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Old 05-11-2009, 01:05 PM   #1
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Also, this uniformity is the same toDay. I know that the reveals seem like they make sense but no-one has even questioned them. This is partly what I mean about following. Where's the independence? Everyone just seems to trust anyone that "reveals". What if the real gifteds want to remain silent. What if one of Nogrod's "chosen ones" or me or Rune is a gifted and just doesn't want to reveal at such a risky time?
Funny how Legate also called for independent thinking before he went down...

But anyway. There are probable scenarios, believable scenarios, possible scenarios, problematic scenarios, mad scenarios and downright impossible ones.

If you think that this common consesus that exists is just a great plot you should show us the plot and how the details would fit in to explain things from D1 to this moment better than the one we seem to most of us believe is the case.

Then I would be ready to hear your mur-mur and consider looking at the things a new - although I will not think again what I know, eg. that Wilwa, Nerwen and Brinn are ordos & I'm the seer. Those are things I have learned from Lommy and could not believe she would have fooled me.


But can you come up with even one reasonable explanation why the real ranger - or hunter to that matter - would like to remain silent at this kind of a moment when we are so near winning the whole game?

If you're the hunter it would be your duty almost to reveal now. Then we could lynch you and you could then take the lying Nienna with you. And we would cheer you as our champion toMorrow as it would be revealed to us when you heroaically die.

And if you're the ranger you might as well reveal as you can't protect me the next Night anyway and if Lhuna is lying the village needs to know it (if you leave your reveal too late it may become 50-50 vote in a decising situation where people may choose wrong as it's a flip of coin in the worst instance).

So if you can come up with a plausible theory I will listen to it in earnest. But before that I'm going to take Lhuna's and Nienna's revelations as believable enough to guide my actions toDay.

And must say your last post did raise my suspicions on you quite a lot...

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Old 05-11-2009, 01:17 PM   #2
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Oh, and adding to the earlier one: If you Eönwë are the seer - or anyone - you really should come clear right now. The ranger defended me the last Night so s/he might help you the next one (and you should have some new knowledge to turn the tables with five dreams of which at least a few should be alive) as with this small numbers the chances you'll be killed on the next Night are pretty high indeed! You'd do with the protection, right, unless you're a wolf who doesn't need it?

So how do I not see anyone of you three coming forwards? (Facing death is always the easiest situation to speak openly)
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Old 05-11-2009, 01:36 PM   #3
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If you think that this common consesus that exists is just a great plot you should show us the plot and how the details would fit in to explain things from D1 to this moment better than the one we seem to most of us believe is the case.
I'm not saying that everything is just a plot. I'm saying that the Lhuna and Nienna reveals have been taken for granted.

But you want a plot, here's an idea...

How come you're still alive? You revealed a while ago and you're still alive after something like 3 Days? Let me ask something. Why haven't the wolves killed you? Legate could have just been a sacrifice to cement your seerishness, allowing you to take charge of the village. Every day you claim a new person to be innocent, yet even in Day 1 you vote Sally yet claim that you haven't dreamt her? And obviously, being a wolf, you would know exactly who was innocent and who was guilty so everyone you cleared would believe you and support you. You could even throw one of your fellow packmates into it, to keep them safe. I'm sure they wouldn't object to it either. Also, I'm sure the real seer could be quietly working away, and not need to reveal, and if they did (they wouldn't need to toDay because its obvious the wolves are voting you toNight and if they don't they're you're probably one. And an extra Night is always useful. And if they're one of the ones you cast suspicion on, then you may actually be the one to keep them alive another day- wanting not to waste a kill but to get them lynched.) you could overrule it, after gaining the support of over half of the village. And then you're on the unstoppable march to victory, with the innocents and maybe even gifteds backing you.

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But can you come up with even one reasonable explanation why the real ranger - or hunter to that matter - would like to remain silent at this kind of a moment when we are so near winning the whole game?
The ranger wouldn't have any need to come out unless threatened. And who would believe them? (Well, actually, this village would). And what of tactics? People have all sorts of strange plans.

