Werewolf XCVII: Werewolves in the Westfold Game Thread

[Inziladun]

All I can say is that I tried to be vague enough in my suspicion of Kit that they wouldn't home in on me, and at the same time leave something to go on in case they did.

Also, I thought Nerwen might have been trying to raise Sally as an alternative lynch to Kit after Sally's vote for her. That's why I picked Nerwen last Night.

[Inziladun]

Without further ado:

++Kitanna

[Pitchwife]

Originally Posted by Inziladun

All I can say is that I tried to be vague enough in my suspicion of Kit that they wouldn't home in on me, and at the same time leave something to go on in case they did.

Hm, I must say you did strike me as the most seerish-looking person in this village exactly because of the vagueness of your suspicion.

Let's not be hasty though. I seem to remember I helped to lynch a seer Kit once, I'd be loath to repeat that mistake. But I must say her "I know a living innocent but I'm not going to tell you" attitude isn't exactly trust-inspiring.

[Inziladun]

Originally Posted by Pitchwife

Let's not be hasty though. I seem to remember I helped to lynch a seer Kit once, I'd be loath to repeat that mistake. But I must say her "I know a living innocent but I'm not going to tell you" attitude isn't exactly trust-inspiring.

Fair enough. That's pretty much all I can say, but if anyone has a question, feel free.

[Kitanna]

Originally Posted by Pitchwife

Let's not be hasty though. I seem to remember I helped to lynch a seer Kit once, I'd be loath to repeat that mistake. But I must say her "I know a living innocent but I'm not going to tell you" attitude isn't exactly trust-inspiring.

I'll be honest, I've given you a wolf already. And if that still gets me lynched I don't feel inclined to help this village further. I will reveal my dream if this village trusts me enough to lynch Zil. When I die, I'll die innocent. Zil and his packmate can't say the same.

You may all waste the day trying to decide who you want to believe. I have nothing left to say on the topic. Once I get back to my house I will concentrate on finding the third wolf.

[Pitchwife]

Originally Posted by Kitanna

I will reveal my dream if this village trusts me enough to lynch Zil.

And if we lynch Zil and find him genuine, the point will be moot anyway, is that it?

[Eomer of the Rohirrim]

Whichever one it is, there will be connexions to analyse from Day One: both Kitanna and Inzil were in the thick of things. And considering that first days are often uneventful and lacking in content, I'm glad our Seer battle is between these two!

[Kitanna]

Coppermirror
1: Mostly IC comments, with a quick paragraph about our odds as a village.
2: A response to Zil's comment about her preemptive defense. (that she had been sleeping through the night)
3: Just stating she'll be back later.
4: Summarizes what has happened thus far, but doesn't really say anything about what she thinks. Again explains herself to Zil about distancing herself from wolves.
5: Nothing much.
6:

I'm not at all sure yet who I'll be voting for. I had intended to vote for either some of the quieter villagers or those who hadn't shown up yet, to avoid only finding active villagers suspicious, but as time's gone on, some quiet people have become more active. So I'll wait and see.

She pretty much states that she'll vote for a quiet one or the one who hasn't shown up. Which is what Nessa ended up doing.
7: She lists our odds again. Stating

I suppose it doesn't matter too much whether or not we lose an innocent Pitchwife

After reading her scenarios this comment doesn't look too good. The village is so small, losing an innocent through a lynch should always matter.
8: Votes Nessa because she doesn't like that Nessa voted for Pitch, even though she had plans to do so herself. She does state that after working through worst-case scenarios she had changed her mind.

My reasons: I don't believe that a vote for Pitchwife is a useful vote at the moment, as I think he won't show up and will get mod-fired anyway. I thought of voting for him earlier, but working through it in my previous post persuaded me that it wasn't a good idea. I may be wrong, but that's the basis for my vote.

9:

I'm afraid my suspicion isn't very strong at all, but I had to pick someone.

