Tol-in-Gaurhoth XXII: Hic Monstrae Trucidant

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Mormegil... I'm a NextGen fan. No DS9 for me. I suspect your potential realization relied on the show?

[Nogrod]

There are things people should not speculate aloud, for all our safety. I truly understand Fea's sarcasm when she said she had overestimated her fellows...

I'm not sure we are numerous enough to turn this tide. The situation is made worse because we have no other viable candidate at the moment (I wouldn't like to see Morm go either).

tgwbs? I suspect him, but there seems to be not enough others...

Durelin? There has been votes for her, but I didn't have time to come up with my looking at her before this maddness started (and we have to share the computer time with Lommy now - 45 minutes).

Suggestions, anyone?

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Originally Posted by Mithalwen

Why? either Fea is a wolf and that is good for us or we lose someone who can't really participate and will cause more confusion ....... Fea can be brilliant or disastrous.... I am not sure this won't be a help one way or another. At least we have some genuine reactions and thoughts rather than people reporting others' doings under the name of insight......

Mithalwen, I love you!

[Mithalwen]

Originally Posted by Nogrod

Suggestions, anyone?

Tell me why you want Fea to stay... that is my suggestion.

[mormegil]

Originally Posted by Feanor of the Peredhil

Mormegil... I'm a NextGen fan. No DS9 for me. I suspect your potential realization relied on the show?

Sadly yes it did, Perhpaps I'm overthinking this, but more likely under thinking it

[Thinlómien]

I am so confused!

To be honest I have no idea who Fea is, but I don't want to see her go. I see no point in it.

++Durelin

I come back after thinking about this a bit more...

[Thinlómien]

I don't want to see Fea go before I've thought about this a bit more. The only reason for my vote.

[Mithalwen]

Thinlomien. I don't know exactly what is going on but I stronlgly suspect that it is best to roll with it.

I am beginning to think those who obstruct are wolvish .....

[Mithalwen]

and does anyone else imagine that Noggin and Lommy may be fighting over the keyboard?

[Thinlómien]

Originally Posted by mith

I am beginning to think those who obstruct are wolvish .....

On what basis? Or are you trying to make people vote fea if they want to save their skins?

I'm so confused i maybe shouldn't be saying anything. I will be back, but don't know when. *goes and thinks it over*

[Mithalwen]

No but because we have no cobbler in this game. Either we lose a wolf or we have a great plan helpful to the village going on.

Either way only wolves can gain by stopping Fea.

[the guy who be short]

To be honest, I'm lost too. There are four roles I have believed, over the last half hour, Fea to play. I'm just going along with it because I hope the rest of you have some idea what's going on.

[Celuien]

Originally Posted by mormegil

Star Trek Deep Space Nine?

If you were overthinking, so was I. It appears that we're thinking along the same lines, though for different reasons.

Hoping we've figured out what we were supposed to...

(PS Kirk was the best captain. )

[Mithalwen]

Oh do remember to expalin it all sometime ..... well I have to go I will leave this in the hands of the cognoscenti

[the guy who be short]

I'm half expecting Fea to rise again and save the village.

[Nogrod]

This is a double-edged sword we are playing with right now. Without all this hassle it might have turned right.

But I have given it some thought now (it was good, Lommy took the keyboard and I had to go to the balcony to think about this in peace for a while). And maybe we should go for Fea anyways. You all know her role now. She will be more dangerous to us every Night she lives.

Earlier I was just thinking that we villagers should keep our wildcard alive to help us (I invested in that from the beginningt). But surely now it's somewhat different and I see the dangers more clearly with this additional information as she clearly has not picked even the first baddie to date...

++ Fea

[Cailín]

I just need some time to breathe.

I have no idea what is going on.

(un game-related) I do want to apologise to you, Fea, for offending you earlier - no matter what the turnout. I just can't stand it when people are acting all superior and secretive around me - it happens to me too often in daily life. And then I'm suddenly all explosive and and... quite dramatic.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

TGWBS, the plan is to die and save the village.

Nogrod, I'm so confused...

[Nogrod]

THIS IS LOMMY POSTING - NOT NOGROD...

