The Syndicate

Mafia Championship S6 Scrimmage

For 17 players

Hello and welcome to The Syndicates Season 6 Tournament Scrimmage game. This game will be run as close to the authentic tournament structure and format as possible. The setup will be identical, but the software and the stakes will not. We're here to have fun and find out how the setup goes. So, to those who are new here, thank you for signing up, and have fun! For those who have played here before, thank you and have fun as well!

The Setup

This year's tournament setup is named Mad17. The setup features 13 Town vs. 4 Mafia
Complete details of it can be found by clicking the link. It features a full roster of power roles which are all limited to acting on designated nights. Role alignments are randomly determined, meaning that none of these roles are guaranteed to be either Town or Mafia/Wolf. Some abilities only apply to Mafia-aligned players, though. Refer to this chart:

Role	Acts On	Modifier
Watcher	Night 1 Only	Macho
Watcher	Night 2 Only
Alignment Cop	Night 2 Only	1x Ninja
Alignment Cop	Night 3 Only	1x Ninja
Vigilante	Night 2 Only
Vigilante	Night 3 Only
Doctor	Night 1, Night 3
Doctor	Night 2, Night 4
Tracker	Night 1, Night 3
Tracker	Night 2, Night 4
Jailkeeper	Night 1, Night 3
Jailkeeper	Night 2, Night 4
Roleblocker	Nights 1, 2, & 3
Role Cop	Nights 1, 2, & 3	1x Strongman
Jack of all Trades (Role Cop, Tracker, Roleblocker)	Nights 1, 2, & 3
Jack of all Trades (Doctor, Jailkeeper, Voyeur)	Nights 1, 2, & 3
Voyeur	Nights 1, 2, 3, & 4	1x Strongman

Role/Modifier descriptions:

Spoiler: show

Host:
Sloonei - ISO

Threadmarks:
Polls
Start of Day 1
End of Day 1
Start of Day 2
End of Day 2
Start of Day 3

Moderator:
juliets

Players (Home site):
Dragomir (Oro Jackson) - ISO
JaggedJimmyJay (The Syndicate) - ISO
M Plus 7 (The Syndicate) - ISO replaced by DrWilgy - ISO
Macdougall (The Syndicate) - ISO
Owner of a Lonely Heart (PerC) - ISO
rundontwalk2 (RateYourMusic) - ISO
Tsaiah (Flight Rising) - ISO replaced by nutella - ISO

Dead:
Ultra (The Millennium Forums) - ISO - Mafia
Soneji (Naruto Forums) - ISO - Town
Epignosis (The Syndicate) - ISO - Town
Jackofhearts2005 (HCRealms) - ISO - Town
Gemma (DLP) - ISO - Town
novaselinenever (Oro Jackson/The Syndicate) - ISO - Town
JessieKruger - ISO - Town
Luxurious (Flight Rising) - ISO - Town
speedchuck (The Syndicate) - ISO - Town
Dragon D Luffy (Naruto Forums/The Syndicate) - ISO - Town

Rules & Mechanics

Mechanics (Tournament Rules):
(These mechanics are copy & pasted from the Season 6 Information page on MU and will be consistent across all Tournament games.)

Role reveals at death are alignment only. You will not learn a player's exact role when they die.

Usage of night actions is optional, but unused actions will be lost.

Majority voting is not in effect.

Town wins when all threats to Town have been eliminated.

Mafia factions win when they achieve Parity and all other evil factions have been eliminated at any time.

Votes are automatically locked in at LYLO.

No Lynching is enabled. Vote for No Lynch to forgo a lynch that Day.

Mafia factional kills are optional. Mafia may submit a factional kill each night, but are not required to. However, starting night 5, the factional kill will be mandatory.

Mafia factional kills are assigned. They can be tracked, watched, or roleblocked.

Mafia share a factional Night Kill, which is a single standard shot for their faction.

Mafia members may perform the faction kill in addition to their regular action at the same time.

Mafia may communicate at any time.

Tied votes will result in a player being lynched at random from among the tied players.

Game thread will be locked at night.

