It is nearing 3 o’clock in the morning. The Dread Pirate has been a statue, hiding in the shadows outside of spookymilk’s house since dark. He decides spookymilk is safe for the night, and takes a few steps towards the road.
“Hello, Mr. Pirate,” he/she says.
The Dread Pirate sees a glowing pair of eyes staring at him from not ten feet away. He pulls out his trusty Swiss Army knife. He turns his head slightly to the left, not daring to take his eyes off the werewolf, and yells, “Don’t worry spookymilk! Stay inside! I’m not going to let him/her lay a filthy paw on you.”
He takes a defensive stance, knife at the ready. The wolf howls. The Dread Pirates lets out a furious yell of his own.
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Another morning has arrived. The villagers all gather in the square fearing the worst. There is another dead body lying face down in the square.
Melissa D takes one look at the body, then does a quick head count. Not liking her odds, she pulls out a can of spray paint, quickly tags the bulletin board with something lewd and hightails it for the forest shouting, “Gotta bounce, bitches!”
The villagers return their attention to the body. spookymilk sticks his shoe underneath and rolls it over.
“Fuckpillows, it’s The Dread Pirate” spookymilk curses, “Nibbish, what the hell man?! Why didn’t you kills Higgs?”
“Hey. I came by your place to talk about it and you were all like ‘Cowin won’t weave me awone. I too scared to come out and pway’,” counters Nibbish.
“Fuck you, Nibbish. I’m over 600 years old. I ain’t afraid of nuthin'” roars spookymilk.
“Guys. Will you two shut the hell up?” says Violabeenice. “I haven’t been able to hunt in days. Can we please get on with this?”
The wolves turn towards the villagers. Codefox reaches for his empty holster. Bhiggum rips open his shirt, proudly displaying his finely crafted bullet-proof vest. ash10101 makes some curious sign with his hands. They are ready(?) for battle. Who will win?
The wolves do. All is perfectly quiet in Taciturnsville once aga….
“HOWLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!”
Bitches.
nettiebarron: Mayor, voted out of office
mbnovak: Courter, Heart broken
BigPapaJonTheElf: Priest, lynched mostly correctly
Beezy: Medium, lynched wolf-style
Todahshy: Apprentice Journalist, gunned down like by a fox
Beau: Mason 1, prop in a wolf taunt
Colin Prime: Journalist, gunned down in his peak heyday zenith something
The Dread Pirate: Bodyguard, corkscrewed
Codefox: Gunsmith
Bhiggum: Blacksmith
ash10101: Mason 2
Melissa D: Delinquent
spookymilk: Ancient Wolf
Nibbish: Wolf Charmer
Violabeenice: Wolf Cub
Casa de Leche 
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April 11, 2019 at 11:45 am
mbnovak
::shaking head sadly::
April 11, 2019 at 11:46 am
Beau
Well that was a slaughter
April 11, 2019 at 11:46 am
spookymilk
Oh, for fun!
April 11, 2019 at 11:48 am
BigPapaJonTheElf
I blame the mayor. Let’s play this again soon.
April 11, 2019 at 12:23 pm
nettiebarron
Hah. Some Priest you turned out to be.
April 11, 2019 at 11:48 am
mbnovak
Wait! I was turned into a wolf instead of night killed? So I won too!?!
April 11, 2019 at 11:52 am
mbnovak
Oh wait, no. Because I was also blessed.
Darn you PapaJon! You cost me my victory!
April 11, 2019 at 12:03 pm
BigPapaJonTheElf
But I saved your soul! It’s like winning, but without any of the fun.
April 11, 2019 at 11:50 am
mbnovak
How was Nibs not everybody’s day 2 vote?
Meanwhile Codefox and Todah probably couldn’t have been cleaner…
April 11, 2019 at 11:52 am
spookymilk
We thought I was going to have to bus him. Every time we were able to talk about it, we decided I had to wait and see. It just never quite happened.
April 11, 2019 at 11:53 am
BigPapaJonTheElf
Fun fact, that trio was one of my earliest guesses at the wolf triad, whereas I was falling for Spooky’s nonsense all game.
