Tol-in-Gaurhoth LXIX: Were-Librarians

[Lariren Shadow]

Wilwa walked out into the hallway. Her cell phone wasn't getting great reception in the room she had and #5 was sick and wanted to talk to Mommy. She sighed, knowing that the other 8 would be sick within the week.

The Were-Librarians took this oppertunity to kill one of the innocent. They stalked her through the halls, following her, trying to corner her.

In the end they got her in a corner, she turned to look at them. "Oh its just...AAAAAHHHHH!!!!!" She cried as they began to beat her with their scanners. Bloody and broken they placed her body under where their fallen comrade Sally still swayed.

Form emerged from his room first to find the wonderful tragic sight that awaited all of them. Wilwa, dead and bloody, below Sally's body(they had forgotten to take it down).

Tum was next to come in and fought back the bile as she saw Wilwa's body.

The rest filed in as well, mourning the loss of the wonderful mother of 9.

The Living:
Fea, Freshman comp professor/slave
Hakon
Boro, Nervous student teacher
Autume98, Computer geek who keeps to herself and no one really knows
Nerwen, Ex-cheerleader with a job that sounds horribly more glamorous than it is
Nessa Telrunya
Nienna, Artsy kid that couldn't be dragged out of the art room so she stayed there
Mac, Shy kid
Shasta, Rebel with nothing to rebel against but still looks cool
Formendacil, Eater of Kraft dinners while getting his Doctorate in Inane Uselessness
Alonariel, Nurse who never sleeps
Brinn, the goth kid everyone is afraid of

The Dead:
Lari, crushed by books~ Moddess
Mira, impaled by a v-cart~ Co-Moddess
Sally, tried to defy gravity and succeed by being hanged~ Were-Librarian
Wilwa, beaten with scanners~ Ordo

Day 2 has begun.

[Nerwen]

Nerwen shook her head sadly, "What a way to go! Lucky we've got someone here with a bit of experience in police procedure." This was technically true: Nerwen had been brought in for questioning a couple of times. "I've made a list of everything she said yesterDay. Maybe that will give us some clues,"

#14.

Originally Posted by wilwarin538

Wilwa giggled as she continued to tell Mac and Shasta about how #8 is finally walking, how wonderful is that!?!

They don't seem to be all that interested, she thought sadly as Shasta walked away to talk to Sally, sweet girl though, and Mac just sat there looking half asleep. How strange, I thought everyone would be so excited to hear about my wonderful miracles.

She decided to wander around and look for someone else to talk too. After grabbing a strange green drink that tasted like bananas she walked up to Nessa, who also seemed quite lonely.

"Hello!" Willwa said gently trying to remember any classes they had together. "Remember that one time in English Lit...."

#38.

Originally Posted by wilwarin538

Ok. So a list, and I have just included those who have actually posted today:

Boro: no really, they are angels (7 is a girl), if they ever do throw spitballs in your class though I won't interfere with the punishing....but it won't happen, haha. Seriously though, no bad vibes from him.

Alonariel: Newbie pass today

Sally: talks about Boro....alot. She always confuses me, it's a general rule.

Shasta: kinda hurt that he "pointedly ignored" me, but otherwise I'm not pushed in either directions for him

Nerwen: nothing weird in her single post

Nienna: made a list! Good girl!

Nessa: haven't played with her before, so I'm wanting to keep her around for at least today......and her name is my RL name, so I like her

Fea: had a bad first day at work and therefore don't want to make it worse for the poor dear, so will leave her be for today....though she seems fine anyways

Autume: see Nessa just cut out the last part


So.....this has gotten me no where. Really nothing much to go on, so I'm at a loss for the moment. Only have about another half hour before I fall asleep, so I'll just be hanging around until then. And then I shall vote...for whom, I don't know....

#42.

Originally Posted by wilwarin538

Autume has now been tranformed into a girl in my above post, my apologies for that little mix up, never played with her before so I guessed....anyway, yeah, sorry about that...


So I am exhausted from all of todays events (in RL and in the game). Therefore I shall vote.

For whom? Not really sure....I'm honestly good with everyone, mainly cause there hasn't been a heck of a lot from everyone.

So actually, I'm thinking I shall refrain from voting, since I'm not comfortable voting for anyone who has spoken, and I dislike voting for silent types on Day 1....maybe if the deadline wasn't so late I'd end up with more to go on, but for now I don't so this is where I'll leave it.

