T-I-G LVI: Panic at the Prancing Pony

[Kitanna]

Fea could see her number was up. Though others were in the running, as Day drew to a close it was more obvious with every second the angry villagers would have her head. Who would care for her prize belladonnas now?

The village was quite sure Billy Ferny was masquerading as Fea. What better disguise than to be a woman? “Kill her!” An overwhelming amount of voices called out.

“There are others who are more suspicious than she.” A few other cried. But they failed to unify and vote the same. Fea was doomed.

While the village bickered and argued over what to do, the gardener moved away to say good-bye to her precious flowers. She had no intention of running off, she just wanted to see something beautiful before dying. Though she entertained the idea of running off down the road she knew they're persue, best to get it over with quickly.

“Hey!” Nerwen yelled. “Where'd she go?”

“She's over in her garden!” Rune pointed.

The villagers moved in their angry mob. Fea ignored the noise as they came closer. She just hummed to herself, tending to her flowers. Beregond picked up her hoe and swung it hard. Though the impact wasn't enough to remove Fea's head from her shoulders it was strong enough to sever her spinal cord. Blood spurted out, coating all the plants near Fea.

She fell to one side, her body twitching a little. When she had stopped moving Rikae went forward. “Let's see if Fea's really Mr. Ferny.” Rikae lifted up Fea's skirt to get a peek. Embarrassed she lowered the skirt, her face turning red. “She's not Bill Ferny.”

Fea had been innocent of any crimes.

Living
satansaloser2005
Lariren Shadow
Mirandir
Thinlómien
Legate of Amon Lanc
Rikae
Aganzir
Beregond
Nerwen
Rune Son of Bjarne
Macalaure
Meneltarmacil
A Little Green
Brinniel

Dead
Kitanna – Made an example of Night 1 (moddess)
Gollum the Great – Eaten by hogs Day 1 (innocent)
Shastanis Althreduin – Forced to swallow a sword Night 2 (innocent)
Durelin – Hanged on Day 2 (innocent)
Nogrod – Disemboweled and hanged by own intestines Night 3 (innocent)
Feanor of the Peredhil – Hoed to death Day 3 (innocent)

[Kitanna]

The name Mr. Underhill couldn't be safe forever while the ringbearer was in Bree. After a few nights in Bree Mr. Underhill knew he was no longer safe. The wraiths were in the room, sniffing. The ringbearer was hiding under the bed, fingering the Ring.

They were sniffing for the ringbearer and in a moment of weakness Mr. Underhill slipped the Ring on. The wraiths shrieked and flipped the bed over. It was all over. A new threat entered the village.

Living
satansaloser2005
Lariren Shadow
Mirandir
Thinlómien
Legate of Amon Lanc
Rikae
Aganzir
Beregond
Nerwen
Rune Son of Bjarne
Macalaure
Meneltarmacil
A Little Green
Brinniel

Dead
Kitanna – Made an example of Night 1 (moddess)
Gollum the Great – Eaten by hogs Day 1 (innocent)
Shastanis Althreduin – Forced to swallow a sword Night 2 (innocent)
Durelin – Hanged on Day 2 (innocent)
Nogrod – Disemboweled and hanged by own intestines Night 3 (innocent)
Feanor of the Peredhil – Hoed to death Day 3 (innocent)

[Beregond]

*written in the excitement after last lynching*

Well, I've learned a lesson from yesterDay. I don't know what the lesson is, but I've learnt it. I was pretty shocked reading Kit's narrative of Fea's untimely end. At my own hands, I might add. (by the way, Sally, I was grinning at being able to go to bed, not at Fea's imminent death) - I ain't bloodthirsty like that. And I'm not prone to wielding hoes - a madness took me! Sorry Fea.

And now what I said earlier is coming back to haunt me:

Originally Posted by Berryberegondie

Even if Fea is innocent we'll have a better idea of where some people stand, once we know her role. In fact if she's innocent it would look pretty bad for a few... but I don't think that's the case (and wouldn't vote for her if I thought so).

Well, I hope I was right, although when I wrote that I was looking for reasons to justify my choice - I didn't expect her to be innocent in fact.

The strange thing is that so many of us were wrong - even most of those who didn't vote for Fea still didn't speak out in her favour.

Well, today will be an interesting day, and no mistake.

*****

And now the ringbearer is...worse than dead. A sad day in the village.

[Rikae]

Well, I'm sure the wraiths are happy now. Not only did they get to stand by (more or less - unless Legate is one) and watch Fea be lynched, and now have Legate and I as perfect scapegoats for the next lynch, but they have Frodo as well.

