And I the two of you... to the extent that a soulless mechanical minion of the film industry is capable of such feelings.;)

So....this is very anti-climactic. *hums*


Okay, I confess. I'm the wolf. Please excuse me while I go raid the freezer for a Lottiepop. :)


EDIT: x'd. Awwww, come on, ruin my fun. :p

What about you, Lottie? Like to confess too? We've got to keep our readers entertained...

Anyway, it's long past any sensible bedtime here. See you in the afterlife!

*uses meta*

I think she's actually gone.



So, Pitch? What do you think? :Merisu:

(Snerk. That should keep everyone entertained for a while.)



ETA: Sorry, forgot to mention that the link isn't entirely little ghouls friendly. But darn it's funny. :p

DL (of course). I shall now put an end to this madness. :p

Day 6
 

The day dawned with a sense of foreboding, an expectation that things would be decided definitively before the sun again set.
There were only three living persons left in the house: Pitchwife, Sally, and Loslote. It was clear early on that Sally and Lottie had made their minds up already, and nothing Pitch could say dissuaded them from their course. They were determined to see him die.

"You know what to do," said Lottie. "We've been through this enough."

"Why are you so sure I'm guilty?" asked Pitch.

"We've been over this again and again," said Sally, rolling her eyes. "No more talking."

"It doesn't make sense that Sally would be a baddie," said Lottie.

"Or Lottie, said Sally. "Guess who that leaves?"

"What if I don't want to 'go quietly'?" said Pitch with an air of menace.

Sally picked up the spray bottle of Windex again. "Don't make me use this!"

Pitch sighed. "Look. All right. I'm the last of the W.O.L.Fs. Happy now?"

"Not until you're smoking. And I don't mean cigars," said Lottie.

"Look. Let's talk a minute, all right? Want to know why all this happened in the first place?"

Neither Sally or Lottie answered, and the robot seemed to take that as its cue to continue.

"We were sent here by the studio to see what that Professor nutcase was on about now. You all didn't know that guy, but believe me, we did. He caused all kinds of problems." It looked at the others, then went on.

"Back when the LOTR movies were in production, he was just a nuisance. Sending e-mails, writing on websites about how the movies shouldn't be made. Complaining about the merchandising. After the movies were released , he went low-profile for awhile. Then, when serious work on The Hobbit movie began, he went totally off the rails." He looked at Sally and Lottie again, with a questioning air.

"Go ahead. This is interesting, I guess," said Sallly. But hurry it up."

"Well," continued the robot. "once the production for The Hobbit got into full swing, he got really crazy. He started picketing. First it was just the studio, and that wasn't a big deal."
"But then he started standing outside the house of one of the studio execs, dressed as Gandalf and waving a sign. At 2 AM. Then we didn't hear from him awhile."
"He didn't stay gone though. About a year ago he somehow snuck into the studio parking area, jumped out at one of the scriptwriters, and shot him with some contraption he called a "Neural Disruptor". It took the poor guy weeks to remember how to put his pants on again. Anyway, police got involved, but they couldn't charge him with anything but trespassing because they never found that disruptor thing. Who knows what he did with it?"

"Wow," said Lottie.

"So," continued Pitch. "They got a restraining order on him, and that was that. Then they saw that ad he'd placed, so they sent us here to stop whatever he was up to now."

"I see," said Sally.

Pitch looked at the other two.

"I'm telling you now, I'm not going into that thing. I'll make you a deal, though.
If you two just let this go, you can leave with me. I'll get you jobs."

"You're kidding!" exclaimed Sally

"Not at all. They still need people for The Hobbit movie. One of you could be Generic Elf #5, and there's an opening for Arwen's stunt double in the Battle of Five Armies."

"Arwen's in the Battle of Five Armies?" said Lottie incredulously.

"Yeah! The book had some stupid bear thing saving the day. We'll just give Arwen that part. No one will miss that bear, and Arwen is good for another $10,000.000 just by her presence. What do you say?"

"I'd say, 'Get in that chamber!'" said Sally.

"Fine," said Pitch. "That's what I get for being nice."

