Tol-in-Gaurhoth XXV: All Star Crossed With Nowhere to Go - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Diamond18 · 11-01-2006, 09:23 PM

After the light show the Elves retreated to their homes, oohing and aahing as they reflected upon the evening's entertainment. But they knew that evil still lurked in the shadows, so they bolted their doors soundly.

If only they all had the good sense to stay indoors.

Lommy awoke in the middle of the night and sensed something was amiss. She peered out her window and saw that her ostrich pen was empty, and gasped. For a moment she wondered if she should go out, but decided to throw caution to the wind. She donned a red hood and ran outside to see a stray ostrich frolicking in the moonlight. Lommy chased after it, but when she caught up with it, she noticed something strange.

"My, Ostrich, what big hairy feet you have," she observed.

"All the better to run away with," the Ostrich replied, coyly shuffling to the side.

Lommy was unable to resist a good chase. "My, Ostrich," she said as she followed it, "what big hairy ears you have!"

"Uh huh," said the Ostrich, luring Lommy into a dark alley. "Whatever."

"And my! Ostrich, what big teeth you have!" Lommy gasped.

"Bwah ha ha ha ha!" said the pseudo-Ostrich, and threw off its costume to reveal the menacing visage of the Werewolf. "All the better to eat you with!"

"Eeeeee!" cried Lommy, turning to run. But it was too late. The Werewolf chased her down and leapt upon her, growling triumphantly as it engulfed her in its massive jaws. There was a sickening crunching noise as the wolf softened her skeletal frame up, then came a noisy slurping as the flesh and blood went down. Finally, a burp.

An Elf came up and offered the wolf a napkin, running Elven hands threw wolfish fur and cooing, "Was she a tasty morsel? Is my love all full?"

JennyHallu sat back and sighed, "Ah, my MormyWolf, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways...."

Suddenly, this tender moment of sated hunger and mathematical affection was interrupted by a rumbling growl from afar. MormWolf snapped to attention. He crept to the end of the alley and looked both ways. Suddenly, he noticed a piece of trash lying on the street, and his wolfish ears perked up in indignation. He went to pick it up and put it in the trash, where such things belong, not cluttering up the street thank you very much!

As soon as that was cleaned up, he noticed another piece, and went to clean that up too. And then there was another, and another, and another! Morm ran from pile of rubbish to trash to pile of rubbish to trash, growling to himself about how he was going to eat each and every one of those filthy Elves.

As he was doing this, he heard a blood-curdling scream from back in the alley. He turned and ran back as fast as he could, but he was too late! When he reached the alley he found Jenny scattered about in little pieces, more pieces than even she could have counted.

He rocked back on his haunches and let loose a howl of agony. The Werebear had been and gone! Too late he realized that the trash was put there by the Werebear's lover to lure him away! Horror! Shock! Let this be a lesson to all neat freaks!

Anyway, Morm was devastated and lost all hope for life. The usual. He lay down amongst the pieces of Jenny and sighed his last. Not even the Ranger could save him from his own despair.

In the morning the Elves found him dead, and no one was quite sure if he had died of a broken heart or Lommy induced indigestion.

~*~*~*~

The Living Elves:

Mac - Builder of Gibbets, unemployed for millennia
Kath - Flower Girl
Valier - Arranger
Durelin - Lead Tragic Actor
Lhuna - Beautiful Girl with Sleeping Sickness
Farael - Patient suffering from Mad Elf Disease
Rikae - Contortionist

The Dead 'Uns

tgwbs - Tragic Elven Hero and Lover of Diamond - (co-mod) - Stabbed himself eight times and subsequently eaten by the Werebird

Diamond - Elven Maid - (mod) - Crushed in the embrace of the Werebear

Menel - Mad Scientist - (ordo) - Beaten with an undead leg and a chamber pot and stabbed with red hot tongs (Day 1)

Nogrod - a Smith of the Billmarins - (watcher) - Savagely murdered by the Werecat and devoured in the long grass (Night 2)

Arctic Storm - Raving Alcoholic, Resident Moocher, and Lover of Naria - (lover) - Devoured head first by the Werebird (Night 2)

Naria - Lemba Baker - (werecat) - Dashed out her brains on the Ringbearer's Rock (Night 2)

Kitanna - One Legged Chambermaid - (ordo) - Ripped in two by the Werebear (Night 2)