April 11, 2019 at 11:58 am
mbnovak
I legit did not figure out Spooky on my own, but would have gotten there, as he wasn’t hunting, and would have been all over nibs.
VB I had no clue about.
April 11, 2019 at 12:01 pm
spookymilk
Whatever I did, I guess it worked. Two nights ago I got the gun, the bulletproof vest, and the right to talk (it was I who shot Colin Prime dead).
April 11, 2019 at 12:06 pm
mbnovak
Likewise. My night 1 was insane – vest, gun, blessed, night killed… and rejected by nibs.
April 11, 2019 at 12:16 pm
violabeenice
I handed you the gun, Spooky. Don’t know who handed it to me.
April 11, 2019 at 12:21 pm
spookymilk
Sweet! Wolf coming up big without us ever getting to exchange a word.
April 11, 2019 at 12:43 pm
nibbish
Novak came courting on night one, and I was sure I was dwsd, because it was going to be so obvious who Novak was going to court and why he would end up dead.
April 11, 2019 at 12:59 pm
mbnovak
Yup. But no one followed up on that…
April 11, 2019 at 1:45 pm
codefox
I figured you were a villager since you were stuck on me as a wolf. I should just know that you’ll always say I’m a wolf no matter what 8P
April 11, 2019 at 11:59 am
MelissaD
I didn’t show up on that list anywhere! But whatever. It’s like I won.
April 11, 2019 at 12:13 pm
Beau
I voted myself to talk yesterday. I knew Pope was the priest because I confessed to him and he saw me as a villager when no one else did. I was going to go into detail about that, hopefully lead people to look at other votes.
I admit I’ve been so sick this week I didn’t do a good job wolf-hunting. I suspected codefox and nibbish and that’s about it.
April 11, 2019 at 12:44 pm
BigPapaJonTheElf
I was incredibly irritated at the number of people who listed you as a wolf after I posted my list and felt like I had made it obvious that you were not. And now that I’m thinking about it again, I’m getting irritated again.
April 11, 2019 at 12:19 pm
The Dread Pirate
This game went about fifty miles over my head.
April 11, 2019 at 12:45 pm
bhiggum
Mine too.
I had cleared you and Melissa.
I was very sure about nibbish being a wolf at the end
.
Unfortunately, I had spooky and codefox mixed up.
Viola never tripped any flags for me, unsurprisingly.
April 11, 2019 at 12:22 pm
nettiebarron
I want to play again, now that I sort of have a grasp on the rules! I need the 9:30 deadline though, if that’s a possibility.
April 11, 2019 at 12:32 pm
mbnovak
I’m very much up for this one again. In fact, I think we should just run it the same way, with everyone keeping their same roles. I bet the village could pull it off then!
April 11, 2019 at 12:39 pm
Beau
don’t be so sure
April 11, 2019 at 12:24 pm
violabeenice
I know this isn’t a run of the mill game but have all 3 wolves EVER made it to the end in a game that you’ve run before, Spooky?
April 11, 2019 at 12:32 pm
spookymilk
I think there have been other sweeps. Maybe? No time to consult the spreadsheet right now.
April 11, 2019 at 12:39 pm
Beau
I know the village swept during Christmastime
April 11, 2019 at 1:15 pm
spookymilk
Yeah, there have been a couple of those.
April 11, 2019 at 12:42 pm
violabeenice
I had to check it out.
Looks like the wolves swept during a game called “AssButt Town”. The wolves were DPWY, Colin Prime, Judas Goat and Meat. Silly trivia but there it is.
April 11, 2019 at 12:42 pm
nibbish
I was legit shocked that I wasn’t the lynch on day two. Novak brought up the plan to smoke me out and I had to hide the rest of the day.
Todah had both spooky and I dead to rights, I later found out. If code doesn’t kill him without letting him speak, there’s a good chance that this goes way differently. The guns killed the village. I think there’s a good chance for them if they don’t end up being used.
That was very weird, but I’d be willing to play it again, now that I have the slightest idea what was going on.
