Tol-in-Gaurhoth XVI: No man is an Island

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

++Malkatoj

First we take Malkatoj then we take Amanaduial. (It does not sound as good as Manhattan and Berlin)

[Naria]

I will once again be voting for Aman for reason's that I have stated before and reason's other people have stated, I feel no need to go into any of them again.

++Amanaduial

[Azaelia of Willowbottom]

It''s rather quiet around here... I expect that as we get closer, more people will show up...

I'd prefer to vote Aman today, because, as I have said several times before, mere lack of participation is not necessarily a valid way to pick someone to lynch...there are more factors to take into account. I'm not trying to defend Malka here since at this point, she's even quieter than I am, and that is definitely an accomplishment, and I agree that her lack of participation has arrived at the point of suspicion.

Aman, on the other hand, each time I review her posts, I get more suspicious. I've said before that seeing something from all sides is important when used to clarify, but her use of it seems to me more in the direction of muddying the waters and causing confusion. So I guess I'd rather lynch her today and go for Malka as a hunter victim...Though either way it amounts to the same thing.

But I just had a thought: If the wolves feel that they're in danger because we've found both of them, the remaining one (Or both if today's lynchee is innocent) won't kill Naria because though she's known, she's dangerous to kill. If that makes sense. I know there's a better way to put it, but it's not coming to mind.

So today, I'll vote

++Aman

Because she seems more suspicious of the two suspicious ones, at least to me. Here's to hoping we catch a wolf today, and, if our hunter is lost, another tonight!

ETA: I was right about others showing up--Cross-posted with Farael, and cross-voted with Naria.

[Amanaduial the archer]

Aman, on the other hand, each time I review her posts, I get more suspicious. I've said before that seeing something from all sides is important when used to clarify, but her use of it seems to me more in the direction of muddying the waters and causing confusion.

Seems my efforts to be less well-rounded in my approach didn't work And it seems it may get me lynched before the Day is up, in...goodness, less than 20 minutes...

I'm not sure a defence is much good now except to say how surprised I am that I'm being chosen over Malkatoj, when, from her posts, I was fairly sure I wasn't alone in picking up danger signs about her - and plus that constant creepy absence... 3-2 in favour (ha!) of my being lynched, and I come to a strange pass of who to actually vote for...

I have a quarter of an hour left in this village, and as this is certainly not time to form any sort of reasonably argument in my defence (I apologise for my absence today, by the way: concerts and rehersals today and yesterday...), all I can say is...well, you're making a mistake. Cliched it may be, but what can I do? Argue in my defence I get persecuted, argue in someone else's defence and I get persecuted...

Still, I'll drink to that: cheers, and may you have a happy last few days hunting as the wolves narrow the odds and you choose to kill yet another innocent villager toDay!

[Formendacil]

The village was sullen, and silent following Lhunardawen's death. Bereft of a leader, the villagers were hesitant to attract any attention to themselves, and remained subdued and quiet. Naria, the only seemingly sure innocent in the village seemed unwilling or unable to fill in as the village leader.

The voting was quiet, although those voting were convinced that what they were doing was correct. And it was Amanaduial who got the death sentence that day.

"What you're up to is wrong," she warned them. "You'll regret it!"

"Why?" said Rune, a smouldering antipathy towards Amanaduial burning after a week of dispute. "Are you a Werewolf?"

"Actually," said Amanaduial, lunging for him, "I am!"

Amanaduial's long hunting knife flashed in her hand, but it wasn't at Rune that she lunged, but at the village protector, Naria. Naria was knocked to the ground, winded and wounded, Amanaduial's knife stuck in her right shoulder. Amanaduial took flight.

"Get her!" cried Farael. And the remaining villagers took off- except for Rune. The short fellow calmly bent down, grabbed one of the smaller stones out of the ground, and hurled it after the fugitive. It struck her hard in the back of her head. She collapsed, stunned.

Cailin was the first to reach Amanaduial.

"Quick!" she cried. "A sword!"

"Here!" Malkatoj handed her Formendacil's blade. Not waiting for the rest to veto her act or approve it, Cailin made a swift chop with the sword, severing head from body. Amanaduial's head rolled away from the body, and began to change, as did the body itself. Soon the severed form of a dead wolf lay before them.

"Hurray!" cried Rune. "We finally got another one!"

"Yes, the village is saved!" cried Malkatoj.

"Not yet," said Farael. "Those notes said 'the Werewolves - plural- in your midst', even after Garin's death."

But even this solemn pronouncement did not dampen their spirits.

Day 7 is over, Night 8 is begun.

Posting is over.

I need the nightly names from the last Werewolf, and from the Hunter.

~Michael A. Joosten - WW XVI Moderator~