Tol-in-Gaurhoth LI: The Pain of Wargs

[Eomer of the Rohirrim]

Brinniel knew that you were Manwë, Legate. Her sole objective was to get you lynched. As it happened, it was a non-event because the village had decided to kill you anyway.

I also thought Rune did a great job as Seer. His information regarding Mith and Kath was very clear to the village. Kudos, then, to you Legate for catching him, even though he had done significant damage already.

[Brinniel]

To be specific, this is the PM I was given:

Originally Posted by Eomer

Brinniel, your role has changed. The Warg whose character you were playing has been slain in the night by 'he who shadows the master' -- the Dark Lord himself, Melkor! You are now playing the role of Melkor.

Your one aim in this game is to kill, or otherwise cripple, the one you have been stalking all this time: Manwë, who has entered the game this night too. He has slain the Warg known as 'Legate' and assumed his form.

Once you bring about Legate's downfall, by manipulating the Wargs to lynch him, the game will be finished for you, and be considered a great success.

Manwë knows not that Melkor is present in the village. You are hidden from him.

So yeah, once my role was changed my entire focus went towards getting Legate lynched. While I knew his role, I had no idea what tasks that role involved, only that he had no idea about me. Once the Day began, it was pretty easy to get Legate lynched; I admit I really didn't have to do any convincing...the village was already pretty keen on lynching him. Which is why I didn't go on an all-out attack on him and instead more gradually picked up my suspicions towards him.

Anyways, it was a good game with an interesting turn at the end (just when you thought the traitors would win, we finally catch one ultimately thanks to Kath who was put into a tough situation). I do wish I could've been around more on Day 1 and 2 (sorry about that). And I must admit I was pretty confused regarding roles...after my role was changed, I wondered how many other experimental roles were out there and if anyone else would be given new roles throughout the game.

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

Originally Posted by Eomer

and also I didn't want to pick anyone Rune had dreamed about.

This bothered me a great deal and was the main reason I did not want to reveal my role, I was unsure about people I had dreamt about being transformed.

Night1: Groin
Night2: Kath
Night3: Mith
Night4: Gaunt

(I think that was how it went)
The night I was killed I realised that Lommy was most likely an enemy of the wargs, even so I did not want to dream about her. My plan was to dream about people that was either relatively quiet or people I might have a baised oppinion about. I did not want to dream about people like Legate, Lommy and Nogrod as they where the most likely to be killed by either village or enemy of the wargs.

I am very sorry that I failed you all and especially Groin, by not being able to save him from being lynched. . . but I really had no opportunety to get online.

If I had survived I would most likely have dreamt about Di or Gollum.

Ever since I played my first werewolf game long ago I have always wanted to be the Seer and now it finaly happened. . . I so wanted to be a great seer, but I failed.
So I never got to quote Leonard Cohen "Your servant here, he has been told, to say it clear, to say it cold: It's over, it ain't going any further"

Anyways, thanks Eomer for making me the seer, it was an amazing experience for me.

[Thinlómien]

Well, this was a nice game, but the post-game discussion has been even more silent than the game itself...

I think this game was every now and then really quite a lot of fun, and rather ironic too. Here I was, a wolf telling the innocents who the seer dreamt of (being completely honest and even right about it) and they didn't even take my word of it. It was absurd!

Speaking of seerism, I have to praise both Rune and Legate. Rune managed to reveal his dreams clearly but unseerishly - I thought he was maybe a little weird and a bit too innocent, but I didn't really catch him. I needed Legate to point him out for me - and he did it rather effortlessly.

And by the way, I wanted to hit Eomer with something when I heard he had made Legate my fellow wolf (sorry, I mean Vala) - right after that ridiculously long lovers joke Nogrod had invented. It was just too bad. He was an excellent mate, though, a pity you stupid people killed him so soon. Diamond was great too, I only wish she would have had more time. Because we did have fun, but I think we could have had even more fun.

I must congratulate Gwath and Gaunt for winning the game - you played really well, I would rather have been on your side, almost. Gaunt's werewolf debute was most impressive. And I must apologise to Kath for teasing her - I just had to. *evil grin*

As for those kills - let me first apologise to Kitanna and Nogrod, who were both playing so well and nicely. I chose them both without Diamond's help and just because they looked slightly seerish to me. (And Nogrod because of whom he believed innocent, NOT because he "suspected" me. Later I realised killing him was really bad move, but oh well, I didn't know Legate was to become my fellow back then when I picked Nog.) You know why Rune was killed and Mith's death was because she looked like a "dreamt of innocent" and because nobody suspected her.

That's my rambles for a while I guess - no, wait, thanks to Eomer for a good game... and I have to add that I too was a little displeased with Sam's going on the first Day, given how extremely rarely he plays. But a game is a game...

[Gaunt]

Thanks to Eomer for a thoroughly entertaining first game of werewolf.

I have to admit up until the near the end my suspicions were all over the place (a day earlier Thinlomien-Ulmo had me firmly believing she was a fellow innocent!)

[Groin Redbeard]

Originally Posted by Gaunt

I have to admit up until the near the end my suspicions were all over the place (a day earlier Thinlomien-Ulmo had me firmly believing she was a fellow innocent!)

I should have gone for her right from the start instead of Nogrod. Oh well, at least she was Aule and not one of those other Valar, I think that I can forgive her more easily now! Great job thanks for modding the game, Eomer, and congratulations again to all the new WW players. See y'all in the next game!

[Diamond18]

I wish I'd been able to be around more -- it's so fun to be a wo... er, Valar and yet the two times I've been one, I've had practically no time. The first time it worked out well because it made me a submarine wolf but this time I think it didn't go so well because I rarely had any idea what was going on. Lommy basically played the whole thing by herself (coming up with the kill choices and posting) except for the one day she had Legate. When she died I knew it was over for me since I was the only one who didn't vote to lynch her, but even if I had a chance it wouldn't have felt quite right to win without her.... Ah well, it was still fun to be "bad." I think it I hadn't been a Valar I might have done as Shasta did and dropped out, because it was so hard to find time. Curses!