WW LXXXVIII: What Lies in the Dark (Game Thread)

[Shastanis Althreduin]

That does it. Phantom is obviously evil on the grounds that he's being annoying.

Now that that I'd out of the way... I'm still uncomfortable with Nog from yesterday, but I'd like to put Boro and His Egotisticalness on notice - these veiled hints and other shenanigans aren't going to fly this game. Right now, when we only have one spiderling to worry about, is fine. Once there are two, though, remember that they aren't allowed to communicate except through Shelob, and they don't want to kill each other off (obviously), leaving the thread their only means of finding each other at all. Shenanigans only benefit the spiderlings, in my opinion, since there aren't really nightkills to speak of. So if you're lings, you'll use them to communicate right under our noses, and if you're not then the real lings will be using your antics as cover to communicate. Either way it's bad, right?

[the phantom]

All right. Even though not everyone has spoken, enough people have spoken to strengthen my resolve on a few ideas I had, and that will have to be enough for today.

1) I believe Shelob has a spiderling now
2) I believe Shelob attacked Sam
3) Possible Shelobs are Lhuna, Nog, Shasta, Inzil
5) Possible Spiderlings are Boro, Fea, Nerwen

If my hunches are correct, Phantom, Wilwa, Lottie, and Bom would be our worst choices for a lynch.

Fea, Nerwen, and Inzil aren't particularly great choices either, as they have been included more on the grounds that I felt I could not rule them out.

Shasta and Nog I was hoping to see more from in hopes that I could remove them from the list, but they haven't had opportunity to post much. So the jury is still out on them until such time as I get to talk with them a bit today.

Lhuna is, to my mind, playing oddly (not how I remember her in times past). I don't believe her to be a Spiderling, but she could well be a Shelob knowing that if she dies her gift would transfer anyway. I'm still tempted to lynch her on Day 3.

Now Boro could very well be our not-so-friendly neighborhood Spiderman (Spiderling). You'll see that yesterday I pointed out that his opening post indicated he was potentially sick (had been stung), and if Sam did indeed attempt to cure Lhuna but Boro was the bite victim, he is now a fully fledged Spiderling and has switched sides on us.

Also, to address the possibility that Sam was attacked and thus Shelob knows who Sam is.... Rather than attack Sam immediately, Shelob could very well opt to spend the first day attempting to off anyone that looks likely to support Sam (try to lynch a supporter and then try and sting a supporter) and then go after Sam, but in a way that gets her hands less dirty (e.g. send orders to her Spiderling to try and get a certain individual lynched). We ought to keep an eye out for that as well.

[Boromir88]

Originally Posted by Shastanis Althreduin

Now that that I'd out of the way... I'm still uncomfortable with Nog from yesterday, but I'd like to put Boro and His Egotisticalness on notice - these veiled hints and other shenanigans aren't going to fly this game.

Glad to hear it and glad to see you're the one who will do it. I don't see everyone's paranoia with the phantom. I mean yeah it's easy to hate the ego, but not all plots are devised by evil. Heard of that Elrond and Gandalf guy sending Mr. Frodo to sneak into Mordor? I was nodding to the fact that I see what he's trying to do by vehemently declaring Wilwa and Lottie innocent and that I shall let him go about his business, unopposed, because I feel safe to say we want the same thing.

So, yeah, I think you're wrong about tp, but I was extremely close to following your vote against Nog. I wish you didn't make your case that close to the DL, I had not enough time to think and make such snap vote when I was trying to see what tp wanted to do with Lhuna.

[the phantom]

*frowns* I'm really having some trouble with Boro here. On Day 1 his first post reads-

Originally Posted by Boro, first post yesterday

But, but, I've only just caught a bad case

Which, as much as anyone else, would invite the attention of Sam's cure, if it weren't for the fact that in the following post he seems not to know if Shelob has a Spiderling or a sting victim. If Boro was indeed the Been-Stung, he did us quite a disservice, throwing Sam off the trail like that. But if he wasn't the Been-Stung, why say that initial bit in the first place?

And then he leads off today hinting either- 1) "I was cured", 2) "I'm the Doctor", or 3) "I survived Shelob's attack" (i.e. "Sam protected me" or "I'm Sam").

Originally Posted by Boro, first post today

First things first...well two things actually.

Legs! Good. Arms! Nice. Hands! With lots of fingers. How many? Oh great there's ten. Ears! Even better. Nose! Woot, I'm fine.

I'm going to dismiss option three immediately, leaving 1 and 2. But wouldn't option 1 have been given in the narrative? Not to mention it would be darn unlikely given the likely Sam cure choices. So that leaves option 2.

But I'm debating whether or not a Doctor would hint much anyway. His "powers" aren't useful except for his own reasoning, and in the event that he knows something others don't seem to realize. But hint too much too early and you run the risk of being converted to Shelob's side. I'm not sure I buy it, unless Shelob happened to be lucky enough to select the Doctor for her Night 1 sting. (I'm assuming she was allowed to select Night 1, or was her Been-Stung just handed to her?)

[Bom Tombadillo]

I won't be posting much today, since I will be out and about constantly until DL (I am posting from my IPad at present). Here is my suspicious list:

Phantom and Wilwa for Glirdy-wagon suspiciousness, plus Lottie by association. Phantom has shown some good reasoning so far however, aside from his declarations about Wilwottie, so if anybody is to be lynched for the Wagon, it should be

Nog and Boro, as I've previously stated. Still, I haven't noted a third supporting them just yet, which there should be if they are the original duo.

Lhuna is also interesting, as I don't recall her giving any opposition to Phantom's position about her on D1 (although I may prove myself wrong on this when I can check properly), but now she suddenly opposes the notion.

I think that's it for now, but I will return to post when I can.