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08-03-2007, 06:56 AM | #161 |
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If I am wrong, truly I am sorry but I am going "all in" - I think is the term but no doubt my Poker guru will correct me if wrong. Holby is you are a wolf - well played my friend.
I will abstain.
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08-03-2007, 06:56 AM | #162 |
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I apologize... I am unnecessarily cruel at heart.
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08-03-2007, 06:57 AM | #163 |
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Holby, I am innocent ..quite well wrong.... but innocent...
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08-03-2007, 06:58 AM | #164 |
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I mean maybe quite well wrong .... and now am going. One way or another this is the end ...... *closes eyes and hopes for the best*
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08-03-2007, 06:59 AM | #165 |
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Casually waits two minutes to make sure there's no last minute change of heart.
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08-03-2007, 07:02 AM | #166 |
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The Day is over. Any further posts will result in broken fingers and a lot of frowning.
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08-03-2007, 08:19 AM | #167 |
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The two laugh during the day, though only where their voices cannot be heard.
The village, it would seem, hosts many descendants of Seers, for as the day passes, several more step forth. CaptainofDespair steps forth looking mildly bashful, admitting he maybe should have revealed himself sooner, but had hoped to find another wolf. And lo! he had, for he reveals Holby as a wrongdoer, as well as Gil-Galad. Gil-Galad, in his turn, jumps to his feet and cries many things, not least of which is "No! I'm the true Seer!" As the village watches, he points a shaking finger toward CaptainofDespair and Kath, sweet Kath, who has gone mostly unnoticed in this village. Kath and Cap meet each others' eyes, raising dubious eyebrows. Holby, from her modest perch upon the side of the well, says, "This is ridiculous. We cannot possibly have so many Seers. Unless perhaps one of the evil ones is also possessed with Sight..." Her thinking aloud trails to silence and she identifies CaptainofDespair with as much certainty as her previous assertions about Wolfpan. Mithalwen closes her eyes, craving mayhem, trying with everything in her to remain calm, collected, and beyond addiction. The wolves smile. A mistake today means one thing: their planning has paid off. The village is theirs. SeerofDespair votes for Seer-Galad. Kath quietly attaches her vote to the least stable member of the village. HolbytSeer campaigns for CapSeer, admitting no knowledge of the final wolf. Mithalwen sits shaking, seeing the mayhem she so desires within reach. Seer-Galad votes for CapSeer, convinced of his guilt. The confusion is tangible. Ghost laughter fills the air. Mithalwen is frozen. The sun sets upon a tied village, with Mithalwen abstaining from both voting and chaos. CapSeer grins. Seer-Galad winces; his ruse has not helped the village. CapWolf's claws extend, his teeth lengthen, and his frame converts to one devoid of humanity. He dashes toward Gildinary Villager and proceeds to mangle his flesh with all available weapons. The rest of the village jumps to help, just slightly too late. Gil is dead, with a branch shoved through his chest, his face mutilated beyond recognition. Yet also dead is CaptainofDespair, his mouth dripping blood. --- The three villagers step away from the mess, eyes searching for a sweeter sight than the pile of dripping flesh beside them. As they walk toward the village, Mithalwen hears a whisper in her ear. "Thank you." She begins to turn and the wolf behind her snaps her neck, letting her fall. Holby speaks. "You know, Kath, I never expected to live this long." "But our ruse worked so prettily. All we needed was enough uncertainty for the village to ruin itself. It was beautiful, was it not?" "From the very beginning, you worked to destablize our community. The Saucepan Man told us of the threat... he's the one who filled the people with terror." "He told the truth." "Mangled in such a way as to help your evil cause!" Kath grins. "Certainly. We wolves are opportunists. Why work to destroy a village when we can watch it tear itself apart from a distance?" Holby sighs. "So this is the end?" "Did you doubt it would end this way?" "Doubt? No. But it is a mark of the brave and the good to have hope even where certainty fails." "Hope is a fool's game." "Hope is all there is." she says simply. Kath leans in, admiring one single shimmering claw as it extends in the moonlight. "Then hope for an afterlife, pretty Seer." --- The victory is not as sweet as she might have hoped. Kath walks through the graveyard in her human form, eying so many fresh mounds. She pauses beside the graves of Wolfpan and Wolftain, letting tears fall. Opportunistic they may be, and though they may sacrifice one for the good of the many... wolves belong to packs. And Kath stands amongst the moonlit headstones, eying the end. She wipes her tears and moves on, leaving the village forever, a lone wolf to carry on. She will find another village, more villagers willing to bear the torment that is being half-human. She will turn them. She will build another pack. Perhaps in the next village, their win will be sweeter, with less blood and tears. Perhaps next time every villager will become pack. For is that not what everyone desires? A pack of many; a pack of all. World peace. --- Dead Night One: Boromir88 (scholar) and Fea (wife) Day One: Legate (innocent), Durelin (innocent), Menel (innocent) Night Two: Brinniel (innocent) Day Two: Shasta (innocent) Night Two: Lalwendë (innocent) Day Three: The Saucepan Man (wolf) Night Three: the phantom (innocent) Day Four: Captainof Despair (wolf) and Gil-Galad (innocent) Night Four: Mithalwen (innocent) and Holby (Seer) Alive Kath --- WOLVES WIN
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08-03-2007, 08:29 AM | #168 |
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That was FABULOUS!!
