WW LXXVII: The Metamorphs of Wolf-562-e

[Blind Guardian]

Originally Posted by Blind Guardian

Relatively Innocent:
Lottie!

Oh crud, I did

[Isabellkya]

BG. According to your #69 post....

Relatively Innocent:
Lottie!
Shasta
Pitchie
Zil
Rikae

..

Rather Suspicious Of:
Eomer
Wilwa


X'd with Loslote & BG

[Shastanis Althreduin]

Originally Posted by Blind Guardian

I did?

Originally Posted by Blind Guardian

Relatively Innocent:
Lottie!

You did.

[Loslote]

Originally Posted by Isabellkya

Loslote. BlindGuardian fixed the tag error. It is highlighted now. Try a refresh?

It's been a work-in-progress for several minutes now.

[Nerwen]

Lottie –> Pitchwife.
Blind Guardian –> Lottie.
Isabellkya –> Blind Guardian.

See a pattern?

I'm almost disappointed next vote wasn't for Izzy.

Shasta –> Blind Guardian (2).

[Shastanis Althreduin]

Originally Posted by Blind Guardian

Oh crud, I did

...Is this a confession?

[wilwarin538]

KK. I'm here, and there's what, 20 minutes left right? I'm going to skim over things quickly and try to come up with something semi logical before I fall asleep.

[Loslote]

Originally Posted by Blind Guardian

Oh crud, I did

Admitting to your wolvishness?

EDIT: xed since my last...evidently great minds think alike!

[Isabellkya]

Haha @ the pattern. Dang Shasta ruined it!

[Blind Guardian]

Originally Posted by Shastanis Althreduin

...Is this a confession?

No I just realized that that I copied and pasted Lottie under "Relatively Innocent" It was her's that I copied.

[Shastanis Althreduin]

Originally Posted by Isabellkya

Haha @ the pattern. Dang Shasta ruined it!

Not on purpose!

[Isabellkya]

I don't get it BG. You had to of moved Loslote to that category of RElatively Innocent - because in Loslote's list, she had herself under 'most inncocent'.

[Shastanis Althreduin]

Originally Posted by Isabellkya

I don't get it BG. You had to of moved Loslote to that category of RElatively Innocent - because in Loslote's list, she had herself under 'most inncocent'.

See, I was going to mention this, but like an intelligent person I refreshed this time.

[Loslote]

Originally Posted by Blind Guardian

No I just realized that that I copied and pasted Lottie under "Relatively Innocent" It was her's that I copied.

Eh, Izzy said it first, but yeah. What she said.

EDIT: xed with Shasta...right.

[Blind Guardian]

Originally Posted by Isabellkya

I don't get it BG. You had to of moved Loslote to that category of RElatively Innocent - because in Loslote's list, she had herself under 'most inncocent'.

No I mearly moved it down and re typed the "Relatively Uninnocentish" that she had.

[wilwarin538]

Ok. So not too much to go on sadly. Sally's self vote is weird, but so sally-ish that it's not really all that suspicious. BG's vote is very weird, her explanation just now almost made sense to me until I went back to Lottie's list and saw that she had put herself under 'Is the most innocent person you have never laid eyes on' not under relatively innocent. Even though all the other headings are the same, so I suppose she could have put her there accidently. I suppose.

Gah.

I'll vote soon then I guess. Maybe for BG, cause it's still weird. Maybe for Sally. Maybe for someone else....

x'ed with peeps who said what I said, haha, I need to learn to refresh more often...

[Loslote]

Originally Posted by Blind Guardian

No I mearly moved it down and re typed the "Relatively Uninnocentish" that she had.

Does anyone else understand what she just said? Isn't that the same as moving my name to that category?

EDIT: xed with Vanilwuffin

[Shastanis Althreduin]

Originally Posted by Blind Guardian

No I mearly moved it down and re typed the "Relatively Uninnocentish" that she had.

Except that Lottie didn't have a "Relatively Uninnocentish" category in her list. She had a "Relatively Innocentish" category, but even if you meant to move Lottie into that category it still doesn't explain why you voted for her.

