WW LX - Mortal Men, doomed to die

[Thinlómien]

Nienna had been waiting for this since Lady Lómiel's death, and now it was there: a soft sound of footsteps approaching her door, a surprisingly silent crashing noise when her lock was broken and a cloaked figure entering. Still laying on her bed, Nienna opened and eyed the person who had entered the room.

I knew it was her... she thought, tightening her grip on the dagger. The cloaked figure stopped and drew her sword.
"You can stop pretending being asleep now," she said. "And I know you're hiding a dagger under your blanket."

Nienna sighed, and stood up. "So, you've come to kill me even though you know I'm well prepared for it?"
The cloaked figure nodded. "Nienna, I'm dead. I've lost everything. I've lost my secrecy, I've lost my reputation, I've lost my husband. What is there for me anymore? Kill me, and I don't have to face the others tomorrow."
Nienna weighed her dagger in her hand. "And why should I take pity on you and kill you?"
"Take pity on me?" she laughed. "I will kill you in any case. It is just a question whether you want to die alone or die as a hero."

Nienna nodded again. "Alright... let's get done it with then. But show me your face first. I want to see what you've become."
The cloaked figure hesitated, then threw back her hood. Nienna examined the features in moonlight, blocking all terror from her face.
"Disgusting," she said coldly. "Lhunardawen, you've sold your soul to the dark."

Her eyes narrowed. "Maybe, but don't think I haven't got anything in return." She lifted her sword to Nienna's throat and the pirate replied by putting the point of her dagger to Lhuna's chest.

"One," said Lhuna.
"Two," said Nienna.
"Three," whispered Lhuna.
"Go!" yelled Nienna and pushed her dagger to the ringwraith's heart the same time she felt a horrible pain and warm blood flowing down her neck.

"You failed," she said. There was no sound, she could only move her lips, and blood gushed from her mouth.
"Yes... but I... I will go to my master now," Lhuna managed to reply before her words turned into a piercing cry and there was nothing else left of her than a pile of clothes and a sword on the floor and a cold wind that blowed through Nienna's room.

...to be continued...

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Dead
Lommy (mod) - Lady Lómiel Starbrow, the hostess – killed on Night1
Isabellkya (ordo) - lynched on Day1
Kath (ordo) – killed on Night2
Eomer of the Rohirrim (ordo) - lynched on Day2
Kent2010 (ordo) - Black Númenórean scam artist - killed on Night3
Legate of Amon Lanc (ringwraith) - rebelling Haradian King - lynched on Day3
Groin Redbeard (ordo) - Variag Warlord of Khand - modfired on Day3
Nilpaurion Felagund (ordo) - fussy courtier - killed on Night4
satansaloser2005 (ringwraith) – lynched on Day4
Eönwë (ringwraith) – lynched on Day5
Nogrod (seer) - Corsair Captain "The Cat O' Nine tails of Ethir Anduin" - killed on Night6
Rune Son of Bjarne (ranger) - Tivo the Sorceror - lynched on Day6
Nienna (hunter) - pirate - killed on Night7
Lhunardawen (ringwraith) - rebelling Haradian Queen - killed by the hunter on Night7

Alive
Shastanis Althreduin (ordo) - King of the Sea
wilwarin538 (ordo) - sorceress
Nerwen (ordo) - Queen of the Sea
Brinniel (ordo)

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VILLAGE WINS!

Congratulations to all ordos and gifteds!

Well done, ringwraiths, you put up a good fight.

Thank you everybody, it was a pleasure to have you playing in my game!

~*~

Everybody, dead and alive and even those who did not play, feel free to post now!

I will post a final narration as soon as I get it done.

[wilwarin538]

Wow.....yay!!!!!!

Rune....soooo sorry! Should have believed you.

And, Eomer too! Sorry I was so persistent.

Great job everyone!!!! Wonderful job Lommy! This was quite fun.

[Isabellkya]

Haha. Good job everyone!

