WWJ XI: When World's Collide

[Glirdan]

After burying the body of Glirdan, the other villagers tried to go back to their lives as much as possible. However, they all found it rather hard. Instead, they all congregated in Wilwa's Inn to discuss what happened and to attempt to weed out the Wolves.

They discussed and discussed until they could discuss no more. At the end of the Day, Wilwa gathered the villagers so they could vote for who they wanted. To make things a little interesting, Wilwa had set up a booth surrounded by a curtain with a table, a piece of parchment and a quill to write the name of who they wanted to be lynched.

Once everyone had voted. Wilwa went in and brought back out the votes.

"I have tallied the votes which stand thus:

Naria - 2
Valier - 2
Nogrod - 1
Valesse - 1
Diamond - 1
Meneltarmacil - 3
Kath - 1
Macalaure -
Thinlomien - 1

This means that you are the one to be lynched Menel."

The villagers turned to look at Menel and screamed in horror. Where there had once been a man stood a gargantuan beast, covered from head to foot in fur. A tail had sprouted and he had grown a few inches taller. His feet, nails, ears and hands had grown as well.

"So, you think you can take me? Well, come get me!" he cried and he ran out of the village. The villagers chased him. Sleepy had drawn his bow and fired at him. The first two missed. The third hit him right in the arm. With a howl of pain and fury, Menel wrenched the arrow out, dripping with blood.

"So that's how you want to play is it?" he snarled. "Well then, we'll see about that!!" He rushed forward and grabbed Kath, the closest too him. She screamed in horror.

"Help!! Help!!"

"Oh, what do we do, what do we do?" Valesse cried. Everyone turned to look at her with a glint in their eyes.

"Hmmm. Well, you could always step on him," grinned Gil.

"I can what? Oh!! That's right!!" With that, she rose her foot and raised it over Menel. He looked up in shock and at the same time released Kath.

"This is one tree you won't blow down you big bad Wolf!" Valesse yelled in victory. And she stepped on him. There was sickening crunch and she moved her foot. Menel had been squished, flat as a pancake.

The villagers turned away from the gruesome site, a glint of victory in each of their eyes. And true to his word, Boromir did not touch the body of the dead Wolf.

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Dead

Glirdan (mod) - Mauled to death on Night 1
Meneltarmacil (wolf) - Squished into a pancake on Day 1

Alive

Valesse
Gil
Valier
Naria
Diamond
JennyHallu
Nogrod
Boro
Sleepy Ranger
Lommy
Macalaure
Volo
Kath

Day 1 is over. Night 2 begins. Wolves, start PM'ing. I need a name from the Seer, the Wolves and the Ranger.

PS: Wilwa, turns out I didn't need you. Thanks anyway...you can delete your post.

[Glirdan]

JennyHallu had gone back to her hut with a wide grin on her face after the murder of the Wolf Meneltarmacil. Night had fallen and the stars were shining as she reached her cabin door and opened it.

When she walked in, she noticed a big surprise. All of her belongings had been stolen. She rushed into the kitchen and everything (including the sink!!) had been stolen. "But I'm the thief!" she yelled savagely. "Who would do this to the thief of all thieves!?"

Then she heard two low sniggers in the doorway behind her. "Uh, we would pretty lady!"

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The villagers woke up the next day feeling refreshed and quite pleased with themselves that they had found a Wolf on the first Day.

"What are the chances!?" Valesse smiled.

"Very slim. Infact, there is a-" started Valier, but she was quickly interupted.

"Umm, there's one of us missing..." Gil said slowly, his voice quavering slightly as he spoke.

The others looked around and counted. It turned out he was right. A sudden silence fell about the crowd.

Finally, Macalaure piped up, while shaking uncontrollably, "Wh-where i-i-is Jen-JennyHallu!?"

The village walked over to her house and knocked.

"I smell death..." Boromir stated solemly.

The others, heeding his words, opened the door slowly. A strange site met them. All of Jenny's belongings had disappeared.

"What the..." Nogrod started. Then he walked into the kitchen and shouted for the rest of the villagers.

