Alright, and it looks like the Last Werewolf has chosen to attack
Wintermoot, aka the Village Fool.
And with that, the number of living good guys (2) now equals that of the living bad guys (2). And here's the living roles and who they were played by:
Villager: xXTheHydra, played by xXTheHydra
The Last Werewolf: Gerrick, played by Gerrick
Decoy: La Hareng Rouge--
"But wait!" I hear you rudely interrupt, "there's only 3 players left, so who was the Grand Wolf?"
Well...surprise!
The Grand Wolf: Coco Bandicoot, played by Coco BandicootIf you had killed the decoy, aka
La Hareng Rouge, you would have come across a game-changing clue:
This person has been mentioned in the stories.
Notice: Have you viewed them on a laptop/computer?
So let's review the first story:
Centuries ago, there lived a happy people known as the
Oratians. They were a proud people that lived in huts and enjoyed a diet of
coconuts and fish. Every afternoon like clockwork, they would get out of bed, shedding their
old skins (which they had to do daily), and would begin their daily activities around Ora
Island...which included fishing, making clothes and jewelry, and teaching the young through
sermons about the old gods that they believed watched over them. On occasion,
they would even partake in bonfires, where they would dance and sing and
have a festival of sorts while the moon was out, normally when it was full moon.
Even though life seemed peaceful, this was soon to end.
Wolves were said to have somehow made it to the island, though they were never seen before.
One night, however, a scream was heard in the distance, as villagers went to investigate.
Lilli, the chief’s daughter and one of the village’s most prominent dancers, was
found laying in a pool of her own blood, dead to the world. The wolves had begun their attack.
Nothing implicating a specific person right out, right? But if you take out the first letter on each line (keeping in mind that you're viewing it on a laptop/computer so you can see it in its native state), you get this:
COCOISTHEWOLF or "Coco is the Wolf"
2nd phase:
The night had subsided, giving itself away to the approaching daytime. The villagers
hobbled out of their beds, eager to get the day started and find the beast and slay it.
Everyone made their way to the village square, as the chief counted to make sure everyone was there.
However, he would soon discover that the village was another body short, as the beast had struck
once again, taking claim to another life. The villagers had decided to split up and
search the village for the missing person, only to find them sliced open and hung near the village’s
Tiki hut...the prominent source of where they would drink themselves silly and sing songs of
daring heroes that had once attempted to brave out of the island and into the world beyond.
It was on this day, actually, though several years earlier that one such villager known as
Dianten had left the island in search of adventure. He had barely made it onto the ocean with his raft as
It had caught itself onto one of the many razor reefs surrounding the exterior of the Island. It was
thought that the gods put them there to protect the Island...but where did the wolves come from, then?
THEHOSTDIDIT or "The Host Did it"
3rd Phase:
Very rarely had someone ever came to the island in search of anything, let alone survived the trip.
One night, many years ago a traveler named Kuni had somehow arrived alive and well,
though it was still a mystery even to him how he had avoided certain death against the reefs.
Everyone was curious about the new arrival, embracing and welcoming him to the village. The
chief even at one point had decided to make him an honorary villager, though Kuni had longed to
once again return home to his wife and daughter. He had also longed for more to eat than the
coconuts and fish that he had to endure. Eventually, he decided to build a hut away from the village
of Ora, and lived quietly until the villagers had all but forgotten that he was even there.
VOTECOCO or "Vote Coco" (as Tau lovingly told me not to plug my campaign in my game)
4th Phase:
Kuni was adjusting to his new life away from the village. Yet, still he longed to be back with his love
Uhani. His longing began to turn to desperation, as he began tearing through the island with the
hope that held a secret of sorts that would let him return to his beloved. He indeed found a secret
As he found his way into a mysterious cave that he wondered if any of the island’s
inhabitants even knew about in the first place. In the center of the large cavern stood a unique
stone alter, with what looked to be a diamond wolf’s head sitting on the very
center. Kuni was no man of greed, but the unique wolf-shaped diamond caught his eye,
or rather had him hypnotized as he laid his hands out to touch the rather
curious item. As his hands touched, however, something had began to stir within him. He felt his
Once human features beginning to shift into more beastly traits; he was becoming a werewolf.
