Sorry, the whole "grim fatalism" gets in the way. And it fits the theme. Oh, to die before ever knowing love!

*goes off and emos in a corner*

I bloody love you. Can you just kind of haunt the game for a while? ;)

I've got ten minutes. How much haunting do you want?

As much as you can provide, my friend. I can use a good giggle. Heh. ;)

How about the link in my sig?

(Reprinted here for posterity)

Erm....k....awkward....definitely in the amusement category though. ;)

You don't think that fits? If that doesn't do it for you, you could read some of the longer lyric poems of doomed lovers or someone in love who never got the chance to do anything. You know, Romeo and Juliet, Tristan and Isolde, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. Anything of that genre could work.

Why do you want or even think he would give us advice? Do you now think he's innocent?

And I'm officially having too much fun narrating my impending doom.

Ah well.

Wait...is that a confession?

Not a chance.

Heh. Don't get me wrong, it fits perfectly. And this post made me die of giggles. *has GOT to have some Dr. Horrible time now*


Ah, alas your moment is drawing nigh. :(

*dies*

Day 4 ends
 

The Lonely Hearts dithered a bit over who to lynch, a sure change from their overwhelming confidence the day before. But at the end, Brinn cast the deciding vote to doom McCaber. She took up a poisoned lance and pierced him with it.

As he lay dying, Greenie gave a yelp and rushed to his side, falling to her knees. “Tristan, my love!” she cried. “Not again!”

“Alas, my Isolde,” he responded faintly, “it was not meant to be.” And as he drew his final shuddering breath, Greenie fell upon him and also gasped her last. The Lovers lay together, silent and dead.

Then a strange thing happened. Their spirits rose from their bodies, and two ghostly figures hovered there. But they looked nothing like the McCaber and Greenie everyone knew; rather like a lord and lady of old. They reached out to each other, but a hand from the heavens came down and pushed them apart. The voice of Venus said, “You have failed. You will never be together again.”

The spirits faded, falling away from each other into the darkness of eternal loneliness.

It is Night.

The Living Lonely Hearts Club:

Groin
Aganzir
Gollum
Nogrod
Brinniel
Sally
Shasta
Gwath
Fea
Eomer

Hearts Which Have Stopped Beating:

Diamond (Lonely Heart)
Lommy (Lonely Heart)
Legate (Lonely Heart)
Lalaith (Lonely Heart)
Eönwë (Lonely Heart)
Kitanna (Lonely Heart)
Rikae (Lonely Heart)
Macalaure (Lonely Heart)
McCaber (Tristan)
Greenie (Isolde)

semi-random picture!

No! No! Regenerate! ;)


On the more serious side, nice playing with you buddy. If you're not evil, my apologies. If you are....well, it's a family board. :p (Kidding, sweetie, kidding)


EDIT: x'd with our moddess, but I'm sure it's not fair to offer commentary. In that case, tomorrow. :)

Day 5
 

The next morning only one from among the Lonely Hearts was missing. Aganzir, whose life had been spared the night before, was left to her fate and met it grimly in the night. Her body was found, not in her bed, but cut into several pieces and scattered about her room, with her head hanging over the mantelpiece. Yes. It was gruesome.

The Living Lonely Hearts Club:

Groin
Gollum
Nogrod
Brinniel
Sally
Shasta
Gwath
Fea
Eomer

Hearts Which Have Stopped Beating:

Diamond (Lonely Heart)
Lommy (Lonely Heart)
Legate (Lonely Heart)
Lalaith (Lonely Heart)
Eönwë (Lonely Heart)
Kitanna (Lonely Heart)
Rikae (Lonely Heart)
Macalaure (Lonely Heart)
McCaber (Tristan)
Greenie (Isolde)
Aganzir (Lonely Heart)

Fea's not dead; if she wasn't lying, she's cleared another ordo. Nogrod is still alive; his innocence really depends on Fea.

Right now, I'm feeling quite bad about Eomer, but have nothing concrete. I'll go back and look at him.

And I voted McCaber the day before yesterday because I had a major bad feeling about one of his posts; while I'm looking at Eomer, I'll see if I can't find it.

Red Zone:
Eomer

Orange Zone:
Groin
Gollum
Gwath - I keep forgetting he's playing!

Yellow Zone:
Sally

Green Zone:
Brinniel
Fea
Nogrod

Rawr. That's attractive. ;)


Alternatively, did anyone else find Brinn's post yesterDay a tad....well, furry? The one at the end of the Day, right after Cabbie and I are talking about his 'last words' of wisdom and he tells me to read some tragic poetry or whatever. He offers Romeo/Juliet and Tristan/Isolde (along with the mega-awesome Dr. Horrible) as good choices, and then Brinn asks him if he's confessing. I mean, it's not so much that she caught on to his romance insinuation, but that he mentioned his specific lover pairing and Brinn did kind of a double take (or at least in my head she went "bwah?!?!" and then posted)

Either way, between that little bit of awkward and the whole "Fea can't possibly be the seer" thing I'm not finding her nearly as innocent as I did before. What do you all think?