Mechanics (Game-specific):
(These mechanics are specific to The Syndicate/this game and may not apply to Tournament games)

Days will be 48 hours long. Nights will be 24 hours.

Night actions must be submitted via Private Message to the Host (Sloonei)

Votes must be cast in the poll in order to count. Players are also encouraged to announce their votes in the thread for the sake of visibility.
- There is an optional [VOTE: Vote Tag] aubergine if players wish to use it, but this does not count as an official vote.

There is no posting-restriction. Players are free to exceed 200 posts per phase.

The Host will provide the Mafia team with an off-site channel for private communication.

Other House Rules
-Be kind to one another. Remember that this is a game that all of are willingly playing on the internet for the fun of it. Respect one another and honor the spirit of the game at all time. Our doors are open to folks from all over the world & internet, and it is our mission to foster a welcoming and friendly environment.
-It is customary on The Syndicate for every game to have a designated Moderator/Facilitator. It is the Mod/Facilitator's role to mediate in the event of personal/emotional dilemmas that might occur in the game. If at any point a player is upset by any actions of the game, they should not hesitate to contact the Mod for support. The facilitator for this game is juliets.
-This is dead red font. Any posts by dead players should be off-topic and in this color.
-This is off-topic green font. Off-topic content by living players/hosts should be in this color.
-This is non-player blue. People who are not participating in the game should post in this color, and should refrain from on-topic chatter.
-This will be the Host color. All official announcements from the Host will be in this color, and players should make an effort to avoid using it.

I encourage players to ask for clarification on anything else which may be unclear, whether it be issues of game mechanics/rules, or simply navigating The Syndicate's layout/interface. It's entirely possible that there is a potential issue which I'm not even aware of myself, so please do not hesitate to ask me about anything.
Questions should be directed to the Host via Private Message.

Using The Syndicate

I am aware that a number of you are new to The Syndicate for this game, so I'd like to provide some pointers on how to navigate the site.

To vote in the poll, simply select the option you wish to vote for and then click "Submit Vote" at the bottom of the poll.
- Votes in this game will always be changeable unless the game is in LYLO. I will announce if this happens.
- The poll will also display the Day End time. You can edit your timezone display settings in the User Control Panel.

ISO links will be provided as soon as possible in the first post.
- ISOs can also be reached by clicking the "Isolate Posts By _____" link beneath each player's avatar on the sidebar. Unfortunately, this function does not exist on the Mobile display.

There is also a Search function available in each thread. Please note, however, that there are 2 "Search" boxes at the top of the page: one of these will search the specific thread that you are in, but the other leads to a more general site-wide search.

There are two ways to send notifications to a player's inbox:
- Via a quoted post (Ex: Quoting Sloonei's post will send a notification to Sloonei)
- By using the [mention][/mention] function, or with a simple @ symbol before their name (Example: @Sloonei).

All varieties of text formatting options can be found in the buttons above your textbox. Do not hesitate to ask if you are unclear on any formatting issues.

Most importantly, we offer an extensive collection of Smilies here on The Syndicate. I personally encourage you to use them liberally.

[mention]Dragomir[/mention]
[mention]Dragon D. Luffy[/mention]
[mention]Epignosis[/mention]
[mention]Gemma[/mention]
[mention]Jackofhearts2005[/mention]
[mention]JaggedJimmyJay[/mention]
[mention]JessieKruger[/mention]
[mention]Luxurious[/mention]
[mention]M Plus 7[/mention]
[mention]MacDougall[/mention]
[mention]novaselinenever[/mention]
[mention]Owner of a Lonely Heart[/mention]
[mention]rundontwalk2[/mention]
[mention]Soneji[/mention]
[mention]speedchuck[/mention]
[mention]Tsaiah[/mention]
[mention]Ultra[/mention]

Roles have been sent out. The thread is now open. If you have any questions about your role card, or did not receive one, please message me privately.

It is Day 0. Day 0 will last for roughly 24 hours to allow players time to check in.

I've added most of the ISO links to the player list via black magic sorcery.

