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Old 07-11-2008, 02:06 PM   #1
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I agree with Nogrod (and why I'm wary about Shasta's analysis), is why would Durelin say she wants to look at Kitanna if she dreamed of Kitanna and found her innocent?
Have you not thought thought that maybe she's just trying to hide her identity, and not saying the identity of the true wolves for fear of being killed in the night? It might have been a tactic to keep the wolves off her scent (what?!). Maybe she dreamed about her but just didn't want to make it look like she had a radical change of mind, which always looks suspicious, unless there is a good reason behind it.
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Old 07-11-2008, 02:13 PM   #2
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Have you not thought thought that maybe she's just trying to hide her identity, and not saying the identity of the true wolves for fear of being killed in the night? It might have been a tactic to keep the wolves off her scent (what?!). Maybe she dreamed about her but just didn't want to make it look like she had a radical change of mind, which always looks suspicious, unless there is a good reason behind it.
It's possible, but the seer should remember that she can be killed also for other reasons than being suspected the seer, and therefore it should be more important that she left sufficient hints for the villagers to find after her passing.

Anyway, Eönwë, unless I'm completely mistaken this (edit: the previous, not the one I'm quoting next) was your first post today.

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Not that I particularly suspect you, I just want to hear your reasoning since you promised to explain it.
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Old 07-11-2008, 02:25 PM   #3
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... but the seer should remember that she can be killed also for other reasons than being suspected the seer, and therefore it should be more important that she left sufficient hints for the villagers to find after her passing.

That is true - after all the wolves may have picked her because she had been relatively quiet, hadn't drawn suspicion, and didn't incriminate them.... this theory works for me ... but then I would say that wouldn't I? Want to go home soon, so to try and cheer Nogrod up after my cruelty (though why I should spare the feelings of my would be executioner I don't know), I will probably vote for Shasta for self preservation.
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Old 07-11-2008, 02:31 PM   #4
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Shastanalysis:

Day 1:

Post #27:
IC. “Nerwen is mostly harmless.... some of us aren't harmless at all.”

Now, it's a minor thing, but somehow the latter addition, knowing Nerwen was a wolf, seems just slightly more likely to come from someone who knew this.

Day 2:

Post #142
IC, expresses confusion about ranger preventing kill and McCaber being modfired.

Now, again, maybe I'm just looking through wolf-colored glasses here, but what better way to distance himself from the night's events?

Post #144
“Things that caught my eye”. Doesn't see a wolf in the “Agan/Form/Nilp brawl”. Nilp is the “odd one out”, something “off” in THE Ka's attitude. Seems to be expressing mild suspicion towards a lot of people: Formendacil, Nilp, THE Ka, Sally, Boromir, Kath, Eonwe, Elf-Warrior, Eomer... the questioning of Eomer's suspicion of Mith looks fairly reasonable. Insinuates Eonwe lied about his vote (with little justification I can see, as I pointed out later). Finds Eomer and Eonwe most suspicious, Mith and Nerwen not suspicious, Nogrod “not so suspicious”.

As a wolf would he actually list Nerwen as “not suspicious”? I'm not sure...

Post #193
Translates chatspeak. Discusses possibility of wolf-on-wolf voting with Nilp and Kitanna. Says he will look to see who was conspicuous enough to attract the attention of the wolves and the ranger.

Feels helpful and rather innocent here.

#198
Vote count. Points out it's the second day in a row EW voted without explanation.

#200
“I decided to do something different, and leave the wolves and Ranger”

#205
Wouldn't mind seeing Eonwe gone, he and Eomer are most suspicious, EW “isn't being actively unhelpful” and might just be having issues.

Two posts ago he was pointing out EW's suspicious behavior... hmm.

#208
Kath won't be modfired if she doesn't want to vote toDay.

#209
Translates Nerwen.

#214
Votes for Eonwe

Day 3

#250
“Why Kath? She hasn't even gotten to play yet!”
Sounds innocent enough, actually. I've noticed Shasta is one of the first to post most days – maybe because of his time zone...? And it might make him seem unduly prominent or focused on the nightly events. *takes off wolf-colored glasses*

#253
Was just thinking he'd like to hear more from Durelin (after she posts) will go make himself useful.

#266
To Eomer: “Well aren't we perceptive, considering that EW made exactly 5 posts in this topic; two of them banter, two of them votes, and the last making a note of his gender. Clearly, pure evil right there.”

Interesting, considering his original responses to EW (“oh dear” and pointing out the two unexplained votes).

#269
Argues with Eomer over the “asking the village to lynch him” thing re: EW.

Not sure what to make of this. It seems he's deliberately misinterpreting, sort of.

#271
More argument with Eomer. Annoyed at kill and lynch because both were people who couldn't play because of RL issues.

This sounds like the Shasta I know from other games, and I can understand where he's coming from on this, I suppose. He could say the same thing as a wolf, though, too. Especially if – were he the new wolf, might he not have had a say in the nightly kill? Nah, probably unlikely.

#275
More arguing with Eomer. I would say that a wolf wouldn't be this passionate and attention-grabbing, if I hadn't done exactly that as a wolf myself. In fact, the lynching of innocents tends to look even more offensively stupid to wolves, so it's easy to take the “moral high ground” like this.

