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VOTE COUNT

Boris ze Spider - Malurous,
Malurous - Joebthegreat, EUROO7, Bagricula, Boris ze Spider, esemasas, Jopi, Eternaly_Lost,
Bagricula - Vainglory,

NOT VOTED
 
Snow fell black as coal on a night that would be remembered for its silence.

The Benevolent Order of Santa Claus' members had torn through the St. George Hotel, searching for clues for the identities of the malevolent WereYaks. Traces were found here and there... leads overlooked, certainly. But it was the whisperings of GEORGE ORWELL into the naive ear of VAINGLORY'S SHY SISTER that ultimately led to the night's massacre.

Juho Kusti Paasikivi was frantically searching through a ream of discarded papers when he found a series of bizarre calculations, describing hints of things Man was not meant to know... spelled in blood. He cried out: "IT'S EINSTEIN! HE'S ONE OF THEM!!!! I HAVE PROOF!!!!"

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But the Benevolent Order of Santa Claus had been utterly betrayed by it's own. They could not tell who had been naughty and who had been nice. They seized the Finn, and it was Hemingway whose Yule Log landed the fatal, though not final, blow.

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But the Finn was, and had always been, human. His body did not revert to the horrific, abominable form of the dreaded WereYak. The Benevolent Order was stunned... or at least four of its members were. The others, well.... the Great Bearded Finn who had laughed so loud and so deep... began giggling, and then cackling, and then... there was a great rending sound as his body began to tear itself apart, to reveal the form of the GREAT AND TERRIBLE WEREYAK!!!

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Vainglory's Shy Sister, who had destroyed Christmas, lay in a congealing pool of blood. Orwell, now reverted back to his human form looked down on her with abyssal eyes. He had manipulated her, lied to her, told her what she had foolishly wanted to hear. And now, it had come to this. The St. George's fine wallpaper was covered with the blood of good men. She could hear murders happening down the hall. "What next, liar," she spat through broken crimson teeth, "what is coming?"

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WEREYAK VICTORY

WINNERS
Boris ze Great as Albert Einstein the Maniacal WereYak
Vainglory as George Orwell the Sublime WereYak
esemesas as Joulupukki the Monstrous WereYak
Eternaly_Lost as Ernest Hemingway the Inexorable WereYak


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Well done wolfies.

Malurous, I would have been up for a chat with you had I been playing and had it not been 5am local time. :laugh:
 
I regret nothing.
 
Ah, the continuous ebb and flow of public opinion regarding ties.*
 
This is what happens when people start talking about how ties are good...

Quote me one post where it was said that ties were good to have on day 1.

And no, the village allowed you to make your moves because they didn't think. Now, I don't know if ties have some strange ability to deprive people of their rational thought capabilities...

esemesas said:
So this is a choice between x and y

It was stuff like this that won the wolves the game, actually.
 
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Key Moments in Joeb's Bold Journey from Saving to Losing the Game

Malurous is... maybe kind of right...

esemesas was the one who made a tie that needed to be broken, funny considering what his posted reason for casting that vote was. Esemesas is more likely to be a packmate of Bagricula's than Malurous.

UNVOTE MALUROUS
VOTE ESEMESAS

This is particularly poignant given that Malurous PM'ed Joeb and basically outlined a convincing case that Boris and Vainglory were wolves. Apparently, Joeb did not agree the first time. But now, he's got it right, right?

Then, in speaking with fatal vote-tie-er Bagricula, Joeb lays out a course of action that the village as a whole could adopt, which would reasonably ferret out wolves through discussion.

I don't think everybody needs to act the same, but I do think everybody should bring up who they personally think is the most suspicious, end of story. If, after everyone (or at least a dominant majority) has voted for who they think is the most suspicious, we have two or three candidates, then I think the smart move is for everyone to decide who is the most suspicious among those frontrunners. In a good village, some people may be mistaken or distracted, but the strongest arguments should prevail, and the most suspicious people should end up near the top of the lynch list. This is the basis of what I consider to be a strong village.

Purposefully creating or exaggerating shifts, to generate noise, will negatively affect almost everybody. It seems to me like manipulators would have an easier time convincing confused villagers after lots of exaggerated shifts, whereas a more stable and consistent game would make it easier for most players to see past attempts to manipulate them.

And then, the boy got played:

Look up. Malurous really has my WOLFDAR going with that swing off of Bagricula, but now you're listening to him? The way I see it either Malurous wanted to save his chew toy for Parity Day, or he was saving a packmate. The packmate suggestion rings true, because now he's got the village chasing after people who were heretofore ignored, while the bleedingly obvious wolf who got saved by a last minute vote swing is left to laugh at us all.

From there, it was creating a pack between Malurous, Jopi, and Bagricula:

Alright then. Vainglory is smart, and I think we're mostly feeling the same way here. He could be a wolf, but I like him.

Malurous and Bagricula are packmates. Would you be willing to go with this assumption Vainglory? Do you think that is our most likely lead? Which of the two is MORE likely a wolf?

Now, do you remember that argument that Joeb made earlier about a reasonable discussion of facts leading to a consensus about the identity of one of the wolves? Yup, chuck that one out the window.

EVERYBODY GO AFTER MALUROUS, WHO IS A PACKMATE OF BAGRICULA, AND AN UGLY PERSON!

JoebtheGreat earned without even the hint of competition, THE MOST DANGEROUS VILLAGER AWARD like a champ.