The Syndicate

Hi. I'm Jay and I'm sick of losing. Prepare your butts for the worst kind of me.

leetic wrote: ↑Sun Feb 17, 2019 8:23 pm Confirming that I have my role

Stiff obligatory check in. Bad.

speedchuck wrote: ↑Sun Feb 17, 2019 11:56 pmHullo guys

speedchuck entry posts in his last six games:


Two of them featuring a greeting ("hi" or "hello"). The mafia version of the greeting is inserted by force; the civilian version is smoov like buttah. His Shockheaded Peter greeting is relatively smoov like relative buttah.

Clear, obvious civilian.

Sloonei wrote: ↑Sun Feb 17, 2019 8:20 pmAw heck

"Aw heck I wasn't even going to play, but then Jay made me and now I drew a mafia role aw heck."

novaselinenever wrote: ↑Mon Feb 18, 2019 2:39 am

sabie12 wrote: ↑Sun Feb 17, 2019 9:34 pm Hi everyone! I'm here. This should be a good group

We got one.

Oh yes, nova. Oh sweet glorious YES. Tell me more about the feelings sabie's post invoked in you. Tell them all over my face.

novaselinenever wrote: ↑Mon Feb 18, 2019 2:40 am Noticed during this exercise that the Socky Award game thread is nowhere to be found

I decided to place that one in the Events subforum so it'll be with the Socky ceremonies of previous years.

nutella wrote: ↑Mon Feb 18, 2019 3:07 am

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Mon Feb 18, 2019 2:40 am

novaselinenever wrote: ↑Mon Feb 18, 2019 2:39 am

sabie12 wrote: ↑Sun Feb 17, 2019 9:34 pm Hi everyone! I'm here. This should be a good group

We got one.

Oh yes, nova. Oh sweet glorious YES. Tell me more about the feelings sabie's post invoked in you. Tell them all over my face.

Ew get a room

Are you, nutella, bad?

novaselinenever wrote: ↑Mon Feb 18, 2019 3:08 amYou're putting me on the spot here.

It stroke me as weirdly succinct on first read, and I compared it to some of her entry posts in previous games. I have no data on baddie Sabie, however her Civilian self usually starts the game with some chatter. She feels comfortable, and appears easy going.

She comes offcold here, or timid I'd say. Right to the point. I don't care much as well for the general compliment, and the addition of an emoji. Probably an attempt at appearing more friendly.

I ache for sabie's response to this accusation.

Let me make it clear that this will be an active Mafia game. Every phase will move at a good pace, and we will not fart around for a moment while the mafia team does whatever they like.

reywaS wrote: ↑Mon Feb 18, 2019 6:39 am

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Mon Feb 18, 2019 3:20 am Let me make it clear that this will be an active Mafia game. Every phase will move at a good pace, and we will not fart around for a moment while the mafia team does whatever they like.

Purpleface me all you like rey! I just had to watch an entire civilian team barely care until it was too late in the Socky game. The mafia team didn’t break a sweat until LyLo.

It’s not happening with JJJ around. No sir. Today we give a shit. Today we fight our oppressors. Today we make them suffer the cold bite of justice.

leetic wrote: ↑Mon Feb 18, 2019 9:42 am

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Mon Feb 18, 2019 2:28 am

leetic wrote: ↑Sun Feb 17, 2019 8:23 pm Confirming that I have my role

Stiff obligatory check in. Bad.

Well, that is just how we do things where I'm from.

Okay!

I'll let you do your thing, leetic. It really is good to have you back 'round these parts.

sabie12 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 18, 2019 10:19 am Haha you guys trying to accuse me because I said hi its gonna be a good group? I didn't have any chatter because no one was on to chat with when I was here. My accusation is nova and Jay must be teammates trying to stir the pot together and get all the suspicions off of them.

You... accuse me? Of stirring the pot?

speedchuck wrote: ↑Mon Feb 18, 2019 11:14 amJJJ is pending town. Ask me why.

Someone else ask him why, it's boring if I do it.

Lunalee wrote: ↑Mon Feb 18, 2019 11:38 am

sabie12 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 18, 2019 10:19 am Haha you guys trying to accuse me because I said hi its gonna be a good group? I didn't have any chatter because no one was on to chat with when I was here. My accusation is nova and Jay must be teammates trying to stir the pot together and get all the suspicions off of them.

Nevermind Jay and Nova. Seems like they are strong-arming everyone at the door with their check-in posts. It's simply a power show.

What does this "power show" indicate to you about rey and I?

sabie12 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 18, 2019 10:26 amAnd that happened because people refused to listen to me. If only they had, we may have had a chance at winning.

Rest assured I will be paying very close attention to the reads you provide. Very close attention.

You guys, speedchuck and nutella are about to have a fight.

nutella wrote: ↑Mon Feb 18, 2019 12:10 pm Rey is trying too hard

to do what

Jackofhearts2005 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 18, 2019 12:40 pmI don't believe this but I believe you believe this.

What precisely drives your belief in my belief?