And I'm not saying that no-one came out.
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Old 05-11-2009, 01:52 PM   #4
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Of Shasta and Rune I think Shasta looks more bad but Rune feels fouler.

I've been arguing about Shasta enough I think so just a few short ones on Rune topping what you others have said this far.

For you to consider toMorrow.

Especially the early comment like this make me feel bad about Rune:
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Legate seemed resonable, but then there is small inconsistensies. . .
Added with his gentle () but consistent suspicion of me whatever happened (untill I was relly believed to be the seer) it makes him look a bit suspicious. Careful but suspicious just because of that.

Also when he voted for Legate - after my revealment of course - he said as his only reason for voting:
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I never liked him anyway. . .
Now even taking Rune's manner of being grumpy that is a bit too much for someone with whom he plays on the other side of...

From the beginning I thought he was too defencive, even if he countered that by saying that he always wishes to answer things said of him. It let me feel a bit strange with him.

Added with his interesting martyrdom toDay being at a "costly" internet-cafe saying (bolding mine):
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and btw I have half an hour left here at the cafe. . .I really do not want to spend more money here, but it seems that I have to.
I have not seen Rune taken such an effort for this game ever before. So he must have something going on there?

Funny he should have been the first to suggest that Lommy had "chosen" people she knew better to have roles (eg. me and Legate). Now if he turns out a wraith, then... *ditto*
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Carrying on from main theory in last post...

Also, funny how Nogrod hasn't "dreamt" of any of the gifteds. One could easily be hiding under the safety of the innocent title.

Beware! Nogrod might be using you!

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Night6 falls

Gloomily, they sat around the round table. They felt they had ruled out most possibilities, but no one felt really hopeful. That might have been because Lord Thinroz had joined them shortly after noon and his mood was not of the most pleasant sort. He was upset with the death of his innocent housekeeper, to say the least.

”Do you have any opinion on the identity of the remaining murderers?” Lady Brinniel tried to enquire.
”Yes,” Lord Thinroz said. ”But I'm not going to share them. Carry on!”
No one felt like upsetting the host further, so they didn't say anything. Only Rune the Sorceror muttered: ”What a helpful attitude he has...”
”Shhh he's almost certainly not a murderer – not sane enough to do anything, I dare say - so let's not talk about him, but others,” Rune's fellow sorceror, Wilwarin, whispered.

And talk they did, and discovered many interesting things, until the sun started to set and they had to make a decision.

”Lord Eönwë, you'd better walk the plank,” Nienna said.
”Aye,” said Captain Nogrod.
”What plank?” Eönwë asked coolly. ”I cannot see any planks to be walked here.”

The two pirates eyes each other unsurely. The infamous Queen of the Sea, Nerwen, came to their rescue.
”This might serve as a plank,” she said and gave them a chair.
”Walk the plank, loser!” growled Shasta, Nerwen's husband.

Eönwë rolled his eyes and sat down on the chair. ”This is how you intend to kill me?”
”No, they said you have to walk the plank, not sit on it,” interfered Queen Lhuna from Harad.
So, Eönwë climbed to stand on the chair. Then he took one step and was standing on the floor.
”Happy now?” he asked.
”Hmm the idea did not quite work...” Nerwen muttered.
”It only needs some fine-tuning, my love,” Shasta comforted her.

”I know!” said Brinn suddenly. ”Let's use a rope!”
”A rope?” asked Nogrod, looking a bit puzzled.
”If someone has a rope when he walks the plank, he can use it to climb back onboard,” Nienna said, looking equally puzzled.
”Even if he has the rope around his neck?” Brinn asked sweetly.
”Good idea!” said Lhuna. ”I will go and see if there's a rope somewhere.”

After a while, she returned with a beautiful black rope. ”Is this good?” she asked.
”Excellent,” Brinniel smiled and tied it around Eönwë's neck.
”Now, climb back on the plank and jump again,” Nienna told Eönwë.
”You mean the chair?” Eönwë asked.
”Yarr!” said Cap Nog and threatened him with his cutlass.
”Alright...” said Eönwë and climbed on the chair again and came down just as before.
”And then?” he asked.

