O Mother!
In this time of sorrow I have not had an opportunity to come to the village square until now; but now that I'm here I will offer some quick thoughts.
First of all, go with Gurthang! This is a no-brainer: take his advice.
Second, this has been implied but not stated explicitly. The EW is more than likely female, right? To balance Gurthang? Worth thinking about. Fea is still my number one suspect for the EW.
Kit, I've already explained why I focused on the EW; and I've already explained why my posts took that general format. The style
underlines the point that all I could do at that time was guess how the EW was working. I'm not averse to in-your-face bluffery (just ask those Corsairs from last year
— nevermind)...
[and that is
not an example]
...I'm not doing it now. Only proof of this, of course, would be to lynch me.
Another thing: I believe Valier may be, what some in the industry call, the sacrificial wolf. Pretty much all her strange behaviour is acomplishing is getting the village in a fantastic kerfuffle. Her single-minded attack on Roa is just uncalled for in a village as vast as this one still is. I think she could well be trying to instigate unrest, with the possible intention of making her wolf-allies look good by suspecting her. As I suggested before, it's not like she came out all guns blazing at the start. She seemed more tentative in her discussion of game rules, and when criticised for it she got rather sketchy.
Scrambly, I would go so far to say.
I think I may go with my instinct again and vote for Valier. Oh, and was it Kitanna who asked me about Lommy and Nogrod? Yes, I truly did believe that Nogrod would have been a good pick for the EW at the start. Maybe it was this ultra-vigilance of the villagers that got him lynched; maybe he made unusual errors; maybe we just got lucky (Hmm....wonder if
that's the right answer...) I sincerely think that there's nothing inherently worrisome about Nogrod, unlike Lommy.
So: I maintain that Nogrod was a good original pick and Lommy was a terrible one, and is thus not a wolf.