Tol-in-Gaurhoth LII: Star Crossed II: Together for Eternity

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Originally Posted by Nogrod

Interesting. You Fea if any should be familiar with this most elementary ranger-gamble: whether to protect a known innocent in a tight place when the baddies think he will be protected or take the risk and not do it so that the baddies go for somewhere else and s/he could then protect the known innocent the next Night for real buying her/him one more Day around.

No, I mean the night a few nights ago you were protected. You were attacked and didn't die. The narration said so. And if Eomer wasn't protecting you on the night you were attacked and survived it, then how is it you're alive?

Originally Posted by Narration, Night Three

Late at night, a pair went skulking hand in hand towards Nogtod’s room. One held a dagger in hand, the other nodded grimly with determination in eye. But when they arrived at Nogrod’s door, something brought them up short. A figure slumped there, against the frame, clutching something to its chest. A floorboard squeaked under one miscreants' foot, and the figure leapt up, brandishing a mighty fire poker. They saw nothing but shadowy form, and heard a voice cry out, “Go! Go from this room! You will not kill tonight!”

They hid their faces and ran from the scene of their would-be crime.

So there was absolutely a night when Nogrod was protected and attacked. And if Eomer didn't protect him, than surely somebody must have.

Originally Posted by Nog

The next thing that irks me is that if Eomer actually is the ranger why did Fea reveal him?

This is easy. When I woke up, I saw that the people who were getting the most suspicion were Sally and Eomer. My Tuesdays are wretched and I was terrified that if I didn't post right then, I wouldn't have a chance to come back; I was afraid that if the trend of suspicion that started this morning continued, I'd come back and it would be too late for me to save two people who the village can't really risk to lose. I took a really tough gamble, hoping that if I revealed enough innocents, we'd narrow down the list of potential Lovers and lynch them today, before anybody I'd revealed was slain in the night.

Originally Posted by Eomer

Another thought: I think the other Ranger might be on the Lovers' side, to protect the different Lover pairs from each other, and focus their attacks on the ordos. Now, this gift might be a bit difficult to use in a rational way, but what if he/she was connected in some way to a Seer?

How would they be attached? Would the Cobbler-Ranger find out who the Seer had dreamed of? Except I can't dream of bad guys, so if somebody was finding out who I was dreaming of, would it really help the Lovers? I mean, it would give a Cobbler-Ranger a sort of view like "Mac's innocent so there's no point protecting him" except that seems so wildly convoluted.

Originally Posted by Brinniel

Glad to hear Eomer's response. Now I know he is also not on the village's side. He cannot be the ranger and I know this for a fact.

How can you know this? Are there multiple seers the same way we're hypothesizing that there are multiple rangers?

Of course I could understand why a Lover would want to dissuade the village from trusting the identities of a revealed pair of innocent-gifteds. If one of us dies today, and not the Lovers, that gives the Lovers another night to kill with impunity.

Why must you be so blatant, Brinniel, in your attempts to manipulate the village into accidentally killing two of its most powerful members?

Originally Posted by Gwathagor

No, he cannot.

Good god, are you serious? These two must certainly be Lovers. I can't imagine any other role that would involve its players so stupidly contradicting me when I assure you with perfect confidence and honesty that I have been dreaming every night.