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Old 08-05-2009, 08:28 PM   #1
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This relates to the fact that the last two games or three games I played in, I was a wolf that was dreamed of on the first (or close to it) Night.

I mean... It's not arrogance so much as dead on truth: I get dreamed of.

Sidenote: It's really hard to play this game with Lari and Mira talking behind you. [/sidenote]

Okay, so now that I've finally caught up... I have very little to say except that Hakon is making n00b errors about telling who he suspects is a gifted, Boro is remaining reasonable...

Actually, that's about all I retained.

I think I'm supposed to be dying a friend's hair...
I know, but it's still Phantomish and thus annoying. I don't think it says that you're a wolf, I just think it's... annoying.
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Old 08-05-2009, 08:43 PM   #2
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Brinn is making me the most nervous right now. Her vote yesterday looks really suspicious. She basically jumped onto a bandwagon (for me) and gave me the leading vote. This seems like a wolf attempt to keep a bandwagon for a non-wolf going so that their fellow wolf doesn't get lynched. Nerwen and Shasta's vote after that for Sally then look innocent.
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Old 08-05-2009, 08:43 PM   #3
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Top Chef Masters is coming on, so sorry with no Tivo available, that will take priority over this and I will return.

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I am a bit suspicious of Form. He is a bit like Inziladun was in the last game. He is offering great opinions and thoughts but all the while he might be blending in better than any other wolf. I know it is not good reasoning and it will probably get called a noob error but I am just sharing my thoughts.~Hakon
That's really not bad reasoning at all...I would ask you to consider that there is a difference between Form this game and Inziladun last.

It's been a long time since I've seen Form in one of these (I'm afraid all I remember are his epic battles with Nogrod). Right now though he's looking like the voice of reason between two polar opposites. Which, with Mith not here, I'm kind of glad to have in this game. Now he could be using this, as a wolf, to his advantage, and like I said it's not a bad reason to suspect someone.

I will point out the difference though, Inziladun pretty much got involved in irrelevant, small matters, like talking about whether wolves would openly like blood or not. Form was jumping into something major and moderating. I wouldn't expect that from a wolf, I would expect the wolves to want the heavy weights to keep throwing haymakers at eachother, Form hasn't done that though...he's stepped right in and well I'm quite glad, because now I can relax, and admit to going overboard with that pic.

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Old 08-05-2009, 08:44 PM   #4
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I just think it's... annoying.
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Old 08-05-2009, 08:46 PM   #5
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Now now, Fea and Shasta play nice or the wolves will eat you tonight.

Since I have to go soon I will make my vote now. I am going to run off my hunch that Alona is the snitch and vote her. I know it is only a gut feeling but still.

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Old 08-05-2009, 09:00 PM   #6
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Here again. Almost forgot about the Day (whoops)...

My vote for Nienna was based off a hunch I picked up from the tone of her posts. Disagree if you want, but it was my opinion and I don't regret it. Meanwhile, I actually did find Sally suspicious...but I found her so obviously wolfish I figured she probably wasn't one... Funny how one of the few times I make a sincere vote on Day 1, it looks suspicious. Go figure. Though reading my post, I can kind of see why you see it that way. Though the same could be said for many other players.

So Nessa voted me based on a comment of Fea's about me? And now it seems Formy will vote me based on that vote. Okay, whatever.

But if that's how you feel go for it. I feel a bit guilty for my lack of being around and when I am, I'm too lazy to read some 100 posts thoroughly...so I probably deserve getting lynched. Anyway, if you all mutually decide to vote me, I'll probably just commit suicide because I'm goth and all. It'll make for the perfect narration.

Okay, now trying to be useful...

Nerwen's defensiveness makes her look more innocent to me. Hakon seems like just a confused newbie. If he is a wolf, he's taking advantage of his status and I'll be disappointed. Nienna's vote does make her look more innocent. I wonder if there were any wolf-on-wolf yesterDay. Possible, but considering how close it was, it would've been a risky move...especially for Day One.

No one else really rubs me one way or the other just yet. I have to get off the computer now (since I'm sharing one), but will be back later to vote. I'm clueless to who that vote will be for, but I hope it won't take too long to decide since it is time I lack. :/

X-ed since #173: Ooh, so now Nienna might vote me too? Yay! Go me.
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Old 08-05-2009, 09:05 PM   #7
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So Nessa voted me based on a comment of Fea's about me? And now it seems Formy will vote me based on that vote. Okay, whatever.
Wait... what? I don't remember this. I don't remember actually saying anything about you... What did I supposedly say?
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Old 08-05-2009, 09:12 PM   #8
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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.
I wasn't terribly concerned with your comment since you tend to suspect me early, but Nessa jumped on it rather quickly.

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Brinn, at least, has carried off the quiet, unassuming, lupine killer role before, if my memory serves.
I have been quiet before as both an innocent and wolf, so my role doesn't have an impact on how much I post. I'm usually quiet because I lack time or I don't have anything worthy to say.

