Werewolf Classic I (In session)

[Atreyu the Masked LLama]

*The llama-fish studies the scene from the edge of the lake.* "For years have I protected this town while managing to keep myself hidden, but the threat of the wolves is too great. As afraid as I am of the shepard mentality, I realize that it is a no win situation for anyone who doesn't point at Jontom.

The mighty llama-fish points a hoof at Jontom.

[Kyrian]

Jontom, my friend. If we're wrong...please, forgive me.

*Kyrian points at Jontom

[Death, your friend the Reaper]

*Death points at Exachix.

Just as likely as the other at this moment.

[Ms_Elaneous]

Ms E notices who Death is pointing at. Exachix has been hiding from view. Yeah, how about the creepy guy whose been silently watching us?

*Points at Exachix.*

[Ink]

"Hmm, Jontom certainly looks suspicious. Heck, all of the newcomers look suspicious at this point. But somehow my gut feeling is telling me that Dispozition had something to do with this."

* Ink points at Dispozition

[Lord Fullbladder, Master of Goblins]

The strange figure, and even stranger, stiff-legged gait of one of the other six newcomers appears amongst the crowds. It is, of course, Lord Johnstrum Fullbladder, a human despite all logic, as every Fullbladder within ten thousand kilometers of this town is a goblin of the Fullbladder Clan. He leans heavily on his gnarled staff.

"I cannot believe you people. A werewolf kills one of your own, and suddenly all are pointing fingers! Have you no shame? No compassion for your fellow sentient beings? Yes, you too, O Mighty Sea God of the Llamas. We are just as sentient as you." He pauses, adjusts his sombrero, and tosses an unadorned golden ring in the air a couple of times. "It does no good to follow the first to vote for a lynching. That person may be the Wolf you're looking for. Nay, 'tis better seek the guilty party by other means...." He pauses once more, holding up the ring to gaze through it at each of them.

"But it is as you choose. I cannot influence the wills of the many, nor the wills of the few."

This said, he sits down, and starts inspecting the ring.

[Indurain]

Indurain watches as fingers are pointed with reckless abandon.

Why must everyone throw blame around so easily? The ways of this place seem strange to me? However, when in Rome...

Indurain's hand slowly rises, until it points at Jontom.

Gods, let us be right.

[DarkLightDragon]

Well, it has to be someone. I just hope we're right...

*DLD points at Jontom*

[Destro_Yersul]

Destro also raises his hand to point at Jontom. Wait, what? I do? It takes him a while, as he needs time to consider his options, but Jontom does seem the most suspicious at the moment. Guess I can't argue with that.

Points at Jontom

[Jontom Xire]

Oh great. Didn't I just say it. First game where I get lynched by the mob instead of eaten by wolves.

At least this way my body won't be desecrated by being torn apart. Not that that's any consolation.

Guys, please. Don't lynch me. I know a wolf would say this, but I'm not a werewolf. Really. Please?

I'd also like to point out that:

Skull pushes some loser out of his way so he can address the crowd. "Dude. Its totally obvious that Jontom Xire is a wolf. I mean, he jumped on the bandwagon with the whole 'I have nothing better to go on right now'. Lynch him now!" Skull walks about, punching his fist in his open hand, daring anyone to disagree.

was how this whole thing started. By merely following Eldritch Knight's somewhat random suggestion. That I did so was because I didn't want to be culled so wanted to get a vote in while I could (I had a works lunch and afternoon thing yesterday). It's so ironic. I get lynched by a bunch of people just jumping on the bandwagon because I seconded a vote (which hardly counts as jumping on a bandwagon anyway).

Oh, and Skull? I dare to disagree. You wanna make something of it? <Jontom smiles showing all his many, many teeth>

[Exachix]

Exachix looks over at Jontom.

"Very true. However, at this point it's very hard to judge if people are indeed the werewolves we are looking for. However, his point is true. EK's own initial vote that had very little premise in fact."

[evnafets]

The way I am looking at it, we are condemning Jontom as werewolf for exactly the same thing that all of us are doing - jumping on the bandwagon.
He followed the original vote of Eldritch, and everyone leaped on him as a wolf. People who live in glasshouses shouldn't throw stones.