Very, very impressive strategy dear wolves. I believe a(n) historical moment, actually letting the seer live. My hat off to you three. It is over and I can stop shaking now. It was fun being on the brink and having things so uncertain-at least for us villagers. Thank you mods, Feanor and Boromir.
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08-03-2007, 10:09 AM | #169 |
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Oh dear... I am sorry .....
Kath, if ever I send you another bottle, be very careful Ducky darling.... You really are my bane - what a fool I was to think I had learnt to read you....
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08-03-2007, 10:37 AM | #170 | |
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CaptainofDespair, congratulations! I know he ended up dead but the Seer revelation was entirely his idea and he carried it off beautifully. Holby, you have that brave man to thank for your extra Day, he's got guts!
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Fea, that was a beautiful final narration. Kudos to you and Boro for having great ones throughout! Oh man that was a fun game. I so wish I'd had more time.
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08-03-2007, 11:05 AM | #171 |
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sigh... as long as i took down a wolf with me i am happy...
captain your mistake was to pretend to be a gifted, the only people that do that is innocents who don't care anymore or wolves thinking they are clever. when you stated i was a wolf i knew that was false and so did the real seer! you put yourself in a trap! this was a fun game... full of seers...
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08-03-2007, 11:21 AM | #172 |
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This was really brilliant guys. It was so much fun.
I honestly think the best games for modding are simple no-frills games. I thought you'd all kick it day two, what with that triple lynching on the first. And not a single wolf in it! Holby, you should have seen B88 and I cracking up that you'd nailed all three wolves by accident in your first goofy post. First post of the game, and the Seer's pegged everyone. And then Gil, lying through his teeth and still pegging the proper wolves in the end... Fantastic. Great job, everybody.
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08-03-2007, 12:24 PM | #174 |
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Excellent game, all of you!
Kath, take some credit for yourself! Without you, I could not have pulled off the double lynch to end the game. And you did suggest leaving Mithalwen alive, who turned out to be very useful towards that end. Gil, you misunderstand my motives. I had no intention of living past the lynching. You were my target of wolfdom because I figured on you reacting in a necessary fashion to get lynched with me (though, I did not think you'd go fake Seer on me). Holby, excellent Seer'ing! Nothing more to say than that. Fea, Boro: Great modding! I especially loved that last narration! |
08-03-2007, 02:30 PM | #175 |
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i only did that because i knew you were playing off of my reactionary methods... so to spice it up i put you more on the spot, or at least attempted too, i think about what i say more then you all think i do... i am an actor at heart so i know how to play my roles...
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Now I don't feel too bad because wolves did win but SpM would have lasted longer at least in dreams but they killed off so many in the beginning. There were handful of people that I had never played and would have dreamt of them. Besides, I really was looking for a friend.... Thanks Phantom for backing me up even though it cost you your life.
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08-03-2007, 05:32 PM | #177 |
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08-03-2007, 06:42 PM | #178 |
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Truthfully? A little. I wasn't expecting someone to put all three of us in one post. You felt odd to me, right off the bat for that. But I couldn't explain it.
And I suspect that's why I guessed you were the Seer when we wolves chose Lal as our kill. I mentioned your quietness being our doom, as you'd be a more dangerous Seer than any more vocal player. But we went with Lal, and you killed Sauce the next day. Though, I would not change it now, knowing what happens. I enjoyed our little game of "Who is the Real Seer" far too much. Last edited by CaptainofDespair; 08-04-2007 at 11:21 AM. Reason: Word choice and such |
08-04-2007, 04:19 AM | #179 |
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I guess you should never ease up on the paranoia.... After the ducks game I always suspected you but then there were so many when you were the busy innocent that I relaxed thought your oops I forgot ..routine was a bit convenient ... unfortunately everyone else I had thought probably innocent - Dury, Menel, Shasta, Phantom, had been proved so by their deaths ~I had thought my instincts were good this time. Also if I had played it safe and voted, and chosen CofD...I really honestly don't think I would have tried to lynch you today... Gil was really not behaving like an innocent..to put it mildly.... heigh ho....
