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Old 05-19-2009, 03:54 PM   #1
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Shasta, Eomer, and Gwath are safe from me for two days. Maybe more. We'll see.

Boro, Gaurcrist, Inzil, Green, and Mith are safe for one day.

Nienna will never be safe- that pandering book wench! She's evil. Even if she isn't evil, she is, in fact, evil.

Fea..... I have nothing to say, except- without stories, how boring would life be?

I suggest we lynch no one.
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Old 05-19-2009, 04:12 PM   #2
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Shasta, Eomer, and Gwath are safe from me for two days.
Safe from you? What would you to to us if we weren't?
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Old 05-19-2009, 04:20 PM   #3
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I suggest we lynch no one.
And where, dear phantom, is the fun in that?

Ima go ahead and vote now since it probably should be bedtime (meaning I'll vote now and retract later if necessary when there's actually reason to do so). So for now,

++sally

Since I know she won't hurt me for voting her.
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Old 05-20-2009, 02:27 AM   #4
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Because of a weird feeling, and because I know she won't get cross with me for voting her out of desperation.
Ha just remember what happened with Lommy in the DW and ever since!

Probably at least some of the early voters are going to retract but there are apparently also some who won't (mostly Boro-voters). Grr are you really going to lynch him on day 1 just because he's Boro?
Fea and Gwath are your arguments against him trying to set Mira up serious? And even if he was really setting her up, why would it make him suspicious? You know, I've been set up by him too, and that time he was the seer.
Besides, of phantom and Boro I'd rather kill phantom because he's more confusing, but I'm not planning to vote for either of them today.

Apart from that I have pretty much no idea who to vote yet as no one strikes me as especially suspicious (Gaurcrist hasn't even appeared yet). There's been regrettably little serious discussion thus far anyway, and I'm planning to do something about it in a few hours when I'm back home.

As of now, I have a date with Nogrod.
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Old 05-20-2009, 03:36 AM   #5
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I think toDay is one of my most pathetic Day One's ever.

There is suspicious behavior everywhere, being veiled by something which could be explained away as 'in character banter'.

I think the easy votes would be for either phantom for some reason, and Boro for his whatevering with Mira.

Really, would Boro be that obvious Day one?

Do I vote for Shasta for saying to the Big Bad Wolf, unwise things?
Who even does that sort of thing on Day One? Bluff?


X'd since Agan's #131. I think trying to say I crossposted killed the Downs for me. o.O
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Old 05-20-2009, 03:56 AM   #6
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I think it's either a scheme or a joke between friends and in both cases I advice to ignore it.
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Greenie - maybe you should calm down and ignore Boro and phantom?
First thing - I don't think I was in a state that would have required calming down. Second thing - although only concentrating on those two is surely dangerous, I can't ignore two players completely, either. That seems very unwise. You wouldn't advice me to ignore Gwath, or Kath (I'm a poet! Hooray!), or Mith. I won't purposefully ignore anyone or anything. I don't see the point in that.

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Surely, Boro, you could "test" the village without risking the life of one of our better players?
Dunno why but calling scheming, complicated, attention-seeking players our better players annoys me. No, but honestly, I don't think making things complicated and doing all sorts of ploys necessarily means being right more often or being more efficient in catching wolves.

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By the way, you can't trust someone's promises, but you can trust votes...and see I already voted so you are already safe from me.
Sorry but I don't buy this. As if you didn't know or expected that whoever it was who you said this to didn't know that the votes are retractable. Smells of a purposeful attempt to mislead another player.

