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Werewolf - A Mod's Perspective


Part III: Post-Desaster

Day Four - continued.
When we left Númenóre, we had a vote count of Lalaith 3, Saucepan 3, tgwbs 3, with Lalaith having gotten there first. Lalaith just retracted a little strangely from tgwbs to SPM. The Saucepan Man therefore should be lynched now.
But somehow my brain got the retraction wrong and removed tgwbs instead. The mistake wasn’t that horrible on its own, but I posted not only the deadline and the kill of tgwbs, but also immediately gave away his role. This way it was definite. The horrible thing is, I did this all the time! Each day I told myself not to: there could be cross-posting, I could make a fault...but no. Somehow, each day, I was so involved in following the game that I forgot it... four days in a row...
It’s this... stupidity, this thoughtlessness that I am cursing myself for, not so much the actual miscount, which could have happened to everybody. I’m even sure I wouldn’t have gotten it wrong if not both, tgwbs and SPM had been wolves.

Night Five.
One - hilarous, in hindsight - cross-posting hell broke loose on the admin thread after my fault. I decided to keep the solution as simple as possible. tgwbs had to die, the Saucepan Man got to live on. Mänwe was also killed - he failed to vote for two days, which absolved him from having to withdraw officially. I was too mixed up to do the narration at the time, so I delayed it on the next day. I only got to finish it one our prior to the deadline and Hookbill confused it with the night-narration and started posting. Not so hasty! ;)

Day Five.
It was clear to the wolves than SPM would become the main target of the Day, so he and Durelin planned to get some separation from each other and started to heavily suspect the other. A seemingly simple tactic, but it worked out marvellously and Durelin was suddenly regarded as innocent by most.
Generally, this was a quite straight-forward day, not much special, not much funny. Once more Lommy tried an analytic approach but was dissatisfied with the outcome. Yep, analysis is over-rated.
The idea to give SPM a pythonesque death (check his sig!) was a spontaneous one, unlike the others, which I already had in the back of my head more or less.

Night Six.
Kath got killed, nothing else.

Day Six.
Being now rid of obvious Faithfuls and known innocents, Day Six was somewhat nervous again. Durelin and Legate managed to blend in perfectly while the village was clutching at all the few straws they could find. In the end, this led to Ranger Gil-Galad being lynched. Unfortunately neither he nor Hunter Lommy were present at the deadline, so there was no big fight. Ironically Gil was lynched for being too right with his votes. I can’t remember Gil was ever lynched for, in fact, playing too well. ;)

Night Seven.
Durelin and Legate later said that they wanted to avoid the hunter this night. Apparently, they were no better at gifted-guessing than the innocents were at wolves-guessing the previous day: They went for Lommy. I couldn’t resist the urge to tell them even before the deadline what they had done, while leaving open the result of Lommy’s hunt.
The wolves were incredibly lucky, for it was only the second time in the whole game Lommy didn’t have a Faithful in her list. Many times, she had three of four.

Day Seven.
Because of Lommy’s strong suspicions towards Kitanna, she became a quasi-known innocent, but didn’t have the net-time to benefit from it. Being widely trusted Durelin started the voting with Hookbill and Mith took her lure and made it two. Lalaith, ever suspicious of Mith, immediately voted her in turn. At this point the village was pretty much doomed (though it didn't occur to me at the time. I was totally unaware that this could have been the last day!) Legate added a second vote for Mith and Kitanna sealed it with a third for Hookbill. Unfortunately, again, the victim wasn’t present to defend himself, so the game ended a little bit disappointing.


Concluding, I have to say that modding is much more exhausting than I thought, especially this having to be creative on command when writing the narrations. Other than that, it was extreme fun. Reading through all that is said while knowing the truth is very intriguing. I found myself to be rooting for the one side on one day, and for the other on the next.

And isn't this the nicest thing you have ever seen?

Werewolf - A Mod's Perspective


Part II: Pre-Desaster

(Reminder: Wolves: SPM, tgwbs, Durelin, Legate; Seer: Rikae, Ranger: Gil, Hunter: Lommy; Cobbler: Roa)


Day One.
I’m making a bold prediction: Mith will never ever again make a first post in a WW game. Her “If anyone has a watertight method for distinguishing gifted odd vibe from wolvish odd vibe please share!” haunted her for days. :D
Other than that, it began pretty Day-One-ish. The wolves played quite careful and contained and the innocents grasped every straw they could find. Rikae made a somewhat suspicious vote, but that was all - until Garin appeared, who seemingly ran mad with very suspicious behaviour. It was very ‘confused innocent’-ish from my perspective, but lacking alternatives, it came down to a race between him and Rikae. This ended with Rikae revealing her seer role (“I am the weaver!”, anyone? ;p ) and Garin went down.
As a side note, the triangle of Roa, SPM and Nogrod was extremely amusing from the Mod’s point of view.

