WW LXXIX: Fall From Olympus

[Loslote]

As we're all throwing out our suspicions of what Nerwen's role is based on her slip, may I just say that no one's suggested she might be Persephone, trying to find Hades? This is my current theory, anyways. I'd be up for lynching Nerwen, because if Persephone dies, so does Wolf!Hades - and I think Nerwen might be Persephone. If we don't come up with a wolf, that's where my vote will probably go.

[Nogrod]

Originally Posted by Loslote

As we're all throwing out our suspicions of what Nerwen's role is based on her slip, may I just say that no one's suggested she might be Persephone, trying to find Hades? This is my current theory,

Hades already knows who Persephone is so there's no need for Persephone to get into the risky bussiness of hinting her role to Hades. It's the task of Hades to give hints to Persephone who s/he is.

And unlike Rikae seems to think, I think it perfectly probable that the wolf-lovers would try to attract their lovers on Day1 to finalise their love asap and make them so much stronger! To wolf-lovers it is a catastrophic situation as long as their innocent part has not recognized them: it means their death actually if the other one dies. With the lover found they have many more options to win and at least to live. So there is some real pressure and urgency in the wolves trying to find their lovers.

[Loslote]

Originally Posted by Nogrod

Hades already knows who Persephone is so there's no need for Persephone to get into the risky bussiness of hinting her role to Hades. It's the task of Hades to give hints to Persephone who s/he is.

Maybe Nerwen thought she saw someone else hinting and was trying to confirm her suspicion, or maybe she just wanted him to be sure she was paying attention. Maybe she even threw it out in hopes that Hades would comment on it, just like we're all doing. I'll go back and see if there was anything she could have been responding to, trying to confirm a suspected hint.

[Loslote]

Originally Posted by Nerwen

Well, things have come to a pretty pass! I don't know, somehow you always think the Twilight of the Gods is something that only happens to other pantheons, don't you? *shakes head sadly*

I mean, really, what the Hades is going on? And I hear there's a mortal among us! We must smite this upstart immediately!

On second look, this was her first post, and it was joking banter. Hades was not refering to the person, but the place. I do think we've blown this way out of porportion. I take back my earlier suspicion. Sorry, Nerwen.

[Macalaure]

Just a comment now, more later.

I just skimmed some points against me. I did not claim that Boro is Zeus. My theory is that Boro dropped the name Zeus a few times to indicate that he is a lover, too, one of the three that need to find theirs. Having one or two lovers waste their first pick is bad, but worth having one be right with their first pick.

Greenie, I didn't really suspect Nerwen yet because I only made the comment that what I said about Boro can apply to her just as well.

The lovers are trying to find each other - we have to look for hints.

[Inziladun]

Originally Posted by Macalaure

I just skimmed some points against me. I did not claim that Boro is Zeus. My theory is that Boro dropped the name Zeus a few times to indicate that he is a lover, too, one of the three that need to find theirs. Having one or two lovers waste their first pick is bad, but worth having one be right with their first pick.

If Boro is part of one of the other lover pairs, why would he think name-dropping Zeus might lead his unknown counterpart to him?

[Rikae]

Originally Posted by Inziladun

If Boro is part of one of the other lover pairs, why would he think name-dropping Zeus might lead his unknown counterpart to him?

Allied with Zeus = allied with wolves, I suppose. Though Boro's explanation looks pretty honest to me.

Actually, right now I find myself more suspicious of the people who think they see hints everywhere - Wilwa, Mac, Nog - than of the people who are supposed to be doing the hinting. Eonwe's alleged hint sounds the most plausible, but in that case, it may just as well be a hint to the village (letting us know to lynch him if he's turned) as to the wolves. Nerwen's is indeed really embedded in the banter, but could still be something - but Boro's looks more like what he says it is than anything else to me.

[Rikae]

Nog, I wasn't saying I didn't think it was possible that the wolves would hint, but that I thought that particular comment looked too risky.

Actually, though, on second thought, it may have seemed more risky purely due to the fact that Mac pointed it out. When I first read it, I saw it as in-character flavor and nothing more, so it may be that, objectively speaking, it wasn't that risky after all.

EDIT: X'd with Loslote. Maybe, but joking banter can conceal hints, too.

