Homestar was on the verge of uncovering a huge conspiracy, and he knew it. “I’ve questioned Mr. Shmallow, Tim Duncan, and a bag of four grapes, and all answers point to the same thing.”
“Those are…my grapes, Homestar,” Strong Sad sighed.
“What? Was somebody talking?”
“No,” said everyone but Strong Sad.
“After careful deliberation, I have chosen to point a finger at…THE KING OF TOOOOWN!”
“Sorry, Homestar. I was night-killed! Time to feast, since I’m home from the island” The King of Town said, chewing on a leg of something or other.
“THAT’S MYYYY LEG!” Strong Mad screamed from the corner of eliminated people, and hurled The King of Town across the room.
Homestar looked at the suspects: Strong Bad. Coach Z. Bubs. Strong Bad. Pom Pom. Strong Bad. Dripping Yellow Madness. Strong Bad. Something was standing out to him, but what?
beezypoof (Day One, villager (The Poopsmith), had shit to do)
daneekasghost (Night One, seer (Marzipan), organizing a bake sale)
Colin Prime (Day Two, wolf (The Cheat), Meh meh meh meh)
todahshy (Night Two, villager (Homsar), SB is out of patience)
The Dread Pirate (Day Three, wolf (Strong Mad), pissed at Trogdor)
ash10101 (Night Three, villager (King of Town), thought it was Survivor)
Inkarnit
mbnovak
MelissaD
nettiebarron
violabeenice
Three’s a majority. If we finish day four early and a villager is killed, we’ll do the deciding day today as well.
Casa de Leche 
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May 18, 2017 at 9:03 am
mbnovak
I just want to say that I don’t understand any of this flavor text.
May 18, 2017 at 9:42 am
Inkarnit
You really should watch some Homestar Runner cartoons.
May 18, 2017 at 9:49 am
mbnovak
There are higher priority things to watch.
May 18, 2017 at 2:00 pm
spookymilk
No, there aren’t.
May 18, 2017 at 9:43 am
Inkarnit
So, angel should claim now, yes?
May 18, 2017 at 9:48 am
mbnovak
I don’t see a downside. We’ve got a miss to spare. If wolf false claims and we guess wrong, we get the wolf the next time around. Therefore wolf can’t false claim, therefore we get the angel eliminated from our possible suspect list and can narrow our search.
Am I missing anything?
May 18, 2017 at 9:49 am
nettiebarron
I’m the Angel.
May 18, 2017 at 9:54 am
Inkarnit
Well that’s definitely good to know. Since a false claim here means losing, I’m good with this entirely.
So the wolf is either Melissa, viola, or Novak.
And Novak can’t be the wolf.
vote Melissa
May 18, 2017 at 9:49 am
mbnovak
Gonna be in a meeting most of the morning. Still thinking Annette and Inkarnit look most wolfish to me. Willing to be proved wrong.
May 18, 2017 at 9:55 am
Inkarnit
Well I get it. Especially with being so wrong on DP.
May 18, 2017 at 9:55 am
Inkarnit
Woops. Nested
vote Melissa
May 18, 2017 at 10:46 am
nettiebarron
Vote Inkarnit I was pretty sure you were a villager until yesterday.
May 18, 2017 at 10:49 am
Inkarnit
Again, I get it. But there’s no way I protect a wolf that aggressively. I had tons of villager cred, as you even say that you were pretty sure I was a villager. I spent all that credit to hard defend a co wolf?
May 18, 2017 at 11:19 am
nettiebarron
Maybe. I dunno. I don’t like any of the options. I was convinced wolf Melissa wouldn’t play such an absent game, but her arguments against me last night seemed . . . lame. I agree that it isn’t Novak. That leaves you, Melissa and Viola. I’ve not 100% cleared Viola in my mind either.
May 18, 2017 at 11:44 am
mbnovak
You should clear Viola. See what I described below. But it was Inkarnit anyway.
