[Rikae]

Ok, I'll say my piece...


First of all, a few thoughts on the preceding “rounds”, so if I don't make it through toDay, I can at least leave some thoughts, for what they're worth:


Day 0.1: I'm not happy with this outcome at all. To me, Menel's confusion and boldness look ordo-ish – he has an air of honesty about him, for instance in his day 0.0 disagreement with Nogrod – a risky move for a wolf, and not one that would benefit wolf-Menel, while Valier seemed unwholesome from the beginning. Too agreeable – her first post on day 0.0 has a nervousness about it, jumping in with all the exclamation points and promising to participate. She looks very wolfish to me indeed. This would leave Legate as a gifted (unless a cobbler) – in which case we have lost our Hunter, I suppose (unless there are more than one, which is possible, I suppose). Also speaking in favor of Legate's giftedness – this is a subtle thing, but I have been a gifted many times myself, and I noticed (both in me and in others) there is a tendency to post with a slight “swagger” - hard to describe it, but Legate had it, and I thought him giftedish on day 0.0.


Day 0.2 – I don't know about Roa, but I don't think she was a wolf... she's craftier than that... and, having been hunter & ranger with her, I don't think her “niceness” was necessarily a sign of giftedness, either. I was looking forward to playing another game with her, though, and I'm sorry to see her go. McCaber may have had RL reasons for his disappearance, but as it stands, it looks as though he abdicated responsibility, and, to me, that's not an innocentish thing to do. I also don't like his thanking Roa for her vote for Naria, or his dramatic “I will hear Naria's arguments”. As for Naria herself, it's difficult to say anything – but since I suspect McCaber, I assume she is most likely innocent.


Day 0.3 It's really difficult to glean anything from this. I will say that the lynch looked too easy, and neither Ka nor Aganzir seems to have bothered putting some solid reasoning behind it (even if they couldn't argue why Shasta *was* a wolf, they could have made a case that the other *wasn't*)


Day 0.4 Lommy struck me as playing a rather smooth, glib game – there is an element of planned-ness to her that I don't trust, whereas Nogrod seems very much back to his old self (lectures and all) and genuine in a gruff sort of way. On the other hand, I share Lommy's suspicions of Zali and Valier – but Lommy is not likely, as a wolf, to protect her possible packmates at this point, I think. She's experienced enough to know that fabricating suspicions is a good way to get lynched, while mildly-voiced suspicions are quickly forgotten. Although anything is possible, her suggestion that TM might have been a wolf was too quick, and too much, I think – like a wolf realizing Nogrod would otherwise know her role – but Nogrod's response to the contrary also seemed somehow false to me – overly dramatic, I guess. I don't know what to make of it, but there it is.


Day 0.5 – Sally and Kath seem oddly friendly with each other from the start, so it's no surprise they went for the easy vote for the absent Gil. It seems as though one person in almost every one of these three-way battles “threw” the game in one way or another – and I doubt wolves would do that. We might just be losing the game before it's begun - which makes toDay's decision critically important. I don't know whether Kath or Sally looks worse, because they both look too agreeable and go too much with the flow. Of the two, Sally seems more sincere (in an insubstantial sort of way).


Day 0.6 – Groin, from the beginning, seems to have not known what was going on – so much so as to make his (?) role very hard to discern. One might say “someone with a role would have made more effort”, but, not having played with him before, I don't know whether to either consider him capable of faking such a thing as a bluff, or simply doing so in spite of all the efforts of a wolf or gifted.
Azaelia, well, I gave her my vote on 0.0 – she was, and remains, wolfish in my eyes. This, in particular, I dislike:

Originally Posted by Azaelia

I think it's not a good thing to be too silent, keeping every thought to oneself, but too much talking from one person just serves to muddy the waters and can attract the wrong kind of attention from the direction of the wolves or from that of innocents.

Muddy the waters? Attract the wrong kind of attention? Taking this advice would mean that innocent villagers keep quiet in the interests of self-preservation, which makes it possible for wolves to do the same, and we're left choosing lynches with little on which to ground our decisions. This only helps the wolves – sure, if a person is vocal, it attracts attention – but, if they are innocent, good players will recognise that (or what is the point of the game, I ask you?)
With Azaelia looking so bad to me, I assume Brinniel is innocent by default – certainly, she hasn't said anything that bothered me yet.


Now, on to my – what should I call you? Opponents? One of you isn't. Co... somethings. Well, anyway:


Greenie's first post on 0.0 seems to consist of a reasonable combo of role-playing and good sense. She pointed out the oddness of a statement of Aganzir's I also found odd, and wondered about Nogrod taking a “leadership role” - which, of course, he does (in spite of valiant efforts on the parts of a few to supplant him!) Her second post (#70) I can't really agree with – my problem with the voting was that I thought it would make it too easy for the wolves to construct phony “suspicions” without evidence, simply by “voting” people; I never thought the outcome of the voting would have any impact on the trials, and Greenie's concern about it shows a kind of – what? - nervousness? I don't quite trust.


Izzy pops in to say “Hiii” - nothing to analyze there. Oh, what the heck, maybe I'll try. “*catches up on happenings* seems “cute” - too cute.
Her next post basically repeats the concerns about voting and quiet vs. loud wolves – all perfectly sensible for what it is, but not really contributing anything, is it? Posting this at this point seems too much like an attempt to participate while being uncontroversial.


I'm afraid I find you both slightly suspicious, and neither overwhelmingly so. I certainly hope I don't have to decide without more evidence from both of you.