WW: LXXXVIII - Trouble in the Misty Mountains: Game Thread

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

In fact, I completely forgot about that...

But at least I can gloat about the famous "sure sally did not dream of innocent Boro, look at her Day 2 list!" claim.

But then again, sally, you weren't the most obvious, were you? Could you please show us blind silly people where exactly did you point your dreams out, if you did? Why, for the love of Eru, didn't you post something clear enough for us to be able to vote him off once you were dead and we knew you were the Seer? You know how dumb we people are! You must be plain with us!

And yes, I join Gal: Wolves, why the picks you picked?

[Inziladun]

I don't have the early PMs anymore, but if I remember correctly, our kills were made for these reasons. Correct me if I forget something, mates.

Night 2- TEW: We thought there was a chance he was some sort of Gifted, if not the Seer. We noted he'd used the "Sting" and I think the "Leaf" icons, and thought he was as good a choice as any.

Night 3- Sally: We settled on Sally because we thought she was acting odd in general, and Boro had gotten the hints she'd made about him. We also did not think she was likely to be protected.

Night 4- Kitanna: We were hoping she might be the Ranger, but again the thought of an unlikely protection was the main draw.

I wasn't part of the discussions Night 5.

[Inziladun]

I forgot to add that our decision to go after Kitanna was also influenced by the impressive back-and-forth between Greenie and Nerwen Day 3. We hoped that if we left them both alive, they would keep after each other and forget about us.

[Galadriel55]

Oh, and if you don't mind telling, whoever you are - who gave me a blank rep for my first post on this thread in the middle of D1?

[Pitchwife]

Oh my, oh my. Well played, wolves! I had my doubts about Zil, and I couldn't quite place Kath (although you looked mostly good to me most of the game), but I wouldn't have dreamed that Boro would turn out to be a wolf - mostly because I figured out that sally could be the Seer about halfway through Day 1 (where I stopped prodding her about her flirting) and thought she had dreamed him innocent. (Really, sally, if there were any hints pointing to wolf-Boro in your posts, I'd like them pointed out; I'm too dumb for your subtlety.) And that wolf-on-wolf on D4 was high-class. Hats off to Legate for being on the right track!

Moral: Time homines tuxedatos et in lupum necandum suffragantes! (Beware of men in tuxedos even if they vote to lynch a wolf!)

G55, my vote for you on D1 was a bit of a shot in the dark, but you did look a lot like wolf-Gal from last game to me (though with hindsight, it's probably just your style). Then after my death, when you started to de facto beg for being lynched towards the end of D2, I was like "Oh crap, don't say she's the Hunter!" Of course you were, but your choice of pick was another shock, because I'd fully expected you to go after Nerwen (not like that would have been an improvement). Ah well, better luck next time.

(By the way, while your voting me "out of spite" wasn't exactly the best reason, I can't say I didn't understand it, in a way. Are we even now?)

Bom, that altercation between us on D1 went a bit further than it probably should have gone - I mean, I was aware I was going for an easy target and didn't really have a big point against you, but I was also trying to provoke reactions and catch a wolf who might be too eager to join me in Bom-bashing. (With hindsight, Boro agreeing with me against you might have given me pause, but apparently my sensors were blind on his side. So much for having nice ideas and failing in practice.) Anyway, I hope we can play again together without me being at your neck on D1.

Alas, my fellow-innocents, we were up against a top sneaky team. Nerwen and Greenie, I wonder whether you could have swung the pendulum with a bit more mutual trust - but that's of course easy to say with hindsight, and you certainly did your best. Laeko and Azura, thanks for playing, I hope you enjoyed the game and will join us for another one (and maybe be a bit more talkative next time around).

Thanks for modding, Shasta; it was a fun game, if a bit too short on my part - therefore:

Originally Posted by Legate

So when's next?

Seconded!

[Galadriel55]

Originally Posted by Pitchwife

Then after my death, when you started to de facto beg for being lynched towards the end of D2, I was like "Oh crap, don't say she's the Hunter!"

