The Syndicate

dunya wrote: ↑Wed Jun 13, 2018 3:19 pm Hi guys and gals! I'll be facilitating your adventures through time. Please PM me any time you feel frustrated or just need to vent about something with someone. Remember to have fun, keep your hands and feet inside the time machine, and may the best team win.

Scotty wrote: ↑Wed Jun 13, 2018 3:38 pm

Turnip Head wrote: ↑Wed Jun 13, 2018 3:13 pm Anybody wanna hit up the 1920s with me??

The flux capacitor only has enough juice to get back to November 1929. Does that work for you?

Epignosis wrote: ↑Wed Jun 13, 2018 5:06 pm

Turnip Head wrote: ↑Wed Jun 13, 2018 4:59 pm What happens if we run into a version of ourselves from the past?

The question is do you fight or make love?

Golden wrote: ↑Wed Jun 13, 2018 6:30 pm

Turnip Head wrote: ↑Wed Jun 13, 2018 4:59 pm What happens if we run into a version of ourselves from the past?

Did your past self meet you? If not, then this can't happen.

There's only three plausible options:

1) There is a singular universe, and so your experience of the past is exactly what happened; or
2) There is a multiverse, in which case if you meet a version of yourself from the past, that person is not you; or
3) There will be plot holes in your life story.

Don't forget, retrocausality is about the future effecting the past. So, it's possible you could create the multiverse, but it's also entirely possible that the point of this game is to demonstrate that retrocausality is an illusion designed to keep you pacified.

Golden wrote: ↑Wed Jun 13, 2018 7:13 pm

Turnip Head wrote: ↑Wed Jun 13, 2018 7:00 pmhmm okay... Should I be doing anything with my hands? Peel offa butterfly's wings or something?

What should I be trying to retro cause?

If you’re mafia, you should be trying to go back in time to kill yourself.

If you’re civilian - just write yourself letters to keep you from being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

OP wrote:Factions:
TOWN (Time Vandals)
Mafia (Paradox Police)

Golden wrote: ↑Thu Jun 14, 2018 9:23 pm

Turnip Head wrote: ↑Thu Jun 14, 2018 9:21 pm So yesterday after I finished my sudokus I went back in time, grabbed @DharmaHelper and now he's playing the game in the current version of reality.

Hope you got the pre-retirement version

Scotty wrote: ↑Fri Jun 15, 2018 10:13 am

Quin wrote: ↑Fri Jun 15, 2018 2:31 am nutella is a civ and either one of mac and golden is bad

This.

I think it’s Golden. He’s super cautious with his wording and he’s slognrly agreeable to many people’s thoughts without actually committing. So he’s voting Quin.

But I’m keeping my vote on Zeph

Zephyrus wrote: ↑Fri Jun 15, 2018 12:00 pm

ColinIsCool wrote: ↑Fri Jun 15, 2018 8:33 am Zephyrus and Quin, who do you think we should lynch?

lapluie. If I'm going to be lynched on the grounds that I'm not contributing, let's not pretend I'm the only one.
[VOTE: lapluie] aubergine

sig wrote: ↑Fri Jun 15, 2018 12:28 pm Can we just not lynch anyone this game and just keep making well timed puns

speedchuck wrote: ↑Fri Jun 15, 2018 1:32 pm

Turnip Head wrote: ↑Fri Jun 15, 2018 1:25 pm Cast and crew in order of chronological appearance (PRIME TIMELINE ONLY) :

speedchuck

ColinIsCool
sig
Scotty
Turnip Head
nutella
Epignosis
Lunalee
lapluie
insertnamehere
Zephyrus
Golden
Kylemii
MacDougall
Quin
SpaceDaisy
Choutas

wolbre04 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 15, 2018 2:17 pm Rip this game looked fun but I didn't have time ;-;

Golden wrote: ↑Fri Jun 15, 2018 10:35 pmI’ve never said I have any read on Zephyrus - how could I when he’s done nothing?

