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Old 07-30-2010, 06:15 AM   #1
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Quick analysis of the late votes yesterDay:

Even before I asked around, Nerwen voices suspicion of Nogrod. She doesn't mind lynching Eonwe and suspects Autume. She later goes on to ponder voting Eonwe and is the only one at this point to actually give reasons. After it's narrowed down to him or Nienna, she declines voting for her.

Phantom doesn't have any suspects. I start to think this is suspicious, since I tend to expect more from him. Replying to my question, he pulls Nienna out of his hat and is willing to shoot in the dark with Lottie. He's really vague around Nogrod, first saying that being wrong doesn't make him evil, then asking me whether we should lynch him before finding out. It creeps me out a little, since he's obviously willing to go along with lynching Nogrod as long as somebody else does the work. Passiveness from the phantom?
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Yeah, whatever, I'll try Nienna if you want, Mac
What? While I was very willing to lynch her, he brought her up in the first place. This really looks like he knows she's innocent, doesn't mind lynching her, but tries to put the blame on me.
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Okay, but seriously, are we going to take a submarine shot or not?
I kind of took over the lead of "let's not lynch Eonwe", that's true, but the way he's defering to my leadership and tries to keep his hands cleaner than mine is unsettling. He then officially narrows the possibilities down to Eonwe or Nienna, however. No mention of Nogrod anymore. After the Nogrod-votes come in, he saves him by voting Eonwe.

Autume doesn't know about Nogrod and is not eager to go after Lottie. She's willing to go after anyone else, though, a statement so general it makes me uneasy. She later states about Nienna that there's not much there, but that that's the case with other people, too, and she'd give it a try. Don't know what to think of that. She also spends some time defending herself from Loslote. Later she says she'd try Nogrod and does so after Lottie took the lead. She's passive again, but that's the way she is, I guess. If the Nogrod-waggon had been successful, her vote would have stood out, so I don't think a wolf would have made it.

Loslote defends herself a lot and dares us to lynch her. Declines Nienna, is willing to go for Nogrod and then does so. She doesn't really take much part in the actual who-to-vote-for debate, which makes me feel better.

Should be find Nienna to be a wolf, we'll have some nice pointers on Nerwen and Lottie, right? Probably not. They wouldn't have been so clear that they won't vote for her if they were packmates.



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The phantom is way too optimistic. We were lucky to not lynch a heavy gifted, but the way of our votings have been very clueless. I would really like to know who you actually suspect.

Lottie made a post that takes longer to scroll past than it takes to read others.

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Another one is the deal-making at the end of D2 where phantom and Mac (with the late confirmation of Nerwen) decided between me and Eonwë
Dealmaking looks different, I think. And if you closely read the discussion, you were barely discussed between us. It was others who chose to go for you. In the end, all discussion between me and tp was pointless.

I understand the reasons behind Nogrod's vote. On the other hand, he did choose a person who could conceivably be turned into a bandwaggon that will eventually run against his own.

Though it might be painful to plough through it again, I think we'll need to have a close look at the debate around Eonwe yesterDay and who gave what reasons. There have to be some bad points made.

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I think the most likely thing is that Boro was a false seer and dreamt of Eonwe as a wolf. [...] If this is the case then it’s very good news for us because we would now have two True Seers rather than two False.
Don't bet too much money on this. We absolutely do not know for certain Boro dreamt of Eonwe, so we don't know whether he was real or not. Also, as neat as it would be to be able to tell the realness of both seers at once, Hestia took her pick during Night 2, so she could have picked the still-alive Boro.
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Old 07-30-2010, 06:34 AM   #2
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Old 07-30-2010, 06:41 AM   #3
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We absolutely do not know for certain Boro dreamt of Eonwe, so we don't know whether he was real or not. Also, as neat as it would be to be able to tell the realness of both seers at once, Hestia took her pick during Night 2, so she could have picked the still-alive Boro
I was thinking, from the narration, that for some reason Hestia hadn't got to make her pick until last Night, but I see I misunderstood. So in theory we night have two false Seers!

But I do think Boro was likely the false one– we now know for certain that he didn't correctly dream an Eonwolf, and if he dreamed Mira it seems he was given wrong information about her.