May 18, 2017 at 11:38 am
violabeenice
Sorry that I’m late to the party this morning. I just finished dropping off my pups at the vet. They’re getting their teeth cleaned.
I’m still seeing Novak as a villager and with Annette as the angel, that leaves me, Ink and Melissa.
I feel that I’ve done what I could to help and with DP going after me as hard as he did from day 1, I have to believe that he thought that I would make a pretty easy villager day kill.
Out of Melissa and Ink, I’d have to choose Ink. I would think that wolf Melissa, even busy wolf Melissa, would have been around more. I could be wrong but that’s where I’m at at this moment.
vote Inkarnit
May 18, 2017 at 11:41 am
mbnovak
Annette being the angel helps a lot. From my perspective it leaves Melissa, Viola, and Inkarnit.
Each in turn:
Melissa: I do not see a case against Melissa at all. It seems the only thing to be said for her as a wolf is her absence. Her few posts, however, have been straight villager Melissa. I have wolfed with her in the past and she is jumpy, defensive of other wolves, etc. Her wolf game would have changed entirely if she is a wolf, and I simply can’t see it. Her observations and targetting have been villager hunting, even though there have been few (see this exchange last night: https://spookymilk.wordpress.com/2017/05/17/homestar-werewolf-day-three/#comment-84498 )
Viola: Has been active, around, at times an intriguing candidate. I thought she was clean on day 1 because of a sort of seer indication, but that could just as well have been a wolf or innocent thing. Last night Annette pointed out that Viola switched her vote off of DPWY earlier in the day very shortly after Annette put hers on (moving him from 3 to 2). However, the huge exoneration is that when it was tied 3-3 with Annette, she voted DPWY and sealed the deal for his elimination (which would be a terrible wolf move, since the village couldn’t miss again after that). So… therefore, there is no way Viola is a wolf unless she is the most stone cold wolf ever, and foresaw the village choosing correctly both votes unless she made such a cold hearted move.
Inkarnit:
He’s totally the wolf. See the above exonerating the other two. But also, he just couldn’t quite get there on DPWY yesterday, which was a bad move. Moreover, it’s exactly the same bad move DPWY made on Colin Prime. Which suggests this particular bunch of wolves tried to play fairly aggressively to force things, and then are relying on “but I wouldn’t do that move as a wolf because it would be bad” (nevermind that that argument is easily rebutted by “it’s only bad if you get caught, it’s just a good strong play if you don’t”).
Yup.
Vote Inkarnit
May 18, 2017 at 11:42 am
mbnovak
Oh hey, Viola voted while I was typing. That’s cool, Inkarnit’s in jail.
May 18, 2017 at 11:43 am
mbnovak
On the chance that this isn’t correct, let me reiterate that I can’t see Viola making that kill vote on DPWY yesterday. So Melissa would be my next kill probably.
May 18, 2017 at 11:44 am
spookymilk
MAJORITY REACHED.
May 18, 2017 at 12:03 pm
spookymilk
Homestar paced around Strong Bad’s living room as basically everyone else had retired to other rooms or their homes. Strong Bad stood inches from Homestar’s face, begging him to point the finger at him.
All other living people left the room.
“Strong Bad, because there are no other suspects…”
“HOORAY!!!!” everyone shouted, springing from all other areas of the room. They put a crown on Homestar and a sash that said “#1 Dad.”
“Oh…man,” Homestar said. “This is so touching, you guys. Is it my birthday? You guys. We should TOTALLY play Werewolf.”
Villagers (Novak, nettie, viola and Melissa) WIN!
May 18, 2017 at 12:04 pm
spookymilk
MVP: Novak, obviously.
May 18, 2017 at 12:06 pm
violabeenice
Obviously!! Nice work Novak. …and thanks for not killing me. 🙂
May 18, 2017 at 12:05 pm
nettiebarron
Woooo!
May 18, 2017 at 12:07 pm
violabeenice
I second that, WOOOOOOOOO!