What they saw made them even more confused. All of her belongings in here had disappeared as well. What was worse was there were dark red stains all over the wall that looked horribly like blood. The odd part about all this was that there was no body. They searched the entire house from top to bottom and in the yard and didn't find her body.

"Well, it looks like she's been...stolen!" Naria shrieked incredulously.

They all left the house, completely bewildered and sad at their loss.

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Dead

Glirdan (mod) - Mauled to death on Night 1
Meneltarmacil (wolf) - Squished into a pancake on Day 1
JennyHallu (innocent) - Killed and her body stolen on Night 2

Alive

Valesse
Gil
Valier
Naria
Diamond
Nogrod
Boro
Sleepy Ranger
Lommy
Macalaure
Volo
Kath

Day 2 starts. Wolves stop PMing. You may now start your discussions. Remember that the Day will still end at 6PM Eastern Time tomorrow. Also, Wilwa will not be around much for this Day so please grab yourself some drinks. Thanks.

[Boromir88]

"Well that's not good" Boromir stated, "who took the body? I'm being serious, is someone trying to run me out of business or something? I mean someone has to take care of all these dead people. Now, I won't touch no wolf body, but I never said anything about not picking up slashed up bodies. I mean, hey, I've handled lepers, and warts, and boils, and rabies, and scabies, and all sorts, just will not come near no wolf body, I tell you that. All other dead, leave me to get rid of, everyone got that?"

They all stared at him blankly, some looked as if they were questioning Boromir's sanity.

"Well, now that that's clear" Boromir said rather chummily, "Later I will inform everyone who I most likely won't be voting for today, unless for some unforseen circumstance comes up. And who I will be looking at as possible wolfies."

[Volo]

Volo woke up early this day, strangly refreshed. It must be this dreamworld. He didn't hurry out, feeling that nothing good would come from that Volo sat down and continued eating all this great food Glirdan left him with the inn. One werewolf out, so easily... Not that I did anything. Not that I need to do anything. Ah, it's a nice feeling when you can just do anything you wish knowing that it won't make any difference in the end. Volo explored his inn once more and found some things he didn't notice before, an another wine cellar and a hidden door to his bedroom right from the first wine cellar. I wonder if there are more passages in this town... Knowing them could make this dream few days longer.

When he left the building, he noticed the commotion outside, it seemed that JennyHallu was murdered, not that Volo felt much pity... But that meant Jenny was innocent and that Menel's die was right, Jenny would die. She was rather nice, maybe I'll miss her later...

By all he heared, Volo thought of Valier suspicously. "It was pretty sure that Menel would be lynched, so he might have voted Valier to save her from suspicion knowing that she wouldn't be lynched anyway, or that it didn't matter which wolf should leave as long as the other would get out clean... And it seemed that Valier was against Jenny.

And them Lommy acted too quickly, not that Naria possessed much threat to her, it would have been better for her to stay quiet and vote next day, she wouldn't have been lynched for that...

Mac on the other hand, I would trust, he voted against Menel too early to feel safe about it, the same with Boromir. Nogrod voted later, Menel already had the most votes on him. But I'll not suspect him yet.

If Valier is innocent then Gil could be a werewolf, both he and Menel voted against Valier.

Diamond also made a hasty choice, Nogrod hadn't said anything close to the point yet. I think Diamond knows that Nogrod isn't as stupid as he looks.

Kath only rushed through and shouted against Valesse, without much reason. She should have waited... But then on the other side, why wouldn't she want to enjoy her time in this world...

Valesse voted against Naria without a large reason, suspicious...

Sleepy Ranger was against Macalaure, but I don't feel, that can be read too strange..."

At that Volo went to Wilwa's inn carrying his own beer with him. Now this time, I'll listen to what people have to say and have a pint, or two, or three, doesn't matter... "Do you have records on things like this from the past?"

[Thinlómien]

"So Jenny is dead", Thinlómien said ponderingly when she entered the inn after Volo. "That at least proves one of my suspicions wrong. Last night before falling asleep I thought about everything that had taken place and had been said, and I must say the young thief was one of my suspects. Evidently she's not one of them anymore." She rolled her eyes.

