Tol-in-Gaurhoth LII: Star Crossed II: Together for Eternity

[Nogrod]

Great game Di! Interesting concept, nicely maddening indeed, and the pics were just soo well picked...

Kudos to our gifteds!

Somehow I just tended to trust you all the time Brinn. I don't know why but I did. The only thing that somewhat made me suspect you at one point was the fact that I trusted you so easily.

Also an awesome performance Gwath! Let us appoint you as the official ranger to every village from now on - not counting those I'm a wolf of course.

Hats off to Fea and Eomer. Even if your gamble didn't pay off you really made it with style!

And I'm so sorry Mac and Rikae! I was convinced - but only so wrong - about you both!

And many thanks and congrats to all those who made this game such an entertaining one: Aganzir for all her effort, Greenie for her sneakiness etc...

Sad so many had to die so soon. Especially Lalaith! Now you who did it just confess and I will promise to haunt you from now on!

Anyway, it was interesting how badly we played the first few Days but managed to get on top of things pretty quickly to win the game as soon as we got our act together. It's a great feeling when one starts to see the pieces of a puzzle to slip into their right places and starting to realize that it's possible to actually think it through.

Thanks everyone! This game just reminded me how much fun a werewolf game can be (well that one Day when Rikae was lynched excluded when I think I myself was partly responsible for the little too competitive feeling and I do apologise about that).

[Nerwen]

I've been watching this from the sidelines... loved the Fea-Eomer show.

Gwath, I can't give you another rep yet, but you certainly deserve one!

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Well, even for a short while, it was a nice game. It was apparently a lot more than what it just seemed on the surface, indeed a very interesting concept, Di!

The only thing I can think of right now saying is that Fea was obvious from her first post. I wanted to lynch her originally, but after her, I believe, second post? I rethought and decided that she is apparently a Seer. I was seemingly right in both. Maybe it was too striking for her to be on the good side. Well, fortunately I did not end up to be there for long to confuse people with that...

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Originally Posted by Legate of Amon Lanc

Fea was obvious from her first post.

Because

Originally Posted by Fea

Sticking my head in- I won't be properly around until after lunch (it's 7:44am just now)... but I am here.

Just screams evil.

I think my favorite PM moment to Di (who I was frequently contacting with frantic questions) was probably, after being told that Nog "is completely ordinary and rather a bit lonely":

Originally Posted by Cobbler-Seer Fea

Poor Noggie...

I have a question. Am I allowed to blatantly lie to the village about the nature of my role?

Followed swiftly by:

Originally Posted by Moddess Goddess Venus

You're allowed to do whatever [...] you want, m'dear.

I was delighted. I got to conniving. I had to wait for a moment when I could put forth my ridiculous claims. I didn't know at that point that the Lovers knew my role existed, so I was constantly threatened by the idea that if I got the village to trust me, the Lovers would kill me (and my lover).

Of course I eventually asked Di if the Lovers knew there were cobblers around and she said yes. Load off my shoulders. I could work on the village without having to incorporate Lover-friendly provisos.

I had to decide on how to use my dreams. I'm glad I made one choice I did- I was going to lie about Nog but I changed my mind and pretended I never dreamed of Agan. I could sacrifice her later if need be, 'admitting' that I lied about not dreaming of her to keep her safe. It was a toss up which one of them I wanted to hang on to for later manipulation: if I'd chosen to call Nog anything but innocent, Brinn would have found me out much sooner.

Brinniel, by the way, drove me insane!

I thought she was a Lover. A few Nights ago I PMed Di saying I wanted to dream of whoever it was because I wasn't too concerned- I already knew Eomer was my Lover and I was quite certain Brinn and Gollum were Lovers.

Epic fail...

So then I reveal with great theatrics and many unnecessary augmentations to the nature of my role, and she, my presumed Lover, is trying to kill me!

I kept thinking that she must not understand that I'm on her side. Kept thinking, well maybe she's just taking advantage of the revealed Cobbler to gain credibility later. I thought, well, I'm on the Lovers' side no matter what schemes they come up with, so I didn't try all that hard to stop her once it was obvious she wasn't going to budge.

So false-seer. I'd never heard of this. I was delighted that my arch-nemesis was all but providing me with a chance to 'redeem' myself by playing dumb. Is it possible I wasn't told I'm a false seer? How does the role work? Might Brinn be a false seer?

