WW LX - Mortal Men, doomed to die

[Nienna]

Sorry Rune!!!

Good job everyone else. It was wonderful playing until the end.

[Kent2010]

Well done village! You all put those nasty wraiths in a tough spot they weren't going to wriggle out of.

And cheers to our mod! Exciting game Lommy.

[Eomer of the Rohirrim]

Good game everyone, and well done fellow villagers!

Och, wilwa, that's what werewolf is all about. Though I honestly thought I was being ridiculously obviously innocent. Surprised I got lynched to be honest.

Nae luck werewolves: the villagers were really on top of the game this time.

Special hails to Nogrod, who was outstanding, and of course Lommy.

[Mithalwen]

Very elegant finish to the game .... poor Rune..... Lhuna darling - you do lie beautifully..just remember what happened to Matilda!

[Thinlómien]

I was just thinking - I've modded three games now (one co-modded with Nogrod) and the village has won every single one of them. So, if you want to win a game for the goodies, you know whose game to play in.

Also, I would like to say a few words about giving out the roles as the topic was constantly brought up. It was and was not random. Greenie, my Fortuna, helped me to randomise four different wolf teams, from which I chose the one that seemed the fairest to me (for example, there was one all silent team and one all veteran team and neither seemed very balanced to me). Then I also randomised three (or four?) different possibilities for every gifted and picked a team that felt balanced against the wolf team. And I couldn't resist picking Noggie and Nienna for seer and hunter, because I was interested in how he'd do in staying alive and how she'd do in dying because he always dies early and she was lynched early last game so I expected everybody would want to keep her around! But I would like to emphasise that I did not pick the people I know the best to have the special roles, it just happened that so many of them ended up there... and also I did not take any requests for special roles or anything.

[wilwarin538]

Well, that's a very logical way of doing it. And we ended up with some very good players in those roles. Neat idea!

It was definitely quite a game!

[Nogrod]

Originally Posted by Thinlómien

And I couldn't resist picking Noggie and Nienna for seer and hunter, because I was interested in how he'd do in staying alive and how she'd do in dying because he always dies early and she was lynched early last game so I expected everybody would want to keep her around!

That was mean! So you have found your inner sadist now?

My first thoughts after hearing I'm the seer were: "No! Not me! Why me of all the people? I always die within the two first days/nights!".

But luckily I was wrong this time as it was a great fun...

[Nogrod]

Btw. The age-old question concerning the similarity of the manner of being of the wolves and the gifteds raises it's head once more...

When no one counter-revealed the rangership I was almost disappointed as I thought Lhuna was a wolf (I had even taken a little pain to go back and read almost all of the thread just looking at it from the POV that Lhuna is a wolf and had been getting more confident with it) but I just had to take it as there was no counter-claim. And then - on the light of that - Rune felt somehow so foul even if I couldn't put my finger to it in any argumentative manner (whereas arguments could have been raised against Shasta at that point - wrong as they would have been anyway).

When I dreamt of you Rune the Night which was my last it was all clear of course. But you were holding something back and that showed in your posts and in the way you acted.

It's not easy to be an innocent when your guardian angels look so much like the baddies you need to lynch - whoever they are!

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Originally Posted by Nogrod

What I'm afraid of is that the following generations of werewolves will take this lesson to the heart and will have no mercy regarding the seer (not that they have done it earlier either ).

That would really be a pity. This game actually managed to put into use something that was practically never put in use, or not in my memory: the Seer really performing his duty for a while under the supervision of the village, and the known innocents sharing their thoughts - discussing and trying to find the trail based on the mutual knowledge that they can take each other's conclusions and suspicions as genuine.

And sorry Legate! I felt really bad revealing you so early but I had to do it because I knew you were a wolf already in the beginning (Night1 dream).

Of course, no harm done (okay, or actually: some harm WAS done, but it's okay ).
Although it occured to me at one point before, during the day, I think, that you might be a Seer - the way you acted towards me, being so unsuspecting of me, it struck me as weird and I actually thought "ha, could it not be that he is being nice to me in order to ensure that I won't kill him?". Well, too bad I didn't continue on the thought. But maybe it would not influence the things very much... I don't remember exactly when it occured to me, but if it was on the same Day, then the revelation would have probably came anyway.