Rune - Humungous Fungus Grower - (ordo) - Minced up into fertilizer by the Werewolf (Night 2)

Holbytlass - Oliphaunt Whisperer and Lover of Fintaeph - (lover) - Burned at the stake (Day 2)

Fintaeph - Mutton Herder and Purveyor of Fine-Quality Undead Prosthetic Limbs - (werebird) - Died a fiery death trying to save his lover from the flames

Lommy - Ostrich Chaser - (ordo) - Lured into a dark alley and devoured by the Werewolf

JennyHallu - Countess and Lover of mormegil - (lover) - Ripped apart and scattered in countless pieces by the Werebear

Mormegil - City Street Cleaner - (werewolf) - Despaired and died amongst the shreds of his lover

Farael · 11-01-2006, 09:45 PM

Ahhh I've been waiting all night to do this.... and now that even Morm has been proven to be a baddie, I feel even more compelled to say....

I told you so, I told you so, I told you so...

*ahem*

At least there are some good news now... our multiple-lovers game has just turned into a reduced werewolf game. There are TWO baddies working as a team and the rest of us are ordos. Is there a ranger around too? doesn't matter anyway, since we have no way of KNOWING who's an ordo other than ourselves (if we are ordos indeed).

Honestly, my next traget was going to be the Valier/Jenny combo, yet it is (obviously) not a good idea anymore

Now, here's an interesting idea... Diamond explicitly said that she would not go after the silent ones.... if we don't hear from Rikae today, what about we lynch her? I know she seems to be having RL issues, but unless someone else seems to be more lynch-worthy (me perhaps? c'mon, let's face it, you know that EVEN THOUGH I WAS DEAD RIGHT you still want to) we might as well get rid of that doubt.

Just my two cents.... a perhaps stupid comment early on the (Game)Day

Macalaure · 11-02-2006, 03:55 AM

Funny to see that every time a were-creature dies, it does so by the loss of his/her lover.

So now it's 2 guys and 5 girls. I will take a very close look at Farael for this reason, but the probability that the last couple is female only is quite high. I would advise everybody to look close at Farael and me, but don't limit yourselves. Unless the ranger is successful, we have two more days to get the last lover pair. If you use these two days to kill me and Farael, the village loses.

Having said that, I hope Valier will elaborate on the why of her suspicions of yesterday. Valier's hunches are valuable if she's innocent, but we cannot verify that unless we lynch her. We could go by her hunch today and lynch her tomorrow if she was wrong, but I do not think this is a good strategy. I'd like to hear a little reason from Valier, and then we'll see.

Looking at Farael, why do you suggest to go for Rikae so early? The only other person to be so rash with this before was MormWolf. She seems to want to participate, but is hindered. If she doesn't show up today, then maybe we could try it this way and lynch her, but I think we should wait. As Valier said, Rikae is very valuable when actually around.

Kath · 11-02-2006, 06:39 AM

You know I can see the logic in lynching Rikae. We have had 2 Days now and she has only shown up just after the deadline each time I think. If this were any other game she would have been killed by modfire already. If she doesn't show up by around halfway through toDay with this long post she was promising then a lynch might be a good idea. However, this is only if we don't find a more suitable candidate.

Also, I'm not sure that we should focus on the males. It is quite likely that the last pair is female only although there is nothing to say that it isn't male/female or male/male for that matter. Whatever the case, we need to focus on the individuals.

That said, I think Mac is guilty. I don't know why though, it's just a feeling I got this morning. I'm going to go back through his posts later, see if I can work it out. I won't have that up for a while though.

Rikae · 11-02-2006, 07:28 AM

,I've finally untwisted myself and am able to participate - apparently just in time!

Farael looks very suspicious & has since day one, it appears. He does seem eager to shift the blame.
I don't think Mac is guilty, merely because he seems much the same as in the last game - logical, reasonable and full of flattery. Of course, Werebears are known for their honied tongues, so I wouldn't rule him out.
Kath, your post seems to cover all bases - very safe.

The long post I was composing yesterday mainly explained my suspicions of Morm, and is therefore, obviously, out of date. I'll be back after school (before 3 EST). That's a promise. (And what's that worth, the promise of a woman? You're very funny, Highness!)