April 11, 2019 at 12:49 pm
bhiggum
If any of the villager’s special powers had worked at all in our favor, we might have killed at least one wolf. Did we accomplish anything that helped us? I know my vests went to novak, Melissa and spooky, so that wasn’t great.
I should just be happy I didn’t have a gun so I didn’t kill any extra villagers.
April 11, 2019 at 2:38 pm
bhiggum
I was wrong- Pope’s powers did definitely help the village. So we batted about 1 for 30!
April 11, 2019 at 12:58 pm
adobery
Some of my favorite things:
Nibbs charms Melissa. The delinquent can’t even vote for her targets.
Novak’s plan. I was displeased with myself for not anticipating it (though I prepped for no self-voting). Course it didn’t matter because Melissa was blessed by Jon that day, so the plan wouldn’t have worked.
Novak being cursed. This could have been a huge blow for village, and as I thought, Novak did get the night kill. But Jon saved the day for the village. Novak made himself a standout villager among the rest day 1, so he got all the night actions thrown his way.
Novak being killed by the one he courted.
Melissa being straightforward from day 1, and listing her targets everyday with exclamation points, but nobody else with exclamation points.
I left work for home on Day 3. By the time I get home I have 2 emails. First one is from Todahshy, saying he better use is Special post so he can save codefox. Few minutes later an email from Codefox saying he’s going to shoot Todahshy.
Nearly all the night actions of the villagers winding up in unhelpful places.
April 11, 2019 at 1:35 pm
BigPapaJonTheElf
Wait, what was Novak’s plan? I definitely didn’t figure that out.
April 11, 2019 at 1:53 pm
BigPapaJonTheElf
Oh, there are game notes. That clears up a lot.
April 11, 2019 at 2:37 pm
bhiggum
Yeah, I wasn’t using exclamation points in my list to denote what I knew, since I didn’t know anything. I was using them to indicate how strongly I felt about someone’s role.
There were a few too many roles and options for me to ever figure out the results of novak’s scheme, though I should’ve stuck with my spooky vote.
I flip-flopped because I didn’t understand why codefox shot todahshy unless codefox was a wolf- and if codefox was a wolf, then spooky wasn’t.
It was fun!
April 11, 2019 at 1:42 pm
codefox
Hah, I saw the train coming for me and I knew that I had a 50/50 shot of hitting a wolf so I took it. I played the odds there and lost.
April 11, 2019 at 1:56 pm
mbnovak
Should have looked at day 1. Todah v. nibbish was clear which one was a wolf.
April 11, 2019 at 1:57 pm
mbnovak
I respect taking a shot there though.
April 11, 2019 at 2:18 pm
codefox
If I have a gun, I’m definitely going to use it!
April 11, 2019 at 2:25 pm
bhiggum
hell yeah
April 11, 2019 at 2:33 pm
todahshy
I loved your Day 1 plan. Amazing strategy.
April 11, 2019 at 3:37 pm
mbnovak
The best part was that I was like 90% sure that you, Higgs, and Codefox were clear, based on the way you all actively participated in it.
April 11, 2019 at 2:24 pm
todahshy
I knew two of the wolves. Had a special post.
And got gunned down by the guy I cleared with my peek the night before…
What the hell Codefox?????????
April 11, 2019 at 2:28 pm
adobery
There was nothing wrong with Codefox’s play, but I think he should have just waited longer. There were only 3 votes on him (6 needed for majority), and there was the chance for someone to role claim or post to help out.
April 11, 2019 at 2:30 pm
todahshy
At least wait until 5 votes on you. Unless you are the journalist with a gun and absolutely know who is a wolf.
April 11, 2019 at 3:30 pm
nettiebarron
When presented with a gun, one must always shoot a Rivet immediately.
April 11, 2019 at 3:30 pm
todahshy
Fair
April 11, 2019 at 8:09 pm
codefox
It just felt so good in the moment. 8D
April 11, 2019 at 2:28 pm
todahshy
I knew one of nibbish and Code were a wolf after the day 2 vote fiasco. So I peeked Codefox and was successful in seeing villager.
