Tol-in-Gaurhoth XLVII: Dueling Wizards Werewolf II

[Diamond18]

Originally Posted by Roa_Aoife

That's just it, Di. You can't know that she isn't a gifted.

Yeah but I can suppose that Gifted Rikae wouldn't stick her neck out this far. Gifteds aren't supposed to stick their necks out during the day, their work gets done at night. Pretending to be the GW and voting for herself seems pretty reckless for a Gifted.

And if she is the GW or a gifted, then not only have we revealed that fact for certain to the EW, not only have we killed a gifted, then we've also passed up a wolf that's been handed to us on a silver platter.

This platter doesn't look silver to me. I keep saying this, you keep being perplexed about my mistrust. It looks like a lead platter. That's why I keep finding subversive reasons for Rikae's actions.

It's better to lynch Legate. In any case, Rikae is not foolish enough to lie about that claim unless she was handing us a wolf to make us believe her.

Killing an innocent Legaate potentially leaves her with 5 wolves after the night is out. That's good for her, bad for the village. Besides, if she is the EW or a Wolf, the GW knows it by now. Who cares about the village. We're impotent. If she's bad, the person who matters already knows. Honestly.

[QUOTECurious: Why not Legate?[/QUOTE]

Because, Rikae wants us to, and since I don't trust her reveal. It does not seem wise, from the GW's perspective, to reveal herself at this stage in the game, and all my suspicions stem from the fact that it doesn't seem like Good Wizardly behavior.

This leads me to mistrust her and what she wants the village to do. She wants us to either vote for her, or Legate. But it seems that she wants us to go for Legate, over her.

Look at it this way. Bad Rikae gets us to lynch Innocent Legate. The village is down another innocent and hasn't caught a wolf. The Good Wizard can try to scry a possible wolf and get that wolf to turn, but who to scry? Rikae? If Rikae is a wolf, that's one less wolf. But if Rikae is the EW, then the GW gains that knowledge but doesn't get to turn a Wolf to an Ordo. Plus, the GW doesn't get to turn an Ordo into a Ranger.

Five wolves, no Ranger.

The GW is playing by Rikae the EW's rules, now, eh?

Plus, face it. If Rikae is evil she's probably taking a look at who doesn't trust her. I have a feeling this is what tp is talking about (and his conscientiousness is admirable) in his post about a possible motivation that he doesn't want to talk about. But if Rikae is indeed evil, she already knows her motivation so it's moot to hide it from everyone else. I already said it, before I got the idea that she was protecting Cailin. She's trying to flush out the GW! By making her reveal, and looking at who does and does not doubt.

Hey, okay, you're now going to say, "Oh, what, Di, are you the GW? Is that what you're saying?"

No, I'm just saying I'm not as stupid as my joking antics might lead you to believe, this little ordo doesn't like to blindly trust weird, unnecessary looking reveals. And the more people who don't openly trust her, the less easy it is for her to figure out who knows for sure she's lying.

My thought is that the GW is too canny to fall for this trap, and is pretending to believe her. Judging from the amount of people not agreeing with me, I'm hoping this is the case, anyway.

I've probably xposted with a lost of people.