Tol-in-Gaurhoth XXI: Dueling Wizards Werewolf

[Diamond18]

The Evil Wizardliness That Was Roa, An Overview

Day One

#174 ~ #200

There’s not much to go on for Day 1 -- she wasn’t hardly around. Whether this was some kind of EW strategy or just the fact that even Evil Wizards get the RL blues, she only made two posts and both dealt with Loki. In her second post she quite astutely diagnosis the wolfishness of Nogrod’s actions. Of course. She already knows he’s a wolf. Roa used Noggie as her whipping boy with rather disturbing glee, which is very interesting to keep in mind. More on that Day 2.

Day Two

#258 ~ #274 ~ #277 ~ #287 ~ #296 ~ #297 ~ #324 ~ #336

I say whip it!
da na na na na na
Whip it good!
da na na na na na
I say whip it!
da na na na na na
Whip it good!

Well, that pretty much sums it up. She spent the entire day whipping Nogrod. Every post. End of story.

Day Three

#493 ~ #509 ~ #515 ~ #526 ~ #531 ~ #538 ~ #543 ~ #546

Interesting day. She starts out coming up against Fea and Valier a bit, then veers off into going after the fresh meat that is Celuien. Continues poo-poohing Valier’s posts, but doesn’t seriously go for the throat, in fact says she thinks Valier is probably just a misguided innocent.

Other people she addresses:

Defends Alcarillo.
Slightly neutral leaning towards positive light for Eomer.
Ditto Zali.
Unflattering image of the innocent Firefoot.
Defends the innocent Lommy.

She makes an interesting comment about the EW possibly killing Valier to make her look bad. For some reason, I get the feeling that Valier was innocent this day and Roa turned her that night. Either way, Roa is continuing to whip her wolves, with the exception of Alcarillo, who might not even be a wolf anyway.

Secondly, I don't think I went overboard in attacking Nogrod at all. He seemed far too guilty to not be a wolf, and I wanted to make sure the village got one. And I'm guilty because I picked up what the EW could end up doing? I alerted the village to a possible plan of the EW. If I was the actual EW, I would never alert you to something everyone had missed, especially if that was my actual plan.

Ah ha ha, ah ha ha ha. Damn, she’s convincing, ain’t she?

Day Four

#557 ~ #563 ~ #569 ~ #574 ~ #583 ~ #583 ~ #590 ~ #596 ~ #601 ~ #606 ~ #609 ~ #619 ~ #623 ~ #627 ~ #628 ~ #636 ~ #662 ~ #667 ~ #672 ~ #678 ~ #680 ~ #686 ~ #691 ~ #693 ~ #697 ~ #706 ~ #709

Interesting how she called on the Seer to come forward (here little seer, I won’t hurt you, I promise!) and played dumb about Gurthang’s meaning when he hinted at being the GW. She also voices regret that she voted for Celuien and not the equally innocent Firefoot. Early in the day she keeps after Firefoot but then is deterred by Nilp’s reveal. After the infamous kafuffle with Nilp (you got in the way of my scapegoating Firefoot, damn you!) she votes Valier but mostly turns on me. Whip it! Whip it good! Oh, and there’s a little Fea-whipping on the side.

You know, even though they went back and forth a little toward the end, I don’t think Roa actually wanted to kill Valier. So why did she vote for her? Was it a case of being between a rock and a hard place? I.E. -- is it possible that she was so upset with the list because her and three of her wolves were on it?

Day Five

#718 ~ #724 ~ #724 ~ #726 ~ #727 ~ #739 ~ #762 ~ #783 ~ #803 ~ #807 ~ #808 ~ #813 ~ #816 ~ #817 ~ #819 ~ #822 ~ #828 ~ #829 ~ #823

Well, out of the gate she is pressing my suspiciousness. Ask yourself if you believe she wants to kill another of her own after losing Valier and Naria in addition to the sacrifice of Nogrod and the un-cursing of Loki. Where does her living on the edge end? At any rate, it’s interesting to note how she reacted to my reactions. I had been slightly ticked by her analysis the previous day but lectured myself about taking things personally in WW, personality conflicts, etc. -- her continued obtuseness about my motivation for voting Loki irritated me further, though, especially the “Now now, voting for someone just because you don't like them is never a really good reason. In fact, it's one of the worst reasons givable.” comment. When all is said and done, Roa, you must tell me true whether or not you were purposefully pushing my buttons to get me to snap or just have a talent for it. Of course, sitting on my hands about points of conflict usually ends up in me snapping sooner or later, so it could just be coincidence. But I’m curious. The main reason for my “snide” comment at the end of the Fea-analysis was because I went to a lot of work on it, but didn’t come up with much to show for it, and so I just knew you would find it as another reason to up the village suspicion of me -- it fell under the light of me saying a lot but not coming to a definite conclusion. It was a rather depressing thought, besides being around 4 in the morning. By the way, I’m a Libra, and one of the hallmarks of a Libra (not that I really put much stock in the zodiac, but in my personal case it’s rather accurate) is the annoying habit of always having to balance all different sides of a situation... and so therefore rarely coming up with a definite yes/no this/that end to speculation.

But enough narcissism. Roa also addresses Zali, Eomer, Fea, Kitanna, and Lalaith. All of these she is somewhat neutral to positive about. Defends Alcarillowolf, calling the case against him “weak.” She votes Fea, probably only because I’m not on the sanctioned list.

Day Six

#843 ~ #845 ~ #847

Well, not much to say here. Just a lot of nonsense. Heh heh. Seriously, lovely evil challenge there. Bet Gurthang wishes he hadn’t let her get to it first.

In Summary

Well, if you judge Roa’s action by the way she whipped Nogord, then you should probably lynch me first and Fea second. Seriously. Lynch us! Lynch us good!

But here’s why I think you shouldn’t.

Roa did vote for Valier, but didn’t do much else to actively seal her demise. She defended Alcarillo. She ignored Naria. She also defended Loki, though he was no longer a wolf.

She went after Firefoot. And Celuien. Both innocent.

Unfortunately, the number of people she is neutral to positive to ignoring far outnumber the ones she targeted. This may make the lynching of Fea and Diamond look more attractive, but I’d call it lazy. Aye.*

For my part, I may vote Lalaith toDay.** But for now, to bed I go. I will go more in depth about my suspecting Lalaith tomorrow if I wake up in time. [free advertising] Oh, and I highly recommend Advíl and DCfC*** when doing analysis. It makes an otherwise dreary task downright pleasant. But then, Advíl and DCfC always makes everything better. [/free advertising]

* And, no we’re not wolfish teammates. Even if we were, we wouldn’t know it yet, would we?

** And then, if I live long enough, morm, Kitanna, Eomer, and so on. Right on down ze line.

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