And for clarity's sake, I remove the vote from here as Lommy made it again in a separate post of her own...
Okay, I've thought this over. I'm reluctant to do this, but it seems necessary, though my vote, I think, changes nothing. I hope things are as I believe.

deleted vote was here

But really... Fea? Any last words? (Of course it's yours to speculate whether it's wise or not.)

[Celuien]

Originally Posted by Fea

Nogrod, I'm so confused...

Uh-oh. Guess I was wrong. Nogrod was implying the same thing I thought. Oh well.

Mystified again. I'll work on figuring out the plan later.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Cailin: no worries. It takes a lot more than a game to offend me. Sorry if I came off superior... I was frustrated, but that's no excuse.

Noggie, I reread your post and I still think I missed something.

[Thinlómien]

IMPORTANT

I posted as Nogrod just a minute ago. So to make it plain and clear:

-- Durelin
++ Fea

[Durelin]

the very defensive durelin

*rolls all over the floor laughing her bum off*

You guys are hilarious.

I've been gone for too long, sorry everyone. But...this is just silliness. Fea's begging to be lynched and you're granting her that? I suppose if you really have no clue.

I suppose Day ends fairly soon, right? So I think I'd best vote. If anything changes in the next 19 minutes, then I might change it, but probably not. I suppose it could be called a 'throw away vote,' anyway, but I'm voting for who I think is guilty.

++Celuien

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Oh dear. Gotcha.

You're wrong.

[Celuien]

Originally Posted by Nogrod

Okay, I've thought this over. I'm reluctant to do this, but it seems necessary, though my vote, I think, changes nothing. I hope things are as I believe.

-- Durelin
++ Fea

But really... Fea? Any last words? (Of course it's yours to speculate whether it's wise or not.)

So this is your post, Lommy?

[Celuien]

Originally Posted by Feanor of the Peredhil

Oh dear. Gotcha.

You're wrong.

I was afraid of that. Overthinking is such a pain.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Yeah, I forgot that aspect of the game. Oops. It's what I get for being so short on time.

Durelin, you think you've got me, eh?

[Celuien]

Originally Posted by Durelin

I've been gone for too long, sorry everyone. But...this is just silliness. Fea's begging to be lynched and you're granting her that? I suppose if you really have no clue.

Well, also because I was acting under an assumption of a plan to eliminate a wild card from the village. That plan is now shown to be false, but there may be other possibilities that I have to think about. Fea has said that she had a plan for us to put into action tomorrow. It eludes me right now, but I'll work on finding it.

[Durelin]

I don't think I've got anyone. I'm just voting for who I believe to be guilty.

I just see eliminating a villager a step forward for the wolves, even if it is a 'unhelpful' villager, or what have you.

EDIT: And yes, Fea could be a suicidal wolf, but that doesn't seem probable enough for me to take part in lynching her.

[Nogrod]

Well Fea, I'm just not sure what to say about this. I have been quite sure about your role in the village from the ending of the last Day onwards. Maybe I was wrong, for I can see no reason for you to bluff anymore, at this moment.

If I was right: you played it bravely and thinking for the common good. Kudos for you!

If I was wrong: well, I got taken by your melodramatics that had their basic cause outside this game?

But surely, getting one more innocent lynched in this situation is not good at all...

[Celuien]

Oh, I might as well come out with it. Can't help the wolves if I talk about my theory because it's wrong. I thought Fea was implying that she's the Changling and wanted us to lynch her not only to limit the number of villager deaths if she wound up being auto-eliminated but also to prevent her joining the wolf team and losing the game for the village that way. But I'm wrong.

[Celuien]

And we'll find out in about 5 minutes anyway...

[Durelin]

Well, the Changeling would be an interesting catch, yes. Forgot about that role for a moment (*smacks self*).

[mormegil]

Originally Posted by Celuien

Oh, I might as well come out with it. Can't help the wolves if I talk about my theory because it's wrong. I thought Fea was implying that she's the Changling and wanted us to lynch her not only to limit the number of villager deaths if she wound up being auto-eliminated but also to prevent her joining the wolf team and losing the game for the village that way. But I'm wrong.

This was what I've been thinking also.

[Celuien]

DS9. Odo.

[Nogrod]

Originally Posted by mormegil

This was what I've been thinking also.

What do you people think I have been shouting for?