He lunged at Lottie and grabbed her throat. Sally yelled and tried to pull the fiend away from Lottie, but it was too strong.
Sally gripped the spray bottle and squirted the contents into the robot's eyes. That caused it to loosen its grip, and Lottie stumbled away from it.
Now Sally was its focus. It suddenly yanked the bottle out of Sally's hand and threw it. It advanced on Sally, its hands raised.

"OYRMMM" came a noise, and a blue beam of light struck Pitch's head from behind.

Lottie was there, holding something that looked like a gun, painted grey and black, but unlike any gun Sally had seen before. Lottie pointed to a label on the top of it which said "ND".

"I thought this could be that Neural Disruptor," said Lottie. I saw it the other day and thought at first it was some type of paint ball gun."

They turned their attentions to Pitch, who was now making metallic noises unconnected to speech. His arms flailed wildly. One of them struck the time machine hard and shattered part of a control panel. At that, several red lights came on around the machine and an alarm began to blare.

"Oh, gumdrop buttons!" said Lottie. "Didn't the Professor say it could blow up if it was tampered with? Now what?"

"Out of here at least!" said Sally, grabbing Lottie's hand. The latter dropped the Neural Disruptor. They ran out of the room toward the front door, as the machine began to vibrate and smoke.

When they reached the front door, they skidded to a halt, in shock.

The door to the outside was standing wide open.

"It opened! I wonder when it happened?" said Sally.

"Maybe just now," said Lottie. "It would make sense for it to open with the thing about to blow, wouldn't it? Come on!"

They sprinted outside, just as a flat "WHUMMMM" came from the house, and a blast of warm air that felt like a hand firmly pushing them in the back moved them away from the explosion.

They threw themselves on the ground beside the Professor's bus and crawled under it, as debris rained down around them.

When that threat seemed to have passed, they opened their eyes and slowly crawled out.

Fire blazed from the lower story of the house, and part of the second floor seemed to have collapsed.

"It's over," breathed Sally. "We made it."

"Yep," said Lottie. "Are the keys in that bus?"
They were.

Sally started the bus, and both began driving back to the main road.

"Well, the Professor's dream didn't happen, but those robots didn't kill us all," sighed Lottie. "Hey! This might make a good book!"

"Just don't sell the movie rights," Sally replied with a wink.

The Living
Sally (ordo)
Lottie (ordo)

The Dead
Professor Inzil (mod) Head full of knowledge cracked open Night 1
The Elf-warrior (Robot Killer) (wolf)- Fried like foil in a microwave Day 1
Shasta (ordo)- Made into a Shastacicle Night 2
Wilwa (ordo)- Found her big chance to get away from it all Day 2.
Boro (Ranger)- Learned to stop worrying and love the brick Night 3
Greenie (ordo)- Off to have fun with the Normans Day 3
Fea (ordo)- A victim of her own fashion sense (and some murderous robots) Night 4
Eomer (Robot Killer) (wolf)- Done to a turn Day 4
skip (Seer)- "Skewered like a wild boar" Night 5
Agan (Cobbler)- Became a firefighter Day 5
Nerwen (ordo)- Flying lessons were a failure Night 6
Pitchwife (Robot Killer) (wolf)- Went out with a bang Day 6.

THE END

Village wins.

Wolves lose.

Cobbler loses.

Thanks to everyone for playing! Hopefully you all had fun, and I did a passable job modding for the first time. Seer dreams and whatnot are coming. Talk away!

Meh, I couldn't just go wholesale on the last Day. Lottie, I of course never really doubted you. ;)


Oh, and Agan, you're a sultry minx and I love you. :Merisu:

Great work, you two!:)

And you, Ma'am! :D

'Course, 'course. :p

And thanks to Zil for modding! :D

Also, Eomer, nice idea with the fake seer business. :)

My condolences to my fellow W.O.L.F.S. for our narrow but inglorious defeat. Congratulations to the village for their victory. I'd also like to congratulate Inziladun for his spectacular final narration. Also, I'd like to thank our cobbler, Aganzir, for her efforts to aid our glorious cause.

