Werewolf Four and Thirty: Bloodbath in the Anduin Vale

[Nogrod]

Durelin -> Kath
Kath -> Rikae
Menel -> Xyzzy
Fea -> Xyzzy (Kath1, Rikae1, Xyzzy2)
tgwbs -> Durelin (Kath1, Rikae1, Xyzzy2, Durelin1)
Rune -> Durelin (Kath1, Rikae1, Xyzzy2, Durelin2)
Volo -> tgwbs (Kath1, Rikae1, Xyzzy2, Durelin2, tgwbs1)
Aganzir -> Shasta (Kath1, Rikae1, Xyzzy2, Durelin2, tgwbs1, Shasta1)
Shasta -> Xyzzy (Kath1, Rikae1, Xyzzy3, Durelin2, tgwbs1, Shasta1)
Mith -> Menel (Kath1, Rikae1, Xyzzy3, Durelin2, tgwbs1, Shasta1, Menel1)
Boro -> Menel (Kath1, Rikae1, Xyzzy3, Durelin2, tgwbs1, Shasta1, Menel2)
Rikae -> Xyzzy (Kath1, Rikae1, Xyzzy4, Durelin2, tgwbs1, Shasta1, Menel2)

Here are reasons for these votes... my interpretations and comments for anything even remotely suspicous on them I mean (with some quotations).


Durelin for Kath: Out of the blue with no reason whatsoever eg. totally random. As there have been no played Night before it can’t be any seer stuff either... A weird one from a wolf but possible for Dury-wolf as well.

Kath for Rikae: “I've only had time to skim through the thread I really don't have much to go on”. Says Rikae has been testy and only defending ideas might be wolvish. I have a bad feeling about this even as she was in a hurry. Her testimony goes against the facts and it just sounds... well too much the dangerous Kath who makes an easy vote to save her Day1.

Menel for Xyzzy: “He is quite silente for ye moste parte, and what he did say was pretty suspiciouse.” So he has the mission to go for the silent ones and takes the most obvious / easy one? Logical for the early exiter but smells wolfy as well...

Fea on Xyzzy: “Because I have nobody better to vote for at the moment.” This was said after a long post where she discussed with / about many people but didn’t even mention Xyzzy. Safe vote at least... and who needs to vote safe?

Tgwbs for Durelin: “in the vein of killing the quiet” and the suspicious-looking as well? Hard to say anything about this. One could defend it and criticise it.

Rune for Durelin: “Durelin is always a mystery to me so she will recive my vote”. A safe-kind of vote as well with no points to back it so it could be suspected a lot. But other things Rune has said toDay kind of make me look upon him as an innocent rather than a fanged one.

Volo for tgwbs: “tgwbs looks the most innocent so sorry”. Need we add more to the curiosity of this choise? I’m torn between symphatising with Volo or just plain suspecting him of wolvery...

Aganzir for Shasta: “I have to vote in an hour, but I have no idea whom ....... I could vote Shasta, who doesn't speak too much and of who I have a little bad feeling.” Interestingly safely and emptily formulated after we all have seen how sharp she can be.

Shasta for Xyzzy: To avoid looking like someone who retaliates (so not voting for Aganzir or me) and to show out like an altruist (not Durelin who has been modfired lately) he votes for Xyzzy... Interesting reasons. And to my eye pretty wolfy as well as it seems to be about how he looks and not about whom his vote might aid to lynch (add the way he has played to this pot).

Mith for Menel: “Make a reasonable amount of posts, seem helpful, latch on to a soft target”. So the helpful-looking but under-radar wolf. She looks like she has actually come to the conclusion post after post while she was at it.

Boro for Menel: Suspected Menel from the very beginning – like he always does. But produced arguments as well. Logical and coherent vote. The time will tell whether that logic was the logic of an innocent (as I tend to believe at the moment) or not.

Rikae for Xyzzy: “my vote represents me talking a stand for WW as it should be...talkative!! After all, the game only exists in our conversation!” So not having anything better to go by and choosing the most suspicious or most displeasing of the bunch she thought we should go for in general? Possibly. I’m ready to take this as an innocent vote. Although this could be read as a safe one as well... All that talk about Xyzzy around and then avoiding the responsibilities that would have followed had she chosen someone else and needing to make cases for an innocent known to her being one...