Distance and defense of vote for Nessa.
Day 2:
10: She thinks the wolves thought Nerwen was the seer. I have no clue how she drew this conclusion.

I was sure that they would go for me or for Galadriel55, unless they thought they could get the Seer.

Why you? Why G55? Nerwen looked like a normal Night 2 pick. She didn't vote or leave much behind.

I'm glad that Pitchwife didn't show up yesterDAY, because it meant that Nessa decided to vote for him. I was planning to vote for Nessa anyway, but out of a last minute "I have to vote for somebody and don't want to get on the Kitanna bandwagon or waste my vote!" worry rather than any actual suspicion. But her voting for Pitchwife seemed suspicious and gave me a real reason to vote for her, and also made Galadriel55 suspicious enough to vote. It's great that she really was a wolf.

What? You never once expressed any desire to lynch Nessa until your vote post. This looks like a "look, I helped catch a wolf, I wanted to vote for her all along, afterall."

Very suspicious: Inziladum
Suspicious: Eomer, Sally
Unknown: Shasta, Pitchwife, Kitanna
Almost certainly innocent: Galadriel55
Innocent: Coppermirror, Nerwen (deceased)

I'm glad she finally commits to some form of suspicion that straddling the middle ground. And her reasoning for finding G55 innocentish is interesting.
11: She answers my questions about why she thought Nerwen was the seer in this post. She also puts forth a few interesting theories on Nessa and her vote for Pitch.
12: Talks about Zil's early posts in which he does sort of pick her out of the crowd. She had been talking the most at the time. Understands his vague feelings of guilt on my part, but still finds him suspicious.
13: Thinks she misread my reveal and asks for an expansion.
14: Explains her reasons for why Nessa would distance herself from a wolf lynch.
15: Sees how Zil is the wolf and I'm the seer, but also sees how I'm the wolf and Zil's the seer.

Copper speaks a lot and on Day 1 didn't say a whole lot of anything. Even though she has listed some suspicions today she is still not committing to anything. That makes me wary, but I'm not sold on her as guilty. I'm not convinced she's innocent either. I'd like to see what else she has to say.

Shasta
1: IC banter
2: Responds to Zil's declaration of voting for him just for being Shasta. Mostly more IC banter though.
3:

That's a good point, but I do have to dock you a few points for considering voting someone who hasn't shown up. Is Eomer even aware the game's started?

I'm not sure who he's referring to. Sally maybe?
4: Votes Nessa, doesn't really give a reason.
He hasn't spoken today and there's not much to go on. I don't like he didn't even try to give a reason for voting Nessa.

Funnily enough, I was going to say relatively the same thing... only replacing your name with Eomer's. Hmm. I do need to vote (I'm about to hit the hay), so I think I'm going to go ahead and vote for -

Maybe I misread this, but after his response to Nerwen I'd have thought he'd throw a vote in her direction. Still he looks slightly more innocent because (and someone let me know if I screw up the order) but he was the first to vote Nessa. It's weird he didn't give a reason. Did he maybe think the voting would turn against me to her at any time and he was working to distance himself? Or was he just voting for her cause of his own time constraints and her vote for Pitch was suspicious enough to vote for.

[Kitanna]

Sally
1: Normal Sally day 1, post 1.
2:

Obviously Nessa did it. She was found at the scene, after all.

Maybe Sally's the real seer and Zil and I are just playing an elaborate prank. Comments that maybe we'll lynch a wolf by sheer dumb luck.
3: Responds to my comment about how dumb luck won't work because Boro isn't in this game and she's not a wolf.
4: Looks at the odds and decides the dumb luck comment maybe wasn't entirely false. Lists who she won't be voting for based on usual Sally nonsense.
5: Banter
6: IC
7: Votes for me. I don't appreciated my name being used near the word "creep", thank you very much. Sounds like she drew a name out of a hat to vote.
Day 2:
8: Makes an interesting point that Nessa's vote makes her look bad and Pitch look good. Not so sure I agree with it.
9: Angry at seer shenanigans. She'll comment later.
It grieves me to say so, 'cause Sally is always high on my list, but for once she doesn't look bad. She hasn't really sad anything that suggests anything other than a frustrated innocent crunched for time.