If Inziladun's plan had succeeded, we would not only be deprived of Peter Jackson's films, but also Ralph Bakshi's Lord of the Rings and the Rankin/Bass productions of The Hobbit and The Return of the King. And tell me, would not the world be a less merry place if deprived of this and this?

Do you know how badly I want that as a ringtone? :rolleyes:

Also, I'd say I'm terribly sorry you had to go so early, but I'm not. *hugs you anyway* ;)

Ah, but now we have the term "Drive-by Fenris", which I hadn't heard before, if we'd invented it. :D

Should it go in the Glossary?

By the way, I just realised I forgot to put "Fenris" in!

Dooooo it. :p

Very enjoyable game! Congratulations to the village - especially those left near the end, whose eyes no wool could be pulled over.

Will post more thoughts later. Also: very nice concept Iziladun.

Yeah, that was a fun game! Sally, you came good on your promise and I salute you for that! Kudos to the ladies finishing the job off, though I felt you could've gone for Pitch right away and Nerwen wouldn't have had to die. But that cobbler was seriously pesky and I don't blame you for doing away with her first. Will post more too...

Well, it was I that made the decision to vote Agan. I thought Pitch was the more likely wolf, but Lottie was talking about lynching Agan, and I was afraid of our votes crossing.

I'm quite proud of myself for NOT protecting a wolf this time, usually I make a terrible ranger and guard more wolves than innocents.

Guard 1, there was a wolf in there, I narrowed it down to Eomer or Fea. Eomer is usually a more likely early kill, but decided with how voting ended up everyone would assume Fea was soooo innocent and since she only talked about high heels, thought best guard her.

Guard 2, Skip I saw your "I thought they were going to come for me," and fortunately I wasn't a wolf, because from that post on, I basically thought you were the seer and I would protect you at night. Evil, evil wolves kill me instead.
Quite a fabulous game and standard. A good combination, Inzil.

Good game everyone. (And Agan, my armpit pickle was no hint, I was just having fun rolling with the jokes. Now a few posts later with my "I'm going to sit in a sketchy, unlit corner" that was a direct hint. :p)

Love you too even though you have no idea how much trouble you caused me. I was seriously flip-flopping on whether you were a wolf or not.

You're welcome, despite the fact that the only thing I could in the end do was to make the game a day longer. I was so sorry you were lynched on day 1 - but at least I was happy I didn't vote for you. I had no idea who was a wolf so I simply decided to go for someone quiet.

:smokin:

Thanks for the game, Inzil! I really enjoyed playing, and being the cobbler was so much fun even if I was clueless most of the time. I was convinced wilwa was a wolf and did my best to save her, and in the end I was calculating who I could get lynched instead and voted for Eomer because I thought Pitch and sally might do it too. Right after hitting the Submit button I regretted my decision and thought I should have voted for Lottie instead (she looked far more innocent than Eomer), but luckily Pitch was late. :p You did a good job wolves, sorry I couldn't be of more help. And congratulations to the village, of course.

As for skip... I thought he might be the seer (I was 99% sure he was innocent, though) from the way he posted, but he didn't say anything downright seerish about people so I thought I'd just try to lynch him. But I wasn't convinced until the day Eomer died - his calmness and reluctance to fight with me did it. Why waste your time defending yourself when you can do it in considerably less time by saying "I'm the seer"?

I didn't think it was, I was just trying to make as much noise as possible and get people to concentrate on trivial stuff. :p I quite liked it that you wrote two long posts where you only talked about your playing style the day before you died. ;)

Ah good, I did hope for some ranger-protection after that vote for EW who I indeed dreamed of. That comment was also meant as a bluff as far as I can remember, as I hoped the wolves would think the real Seer wouldn't be so forthright in his relief of waking up unscathed. After that I started to drop cobbler-hints in the hope that the village wouldn't lynch me because of accusations of cobblery and that the wolves wouldn't night-kill me because they though I was an ally. Seemed to work a charm until Agan, the actual cobbler, started her witch-hunt...
Edit: And I did enjoy that analysis that pointed out each cobbler-hint in a very incriminating manner. But since I wanted everyone to believe I probably was the cobbler I was reluctant to defend myself properly.