If Jontom WAS a wolf, I think a bunch of votes for Dispozition would have followed, rather than votes for Jontom - to pull the attention away from Jontom. Since that hasn't happened, I don't think Jontom is a wolf.

Then who is?
Someone currently pointing at Jontom is my guess
It wouldn't be the second person, or even the third in my opinion. Too obvious.
So lets look at positions 4,5,6 in order of voting (Bookman, Tharj, Altharis)
evnafets points at Bookman.

[Jontom Xire]

Alarra nods. "That does seem wolflike, following someone else's accusation with no reasoning at all. I was about to say the same thing."

* Alarra points at Jontom Xire

Umm, actually at this stage until something happens there is no reasoning to be had, and as one of the "outsiders" I'm naturally more at risk. I was just hoping a bandwagon might form that WASN'T pointing at me. However now that the bandwagon has formed, there is stuff we can tell from it as Evnafets has pointed out.

I'm not a wolf. And I think Evnafets' logic is good in that if I was, my fellow wolves might well have helped me by voting elsewhere.

By the same token I think Evnafets is not a wolf either. It would help the wolf cause to have a nice easy meaningless bandwagon in the first round. The more interaction there is, the more evidence to point at the wolves. He might be playing a very clever game, but as one of the "outsiders" he is taking a bit of a risk by speaking up so openly.

It has just occurred to me, as well, that we know (I think) that there is only one wolf in the "outsiders", so once we find that wolf the rest of us must be villagers. Which promptly puts us on the wolf's lunch list as top priority. Geesh I hate being an "outsider". It offers such a short life expectancy.

Anyway I think Evnafets' analysis is missing one point. This is a big bandwagon to come so suddenly. Why? Perhaps because a wolf got pointed at in the first vote and the other wolves panicked. So they pointed at the first "outsider" they could possibly find anything wrong with. Me.

So my finger stays on Dispozition. I also look with suspicion on Tormsskull. I know wolves don't usually start bandwagons quite like that, but in an emergency... I also look with mixed feelings on those that HAVEN'T voted for me, especially the ones that didn't vote for me after the bandwagon was well formed. Perhaps they are trying to avoid voting alongside other wolves so as to be hidden. I am sure that people in groups, like masons and wolves, in other games, are doing some quite ridiculous pointing in random directions so as to appear unconnected to their fellows. It has even been suggested (sometimes by me) that they might be pointing at each other so as to seem even more unconnected.

[B-Man]

Quick Tally:

Bookman (1)
evnafets

Dispozition (2)
Ink
Jontom Xire

Elditch Knight (1)
Silkenfist

Exachix (2)
Death, your friend the Reaper
Ms. E

Jontom Xire (13)
Alarra
Altharis
Atreyu the Masked LLama
Bookman
DarkLightDragon
Destro
Elditch Knight
Exachix
Indurain
Kyrian
Raistlin1040
Tharj TreeSmiter
Tormsskull

No Vote (7)
Dispozition
Joobawx
Kantur
Korith
Krursk
Lord Fullbladder, Master of Golbins
Weebl

Jontom, if you'd like to write up your death and send it to both Lucky and I, day will end soon with Jontom having the majority of the votes, else the day will end at 8 PM EST tonight.

[Death, your friend the Reaper]

I have been thinking, has B-man been ambitious recently? Has he tried to become mayor instead?

I say when Lucky comes back we lynch him since he is the only one who would have a motivation now we think about it.

*Death would change his vote to Lucky, but isn't sure if he can lynch someone who isn't actually around*

[Tormsskull]

Oh, and Skull? I dare to disagree. You wanna make something of it? <Jontom smiles showing all his many, many teeth>

Skull laughs, pointing at Jontom. "Pshhh. I've taken people bigger and badder then you. 'sides, teeth are for wimps. Real men use their fists."

[DarkLightDragon]

*DLD glances at Skull*

Is that right? Want sword?

*DLD unstraps her sword and holds it in front of her*

[Alarra]

It has just occurred to me, as well, that we know (I think) that there is only one wolf in the "outsiders", so once we find that wolf the rest of us must be villagers. Which promptly puts us on the wolf's lunch list as top priority. Geesh I hate being an "outsider". It offers such a short life expectancy.

