Quote: By the way, I tried passing the Lemonade to Wailord, but I got it again that same night. An item-bounce back ability, or just sheer coincidence?
Coincidence. He passed it right back to you the next day.
My thoughts on the game:
Early-game, the wolves had a HUGE advantage, and although they lost 1 of their number almost instantly, the seer was gone. That tipped the game greatly in their favor. They could have maintained their advantage, yet PMJ and TT decided to go at each other, and were effectively at each other's throats. That was the beginning of the end, and TT trying to cast into doubt everything PMJ said sealed his defeat. So, in essence, it's all TT's fault his team lost.
My thoughts on each character:
~ChillBill: Sadly he didn't get much to do during the game. He became neighbors with Cherrygrove right away, and that was combined with an ability that would prevent his own death once, so CG was pretty solid. Unfortunately, James froze Chill and locked him out of most of the early game, making him pretty useless. Had the game gone further, ChillBill would have probably lived to the end anyway. But for what Chill was actually able to do, I'd say he did great.
~James86134: All he did was freeze Chill. That's it. I noticed that Chill was frozen on the same night Dare was frozen, but overlooked it when doing the day update. So I stalled James's freeze for a full night and day, having it count from the new point instead. That led James to believe that Dare wasn't supposed to be frozen at all. Poor deluded fool. He didn't even make use of his skip-town ability during the early game. Bad James. I'd say you should know better, but I don't think you do.
~Dare234: PMJ froze Dare to prevent him from being killed off earlier. On the night Dare was frozen, he chose to look into Sanguinary's abilities, which triggered Venom. So at the time he was unfrozen, his abilities were gone. He wasn't able to do much before being taken out, much like Chill, so I'm not sure what I can really say.
~Sanguinary: Eh, he did okay. He managed to drain Dare of all his abilities on reflex before dying, so I guess there's that. Definitely not a bad player, by any means.
~Haunted Water: He told me he'd rage if he got the wolf card. He didn't, but he probably should have, since he died right away. He was blessed with Detonate, a one-shot kill move, that he never had a chance to use since the wolves killed him off right away. Had HW remained alive, I'm not sure what would have happened, but since ESP lets him look into role names, HW would have been a very strong player in the town's favor. Good move for killing him off early, wolf team.
~Argonaut457: The one and only indie and he committed suicide by not reading the rules. His win condition, as was noted, was to destroy 3 alcoholic items, and by the time he actually fake-revealed, he'd destroyed 1 and was soon to destroy a 2nd one. He played well by encouraging the town to hand him booze, but then any respect I had for him was lost in that epic moment of fail. Silly Argonaut. That's not how you #dolo.
~twistedturtwig: He was doing fine up until he started shouting at PMJ. I lol'd when I found out the votes were tied that one day, because either way the wolves were down by 1. He probably had a really strong role combo - immune to ANY non-lethal effect - but he squandered it. Ah well. TT don't be so aggressive next time.
~Cherrygrove: I just wish he would have lived longer. PMJ marked him for death early in the game, and Chillbill couldn't protect him from that. CG didn't even have a chance to use his ultimate role - once per game, he could redirect EVERY vote to his vote choice - plus his status effect gave his own vote double weight. I'm sure he had his reasons, though - every night he told me No Action. I was looking forward to see what he would do with it, though.
~E-M: One brother is seer, the other is a wolf. Both of them kill each other first night. The irony in that is amazing. I found it funny that E-M has been seer a few games in the past, but the suicide really made me smile. Drown was OP, but fortunately it never triggered for the rest of the game.
~Ghostpony: He got stuck with the alcohol TWICE in the early game and kept having to pass it away, sadly. After that I thought he'd be using a role of his, but he didn't, not until much later. When he decided to use Freeze, his first thought was to hit ChillBill right as he unfroze (jerk!), but then changed his mind to Joe. Good move to freeze the alpha. o_o When that happened, technically, the wolves would have no kill, but I thought that wouldn't be fair, so I decided to let Dare, the only other living wolf at the time, become temporary alpha. Of course, Dare died the next night, so the wolves lost a kill that night. So, in essence, the guy who I thought was one of the more useless players for the town actually secured the win for them. Well done. (He never used Flight, sadly.)
~Wailord_2: Baller priest. Why is he priest every game? I thought he'd be using his vote block ability more often, but he only used it a handful of times. Kinda surprising, but he was a strong player, and I'm surprised the wolves didn't kill him earlier when his lens was on TT almost the entire game. He did block one kill when Dare was temporary alpha.
~Joe the Conqueror: I am really surprised and pleased that Joe managed to stay off the radar until near the end of the game. He was the only real unknown wolf player for me (the other 4 I knew their playstyles), and to my delight he actually played the alpha pretty well. Got kinda screwed over in the endgame, but...I definitely would like to see him in future games. He was a good strong player, and made use of his other role (Burrow) quite frequently. I have no words of advice other than 'keep doing what you're doing now'.
~filter: Can't say much about him. He was never around. I should have modkilled him earlier, but he was showing up enough that it wouldn't be fair. But he didn't do a thing. And sadder still he was never killed, so his other role (Neurotoxin, which is a lot like Chill except it triggers upon death) never activated.
~Drago_girl: Got rid of JsXtm day 1 with Wash Away and then role-revealed Day 2, thus evicting her from the game. Technically I'd say she was a pretty bad player, since she could have stayed alive to use Lightningrod and redirect EVERY role to her for a night - and therefore taking the kill - so I'd say she could have played much MUCH better. As for using Wash Away on JsXtm...he was town, but everyone was out to get him anyway, so meh.
~DragoBoy: See also E-M. If he'd stayed alive longer, he would have been MUCH harder to lynch due to Nobility. It would have tipped the game in the wolves' favor in late-game to be sure. Revenge was a fun role too. Might have even won the game for the wolves.
~JsXtm: Poor guy, everyone wanted his head on day 1, and for no good reason. I think he used Flight once (I don't recall off-hand), but other than that...nobody liked him. I think he might have been a nice counterpoint to DragoBoy, since he also had Nobility. I'll write this on the list of things that could have been.
~mudkip mistriss: I honestly thought she was a bad player, but she WASN'T. Holy crap. I think she carried the day for the town in the late game ever since PMJ died, and was a good 'voice of the people'. She ended up using Wash Away on TT, thus ensuring he'd die after his bad play, and that essentially made it nearly impossible for the wolves to win. Very good job, mudkip. I am impressed.
~alkranite: See also filter. He did nothing. NOTHING. ...which is good since his roles were Wash Away and Drown, and the latter was circumvented due to lynch. ...If you're going to sign up for Werewolf or any of my games, pay attention. Please.
Welp, see you guys in about 5 Werewolf games when I decide to GM again. Now I need to rewrite a lot of these roles. I plan to use the same system again, but I need to move some roles around.
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). How many of those items were there, anyway? And were there actually any good items?
(I knew I would die this round, so I decided to freeze Joe.)