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Old 10-11-2010, 03:41 PM   #1
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But, if I understand correctly, he wasn't hunting Legate. He was hunting you:
He said here he was really hunting Legate.

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And yes, I am the Hunter. Felt I had to reveal and put the fear of death in Inziladun in order to save my own life over an unknown I believed could be a wolf (my pick was actually Legate *double-sigh*)
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Old 10-11-2010, 03:43 PM   #2
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He said here he was really hunting Legate.
Ahhh. I hadn't noticed that.
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Old 10-11-2010, 03:48 PM   #3
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Wilwa, I understand what you are saying and find you genuine, but I still believe that I made the right decision in revealing.
Well.....no, I don't think you did. Sorry, but I don't. And I don't trust you.

And I believe you just slipped up. Here:

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One thing you keep ignoring too is that if I die (whether lynched or night-killed) and make the mistake of hunting an innocent (and gawd, haven't I been making mistakes!) the wolves win there and then.
Cause if the Hunter gets Night killed while Hunting an innocent, only the Hunter dies.

So yeah. Definitely don't believe you now buddy.
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Old 10-11-2010, 03:58 PM   #4
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*headdesk*

Ignore that last part, I just realised what he actually meant there, and it's not what I thought. Sorry Skip.

But I still don't trust you.
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Old 10-11-2010, 04:06 PM   #5
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Yeah, I was just about to point that out, Wilwa.

To Whom It May Concern:

Don't be hasty now, please! We can ill afford another mistake...


And wouldn't it be fab to turn this thing around!

Bedtime for me now, but should be able to return around 6-7 CET
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Old 10-11-2010, 04:30 PM   #6
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Okay... and interesting. I've always thought deep emotionally written regrets more or less fishy but this self-bashing going on is just weird!


Anyway. How about we made a deal toDay, that everyone would pick at least one person who is flying under her/his radar? And then we'd do some analysing. I mean we have as a whole suspected harder only a few people (and most of them are now dead) and what have we got? So I think we need to spread the suspicions to include more people.

I don't say that means Lottie and Skip - the only two left who have been heavily suspected and voted for - are innocents just because they have been suspected and no baddies are dead.

If we'd had to vote right now, I'd probably vote for Lottie as she still seems the most suspicious of you (and I tend to trust Skip's revealment unless someone shows me a motive for the baddies to try that out). But even if I was right, only concentrating on Lottie and Skip we let the other two to smirk and smile in the background - or in the foreground, whatever: with no fear of getting caught.

So everyone promises to pick at least one person they haven't looked more closely as yet?

*going to check the voting now*
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Old 10-11-2010, 04:48 PM   #7
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So everyone promises to pick at least one person they haven't looked more closely as yet?
Either you or Boro. You've been posting a ton and all, but you two seem to slip past into "dunno" categories.
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Old 10-11-2010, 05:03 PM   #8
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Either you or Boro. You've been posting a ton and all, but you two seem to slip past into "dunno" categories.
Good. Others? Any picks? I have no preference myself as whom to pick as it feels like most of you have went under my radar.

And surely we don't need to try and organise this in a way that everyone really gets a task - and no overlapping allowed - and will report on certain hour or anything.

I mainly wished people started also looking elsewhere they have done thus far - and do something about it.


On another note... why do you guys always vote saying "for previously stated reasons" - it takes a maddening amount of time to go back for pages there and actually find them...

(Okay, honestly I know, it's in a hurry people vote at last minutes, but it still is a task to get them. But I should be readu shortly.)
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Old 10-11-2010, 08:33 PM   #9
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Well.....no, I don't think you did. Sorry, but I don't. And I don't trust you.
Either way you try to break it down, we don't have the luxury to use the hunter to his greatest strength because of the situation we're in.

Earlier, yes, a revealed hunter means he most likely can't use his gift because the wolves would be wary to attack the known hunter. But today we need known innocents to make it to tomorrow. And even if we lynch a wolf today we're still going to be behind the 8-ball. The wolves will be in a jam to either keep the known hunter around or risk killing him at night. So, the notion that a revealed hunter is completely useless is a terrible one.

I revealed as the hunter in on of Nogrod's villages and kept daring them to kill me each night. They wouldn't, so they kept around a known innocent day after day, and then missed the opportunity to kill me when I didn't have a wolf picked. This notion that if Skip's the hunter he made a bad decision is completely false. In the best situations, yes we'd want the hunter to stay hidden, get picked by the wolves and take one down. We no longer have this luxury and a known hunter is still useful in giving us an innocent, as well as someone the wolves will be hardpressed to take the risk in killing. Because if we manage to kill a wolf today, we still got a mighty climb and if the wolves want to keep the known hunter around to help during the day, that still a bigger benefit to us than them.

I said why I understood his reasons and how it makes sense considering his actions so far. I'm going to trust that unless any one says they're the hunter. You think this makes him the cobbler. Do his actions at the lynch yesterday look Cobblerish? Would a cobbler really fight that hard to stay alive and be that defensive throughout when a cobbler who doesn't know who the wolves are, basic purpose would be to die at some point?

Edit: crossed with wilwa. Me need sleepy too, I've exhausted this debate over the hunter role. Ideally, yeah we'd want to keep the hunter unknown, but I firmly believe with how things have played out in this situation, a known hunter (despite now giving up his greatest gift) is still a larger benefit to us today, and in the following days, than to the wolves. I'll say no more about the best uses of roles.
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Old 10-11-2010, 08:47 PM   #10
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Basically, from what I can tell, if we get it wrong today our best chance is for the Hunter to get chosen by the wolves tonight and take down a wolf. Any other scenario if we get it wrong toDay, will result in 3 wolves being around with 4 innocents (or 3 innocents and a cobbler) and that will make it easy for the wolves to control the lynch. I know that's me being pessimistic, but I just don't want to hand over our only gifted, considering the luck we've had so far.

But if I'm the only one that feels this way, and everyone else thinks that the real Hunter should come forward if Skip is lying, then maybe the Hunter should. And if the majority says they feel that way, and no one comes forward, then we can assume Skip is telling the truth. Until then, I'm very doubtful of his honesty.

Now I'm really going to bed.
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Old 10-11-2010, 11:13 PM   #11
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But if I'm the only one that feels this way, and everyone else thinks that the real Hunter should come forward if Skip is lying, then maybe the Hunter should. And if the majority says they feel that way, and no one comes forward, then we can assume Skip is telling the truth. Until then, I'm very doubtful of his honesty.
Listen Wilwa, I really do understand your concern, and don't blame you for it. I'm aware that it takes a measure of faith on your part, but if you clear your mind and think about it again, I think you will find that is makes sense for us, it really does.
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Listen Wilwa, I really do understand your concern, and don't blame you for it. I'm aware that it takes a measure of faith on your part, but if you clear your mind and think about it again, I think you will find that is makes sense for us, it really does.
It's not that she's not thinking clearly, skip. She just disagrees on what would be best for the village. It happens pretty often, and what's best one game might not be best another game - but most players keep their general Werewolfing...for lack of a better word, ideals during every game. Take our lovely co-moddess Agan for instance. Her views about the cobbler stay pretty much constant - and get her into trouble sometimes. But if she ever advocated another view on the cobbler, we'd all know something was up.
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