[Nogrod]

My primary suspect at this hour: Roa Aoife
(There is lot to talk and think yet today, so just at this hour)

I haven't got a "smoking gun", but many different small pieces, piling up the best case, I can come up with at the moment.

1) I have not been the only one to have suspicions about Roa along the way. Not to be readily articulated and thence not a good piece - but a piece nevertheless.

2) Her bad contradicting of herself early this morning. First she was looking for evidence from Folwren's posts to help with the case - surely knowing, that they would point to other directions. When accused of that, she argued, that it would be a fool's work for a WW to kill someone who had suspicions about that WW!

Then she went on telling, that

But I don't think we should look directly at the people she was directly suspicious of, but rather the people she wasn't. Sorry for not clarifying that earlier.

But just a couple of lines further she said, that

If you think it makes more sense to look at the least suspicious in Folwren's eyes, by all means, look at us.

So which one of these two alternatives was she thinking? And what was this mysterious "us" doing there?

3) It would be quite suspicious, if someone would like to make oneself look suspicious, wouldn't it? According to Roa's defence at point 2, she basically says, that she was quite ready to draw suspicion over herself, she just forgot to mention this altruistic plan of hers in the first place. This is either a WW, trying to explain away a made mistake, or then utterly stupid villager who tries to offer herself as a bite for the hangers (why? oh, why?). I think no-one would opt for Roa being stupid!

4) She also said, that

I do think we need to look at Folwren's posts, because Folwren was killed for a reason.

I can see this only as a lousy effort to deny the obvious (and cross fingers that no-one notices). Of course Folwren was killed by a reason. Even as a newbie into this game, I could see from the very first day onwards, that Folwren was someone who made a difference here. If I were a wolf, I would want to get rid of her asp., before she would start really to get the hang of things. And so it happened: Folwren had no time to give any useful hints.

5) Then there of course is this "I've never been a wolf before". Well, it's just a slip of tongue. But one should note it's existence. Many criminals are gotten by this kind of things.

In RL I wouldn't lynch anyone on these grounds. But here I might, if no-one comes up with a better argued claim concerning someone else.

I'm sure Roa - and all her fellow-wulfs wishing possibly to save her - can come up with many explanations for the points I have made. But [B]what I would like to see more than that, is a better argued case.

Remember: we will have to make a choice this evening! And as we have a kind of a case here, nothing less than this should satisfy us, when the evening comes.