Thanks for hosting Lommy!.

Such a fun game to watch. Like some others, I thought Rune was a Wraith and Lhuna the Ranger.

Why oh why did you Wraiths keep Nog alive?

I thought it amazingly funny that First Day it was a tie between a Wraith, a Seer, and an Ordo. xD

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Ooooooh yes, really a fantastic game And after quite a while - a lovely, neat game, the only pity I could not remain alive for longer. But well, the Seer was just too bad. (Some would say: too good. I won't.)

I guess as for the Wraith's planning, and especially all that followed after my death, Sally would tell you more. As from my part, I just apologise to those whom we (I) killed - especially to Kent, whom I would not have wished to kill that much, if I was not also considering the option that he is a Gifted.

I must say I really enjoyed playing with all you people, especially those I haven't played with yet. I am quite looking forward to play again with every single one of you. (And I won't even mind if it was on the same side, for once )

The narrations were just really really good in this game - absolutely brilliant, very funny, but sometimes also brilliant when being serious and it kept the feeling - like the last one, which really made it feel serious and I AM actually awaiting a "to be continued..." part.

Anyway, a really good and memorable game Thanks to everybody who played, and also to the Moddess.

Originally Posted by Isabellkya

I thought it amazingly funny that First Day it was a tie between a Wraith, a Seer, and an Ordo. xD

Oh my, I realised that only now. Horrible - we should have let Nogrod lynched back then. Ai, ai...

[Nienna]

Sorry Rune!!!

Good job everyone else. It was wonderful playing until the end.

[Kent2010]

Well done village! You all put those nasty wraiths in a tough spot they weren't going to wriggle out of.

And cheers to our mod! Exciting game Lommy.

[Eomer of the Rohirrim]

Good game everyone, and well done fellow villagers!

Och, wilwa, that's what werewolf is all about. Though I honestly thought I was being ridiculously obviously innocent. Surprised I got lynched to be honest.

Nae luck werewolves: the villagers were really on top of the game this time.

Special hails to Nogrod, who was outstanding, and of course Lommy.

[Mithalwen]

Very elegant finish to the game .... poor Rune..... Lhuna darling - you do lie beautifully..just remember what happened to Matilda!

[Thinlómien]

I was just thinking - I've modded three games now (one co-modded with Nogrod) and the village has won every single one of them. So, if you want to win a game for the goodies, you know whose game to play in.

Also, I would like to say a few words about giving out the roles as the topic was constantly brought up. It was and was not random. Greenie, my Fortuna, helped me to randomise four different wolf teams, from which I chose the one that seemed the fairest to me (for example, there was one all silent team and one all veteran team and neither seemed very balanced to me). Then I also randomised three (or four?) different possibilities for every gifted and picked a team that felt balanced against the wolf team. And I couldn't resist picking Noggie and Nienna for seer and hunter, because I was interested in how he'd do in staying alive and how she'd do in dying because he always dies early and she was lynched early last game so I expected everybody would want to keep her around! But I would like to emphasise that I did not pick the people I know the best to have the special roles, it just happened that so many of them ended up there... and also I did not take any requests for special roles or anything.

[Nogrod]

Btw. The age-old question concerning the similarity of the manner of being of the wolves and the gifteds raises it's head once more...

When no one counter-revealed the rangership I was almost disappointed as I thought Lhuna was a wolf (I had even taken a little pain to go back and read almost all of the thread just looking at it from the POV that Lhuna is a wolf and had been getting more confident with it) but I just had to take it as there was no counter-claim. And then - on the light of that - Rune felt somehow so foul even if I couldn't put my finger to it in any argumentative manner (whereas arguments could have been raised against Shasta at that point - wrong as they would have been anyway).

When I dreamt of you Rune the Night which was my last it was all clear of course. But you were holding something back and that showed in your posts and in the way you acted.

It's not easy to be an innocent when your guardian angels look so much like the baddies you need to lynch - whoever they are!