Okay, really have to go now...
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Old 08-05-2009, 09:12 PM   #9
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Wait... what? I don't remember this. I don't remember actually saying anything about you... What did I supposedly say?
Nessa only mentioned Mac making a comment about you, not Fea, Brinn.

Edit: X'ed with Alonariel and Brinn. That comment was made by Mac, not Fea. At least according to Nessa.
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Old 08-05-2009, 09:14 PM   #10
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Nessa only mentioned Mac making a comment about you, not Fea, Brinn.
Wait, am I mixing the two up? If so, it must be because Mac's new avatar confuses me. *smacks self*
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Old 08-05-2009, 09:15 PM   #11
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Funny how one of the few times I make a sincere vote on Day 1, it looks suspicious. Go figure.
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Okay, whatever.
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It'll make for the perfect narration.

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Yay! Go me.
Is anyone else somewhat spooked by Brinn's flippant response to her somewhat-threatened lynching?

I realise I tend to base my judgements of people's roles in this game entirely too much on my read of their character--which means the newer the player, the more out to lunch I can be--but this seems ridiculously out of character for Brinn--or an innocent Brinn anyway.

An innocent Brinn, I'm thinking, would be royally ticked off at us for planning to kill her RIGHT before she can get more involved in the game (Brinn is a WW fiend, last I checked). So why is she so casual?

Because Brinn is an old hand at this, and won't make the same mistake Sally did. She won't overreact, go into hysterics, and try to argue her way out, beyond the brief acknowledgement that:

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Though reading my post, I can kind of see why you see it that way
Which, if you ask me, is probably the sneakiest way to deflect the questions: don't focus on them, acknowledge them, and pretend they're minor.

It's all just a little too smooth for me... Rather than allaying my fears, as I expected a defensive Brinn to do when she finally got a chance to come online, this Brinn is cheerfully ready to go to the gallows, if that's what we decide.

Funnily, though, no mention of how it's not going to help the village any if we're down an innocent...
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Funnily, though, no mention of how it's not going to help the village any if we're down an innocent...
I would have thought that would have been obvious... funnily enough, I don't see you mentioning the same thing in regard to Nerwen and Fea earlier in the day, this not-mentioning-the-obvious.
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I would have thought that would have been obvious... funnily enough, I don't see you mentioning the same thing in regard to Nerwen and Fea earlier in the day, this not-mentioning-the-obvious.
Given that I didn't really reply in depth to either Fea or Nerwen, I'm not sure what you're getting at. Granted, that was also a bit of a throwaway line, tacked on because it occurred to me at the last moment, and agreed with the general tack of the post as it was already being composed--but hardly a serious argument in its own right.

It is, of course, quite ridiculously obvious. Maybe it's just the sense I get from Brinn--which is what I was trying to emphasize--a sense of slightly forced "the devil may care." Brinn's actions would have seemed normal to me, early in the day, when things can go one way or another, but we're into the homestretch now, and it just seems like she's trying too hard to blow us off the scent.
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Old 08-05-2009, 09:48 PM   #14
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An innocent Brinn, I'm thinking, would be royallyb ticked off at us for planning to kill her RIGHT before she can get more involved in the game (Brinn is a WW fiend, last I checked). So why is she so casual?
In all honesty, because I've lost my enthusiasm for WW in the last couple months. I'm trying, but I'm not sure why it feels like such a struggle. I want to play, but I just can't get myself to be my usual thoughtful self. Maybe it's the heat. Or maybe it's because I'm short on time and it's a bit of an effort to post at all (and I feel bad I'm stealing someone's computer for this). I'm sure I'll be back to my old self in the fall, especially considering the environment I'll be living in.

I feel stupid enough as it is that in the little contribution I've made, I managed to mistaken identities. Still, I blame Mac for changing his avatar. I can't remember him ever changing it before, so why confuse me now?

If you lynched me I'll not be too concerned since one wolf is already out of the way. Unless I have any strong suspicions for another contender, I'd rather see me go than a more helpful innocent. But still, I must admit I find all this bandwagoning against me a bit ridiculous.
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Old 08-05-2009, 10:05 PM   #15
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Brinn I suspect of librarianism most right now, but I think she deserves the benefit of the doubt since she will likely be more active toMorrow.
Actually, chances are I won't be here at all toMorrow, not even to vote. Well, maybe I will in the first hour of the Day if I must. After that I should be posting more frequently, up until the following Monday (the 17th)...but chances are I'll be dead by then.

I'm tired and really ought to vote soon. Fea feels alright to me. Formy's persistence against me feels a bit odd, but not enough to vote for. I could vote Nessa since I feel her jumping on someone else's suspicion is suspicious. Or I could go with Fea in voting for a quiet player even less helpful than I've been.

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