Kylemii wrote: ↑Sat Jun 16, 2018 11:02 am

Turnip Head wrote: ↑Sat Jun 16, 2018 9:36 am

Golden wrote: ↑Fri Jun 15, 2018 10:35 pmI’ve never said I have any read on Zephyrus - how could I when he’s done nothing?

To be fair Golden, I could post a picture of a bowl of Cheerios on Day 0 and I'd be surprised if you didn't tell me whether it was a town bowl of cereal or a scum one.

which cereals do u think are town and which are scum? I think captain crunch is scum but idk why.

also equally importantly who do you think is bad? who do you trust?

Kylemii wrote: ↑Sat Jun 16, 2018 11:33 am that doesn't even remotely answer either of my questions

ColinIsCool wrote: ↑Sat Jun 16, 2018 3:11 pm I am also wondering if Epi’s characterization of Zephyrus here is something the rest of you agree with.

insertnamehere wrote: ↑Sat Jun 16, 2018 4:09 pm Welp, it's time for the world premiere of the INSERTNAMEHERE READZONE!

First up in the READZONE! is Zephyrus. This mysterious Syndicate freshman initially got lodged in a bit of sticky wicket when Epignosis and company decided to assign him the arbitrary "LOW POSTER THAT GETS EARLY GAME SUSPICION" designation over his fellow low-posters. Since then, I feel like he's handled himself rather well, and his pointing out that other low posters both in fact exist, and suggesting that people should mayhaps go after them now that he's energized in the thread is about what I'd do. He gets an official "INSERTNAMEHERE TOWNREAD" label. Wear it proudly, young one.

Now, next up in the READZONE!, we'll be covering the fued between Misters Golden (A.K.A. the Kiwi Killah, Is So Meta Even This A.K.A.) and Scotty (A.K.A. Jeff, the Actor Factor). Now, Imma be honest, literally every post Scotty made against Golden, I more or less agreed with. Now, Golden is someone who I've had some...difficulty reading in the past, so I could perhaps be a tad idealogically biased. Golden responded to Scotty/Epi's initial proddery with swift, harsh overkill that felt like way too damn much. Then, Golden did that thing that I'll always dislike, where he starts referring to himself in the third person, and talks about how "Civ Golden" always takes heat on Day 1, and "Scum Golden" has never even gotten a vote on Day 1. Therefore, if Golden gets attention on Day 1, according to Golden, that means that he must be civilian. But this opens up a bit of a paradox.

If Golden's a civilian, then we shouldn't vote for him Day 1. However, if Golden doesn't receive any votes on Day 1, he's incredibly more likely to be scum, and should be lynched ASAP. So, either we don't vote for Golden, and let a scummeister slip on by, or vote for Golden and mislynch a civilian.

Or, y'know, we could fucking ignore people when they explain their own metas, because it's literally meaningless. The second someone proclaims their own meta style of gameplay, it's unrepresentative of their gameplay. If you're intelligent enough to realize, oh, I do this when I'm good, and I do this when I'm bad, you're also smart enough to realize that you should, if you are bad, try doing the things that you usually do when good.

Anywho, after Golden spouts that malarkey, he claims that Scotty's case against him is so fallacious that he should be lynched, citing his ostensibly solid meta read of Scotty. Which is pretty dumb IMO, and makes me want to join Scotty in voting for Golden. The case against Scotty barely makes sense, the dude's made sense to me the whole game, so I'm willing give him an official "INSERTNAMEHERE TOWN-...wait a second, I'm being told something by my producers...uh huh...really?...Seriously?

Ahem. It appears that Scotty is unwilling to vote for Golden. Which makes no goddamn sense to me.

Shit.

Okay, this may be a little less clear-cut.

Let's throw down the guantlet, why don't we. I'm going to put my vote on Golden for right now. If Scotty votes for Golden as well, I'll keep it where it is. If, by, say 10 minutes before the EOD, (wait, when the fuck is the EOD) Scotty still refuses to vote for Golden, I'll move my vote over to him.