[Paranoia]

Originally Posted by Inziladun

I don't think it is
Good to hear from our Second Officer. Why though, do you say we shall know of Tactical Officer Guardian's true nature soon? The only one accusing her is Security Officer Eomer, and for whatever reason, he doesn't seem too inclined to further explain himself.



It would have been a clever way of getting a Metamorph on board, but it seems a tad too obvious, with no other evidence to go on.

Recall the last time we had a friendly game of werewolf on the ship; the Tactical Officer was quite keen to self destruct during that game, and I bet a metamorph version of her couldn't resist the same urges to act like a plum fool.

Originally Posted by Eormer

Bah! Sally concocts the perfect way to stay alive for a day. No-one will vote her now but it's still pretty suspicious.

++PARANOIA

Just sort of showed up and left and didn't contribute anything other than demanding I cease my openly meaningless case against Blind Guardian. A bit easy, methinks.

Nice omgus there. The only reason I disappeared was because I didn't have much time earlier; I'm generally not around until the evening. I honestly do agree with you on Sally though; experience dictates using a throwaway vote is always a bad idea. The fact Sally voted for herself so she "wouldn't accidentally contribute to any innocent deaths" smacks of... oh what's the word here? It feels as if she is wasting her vote as to not draw suspicion for it later (as in to avoid the usual cloud of suspicion and whatnot that surrounds innocent lynches) and to discourage a bandwagon on her.

Speaking of BG and self destructing.

Originally Posted by Blind Metamorph

Most innocent:
BeiGe :P


Relatively Innocent:
Lottie!
Shasta
Pitchie
Zil
Rikae

Relatively Squeamish about:
Sally (subject to sudden violent change in placement, as always with Sally)
Noia

Rather Suspicious Of:
Eomer
Wilwa

Submarineish (Not A Clue):
WWinty

Keepandir of Dol Mira (I like the name)
Izzy

Not only did BG then proceed to vote for Lottie, she also then proceeded to put suspicion onto Eomer, someone who's early suspicions she was laughing off as just being crazy, making her putting Eomer in the suspicious pile rather well.. suspect.

This is making me eat my words earlier, but, based on this and waiting on BG's upcoming roleflip, I'm starting to think the Security Officer is innocent afterall.

++Blind Guardian

Harmless (earthling):
Paranoia

Mostly Harmless(Probable Earthlings):
Shasta - One of the first few to notice BG's glaring slip.
IZZY - Ditto.

Don't Panic (about them, anyway.):
Eomer (waiting on BG to flip.)
Lottie (could go in the panic category soon.)

Panic!:
Sally. (See above.)
BG. (voted for her for reasons above; obviously is going to go in here.)

Everyone else: Not much of a read on them at the moment, unfortunately.



Crossed a whole bunch of times with Shasta, Izzy, Lottie, BG, and Willy? Willwuffins? Willowail? Whatevah.

[wilwarin538]

Originally Posted by Loslote

Does anyone else understand what she just said? Isn't that the same as moving my name to that category?

EDIT: xed with Vanilwuffin

I get it. She copy and pasted this:

Is the most innocent person you have never laid eyes on:
Lottie!

Relatively Innocentish:
Zil
Eomer
BeiGe

And just put the Relatively Innocentish part right above Lottie's name. So I see what she means.

K, I won't vote for her then, I'm going to give her the benefit of the doubt here.

Now, I don't know who to vote for...

[Nerwen]

4 minutes.

[Blind Guardian]

Originally Posted by Loslote

Does anyone else understand what she just said? Isn't that the same as moving my name to that category?

EDIT: xed with Vanilwuffin

FOR GOD SAKES! I mearly took ALL of Loslote's post (which I didn't want to do in the first place) and changed some of it!! Here's mine:

Originally Posted by Blind Guardian

Most innocent:
BeiGe :P


Relatively Innocent:
Lottie!
Shasta
Pitchie
Zil
Rikae

Relatively Squeamish about:
Sally (subject to sudden violent change in placement, as always with Sally)
Noia

Rather Suspicious Of:
Eomer
Wilwa

Submarineish (Not A Clue):
WWinty

Keepandir of Dol Mira (I like the name)
Izzy



Okay, I did it. Notice I copied Lottie's. Sorry. But in my order.

