(Lovely, lovely chicken, rice, string beans and garlic bread.

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Where was I? Right. I'll borrow Nogrod's format and present my suspect list, in order:
Roa
Caranlondien
Naria
Grendelien
Proven innocent:
Zali
Nogrod
Sleepy
Me (check out the math below)
I'll start out with Grendelien, as my least suspicious un-proven innocent.
Throughout the game, Grendelien has been insightful and helpful. I think revealing the dream to some extent confirms her innocence. I'll posit that an Orc in receipt of a dream about Zali would be hesitant to reveal it (choosing instead to remain silent - no way for us to know who got the dream and was Orcishly holding out even if the Shaman did come forward and list who was dreamt of) because that dream gave
two confirmed innocents: Zali and me. There's no way for me to be an Orc if Zali guarded me. And if you want to go with the highly spurious theory that Zali is not what she claims to be, by the way, I'm still exonerated, because that theory requires Grendelien to lie as well, which would make Zali and Grendelien the last two Orcs. All three of us couldn't be lying. But that's probably the nuttiest argument that could be made right now in the abscene of an alternative Ranger claimant appearing at a fairly critical point.
No matter how you slice it, Grendelien's revealing the dream increases the pool of knowns significantly and greatly narrows the field of Orc suspects.
Therefore, because Grendelien narrowed the unknown pool to herself, Naria, Caran and Roa, I find her most probably innocent.
As for Naria, I've already made my case about her. Nogrod and Zali - there's a very good reason for her to have suspected me yesterday, and for her to have voiced suspicion of you, Zali. For that reason, I'm a bit hesitant to vote for her. See if you can work out what that reason is. I'm curious to see if you come to the same conclusion if you work from the idea that she's innocent. I could be all wet, but you never know...
Which leaves Roa and Caran. Actually, besides my process of elimination, the two of them seemed oddly coordinated in their attack on me today. Almost as if they'd worked it out beforehand. Notice that both of them react strongly to my list of remaining unknowns. Of the two, Roa is still my top suspect because of what I said before, and because of this post:
Quote:
Originally Posted by Orc Aoife
Grendelien, how do you know we can trust Celuien?
This is likely the last post I can make today, sorry. (Visiting friends). I don't know if I trust Grendelien or Zali. By all accounts, Zali shouldn't be alive. It's possible that this is just a last chance attempt by the Orcs to protect their own and force the real protector out into the open. Certainly we wouldn't suspect again until it was too late. I urge the village to be careful in trusting these two. Something about this is a little too convenient.
(plusses removed by me)Zali
I can't believe she would be the real ranger and still alive after this.
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As I've said before, it makes no sense at this point for Zali not to be the Ranger. The real one would/should have come forward by now. And how can she seriously continue to imply suspicion of me with that opening question if she also believes that Zali is not the Ranger, and that Grendelien by extension is the second Orc? 3>2.
And so my vote, once again, goes to
++ROA_AOIFE
PS to Sleepy;
Quote:
I don't have the time to post a good post right now but I just wanted to tell Celuien that she did a good job playing along. Just a note to everyone, if I really thought she was the shaman I wouldn't have said it.
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Thanks. I sort of figured that's what you were up to. Quite an inspiration.