Persus13:
Can you tell which names are Danish and which aren't?
Danish naming traditions actually were very tightly connected to use of the datter/søn(sen in more recent years) I wouldn't be surprised to find that only those of us with a patronymic paired with datter/sen are actually of typical and pure Danish ancestry, with the others actually being from other European countries or having somewhat exotic family situations. (though there are Danish surnames which do not follow that pattern).
'von' is commonly part of German names, and 'heim' as part of a surname is very often German or Norwegian.
Brzęczyszczykiewicz is almost certainly Polish.
Gwenhwyfar is usually Welsh.
More details on Danish surnames for the interested:
http://www.lenekottal.dk/artikler/artikler.php?aid=20&lang=en (about datter and sen)
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dnkcen/FAQ/1000surnames.html (modern-day 1000 most common Danish surnames)
I am Gwenhwyfar, who was found in a forest with a shield by the queen and became her advisor.
Were you still a child when you were found? Do you know who named you?
Toaster:
Imp:
10 golden crowns
Gosh, I use my loupe... I just can't see that well, even with it sometimes. Not every 'counting' problem comes from a problem with 'counting', sometimes there's other things to take into account. However I appreciate that the daughter of our greatest Merchant family chose to display a gently adulterated Accounting book.[/quote]
On a serious note, how do you feel about not having any direct control over the lynch?
Still deciding, but I think I might like it. I do want someone or something to be in control, and that someone had better be sane or really don't enjoy the goings on at all (insane people 'in control' rarely are in enough control to be 'in control'). That someone doesn't have to be myself though.
Do you know why you, of the various members of your family, was the one selected to serve the Queen's Council?
not-feeling-like-a-zombie-today uristImp: Why are almost all your questions flavor related when Vector said flavor isn't relevant to the game?
That's a very strange question, ZU. The 'flavor' I asked about was primarily directly related to the shields - and those shields came from each player, for all the imagery has been filtered through another person's interpretation and artistic ability. Asking about these shields, both from the players who picked the imagery to be used and asking opinions of preference about the shields overall is a way to attempt to ellicit information about others' thought patterns and intentions. A successful way? We'll see. But psychologists play a little game involving ink blots and the impressions people get from such things... surely such a game doesn't only function through ink blots.
What purpose does a FoS serve in a kingmaker game, when you are not currently King?
The majority of questions I see are about 'flavor' of one taste or another, from character names to references of darkness and light, to the heraldry, to our character nationalities.
I asked the questions I did because they seem and feel appropriate to me to ask at that point in play. I'll refer you to the concept of RVS questioning, and how we just passed a N0 where we recieved flavor PMs (some more than others apparently) and how we were invited to interact with our moderator in a flavorful fashion. This game's flavor, one form of it or another, is very much on my mind now and when I selected those questions. Personally, I've been swimming in the theme of this game for the last dayish, and I'm finding it refreshing and enjoyable - it's close to exactly what my real-life wearied, stressed, and hassled spirit needed at this time. (Thank you, Vector and other flavor-and-other-game-content providers!)
Of all who ask about one flavor of the flavor or another, why do you focus on my focus upon it?
Jim Groovester:
How green am I to your eyes, compared to makeinu?
Probably greener. I've only played the one game with him, but I think he has a better reserve of experience to draw upon when he finds things to pick at people over.
Why the comparison to makeinu?
Relates to the current BM. makeinu became the IC that you said I was too green to be, and I was curious how you saw him in that regard in comparison (as you said nothing about him when he volunteered).
makeinu:
Imp:
Is that a platypus rampant on your emblazon?
No, its a star-nosed mole.
Your colors speak of peace, innocence, joy, hope. How do the charges you selected relate to that?
What charges I selected where now? I don't understand what you're asking me, explain/link?
You're going to make novels I'm going to have to read all game, aren't you?
Maybe I'll be moved to make novels, maybe I won't. Not sure you have to do anything either way, but you can read whatever you want, or not read if you don't want.
In this format, however, the King is the only kill. His is the lynch vote, the only one. And, by the nature of the game, he's confirmed Town.
I understand that the KingMaker is Town for Sure. What proves that each and every King is Town? I understood that the King is whomever the KingMaker selects, and the KingMaker can select anyone alive?Ah, you're right. I misread. It's the Kingmaker that must be Town.
ooh. So now that you understand this - does that change your answer to the King/vig question at all?
Superblackcat:
Woah, it started!
Superblackcat: What is your gift?
My, whatatata?
I'm asking about your shield. It appears to be emblazoned with a gift. Is that a gift? What is that gift?