Here's her's:

Originally Posted by Loslote

Is the most innocent person you have never laid eyes on:
Lottie!

Relatively Innocentish:
Zil
Eomer
BeiGe (???Nearly In Submarinish Category???)

Relatively Squeamish About:
Shasta
Pitchie
Sally (subject to sudden violent change in placement, as always with Sally)
Noia

Rather Suspicious Of:
Wilwa

Submarineish (Not A Clue):
WWinty
Rikae
Keepandir of Dol Mira (I like the name)
Izzy

May vote Squeamish people or Suspicious person. May vote Submarineish, but only as a last resort. May vote...actually, that's about it

EDIT: xed since my last

WHAT"S SO WRONG?!? WHAT DON"T YOU UNDERSTAND!?!?

[Loslote]

Originally Posted by Paranoia

Nice omgus there. The only reason I disappeared was because I didn't have much time earlier; I'm generally not around until the evening. I honestly do agree with you on Sally though; experience dictates using a throwaway vote is always a bad idea. The fact Sally voted for herself so she "wouldn't accidentally contribute to any innocent deaths" smacks of... oh what's the word here? It feels as if she is wasting her vote as to not draw suspicion for it later (as in to avoid the usual cloud of suspicion and whatnot that surrounds innocent lynches) and to discourage a bandwagon on her.

This makes perfect sense in theory, except for the fact that Sally doesn't play by common sense rules. You'll get used to her eventually.

Also, Wilwa? That still doesn't make the slightest bit of sense. Sorry, dear, but you still look suspicious to me.

[Inziladun]

++Blind Guardian

[Paranoia]

Originally Posted by wilwarin538

I get it. She copy and pasted this:

Is the most innocent person you have never laid eyes on:
Lottie!

Relatively Innocentish:
Zil
Eomer
BeiGe

And just put the Relatively Innocentish part right above Lottie's name. So I see what she means.

K, I won't vote for her then, I'm going to give her the benefit of the doubt here.

Now, I don't know who to vote for...

That still doesn't make sense; There'd be no reason to put Lottie in the relatively innocent category; she would have deleted everything from the list and then put in new names in as she went along. The explanation just doesn't add up. It feels more like she was trying to go along with whatever everyone else was doing without really contributing, which is something she's done last game. If anything, her "Grrr lottie's making people vote grr she must be a metamorph!" post and vote makes her even worse in conjecture with this, because people not voting, and therefore attracting the mod's ire, is even worse for us in this bloody ship when the modkills start piling up.

[Loslote]

Originally Posted by Blind Guardian

WHAT"S SO WRONG?!? WHAT DON"T YOU UNDERSTAND!?!?

I don't know about the rest of this crazy crew, but I don't understand how you could put my name in a whole different category and not notice.

[Shastanis Althreduin]

The point, BG, is that you voted for Lottie after clearly labeling her in your list as "innocentish". Even if you did make a mistake and put her in the wrong category, the category you said you meant to put her in doesn't even exist on Lottie's list.

[wilwarin538]

Gah, just lost my post.

I get what BG's trying to say, even if I can't explain myself, so I'm not gonna vote for her.

For lack of nothing better:

++Sally

[Nerwen]

Deadline. Votes timestamped later than 3:00 are not counted.

[Loslote]

Originally Posted by wilwarin538

Gah, just lost my post.

I get what BG's trying to say, even if I can't explain myself, so I'm not gonna vote for her.

For lack of nothing better:

[*highlight]++Sally[/highlight]

Gah...if BeiGe is a wolf, then I don't think Vanilwuffin can be. This is too blatant.

EDIT: xed with Modwen...oopsie!

[Blind Guardian]

OH FOR GOD SAKE I"M THE SEER! THE TELEPATH! NICE GOING!!

Now I'm going to go cry...

[Inziladun]

DL. Silence.