Luxurious wrote: ↑Sat Apr 27, 2019 6:00 pm
Dragon D. Luffy wrote: ↑Sat Apr 27, 2019 4:36 pm
Luxurious wrote: ↑Sat Apr 27, 2019 4:34 pm is day 0 just pregame shenanigans or can i actually lynch scum today before I die
We often start accusing each other in Day 0 but voting is still not allowed.

You can also flood the thread with useless stuff but somebody will probably come up with a way to analyse your alignment based on that fluff which will look silly in retrospect after the game ends.
Alright end game spoilers incoming

Just avoid Game of Thrones spoilers and you're fine.

Luxurious wrote: ↑Sat Apr 27, 2019 6:17 pm
Sloonei wrote: ↑Sat Apr 27, 2019 6:16 pm
Luxurious wrote: ↑Sat Apr 27, 2019 6:00 pm
Dragon D. Luffy wrote: ↑Sat Apr 27, 2019 4:36 pm
Luxurious wrote: ↑Sat Apr 27, 2019 4:34 pm is day 0 just pregame shenanigans or can i actually lynch scum today before I die
We often start accusing each other in Day 0 but voting is still not allowed.

You can also flood the thread with useless stuff but somebody will probably come up with a way to analyse your alignment based on that fluff which will look silly in retrospect after the game ends.
Alright end game spoilers incoming
Just avoid Game of Thrones spoilers and you're fine.
Is that a threat

Hodor.

Jackofhearts2005 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 27, 2019 6:29 pm
Luxurious wrote: ↑Sat Apr 27, 2019 6:19 pm Game of thrones spoilers
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Alright men who wants to explain to me why game of thrones is good

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Boobs and violence.

Don't forget to sign up for Zootopia today, folks!

M Plus 7 wrote: ↑Sun Apr 28, 2019 1:27 am Sloonei, have you made any mechanical adjustments by the way? I haven’t kept up with recent developments there like I wanted to.

Nothing that's not mentioned in the rules/mechanics post.

Gemma wrote: ↑Sun Apr 28, 2019 1:38 am wait. dead players and observers are allowed to post in the game thread?

Not on topic. They're allowed to tell us what they had for lunch though.

Dragomir wrote: ↑Sun Apr 28, 2019 9:02 am What is the point of D0 if we can't lynch anyone?

Day 0 is a courtesy phase to ensure that everybody has time to receive their role and check in before the start of Day 1.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Sun Apr 28, 2019 12:08 pm @Sloonei MP needs an ISO link

Added. People with spaces in their names defy my black magic sorcery.

Enough with the pleasantries! It's time to fight.

It is now Day 1. You have 48 hours to lynch somebody.

Luxurious wrote: ↑Sun Apr 28, 2019 4:53 pm
Sloonei wrote: ↑Sun Apr 28, 2019 12:29 pm
Dragomir wrote: ↑Sun Apr 28, 2019 9:02 am What is the point of D0 if we can't lynch anyone?
Day 0 is a courtesy phase to ensure that everybody has time to receive their role and check in before the start of Day 1.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Sun Apr 28, 2019 12:08 pm @Sloonei MP needs an ISO link
Added. People with spaces in their names defy my black magic sorcery.
Can i make a sad request to please stop using yellow i cannot see it on white background

Is this better?

Or, if you don't want the white background, there's a way to change it. But most people who have the white background set it that way on purpose.

Thread locked. Stand by.

Ultra has been lynched. He was Mafia.

It is Night 1. Night 1 will last for slightly more than 24 hours to accommodate your selfish host's schedule.

This thread will remain locked for the duration of the night phase.

Host request: if anyone knows how to get in touch with JessieKruger or Tsaiah off-site, would you mind giving them a nudge to let them know the game has started?

Day 1

The mafia gods demand a sacrifice. Who should it be?
Poll ended at Tue Apr 30, 2019 5:00 pm
Please note that if you vote, your vote will be visible.

