WW LXXX: It's About Time!

[skip spence]

Yeah, that was a fun game! Sally, you came good on your promise and I salute you for that! Kudos to the ladies finishing the job off, though I felt you could've gone for Pitch right away and Nerwen wouldn't have had to die. But that cobbler was seriously pesky and I don't blame you for doing away with her first. Will post more too...

[Nerwen]

Originally Posted by skip spence

Yeah, that was a fun game! Sally, you came good on your promise and I salute you for that! Kudos to the ladies finishing the job off, though I felt you could've gone for Pitch right away and Nerwen wouldn't have had to die.

Well, it was I that made the decision to vote Agan. I thought Pitch was the more likely wolf, but Lottie was talking about lynching Agan, and I was afraid of our votes crossing.

[Boromir88]

I'm quite proud of myself for NOT protecting a wolf this time, usually I make a terrible ranger and guard more wolves than innocents.

Guard 1, there was a wolf in there, I narrowed it down to Eomer or Fea. Eomer is usually a more likely early kill, but decided with how voting ended up everyone would assume Fea was soooo innocent and since she only talked about high heels, thought best guard her.

Guard 2, Skip I saw your "I thought they were going to come for me," and fortunately I wasn't a wolf, because from that post on, I basically thought you were the seer and I would protect you at night. Evil, evil wolves kill me instead.
Quite a fabulous game and standard. A good combination, Inzil.

Good game everyone. (And Agan, my armpit pickle was no hint, I was just having fun rolling with the jokes. Now a few posts later with my "I'm going to sit in a sketchy, unlit corner" that was a direct hint. )

[Aganzir]

Originally Posted by Boromir88

And Agan, my armpit pickle was no hint, I was just having fun rolling with the jokes.

I didn't think it was, I was just trying to make as much noise as possible and get people to concentrate on trivial stuff. I quite liked it that you wrote two long posts where you only talked about your playing style the day before you died.

[skip spence]

Originally Posted by Boromir88

Guard 2, Skip I saw your "I thought they were going to come for me," and fortunately I wasn't a wolf, because from that post on, I basically thought you were the seer and I would protect you at night. Evil, evil wolves kill me instead.
Quite a fabulous game and standard. A good combination, Inzil.

Ah good, I did hope for some ranger-protection after that vote for EW who I indeed dreamed of. That comment was also meant as a bluff as far as I can remember, as I hoped the wolves would think the real Seer wouldn't be so forthright in his relief of waking up unscathed. After that I started to drop cobbler-hints in the hope that the village wouldn't lynch me because of accusations of cobblery and that the wolves wouldn't night-kill me because they though I was an ally. Seemed to work a charm until Agan, the actual cobbler, started her witch-hunt...
Edit: And I did enjoy that analysis that pointed out each cobbler-hint in a very incriminating manner. But since I wanted everyone to believe I probably was the cobbler I was reluctant to defend myself properly.

Was hoping that the village would lynch Eomer without my help, and that I'd get a good chance of surviving another Day and finishing the game myself and gloat a bit over it. Wasn't to be though, but all's well that ends well...

[Aganzir]

Actually I'm pretty interested in knowing what the wolves thought about the cobbler. How long did it take you to spot me, or did you think it was skip?

[Inziladun]

Night 1:
Seer Dream--> The Elf-warrior

Night 2:
Seer Dream--> Greenie
Ranger Save--> Fea
Wolf-kill--> Shasta

Night 3:
Seer Dream--> Nerwen
Ranger Save--> skip
Wolf-kill--> Boro

Night 4:
Seer Dream--> Sally
Wolf-kill--> Fea

Night 5:
Seer Dream--> Pitch
Wolf-kill--> skip

Night 6:
Wolf-kill--> Nerwen

[Inziladun]

Originally Posted by The Elf-warrior

My condolences to my fellow W.O.L.F.S. for our narrow but inglorious defeat. Congratulations to the village for their victory. I'd also like to congratulate Inziladun for his spectacular final narration. Also, I'd like to thank our cobbler, Aganzir, for her efforts to aid our glorious cause.

I knew the wolves were behind right out of the gate when skip decided to dream of you, but I was incredulous when they lynched you without that even being a factor!
I think this is the first game I've seen in quite a while where a Seer did so much damage to the wolves without having to reveal.
The wolves recovered fairly well, I thought, despite skip's methodical dream choices and Boro's nailing the Seer on his second save. Their killing Boro was pretty sharp. I thought the baddies had a real chance then, what with two wolves and a loud, fearless Cobbler still there. It was after Eomer bought it that things really went downhill for them. Poor Pitch got pounced on by Lottie and Sally, and those two just wouldn't let up!

