Admin Thread for WWXLV: The Fellowship of Saruman

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

No way, folks - by the way, the narration is up (for about half an hour now), just so that everyone knows. So you may check my version (idealized, but whatever). Apologies to Nogrod, but I don't think Tom would have wanted to leave Lórien to the barren lands to the East after all. <= yes, that was it.

In any case, I must say I was very surprised by the Traitors and the Seer and the Hunter (the Ranger unfortunately did not have enough time to show his quality), because they turned to be far above my expectations - all of them. In other words, it's good that the Gifted were as good as they were, because the Traitors were too. "Black horses", indeed! In any case, I really enjoyed reading this game, as it was exciting to follow it, and the more for the roleplaying, which was also done brilliantly from you. I am going to definitely keep this game in my memory as one I did not play in, but enjoyed it in a very strong way.

[Nogrod]

Originally Posted by Legate of Amon Lanc

Apologies to Nogrod, but I don't think Tom would have wanted to leave Lórien to the barren lands to the East after all. <= yes, that was it.

Nothing to apologise for it was most fitting and what I kind of hoped for.

Quite interestingly the Days when I had the most time to play and thence to try and make the rhymes & stuff were the Days in the game when we were outdoors. So that kind of served Tom's character pretty well - no jolly singing in Moria but the self-doubt whether he was the old Tom anymore...

Lommy's and Aganzir's writing has been praised already and they deserve the praise. But so do The Ka and Groin as well. I mean The Ka's Radagast was just so "edgeless", ageless and calm as I think of him - and you couldn't find him being rash or accusatory against anyone. Great cover you had there and well built. Also Groin's Daín felt so like a bit tense and action-oriented dwarf-king that it was jst too real. Also Rune managed to make his Galadriel at times to be exactly the lady of the galadhrim. And all the rest of you were great as well.

I'm all for trying this kind of compulsory in-character game again one fine day. Sadly so many people seem to fear or dislike the idea. They clearly don't know what they are missing!

And last but not least. Sometimes a game feels like it's all up to who has the best or toughest luck, whom the stars seem to favour. But sometimes - like this time - you feel that thinking things over and analysing what people do really make a difference! In the end it was the combined actions and talk of people with which one could start limiting the number of candidates and finally end up with just one. And ditto! In times to come I will refer to this game when people say there's no point in analysing things as it's all just lucky guessing...

Thank's everyone for a good game!

[Nerwen]

You know what annoys me? I had a very strong bad feeling about The Ka from the start– and I thought, "Better not say too much this early, because if I happen to be right they'll think I'm the Seer and kill me". So I kept quiet... and they killed me anyway.

But I'd love to try another in-character game... and hopefully not get killed on Night One this time.

[Nogrod]

Originally Posted by Nerwen

and hopefully not get killed on Night One this time.

That's the most annoying way to go! I mean if you are lynched on Day1 you can always blame yourself for that... at least in part.

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

Originally Posted by Nogrod

Also Rune managed to make his Galadriel at times to be exactly the lady of the galadhrim. And all the rest of you were great as well.

I'm all for trying this kind of compulsory in-character game again one fine day. Sadly so many people seem to fear or dislike the idea. They clearly don't know what they are missing!

Unfortunately I could not keep my enthusiasm up. . .at times I was simply too tired to make an effort, but I still had to write and it then became so and so.

I really liked the way Aganzir played her role. . .

Anyways I don't think that compulsory in-character games should be something we do often, they are fun to spice things up. . .but they are also more demanding. I could not handle another one just now. . .not without neglecting school a lot.

[A Little Green]

Yay!

Cheers, everyone! This was maybe the most enjoyable game I've played in, largely because you all did your characters so well, and played well too. Just awesome.



Thanks, guys. I loved it.

[Thinlómien]

This was great. Both because it was challenging to both sides and very even, and because everyone played their characters so hilariously. Everybody was awesome, but especially Rune's Galadriel, Nogrod's Tom (and his horrible rhymes ), Agan's Lobelia and Greenie's Éomer, not to mention THE Ka's Radagast, whose ultimate gentleness made me think he must be innocent. (I had this interesting theory that in an in-character game, if you think plotwise, a traitor might slip his deceitfulness to the overall portrayal of his/her character. Evidently I was wrong...)

I'm quite glad for deciding to vote Halbarad rather ex tempore, because the bandwagon that followed was great and unbelievable. I'm also glad that I caught Dáin, unfortunately only after I had died. And it was only because everybody else seemed so innocent. Excellent job Groin, and THE Ka and Gwath too, you were all very sneaky. And our gifteds did really well too.