Anyway, I'm off to bed. Di, I love you for calling the Day slightly early. Not only am I still alive, but I'm also able to go to bed a bit earlier than I expected. :)

My busy-ness is (at least for the most part) over, so I should be posting more as well, just so you all know. Sorry, the last several days were just murder, no pun intended. Good night all!

~~Sally~~


EDIT: x'd with Shasta

EDIT #2: the italicized bit, because I have no business ;)

That's a good thought. Of course, the word "bwah?!?!" makes it all the more plausible because now it's in my head too. :p

I don't know, I seem to always have a really hard time seeing Brinn as anything other than innocent. I think I'll go back and look at her today too.

Also, just a thought: There might be something to that theory mentioned earlier, that the lovers are different-gender pairings. I know same-sex pairs were allowed in the last game, but since McCaber mentioned Tristan and Isolde, and Romeo and Juliet (and then died as Tristan), I wonder if there could be a possible Eomer/Brinniel pair.

It's one am and I'm throwing out a stream of consciousness, so ask if nothing I say is making sense.

Oooo. Now there's an idea. I'll have to sleep on it. Literally, in fact, but still. Good eye; I wonder if you're onto something.


On the plus side, there seems to be only one more pair for sure now. Or so I would think? I don't know; if that doesn't seem right to anyone convince me otherwise, but I'm pretty sure we're down to just one lover pair.

Heh, I think Aganzir would be very amused with the manner of her death. It fits her twisted personality. :p

Shasta, considering your accuracy with McCaber, that siggie of yours could not be more applicable right now. Are you sure you're not psychic?

Btw, I still don't think Fea is on our side.

Yes, yes! Fear my magic 8-ball!

I mean uh...

:rolleyes:

Depends whose side you're on, love.




Oh, the ever-loveable Shasta. ;)

It's kind of amusing that the Americans dominate early morning, the Europeans get midday, and then the Americans again get the end of the day. :D

Another possible pair that just came to mind is Gwath/Brinniel. One quiet and one loud person per pair makes a sick twisted kind of sense; Brinn is quite talkative, and I've forgotten that Gwath is playing three times now. If I have time after analyzing Eomer and Brinn, I'll do him.

Does it make me a terrible person that I didn't remember Gwath was playing until his....erm....interesting comment yesterDay? Heh :p

I don't know about a Gwath/Brinn pairing though. I'll have to give it some thought, but it seems a bit stretched. You never know though....Di does have a twisted streak. ;)


Alternatively, there's only three females left; I just noticed that. Me, Brinn, and Fea. Wow.

Oh, and I should comment that once again the lovers continue to kill the loud players.

Some thoughts:

Suspicious:

Sally: One of my top suspects right now. She's playing way too safely.

Eomer: Has moved up on my suspicion list. He's been gliding through this game so smoothly thus far and that worries me. I definitely need to take a better look at his posts when I have time.

Unsure:

Gollum: If I had to make a guess right now, I'd say he's innocent. But I'm not at all confident with that guess.

Innocentish:

Groin: His lack in activity makes me think he's more likely innocent than not. But I worry I could be wrong. If he is a lover, that's just an unfair way of playing.

Nogrod: I still think he's innocent. Not because Fea said so, but because of his behaviour.

Shasta: Has made good judgement so far. I don't see any reasons to suspect him and think he's more likely innocent.

Gwath: I had trouble finding much to say about him earlier in the game, but he was a lot more active yesterDay and the posts he made gave off an innocentish vibe.

Belongs in her own category ;) :

Fea: I'm quite positive she's not innocent. But I'm doubtful she's a lover. Maybe a cobbler seer? That role's existed before. I don't know. Though part of me worries that she is a lover and her partner's Groin...I don't know how likely that is, but if anyone can pull it off, it's her.

Just noticed this. No, m'dear Brinn, I didn't magically think he was innocent, I was just hoping he'd maybe say something and slip up somehow, maybe give us a clue to another lover by mistake (which seems more and more plausible now). That and I was bored.



Okay. Really off to bed now.

How could he give us a clue to another lover when even he didn't know who they are for sure? And I don't know if he'd really care anyway, considering they are on opposite teams.

On Eomer:

#98. Thinks it's dangerous to metagame too much, and that there are probably some active baddies. Votes Rikae.

#233. Evidences puzzlement at the number of kills. Thinks it might be wise to pick someone who wasn't involved with Lalaith and killing them. Defends his vote for Rikae as "stirring the pot".

#266. Concerned with the paranoia of the village. Extolls the virtue of basing speculation on fact. Thinks Kitanna is suspicious for being the nth person to think that Legate was killed because it was thought that he was a lover.

#290. Doesn't see any point in analyzing the deaths. Goes heavily into metagame.

#297. Lists reactions to the deaths of Legate and Lalaith. Really goes after Kitanna because of her reaction.

#302. More attacking Kitanna.

#303. N/A.

#305. Actually votes Kitanna.

