Remus West wrote:My only question for Grund is this, if you knew you were going to die then why not give a friggin label to some of those lists.
In retrospect, I think that would've been a good idea. I believed I was going to die that night rather than the following night-- one night earlier than I had expected. By not spelling it all out overtly, I was trying to leave open the possibility, however minor, that the Wolves might be confused enough to let me live one more night
despite the fact that I had put most of their names up in neon. Indeed, I was still dropping "which team is he on"-related pseudo-sorcerous hints (as Genghis and Kraegor remarked) down to the wire, just in case.
Why did I
want to live one more night? Simply because of Real Life. I was pressed for time because of work and life-logistics and wasn't able to do things on my death-day the way I had envisioned.
Here's how it was supposed to go:
1. During the night cycle, post a list of names including all those alive who were not absolutely known to be innocent. (In other words, exclude the dead, the Masons, and the Medium.) Remus correctly identified the nature of that initial list.
2. Post a subset of the original list including only the folks I had not mentally exonerated. (In other words, exclude the people I thought weren't werewolves/sorcerer, leaving only the latter).
3. Post a "Story of so-and-so" for each person I had exonerated, and then provide comments explaining how I got from the raw data to my conclusion.
4. Invoke the Sherlock Holmes abduction clause: if all the others have been eliminated, then the moss-covered, three-handled family gredunza must be whatever's left.
5. Confirm the guilt of the five remaining on the list by showing the weirdnesses in their StoryOfs.
It would've been glorious. It would've been impressive. It would've been mostly correct. It would've been... too much work.
I'd have needed that one more day.
It was unrealistically ambitious, given my schedule, so I compromised-- did what I could. I was moved to cut corners partly by reckoning what was feasible, and partly in response to the badgering from pr0ner and Bubbles.
Instead of step 2., I
posted a list containing my suspects along with a few people whose "Story of so-and-so" exonerations I felt I could knock out in the time available to me. Soulbrother's and Genghis's went OK, though I decided not to include links to individual posts in the latter, as I had in the former. Orinoco's came too late to save him, and I felt bad because I knew that he was only on the list for purposes of illustration.
My Story of Bakhtosh contained only a single item: the link to his "I wish I could PM" message. I felt that this said everything. A wolf wouldn't do that, in an attempt to throw people off the scent, because that would reek of crude reverse-psychology. Only an innocent would say that.
So I posted it. But then, because it seemed to me that only an innocent
Special would say such a thing-- perhaps to drop a hint about his status-- I deleted the post. Even though I wanted to show why I felt Bakhtosh was innocent, I wanted even more strongly to avoid outing a Special. (I thought he might be the hunter).
Nameless saw the post during the 30 seconds it was there. F5F5F5.... I felt bad about that, since if Bahktosh was innocent and was a Special, my short-lived posting might have outed him to my arch nemesis.
I don't know whether Nameless took Bakhtosh's PM yearnings the way I had done, but Nameless's own nefarious agenda made the issue moot anyhow.
So then,
that's why I didn't label my lists-- hoping to preserve some small chance of surviving the night so that I could finish doing 1-5 above and nail 4/5 of the wolfpack to the wall in a single epic braindump. As it turned out, the most that I could do were steps 1, 1.5 (the mixed list), and finally 2, with some illustrations from 3 thrown in to build confidence that the five I named in step 2 were backed by good reasons.
Not that I don't feel like an idiot for not paying more attention to them but a label would have seriously helped and since you knew the wolves would be keyed in on what they were why take the chance of the others villagers missing out on the information.
Honestly, because you had immediately understood the significance of my first list, I thought you'd see the point of my final list. You had reasoned rather carefully about various matters up to that point in the thread, and I had convinced myself that we were on a wavelength that turns out, in retrospect, to have been partly imaginary.
And the fact that I chose to lynch Orinoco while you were alive should have clued you into the fact that I did not know what the lists were
I indicated that he wouldn't have been my choice, but thought that by going along with you in his lynching-- a lynching the Wolves wouldn't find objectionable-- I might increase my odds of staying alive for one more day, so that I could Do Things Right.
You did a great job figuring all of that out as I still don't know how you got Bubbles that early but knowing you were going to die you could have given us more obvious opinions.
I think the combination of
this and my nastiness toward Nameless
here and especially my comments
here made it pretty clear.