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I was thinking, from the narration, that for some reason Hestia hadn't got to make her pick until last Night, but I see I misunderstood. So in theory we night have two false Seers!

But I do think Boro was likely the false one– we now know for certain that he didn't correctly dream an Eonwolf, and if he dreamed Mira it seems he was given wrong information about her.

EDIT: X'd with Sally; fixed quotes.
I'm sorry, but I must have missed something. What's this about Mira?
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Old 07-30-2010, 07:08 AM   #5
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I'm sorry, but I must have missed something. What's this about Mira?
Boro made a funny remark to her on Day One, asking her to pick him if she could, because "I gotta know"– sounds like he might have dreamed her as Pan or Eros. Only, he died in the Night anyway, which of course suggests she isn't.

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Boro made a funny remark to her on Day One, asking her to pick him if she could, because "I gotta know"– sounds like he might have dreamed her as Pan or Eros. Only, he died in the Night anyway, which of course suggests she isn't.

EDIT:X'd with Wilwa.
Oh, that's right. I do remember that now. I actually thought he might have picked up on what he thought were hints that she was a ranger, not that he dreamt her. (I didn't see any hints, but you never know what Boro might have interpreted as one.)
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I was thinking, from the narration, that for some reason Hestia hadn't got to make her pick until last Night, but I see I misunderstood. So in theory we night have two false Seers!
Or one real and one false.

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But I do think Boro was likely the false one– we now know for certain that he didn't correctly dream an Eonwolf, and if he dreamed Mira it seems he was given wrong information about her.
We know that Boro was suspicious of Eonwe, but an actual dream is very uncertain to me. And I don't think we can infer anything about Mira's role from Boro.
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Or one real and one false.

We know that Boro was suspicious of Eonwe, but an actual dream is very uncertain to me. And I don't think we can infer anything about Mira's role from Boro.
I said, "likely". I agree we can't tell for sure, but at least there's no positive evidence for his having dreamed correctly.
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Of course, if our remaining Seer (Apollo) happens to be false, so is Hestia, unless I've got things badly wrong. However, looks like Boro was the false one, anyway.
It doesn't matter either way, the Mytho could have just as easily picked Boro as they could have picked whoever the other Seer is. There's no way to know whether they're False or not right now.

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Eonwe – well, he was telling the truth after all, he was the Ord. I think the most likely thing is that Boro was a false seer and dreamt of Eonwe as a wolf. It occurred to me today that the -4 might have been a reference to four wolves. If this is the case then it’s very good news for us because we would now have two True Seers rather than two False.
That's interesting (about the number 4). But yeah, about your last part, not necessarily, since the Mytho made their choice Night 2 (when Boro was still alive).

So about my vote yesterDay, I feel bad for just coming in like that without much explanation, but I won't apoligise for it cause there was some unexpected family issues happening, and I had a hard enough time walking away from it long enough to vote, there was no way I could do more. But I'll try not to let it happen again, I would much rather vote for someone I really suspect.

Also about yesterDay (I've only lightly skimmed through what I missed, I'll get back to it later), I have no idea where the Nienna thing came from. Was her name just randomly chosen? Are we just going to lynch random people now without any real suspicion? Later today I'm taking a closer look at that, because the whole thing just makes me uneasy. Eonwe made at least a bit of sense, even if he maybe didn't look *that* suspicious, he had been discussed to be a possible Cursed and if anything it would have stopped us from just considering him again toDay and wasting time. It was ideal, but it made more sense than Nienna.

Lottie's long post there, I'm not even going to read it, it's huge and unnecessarily so. It just looks to be a bunch of quotes with little comments. Maybe a nice little summary of the important points you were trying to make, would make it easier to understand what you think is so bad about Tum? At this point, I don't feel like reading all that.

Nerwen's points about Nog's "fork" are interesting. He does seem to be rather stubborn in his suspicions, and then suspects anyone who doesn't agree with his reasoning. And it seems no matter what someone does, it can be seen as suspicious somehow (which I guess can always happen, but when it's to the point that you're contradicting yourself, than it just seems like a stretch).

edit: Gotta run out for a couple of hours, than I should be around alot.

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