Oh, and I must say - the way in which you chose to reveal was certainly interesting, really. Sort of special - nice indeed, while I did not like the content of it I quite liked the manner.

[Nogrod]

Originally Posted by Legate of Amon Lanc

This game actually managed to put into use something that was practically never put in use, or not in my memory: the Seer really performing his duty for a while under the supervision of the village, and the known innocents sharing their thoughts - discussing and trying to find the trail based on the mutual knowledge that they can take each other's conclusions and suspicions as genuine.

I have a vague idea that has happened a few times between two-three people in a village. But it rarely works this well as it also requires people who would be active and willing to make an effort for it. A combined trust is not enough, but a combined effort is also needed (as we saw with Eönwë - and with Sally as well).

And what success it was!

Originally Posted by Legate

"ha, could it not be that he is being nice to me in order to ensure that I won't kill him?". Well, too bad I didn't continue on the thought.

Bless you for that!

[Lhunardawen]

Thank you, Nogrod. *curtsies*

In this game, I was a murderer, a horrible liar, and an adulteress (if my only words to Rune before his death could be taken that way). How much worse can I get?

Lommy, I hope you forwarded my hate mail to Greenie.

I'm really sorry, my fellow wraiths. You did know first Night that I wanted to die, didn't you?

More of this after I'm done with my psych testing (i.e. how the med school administrators realise that they made the wrong choice accepting me and should send me to the psych ward instead).

[Nogrod]

A graceful way to end it indeed! *Bows to Lhuna*

Originally Posted by Izzy

Why oh why did you Wraiths keep Nog alive?

I asked myself that very same question like hundred times during this game... But maybe it was just that, an attempt to create confusion.

What I'm afraid of is that the following generations of werewolves will take this lesson to the heart and will have no mercy regarding the seer (not that they have done it earlier either ).

But it was great fun! And for a long time I managed to squeeze time to actually do some "detective-work" and think about possible strategies (which is becoming possible only on Day3 or something like that) and was alive to actually do something.

So thanks baddies. I really appreciated your tactics!


And sorry Legate! I felt really bad revealing you so early but I had to do it because I knew you were a wolf already in the beginning (Night1 dream). But as I chose as my tactics in the beginning not suspecting you on Day1 - so that you (or your mates whoever they were) wouldn't feel any urge to kill me at Night2 - I had kind of cornered myself already in the beginning. For I could not count on your goodwill - not to talk on that of your fellow mates in crime - and dying on Night3 with a known wolf in my bag would be just terrible seering. But making a hint that would be clear enough if I died would surely have raised your attention - but being only a hint would probably not have awakened the ranger. So I just had to go full open with it.

But to make it more interesting I chose to reveal only at the last minute of the Day. It was a fun experiment I must say. And proved good - with the help of the wolves...

Well, Sally! You're just a player extraordinaire, esq.! I didn't quite believe in my eyes when I got there that Day and saw your "revealment"! That sure was fun! And even if everything so consistently pointed towards your guilt, a thought nagged behind my head for most of the Day saying "it can't be this easy, it can't be... there is something hidden here..." But when you finally started re-posting towards the end of the Day it was quite clear as I think you had already accepted your fate.

But did you Sally just think of running amok or were you thinking you could get away with it on that Day?



A real deep bow to the known innocents; Wilwa, Nerwen and Brinn!

You really made the day! I did pick you up on two grounds. Surely because I was not able to read you and one of you being a baddie would have been disasterous for the village - but also because I thougth you could be ones to make a difference if the other innocents could trust you. And oh boy did you answer that call! (Could one say: "Oh girl, you did it"?) You were just superheroes! Like when I got back on the latter part of Day5 you had all but proved Eönwë was a wraith!


And yes, everyone was playing charmingly most of the time - and RL issues are something we can not do anything about.

Thanks for a very good game everyone!


Last but not least: thanks Lommy for a wonderfully entertaining game! And some of the narrations were just downright hilarious (like the one where Rune tries to reveal for no good, or where trying to make Eönwë walk the plank proves a bit more difficult people thought it would be) or touching (like Lhuna's and Nienna's death-scene).