But her last posts have been weird, I have to admit. 2 minutes to the end and some more to clarity...

[Kath]

Day 3 is now over. Stop talking please.

[Kath]

Most of the village stood around in vague confusion. Fea had somehow contrived to get herself lynched, but not one of them could work out why she’d done it, and now that she was the Day’s lynch candidate, no one could work out what to do with her.

“So, um, we going for the favourite animal thing again?” Asked someone tentatively.

“Ha!” Fea snorted scornfully. “None of you will even have heard of my favourite animal, even if you could work out what it is.”

Enraged at the slight on their intelligence, the villagers threw insults right back at her. Too rude, too popular, too facetious, as well as some insults regarding a certain ‘friend’ that were not to be repeated. But the one that all the villagers agreed on, whatever their own differences, was that she was just too chatty.

The point was made over and over, Fea just laughing in agreement, angering them more. They began to stamp on the ground in time to their chant of ‘too chatty, too chatty’. They were making so much noise that they never heard the rumbling coming from a distance. Well, no one but Fea that is. Eyes suddenly wide she screamed at them to stop.

“Shut up! Look! It’s coming, please, you have to stop!”

But the villagers simply jeered at her, thinking that they were at last making an impression on this fearless girl, and carried on, getting even louder. Fea’s pleas were drowned out and ignored. She tried to run, struggling against the hands that held her in place, but there were too many and they were too strong.

Yet slowly, inexorably, the crowd began to part. A creature passed through, causing those around it to fall back in fear. It headed straight for Fea, who was now frozen in terror at the sight before her. It glowed slightly, a greenish tinge, bathing everyone around it in it’s light. Quietly someone whimpered.

“It’s a . . .a . . . c-c-c-chat skwerl!”

Turning its furry head, the swerl fixed the speaker with menacing eyes.

“Chat skwerl says . . . no more chat.”

Moving to face Fea again, the creature repeated the order. For an order it was, quiet but firm words that brooked no argument. Yet Fea being Fea, she still tried.

“But, but, I’m innocent you see, this was all a great big ploy, you don’t need to . . .”

“Chat skwerl says . . . no more chat.”

“Oh but it isn’t chat! I have this plan . . .”

The skwerl was becoming angry now. This mere girl was arguing with it? What madness was this? Louder now, it repeated the command.

“Chat skwerl says . . . no more chat!”

Poor Fea just couldn’t help herself. Cursed with the gift of the gab she continued to talk, to argue with this all-powerful rule setter. As she kept talking, the skwerl began to change colour, going from a faint green to a yellow, onto a brighter orange, and finally into an angry, pulsing red. At last scared into silence, Fea looked up at it.

“Chat skwerl says . . . no more Fea.”

With one swipe of a giant paw Fea was on the ground. The skwerl stood above her and stared down. Red eyes met dark ones and the gazes locked. The villagers were now all behind the pair, and so no one saw what passed between them during those few moments, but after the skwerl stepped away, it was clear to all that Fea had been silenced forever. In one bound the skwerl disappeared, and the villagers stepped closer to get a good look.

Used to the grim jobs, lmp bent down to close Fea’s eyes, which were still staring up at where the skwerl had been. As he got closer he gasped in shock. There in the centre of her pupils a faint red glow could still be seen. The skwerl’s warning would be with her for the rest of time, burned into her body. But whatever she had done to incur it’s wrath, the crime had not been werewolvery. Fea was innocent.


Dead:
Night 1 ~ Kath, killed by a turtle in an aerial attack ~ Innocent.
Day 1 ~ Boromir, lynched by the villagers by means of lions ~ Innocent.
Night 2 ~ Formendacil, killed by a coyote and it's trickery ~ Innocent.
Day 2 ~ Saucepan Man, lynched by the villagers by means of a platypus catapault ~ Innocent.
Day 2 ~ Nilpaurion Felagund, killed by an emerging alter-ego ~ Innocent.
Night 3 ~ dancing spawn of ungoliant ~ Innocent.
Day 3 ~ Feanor of the Peredhil, killed by a chat skwerl ~ Innocent.