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McC (although if he's planning to be quiet himself while saying the silent ones should be lynched first, I'm going to vote for him)
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Grr are you really going to lynch him on day 1 just because he's Boro?
So you'd be ready to lynch McCaber just because he plays like he always does but are angry when people are about to lynch Boro for being Boro?
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Old 05-20-2009, 04:20 AM   #7
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Aganzir - seems okay this far. Her relationship with Lommy looks weird, though - before the game they talked about how they don't want to quarrel in this game, and now they are both decidedly considering each other innocent.
Boro - Dunno about him. I don't like his style, but I suppose that's nothing new and I agree with Agan that it's a poor reason for lynching him.
Eomer - Speaks sense, mostly.
Fea - I disagree with her about Day 1s, and I dislike her vote. She's entertaining, though.
Gaurcrist - I hope he knows the game has started.
Gwath - I would have changed Gwath into Qwath since I really prefer that but that would have meant that I'd have had to move him in my neat alphabetical order and I didn't have the energy to do so. He seems all right this far.
Inziladun - Apart from the confusing nicknames he doesn't disturb me.
Izzy - Nothing alarming.
Kath - Speaks good sense. I like her.
Lari - I'm confused. I hope she'll be able to be around more toMorrow.
Lommy - Seems okay.
McCaber - Seems okay. I like his contribution.
Mira - Her vote is very easy and sort of non-comittal. That's all I have to say about her. Slightly evil.
Mith - She's nice.
Nerwen - She's even more entertaining than Fea and not nearly as alarming.
Nienna - I agree with Eomer and Lommy that her vote looks decidedly uninterested and non-comittal. An innocent would at least try to catch a wolf.
the phantom - Pretty much the same as with Boro: I dislike his style but that's not a good reason to lynch someone.
Sally - No read.
Shasta - I'm alarmed by him. His "I'm ordo"-comment seemed to me a rather wolvish thing to say. A baddie might not have thought so deeply about the interpretations a BBW could have derived from that if Shasta was not his fellow. I don't know if my explanation made any sense at all, but in short, that comment made me very uneasy about him. I'll vote for him unless a better candidate appears.
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Old 05-20-2009, 04:28 AM   #8
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A slight correction to my list because my brain is leaking and I forgot half of my Lommy-sentence. Here comes the Lommy-sentence in full:

Lommy - Seems okay except for the thing I mentioned when talking about Agan.
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Old 05-20-2009, 04:35 AM   #9
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Fea's spot on with her reasoning, no joke, it is 100% accurate. Now why Gwath and Shasta have jumped on it, I don't know. I actually buy Shasta's ordo plea at the beginning, but if he did vote for me just to keep long standing traditions and I am lynched, I will be sore.

Oh I should get this out of the way too

--the phantom

Gwath on the other hand looks the worst. He claims I am setting up Mira for a wolf kill,which I wasn't, I was trying to find my piece, but wouldn't that mean I am not a wolf? I guess I could be the robber bridegroom, but that's not me either, it would have been a great joy to play with the role I partially created, but alas not me. If I was the robber bridegroom someone (who I will not mention for his/her own safety) would be dead right now.

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I don't get Boro's behaviour but I think people are too quick to jump on it. It could have been just a joke. *shrugs* But actually the announcement that he's getting serious and we should ignore everything he said in the first half of the Day is what puzzles and worries me the most...~Lommy
That's because there really is nothing in them, I am just randomly writing a response to whatever someone says. If you would like to pick my brain to see if I have a subconscious reason for responding in the way I did, go ahead, but I would not want to see you go insane. It would be much easier if one were to start an analysis on me, to start with this post.
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Thank you for the defense, but can I have one of your lions just in case?

I have to remember this, because I remember defending you when I was a wolf before, so now I just think you might be returning the favor. Are you the type of wolf to sieze on the oppurtunity right now, or try to butter me up so I taste better?

I need to figure that out, Mith would be someone who would totally sieze on the oppurtunity, so if she comes and retracts for tp to vote for me, I am going to cast my vote for her.
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Old 05-20-2009, 05:07 AM   #11
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But actually the announcement that he's getting serious and we should ignore everything he said in the first half of the Day is what puzzles and worries me the most...
What I find funny is that he hasn't posted at all after that post.
But yes he's probably aware his early posts won't be ignored whatever he says so I don't know what was the point of saying it.