[Nogrod]

Those who have not yet voted in the order of my perception of the possibility they will vote:

Thinlómien - will not vote (I know, I talked with her on a phone a few hours ago and she promised to text me if she thought she could vote without seeing the rest of the Day after she left - it's coming 1 AM here so she's sleeping I believe)

Gil-Galad - hasn't shown up at all...
Mormegil - hasn't shown up at all...

xyzzy - interesting to see if he comes to vote... he would then vote to save himself I guess.
The Sixth Wizard - hasn't been seen for a long time either... will he vote?

Isabellkya - I hope she will vote as she was around just a while ago
Legate of Amon Lanc - will vote, I think, hope

Nogrod - will vote.


The reason I'm doing this? To see our chances.

So the line to the gallows:
Xyzzy4
Durelin2
Menel2
Kath1
Rikae1
tgwbs1
Shasta1

At worst we have only two votes to come.

That means that my top suspects / worries seem to be out of reach (Kath and Shasta). But if many people enough would be willing to join me we might do it. It would need four votes. I would be happy to try either of them.

The next I would try Menel. That would take three votes.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Originally Posted by Nogrod

Isabellkya - I hope she will vote as she was around just a while ago

Well, it's actually about three hours. She has disappeared back then, she can now. Who knows...

Anyway apart from me now it's just xyzzy, unless Morm or Gil mysteriously appear out of thin air.

++Ye Olde Meneltarmacile

[Isabellkya]

Durelin -> Kath
Kath -> Rikae
Menel -> Xyzzy
Fea -> Xyzzy (Kath1, Rikae1, Xyzzy2)
tgwbs -> Durelin (Kath1, Rikae1, Xyzzy2, Durelin1)
Rune -> Durelin (Kath1, Rikae1, Xyzzy2, Durelin2)
Volo -> tgwbs (Kath1, Rikae1, Xyzzy2, Durelin2, tgwbs1)
Aganzir -> Shasta (Kath1, Rikae1, Xyzzy2, Durelin2, tgwbs1, Shasta1)
Shasta -> Xyzzy (Kath1, Rikae1, Xyzzy3, Durelin2, tgwbs1, Shasta1)
Mith -> Menel (Kath1, Rikae1, Xyzzy3, Durelin2, tgwbs1, Shasta1, Menel1)
Boro -> Menel (Kath1, Rikae1, Xyzzy3, Durelin2, tgwbs1, Shasta1, Menel2)
Rikae -> Xyzzy (Kath1, Rikae1, Xyzzy4, Durelin2, tgwbs1, Shasta1, Menel2

What does all of this mean. I understand the first part; it is who is voting for who. But what is the stuff which is inside the commas?


I guess I will go with Xyzzy for not exactly coming back an posting more after his first post.. unless of course I missed it.

++Xyzzy

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Yup, I'm here... and I'll be probably voting for Menel, as I said earlier, though I hoped I'll see some words from xyzzy, Six, Izabellkya... it also seems to me that it will be quite easy for xyzzy to vote for Menel if I do and someone else does as well... at least it does not look like a last-minute vote battle (or could it, if suddenly all of the missing emerged?)

[The Sixth Wizard]

Argh! I am very very sorry but my alarm clock failed to go off and I only have 15 minutes on WereWolf instead of an hour or two. Gah!

I suppose I should just vote for a quiet, and Durelin always annoys me...

+Durelin

[Nogrod]

I say we hold our thumbs for more people to gather around here and go for Menel (that would need one more).

But if there would be a fourth I would advise you all think about Kath or Shasta as well.

[Nogrod]

Aaaarrrggh!

EDIT: the earlier one was a crosspost... and our chances are getting slim indeed.

[xyzzy]

Aagh, I get on to find that people are voting me for a random comment! Horrors.

Since I know myself to be innocent, my best chance is a gamble: I'm gonig to vote

++Menel

I'd like to point out that if you want to get anything useful out of Isabellkya, you're going to have to be very direct; her playing style is like mine, but 1000% more.

I'm mildly suspicious of the various folks who've made a big deal about - may I point it out - the SECOND post in the game. Obviously, I had nothing to go on; for the most part, it was an inside joke between me and Isabellkya. (The forum where we play at besides here has an ironic habit of voting for people entirely on the basis that they were the first to post.