Macalaure · 11-02-2006, 08:21 AM

Farael:

On the first day he goes straight after Holbytlass. I found it strange and weak-reasoned, but he turned out right. He repeats his suspicion several times and it attracts not few suspicion from others. What I'm asking myself is: is that how a lover would act? To be so outspoken with a point which is likely to not attract a huge followership? Hard to believe, but who knows. Maybe he thought he would look even more suspicious if he didn't act like that, because many here know how he usually plays.
Other than that he refuses to go for Lhuna, which would have been very transparent indeed. His vote for Menel is only logical.

Next day he keeps at Holby's neck, now with some better reasoning. Good. He becomes suspicious of mormegil because morm was still alive. Now we know morm really was evil, but I insist that his reasoning was bad. It seems like his intuition is sharp.
He defends himself and his arguments much more than the day before. I guess he realised just how close it was for him on day 1, or maybe his lover did.
He votes for Holbytlass, early, as he said before.

Today he's very proud he was right about mormegil. I'm not sure what to think of this. Telling everybody "Look! I was right about a wolf! I'm innocent!"? What would wonder me more is why it was Jenny that he and his lover killed and not morm himself, though it would explain his happiness today.
He's quick to suggest lynching Rikae.

I'm picking at bones.
Yes, Farael does behave a little weird, but that is said to be his style. I can find nothing which looks doubtlessly evil to me, just some things that are questionable, but not overly.
I'm afraid I think him innocent. I'll be interested if somebody else finds something I overlooked.

Quote:

logical, reasonable and full of flattery

Lhunardawen · 11-02-2006, 08:46 AM

I'm here. Sorry for the non-vote yesterDay. I'll do what I can in the very limited time I have right now, and will be back to vote more than an hour before the Day closes tomorrow.

For starters:

I was flirting with the idea Farael presented about Rikae, being reminded by a wolf named malkatoj in a village of old, but it's nice to hear from you now, Rikae. At least if we'll lynch you it should be with reasons other than your absence.

And I still stand by what I said the first time that we shouldn't consider genders at all. Okay, the other pairs were male-female, but a female-female pair might be the crazy mod's (

) idea of a surprise this time. We'll be better off covering all bases and not being discriminating.

Diamond18 · 11-02-2006, 09:50 PM

The Elves arranged themselves in a circle around Valier, eyeing her with mistrust. Farael pulled out a straight jacket and wrestled Valier to the ground, where he put said straight jacket on her. Valier thrashed and and threatened to fix his little red wagon, but Lhuna rose sleepily from where she had been napping in a hammock, and taking her pillow, proceeded to smother the Arranger.

"Mmmmmph!" came Valier's muffled voice. "You guys just killed your Ranger! Look at Farael and Durelin when I'm gone!"

Then, choking on goose down, she expired.

~*~*~*~

The Living Elves:

Mac - Builder of Gibbets, unemployed for millennia
Kath - Flower Girl
Durelin - Lead Tragic Actor
Lhuna - Beautiful Girl with Sleeping Sickness
Farael - Patient suffering from Mad Elf Disease
Rikae - Contortionist

The Dead 'Uns

tgwbs - Tragic Elven Hero and Lover of Diamond - (co-mod) - Stabbed himself eight times and subsequently eaten by the Werebird

Diamond - Elven Maid - (mod) - Crushed in the embrace of the Werebear

Menel - Mad Scientist - (ordo) - Beaten with an undead leg and a chamber pot and stabbed with red hot tongs (Day 1)

Nogrod - a Smith of the Billmarins - (watcher) - Savagely murdered by the Werecat and devoured in the long grass (Night 2)

Arctic Storm - Raving Alcoholic, Resident Moocher, and Lover of Naria - (lover) - Devoured head first by the Werebird (Night 2)

Naria - Lemba Baker - (werecat) - Dashed out her brains on the Ringbearer's Rock (Night 2)

Kitanna - One Legged Chambermaid - (ordo) - Ripped in two by the Werebear (Night 2)

Rune - Humungous Fungus Grower - (ordo) - Minced up into fertilizer by the Werewolf (Night 2)

Holbytlass - Oliphaunt Whisperer and Lover of Fintaeph - (lover) - Burned at the stake (Day 2)

Fintaeph - Mutton Herder and Purveyor of Fine-Quality Undead Prosthetic Limbs - (werebird) - Died a fiery death trying to save his lover from the flames (Day 2)