”It still didn't quite work,” Nerwen observed.
”Just because the bloody rope was not tied anywhere,” Shasta grumbled.
”Oh, good point!” the others agreed.

They looked up. The roof of the hall did actually have a few good places to attach the rope to, but it was very high.

”That might prove a problem...” Lhuna sighed.
”Not with me around,” said Wilwa who had remained silent so far.
”Nor with me,” said Rune.

Together, the two sorcerors made a simple spell that attached the rope to the roof.
”Now you can climb on the chair again,” Wilwa told Eönwë.
”Last time it was a plank,” he muttered, but climbed on it anyway.
Rune went to him and adjusted the rope. ”Now it should be tight enough to reach the ground once he jumps.”
”1, 2, 3, go!” said Nerwen.

Without any ceremonies, Eönwë stepped down from the chair once more. This time, the rope tightened around his neck and his face started to turn red. His feet were desperately trying to find the chair.
”I'll confiscate this,” Shasta said and moved the chair away from Eönwë.

They watched him struggle until his movements grew weaker and then he did not move at all. A wail escaped his dead lips and a pile of clothes dropped on the floor. Eönwë himself was nowhere to be seen, but there was a cold wind in the hall.

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Dead
Lommy (mod) - Lady Lómiel Starbrow, the hostess – killed on Night1
Isabellkya (ordo) - lynched on Day1
Kath (ordo) – killed on Night2
Eomer of the Rohirrim (ordo) - lynched on Day2
Kent2010 (ordo) - Black Númenórean scam artist - killed on Night3
Legate of Amon Lanc (ringwraith) - rebelling Haradian King - lynched on Day3
Groin Redbeard (ordo) - Variag Warlord of Khand - modfired on Day3
Nilpaurion Felagund (ordo) - fussy courtier - killed on Night4
satansaloser2005 (ringwraith) – lynched on Day4
Eönwë (ringwraith) – lynched on Day5

Alive
Nienna - pirate
Nogrod - Corsair Captain "The Cat O' Nine tails of Ethir Anduin"
Shastanis Althreduin - King of the Sea
wilwarin538 - sorceress
Nerwen - Queen of the Sea
Rune Son of Bjarne - Tivo the Sorceror
Lhunardawen - rebelling Haradian Queen
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But you want a plot, here's an idea...

How come you're still alive? You revealed a while ago and you're still alive after something like 3 Days? Let me ask something. Why haven't the wolves killed you? Legate could have just been a sacrifice to cement your seerishness, allowing you to take charge of the village. Every day you claim a new person to be innocent, yet even in Day 1 you vote Sally yet claim that you haven't dreamt her? And obviously, being a wolf, you would know exactly who was innocent and who was guilty so everyone you cleared would believe you and support you. You could even throw one of your fellow packmates into it, to keep them safe. I'm sure they wouldn't object to it either. Also, I'm sure the real seer could be quietly working away, and not need to reveal, and if they did (they wouldn't need to toDay because its obvious the wolves are voting you toNight and if they don't they're you're probably one. And an extra Night is always useful. And if they're one of the ones you cast suspicion on, then you may actually be the one to keep them alive another day- wanting not to waste a kill but to get them lynched.) you could overrule it, after gaining the support of over half of the village. And then you're on the unstoppable march to victory, with the innocents and maybe even gifteds backing you.

Happy now?
Much more happy than I was before. Sad I only now realised there was that post of yours (I was writing my earlier post into the admin. thread... ).

Now I'm going to be very sorry if you turn out innocent - which I don't believe by the way.

But there's spirit and I do like that. Way to go Eönwë! And btw. no sarcasm involved. That was the best I hve sen this far.

Although inspired by Eönwë here I dare you wolves to try and leave me alive this Night. Let's see if you have the nerve for it.
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okay, even if it's a bit dull now

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Remember guys, Shasta looks bad but Rune might be worse even if he didn't look like it imediately.
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Narya End of Day5

You lynched Eönwë, who was a ringwraith.

Night6 has now begun and I need the pics from the seer, the ranger, the hunter and the remaining ringwraith.

Narration will be posted before I go to sleep (in two hours).
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