Was hoping that the village would lynch Eomer without my help, and that I'd get a good chance of surviving another Day and finishing the game myself and gloat a bit over it. Wasn't to be though, but all's well that ends well...

Actually I'm pretty interested in knowing what the wolves thought about the cobbler. How long did it take you to spot me, or did you think it was skip?

Night Picks and Kills
 

Night 1:
Seer Dream--> The Elf-warrior

Night 2:
Seer Dream--> Greenie
Ranger Save--> Fea
Wolf-kill--> Shasta

Night 3:
Seer Dream--> Nerwen
Ranger Save--> skip
Wolf-kill--> Boro

Night 4:
Seer Dream--> Sally
Wolf-kill--> Fea

Night 5:
Seer Dream--> Pitch
Wolf-kill--> skip

Night 6:
Wolf-kill--> Nerwen

I knew the wolves were behind right out of the gate when skip decided to dream of you, but I was incredulous when they lynched you without that even being a factor!
I think this is the first game I've seen in quite a while where a Seer did so much damage to the wolves without having to reveal.
The wolves recovered fairly well, I thought, despite skip's methodical dream choices and Boro's nailing the Seer on his second save. Their killing Boro was pretty sharp. I thought the baddies had a real chance then, what with two wolves and a loud, fearless Cobbler still there. ;) It was after Eomer bought it that things really went downhill for them. Poor Pitch got pounced on by Lottie and Sally, and those two just wouldn't let up! :rolleyes:

I'm glad you all enjoyed the narrations. Coming into this, I was thinking they would be the toughest part of modding for me, but I had a lot of fun writing them.

I actually like the Rankin/Bass cartoons! There's a lot of nostalgia there, since I remember seeing them when I was very young.

Long-time (or maybe other) members might recognize the impetus of the plot: my railing against the PJ movies way back in 2000-2001 on this site. To this day, I'm not a fan of them. ;)

*mutters just a teensy bit*

I'll just repeat that the girls and the seer at the end really knew what they were doing. Good stuff!

So Elf-Warrior was dreamed, eh? I really couldn't believe how unlucky we were with that, and sorry you got to play only one day, EW! First time as wolf, too. Well, keep playing because there's always a next time. ;)

I didn't feel as if I was being very suspicious, but everyone seemed to see through me. I've been wondering if I was being careless, as I was very busy in RL during this game but still tried to play as much as possible. Unfortunately, I come across as suspicious in every game so it's not easy!

Should probably explain the kills. Well, I want to give extra congratulations to Skip here, because until the day I got lynched I had absolutely no idea who the seer was. Groping in the dark, you could say. Really a tremendous Seer performance, man. Combine that with our highly skilled Ordos and the village made for an efficient wolf-slaying team.

Thought it might be Boro; thought it might be Fea. Shasta was really a long shot, for that first kill choice, and I have to say that I pushed it because I know that Shasta always winds up suspecting me. Thought it might make things easier for me down the line, but there you go. You kill one adept wolf-spotter and 5 more jump into his place.

Yeah, this was no village a wolf could have much hope in, despite the always entertaining efforts of our esteemed cobbler.

Really fun. I should play more often. :D

Lovely game, everyone! This was an impressive village to be pitted against, and you three ladies were awesome in the end. Sorry for depriving you of the endgame glory, Nerwen - I just felt sally and Lottie had worked together so well, they deserved to win together. (Besides, I of course intended that sally should wonder why she was left alive, hoping thus to sow some doubt - for a moment it almost looked like it might work, but no such luck.)
Ironically, we had seriously considered all three of you for being Night-killed at some time or the other earlier in the game; heck, I even suggested skip as a trailless kill on Night 2! But none of it was carried out.:rolleyes:

