WW XXXIX - Do Werebalrogs have wings?

[Nogrod]

Houston, we have a problem!

What I don't like right now is that we have basically no candidates for lynching and it is 2½ hours to the deadline. Rikae has been suspected, I've received a vote (Kath's remarkably fishy one... I'll explain this thought in my next post) and Mith has been suspected as well by a few.

We'd need two-four believable candidates so that the choices people make would leave some tracks as there would be an actual and meaningful choice involved.

If we just run rampant at the last hour it easily leads to a confusing band-waggoning which will leave us absolutely trackless toMorrow.

Also: no sight of Gil or Naria... As always I'd rather vote for someone who's not going to play rather than vote a person who actually plays unless there are good grounds on voting certain person of course.

[Nogrod]

I'm a bit worried about Kath and here are my reasons for it. Nb. it's not the fact that she voted me but because of the way she did it.

Here's Kath's "argument" in full:

Originally Posted by Kath

Noggie ~ I'm tempted to try and kill him off already just to keep the number of pages down! Has posted nothing while posting a lot. Keeps calling for people to talk which, yeah, great, but we know that and after the third post asking for chat you don't really need to do it again. Plus, that post that concluded everyone he'd looked at was a possible balrog? I don't know, maybe it's just his playing style this game, but it's making me suspicious.

1. The argument of posting a lot. Sham in two ways. Firstly at that time I had posted quite moderately. Secondly she should know as a veteran to these games that the villages become absolutely boring after a few days if all the more active people are lynched & killed early on. And what's better place for baddies to be than a silent village? And if it was a joke? Joking that way and leading it to a vote is a bit too risky on Day1 for anyone actually interested about the fate of the innocents.

2. Posting nothing while posting a lot -argument. Just look what had been posted overall at the time I was online last night (RL). There wasn't much to say at that time (my last was post #16). So pretty ridiculous argument indeed. And if this wouldn't be a game I might be a bit insulted when someone says that my posting is noncommittal or unfruitful or not saying anything... But yeah, it's a game so no problem there.

3. Seeing balrogs everywhere -argument. An innocent needs to see balrogs everywhere. Only by looking at the possible balrogs around oneself can one find hints about there actually being one there. It's only the balrogs who don't need to see possible enemies everywhere as they know where they are unlike us. Kath knows this very well.

4. The argument of the playting style. Which basically is no argument on anything.

So why do I wish to bring all this forwards? Because all of Kath's "arguments" are sham and she is experienced enough to know it. That means she has other motives to get rid of me in this game. Fabricating arguments like this to affect the village is most fishy indeed. Also I'm reading a malicious intent behind her words (especially points 1. & 3.).

[Rikae]

The quality of nothing hath not such need to hide itself.
Nothing will come from nothing, Brinniel, and a cobbler is not nothing, but rather a tasty half-baked dessert.
I have always felt that those who declare themselves innocent are newbies, or guilty, though this does not mean that newbies are not guilty. Some newbies may seem less new than they seem; and yet post too much of the obvious. If I was not a balrog, I would suspect such.
Macalaure is too kind - but that is only because he is the cobbler-lover. Do not listen to him.
Legate especially should not listen to all he hears, and can say what he likes about what he knows no more of than he does of pies. If death at night, at the hands of baddies, is lynching, then I admit was lynched in WW XXX.
Those who bark up the wrong tree are often of the canine variety, but we have balrogs here, so I don't know... I don't know.
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose... ... good night, sweet ladies, goodnight.

EDIT - X'd with Brinn, Nog, Mac, Gil & Nog (I think that's all)

[Nogrod]

An hour and a quarter to go.

Rikae -> Rikae
Kath -> Nogrod
Brinniel -> Rikae
Gil -> Rikae (Rikae3, Nogrod1)
Volo -> Rikae (Rikae4, Nogrod1)

Naria has yet to enter the stage. It's been a long time she has been with us and it would be sad to lose her immediately but then again if she won't play then it wouldn't be the worst choice we can make.

Shasta posted basically nothing but I have promised him not to vote him on Day1 in this game as he has been lynched quite a few times in a row on D1 lately. I'll stick to my word here.

I will not vote for Legate or Nerwen because of their reasonableness and good feeling they arouse in me at this stage. Just a while ago I would have included Brinn to make a trio but now I'm not so sure any more. Something broke the spell with her last post. Macalaure probably won't receive my vote either toDay. He's too good to be lost on some whimsy Day1 speculation.

I'm very reluctant to vote for Sally or The Might as like Kath said, lynched on Day1 in the first game you're in just sucks.

Volo I see as a bit weird but then that's what I usually get from his Day1 posting.

That leaves as my candidates for voting: Kath, Mith, Lhuna, Rikae, Gil

If I'd have to vote right now and to do it following my thoughts only it would probably be Kath.

Gil's post was somewhat fishy and strange. He's probably my candidate number two right now.

Rikae seems to play it her own way right now. It's hard to say whether she's just having fun or whether she's playing a very bold baddie - which is indeed possible. (btw. why do you Mac think that I'm too happy so that you might suspect me but Rikae doesn't raise those same thoughts? )

Of Mith and Lhuna I'm more unsure about. There's not much more than some bad vibes I get from them (okay a few possible points on Mith but I'd hesitate to act on them at the moment)

I do hope you others would play your cards more openly as well. A last minute frenzy seldomly results in anything good for the villagers.

EDIT: corrected the tally to include Volo's vote