WWJ IX: Psychotic Penguins: The Crossing of Helcaraxë

[Anguirel]

Originally Posted by Diamond18

I sympathise with you Ang, and don't think you are a soap-box dwelling madman.

Oh, come off it. The answer to that second question is obvious...after all, I support the Conservative Party...

[Diamond18]

Originally Posted by Anguirel

Oh, come off it. The answer to that second question is obvious...after all, I support the Conservative Party...

Oh fine then, put me down as a Yes/Yes.

[Roa_Aoife]

The only people left to vote are Spawn and Lal, and Spawn isn't going to be here today. So

Jenny: 6
Valier: 6
Mac: 1
Diamond: 1

Unless there are retractions, then Jenny is hanged.

Edit Corss posted with Lal and adjusted accordinly.

[Nogrod]

Jenny's death coming soon...

Elves stop voting.

The Day2 has ended.

[Nogrod]

Lalaith opened the discussion of the Day noting that she had dreamt of an innocent last night. Then she went on to quote tales of old, trying to explain the others her suspicios behavior the last Day.

“Lal, if you think the person is likely to end up lynched, reveal them. Otherwise, it might be pointless.”, said Roa, Elenwë’s personal Guard.

Elenw’ës personal Chamber Maid, Valier echoed the Guard: “I agree I think you should tell us Lalaith who the Ordo is unless they are gifted. That will clear up at least something.”

“Tell us, Lalaith.”, insisted Ecthelion's hotheaded nephew and personal squire the phantom.

Turgon’s nephew, Macalaure, was a bit more hesitant: “Lalaith, whether you reveal the innocent or not, I don't think we will rally around him/her. Could be the cobbler, after all.”

Lalaith came forwards: “You, my dear phantom, I dreamt of you last night, and as I seem to have your permission, I reveal this now.” So the phantom was the known innocent amongst them.

Maybe it was because of Kitanna’s body – tied to a chair by now and looking at them with empty eyes – but they all seemed to feel gloomy and nervous in her presence. But no one had any better ideas to come up with her either. So the discussion for the most of the Day went on quietly, reservedly and at best analytically, and at worst elves defending their actions the last Day. The general feeling was very different comparing to the first Day. Many were drawn to the old stories, remembering what different elves had done in similar kind of situations before and whose elders had been doing what.

Macalaure tried to sum up the general feeling by saying: “I think I like nights, if only there wasn't this, well, bloodshed at the end of it.” That note was received with total silence.

Anguirel, annoyed by this overall silence, tried to change the mood: “"Oh, and, my friends, generally, speak up. Today is so quiet I'm suspecting we've lost more than one Cartesian soul..." But it was clearly deemed to not be a funny Day.

There were some suspicion raised over certain elves and then those very same elves being defended by others. At last Jenny informed that she would retreat and vote for Macalaure. Soon after, Anguirel presented a case against Dimwe and voted for her.

Turgon’s herald, Eonwe dropped in, “I'm gonna have to wait a few days, perhaps, before I can form any real suspicions. I like to let the evidence build up and look for inconsistancies.”

After his announcement the phantom made a case against Valier and voted for her. Encaitare the standard bearer defended both Roa and Macalaure, of which Macalaure went on voting for Jenny with his reasonings. The feeling was getting more tense by the minute.

The civilised demeanour of the elves was maintained only with an effort: “Would anybody bother to explain to me what that shoemaker is about?”, asked Macalaure. “The cobbler is just another name for shoemaker,”, answered Valier immediately. “Thank you, Valier. I still suspect you, nevertheless.” Macalaure returned the comment. “As I you.”, Valier snapped back. The general feeling was bent on mutual suspicion.

Jenny saw the votes piling up on her at the late hour and thought to herself: Surely I will be more at my home with these charming penquins anyhow. I’m going to get away, to the sea with these elegant creatures! Silently she slipped through the Assembly Hall to the great doors and took out from the building. There was just the sea around the small island. How far could I swim?, she thought and measured her chances. Not far, but I could try! Maybe these gallant creatures will carry me away to their haven, to peace and tranquility with them!

