Iditarod WW-SDN Game Thread

[LetItSnow]

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[orcagirl]

Cohort 2 and Cohort 6 both have mushers who were killed by the bad guys. Notice how those two cohorts are the only cohorts where the remaining members have all of their dogs. During night 1 and night 2 every other cohort lost dogs (JJ gained). The mushers from cohorts 2 & 6 who lost dogs were the ones who were killed. I'm sure this means something but I just got off of work and eating pancakes and sleeping is more important to me than trying to figure this out. I'll let one of you guys do the heavy lifting.

I know this was posted a while ago, but I've been thinking: Is there another way to lose dogs besides being attacked? Like what if someone has to use a dog for their role or their item, or maybe they are just unlucky and lose their dogs? Not sure if it's a valid point or not.

 

[wolfspeaker]

I know this was posted a while ago, but I've been thinking: Is there another way to lose dogs besides being attacked? Like what if someone has to use a dog for their role or their item, or maybe they are just unlucky and lose their dogs? Not sure if it's a valid point or not.

The night writeup N2 said their were trail injuries AND attacks. So maybe.

 

[orcagirl]

The night writeup N2 said their were trail injuries AND attacks. So maybe.

Thanks. I didn't re-read everything. 😳 We'll see how this goes then.

 

[wolfspeaker]

I just noticed(re-reading N2 results) that WTF has only 10 dogs now?! I don't see anything in the write-up about it. What happened?

 

[orcagirl]

I just noticed(re-reading N2 results) that WTF has only 10 dogs now?! I don't see anything in the write-up about it. What happened?

Did someone steal them? Can you steal dogs if you start to run out? Can you steal a dead person's dogs? Like when SOV died, could someone have come up with an awesome scenario that resulted in them getting more dogs?

 

[wolfspeaker]

Did someone steal them? Can you steal dogs if you start to run out? Can you steal a dead person's dogs? Like when SOV died, could someone have come up with an awesome scenario that resulted in them getting more dogs?

That is a brilliant idea! You could give them a 'home', since the owner died. I'm not sure I like the idea of someone stealing dogs. Is JJ the only one that's gained dogs? It said his were healed though.

 

[Abnerrs]

That is a brilliant idea! You could give them a 'home', since the owner died. I'm not sure I like the idea of someone stealing dogs. Is JJ the only one that's gained dogs? It said his were healed though.

If he follows the Iditarod rules though, max is 16 dogs. Just tossing that out there.

 

[orcagirl]

If he follows the Iditarod rules though, max is 16 dogs. Just tossing that out there.

Right, but people have lost dogs. So they would technically have room.

I haven't gone back to check numbers yet, but I think I will. I think I remember her thanking someone who gave her vetting equipment or something like that. That would make sense.

 

[primatevetjess]

That is a brilliant idea! You could give them a 'home', since the owner died. I'm not sure I like the idea of someone stealing dogs. Is JJ the only one that's gained dogs? It said his were healed though.

HERS were healed. Yeah, someone came into my camp with veterinary equipment and healed two of them, and I came up with an item that healed two others.

 

[primatevetjess]

Night 2 Results
One racer, however, put her expertise in dog-care to work and was able to restore a couple of Jjohnston's dogs to fit condition. Jj herself was able to fix up a couple dogs sufficiently well to continue the race. Good for her.

From the write up. I didn't steal any dogs, mine were healed.

 

[wolfspeaker]

HERS were healed. Yeah, someone came into my camp with veterinary equipment and healed two of them, and I came up with an item that healed two others.

 

[orcagirl]

From the write up. I didn't steal any dogs, mine were healed.

We figured that out. I'm glad you weren't stealing dogs. I was just trying to guess about things.

 

[StartingoverVet]

Did someone steal them? Can you steal dogs if you start to run out? Can you steal a dead person's dogs? Like when SOV died, could someone have come up with an awesome scenario that resulted in them getting more dogs?

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Dead or not, you would have to deal with MrsSOV, and she is a ferocious mother protecting her cubs

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[WhtsThFrequency]

Did someone steal them? Can you steal dogs if you start to run out? Can you steal a dead person's dogs? Like when SOV died, could someone have come up with an awesome scenario that resulted in them getting more dogs?

That is a brilliant idea! You could give them a 'home', since the owner died. I'm not sure I like the idea of someone stealing dogs. Is JJ the only one that's gained dogs? It said his were healed though.

I already mentioned this a few pages back...

Guessing jam's dogs can't be redistributed to those that have lost some (jj in particular)?

No one listens to me 🙁 🙁 🙁

So far though it seems like they aren't made available to others.

 

[wolfspeaker]

😕 I don't see it WTF. I see where you posted that you guessed Jam's dogs couldn't be redistributed. But what about what is happening to your dogs?

 

[wolfspeaker]

I don't think when someone dies, their dogs are automatically redistributed. That's not what we are saying. We are wondering if you could submit an Item to maybe re-home a couple of the dogs.

