Tol-in-Gaurhoth L: Battle of the Fandoms

[Nerwen]

Well, since I'm alive toDay after all, I may as well look at Izzy myself.

Day One.

#47. Comments on other players:

Rikae would say she was an ordo if she wasn't. Asks her if she would vote herself on Shasta's say-so (re: Rikae's saying she wants to see how Shasta will vote, because she thinks he's psychic.)

Says Fëa is trying to bait people.


#82. Could see Shasta revenge-voting Boro. Says Brinniel (then under attack from Mac and Lal) need not be hiding anything.


#103. Comments that Shasta's attack on Boro might be a cover for a wolf.


Makes a self-described "throwaway" vote for Captain of Despair (wolf).


Day Two.

#160. Opens with, "Wow. What a strike of luck." Says her vote on CoD was "pretty darn random".

Says Kath's death looks like an attempt at a clean kill. Asks Boro whether it was Kath that he tried to kill in a previous game.


#194. Comments that Fëa has been baiting Shasta.

Says Nogrod is suspicious, and so is Boro for being "buddy-buddy" with Nogrod.

(Known innocents Nilp and Brinn also commented on their "chumminess".)

Sally was "contradictory" (re CoD on Day One).

Asks Durelin what happens in the event of a tie.

#204. Analyzes Nogrod (very nit-picky). Finds him somewhat suspicious, but doesn't know if she'll vote for him.

Ditto Sally (wolf). Finds her vote-list on Day One "forced", but her overall behaviour "silly" rather than wolfish.


#223. Says Lalwendë could be the cobbler.

#225

Originally Posted by Isabellkya

Voting time..

++Nogrod

Day 3.

281. Wonders why Brin was killed: "the wolves could have gone with another trail-less kill".

List the Day Two votes.

Comments: "I wonder what it says about a person; who's top two suspects for at least a day and a half - both turn out ordo."

(I'm not sure who the "person" is here– I think she means Nogrod.)


#283. Asks Lalwendëwhy she's so certain the wolves are after her.


#316. Asks Boro if he usually "mimics" others' phrasing.


#320. Replying to Rikae's comment at 317: ("I don't like the way Izzy hangs around the fringes of things, occasionally "poking" at someone as if in an attempt to see if she can get suspicions flowing that way.")

Originally Posted by Isabellkya

I'm not sure how analyzing Nog's and Sally's posts for a day and a half is considered poking.

It is a legitimate question which I posed to Boro.

You put Nilp on your naughty list for copying arguments, yet I don't see Boro there for that reason as well.

#349. Replying to Boro, clarifies what she meant about repeating people's phrases– she was referring to his use of "what the heck" two posts after she used it herself. Repeats that she doesn't like the interaction between Boro and Nogrod:

It gave me the feeling of two people out picking curtains, or a new couch - not wolf hunting.

I really don't know what she was on about there... but as I said, two known innocents also commented on them.


#359. Says she is debating whether to vote Nog or Sally– or perhaps Nilp "for his initial posts of copy". (Doesn't explain what changed her mind about Sally.)

Finds Lal "comedic". Says she could be anything.


After Fëa's bizarre "reveal":

#377

Originally Posted by Isabellkya

Crap gotta go.
Just when things took a turn, oh dear.


++Nogrod



X'ed since 372.
I'm confused now.

Day 4

#449.(Referring to a post of Nogrod's on Day 3, where he mentions her among those whose excessive "consistency" might be wolvish):

Originally Posted by Isabellkya

Briefly, I’d like to get this out of my system right away; since I’ve been simmering over it since yesterDay after work.

Goes on to ask why Nogrod hasn't listed Fëa and Boro as possible wolves for their persistent votes on each other. Concludes that he only cares about consistency aimed at himself.

Originally Posted by Isabellkya

I think you are guilty of this ‘consistency’, which you seem to be paranoid of.

I think, the only reason I wouldn’t vote for you today - is because WolfSally put you in the lead, for two days in a row.

But toDay, it looks like you've got some of the paranoia out of you.

#476

Originally Posted by Isabellkya

Here is where my head is at, at the moment.

"known" innocent:
Nog
Shasta
Nilp

Looks pretty innocent:
Mac
McCaber

Cobblery:
Boro
Lal
Fea


undecided:
Nerwen
Mith


So my vote will go to one accused of Cobblery, or I don't have a read on.

X'ed with Nog, Boro, Mac.

#489. Analyzes Mithalwen, concludes that "there isn't a whole lot to say about her".

Originally Posted by Isabellkya

She posts a lot, but not much is said. She says her suspicions, but doesn't (as of yet) put in a lot of analyzing towards them. There are a lot of misreads/clearing things up between her and other people.

Says she will not vote her.


After Nilp's reveal:

#496. Says she will not vote for me, but will let the Seer check me out. (Huh? She'd hardly mentioned me before!)

Says votes for Lal or Boro would be throwaways.

Originally Posted by Isabellkya

Which leaves me with..

++Fea

Day 5.

#532 (commenting on Boro's MacCaber theory):

Originally Posted by Isabellkya

I think a mixture of insane whack-job, running out of time, and it is crazy enough it could be true.

#549

Originally Posted by Isabellkya

Since Lal died as the Cobbler, I suppose that puts Boro in a bit of better light. Leaving him either innocent or wolf. Though, Sally's vote for him on Day 1 is kind of bugging me.

(I don't know what she means by this.)


#575. Analyzes Mithalwen. Finds her vote on McCaber to be "a bit fishy".

Also comments:

Originally Posted by Isabellkya

In one of your posts #443; you say I was swift on Day two to "point out" that I'd voted for CoD. Yet here you are in #528, three posts after Durelin's; explaining why you voted for Caber. You'd already done so when you made the vote. So why again? If I was swift, then you were... break neck speed?

Analyzes Fëa– Or rather, she summarizes her posts, without analysis, except to say that her obsession with Boro is "unhealthy".

Concludes:

Originally Posted by Isabellkya

Ugh.I'm torn between Mith and Fea.
But something tells me from what I've re-read/skimmed of Nerwen
My vote might go there.

Call me paranoid, if you will, but that strikes me as rather creepily opportunistic (Mac and Nogrod were after me at that point– this was before the Caberwagon).


#579. Votes me, based on"gut feeling".

Which brings us up to toDay.

General comments:

Hmmn. I've been ignoring Izzy, and more-or-less assuming she's innocent, based on the positioning of her vote for Captain of Despair. If one disregards that... there's actually quite a bit against her.

Rikae's remark at 317 sums Izzy up rather nicely. She mostly doesn't make cases against people, but rather seems to try and cast suspicion on them in a way that leaves her out of the action, and she changes her mind according to what way the wind's blowing. She's also a good deal more jumpy and defensive than I'd realized, and, as Mith commented, very quick to point out things in her own favour.

However, this may be her normal playing style as an ordo, for all I know– I don't think I've ever played with an innocent Izzy before.

Her correctly identifying a wolf and a cobbler looks a lot less impressive when you consider that she has at some point expressed suspicion of everyone in the village, (with– unless I've missed something– the exception of the first three nightly kills). EDIT: Of the three, Kath never mentioned her, Rikae listed her as "suspicious"... while, since Brin on the other hand mentioned her as "probably innocent", Brinn's death makes her look good (though this last also applies to Boro and to me).

Balanced against this, of course, is the glaring fact that she helped bring down a wolf on Day One, and with a particularly innocent-looking vote.

EDIT: X'd since Mac at 618. I had to go out halfway through posting this.

–I see Izzy has returned the compliment.

EDIT2: fixed quotes.

EDIT 3: Clarifying a comment.