The Syndicate

SPECIAL RULES:
- Closed Setup, 48/24 cycles
- There are (normally) no reveals on death or lynches. Any unrevealed death with show up as the player VANISHING.
- Players may be revived, inexplicably or not. Death is not necessarily permanent.
- Actions might affect the past or future. This will be chaotic and may have unpredictable results. Whatever the moderator posts is, has, and always will be true (sort of).
- There may be day activations and events.
- An effort will be made to balance this game. An EFFORT.
- There will be DAY LYNCHES and NIGHT ELECTIONS
- Vanished players will have a chat and their choices will affect the game
- Role Claiming is allowed
- Solving the game by flavor claiming is frowned upon and will NOT help you
- Massclaiming from the start ruins the game. Please do not.
- Scum will be provided with fakeclaims if they need them.
- Role Guarantees: No Jesters, No Silencers, No Insanifiers, No Cults
-This pedantic color and this sarcastic color will be used in host posts (after this one). Do not imitate the host.
-Some host posts may be a little late. My schedule is often crazy. Stay frosty in case of delays.
-No Double-targeting

Player list:
-Sig
-Golden Juliets
-Scotty
-insertnamehere
-Lunalee
-Quin
-nutella
-MacDougall
-Zephyrus
-Lapluie
-Turnip Head
-Kylemii
-Choutas Sprityo
-Coliniscool
-Spacedaisy
-Epignosis

Factions:
TOWN (Time Vandals)
Mafia (Paradox Police)
(Edit: Technically one or more independents could be present but they wouldn't have a faction name)

You blokes have waited enough. It's time to get this show on the road!

I'll unlock the topic once I finish sending out roles.

PMs sent out. Please check in/ask questions!

ISOs (Courtesy of Turnip Head )

speedchuck

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


HOST POSTS:

DAY ONE
NIGHT ONE
DAY TWO
DAY TWO A
NIGHT TWO
DAY THREE
NIGHT THREE
DAY FOUR
NIGHT FOUR
DAY FIVE
DAY FIVE A
NIGHT FIVE / END GAME
SETUP NOTES AND CHATS

Epignosis wrote: ↑Wed Jun 13, 2018 1:33 pm

speedchuck wrote: ↑Wed Jun 13, 2018 12:15 pm - An effort will be made to balance this game. An EFFORT.

speedchuck wrote: ↑Wed Jun 13, 2018 12:15 pm - There are (normally) no reveals on death or lynches.

Scotty wrote: ↑Wed Jun 13, 2018 1:02 pm So we can claim but shouldn’t all claim at once?

More clarification since this type of setup is not common here.

Massclaims tend to discourage actual scumhunting. I won't go into detail, but trust that, given the way I set this game up, Massclaims would not help you sniff out scum using POE. The surprise of the game would be ruined, and town would not benefit at all.

Golden wrote: ↑Wed Jun 13, 2018 6:30 pm Don't forget, retrocausality is about the future effecting the past.

Oooohhhh, thaaat's what it means.

ColinIsCool wrote: ↑Wed Jun 13, 2018 9:52 pm Is Day 0 24 hrs?

Day 0 is until D1 starts.

I've been meaning to ask the thread: What time of day is good for day starts/day ends? Day 1 will be starting tomorrow, but I'm flexible as to when our phase-changes will be taking place.

Day 0:

kkkssksksksksKSKSKSKSKSKSKKKKKK! Hello? Is this on? *AHEM*

This is your time zepplin captain speaking! We have begun our ascent. Please remain seated for the moment.

Ah, by the way, you know why we use a zepplin? It's because we don't want to mess with the time-plane! HAHAHA *cough* Anyway.

Levity aside, we have a problem. I found a discarded badge with the word "Paradox Police" on it. Yes, those are two words. Okay. My bad.

I don't suppose any of you know who the PP are?

*tittering noises*

What? What did I say? Ah, yes, the PP. The PP are a group of people dedicated to killing time travelers. Which you all now are. And we have reason to believe that some of them are on board this ship. Could you kindly try to ferret them out? We wouldn't want any accidents.

What? No we would not kill them. We'd just throw them out into space time, and let them fend for themselves without time travel. They will do the same to you if you aren't careful. See if you can find them for us.