G55
1: Mostly "I'm alive, but will be back"
2: Responds to a few of Coppermirror's questions observations (Day 1 is mostly banter, especially early and explains the sub-hunter) Doesn't like Sally's vote, but doesn't blame her.
3: Summarizes how she feels about everyone. Continues her dislike of Sally's vote, but understands why she voted as she did. Her two top suspects are Nerwen (for having a feeling about her) and Shasta, because she's worried of him flying under the radar. Seems like Nerwen will get her vote.
4: Dislikes Nessa's vote, feels it is too easy to hide behind.

We judge people by their votes. How are we supposed to judge a person whose vote is not only a throwaway, but also for a person who in no way warrated it because he's not even there?!

A very good point.
5: Votes Nessa.
Not sure what to make of G55. She hasn't spoke up yet today and of her top suspects (Nessa, Nerwen, and Shasta) two are dead and one isn't around yet either. I can see G55-wolf steering votes toward a packmate, but I don't know if I can see it on Day 1. I do find it interesting so many of her suspects have wound up dead.

Eomer
1: Banter
2: Apparently Coppermirror drowns cats. I'm glad I caught this post. I needed a laugh.
3: Makes an interesting scenario out of Zil's "vague feelings", Sally's vote, and Nerwen's attack of Sally's vote.
4: Believes killing Sally is always an option.
5: Recounts the votes so far.
6: Questions Zil's baiting Coppermirror tactic and isn't sure how Zil can figure Nessa or Nerwen's role by my death.
7: If Zil is a wolf, Sally is probably not.
8: Against the Nessa bandwagon, but not for her vote either.
9: Votes Sally.
Day 2:
10: Vote tally.
11: I'll have to reread Zil's post that led to this, but he decides Zil's suspicion of me is genuine. Still thinks it's weird.
12: Response to seer reveals.
At first I wasn't sure what to think of Eomer, but I believe he may well be wolf #3. He distanced himself from the Nessa bandwagon well, but also kept packmate Zil in his sights as a possibility at all times. This way when Zil goes down Eomer can hide behind his earlier suspicions. Whatever happens today I think a closer watch should be kept on him.

Pitch
1: Making up for missed Day 1 banter. Puts down some scenarios for Nessa's vote and vote placement. Asks Copper why she thought Nerwen was a possibly seer.
2: Responds to some of Zil's comments.
3: Response to Sally's post 8.
4: Further response to Copper's various scenarios.
5: Tells Copper I did just do a seer reveal.
6: Asks me to tell my dream.
7: Is unsurprised that someone else seer revealed.
8:

Withholding this benefit from us just because we don't trust you blindly would be dereliction of duty in a Seer.

I am being quite angry with this village and am going to keep my dream to myself. It's thanks to Zil who refuses to go down, but just wants to confuse things. I'm frustrated and angry. I also have nothing to lose but my own life at this point.
9: Believes Zil is the most seerish villager, but isn't ready to vote for me on the off chance I'm telling the truth.
10:

And if we lynch Zil and find him genuine, the point will be moot anyway, is that it?

*shrug* Neither one of us will live past Day 3 anyway.

Pitch is probably innocent.

[Inziladun]

Kudos to Kitwolf for the prodigious effort!

I personally think Coppermirror and G55 are probably innocent.
The former for general good sense, and the latter for the vote on Nessa, which seems unnecessary for a packmate of hers.

Sally doesn't strike me as a likely wolf. Her vote on Kit I put in the same boat as G55's on Nessa: not needed and too dangerous.

Shasta? Well, once again why vote for Nessawolf? Granted, as I said, Nessa's vote for Pitch looked pretty darned fishy, but still, it seems he could have found some other option to buy his mate another Day. I mistrust him in general, though, so it's rather difficult to be objective.