My gift of being unseen by the others has betrayed me!, she thought as she jumped in to the icy cold waters and started to swim away from the island. She had just heard the other elves gotten worried about her absence. “Where is she?” called Macalaure. “We should lynch her!”, yelled Naria. The others were already pouring out from the building. “There she is! She’s trying to swim away!” yelled Roa, “Kill her!”, she shouted. All the elves ran to the shore. Valier and Encaitare were the first to reach the shore. They took their bows and shot them, hitting Jenny to her back. The red stain of blood was barely visible in the oncoming darkness of the night. Roa, Naria and Macalaure sent one more patch of arrows to make Jenny’s death a definitive fact. Jenny’s body floated on the waves. There were a couple of penguins around, starting to carry her body away from them, out of their reach. She hadn’t changed into anything, but clearly was taken care by the penguins far away.

“So, the conclusion this leads me to is that she is either fowl or faker”, said Roa, watching the body being carried away by the Penguins.

”I feel Jenny is more Cobbler material”, Diamond rephrased her last words on the subject.

The cobbler she sure was.

~ The Dead ~
Nogrod - a troubadour, singer – mod, blowed up in the Big Bang on Night1
Thinlómien - a troubadour, harpist – mod, blowed up in the Big Bang on Night1
Boromir88 - The Mouth of Turgon – werepenguin, cast into a gorge on Day1
Kitanna - servant who empties and cleans chamber pots – ranger, body and soul separated by Cartesian Dualism on Night 2
JennyHallu - An Embroiderer, lost, not related – cobbler, shot dead in to the sea on Day2

~ The Living ~
Anguirel - Lalwende's semi-canonical lutenist and Findis's demi-canonical flautist
dancing spawn of ungoliant - animals' dung cleaning specialist
Diamond18 - Dimwë the half-wit second cousin of Elenwë
Encaitare - A standard-bearer
Eonwe - Turgon's herald
Firefoot- Aredhel's friend
Lalaith - Aredhel's tutoress
Macalaure - Turgon's nephew and part-time-repentant kinslayer
Naria - Family's goat herder
the phantom - Ecthelion's hotheaded nephew and personal squire
Roa_Aoife - Elenwë's personal guard
Valier - Elenwe's personal chamber maid

Night 3 begins now.

Werepenguins start PMing.
Seer and the penguins send your picks to Nogrod.
Hunter feel free to change your mind when you wish to (send your possible new pick to Nogrod at any time).

[Nogrod]

“So Lady Elenwë has taken this tutoress of Aredhel to be her mouthpiece, yes?” asked the Master, but didn’t wait for an answer. “I know exactly what to do with her now. But if the Lady herself is involved, I'll have her hindered, just to see that she doesn’t interfere too much with the Plan. You should mind the other Elves, as that is your part of the deal. And this Lalaith in particular, she must be dealt with tonight” said the Master, leaving no room for dispute.
“Sure, Master. What should we do?” asked the Emperor. The Chinstrap had braved to meet the Master the first time and was frightenedly nodding in agreement to everything that was said.
"When speculation paints its gray on gray, then has a form of life grown old, and those clinging to it are mislead. And that’s good! The gray on gray cannot be rejuvenated, but only known; the Owl of Minerva first takes flight with twilight closing in. We shall not let these Elves to gain any other knowledge than that given to them afterwards”, the Master made a rhetorical pause here, but then continued, “Lady Elenwë plays a dangerous game letting her petty folk know things beforehand. That must not happen again! Let her little darling feel the claws of real Wisdom, the ones of the Owl of Minerva herself! You know the statue of the Owl at the Assembly Hall? Call it with its true name and it will do your bidding."
“Surely Master, surely”, the Emperor answered and bowed down. The Chinstrap thought it wise to mimic the Emperor’s gesture, and almost tumbled to its beak.
“Sorry...”, it muttered but was sharply beaked by the Emperor.
“We’ll go now, Master. We well see to the Owl”, the Emperor said.

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“Lalaith...”
She woke up, hearing again the familiar voice calling her.
“My lady Elenwë?” she asked softly and got up from her bed.
“Come to me now...”
Lalaith wrapped her cloak tightly around herself and stepped to the corridor. She could hear the Lady’s words though they were hardly louder than a whisper.
“Come, I’m here in the Hall... I found you your information...”
Quickly but silently Lalaith started to walk down the stairs.
She was halfway through the stairs when she saw the Lady Elenwë in the other end of the hall.
“I must run, Lalaith, but I can tell you that my guard, Roa_Aoife, is...”
Her voice was muffled by the screaming and the wingbeats of the parrot, who had suddenly appeared from nowhere. Elenwë couldn’t do anything but try to defend herself from the flapping wings and the sharp beak and claws. The parrot forced her to retreat to a side corridor. Lalaith tried to run to her, but only then she saw a small penguin at the end of the stairs, looking up to her cheerily. Lalaith stopped, horrified. “They say your name is Laughter...”, it chuckled. Lalaith’s heart was bumping ever faster in her chest.
“...let’s see if you can laugh at this”, continued another, colder voice from above her. Instinctively, she turned around to see the speaker. It was a penguin, too, a bigger and a more majestic one. It was standing at the top of the stairs, blocking her way back to her room. She was trapped.

