T-I-G LXVII: The Rangers of the North - The Fell Winter

[Roa_Aoife]

Legate, Lommy's voted all three.

[Gwathagor]

Originally Posted by Nerwen

I would imagine he's about due to be modfired anyway.

I'm behind on the reading and it's hard to get back up to speed. But I'll try.

[Nienna]

I'm back... and intrigued.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Originally Posted by Roa_Aoife

Legate, Lommy's voted all three.

Oh sorry, me idiot. Corrected.

Hm, wonder if I should repost it on this page.

Ha, Gwath. Well, you have very little time for catching up.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Okay, so here we go, let's put it this way.

++Captain Nienna

++NG Nerwen

And, so once again:

captain:
Fea – Roa
Brinn – Roa
Lommy – Roa (3)
Nienna – Legate
Sally – Nienna
Roa – Lommy
Nerwen – Nienna (2)
Greenie- Nienna (3)
Valier - Legate (2)
Legate - Nienna (4)

Not voted: Kath, Loslote, Gwath

guard:
Brinn – Kath
Lommy – Nerwen
Fea – Lommy
Sally – Kath (2)
Nienna – Nerwen (2)
Roa – Gwath
Nerwen - Sally
Valier - Lommy (2)
Greenie - Kath (3)
Legate - Nerwen (3)

Not voted: Kath, Loslote, Gwath


lynch:
Brinn – Nerwen
Lommy – Valier
Roa – Legate
Nienna – Valier (2)
Nerwen - Loslote
Valier - Loslote (2)
Sally - Loslote (3)
Greenie - Valier (3)

Not voted: Legate, Fea, Kath, Loslote, Gwath

[Gwathagor]

Regarding the Captaincy: Basically, I'm hesitant to vote as captain anyone who seems at all keen on holding the post.

Regarding the lynch: Wouldn't be a good idea to lynch Boro, since he's going to be leaving us anyway? Nothing's sure, of course, but I don't like the chance of losing two innocents in one day.

Regarding the Night Guard post: I'm going to try to vote someone who has been fairly vocal during the Days with the hope that they will put the Night-PMing privileges to good use.

[satansaloser2005]

So the two Night Guards get to PM? Or the Captain and someone else? Or....gosh, I'm confused.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Originally Posted by Gwathagor

Regarding the lynch: Wouldn't be a good idea to lynch Boro, since he's going to be leaving us anyway? Nothing's sure, of course, but I don't like the chance of losing two innocents in one day.

And how do you know that he's innocent?

[Nogrod]

Originally Posted by satansaloser2005

So the two Night Guards get to PM? Or the Captain and someone else? Or....gosh, I'm confused.

RIght... the two NG's together and the Captain with his own chosen BG's...

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Originally Posted by satansaloser2005

So the two Night Guards get to PM? Or the Captain and someone else? Or....gosh, I'm confused.

The two NGs (Night Guards) will PM each other (and be protected for the Night), and the Captain will choose two other people (BG, Bodyguards) who will also be protected and also PM with the Captain (the three of them all among themselves).

EDIT: x-ed with Nog

[Nienna]

Sally it is my understanding that the Captain and their two body guards, the two NGs, and the Night Talker and their partner... all get to talk. But I could be way off.

Edit: x-ed

[Roa_Aoife]

Originally Posted by satansaloser2005

So the two Night Guards get to PM? Or the Captain and someone else? Or....gosh, I'm confused.

The two NGs pm with each other and the Captain and his/her BG's pm with each other

[Nerwen]

Originally Posted by Gwathagor

Regarding the lynch: Wouldn't be a good idea to lynch Boro, since he's going to be leaving us anyway?

Wouldn't it be a good idea to vote someone who has a chance of getting lynched at this point– there being exactly ten minutes until DL?

(Yes, I'm back. I thought I might as well hang around for the DL after all.)

EDIT: X'd with a host.

[Nogrod]

Such a many helping hands... but the Rangers are renowned for their comradership and sharing aren't they?

