When the morning broke and the proceedings of last night had been discovered, lout discussion broke out and the cries for the blood of the Lancer was oonce more to be heard. So when everybody quieted down a bit he stepped in front of all of them and raised his voice to put forward his plea for mercy.
Well as all the accusations are still out there, let me try once more to put in my point on the whole matter.
I have seen enough blood spend in my life as a guard for hire and not all spend for good causes, so yesterday night I opted for compassion rather than for lynching when trying to tell you my opinion on the matter.
(OOC: This is my first online game with support votes and being stretched hard in RL I have not thought long enough about the implications of giving one.)
As for the question out up, of how I came form an alliance with Renata already. Well I don not have an alliance, but when I asked her yesterday for a nice bottle of wine to mull the loss of my fellow CCRunner, we had started some talks. Since I know him from back in Kwjelltar (OOC: The last game) we spoke rather freely, and I left with the small indication, that he is not the killer. this is far from certain. In addition I hate it when people get accused just because they try to get the game started by pointing out the inactives.
Furthermore Sepuku has put together the scenario, that Renata is a wolf and I was desperate enough to save her. As pointed out already yesterday, I just feel affronted by the assumption I am that stupid. If I were a wolf, I know that all my actions must be put together very carefully, and I would therefore had taken the time to think things through more carefully, I would definitely have found the easy option of giving one more vote to Moosewarrior to achieve the same effect and had no scrupels to do so. Several of you have played in other games with me (CIV SGOTMs, DGJ etc.) and must be aware that I maybe new to this version of the game but not stupid. Also I would have discussed things with my fellow wolves and since this would have included renata she would have stopped me.
Thirdly people have been outraged that I vote for Mousewarrior at the end of yesterdays day. But I think each of us would have behaved the same way, as Sepukus religious zeal was starting to attract votes against me and I was in danger of overtaking the current leader before the night closed in. As any other human being, survival matters to me and there are so many things that can get better after a goods night sleep, so its only obvious I rather sacrifice somebody else, instead of hoping nobody else comes online anymore and makes a hurried decision, because he sees a bandwagon.
As for the death of the Horse merchant (Sepuku) tonight, I agree with you that this is looking bad, but that can mean anything. Obviously the killer is pleased if another innocent gets lynched tonite without any risk to him, so he sould choose Sepuku to further implicate me too. But the best argument in my favor is actually, that his death is a very mixed blessing for me. Of course his very hostile style has kept the bandwagon running, but as you see there are plenty of others left who will drive it forward now. But still you ask, how was it bad for me. Now tehre are two voices for my death already and I am sure there will be a few more before the noon arrives. My only hope of seeing another sunrise will be if I can point you to another likely target. But who but Sepuku would be such a target? His religious zeal was certainly worth questioning so he was an option, but now since he is gone, this way is blocked too.
I know my fellow men, that all this are only indications, and all of them could ba faked by a wolf too., but all you have to go by are indications either, and are they enough to kill a man over?
Also please consider, that the killer will still be out there tomorrow tryiong to defeat us all. But you will have two guards less left to depend on than you had two days ago. And when the day comes were the killer decides its time to come out in the open, I would be worth more then three of you in an open fight.
I leave you with this to ponder about, as you make up your mind if you want to wash your hands in the blood of another innocent.
So when the caravan finally started to move towards our home town, he reigned in his horse and dropped back as to leave them all tho their own thoughts.
