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

[Inziladun]

Originally Posted by Loslote

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.

I think this is sensible. But no songs, Lottie? I'm inclined to be suspicious.

Originally Posted by Shastanis Althreduin

Fact - Phantom is a ladykiller.

Fact - there are more than two females playing.

Fact - it is dark and spooky.

Correlation - Phantom will want to hold all the girls' hands (see Fact 3).

Fact - humans have two hands.

Fact - spiders have X arms, where X is 8 minus the number of legs any cruel schoolchildren have pulled off of them.

Assumption - Shelob eats schoolchildren.

Correlation - Shelob will have X legs, where X > 2 (and is most likely 8).

Fact - a human being with 2 hands can not hold the hands of X females, where X > 2.


Therefore, Phantom is Shelob. Game over.

Makes perfect sense to me! Get the fiend!

Originally Posted by Boromir88

Because I also recall our dear modSally saying if we lynch Shelob early enough, than the spiderling will become the new Shelob anyway.

Our odds of getting Schlob today are pretty slim, but that's a good point.

I have no idea at all who I might vote for at this time. I'm hoping our current four non-appearers will show up soon. Looking at you, Nog! Submarine!

[Nogrod]

Originally Posted by Inziladun

I'm hoping our current four non-appearers will show up soon. Looking at you, Nog! Submarine!

Fair enough.

I actually do hate the games where people change from goodies to baddies as it makes any decent and / or consistent analysis more or less impossible. Also having only one "real baddie" seems like a challenge. I think wilwa has a good point in suggesting we look for those who defend someone without especially defending each other. But then again - and that being said - Shelob may wish to give her minions different orders as to avoid that kind of attention. Although that is something we probably should consider seriously on D3 or 4 the earliest.

But my two cents at this point would be that Shelob would probably like to avoid attention in the first place (yeah, everyone plays by their own style but still). Ergo, I would be less interested in people who give rise to controversies than those who seem like especially trying to avoid them. At least to begin with.

Okay. I have to go now but I should be able to give this a more decent go a bit later toDay.

Sally: where was the pizza?

[satansaloser2005]

Originally Posted by Nogrod

Sally: where was the pizza?

More importantly, where were the d20s?



In case anyone's interested, I totally selected roles by rolling a d12 for everyone.

[wilwarin538]

Sally, that video just made my life. ^_^

I need to leave in about an hour, so that's when I'll be voting. And not much else has been happening and I don't know what else to say....

So I'll be back to vote and everything, and I have no idea who that vote will be for.

[satansaloser2005]

laurab2333 shivered in the corner. She couldn't make out any of the faces, which didn't really matter because she didn't know any of them anyway.

"No one's even talking to me," she huffed, curling her arms around herself tighter. She didn't realize that, had she actually said something first, they might have.

Unfortunately, it was too late for her.

"Who's there?" she whispered, turning around in the dark as she heard a rock shift. "Hello?"

"Gimme a hand, will ya?" a harsh voice replied.

laurab2333 felt blindly in front of her until her hands rested against some rocks. She couldn't tell if it was the cave wall or if there was a small passage that the group hadn't previously noticed, but she couldn't be bothered to mention it to the rest, instead scratching at the rocks until she felt something warm and soft.

"Actually," the voice said slowly, "I probably need both hands."

laurab2333 hesitantly reached out and placed her other hand on the rocks as well. Before she could react, she was tugged sharply into the rocks.

"Help!" she shouted, but everyone was so used to her being silent that they didn't notice.

"I'm taking your place," the voice informed her, then paused. "Newbie."

laurab2333 screamed as she was pulled through the rocks, the echo of her voice quickly fading as another body slithered through the small opening.

"Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeere's Fea!"

laurab2333 did not re-emerge. Whether she somehow escaped or was frightened to death is anyone's guess.






The Playing:
Nienna
Lottie
Dun
Nog
Bom Tombadillo
Wilwa
Nerwen
Glirdan
Boro
Lhuna
Phantom
Shasta
Fea


The Played:
laurab2333





Note: laurab2333 is a RL friend who had wanted to try her hand at WW, but due to a sudden case of RL duties isn't actually able to play. Fea, however, is, now that her THESIS OF DOOM is finished. laurab2333's role, if she had one, has now been taken over by Fea.

[Bom Tombadillo]

Everahbody seems to be after the phantom. Even disregarding my inherent tendency to defend our shadowy overlord, this seems to be excessive. He's acting his usual self as far as I can tell, so that leaves me with the question of whether this is a justified attack based on evidence that everybody but me can see, or a cunningly initiated bandwagon.

Still, I agree with the resident Lhunatic: There doesn't seem to be much to go on. Thus, this may just be an apparent "safe lynch," given that phantom has already stated that he's likely to be out of the game before long.

OR it could just be me overreacting to joking accusations. After all, the only actual vote slung so far is for Glirdan.

