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Old 06-03-2007, 03:24 AM   #140
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Okay, so here we go. This village indeed seems to be a bloodbath ground, and we have four (!) people less just on Day 2. Of course, it was probably just a coincidence, but even then. Now a debate has been started here, I think quite rightfully, what we can make out of it.

From my point of view, I think we can assume from the narration the following:
  • There was surely one kill by the Wolves (unless we have seven hundred assassins in the village and the Wolves' kill was blocked by some Ranger), probably Rune (?) I think the reason was that he seemed quite innocent in profile (some people mentioned him). So this one would be a typical nightly kill.
  • There was a kill by, well, I'd suppose a Werebear - first, it's the most logical, second, in the Anduin Vales a Beorning is quite a nice requisite, third, it's only logical that in such a big village there'll be something more than just Wolves (unless the number of Wolves will be more than 3, but from the number of kills I think statistics speak for more than one baddie with a kill, no matter how many the wolves are). Or, now another idea occured to me, what if there were more Wolf teams? It will be also a possibility, though not as nice going with the narration as the Bear, but still...(?) I don't know about this one. I'd say, by logic, that this kill would be Menel, and I think it will be a good Werebearish behavior to "test water" on killing Menel, because be he a wolf or not, it will be a good kill for Werebear, since all would be his enemies, no? In case of multiple Wolf teams, the kill would be even more logical (the one party might think that Menel is a Wolf, as many people did here, and simply kill him, or only for the reason to cause confusion by elliminating the second favored suspect of yesterDay).
  • The death of Durelin could have been just a coincidence of the Wolves going against her, as I think Noggins brought here, but I think the formulations (boldening mine):
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    And those that she had spied on had summarily executed her for it.
    Quote:
    Spied on things which she should not have seen and got hung for it on Night 1
    imply that the death was "triggered" by her choosing someone for the target of her nightly activities. So then we'll actually have Wolves' kill (probably Rune), then someone other's (Bear's? Another Wolves'?) kill (Menel) and the Wolves' (or someone's of whom there are MORE THAN ONE => "those that she had spied on") kill of Durelin, meaning that probably these were the Wolves.
This are, in my opinion, the most logical views on what happened, though it's just my thoughts, so feel free to raise objections.

Whatever way it is, I think we can obtain quite a lot of information from the kills, being so many. I'm going to look through it and post something about it later.
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