Aren't we glad Frodo didn't reveal in day one or two, now? Hmm? Well, at least I get to be right about something. By the way, I'm sorry, Fea. I guess I've seen (and demonstrated) now that even "big name" players make major blunders.

I don't think I'll try speculating about who the baddies are just yet toDay. It's past 1 am, and I'm not feeling particularly confident about my wolf-hunting abilities at the moment, anyway.
I'm also not going to make much effort to defend myself against the lynch mob that will probably come after me... I said everything I had to say about why to lynch Fea yesterDay. I still think what I said made sense, and I still can't imagine what possessed Fea to start agreeing with Nog (or what possessed Nog, for that matter).

But yeah, I'm going to bed, so don't look for me until at least 9 or 10 EST. Perhaps when I come back I'll try looking for Frodo a bit... after all, although the wraiths may have just been lucky, there's a chance something in the posts led them to him.

[Thinlómien]

Originally Posted by Rikae

Well, I'm sure the wraiths are happy now. Not only did they get to stand by (more or less - unless Legate is one) and watch Fea be lynched, and now have Legate and I as perfect scapegoats for the next lynch, but they have Frodo as well.

Rikae dear, do not despair, I think I can make their Day significantly worse. Okay, they might happy now because they get to kill the seer as I'm don't dare to hide any longer, but I'm sure they don't like two of them getting caught.

So, Brinn and Sally, my dear wraiths, I'm sorry to say, game over. And others, for heaven's sake, stop going after Mac, he's innocent (unless he's Ferny). Sadly, I cannot give you another known innocent because you killed her yesterDay.

[Thinlómien]

I was thinking whether I should reveal sooner or later and decided it doesn't make much difference, but it actually would have. Blah. Well, at least now we all have more time to go through Brinn and sally's posts and see who might the third wraith be and also speculate who could have they attacked last Night... and they might give out as much info about themselves doing that as they would have done thinking they're safe, so maybe it doesn't matter that much after all... Okay, I'm going to do some rereading now, I'm going to see who could be Brinn and sally's mate and who could they have attacked last Night (but given their rather surprising kill choices, we won't necessarily be able to make much out of it).

And lastly, in case you're interested about a chronological order (maybe it explains some of my behaviour):
Night1: Fea (because I can never read her)
Night2: Brinn (I thought it would shed light on stuff)
Night3: Mac (he was baffling everybody so much that I needed to know)
Night4: sally (she looked evil and there seemed to be a connection between her and Brinn)

I must say now already that my hats off go to Brinn, undoubtedly, I had such hard time keeping her on my suspicion list because she was acting so innocent! I had to resort to the "gut-feeling" level, as you can see...

[Nerwen]

Lommy, I thought you might be the Seer. I'm so glad to have been right about something, after yesterDay.

And apologies to Fea... all I can say is, I honestly thought I was doing the right thing.

What do you make of Sally's attack on Rune yesterDay?

[A Little Green]

Hmmm. This definitely should make for an interesting Day - Fea turning out to be innocent, Frodo switching sides and Lommy revealing as seer. I'm trying to look at those three things now.

First, Fea. The easy way would be to simply accuse people like Rikae and Legate who were heavily for her lynching. However, I'm not sure whether a wraith would like to be so noisily for lynching someone they know is innocent anyway since that might cast some suspicion on them the next Day. What I think we really need to look at is the people who slip by the flow, voicing a sufficient amount of suspicion for Fea and voting according to the general consensus. I'll see to that if I have time.

Secondly, Frodo. The thing we need to remember is that Frodo is playing a different role toDay that in the first three Days, and that might give us good hints on who s/he might be. In finding Frodo, it is important to compare people's posts to what they have posted earlier.

Thirdly, Lommy. (Well, her posting at least has certainly changed from yesterDay. ) I'm inclined to believe her claim for now, it looks honest and kind of makes sense. She'd be a very bold wraith to do that, since if Sally and Brinn were innocent she'd get caught pretty soon and if they were her fellows she'd lose two wolf buddies for the sake of gaining the village's trust (and even then we might start wondering why she doesn't die at Night). Of course there is one wolf more toDay than there has been and all that, so toDay would be the perfect chance for a seer-impersonator wraith to come out. Even then, it wouldn't make much sense for a not-at-all-suspected wraith-Lommy to do such a stunt. Of course she could be Ferny trying to provoke the real seer from hiding, but it doesn't look like a probable move. I'm inclined to believe Lommy's claim for now. I just want to turn every stone and check through every possibility, just in case.


EDIT: x-ed with Nerwen. (This is becoming a habit.)