Werewolf LIII: The Republic

[Nerwen]

Originally Posted by Ilya

Thanks for putting that together, Nerwen. McCaber strikes me as a really safe kill.

Is that what you thought when you were gobbling him down last Night, Wolfya?

...No, that's not a serious accusation... but I'm getting a faint pinging of the radar from the following say-nothing paragraph:

Originally Posted by Ilya

Anyone about whom general opinions have been form would be advantageous to keep around. And I think given the events of Day 1, reputation, or lack thereof, played into the voting of the reps but not into the lynch votes. Reps turned on constituents, and some constituents turned on their reps. I need to go reread, uhm, everything. But Anna Karenina takes precedent tonight, so I probably won't be around until after class tomorrow, around 4ish.

Originally Posted by the phantom

Thanks for McCaber's posts, Nerwen.

Safe, maybe, but why play it safe?

The WWs need to kill the Seer ASAP. Did McCaber strike anyone as a leading Seer candidate? If they indeed marked him as a potential Seer, his dream would've been for Legate. And with his dream-target dead already, he was a Seer who had little weight, and thus unless he was a clear favorite a different potential Seer should have been selected.

McCaber's selection baffles me.

Well, often enough nobody looks particularly Seerish (from the lupine point-of-view) on Day One... but with all the posting yesterDay, you'd think someone would have fitted the bill.

On the other paw... you are assuming that all wolves have exactly your priorities. Some don't like to go after an accuser unless they have good reason for thinking him or her the Seer (as opposed to, say, listing a wolf as "suspicious" along with a bunch of innocents).

Is it possible they thought he was the Ranger, trying to lay low?

As I said, though, the other thing is that McCaber would have been perfect to keep around as a lynch candidate: he rarely does much as an ordo, while having a nasty reputation as an under-the-radar wolf– and that's just how he was acting, so it should have been pretty easy for the wolves to turn up suspicion on him.

Also– again because of the volume of posting and the suspicions flying around– you'd think there'd be someone whose death could be used to frame an innocent.

So I'm baffled too.

EDIT: X'd with Eönwë.