[VOTE: Golden] aubergine

Well folks, before we tune out for today, let's do some 5 WORDS OR LESS READS!

Macdougall - Fairly prototypically stubborn and reaching
Epig - Emphatically stirring the pot.
Quin - Quin
Nutella - Civ, agree with about Zeph.
Luna - Slight scum, seemingly wagon-jumping.
Choutas, Spacedaisy, Lapluie: I have literally no thoughts on.

And that's all we have time for. Hopefully, we'll be here tomorrow during Day 2, to provide you fine people with some more hot takes and fresh reads. From deep within The Syndicate, good night.

nutella wrote: ↑Sat Jun 16, 2018 4:49 pm Can people PLEASE learn to snip quote chains jesus i'm so sick of scrolling past the same gif 5000 times

sig wrote: ↑Sat Jun 16, 2018 4:59 pm Someone else should vote for me so we can have a three way between me, Golden, and Scotty. Then since Golden's a rich lawyer he can be my sugar daddy after the threesome. Of course he'll end up dying in a tragic yacht "accident" and eaten by alligators and I'll be forced into a lifetime of mourning as I collect his multi million dollar life insurance policy and live of his lawyering money, until I tragically also die in a mysterious incident caused by Scotty since even though he spent years establishing himself as a master theater master in his own theater in Nebraska he never stopped wondering what life would've been like if Golden had picked him and secretly plotted revenge against me since he believed (falsely I might add) that I somehow was responsible for Golden's tragic deathbyyatch/alligator.

And so the saga ends of Sig n Golden n Scotty and the moral of the story remains, someone vote for me to make it a tie.

Turnip Head wrote: ↑Sat Jun 16, 2018 6:51 pm The only thing I know for sure about Golden's meta is that he likes to talk about his own meta. Frankly I don't expect that to change

sig wrote: ↑Sat Jun 16, 2018 4:59 pm Someone else should vote for me so we can have a three way between me, Golden, and Scotty. Then since Golden's a rich lawyer he can be my sugar daddy after the threesome. Of course he'll end up dying in a tragic yacht "accident" and eaten by alligators and I'll be forced into a lifetime of mourning as I collect his multi million dollar life insurance policy and live of his lawyering money, until I tragically also die in a mysterious incident caused by Scotty since even though he spent years establishing himself as a master theater master in his own theater in Nebraska he never stopped wondering what life would've been like if Golden had picked him and secretly plotted revenge against me since he believed (falsely I might add) that I somehow was responsible for Golden's tragic deathbyyatch/alligator.

And so the saga ends of Sig n Golden n Scotty and the moral of the story remains, someone vote for me to make it a tie.

sig wrote: ↑Sat Jun 16, 2018 8:09 pm Switching to INH his post was blah, but in spirit I'm voting dunya


linki: I can't currently discuss matters pertaining to the current phase with the press, but I can direct you to my campaign manager @Turnip Head and he'll answer all your questions.

sig wrote: ↑Sat Jun 16, 2018 8:34 pm

MacDougall wrote: ↑Sat Jun 16, 2018 8:33 pm Quin and nutella are the key.

If they're the key who are the doors Master?

Golden wrote: ↑Sun Jun 17, 2018 4:10 pm I’d back scotty. Or if not scotty, me.

I actually do think sig is pretty kosher, but could I trust him with the bill of rights? Meh...

At least I’m a constitutional lawyer

Spacedaisy wrote: ↑Sun Jun 17, 2018 4:54 pm I’m a vote you don’t have to reciprocate, lol. Because I didn’t catch everything when I signed up.

MacDougall wrote: ↑Sun Jun 17, 2018 5:41 pm

Turnip Head wrote: ↑Sun Jun 17, 2018 4:07 pm @Lunalee would you like to be president sometime? And do you think you might campaign a tad less obnoxiously than sig has?

I'm looking for a new horse to back. I've got a lot riding on who's in charge round these parts, you see. Both today AND tomorrow AND yesterday

I'll have your vote if you're looking to give the vote to a solid candy date of high standing in the community.