The Syndicate

Pottermore said I'm a Gryffindor too.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Sat Oct 27, 2018 4:03 pm ColinIsCool - Keeper
DharmaHelper - Beater
insertnamehere - Chaser
JaggedJimmyJay - Seeker
Kylemii - Chaser
Turnip Head - Beater

We don't need #7. Championship.

TFW I'm late to Quidditch practice

I went with the Goblet of Fire because it's either the first book I read by myself or the last one my mom read to all of us as kids. I can't remember which.

I know a shitload about Harry Potter and most of it is because Mom read the books to us when we were so young and that stuff sticks in your head like the alphabet.

The story behind my Pottermore patronus is even more personal and sad and happy and cute than the story behind my knowledge of the books lol.

juliets wrote: ↑Sat Oct 27, 2018 5:03 pm I have an awesome awesome house of players!

I think the first book was my favorite because everything was new and unique. And truth be told I never got around to reading or seeing the last couple of books/films (I know, I should). So now I just have to look up which book was first (its been a long time).

Philosopher/Sorcerer's Stone.

@Jay Pottermore is the official sort of social platform for Harry Potter.

G R Y F F I N D O R

DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Sat Oct 27, 2018 4:57 pm The story behind my Pottermore patronus is even more personal and sad and happy and cute than the story behind my knowledge of the books lol.

For anyone who wants to cry tonight or who wants a peek behind the Kayfabe of my mafia-persona.

Spoiler: show

Anyway that's why I believe in magic.

juliets wrote: ↑Sat Oct 27, 2018 6:26 pm
DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Sat Oct 27, 2018 5:56 pm
DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Sat Oct 27, 2018 4:57 pm The story behind my Pottermore patronus is even more personal and sad and happy and cute than the story behind my knowledge of the books lol.
For anyone who wants to cry tonight or who wants a peek behind the Kayfabe of my mafia-persona.

Spoiler: show
For context, a "Patronus" is essentially the embodiment of a happy memory that wizards use to either fight Dementors (who feed off negative energy, fear, sadness, bad memories, etc) or sometimes they can be used to send messages or w/e. They usually take the form of an animal. Anyway...

So a few years (Like 8 or 9) ago I had this dog, some of you might remember from IRC chats or w/e. Fat Beagle that we got literally on a whim outside some gym or family/fitness center where they had a bunch of dogs they were looking to get adopted. This dumbass literally walks right up to me. I walk him up the sidewalk for a bit and then we both get tired and I sit down to pet him but he lays his head on my lap like a jerk. Hoo do I not love this guy and take him home lol.

Anyway he'd sleep with me every night and like, right up on my legs he'd curl up like a puzzle piece and fit right in there. Every night.

Then when he passed 4-5 years ago I got all torn up about it. And I dunno when the Pottermore site added the Patronus thing where you can go on there and answer some questions and it'll show you your Patronus with a little animation and let you play with it and watch it move on the screen or w/e but I remember thinking "You know what fuck it" after seeing everyone posting about it on Twitter so I go and answer the questions and I remember distinctly thinking "If this fucking website tells me my Patronus is a beagle I'm going to cry my face off" and sure enough the site said my Patronus was not just a dog (there were several types of dogs I saw other people have on Twitter so I know its not just "Dog" or "cat" or "bird") but I got a beagle.
Anyway that's why I believe in magic.
I remember that dog DH and how sad it was for you and your family and then for us on IRC when it passed. And how ironic that your patronus was a beagle. Now there is Storm and I hope he is doing well and I'm sure he is loved by the whole family, though I know he can't replace the one thats passed. Good story.

Oh Storm's great. And he's doing really well. We may even get him a friend coming up here soon which will be funny because he's so protective and such an attention hog but he's not got a mean bone in his body

Hell yeah Gryffindor is in first place

Epignosis wrote: ↑Sat Oct 27, 2018 8:52 pm What's the one in which

Spoiler: show
Snape kills Dumbledore?

Spoiler: show

Turnip Head wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 12:17 am What do Beaters do? It sounds... physical

Beaters smack around the Bludger (basically a big ol' medicine ball) with bats.

Which is I assume the key to understanding the joke in placing me in that position.

Bludgers are designed to hit the opposing team and knock them off their brooms.

Quaffle is the name of the "soccer ball" that Chasers put in the goals.

It's gonna take me a hot minute to think of a good gimmick for this game but I'll get there eventually.

Thinking out loud, is there a way to math out who has what/who targeted who with what/etc using the potential House Points as a jumping off point?

Or would that require too much outing/claiming/bullshit to be worth anything in the long term.

Turnip Head wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 6:35 pm I'm just so used to being on the bottom

I bet.

10 points to Gryffindor.

nutella wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 6:48 pm
DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 6:40 pm 10 points to Gryffindor.
yeah you're really a slytherin aren't you

I'm a Gryffindor at heart I just pretend to be a Slytherin because its funny.

Yeah I've gotta be real with yall unless somebody outright fucks up and slips or somebody builds a damn good case, I'll probably default to a no-show as well.

Epignosis wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 9:03 pm Fuck that. Do some work first.

