Tol-in-Gaurhoth XXV: All Star Crossed With Nowhere to Go

[Fintaeph]

I found myself convinced, in turn, by both sides of the debate about Farael. But the fact that no one has come to his defence in any way does seem to strange. So strange, in fact, that all those things I thought bad of him now seem petty. (Of course, now I've come to his defence. I hope that doesn't prove bad for my health.)

My vote is going for Menel. Having reread the log, I must say the defensiveness *is* a little aggressive. It even continued after mormegil (the accuser in question) voted for someone else. Bad vibes. I've got nothing else to go on, so there it is.

++Menel

[Farael]

I believe the deadline is well.. RIGHT NOW and nothing much has changed since my last post. Well, I might make it now, but I probably won't survive tomorrow anyway.

++Menel
P.S: If I die, kill Holbytlass for me.

[Diamond18]

Deadline time. Stop posting. Menel is dead. Lovers may commence PMing. Watch for death knell.

[Diamond18]

The Elves gathered at Menel's door, faces stern (yet noble, for they were Elves, after all).

Arctic Storm was the first to bang on his door, crying, "D'you have any mirouvour?" Then he remembered what they were about and amended, "Er, we've come to kill you!"

"Go away," came Menel's voice from inside. "I'm busy."

"Let's break down the door," suggested Naria, nibbling on Lembas.

"I agree," agreed Nogrod. He went to his smithy and grabbed up a pair of red hot tongs. Holby whispered to an oliphaunt, who readied its mighty tusks for action. Kitanna chose her heftiest chamberpot, one with the goods still in it. Fintaeph opted to use a particularly fine quality undead limb of the leg variety. Farael chose to use his bare hands, as mad Elves often do.

They were ready. Holby whispered to her Oliphaunt once more, and with one toss of its head it tore through Menel's front door.

Menel looked up from his table, annoyed. A hulking creature went "Bwaahhlhhghggfur!" Menel set down the needle and thread with which he had been stitching together fingers and pointed his own finger at Farael. "He's evil, I tell you!"

But it was to no avail. Arctic Storm leapt upon him and grabbed his arms, pinning them behind the Mad Scientist's back. Naria threw a piece of lembas at him. Nogrod, Kitanna, and Fintaeph set upon him with their weapons, while Farael danced around the room going, "Hoo hoo hoo hoo!" in a happy, if mad, sort of way.

The dirty deed done, the Elves stepped back and looked upon Menel. Nogrod's tongs stuck out of his chest, the slime from Kitanna's pot clung to him, and the beating he had taken from the undead leg, well, let's just say it wasn't pretty.

One thing was for certain, nobody was particularly shook up over his death, and he was just an Elf, nothing more.

"Haarroooooo!" went the hulking figure on the worktable. They killed it too, just in case.

~*~*~*~

The Living Elves:

Lommy - Ostrich Chaser
Mac - Builder of Gibbets, unemployed for millennia
Kath - Flower Girl
Kitanna - One Legged Chambermaid
JennyHallu - Countess
Nogrod - a Smith of the Billmarins
Valier - Arranger
Holby - Oliphaunt Whisperer
Durelin - Lead Tragic Actor
arcticstorm - Raving Alcoholic and Resident Moocher
morm - City Street Cleaner
Lhuna - Beautiful Girl with Sleeping Sickness
Rune - Humungous Fungus Grower
Naria - Lemba Baker
Farael - Patient suffering from Mad Elf Disease
Rikae - Contortionist
Fintaeph - Mutton Herder and Purveyor of Fine-Quality Undead Prosthetic Limbs

The Dead 'Uns

tgwbs - Tragic Elven Hero and Lover of Diamond - (co-mod) - Stabbed himself eight times and subsequently eaten by the Werebird

Diamond - Elven Maid - (mod) - Crushed in the embrace of the Werebear

Menel - Mad Scientist - (ordo) - Beaten with an undead leg and a chamber pot and stabbed with red hot tongs (Day 1)

[Rikae]

I'm here - can't comment now, all tied up, will read the thread and post this afternoon.
EDIT: Make that tomorrow afternoon! Sorry.

[Diamond18]

After killing Menel, the Elves retreated to their homes and waited warily for Nightfall. Night fell and the moon rose, full and cheeky, above the desert. All was hushed for a while, but then....

An ominous howl split the night, followed by a foreboding flutter of giant wings. Somewhere in the distance came the sound of purring, but evil purring. The night smelt of bear pelt.

Two brave souls crept from their homes, and took up watch before two separate households. They both had a long and uneventful night.

Toward morning, the Watcher began to walk back to his home. Little did he know that from the shadows, a pair of feline eyes were gleaming at him. Evilly.

The Werecat slunk after the Watcher, barely able to silence its purring as it anticipated its kill.

