Tol-in-Gaurhoth CXIV – The Evil Breath of Morgoth in Dor-lómin, game thread

[Lhunardawen]

band·​wag·​on | \ ˈband-ˌwa-gən \

1 : a usually ornate and high wagon for a band of musicians especially in a circus parade
2 : a popular party, faction, or cause that attracts growing support —often used in such phrases as jump on the bandwagon
3 : a current or fashionable trend

Shamelessly copy-pasted from The Merriam Webster dictionary, emphasis mine.

I made that comment after seeing a few posts implying that the first vote starts a bandwagon. Taken in isolation, one vote has no support, let alone a growing support. More often than not, unless they're very flimsily reasoned, we don't analyse first votes as throw-aways or wolf-on-wolf (but then again, why not, but that's an altogether different topic). I've always been of the belief that a bandwagon starts the moment another person jumps on it. We start really analysing votes the moment they start gaining momentum towards a successful lynch.

Brinn, however, made a good point here:

Bandwagons can start when players start discussing suspicion and their intention to vote for someone. A first vote could piggyback on that.

Thank you, I stand corrected.

Does that satisfy you, Lommy?

Originally Posted by Greenie

I read this as completely unrelated to Lommy and found it odd that she jumped on it.

That was exactly my intent; they were two unrelated lines of thought. I probably should have added a couple extra spaces in between.

(On a random note, why do we abbreviate Lommy and Greenie? Why not Lommie and Greeny or any other permutations thereof? )

Originally Posted by Mac

As far as I can see, and I might be wrong, only Lhuna commented on this one. Interestingly, she doesn't really follow up on it. If you're a wolf and you see a fellow wolf slipping, you either ignore it and hope nobody else notices, or you throw them under the bus.

I meant it as banter, but imagine my surprise when he did turn out to be a wolf! Wow what a carelessly dropped statement that was.


With 5 wolves I'm not discounting a wolf on wolf even after the Huitrain started to gain serious steam (that did seem to come off left field didn't it?). But based on the voting alone I'm inclined to think Leggie innocent, it doesn't seem reasonable for a wolf to offer his packmate up to be sacrificed when he wasn't in real danger of getting lynched, or to try to convince others to vote for him.

Also, I'm not sure why Shasta appears innocent for holding his vote. It looked incredibly fishy to me, but I probably need a deeper reading for context.

I'll do more in-depth analyses once I'm done with work.