BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

He is the silversmith. That seems pretty handy to me, and I would rather get some silver bullets before we jump the gun…

On the other hand, what if we ended up with a werewolf watchman and a werewolf silversmith? Oh, the humanity!

Oh, good grief.  I posed my town meeting in good faith—we’re all better off if someone has the status of Town Watchman.  I misread the original Watchman proposal.  I would correct it with a duly proposed proposal, but my proposal slots are currently filled.

Then, rather than post a proposal that gives someone Town Watchman status, Hix attacks me.  Pbbbth.

Even if I could post a counter-proposal (which, at present, I can’t), I would not at this time propose lynching Hix—we need as many warm bodies in town as possible.  Even devious, suspicious-acting ones like his.

For the record, 

I’m with aaronwinborn—anyone who’s already trying to lynch the silversmith is on shaky evidential ground.

sb:  “we need as many warm bodies in town as possible”

Even though you claim it’s your rationale for not lynching me, I must point out that it’s not even remotely true.  We need as many warm _non-werewolf_ bodies in town as possible.  This is not your usual game of Mafia.  We don’t have as long as we want to decide who to eliminate:  the werewolves kill in real time, and may do so several consecutive times while we debate their identities.

YEs, but the more people they kill, the more likely we are to pick them out :)

Hix and spikebrennan both need to calm down. This won’t get us anywhere.

Besides, now that they’ve both been so vocal, I give even odds they’re both dead in two Zahndays. (Most likely the werewolves will get one, and the villagers the other…)

Tesla4D, I’ve been wondering who would be the first one to say “oh, I bet the werewolves go after <specific villager(s)>”.  Are you a werewolf, or did you not get the point about how focusing the werewolves’ attention doesn’t help us?

I have to agree with Hix here.  I’ve been looking at comments to proposals, trying to see whether any of them might really be an implicit call by one werewolf to the unknown other werewolf(s) to coordinate their target.

Tesla4d is probably the first one to come close to doing that.

Perhaps that was a poor choice of words… Let me try again.

Only one side is going to win here. The werewolves, or the villagers. Regrettably, the only way anybody can be sure that another villager is or is not a wrewolf is after the villager in question dies. Beside that, the best we have is only watching who the werewolves and villagers kill. I *hope* all of the villagers realise this. As far as anybody else knows, Hix, spikebrennan, or I may be a werewolf. See, we’re all on shakey ground here…

So, one or two of us *may* be a wrwolf. And the rest of the village, knowing that they don’t know, can only rely on psychology. So, if one of us three dies mysteriously tonight, The immediate reaction is that it was “clearly” the work of the werewolves making sure their enemys stay silent forever, and the “obvious” reaction would be to lynch the others, because they are “clearly” werewolves…

So, all that said, we’ve been too loud already and need to shut up.

Right. I forgot the conclusion…

On the premise that if any of us dies, the others probably will, too, and the premise that we need as many villagers alive for now as possible, it would be foolhardy to run around lynching *anybody* until after the werewolves have made themselves more apparent…

In fact, if we fall into the trap of extreme paranoia, the werewolves might even be able to win witout laying a claw of fang on any of us.

So, don’t lynch *anybody* yet.