Werewolf IIX - Tra la la lally, here down in the Saga, ha ha!

[Firefoot]

I agree; Mithalwen's vote of Gurthang seems suspicious to me. While I can see why people might be suspicious of him, I think that he was just playing up his animal rights activist role. Mithalwen's vote doesn't seem like much other than a band-waggoning vote, and voting just because someone posted first doesn't seem fair. In fact, it seems less likely to me that a wolf would post first, not more. Now, I am not by any means saying that Gurthang is innocent; I just think that we need to look at our reasons for voting for people a little more closely.

Now that really is a random accusation ..... !!!! I have warned you about eating strong cheese late at night...... How can I defend myself against that? All I can say is that you have been saying the day when you produce gold will be dawning for years ...and it aint getting any lighter is it? Anyone with any sense knows you have to mine for gold... even dwarves know that ..... but no you think you can turn base metal into it without the effort of actually doing some hard work.

Also I might say it is a nice wolf trick to try and point the finger at someone who has announced she has to go imminently and cannot remain to defend herself. Trying to find an easy target to save yourself are you?

Does this defense of Mithalwen's sound a little over-hysterical to anyone else?

I'd say it's our primary goal to lynch the bear. As long as there are wolves and a bear around, we lose two good villagers a night (unless they attack each other).

This makes some sense to me. The problem is that the bear will probably have an easier time hiding since s/he, like most others, only know the role of his/herself and will honestly be looking to lynch the wolves. There will be no evidence of teamwork, etc.

[Lalaith]

Sooth, sooth, forsooth.
I've been reading and mulling over what all my fellow villagers have said and it tells me very little.
But my foresight tells me much - that this is just the beginning. And while we are still many, and most of us are innocents, we are alas unlikely to stumble upon the guilty so soon.
As for our chief suspect of the moment, I do not think it very were-ish behaviour to call attention to oneself so quickly, as Gurthang did. He may be a clever double-bluffing wolf but it would be a big gamble to take so early on.
The hasty voters have also laid themselves open to suspicion but this does not mean necessarily that they ARE suspicious.
I myself will wait a while to cast my vote.

[Boromir88]

Originally posted by Mith: Boromir also spoke swiftly.... given that this village has been so peaceful until now, it hasn't given him much in the way of employment opportunities, maybe he has been on a work creation scheme. And how does he know so much about bears...

Believe in what you may my dear Mith...also, I'm sorry but it doesn't take a microbiologist to figure out what bear prints look like.

Well, my Sauce Pan Man, I think it may be that I worded myself wrong. Of course I think we should go on a wolf-hunt, just not a chaotic one that sends masses of people to their wrongful death.

I'm not by anyway near casting my vote. Of course, I have a few suspicions, but I think it's good that we sit back and wait for everyone.

I will say Mithalwen's recent posts have come out to be a bit odd. In her reasoning for voting for Gurthang. Now, I have my own supsicions of Gurthang, but not simply because he posted first. May I ask you this...for the most part your first post makes sense, but there's one little phrase that gets me suspicious in your first post...

Maybe if we leave these werewolves alone, they will leave us alone.

I think it's been made quite clear that the wolves don't want to leave us alone, they're here to kill, so I hope this was just a suggestion?...Do you think this is a strategy that we should pursue?

[Gurthang]

Boromir, it is clear to me now that this village will not leave these werewolves alone. We have started a wolf-hunt, and it will not end until they are dead or we are. Which is what I feared. If it could have been possible to get the wolves to simply stop the killings, it would have saved many innocent lives. Yet now both we as villagers and them as wolves will be killing. Any possibility of a peaceful end is gone.

I must admit that in all my travels and defenses of animals, I've never come across werewolves before. In fact, the only time I've even heard of them was when they had already been destroyed by a village, or they had destroyed the village. I've always liked to be optimistic and believe that they are misunderstood. But according to what SamwiseGamgee says,

Origianlly posted by SamwiseGamgee
For most of my life I have toiled and worked to gain a better understanding of Wargs, and in doing so my path has often crossed that of a werewolf- not without a shudder running down my spine I hasten to add. One thing I have learned above all else, and this we must agree upon fellow friends of Hamlet: werewolves ARE NOT people. They are cold, vicious, systematic killers whose sole aim in life is to bring pain, misery and suffering upon all those they come across. The fact that by day they mascarade as friendly villagers cannot be allowed to dim our vision.

it seems that they will not be satisfied with just Oddwen's death.

I want to again stress that we should take our time in this matter. Not to say that we should just sit around and wait for them to kill us, but rather find credible evidence before we make descisions. I have received two quick votes already, the very thing I have been speaking against. Please, take your time before voting.