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11-09-2008, 11:50 AM
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La Belle Dame sans Merci
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Werewolf LIII: The Republic
A rider swept into the village one night carrying a package: he was directed to the home of the village scholar. He stayed only briefly, and then wasn’t seen again. The scholar spent the following days in seclusion, pouring over the parchments given to him, studying the plague of werewolves upon the world.
One day, about a week later, the scholar stepped forth from his home and called a town meeting. “I know why people keep misdiagnosing lupine symptoms!” he cried to the people. “Why?” they asked. “It’s because the uneducated rabble are allowed a popular vote and we all know that they oughtn’t to be allowed to make such significant decisions when they’re merely uninformed blockheads!” he responded at full volume. The people were rather offended. “Why shouldn’t we kill you for what you’ve just said?” they asked. “Because I have a solution!” he cried. “And that is?” asked a villager, eyebrow raised. “Everybody will still get a vote,” he assured, to people’s relief, “but they will vote for the best and the brightest to represent their interests.” His statement was met with blank stares. He tried again. “The next time we have a problem with werewolves, witches, demons, vampires, or other unsavory sorts, rather than each villager picking who he wants to kill, each villager should choose somebody they believe to represent their best interests, and then the representatives chosen will put their smarter-than-average heads together and get us out of the mess.” The villagers began to nod, some sooner than others, comprehending. One villager spoke up. “So instead of voting on issues, we vote on people to solve our issues for us?” “Exactly! You delegate responsibility! It will simplify everything!” cried the scholar. The village was dubious, but he was a scholar, and everybody knows that scholars are always right. Thusly the democratic village evolved into a wee bit of a republic overnight. --- Players Amongst the Living: Aganzir Boromir88 Brinniel Diamond18 Eönwë Gil-Galad Greenie Gwathagor Ilya Legate Lommy Kath McCaber mormegil Nerwen Nogrod Rune Sally Shasta The Ka the phantom --- You are not yet allowed to post to this thread.
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11-10-2008, 09:56 PM
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La Belle Dame sans Merci
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Starting the Festivities
With great communities based on semi-democratic decision making comes great responsibility and with great responsibility comes much paperwork describing every single way you take advantage of your position of power up to and including the number of sheets of paper you crumple in frustration while trying to compose a decent set of laws, arguments, or even simply empty statements.
I, President Fea, have crumpled two sheets thus far, and emptied two quills of ink. You, the village, are angry. I understand this. I do not write this to anger you more. I write this in order to withhold a transparent honest government. My people, we as a village have a problem. Well, several, in fact. One is that I’ve secretly been practicing a bit of insider trading with the likes of Mithalwen and Rikae which is why they are rather more well off than you filthy lot- -But more importantly! We have wolves in our midst! Wolves? Yes, wolves. Werewolves, and they mean us great harm. What do I mean insider trading? Trade of information, nothing more, I assure you it has nothing to do with you, really, nothing at all. No, it did not relate to the taxes I’ve recently imposed upon you even though- Dear heavens above, what honest village reporter discovered these facts? Well, I suppose it is indeed best to be clear about- PUT DOWN THAT PITCHFORK! No, the werewolf situation and the corrupt government have nothing at all in common I assure you! Rikae, look out behind you, it’s a villager. I know you can’t hear him, he speaks softly, but he carries a big stick and- YOU UNEDUCATED RABBLE KILLED MY BUSINESS ASSOCIATE (and by ‘business associate’ of course I mean ‘fellow politician whose relationship with me and the village treasury is completely above board’)— Mith, darling, careful, that’s a noose- What ever happened to a fair trial by a jury of my peers? What exactly, might I ask do you intend to do with your elected Representatives assassinated by the likes of yourselves, hm? YOU NEED ME! Do not step any closer or you will regret it, young man! You intend to elect new Representatives every day as a means to avoid the stagnation of society as it occurs when one has been in power for far too long? Outlandish! Step away from me and put down that knife! I said back, rabble! No! Why you ungrateful little b— --- Hello Mith. How are you, Rikae? I’d have sworn I just saw you die at the hands of the angry people— Oh. --- The Dead: Fea Mith Rikae The Living: Aganzir Boromir88 Brinniel Diamond18 Eönwë Gil-Galad Greenie Gwathagor Ilya Legate Lommy Kath McCaber mormegil Nerwen Nogrod Rune Sally Shasta The Ka the phantom
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11-10-2008, 10:02 PM
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Werewolf Psychic
Join Date: Apr 2007
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Look, proof there's an afterlife! For dirty politicians and their "business associates", anyway. Freedom!