It should take us 48 hours of relative time to reach the year 1791, which is what we are heading for. Plenty of time for you to eject the owner of this badge. Good luck!

What will I be doing? I'll be right here in the captain's cabin, making sure we don't go through a wormhole or something. My job is very important, and I couldn't possibly--

No, you aren't--

It's not that dangerou--

DID NONE OF YOU READ THE WAIVERS?

*sigh*

KKKKKKSKsksksks......

*radio silence*

Day 1 has begun. You have 48 hours to vote for the player you want lynched. Plurality wins it. Ties will result in "KKAKAKKAHAHAHAAAAA" random choice between the candidates. Not recommended. Good luck!

DAY ENDS ON 6/16 AT 10:40 (PM) EST

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

MacDougall wrote: ↑Fri Jun 15, 2018 8:37 pm I hosted an ultimate werewolf party with 10 friends last night.

I annihilated everyone when I was a wolf and got killed early every time I wasn't.

Funny.

Story of my syndicate life. No joke.

Ooop, looks like you already tossed Zephyrus out. Well, no matter. Hope he was that Paradox Police guy. Guess we'll find out if something goes wrong.

Zephyrus HAS VANISHED!

*ahem*

As I wus a fixin' to announce, we are here folks! Where is here? I'll show you!

Observe as I turn, and as the zepplin walls fall away, and... timespace warping, don't you know... and... tada! THe signing of the Bill of Rights!

I see you murmuring. "Did we really go back in time?" "This looks like a nerdy cosplay thing."

Shame on you.

These are genuine poofy white wigs and quill pens.



Yeah, well, these people won't notice you too much unless you start messing with things. Otherwise, time travel would be a mess. How are we supposed to cause precice paradoxes and timelines if the butterfly effect is a thing?

Enough technical jargon. I have one wig and one old pen. Who wants it?

. . .

You did know that we were doing this, right?

. . .

WHY ELSE WOULD YOU GO BACK IN TIME? Someone here is going to sneak up and sign the Bill of Rights, possibly with a secret twist to it or... *drops voice to a whisper* Perhaps you could draw a phallus, if that's not asking too much.

Well, which one of you will it be? Demonstrate some signatures, call in your popularity, do something! We only have a short about of time to decide before the signing is done!

Don't worry. I can yank you out of here the those curmudgeony old U.S. Founders get cantankerous.



It is now NIGHT ONE. You have 24 hours to put in your night actions. Any night actions not submitted may or may not be randomized, depending on the role.

There is a PUBLIC ELECTION tonight. Please elect a single player to recieve the WIG AND PEN. Use the poll as if it were a lynch (and vote tags would be nice).

Golden wrote: ↑Sun Jun 17, 2018 8:56 pm And, as I said to Daisy, you should send in a location now and tell speedchuck you're sending it in before the game started. Like, seriously, time travel guys, it works in your favour.

I will totally accept this. [mention]MacDougall[/mention]

It is time.



Sig steps forward, wig in hand, ink pen on head. Wait, no. No. Sig, you're doing it wrong! That's not...

"I'M THE PHANTOM SIGGY WIGGY!" Sig cries, slamming the head-pen into the page. The tough parchement tears slightly, and Sig waggles several crude-ities and a name to match. "SIGURD THE MAGNIFICIENT!"

"Who is that?" Ben Franklin yells. "And how did he get such stylish clothes?"

The other parliment members hesitate, struck by Sig's outrageous awesomeness. But for one. John Hancock.

"NO!" he screams. "I was to have the most famous signature! ME! I had my swirlydirls and my bad pun of a last name to count on. But you! Your name is literally Sig? How could you!?"



*ahem* The tour guide clears his throat over the cries of outrage.

"It appears that this is getting out of hand. Are you done, Sig?"

Sig looks up, fire and fury in his eyes. Ink runs down his face, and then the fury clears and Sig realizes that the wig he is holding is nothing but damp toilet paper and glue, molded into a bad hairdo.

"YICK!"

Sig throws the wig at the approaching John Hancock and then takes off for the time zepplin. Others follow.

"Come on, come on, get in, get in!"

One by one, the tour members pile in. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14...