So I then knew nibbish was a wolf. Then as I thought about it more spookys 4th vote on Pope seemed like an attempt to block the charm power reveal so I figured he was a wolf too.
So frustrating. I was fuming after the gun shot. Way too premature.
April 11, 2019 at 2:29 pm
todahshy
Especially since the game stops when you shoot. So at least wait until you are one vote away!
April 11, 2019 at 3:55 pm
bhiggum
Having been the one with the gun before (I don’t think anyone remembers, though), I remember feeling the same way- a 50/50 shot when you’re not sure of much feels like a pretty good bet.
April 11, 2019 at 4:17 pm
todahshy
I disagree in this case because we had two seers. Almost as many seers as wolves. Need to trust others to use their powers effectively.
April 11, 2019 at 2:39 pm
spookymilk
I wasn’t thinking about the charm at all, though I should have been.
April 11, 2019 at 5:06 pm
todahshy
One tweak I would suggest is to always reveal roles of the people who died.
April 11, 2019 at 5:11 pm
todahshy
I do think it’s pretty wolf slanted currently. If there was no vote counting messup then I would have had no clue what was going on. So maybe make it obvious at day’s end how the final vote tally changes from the charm. Would add a bit more strategy to the wolves and how to vote in order to hide or use it to their advantage. (Maybe even make it so the charm wolf can change who is charmed the next day each night so it’s not always one person who is screwed)
April 11, 2019 at 5:12 pm
todahshy
It would also encourage more voting and vote changes especially late in day which was sorely lacking because in this one there was no incentive to change my vote if I had a hunch on someone because no additional clues would be popping up from people talking during the day.
April 11, 2019 at 8:10 pm
codefox
I had a similar thought about the vote charm. Since we didn’t know how it changed on day one it made it harder to try and figure out who changed their vote.
April 11, 2019 at 5:29 pm
adobery
Role reveal — not sure on that one. Does give potential for wolf/villager to claim journalist with nobody disputing.
Disagree that it’s necessarily wolf slanted. The village was very unfortunate this game. I think games could go easily either way depending on order of kills.
If the priest lives more than one night, they start gathering a lot of info. If the medium lives more than they did in this game, they gain a ton of info.
If the courter doesn’t die right away, good chance two villager roles are outed.
The journalists never picked a wolf this game, which had the potential to also learn a villager role at the same time. The priest wasn’t alive long enough to be visited by a wolf.
Both journalists both got killed, probably right before they were about to share very important info.
The bodyguard never protected anyone.
The mayor wasn’t around to save herself. The priest wasn’t around to move a wasted vote onto someone on the block with him to potentially save himself.
The guns/vests almost all went to wolves/delinquent/night kills.
Wolf Charmer – I think letting the wolf change who they charm each day would be quite advantageous to the wolves. They could hand pick who they thought would vote against them that day. It would be nice for one person to not be screwed. Though, wolf can’t stop them from causing a majority, so if there aren’t two close horses in the race, the influence isn’t total.
Not sure on how much of a minefield having the actual vote count revealed when it doesn’t affect the outcome.
Maybe additional people being able to make short posts would help with the lack of vote changing problem.
April 11, 2019 at 7:25 pm
mbnovak
Let guns/vests be given during the day, not at night?
April 11, 2019 at 5:38 pm
adobery
Compromise on role reveal, could be to let any role the medium learns of a dead person be revealed on the message board the next morning. Some nights the medium has two dead people to chose from, so not all roles would get revealed.
April 11, 2019 at 6:03 pm
nettiebarron
I think we should play again without changing anything but the time night is called and see how it plays out now that people know what’s what. Viola and I were just debating whether it was wolf slanted or village slanted and we had arguments either way.
April 11, 2019 at 6:16 pm
Beau
Yeah. Why not.
April 11, 2019 at 6:22 pm
todahshy
I’d play
April 11, 2019 at 7:25 pm
mbnovak
In.
April 11, 2019 at 8:13 pm
codefox
I’d do it.
April 11, 2019 at 8:31 pm
violabeenice
There’s an argument that hinges on it.
In.
April 11, 2019 at 10:02 pm
spookymilk
I would too.