"As to other people I find a bit suspicious at this phase... Valesse the entwife, I must say, though I love trees. As our secondary innkeeper here pointed out", Thinlómien said, pointing at Volo, "her vote was quite odd. Naria is not very suspicious in my opinion. (Yet, not innocent-like either.) My lorebook tells me she's acting like all people in the Nariatic family, and that has nothing to do with her innocence or guiltyness. Yes, I voted her yesterday, but I didn't have very many people to choose from. Valesse, on the other branch - like she herself puts it - did have a lot to choose from. She says her vote is logical though the only things she blames Naria of are apathy and silence, and the later surely belongs to the normal behaviour of individuals belonging to the Nariatic family."

"Di has been really whimsical too, but that's been normal for gem-people on first days for ages. It makes me uneasy anyway so I'll be watching her."

"I'm inclined to trust Boromir, Nogrod and Macalaure for a while, because they all played a major part in Menel-wolf's lynch. However, that doesn't mean I will blindly trust them or their innocence. No, they're just not on the top of my suspicion list, or close to it. I concentrate on other people unless the menel-lynchers do something alarming."

She went to get herself an apple juice and a loaf of bread. "Of the others I can't really say anything before I hear more of them. Hopefully I will get a chance to."

[Naria]

A low snicker, then an outburst of laughter erupted from within a corner of the inn. "Nariatic! priceless...phew...thanks Lommy, I haven't laughed that hard in awhile."

[Boromir88]

" 'Ere's how I see things right now, and as far as who I won't be voting for today, unless if some unforseen reason appears, Macalaure, Nogrod, Thinlomien, Valier, and Naria.

'Mac and Nogrod because of their votes for a known wolf. Now we can throw around insane ideas about wolf-on-wolf votes, but bottom line is Day 1 there's no reason for wolves to do this. Losing a wolf on Day 1 is not something they want to do as it starts them off on the wrong foot and gets them behind. If anything, that's something I would suspect wolves would want not to happen, there simply is no logical reasoning to send out a suicide wolf on Day 1. If a buddies death become apparent, then it's more likely, but it being Day 1, with very spread out and tight voting, there simply is no reason to lynch a fellow wolf. If any vote would have been a wolf-on-wolf vote, it would likely have been the first one, as perhaps they would think that it wouldn't amount to their buddies lynching, but I severely doubt this is the case. Mac announced his suspicions on the very odd acting Menel, knew that there were at least two others that noticed this very thing, so I doubt that if he was a wolf he would have voted for a fellow wolf. Same for Nogrod, at this time there were still several people left to vote, voting was spread out and tight, no reason to lynch a fellow wolf and start off on the bad foot.

'Thinlomien and Naria because of Menel trying to point suspicion towards them. This was the very behaviour that I and others noted as strange in Menel, as it looked like he was trying to incriminate people without really incriminating them (or getting his stinky paws filthy) With these two, their innocence isn't as strong of a feeling as Mac and Nogrod's, but at least for today there's no reason as far as why I should consider them as wolves. And I also agree with the observation made by our stablehand:

"No, they're just not on the top of my suspicion list, or close to it. I concentrate on other people unless the menel-lynchers do something alarming."

'I'm never fond of conjuring up crazy what-if theories, I think that gets us too off our focus as far as what blatantly is wolfish and what 'crazy possibilities' wolves may try. Though those whacky possibilities are fun, it tends to lead us off focus from those who are blatantly making wolf slip-ups, and so if there's no reason to see why someone looks suspicious, there's no reason for me to consider voting for them, or conjuring up these whacky 'what if one of them was a wolf-on-wolf vote.'

'Valier because of Menel's vote for her. It's possible that Menel saw his death coming so cast a vote for a fellow wolf to throw everyone's suspicion off Valier. But is it also not as equally possible that Menel was doing that to get us all thinking that he was voting for a fellow wolf, but really we'd be lynching an innocent instead? Anyway, what I'm saying is again, I'm not fond of these reverse psychology wolf tricks, and will not base my suspicions purely off some cooky scenario I've concocted.'

