Tol-in-Gaurhoth LVII - Chess Game for Middle Earth: Game Thread

[the phantom]

Originally Posted by Mnem

Interesting thoughts about evil scrying, though it doesn't seem to do much good at this point? Unless phantom has known this all along and that was his asking whoever is remaining to kill/scry him toNight

Har har - really, this whole thing has gotten totally off-track at this point.

The only reason I brought up the potential scrying in the first place is to demonstrate that, as we were given no warning of Brin's scrying power, we cannot use the rules to cast out any idea regarding unwritten WW powers (primarily the idea I had about one of the WWs taking over the Rook role when the Rook went down).

If that is indeed a secret Wolf power, then I would doubt that they could scry on top of that. I would however suspect that the BQ might've had scrying powers, seeing as she is the counter of the WQ.

And frankly, if it was suspected that the WWs could scry as well, an WP Phantom would be just as likely to wish to be scried as a BP Phantom, as attracting the scry to myself would waste it. So if it even was my intention to get the WWs to waste a scry me, which it wasn't, then you basically just ruined the ploy. Unless that was your intention of course.

But as I said, I think it highly unlikely that the WWs can do anything of the sort. If they can do anything, then it's replace their Hunter. And as Rikae seems to be the Bishop, I'd say that killing her seems like an even better idea than it was before I brought this up.