I'm glad you all enjoyed the narrations. Coming into this, I was thinking they would be the toughest part of modding for me, but I had a lot of fun writing them.

Originally Posted by The Elf-warrior

If Inziladun's plan had succeeded, we would not only be deprived of Peter Jackson's films, but also Ralph Bakshi's Lord of the Rings and the Rankin/Bass productions of The Hobbit and The Return of the King. And tell me, would not the world be a less merry place if deprived of this and this?

I actually like the Rankin/Bass cartoons! There's a lot of nostalgia there, since I remember seeing them when I was very young.

Long-time (or maybe other) members might recognize the impetus of the plot: my railing against the PJ movies way back in 2000-2001 on this site. To this day, I'm not a fan of them.

[Shastanis Althreduin]

*mutters just a teensy bit*

[Pitchwife]

Lovely game, everyone! This was an impressive village to be pitted against, and you three ladies were awesome in the end. Sorry for depriving you of the endgame glory, Nerwen - I just felt sally and Lottie had worked together so well, they deserved to win together. (Besides, I of course intended that sally should wonder why she was left alive, hoping thus to sow some doubt - for a moment it almost looked like it might work, but no such luck.)
Ironically, we had seriously considered all three of you for being Night-killed at some time or the other earlier in the game; heck, I even suggested skip as a trailless kill on Night 2! But none of it was carried out.

Dear packmates, it was a pleasure to hunt with you! I enjoyed our Nightly discussions and think Eomer and I complemented each other nicely. (If anybody's interested, I've saved all our PMs and can post them some time.) It certainly sucked to lose TEW so early, and being left as a lone wolf was tough for me - I didn't think my chances were too shiny, but put up a fight as best I could.

Originally Posted by TEW

During the hours before the deadline I'd finally compose something, then erase it.

Sounds familiar - I'm a bit of a pathological overthinker myself.

Thanks to Agan for some dedicated cobblery, and sorry we didn't make it; certainly not your fault, you did very well. I had a feeling from rather early on that you weren't going to be a threat to us, but as for who actually was our cobbler, we were about as much in the dark as with the seer. Your arguments for skip as the cobbler were quite convincing for a while, but after I had read up the Day 4 discussions, I finally knew it had to be you (and was much pleased).

skip, great seering! You did a marvellous job escaping us for so long, getting two of the pack lynched and more or less pinning the last. Kudos!

Thanks to Professor Zil for modding such a well-planned and -handled first game. I loved your concept and narrations (once I got over being forced to work for Peter Jackson!), and I'm looking forward to your next one.

Thanks to everybody else for playing. And Shasta, don't take it too hard and be a graceful winner! Someone has to be the first kill; and why you - well, you'd suspected me, and Eomer said you had a long history of suspecting him, so you might become a danger. That's it.

PS.

Originally Posted by sally

So, Pitch? What do you think?

If she were blue and ten feet tall and had a tail, I might be tempted.

(x-ed with Eomer)

[Aganzir]

Originally Posted by satansaloser2005

Oh, and Agan, you're a sultry minx and I love you.

Love you too even though you have no idea how much trouble you caused me. I was seriously flip-flopping on whether you were a wolf or not.

Originally Posted by The Elf-warrior

Also, I'd like to thank our cobbler, Aganzir, for her efforts to aid our glorious cause.

You're welcome, despite the fact that the only thing I could in the end do was to make the game a day longer. I was so sorry you were lynched on day 1 - but at least I was happy I didn't vote for you. I had no idea who was a wolf so I simply decided to go for someone quiet.

Originally Posted by skip spence

But that cobbler was seriously pesky and I don't blame you for doing away with her first.

Thanks for the game, Inzil! I really enjoyed playing, and being the cobbler was so much fun even if I was clueless most of the time. I was convinced wilwa was a wolf and did my best to save her, and in the end I was calculating who I could get lynched instead and voted for Eomer because I thought Pitch and sally might do it too. Right after hitting the Submit button I regretted my decision and thought I should have voted for Lottie instead (she looked far more innocent than Eomer), but luckily Pitch was late. You did a good job wolves, sorry I couldn't be of more help. And congratulations to the village, of course.

As for skip... I thought he might be the seer (I was 99% sure he was innocent, though) from the way he posted, but he didn't say anything downright seerish about people so I thought I'd just try to lynch him. But I wasn't convinced until the day Eomer died - his calmness and reluctance to fight with me did it. Why waste your time defending yourself when you can do it in considerably less time by saying "I'm the seer"?