One member is missing. As the time vandals speed off through time, this 'time' into the future, Nutella is left behind in the timestream.[/ped]

"They are still here. The Paradox Police. They are the ones who caused this error."

*slams fist on zepplin console*

"WE MUST FIND THEM AND BRING JUSTICE FOR WHATEVER WHO THAT WAS!"


Nutella has vanished. Sig has won the election. You have 48 hours to lynch someone before we reach our future destination, until 11 PM ET. Cheers!

Golden wrote: ↑Mon Jun 18, 2018 1:51 am

Golden wrote: ↑Mon Jun 18, 2018 1:49 am

Quin wrote: ↑Mon Jun 18, 2018 1:45 am

Golden wrote: ↑Mon Jun 18, 2018 1:44 am

MacDougall wrote: ↑Mon Jun 18, 2018 1:42 am Golden is lawyering hard on page 20 y'all. All about that interpretation and clause, no room for creativity, what do the words say.

I think you'll find Quin is lawyering a clear answer and I'm the one leaving open the possibility that the words don't tell us everything.

I think you want me to be wrong.

I thought that's what you'd think but I don't care.

It's easily resolved

@speedchuck - is the intention of listing the factions to preclude the possibility of independents?

(I have a very specific purpose I think they're listed - it's to prevent us claiming based on our 'faction name' - which is something I expect only town and mafia have. But I could well be wrong).

oops

@speedchuck

You are correct.

There may be independents. I simply don't want people solving the game based on flavorful names.

Golden wrote: ↑Mon Jun 18, 2018 6:02 pm (Also, looking back, I can't believe they were called 'joysticks')

Any other suggestions?

The happiness stick?
Funstick?
Playstick?
Joyrod?
Happystaff?
Gamestick?

Lunalee wrote: ↑Mon Jun 18, 2018 10:38 pm @speedchuck can you please put an end-time on these polls?

"Well, well, what's going on here? Have you got him? This... this Sig fellow. Hmm, he seems like a scoundrelly sort. Ah, but don't we all?"

Sig is held back by two of his fellow passengers. He backpedals away from the time tour guide, remembering how Zephyrus was forced to walk
off the ship into the timestream.

"No," he says. "I'm not going out there."

Then he, with a sudden clumsy grace, Sig turns his attackers one on another, slams them into the ground, and leaps for a window.

"Stop him!" a voice cries.

"Whatever for?"

Sig crashes out the window into the blurry hues of the timestream, and is lost to view. The resulting stunned silence is so loud that everyone has to cover their ears. Oh, wait, that's the open window.

"I'll patch it up!" the time tour guide says. Keep looking for more of those Paradox Police blokes!

Sig has VANISHED! Votes have been RESET. Day has been extended for 23 hours to deal with fixing the window, till 6/20 at 10:00 EST.

Golden wrote: ↑Tue Jun 19, 2018 5:27 pm The polls thread doesn’t have the night poll. Does anyone else?

I’m convinced enough that sig is bad both through his behaviour, his choice to pull out that event when he did, and the flavour of the host post to start looking at some interactive analysis.

First step is who greased the wheels on sigs quill win.

Once the game picked up, the polls completely slipped my mind. I have the night poll and will be putting it up.

I do not have the day 1 poll at all. Currently looking for ways to fix that. I will compensate one way or another.

Remember, if you are missing information, or if I haven't clarified something mechanically, don't hesitate to ask questions. You guys need all the information you can get.

Scotty wrote: ↑Tue Jun 19, 2018 6:24 pm

speedchuck wrote: ↑Tue Jun 19, 2018 5:51 pm

Golden wrote: ↑Tue Jun 19, 2018 5:27 pm The polls thread doesn’t have the night poll. Does anyone else?

I’m convinced enough that sig is bad both through his behaviour, his choice to pull out that event when he did, and the flavour of the host post to start looking at some interactive analysis.

First step is who greased the wheels on sigs quill win.

Once the game picked up, the polls completely slipped my mind. I have the night poll and will be putting it up.

I do not have the day 1 poll at all. Currently looking for ways to fix that. I will compensate one way or another.

Remember, if you are missing information, or if I haven't clarified something mechanically, don't hesitate to ask questions. You guys need all the information you can get.

Cool, thanks!

Question #1: was sig bad?

