TOL-IN-GAURHOTH XII, Erbar Telamarth

[the phantom]

I make it out to be something to the effect of "Village of the Doomed". Or something like that.

Yeah, pretty much.

This is the translation I had in mind-
er= solitary
bar= dwelling
tel= final
amarth= doom

Are the other "easter eggs" recognizable to noob players?

Yes sir.

One easter egg was a wink towards the day's events.

One I'm sure several people caught was a play on the person's village occupation.

One is a song reference, and is fairly obvious.

One is a movie reference (once again, pretty straight forward).

Three reference things in Downs history.

One references an event in Middle Earth history.

Two are plays on people's names.

Two names are easter eggs. When you think about it, it should be clear whose names I mean.

There's one only Eomer can get, and one only Enca can get (though others may figure it out if Enca lets out some of her thoughts from her Firefoot killing).

Perhaps we should start a new game called "The Quest to Find Phantom's Fifteen Fun Things".

[Estelyn Telcontar]

Well, if you mean this passage, phantom, I noticed it, of course!

"You're ALL a bunch of MORONS!" screamed Boromir, insulting the entire village for the umpteenth time that day.

"I wish you'd stop needling everyone!" chided Esty, the seamstress.

"I think we should lynch Esty for trying to be punny," offered Anguirel.

"Oh, don't be so knit-picky!" said Esty.

Everyone groaned.

Lovely puns! I included a couple in my posts, but apparently not enough to have everyone wanting my lynching...

[Shelob]

There is one that only Eomer can spot (if his memory is good enough to stretch back to the game he modded)

if it's just a reference to that game couldn't I concievably get it too? I was a wolf in that game after all...



And within this game I'm rather impressed that the last villagers to survive (and win) were those who'd never played before...good job.

[mormegil]

I forgot to mention that I had this horrible sinking feeling that I was going to be the cursed villager, I've had this feeling before and I was the cursed. Needless to say I was a bit worried about the night I died and if I was the cursed what would happen. I was thinking that it would almost be pointless in defending myself. Phantom probably was annoyed with my post alluding to my notion that I was cursed.

[the phantom]

Originally Posted by Esty

Lovely puns!

Yes, yes, but I can't take full credit for that. When you pmed me with your choice of seamstress, you mentioned doing seamstress puns, which is why I did what I did.

So thanks for the help, Esty.

You could count that as an easter egg, but it's not one of the fifteen I wrote down.

Originally Posted by Shelob

if it's just a reference to that game couldn't I concievably get it too?

No. The reference is to a pm I sent to Eomer during the game.

Originally Posted by mormegil

Phantom probably was annoyed with my post alluding to my notion that I was cursed.

No, no- I didn't mind.

You have no idea how horrible the temptation was to switch you with Mister Underhill and make you the cursed villager.

After all, no one would've known. I'm the only one who knew who the cursed was. If I had made you the cursed it would've lengthened the game and possibly made for a one-on-one ending, which could've been exciting.

But I stayed honest.

[Firefoot]

Sauce - what do you mean you didn't play? You were even accused!

Actually, I'll be honest - I was all set to dream of Sauce on the first night. Then I looked at the list more closely and whoops! He's not there! Luckily I never actually sent that to phantom...

So I decided to dream of Morm instead, for two reasons. He can be a smart player (and he was extremely so in this game. A great thing to know of his innocence), and less nobly, something of a spite dream, because of when he was a Seer and I was a wolf in WWI... (Sorry, Morm, I'm not going to let that one go. )

The next two dreams, Boromir and Mr. U., were heavily debated. I didn't want to dream about Formendacil, simply because I thought it would look entirely too suspicious if I suddenly released my campaign of him should he have been innocent. I also didn't want to dream about Fea, though she did plague me pretty well. Encai was always like just the next one down on the list, but her voting on Days 1 and 2 just didn't seem like a suspicious enough votes, and there wasn't anything outwardly suspicious about her.

Boromir was getting to be a very difficult player to defend as innocent towards the end. I was figuring I was going to die, however, I was hoping that if I didn't seem like a Seer the wolf might go after someone else (unfortunately, she didn't). So I didn't want to seem to certain of Boromir's innocence, because he really was acting very suspiciously in my eyes. Which is why I didn't say anything much about his guilt or innocence except that he was acting like an idiot. (Sorry, Boromir.)

But once Formen was lynched and found to be a wolf, I pretty much knew I was going to die. I was already on people's innocent lists (that was *not* supposed to happen. I wanted to be at least a bit suspicious so that the wolves wouldn't kill me), and then I vote for another wolf - no way was I going to survive. I would have been shocked if I had survived, I think. So I put very little effort (probably less than a quarter of the time than the previous two nights) into deciding my pick for the night, and wouldn't you know it but I catch a wolf. The rest is history.

And I'll add my vote to ++phantom for the best modded game ever. Fortunately, I didn't have to experience the same type of suspense as the rest of you - I could wake up in the morning and read the whole thing straight through.

[Encaitare]

Originally Posted by Mr. U

That second-to-last day was a disaster, and credit to Enca for creating such confusion without completely giving herself away. I was so mixed up that night that I probably could have been talked into casting a vote for myself.

