WW LXXXVIII: What Lies in the Dark (Game Thread)

[Nogrod]

Originally Posted by the phantom

What's embarrassing this time is given the set up I can't believe the goodies didn't win. If I had been Nog I would have cried upon receiving the Shelob role. "Um, moddess, how exactly am I supposed to win with no team?"

Heh... Sally should know I whined about it a few times, but well, once in a game you have to accept the rules and just fight as hard as you can. But the slowness of the incubation period & the multiple chances of goodies to interfere and postpone it were just a nightmare...

Stinging Sam was pure chance (the reason to pick wilwa was to get a stern spiderling who would not be an easy lynch), but with phantom I had some quite open hunches he was Frodo indeed - and well at that point a risk worth taking.

Having Nerwen on my side it was quite clear that after the Sam-sting I needed a spiderling who would be trustworthy but also one who would team up well with Nerwen... so Shasta was the obvious choice as it minimized the possibility of my two spiderlings going after one another in the thread.

Originally Posted by wilwa

On Day 1 I had to leave early so I sent Boro in as my pick, but when I got home and read over the Day everyone was saying Lhuna would have been a good choice. I decided to protect her Night 2 since I figured if Shelob thought Sam had already chosen her during the Day, then she would be a safe choice for the Night. But Nog went for me instead (did you know who I was when you did that?). So the next Day with everyone saying "Oh, Lhuna looks more innocent since Sam probably chose her", I couldn't really explain the whole situation, so I tried to make it sound like I didn't protect her at all, and hint that Sam was the one attacked. It was frustrating, haha.

That is such fun to hear. As I knew you were Sam I was able to pick your opposition to the general mood of Lhuna being rangered / healed as the reason I believed you to be Sam (and not the correct reason that I stinged you)...

Originally Posted by wilwa

And Noggins, I still love you, you rock. When we're on different teams this seems to always be the way it goes, we totally clash and both get super frustrated, we should just always be on the same team from now on

Love you too, and you do rock as well. And you were our most frightening opponent anyway in this game. But I must say that my "super-frustration" was acted... (I was actually quite surprised Sally came in to call for peace as I thought it was just something our roles dictated us to act)

But I do agree, we should be on the same team.

Originally Posted by Lhuna

I'm sorry, Noggie, I don't think I can stop asking this. Why not Zil or Fea?

You could call it "poetic justice"... You were such strongly after me that it would be so fitting you'd join my side in the end. Also I was so very happy to see you once again in a game making a difference that I thought you'd deserve to end in the winning side... (Add to that, thatFea played so little it was kind of right she would be the one we lynched the next Day)

[wilwarin538]

Originally Posted by Nog

Love you too, and you do rock as well. And you were our most frightening opponent anyway in this game. But I must say that my "super-frustration" was acted... (I was actually quite surprised Sally came in to call for peace as I thought it was just something our roles dictated us to act)

But I do agree, we should be on the same team.

I'm sort of disappointed I was Sam and couldn't get turned, just for the reason that this would have been an awesome evil team to be a part of (and winning would have been a bonus ). Though it was still an awesome role to have, I like being the first to try out a new role and in Cake's last game I got a shiny role that I never ended up getting to use, so this was pretty awesome (would have been more awesone if I could have revealed Day 1 and been invincible, but that would have been unfair for the baddies I think, haha).

I feel bad for Phantom, cause the Night we got to chat I was all like "ya, I'll go in full power and be super awesome and everyone will do what I say and we'll totally win", and then I ended up being busier than I thought and I couldn't get on as much or as soon as I had hoped, and lots of the things he had PMed me I had never had the chance to relay to everyone. I'm sure it was super frustrating for him to watch!

*snuggles Sally again for awesome game*

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Originally Posted by Nogrod

(Add to that, thatFea played so little it was kind of right she would be the one we lynched the next Day)

Couldn't be helped. After the initial kurfuffle of me playing when I'd never intended to, and having to wrangle our way around some related issues, when Life intervened and I had to dash, I very nearly dropped out, but felt that after all of the withdrawals, it would be absolute death for the good guys if they lost yet another of their number. So even though I couldn't participate, I wanted to at least give them an extra body for the final count.

Still, I enjoyed watching you win against the odds. Congrats.

[Lhunardawen]

Originally Posted by Nogrod

You could call it "poetic justice"... You were such strongly after me that it would be so fitting you'd join my side in the end. Also I was so very happy to see you once again in a game making a difference that I thought you'd deserve to end in the winning side...

Come to think of it, I think I've posted the most in this game than in any other game I've played before - and as an ordo at that! I guess I should thank you for turning me; I haven't won a game in the longest time. More importantly, I should thank you for turning me on the last Day, because you know how I feel about having to be evil.

[Galadriel55]

I was just thinking, what game in a row is it that the baddies won? They won the previous two, but I don't remember before that...

[Nerwen]

Originally Posted by Galadriel55

I was just thinking, what game in a row is it that the baddies won? They won the previous two, but I don't remember before that...

Games since the start of 2010:
WW LXXXVIII: What Lies in the Dark. (Wolves won.)
WW LXXXVI - The Halls of Mandos. (Wolves won.)
WW: LXXXV - The Lost Philosophers of Maiar. (Wolves won.)
WW: LXXXIV: Middle-earth in Fifteen Minutes. (Innocents won.)
WW LXXXIII: Nightmare on the East Road. (Wolves won).
WW LXXXII: Return to Tol-in-Gaurhoth. (Wolves won.)
WW LXXXI: Under the Misty Mountains. (Innocents won.)
WW LXXX: It's About Time! (Innocents won.)
WW LXXIX: Fall From Olympus. (Innocents won.)
WW LLXVIII: Yar Har Har and a Bottle o' Rum. (game aborted.)
WW LXXVII: The Metamorphs of Wolf-562-e. (Innocents won.)
WW: LXXVI - At Moria: EXTRA Edition. (Innocents won.)
WW LXXV: It's Always Tea Time Here. (Wolves won.)
WW LXXIV: War of the Wolves. (Wolves won.)
WW LXXIII: Arkham Asylum. (Innocents won.)
WW LXXII: Now There's the Truth of It! (Innocents won.)
WWLXXI: Something in the Night. (Wolves won.)