Wait....where did you get the idea that there's only one wolf in the outsiders? Is there any evidence stating so?

[evnafets]

Only those posts #29 and #30 in this thread where the idea was originally suggested. It is by no means conclusive,

Assuming that there is one and only one werewolf in the "newcomers", you have a 1/7 chance in picking that one out ~= 14%
With no extra info, there are 6 wolves and 26 players 6/26 ~= 23% chance.
Take those 7 names out of the pot (6 villagers, 1 werewolf), and you have 5/19 ~= 26% chance of picking a werewolf at random.

I dunno if these statistics mean anything. You can twist the figures anyway you like.
I can see pros and cons to being on the list.
bad = target for lynch as the villagers try to root out the one wolf
good = safer from werewolf attack, seeing as each villager dead from that list gives the werewolf less of a pack to hide in.

[Eldritch Knight]

Uhh, B-man, You've spelled my name wrong. It's Eldritch Knight, not Elditch Knight. Just pointing that out.

And evnafets, I agree. It's possible that there are more werewolves in that list of names, but if we slowly whittle it down, we can use the information gathered to figure out who's suspicious, and who's not.

[Lucky]

The sun began to set in the village; a new fear had been born that morning, and it would appear that it would be a while yet until it was gone. With six wolves on the loose, things were grim for this village. As the sun sank in the sky, the village grew anxious and determined it was time for one of them to show his true colours; as he hung from a rope on the gallows. The NPC mob grabbed their pitchforks and torches and surrounded the newcomer Jontom Xire. "You're making a big mistake!" he shouted as he was tied, but to no avail. The sky darkened as Jontom was dragged up the steps of the gallows, an omen of the result to come. Jontom continued to struggle as the noose was placed around his neck, refusing to accept his fate. "You'll regret this! All of you! I'll see you in hell! Especially you Torms-." His words are interrupted as the gallows release and his body drops like a stone, his neck snapping as the rope draws taut. The villagers wait anxiously for the transformation to come, but it was not to be. On the gallows dangled an innocent villager, who's only fault was his terrible timing. The villagers gazed in horror at what they had done, their cheers and jeers halted. The sun disappeared into the horizon as the village went completely dark. This would be the first night after the attacks, clearly more were to come. The mob dispersed quickly, not wanting to be the last ones outside at night, leaving our PCs all alone by the gallows, 6 werewolves among them. The full moon would rise soon, it's best everyone get indoors.

((Summary- Jontom Xire was lynched, he was a Villager.

Alright guys, the first night begins, everyone with nightly duties, so Seer, Fool, Devil and one representitive from the wolves please send me everything. Again I stress, send them to ME. Mememe! That's my job!

Goodnight guys and gals.))

Night Begins!

[B-Man]

((But! But! I wanna be included!! ))

[Eldritch Knight]

So, the first innocent perishes. How long until we find the guilty?

[DarkLightDragon]

*DLD hisses in anger and stomps into her house, muttering darkly*

[Alarra]

Alarra sighs, feels guilty for being one of the first to condemn an innocent and heads into her house, locking the door several times.

[Indurain]

"Oh lord...we..." Indurain runs into a side alley where he promptly deposits the contents of his stomach.

"What kind of a town is this?" He asks to himself. Watching as the crowd disperses, he feels shamed. Slowly he walks towards his new house, to think about what has been done.

[Exachix]

Exachix sighs, ashamed slightly, before he too wanders off to his own home, silently again, thinking on the misdirection they took today.

[Jontom Xire]

Whooo, whooooooooooo. I told yooouuuu sooooooooo.

The ghost of Jontom Xire tries to devour Skull's fists so he can't use them but gives up when he realises he cannot touch material things.


<OOC> Sorry I didn't submit a death post - timezones suck. I just wanted to say that my wings would prevent me being hanged unless you tied them up.</OOC>

[Silkenfist]

The wanderer returns, exhausted from the journey. As he arrives, he sees the silhouette of a man against the fading sun, dangling from the gallows. He shakes his head and mutters: "What did you do? Oh Heavens, What did they do?"

[Lucky]

<OOC> Sorry I didn't submit a death post - timezones suck. I just wanted to say that my wings would prevent me being hanged unless you tied them up.</OOC>

((I'd also just like to say you were tied up. ))