[satansaloser2005]

Originally Posted by Nogrod

RIght... the two NG's together and the Captain with his own chosen BG's...

Thanks. And Legate and Nienna and Roa too. I was really confused.


Nienna, if you're captain, I'd appreciate a bit of love coming my way. If you are truly innocent I think you'd be a good person for me to strategize with, per se. (And in jest, you could help me with that parody.) Completely up to you, of course, but I think it could be handy.

*waits for DL*

*is antsy because she wants to be able to go to dinner*

[Nerwen]

Originally Posted by Legate of Amon Lanc

And how do you know that he's innocent?

And that's a good point. Well, Gwath?

EDIT:X'd since last post.

[satansaloser2005]

Originally Posted by Nerwen

And that's a good point. Well, Gwath?

What they said. I mean I think he's innocent too but I don't know for sure. For all we know we'll be rid of two more wolves at the end of the Day. (If only!)

[Gwathagor]

Originally Posted by Nerwen

Wouldn't it be a good idea to vote someone who has a chance of getting lynched at this point– there being exactly ten minutes until DL?

Unfortunately, my absence means I haven't been able to form any opinions about those players. Boro's the only one I have any good reason to want to lynch at this point - unfortunately.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Valier and Loslote are about equally "suspicious" in my eyes. The "suspicious" is in "" because I do not really suspect them, or, not in any deep way. As I believe that there would have likely been some Wolf among the Rune-Cap voters, one of them might be, but who. Loslote I get very little reading on. Of Valier, all she said and done etc. does not necessarily point to her wolfishness, though it might. And she could perhaps even be "framed" by the Wolves. Well, they both could be, for that matter, which could be slightly unlikely, but also possible. In any case, they are not my top suspects. Had there not been for the Rune thing, I would probably hardly have noticed them at all.

[Gwathagor]

Originally Posted by satansaloser2005

What they said. I mean I think he's innocent too but I don't know for sure. For all we know we'll be rid of two more wolves at the end of the Day. (If only!)

As you say, I don't know for sure. I'd be playing the odds.

[Gwathagor]

But Boro's clearly not getting lynched toDay, so it's an irrelevancy.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Originally Posted by satansaloser2005

Nienna, if you're captain, I'd appreciate a bit of love coming my way. If you are truly innocent I think you'd be a good person for me to strategize with, per se. (And in jest, you could help me with that parody.) Completely up to you, of course, but I think it could be handy.

Actually, I would second this. Ni, you'd have time to decide, but to me sally seems quite ok, so if my recommendation can serve... and since she's offering it herself (no, it doesn't seem suspicious to me that she offers herself. Not now and not from her now, before anybody asks).

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

And as for that, when I'm already mentioning it, I do not think I need you to return the favour, Ni, and have me toNight - unless you really want to.

[Gwathagor]

Ok, well, I'm going to vote Lommy for Night-Guard since Kath hasn't been around and it seems like a waste of special privileges.

++ NG Lommy

[Nogrod]

Time's up!

Stop posting.

Results in a moment, narration in a short while...

[Gwathagor]

Heck, in the absence of better ideas:

++Boro

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Originally Posted by Gwathagor

Ok, well, I'm going to vote Lommy for Night-Guard since Kath hasn't been around and it seems like a waste of special privileges.

Says who.

EDIT: sorry Nog, that was missed by a hobbit's hair.

[Nerwen]

Captain Legate, the Lynch and the Night Guard votes are tied. So do your duty.

EDIT: Oh, Nogrod's making the decision, is he? I thought Legate had to.

[Nogrod]

Nienna is the new chosen Captain.

Valier and Loslote gained as much votes so it is up to Nienna to decide which one dies.

~*~

Consider these ones as false statements...

The Night-guards are Kath and Nerwen.

Also Nienna should have to choose two BG's (not Kath or Nerwen as they are occupied already).

Kath and Nerwen should feel free to PM as soon as they wish.

The rules say that when the number of players is 12-7 there will be only one NG and one BG - and together the three of them (C, BG & NG) form the guarding-gang who can PM together.

