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

[Formendacil]

The deadline draws near, and so I must vote:

++Aiwendil

And now, soon comes the night. I go to sleep, perchance to dream. I shall consider myself lucky if I last the night.

[AbercrombieOfRohan]

You know the drill. Stop posting now. I'll have the death up as soon as I can.

[AbercrombieOfRohan]

(The village center after a day of confusion and uncertainty.)

Saucepan Man: To lynch Aiwendil or Farael, that is the question.
Celuien: We should go with Farael...I think, perhaps. Or not.
Farael: Are you finally going to listen to me? I've been telling you since Day 1 that Aiwendil's a wolf.

(Village cautiously banters about who would make the better lynching candidate. Ad lib.)

Aiwendil: I swear to you I've been a faithful cook. I never once baked anyone in a pie or anything!
Nilpaurion Felagund: It comes to this, I must vote now and Aiwendil seems more likely. Good-bye, Aiwendil.
Village: (hesitatingly) ok...
Formendacil: Now how do we get rid of him?

(Gestures are made such as nail-biting and nervously twisting.)

Glirdan: Well, we could use the stake.

(Village captures Aiwendil and drags him to the woodpile where a stake is erected, for just such an emergency.)

(Aiwendil screams in protest. The village ignores him and continues with their deed.)

(Village stands back and someone drops a match onto the pyre. As it goes up in flames a terrible roar is heard.)

Saucepan Man: Can anyone smell that?
Farael: Yes! Yes, I can! It smells like burning wolf hair! Success!

The village had caught another wolf.

Living:
Saucepan Man
Farael
Glirdan
Formendacil
Nilpaurion Felagund
Celuien

Dead:
Shelob (Mod)--Killed by wolves on NIGHT 1
Abercrombie (Mod)--Killed while Yeti-Spotting on NIGHT 1
Gil-Galad (Ordinary)--Lynched at the close of DAY 1
Holbytlass (True Seer)--Gloucester-ized and welled on NIGHT 2
Lhunardawen (Ordinary)--Drown’d a muddy death upon DAY 2
Anguirel (Ordinary)--Killed quite safely during NIGHT 3
Littlemanpoet (Ordinary)--Vanished during DAY 3
Garin (Ordinary)--Lynched at the end of an eventful DAY 3
Dancing Spawn of Ungoliant (Ordinary)--Thus was the shepherd beaten from their side during NIGHT 4
Eomer of the Rohirrim (Werewolf)--Died without a friend, but plenty of fiends DAY 4.
Boromir88 (Ranger)--Like Corey, burried under the contents of a Quarry during NIGHT 5
Tar-Ancalime (Ordinary)--Made an Ex-ex-leper at the end of DAY 5
Kath (Ordinary)--Killed by the Hunter during NIGHT 6
Mormegil (Hunter)--Stabbed in the back by wolves during NIGHT 6
Aiwendil (Werewolf)--burned at the stake at the end of DAY 6

[Shelob]

(The villagers began their days, as they had not in the past week, by looking at their calendars, given the excitement this past week most of them had quite forgotten to change the calendars from the past month to the current one. Having noticed this some few of them switched their calendars now, though even fewer made any note of the months involved. Shortly thereafter they met again in the village square, where they’re met by a rather cut up and bloody corpse.)

Celuien: Formendacil!
Nilp: What did the wolves do to him? What could make such fine and tiny cuts?
Glirdan: (having picked up a bloodied piece of paper from the ground near Form) Perhaps they used this? It certainly gave someone a papercut or two.
Farael: (taking the paper from Glirdan) It looks like it’s from a calendar, wait…there’s something written here, scrawled really. It looks like “He said ‘beware the sides of March’, I didn’t think they were dangerous. I was wrong.”

(There’s a moment while all they absorb the implications of this.)

Saucepan Man: Well, it looks like there’s only one thing we can do.


