtaking audacity which succeeded brilliantly. The other was a bravura perfomance of breathtaking audacity which crashed and burned. I refer you to the chronicles of the events at Midsomer Mawlin....


If she is careful and a wolf I suspect doping or that she is being palyed by a ringer.

[The Saucepan Man]

Originally Posted by Mith

If she is careful and a wolf I suspect doping or that she is being palyed by a ringer.

... or breathtakingly audacious in its lack of breathtaking audacity.

[Mithalwen]

Now that is the mental equivalent on a "waffer-thin mint", Sauce, you just want my head to explode trying to sort out the level of bluff.....

[The Saucepan Man]

On a more serious note, you have executed a quite stunning U-turn on the subject of Fea, Mith. Yesterday, you saw fit to vote for her (in circumstances where she was unlikely to be lynched, I might add), yet today you are defending her rather doughtily. I wonder if it's possible that your vote yesterday might have been a Wolf-on-Wolf vote?

And, as Lommy noted earlier, you do rather fit the profile of one who is "maintaining a presence" without actually saying very much. Quite unusual for you.

Hmm. Much to ponder.

[Caranlondien]

Originally Posted by Fea

Of this entire village, she with the most experience of a wolvish Fea is Mithalwen. Just thought I'd put that out there.

Point taken. I do agree with SpM's argument that your behavior would make a great wolf ploy. Mith, you say Fea's last act of breathtaking audacity crashed and burned? So why would she try it again? Especially with you in the game, expecting her to behave that way?

I don't want to vote for spawn, after analyzing her. To give Fea a fair chance, I'll re-consider my previous suspicions... Lommy, morm, and lmp (my suspicion of SpM having died down somewhat). Lommy I tend to classify with spawn as someone I'll be watching but don't really want to vote for toDay. morm I definitely find suspicious, but he won't be back toDay, and I don't want to lynch him while he's gone, for obvious reasons. lmp... well his sudden change from voting for me to voting for spawn was odd. But I don't see it as a wolvish move from him. He's smart and subtle, and looking less and less wolvish as I consider him more closely.

[The Saucepan Man]

Originally Posted by Fea

Until then, I'm still not going to start posting a la Spam because 1) you don't trust me and won't take my words for what they are, 2) it will clutter the thread, and 3) it would corrupt my current plan of quietly watching things. Yes. I'm very intentionally playing the role of a quiet villager. Or at least trying to do so. Let me do it in peace and I might be able to help you.

Of course, if we all did that, you would have nothing to observe.

Sorry Fea, but claiming to be sitting back and watching seems to me to be a great ploy for a Wolf to avoid saying anything which she might later regret. It may not be your usual style, as Mith noted, but that only serves to make me even more wary of you. Perhaps you fear that experience will enable us easily to spot classic Fea Wolf-play.