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Shasta– ... However, if he's innocent his famous clairvoyant powers must be taking the week off. Meanwhile, the Night-kills have been awfully effective– almost like we're dealing with a psychic wolf... - Nerwen, WW LXXV |
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11-10-2008, 10:04 PM
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Beloved Shadow
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So if I'm reading that correctly, we killed our leaders.
Hmm... I'd say we're hardly "innocent" villagers at this point. It seems almost unfair to try and lynch Werewolves now. I mean... thus far we're the only ones who've done any killing.
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11-10-2008, 10:07 PM
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Beloved Shadow
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Ah, Shasta! I hope you've kept intact your ability to be right most of the time. It could be quite handy in the next few days.
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11-10-2008, 10:10 PM
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Werewolf Psychic
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Just call me Cassandra.
 Though that's changing thanks to Brinniel. ...And phantom takes an early post count lead. Surprise! 
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Shasta– ... However, if he's innocent his famous clairvoyant powers must be taking the week off. Meanwhile, the Night-kills have been awfully effective– almost like we're dealing with a psychic wolf... - Nerwen, WW LXXV |
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11-10-2008, 10:15 PM
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Beloved Shadow
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As far as the filibuster goes, I would say that for now it would be a good idea to leave our options open.
In other words, don't filibuster now just for laughs, because you may wish later that you had saved it for a worthy cause. And I'm certainly not going to vote against having a filibuster, for the more options Werewolves have available to them the more chances we'll have of spotting them. And then there's the argument for drama and entertainment- it would be quite fun to see a WW attempt to save another with a lengthy filibuster. It would be quite memorable.
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Beloved Shadow
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11-23-2008, 01:44 PM
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Shady She-Penguin
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Wolvesies
I was too lazy to really read, so I decided to content myself with just a little table for the time being... Here's it, the numbers stand for the Days, of course... (and I saw no reason to analyse yesterDay.)
Voted as rep Ka -> 1. Boro (seer), 2. Lommy, 3. Greenie morm -> 1. Nogrod (wolf), 2. Agan (ordo), 3. Lommy Nogrod -> 1. Ilya, 2. Boro (seer), 3. Kath Voted them as rep Gwath -> 1. Nogrod Greenie -> 2. morm, 3. morm Rune -> 2. morm, 3. morm Kath -> 3. Nog Boro (seer) -> 3. Nog Voted against Nogrod -> 1. Gwath, 3. phantom (ordo) morm -> 2. Nerwen Voted against them Lommy -> 3. Ka Boro (seer) -> 3. Ka Shasta (ordo) -> 3. Ka Now, does this tell us something? Not necessarily. We should look at the wolves' posts, and others' posts about them. But if I was to look at this merely, I would say that myself, Greenie and Kath look suspicious. The wolves seem to have supported each other even quite boldly at times, so it would fit the pattern if one of us was a wolf. I'm not, so I'm eyeing Greenie and Kath a bit suspiciously... but like I said, I wouldn't draw any conclusions without taking a look at the actual posts. *sigh* PS. I think this makes Nerwen and Gwath look innocentish. edit: xed with everything after Ilya
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Shady She-Penguin
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I haven't read Brinn's quotes properly, but I will do so soon. I will just comment on these:
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11-23-2008, 02:27 PM
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Shady She-Penguin
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I read Brinn's quotes, so...
suspicious-ish Greenie sally Kath neutral Brinn Rune Gwath Ilya Gil innocentish Nerwen I'm still not sure I'm going to vote Nerwen as my rep. Hmmm... PS. Quote:
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11-23-2008, 02:36 PM
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Shady She-Penguin
Join Date: Dec 2004
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Quadruple posting...
++Nerwen for rep
I guess I trust her the most.
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11-23-2008, 03:35 PM
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Leaf-clad Lady
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I'm voting Lommy, Kath or Nerwen for rep toDay. All three are bright ladies who seem innocentish. I'm most sure of Lommy's innocence, Kath I'd love to see more of and I agree with her a lot, and Nerwen has already received one vote so I could make sure she is through, for I'm going to sleep in an instant. Hmmm... Quick thoughts, anybody?
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