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Night tried to keep track of all the comments and reasonings of who might be prey and who might be predator. It was beginning to make his head spin.

"Of those that speak out with comments on who might be a threat, are they prey helping to ferret out the threat? Or are they predator trying to sway the prey to vote for each other?" Night mused aloud.

"And those that say little, are they predators watching and waiting to strike? Or are they only showing their true personality in that they are traditionally loners and are shy among crowds?"

Night looked about him at the gathered kin not expecting any to answer. "How do we determine what is true and what is acting?"

Sun Sinks Down shook herself. "It's all right to stir things up and then go curiously quiet as long as everyone thinks you're being helpful? But we don't know what's helpful and what isn't, really, because we haven't figured out anything about the wolves' plans. It's not all right to stay really quiet, because that looks suspicious, but if you speak up, then you've got a target on you too." She looked around at the rest of the circle. "This is the most confusing game I've ever played."

Sleepless' analysis of As The Sun Burns' name was interesting, but Doubleback was unsure if it was solid proof. She still considered As The Sun Burns suspicious, but his quiet this round left little to analyze.

She turned her attention to the tan doe that occupied the spot she'd held at the beginning of last round. Doubleback did not particularly trust her. She was too earnest to in her vote and her reasoning easy to poke holes in, and even if she were prey, her willingness to jump to such conclusions could hurt the group in the long run. Nevertheless, she spoke up in the doe's defense.

"Last round, if I were truly a wolf don't you think I would have been better served by backpedaling on my questioning or staying quiet? That Sun Sinks Down has not recanted, and has further argued a opinion that makes her a target suggests to me that she may simply be misguided." She raised her head and looked at the doe. Doubleback respected someone who could stand by their opinion even under duress, though perhaps the suspicion had run its course. Sun Sinks Down did not seem so eager to talk anymore. "Perhaps she is playing a ruse. I cannot be sure, but I think at the moment we might be better served by eliminating someone who does not contribute. "

"In any case, I shall wait a bit longer to see if any of our quieter friends will chime in before I vote."


votes, in order, etc

But there was no leader of the group. In other games he had played, and in -- well, the swamp itself, prey were just that. A group. There weren't usually leaders among prey, and that realization caused him to speak up. "There aren't normally leaders among prey," Wintershadow said, not raising his voice; he wasn't sure he was going to be heard above the din. "Wolves and other animals that prey on kin and other animals alike, however, do have leaders. I'm not sure if that goes anywhere, but it's something to think about."

He sighed, and it was clear that he thought his opinion to be true, but didn't really like it. "This is why I'm not a scout. I don't know, but there's been enough evidence to convince me of Sun Sinks Down's suspicion."

He turned a wan smile on the doe, "Nothing personal, of course."

It seems nearing nightfall is when the creatures are more around due to timezone differences are more talkative.

Not agreeing with Swamp Trees, but rather, with Optimist, she found her reasoning quite plausible. "Saying something gives us a chance to ponder at what has been said. Having that tiny bit of information is better than some kin not saying anything at all and simply state a name while voting. I know I can't read minds, I wish I could, though."

She heard Sleepless' comment and nodded her head. "That was something that I had pointed out yesterday," she spoke in a soft whisper. That doe with antlers looks to Kiss as if she is too easily spooked by loud booming voices such as her own.

Before casting her vote she listened for a bi t longer.


(( OOC ; eating lunch hard to type holding a sandwich and a cuppa tea XD ))

Nightingale's effort the last round has sufficiently cowed her into not speaking again. She nodded mutely in response to Bitter End, but listened silently as the others debated. "I will vote for Sun Sinks Down as well," she finally said. "Though the situation may be reversed, it seems her fate is already sealed."

Sun Sinks Down's words stunned Optimist enough that she was silent for a long while. "It's interesting that you'd call that following the group's lead, because that wasn't what we were doing at all - as far as I could tell we wanted to vote for kin that hadn't been talking at all."

She paused and glanced around at the other members of the group, now that voting had begun in earnest. She could certainly see the argument for voting for Sun Sinks Down...but to be honest, As the Sun Burns still rankled at her. She and Kiss of Death had been making pointed remarks toward him and he'd just ignored them. That was mean! And, well, the blatant refusal to say anything was objectionable. It was likely he'd simply perk up to vote again, and she didn't want that. "But maybe I misunderstood." Actually, as far as she could tell, Optimist was the only one who'd even mentioned anything even approximating what Sun Sinks Down was saying.

Anyway, Doubleback was helpful enough, and Sun Sinks Down didn't seem to be. But she was responding to the pressure, even if obstinately.

Maybe she'd wait for As the Sun Burns to speak.