Nogrod, for that is indeed the identity of our valiant hero, stopped at his door. The tiny hairs on the back of his neck stood up, and he looked around, wary. His hand reached for his sword, but alas, he was not fast enough. The Werecat leapt upon him and clamped its mighty jaws onto his throat, snarling in exaltation as it snapped his neck. From there it dragged him into the long grass and tore skin and meat from bone. Another figure joined it and reached out to stroke its gleaming fur (evilly). "Nice kitty," breathed an Elven voice. "Such a pretty kitty...."

Naria, the Werecat, turned to her lover, and purred. Arctic Storm was about to say something more about her feline loveliness when he felt a downdraft. He looked up and saw the Werebird swooping down upon him. Naria screeched and leapt up, trying to bat the giant bird away, but it was to no avail. The Werebird snatched Arctic Storm up in its talons and lifted his screaming head to its vicious beak. It devoured him head first.

The Werecat let lose a wild, heartbroken yowl. She ran after the Werebird as it flew away, but the winged creature of doom only cackled as it disappeared into the night sky. With a single last unearthly sound of torment, Naria ran headfirst into the Ringbearer's Stone. Her skull split open upon impact and she fell to the ground.

Elsewhere, the Werebear tore down the door of another unsuspecting Elf. It raided the house for yummy pots of honey, but found only dirty chamberpots filled with offal. Roaring in anger, the Werebear entered the bedroom and clamped its mighty jaws onto Kitanna's leg, attempting to drag her from her bed. Kitanna screamed and grabbed onto her bedpost, resisting. Years of hauling chamberpots around had given her an exceptionally good grip. At first the bear could not dislodge her, but then gave it some extra effort, and tore Kitanna in two. It ran from the house, Kitanna's lower half in tow. "My sweet teddy bear," said an Elf following after. "Don't fret, I have honey for you...."

Meanwhile, in another part of the enclave, Rune was up late working on his fungus. "You will be the most humungous fungus in all of Harad!" he cooed lovingly to his fungus. He was a lonely guy. No family. No pets. No lover.

He was about to retire for the night when he heard a menacing growl from the door. He spun around and saw the nassssssty yellow eyes of the Werewolf sizing him up. "You will not harm the fungus!" Rune cried. The Werewolf just laughed.

The next morning, Rune was nowhere to be found. That is, until the Elves noticed the freshly minced fertilizer packed around the base of the humungous fungus....

~*~*~*~

The Living Elves:

Lommy - Ostrich Chaser
Mac - Builder of Gibbets, unemployed for millennia
Kath - Flower Girl
JennyHallu - Countess
Valier - Arranger
Holby - Oliphaunt Whisperer
Durelin - Lead Tragic Actor
morm - City Street Cleaner
Lhuna - Beautiful Girl with Sleeping Sickness
Farael - Patient suffering from Mad Elf Disease
Rikae - Contortionist
Fintaeph - Mutton Herder and Purveyor of Fine-Quality Undead Prosthetic Limbs

The Dead 'Uns

tgwbs - Tragic Elven Hero and Lover of Diamond - (co-mod) - Stabbed himself eight times and subsequently eaten by the Werebird

Diamond - Elven Maid - (mod) - Crushed in the embrace of the Werebear

Menel - Mad Scientist - (ordo) - Beaten with an undead leg and a chamber pot and stabbed with red hot tongs (Day 1)

Nogrod - a Smith of the Billmarins - (watcher) - Savagely murdered by the Werecat and devoured in the long grass (Night 2)

Arctic Storm - Raving Alcoholic, Resident Moocher, and Lover of Naria (lover) - Devoured head first by the Werebird (Night 2)

Naria - Lemba Baker - (werecat) - Dashed out her brains on the Ringbearer's Rock (Night 2)

Kitanna - One Legged Chambermaid - (ordo) - Ripped in two by the Werebear (Night 2)

Rune - Humungous Fungus Grower - (ordo) - Minced up into fertilizer by the Werewolf (Night 2)

[Valier]

Are you freakin' kidding me? Five dead people. If this happens again we may all be dead really quick. At least a couple got killed as well, but losing our Watcher is devistating. Since we started with a day phase the Watcher only had a dream last night, which doesn't help us any. We still have the Ranger...they should stay hidden as long as possible, they may be our only hope of giving us villagers time to weed out the Werelovers.

So we have 6 Werelovers and 6 Ordos/Ranger.....I have no idea how to work out any odds, but I am sure someone else can. I have reread the days threads and not much of interest has sparked anything in me yet. I only have my weird suspisions about people so far, which are not concrete I know, so I won't share them just yet.
I must say though that I did not think that Menel or Rune were Werecreatures yesterday, that is why I did not vote for them. Farael though, now that I have looked over your posts, you were acting a bit strange and I would like to hear more from you today. Jenny I know I was quick to vote for you yesterday, but I just got a weird feeling and went with it. I would like to hear some more from you as well today. I will be checking in as much as possible tomorrow and will share more of my thoughts then.