[Nerwen]

BG, no-one is officially dead until I say so.

So let me say so now: You're dead.

There.

[Nerwen]

Death of a Telepath

The crew of the Lothlórien– at least those who could be spared from their duties– gathered on the bridge to discuss their alarming situation. Well, most of them did, though Ensign Blind Guardian was more concerned with her breakfast and MCPO Loslote was so worried about the engine that she had scarcely noticed the double murder.

Argue as they might, they could hit upon no way of detecting a Metamorph– except by killing it, of course. At first the full import of the Captain's words had not really sunk in, but as the Day progressed and the talk failed to, the crew began to look at each other askance. It could, they realised, be anyone...

"Now, there's a clue here that none of you have noticed yet," said MCPO Loslote. "Who stands most to gain with Captain McNerwen dead? Her second-in-command, Zil."

"I don't suspect anyone," remarked Lieutenant Sally vaguely, "except perhaps me. Yes, I definitely think we should lynch me toDay. Or not. Which way's left?"

"If that's not the real Lieutenant, it's certainly done its homework," Loslote muttered under her breath.

"Ensign Guardian looks very suspicious," said Eomer, narrowly eyeing the Lothlórien's newest recruit. The Security Officer would give no reason for this statement, but the young Ensign's nervous manner attracted more and more attention.

"Ensign, what do you have to say to Eomer's accusation?" asked Pitchwife, the Communications Officer.

"He's crazy! I know I'm not a morph! Let me go and walk my dog!"

"Well, then, stating your opinions of other crewmembers would be a good starting point."

"Er... um...I'm pretty sure Chief Engineer Loslote's innocent," said the Tactical Officer quickly. "No, wait, she's a Metamorph! Kill her!"

"Ma'am, you just said you thought she was innocent!" Technician Isabellkya pointed out.

"Oh, crud, I did!" Blind Guardian wailed.

Taking this for a confession, everyone drew their weapons and pointed them at the hapless Ensign.

"You've got it all wrong!" the Tactical Officer protested, tears starting in her eyes. "I'm not a morph, I tell you! I'm– I'm THE TELEPATH! Nice going, I was just trying to– AAAARRRRGGHHH!!!!" Blind Guardian clutched her head, as blood poured from her eyes, eyes and nostrils. Screaming, she collapsed to the floor, her body jerking in increasingly violent convulsions. Finally, she was still.

A large dog of indeterminate breed pushed its way through the horrified onlookers, nosed at its mistress and licked her face, but Ensign Guardian did not move. Foam flecked her open lips. Her eyes stared blankly at the ceiling.

The dog sat back on its haunches to emit a long howl of grief and despair.

Terran Intelligence conditioning cannot be broken with impunity.

The Crew

Living
Commander Inziladun –First Officer.
Lieutenant Paranoia –Second Officer.
Lieutenant Sally –Navigator.
Ensign Pitchwife –Communications Officer/Interpreter.
Master Chief Petty Officer Loslote –Chief Engineer.
Chief Petty Officer Keeper of Dol Guldur –Quartermaster.
Isabellkya –Sensor Technician, First Class.
Wilwa –Android Technician, Second Class.
Shasta –Engineering Technician.
Eomer –Security Officer.
wintywinty –Weapons Maintenance Technician.
Rikae –"Cabin Boy" (a thirteen-year-old stowaway).

Dead
Doctor Morsul –Medical Officer and Captain McNerwen. –shot by Traitor on Night One.
Ensign Blind Guardian– Tactical Officer. –Died in convulsions (Telepath).

*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

It is now Night Two.

[Nerwen]

The Plot Thickens

Day and night have no true meaning in space, but on a starship there is a period when the lights are dimmed, when most of the crew sleep– except the few who must remain on duty during the “Night” period.

Security Officer Eomer was one of these, but toNight he was less concerned with his official work than with what he believed was his true calling.

Eomer thought of himself as a hunter.

Once, he had seen it as just a way to supplement his income, but as his skills had grown, so had his love of the chase for its own sake– as had his pride. True, he had earned some respect for his service in the Fleet, but under the name he used in his secret trade he was almost a legend, spoken of with awe as “the best in the business”.