And while I'd like to live, I want to point out that lynching someone based on what you see as a bad playing style is often a successful strategy; if you don't kill a wolf, it's because you killed a reckless/dangerous person. Of course, I don't fancy myself reckless or dangerous, but you might.

[The Sixth Wizard]

Updatede Votes:

Xyzzy5 (not 4)
Durelin3
Menel4
Kath1
Rikae1
tgwbs1
Shasta1

Xyzzy or Menel?

(EDIT)

Xyzzy...

[The Saucepan Man]

Day 1 is done. Voting over.

Result to follow shortly ...

[Nogrod]

Let's go.

++ Meneltarmacil

I will scorn myself if Xyzzy turns out a baddie in the end though...

[Nogrod]

Oh my! Isabellkya!

That's Xyzzy then... unless one more comes in...

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

*AHEM* points up (Isabell)

EDIT: x-d, sorry

[The Saucepan Man]

With a flash, a skeletal woman robed in black carrying a great scythe appeared and started gooning and grimacing fleshlessly into the middle distance.

“Welcome back to Werewolf Four and Thirty,” she said. “The votes have been counted and verified, and I can now reveal that the first person to be lynched in Woodgard is ….”

Caught up in the moment, the assembled delegates held their breath, even though they already knew the result.

“… xyzzy!”

Gasps, cheers, and not a few boos, rang out as xyzzy stepped forward.

“Xyzzy, you have one hour to say your goodbyes,” the Grim Daviner continued, “I’m coming to get you!”

“Er, I thought that these narratives were supposed to be all atmospheric and canonical,” Kath whispered to The Sixth Wizard.

“I think that idea went out of the window when the roles started being posted,” muttered Sixth in reply.

“But how are we to kill him?” asked Rune Son of Bjarne, as it occurred to him that the village had been so intent upon its moot all day that no method of administering capital punishment had yet been prepared.

“’E’s a witch! Burn him!” shouted Nogrod, predictably, in an unfeasibly high-pitched voice.

“Can’t we just … ahem …” spluttered Shastanis Althreduin, clearing his throat. “Sorry, I’m a bit horse.”

Gasps, cheers and boos turned to groans.

“Can’t we just chop his head off?” the centaur continued.

“You should be careful that you don’t get a frog in your throat,” observed the guy who be short. “They can be fatal in these kinds of situations.”

“I say that we needlessly build an incredibly complex catapult-device-thing,” suggested Volo hirsutely, “and - er - catapult him out of the village.”

“Ye olde catapulte,” said Meneltarmacil. “Thou knowest what. It just mayeth work.”

“No!” declared de Legate of Amon Lanc solemnly. “I decree that we administer a fatal dose of poison.”

“By what authority do you make such a decree?” demanded Mithalwen.

“I am De Legate!” he replied, mysteriously.

“Look, you can’t claim to wield supreme executionary power just ‘cause some grammatically inept mod made a narrative-based pun on your name,” she challenged.

“Madam,” interjected Boromir88, “Might I ask by what authority you claim to nit-pick the moderator’s grammar?”

“But what about xyzzy?” enquired Aganzir, polishing her axe impatiently.

“We should administer a spanking!” declared Rikae, naughtily. "Spankings all round!"

“Enough with the Pythonicity already!” cried Isabellkya.

“We could just let him go,” suggested Feanor of the Peredhil controversially.

“…” said mormegil.

“…” agreed Gil-Galad.

"Hooray for Follywood!" sang out Durelin, inexplicably.

“Honorable chair, fellow delegates,” stated Thinlómien, rising from her chair. “Acknowledging the many points made by the assembled delegates in the foregoing moot and noting that voting closed over an hour ago, INSTRAW would like to propose a motion requiring that strenuous efforts be made to draw up a framework within which the conditions might be agreed for bringing about the ultimate death of the condemned delegate, xyzzy. Thank you.”

Xyzzy, in the meantime, had quietly, uneventfully and inobtrusively hung himself in a corner.

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“Cheeky blighters!,” muttered Radagast some miles away in Rhosgobel, as he pruned his tomato plants. “Questioning my grammar! The very impudence of it. And now they has gone and killed an innocent.”