I legitimately was confused, not to mention distracted- it was at that moment when I was watching the election (fingers crossed) and my mom called to tell me my grandfather had been hospitalized again and my student loans were still uncertain because of a hospital error.

False seer? Bring it on.

Except how could I possibly hold onto the little credibility I'd gained when the village was trying to kill my Lover? I couldn't defend him...

Tragic...

Really, though... Amazing game.

My favorite moment was probably the morning Aganzir didn't die when I turned to my room mate with a horrified expression and said, "Kel... I think I might secretly be saving people when I dream about them."

"Does that role exist?" she asked.

"I don't know!" I moaned. "What if she didn't tell me and I'm actually helping the village win?"



The drama greatly appealed to me.

[Gwathagor]

You had me mostly convinced. I was actually disappointed to learn that you were not, in fact, The Prostitute.

[Aganzir]

Originally Posted by Fea

My favorite moment was probably the morning Aganzir didn't die when I turned to my room mate with a horrified expression and said, "Kel... I think I might secretly be saving people when I dream about them."

Hahaha poor you!

If only I hadn't died then! I didn't know there were cobblers but I didn't trust Fea and Eomer. I was so glad you were lynched since it could have turned out also otherwise. Great performance, anyway - especially given that you weren't apparently allowed to PM.
You know, Fea, there were some comments of yours that kept bothering me all through the game but I couldn't really put my finger on them, like that "If I'm a lover then our dear Moddess thought it would be hilarious not to tell me who my counterpart was." and such.

I find it funny that both Greenie and Cab were included in the few people whose posts I analysed, and I reached the conclusion that both of them were rather innocentish.

Also, I did not stop suspecting Gollum. I was just so happy that he finally responded to me properly that I wrote my post based on that first impression (also one of my major reasons for suspecting him later was a statement I had misunderstood). Then I went back and reread it and realised that there was actually very little that should have made me suspect him less.

Someone also said I seemed to be certain Brinn and Gollum were lovers. I wasn't, but I wanted to see what would happen if I put some pressure on them both. Unfortunately their reactions didn't reveal much.
And then I actually started suspecting Brinn, but that was because Brinn is always so suspicious. I remember being a wolf once, and while typing my great case on her, I thought, "Whoa, if I didn't know better, I would be sure she's a wolf!" My suspicions of her lessened pretty much, though, when she was so ardent to disagree with Fea after her claim.

Sally, you're just mean. :P I had you pinned on second day but then I just forgot about you.

Originally Posted by Gwathagor

Nice going, Ranger. Quality work.

Thanks Gwath. You were awesome.

I should try to stop suspecting Mac and Rikae every time.

Oh and lovers, why did you decide to kill the people you did? Which pair killed whom?

Anyway, thanks for the game to everybody, and especially Di. This was really enjoyable.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Originally Posted by Gwathagor

You had me mostly convinced. I was actually disappointed to learn that you were not, in fact, The Prostitute.

Quite frankly, I'm now thoroughly depressed that wasn't my role.

[Shastanis Althreduin]

Good game, guys. Probably the most fun I've had as an ordo.

Brinn always seems innocent to me! Don't know why, given that the one time I was a wolf, so was she . But she has.. a vibe, I dunno. Same with Rikae and Sally.

....Maybe it's a female thing.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Originally Posted by Feanor of the Peredhil

Just screams evil.

Okay, a little correction then: third post (#19), then (and fifth, respectively, to what I said before).

You see, you just made so many pointless posts that I simply forgot them all

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Originally Posted by Nogrod

Hats off to Fea and Eomer. Even if your gamble didn't pay off you really made it with style!

If I'd known there was another set of gifteds floating around, I really would have called that one differently.

Though I don't have time to go into details now, my dreams were:

Mac
Nogrod
Aganzir
Sally

I'm not forgetting anyone, am I Di?

Anyway, you should have seen my complete and utter confusion when I realized that the people I was dreaming of (for the good of the Lovers) kept being protected from the Lovers! Way to Range, bro. That was some sweet irony.

This is actually the most fun I've ever had playing. Think how difficult it is not being able to dream of a Lover whose identity you don't know- I literally was going through trying to dream of people I thought were dead innocent (apart from Sally, who I dreamed of after I learned who Eomer was by way of that obscure role-discussion of *ditzy look* "Anybody think it's like totally possible for there to be like a role called Cupid?")

Anyway... gotta go to work, then busy all day.

But I wanted to thank everybody for an amazingly fun game.