I might disclose a few things before the full write up... since I sense you guys are a little confused over the recent events.

Holmgang

I disclosed my method to two people and yet they never “caught on”. I also leaked some info here and there to the people in the chat; some where true and others ambiguous at best. My intention was to build a little Holmgang application. However as I didn’t realise that I was up for hosting my game I had to make short cuts. I came up with the pieces of paper in a bowl. These pieces was marked and folded twice.
Let’s take Andres’ fight against sapi. Andres had 2 and sapi 5. I put two pieces of paper with a red dot into the bowl and 5 pieces of paper with a blue dot into the bowl. I also put the draw piece with a green dot on totalling 8 pieces.
I mixed them around and placed the bowl on my head (silly but fair as I wouldn’t see the pieces). I pulled out a red dot. This meant that Andres was down to 1 – 5. Normally sapi would easily win this. I then proceeded to pull put 5 blue in a row and the only thing left was a green and a red. I pulled out the green and a red remained. This meant that Andres had won. Now how to narrate this? I came up with the Berserkrgangr. The only ‘logical’ way for a inferior warrior to win a fight. This became the norm for the underdog winning. I though people would catch this.
I have found new respect for random numbers and picking out of a bowl. Nearly all the Holmgang (clearly exception: Orb vs. Motep 0-3 ) was undecided until the last piece of paper.


Hugin and Munin (the ravens of Odin)

The birds of Odin were going to be supplementary to the ability of Heimdall. It first seemed a little unbalanced that the Gods could investigate 3 players each night. The info from the birds was therefore only scraps. And all messages were correct but out of context. When I realised that Odin was a smart man and deducted that Prole had to be Idun based on the bird message, I was a little worried that the messages was too informative. I toned them down a little.
The War Vets slept outside and had well tended weapons. I also put something in that reflected recent events. CF having fought a Holmgang = tired. DonC attacked by Jotun = sleepless and weapon in hand. When Husar asked me if reinvestigating players would reveal more info I was a little reluctant of answering clearly as I had been ‘helpful’ earlier. Reinvestigating players would reveal deeper things.


More to come…