I had totally forgotten that Boro left from my numbers (I hadn't forgotten that Boro leaves but had not subtracted him from the tally). The problem is corrected and the people whom this is to concern have been notified of the rule. Kath is the NG as she got the votes first and Nienna now has only one BG (whose name will be revealed in the next narration).

~*~


The wolves may start PM'ing.

The Rangers and hunters should send me their picks.

The Night talker will be picked and PM'd in a few minutes.


Final results & the narration coming as soon as the new Captain has informed me about them (and I'm awake to send them to be shared).

[Nogrod]

Originally Posted by Nerwen

Captain Legate, the Lynch and the Night Guard votes are tied. So do your duty.

Nope. He's no more the Cap'n... Not his job...

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

I don't think I am a Captain. Or that I have any privilege.

EDIT: x-ed!!! yes, so you see. I should not have been saying anything. It's Night! The rules should not be breached! Sorry, nog

[Nerwen]

Originally Posted by Nogrod

Nope. He's no more the Cap'n... Not his job...

Ah. I thought he was Captain until the new Captain was announced.

[Nogrod]

Be my guest...

[Nogrod]

The Rangers buried their dead with heavy hearts and packed their backpacks despite the blizzard. They were ready to continue their endless-seeming mission through the white storm to reach the Shire in time to prevent the wolves to wreak havoc on them. How impossible that seemed with the problems of their own to be sorted out!

“Don’t you think someone should need to know about our ordeal back there?” Boro called the others over the howling wind. “I could try to reach Bree! I know the way there the best of us!”

The others halted.

“If you feel it must be you, then you go” Legate said matter of factly.

“But how come you’d just sneak away? Shouldn’t we take tougher measures on you actually?” Gwath yelled.

“Why do you say that? It’s a tough quest to do all alone.” Nerwen reacted.

“Why would I like to sneak away if I was a wolf?” Boro answered somewhat irritated.

“Well, that’s not logically proven stuff you come forwards with comrade… you might be arguing in circles…” Roa muttered.

“If he wishes to go, then he goes.” Legate snapped to Roa. “He does what he sees fit and we others continue, with him or without him. That's the Captain's words.”

It was clear the two were not in the best of terms, not the least as during the morning hours it seemed they were the top contestants to be the Captain.

The pragmatic Rangers turned that rivalry off by choosing Nienna as their new Captain.


But who would they lynch toDay… that was a question they all went through in their minds while pushing through the storm that seemed to grow as the day draw nearer to the end.

That day the weather really pressed them and they soon realised they would not be able to travel very far. There was no good shelter for resting within miles and they knew it.

Finally they found a few mounds that were high enough to hide behind from the icy wind and where they could light some fires that had even slight chances of burning. Even if that hope soon turned out to be a fool’s hope.

But they had to make a choice – and as long as they all sat around the fire it kept burning as the mass of men kept the wind outside the lonely circle of light in the middle of the storming moors.

It ended up with Loslote and Valier being the ones to choose from.

“So as I’m not your Captain anymore it’s up to you Nienna to decide who…” Legate said calmly.

Nienna looked at Legate and then at the two pierced by the stare of all the other Rangers, everyone of them thinking how it would turn out this time.

“It will be Valier… give him a knife to be an honourable Ranger who faces the distrust of his companions.” Nienna finally ordered.

Valier looked scared but also annoyed. “Wait a minute! You didn’t give me even one chance to do anything! You guys call this fair? Once I’m in this you didn’t even give me one try?”

Valier denied the knife handed to him and looked at the others challengingly. “Knives…” He spat on the snow with disgust in his face and draw his sword. “There’s only one way to go for a Ranger… and that is…” He set the blade into the snow blade upwards and leaned lightly on it.

The others held their breath in honouring the composure of their brother.

“… like this!”

With that Valier threw the sword from the blade towards those nearest to him and kicked the fire down leaping away from the same footing.

“Catch him!” Nienna yelled and drew his bow.

“He’s running that way, quick after him!” Lommy called and pointed to the direction while reaching for his bow with the other hand.