#277
To Eomer: “isn't it a common wolf tactic to redirect suspicion onto the person suspecting you? :P”

#280
Would suspect Eomer even more if Eomer were quiet. EW seemed to be having RL issues..,, etc, etc,'

Rereading this argument is giving me a headache. No comment.

#283
Another episode of the Shasta/Eomer show. *yawn* Wouldn't say “loads” of people suspected EW. What Eomer says he would do as a wolf doesn't matter, because there isn't proof.

#304
Why he's suspicious of Eomer and not me. Sold his car during night 3, so might as well stay home and post. Likes Mith's point on Nogrod. Banter.

The car thing makes me feel better about him.

#308
Answers Eomer

#319
Sarcastic remark about voting me for being unhelpful.

#323
Votes for Eomer

Conclusion:
He looks less wolfish than he did before. 6 out of 10 on the wolvery scale, I say.

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Old 07-11-2008, 02:40 PM   #5
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Now, again, maybe I'm just looking through wolf-colored glasses here, but what better way to distance himself from the night's events?

[...]

*takes off wolf-colored glasses*
Are you also not just distancing yourself from wolfishness by saying that you are wearing "wolf-colored glasses" (coloured for me, obviously). Maybe those "wolf-colored glasses" of yours are actually how you see at night when you kill... (lol, a wolf in sunglasses). Anyway, this seems slightly suspicious to me, using a tactic you criticise yourself.

Or maybe I'm just looking at this through wolf-coloured glasses.
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Old 07-11-2008, 02:45 PM   #6
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Are you also not just distancing yourself from wolfishness by saying that you are wearing "wolf-colored glasses"
When I'm a wolf, I often wear wolf-coloured glasses, too.

Though I do it also when I'm innocent and am making a case against someone I suspect heavily.
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Old 07-11-2008, 02:54 PM   #7
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Oh so now we are more or less at the point where everyone suspects everyone else ..... don't forget there are just 3 wolves and a cobbler (unless it was the cobbler who was "turned") in this village. Guess we should be grateful there are no multiple lynches .... well time for me to go and since Shasta and I are neck and neck... an unfortunate turn of phrase I know...

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Old 07-11-2008, 03:39 PM   #8
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Quick pop-in before I go to post properly.

No, I don't think Brinn would turn a gifted into a wolf; it just wouldn't be fair. Unless she turned the cobbler, and I can almost guarantee that that wouldn't happen; it'd just be silly. I'm guessing she picked randomly from the remaining ordos. I could be wrong, but I'm probably not.



Anyway, I see a Mith wagon (well, maybe the start of one anyway), and since I actually got to read everything toDay (well, you know what I mean by everything) I'm okay with it. It's just that yesterDay I hadn't looked at Mith and couldn't vote her in good conscience without looking at everything first (that and it seemed at the time that it was a mighty sudden bandwagon....erm, whoops) so I voted for Nilp since he was....well, so Nilp.



All right, off into the land of posts. Be back soon as I can dearies.
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Old 07-11-2008, 02:42 PM   #9
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If Shasta has been a wolf from the beginning, I volunteer to be cooked and promise to bring also salt and pepper with me.

I doubt he is a wolf even now. He looks innocent, and the most suspicious thing I could see was the "why wasn't Eomer killed" thing I have talked about.

No one has seemingly considered that the wolves left Eomer alive because in addition to not being sure if he was hunting one of them, then they could also frame innocent Shasta?

I'd rather not vote him today.

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I miss him already.
I don't. It was very nasty of him to be so suspicious.

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Old 07-11-2008, 03:08 PM   #10
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It was very nasty of him to be so suspicious.
That's true, but it's always sad to see WW threads quieten down when loud innocents are gone.
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So, the scores are:

Mith-2
Shasta-1

...I think
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I've noticed Shasta is one of the first to post most days – maybe because of his time zone...?
My timezone is Central. That means Brinn's deadlines are 6:00 pm for me; it's very easy for me to be during that time unless my mom needs the computer for something (I can't wait to be back in college!).

Edit: X'd with Eonwe. I know both Eomer and Mith voted for me.
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Old 07-11-2008, 03:56 PM   #13
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That's true, but it's always sad to see WW threads quieten down when loud innocents are gone.
Especially when you're a wolf. Loud innocents attract attention to themselves and away from you, after all...

To clarify, "wolf-colored glasses" mean glasses that make what I'm looking at look wolvish, not glasses that I wear because I am a wolf. Kind of like "rose-colored glasses" mean everything else looks rose-colored, not that I am rose-colored. Double .

I don't like the way people have narrowed the field to Shasta and Mith, and I, for one, am unlikely to vote for either of them. So there.
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Not that I particularly suspect you, I just want to hear your reasoning since you promised to explain it.
You know what?
I really don't know why I voted Nilp. Come to think of it, it was more a feeling. There are some I would much rather have voted.

I miss him already.

i just didn't want to throw my vote away, and at the time I posted, whoever I voted for would not be affected. If I would have been there later I would have voted Mith, probably. Shasta and Eomer also seen suspicious, but I enjoy the Shasta and Eomer show. I just hope they as are innocent as they are entertaining.
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