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Living:
Saucepan Man
Farael
Glirdan
Nilpaurion Felagund
Celuien

Dead:
Shelob (Mod)--Killed by wolves on NIGHT 1
Abercrombie (Mod)--Killed while Yeti-Spotting on NIGHT 1
Gil-Galad (Ordinary)--Lynched at the close of DAY 1
Holbytlass (True Seer)--Gloucester-ized and welled on NIGHT 2
Lhunardawen (Ordinary)--Drown’d a muddy death upon DAY 2
Anguirel (Ordinary)--Killed quite safely during NIGHT 3
Littlemanpoet (Ordinary)--Vanished during DAY 3
Garin (Ordinary)--Lynched at the end of an eventful DAY 3
Dancing Spawn of Ungoliant (Ordinary)--Thus was the shepherd beaten from their side during NIGHT 4
Eomer of the Rohirrim (Werewolf)--Died without a friend, but plenty of fiends DAY 4.
Boromir88 (Ranger)--Like Corey, burried under the contents of a Quarry during NIGHT 5
Tar-Ancalime (Ordinary)--Made an Ex-ex-leper at the end of DAY 5
Kath (Ordinary)--Killed by the Hunter during NIGHT 6
Mormegil (Hunter)-- )--Stabbed in the back by wolves during NIGHT 6
Aiwendil (Werewolf)--Burned at the stake at the end of DAY 6
Formendacil (False Seer/Fool)--Done to death by numerous papercuts during NIGHT 7

You know the drill, have at it.

[Celuien]

I'm glad I didn't go with my subjective suspicions yesterday. My apologies to you Farael, both for suspecting you yesterday, and for not listening to your identification of Aiwendil eariler.

Aiwendil's guilt confirms both SPM's and Nilp's innocence for me.

So does anyone see a reason not to vote for Glirdan now?

[Farael]

Originally Posted by Celuien

So does anyone see a reason not to vote for Glirdan now?

How about the fact that you were suspiciously associated with Aiwolfdil, voting the same as him to save your buddy Eomer... and for most of yesterDay, went after me?

If it wasnt' for your voting record, I'd think you mostly innocent as I can see why you'd suspect me but... voting record does not exactly shed a good light on you and... why so hasty to vote for Glirdan? trying to make up our collective minds before the silent one gets to talk?

Oh, and SPM... don't worry about implying that Aiwendil is smarter than me... I can see where you went wrong after all, I'm still alive and you all have to admit that I was right... I should start printing t-shirts saying "Farael Was Right" (see Simpsons, episode of the martian/Mr. Burns)

Anyway, I actually see Celuien pretty suspicious today... right now, we can actually afford to meassure our time, let's go through the people who are still alive.

Living:
Saucepan Man: Aiwendil is a wolf. If he hadn't been, I would have been congratulating Saucepan Wolf over a well played game (And not expecting anyone to believe me) but I can put those crazy suspicions to rest now, given that he is most likely innocent... heck, he IS innocent.
Farael: That's me
Glirdan: Has been very silent, let's give the guy a chance to talk.
Nilpaurion Felagund: Timezones might affect him, but he's on the same boat as SPM... if Aiwendil was innocent then I would have gone after SPM and Nilp, but right now it doesn't seem the case.
Celuien: Voting record looks pretty bad, her mistake with Eomer looks suspicious at least for me. On her favour I should note that she was the second to vote for Aiwolfdil... on a day that the first person to reach three votes would have been lynched barring a Glirdan comeback. Hmmm now I'm hesitating.

Anyway, I hope I'm not commiting the cardinal sin of assuming too much, but I'd think that we have three 'known' innocent right now, SPM, Nilp and myself. That leaves Celuien and Glirdan as the most likely to be wolvish... I'm going to look back and into Celuien's words yesterDay while waiting for Glirdan to show up... I think a no-show by Glirdan should be reason enough to take him to the gallows.... but if not, I'd say Celuien is my prime suspect for now. Yet I'm not as convinced as I'd like to be

[Glirdan]

RL Comment - While all of you were busy talking about my scilence, my band is advancing to the nationals. Now you see that I had perfectly good reason to not be here.

I see that the suspicions of me will not let up. Frankly I am quite annoyed with the fact that I said that I will not be able to post as much as I normally do, and you still get suspicous of it! You know what, if you want proof that I'm innocent, lynch me! I was actually going to start participating more but from the looks of things, a lot of people would rather I just be dead. Fine, do it! But I'm going to say that it would be a complete waste of a day. If you need me, I'll be practicing for my other competitions.