May 18, 2017 at 12:10 pm
mbnovak
Woo is right!
May 18, 2017 at 12:13 pm
mbnovak
I don’t understand why I was left alive.
May 18, 2017 at 12:16 pm
nettiebarron
They probably were worried every night about you being protected by the Angel.
May 18, 2017 at 12:19 pm
spookymilk
And if they had said this, that would have made sense. I have no doubt it was a consideration, though I think in Ink’s shoes I would have probably attempted a shot at Novak last night. One village save doesn’t give the village any extra days, and is potentially harmful because a 3-1 day at the end is tougher than 2-1. Angels really have to save twice to make it worthwhile.
On the other hand, angel saves announce to the angel that the target is clean. So it’s a wash.
May 18, 2017 at 12:37 pm
Inkarnit
Yeah, we never really discussed or worried about where the angel save was. We knew Brooks was the Seer from night zero, which I think sucked. I made a suggestion to avoid that in the future for both Good and Evil Seers which Kelly seemed to like. Night zero peeks will always be a random negative view from now on.
But yeah, we figured we could kill DG safely on night one. Night two, I figured the save would be on me or Novak and didn’t want to risk it on Novak so killed todahshy. Night three was just me trying to do everything possible to NOT look like the one pulling the final strings.
May 18, 2017 at 12:16 pm
spookymilk
Nor do the viewers.
Ink said last night that he didn’t see victory as possible so he wanted to kill Ash before he was gone. Which is pretty funny, I admit, but I honestly think he could have swayed this if you had gone instead. Nettie being the angel was a horrible draw for Colin the Lesser, but even then, he had Viola and Ash, and maybe Melissa, to throw under the bus. Viola couldn’t be a wolf for all the reasons you stated, but it’s an interesting question whether this would have been pointed out in your absence.
May 18, 2017 at 12:19 pm
ash10101
I agree. Especially since I was fairly convinced he was innocent.
May 18, 2017 at 12:22 pm
nettiebarron
I ALMOST saved you last night. That would have been so funny.
May 18, 2017 at 12:24 pm
ash10101
yea. You should have! Haha. who did you save last night?
May 18, 2017 at 12:28 pm
nettiebarron
Myself.
May 18, 2017 at 12:31 pm
ash10101
Ah, wise
May 18, 2017 at 12:34 pm
Inkarnit
Ah, so finding out you were Angel wouldn’t have helped me too much. I would have tried to eat you and failed.
May 18, 2017 at 12:35 pm
ash10101
And I would’ve lived to help lynch you (or more likely, to mess up spectacularly)
May 18, 2017 at 12:39 pm
mbnovak
Honestly, I didn’t even see it right away. It just made no sense to me that Inkarnit was targeting Melissa, so I figured there must be some reason why Viola couldn’t be a wolf. I started writing about why she could be, because I didn’t want to exonerate someone I shouldn’t, but then the minute I looked back at all it became clear.
May 18, 2017 at 12:41 pm
Inkarnit
I wonder if the other vote hadn’t been there if I’d have been able to convince you. I certainly expected the suspicion, but thought I’d have a chance to explain why I’d never make those moves.
May 18, 2017 at 12:45 pm
mbnovak
Even then, Melissa was so far down my list that it would have been Viola and then you, worst case scenario. And I would have been loud about it so that if I was night killed the others would hopefully still have gone you over Melissa.
May 18, 2017 at 12:49 pm
Inkarnit
Well I actually did want to go after viola first. I thought that by doing Melissa myself, I could have you “convince” me on viola. Whereas if I started on viola maybe you’d hesitate.
May 18, 2017 at 12:52 pm
mbnovak
There was just 0 case against Melissa.
And my intent was to reread Viola myself, so I probably would have come up with it regardless. But your approach makes sense in the abstract.
I think you might have been served to come after me even?
May 18, 2017 at 12:54 pm
Inkarnit
I planned to on the final day. I had given up on trying for the Angel so wanted to have the Angel in final three where I had no choice but to go OMG IT’S NOVAK!