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Fea voted Boro next. I get a very bad feeling from this vote. It looks like a carefully planned bandwagon-starter against a dangerous player or maybe even a suspected gifted.
I don't like it either, it somehow looked like... over-explanatory. And it looks a bit as if she was sort of hiding behind her dislike towards day 1s and using it as a reason to vote for a dangerous player.

Basically I don't like any of the Boro votes very much because, well, the reasons aren't very good and it looks like an effort to get rid of someone who can severely harm the baddies if he's good himself.

I agree with Lommy and Eomer about the votes in general (but I don't contemplate trolls).

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I don't want to vote Mira because it would look like Boro's the cobbler and I'm a wolf taking his hint. Yeah, I thought that way. Silly, I know.
Aieee I promised I'd ignore you but I can't help this! I don't like that comment - it means practically the same thing as voting Mira (according to you) would have meant. If you had voted her, I wouldn't probably have even thought of it that way, but you refrain from doing it because you don't want to appear wolfish by "taking hints from the cobbler". Still, you say it aloud, which looks like "Hey cobbler I caught your hint!" And that "Silly, I know" doesn't make it look any better.

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I won't purposefully ignore anyone or anything. I don't see the point in that.
I was just trying to protect your little green head from aching as you always get annoyed with those two.

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So you'd be ready to lynch McCaber just because he plays like he always does but are angry when people are about to lynch Boro for being Boro?
I could be blunt and say: Yes because Boro is louder.
But no I think you missed my point - I referred to McC saying quiet ones should be lynched first while giving the impression he was going to talk lots in this game.

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before the game they talked about how they don't want to quarrel in this game, and now they are both decidedly considering each other innocent.
I don't see why you think that's weird, and at least on my part it isn't anything like "decidedly considering" her innocent. The only thing I decided was not to attack her with ridiculous reasons as long as she behaves herself and doesn't do the same to me.

I'm not overly fond of Greenie, somehow she seems to be aggressive and grasping at straws at the same time. Her point about Shasta was good, but unlike she, I don't think it was such a big thing. Like, I didn't approve much of his comment either, but it didn't make me feel "very uneasy".
I'm aware I have a tendency to suspect Green just because the way she plays always looks suspicious to me, but last time I decided not to say anything just because of that and lo! she killed me the next night.
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Old 05-20-2009, 05:15 AM   #12
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Old 05-20-2009, 05:23 AM   #13
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Hey even robots have to sleep (Look what you made me do! Even after I promised not too).

But to make this be somewhat useful...I disagree with what you said about Lommy here:
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Aieee I promised I'd ignore you but I can't help this! I don't like that comment - it means practically the same thing as voting Mira (according to you) would have meant. If you had voted her, I wouldn't probably have even thought of it that way, but you refrain from doing it because you don't want to appear wolfish by "taking hints from the cobbler". Still, you say it aloud, which looks like "Hey cobbler I caught your hint!" And that "Silly, I know" doesn't make it look any better.
It makes Lommy look innocent, because it is brutally honest. I used to be constantly paranoid, and careful about what I said, or what I posted. People think that makes you a wolf, but it doesn't, ordos and innocents fear the gallows and also constantly wonder "If I say this,will people want to lynch me? If I vote this person, and I am wrong, will people think I am a wolf?"...etc

Until I finally realized, you can say whatever you want, someone will have a bad feeling, a twist in their gut...some reason to actually suspect you. And Lommy being brutally honest that she is worried if she does something, people will think she's a wolf shows me two things:

1. She is actually thinking about who to lynch today. I mean based on that alone, she should live today.

2. She is worried about the gallows, but isn't hiding it. That type of honesty is hard to find in a wolf.

Maybe Lommy is a great manipulating baddie, but I do not have that "aieee" reaction, and now I wonder why Agan, you reacted to it? It looks a bit...over the top?
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