by VHB » Wed Aug 10, 2016 10:57 pm
Friends, Villagers, Pissetonians, lend me your (hopefully not pointy) ears yet again as I ruminate on our current dire state of affairs!
Before the game started I did suggest to Wendy Bird/Bread Astaire/Suspension Bridge that she try going not quite so hard (that is, to say, I mean, that she not employ her traditional and infamous strategy of unleashing what was but recently described as frantic PMing) this time around, if for no other reason than to break her traditional pattern and confound us and perhaps even "play the long game" by giving us something to think about in future iterations of this beloved little diversion of ours when she might have more reason to lay low and play more passively and/or reactive than she actually does this time. Whether she has taken this to heart or not, I cannot yet say. I did talk to her but, for once, it was in fact I who reached out to her first for a change, and then we discussed beer and Harry Potter (specifically, the character Ron Weasley's Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son status, since I referenced this phenomenon and it's history of (suspected) supernatural implications in my previous role-playing efforts.
In light of this, and in light of the also-aforementioned rules provision (specifically, the neutral role of The Empath) which I concurrently referenced and speculated on the strategy for, I am hesitant this time to jump to premature conclusions about Wendy Bird's behavior and particularly her mere survival, even though I have been a proponent and employer of this very same meta-strategy as it pertains to her in previous Werewolf matches.
Lord Of Diapers, Stakeout, Surly, and perhaps even Big Cat (who has quietly racked up an impressive number of evil-aligned victories without the usually corresponding notoriety and/or intimidation factor) are no less suspicious if we are going to cast a view askance at people simply for surviving the first night. After all, the lycanthropes can only murder ONE person per night phase, much as they might like to feast further.
We cannot allow survival to frame everyone whose aptitude otherwise distinguishes them as worthy
Though it must be said that I am not completely, in fact, possessed of an aversion to the employment of meta-thinking, infamous double-edged sword though it often proves to be. To wit: At present time I am going to cast a vote for Ankh, as Ankh has a certain higher-than-the-statistical-average knack for being assigned cool and interesting roles that I am envious of, particularly when I myself am assigned (some might say saddled) with a more mundane role, a position I find myself in once again this time. To be an ordinary and unremarkable villager while Ankh gets to, as the colloquialism goes, "tear shit up" as The Empath, or even a less obvious novelty like the Thirsty Villager (or the seer-scan-proof Wolf Role of The Possessed), would be Just My Luck.
Ankh
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