WW LXXXVIII: What Lies in the Dark (Game Thread)

[the phantom]

I was looking forward to playing, but then I spotted this on the Admin Thread-

Originally Posted by ModGoddess

If you’re a jerk, you will be modfired.

So.... yeah. I'm dead soon.

Even if I somehow behave myself temporarily, it won't change who I am. I suspect our ModGoddess instituted that policy and then allowed me to join just so she'd have the pleasure of modfiring me no matter what I did.

I'm onto your little game, Sally!

[satansaloser2005]

++Phantom for representative

[Bom Tombadillo]

But . . . but . . . then I'll have nobody to blindly follow! Whhhhaaaaa! *sniffle*

Anyway, this ought to be fun, phantom or no phantom (sorry, phantom's ego). I'll probably not be posting as much as I planned to, due to the fact that I ordered a new computer game that arrived today () without thinking of how it would affect my TiG-ing. ()

Now, down to business. Phantom is obviously innocent, being infallible and all. Laurab2333 is suspicious, seeing as I don't recall her joining (was it by PM or something?), but I'll give her the benefit of newbie-doubt in hopes that I will be given the same. I'm innocent too, of course, being the Master (or would that make me guilty? Well yeah, but not of being a spider.)

Everybody else is guilty, guilty, guilty! They're all accomplices! As to who's the spider xyrself, though, that's obviously Boromir88, referred to as the "sweet prince" of the one responsible for inflicting this on us all - sally!*


*Bom Tombadillo, Inc. takes no responsibility for the truth of this message. Content may or may not be biased, erroneous, or blatant lies.

[edit] Ninja'd by the Moddess herself! Truly this is an honour! [/edit]

[Inziladun]

It's dark and I'm afraid!

[the phantom]

See, this is where the arrogance comes from. It's not even a Republic style game and I already got a rep-vote after one post. (Thanks Sally, I won't let you down! I support public funding for more beef jerky factories and promise to eradicate hermit crabs world wide!)

And how is it that this rather fresh-faced member Bom seems to know me? I realize the ego reference may have been simple reasoning based upon my sig, but he also seems to know how deserved my smugness is, as he specifically recognizes my infallability. Should I be flattered or frightened?

Of course we know Inzil has decided upon fear. Judging from his post, Inzil seems especially vulnerable to suggestion this afternoon. Hmmm... perhaps I shall test the extent of it-

*waves hand Obi Wan style*

This isn't the spider you're looking for. Move along. And fetch me a sandwich.

[Inziladun]

Originally Posted by the phantom

Of course we know Inzil has decided upon fear. Judging from his post, Inzil seems especially vulnerable to suggestion this afternoon. Hmmm... perhaps I shall test the extent of it-

Some measure of fear seems to be in order, maybe. At least for those that aren't a loathsome eight-legged monstrosity or its brood.

Originally Posted by the phantom

This isn't the spider you're looking for. Move along. And fetch me a sandwich.

Shall we save ourselves mountains of headaches and uncertainties and just lynch phantom now?

[Nerwen]

Originally Posted by Inziladun

Some measure of fear seems to be in order, maybe. At least for those that aren't a loathsome eight-legged monstrosity or its brood.

Tch! Tch! A grown man like you, afraid of a harmless little– well, not so little– spider? All we need is a jar! A BIG jar...

[Glirdan]

Originally Posted by Phantom

Though I suppose it's technically possible my list is wrong, but, well.... For now I'm going to assume I'm right.

On second thought....I'm quite alright with a double lynch: phantom and his ego

[Inziladun]

Originally Posted by Nerwen

Tch! Tch! A grown man like you, afraid of a harmless little– well, not so little– spider? All we need is a jar! A BIG jar...

I must confess that I shake my shoes every morning before putting them on. No creepie-crawlie's getting my foot!

That said, I was really only obeying the moddess's direction:

Originally Posted by satansaloser2005

Game on. It's dark, and you're all afraid.

See?

Anyway, do we have an answer to Lottie's question? Are we dealing with a full-fledged spawn yet?

[Loslote]

Ooh, look, there are some people here! And they've all made me laugh already. So...yay them and all.

Now onto logistics...if I'm right (which I may well not be), there's only Shelob right now, and someone who will turn into a spider come Nightfall. (Unless she started out with a fully-fledged spider, and I think that was dependant on how many people. I'm guessing based on the numbers that it's a Bitten, not a Fledged - this may be wildly inaccurate.) If we kill the Bitten, would it show up as a spider, or as an innocent?

Edit: Xed with Zil

[Glirdan]

Laddy daddy da fear and all that jazz (with some jazz hands in there possibly....sorry, in total theatre mode right now)

Anyways, on to some pretty useless stuff.

Phantom is evil, let's lynch him now to avoid any further complications.

Phantom's ego we can leave around as it will modfire itself.

Inzil is a spider because I said so.

Lottie is already too intuitive and needs to be lynched so she doesn't steer us in the wrong direction.

BT needs to be lynched for impersonating Tom Bombadil yet I agree with him that Laura also needs to be lynched for being secretive.

We can keep Lhuna as I haven't seen her in ages (good to have you back my dear!! ) but we can lynch her on Day 2.

Boro is a Cobbler and needs to go now before he gives me headaches.

Shasta can stay around a long time because I feel terrible for the past few games I've played with him.

Nienna gets to stay cuz she hasn't played in awhile and also because of some awesome RL excitment!! (*squees in excitment*)

Nog is evil as always. Lynch him.

Nerwen can stick around so that Shasta isn't lonely.


Wilwa needs to be lynched just for old time sake and our ModGoddess gets a cookie and snuggles (with a side dish of pie and muffins) for an amazing Doctor Who reference

I think that covers everything

[Loslote]

Glirdy, you're being quite see-through at the moment. Making lots of newbieish, green mistakes. You are visibly spiderish. We absolutely should lynch you right now.

Edit: Or, well, now you look better.

[Boromir88]

Originally Posted by the phantom

So.... yeah. I'm dead soon.

But, but, I've only just caught a bad case ...this is not fair!

[Nerwen]

Originally Posted by Lottie

The game is over if we lynch Shelob, yes. But it's also over if the Spiders outnumber the Innocents. Lynching the Spiderlings would buy us more time. If we don't know who Shelob is, I'd be more comfortable lynching someone who looks like a Spiderling than taking a shot in the dark, hoping to find Shelob.

Agreed. And tp, even if it weren't the case that Spiderlings count for the... er.... colony(?), what you're saying would be no different from the old "don't lynch cobblers" argument, anyway.