Cautiously, he looked around the corner at a door halfway down the next corridor. There was no sign of movement, and the only sound was the usual faint background hum of a functioning ship, just as it had been during the two hours he had already spent lying in wait. Eomer was just about to resign himself to another long period of waiting, when he became aware of a faint noise on the other side of the door. He tensed himself, raising his gun, as the door slid open.

His finger froze on the trigger. The figure who appeared in the doorway was the right height and build to be the one he was after, but he had certainly not expected it to be wearing a mask, or to be clothed from head to foot in black.

Eomer shrugged briefly and then fired, a direct hit to the head. The frequency of the energy bolt would have been instantly fatal to the type of being he had thought he was hunting, but the masked figure merely swayed a moment and shook its head as if to clear it. Then it darted across the corridor, out of his line of sight. The hunter could hear it softly edging along the near wall towards him.

Eomer made a quick decision and ran for it. Whatever he was dealing with, it was not his particular quarry after all, and he didn’t care for the look of it either.

*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

The Assassin reached the corner and peered around, his dart-gun held at the ready, but the corridor was empty. He was very surprised.
Someone taking shots at him? It was supposed to be the other way around. And why attack him with an obviously harmless weapon?

“You can wait, whoever you are,” he whispered. “I've got bigger fish to fry..."

He was sure he knew the identity of at least one Metamorph.

As he crept down the darkened passages he smiled to himself behind his mask. The Telepath would be avenged this Night.

*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

Eomer skidded to a halt just in time to avoid crashing into Lieutenant Sally.

“Sorry, ma’am,” gasped Eomer, wondering why the Lieutenant was wearing her EVA suit.

“Eomer!” said the navigator with a delighted grin. “Just the person I was looking for! I’d like you to meet my friends.”

Two other figures, also wearing spacesuits, stepped out of the shadows behind Eomer. Before the Security Officer could react, one of them grabbed him and twisted the gun from his grasp. “Hey, that’s not Galactic Fleet issue! So, it’s true, you’re a bounty hunter! We don’t need their scum! We'd like to take the chance to get rid of this treacherous pest that goes by the name of Eomer before it can do any harm to our beloved crew. They'll thank us!”

“Shh!” said Sally. “I was going for 'sinister joviality', and now you’ve spoiled it! –Eomer, we saw how upset you were at poor dear Ensign Guardian's very affecting funeral, and we thought you’d want to be reunited with her.”

“What, now?”

“Now!” said the Lieutenant, pulling down her helmet visor.

A hand was clapped over the Security Officer’s mouth. Struggle as he might, he was unable to break free from the Metamorphs as they marched him to the airlock from which, a few hours previously, Blind Guardian’s pitiful corpse had been committed to the interstellar depths.

Unfortunately, Eomer was not wearing a spacesuit.

*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

The Assassin found the one he sought sitting outside a cabin door– clearly waiting for her comrades.

Coward, the Assassin thought, too afraid to kill a sleeping person on your own! Take that!

He fired his dart–gun. The mechanism was completely silent– but his target had glimpsed the movement. With a speed and grace that seemed inhuman, she rolled out of the way, coming to her feet in a fighting stance. The dart stuck in the door, quivering.

Cursing, the Assassin fired again.

“You’ll never get past me, Metamorph!” the other hissed. “I was trained in the sacred martial arts of Mu Arae b, and– what the–?” She stared down at the dart sticking out of her arm. “Hey, this looks like Intel make! –Oh no!” she groaned. “I get it. You’re the bloody Assassin, aren’t you?”

“The Defender?” asked the Assassin, feeling very foolish all of a sudden.

“Yep, that’s me.” The Defender touched her head, remembering the awful fate of Ensign Guardian, but of course nothing happened.

“I’ll be darned.”

They both started to laugh.

“What in Space is going on out there?” called a sleepy voice from within the cabin.

The two agents glanced at each other, and took to their heels, in opposite directions.