No harm in asking tho

Spacedaisy wrote: ↑Tue Jun 19, 2018 6:38 pm @speedchuck Can we consider the host posts as anything more than just flavor for flavor's sake? Or are they completely just flavor?

All topic flavor is for fun only and is written on the spot, with no regard to alignment or role flavor.

Scotty wrote: ↑Tue Jun 19, 2018 7:20 pm Also I just noticed dat host option on the poll.



Nice

DAY 1:
N/A

NIGHT 1:

Epignosis wrote: ↑Wed Jun 20, 2018 6:56 pm First of all, the host can kiss my ass for putting "Sig" in the thread title.

Golden wrote: ↑Wed Jun 20, 2018 7:01 pm Hoo boy, sig campaigning on day one is problematic. Did we ever have any indication that there would be night elections before he brought it up?

It was even in the sign-up topic

sprityo wrote: ↑Wed Jun 20, 2018 9:42 pm

Quin wrote: ↑Wed Jun 20, 2018 7:45 pm

sprityo wrote: ↑Wed Jun 20, 2018 6:51 pm er.....

that's not a bad point actually

as great as the case is, i'd be fine with either or. TH is claiming 3P and that secures us one less infraction to worry about as town

I will never understand the "lynch all independents" mindset.

lets have a repeat of phenon where speedchuck kills 4 people, because he's an independent, but what do i know

I mean, I could kill four people if you want

Oh, you're tossing out the girl? I guess she said some odd things, but look, she's so cu-- and well, there she goes. I guess she won't get to experience the future this time.

Lunalee HAS VANISHED!

*ahem*

Now feast your eyes upon this uptown bar!

I say uptown, because we are entering a citadel over three miles above the earth's surface. Watch your step. This New New America is a great country, but it would kill you if you fell on it just like the retrocausally named "Gaul."



And here it is! Welcome to Chateugin Forari! (That's Engelis for "Kingly Bar, by the way.")

It is the year 2483, and I brought you here to try the Brew of the Modern Gods. Pip Lagosi.

I'm sure you think we time tour guides are uncultured. It miffs me that you think that. We can travel the cosmos, from the big bag to the big freeze. Of course we've had our share of culture.

My buddies and I have tasted every concoction from neanderthal piss to alien ant stew, and this beer is the best there is. Ever. Period. And I have a voucher for one of them.



Only one? Yeah, well, unless you have over three trillion new new dollars to spare. This will have to do. It's all we can afford.

Which of you humble time vandals would like to taste of this golden nectar? I'll go up and buy it for you from among these proud patrons. Figure out who you want to givev the honor.

In the meantime, enjopy the sights! You can see the entire state of Thriple New York from here.

It is now NIGHT TWO. You have 24 hours to put in your night actions. Any night actions not submitted may or may not be randomized, depending on the role.

There is a PUBLIC ELECTION tonight. Please elect a single player to recieve the PIP LAGOSI. Use the poll as if it were a lynch (and vote tags would be nice).

sprityo wrote: ↑Wed Jun 20, 2018 10:33 pm @speedchuck hey m8

choutas aint here

MacDougall wrote: ↑Wed Jun 20, 2018 11:04 pm

Golden wrote: ↑Wed Jun 20, 2018 11:04 pm

MacDougall wrote: ↑Wed Jun 20, 2018 11:03 pm

Quin wrote: ↑Wed Jun 20, 2018 10:45 pm oh shit i voted for scotty by accident

I meant to vote for Epi and it ended up on Golden somehow?

This game is having some uncanny weirdness.

You both voted fine. Speed changed the poll, moving Choutas from the top down to being sprityo below your votes.

When I did that in U-Pick it just reset the poll entirely and forced ppl to revote.

I thought that was what it would do.

Knowing that it's fine if I don't change the number is useful. If that's what is happening.

Epignosis wrote: ↑Thu Jun 21, 2018 1:11 am

Golden wrote: ↑Thu Jun 21, 2018 1:08 am Why would the host have us elect people if only the person who sent it in could get the benefit?

A lot of hosts have done a lot of things over the years that have made very little sense to me. A "Mafia" game with no flips? No sense.

I'm just rolling with things.

I've also learned that hosts make flawed games, and so I try to anticipate those too. This could be a flaw.