May 18, 2017 at 1:09 pm
todahshy
I told Kelly, why am I dead and Novak is still alive?
May 18, 2017 at 12:21 pm
ash10101
Yay! Go village!
May 18, 2017 at 12:31 pm
Inkarnit
Yeah, I was going for a ton of WIFOM in hopes of pulling it out. Killing ash, leaving Novak alive, etc. All part of me intending to point to those things today. But I didn’t get much chance before majority had been reached.
May 18, 2017 at 12:32 pm
ash10101
the ONE TIME I think you’re innocent, youre a wolf! I clearly still am entirely unable to read you haha.
May 18, 2017 at 12:33 pm
spookymilk
The way things had gone, I think it was as decent a decision as any. Ballsier, sure, but I get it.
May 18, 2017 at 12:40 pm
mbnovak
WIFOM?
May 18, 2017 at 12:40 pm
Inkarnit
Wine in front of me.
May 18, 2017 at 12:33 pm
Inkarnit
I figured that killing Novak would have led directly to me, especially after Annette claimed angel. I actually thought she was angel on the LOOONG weekend night and talked about viewing her but then apparently never finalized that view. I should have done so, thereby finding Annette and being able to eliminate her earlier.
May 18, 2017 at 2:19 pm
nettiebarron
I made my profile picture my actual name in the game. No one noticed though.
May 18, 2017 at 3:21 pm
spookymilk
The audacity made me laugh.
May 18, 2017 at 12:37 pm
Inkarnit
Seriously though… one of these days someone is going to try Melissa’s strategy as a wolf and everyone is going to be so pissed.
May 18, 2017 at 12:40 pm
nettiebarron
She certainly wasn’t any help.
May 18, 2017 at 12:41 pm
mbnovak
She wasn’t any help in finding wolves, but she was helpful in exonerating herself.
May 18, 2017 at 12:42 pm
ash10101
agreed.
May 18, 2017 at 12:41 pm
mbnovak
Who were the angel saves?
Wolves, did you actually discuss a circle the wagons strategy, or did it just happen?
May 18, 2017 at 12:42 pm
Inkarnit
Circle the wagons strategy?
May 18, 2017 at 12:43 pm
mbnovak
Will defended Prime. You defended Will. You closed ranks and didn’t sell each other out.
May 18, 2017 at 12:46 pm
Inkarnit
Oh. No, it wasn’t discussed. And usually I WILL sell out my wolf partners. I was doing so with Colin, but thought that by defending DP I could argue that I wouldn’t do that as a wolf.
May 18, 2017 at 12:49 pm
mbnovak
The defense of DPWY was so thin though. No way villager Inkarnit does it. Even if it’s a bad move for wolf Inkarnit, it is a near impossibility for villager Inkarnit.
May 18, 2017 at 12:51 pm
Inkarnit
I don’t think I agree. As a vanillager, if I get a hard read on someone as good, I will absolutely defend them aggressively because I don’t really care if it leads back to me. I’m not a terrible loss for the village when I’m just vanillager. Though in this village, maybe that would have been different.
May 18, 2017 at 12:54 pm
mbnovak
I’m not saying you won’t defend them, I’m saying this particular defense was so terrible that you wouldn’t have done it as a villager. You even were forced to back off of it when laid out why it was so thin.
May 18, 2017 at 12:54 pm
Inkarnit
Oh. Yeah. The long break made me forget details.
May 18, 2017 at 12:42 pm
nettiebarron
I save Todahshy, you and me.
May 18, 2017 at 12:43 pm
nettiebarron
*saved*
May 18, 2017 at 12:43 pm
mbnovak
I like that.
May 18, 2017 at 12:48 pm
Inkarnit
Not bad choices. Todahshy was a shining star on night one and was where we hoped the save went so that we could kill the known-to-us Seer DG. Beyond that, saving Novak made sense to save in that spot as well while we went Angel hunting and then the self save SHOULD have worked because I SHOULD have peeked you the night before.
