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Old 02-23-2006, 09:15 AM   #172
tar-ancalime
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Join Date: Apr 2004
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tar-ancalime has just left Hobbiton.
I agree with Eomer of the Rohirrim that the four most likely suspects for the day seem to be:

Garin
me
littlemanpoet
Boromir88

With one exception I don't really see what all the fuss is about.

lmp is being argumentative, chimerical, and caustic. That's business as usual and no real reason to suspect him, though a lmp-free village would certainly be less confusing. He is expecting us to take his word for it when he says things like "but that's what I've thought all along!" It's the Gaurhoth equivalent of "I meant to do that!" or "The sun was in my eyes!" But this ground has been covered by others and I won't rehash it. It strikes me as entirely in character for him and no reason to suspect him....any more than usual.

The suspicion that seems to be building against Boromir88 continues to baffle me. I've never lived in a village with him before, so perhaps there's an elephant in the room that everyone but me can see, but from where I sit there's nothing outstanding about his posts. That doesn't mean I think he's innocent, mind you--I'm just not sure where the suspicion comes from.

I'm engendering suspicion, as I always seem to (sigh). I honestly don't know why. The flip-flop thing i've addressed. I can only really find one other concrete suspicion: Aiwendil doesn't like that I'm "maneuvering." Well, what on earth are the rest of us doing? Perhaps I'm not as adept at it as some. But yeah, I"m maneuvering. I'm manipulating. I'm trying to get people's goats a little bit. It's largely because I don't think we've made a lot of progress since yesterday. I don't have a clear picture of anyone yet; I'm still fishing for reactions and trying to get to know everyone. So if that means I'm suspicious, that's cool.

Garin, on the other hand, seems to be acting deliberately to obscure things. In response to my request that he explain his vote for Boromir88, he suggested (as I predicted) that Boro and I were wolves in alliance; he then wrote this (emphasis mine):

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It was the first day, and who says I will vote the same way? Boromir is not a proven innocent... unlike Gil.
My intuition is a wolvish one (see my aforementioned past lives) and I saw plenty of it in Boromir's last minute posts. I understand he was saving his skin, but I remember a couple of times I was in the same furry position. I really felt for the guy.

I explained that I had little time to listen to our fellow villagers and quickly perused their comments. I could just as easily be questioned for getting on a Lhuna bandwagon or killing an innocent Gil. I evened things up, as I said, to examine the last minute votes and posts.

I hope to explain why I found Boro's posts suspicious, but I must go now.
I have less time for village than I hoped, kill me if you must.
What he essentially says is that, like lmp, he's using his "intuition" to channel some kind of weird spectral suspicion against Boromir88. He didn't listen to anyone else; he saw things that bothered him in Boro's last posts. He "hope[s] to explain," but (shockingly) this does not occur. He then returns to post several times about the False Seer, still not having provided this mysterious explanation. Keeping the suspicion of Boromir alive while not revealing anything? Yeah, my vote today has got to go to

++Garin
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