Jackofhearts2005 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 18, 2019 12:45 pmI'm going to have trouble playing this game without taking... bathroom breaks, I can already tell.

I may already be in there lathering myself in lavender-scented reads.

Jackofhearts2005 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 18, 2019 12:47 pm

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Mon Feb 18, 2019 12:46 pm

Jackofhearts2005 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 18, 2019 12:40 pmI don't believe this but I believe you believe this.

What precisely drives your belief in my belief?

The time investment. It's not much of a joke if you don't actually believe it.

wot wood u say m8 if I told you 'at moi only real ping of the game so far 'as come from speedchuck?

Lunalee wrote: ↑Mon Feb 18, 2019 1:12 pm I didn't mention rey. It just makes you and Nova look like you're excited for the game, and don't mind punching reads out of people's check-in posts. I like the enthusiasm, but your methods look a bit harsh.

Derp. Whaddya mean by harsh?

It means I said one player's name instead of the other's.

bob is town.

Jackofhearts2005 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 18, 2019 1:32 pm

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Mon Feb 18, 2019 1:30 pm bob is town.

Seriously tho why?

The Grand Unified Theory of Mafia, attributed to JaggedJimmyJay in his seminal 2019 paper "A Unification of Mafia Theory: Connections Across Alignments and Behavioral Trends" posits that a mafioso is less likely to voice interest in accusations that will strike many observers as silly (and my rey/nova switcharoo qualifies in that category). Civilians have no idea what to do with Day 0 crap though and will explore anything available with enthusiasm.

colonialbob wrote: ↑Mon Feb 18, 2019 1:34 pm

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Mon Feb 18, 2019 1:30 pm It means I said one player's name instead of the other's.

Yes but why? Possibilities:

- It's an honest slip and means nothing.
- You're concerned about how Rey is viewed and not Nova, because you are teammates with Rey.
- You're concerned with how Rey is viewed because you're trying to set up some interaction with him. This reads maf to me.

Now obviously option 1 is a real possibility, but I can't come up with any town reasons you would have made the slip, whole I can come up with several maf ones (to go along side the NAI honest slip). So, sus.

Roll with it, bobaroo. You roll with it.

Lunalee wrote: ↑Mon Feb 18, 2019 1:36 pm

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Mon Feb 18, 2019 1:17 pm

Lunalee wrote: ↑Mon Feb 18, 2019 1:12 pm I didn't mention rey. It just makes you and Nova look like you're excited for the game, and don't mind punching reads out of people's check-in posts. I like the enthusiasm, but your methods look a bit harsh.

Derp. Whaddya mean by harsh?

Maybe it's just your playstyle. But you seemed to be sorting everyone into "bad"/"good" bins as they showed up.

I prefer "baskets".

Ping and Things:

~ [mention]Jackofhearts2005[/mention] giving me civilian credit (belief-in-myself credit?) for my dumb analysis of speedchuck's entry posts.

~ [mention]speedchuck[/mention] saying I'm pending town with an "ask me why" instead of just saying it. Pointless hype layer.

~ [mention]nutella[/mention] saying "need more data" to diminish her "could be bad" read on Sloonei and saying the same about bob for no clear reason / also not telling me what rey was trying to hard to do.

~ [mention]Sloonei[/mention] doing nothing

~ [mention]Lunalee[/mention] dismissing the actions of rey nova and I as a "power show" without clarity on the alignment implications of such an assertion

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Mon Feb 18, 2019 1:47 pmtrying to hard

[VOTE: JaggedJimmyJay] aubergine

nutella wrote: ↑Mon Feb 18, 2019 1:58 pm Jay he was just trying too hard. To do anything in particular I'm not sure. But he made a pointless post saying something about every player when the thread had hardly started. So much pointless "eh would lynch" crap at too early a stage. It's forced participation/making himself look like he's contributing thoughts but they are empty ones. Say the same about my sloonei bob post if you will, but at least I didn't waste a ton of time on it.

Do you believe he intended those things to be portrayed as reads?

I'm reminded of a thing just now that I will share, but Ima let you answer first.

nutella wrote: ↑Mon Feb 18, 2019 2:07 pm Alternatively he was just being goofy and that whole post was a joke (the double e thing makes this seem likely along with his personality) and I look silly for taking it seriously at all.

I thought it was basically this:

MacDougall wrote: ↑Sat Jun 16, 2018 2:03 am -Sig is a poor quality garden salad
-Golden is a Polynesian athlete with a difficult to pronounce and hyphenated surname
-Scotty is a massive fan of the television show Sense8
-insertnamehere is a carnie with a creepy hand
-Lunalee is a bandaged ham sandwich
-Quin is a marmalade fondue
-nutella is a Pepsi flavoured wine cooler
-MacDougall is the Lord of All Things
-Zephyrus is a meme
-Lapluie is a philosophical concept
-Turnip Head is a routine process
-Kylemii is a figurative mannerism
-Choutas is a con man
-Coliniscool
-Spacedaisy is an enigma wrapped inside a breakfast burrito
-Epignosis is a slave owner

colonialbob
novaselinenever

sabie12
leetic
nutella

Elohcin
AudreyTheTattleTail

Lunalee
reywaS
speedchuck
Jackofhearts2005
Sloonei

AMA

Sloonei wrote: ↑Mon Feb 18, 2019 2:26 pm I am not presently trying to hard.