 

[WhtsThFrequency]

😕 I don't see it WTF. I see where you posted that you guessed Jam's dogs couldn't be redistributed. But what about what is happening to your dogs?

No, no I was just saying I had already through of the whole redistributing of dogs sort of thing.

I have no idea what happened to mine. I wasn't attacked (as far as I know received no PM to that effect) but I evidently had (and this is paraphrased ) an "exceptionally hearty" sleep last night after drinking an entire flask of rum and jumping around singing dirty versions of pop classics. I'm guessing that means they were stolen, or I lost them.

 

[wolfspeaker]

No, no I was just saying I had already through of the whole redistributing of dogs sort of thing.

I have no idea what happened to mine. I wasn't attacked (as far as I know received no PM to that effect) but I evidently had (and this is paraphrased ) an "exceptionally hearty" sleep last night after drinking an entire flask of rum and jumping around singing dirty versions of pop classics. I'm guessing that means they were stolen, or I lost them.

 

[Lissarae06]

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[devyn]

are we there yet?!

 

[Abnerrs]

Resuuuuuuults

 

[StartingoverVet]

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Because you weren't here to be killed early,
I was killed early instead.

I blame it on you.

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[LetItSnow]

Night 3 is closed and results are pending. It will take me a while to write up.

 

[cuitlamiztli]

Night 3 is closed and results are pending. It will take me a while to write up.

Well that sounds ominous.

 

[LetItSnow]

Well that sounds ominous.

No more so than any other night. It's just a challenge to mix and merge the various moves people send in. We have some devilishly creative people in our midst.

 

[LetItSnow]

Night 3 Results:

The trip from Rainy Pass to Rohn is typically done during the day, but not with this crew; a real combination of mindless bravery and inexperienced bravado. While the trail starts on the open tundra, it soon changes direction and heads up to the summit of Rainy Pass, after which things get rough on the downhill runs with sharp turns and the feared Dalzell Gorge (the first warning of which you get from a sign saying "Watch Your Ass"). This is the location in Iditarod 2012 where a dog collapsed and was successfully revived following CPR from its musher.

Several of our mushers had to drop dogs pulling into the Rohn checkpoint after this stretch.

Long after the rest of the teams had made it into Rohn checkpoint, it became apparent that Devyn had gone missing. Search parties eventually found her body at the bottom of a rocky ravine; her team of dogs idling nearby. Initially presumed to be an accident, it quickly became apparent she had been murdered on the trail; she suffocated on the copious amounts of dog poo shoved in her mouth before her body was summarily pitched down the ravine.

Speaking of doggy poo, one musher smeared it on his or her snow gear to disguise (?!) his or her scent while snooping around another musher's campsite. Seems mushers are just obsessed with dog poo.

Another musher reported being attacked by a polar bear that managed to injure several of her dogs. The report raised eyebrows as polar bears generally aren't found in this neck of the woods ... but hey, it's Alaska, so nobody asked too many questions.

The rest of tonight's news centers ... well ... entirely on Cohort 2. Popular group.

First off, they all took a brief break to rest up and more sounds of construction were heard. One wonders where all the supplies are coming from for all this building.

The following ...

... were seen snooping around Cohort 2's general camping area, but didn't seem to cause any harm.

Our Cohort 2 mushers are all feeling a bit of remorse over losing SOV, so they did what anyone would do - they rifled through his gear. Finding, oddly enough, a pile of copies of Shakespeare's Macbeth, they decide to honor his memory by reading the play through their break. As they read the sections about Lady Macbeth's guilt and the washing of hands, each of them carefully considers if they were guilty of causing the death of SOV.

Oh, but we're not done with Cohort 2. Perhaps they should have rested longer, because this eyewitness news report was delivered describing an accident after their early-morning start (trying to get a jump on everyone, were you, Cohort 2?).

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Thin Ice!

The clear, glistening plane in front of the members of Cohort 2 is all too tempting. No deep snow, smooth sailing, fast running - they all knew they could make up ground.

"I dunno about this, couldn't it be dangerous?" asks Nohika timidly.

"All of us are behind, guys," mentioned Orcagirl, who is pleased to be the only Orca in the game this time. "Somehow we need to move faster."

"Stop being a wimp," scoffs Bold Text. "I'm gonna win this race. You know it."

And with that, she leads the charge.

BT's pups fly across the glistening plane, tongues lolling. But not for long. With a shuddering crack, the ground shatters in all different directions, radiating outwards.

"Ice! It's cracking!" yells Nohika, veering her team off to the side. Everyone follows suit, ordering the dogs away from the quickly widening chasm.

"Snickers! GEE!"
"Big Ben, Whoa, whoa!"
"Haw, Fluffybutterkins, haw!"

