WWJ IX: Psychotic Penguins: The Crossing of Helcaraxë

[Lalaith]

Good morning/evening, fellow elves and werePingus.
Well, it is as I feared. Poor Kitanna, a hollow, non-existential shell of her former self. It is good that we got a penguin but not so good that we had to out both the ranger and the seer on the way.
Well, on to the business of toDay.
Firstly, and most importantly: the person I dreamt of last night was not on the evil side. What else s/he might be, I will of course not divulge. The question is, whether should I reveal the identity of the elf in question.
I am inclined to reveal - even though, now Kit is no longer among us, it endangers the individual concerned. Because it will give the innocents someone to rally round toMorrow, after I am dead. However, I would like to hear a few opinions first.

Secondly, and less importantly, I’d just like to explain, in case some of you were shaking their heads at my recklessness yesterday, the strategy I was trying to carry out – a strategy which alas backfired. In the past, if I die before the end, it is usually at the hands of the wolves rather than the lynch mob, because I am generally considered innocent. So in an attempt to ensure safer nights, I tried to pick a few fights and garner more suspicion during the Day than I usually do. I also thought that voicing my suspicion of a WP might make the WPs more reluctant to kill me, even if I didn’t succeed in getting the WP in question lynched.
However, I was clearly a little too successful on the suspicion front..
...speaking of which, Diamond, my dear old bean, are you familiar with the works of Douglas Adams? I am starting to feel like the bowl of petunias (aka Agrajag) to your Arthur Dent.
I’ll come back with more once I get some feedback on the revelation question.

[Diamond18]

Originally Posted by Lalaith

Firstly, and most importantly: the person I dreamt of last night was not on the evil side. What else s/he might be, I will of course not divulge. The question is, whether should I reveal the identity of the elf in question.
I am inclined to reveal - even though, now Kit is no longer among us, it endangers the individual concerned. Because it will give the innocents someone to rally round toMorrow, after I am dead. However, I would like to hear a few opinions first.

If it was me, go ahead, because I have this feeling I'm more useful as a half-witted known innocent than an unwitting cobbler stumbling around, as I seemed to have been yesterDay. If you dreamed of a different ordo, I really can't say.... I suppose, if I were you, I'd keep mum unless it seemed that person was about to get lynched. If it's the Hunter, I'd keep mum either way, I think, because they might have a good chance of nabbing a Penguin should they be lynched. But, as I'm not the Hunter, they may have a different opinion. So I'm rambling pointlessly. *sigh* The one time I was a Hunter I was rather suicidal and it turned out badly, so maybe sparing the Hunter from doing something stupid (apologies to our Hunter, whoever you may be, you smart person you) is worth a reveal.

By the way, now that I see you're the Seer, your strategy yesterDay makes perfect sense. I should have seen it, or at least guessed it, before you revealed, but I'll plead general paranoia and temporary stupidity due to being time strapped.

However, I was clearly a little too successful on the suspicion front..
...speaking of which, Diamond, my dear old bean, are you familiar with the works of Douglas Adams? I am starting to feel like the bowl of petunias (aka Agrajag) to your Arthur Dent.

Yes, I am familiar with them. I've read them all! I know Arthur Dent very well (and identify with him endlessly) but the bowl of cherries is slipping from my memory.

I bookmarked all of Boromir's posts, and intend a read-though/analysis. It is a bit unlucky to have two of our gifteds revealed and one down for the count, but on the up side, I now I have plenty of solid info to go on, which makes me feel less like whimpering and more like analyzing.

EDIT -- X-posted with, like, everyone since Lal. Also, bad English, and not the musical kind.

[the phantom]

Ang, Diamond, phantom and Firefoot thought me innocent, all for little or no reasons (I'm quite curious about what tp might bring up today)

I'll answer that later. Er... actually, I suppose I have time right now.

My response to you dates back to a Werewolf plagued village long ago in which my ancestors lived (WW III). A fellow by the name of Fordim put forth a Seer protection plan, and the responses it got were interesting. My ancestor was an Innocent in that village, and tried as hard as he could to determine if the plan would truly help the Seer (because as an Innocent he obviously cared about the Seer's well-being).

For a time he went along with it just to test reactions, but then came out strongly against it and pointed out the odds of someone making an incorrect dream declaration, thus narrowing the Seer list for the wolves.

You, Mac, did the same exact thing yesterday. You went out of your way to point out the danger of the plan, even going so far as to do a probability calculation. In other words, you were behaving like me when I was innocent and a similar plan was introduced.

That's why I quickly moved you into the innocent column.

[Lalaith]

That's why I quickly moved you into the innocent column.

And you, my dear phantom, have been moved into mine. I dreamt of you last night, and as I seem to have your permission, I reveal this now.
No Mac, phantom cannot be a cobbler, the rules for this game state that if I dream of the cob, I am informed of the fact. But whether phantom is anything more, I leave for the penguins to find out, if they dare.
I thought long and hard about who to dream of, as this would be my last. In that horridly churlish and ungrateful spirit that WW breeds in one, I pondered on both my allies of yesterday, Ang and Roa. If either were a WP who suspected my pursuit of Boro as Seerish behaviour, it would make them look very good to either defend me, as Ang did, or help me pursue my quarry, as Roa did.
Of course, both have perfectly good alternative reasons for their actions. I have had reason to be grateful for Ang's chivalrous nature in past villages, so his defence of me was not unexpected. Roa could easily have picked up on dodgy stuff in Boro's posts off her own bat, as Phantom has just explained he did.
So in the end I chose Phantom for the following reasons:
1. Because I worried about his "whoops I didn't read all the thread" vote for Boro, it made him look rather good, and therefore, in my eyes, suspicious.
2. If he turned out to be innocent, and thus the known innocent on Day Three, he would probably encourage the village to do something sensible.