A little help...
The villagers had become disciplined; awakening early and scrambling to the Town Hall as soon they were dressed. They needed to know what had happened during the night. On the night before last nothing had happened, but it swiftly became apparent that the Werewolves had not been denied a feast under the next moon.
Firefoot was missing.
O no, O dear! the villagers cried as they raced to her house. Firefoot owned the stable, a large friendly-looking home that was arguably the favourite destination of any tourists and travellers to Storyland. Firefoot's horses were known throughout the land.
But the villagers had already implicitly realised that money from tourism was going to be a record low this year. And the murder of Firefoot was probably the most gruesome yet: her horses had been slaughtered in the stable, and Firefoot had been drowned in a trough filled with blood.
The villagers quailed, and staggered out of the house. But one observant person noted something lying on a large round table: a book with fresh ink. It was some sort of diary.
Reading through the book, one particular passage stood out, as it had been written in a furious hurry of excitement, and was quite messy. It read thus:
My endeavours have not been in vain: I saved a villager. My spells are bewildering to others, and hardly tangible even to me, but I just know that the person was saved. I felt it in my bones that night. I helped, even in the slightest way, in the fight against this outrageous foe.
The villagers felt even sadder now. Certainly Firefoot was magical and some people had even supposed that she was a witch (similar to Evisse really), but they didn't realise how powerful she had been. She was their guardian, and she had saved a villager from the wolves. It was good to know that they had got lucky, and that there were only 3 werewolves terrorising them. However, with very little in the way of help left to them, they knew that they had to get their act together, and kill some wolves before it was too late.
Living:
Azaelia of Willowbottom
Fordim Hedgethistle
Holbytlass
Kuruharan
mormegil
Oddwen
Shelob
The Only Real Estel
The Saucepan Man
Dead:
Eomer of the Rohirrim (Villager) - mangled by werewolves on NIGHT 1
Evisse the Blue (Seer) - lynched by villagers on DAY 1
the guy who be short (Villager) - decapitated by werewolves on NIGHT 2
Son of Numenor (Villager) - lynched by villagers on DAY 2
the phantom (Villager) - lynched by villagers on DAY 3
Firefoot (Guardian) - drowned in blood by werewolves on NIGHT 4
Score:
Werewolves: 3
Villagers: 6
DAY 4 has started, now that it is around 3:15 PM GMT (that's 10:15 AM EST) and (9:15 AM Central). It will end in 24 hours or sooner if a majority vote is reached before then.
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Los Ingobernables de Harlond
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