En-ny-way, I'll be back in about an hour to vote, as the next time I can get on will be past deadline.

[Lhunardawen]

The best thing we could hope - dream - to find toDay is Shelob defending/protecting whoever she stung. I say best, but really mean unlikely. So for toDay we're all just really groping around in the dark, literally and figuratively.

I can't help wondering, though, if in the later Days Shelob will be more or less likely to sacrifice her little spiders, knowing there's always a chance to spawn a new one the next Day, as opposed to werecreatures which are fixed in number for the entire game. Would there be a point to that?

[the phantom]

Originally Posted by Lhuna

You're considering lynching me?

I honestly do not know whether to feel threatened or pleased with myself.

Oh really? Well then, perhaps you can help. Would it be better for me to lynch you today, or wait a day or two?

Anyway, I've come to the conclusion that Wilwa, Lottie, and I are entirely innocent, and unlikely to be converted by Shelob, so I'm going to use that as my primary base of operations for the remainder of the contest. Just fyi.

[Inziladun]

Originally Posted by satansaloser2005

Serious awesome points for this. Serious points.

I aim to please, O Moddess.

Originally Posted by the phantom

Regarding Laura being replaced with Fea- there was actually a part of me that was wondering if Laura was just Fea in disguise anyway (a rather obvious disguise!) and so my approach will not change.

The same thought crossed my mind, but I really wanted to see Laura in action to have a standard for comparison. Pity, really....

Originally Posted by Lhunardawen

The best thing we could hope - dream - to find toDay is Shelob defending/protecting whoever she stung. I say best, but really mean unlikely. So for toDay we're all just really groping around in the dark, literally and figuratively.

That'll be tough to spot. Even if the spawn is in dire straits, it's not in Shelob's best interest to be seen overtly defending them. As the spiderlings increase in number, the chance of one of them getting lynched goes up as well, and that, (pun intended), could come back to bite her.

Originally Posted by Lhunardawen

I can't help wondering, though, if in the later Days Shelob will be more or less likely to sacrifice her little spiders, knowing there's always a chance to spawn a new one the next Day, as opposed to werecreatures which are fixed in number for the entire game. Would there be a point to that?

Depends on how many spawn there are at the time. If there were several she might sacrifice one.

Another thought I had is that the spawn might go out of their way to try and save an innocent at some point. That way, if the spiderling is later lynched and thus found out, it could put the one they'd defended in a pretty poor light.

x/d with tp

[satansaloser2005]

Current vote count is as follows.



Muffin-->Pie
Lhunatic-->Pop
Dramatic Sound Effects-->My Sweet Prince
Stealth Yellowboots-->Lhunatic



I'll count Bom's vote because he sounded like he was popping off, ne'er to return.

[Nerwen]

Originally Posted by Nogrod

But my two cents at this point would be that Shelob would probably like to avoid attention in the first place (yeah, everyone plays by their own style but still). Ergo, I would be less interested in people who give rise to controversies than those who seem like especially trying to avoid them. At least to begin with.

Is it... can it be...? It is! The obligatory loud-quiet debate!

Well, then– may I point out that for all we know we may have a phantlob. Do you imagine such a beast would want to avoid controversy? I think not.

X'd with Wilwa.

[satansaloser2005]

Originally Posted by Nerwen

Is it... can it be...? It is! The obligatory loud-quiet debate!

Well, then– may I point out that for all we know we may have a phantlob. Do you imagine such a beast would want to avoid controversy? I think not.

X'd with Wilwa.

DID YOU WATCH THE VIDEO?!?!?!?!



Back shortly with a surprise. Surprise?

[Nerwen]

Originally Posted by satansaloser2005

DID YOU WATCH THE VIDEO?!?!?!?!

All right, all right, I'll watch it! Don't yell at me!

[satansaloser2005]

Originally Posted by Nerwen

All right, all right, I'll watch it! Don't yell at me!

There's a good minion. <3

*snuggles you*

[Lhunardawen]

Originally Posted by Nerwen

Well, then– may I point out that for all we know we may have a phantlob. Do you imagine such a beast would want to avoid controversy? I think not.

This is the wisest thing that has been said all Day - not that much has been said.

*sigh*

There's not really much to go on at this point, is there? I've never felt so useless.

[Nerwen]

All right, O Moddess, I have watched the video. Is there to be a quiz?

[satansaloser2005]

Originally Posted by Nerwen

All right, O Moddess, I have watched the video. Is there to be a quiz?

Quite possibly.


Nah, not really.

[wilwarin538]

*attack snuggles Fea*


Okee....so I have to go to work now, and I won't be able to come back, so I need to vote.

Uhm....

Did Pie say you should lynch me for old times sake? (affirmative, he did) I think perhaps I'll vote for him for old times sake, because I literally have nothing to go on right now, and he'll eventually look crazy suspicious to me anyway, so:

++Glirdan

Good luck, and I should be around far more on Day 2.