The funny thing was, it really was a mistake. I had a total brain fart. Although after agonizing over my stupidity, I decided that since I was going to get lynched in the end, I might as well confuse you all a lot before going down.

I've really no idea about the phantom's Easter Egg thing regarding the choice of killing Firefoot. I didn't even suspect her to be the Seer; it was just pure luck for the wolves that there happened to be gifteds amongst the Three Innocents.

Ah, this was an awesome game. Cheers to Lord Phantom for his fantastic modding. Nice playing, everyone.

[littlemanpoet]

Originally Posted by the phantom

One is a movie reference (once again, pretty straight forward).

Oh, I split my guts on that one: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Give me my prize unless it's been claimed already.

[Firefoot]

'If you look closely at Formendacil, you will find micro elf dna'."

Ah, micro elf dna is a anagram of Formendacil.

The reference to the skwerl dying when you voted for yourself made me grin.

You know what I realized, and in my post-double-lynched delerium really amused me? Fea-Wolf sounds very much like Beowulf.

Hehe, I noticed that too, the other night.

Seer
Not likely: Firefoot (duh-uh!)

[littlemanpoet]

Originally Posted by LMP

(in a PM to the phantom)By the way, my now famous "bait and switch bluff" was just a lot of hooey at the time, just some verbage I threw out there for the sake of expression, but I think I actually have seen it described (by Feanor?) in this game. I have to admit I'm still a little confused by the concept, having just made it up to originally have no real meaning, but I do think I see Guy actually putting it to use!

So what do you think a bait and switch bluff would be, since it's so far undefined? Anybody?

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Originally Posted by littlemanpoet

So what do you think a bait and switch bluff would be, since it's so far undefined? Anybody?

Ooh, ooh, pick me! My definition of a bait and switch bluff would be as follows:

One Fea-wolf lays the bait carefully to lead suspicion subtley but directly to one innocent (or, equally likely, also guilty) villager. Just as the villagers take the well-hidden bait, Fea-wolf switches it up and points her finger to a new villager (or more likely, a new wolf), using a rather lot of obvious evidence to convict said person.

Due to invisible "bait", the village is permanently, though latently, suspicious of the original, and extremely worried about the "switch". Should both villagers survive, after Fea's death, they will likely be killed because everybody knows I'm willing to throw my team mates to the erm... wolves.

[Cailín]

Seriously, this game was more stressful than any game I've participated in before. It's terrible being a wolf.

I think during Night 2, I first suggested killing either Lhuna or Fea, because of some random brainwave I don't quite understand anymore. Next I was willing to kill one of the people who voted for me, especially Firefoot, because I was so worried about her I would risk the village going after me the next day. When we finally more or less agreed on Eomer, I got a real bad feeling about it and I almost sent a PM to Formendacil - who was going to deliver the message - to kill LMP instead. But I didn't, much to my dismay the day after.

One more thing: A nice twist to this game, wasn't it Cailín? I think we're just meant to be together.

I think next time when I accidentally sign up for a game you're in, I'll either have to ignore your existence or just commit suicide.

[Eomer of the Rohirrim]

Phantom, I knew what you meant as soon as you mentioned that PM you sent me in WWIII. Referred to when you told how Boromir88, with his last action before dying, gave the villagers the bird. Reading it, I'm surprised you didn't go with the 'fingers-straight-as-arrows' line. (It was in reference to The Phantom's self-suggested death in Storyland.

LMP, lucky indeed that you didn't pick me on NIGHT 2!

Why did I pick Cailín even after I voted for Boromir88 that day? Well, I didn't really suspect Boro – in fact, I basically said that in my post. It was just that he gave me reasons to choose him (however poor) and I wanted to get the discussion going. Also, voting early on Day One is always hard.

I got really lucky with Cailín. My main reason for choosing her was this: She voted for me despite the numerous clues I had given in my posts to suggest my secret role. I really didn't think any innocent would vote for me that Day and, even if she was innocent, she deserved to die for not reading carefully enough!

Did anyone catch the clues which alluded to my Hunting ways? As it happened, Anguirel guessed I was the Hunter but for entirely different reasons!

[the phantom]

Ah. I get it now.

So- Enca has spotted her Easter Egg.

When Enca pmed me with her choice of killing Firefoot, she was hoping to get lucky and kill the Cursed Villager. She had no idea Firefoot was the Seer (I don't think anyone did- nice job FF).

So, I included it in my narrative-

"Just a minute, here!" exclaimed Fea. "Are you telling us that-"

"-Firefoot was a seer?!" finished Enca.

And Shelob noticed the song reference in her death scene-

The villagers turned towards Shelob in time to see her head roll off the table and onto the floor (then out of the door, through the garden, and under a bush, and was then nothing but moosh).

This one just happened. I wrote the sentence as it is outside of the parenthesis, and when I read it through I couldn't help but think of On Top of Spaghetti, so I added it.

And Firefoot has spotted a couple. From the narrative-

If you look closely at Formendacil, you will find micro elf dna

Yes- "Formendacil" can indeed be rearranged to spell "micro elf dna".

And Firefoot also spotted one of the Downs history references- Esty's concern for skwerls.