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I woke up on the first day to this message from Ilene Dover:
"Thanks for signing up to the DoCA's inaugural game of werewolf.
In this game, you are a townie. Your weapon is your vote.
Each day, you will vote for one member of the group to be lynched, in the expectation that they are a werewolf. Be careful, or it could be you getting strung up!"

I had half hoped I would be a werewolf, there is no guessing involved in that.... But alas, fodder for the wolves seemed to be my fate...

The day started in confusion... after a relatively quick and painless election of my friend Melissa as the new mayor, Hadrian x quickly rallied everyone against Custer... poor Custer quickly became the first to die but in all the confusion I slipped away... I wanted no part of this needless thoughtless bloodshed.

I built myself my own little fort and with my silver bullets in hand I figured I'd wait it out... I heard the snarling as Beach Bunny was torn apart, and my hatred for the werewolves hardened... But I still figured I could wait this out... Why should I involve myself when I have no idea who is what? All that I would accomplish by talking would be that people would notice me... Not a good thing in this environment to say the least!

Then came Hadrian x's redemption: He once again rallied the townies and managed to kill off the first of the wolves, that babbling mess that had been comet...

After this, with the revenge death of Hadrian x came the big shock.... Ilene that sneaky loki like god figure had conveniently forgotten to inform us that there were 5 werewolves as opposed to the 2 we had been told there would be!! That was when I realized my strategy would never work... Against 4 werewolves my silence would be a death sentence!

I had yet to make up my mind on how to proceed when the mayor rallied the townies against resoula... I did not understand what resoula did to arouse her suspicion but once she was proven correct I figured she had met with the seer...

That night was the worst night of all... The damn werewolves killed my friend the mayor! That is when the panic set in and I knew I needed to come up with something quick! I started to go over everything that happened in my mind and something suddenly clicked! I remembered how of those who spoke up only Thalio Voss and Waysted did not vote resoula. I then went over all the voting records and quickly noticed that they as well as resoula and comet acadamy had only ever voted for townies!! I also noticed these words from our resident loki: "With far from a unanimous decision, but at least a majority this time. The crowd lays their hands on Resoula, who snarls as he is propelled with swift inevitability toward the hanging tree." I had figured out early on that ilene was rooting for the werewolves, and used every tactic possible so as not to give away who they were. The decision had been unanimous after all!!

And that is when I came out of hiding. I plead with everyone to join me and hang thalio waysted and cubby (cubby was the only other person aside for me who hadn't spoken up till then and since everyone else had voted for a were at least once before (or done something else to prove they weren't a were) I figured he was the third) and after voting aramec as mayor and with much begging and cajoling we hung cubby and my theories had proven correct for the first time.

At this time our loki once again proved to live up to the name. I give you this quote: "A strong majority of the remaining townsfolk agree that Cubby should hang, silent or not (I count 5 [Waysted, Thalio, Mister Y, Joey and Shadowber] for Cubby, vs 1 each for Yui [khotko] and khotko [illiguy])".
If you check the voting records you can see that Thalio never voted! In ilenes desire to see the werewolves through to the end, she messed up and this only bolstered what I already knew in my mind, all that was left was keeping everyone on the right track...

After I had outed the wolves, I figured I was dead but I had overlooked one important factor... my death would only confirm my beliefs... and in a measure of brilliance previously unheard of in werewolves (though Waysted did show a sneakier side by voting cubby...) they did not kill me! But in the next instant they did something stupid - they killed khotko. This was a grave mistake because khotko was not only causing suspicion about himself, he was also actively calling for the hanging of yui and even expressed interest in hanging me! It's possible they thought that killing Khotko would throw more suspicion on yui, but it did not pan out that way. The townies decided to follow my advice and we killed Thalio voss. After this the last werewolf, knowing his day was numbered, took his petty vengeance out on mayor aramec once again and even more surprisingly overlooking me. I had expected to be dead and I even went as far as to beg loki to make sure I die in the perfect way..

"If I am the next to die like I think I will be, please do something like this...
A terrible howl of rage splits the night... The townies hurry towards the noise, but alas it is too late... the scene they come upon is grisly, but they can clearly see that shadowber denied the last werewolf his revenge.... around the bullet hole in his forehead they can see the shine of silver... they can also see the silver powder coated all over his body..... the werewolf had no choice but to take his rage out on the furniture, and he has not left one piece undamaged.... The townies are solemn but they are also euphoric... it looks like shadowber has saved them all.... and tacked up on the wall shadowber has written one word.... WAYSTED...
IDK how much you can do of this, and obviously this only works out if I'm right...."

With all this in mind, I had not expected or even wanted it but the townies elected me as mayor, and with sobering thoughts of my great and deserving predecessors I donned the heavy chain of office.

All that was left to do was to destroy the last werewolf, and we would be free!! This was when our loki truly showed her colors. I guess because I was mayor she took to talking to me directly. She went as far as basically saying my logic (which was all based on sherlockian deductive reasoning) was similar to the tripe conspiracy theorists spew and only stopped just short of saying waysted wasn't a werewolf. Thankfully I already knew about her, and I didn't listen.... After stalling for a while our loki was forced to allow us the killing of waysted, and with his after death transformation we were finally free!




Or were we?

Where did the wolves come from?

Who is there mother?

I can only point at loki... If only we could lynch ilene we'd be completely free!

Either way, In case you did not see it, I have used the full weight of my office to declare the following

Dear citizens of town,

Please join me in declaring today, the 28th of July, werefree day to be celebrated in perpetuity.

LET THE FESTIVITIES BEGIN!

Signed, shadowber