Oh, this was an awesome game, I'm sure I'll remember this for ages. It was very enjoyable to play in-character, especially as Gildor is such a lovely chap. Thanks to everybody for making this so memorable and for playing splendidly (I'm running out of positive adjectives soon ), and to Legate of Amon Mod for a great idea and lovely narrations. They were all excellent but my death was the BEST. (I'm not even sad I died...)


~ Gildor Inglorion Dagnir Balroga

[Aganzir]

Originally Posted by Groin Redbeard

Thinlomien, you played an excellent game. The only mistake that you made was trusting me too much.

And I wouldn't have trusted you half as much as I did, hadn't Lommy (who, I was sure, was innocent) done so.
Well, at least I can take comfort in being right about two traitors in my first post.

Originally Posted by Legate of Amon Lanc

the Ranger unfortunately did not have enough time to show his quality

His??

I was planning to reveal if it started to seem I was lynched, but didn't have time. I didn't seriously believe I would be lynched until sally voted me, and I hadn't counted on all the votes being cast in the last minute, as it happened.

Originally Posted by satansaloser2005

Soon as Agan died, my exact words to myself were, "Oh crap. Well, I'm dead now. Good job moron." Not at all pleased with myself. Sorry Agan!!!!!!! *feels terrible*

No problem, darling, and you were a great seer anyway (and a great Théodred, too).
I should maybe try to change my innocent playing style - last game I was innocent (after many games as a wolf) I was lynched on Day 1 and now on Day 2. I can't understand what makes innocent me so suspicious.

Originally Posted by THE Ka

Oh, and Aganzir, sorry for being:

"Mean, mean, mean!"

... and a very evil person. I don't try really, half the time I would make myself forget I was a wolf and play as I usually do. Apparently it worked for awhile.

Apparently, it did. You were awesome.

Originally Posted by Ka

Although, I dunno if anyone else has mentioned it, but Rune was the first person I suspected as a possible seer on our second Night. Maybe too much association with your character.
Then we tossed around the A Little Green or Sally idea as a possible seer. Probably would have gone after Sally, but due to her annoyingly insightful posts and votes, we decided to go with another. I can't remember exactly.

I thought so, too, and protected Rune on Night 2. At the end of Day 1, I was rather confident that either him or sally (with her "my mind's eye" whatever :-D) was the seer, but chose to protect Rune (because I thought Nog might be a wolf and then surely kill him). Groin was my third and Nerwen fourth option (for being a good player who hadn't spoken very much on Day 1 and thus making a nice kill with few tracks)

Originally Posted by Ka

In that light, I really liked Lommy's and Aganzir's work with their characters. They gave some mysteries more face and embodiment, without giving the impression of being detached from how the character would probably act in many circumstances.

Thanks. I was planning to make Lobelia a bit nicer, but, well, she just came to be like that. I hope no one was offended by her.
And you were a wonderful Radagast yourself.

Originally Posted by Rune Son of Bjarne

I really liked the way Aganzir played her role. . .

Thanks - I liked your Galadriel, too. She was very much like I thought Galadriel should be.

My other favourites were Tom Bombadil and Éomer. Nog's rhymes made me laugh all the time and Greenie was just so Éomerish. :-D

On night 1 I asked Legate whether I couldn't PM with the hunter, and he said no. Well, just look what happened - Greenie and I were all for killing each other all the time. Ironic. I'm almost happy I was lynched, because I might have protected The Ka on night 3.

And thanks for modding, Legate. The idea of the game was awesome, and it was interesting to try IC playing (though I'm sure I wouldn't like to play this way in every game).

edit: xed with Lommy

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Originally Posted by Thinlómien

~ Gildor Inglorion Dagnir Balroga

Originally Posted by Aganzir

His??

Ah, sorry, I was merely continuing on the subject of the sentence. Not even sure about English, but in Czech a Ranger would be he. Although, if I wrote in Czech, I would write "rangeress" or how should it be told, so that would be again "she", but clearly...

Originally Posted by Aganzir

I was planning to reveal if it started to seem I was lynched, but didn't have time. I didn't seriously believe I would be lynched until sally voted me, and I hadn't counted on all the votes being cast in the last minute, as it happened.

I must say you hit on something here - if there was anything in this game that was really apparent and really drastic, then it was all the last-minute voting. Especially on the first days it was that EVERYONE voted in the last five minutes, if ever! Or maybe one person voted three hours before, then one person ten minutes before, and all the rest in the last five minutes (or not at all). Last minute voting is nice, but this, I think, has been an example how horrifying it can be. (Although, the outcome was not that disasterous... but still, it's stressful if nothing else. Well, on the other hand, WW is about adrenaline rising as well ).

[Gwathagor]

Originally Posted by Legate of Amon Lanc

Well, on the other hand, WW is about adrenaline rising as well

Yeah. I felt like I was on Ritalin all week long.