Dragomir- 1 [Voters: Soneji]

Dragon D Luffy- 1 [Voters: Dragomir]

Epignosis - 2 [Voters: MacDougall, Owner of a Lonely Heart]

Gemma - 0

Jackofhearts2005 -0

JaggedJimmyJay - 1 [Voters: Ultra]

JessieKruger - 0

Luxurious - 0

M Plus 7 - 0

Macdougall -1 [Voters: rundontwalk2]

novaselinenever - 2 [Voters: Dragon D. Luffy, Epignosis]

Owner of a Lonely Heart - 1 [Voters: Gemma]

rundontwalk2 - 0

Soneji - 0

speedchuck - 0

Tsaiah - 0

Ultra - 5 [Voters: speedchuck, Luxurious, novaselinenever, Jackofhearts2005, JaggedJimmyJay]

No Lynch - 0

Hodor (Host/non-players) - 3 [Voters: Sloonei, juliets, nutella]

Total votes: 17

Night 1 has ended. Nobody died.

You have 48 hours to lynch someone.

Aside: Moving forward, I am going to try to keep the deadlines at 7 PM EST. This game just started at an odd time for me and my schedule is thrown off this week.

Luxurious wrote: ↑Wed May 01, 2019 8:32 pm So like, is there a way to pull vote history or did y’all just expect me to take a screen shot of the poll

Poll thread

Ordinarily I'd screenshot the poll but I was in a hurry and this one was big and tough to fit on the screen all at once.

Poll reset because I corrected an error. Apologies.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Thu May 02, 2019 3:52 pm I'll be at the hockey game tonight.

Sloonei, go Columbus Blue Jackets

Enjoy that Bergeron hat trick, Colombutts.

Host announcement: I will likely be a little late to announce the lynch result tonight.

My apologies again. The deadline is unchanged. I ask that players refrain from posting after the 7:36 deadline time (if a mod is online and wants to lock the thread, I’d appreciate it). Day 3 will start at 7 PM EST tomorrow, and we’ll have consistent deadlines from there on out.

Soneji has been lynched. He was town.

It is Night 2. You have 23 hours to submit your night actions.

I am looking for a replacement if anyone out there is interested.

Day 2

End of Night 2

Jackofhearts2005 has been killed. He was Town.

Epignosis has been killed. He was Town.

It is Day 3. You have 48 hours to lynch somebody.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Mon May 06, 2019 12:44 pm
speedchuck wrote: ↑Mon May 06, 2019 12:44 pm
Owner of a Lonely Heart wrote: ↑Mon May 06, 2019 11:47 am
JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Mon May 06, 2019 9:08 am Considering all the shit I have on my plate, it’s miraculous that I’ve given as much to this game as I have.

Now I seem to have caught speedchuck’s plague. I’ve been bedridden for like twelve hours. I’ll be here later when it’s feasible. Take it or leave it.
Both you and speedy are sick? You should be resting then. Mafia is probably hurting your eyes.
Jeez, I wasn't THAT sick. Just a cold and achy thing.
My nose has destroyed 3 rolls of toilet paper today. What have you done to me?

I am your host and I demand you get a box of tissues for god’s sake!

nutella is replacing Tsaiah

Day 3 continues. Keep doing things.

Gemma was lynched. She was Town.

It is Night 3. You have 24 hours to submit your night actions.

Regarding majority voting: it is not in effect this game. If I am interpreting the tournament rules correctly, this only changes at LYLO, at which point votes become locked once a majority is reached.

nutella wrote: ↑Mon May 06, 2019 4:47 pm
Luxurious wrote: ↑Mon May 06, 2019 4:37 pm
Luxurious wrote: ↑Mon May 06, 2019 4:37 pm Wait fuck does this game have maj
No it doesnt
If @Sloonei is correctly following the champs model exactly, majority should be enabled from D2 onward I believe

If this is a rule in the tournament, it is not expressed in the rules I posted for this game. As such, I will not be implementing this mechanic. Votes will continue to follow the plurality/deadline format until a potential LYLO scenario.

Day 3

novaselinenever has been killed. He was Town.

It is now Day 4. You have 48 hours to lynch someone.

JessieKruger has been lynched. They were Town

It is Night 4. You have 24 hours to submit your night actions.