I mean I'll put the work in where I can but I don't see a lot of meat being on the bone for Day 1 of a game this size.

Lunalee wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 9:15 pm
DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 9:01 pm Yeah I've gotta be real with yall unless somebody outright fucks up and slips or somebody builds a damn good case, I'll probably default to a no-show as well.
The funny thing with this game is we might get some magnificent ties. Because if you're on a townie lynch that goes through, your house looses 2 points. So especially on day 1 if I don't have a good scum read, I would rather be a single vote on someone who's not going to die.

Oh good someone already fucked up. Thanks Luna :P

FWIW I'm begging Glorfindel please don't feel obligated to answer "Are you good" questions.

Epignosis wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 10:06 pm
JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 10:02 pm
Epignosis wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 10:00 pm
JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 9:10 pm I'm going to have essentially zero time until Tuesday night or Wednesday. While I'm not here y'all best find excuses to do work and not excuses to do fuck all. Epi's recent grumbles are valid.

[VOTE: Quin] aubergine, because he said some shit I didn't like earlier. He provided a token response to Epi's dig at juliets which just looked like "this is where I am supposed to interject with this here comment" instead of "this is a problem and I want to address it".
What was my dig at juliets?
I answered this already in response to juliets, you'll see it soon enough.
I didn't have a "dig" at juliets.

My comment was that we are not mafia partners because I like to discuss things with my mafia teammates, and I "spoiled" something for juliets (even though I PUT THE DAMN THING IN SPOILER TAGS), so we are not bad together in BTSC.

You don't have to believe that, of course, but I threw it out there anyway.

This whole discussion is primo levels of silly.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 10:10 pm
DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 10:10 pm This whole discussion is primo levels of silly.
The part you've just played in it has been the least meaningful.

Meow.

Seems like a dumb premise to me is all.

Like, am I supposed to believe that remark/spoiler was meant specifically for Juliets? Or that if you were bad with Juliets the first thing you talk about in BTSC is "Hey I haven't read all the books please don't spoil this specific thing for me" or w/e?

I dunno. Seems like a dumb hill to die on.

Epignosis wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 10:21 pm
Long Con wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 10:18 pm
Epignosis wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 10:06 pmMy comment was that we are not mafia partners because I like to discuss things with my mafia teammates, and I "spoiled" something for juliets (even though I PUT THE DAMN THING IN SPOILER TAGS), so we are not bad together in BTSC.
This logic seems unsound. Do you mean that you pre-discuss everything you say in the thread with your teammates when you're bad?
There isn't any logic to it. I've been bad with juliets before, and juliets loves chat (see: discord). We would have been talking this stuff up, and juliets asks questions about things even when bad.

So my point is this:

juliets and I are not bad teammates together.

Use that. Work with it. Bye.

Cheeky way to best Veritiserum or Epi being Epi?

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 10:22 pm
DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 10:20 pm Seems like a dumb premise to me is all.

Like, am I supposed to believe that remark/spoiler was meant specifically for Juliets? Or that if you were bad with Juliets the first thing you talk about in BTSC is "Hey I haven't read all the books please don't spoil this specific thing for me" or w/e?

I dunno. Seems like a dumb hill to die on.
It probably is a dumb premise. Do you read any of the players involved any particular way as a result of that dumb premise?

Not currently. I'm not particularly interested in digging into it and trying to squeeze the rock, so to speak. No juice there. Not worth my brain power. Moving on.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 10:26 pm
DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 10:23 pm Not currently. I'm not particularly interested in digging into it and trying to squeeze the rock, so to speak. No juice there. Not worth my brain power. Moving on.
Understandable. Your next challenge is to create a rock more worth squeezing.

It's relatively late, my sleep schedule is fucked, and I win games when I troll you and refuse to add anything of value to discussion.

2/3 of those things means I'll dig my heels in and do some rock-squeezing tomorrow.

Epignosis wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 10:31 pm I suspect these people: JJJ, TH, DH, and timmer in no particular order.

*puts on sherlock holmes hat*

Is that because we're all posting on this page of the thread

Damnit TH's last post was last page. Foiled again.

Epignosis wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 10:35 pm
DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 10:32 pm
Epignosis wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 10:31 pm I suspect these people: JJJ, TH, DH, and timmer in no particular order.
*puts on sherlock holmes hat*

Is that because we're all posting on this page of the thread
You're filler.

I'm filler on your list or do you mean "your filler"

Owner of a Lonely Heart wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 10:52 pm
DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 10:28 pm
It's relatively late, my sleep schedule is fucked, and I win games when I troll you and refuse to add anything of value to discussion.

2/3 of those things means I'll dig my heels in and do some rock-squeezing tomorrow.
Hi, it's good to play with you again, though I'm still suspicious of you.

[VOTE: DharmaHelper] aubergine

Cool.

Owner of a Lonely Heart wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 11:01 pm
DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 10:59 pm
Cool.
I thought you were done for the day. What changed your mind?

I didn't say I was done for the day, I said I'm tired and I don't think I'd be able to dig into the thread productively.

I'm starting to think Owner of a Lonely Heart just doesn't like me very much which I'm not sure how to take.