Night Two
saw the withdrawals of Holbytlass and The Might, a pity. The wolves hoped that the ranger would gamble on Rikae - Gil didn't. So, two corpses and no murder.

Day Two.
Knowing Rikae would reveal Roa’s cobblerdom this day, I experienced Roa’s analysis-frenzy burying my head in my hands. All that work – and all the time I knew it would be for naught. Poor girl. And then Rikae even said she will only reveal her dreams later that day!
Well, after Roa had provided about 2/3 of the text for the day so far, Rikae told everybody they shouldn’t even bother reading it. Few even talked about the newly-known innocence of Nogrod, because Roa was now intend to draw all attention towards her for the time she had left, and she did it very successfully. A few even had doubts concerning Rikae’s seerdom. A great debate began whether it would be better to lynch Roa (and her noise and her evil vote) or let her live (to add her to the number of innocents while ignoring her), each side suspecting the other of containing the wolves (btw.: at the time I personally would have been for letting her live. In hindsight, if she would have been willing to keep her noise on the day two-level, she might have been a fatal distraction). It’s interesting to look at the votes Roa didn’t get: SPM, tgwbs, Legate. It didn’t look all that good for the wolves...

Night Three.
There was a little too much chatting on the admin thread, Glirdan had to be removed for not participating, but otherwise, all quiet on the modding front. Rikae got killed as expected.

Day Three
The guy and the shortlist, or: it's not what you write - it's what others like to read out of it. ;)
tgwbs talked about letting Nogrod make a list of three and then let everybody only vote one of those, but he clearly dismissed the idea. Many seemed to have misread it and ever and ever it was brought up again that it’s a bad idea and each time with the comment that his approval of it makes Jay look suspicious. Jay’s rising disgruntlement about this was priceless! The more he defended himself, the more eyebrows were raised.* ;D
Generally, this was an extremely focussed day: A lot of analysis, debate and well-founded arguments. It’s amazing how such a focussed village can still go so wrong. In the end it came down to an unholy - and very exciting - race between Rune and Brinn (I still don’t really understand what made so many people suspcious of the two..). The votes started to turn against Rune first, then some wanted to have a counter-bandwaggon, which became Brinniel. Short before the deadline, people wanted to save Brinniel again and lynch Rune instead, but too late: a tie, with Brinniel having the number of votes first. Not one vote had been cast against a wolf on this day - now it looked pretty good for them.

Night Four
Rune got killed, that’s all.

Day Four.
The Day of DOOM:
Mänwe starts it with making a weird comment in the day’s first post. For some reason dead-Roa exploded and wrote Mänwe a vitriolic PM. Mänwe in turn was seriously offended (understandably) and posts the whole PM on the admin thread (not understandably) and announces to withdraw. I caught up on the whole thing a little late because I was still finishing the narration. The first thing I did when I read what happened was PM Mänwe telling him to rethink his decision in my most soothing tone (while still asking him why he had to post the PM and what his comment in the game was about). I then responded to a PM from a person whose name I promised not to give away before I wrote a short statement for the admin thread (which got to feature some more comments in the meantime). When I previewed it, I saw that morm already had deleted all, which I think was the best decision to not let the game be overshadowed by it. I PMed him shortly how I saw the situation. Mänwe had answered in the meantime, telling me he will overthink his decision and then, after cooling down a bit, I PMed Roa. She promised to apologise openly once the game is over, which she later did.
I was hanging in the air a bit concerning Mänwe, which caused some comments in the game, but in the end he didn’t manage to vote, like the day before, and thus everything solved itself.
Yes, there was actually a game played, too. Nogrod finally gave a formidable alpha-known-innocent and vocally pinned down three wolves. The following squabble between him and especially tgwbs and Durelin was absolutely hilarious. It looked very good for the innocents now, but then a Lalaith-bandwaggon, initiated by SPM, came up and the others were divided between tgwbs and the Saucepan. Short before the deadline, all three had three votes each with Lalaith having gotten there first. She then retracted her vote from Jay to SPM, to save herself, in a slightly unconventional manner, but that is neither excuse nor explanation for what happened then...
For a beast more deadly than all wolves and cobblers combined entered the stage, inspiring fear and awe. Behold! the Confused Mod!


... to be continued.


*This reminds me of Day One in Valier’s game. I was talking about things concerning Kitanna in some of my posts and then a few accused me of trying to draw attention towards Kitanna in a sneaky way. The problem: each time I defended myself against this, I necessarily had to mention Kitanna again, which in turn made those people even more suspicious: a vicious circle that made me scream at the screen in the end.