[Nogrod]

A correction to the earlier post. I checked the rules and realised there are such different variations as to who knows who with the lover-pairs.

So. If someone else has also missed those let me remind you of our situation - especially in eye of finding someone looking for a mate or signalling others.

Zeus and Hera know each other and may PM so there is no need of sending messages of identification between the two.

With Hades and Persephone, Hades know who Persephone is but she doesn't know him. So Hades should try to send a hint. Interestingly the only possible hint found thus far is about Hades...

Neither Hephaistos or Aphrodite know each others identity so they'd both like to know it. So both need to make hints.

Ares is the loner wolf, but then there is something I had totally forgotten and it made me think of a post I wondered while reading through earlier... well, there's Dionysos the cursed. What Thanatos the mod said:

Originally Posted by Glirdy

If the Wolves choose to Night kill him, he will join their ranks. Only the player and I will know that they are Dionysus.

And here's something interesting:

Originally Posted by Eonwë

I think Dionysus may have poisoned me (I feel quite sick), so I'm probably only going to be back near the end of the Day.

I'm quite sure the wolves have read the rules much more closer than we have so there's no risk of letting them know this. They have most probably read this already and notified it.

Also it would make sense of Eonwë's initial "wolf!" -post...

But what to do with him, that's another question.

X'd with Mac

[Inziladun]

Nog makes good points about Eönwë. His remark about Dionysus, which I took as a throw-away at the time, wouldn't seem to have any innocent context (innocent, as in meaningless) here. Why not just say "I'm ill"?
I'm not sure what to do based on that, either though. I'd like to hear what steve has to say about it.

[Rikae]

Well, if we'll be able to tell when the cursed is turned, we can always lynch Eonwe - though "Dionysus poisoned me" reads to me like "I had too much to drink."

[Inziladun]

Originally Posted by Rikae

Well, if we'll be able to tell when the cursed is turned, we can always lynch Eonwe - though "Dionysus poisoned me" reads to me like "I had too much to drink."

Admin thread says:

Dionysus – God of Wine – Dionysus is the Cursed. If the Wolves choose to Night kill him, he will join their ranks. Only the player and I will know that they are Dionysus. I will not reveal the Cursed until the end of the game.

So if the Cursed is killed before being turned, I read that as saying they'll be revealed as an ordo at the time.
And that's possible about the Dionysus / wine connection, but steve is only what, 16?

[Nienna]

The Steve-slip is an interesting thing. It seems a little bit too bold unless he wants to be lynched so he isn't night-killed. Hmmm it bears close watching and I will definitely be waiting for that explanation as long as it doesn't come too late in the Day.

[Nogrod]

Originally Posted by Inziladun

And that's possible about the Dionysus / wine connection, but steve is only what, 16?

Welcome the pro crime-investigator! *still reading through the thread to find any hints, back soon*

X'd with Nienna

[Rikae]

Originally Posted by Inziladun

So if the Cursed is killed before being turned, I read that as saying they'll be revealed as an ordo at the time.

That's not what I meant. I mean, if the cursed is turned during the night, will the narration indicate this? If so, we can just lynch Eonwe after the cursed is turned, if he is.

Originally Posted by Inzil

And that's possible about the Dionysus / wine connection, but steve is only what, 16?

Is he? Didn't know that. I believe in the UK the drinking age is 18...

[Blind Guardian]

I've drinken and I'm not 16. It's where I get my good looks from. Though I'm not French. Though I wouldn't drink that much, true. Dionyses doesn't have a lover. So is Eönwë hinting that he's Dionyses?

Xed with everyone since 134

[Nerwen]

Originally Posted by Loslote

On second look, this was her first post, and it was joking banter. Hades was not refering to the person, but the place. I do think we've blown this way out of porportion. I take back my earlier suspicion. Sorry, Nerwen.

That's okay. I realise now that the usual themed Day One bantering was possibly ill-advised in this game, because pretty much anything you can say relates to one of the roles. I hadn't got my head around that at that stage.

[Loslote]

I can't think of another explanation for Steve's comment. I'd say the only thing we can do is leave him be until we have reason to think he's been turned. As of now, he counts for the innocents. Later in the game, it'll be really important to have as many innocents as possible.

As a side note, if the Ranger or Hunting Guardian protect the Cursed from a wolf attack, they're not Turned, are they? So we could, theoretically, keep Steve on our side as long as we wanted.

