I started my false prophet campaign on Day 3, by chatting up Catharsis. As a replacement for PrinceScamp, who had declared his innocence before leaving the game, I thought I could be sure he wasn’t evil. I claimed that I had scanned Backwards Logic the first night, only to see him killed, then Catharsis the second night. I wasn’t really sure if he believed my story, but pressed onward, telling him I suspected Niklas the most, but wanted to scan him the following night due to how good an ally he’d make if I were wrong. (And I had soooo many reasons to give for suspecting Niklas. Most of them were even the plain truth – remember, I was convinced he was evil!) In the meantime, Brisingamen had slipped up the previous day by joining a bandwagon against her “wife”, Gandhi_rules, something strange enough at that point in the game to give me a flimsy excuse to distrust her as well.
Accusing her brought me to Methos’s attention, as he PM’d me demanding to know why I’d just accused my own “father”. We had some conversations after that regarding who to suspect, which I BSed my way through as best as I could. I mentioned Niklas prominently, which must have triggered some suspicions, but didn’t tell him about the prophet thing, since he wasn’t “trusted” yet. Later, Methos came to me requesting that I accuse Izipo of possessing something evil, and I saw no reason to refuse. Anything to distract from the wolves!
I’m still not sure what exactly happened with that. I’m guessing that Niklas scanned Izipo and found him to be evil, then confronted him about it behind the scenes, at which point Izipo revealed the truth. Methos must have known this himself, because he told me only about a book of necromancy, something he couldn’t otherwise have known about, as the item prophet was inactive at that time. So why the public reveal? A test? In any case, the fact that Methos did not explicitly say that Izipo was evil would come in handy later on.
Meanwhile, Niklas organized the bandwagon on Brisingamen, and I “scanned” him that night. Evil, doncha know.
So the next day (day 4), Catharsis and I made plans to get Niklas lynched, and I eventually decided to “trust” Methos enough (due to him being right about Izipo’s book) to let him in on the secret. Methos pretended to play along.
But this was the first point where I thought I was dead: Methos claimed knowledge of another prophet, one with the ability to detect alignment, which was very similar to what I claimed for myself. Pinman’s cleverness worked in my favor here; most of the good guys seem to have accepted the possibility that he’d done that on purpose just to create confusion.
The bandwagon against Niklas was coming along nicely though, or so I thought. I asked Tasslehoff to help me with it, figuring that a loose connection with one wolf wouldn’t hurt too much, especially once Niklas was confirmed as the evil, evil creature of nastiness I was so sure he was. Then Methos and Tyrs concocted their storm. I about popped a blood vessel with the frustration when Niklas was spared.
Overnight, I concocted a reason to scan Tolis (not evil). LightFang was starting to draw some suspicion, and I was determined to do everything I could not to be manipulated into “scanning” him. I wasn’t feeling very positive about my chances, though. Methos had apparently wanted me to scan *him*, and by not doing so I was convinced I had failed some kind of test.
But that was nothing compared to what I felt the next day (day 5)! For the second time I was convinced my cover was blown and it was all unraveling, as one by one all of my supposed allies told me sorry, but they weren’t going to vote for Niklas after all. And it was so obvious to me he was guilty, and I couldn’t figure out why it wasn’t so obvious to everyone else. The little I was told about Niklas’ story just made me more convinced he was selling everyone a line of BS. And not only was everything being revealed about the orb and the Infernals, which (in my mind) should have condemned Niklas in and of itself, but there’d even been another prophet (qoou) showing up to confirm that Niklas in fact possessed the orb. (Qoou PM’d Tasslehoff with the info, claiming it had come from someone else. Due to Methos’s earlier misdirection about Izipo’s necromancy book, I believed this information had in fact come from Methos and his allies. Thus making me even more confused.) I flounced my way through an aggrieved PM, only to be assured that I really was trusted, it was just that there were things going on that I didn’t know about. I didn’t know what to think. I was told only later that my false scan of Niklas had been written off as due to a distorting effect of the orb. Another case where I can thank Pinman for his sneakiness, I think.
In any case, I made a last-ditch effort to turn things around, asking Tasslehoff (who was already on the record as voting against Niklas) to forward qoou’s information to all and sundry. It didn’t work, just serving to throw suspicion upon Tasslehoff (bad) and qoou (good), and LightFang wound up tagged for execution. We wolves voted to use our save lynch ability and have Niklas killed instead, and you all know how that worked out.
Can't wait for the sequel.
, NotW I've played.
But I never really considered that Kol.7 would give the knife to Methos; I thought it was most likely he would ask for the orb instead. I knew I couldn't target Kol.7 directly, so I gambled on choosing Niklas instead, hoping that Methos had enough doubts about Kol to demand that a third party destroy the orb.