'So that means my vote will most likely be going to one of these people today...Valesse, Diamond, Volo, Gil-Galad, Sleepy Ranger, or Kath. I'll be back with what I've thought about these fellow villagers or possible wolves in disguise later. For now, I must be going. But before I go, a special congrats to our Seer for surviving the Night...yes I just had to be the demented guy that brings up the Seer and sparks a big debate...I'm sorry it just wouldn't be truly Werewolf without it. But for now, there's a body to be found."

Edit: Cross-posted with Nogrod and Mac.

[Nogrod]

From between his wild and psychotic dreams Nogrod somehow heard Boromir talking. First he just let it flow through, but then he heard his list of suspicion:

Valesse, Diamond, Volo, Gil-Galad, Sleepy Ranger, or Kath

"Ditto!" he shouted and then fell down to his chair again, mumbling something about Volo making it a bit better this day.

Then it was just black.

[Kath]

Kath entered more slowly this time, having realised she’d run over the tree roots of an Ent the Day before as she heard the hrrrming following her, and not wanting to do it again. Not many people were up and about yet, but it seemed that the wolves had taken another, literally. Quietly Kath went up to the bar. Wilwa didn’t seem to be around but she didn’t want a drink anyway. Reaching behind the counter she pulled out a small brightly coloured bird and went to sit at a table with it. She took out a pen and paper and knocked the bird on the head sharply with the pen. As though this was a cue, it began to talk, and what it said was what everyone had said all of yesterday, for it was a trained parrot and had recorded all the events. Listening intently Kath began to jot down notes. Eventually the parrot finished speaking and Kath returned it to it’s position behind the bar so it could continue recording todays words, though she hoped she’d be around to hear them herself this time.

Standing up she took her piece of paper and called out to the room.

“Excuse me. Excuse me!”

Slowly people turned to look at her and she continued.

“I know some people don’t like summaries, but I’ve made one in case anyone thinks it might be useful. It will be up on the wall by the bar if anyone wants to read it.”

She pinned it up, and this is what it said:

Post 119: Menel went randomly, picking Jenny due to a dice roll. It might explain why the remaining wolves went after her.

Post 120: Gil is remarkably flippant, but that is his way.

Post 121: Boromir suspects Menel. Wolf on wolf suspicion perhaps but I think he cross spoke with Gil, so it may simply have been due to Menel being the only one, in Boro’s opinion, to have spoken.

Post 122: Naria tells Gil to concentrate, and then watches.

Post 123: Menel turns on Boro (explaining his suspicion of Jenny) and Gil. Again possible wolf on wolf, or because they’re the only ones there.

Post 124: Strange speak from Gil, doesn’t tell us anything.

Post 125: Naria wonders where everyone is.

Post 126: Valier rambles and then watches.

Post 127: Lommy looks at Menel, again possible wolf on wolf, mention quick suspicion of him early. Conspicuously doesn’t mention Boro. Mentioning one comrade and not the other perhaps.

Post 128: Mac talks and watches.

Post 130: Lommy jokingly insults Mac and gives stirring speech. But uses the word ‘victims’ which I find odd, as the term ‘fellow innocents’ might be a little more appropriate. As yet only those dead should be termed victims.

Post 131: Lommy votes Naria for picking on those who haven’t spoken when she hasn’t spoken herself. Relatively good reasoning for an early Day 1 vote.

Post 132: Jenny agrees that silent Naria bears some watching.

Post 133: Boro banters with Menel and defends himself against Mac.

Post 134: Di suspects all.

Post 135: Mac asks for chatter not silence, arguing still with Boro.

Post 136: Menel asks for reasons for suspicion from Di and suspects Lommy for jumping on Naria so fast, but says he’ll be happy to look at Naria if Lommy is proved innocent.

Post 137: Gil votes Valier with no reasoning.

Post 138: Jenny argues with Di.