May 18, 2017 at 12:59 pm
The Dread Pirate
Sorry to both Superior Colin and Colin the Lesser. So I didn’t have a good grasp of the votes the last hour of day one, and that definitely didn’t help. I also saw nothing wolfy about Superior Colin goofing off and had only included him in my initial suspect list to clear myself later. Then, when Novak went after him (and again, ash and Viola both did they saw nothing in him), I was mostly trapped.
May 18, 2017 at 1:22 pm
todahshy
I can’t even explain it. It just immediately seemed off to me. Like trying too hard to be goody first day Colin. I don’t even know what triggered me on that.
May 18, 2017 at 1:22 pm
todahshy
Goofy*
May 18, 2017 at 1:35 pm
Inkarnit
I got what you meant. And I saw it too. And it was forced. He was trying to manufacture a reason to come after me and it kinda came off false sounding.
May 18, 2017 at 1:36 pm
violabeenice
Am I really that bad at being a villager? …and be honest. I asked the question and if I didn’t want to know the answer, I wouldn’t have asked.
May 18, 2017 at 1:43 pm
Inkarnit
I don’t think you were that bad at being a villager. But as a wolf, it’s our job to lie, embellish, and otherwise spread discontent. So if you do anything slightly bad, we want to harp on that.
But Melissa’s villager play this game was super bad. Somehow she exonerated herself to Novak, but I never saw it, even objectively. She came in and could have even caused us to mislynch the angel, which would have been super awesome.
May 18, 2017 at 1:46 pm
The Dread Pirate
No, you were just fine. I didn’t think I applied that much heat to you either. To be honest, with the lack of chatter this game it made it hard to build a specific case against anyone.
May 18, 2017 at 1:47 pm
Inkarnit
Yeah, this was a rare situation. Usually the quiet village is bad for the village, but it seems that when the entire village is quiet it’s good for the village.
May 18, 2017 at 1:51 pm
spookymilk
Maybe. On the other hand, a quiet village minus Novak could have been big trouble this time.
May 18, 2017 at 1:53 pm
Inkarnit
True. He really did just nail everything. Even seeing through the ploys.
May 18, 2017 at 1:55 pm
violabeenice
You didn’t? “YIKES!!”… not gonna lie, I’m not looking forward to when you really do, then
This was THE quietest game ever and maybe that’s what made me think that I really suck eggs as a villager. There just didn’t seem to be as others being dragged to the lynching post, as much as I felt I was.
May 18, 2017 at 1:57 pm
spookymilk
Actually, Game 1 at this site had fewer than 200 TOTAL comments.
But yeah, it was disappointing to be at home wanting to read a crazy game, and instead be treated to this. I was really hoping for another balls-to-the-wall crazy 700 post Day One.
May 18, 2017 at 2:00 pm
violabeenice
Delete the as when you read this and you guys wonder why everything sounds so formal. It’s because I typo the heck out of everything, or should I say, evrythng?
May 18, 2017 at 2:04 pm
nettiebarron
So much of this game was just crickets chirping. It was baffling.
May 18, 2017 at 1:47 pm
spookymilk
Day One was pretty bad. It seemed to be an emotionally-driven decision not to go after any good targets and instead go after a silent player, which really never bears fruit on day one, and even when it does, it’s not super helpful because there’s nothing from the dead to parse (but again, this is unheard of; wolves talk all night so the odds of one just forgetting and not showing up during the day are incredibly low).
As the game wore on, I think you did a good job of making sense of the facts presented. You didn’t do a lot of your own presentation, but making correct sense of what’s in front of you is the next best thing, and a lot of people never even graduate to that level.
May 18, 2017 at 1:54 pm
Inkarnit
Day One is usually such a crapshoot that I’m ALWAYS in favor of killing a silent villager. Unless there’s a glaring reason not to. In this case, the other options were mainly wolves so… silent villager it was!