“Indeed they has,” observed the lark perched on his shoulder. “But look on the bright side. At least the moderator has used up all his role-based quips all at once.”

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The dead:

The Saucepan Man - Slaughtered and boiled up in a spicy ghoulash on Night zero.
xyzzy - Got bored of the role-based banter and hung himself quietly, uneventfully and inobtrusively on Day 1 (Ordinary Innocent)

The living:

Mormegil
Rikae
Durelin
Aganzir
Gil-Galad
Shastanis Althreduin
Volo
Nogrod
Boromir88
Meneltarmacil
The Sixth Wizard
Thinlómien
Legate of Amon Lanc
Kath
Isabellkya
the guy who be short
Mithalwen
Feanor of the Peredhil
Rune Son of Bjarne

Those with Nightly activities, do your stuff. And don't forget to send me your choices no later than one hour before the deadline.

[The Saucepan Man]

Morning arrived, grey and bleak. The frivolity of the previous Day was no more, for the Night had witnessed grim and dark deeds.

The first sight that greeted the delegates was a trail of blood leading from Meneltarmacil’s hut. Following it into a nearby copse, they came upon a curious sight. A great Wolf lay in a pool of blood, panting and whimpering through his black fangs. The villagers hands went immediately to their weapons, but they were not needed. The beast soon died from his grievous wounds and, as he died, he transformed back into his human form. Meneltarmacil, ye Olde Knighte, had been a fearsome Beaste of the Nighte, but he was no more.

Their spirits lifted, the delegates returned to the village in happy mood. But it was not long before they discovered that two of their number were missing. In dread, they searched the absent delegates’ huts. The sights that greeted them there dashed their spirits once more.

In the first, they found a headless corpse, half-eaten. As they gaped in despair at the macabre remains, a cry of horror rang out and one of the delegates pointed to the wall. All eyes followed the outstretched finger, only to see the head of the missing delegate mounted there, leering lifelessly down at them. In his village, this delegate had been a hunter of renown. But last Night he had become the hunted and now a final scalp had been added to his trophy collection - his own. For all his hunting skills, though, Rune Son of Bjarne had merely been an ordinary innocemt villager.

No sign of the second hut’s inhabitant could at first be found. Searching, however, the delegates found sacks full of items that they recognised. Valuable items which had seemingly gone missing from their home villages. It was a veritable treasure trove. But where was the villain? It was not long before they found the answer. Durelin’s dead corpse hung from the rafters on the second floor. The delegate from Follywood had been a notorious Thief. Her folly, however, had been to pry into Nightly activities which she should not have seen. And those that she had spied on had summarily executed her for it.

The dead

The Saucepan Man - Slaughtered and boiled up in a spicy ghoulash on Night zero.
xyzzy - Got bored of the role-based banter and hung himself quietly on Day 1 (Ordinary Innocent)
Meneltarmacil - Fatally wounded in sooth he was and crawled awaye to find ye deathe in ye woodes on Nighte 1 (Werewolfe)
Rune Son of Bjarne - Hunted and added to his own trophy collection on Night 1 (Ordinary Innocent)
Durelin - Spied on things which she should not have seen and got hung for it on Night 1 (Thief)

The living:

Mormegil
Rikae - the naughty delegate from the village with the unlikely name of Castle Anthrax
Aganzir - the Dwarf delegate of a Woodsmen village
Gil-Galad
Shastanis Althreduin - the extremely detail-oriented centaur delegate from the Plains
Volo - the very hairy delegate from as far as it gets
Nogrod - the moody delegate from the Witch-burners' village who is ready and willing to form a theory to suit his feelings whatever the facts ...
Boromir88 - the filibuster delegate from Laketown, whose geography is not that good
The Sixth Wizard
Thinlómien - the Delegate of INSTRAW
Legate of Amon Lanc - the De-Legate of Amon Lanc
Kath
Isabellkya - the delegate from the village Kyaq
the guy who be short - the delegate from nearby Necropolis
Mithalwen - the delegate of an anarco-sydicalist commune, taking her turn as a sort of executive officer for the week
Feanor of the Peredhil - the slightly offbeat delegate who offers controversial suggestions to the moot regardless of lycanthropic tendencies

Day 2 has begun. Those who can PM at Night must stop. The moot is once more in session.