#390. Defends quiet players. Doesn't think Mac's suspicions are enough to bother defending against.

#400. Goes a little overboard on wondering why Nogrod was attacked. Apparently, Eomer thinks Nogrod is dead, or at least that's the tone of this post. Tries to build suspicion on Mac because of one of Nogrod's post, and Mac and Greenie for having not been voted.

#405. Thinks the bandwagon on Gollum is dangerous. Still trying to get Mac or Greenie lynched.

#408. Says the Kitanna-kill was sensible. Thinks the attack on Nogrod wasn't a bluff? I don't understand what he's saying here, but it's the first part I'm most concerned with.

#411. Thinks a vote for Mac would be considered spite. Votes Greenie. Still thinks feelings are overrated.

#491. Thinks it was obvious that Mac was in trouble, given Rikae's hints and Nogrod's willingness to vote him. Can't figure out what Rikae meant. Thought Rikae really looked suspicious, so find the bandwagon on her unsuspicious.

#496. Thinks that Rikae's insistence that Agan was innocent is confusing. Throws out a theory that Rikae was the Seer's lover... then turns around and shoots it down himself.

#513. Playerlist. Ponders starting to lynch females, because he's suspicious of Greenie and Brinniel for reasons he can't articulate. Ponders same-sex couples.

#514. N/A.

#522. Thinks the same as Nogrod does about Brinniel; that she's suspicious. However, is very wary of Nogrod and Aganzir; doesn't want to let them off just because they were saved by the Ranger.

#524. Explains to Nogrod his reaction to Rikae's vote for Gollum and why he thought it was going to become a bandwagon.

#527. Votes Gwath as a throwaway vote. No real explanation.

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The underlined posts are the ones that give me the most bad feeling. I really think I see some kind of Eomer/Brinniel connection, I don't like the way Eomer was so gung-ho about lynching Kitanna and then became extremely defensive/matter-of-fact about her death and subsequent clearance, and I don't like how he was trying to pour suspicion on Mac earlier. His suspicion of Greenie does nothing to clear him since it's clear they weren't teammates.

I'll post more tomorrow, but it's time for bed for me. Good night!

Sally's innocent.

Also, I lied about dreaming about Rikae because I wanted to keep Eomer alive. He's the Guardian.

Really, Brinn? I know you feel the need to play the token skeptic, but the more you doubt me the more I believe you are a danger to the village. I can't condemn you because I haven't dreamed of you, not wishing to flirt with death more than necessary. But that doesn't mean I can't list you as my top suspect for the Day.

Or rather, the more I doubt you the more you believe I'm a danger to you. Because the more you post, the more confident I am that you're evil.

Really, I think we all know how deceptful Fea can be, but I give her props for trying. But there is no reason why anyone should trust her (well, except perhaps the lovers if she isn't one herself :rolleyes: ).

Always worth a try, don't you know? Besides, like I said, I was bored. Is it really that big of a deal? Not to mean this in a rude way, but it seems you're making a bigger thing out of that than it needs to be.


Fea, must you tell the world? Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the attention and all, but....well, the ranger just needs to be my friend, I suppose.


Alternatively, to the last bit. Bwah?!?!?

My list, let me show it to you. (Figured I'd give you all another nugget of Sally brain before I went off to class)


Red zone:
Brinn

Orange zone:
Eomer
Gwath

Yellow zone:
Gollum
Shasta (just to be on the safe side)

Green zone/no zone:
Groin (bwah? he's playing!?!?)
Nogrod
Fea

What's the Guardian?

Good morning/afternoon/evening/night depending on where you may be, fellow players. I am finally here. Now to make this post something of note...

Not sure:

Shasta
Gwath
Groin
Sally


Really not sure:

Nogrod
Fea
Eomer
Brinn.

In short, I don't know what to say about just about anybody.

Guardian is a fancy name for Ranger. You know, like 'guards people.'

Yes, I must tell the world- if people don't heed my warning, I'm likely to die any time. Since I'm already revealed as Seer, there's no sense in keeping my dreams to myself any more.

Of course the ranger is your friend. We're on the same side, after all.

I think that's the hunter. Which makes her claim even more ridiculous since the whole point of the hunter is to get killed so that they can take a wolf (or in this case, lovers) down with them. Revealing the role defeats its whole purpose. Which is why I think she's lying. Anyway, I doubt there's even a hunter...with two lovers dying in one blow, I don't think Di would see it necessary to put that role in. And along with role that Fea claims to have? If Di wanted a slaughterhouse, she would've put more lovers in the game.

Eomer's reaction to all this may help tell us whether he's a baddie or not (key word: baddie...not necessarily lover).

If you really have no clue, I recommend reviewing posts from previous Days in more depth. You've been pretty vague so far and it'd be more helpful for us to hear some stronger opinions than "I don't know."

EDIT: X-ed with Fea...okay, apparently I was wrong. But I swear in Volo's game the Guardian was the hunter.

Btw, you probably shouldn't have answered that.

Now I really look forward to hearing Eomer's reaction.

Why?