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 Posted: Tue May 12, 2015 5:23 pm
Merry Wanderer stepped between the players to take his place at the center of the group before he began to speak. "The wolves, as always, hunted with relish. Their victims were rarely willing, always so desperate to live another day."
"They put their sharpened claws and teeth to work--choosing their victim carefully." He turned as he spoke, eyes sweeping over the players as they pretended to sleep. "When they were finished, they returned to their grove and pulled on their stolen skins. They laid down to rest next to their prey and woke alongside them, looking as innocent as ever."
"The group woke, the feeling of dissatisfaction still heavy in their bones and they barely seemed to care to find out who had died at night--eager to continue their own hunt in the day." Merry Wandered met the eyes of each player grimly. "They followed the blood because that was what they did each morning. They looked on apathetically as they took in the sight of Nightingale on the ground, left untouched except her throat which had been torn open. The little bird would sing no more."
"They turned away from the unfortunate victim and walked back to their own hunting ground, the violence barely concealed in the careful stomp of their hooves. Let the hunt for the wolves begin."__________________________________________________________
The 24 hour-ish day round starts now. Get voting!__________________________________________________________ Tiarana Nightingale was silenced by the wolves! Please keep your role a secret until the end of the game!
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Posted: Tue May 12, 2015 6:03 pm
Look-See recoiled at the unveiling. She didn't see that one coming. Ha!
"Doubleback, Lost Apathy, Bare Trees, Bitter End, Wild Cry and Swamp Trees are the ones I'm most suspicious of, but there are at most 5 wolves left. I await each kin's explanation while I think up of my own defense." Look-See sat down on her haunches. It was crunch time.
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Posted: Tue May 12, 2015 6:26 pm
Swamp Trees looked at the rest around. She was still suspicious of Wild Cry, but what would be her reasons? She had never voted or suspected the doe, but looking around at the others, they would probably think she had something against them all. Feeling a bit stressed now, she leaned against one of the trees in the area. Waiting to see what was said while gathering her thoughts.
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Posted: Tue May 12, 2015 6:43 pm
Wild Cry was perhaps more frustrated than he felt some of the others were. He still felt they wasted a vote for Story, and maybe Nightingale would still be alive. They could have possibly gotten rid of a wolf, and instead the votes were used for Story. However, short of running away there was nothing he could do to help them survive.
"I still stand with my previous suspicions. Bitter End has always been one to vote without much explanation and I am still curious as to some of her reactions earlier in the game.
"Peep is quick to vote, which is not an issue but she leads the group with few questions asked. In any other situation, this would be a commendable trait but here I feel like it is more wolfish in nature. "
The buck turned turned to each of the others, "to some degree, I guess I don't trust any of you - so it comes more to mean which kin I think is a threat of being a wolf."
"as to last night's kill, Nightingale seems to join the typical trend of killing the quiet ones at night. She was somewhat quiet and was the only one to vote for Optimist. however, I am not entirely co vinced that means she might be a wolf. "
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Posted: Tue May 12, 2015 6:43 pm
 Well that made her rethink things. Peep had been the only one voting for Nightingale the previous day. It would have been foolish to do so if she was a wolf, wouldn't it? Perhaps the acha was prey. But then who wasn't? "Hopefully everyone speaks again today as they did yesterday."At worst, they had this one chance. Giveforward prayed they hadn't been that inept.
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Posted: Tue May 12, 2015 11:39 pm
Bitter End was glad she did not pick on the quiet little doe in the end, since it was clearly pointless. Had it been a day earlier she would've lost some direction since her two chief suspects were gone, but her wariness of Peep's facade and longevity had made her focus elsewhere. ...except this 'explanation' and 'reason' thing was getting seriously annoying. " Look," she snarled in Wild Cry's general direction but too blasé to directly address him, " I think I've given the most conceivable reasons out of everyone that isn't based on some falsely significant thought process. I vote on who I feel and want to vote for in my gut. I went on a long ramble about this!" She said, strangely self-aware. " No matter what 'reason' I give you, you will only find it valid if you want to find it valid. That's how our fallible kin-minds work. We're stubborn enough to keep our opinions until absolutely proven wrong, and often only seek validation for our feelings." She laid a sweeping gaze over, the intensity of her eyes unchanging. " I vote Peep again, because it feels right in my heart, if my heart was that concerned over a game of werewolves. That's my reason, and it's good enough for me." She looked at the Acha, and smiled the smile of someone trying not to look creepy but never having gotten the hang of it. " Also, she is gentle yet powerful, and I admire that in a doe."
