Tol-in-Gaurhoth IV (The Saga, erm, Still Continues...)

[the phantom]

Thank you so much for posting those pms, lmp.

I am delighted to see that the wolves talked about me quite a bit. That was my goal. I was willing to die, just not during the day. I wanted to make the wolves waste one of their free night kills on me.

After that, I knew that Saurreg would be above suspicion during the day, and that the wolves would have to kill him if they wanted him gone, which would mean having to waste the following night's kill on him when there is still a seer on the loose. I figured they would not be willing to do that, and thus leave a proven innocent hanging about, which is definitely a hinderance to them.

I think a good many of the villagers are suspecting phantom, if he does not die tonight, they will do our dirty work for us.

This is why I jumped on Eomer on day two. I figured it was a wolvish strategy to leave me alive in order to lynch me the next day, and Eomer came after me. Fortunately I was persuasive enough to stave it off and died a more useful death the following night.

The phantom is our biggest threat.

Mwu ha ha!!

Being innocent, why did he come up with a strategy to protect the gifted, and exclude himself from being a volunteer? Would it not be because he himself is gifted, and knew that he needed to stay alive?

You were correct, lmp. I was gifted. I just wasn't the gifted villager you were hoping for.

Reading back through all these quotes of spawn's, I sure was grasping at straws!

Well, it was your first game, so that is to be expected. And it seems to me that you have already learned quite a bit that will help you in the future.

Next time I play, I'll use the phantom's method instead of hunting blindly like I did.

Heh- I'm honored. I probably shouldn't have said all that stuff on my site about how I found the seer because now everyone else will know just as quick as I do.

But, I am going to be in Colorado, Texas, Illinois, and Ohio for most of the next couple months, so I won't be playing in a werewolf game any time soon.

Sad, isn't it? The next game will be the first phantomless chapter of werewolf.

Thanks again for posting all that. I love seeing discussions about strategy and learning why certain decisions are made.