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08-04-2007, 04:33 AM | #181 |
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Well at least we can enjoyt he weekend..thought I finally have my "new" car ..playing WW when you have no home access and no transport was a nightmare.....
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08-04-2007, 10:50 AM | #182 |
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Hehe. Still unbeaten as a Wolf. :)
I cannot believe that Holby was the Seer again!
The first time that I modded, she was the Seer and also the first time that I was a Wolf, and I think that she has been a Seer two other times as well. When I was a Wolf, by sheer chance, we killed her the first Night. So, at least she got a chance to wreak her vengeance upon me this time round. A short but sweet game, and congratulations to my fellow Wolves. I could not believe it when I logged on on Day 3 to see that you had left Holby alive. A bold strategy, but one which paid off (albeit with a little help from the wild card that is Gil-Galad ). Congratulations also to the villagers, and particularly Holby, since you rallied well after a shaky start. I knew that I had little chance of surviving once you revealed and outed me as a Wolf, Holby, but I had to give it a go. As phantom rightly observed, it would have been too much of a coincidence to declare myself as the Seer (although it would have made four Seer declarations in the game), so I pinned my hope on the cautious "real Seer" approach. I shall post our Wolfish plotting from Nights 1 and 2 as, with Kath absent for Night 1, there is not too much of it. That, I hope, will explain our kill choices on both those Nights and also why I felt unable to go for the quadruple lynch at the end of Day 2. In the meantime, many thanks to Fea and Boro for modding such a great game. I must admit that I was somewhat daunted to be a Wolf yet again, as I had less time available to me than I would have liked (hence my relative quietness). But it was great fun nonetheless.
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08-05-2007, 01:25 PM | #186 |
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Fun game, everyone. A pity it was shortened by that day one fiasco.
CoD... that was bold. And you played it well. You really sold it. I'm not terribly familiar with your playing style, and so I wasn't sure what to think for a while. I wrestled with it and banged my head against the wall. I did, after long thought, side with Holby- primarily because I did not believe that SPMWolf would advocate the strategy we had witnessed the day before if Holby had indeed been a WW. But know that I was not 100% certain. There was doubt, so I pat you on the back for creating uncertainly about something that there should have been no uncertainty about. That last day really threw my suspicions for a loop. Going into the final day my primary suspects were Mith and Kath. Not that I thought you to be completely innocent, CoD, but I was more suspicious of the other two. But as the last day unfolded, your Seer announcement and the reactions surrounding it bumped Mith off my suspect list and placed you on it, but then Gil quite forcefully elbowed his way onto the suspect list, which bumped Kath into the innocent column. I can't tell you how badly I wanted to jump on and post all throughout the day! I didn't think for a minute that I wouldn't be alive for the fun. Leave me alive next time!
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08-05-2007, 06:52 PM | #187 |
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You comfort me. Gil was so obviously lying about being a seer that it seemed impossible he was innocent .. so Kath was able to slip through.
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08-06-2007, 08:36 AM | #189 |
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Note One: All roles were selected by a random number generator I found online. My only real role as mod was to write up narratives and keep my inbox clear. As for writing...
I tried very hard not to leave any clues in the stories. It's obnoxious, trying to avoid 'he' as the universal pronoun when you know the village will jump on the mod-slip first thing in the Morning... My favorite bit of it was the end. I took one look at the solitary Kath mourning her lost pack in the graveyard and wanted to go back and edit every single post to better accomodate that one image. The premise would have been more in the style of Heinlein's work (though hopefully better written ) with the wolf pack representing the communist threat... Oh, it would have been great... I could still do it, I suppose... Recreate the story around the premise that the wolves are trying to convert all the world into one loving cooperative For the Greater Good pack...
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08-06-2007, 10:06 AM | #190 |
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Oh, I shouldn't tell you this Sauce, but it is when you are a cobbler I find you easiest to spot.... you don't seem quite so convincing when you don't know whose side you are on.....
Great narrations by both mods.... modding is somuch more fun than playing... The Mithamegalomaniac
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08-06-2007, 04:23 PM | #191 |
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Well after dipping my hand into modding, I must say it was great fun. I just wish I could be more committed on a daily basis so I could do it 'full time'
Also, I would like to tell the Wolves just excellent job, I really loved the tricks and games all three of you played. I wondered the same thing as Holby...why isn't she dead? But your plan was just so cunning and so evil I really wanted you wolves to pull it off.
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08-10-2007, 04:49 AM | #192 |
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That was rather good fun Though disappointingly short for me this time around. So when's the next game then???!!!
I am now aware of how sneakily Sauce plays, which shall be useful in future (mua-ha-ha) and am more scared than ever of Phantom and Kath. I knew Mithalwen was innocent though, so my instincts proved correct there at least!
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