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05-14-2011, 08:56 PM | #563 |
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When next they dared to speak, Fea, Lhuna, and Dun already knew their death was near. At last they decided to face it bravely, and agreed to go out and at least make one last stand against the beast.
“Who do you think it is?” Dun asked as they trudged through the small hole to Shelob’s lair. Lhuna stammered out an answer, but her words were unclear, her speech strangely slurred. “If I had been able to speak yesterday,” Fea said solemnly, “this wouldn’t have happened.” They reached the entrance to the bigger cave and she sighed. “This is all my fault. I let you all down.” “Not us,” Nog assured her. His body was suspended from the ceiling, his legs wiggling in some sort of dance as he watched the group approach, their path lit once again by his abdominal lights. “Whatever you do, don’t look at them,” Lhuna hissed. “They’ll draw you in.” Suddenly she had an idea, tugging on Shasta’s arm to get his attention without drawing too much of Nog’s. “Maybe we could make a deal with his minions. Perhaps they would turn on him. After all, they could be healed, rid themselves of their....condition, and we could all escape.” “I wouldn’t be on it,” Shasta chuckled. “I actually like being this way.” Lhuna dropped his arm, her eyes wide with fear. “You mean you....?” “It doesn’t pay well,” he admitted with a shrug, “but the food’s good.” Without further discussion he plunged a knife into Fea’s side, blood pouring from the wound as he removed his weapon and let it clatter to the floor. “NO!” the three innocents cried together, but it was too late. Nog dropped down from the ceiling and, before Fea could even try to escape, he had sunk his teeth deep into her neck. Fea swayed a few times, then fainted, and Nerwen caught her body as it fell, swiftly breaking her neck just in case. Dun and Lhuna tried to run, but as Dun neared their tunnel he was impaled by a giant leg, Nog’s appendage dragging him back toward the carnage. He couldn’t see Lhuna, but he knew there was no way she had escaped with her life. At last he welcomed death, and everything went dark. Nog and Shasta’s laughter rang through the cavern, Noglob’s hissing casting an eerie echo over the bodies of the slain Dun and Fea. Shasta’s laughter was cut short as, mid-cackle, a sword pierced his stomach. He turned to see Nerwen, her newly-formed pincers clacking maliciously as she twisted the blade inside him. “My shining star!” he cried, but then he spoke no more, slumping to the ground, a final hiss his last words to his precious sister. Nerwen swallowed a lump in her throat, easing her sword from her brother’s prone body. “I didn’t want to,” she assured him, a choke in her voice. “I’m sorry, he for whom my pincers do grow, but I have to make it right. Please understand.” She next approached Nog, who had mistaken Shasta’s scream of despair for one of elation. “My child!” he shouted as Nerwen approached, throwing two of his arms around her. “You were-” Nog’s eyes widened, slowly travelling down to look at the sword Nerwen had shoved into his furry body. “Why?” he demanded. “I gave you everything! We have everything, all of them! Why?!” Nerwen shrugged off his embrace and stepped back, leaving her sword protruding from Nog’s chest. “A spider’s life should be quiet,” she said slowly. “We are meant to dwell in shadows, in darkness and silence, not stand before men and mock their shortcomings. It is not our place to be in the light, nor to show lowlier beings, even former friends, our true faces. You taught me this, mother....I mean, father. Yet you and my brother were unable to control your impulses, to remain true to your nature. You sully our good name with your ridicule and your ridiculous dancing in the light of victory. I cannot be a part of something so contrary to the very nature you taught me all those days ago. If I am to be like this forever, I must remain true to my new self.” “But you....” Nog winced as he slid the blade from his chest. “You made yourself known.” “Before a kill, an enemy sees your true face. That is what I showed them, and nothing more.” “You were my child....” “And now I shall take your place. Rest now, father. It is no longer your concern.” Nog tried to argue but the blood that had been oozing from him covered the floor and he slipped in it, skittering against the ground before finally collapsing in his own blood, no longer moving. “I’m sorry,” Nerwen repeated quietly, then she turned away. “Ah, yes. Hello, dear.” Lhuna’s head craned toward what little light Noglob’s body was still casting, tears glistening on her cheeks. “Please don’t make me,” she begged. “I’d rather be dead, like the others, than turn into one of you. Please....” “I’m afraid it’s no longer your decision.” “Please,” Lhuna begged. “You don’t have to keep me just because he wished it. Let me go.” Nerwen knelt beside her, stroking Lhuna’s cheek with her bristly hand. “Don’t be frightened, my dear,” she said softly. “This is a good place. A happy place. A dark place. You’ll like it here, I promise.” “But what will we do? They’re all dead, even the other spiders.” Nerwen just smiled. “We shall live here, and thrive, and lie in the dark....and wait.” Alive Nerwen (the new spider mistress) Lhuna (the reluctant child) Dead Glirdan (ordo, lynched Day 1) Nienna (ordo, withdrew Day 2) Bom (ordo, lynched Day 2) Boro (the Doctor, withdrew Day 3) Lottie (ordo, lynched Day 4) Phantom (Frodo, died Night 5) Wilwa (Sam, lynched Day 5) Fea (ordo, lynched Day 6) Dun (ordo, killed in end game) Nog (Shelob, patricided/modfired in end game) Shasta (spiderling, kinslain/modfired in end game) Baddies win, goodies lose. Long live the new, more discreet, empire of spiders. GAME OVER. I'll go through and bold the narration/fill in for the others in the next couple days. Wilwa's should be especially interesting.