Greenie had leapt after Valier already and produced his knife. “So a knife is not good enough for you traitor? Try this!” With that Greenie threw his knife after the shape that was trying to evade them into the darkness. A loud cry was heard when the knife landed on Valier’s back.

Two bows rang at the same time and before he fell down two arrows pierced him to finalise his fate.

The Rangers closed up on him carefully their weapons ready for any werewolf-tricksery, but there was none. Valier laid face down in the snow, a knife and two arrows in his back.

Suddenly his head moved a bit. "The wolves should... no... they will... prevail..."

Those were the last words of Valier the Traitor.



The Living:

Fea
Nienna
Sally
Kath
Loslote
Greenie
Nerwen
Roa
Lommy
Legate
Gwath
Brinn


The Dead:

Nogrod (mod) - turned into a werewolf and butchered on N1.
Hakon (The Master Hunter) - stuck dead on D1.
Rune (Werewolf) - killed from the sword of the Master Hunter at the end of D1.
Macalaure (The Berserk Hunter) - eaten alive by the werewolves on N2.
Inzil (Ordinary Innocent) - decapitated by the Berserk Hunter on N2.
Boro (Ordinary Innocent) - left to Bree to infor others about the Company's tough fate on D2.
Valier (The Night-Traitor aka. The Cobbler) - killed by the Rangers while trying to flee on D2.

It's Night3 now.

Hush...

[Nogrod]

At places the snow had piled up in drifts as high as up to a man’s waist. The Rangers dug individual holes into these drifts to make the snow keep them covered and warm.

There was no need for five people staying up in an open place like this. The wolves could not make their mischief in secret like they had done the Night before in the shadows of the trees. And everyone was dead-tired so the more people could sleep the coming Night the better. So only Nienna, Sally and Kath stayed by the fire watching over the camp – if one could call it a camp. It was more like “nine men living in makeshift hobbitholes” as Fea had put it before crawling into his hole in the snow.

The wind showed no sign of getting weaker, nor the snowfall of ceasing. And the Night went on.


With the first shades of light increasing the three decided to wake the others. They should use all the sparse daylight they had.

“Rise and shine! We’re leaving in twenty minutes!” Nienna called walking around.

“Did you say “shine”?” Lommy asked cynically after pulling his head out from the hole and getting the biting wind to his face.

“I wouldn’t take this for a Day if I hadn’t your assurances… though I’m still wavering between that and the proof of my own eyes.” Gwath grumbled.

“Don’t be sulky mates, nothing happened during the Night!” Sally answered cheerfully. “Just grin a bit softer!”

“There was no sound, no movement during the Night.” Kath confirmed.

“Blessed be the Valar." Roa said and took his backpack "Lets’ get on with it then.” only to suddenly freeze motionless.

“What is it Roa?” Nienna asked passing him by.

“Have you seen Brinn?” Roa asked.

Nienna turned to look at Brinn’s hole. His sack and his weapons were there but it seemed there was nothing else.

“Wait, there’s a tunnel under the drift here!” Nerwen shouted suddenly stepping on it less than ten meters away from Brinn’s hole.

“Let’s follow it!” Legate called and started kicking the snow from around the place where Nerwen had bumbed into the tunnel.

After a few minutes of slowly following the tunnel in the blizzard they finally saw an odd shape in the drift in front of them.

Loslote was the first one to spot it and he ran forwards fighting the snow that had piled almost up to his chest. After throwing the snow around with his bare hands he finally yelled “It’s Brinn! …and he’s… naked…”

Greenie had followed in his trails and tried frantically to find a pulse. The other Rangers fought their way slowly around the body of their mate. After a minute or two of painful silence Greenie shook his head and turned towards the others. “He’s dead. Frozen to death.”