Good luck to you all today!

So... no leads to anyone. I guess they think they've committed the perfect crime.

[Nerwen]

Anyone around? I'm getting lonely.

[Macalaure]

Originally Posted by Form

Now... I've sat out a lot of these games since I was a carefree pre-university student, and I've not read most of the ones I've missed, so there's a lot of WW-culture current that I'm not up with--but one thing I have picked up on is that Nienna has something of an unreasonable penchant for being unreasonably lynched on Days 1.

Is she? I wasn't aware of that. She was the only suspicicous person to me at the time, though, so I don't think I would have voted differently even then.

Originally Posted by Form

Which means that, coupled with Mac's almost immediate reply to Nienna's post--a Day-ending post, suggesting she won't be back before the end of the Day to defend herself--I am really not liking Mac's quoted post.

I was around, I saw something very suspicious, and at the same time I saw two bandwaggons, liked neither, and wanted to try to put the village on a better rail (from my perspective). It's not like my suspicion against her was new at that time...

Originally Posted by Form

It's a little too easy. He sees a couple bandwaggons, says he doesn't like them, and then expresses this by starting--potentially--one of the easiest Day 1 bandwaggons there is?

I would disagree that my bandwaggon was particularly easy compared to others.


I do have to say that, reading Sally's later posts, I would probably have retracted to her. She criticised votes against her instead of suspicion against her and the way she tried to encourage people to vote Nienna doesn't look good either. Needless to say, this implies that Nienna is very probably innocent.


Alright, I'll be back with closer looks at the dead people and at the voting.

Wait, I see Nerwen put all of wilwa's posts into one. Nice. It's interesting: the libarians have every reason to be very afraid of the gifteds in this game, yet they chose someone apparently for the single reason to not leave a trail. Are they that afraid to kill the snitch? Why not simply get rid of any of the Sally-voters, for example? Are we dealing with inexperienced librarians, or with librarians who are already now under much pressure? In the latter case, since I doubt Nienna is a librarian, Nerwen would probably be - but then, why is Fea not dead? For now the librarians might be able to confuse us this way, but I think this strategy will come to bite them.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Originally Posted by Macalaure

since I doubt Nienna is a librarian, Nerwen would probably be - but then, why is Fea not dead?

Wolves are great about knowing when somebody genuinely doesn't know what they're talking about. It would have cast a lot of suspicion against Nerwen if I'd died in the Night, so I doubt they'd have gone for me. I mean... unless Nerwen isn't a wolf.

But whether or not she is, killing me in the Night does the following things:

1) the wolves lose a distracting force; wolves tend not to want to kill me early because I draw attention away from them (this works in reverse when I am actually a wolf, of course...). While I'm alive, the Seer dreams of me (my last three wolf games I was dreamed of first or second and I've been Fenrised several times), so the actual wolves are safe from that for a bit. And the village tends to wonder what I'm up to, leaving quiet wolves to hide out and watch, and contribute their 'suspicions.'

I'm really too valuable of a scapegoat for wolves to want to kill off so soon, whether or not my I-don't-know-what-I'm-talking-about vote for Nerwen was spot on.

2) This one applies more if Nerwen is a wolf: if I died in the Night, it would definitely cause people to take a very close look at my posts and my voting record. Since Nerwen's the only one I really mentioned suspicion of (even though it was less suspicion than "Well, I've gotta vote for someone..."), it would have really looked bad on her. If she's a Librarian, her co-workers would want, I suspect, to avoid that.

But mostly?

I suspect I just didn't die because wolves like to have me around to worry the village for them.

[Nerwen]

Originally Posted by Feanor of the Peredhil

Boro: Whoa, look at this, B: for once I'm not trying really hard to kill you right away. I reserve the right to change my mind, of course, but for now you seem pretty okay.

Funny you should say that Fea, because I was just making a post about how the person who most needs to explain himself at the moment is Boro.

And now you jump on Mac's tentative scenario:

Originally Posted by Macalaure

Are we dealing with inexperienced librarians, or with librarians who are already now under much pressure? In the latter case, since I doubt Nienna is a librarian, Nerwen would probably be - but then, why is Fea not dead? For now the librarians might be able to confuse us this way, but I think this strategy will come to bite them.

