Tol-in-Gaurhoth XVIII: The Play’s The Thing…

[Farael]

As I said in the notice board, it was an accident I did not vote. (I'm sorry friends and fiends but I meant to come back close to the deadline yet I got confused with my last WW game and missed it)

In one of my posts I said I meant to vote for Eomer but that I would not do so if a bandwagon was forming, just to avoid giving more 'room' for the wolves to hide in. I reckon that barring a majour breackthrough I will be lynched sooner or later and I want to avoid you guys wasting time looking at me. This will most likely all make me look even more suspicious, but maybe after I'm dead it will help. Or maybe I'll survive.

Now, while Aiwendil (again) sounds reasonable when he says others looked more suspicious than Eomer and thus he voted for others, what about his weak defense of the wolf?

Originally Posted by Aiwendil

But the thing that really has me leaning toward Eomer's innocence is actually the same thing that caused Spawn to suspect him. We all know that Eomer would be a bold wolf - so bold that there's a real possibility that he would, indeed, have killed Spawn. But if he's such a bold wolf, why would he more or less "play it safe" in terms of accusations? It strikes me that if Eomer were a wolf, he wouldn't be afraid to take a risk and accuse someone. His "playing it safe" - i.e., perhaps, playing it rationally - looks more like something he'd do if innocent.

Now, I might just be reading too much into his post again, but this time I'm being totally serious with my accusation. Aiwendil thinks that an innocent will look very rational and careful in his accusations, as Eomer was acting. Even if the wolves did not agree to do so, Aiwendil thinks that it's the way an innocent will act. Now we will all agree that he has been very careful and 'rational'... now, I ask if anyone's great grand father has played with Aiwendil's great grand father... does he always play this way or is he playing the way he thinks we'd expect an innocent to act?

Post 372: thinks that if Eomer is a wolf, so will Tar... therefore voting for either of them will not make a difference (so far so good, that's somewhat consistent with what he said before). He offers that if either of them are wolves then we should lynch the other today. He then says that Morm might be the other wolf. And thus, he says that if we don't lynch Eomer and Tar in quick succession, we should go after Morm. Yet (and this is where I cringe) he closes his post saying that maybe the wolves area Eomer, Tar and me.

Now, maybe I just got to him and he wants me dead but.... he mentioned nothing about me in the whole post, he talked about Morm instead!! And yet, he does not mention him for his 'triumvirate of wolves"

Now, let's see...

Living:
Saucepan Man
Farael
Mormegil
Aiwendil
Glirdan
Formendacil
Nilpaurion Felagund
Kath
Celuien
Tar-Ancalime

Let's take out myself because I know I'm innocent along the other two that Eomer accused yesterDay as he knew he was going to die and was probably going against the easier targets hoping for a lucky break. I've been under a bit of heat lately and both Celuien and Nilp have been pretty absent, which is never a good thing for an innocent villager to be. We also take out Formen, for obvious reasons. I'm willing to let Morm and SPM off the hook for now, given that they gave Eomer his second and third votes early on the day, which put him up front as the most likely lynchee. Glirdan has been having RL issues and I believe him. If he had an important role, I would like to venture that he'd be here more often. Eomer voted for Tar-Ancalime and it seemed he might have gotten away with it. Iit does not sound like a wolf trying to save a friend by making him look innocent, but rather a wolf trying to save his furry skin, so I will get Tar-a out of the equation. FInally, Kath and Aiwendil voted for Tar before Celuien got tricked into doing so, therefore we get

Aiwendil
Kath

Now, they are not the 'ideal' suspects.... Aiwendil has managed to look mostly innocent, perhaps even because of my attacks and Kath has been a non-factor... while I'd be willing to sympathise with Kath, I remember a story my Grandma told me about a wolf called Malkatoj who used that tactic to put a blindfold over the village's eyes. And it worked.

I say we rid ourselves of Aiwendil first, at least then I won't be a distraction anymore, both because I will no longer have him to go after, and also because I will most likely be lynched the day after if he turns out to be innocent =P

But seriously, those two either explain why they were playing into Eomer's hand or I say we use the rocks on them!

Edit: Cross-posted with many people.