Day 4

Luxurious has been killed. They were Town.

It is Day 5. You have 48 hours to lynch somebody.

DrWilgy has replaced M Plus 7.

Speedchuck was lynched. He was Town.

It is Night 5. You have 24 hours to submit your night actions.

Day 5

Dragon D Luffy has been killed. He was Town.

It is Day 6. You have up to 48 hours to lynch somebody.

Note: We are now at LYLO and majority voting is activated. Majority is 4. If a player receives 4 votes at any point in the day, the poll will be locked and that player will be lynched immediately.

Vote changes are still activated.

Stop! Hammer time.

Owner of a Lonely Heart has been lynched. She was Town.

The earth begins to tremble. Agonizing screams echo through the streets. A streak of blood-red lava shoots out the ground. The gods are not pleased, the gods are angry.

Game Over

Mafia wins.

Congratulations to: JaggedJimmyJay, Macdougall, nutella, and Ultra.

And thank you to all of you who made this such a compelling, active, and competitive game. The scoreboard may not reflect it, but town was within inches of turning this thing completely around multiple times. I'd especially like to thank everyone who signed up here for this game from other sites. You all were great and you're welcome to join us for future games as well.

nutella wrote: ↑Mon May 13, 2019 9:53 pm
MacDougall wrote: ↑Mon May 13, 2019 9:50 pm DDL you were amazing.
Seriously. Dragon D. Luffy you had us shaking in our boots til the end. If night phases weren't locked we might have lost to the pressure you would put on us then.

And if I had replaced in as town I would have been right there with you on Jay. I absolutely knew he was bad from way before I subbed in and when I got the PM I was like "oh shit gotta play this cool and not admit my amazing jaydar"

I wish the need for replacements had not affected the game as much as it did. I prioritized Tsaiah as the first person in need a replacement since she hadn't been heard from at all since the start of the game. MP was second in line, obviously. I figured I could rope two people in close to one another, but instead I ended up replacing the inactive mafia member while dangling a couple inactive civilians with no one to take their spots. It hurt town's momentum when things were starting to turn. So it goes.

Not to take anything away from y'all. The way you guys managed to turn every lynch against the town was seriously impressive.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Mon May 13, 2019 9:55 pm I have a feeling many of the corpses and neutral observers knew that I was bad. I definitely played this one to my audience -- a game filled with newcomers. To people who don't know me, Diet Supertown Jimmy is still a considerable effort.

dead/spectator chat was tearing its hair out when no one was touching you at the end.

Night action spreadsheet:

I also hope [mention]rundontwalk2[/mention] doesn't ditch us and sticks around to show everyone his true form in a game with less inconvenient timing.

Finals have been sapping all my time as well. It's a good thing I just needed to make a couple posts every three days. 'Tis the season.

Dragomir wrote: ↑Mon May 13, 2019 10:08 pm
JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Mon May 13, 2019 9:56 pm
Dragomir wrote: ↑Mon May 13, 2019 9:51 pm They really did bus each other.
It didn't go your way in the end, but you played a super respectable game my dude. You faced suspicion every phase of this game and you were never lynched. That's no easy feat, and you should be proud of it.
The only reason for those lynches being avoided was that I viewed as a scummy town, someone too scummy to be a wolf. What's there to be proud of in there? All of my reads were wrong and I literally town read the entire mafia squad. Even Ultra I leaned more on civ than scum. Kept pushing for the wrong ppl, never voted for a single scum and my play was detrimental and a distraction to town.

There is nothing respectable or to be proud of in my entire play this game.

A civilian who's able to not get lynched is doing something right. And this is your first game in a new environment. You don't know the site-wide meta, or any individual player metas. What matters is that you, as a civilian, put your earnest thoughts into the thread and make a sincere effort to figure things out. I don't think anyone can fault you for not pegging a mafia team comprised of 4 strangers.

No player better epitomized the Town faction in this game than DDL. He had a 1-shot alignment cop ability. He spent the night debating between two targets: Jack and Epi. Both of them were killed on the only night he was eligible to use his shot. In spite of that, his reads ended up being completely on point, but then he was taken out right before LYLO after all the protective roles had been used up.