Everyone has survived - but now they all stare at each other with disheartened expressions, across wide cracks filled with frothing, freezing water.
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The remaining 19 mushers:

Cohort 1
Devyn (16) - a kind-hearted musher able to patch up dogs on the trail
Kaydubs (14)
dyachei (14)
wildcatj (16)

Cohort 2
bold text (16)
orcagirl (16)
SOV (15) - a musher who just wanted to help everyone out
nohika (16)
FH (15)

Cohort 3
equineconstant (16)
vetgirl4eva (14)
hedgiehog (15)
JamrOckin (16) - an evil musher

Cohort 4
cuitlamiztli (13)
swingnsave (10)
wldlfstdnt (15)

Cohort 5
Trematode (16) - the annoying musher
JJ (14)
WTF (6)
FFM (15)

Cohort 6
wolfspeaker (16)
nyanko (15)
Abney (16)
PetPony (14) - a hard-working musher


Lynch will close at noon central 12/30. Heads-up warning - we may decide to only accept item submissions from people who vote in the lynch.

For the curious:
A short video describing the leg.

The entrance to Dalzell Gorge.

 

[orcagirl]

Crazy scary. Sounds like someone's creativity has it out for those of us in cohort 2. 🙁 Also I would totally name a dog Snickers!

 

[kaydubs]

Not devyn! 🙁 Sounds like she had healing abilities of some sort too.

 

[vetgirl4eva]

Crap. It looks like devyn was the one able to heal injured pups.

Also, I lost another dog. 🙁

 

[orcagirl]

Crap. It looks like devyn was the one able to heal injured pups.

Also, I lost another dog. 🙁

Any information about how you lost it?

And I need to learn to read more closely. It's really too bad we lost devyn.

 

[vetgirl4eva]

Any information about how you lost it?

And I need to learn to read more closely. It's really too bad we lost devyn.

I was told it was due to trail injury.

 

[wldlfstdnt]

I lost a dog!

 

[orcagirl]

It seems like someone doesn't want communication occurring within Cohort 2. First the avalanche and now the thin ice. I know bold text mentioned not liking to invest in PMing. However, I'm not sure if this is a mod thing or from another player. It's just not fun.

 

[cuitlamiztli]

Those nightvision-goggle-wearing reindeer are kind of creepy.

Also, hopefully devyn wasn't the only one able to patch up injured dogs 🙁

 

[cuitlamiztli]

It seems like someone doesn't want communication occurring within Cohort 2. First the avalanche and now the thin ice. I know bold text mentioned not liking to invest in PMing. However, I'm not sure if this is a mod thing or from another player. It's just not fun.

I was wondering if that meant no PMing for you guys. That sucks.

 

[orcagirl]

I was wondering if that meant no PMing for you guys. That sucks.

Second time it happened. I didn't learn anything useful, but I'm wondering if someone else did. The avalanche was right after I watched SOV's camp and saw him leave. It makes me wonder if there's a wolf in my group and who it might be.

 

[kaydubs]

Those nightvision-goggle-wearing reindeer are kind of creepy.

Also, hopefully devyn wasn't the only one able to patch up injured dogs 🙁

Random fact: they're from a commercial. Can't remember for what right now...

I lost 2 dogs 🙁

 

[orcagirl]

So I'm about to turn off the electronics for the night. It looks like this lynch is open until noon tomorrow. So for now I'll lynch FH. Don't have a good reason (like a lot of my lynches). Unless someone ends up having information or a gut feeling, my vote will probably stay.

 

[dyachei]

lynch foxhunter

mostly RNG, some gut feeling

 

[nyanko]

lynch kaydubs

nothing solid. just conjecture.

and one of my dogs came up lame. so not all losses are due to being attacked.

 

[Flim Flam Man]

Dang, WTF keeps happening to WTF's dogs?

If the wolves took out devyn b/c she was a healer, guessing the wolves have the same ability to make their own items? Or a plain old seer?

I am holding off on my lynch for now.

 

[nyanko]

And all of you building things are gonna get slowed down hauling all that crap.

 

[devyn]

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you wolves will pay once I find out who you are......

mark my words... killing off the veterans first will do you no good

we mod your games... we make your WW...... you will be sorry..... 😡



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[WhtsThFrequency]

All I know is they are "missing" and that I caught sight of some of them, but was too slow to catch them. It doesn't sound like stealing per se, just people letting them go in the middle of the night. Maybe for my item tonight I will suggest a guard llama :/

 

[swingnsave]

i was the one attacked by the polar bear. now I'm down to freakin 10 dogs.
I haven't even had time to submit items ugh.
on top of that, my laptop charger broke.
so I won't have my laptop until I get a new one.
ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh stop killing my dogs! 😡

 

[StartingoverVet]

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you wolves will pay once I find out who you are......

mark my words... killing off the veterans first will do you no good

we mod your games... we make your WW...... you will be sorry..... 😡



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amen to that...

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[swingnsave]

other than that, lynch BT off of nothing other than idk his/her playing style and we have no other leads. let's hope someone comes out with some solid info please.

 

[DVMDream]

I am home from Vegas!! Now I can help out more with deadlines and things... 🙂

 

[swingnsave]

just found out i can go online with my kindle! yay 🙂
need to learn how to use this thing though 😳