[Lhunardawen]

Ohmigoodness. I had this terrible dream. There were five dead bodies lying around the village and, and--

*Lhuna looks around*

What the heck?! Somehow it didn't look this horrible in my nightmare!

Okay, so we lost five people, two of which we are glad to lose, and three otherwise. And the Watcher on the first Night, good grief! If there's anything we can gain from this loss, at least from now on the werecreatures might be distracted in hunting down their fellow baddies, leaving us poor innocents be in the Night, and thus aiding us in our daily lynchings. We'll catch all of them, and thank them before they die yet!

Also, we know more now from all these deaths than we did yesterDay, and I hope this will aid us in searching for the villains. The way I see it now, we could probably trace the individual deaths to potential suspects, and lynch whoever we find most likely responsible for a killing. If anyone has better ideas, though, come out and share it.

Since no sane woman (even women with sleeping problems) would be able to sleep properly with a puzzle like this in mind, I'll be off reminiscing the last Day in the light of new developments. Toodles!

[mormegil]

Lhuna for Farael (Farael 1)
Rune for Farael (Farael 2)
Mormegil for Farael (Farael 3)
Thinlo for Mac (Farael 3, Macalaure 1)
Menel for Farael (Farael 4, Macalaure 1)
Macalaure for Rune (Farael 4, Macalaure 1, Rune 1)
JennyHallu for Valier (Farael 4, Macalaure 1, Rune 1, Valier 1)
Articstorm for Menel (Farael 4, Macalaure 1, Rune 1, Valier 1, Menel 1)
Valier for JennyHallu (Farael 4, Macalaure 1, Rune 1, Valier 1, Menel 1, Jenny 1)
Durelin for Kitanna (Farael 4, Macalaure 1, Rune 1, Valier 1, Menel 1, Jenny 1, Kitanna 1)
Naria for Menel (Farael 4, Macalaure 1, Rune 1, Valier 1, Menel 2, Jenny 1, Kitanna 1)
Nogrod for Menel (Farael 4, Macalaure 1, Rune 1, Valier 1, Menel 3, Jenny 1, Kitanna 1)
Holby for Menel (Farael 4, Macalaure 1, Rune 1, Valier 1, Menel 4, Jenny 1, Kitanna 1)
Kitanna for Menel (Farael 4, Macalaure 1, Rune 1, Valier 1, Menel 5, Jenny 1, Kitanna 1)
Fintaeph for Menel (Farael 4, Macalaure 1, Rune 1, Valier 1, Menel 6, Jenny 1, Kitanna 1)
Farael for Menel (Farael 4, Macalaure 1, Rune 1, Valier 1, Menel 7, Jenny 1, Kitanna 1)

No vote: Kath and Rikae

Voted for a known innocent: Mac, Holby, Fintaeph, Farael.

The most interesting thing is that it looked like Farael was dead at 4 votes with nobody above 1 and then all the sudden a crazy train started for Menel. I take my share of the blame but I still cannot understand why he was so defensive against my seemingly innocuous first post. It was more in jest than anything yet he twice requested/demanded an explanation. I found it odd but not enough to vote for him.

I did vote for Farael and stick behind that vote. The two that look most suspicious in their votes yesterday are Holby and Fintaeph as they cast votes that were pivotal in saving Farael. This game is interesting due to the lover dynamic. I would postulate that generally lovers wouldn't vote the same, yet Naria and Artic did. There is a circumstance where I would believe that they would vote the same and it would generally appear innocent enough and that is exactly what happnened yesterday with Farael. Farael's vote for Menel could easily be explained as self-preservation so if his lover voted with him it wouldn't be seen as a direct connection. This begs the question as to if it's Holby or Fintaeph but it's really irrelevant as we can simply lynch Farael and watch his partner wither in horror and despair...a fitting way to die.

Valier I still hold that your vote yesterday was extremely odd and stuck out to me. I'm not sure what to make of it though. I know that you consistently "go with your gut" but I'm not sure how you could get a gut feeling on Jenny when it seemed more like knee-jerk to me. I don't think you overly suspicious yet but I will watch you closely.

Lommy bears watching, if you catch my drift.

Rikae and Kath any explanations for not voting?

Jenny gave a RL reason yesterday but I expect more substance today...that goes for Lhuna as well. We have one day now and some evidence with us. I expect a more reasoned and sound vote today. While I agree with your candidate from yesterday your reasoning was shoddy at best.

Edit: Cross posted with Lhuna