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Originally Posted by Nogrod

What I'm afraid of is that the following generations of werewolves will take this lesson to the heart and will have no mercy regarding the seer (not that they have done it earlier either ).

That would really be a pity. This game actually managed to put into use something that was practically never put in use, or not in my memory: the Seer really performing his duty for a while under the supervision of the village, and the known innocents sharing their thoughts - discussing and trying to find the trail based on the mutual knowledge that they can take each other's conclusions and suspicions as genuine.

And sorry Legate! I felt really bad revealing you so early but I had to do it because I knew you were a wolf already in the beginning (Night1 dream).

Of course, no harm done (okay, or actually: some harm WAS done, but it's okay ).
Although it occured to me at one point before, during the day, I think, that you might be a Seer - the way you acted towards me, being so unsuspecting of me, it struck me as weird and I actually thought "ha, could it not be that he is being nice to me in order to ensure that I won't kill him?". Well, too bad I didn't continue on the thought. But maybe it would not influence the things very much... I don't remember exactly when it occured to me, but if it was on the same Day, then the revelation would have probably came anyway.

Oh, and I must say - the way in which you chose to reveal was certainly interesting, really. Sort of special - nice indeed, while I did not like the content of it I quite liked the manner.

[Nogrod]

A graceful way to end it indeed! *Bows to Lhuna*

Originally Posted by Izzy

Why oh why did you Wraiths keep Nog alive?

I asked myself that very same question like hundred times during this game... But maybe it was just that, an attempt to create confusion.

What I'm afraid of is that the following generations of werewolves will take this lesson to the heart and will have no mercy regarding the seer (not that they have done it earlier either ).

But it was great fun! And for a long time I managed to squeeze time to actually do some "detective-work" and think about possible strategies (which is becoming possible only on Day3 or something like that) and was alive to actually do something.

So thanks baddies. I really appreciated your tactics!


And sorry Legate! I felt really bad revealing you so early but I had to do it because I knew you were a wolf already in the beginning (Night1 dream). But as I chose as my tactics in the beginning not suspecting you on Day1 - so that you (or your mates whoever they were) wouldn't feel any urge to kill me at Night2 - I had kind of cornered myself already in the beginning. For I could not count on your goodwill - not to talk on that of your fellow mates in crime - and dying on Night3 with a known wolf in my bag would be just terrible seering. But making a hint that would be clear enough if I died would surely have raised your attention - but being only a hint would probably not have awakened the ranger. So I just had to go full open with it.

But to make it more interesting I chose to reveal only at the last minute of the Day. It was a fun experiment I must say. And proved good - with the help of the wolves...

Well, Sally! You're just a player extraordinaire, esq.! I didn't quite believe in my eyes when I got there that Day and saw your "revealment"! That sure was fun! And even if everything so consistently pointed towards your guilt, a thought nagged behind my head for most of the Day saying "it can't be this easy, it can't be... there is something hidden here..." But when you finally started re-posting towards the end of the Day it was quite clear as I think you had already accepted your fate.

But did you Sally just think of running amok or were you thinking you could get away with it on that Day?



A real deep bow to the known innocents; Wilwa, Nerwen and Brinn!

You really made the day! I did pick you up on two grounds. Surely because I was not able to read you and one of you being a baddie would have been disasterous for the village - but also because I thougth you could be ones to make a difference if the other innocents could trust you. And oh boy did you answer that call! (Could one say: "Oh girl, you did it"?) You were just superheroes! Like when I got back on the latter part of Day5 you had all but proved Eönwë was a wraith!


And yes, everyone was playing charmingly most of the time - and RL issues are something we can not do anything about.

Thanks for a very good game everyone!


Last but not least: thanks Lommy for a wonderfully entertaining game! And some of the narrations were just downright hilarious (like the one where Rune tries to reveal for no good, or where trying to make Eönwë walk the plank proves a bit more difficult people thought it would be) or touching (like Lhuna's and Nienna's death-scene).