Pitch himself is enigmatic. I do like his skepticism in trying to sort between Kit and me, though it's still so strange to me that Nessa went for him over everyone else. Was it just a throwaway from a wolf wanting to keep above the fray? Or a wolf feeling safe in voting for a mate who hadn't made an appearance all Day and was thus a very unlikely lynch?

And that leaves Eomer. It seemed to me that he was deliberately not understanding what I'd said about my intentions with Coppermirror and Kit, and his vote for Sally could be his picking up on what Nerwen had said, trying to divert things away from Nessa. Rather trips the radar.

[Pitchwife]

I have to vote now, as it's bedtime for me and I most likely won't be able to come online again before DL (which is near the end of my workday).

I hate this whole situation, and if Kit's a wolf, she does the angry frustrated innocent part really well. Also I concur with some of her analyses, most notably those of Cop (whom I think more probably innocent, however) and Eomer (funny, since I considered him a likely packmate for a Kitwolf earlier).

How likely is it, though, that a Zilwolf just happened to random-suspect our seer, of all people, in a seerish-looking way? Also, how much danger of getting lynched toDay was Kit really in prior to her reveal? (Yes, I mentioned her as a possible packmate of Nessa's in my first post, and the thought that Zil was the seer and had dreamed her had crossed my mind, but his continuing existence among the living cast a lot of doubt on that.) What I'm saying is wolvish guilt may have led her to underestimate her chances.

I really think it makes more sense the other way 'round, and Kitwolf is sacrificing herself in order to take down the seer before he can dream her last packmate.

Therefore
++Kitanna

Zil, if you're a wolf, well done. Kit, if you're a wolf, that was a brave attempt; if you're the real seer, may we meet in the flesh some day so you can slap me to your heart's content.

[Coppermirror]

Originally Posted by Kitanna

She pretty much states that she'll vote for a quiet one or the one who hasn't shown up. Which is what Nessa ended up doing.

For most of Day 1, my biggest worry was that people would not talk and that that would make it difficult to make a decent guess about who to vote for. This isn't a normal sized village but a small one, so we were in a lot of danger and absolutely had to catch a wolf on either Day 1 or 2. A quiet Day 1 would mean a village loss; I was thinking that all the wolves needed to do to win was stay relatively quiet, and wait for louder people to turn on each other. So I was inclined towards a favourable view of anyone who was trying to contribute and encourage discussion, and towards suspicion of anyone quiet or who only posted once or twice.

I think you are mis-stating what I said, if only slightly. I didn't say in that post that I intended to vote for a quiet one or for one who hadn't shown. I said that I had intended to do that, but that because more people were posting, now I would wait and see, and that I wasn't sure who to vote for. But fair enough, I did actually continue with a variation on that strategy until part way through page 2. I tried to match people to my idea of what a sensible wolf would be doing. My bad luck was that by the time I wanted to vote, both of my possible suspects had disqualified themselves from those criteria.

Originally Posted by Kitanna

7: She lists our odds again. Stating After reading her scenarios this comment doesn't look too good. The village is so small, losing an innocent through a lynch should always matter.

Here I do think that you're being a bit misleading.

This is what I said, after going through the worst case voting scenarios.

Originally Posted by me

So...for the purpose of avoiding losing the game in two days and not looking further than that, I suppose it doesn't matter too much whether or not we lose an innocent Pitchwife in addition, because if don't find a wolf in those days, we lose anyway. For the longer term, it's more of a problem.

Originally Posted by Kitanna

8: Votes Nessa because she doesn't like that Nessa voted for Pitch, even though she had plans to do so herself. She does state that after working through worst-case scenarios she had changed her mind.

I hadn't planned to vote for Pitchwife. I did consider it and think something along the lines of "Oh no, Pitchwife's going to get mod-fired. Would it help us to lynch him beforehand?" and so I worked through the worst case scenarios to find the answer to that. (Which was no.)