Lommy - Ostrich Chaser - (ordo) - Lured into a dark alley and devoured by the Werewolf (Night 3)

JennyHallu - Countess and Lover of mormegil - (lover) - Ripped apart and scattered in countless pieces by the Werebear (Night 3)

Mormegil - City Street Cleaner - (werewolf) - Despaired and died amongst the shreds of his lover (Night 3)

Valier - Arranger - (ranger) - Smothered to death with a goosedown pillow (Day 3)

11-01-2006, 09:23 PM	#1
Diamond18 Eidolon of a Took Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: my own private fantasy world Posts: 3,460	After the light show the Elves retreated to their homes, oohing and aahing as they reflected upon the evening's entertainment. But they knew that evil still lurked in the shadows, so they bolted their doors soundly. If only they all had the good sense to stay indoors. Lommy awoke in the middle of the night and sensed something was amiss. She peered out her window and saw that her ostrich pen was empty, and gasped. For a moment she wondered if she should go out, but decided to throw caution to the wind. She donned a red hood and ran outside to see a stray ostrich frolicking in the moonlight. Lommy chased after it, but when she caught up with it, she noticed something strange. "My, Ostrich, what big hairy feet you have," she observed. "All the better to run away with," the Ostrich replied, coyly shuffling to the side. Lommy was unable to resist a good chase. "My, Ostrich," she said as she followed it, "what big hairy ears you have!" "Uh huh," said the Ostrich, luring Lommy into a dark alley. "Whatever." "And my! Ostrich, what big teeth you have!" Lommy gasped. "Bwah ha ha ha ha!" said the pseudo-Ostrich, and threw off its costume to reveal the menacing visage of the Werewolf. "All the better to eat you with!" "Eeeeee!" cried Lommy, turning to run. But it was too late. The Werewolf chased her down and leapt upon her, growling triumphantly as it engulfed her in its massive jaws. There was a sickening crunching noise as the wolf softened her skeletal frame up, then came a noisy slurping as the flesh and blood went down. Finally, a burp. An Elf came up and offered the wolf a napkin, running Elven hands threw wolfish fur and cooing, "Was she a tasty morsel? Is my love all full?" JennyHallu sat back and sighed, "Ah, my MormyWolf, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways...." Suddenly, this tender moment of sated hunger and mathematical affection was interrupted by a rumbling growl from afar. MormWolf snapped to attention. He crept to the end of the alley and looked both ways. Suddenly, he noticed a piece of trash lying on the street, and his wolfish ears perked up in indignation. He went to pick it up and put it in the trash, where such things belong, not cluttering up the street thank you very much! As soon as that was cleaned up, he noticed another piece, and went to clean that up too. And then there was another, and another, and another! Morm ran from pile of rubbish to trash to pile of rubbish to trash, growling to himself about how he was going to eat each and every one of those filthy Elves. As he was doing this, he heard a blood-curdling scream from back in the alley. He turned and ran back as fast as he could, but he was too late! When he reached the alley he found Jenny scattered about in little pieces, more pieces than even she could have counted. He rocked back on his haunches and let loose a howl of agony. The Werebear had been and gone! Too late he realized that the trash was put there by the Werebear's lover to lure him away! Horror! Shock! Let this be a lesson to all neat freaks! Anyway, Morm was devastated and lost all hope for life. The usual. He lay down amongst the pieces of Jenny and sighed his last. Not even the Ranger could save him from his own despair. In the morning the Elves found him dead, and no one was quite sure if he had died of a broken heart or Lommy induced indigestion. ~~~*~ The Living Elves: Mac - Builder of Gibbets, unemployed for millennia Kath - Flower Girl Valier - Arranger Durelin - Lead Tragic Actor Lhuna - Beautiful Girl with Sleeping Sickness Farael - Patient suffering from Mad Elf Disease Rikae - Contortionist The Dead 'Uns tgwbs - Tragic Elven Hero and Lover of Diamond - (co-mod) - Stabbed himself eight times and subsequently eaten by the Werebird Diamond - Elven Maid - (mod) - Crushed in the embrace of the Werebear Menel - Mad Scientist - (ordo) - Beaten with an undead leg and a chamber pot and stabbed with red hot tongs (Day 1) Nogrod - a Smith of the Billmarins - (watcher) - Savagely murdered by the Werecat and devoured in the long grass (Night 2) Arctic Storm - Raving Alcoholic, Resident Moocher, and Lover of Naria - (lover) - Devoured head first by the Werebird (Night 2) Naria - Lemba Baker - (werecat) - Dashed out her brains on the Ringbearer's Rock (Night 2) Kitanna - One Legged Chambermaid - (ordo) - Ripped in two by the Werebear (Night 2) Rune - Humungous Fungus Grower - (ordo) - Minced up into fertilizer by the Werewolf (Night 2) Holbytlass - Oliphaunt Whisperer and Lover of Fintaeph - (lover) - Burned at the stake (Day 2) Fintaeph - Mutton Herder and Purveyor of Fine-Quality Undead Prosthetic Limbs - (werebird) - Died a fiery death trying to save his lover from the flames Lommy - Ostrich Chaser - (ordo) - Lured into a dark alley and devoured by the Werewolf JennyHallu - Countess and Lover of mormegil - (lover) - Ripped apart and scattered in countless pieces by the Werebear Mormegil - City Street Cleaner - (werewolf) - Despaired and died amongst the shreds of his lover __________________ All shall be rather fond of me and suffer from mild depression.

