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I thought I was picking the most neutral options for the first three night phases. Evidently I was completely wrong.

Once I was forced to the Jolli side, it was clear after Gerrick got lynched that Sapph was next, regardless of whether Laurentus lived or not (disagreeing with Pengu here, Lau took enough steps to ensure that Sapph would be lynched the next day phase), so I took the obviously riskier of the two options in the hopes of a better reward.

I started to focus on Red Mones once his actions implied that he was innocent both before and after (analysis of posts/voting records reveals that Laurentus probably scanned someone who died, and Doc/Gerrick, as people who voted against Doc like Mones were clearly not in his army unless Mones was up to some next level lying), which turned out to be right.

As Adventurer, it was quite interesting that I actually had to read and comprehend all the story posts for the choices to make any sense. Was a pretty good story, so that was rather enjoyable.

Interesting that you allowed communication by Discord DM. In Werewolf XIV I pretty much forbade that, as the Who's Online exploit was just being discovered and heavily abused, and that would've given the Lannister faction a heavy advantage.

To be fair, the DMs weren't anything super serious since they were between only us.  They started after Doc was lynched with him just asking if I could tip the scales next time to make sure Doc wouldn't be a wolf for once.

Outside of that, it was casual talk about him making sure he stayed within the rules of role revealing, him discussing choices he'd made in strategy, what he's usually like as a wolf, and discussing ideas like having an MVP.

If it had been more serious or involved more than just him and I, I would have been more hesitant to allow it for that reason.

But it also helped that he was usually only on and DMing when other players were on (not DMing)...and since he hadn't scanned anyone outside of dead people and bad guys, everyone would have been equally suspicious of each other.

On a different note, for anyone that's interested in reading the story its entirety, I've spliced together the story sections.  Thankfully, most of it already flows alright between phases, but I did add a paragraph or two as well as changed some elements to match the later tone of the story, since I sort of changed gears unexpectedly in how the story progressed.

It's 37 pages long, and 17,523 words total...something I'm quite proud of since it's my highest word count to date.

Werewolf XVII: Santa's Apprentice

I really enjoyed that game. Doc and Sapphiron were great teammates and Laurentus a worthy opponent. Probably would've won more easily if Laurentus had been killed Night 2 like we were discussing, though probably wouldn't have been as fun. Also, sorry to Syraj for becoming our scapegoat, but we had to choose somebody -- thanks for being a good sport. Had to pull out all the tricks I could think when it became clear that Laurentus scanned me (as I had jumped from being middley-suspicious the day before to most suspicious after). And thought we were goners for sure until that switcheroo thanks to taulover.

Good game, everyone, and thanks for hosting and writing, Pengu.

They started after Doc was lynched with him just asking if I could tip the scales next time to make sure Doc wouldn't be a wolf for once.

over
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I really enjoyed that game. Doc and Sapphiron were great teammates and Laurentus a worthy opponent. Probably would've won more easily if Laurentus had been killed Night 2 like we were discussing, though probably wouldn't have been as fun.

Aw thanks dude.
And yeah we shoulda gone for him after all.

Good game, everyone, and thanks for hosting and writing, Pengu.

Also this.
Absolutely true.