Some art, maybe a little gardening, a few other bits.: March 2019

Tuesday, March 19, 2019

Preserving for posterity:

Last weekend, my teen daughters E & J and I introduced ONUW to some friends (T, and her teens B and G). We were in a restaurant and it was too noisy to use the app on my phone, so I narrated the game for most of the rounds. On one of the rounds, though, J wanted to be the Narrator. I was dealt Insomniac. During the night phase, when the Robber was activated, J forgot to say that the Robber could look at the new card to see which role was stolen.

[Day phase, after some discussion]:

T: Well, I was the Robber, and I took your card. [pointing at me]

Me: Then I believe you aren't a Werewolf.

B: Why? What were you?

Me: I was [slight pause, while I decide for sure whether to reveal what I started as, and also while I try to remember the word "insomniac"]… the Insomniac.

E: That was a long pause while you thought about it! That sounds like you were making it up!

B: Yeah! What, you couldn't remember? You really had to think about it.

Me: [sputtering] It was only a second—I was thinking--

E: Obviously a Werewolf.

Me: [Realizing with complete certainty that E would be hedging her accusation if she weren't trying to hide something herself] Wait a minute, you sure are acting certain about that… *you* are a Werewolf!

G: Yep, he's a Werewolf. I believe E.

Me: [Sensing their eager collaboration, dismayed that no one else notices how readily E and G and ganging up on me] Oh my gosh, you two are completely in on it together! You two are both Werewolves!

[A minute passes with me trying and failing to convince everyone that E and G are the Werewolves and I am falsely accused]

[Vote: I'm the only one pointing at E, everyone else points at me.]

[I reveal I did indeed have the Robber card, E and G revel in their Werewolf rampage. I was 100% right and 100% dead.]