May 18, 2017 at 1:57 pm
violabeenice
I don’t remember if I’ve played a game where no one talked on the first day and I get that a wolf would normally show up on day 1, so I’ll bear that in mind the next time it happens. Unless, it’s Melissa and then I’m just gonna kill her. Melissa, if you read this, I’m only kidding. (not really) 🙂
May 18, 2017 at 1:23 pm
todahshy
Mr. Schmallow!
Just read the flavor text. Made me smile.
I’m Marshie. Capital M Arshie. And I’m going this way!
May 18, 2017 at 1:48 pm
spookymilk
I didn’t get nearly silly enough until today.
May 18, 2017 at 3:55 pm
The Dread Pirate
So did DG peek Superior Colin or was that dumb luck?
May 18, 2017 at 4:01 pm
Inkarnit
Oh yeah, I wanted to know that as well.
May 18, 2017 at 4:12 pm
spookymilk
Luck. He actually was in disbelief that so much was put into it.
He had peeked SCB, which is pretty damn funny given how day one went down.
May 18, 2017 at 4:38 pm
todahshy
To be fair I was coming hard at Colin no matter what. That was just the icing on the cake when I saw Viola or Matt bring that up.
May 18, 2017 at 7:02 pm
mbnovak
I was onboard with your going after Colin regardless, especially after night 1 ended without me getting traction on him. But that additional piece seemed like we needed to at least acknowledge it, because what else did we have from the seer?
May 18, 2017 at 4:38 pm
todahshy
And that now makes the second time we misread a dead DG seer peek AND got a wolf because of it.
May 18, 2017 at 4:53 pm
Inkarnit
Yeah, and this is why, as Colin, I would have pointed out how ludicrous it was to think that was a Seer peek. Because it wasn’t.
May 18, 2017 at 4:54 pm
Inkarnit
But if I had done it, it would have appeared like I was trying too hard to save Colin.
May 18, 2017 at 5:43 pm
ash10101
oh yea!
May 18, 2017 at 5:09 pm
The Dread Pirate
See, I read all of day one as just Colin and DG goofing off, and yet other people read it differently and nabbed all of us Wolves because of it. Bizarre.
May 18, 2017 at 5:29 pm
violabeenice
Every day I drive by this sign that says “We see what we are looking for”. We were looking for clues and DG seemed to have given us one. Turns out we got a wolf.
Also, like Matt’s reading of my Marzipan google as me hinting that I was the seer. I’m not sure if he hadn’t read it that way, that DP wouldn’t have been able to sway his vote to me.
May 18, 2017 at 7:32 pm
MelissaD
vote Viola
Okay, now I’ll go read what’s happened today.
May 18, 2017 at 7:32 pm
MelissaD
Oops.
May 18, 2017 at 7:35 pm
MelissaD
Wait. Is the game over?
May 18, 2017 at 7:39 pm
spookymilk
Jesus Christ.
May 18, 2017 at 7:42 pm
Inkarnit
I’ve been telling everyone Melissa is a wolf. This is proof.
May 18, 2017 at 7:48 pm
MelissaD
I hate all you jobless people!
May 18, 2017 at 10:45 pm
mbnovak
Something about this final day, and Inkarnit’s promised “holy crap, it must be Novak” reminded me of the insanity that was Werewolf XX, where we had 4 wolves and somehow Nibs and Will both decided to kill each other at the end. That last day post is hilarious, especially the second half. https://spookymilk.wordpress.com/2013/02/26/werewolf-xx-day-seven/#comments
May 19, 2017 at 10:52 am
todahshy
I remember you and the Troika argument.
May 19, 2017 at 10:53 am
todahshy
It’s helped me get pretty good reads off you in future games with one SPECTACULAR misread that I realized before the end but at that point our relationship that game was destroyed.
May 24, 2017 at 1:47 pm
Colin Prime
vote Melissa
Oh wait. Is the game over?
May 24, 2017 at 2:01 pm
Inkarnit
…pation.