KUHAISCOCO or "Kuha is Coco"
Which you're probably at this point wondering what that one means...in which case, I direct you to
here, which essentially was a game-twist to reveal that La Hareng Rouge was in fact myself (that's right, I planted a decoy, which played the Decoy).
5th Phase:
It was as if the diamond wolf was speaking to him, telling him of the island’s
ancient secrets. One of the most damning being that the elders of the village wielded
magicks that allowed them to raise the razor-sharp reefs around the island in an effort
to deter any outsiders from spoiling their sacred lands. But the diamond wolf also spoke of
how the villagers themselves were once but travelers from a far away land known as
England. They had fled their home and made it to the island shores,
where they slaughtered the natives who had once lived there, and removed all traces
of their existence. The elders had then happened upon a unique, but dimly
lit grove, where they were granted the magic in exchange for a child born
from the village...who would be spirited away from the Island. That child was Kuni.
IAMTHEWOLF "I am the Wolf"
6th Phase:
Kuni was reeling from the revelation given to him by the diamond wolf.
It was now obvious why he was drawn to the island, and why he had to up and
leave the village. He could feel a fire burning inside, his fury building up
left and right. His body had grown fur, and he began to grow to a
colossal size. But that wasn’t the end. Even after the transformation, something equally
ominous was building inside of him. His body ached in pain as the thing inside
continued to grow, until it burst out of him: a human sized werewolf, and then another.
Only moments later did he regain himself and see: he had somehow spawned smaller wolves.
KILLCOCO "Kill Coco"
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That's right! For the first time in Werewolf history, the host ACTUALLY did it. Well, in a sense since I never actually KILLED anyone at night. But as per my role stated, I left hints to my role in every day phase, and was surprised nobody even picked up on it. I was expecting at least one person on a computer to put it together pretty quickly.
But I also knew that once La Hareng Rouge was killed, someone (most likely Gerrick since he was alive throughout) would figure it out almost instantly. Since there's no barring sharing the clues, they could point out the story patterns to others, and I'd be figured out. Tau actually proved that just hinting at a pattern in the stories could give it away, as he figured it out pretty instantly in our Dead PM (called the Grand Wolf's Fireside Dinner Chat).
I will say, this was actually semi difficult for a mix of reasons:
*I had to come up with clues that would eventually implicate me, but would also implicate La Hareng Rouge (aka The Red Herring).
>>La Hareng Rouge had to essentially be his own personality. We'd share somewhat similar writing styles, but they'd also be a smidge different to diffuse speculation. The most difficult of this was making sure we didn't post at similar times, or that we didn't even pop up on the forums at the same time. In case anyone is wondering, the picture I posted as him was a random guy from Grindr. I had to make sure it wasn't one that someone could do a reverse-image search for (but LHR had to be as legit as possible).
*I also had to be always aware which person I was posting as, lest I accidentally end a phase as him, or post to vote off a person as myself.
*I also had to go into each post as La Hareng Rouge pretty much forgetting all of the roles. Meaning every post that you saw from him was pretty much me/him going into it fresh. Every argument made was an actual argument, some that I'd normally make in previous games when it comes to the trivial things. Any bandwagon made was an actual bandwagon, rather than knowingly going into it to get a certain role killed off. Barnes' lynch, for instance, was purely typical me trying to save myself from getting voted off. I was actually half expecting that it would have been more likely to get LHR lynched, since my defensive arguments tend to have a habit of doing that.
*I actually had to discard my original story for this new one, and had to make it somewhat coherent enough even though it was completely centered around making the pattern for each clue work. So if the style seems a bit odd, that's why. It was strictly clues first, and then write the story to follow each letter decently enough.
Any questions?
