WW XXIX Dor-en-Gaur

[Firefoot]

I'd say that we need to catch a wolf today... Otherwise this village could very well be done for. At least the guy with the golden dagger didn't chop up an ordo tonight - the cobbler was a useful one to be rid of.

So I’ve been thinking, and it suddenly hit me just how suspicious Lalwendë seemed. She’s seemed so logical and helpful and eager to catch a wolf that I’ve just been passing her by, but I’m starting to wonder if she really might be a wolf, especially after taking a closer look at her posts.

On Day 1, she was basically just throwing a lot of ideas out there in a “this person might be suspicious, but then this person might also…” etc. sort of way. She also did quite a bit of commenting on others’ ideas, but usually in a rather vague way like “this person brings up an interesting idea.” And when she made accusations, they don’t exactly look like she means them.

Like, look at these two quotes, both taken from page two.

However, Ang and Gil-galad are very clever to pick up on Boro's quite vocal early suspicions of Celuien. Now I just can't quite decide whether this means they are correct and have pinpointed Boro as a wolf trying strong diversionary tactics, or whether Boro is right and Celuien is indeed a Wolf. Or if in fact this is a clever triple bluff and Anguirel and Gil-galad are both Wolves!

Which brings me back to Anguirel and Gil-galad and the 'triple bluff theory' I brought up earlier today. It was Anguirel who latched on to this after Gil-galad brought it up; of course this could be Ang double-bluffing, but if he really was an innocent taken along by Gil-galad's triple logic then this would further bolster that approach. I'll bet Gil-galad's quite pleased about that if he is guilty. So he is currently my Number One suspect.

In the second quote, she almost presents the theory as if it were her idea – even though it really wasn’t. Almost like she latched onto a plausible theory and decided to suspect the people who looked guilty according to it.

Then there was also the self-depreciatory comment:

*like I'm an expert! It's only my second game!

Which seems to say, I don’t necessarily know what I’m talking about and encourages the idea that she’s just an ordo trying to figure out which way is up. She just goes along with everything too easily.

The third thing I noticed on Day 1 was that every time a comment was leveled at her, she was quick to pass it off as nothing much, while also making too big a deal out of it:

I was just responding to your early comment about 'detesting quiet villages' - which is a fair enough thing to say, but very strongly worded, and I simply thought it a little too early to be bringing up this loud/quiet thing. Now I know Mithalwen is also in my time zone, but I thought it a little odd that she had not commented so far as it was well into lunch time...however, I have absolutely no suspicions of Mithalwen right now and I am quite prepared that she may have been in a meeting.

Especially after Boro said that “otherwise she seemed logical,” I’m not sure that much of a response was merited.

Towards the end of the Day, she took up the role as commentator, keeping the votes posted and who needed to vote yet, etc. Which is good and helpful – someone has to do it – but it also doesn’t contribute much to the game itself while keeping her active.

On Day 2, the first thing she does is shift her suspicion off of Gil, following up on her vote for him on Day 1. She branches out into her own ideas a little bit more, but then at the end of that first post goes back to her throwing out of ideas: was it this person? Or this person?

As she continues to post, her posts seem a little repetitive in content, in that she stays focusing on the same people and keeps bringing up little points against them as reasons that she’s still suspicious of them – often with reference to others’ ideas.

She also continues in the commentator role.

She eventually votes for me, and one thing I find interesting is her comments during the day like “Firefoot is seeming more suspicious to me” – and I hadn’t been posting at all in the interim. I almost get the feel that she was fobbing suspicion off on me because I wasn’t there. I might not feel like that, except that as soon as I come back and start posting again, she backs off with comments like: “Firefoot's defence is interesting. She gives a good case for switching to supporting Boro.” “Firefoot, you're convincing me. Which of course will have implications of who I go for on the next day...” And finally her revoking of her vote for me. Now, this might be a little paranoid of me, since historically when I trust people who stick up for me, the end up being wolves and I end up being used big time – they leave me around because I think they’re innocent. And that’s what I almost did with Lal.

Just the way that she doesn’t stick to her suspicions (she does for a while, and then backs off of them – she did it with both me and Gil) and the way she responds to some of the comments posted about her – I don’t like it. It also concerns me that because she is rather new at WW, people tend to pass her off. I remember one comment like “If Lalwende was a wolf, I think she’d be more nervous.” If she was a wolf, I think she’d be quite capable of using this status in her favor. I’m definitely inclined to be suspicious of her right now, and I’d like to know if you think any of this has any validity.