Then she heard the loud and slow pounding of a huge pair of wings from above. The Owl of Minerva was gigantic. She had never seen a flying creature like that before. It fell upon her with a force that was far beoynd the strength of her slender being. It tore her eyes from their sockets with just one light grip of its talons. Lalaith screamed and fell down a couple of stairs. The pain was too much for her to be conscious of anything else. Before she could rise up the heavy wings were on her again. The Owl ripped the right half of her face off with its talons and simultaneously tore a terrible cut to her left side. Lalaith went down the remaining stairs and rolled to the floor just to receive the third and the final attack. The huge bird landed over her, leaving her beween its massive legs. It bowed slowly down to her, and then in a flash hit her breast with its beak, scavenging her heart out from her chest.
“True wisdom comes afterwards, not before”, noted the Emperor coming down the stairs.
“Splendid, indeed”, echoed the Chinstrap, grinning maliciously.
The Owl of Minerva hopped away from Lalaith’s motionless body and turned to a statue once again, watching over the Assembly Hall from near the main entrance with eyes of marble.
“That should be enough”, said the Emperor.
“Yay, cool guy, that owl”, affirmed the Chinstrap as they climbed up the stairs to reach their bedrooms before dawn.

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“What a mess! And I have to clean all that, I suppose”, said spawn, the animals’ dung cleaning specialist, noting the organs spread on the stairs.
“Hey, there’s a body downstairs!” Naria said, agitated.
“It must be Lalaith...”, Firefoot said, her voice trembling.
“Or what’s left of her”, put in Dimwë the half-wit.

A few of the Elves dared to descend the stairs to the mauled corpse that had once been Lalaith. “This is as we feared. Her eyes have been pecked out. We have lost our Seer”, the phantom said, turning away from the appalling sight.

They heard a voice from high up above: “Breakfast-time. Breakfast, anybody?”

~ The Dead ~
Nogrod - a troubadour, singer – mod, blowed up in the Big Bang on Night1
Thinlómien - a troubadour, harpist – mod, blowed up in the Big Bang on Night1
Boromir88 - The Mouth of Turgon – werepenguin, cast into a gorge on Day1
Kitanna - servant who empties and cleans chamber pots – ranger, body and soul separated by Cartesian Dualism on Night2
JennyHallu - An Embroiderer, lost, not related – cobbler, shot dead in to the sea on Day2
Lalaith - Aredhel's tutoress – seer, blinded, mutilated and torn apart by the Owl of Minerva on Night3

~ The Living ~
Anguirel - Lalwende's semi-canonical lutenist and Findis's demi-canonical flautist
dancing spawn of ungoliant - animals' dung cleaning specialist
Diamond18 - Dimwë the half-wit second cousin of Elenwë
Encaitare - A standard-bearer
Eonwe - Turgon's herald
Firefoot- Aredhel's friend
Macalaure - Turgon's nephew and part-time-repentant kinslayer
Naria - Family's goat herder
the phantom - Ecthelion's hotheaded nephew and personal squire
Roa_Aoife - Elenwë's personal guard
Valier - Elenwe's personal chamber maid

Day3 has now begun.

Penguins stop PMing.
Everybody start discussing.

[Macalaure]

Time is not on my side, so today I can do little more than cast my vote and leave it to your trustful hands to analyse that recent bandwaggonry.

The unlucky one would be:

++ Eonwe

Eonwe and Valier both are on top of my suspects list. I pick Eonwe because, in the case I am wrong, the loss of an innocent Valier would be worse in my opinion than the loss of an innocent Eonwe.

By the way: 4 people died an none of them an ordo. What are the chances for that?

[the phantom]

They killed Lalaith? I'm shocked!

[Diamond18]

If I am thinking correctly, we are to expect analysis on Ang, myself, and Naria coming from Roa early toDay, no?

toDay I would like to hear more from Spawn, Firefoot, and Eonwe. Spawn topped my possible penguin suspicions yesterDay. I am also still very suspicious of Valier. And I would like to take a look at Enca and Firefoot, probably will do analysis on them. I would have analyzed overnight, but you know, ennui and all.

