[Diamond18]

Early on Lhuna and Mac declared their intention to slay Durelin. The Lead Tragic Actor climbed upon her stage and said, "Forsooth! This is an evil day! Is there no one who will save me and slay the evil Lhuna?"

"I would try," said Rikae, "but I need Farael's help."

Crickets chirped.

"Oh! Woe is me! Woe! Woe! Woe!" cried Durelin, laying the back of one hand to her forehead. "I fear I am spent!"

Crickets continued to chirp.

"Well, I think we've waited long enough," said Mac. He seized Durelin by the arms and dragged her from the stage.

Lhuna awoke from her nap and mused, "Now where did I put my smothering pillow?"

"May I kill her this time?" Mac requested.

"Oh very well, love," Lhuna agreed.

"Excellent!" said Mac, and proceeded to drag Durelin (who was still going on about the tragedy of her young life) over to one of his newly built gibbets. "I haven't had a chance to use this all week!"

"DOOM!" Durelin interjected into her soliloquy.

Mac slung a black hood over her head. "Don't worry," he said kindly, "it's hypoallergenic."

"Tis little comfort!" came Durelin's muffed voice from inside the hood.

"So sorry," said Mac, cinching the noose tightly around her neck. "I always did like your monologues." With that, he pulled the lever on the gibbet and smiled with satisfaction as the trapdoor opened without a hitch.

Durelin fell, snapping her neck. There was some momentary twitching and jerking, then her body fell still.

Farael chose that moment to amble up. "Hullo," he said. "What's up? Did I miss anything?"

Rikae sighed. Crickets chirped.

Lhuna rose from her hammock with an evil leer, and then in a biologically improbable moment, was no longer Lhuna the Beautiful Girl but the Lhuna the Werebear.

"I love it when she does that!" Mac sighed.

Lhuna rose to her full height and roared, then set upon Farael. He tried to flee, but found himself spinning his legs ineffectually, running in place. Lhuna plucked him up and stuffed him in her mouth.

"This is oddly satisfying," said Rikae as she watched the bear devour him in a cacophony of screams and crushing bones. She glanced at Mac and saw him reading a book. "What's that?"

"101 Ways to Prepare Honied Elf," he said.

"There are 101 ways?"

"Amazing, isn't it? Would you like to be boiled alive or minced?"

"You are a strange and twisted individual."

"I know," he said, raising a butcher knife. "Love does funny things to a person." With that, he chopped off her head. It rolled over to Lhuna, who lazily batted it between her paws.

"So, love," asked Mac, "what shall we do tomorrow night?"

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The Dead 'Uns

tgwbs - Tragic Elven Hero and Lover of Diamond - (co-mod) - Stabbed himself eight times and subsequently eaten by the Werebird

Diamond - Elven Maid - (mod) - Crushed in the embrace of the Werebear

Menel - Mad Scientist - (ordo) - Beaten with an undead leg and a chamber pot and stabbed with red hot tongs (Day 1)

Nogrod - a Smith of the Billmarins - (watcher) - Savagely murdered by the Werecat and devoured in the long grass (Night 2)

Arctic Storm - Raving Alcoholic, Resident Moocher, and Lover of Naria - (lover) - Devoured head first by the Werebird (Night 2)

Naria - Lemba Baker - (werecat) - Dashed out her brains on the Ringbearer's Rock (Night 2)

Kitanna - One Legged Chambermaid - (ordo) - Ripped in two by the Werebear (Night 2)

Rune - Humungous Fungus Grower - (ordo) - Minced up into fertilizer by the Werewolf (Night 2)

Holbytlass - Oliphaunt Whisperer and Lover of Fintaeph - (lover) - Burned at the stake (Day 2)

Fintaeph - Mutton Herder and Purveyor of Fine-Quality Undead Prosthetic Limbs - (werebird) - Died a fiery death trying to save his lover from the flames (Day 2)

Lommy - Ostrich Chaser - (ordo) - Lured into a dark alley and devoured by the Werewolf (Night 3)

JennyHallu - Countess and Lover of mormegil - (lover) - Ripped apart and scattered in countless pieces by the Werebear (Night 3)

Mormegil - City Street Cleaner - (werewolf) - Despaired and died amongst the shreds of his lover (Night 3)

Valier - Arranger - (ranger) - Smothered to death with a goosedown pillow (Day 3)

Kath - Flower Girl - (ordo) - Devoured in her flower garden by the Werebear (Night 4)

Durelin - Lead Tragic Actor - (ordo) - Tragically lynched on the day of DOOM (Day 4)

Farael - Patient Suffering from Mad Elf Disease - (ordo) - Devoured by the Werebear (Day 4)

Rikae - Contortionist - (ordo) - Decapitated in preparation for the Werebear's next meal (Day 4)

Winners:

Lhuna - Beautiful Girl with the Sleeping Sickness - (werebear)

Mac - Builder of gibbets, unemployed for millennia and Lover of Lhuna - (lover)