11-01-2006, 09:45 PM	#2
Farael Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: In hospitals, call rooms and (rarely) my apartment. Posts: 1,538	Ahhh I've been waiting all night to do this.... and now that even Morm has been proven to be a baddie, I feel even more compelled to say.... *I told you so, I told you so, I told you so...* ahem At least there are some good news now... our multiple-lovers game has just turned into a reduced werewolf game. There are TWO baddies working as a team and the rest of us are ordos. Is there a ranger around too? doesn't matter anyway, since we have no way of KNOWING who's an ordo other than ourselves (if we are ordos indeed). Honestly, my next traget was going to be the Valier/Jenny combo, yet it is (obviously) not a good idea anymore Now, here's an interesting idea... Diamond explicitly said that she would not go after the silent ones.... if we don't hear from Rikae today, what about we lynch her? I know she seems to be having RL issues, but unless someone else seems to be more lynch-worthy (me perhaps? c'mon, let's face it, you know that EVEN THOUGH I WAS DEAD RIGHT you still want to) we might as well get rid of that doubt. Just my two cents.... a perhaps stupid comment early on the (Game)Day __________________ I prepared Explosive Runes this morning.

11-02-2006, 06:39 AM	#4
Kath Everlasting Whiteness Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Perusing the laminated book of dreams Posts: 4,533	You know I can see the logic in lynching Rikae. We have had 2 Days now and she has only shown up just after the deadline each time I think. If this were any other game she would have been killed by modfire already. If she doesn't show up by around halfway through toDay with this long post she was promising then a lynch might be a good idea. However, this is only if we don't find a more suitable candidate. Also, I'm not sure that we should focus on the males. It is quite likely that the last pair is female only although there is nothing to say that it isn't male/female or male/male for that matter. Whatever the case, we need to focus on the individuals. That said, I think Mac is guilty. I don't know why though, it's just a feeling I got this morning. I'm going to go back through his posts later, see if I can work it out. I won't have that up for a while though. __________________ “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

11-02-2006, 08:46 AM	#7
Lhunardawen Hauntress of the Havens Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: IN it, but not OF it Posts: 2,538	I'm here. Sorry for the non-vote yesterDay. I'll do what I can in the very limited time I have right now, and will be back to vote more than an hour before the Day closes tomorrow. For starters: I was flirting with the idea Farael presented about Rikae, being reminded by a wolf named malkatoj in a village of old, but it's nice to hear from you now, Rikae. At least if we'll lynch you it should be with reasons other than your absence. And I still stand by what I said the first time that we shouldn't consider genders at all. Okay, the other pairs were male-female, but a female-female pair might be the crazy mod's () idea of a surprise this time. We'll be better off covering all bases and not being discriminating.