Post 139: Nogrod suspects Menel, even through the drugs. Possibly wolf on wolf (it’s all based on that Menel chose suspicion randomly) but it seems more innocent.

Post 140: Mac suspects Menel. Same point as above.

Post 141: Boro agrees with Mac and acts friendly to Nogrod.

Post 142: Volo yells randomly.

Post 143: Honestly, no idea what the point of this post was!

Post 144: Sleepy talks to himself.

Post 145: Di votes Nogrod based on role. Not a great reason for a vote.

Post 146: Valesse suspects Menel after clearing Valier and Naria of suspicion.

Post 147: Kath arrived, apologised, voted Valesse randomly and left.

Post 148: Valier gets into her role a bit.

Post 149: Boro suspects Di and Menel for accusing based on occupation.

Post 150: Jenny suspects Menel and Valier because they accused her with no reason.

Post 151: Valier votes Di for no reason.

Post 153: Menel repeats his suspicions of Lommy but changes his opinion on Naria, saying she’s innocent. Accuses Mac.

Post 154: Volo defends Nogrod and accuses Kath because she was rushing.

Post 155: Mac suspects Di and Valier, but votes Menel because he thinks he was trying to twist his words.

Post 157: Volo votes Kath because she was so rushed.

Post 158: Nogrod suspects about half the village, but clears Boro and Mac, and partly Jenny and Valesse. Then goes on to seriously suspect Menel. If the Boro/Menel/Nogrod triangle is right, that makes sense.

Post 159: Boro defends his suspicions against Menel.

Post 161: Nogrod debates the benefits of loud versus quiet.

Post 162: Sleepy votes Mac ‘because of the way he has been’. Perhaps some clarification on that would help Sleepy.

Post 163: Boro votes Menel.

Post 165: Votes Menel and says to look at quieter people tomorrow. If he’s a wolf again this makes sense, as he is loud.

Post 166: Valesse votes Naria because she has been silent.

Post 167: Menel votes Valier after going back on all his earlier suspicions, claming they were all jokes. Might be an idea to look at who he suspected in light of that as he might have cleared them to save them being suspected after his death, which he thought was imminent. Course, could be a double bluff.

Post 168: Jenny votes Mac with little reason.

Post 170: Naria votes Lommy, just because. Not good from someone who claimed to have sat and watched all day, some suspicions should have been formed.

[Naria]

Naria's mood went from utter giddiness to an outright fervor. She brushed her clothes straight and cleared her throat as she walked over toNogrod and splashed a huge mug of water on his face. "Wake up man! You complain of how I am of no help...well sir, look at you....always smokin the pot and poppin the pills and washing it all down with a stiff cooler. Hmph, I do say isn't that the pot calling the kettle black, or however that term goes. We need you to stay around us with a clear head...I know it must be awfully hard for you, but maybe give it a go."

Before Naria was done with her rant she had a couple more things to say, "Oh yeah, there are a couple more things I'd like to say. I believe their very well could have been a wolf on wolf vote yesterDay, I mean why not weirder things have happened. The second thing is, Kath why put something up like this without a personal thought on your summary at the bottom or something? I just don't find them very helpful and actually they make me think that the one that has posted it is just trying to look helpful when really they aren't" With that she plunked herself down and spotted some more spamcakes and dug in.

[Nogrod]

Nogrod's head was humming. He had clearly overdone the celebration of last night's wolf-kill. One too much man? Gettin' old nowar'we? He now regretted taking the "one more" pill before going to sleep.

He had managed to join the others on the square in the morning anyhow, though he felt dizzy and his senses were still being subdued. The actual data collected by his senses here and now and his memories of the last day were beautifully mixed with his quite private visions.

There was a horde of leaves that were chasing a host of Emperor penguins which tried to catch a plateful of pancakes that were just running amok. He tried to pinpoint the pancakes but had crashed to a door. He fell beneath it just before the dragon bursted its fiery breath, burning the whole inn that had asked him for some weed. He tried to cool himself with a pint, but the pint had accused him of bad habits and fainted, melting away. He was shot through the galaxies just to meet a falling spermwhale shouting "No time Tolouse!" and falling and falling. And there was no thief around to pick the big and stony concrete thing from its path.