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05-14-2011, 08:56 PM | #564 | ||
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Okay, let's chat then.
Talking of being "full-fledged", I should like to point out that I did give Sam a hint on Day One. Only a very subtle one, mind, as my interpretation of the no-reveal rule meant that one, um, couldn't bloody well reveal. I do think our gifteds really pushed the boundaries of that one. However, I don't know that we in the spider colony can complain, as in some ways it worked in our favour. I wonder how we'd have fared, for example, if the first part of the game hadn't been spent pursuing various innocents for their opening IC posts? Anyway, this was my hint: Quote:
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05-14-2011, 08:59 PM | #565 |
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You can all chat freely now, corpses as well.
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05-14-2011, 09:12 PM | #566 |
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Uh. Nogrod? Why me?
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05-14-2011, 09:29 PM | #567 |
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Hmm. So my secondary suspicion was correct (that Nog was Shelob), as was my first thought after death (that phanty was a gifted). I never even suspected Shasta or Nerwen, though . . .
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05-14-2011, 09:45 PM | #568 |
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05-14-2011, 10:05 PM | #569 | |
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Btw, Sally, you're not serious about modfiring Nog and Shasta? That is only for naration purposes, right?
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05-14-2011, 10:14 PM | #570 |
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05-14-2011, 10:15 PM | #571 |
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Pretty much, yeah. With you winning my last game and them (and others!) being a bit naughty, I thought it was a fitting finale. You three still won though.
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05-14-2011, 11:40 PM | #572 |
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Bloody spiders. If only we'd brought one of these and a few of these we'd have had no trouble.
Anyway, congrats to the baddies. I had you all pegged eventually, but too little, too late. It probably didn't help that I participated in lynching two innocents. And Lottie?
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05-15-2011, 12:00 AM | #573 |
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So I never saw Nerwen or Shasta coming. Okay, I put down Shasta once as a possible Spiderling, but I didn't really believe it. Even Nog I only started suspecting towards the end of the Day I died. Well done, evil people. *grumps*
And Zil?
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05-15-2011, 12:06 AM | #574 |
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Yeah, I know. We need to stop doing that. Maybe next time we're both on the good side we can actually team up on getting the bad ones.
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05-15-2011, 12:06 AM | #575 |
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Well, Zil, good thing I never got to the point when I'd have to deceive you.
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05-15-2011, 12:09 AM | #576 |
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That did work better, didn't it? New plan for next game!
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05-15-2011, 04:46 AM | #577 |
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Nice little twist there in the end...
It was good fun once again - and for a long time - although I PM'd Sally the first thing I learned I was Shelob that I wasn't too happy about that as I love playing an ordo. Heh, I had never noticed the last line on the rules where everyone who didn't wish to be Shelob could have just PM'd her about it... It was an interesting concept and we could toy with it again one day, but the way the stinging / rangering / incubating / healing / turning -sequence goes should be re-eavaluated a bit. One solution could be that the one stinged would turn her/his allegiances immediately to the dark side as it would solve the "hinting issue" (and that way also the 50% possibility of not being able to vote would make more sense). Anyway, great modding Sally! Well executed! And kudos to my spiderlings Nerwen and Shasta! Also my deep bow to wilwa who really kept us on our toes the last Days, and to tp who undoubtedly was there during the last Day in what wilwa was doing. Congrats to Lhuna as well for being quite right for a long time. And thanks to everyone for a good, even if a bit silent game.
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05-15-2011, 07:04 AM | #578 |
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05-15-2011, 08:00 AM | #579 |
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*glares at Nog*
That was so frustrating! Still totally fun, but totally frustrating. Especially that last Day, because it started with me not being really too sure of who Shelob was, Phantom and I had chatted and we both sorta suspected Nog, but we also sorta suspected some other people. But then by the time I had to leave I was so positive it was him. And then I voted for him, and only later noticed that Lhuna had already voted for Shasta. I had somehow totally missed that post, I don't know how, I thought I was the first vote, though if I had seen it I don't know if I would have voted any differently, because I didn't actually really suspect Shasta at all and really really wanted to get Nog (I also didn't realise that Fea wouldn't be around to vote) Probably the hardest thing about this was me not being able to say who I was, because my role did provide me with some extra information. I knew Fea wasn't a spiderling, since she couldn't have been stung from the beginning (she wasn't playing yet), and so it would have had to have been Night 3 (except I chose her Day 4 to 'cure'). On Day 1 I had to leave early so I sent Boro in as my pick, but when I got home and read over the Day everyone was saying Lhuna would have been a good choice. I decided to protect her Night 2 since I figured if Shelob thought Sam had already chosen her during the Day, then she would be a safe choice for the Night. But Nog went for me instead (did you know who I was when you did that?). So the next Day with everyone saying "Oh, Lhuna looks more innocent since Sam probably chose her", I couldn't really explain the whole situation, so I tried to make it sound like I didn't protect her at all, and hint that Sam was the one attacked. It was frustrating, haha. Anyway, it was a pretty awesome game. I wish I could have been around more (especially on that last Day, my participation should have been way better). And Noggins, I still love you, you rock. When we're on different teams this seems to always be the way it goes, we totally clash and both get super frustrated, we should just always be on the same team from now on . *snuggles Sallycakes for an awesome game* Are you going to spill the beans now about Nog's little wishlist??? Oh, and snuggles to Pie, I feel bad for my random Day 1 vote getting him killed.