It is, I suppose, good to have the Cobbler out of the way, but I'm not as happy about it as I thought I might be. Jenny was rather an overt Cobbler, and I think she served her purpose exactly as she wanted to yesterDay, garnering the most attention and the most lynch votes in lieu of a werepenguin.

[Diamond18]

They killed Lalaith? I'm shocked!

Okay, Mr. Known Innocent, what are you real thoughts on toDay? *puts pressure on tp's phantasmic shoulders*

[Firefoot]

First off, I would like to apologize for my lack of posting yesterday. I really was just dead tired. But I've done lots of thinking (before and since), and have some things to say.

First off, I think that the two remaining penguins are Encai and Valier, although I'm more sure about Encai.

This fits with my theory (and others', as well, I've noted) that Boromir would only have one wolf in each of his lists. I looked at his "most suspicious" list, and left were Ang and Roa, but I was extremely hesitant to mark either of them as penguins because their arguments with Boro seemed too genuine to be fabricated. So I put them on the back burner for a while and looked at the other two lists. From the middle list, after I took out phantom and myself, that left Encai, Naria, and Diamond. Diamond just didn't seem guilty to me, and besides has since voted for Valier to tie the vote between her and Jenny (this only really works as reasoning if Valier is a wolf, I suppose). There wasn't a lot to either of Naria or Encai, but of interest was that in Encai's post 159, she completely hi-lighted Ang and Roa as being on Boro's probably guilty list - taking attention away from the other two lists and in effect her. Also, she voted for Jenny when the vote was tied at 4-4, assuring that it would be Jenny to be lynched because even if Lalaith voted for Valier (as she did), Jenny would still be lynched because we knew Spawn would not be voting. (Again, this only works if Valier is a wolf...)

As for Valier, she started out in her first couple posts saying that Boro was one of the "definitely guilty ones", but he soon faded out of sight. She then started attacking Ang pretty fiercely (who I'm thinking is innocent), and Naria keeps reappearing in her posts as well. Then you have her possibly evasive vote for Ang when the voting seemed fairly set to go for Lalaith while Boromir's down a couple votes.

Barring these two, I think I would look at Naria, Eonwe, and Spawn, but these three are more on my "in-between" list. These are the people I don't really know anything about... I'll probably look at them sometime toDay. Mac, Ang, Diamond, and phantom (duh) are on my likely innocent list.

YesterDay's voting:

Macalaure – 1 (Jenny 1)
Diamond – 1 (Anguirel 2)
Valier – 5 (phantom 3, Firefoot 5, Eonwe 7, Diamond 10, Lalaith 12)
Jenny – 5 (Macalaure 4, Naria 6, Roa 8, Valier 9, Encai 11)

Did not vote: Spawn

[Roa_Aoife]

I would like to note that, in my own personal perspective, I hesitate to find Ang guilty. Here's why- Boromir, our known wolf, put him in the most suspected list with Lal, Kitanna, and myself. We know that Lal and Kitanna are innocent, and I know I'm innocent. Given Boromir's past behavior concerning his fellow wolves, it would seem unlikely that he would put him on the suspected list if he were actually a wolf.

However, I do know that several players like to "change it up" a bit when repeating a role, and Boromir may have changed his play. That's why I'm not ruling Ang out.

[Lalaith]

I support the Conservative Party

*Don't* remind me. I may decide to change your light to red, just to annoy you. Ha ha.

Anyway, I'm not completely happy about this but I think that of the two leaders, Valier is the more suspicious so I will go with her.
++VALIER

Do we get to find out the Cobbler when s/he dies, btw?

[Nogrod]

Originally Posted by Lalaith

Do we get to find out the Cobbler when s/he dies, btw?

Yes you will. All roles are revealed after the death... as it stands in the rules.

[Lalaith]

Goodbye, elves, and good luck, may the Valar watch over you.

[Roa_Aoife]

Good bye, Lal. Well done, and thanks for your help.

[Anguirel]

Oh be a sport, Lalaith, I just yearn for the days when politics was a jolly good show and Asquith and Balfour had dinner together...I'm a very benevolent sort of voter.

Which is why I don't intend to seal any fates now...I'm really not convinced of the innocence or guilt of either Jenny or Valier. I would vote for Jenny before Valier, if you want my opinion, but in this case I'm sticking to my crumbling Crimean guns.