Originally Posted by Kitanna

10: She thinks the wolves thought Nerwen was the seer. I have no clue how she drew this conclusion.
Why you? Why G55? Nerwen looked like a normal Night 2 pick. She didn't vote or leave much behind.

I thought that everyone was likely to assume that G55 and I were probably innocent, based on our votes for Nessa. We were second and third, and this is a very small game with high stakes, with the odds in the wolves' favour. If either of us were wolves, it would be quite unnecessary and risky to place those votes for Nessa. As such, I thought that the wolves would have to be crazy not to reduce the list of probable innocents, unless they believed they had found the Seer. Therefore, I assumed that because they didn't go for me or G55, they must have believed they had the Seer. I explained this on the last page, too. Nerwen would be a totally normal Night 2 pick, yes, but this is not a normal game, is it?

Originally Posted by me

If Galadriel and I are both innocent, and perhaps neither of us is Radagast, and Radagast has by now had two dreams...that's a maximum of two probably-innocents and three known innocents. 5 innocents in an 8 person village, along with 2 wolves and 1 other villager. To me it would make sense for the wolves to have got rid of me or Galadriel last NIGHT, to cut down the number of probably-innocents, unless they had a really good idea who Radagast might be. Perhaps they were being reckless and hoping for maximum gain? Their current odds may not be great.

Originally Posted by Kitanna

What? You never once expressed any desire to lynch Nessa until your vote post. This looks like a "look, I helped catch a wolf, I wanted to vote for her all along, afterall."

It probably does look that way. I actually said that because I thought that Nessa must still be reading the game and might be feeling bad about her mistake in voting for Pitchwife. I wanted to let her know I was going to vote for her for a really lousy reason even if she hadn't slipped up, in case that made her feel better.

I didn't express any desire to lynch Nessa before that post because my reasoning for lynching her before then was arbitrary. My two suspects from earlier in the game had disqualified themselves from my idea of how a sensible wolf would be behaving (ironically, Nessa actually was one of them; Shasta was the other one) and I wanted to vote for someone ASAP, but didn't have any suspicions any more. So because Nessa had one vote as opposed to Kitanna's two, I planned to vote for her in order to create a small tie and see if any information could be gained from how people reacted. I wasn't satisfied with that reason at all - it was a terrible reason because it wasn't based on any real suspicion - so I was happy when she placed such a suspicious vote for Pitchwife. A vote for him at that point wasn't going to help the village, so I assumed she wasn't trying to help the village.

...Which is probably a lot more than you wanted to hear. I hadn't mentioned most of this because I thought it was trivial and irrelevant. Anyway, I hope that helps. Next up, I'll get to looking at that Kitanna and Inziladun analysis.

[satansaloser2005]

Originally Posted by Pitchwife

Hm, I must say you did strike me as the most seerish-looking person in this village exactly because of the vagueness of your suspicion.

Let's not be hasty though. I seem to remember I helped to lynch a seer Kit once, I'd be loath to repeat that mistake. But I must say her "I know a living innocent but I'm not going to tell you" attitude isn't exactly trust-inspiring.

Can I just "This" that entire post? Because I have.


Kit would have been nicely on the lynching block again toDay, so I could see her trying a reveal, but at the same time I could see a poor and frustrated seer!Kit knowing she needs to impart her wisdom while she still can.

How convenient, then, that Dun has dreamt Kit, and Kit Dun. Might we entertain the possibility that they are both wolves, and that this is a rather elaborate scheme? Of course not, because the real seer would have spoken up by now. (Unless of course it's me and that "reveal" up there was, at least in its former parts, genuine. But how likely is that, right?)


At this moment I'm more inclined to trust Dun, but I know nothing for certain, at least as far as wolves are concerned. I'm off to tidy my lair, but I will return later with less confusing (but still frustratingly honest, apparently ) thoughts.