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05-15-2011, 12:17 PM | #580 | ||||
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Well well, my sneak attack didn't go off as planned due to participation, but ah well... that's what happens. Not many people feel as duty-bound obligated to post as I do (I will literally call in sick to work if I think it's the difference between winning and losing a game).
The plan was not to show much in the way of hard and just suspicion but rather load Sam up with ammo and have Shelob + Spiderlings think "Where the heck did this come from? I didn't imagine this!" when suddenly the innocent were coming after them on the final day. I saw the whole Lottie thing as being extremely telling. From my PM to Wilwa-Sam during my final night alive- Quote:
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But as the hours ticked by on that day and nothing was in the works, I knew the game was lost. Ugh. Completely my fault. Instead of trying to be surprising just for the sake of drama and making a good story, I should've stuck around until the deadline on that final day I was alive and let loose with everything I had rather than dump the workload in the lap of a busy person. Heh heh... just goes to show what I've said before- it's a fine line between a slaughter either direction. Something as small as an appointment can swing a game. What's embarrassing this time is given the set up I can't believe the goodies didn't win. If I had been Nog I would have cried upon receiving the Shelob role. "Um, moddess, how exactly am I supposed to win with no team?" Under those circumstances I would've been tempted to do something extremely high-risk for the low chance of payoff, but Nog's more calculated risks ended up being suited for the flow of this particular game.
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05-15-2011, 02:46 PM | #581 |
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Great game, everyone!
Yes, I've been keeping track. For the most part.
Bon apetit, Nerwen and Lhuna! And Noglob, and Shasta, but you guys are dead. I had some speculations of my own, the only one being correct is that Wilwa was a goodie. :d Well, it was an interesting game - thanks Sallymodess! - and it kept me from doing my homework all right. :P
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Stinging Sam was pure chance (the reason to pick wilwa was to get a stern spiderling who would not be an easy lynch), but with phantom I had some quite open hunches he was Frodo indeed - and well at that point a risk worth taking. Having Nerwen on my side it was quite clear that after the Sam-sting I needed a spiderling who would be trustworthy but also one who would team up well with Nerwen... so Shasta was the obvious choice as it minimized the possibility of my two spiderlings going after one another in the thread. Quote:
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I feel bad for Phantom, cause the Night we got to chat I was all like "ya, I'll go in full power and be super awesome and everyone will do what I say and we'll totally win", and then I ended up being busier than I thought and I couldn't get on as much or as soon as I had hoped, and lots of the things he had PMed me I had never had the chance to relay to everyone. I'm sure it was super frustrating for him to watch! *snuggles Sally again for awesome game*
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Still, I enjoyed watching you win against the odds. Congrats.
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05-16-2011, 12:16 AM | #585 |
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Come to think of it, I think I've posted the most in this game than in any other game I've played before - and as an ordo at that! I guess I should thank you for turning me; I haven't won a game in the longest time. More importantly, I should thank you for turning me on the last Day, because you know how I feel about having to be evil.
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05-16-2011, 12:08 PM | #586 |
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I was just thinking, what game in a row is it that the baddies won? They won the previous two, but I don't remember before that...
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WW LXXXVIII: What Lies in the Dark. (Wolves won.) WW LXXXVI - The Halls of Mandos. (Wolves won.) WW: LXXXV - The Lost Philosophers of Maiar. (Wolves won.) WW: LXXXIV: Middle-earth in Fifteen Minutes. (Innocents won.) WW LXXXIII: Nightmare on the East Road. (Wolves won). WW LXXXII: Return to Tol-in-Gaurhoth. (Wolves won.) WW LXXXI: Under the Misty Mountains. (Innocents won.) WW LXXX: It's About Time! (Innocents won.) WW LXXIX: Fall From Olympus. (Innocents won.) WW LLXVIII: Yar Har Har and a Bottle o' Rum. (game aborted.) WW LXXVII: The Metamorphs of Wolf-562-e. (Innocents won.) WW: LXXVI - At Moria: EXTRA Edition. (Innocents won.) WW LXXV: It's Always Tea Time Here. (Wolves won.) WW LXXIV: War of the Wolves. (Wolves won.) WW LXXIII: Arkham Asylum. (Innocents won.) WW LXXII: Now There's the Truth of It! (Innocents won.) WWLXXI: Something in the Night. (Wolves won.)
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