–and start talking about me as if I'm suddenly the top suspect in the village. Why?

Originally Posted by Feanor of the Peredhil

Wolves are great about knowing when somebody genuinely doesn't know what they're talking about. It would have cast a lot of suspicion against Nerwen if I'd died in the Night, so I doubt they'd have gone for me. I mean... unless Nerwen isn't a wolf.

etc., etc., etc.

And then, why in Middle-earth do you feel the need to construct elaborate theories of why you're still alive, anyway? Why shouldn't you be? (Oh yes, because if I were a wolf I might have thought you were the Seer– ya-de-ya-de-ya– but that's an explanation with nothing to explain.)

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Originally Posted by Nerwen

And then, why in Middle-earth do you feel the need to construct elaborate theories of why you're still alive, anyway?

Did you miss the part where Mac asked why I'm still alive? Look, I'll quote it for your convenience, so there's no need to read what he wrote for yourself:

Originally Posted by Mac (again)

In the latter case, since I doubt Nienna is a librarian, Nerwen would probably be - but then, why is Fea not dead?

His question was, if you're a wolf, why didn't I die? I was merely trying to point out that regardless of your role, it would be silly of wolves to kill me, but if you were a wolf, it would be really, really stupid.

You're not really, really stupid, are you?

[Macalaure]

Boro -> Mac - an unsuccessful test
Fea -> Nerwen - without reason
Sally -> Nerwen - crossed with Fea, so possible librarian-on-librarian
Boro -> autume - Boro, why is "A lot of commentary mixed in with a couple jokes" suspicious?
Nienna -> Sally - no real reason behind this, but Sally was talked about at this point, so no lib-on-lib, I think
Hakon -> same as Nienna, just more so
Mac -> Nienna
Form -> Hakon - looks genuine to me, though a concealed attempt to save Sally is not impossible
autume -> Nienna - says she goes with her suspicion, which looks good at first glance, but on closer inspection: she only starts being suspicious of Nienna five minutes before her vote. She had been neutral in her book all the time before.
Brinn -> Nienna - this vote puts Nienna in the lead before Sally and is obviously suspicious. I might be paranoid, but her reasons look a bit fabricated.
Nerwen -> Sally - obviously makes her look good
alona -> Mac - throwaway vote without any reason. I think a librarian would have tried to make her vote look more polished.
Shasta -> Sally - innocent

which makes:

guilty:
autume

shady:
Brinn

unknown:
Fea
Boro
Nessa (missing)

nice:
Hakon
Form
alona

innocent:
Nienna (also because of Sally's attempt to have her lynched)
Nerwen
Shasta

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

I'm around for about two hours (between things like showering and cleaning) and then if anybody yells at me for non-participation, blame the fact that I'm going to pick up Mira from the bus terminal and Lari from the airport (!). Can't blame a girl for being distracted when the reason she's distracted is a visit from the mods.

Okay, so. To start my Day right before I hop in the shower, I'm making a List. Don't get all up in my grill for making lists because they serve really truly fabulous purposes not just for wolves. You just have to know what sorts of things to look for.

The Not Particularly Evil, I Think:

Fea: well, duhz.

Nienna, love that she is, has peaced out for the day to go make pretty artistic things and probably to help her peers (most of whom are older) figure out computer software. I prefer to pay actual attention to people when they're actually around for me to ask questions of, but in Nienna's case, I'm not particularly concerned either way. She's not being sneaky enough for me to think she's a threat.

Mac is someone who I was worried about, but upon closer inspection, I think it was just me assuming that he might hypothetically be possibly someone to worry about, in theory. After I took a closer look at his posts, I do definitely think I was reading too much into them.

Formendacil: I might be wrong, but nothing about his posts strike me as off. I'm glad it's a small enough and quiet enough game that it doesn't take much effort to pay attention to everybody.

Boro: Whoa, look at this, B: for once I'm not trying really hard to kill you right away. I reserve the right to change my mind, of course, but for now you seem pretty okay.

The I Really Don't Know But Think There's Almost Definitely at Least One Wolf in Here List:

Hakon
Autume98
Nerwen
Nessa Telrunya
Shasta
Alonariel
Brinn

I'll come back after I shower to reread the thread over breakfast and see if I can pull up some reasons why they concern me and the others don't.