Werewolf 8: Cairo Nights - EPILOGUE

What is this I'm reading right after getting home from school? >=(

I mean, obviously being a stranger could make me a bad guy, but there's an equal chance that I could be good. I mean, me being a mysterious stranger is kind of a flimsy reason for voting me.

The fact that so many people got behind nutty so quickly makes me a little nervous. But then again, I can't immediately see a reason for them to vote for me other than the reason nutty provided.

I'll cast my vote for galador, because of his very short response (usually a characteristic of evil), and for his part in what seems to be a bandwagon.

Damn, I'm still looking at Starman's way for bringing about this "random" bandwagon on acro-nym, but nutty has a good point as well. My only reason for not going with it is why LZ? I'm not for or against him, but I just want to know why LZ out of the three possible choices. I got nothing against nutty either, I just want to know specifically why he chose LZ as the Mysterious Stranger to bandwagon against (and for the love of God, please don't tell me you used ChocoDecide).

Since this is my first game, I'll hold my vote until late afternoon tomorrow. I have noticed a few patterns here though, so I'd like to throw them out for your consideration.

1. More than one person "randomly" coming up with the same name. Yeah, right, that's believable.
2. More than one person randomly ganging up on LZ 645. It seems just as likely for random people as for one side (evil or good) to hop on a bandwagon, but the way they've followed nutty seems eerily sheepish.
3. The age of the poster. I'd be looking carefully at the age of the poster around here before considering the content of their post. A 30-year old professional is used to critically examining an issue, whereas a 16 year old gamer is probably just a leaf on the wind.
The same, unfortunately, stands for staff. In fact, staff's position would take precidence over their age, tbh.

Personally though, I'm leaning toward players that aren't established on GFF. People with <10 posts make me very nervous - they're either someone's dupe account or a calculatingly evil person hiding beneath a veneer of "innocent noob". Fuck that, I'm not falling for that bullshit. If you're new, you better start posting because I'm afraid of the dark, and when I'm afraid, I'm strongly inclined to get violent.

I'm changin' my vote to neus, 'cause he just scared the crap outta me.

Haha, I logged onto GFF today to see who I should vote for, and then I saw Nutty's tally and I'm like "WTF? I voted for LZ?"

Then I looked up, and lo and behold, there was my post.

That's what I get for posting late at night and checking these first thing when I wake up.

Originally Posted by neus

3. The age of the poster. I'd be looking carefully at the age of the poster around here before considering the content of their post. A 30-year old professional is used to critically examining an issue, whereas a 16 year old gamer is probably just a leaf on the wind.
The same, unfortunately, stands for staff. In fact, staff's position would take precidence over their age, tbh.

I have to disagree on your point about age. Yeah, it can make a difference in posting style sometimes, but it isn't a sign to look at to tell their alignment.

Leaf in the wind:

Are you implying that 16 year old gamers have a tendency to be harpooned by Reavers?

How about I use tri's ALMIGHTY DESTRUCTIVE PENCIL OF RANDOMIZATION :lolsign:

Except with a pen

And look from between starman and miravana it came to Tritoch

Can you say karma or what so don't hurt me tri

so i'm going to run away bye now. :doggy:

That's precisely why you don't use a pen. You see, pens are inherently evil and desire to bring nothing but inky waves of death. Pencils are sacred and desire peace for all. Well, everyone except those who use an obscene number of smilies.

Originally Posted by Yeldarb

How about I use tri's ALMIGHTY DESTRUCTIVE PENCIL OF RANDOMIZATION :lolsign:

Except with a pen

And look from between starman and miravana it came to Tritoch

Can you say karma or what so don't hurt me tri

so i'm going to run away bye now. :doggy:

I think that's quite possibly the only time I've ever seen that doggy smiley used.


That's pretty fucking evil right there.

New things come to mind. neus (despite being clearly nuts) has brought the whole LZ thing into the open. I'm interested to find out why so many people were ready and willing to rally behind LZ as a suspicious character.

This game always fucks with my mind.

LOL, sorry but that is how it came out and i'm not changing my vote because I have dail-up and don't want to wait three minutes to open a new window and all that junk. But in all seriousness that is my vote because the method was random but it is funny that your own method worked against you and the reason I used a pen is because it was the only writing utensil around. Oh and another thing I don't usually use that many smilies but I thought it was very funny that it came to Tritoch.

My gut is malfunctioning at the moment, so I'll dwell upon this quandary some more and maybe I'll make a choice later tonight.