[Nerwen]

Originally Posted by Loslote

I can't think of another explanation for Steve's comment. I'd say the only thing we can do is leave him be until we have reason to think he's been turned.

Well, it could be just flavour. It seems a pretty over-the-top way of hinting, really.

Originally Posted by Loslote

As of now, he counts for the innocents. Later in the game, it'll be really important to have as many innocents as possible.

However, if he is Dionysus trying to hint to the wolves, that means he's decided to turn cobbler on us.

Edit:X'd with Nogrod.

[Nogrod]

Originally Posted by Nerwen

I realise now that the usual themed Day One bantering was possibly ill-advised in this game, because pretty much anything you can say relates to one of the roles. I hadn't got my head around that at that stage.

Or didn't think anyone would notice it as you couldn't know people would start focusing on that later on the Day?

I went through the thread - not close reading but skimming it through - to find any hints about Hades (death), Hephaistos (forging, smiths), Aphrodite (love) or Dionysos (drinking) and sadly found only those that have been already mentioned, mainly Eonwë's and Nerwen's comments. So the lovers have been pretty careful.

Well, there is one good side to this: after all this talk and searching for hints they need to be much more careful in the future and the task of the lovers finding their mates will be harder - which reduces their power considerably as most their effects take place only after they have found one another.

[Macalaure]

It's funny how toDay's debates can be divided up so nicely.


The initial stage:

(Almost) only bantering:
Loslote, BG, Eonwe, Autume (her comment about the usefulness of Day1 and then admitting that she forgot you can lynch people looks bad)

phantom
doing phantommy things, less annoying than usual.

Nerwen
drops the name Hades in her first post, amidst banter. Not much helpfulness after it

Boro
talks about Zeus. I remember Mith's opera-themed game, where he hinted to the wolves that he's the cobbler in his first post in a similar manner.

Wilwa
sensible, but Wilwolf is sensible, too, so I'm wary. Certainly not going to vote her toDay, though.

Foley
I don't remember her style, to be honest. She seems earnest in her attempt to contribute, so I'm fine with her for now.

Rikae
is hard to read

Inzil
not sure, but vaguely bad feeling

Feel fine:
Lalaith, Greenie, Nogrod

Barely there:
Sally, Kath, Keeper of Mirandir


The "let's talk about roles"-stage

I really dislike excessive role and rule discussion. It enables wolves to participate without actually doing anything while innocents are occupied with something other than finding them.

People getting themselves dragged into lovers/seers/whatnot discussion:
phantom, Foley, Wilwa, Nog, Nerwen, Inzil, Eonwe, Rikae, Nienna, Loslote.

Out of these, Nerwen, Inzil, Nienna and Loslote seem most suspicious, since they're staying around the fringes and/or haven't contributed much else otherwise.


The "let's talk about people's hints"-stage

Greenie
List of people. I'd like to know why Lottie and Nerwen seem innocent to her. "a bit less calculating" is kind of vague. She votes me since I'm the only one she has anything on, which is fair, but it still seems foul to me. Suspecting her to be Persephone (defends Nerwen, who could be Hades, votes me over my point against Nerwen) at this point would go too far, but it's tempting.

Kath
defends me, which is nice. She misunderstands me, too, but maybe that's because I really wasn't clear enough in my first post.

Boro
not buying his Zeus-explanation yet. Seen him do it before.

Nogrod
throws himself into the Zeus affair heads first and follows Greenie's reasons. I don't get a suspicious feel. Then he brings up Eonwe, which is fair, but he keeps on talking about him, even though there's no way we are going to lynch a possible cursed toDay. He also keeps on misunderstanding my point against Boro, even though Rikae explained it plainly again.

Autume
passive => suspicious

Lalaith
votes Boro, which might come to haunt her should we find Boro innocent, especially since she didn't have any case against him. That's why she's probably not evil, since they would have been more careful who to vote randomly.

Rikae
hm, tricking Persephone would have been a good idea, too, in hindsight
Seems very innocent in this part.

Loslote
is a bit confusing and back-and-forth with her opinion on Nerwen.

Inzil
still have a bad feeling: only talks about Eonwe.

Nienna
her only post here is about Eonwe, too.

Nerwen
I don't buy her explanation either.