Well, that was the second time ever (I think) when I've missed voting. I had troubles with computer access, sorry.
Wow, great job, Nightingale! First Duck is down, two to go, and we're still all here.
YesterDays votes were:
Nilp -> Nilp
Ang -> Kath
Mith -> spawn
Lote -> Nilp
Morm -> Nogrod
Lalaith -> Glirdan
Cailín -> Sleepy
Kath -> Sleepy
Sleepy -> Nilp
Sauce -> Mithalwen
Roa -> Glirdan
Valier -> Nilp
Didn't vote: Elu, Glirdan, Nogrod, spawn.
Now,
Nilp certainly didn't leave any clues (not even anagrams
), so I went back to analyse other Day 1's posts, and a few things caught my attention. First of them was Glirdan's notion of Valier's "slip", which I found odd, so I took a look at him.
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Glirdan
#1: Promises to find the ducks for
Diamond and suggests that we watch
Sauce and
spawn.
- Typical 1st post, I think. Accusations based on occupations are nothing unheard of. Oh, and by the way, I am an Orc, but a spider-loving one. -
#2: Apologises for making a double post and says that he'll be gone for a while.
- This phenomenon of informing about every time when one can't be in the village square (i.e. online) is funny. I don't think any of us expects everyone to be around 24 hours a Day. This doesn't concern just Glirdan, of course. -
#86: Says that he'll be gone soon and thinks he'll be back for the voting.
Defends himself against
Sauce's accusation: "How hasty you are in trying to stoke up the village’s prejudices against us Orckind,
Glirdan", and says that he won't trust Sauce before he's been proven innocent. Adds that he could violently defeat Sauce-orc. Also, he defends himself against
Ang's accusation: "
Glirdan the Ent is being oddly hasty. How curious. Perhaps he's no true Ent but, in fact, a foul (fowl?) webbed predator! Yet he is, after all, a fairly young Ent."
- Well, Glirdan said that he'll leave from the Village square. I think it's a bit funny that he used now (almost) all the time for defending himself although to me it seems that no-one has really even accused him. As far as I can interpret Sauce and Anguirel's words, their suspicions didn't seem very strong or serious. -
Points out a possible slip of
Valier's and says that he'll keep an eye on her.
- I had to read the quote a few times before I understood what the "slip" was. When you look at the context, that Valier didn't like Diamond's poetry, the theory seems quite far-fetched. Perhaps he's a Duck who needed to present some suspicions to one direction or another so that people couldn't say that he's not participating enough, and because he couldn't really accuse anyone for Duckery being one himself, he had to come up with something like that. Perhaps he's an innocent who's eager to help, but just hadn't much to say that moment. -
In any case, I took a look at Valier's posts, too, if there had been something since sometimes the culprits just can't resist being witty that way, so...
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Valier
#7: Doesn't like that fact that
Diamond is dead. "I can't say I cared much for her poetry, but this is unacceptable! I never wanted her dead." ~Valier
- That's the thing that made
Glirdan suspect her. I think it pretty much looks like a normal 1st post. -
#49: Is angry because people talk so much. Says that she'll go reading the posts and will be back soon.
- Another post where she just lets people know that she is around. -
#52: Mentions
Nogrod,
Sauce,
Roa and
Anguirel and says that the first three are playing in normal manner and Ang usually gets killed early.
- So, what does she mean by saying that Ang doesn't often have a very long life-span in games? That if he's not toast soon, he must be a Duck? -
Says that analysis at this point are useless for her. Says that we should look at the quiet villagers and not lynch the loud ones.
- I find it funny that this suggestion comes from someone who has made only four posts of which two were just notes that she's around.
Still, it's not a completely bad idea. If there are two equally suspicious villagers, I rather let the one live who contributes more. -
#54: Replies to
Ang that she didn't mean with her comment that she'd be the one to kill him.
- As I said above, I'd like to know what she meant. -
#77: Agrees with
morm that we can't know if
Nilp is guilty or not if he votes for himself every time.
#116: Lists the votes. Says that she's unsure whom to vote, but votes for
Nilp so that she doesn't have to wonder if he's guilty or not.
- When he cast her vote,
Nilp had 3 votes,
Sleepy had 2, and there was quite a bunch who had one vote each. He put Nilp in lead with two votes 35 minutes before the deadline when there were four people left who hadn't vote (and who in the end actually failed to vote). Based on the voting, I don't think that
Valier is a Duck. I can't believe that the Ducks would sacrifice one of their own on the first Day just like that - even though I've lately seen some unbelievable voting schemes. -
More later.