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Tar and Celuien haven't said anything which makes me very uncomfortable
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As much as I hate to do it, I fear that I must cry "longitude." Concern has been expressed because I have not yet added my voice to toDAY's discussion. As it happens, I do not live on either side of the Atlantic, nor do I live on the American side of the Pacific. This in particular made me laugh:
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But look, there's a whole bunch of us arguing here, but there are some villagers that are kind of slipping under the radar. I need to go to bed now (and no corpses on my dais, Mr funny-business Undertaker) but I'm going to look at this all with a fresh eye tomorrow.
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I noted the time of this post: as
Lalaith was going to bed it was 6 AM here.
I've now finished reading toDAY's posts and it's just after 7 AM.
Glirdan, I hope this assuages your fears.
Because I have missed out on so much discussion and analysis of DAY 1, though, perhaps I can be most helpful by starting to parse what has been said toDAY thus far (as far as
Wilwa's post # 134).
It seems that there are varying theories as to why
Kuru was the unfortunate victim of those among us with base wolvish impulses:
Did the wolves think he was the Seer?
Lalaith thinks so.
I have had to think about this quite a bit. It seems to me that
Lalaith may be right about this. At first it seemed illogical--
Kuru didn't do anything yesterDAY that would indicate his being a Gifted. But then I realized--
Kuru was behaving exactly as a smart Seer would early in the game: present, with smart posts that didn't really point any fingers. I never would have thought of this, being a relative novice in the detection of wolves, but I think
Lalaith may have hit on something here.
Now, I recognize that I'm flirting with danger by agreeing with one who has been the object of so much suspicion already toDAY (in post 112 Wilwa already asserts that
Lalaith is likely to get her vote;
Kath suspects her, as does
Glirdan; and she's been in quite a shoving match with
lmp). I have to admit some uneasiness with
Lalaith myself, despite what I think is sound reasoning regarding
Kuru's death: who better to expound the correct theory than a wolf? By showing us her hand in this way (explaining the reasons for
Kuru's death) she's being "helpful," which is so valuable this early in the game; could she be a clever wolf trying to clear herself by being a little forthcoming?
Which brings me to
Wilwarin. She is the origin, at least toDAY, of the suspicions of
Lalaith. She voices them so early and so vehemently as to give me pause. It's the opposite tactic: "never mind manoeuvres, just go straight at 'em." It's this early certainty and nothing else that makes me think
Wilwa is worth watching for the rest of the DAY.
lmp has proposed another plan toDAY. It has not engendered as much debate as yesterDAY's, but it has provoked a shouting match with
Lalaith and another, briefer one with
Anguirel. Both lmp and Anguirel remain suspicious to me, but I find it highly unlikely that all three wolves are so embroiled with each other already. So to complicate things further, I would say that if
Lalaith is a wolf, then
lmp and
Anguirel are not. If
lmp is a wolf, then I would not put it past him and
Anguirel to be playing a highly dangerous wolf-on-wolf game.
One more thought I'd like to address to
lmp: he is suspicious of my "cool, even chilly" analysis. However, he repeatedly asks
Lalaith to listen to what he says, not how he says it. I'd ask for the same courtesy from him.
I have to say that I'm less suspicious of
Glirdan than some others seem to be--he appears to me to be working out his thoughts in plain sight, without any guile, and when he changes his mind it's because he's reexamined something. I actually find his posts a little refreshing and they seem to me to be very honest.
Firefoot and
Kitanna have posted detailed analyses of yesterDAY's posting and voting; I'm thankful for both of these posts and since I tend to think that both of them are innocent, I eagerly await more posts like these.
So, at long last: I'm suspicious at this point of
Lalaith, Wilwa, lmp, and
Anguirel. Most suspicious:
lmp and Anguirel together. Least suspicious:
Lalaith. Unfortunately many of these suspicions are mutually exclusive, as I noted above: if I'm right about X, then I must be wrong about Y. Luckily I have most of a DAY to ruminate before casting a vote.
Glirdan, Firefoot, and
Kitanna seem likely innocent to me.
As for the others, I'm going to wait and see before posting any opinions.