Dragomir wrote: ↑Mon May 13, 2019 10:13 pm I don't understand what was scummy about Jay. Dude provided all these big posts on player interactions and whatnot(albeit, didn't really lead anywhere), actually tried being a leader to some extent and was trying to game solve. The man was straight up powerwolfing. He was busting his ass to become a deep wolf. I'm surprised he didn't get that privilege.

This is where meta reading is handy. To an unfamiliar observer, he looks like the town leader. To folks who've played with him before, his play was shortsighted and erratic. He ignored things he wouldn't ordinarily ignore and focused on things he would not normally care about.

dunya wrote: ↑Mon May 13, 2019 10:17 pm
Sloonei wrote: ↑Mon May 13, 2019 10:15 pm No player better epitomized the Town faction in this game than DDL. He had a 1-shot alignment cop ability. He spent the night debating between two targets: Jack and Epi. Both of them were killed on the only night he was eligible to use his shot. In spite of that, his reads ended up being completely on point, but then he was taken out right before LYLO after all the protective roles had been used up.
Defo.

shoutout to @DrWilgy too. he was on the right track.

Even if Wilgy came in and got everything wrong he'd deserve some consideration for town MVP. I sent out a desperation PM to a few people when I'd all but given up on finding a sub for MP, and wilgy was the only one to volunteer. When he first jumped in I thought he was about to crack the game open, but it was just a bit too late.

nutella wrote: ↑Mon May 13, 2019 10:18 pm also, lol that I was able to claim that I used the doctor shot on Lux when I really jailed her, even though she made a big deal puzzling out that she was roleblocked. I didn't actually know that Ultra had been the RB, but it's convenient that everyone seemed to just figure there must have been an RB out there and didn't question which JOAT ability I really used

And if you hadn't jailed her, she would have jailed mac and prevented the kill from going through that night. Things would have been very different if that night had played out any other way.

Dragomir wrote: ↑Mon May 13, 2019 10:22 pm
Sloonei wrote: ↑Mon May 13, 2019 10:11 pm
Dragomir wrote: ↑Mon May 13, 2019 10:08 pm
JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Mon May 13, 2019 9:56 pm
Dragomir wrote: ↑Mon May 13, 2019 9:51 pm They really did bus each other.
It didn't go your way in the end, but you played a super respectable game my dude. You faced suspicion every phase of this game and you were never lynched. That's no easy feat, and you should be proud of it.
The only reason for those lynches being avoided was that I viewed as a scummy town, someone too scummy to be a wolf. What's there to be proud of in there? All of my reads were wrong and I literally town read the entire mafia squad. Even Ultra I leaned more on civ than scum. Kept pushing for the wrong ppl, never voted for a single scum and my play was detrimental and a distraction to town.

There is nothing respectable or to be proud of in my entire play this game.
A civilian who's able to not get lynched is doing something right. And this is your first game in a new environment. You don't know the site-wide meta, or any individual player metas. What matters is that you, as a civilian, put your earnest thoughts into the thread and make a sincere effort to figure things out. I don't think anyone can fault you for not pegging a mafia team comprised of 4 strangers.
I disagree. A civilian that's only being town read for shit play is doing something wrong. I mean yeah, lack of meta knowledge affects my reads but only to some extent. I can still scum read players for what's in the their posts and stuff that isn't really related to meta. I doubt every scum read on the true scum players had to deal with meta. Ain't nobody knew Ultra's meta except Novas and I to some extent and see how he ended up. On the chopping block D1 lol(though, I guess a bus enforced that).

The most important thing about civilians in my book is that they need to function as a team. No individual player is ever going to solve the game on their own. That is literally impossible. It requires a full team effort, and part of that effort always involves townies who are able to show themselves to be town while working through their thoughts in the thread with other people. You did all of those things. The accuracy of reads in any given game is always going to be the key variable. Getting them wrong on one occasion doesn't mean poor play.

BUT if you do feel you didn't play your best game, I look forward to seeing what it looks like when you do feel you're at your best.

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