Originally Posted by RockgamerXIII

I got nothing against nutty either, I just want to know specifically why he chose LZ as the Mysterious Stranger to bandwagon against (and for the love of God, please don't tell me you used ChocoDecide).

Out of the 3 Mysterious Strangers, I felt LZ 645 would be the most likely to offer a good defense of himself (i.e., some good back and forth banter), based on how he behaved last game. Other than that, I could have chosen one of the other 2 Strangers; I've got nothing to go on other than the argument I already offered.

Originally Posted by neus

More than one person randomly ganging up on LZ 645. It seems just as likely for random people as for one side (evil or good) to hop on a bandwagon, but the way they've followed nutty seems eerily sheepish.

Remember, even if I had some sort of seeing ability (good or evil), I couldn't have checked any of the Mysterious Strangers last night because they were off limits. I've got nothing to go on myself, and I'd be willing to change my vote if LZ 645 or someone else offered me a good reason. As for why people are following me, maybe it's because my argument makes sense.

Originally Posted by Tritoch

That's precisely why you don't use a pen. You see, pens are inherently evil and desire to bring nothing but inky waves of death. Pencils are sacred and desire peace for all. Well, everyone except those who use an obscene number of smilies.

But they say the pen is mightier than the sword, not the pencil. If you're going to choose who dies using a writing utensil, it only makes sense to use a pen.

Originally Posted by Acro-nym

But they say the pen is mightier than the sword, not the pencil. If you're going to choose who dies using a writing utensil, it only makes sense to use a pen.

Huh, you do make a good point there. Very well, with a pen this time the range is between Chaotic and nuttyturnip, landing my vote at Jochie! I'm inclined to vote for LZ, but at the same time I'm not. The bandwagon did start a bit quickly, but the logic does make sense. At the same time, killing off a good mysterious stranger wouldn't be a good move at all.

Originally Posted by Tritoch

I have to disagree on your point about age. Yeah, it can make a difference in posting style sometimes, but it isn't a sign to look at to tell their alignment.

No, that's not what I meant. I mean that there is a well-established relationship between intelligence and age and that we ought to take this into account when examining a post - not necessarily examining only the poster's alignment. I for one get trigger-happy when an older person starts posting willy-nilly things, undecided and in the middle. That means they've got shit figured out and are playing us all for the ride - I don't like to be taken for rides.

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Remember, even if I had some sort of seeing ability (good or evil), I couldn't have checked any of the Mysterious Strangers last night because they were off limits. I've got nothing to go on myself, and I'd be willing to change my vote if LZ 645 or someone else offered me a good reason. As for why people are following me, maybe it's because my argument makes sense.

Oh, your argument? Is that what you call it?
Picking out random people and saying they'd be a good choice based on "oh, he's defended himself well before". How are you any better than the pencil-stabbing Reaver fodder?

Pfft, uncertainty due to the first night I can understand, but random guessing - especially when so much could depend on a Mysterious Stranger when he's good?
Yeah, chalk another one up for logic in this thread. You're right up there with blue and voting out of fear.

Wait, so now I'm an idiot?

Originally Posted by neus

Pfft, uncertainty due to the first night I can understand, but random guessing - especially when so much could depend on a Mysterious Stranger when he's good?
Yeah, chalk another one up for logic in this thread. You're right up there with blue and voting out of fear.

Uhh... hello? We don't know who ANYBODY is, except for the Devil/Spy/Seer, and the Devil/Spy's targets are most likely dead (unless Evil decided to shoot in the dark for some reason), and the Seers sure as hell aren't talking. A Mysterious Stranger can be good, yes, but he can also be evil, too. The second a Mysterious Stranger joins the game, he becomes literally just another player. The only difference between him and a normal player is that his role is not counted in the tallies. So, why should he be above suspicion because he's a Mysterious Stranger?

The only reason I can think of is that you KNOW what role LZ has. The question however, is now this: Are you a Mason, a Werewolf, or Mafia?

To be honest, it's a 50/50 chance considering the reduced numbers of Evil this game. But still, it's a chance well worth considering.

RANDOM FTW.

As per the ChocoDecide god method I did earlier, I got Jochie. (That's a vote, for now).

But I'm considering a Tritoch-like approach, but more awesome. This would involve something breakable, like a mug, and a Sharpie marker. I'll write players' names on it with the marker and chuck the thing at a brick wall or something. Then, starting from my left, I'll pick up fragments until I come to a comprehensible name. This name will be my vote.

If I do this, I'll post pics.

And if I could incorporate more destruction, fire, chaos, lol, and awesome in this, that's even more win for me.