Another point to add to how useless I was. Before the game started I decided I'm gonna try find the Seer, then read the hints and try to look like a Seer, so that the wolves would kill me and lose one of their number, as well of saving the seer the trouble of revealing. And of course those brilliant WW plans never seem to work for me. Although I suspected sally of seering, I didn't get any clues about her dreams. And then I got caught up with suspecting Nerwen -for real. At the very end of D2 I started doubting my suspicions, so when the votes were me-6 and Nerwen-4, with 2 more to vote, I decided that it's better that I'd die, so I didn't reveal until after the voting. I was messing around for a while though - what else is there to do when you're committing suicide?

Of course you were, but your choice of pick was another shock, because I'd fully expected you to go after Nerwen (not like that would have been an improvement). Ah well, better luck next time.

Well, as I said, I almost did go for Nerwen. Almost.

(By the way, while your voting me "out of spite" wasn't exactly the best reason, I can't say I didn't understand it, in a way. Are we even now?)

Well, I guess so... We would have been if you were a wolf. But the fact that I harmed my own side in the voting takes away the shine. I kinda feel that it's the opposite way now, that you have to lynch me to get even again... That's what voting out of spite does to you.........


A question (or a few of them) for Boro: did you really fake all that frustration with me on D2? It sounded so genuine that it put a second checkmark next to your innocence in my books, right next to the one for sally's trust. Did you figure out that I must be the Hunter, so you decided to lynch me quick before I could suspect any wolf?

And by the way, if anyone is wondering what the Udun I was talking about when I said that I wrote exactly who I'm hunting, it's here. On hindsight, I could have devised a more clever way to say it. But I got the idea from a very-long-ago WW game, and since then I usually check posts for this kind of hinting, so I thought others do also. Anyone still wanna try to figure it out, or should I just say it?

[Pitchwife]

Originally Posted by Galadriel55

And by the way, if anyone is wondering what the Udun I was talking about when I said that I wrote exactly who I'm hunting, it's here. On hindsight, I could have devised a more clever way to say it. But I got the idea from a very-long-ago WW game, and since then I usually check posts for this kind of hinting, so I thought others do also. Anyone still wanna try to figure it out, or should I just say it?

Ah, it's the initials saying: PREY Bom. Clever indeed, and if you know what to look for, it's rather obvious - if you don't, not so much (but that's the problem with acrostics in general).

[Galadriel55]

Originally Posted by Pitchwife

Ah, it's the initials saying: PREY Bom. Clever indeed, and if you know what to look for, it's rather obvious - if you don't, not so much (but that's the problem with acrostics in general).

Yup, that's it. (Though I meant the title to also go in it, to say I PREY Bom) I remember a post in some ww game or other that said something like "The first letters of the paragraphs in this post of playerX spell COBBLER". I don't remember who, when, why, and etc said it, but the idea stuck.

[Boromir88]

Night 5 there wasn't much discussion.

Shasta felt it fair to inform us that the Ranger could self-protect. But here were the PMs I sent to Kath and Shasta about the kill:

Hmm. I still think we can try to go for Nerwen. If she protects herself, all we need is a successful lynch, then we kill Nerwen the next night and it's over. Or Nerwen's already protected herself once, then no worries.

Laeko will probably be seen innocent because of his vote. But if we go for him, this puts you into question, because right now everyone is willing to accept sally dreamed you innocent. If we go for Laeko, they may start questioning that assumption of sally's dream (which in fact was a complete lie made up by me )

Despite the botch yesterday. I think we can make Greenie and Azura look the most wolvish tomorrow, and Laeko would be a useful ally. Even though Greenie voted for Inzil, we can still make it look wolf-on-wolf since she was the other person under threat to be lynched. We can use that to describe the sort of craziness at the end of yesterday, that 2 wolves were under threat of being lynched and therefor had to vote wolf-on-wolf.

If Nerwen protects herself, it doesn't change much, one more innocent lynch and we'll still win. And you can also have some protection at still looking innocent, because obviously the wolves would want to go for the revealed ranger, and not someone believe dreamed ordo.

Eeeeevilll.