Dear packmates, it was a pleasure to hunt with you! I enjoyed our Nightly discussions and think Eomer and I complemented each other nicely. (If anybody's interested, I've saved all our PMs and can post them some time.) It certainly sucked to lose TEW so early, and being left as a lone wolf was tough for me - I didn't think my chances were too shiny, but put up a fight as best I could.
Sounds familiar - I'm a bit of a pathological overthinker myself.:)

Thanks to Agan for some dedicated cobblery, and sorry we didn't make it; certainly not your fault, you did very well. I had a feeling from rather early on that you weren't going to be a threat to us, but as for who actually was our cobbler, we were about as much in the dark as with the seer. Your arguments for skip as the cobbler were quite convincing for a while, but after I had read up the Day 4 discussions, I finally knew it had to be you (and was much pleased).

skip, great seering! You did a marvellous job escaping us for so long, getting two of the pack lynched and more or less pinning the last. Kudos!

Thanks to Professor Zil for modding such a well-planned and -handled first game. I loved your concept and narrations (once I got over being forced to work for Peter Jackson!), and I'm looking forward to your next one.

Thanks to everybody else for playing. And Shasta, don't take it too hard and be a graceful winner! Someone has to be the first kill; and why you - well, you'd suspected me, and Eomer said you had a long history of suspecting him, so you might become a danger. That's it.

PS.
If she were blue and ten feet tall and had a tail, I might be tempted.:p

(x-ed with Eomer)

Ooh! Ooh! I'm interested! :D

This game was really, really weird in that I didn't suspect anyone until Eomer and Greenie, and I only tried to kill one innocent (Greenie) - a first for me, I think. :p

When skip voted for me, I thought he simply had a good nose for evil, not that he was the seer.

Hey, everyone, I don't know the protocol for non-players posting after a game, but I'd like to say that that game was awesome. This was the first WW game that I've ever followed that I wasn't a part of, and I must say, it was quite entertaining.

Inzil, your narrations were excellent and very much fun to read.

I was floored when I saw you all get a wolf that first day. Wow. I thought Eomer was innocent for sure. As you weren't, Eomer, I'm curious - why did you target Greenie so consistantly? Did you think to double bluff everybody into thinking you COULDN'T be a wolf if you had targetted an innocent person? I was really sad when the ranger was killed. :(

And those were my general reactions to what little of the game I saw (mostly I just saw end of days, narrations, and beginning of days.

If it's not allowed for non-players to post, I'm sorry.

-- Foley

Hi Loslote. Brain's not really functioning - can you remind me what this was about? :D

To answer Folwren, I knew voting for Green 3 days in a row would draw attention, but then I did think I could put suspicion on her (and it did work). It just worked out that the village decided 'her or me'.

I didn't really suspect you the first few days, well less so than others in any case, and I think you did well. It was only my last Day alive I became convinced of your (and Pitch's) guilt, but that was by methods of elimination more than you doing something particularly wolfish.
Thanks, mate!
Yeah Agan was great. Bet she would have loved to bring victory to the wolves as a cobbler after being told that the cobbler isn't so important and how we shouldn't focus on her. And that came pretty close to happening for a while. And did no-one but me notice how Agan constantly referred to the cobbler as she?

Agan always does that.

Where you pointed out my "Gifted hints" and tried to frame me as a wolf about to fake a seer reveal. It was very clever, and actually could have been done by an innocent.

I did, but decided the cobbler wouldn't have been so bold. :p Plus, Agan is always weird when it comes to cobblers. ;)

Unfortunately, no-one bought it. :p

You were just being your normal self. :p

Yes!

I'm usually not much of a threat to the wolves, regardless of my role. I have a cobbler instinct. ;)

Me too, my first thought when I saw my role was "But but but does this mean I'm on Peter Jackson's side?"

It's just that when he started playing, he was the first kill for... like a year. :p

I don't think anybody minds it - on the contrary, it's nice to know people are interested in our misfortunes.

Of course, but it would have been even better to get the seer lynched.

Hey I also referred to the seer as she! But it doesn't really matter if the cobbler is bold or not - if you had been convinced it was me, you would've had two options: to let me live and potentially aid the wolves, or waste a lynch on me. It's a win-win for the cobbler.

Behind the Scenes... Night One