"No!" he yelled just before landing face on to the kitchen floor. His nose was bleeding. Blood? A bit lot I daresay brother. "What the..." he called and the others came to the kitchen after him.

It was somewhat unclear to Nogrod whether Jenny had really died or just vanished as he followed others to the bar. He was confused also. They had done so well last night but now there clearly was a problem again. Didn't they just win already? It seemed not. He took a pill from his pocket and swallowed it as he went. Cool now man, cool now...

In the bar Nogrod ordered a gin-tonic from Wilwa and sat back to a cosy armchair, sipping the cool drink slowly and listening to Boro, Volo and Lommy making their points. Then he fell into his thoughts for a while. The abyss was coming to him again. He had just a little time.

Swiftly he sprang up and declared aloud: "Brothers, sisters,... if we have a go today, we go for it! Lemme be clear, we go for any go. But if we have not? Man, what to do?" he took some strengtht from his glass and continued: "I really would like to see our quiet companions to step forwards today. By witholding your mind you may hope to stay safe but if even one of you is a wolf? Well, cursed be the day then and shame on us not bothering to look for where the ghosts abide. No excuses today, no anymore! Get involved or be suspected! I mean, down south..." Nogrod started a mumbling monologue that was slowly dying down to a mere babble about sneaky drug dealers and gang wars where some had sneaked themselves to win great prices with just staying in the shadows.

Then it was time for Nogrod to fall into the shadows himself. He literally fell to the armchair and passed out. The glass cracked to the floor as he fell.

EDIT: X-posted with Macalaure

[Macalaure]

"Alas for poor JennyHallu! Too early she left this world etc. and so on." Macalaure entered the bar, unshaken by the nightly bloodshed and corpseloss, "Let the view of this abhorrent act not distract us from our task! One wolf is down, the next we look for.

So,... who of you is most likely to have done this terrible deed?

Boromir looks pretty innocent for now. He came up with a lot of good reasons yesterday. I saw no fault in what he said.

Same holds for Nogrod. He told us to take a thorough look at the quiet villagers. Convenient this is, since he is not a quiet one. But I will overlook this for now.

Valesse and Lommy gave some decent reasoning yesterday and Volo today. The two look innocent to me as well - at the moment.

Kath was short on time yesterday. She's still neutral in my book for this reason. Let's wait what she shows us today."

Macalaure took a glance at the bored and tired crowd. "Have you finished about who's not guilty?", he heard one murmur.

"Your patience will be rewarded - right now. Here are my suspects:

Valier contributed close to nothing yesterday and her vote was void of reason. Yet I will tolerate it for the moment, because of the reasons I gave yesterday and because she's Valier. Still my lorepapyrus tells me to not be too patient with her.

Naria is suspicious to me. First she tells people to talk while not talking herself, then she throws her vote away at the end of the day. Keep a close look at her, I say!

Then there is Gil-Galad, or isn't he? What he said was of no importance, sadly, but what was said about him: he was mildly suspected by Menel! Wolf-on-wolf-vote, or did Menel just see an opportunity for voicing suspicions at innocents, as probably with his suspecting Lommy? Speak yourself out today, Gilga!

Which leaves me with my two prime suspects: Diamond18 and Sleepy Ranger

Diamond didn't give any real contributions to our cause. Her vote was for no reason. It's weird that Menel commented on her fun accusations and told her to go wolf-hunting instead. Why would he ask this of an innocent?

Sleepy as well didn't come up with a lot. I was indifferent on him, but then he cast his vote: for me! This is not a problem to me, if it is done with some reason. His reason was 'Well probably because of the way he has been.' Would you care to provide just a little bit more detail? Until then, you remain to be my top suspect. If I had to vote now, it would be you."

At last Macalaure arrived at the end of his speech, exhaled and sat down. Murmuring "All this stuff on an empty stomach... need something good to drink..." he wandered off to loot the newly-deserted kitchen.