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Posted: Tue May 12, 2015 11:55 pm
"Peep voted for Nightingale yesterday. She was the only one to do so. In fact the only kin who ever voted for Nightingale, if I remember right. Wouldn't it be extremely risky for a wolf to kill the same kin they voted for that day?" Giveforward frowned at Bitter End.
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Posted: Wed May 13, 2015 12:57 am
Bitter End gave a casual shrug that exemplified her analysis of kin minds perfectly.
"Sure, but not impossible. I've voted for one killed the very next day - had I gone with my initial suspicion, it would have happened again with the tree fellow - and still one or two have voted for me."
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Posted: Wed May 13, 2015 1:44 am
It was a little bit exhilarating, getting her first vote, as if it somehow completed her experience of the game. However, that feeling was short lived and it seemed as through only Story’s choice to remove himself from play had saved her. Afterwards she gave him a nod of gratitude as he moved towards the dead. Now in the new day, Peep blanched at the news of Nightingale’s death. It meant she had been horribly wrong and her lone vote from yesterday still held her in suspicion. "I- I have not been shy of voting throughout this game. From the very start, whether I was to be first or not, I wanted to take part, regardless what anyone else chose. I’d say many of you have done the same. It’s harder to be the one who goes first and easy to follow a popular vote." The small doe drew herself up, proud and impressive despite her small stature. "It makes no sense, if I were a wolf, to remove Nightingale and a lot of sense, at this late point, to get rid of her if it also makes another prey a target. I was the only one to ever vote for her and I clearly made a mistake." She sighed. "You as well, Bitter End, have made seemingly arbitrary choices. You have also run with the crowd, when it suits. There’s not much difference between us." Though they were pitted against each other now, she smiled at the other doe, blushing slightly at the compliment. "I admire you too but I’m not ready to stop playing yet. I’ll vote for you and not just to save myself, I think there’s a good chance you are the wolf. Now I leave my fate up to the others."
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Posted: Wed May 13, 2015 2:39 am
((/focusing more on studies due to nearing finals and will likely not wake up until close to the end of the "day" again, as a future warning @_@))
"Explanation for what?" Apathy asked Look-See. A defense implied an attack, but she wasn't sure what was being directed at her. That she was under scrutiny, yes, but who wasn't? She noticed some others had not directly addressed the doe as well, potentially for the same reason. "Were there any concerns you had in particular?"
She turned to Wild Cry. "Saying she leads the vote seems to suggest she incites a mob on her target, when that doesn't seem to be the case." The only clear example she recalled was Fire Made Flesh but, as she said of Nightingale, it wasn't as if Peep being the first vote settled the matter. Others had voted for the draconic kin for their own reasons, and it just happened to agree with Peep's vote. The fact that Peep was the only one to vote for Nightingale, too, seemed to support this.
Speaking of Nightingale, her death was an odd one. Although Apathy agreed with Wild Cry and felt she was quiet, Apathy thought she'd become a stronger presence of late (or perhaps it was a biased view, considering the doe had held so much of Apathy's attention days before). So, she was not entirely quiet, and she was not quite thought to be predator (while Peep had voted for her, it wasn't a sentiment the majority seemed to share). What would her death mean, then? It brought both Peep and Optimist to light, though as before, she wasn't sure whether that'd be too obvious or if it would be a bluff. If the wolves were desperate for kills, they'd benefit from spreading strong suspicion on prey as fast as they could. But if they were desperate to retain their numbers, they might be driven to the point to hazard a bluff. Ah, but both of these assumptions relied on the fact that Peep and Optimist were on the same side, too. It was possible that one would try and set up the other, but with their names so linked by Nightingale, would they risk it? There was too much to consider; Apathy would observe, but she knew time was running short.
As for Bitter End, she did not agree with such an approach, especially so late in the game. Like with Swamp Trees, Apathy was unwilling to "waste" a vote on someone who-may-be-prey-but-detrimental. Unlike Swamp Trees, though, a day had passed, and Story had proved to not be the last wolf, despite the implied parallels with Wild Sage's own experience. By now, they should all have been acutely aware of how critical it was that they find the predators. That the doe continued to persist with gut feelings despite that was disquieting.
