TIG CXVII: DEAD Thread: By the Waters of Tarn Aeluin

[A Little Green]

Originally Posted by Form

Guiding the Living is like herding cats, so that's a bonus not the meat of the matter.

This is probably sad but true. Huin, you sound more than capable for the job, so if you want it, do go for it! I'll try to have a quick look at our prospective wolves (Pitch, Boro, Legate, Lommy and Morsul) and their interactions with Sally later today, just to see if there's something obvious we've missed.

[Huinesoron]

Originally Posted by A Little Green

This is probably sad but true. Huin, you sound more than capable for the job, so if you want it, do go for it! I'll try to have a quick look at our prospective wolves (Pitch, Boro, Legate, Lommy and Morsul) and their interactions with Sally later today, just to see if there's something obvious we've missed.

Heh, fair enough. Okay, then,

++HUINESORON

for misguided Ghost.

Gorlim it was, who wearying
of toil and flight and harrying
one night by chance did turn his feet
o'er the dark fields by stealth to meet
with hidden friends within a dale...

hS

[Huinesoron]

Originally Posted by Formendacil

I gotta say, it really hammers home the extent to which this game relies on trusting our fellow players. I mean, we do, but the source of illicit info is RIGHT THERE. It's an honour system and it's pretty awesome.

I love the fact that the game about everyone lying is also a game that requires us to trust everyone. It's a glorious paradox. ^_^

Originally Posted by Formendacil

It's harder than you think to find quotes, though it is pretty fun! I do wonder if The Letters might have been easier, but that didn't feel quite as sporting. It's Tolkien, but it isn't Middle-earth, if that makes sense.

Makes perfect sense. I've stuck with what I consider to be the "published legendarium" - allowing the Great Tales, but not anything from HoME or anything non-Middle-earth. Doing the whole thing in quotes from Beowulf, Arthur, Kullervo, Gawain, Pearl, and Sigurd/Gudrun would be hilarious in principle, but very hard in practice.

Originally Posted by Loslote

Ideally I would love to see the village go for Pitch toMorrow, because of how he seemed to set up the Sally-Seer fake reveal, perhaps by looking for several "the pitch black of night" quotes.

I've managed to scrape together three, one of which includes the word "pitch" at least twice (thank you, Bilbo!). It should suffice.

Given the whole midnight thing, my plan is to hit the Living with a string of four posts right off the bat, and then basically go to sleep and let the wolves try and claim they don't understand what a quote with the word innocent in actual quote marks could possibly mean.

(It's 'It must be remembered that the Stones were originally "innocent," serving no evil purpose', from UT.)

Assuming the Ghost rules don't change, of course. I think they worked pretty much as intended, but know that others may have different opinions. Mods, if the Ghost rules are going to be changed, will we be told the new rules at Daybreak or in advance?

hS

[Galadriel55]

Originally Posted by Huinesoron

Assuming the Ghost rules don't change, of course. I think they worked pretty much as intended, but know that others may have different opinions. Mods, if the Ghost rules are going to be changed, will we be told the new rules at Daybreak or in advance?

I don't think the Ghost will change. Stick to what we have (and full sentences please!). If I do get a really good suggestion in my PM box in the next couple hours, I will let you know. Otherwise I will confirm on the Admin thread that the Ghost remains the same - also in a couple hours.

[satansaloser2005]

Oh, I don't know, I'd love to throw my hat in the ring to be the ghost!

P.S. I think the seer is Kath. Or, as my voice to text thought I was saying, I think the serious calf.

I'm strongly considering telling you guys things later today, but doing so only through voice to text, which will butcher everyone's names. This would give you extra fun in trying to work out what I'm saying.

[Huinesoron]

Originally Posted by satansaloser2005

Oh, I don't know, I'd love to throw my hat in the ring to be the ghost!

I think you'd be a really good Ghost, and definitely trustworthy!

Originally Posted by satansaloser2005

P.S. I think the seer is Kath. Or, as my voice to text thought I was saying, I think the serious calf.

++SERIOUS CALF

Originally Posted by satansaloser2005

I'm strongly considering telling you guys things later today, but doing so only through voice to text, which will butcher everyone's names. This would give you extra fun in trying to work out what I'm saying.

That would actually be hilarious. I want to spend toMorrow trying to tell the Living "our pet wolf said 'the left hand marble is blue', we're sure she's telling us who her packmates are!"

(It is possible I lose my ability to take the game seriously when I die.)

hS

[satansaloser2005]

Well, I'm certainly the most trustworthy wolf you'll ever meet! Do you know how hard it was to reveal myself falsely as the seer? I only did it because people were literally asking for it.