You're definitely not harding me.

Sloonei wrote: ↑Mon Feb 18, 2019 2:26 pmWhat should I do for dinner?

Greek

Jackofhearts2005 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 18, 2019 2:29 pmWhy is Nova up high?

His first post looked authentic. His expansion on that post looked authentic. He looks authentic.

Jackofhearts2005 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 18, 2019 2:35 pm

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Mon Feb 18, 2019 2:31 pm

Jackofhearts2005 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 18, 2019 2:29 pmWhy is Nova up high?

His first post looked authentic. His expansion on that post looked authentic. He looks authentic.

His first post which was a joke looked authentic?

Please teach me to joke authentically cause my jokes always come across too jokey.

What makes you think it was a joke?

novaselinenever wrote: ↑Mon Feb 18, 2019 2:36 pmWhy is Speedchuck free falling?

He gets graded on a curve against all the other students in the class (a class which is entirely populated by previous versions of speedchuck in other games) as a product of his recent cross-alignment success. He's gotten involved nicely, but none of his posts have made me feel anything. On the speedchuck curve that's orange.

sabie12 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 18, 2019 2:37 pmHim and nova are lovers apparently or teammates

sabie, my friend: does the tongue emoji indicate facetiousness, or is this a real concern that you have?

novaselinenever wrote: ↑Mon Feb 18, 2019 3:08 amYou're putting me on the spot here.

It stroke me as weirdly succinct on first read, and I compared it to some of her entry posts in previous games. I have no data on baddie Sabie, however her Civilian self usually starts the game with some chatter. She feels comfortable, and appears easy going.

She comes offcold here, or timid I'd say. Right to the point. I don't care much as well for the general compliment, and the addition of an emoji. Probably an attempt at appearing more friendly.

[mention]Jackofhearts2005[/mention], please talk to me about this.

Elohcin wrote: ↑Mon Feb 18, 2019 2:46 pm Here, checking in. Hello all.

Welcome aboard, Eloh. We've hit the ground running.

Jack earns zero points for this exchange.

Elohcin wrote: ↑Mon Feb 18, 2019 2:57 pm

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Mon Feb 18, 2019 2:49 pm

Elohcin wrote: ↑Mon Feb 18, 2019 2:46 pm Here, checking in. Hello all.

Welcome aboard, Eloh. We've hit the ground running.

I see there are a few pages already. It is fluff or do I need to read them?

I think there's actually quite a bit of relevant material this time.

speedchuck wrote: ↑Mon Feb 18, 2019 3:11 pm

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Mon Feb 18, 2019 2:38 pm

novaselinenever wrote: ↑Mon Feb 18, 2019 2:36 pmWhy is Speedchuck free falling?

He gets graded on a curve against all the other students in the class (a class which is entirely populated by previous versions of speedchuck in other games) as a product of his recent cross-alignment success. He's gotten involved nicely, but none of his posts have made me feel anything. On the speedchuck curve that's orange.

What, speedchuck? What?

sabie12 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 18, 2019 3:20 pmI always thought the face was a jokey face and the smiley face was like happy face.

Have I been doing emojis wrong?

I am glad nova that you are participating this game. A few games we played in you were civ but everyone suspected you and mislynched you because you didn't participate.

You've been using the emojis appropriately.

What is your read on nova now?

sabie12 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 18, 2019 3:22 pm Also sloonei usually has more to say but perhaps he's busy?

[mention]Sloonei[/mention]

[mention]Epignosis[/mention], if you want it:

AudreyTheTattleTail
colonialbob
Elohcin
Jackofhearts2005
JaggedJimmyJay
leetic
Lunalee
novaselinenever
nutella
reywaS
sabie12
Sloonei
speedchuck

Sloonei wrote: ↑Mon Feb 18, 2019 3:56 pmShe’s right

You've now made five distinct appearances in the thread across your six posts, each appearance separable by a minimum of 35 minutes. None of them has resulted in anything.

I think Elohcin looks authentic. Her read on me has a surface waffle appearance, but it's still rather conclusive (that I am "very likely" a civilian). I take no issue with the other points she decided to highlight.

Sloonei wrote: ↑Mon Feb 18, 2019 4:05 pm

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Mon Feb 18, 2019 4:00 pm

Sloonei wrote: ↑Mon Feb 18, 2019 3:56 pmShe’s right

You've now made five distinct appearances in the thread across your six posts, each appearance separable by a minimum of 35 minutes. None of them has resulted in anything.

Aw heck

You're aware, so my work here is finished for now.

Sloonei being scum is a busy tell.

It has been 25 minutes since the last post. Unacceptable.