AAAAAAHHHWWWWOOOOOOOOOO! Well that sure was a howling good time! There I was, minding my own business, a misunderstood little undertaker when I got the "infection" PM. I was thrilled, especially as I'd not publicly revealed that I had the undertaker role. It was a small but nice little advantage which proved lucky to the wolf team. It's funny that after so many games as a simple villager I got a few roles in a row - Seer in a simple game, then Undertaker THEN turned wolf!
Some of my full moon enjoyment was cut down to size when on King Mook Mook's death he left a rather influential post about his last seer scan catching a wolf then a few sentences later saying he "felt a little iBlue". I had to keep cool in the thread but I was pretty annoyed and thought I'd never be able to shake that suspicion off.
After that I sort of felt like I had to compensate, which diminished some of the enjoyment with guilt for being deceptive. (Which I might well have felt eventually anyway.) While I quite liked the chaos one can create being a wolf, I realize I don't particularly enjoy deliberately misleading people. I underestimated how much of that you have to do as a baddie. I've always been one of the good "guys" and typically pretty chatty so I had to play my baddie game right out in the open so as not to draw suspicion by a change in my style.
I always felt conflicted about who to kill. A strange tug of wills to keep the clever and interesting players around for the fun and challenge and then also knowing it's probably best to neutralize the threat. I felt particularly crappy about killing the hunters, for instance. Abijnk I had second thoughts about but it was too late. It was partially retribution ("you killed my father, prepare to die!"
) and partial concern she'd figure us out. It was slightly arrogant to dismiss the vampire threat but then I figured a werewolf vs vampire fight may be interesting. I was confused when I saw no vampire deaths but that's because we'd gone after the same players. Heh!
I'm kind of glad there will be a little break in the game so I'm not tempted to sign up again.
e can get a little irked when I have to get onto MR in the evenings (damn time zones) to play my geeky underworldish games and I get tired of his irksomeness about it.
You have to
play the werewolf games to
understand the werewolf games, see!
Aaaanyway (damn, sorry for the novel) thanks everyone for playing. You've been great... and delicious too!
So, in words that I know at least one of our rather perceptive players will very much appreciate - so long and thanks for all the
fish furry fanged fun!
Signed,
at last, An American Werewolf in London!
