WWLVIII: Escape From Angband (or Behavioral Modification)

[Gwathagor]

Originally Posted by Nogrod

The more I think of that the more credible it starts to look like. You Rikae are the spawner of the ducks around here - and you count on us not daring to lynch you because you promise us fire and brimstone or looking more like a cobbler wishing herself lynched. I mean in a way you do those both at the same time - at least you did so yesterDay as I remarked already then.

It becomes anyway much more symmetric and more neat this way as well.

The baddies have a duck-giver, we have a duck-killer.

One of the weird roles (Mith) at least started good - and the other (Nilp) then started bad.

Now whether Mith by her Nightly deed of saving us from a kill stayed a goodie or turned into neutrality - or even to evil - is something we don't know. And what would happen if Nilp was lynched I'm not too happy to try out.

Why do you think that the number of ducks is growing, and that it wasn't just high to begin with? And why don't you want to lynch Nilp?

[Nogrod]

Originally Posted by Gwathagor

Why do you think that the number of ducks is growing, and that it wasn't just high to begin with? And why don't you want to lynch Nilp?

Relevant questions.

Now it all began yesterday - I had indeed forgotten about it, but after Day2 I had written myself some points I should have to remember to think of on Day3 if I were still alive. The last thing I had written down was the following: "The number of ducks increases unless the mother goose is eliminated?". It came back to me when I saw Rikae's post about Mith spawning new ducks. I went back to look at the last moments of Day2 to finally find the piece that triggered the idea. It's indeed from Sally's narration.

Originally Posted by SallyGod

Early in the Morning, before most of the village had even considered getting up, the were-ducks and their duckess-in-chief Mnemo met to discuss strategy for the Day. When Mnemo joined the band of baddies she heard Wilwa and another feather-faced female joking about Legate's body, which had started to sprout cucumber plants. She recognized Nienna in the Dawn light and approached the group, smacking Nienna on the shoulder to get her attention.

“Let's get down to business, make the village gone
Did they send me hatchlings when I asked for swans?
You're the saddest player I ever met
But you can bet before we're through
Nienna, I'll make a duck out of you”

So someone sent a hatchling-Nienna to the ranks of Mnemo the arch-duckess (should we lynch her indeed? ) during Night2? That was the idea I had yesterday. Now it looks like Rikae is just fitting that role only too well.

About Nilp then. He's almost too keen to get himself lynched and it feels foul. It also fits the kind of symmetry-requirement every mod feels tempted to lay on her/his game.

But more telling is, I think, his behaviour yesterDay. He only started his frantic show after wilwa was dead but Mith had already hinted about her abilities before that. Also it seems he has been all the time trying to get himself killed before wilwa's death by speaking merely nonsense, but after it he took stronger measures coming up with all these: "I'm leaving everything to my minions", "Fear me!", "You haven't killed a single fuzzy wuzzy wolfie yet", the "Fibonacci Sequence" and all that... and after getting the second vote there was this (Fea's vote post quoted in the post): "Just . . . one . . . more".

So he tried to mess with us, tried to cease the moment and achieve something with it. Counting on us killing him just out of pure annoyance and messing things up?

But if he really has some magical powers as the flashing light (and the most probable killer of wilwa in bright daylight - which I still believe is Mith with all the evidence mainly relating to her tp-fever of two first Days which suddenly died after the Night-action) had, then I would not wish to try and see what powers he would gain after we lynched him.