Werewolf CX: Insert Title Here - the game thread

[Rikae]

So, Sally, is that vote for daring to question Eomer? Or is it for saying your hanging around and not voting was not cool?

[Nerwen]

Tally

A Little Green —> Legate
Rikae —> Eomer
Lommy —> Sally
Kath —> Sally (2)
Legate —> Eomer (2)
Eomer —> Rikae
Sally —> Rikae (2)


Interesting.

[Nerwen]

So– at the time of posting we have a three-way tie between Eomer, Rikae and Sally, with Legate as a fourth option and only me and my king left to vote.

Hmmn. From the interactions toDay, I think it’s likely there is indeed a wolf or two in that thicket– but which?

Now, in theory, we should be able to infer from the voting pattern that Eomer and Sally are either both innocent or both packmates, since they each voted Rikae in a situation where they “should” have voted each other for self-preservation (note also that they had previously mentioned each other as suspicious, so it’s not as if it wasn’t an easy option). I’m not so sure about that in practice, however– if everyone behaved “logically” the game would be a lot more predictable.

[Shastanis Althreduin]

That's a good point. I hesitate to ever think I can read Sally, but why didn't Eomer vote for her? Self-preservation would have been a perfectly logical reason for voting, in my opinion. But he voted Rikae instead. Curious.

[Nerwen]

Originally Posted by Shastanis Althreduin

That's a good point. I hesitate to ever think I can read Sally, but why didn't Eomer vote for her? Self-preservation would have been a perfectly logical reason for voting, in my opinion. But he voted Rikae instead. Curious.

Indeed. As I said, though, it may just be that they’re both innocents who found Rikae overwhelmingly suspicious, so that the need to vote her outweighed both personal risk and their suspicion of one another. Which is fair enough. It’s when you add in the timing of their expressed suspicions that it does start to look a bit questionable.

[Shastanis Althreduin]

What looks odd to me is the fact that Sally's top two suspicions today are the two who've arguably been the most argumentative and loud. But again, especially having Fenrised a wolf already, I'm hesitant to vote either one. I just feel like a wolf in this situation would have been more cautious.

[Nerwen]

Time has run out, so-

++Eomer

[Shastanis Althreduin]

++Legate

[Oddwen]

Back and forth the arguments went - the loud accused the quiet, the quiet accused the loud, the loud accused the loud, the quiet accused the quiet, things got heated, things got cold, things got lukewarm and were spat out in disgust. In the end a hasty decision had been made to not keep their tavern keep, Eomer of the Rohirrim.

In their haste a stuffed snake that had totally been there the whole time suddenly appeared stabbed through his heart, killing him relatively instantly. Snakes are dangerous if you don't know where they are at all times.

He kept his eyes steadily on the painted Warg above his door while everyone else screamed and screamed and screamed. Even after he bled out completely, though his body didn't do much that dead bodies don't usually do, they kept on screaming.

It turns out he wasn't wolvish. He just admired Wargs professionally.

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Dead:

Oddwen - A Visitor, beheaded and hidden under mushrooms.
Inziladun - Town Layabout, fenris'd on Day one, Werewolf
aganzir - The Butcher, dismembered on Night two, Villager
Eomer of the Rohirrim - Tavern-keep, stabbed on Day two, Villager
Living:

A Little Green - Mad Gardener and Cat/Goat Lady
Thinlomien- The Housewife
satanisaloser2005 - Town Bard
Legate of Amon Lanc -Town Drunk
Kath - A Farmer, trying their hand at a new potentially lucrative crop: mushrooms!
Shasta - A Baker of Bread (and only Bread)
Rikae - A Candlestick Maker (but not a maker of candles)
Nerwen - A Soup Artist who is Souper at their job

[Shastanis Althreduin]

Originally Posted by Oddwen

wait please

Moddess, forgive me, but doesn't Eomer have 3 votes to everyone else's 2?

[Thinlómien]

Okay, just a quick one now - this game landed probably on the worst week it could have, I have been ridiculously busy and will continue to be so, anyhow I'll now read the thread and comment, but toDay I might have to vote even earlier than before. I'm sorry for my lack of participation!

[Thinlómien]

Re: Eomer - well, I'm not surprised he was an ordo, but then again, I probably wouldn't have been surprised either if he had been a wolf... I feel that he was a bit of an easy lynch candidate though with being so vocal and more aggressive than average. (Yes I am channeling Nogrod since he's not playing. )

Re: Shasta - ??? No trace kill? Legate is a wolf who wanted pressure off his back? The wolves want to frame Legate?

Okay so right after I wrote that I read this:

Originally Posted by Legate

I would say that Shasta's death points more than to anything else to the fact that the WWs want to make quiet kills and leave the rest of the village to squabble among themselves, and to let the louder villagers go after each other's throats. Although it should be noted that Shasta actually need not have been very quiet had he actually gotten the chance to appear and post toDay, and in fact, his last minutes he started being quite vocal and I daresay sounding quite a lot like an invested innocent, so that might have been also part of the motivation. He initially suspected and voted me, and raised questions regarding sally, Rikae and Eomer's voting and interactions. Any of these might have played a role (bringing attention of the village to the people in question, or stopping him before he could make up his mind on any of these, etc. It might also have been pure elimination process; such as WWs going through the list of names "we're not killing this one, they could be suspected" and being simply left with Shasta, or somesuch).

The contrast is quite stark with Legate being the second thing that popped into my mind and him downplaying Shasta's accusations of him. (Of course, an innocent would know another villager wasn't killed because he suspected him, but this also looks a bit too much like a wolf explaining away killing someone who was suspecting him.)

Also Legate's whole post #127 is possibly the wishy-washiest and most non-committal I have seen for a long time, up to the point that I kind of think that a wolf would be more careful of how he sounds. But really, I don't know. I'm probably soon flip-flopping as much as Legate himself but he is just really weird in this game.

.... WHAT?!!! I just shocked myself by running into my own post from fifteen minutes ago. Seriously, there have been four posts toDay. I was expecting to read like at least 10-20 more posts and some juicy discussion I could jump into. Now I don't feel so bad about being inactive, but I do feel even worse about voting early.

Like seriously I need to think. If I have time, I'll have a better look at Shasta's posts and/or yesterDay's voting, but at least expect some brainstorming in the form of a list.