*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

Lieutenant Sally was in a hurry. Her cover role forced her to spend some hours this Night plotting the ship’s course, and the diversion, though pleasant in itself, had put her fearfully behind schedule.

“Out of my way!” she ordered the figure who had just stepped out of a side corridor.

“Oh, no, Lieutenant, I don’t think you’re going anywhere,” said the other.

A chill ran down Sally’s spine. She wished she had waited for her fellow Metamorphs to accompany her.

“So you’re this Assassin-person, are you?” she said, deciding to brazen it out. “And I suppose you’ve somehow got it into your head that I’m a Metamorph? Well, then, fire away– your little darts won’t do me any harm.”

“Darts?" said the figure. “What’s the fun of that?” And it ripped Sally’s arm from its socket.

That was just the beginning.

Sally’s dying screams brought people running, but by the time they arrived on the scene, the navigator could be identified only by the bloody scraps of her uniform. All that remained of her body was a heap of mangled flesh.

And that flesh was changing. Skin turned rough and scaly; fat and muscle took on a strange gelatinous texture; even her blood paled from red to a sickly yellow-white hue.

“A Metamorph!” someone gasped. “But– but who or what killed her?”

[NB. Pronouns used in the narration do not necessarily reflect player's actual gender.]

The Crew

Living
Commander Inziladun –First Officer.
Lieutenant Paranoia –Second Officer.
Ensign Pitchwife –Communications Officer/Interpreter.
Master Chief Petty Officer Loslote –Chief Engineer.
Chief Petty Officer Keeper of Dol Guldur –Quartermaster.
Isabellkya –Sensor Technician, First Class.
Wilwa –Android Technician, Second Class.
Shasta –Engineering Technician.
wintywinty –Weapons Maintenance Technician.
Rikae –"Cabin Boy" (a thirteen-year-old stowaway).

Dead
Doctor Morsul –Medical Officer and Captain McNerwen. –shot by Traitor on Night One.
Ensign Blind Guardian– Tactical Officer. –Died in convulsions (Telepath).
Eomer –Security Officer. –Thrown out the airlock (Bounty Hunter).
Lieutenant Sally –Navigator. –Torn to pieces (Metamorph).

*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

It is now Day Two. You may post.

[Shastanis Althreduin]

Two kills, and neither one appears to be from our Assassin (needler/laser thing). Of the two kills, Sally sounds more like she was killed by the Metamorphs (torn to pieces).

Nerwen, love of my life? Mind telling us what Eomer and Sally were?

[Shastanis Althreduin]

Also (and I meant to put this in the previous post, but got sidetracked by calling the Moddess a pet name ), does this mean we have a were-bear of some kind?

[Loslote]

Originally Posted by Shastanis Althreduin

Two kills, and neither one appears to be from our Assassin (needler/laser thing). Of the two kills, Sally sounds more like she was killed by the Metamorphs (torn to pieces).

Nerwen, love of my life? Mind telling us what Eomer and Sally were?

STOP KILLING MY BUZZ. Here I was, all excited that Assasie'd killed a wolf for us, and there you go being all logical.

[Nerwen]

Originally Posted by Shastanis Althreduin

Two kills, and neither one appears to be from our Assassin (needler/laser thing). Of the two kills, Sally sounds more like she was killed by the Metamorphs (torn to pieces).

Nerwen, love of my life? Mind telling us what Eomer and Sally were?

Narration will be up in a few minutes.

[Rikae]

Hm. Two kills. I'm going to guess they didn't have special roles, Shasta, since none were listed in the narration.
My leftover comments from yesterDay were that I agreed with Lottie on Wilwa's forced sounding tone, and also that I, along with a few others I don't remember, found Sally's self-vote a bit fishy or even out of character - but apparently the second point is now pointless.
Oh yes, for those who wondered, my older, more female alter ego is in the US - NY, to be specific.
I'll be around in after a work day or a good night's sleep to enlighten all with my great wisdom. OK, to amuse all with my absurdity....
Annoy everyone with my foolishness? Meh.

Oh yeah, and Sally? Post count is MINE. OH YEAH.