Living:
Lhuna - traveller with absolutely no sense of direction
Cailín - tragedienne
Celuien - ketchup grower
TGWBS - Pokémaster
Lommy - AA-adviser
Nogrod - owner of ME's first hamburger restaurant
lmp - gravedigger
Tom - tree surgeon
Caran - town poet
Findëasëa (from now called Fin) - alpaca herder
Mith - aura consultant
morm - butcher
Durelin - ninja



Night 4 has now begun.
Wolves, Seer, Ranger, Hunter and Changeling please PM me your choices.

[Kath]

Having been busy with voting and trying to protect her house from werewolves all day, Fin had quite forgotten about her alpaca, who had been waiting quietly outside for her to lead them to their nightly grazing spot just outside town. Berating herself for having left this until so late Fin considered leaving them where they were for the night, but knew that they would just eat all the vegetables in her neighbours gardens, and that was liable to get her lynched.

Knowing she had very little time before darkness fell, Fin quickly grabbed a stick from the wall and headed outside. Finding the lead alpaca, she gave it a small prod, and it stopped it’s chewing to fix her with a bemused gaze, before ambling off in the direction of the fields. Slowly, the rest of the herd followed, with Fin at the back.

The troop reached the field just as the last bit of light faded away, and Fin made fast work of ensuring the gates were securely fastened before heading back to the village at a good pace. She kept a sharp eye out for both the wolves and other animals, having seen what the beasts were capable of doing to people over the last few days.

However, for all her scrutiny and wariness, she never looked at the ground, and this proved to be her downfall. Slinking along beside her was a sea otter, dark in colour and keeping to the shadows. It’s keen eyes caught sight of the wolves long before Fin’s did, and it prepared itself to help them make Fin the nightly snack.

Finally, Fin saw the wolves creeping towards her from the town, and began to turn and make a run for it. As she did so, the otter leapt on her leg and sunk it’s teeth deep into her ankle, making her scream in pain and fall to the ground.

In an instant the wolves were on her back and she knew she would die. While they ripped into her, the otter carefully gnawed at the stick she had been carrying, giving it a sharp point. One of the wolves saw this and took hold of it in between giant paws. Fin was flipped over, bleeding from dozens of wounds, and saw her fate. Screaming again she tried to move away but the wolves held her tight, and she watched as the stake came shooting towards her.

It went clean through her heart and she died on the spot, a half-formed scream still on her lips. The wolves threw their heads up to howl, and then down again to feast.

The next morning, the villagers awoke to see Fin’s impaled body attached to her house. A few wondered whether the stake through the heart meant anything, but as it didn’t seem to signify anything to do with any of their Gifted’s they put it down as just being another example of the wolves’ sick sense of humour, and left lmp to his dirty work.


Dead:
Night 1 ~ Kath, killed by a turtle in an aerial attack ~ Innocent.
Day 1 ~ Boromir, lynched by the villagers by means of lions ~ Innocent.
Night 2 ~ Formendacil, killed by a coyote and it's trickery ~ Innocent.
Day 2 ~ Saucepan Man, lynched by the villagers by means of a platypus catapault ~ Innocent.
Day 2 ~ Nilpaurion Felagund, killed by an emerging alter-ego ~ Innocent.
Night 3 ~ dancing spawn of ungoliant, head crushed by a horse ~ Innocent.
Day 3 ~ Feanor of the Peredhil, killed by a chat skwerl ~ Innocent.
Night 4 ~ Findëasëa, maimed by a sea otter ~ Innocent

Living:
Lhuna - traveller with absolutely no sense of direction
Cailín - tragedienne
Celuien - ketchup grower
TGWBS - Pokémaster
Lommy - AA-adviser
Nogrod - owner of ME's first hamburger restaurant
lmp - gravedigger
Tom - tree surgeon
Caran - town poet
Mith - aura consultant
morm - butcher
Durelin - ninja

Day 4 has now begun. Villagers start talking.

Cailín will not be here toDay, but with two people having dropped out already I'm not going to kill her off.

[mormegil]

Okay I thought that Fea was the changling and was helping out on that but I think I just had an epiphany and realized that she would have to drop out either way so she saved us by taking our lynching spot. I could be wrong as I was fairly confused. One thing is certain, Fea though Durelin to be a wolf. I do too and still hold that TGWBS is too.