11-02-2006, 09:50 PM	#8
Diamond18 Eidolon of a Took Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: my own private fantasy world Posts: 3,460	The Elves arranged themselves in a circle around Valier, eyeing her with mistrust. Farael pulled out a straight jacket and wrestled Valier to the ground, where he put said straight jacket on her. Valier thrashed and and threatened to fix his little red wagon, but Lhuna rose sleepily from where she had been napping in a hammock, and taking her pillow, proceeded to smother the Arranger. "Mmmmmph!" came Valier's muffled voice. "You guys just killed your Ranger! Look at Farael and Durelin when I'm gone!" Then, choking on goose down, she expired. ~~~*~ The Living Elves: Mac - Builder of Gibbets, unemployed for millennia Kath - Flower Girl Durelin - Lead Tragic Actor Lhuna - Beautiful Girl with Sleeping Sickness Farael - Patient suffering from Mad Elf Disease Rikae - Contortionist The Dead 'Uns tgwbs - Tragic Elven Hero and Lover of Diamond - (co-mod) - Stabbed himself eight times and subsequently eaten by the Werebird Diamond - Elven Maid - (mod) - Crushed in the embrace of the Werebear Menel - Mad Scientist - (ordo) - Beaten with an undead leg and a chamber pot and stabbed with red hot tongs (Day 1) Nogrod - a Smith of the Billmarins - (watcher) - Savagely murdered by the Werecat and devoured in the long grass (Night 2) Arctic Storm - Raving Alcoholic, Resident Moocher, and Lover of Naria - (lover) - Devoured head first by the Werebird (Night 2) Naria - Lemba Baker - (werecat) - Dashed out her brains on the Ringbearer's Rock (Night 2) Kitanna - One Legged Chambermaid - (ordo) - Ripped in two by the Werebear (Night 2) Rune - Humungous Fungus Grower - (ordo) - Minced up into fertilizer by the Werewolf (Night 2) Holbytlass - Oliphaunt Whisperer and Lover of Fintaeph - (lover) - Burned at the stake (Day 2) Fintaeph - Mutton Herder and Purveyor of Fine-Quality Undead Prosthetic Limbs - (werebird) - Died a fiery death trying to save his lover from the flames (Day 2) Lommy - Ostrich Chaser - (ordo) - Lured into a dark alley and devoured by the Werewolf (Night 3) JennyHallu - Countess and Lover of mormegil - (lover) - Ripped apart and scattered in countless pieces by the Werebear (Night 3) Mormegil - City Street Cleaner - (werewolf) - Despaired and died amongst the shreds of his lover (Night 3) Valier - Arranger - (ranger) - Smothered to death with a goosedown pillow (Day 3) __________________ All shall be rather fond of me and suffer from mild depression.

11-02-2006, 03:55 AM	#3
Macalaure Fading Fëanorion Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: into the flood again Posts: 2,911	Funny to see that every time a were-creature dies, it does so by the loss of his/her lover. So now it's 2 guys and 5 girls. I will take a very close look at Farael for this reason, but the probability that the last couple is female only is quite high. I would advise everybody to look close at Farael and me, but don't limit yourselves. Unless the ranger is successful, we have two more days to get the last lover pair. If you use these two days to kill me and Farael, the village loses. Having said that, I hope Valier will elaborate on the why of her suspicions of yesterday. Valier's hunches are valuable if she's innocent, but we cannot verify that unless we lynch her. We could go by her hunch today and lynch her tomorrow if she was wrong, but I do not think this is a good strategy. I'd like to hear a little reason from Valier, and then we'll see. Looking at Farael, why do you suggest to go for Rikae so early? The only other person to be so rash with this before was MormWolf. She seems to want to participate, but is hindered. If she doesn't show up today, then maybe we could try it this way and lynch her, but I think we should wait. As Valier said, Rikae is very valuable when actually around.

11-02-2006, 07:28 AM	#5
Rikae Mellifluous Maia Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: A glade open to the stars, deep in Nan Elmoth Posts: 3,489	,I've finally untwisted myself and am able to participate - apparently just in time! Farael looks very suspicious & has since day one, it appears. He does seem eager to shift the blame. I don't think Mac is guilty, merely because he seems much the same as in the last game - logical, reasonable and full of flattery. Of course, Werebears are known for their honied tongues, so I wouldn't rule him out. Kath, your post seems to cover all bases - very safe. The long post I was composing yesterday mainly explained my suspicions of Morm, and is therefore, obviously, out of date. I'll be back after school (before 3 EST). That's a promise. (And what's that worth, the promise of a woman? You're very funny, Highness!)