Phew!
I don't have to eat my pans or spend the next five weeks kicking myself after all ...
Well, that was - er - stressful. I'm wondering whether it might be better to go back to consistently being killed within the first two days.
But great fun, too.
I cannot believe that I survived for so long, even with my initial ineptitude.
Commiserations to the Wolves, but congratulations too. You did a great job. Without
malka's astute dreaming, it's likely that you would have won. Speaking of which ...
... massive kudos to
malka. You targetted your dreams extremely well. Not only did you pin down a Wolf whom we probably would not otherwise have got, but you managed to declare a significant proportion of the village innocent (if not free from possible Cobblerishness), which was a great help. Though I was almost certain that you and
Glirdan were going to get me lynched the day before you dreamed of me. I am so glad that you dreamed of me when you did.
As usual, I spent most of the first half of the game suspecting all the wrong people and generally helping to get innocents lynched. Sorry about that.
Abercrombie and
Shelob I don't feel too bad about, as a vote for an innocent is fairly likely on the first two days. But I bitterly rued my part in
Cailin's death. I did actually independently reach the same conclusion stated by
mormegil, but it was a self-centred view (looking at who might have orchestrated the murmurings against me) and I unforgiveably allowed myself to be swayed by
mormegil's confirmation of my thoughts. You played your role very well there,
morm.
However, at the risk of appearing immodest, I feel rather proud of having spotted
Naria. It was little to do with
TGWBS having targetted you and voted for you,
Naria, but a direct result of the theory that I posted. You know, the one that analysed the percentages of votes for known innocents. You stood out to me as the only person who had not voted for a known (to me) innocent. Hmm, I must bear that theory in mind for the future.
Mind you, on the other hand, it also led me to believe (at first, at least) that
Garin's overly suspicious behaviour and voting pattern indicated that he was innocent. I could not believe that a Wolf could be so closely implicated in the deaths of so many known innocents. Whether intentional or not, it was a good tactic to have two Wolves with entirely different voting patterns.
As for
TGWBS, well what can I say? Fiendishly cunning play, my friend and well done to you. I really did trust you right up to the end of the day before you died. I was concerned over your targetting of
morm, though, who I also trusted at that stage. And that, if anything, is what really done for you as it prompted
malka to dream of you that night. Had it not been for her, we might well never have spotted you.
A few other thoughts.
Nilp I knew was innocent from our exchange of acrostics (the first letters in each line of two of our posts). You could have been bluffing,
Nilp, but instinctively I felt that you were not, and was glad to see that you felt the same way about my response.
It was clear (to me at least) from
Cailin's death that
Glirdan was the Hunter. There was an outside chance that it was
TGWBS (because of his defence of her). But with
malka's declaration, there really was no other candidate. Sorry for outing you, old chap, but I felt that it was the best thing to do at the time. We really needed as many known innocents as possible, especially with the Cobbler probably still lurking among the other declared innocents. And, hey, it was probably what kept you alive until the end.
Formendacil, what
were you playing at?
Still, you helped clarify in my mind
mormegil's likely Cobblerishness. Once we got down to the double lynching discussions it became clear to me that
morm was the Cobbler. An innocent
morm would have been taking control, putting forward plans and generally being much more vocal.
And why do I always suspect you
dancing spawn, even when you have come across as nothing but innocent all game? It must be a habit, I suppose. But it did nearly lead us to lynch both you and
Kath on the penultimate day, which would probably have proved disastrous. I am so glad that I had the time to go back and review everything and finally work out that
Garin's suspicious behaviour meant that he actually
was most likely guilty.
Oh, and sorry
Gil. I am no gambler and really didn't want to take the risk of the game going into a further day there.
Ah well, great game. Thanks to everyone involved. I really enjoyed it. And thanks especially to
Modeltarmacil for a wonderfully modded game. Just one little quibble - why'd I have to be an ordinary villager AGAIN??!!
Oh look. Another interminably lengthy post from me. What a surprise! You were so right,
Form, when you pointed out that I really know no other way of playing ...