~*~

The Living:

Fea
Nienna
Sally
Kath
Loslote
Greenie
Nerwen
Roa
Lommy
Legate
Gwath


The Dead:

Nogrod (mod) - turned into a werewolf and butchered on N1.
Hakon (The Master Hunter) - stuck dead on D1.
Rune (Werewolf) - killed from the sword of the Master Hunter at the end of D1.
Macalaure (The Berserk Hunter) - eaten alive by the werewolves on N2.
Inzil (Ordinary Innocent) - decapitated by the Berserk Hunter on N2.
Boro (Ordinary Innocent) - left to Bree to inform others about the Company's tough fate on D2. (killed by the wolves travelling alone in the blizzard)
Valier (The Night-Traitor aka. The Cobbler) - killed by the Rangers while trying to flee on D2.
Brinn (Ordinary Innocent) – stunned, dragged through a tunnel, stripped naked and left to froze to death on N3.

It's Day 3 now.

It's your turn...

[Roa_Aoife]

I'm only on for this moment. Nienna, why Valier and not Loslote? Also, why sally?

It's prudent to look at the people who voted for Valier, because the wolves would not have known her role, and would only know her as an innocent.

Also, once again, I call for a vote of no confidence in Nienna. Again, it's better to not allow anyone to have the full power of a captain. Even if you think they're innocent, the only way to know for sure is if you're a wolf. So without a known innocent to fill the position, we need to keep rotating for the safety of the village. It's too great a risk.

[Nienna]

Originally Posted by Roa_Aoife

I'm only on for this moment. Nienna, why Valier and not Loslote?

I thought them both very suspicious but I've seen newbie ordos lynched off too many times to risk that. Lottie needs to participate much more today so we can make an informed decision about her. She's done getting the newbie pass from me.

Originally Posted by Roa

Also, why sally?

Quite simply because she asked. She is also someone who I thought would be able to give me good opinions of everyone and I wanted to hear from her so I could decide on her leanings.

Originally Posted by Roa

Also, once again, I call for a vote of no confidence in Nienna. Again, it's better to not allow anyone to have the full power of a captain. Even if you think they're innocent, the only way to know for sure is if you're a wolf. So without a known innocent to fill the position, we need to keep rotating for the safety of the village. It's too great a risk.

May I ask, Roa, why you are so interested in the position? You are my top suspect for toDay.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Okay, so I remembered last night just as Grey's started that I'd forgotten to cast a lynch vote. For what it's worth, I intended to carry out my threat to vote for Valier.

I had no solid evidence, because I'm being a lazy sack of lard this game and don't feel like doing research to support my intuition. So it was suspicion based on gut instinct of what seems sincere and what seems synthetic.

You'll note that I've been on her case for a while for seeming like a falsie.

But since I forgot to vote, that barely matters...

In theory I'll be around for much of toDay.

In theory. No guarantees. My life has turned surprisingly busy.

[Roa_Aoife]

Originally Posted by Nienna

May I ask, Roa, why you are so interested in the position? You are my top suspect for toDay.

I'm not actually interested in the position. I don't know why people are trying to put me there.

May I ask why I'm your top suspect?

(I've got about 10 minutes and then I'm off to D&D.)

[Nienna]

Originally Posted by Roa

May I ask why I'm your top suspect?

Well... I actually had some confidence in you until middle of Day 2 and now that you are still alive I ask myself "why are the wolves leaving Roa alive?" You seem like the type of player who, when innocent, is a detriment to the village. I don't understand why they would leave you alive and kill Brinn (who had only posted 3 times). I accept that they may want to frame you and I won't pass major judgment on you until I have time to do a thorough analysis (probably sometime later toDay). Besides that your voting yesterDay was really strange. You voted Lommy for Captain, Gwath as NG, and Legate as lynch. The lynch vote probably sticks out for me the most as Legate is one of the few people who I don't suspect, at all.

You have also been handling the captain situation in a weird way. You say that you have no desire for the position but it seems as if you have been subtly hinting at it all game. Fea I also suspect because of her very quick vote for you for Captain. It seemed as if she was trying to lead 'her sheep' to vote you captain.

If you are so concerned about people not getting too much power then vote for no captain. That is an option. Also you were very quick today to give me a vote of no confidence. Do you have no confidence in me? Why?