Owner of a Lonely Heart wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 11:09 pm
DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 11:02 pm
I didn't say I was done for the day, I said I'm tired and I don't think I'd be able to dig into the thread productively.
So you are chalking up any potential future badly typed posts "oh I'm tired" or "basically you are downplaying your ability"?

...no? What?

Owner of a Lonely Heart wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 11:11 pm
DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 11:08 pm I'm starting to think Owner of a Lonely Heart just doesn't like me very much which I'm not sure how to take.
I respect you, but that doesn't mean I'll stop being critical of you.

Seems like you're constantly and exclusively critical of me, but hell I've got pretty thick skin I'll be fine. Anyway good luck with that I guess.

Owner of a Lonely Heart wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 11:18 pm
DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 11:11 pm
...no? What?
By saying that you were tired, you excused yourself from the thread and haven't been posting here, until I voted for you and started talking.

That potentially means you were still around in the thread or "hovering". There could be a variety of reasons why you weren't saying anything, but I don't know. I might need to look at the Firefly game again to see if your posts in that game were as scummy as the ones that I'm currently seeing in this game.

Before you got here and after I told Jay that I'd do more serious and focused work on the thread tomorrow, I asked Epi if he meant that I was a filer position on his list of suspects or if he mean that I was on his list of suspects because I'd been posting "filler".

Owner if you just admit you hate me I'll be cool with it, seriously its fine I've been through much worse mafia-relationships before.

Epignosis wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 11:25 pm I called you filler, DH, because a filler is unimportant. That's all.

See I told you, much worse relationships.

Owner of a Lonely Heart wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 11:29 pm
DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 11:24 pm Owner if you just admit you hate me I'll be cool with it, seriously its fine I've been through much worse mafia-relationships before.
I can't tell if you are trying to appeal to emotion or if this is a joke.

That was a joke.

Or was it.

Owner of a Lonely Heart wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 11:27 pm
DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 11:21 pm
Before you got here and after I told Jay that I'd do more serious and focused work on the thread tomorrow, I asked Epi if he meant that I was a filer position on his list of suspects or if he mean that I was on his list of suspects because I'd been posting "filler".
You did. You felt it necessary to tell JJJ that you weren't a full strength, but that's potentially null. If you're scum and Epi is town, then this question would be to find out where Epi stands on you. So far, these two things could support scum motivations.

i don't understand what you're talking about. I told Jay I'd get to the meat of things tomorrow, and I asked Epi for clarification on his "filler" remark. Where's that track to "if you're scum and Epi is town" territory?

IDK Fam you do you.

Owner of a Lonely Heart wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 11:31 pm So far DH, I haven't seen anything that screams town from you. Cause, in Firefly, you did do some townie things that almost made me read you correctly.

I dunno out of everything you've said I take this as the biggest lie. I don't recall you ever even almost reading me as town in Firefly for one thing and for another it's barely D1 and your reasons for "scum" reading me are convoluted and backwards.

Owner of a Lonely Heart wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 10:57 pm
Epignosis wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 10:54 pm
Owner of a Lonely Heart wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 10:52 pm
DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 10:28 pm
It's relatively late, my sleep schedule is fucked, and I win games when I troll you and refuse to add anything of value to discussion.

2/3 of those things means I'll dig my heels in and do some rock-squeezing tomorrow.
Hi, it's good to play with you again, though I'm still suspicious of you.

[VOTE: DharmaHelper] aubergine
"Still?"
In the Firefly game we played together, I was suspicious of him the whole game. I just couldn't bring myself to trust him sadly. We were actually on the same side though. Rip.

Owner of a Lonely Heart wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 11:04 pm
Epignosis wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 11:02 pm
So you are voting DH because he was a civilian in the a completely different game and you suspected him there?
I have my reasons, or it could be DH just reads scummy each game. (that could be a thing; I would need to have played more games with him to test this theory).

But I think he's being different.

Cool.

I don't understand why I'm engaging in this conversation.

I feel different than I did in the game you scum read me, but you scum read me in this game as well.

Owner of a Lonely Heart wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 11:50 pm
DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 11:39 pm
I dunno out of everything you've said I take this as the biggest lie. I don't recall you ever even almost reading me as town in Firefly for one thing and for another it's barely D1 and your reasons for "scum" reading me are convoluted and backwards.
I haven't said all the reasons. And am I not allowed to start this early? It shouldn't matter of how early or late in the game it is.

"its barely D1" meaning "Get off my jock about not participating or excusing myself from the thread or w/e"

Owner of a Lonely Heart wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 11:55 pm
DharmaHelper wrote: ↑Sun Oct 28, 2018 11:51 pm
"its barely D1" meaning "Get off my jock about not participating or excusing myself from the thread or w/e"
You sound angry. Are you going to be okay?

I'm fine. If I get angry you'll recognize it.

Well that was absolutely not productive so I'm gonna *actually* step away from the thread and maybe go watch Doctor Who or w/e

I'll tell you what I'm not gonna do, is jump through hoops to get someone who won't change their mind about me to change their mind about me. Nah son, not this guy.

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