As it was, she was hesitant to place her vote before she heard what Look-See said, and see if the doe's other suspicions proved enlightening.
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Posted: Wed May 13, 2015 5:19 am
Wild Cry flinched back, "no needy to get snippy, Bitter End. I am only voicing the exact same thing that others pushed on me just a couple days ago. I am all for voting from your 'gut' - but like I said.... Others made the demands and I was just voicing the concerns as so many so elaborately told me before."
The buck sighed at Lost Aparhy, "Again, just repeating what others said before about Peep. Honestly, the only original thoughts I really have mentioned were Fire Made Flesh and my comments about wasting votes.... And the latter has not been received very well so it really does show that some hold more sway. And historically Peep has voted early and lead the votes... Granted I do feel that can just be the luck of timing where others agreed but didn't want to be the first to vote for that particular kin."
"As for an obvious vote from a nightly kill... Who knows. It could be that the wolf or wolves feel it is safe to do so now since we have discussed many times already on how it was too obvious. And, maybe they are feeling Story and want to be caught without coming forward to finish the game."
((Also, training starts today so I will only be able to jump on through my phone maybe two more times today- but I do hope to get a vote in))
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Posted: Wed May 13, 2015 6:14 am
Wild Sage was - well, just plain embarrassed by the latest night round's results. He'd assumed Nightingale and Story were both wolves, and one had sacrificed themselves for some strategic purpose... But killing off two wolves one after the other, surrender in the day and sabotage by night? That didn't make any sense, and the game was still in motion, which meant he'd been wrong about one or both of them.
He realized he hadn't even bothered to stand up yet, and then decided that he didn't care. Staring at the ground, he began again to mumble his musings aloud. "Does this mean that those Nightingale had suspected are truly wolves? Perhaps, this late in the game, they thought they could get away with such a revealing move - and if they thought that, they must be in stronger numbers than anyone would want, able to lose at least one of their number and still feel like victory is assured...
"Though, perhaps," he continued, looking up at last, though overshooting a little and just looking up, "perhaps the wolves are playing the same game of misdirection they always have. Watching us struggle to name them and laughing behind their masks. Perhaps we are all fools," he muttered, and returned his gaze to the ground.
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Posted: Wed May 13, 2015 7:45 am
Doubleback was surprised, not for the first time, to see the wolves' victim. If there was any method in their ways, she could not divine it.
"I agree Peep is often quick to vote, but she's never really quite started a lynch-mob. The wolves could be trying to frame her, or they could be playing games with us, hoping we eliminate one of our own. Lets not forget that Nightingale was the most vocal about voting out Optimist. In light of Nightingale's death, shouldn't we examine Optimist more closely?"
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Posted: Wed May 13, 2015 8:09 am
She, too was confused by the lynch the night ago, frowning in deep contemplation and surprise at Look-See's list of suspicious kin. "I'm not sure why I am so suddenly suspicious? I have been helpful and my behaviour consistent, I think? .." She didn't know what kind of 'explanation' the blind doe required of her. "I'd answer you if you'd ask things of me, and I can do the same to you -- but I must say now I do not think you suspicious, Look-See." But she would see if her instinct was right eventually. She continued on, "I just.. feel it's too obvious if it was Peep with that one vote. I doubt a good strategy for a wolf is to take out the same person who you voted as well -- to add to Doublebacks words." she looked over to the acha.. though small and strong, indeed. "It's easy to vote based on your gut, but if we have a discussion with many people talking like yesterday -- I'm sure we can get to a consensus somehow.." Bare Trees looked over to Doubleback, "Hmm.. that is true, but somehow I'm not sure if it's a misdirection again, but.. worth discussing. ---Oh goodness this is nerve-wracking."
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Posted: Wed May 13, 2015 10:13 am
After a bit of thinking, Swamp Trees looked back to the buck she accused the other day. "Right now I don't feel like I should have to justify my vote, as things are getting nit picky. Nobody is saying anything different from the last time, just rewording it with the same meaning behind it. That is what it feels like to me at this moment."
She looked towards the doe who voted for the acha. Her head turned to the side as Swamp Trees tried to remember who voted for who. Maybe the one who voted for Nightingale was the wolf. Well same could be said of the rest of them, too. "I have to agree with Bitter End and vote for Peep." Though something said there was more than just one wolf left, it was time to just vote.
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