WWJ IX: Psychotic Penguins: The Crossing of Helcaraxë

[the phantom]

Well you're forgiven because you changed your vote in time.

Of course I did. You didn't think I'd try and save you, m'dear?

So, phantom was lying to us the whole time.

Yep.

I ask you, what would have happened if you had been killed and Valier had been guilty?

Do you honestly think Valier would've killed me when I was "hunting" her? Even if you could find a Penguin crazy enough to consider doing that, I doubt anyone actually would.

The way I saw it, if I got killed then Val was innocent, plus there would still be a Hunter left. A rather nice set up for the village if you ask me. My plan was basically to improve the odds of having a proven innocent left hanging about at the end.

The real hunter may have had to come forward, and then all our gifted's would be revealed.

Why in the world would the real Hunter do that? No no. I was providing our Hunter with cover. And my whole "think like a gifted plan" for getting everyone to state their fake-Hunts- that was so just in case the REAL Hunter got killed during the night we would know precisely who the pick was, and thus have another proven innocent.

Or we would have lynched the real hunter because we believed you.

Well, not getting lynched would be the Hunter's responsibility. I was hoping that the real Hunter would find a way to drop me a hint as to their identity so that I could keep them from getting lynched, and at the same time keep them under suspicion (to avoid being killed by the Penguin right away).

Unfortunately I didn't have a whole lot of time to snoop for clues, so I just made the best guesses I could. You, Roa, along with Valier were the two I was trying to make sure survived until tomorrow. When I have more time I'll explain why I thought you were the Hunter at first and then why I became convinced that it was Valier (and why I put pressure on her despite thinking her innocent).

But it seems that I was wrong about both of you being the Hunter. I'll just have to wait and see who it was.